Sudeep Chand

Travels and travails...

Culture vulture...

X global health adviser / doc
@NHS @UKGov @WHO @ChathamHouse

[Ilan Goldenberg @ilangoldenberg]

Actually, the guy who was the point person for Iran at the White House and was fired by the Trump Administration after being Loomered wrote EXACTLY that warning 4 days before the war started. The article was titled “Why Iran Will Escalate.” But who needs experts…

https://t.co/CHufUnZivQ

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

"Economists from MIT and the University of Chicago found that American workers in communities that were more exposed to competition from Mexican imports saw a significant shortening of their life spans after NAFTA went into effect in 1994." https://t.co/AaScpJ5Ydd

[Glen Mitchell @GlenMitchell1]

The social media manager at Bedford council deserves a raise.

[Muse @xmuse_]

Barcelona, 1906. The Sagrada Família basilica in the background, 24 years into its construction.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

A "rainbow storm" over the towering peaks of Denali, Alaska, creating a mesmerizing display of light, rain, and clouds. 🌦️🏔️

Extremely rare iridescent rain curtains glowing above the snowy peaks, a phenomenon caused by sunlight refracting through ice crystals and raindrops. ☁️✨

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

[The Stone Roses @thestoneroses]

RIP our wonderful brother Mani. The greatest bass player and friend we could ever have wished for. X

[Sudeep Chand @Sudeep_Chand]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

“When governments betray the most basic human values, it is upon us to fix it. We, the people.”

Tonight, @FranceskAlbs, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, gave this powerful speech at the Together for Palestine concert.

[Kamran Abbasi @KamranAbbasi]

Proud of @FionaGodlee, my predecessor as editor in chief at @bmj_latest, for protesting the UK’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes in Palestine. @Keir_Starmer will be damned by history as the UK Prime Minister who arrested good people for peaceful protest against genocide

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Sunday Times cartoon:

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

From the owner: "A huge thank you to Isaac Crystal Clean Windows York Limited. After this incident happened, he kindly came and cleaned our windows for free. When he heard about the hateful graffiti, he even helped us wash off the paint that was covering the word Chinese."

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Mariam Dagga, killed by Israel today, was an incredibly talented photographer. She relentlessly and courageously documented the genocide. I'm going to share some of her images. Graphic content included.

[David Henig 🇺🇦 @DavidHenigUK]

Fantastic chart. But arguably (and shown in the article) populists come after there has already been some degree of economic failure (and probably some populism-lite from mainstream parties) https://t.co/dXCqXBb9gN

[gal౨ৎ @prtygal777]

This is you. This is how I see you

[RB @SMNK1972]

Family tree (wow) in Kenya's Masai Mara. Credit to Paul Goldstein

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

Tonight after being held up for months by another broadcaster you can finally get to see the documentary Gaza : Doctors Under Fire by @Basement_Films @bendepear @ramitanavai @karimtl at 10pm on @Channel4 It’s meticulous, compelling and very powerful - don’t miss it

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

I am deciding to take time off from my work as a family doctor, to join the global march to Gaza, because Gaza deserves it.

Gaza deserves food, clean water, medicines, medical supplies and proper medical care.

The Palestinian people deserve freedom from this ongoing Israeli siege, blockade, starvation, famine, occupation, apartheid, and genocide.

Liberation is good medicine.

I don’t know what else to do in this moment than to join the global march to Gaza. To demand that humanitarian aid enter Gaza, which Israel has and continues to systematically deny to the Palestinian people.

Over a year ago, I made the journey into Gaza through the Rafah border crossing to work in primary care clinics in central Rafah. Before I crossed the border, I saw the aid trucks lined up for kilometres upon kilometres at the border as we drove up. These aid trucks would be systematically held up by Israel from entering, some with their supplies and food expiring, only to have the aid be dumped at the border before it even reached Palestine.

It was initially the plan to work at Nasser hospital, but it was surrounded by Israeli tanks and later besieged and forcibly evacuated by the Israeli military. Now, as healthcare workers continue to do what they can in these impossible situations, Nasser hospital is on the brink of collapse, with healthcare workers donating their own blood in attempts to save their patients. Five days ago, the World Health Organization called for urgent protection of Nasser hospital and Al-Amal hospital, the last two functioning public hospitals in Khan Younis, where currently most of the population is living.

A few months later, after my initial journey into Gaza, I was planning to try to re-enter Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, and I watched videos of the Israeli military occupy and destroy the Rafah border crossing on the Palestinian side. The Israeli military has continued their invasion and occupation of Gaza, and repeated and further forced displacement of the Palestinian people into smaller and smaller pieces of land.

I am seeing ordinary citizens of the world, the people of conscience, take it upon themselves to deliver aid and demand an end to the famine and genocide in Gaza. While the international community has utterly failed to prevent and stop genocide in Gaza. Israel has previously killed activists and bombed past freedom flotillas for attempting to bring aid in. The latest freedom flotilla was not the first attempt to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza by water, nor will it be the last. We all have a collective responsibility to do what we can, to do everything we can, to help bring an end to the famine and genocide in Gaza.

In a few days, we will march collectively to the Rafah border crossing. This time, I won’t be attempting to cross it with a small medical team, as I know that doctors can’t stop a famine or end a genocide. This time, I will be with thousands of other volunteers and activists from all over the world demanding that the thousands of aid trucks be let in. Because this is what is needed to stop the famine and starvation. And for governments like our own in Canada, to end complicity in this genocide - for example, Canadian companies sold $18.9 million dollars worth of military goods to Israel in 2024 alone. Because this is what is needed to end the genocide.

Because when the people of conscience around the world organize, we are powerful to push our governments to help bring this genocide to an end.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A Tiny Moon Creating Giant Waves in Saturn’s Rings
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