@iamjohnoliver Hi. There's a point in calling "Israel" The Zionist Regime. It's because "Israel" is not a state; it's an occupying force of a land that's not theirs. It's not like how the British Empire called India their own property like it was a London suburb.
Great news! @COPEVancouver just backed proportional representation for Vancouver City Council!
Now we need other progressive parties to step up and commit to PR for Council too.
Your move, @OneCityVan@vangreens@votevancouver@Vote4ABC
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Wow.
"In conversations with France, whose president, Emmanuel Macron, speaks to Carney often, the idea has even come up to allow Canadians to live and work in Europe visa-free, two officials familiar with those discussions said." https://t.co/saoWhjvoLF
Wow.
"In conversations with France, whose president, Emmanuel Macron, speaks to Carney often, the idea has even come up to allow Canadians to live and work in Europe visa-free, two officials familiar with those discussions said." https://t.co/saoWhjvoLF
The images coming out of Iran are already unbearable. Reports of an elementary school struck by missiles, killing dozens of people, with scores more killed around the country. Fear and chaos in the streets as families run through smoke and search for safety.
The United States and Israel have launched an illegal act of war while Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu speak openly of regime change. This is what Prime Minister Mark Carney says he supports. He has issued a statement so brazenly belligerent that even Conservatives like Jason Kenney are cheering it on.
It’s a shameful moment that buries all of Carney’s high-minded rhetoric in Davos under the rubble.
These leaders justify this war as serving Iranian liberation. But the courageous movement in Iran that has been fighting tyranny for nearly five decades — and is still reeling from the worst massacre in the country’s modern history in January — will suffer a massive setback from these foreign bombs.
We remember the disastrous outcomes of previous U.S.-led wars of regime change in the Middle East, including in Iraq. They led to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, sectarian conflict, and a world that is less safe, not more. The current attacks on Iran must stop now, before the entire region is plunged into conflict, death, and destruction.
My thoughts are with the people in Iran and around the world who are watching this unfold with heartbreak and uncertainty.
Freedom will not come from military intervention by outside powers, it can only come from the Iranian people. War is not the way.
There is a big difference between a leader who is martyred among his people and a leader who flees to Germany / Greece and leaves his people in shelters.
I keep seeing comments like "they didn't even bother doing a propaganda campaign this time". Do they need to? The American people are completely pacified. Where are the mass anti-war protests like we had with Vietnam and Iraq? Nowhere.
It does not matter what Israel calls it, stop saying “preemptive strikes” to justify ANOTHER ILLEGAL WAR LAUNCHED BY ISRAEL.
“Israel says” is not journalism.