Te Matakahi, ka tau.

Sharp and ready.

[Te Matakahi, ka tau. @TeMatakahi]

light isn't as revealing as
much as we might think
tell me, can you see its edges?
light needs night for its
edges to come into sight.

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

More proof that Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry deaths figures are accurate (other studies even showing undercounts).

Constantly doubting them is a deliberate tactic to deny the Gaza genocide & downplay tens of thousands of dead children.

👇👇👇

[Iranian Force @MrImranPk]

Dear followers

My account is currently under a coordinated mass-reporting campaign to silence it.
If you believe what I share deserves to stay, I need your support now:

Engage, repost, and speak the truth.
Your voice is the real protection.

Don’t leave me alone in facing this targeting.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Never forget," they say.

But they choose what you remember.

Never forget Tiananmen.

Never forget 9/11.

Never forget the Holocaust.

But somehow, you are allowed to forget Fallujah.

You are allowed to forget Mỹ Lai.

You are allowed to forget Sabra and Shatila.

You are encouraged to forget Gaza while it is still happening.

This is not a culture of remembrance.

It is a culture of selective memory.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China provided the Philippines with fertilizer and fuel when it needed help most.
And while accepting those supplies, the Philippine defense minister went on stage accusing China of trying to control them.

You were the ones asking China for help.

But the most humiliating part is not even that.

The Philippines was invaded by Imperial Japan.
Bataan Death March.
Japanese occupation.
Manila massacre.
Mass civilian deaths.
Torture.
Humiliation.

That was Filipino blood.

And now its defense secretary stands on stage defending Japan, while attacking China for reminding Asia what Japanese militarism actually did.
This is textbook-perfect self-colonization with a microphone.

China gave the Philippines fertilizer and fuel.
Washington gives it military scripts.
Japan gives it historical amnesia.

And Manila chose to perform for the two countries that either colonized it, occupied it, or still use it as a forward operating pawn.

China was right to ask:
If officials like this keep sabotaging trust, who pays the price?

Not Washington.
Not Tokyo.

Ordinary Filipinos.

Because colonial puppets always perform courage with other people’s lives.

And colonial lackeys never protect their own people.
They protect the leash.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Indigenous leaders of La Paz, Bolivia: We don't want dialogue or negotiation with those who have our blood on their hands, we'll be at the barricades until the President is gone.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

I am so inspired by this proletariat revolt of farmers and workers across Bolivia.

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

New Zealand Government’s failure to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza and systematic torture of Palestinian detainees (including rape and forced nudity), has enabled the illegal kidnapping and hostage abuse of Sumud Flotilla activists—including Kiwis.

Weak words from Winston Peters and Chris Luxon only embolden war criminals. Sanction Israel NOW!

#FreeTheFlotilla #GazaGenocide

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

As the next phase of the war approaches...

Let's be clear. All decent human beings stand with the Iranian people.

They stand with the Islamic Republic.

They stand with the IRGC.

They stand with Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei.

Victory to the Islamic Republic! Victory to the people of Iran!

Dismantle and destroy the Zionist colony and the paper tiger of its US proxy.

[Carl Worker @carlworker]

NZDF should not forget that one of the salient ANZAC lessons from WW1 was not to blindly trust the strategic and even tactical judgement of the big metropolitan powers. They are in it for their own interests, using the means that suits them, and we will be collateral damage unless we preserve our autonomy and independent good judgement.

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

New Zealand government must issue a clear public condemnation of the US illegal blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Anything less will be read by Iran and China as New Zealand quietly ditching our independent foreign policy in favour of alignment with an increasingly chaotic and dangerous US.

This is not in our national interest.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Prof. Mearsheimer:

"If we had Nuremberg-like trials, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and their principal lieutenants would be hanged."

[Persian Girl @Persianserene1]

Now the whole world understands why Iran insists on its right to enrich uranium on its own soil

Now do you understand why we have developed our missile program?

Now do you see how savage and barbaric America is?

The entire civilization of America is built on terror and blood, and the whole world hates you for it

[Scott Ritter @RealScottRitter]

Why all caps?

It doesn’t disguise the inanity of your comments.

Iran is winning.

This war ends on terms dictated by Iran.

Not terms dictated by someone who started this war, concluded it was a mistake, and is trying to bully himself out of the mess he made.

Iran survived so far.

It will survive whatever Trump throws at them.

And give back ten-fold in terms of damage that truly impacts regional and global markets.

[Christopher Leonard @ChrisLeonardATL]

Professor John Mearsheimer : "if there were Nuremberg trials right where the Israelis and the Americans were brought before the court, President Trump along with President Netanyahu and many of their advisors would be hanged"

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

General William Westmoreland, the American commander in Vietnam, said that Asians do not value human life the way Westerners do.

He said this to explain why Vietnamese soldiers kept fighting despite losses that would have broken Western armies.

He did not say: perhaps they are fighting for something worth dying for.

He did not say: perhaps our intelligence about their will to fight was wrong.

He did not say: perhaps we have fundamentally misunderstood this enemy.

He said: they don't value life.

This is what happens when an army built on the premise of its own civilizational superiority meets a people who simply refuse to accept that premise.

The army cannot update its model.

It cannot say "we were wrong about who these people are."

So it invents a theory where the enemy's resistance is not a sign of strength but a sign of deficiency.

They keep fighting because life is cheap to them.

Not because their cause is just.

Not because they are brave.

Because they are less than us.

Westmoreland ran the war for years on this theory.

He lost.

The Vietnamese people, who apparently did not value life, built a country that is alive and growing and free.

Westmoreland died in 2005.

The people he could not understand are still here.

So is the theory.

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

Carl Walker is right: “NZ is not just a victim of this disaster. In a small way, it helped pave the way.”

#Iran

[Carl Worker @carlworker]

Contrary to our inadequate PM’s eager hand washing effort, western countries like NZ have done their bit to help set the scene for the current war in the Gulf by refusing to call Israel or the US out during all the many previous stages of illegal violent behaviour against the Palestinians and numerous other countries of the region. NZ has not even condemned the illegal US/Israeli surprise attack and leadership assassinations against Iran although it has been happy to condemn Iranian retaliation. Sadly, NZ is not just a victim of this disaster. In a small way, it helped pave the way.

[Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山 @baoshaoshan]

There will be no war in the western pacific involving the US. The U.S. has been drained & demonstrably incapable of projecting power, protecting bases or allies. The Empire is over. The U.S. has no choice but to consolidate in the western hemisphere. Everyone in Asia understands.

[Sonny Bill Williams @SonnyBWilliams]

When you understand what "Greater Israel" means you’ll understand what’s happening in the world right now.

Praying for the people of Iran, Lebanon & Palestine.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Israel cannot be fixed. It has to be dismantled, and that's exactly what Iran is doing