Steven Edwards

“ … we are the goon squad and we’re coming to town… beep beep ,,, “

[Steven Edwards @Stevenaedw]

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[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Thank you, Iran, for having the integrity and fortitude to call out the terrible crimes of Israel and its Western backers. Thank you so much...

[Yeah But Cyclists @but_cyclists]

"Pedestrians always have right of way"

No they don't. They have priority in most cases. You shouldn't begin crossing when the red man is showing. Still, there is an onus on the cyclist to avoid a collision. Which - if you watch the video - you'll see they did.

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[Yeah But Cyclists @but_cyclists]

The replies to this are fucking astonishing. Here are some facts:

The cyclist didn't break the law. They had a green light. Cycles are permitted to turn left there as per the clearly visible sign.

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[Abier @abierkhatib]

Truly the most evil people on Earth..

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I was subjected to a full-body strip-search & 1 of the soldiers inserted his fingers into my behind. Other members of the flotilla were penetrated w penises & the tips of guns.”

Fking RAPE NATION

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

👉NEW -- Investigation urged over illegal UK arms shipments to Israel

by @jmcevoy_2

After Declassified helped uncover a suspicious military transfer from Britain to Israel, over 60 MPs and Lords have called for answers
https://t.co/TQsOhFBow9

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

When the Filton trial didn’t get the verdict the state wanted, it bent the system to produce the desired results, aka corrupt official misconduct https://t.co/36uM7TTgAA

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Ask yourself why the people one paycheck from disaster are often the most ferocious defenders of the system that put them one paycheck from disaster.

It's not irrational.

It's the last available source of dignity.

If the system is fundamentally broken, fundamentally rigged, fundamentally indifferent to whether you live or die, then the years you spent believing in it, working within it, sacrificing for it, were wasted.

Worse than wasted.

They were the actions of someone who didn't see what was obvious.

That is a very hard thing for a person to accept about their own life.

It is easier, psychologically, emotionally, in every way that matters in the moment, to defend the system than to accept that you gave decades of your life to something that was never going to give anything back.

The defense isn't about the system.

It's about not having to grieve your own time.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

Ana Kasparian joined me to discuss the challenges of talking about Israel, and the hate she's received for speaking out.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The Western drive to dominate Iran has always been there — since before Israel even existed, and before the Resistance Axis or Islamic Revolution. And it has always been driven by imperialism and control of oil/gas.

It is not separate from Venezuela, Ukraine, Gaza. Same campaign

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The British oil company that became BP discovered Iran's oil. When Iranians realized they were being robbed, they nationalized it — so MI6 & CIA toppled their democracy in 1953, installing a dictatorship. Iranians rose up in 1979 & the West has never forgiven them for it.

[ChaosLensX @ChaosLensX]

This is wild. 🤯 This guy literally got arrested just because he didn't print out his train ticket.

He paid for the journey and had the proof right there on his phone, but the officer didn't care because it wasn't printed. Instead of using a bit of common sense, she just went straight to arresting him over a "company policy."

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

“The Israel brand is destroyed.”

On Downstream, Matt Kennard tells Aaron Bastani that Israel is turning increasingly to the law to discipline critics since its reputation has been shattered.

In a country of just nine million people, Kennard adds, it’s not surprising that Israel has fought so hard the lobby the governments of former imperial powers.

@AaronBastani in conversation with investigative journalist and military analyst, @KennardMatt.

Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

[🛑 mocking the PEOPLE @alextopol]

The Hidden Empire That Controls Global Money

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Thank God for people like Cenk Uygur. Otherwise, we would never get to hear the truth...

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

He Left No Crumbs

On this day last year, Professor @s_m_marandi dismantled @SkyNews ‘journalist’ Yalda Hakim in real time.

A ruthless demonstration of how to shut down agenda-driven journalism.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Clive Dolphin of defend our juries responds to the proscription of Palestinian action

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Israel is LOSING CONTROL!

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

He exposes Western propaganda

Extraordinary interview on Sky News during which Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi accused Sky News of racism and vowed that Israel would be hit much harder if it dares strike Iran

He is exposing the crimes of the West , something very dangerous

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Less bread, more circuses - The Grayzone live https://t.co/eKZ87JE5Xh

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The World’s First Trillionaire Is Not Your Friend, And Other Notes

It’s so pathetic watching Elon Musk’s groveling bootlickers fall all over themselves on social media to defend their favorite oligarch from criticism as he becomes the world’s first trillionaire.

They’re like “Don’t be mean to the trillionaire, just become a trillionaire yourself! All you need is luck, connections, wealthy parents, the ruthlessness to step on anyone who gets in your way, and a willingness to cooperate with murderous imperial institutions like the Pentagon and the CIA!”

Elon Musk is a military-industrial complex plutocrat who is balls deep in the US intelligence cartel and recently facilitated the US-Israeli regime change operation in Iran. You have infinitely more in common with the average person in Iran, Cuba, Lebanon or Palestine than you have with the world’s first trillionaire.

It’s so gross how many fawning admirers this freak still has. The trillionaire is not your friend.

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People who say “Zionism is just the belief that Jews should have a homeland” are hilarious. Zionism isn’t some abstraction; we can all see its material manifestations with our own eyes. We can all see that Zionism means genocide, apartheid, and nonstop wars and abuse.

This isn’t some kind of theoretical debate where we all get to have our own opinions about what Zionism is and what it entails. It’s 2026, not 1890. The facts are in and the case is closed, kids. This is what Zionism is. This is the only Zionism in existence. What you see is what you get. And what you see is quantifiably one of the most evil things happening on our planet.

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Some guy told me, “Why are you fine with the existence of approximately 50 Islamic nation-states, but the single Jewish one is apparently too many?”

I showed him an illustration of a nail stuck in somebody’s foot and said, “Why are you fine with an entire foot made of flesh, but a single metal spike is too much? The only possible explanation is that you have a seething hatred of metal. It can’t possibly be that you object to a foreign object being violently forced into a region where it does damage.”

He got upset and wound up telling me he hopes I get murdered by Mossad.

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Hasbara is so gross because it’s just Zionists throwing walls of language at you to convince you you’re not seeing what you’re seeing.

You see raw video footage of the most horrifying thing imaginable in Gaza, and then you see them in the replies going “This is actually fine and normal because words words words words words words words.”

You see a news report about Israel doing something astonishingly evil in Lebanon, and there they are underneath it going “There’s actually a lot more to the story because words words words words words words words.”

You see some far right Israeli minister spouting nakedly genocidal rhetoric, and they’re swarming all over it saying “Well this isn’t actually what it looks like because words words words words words words words.”

You see every major human rights group on earth saying Israel is guilty of genocide and apartheid, and they’re running around frantically telling you it’s a giant conspiracy to frame Israel and the truth is that words words words words words words words.

You see more and more mainstream news institutions reporting on the mountains of evidence of widespread rape and torture in Israeli prisons, and they saturate the airwaves claiming it’s an antisemitic blood libel because words words words words words words words.

The idea is to just pound your intellect with a firehose of verbiage until your inner sensemaker has been shredded and you’re too confused to form a coherent picture of what’s actually going on. It’s a disgusting, abusive, and profoundly unethical thing to do to people.

But the good news is it’s not working anymore. Language is immensely powerful, but its power has its limits. Israel’s behavior has become so transparently unacceptable that no amount of word magic can manipulate people into seeing anything other than what’s happening in front of their face.

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Reading by Tim Foley.