Nick Oliver

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

If you’re a US soldier currently being deployed to the Persian Gulf, know this:

1. I am sorry that this is what your life has come down to.

2. You’re going to die.

But before you die, before it’s too late for you and your loved ones, know this:

You are not doing this for your country.
You are not doing this for freedom or democracy.

You are doing this for a five-time draft-dodging billionaire pig who has absolutely no idea what he’s doing and is only trying to save his own ass.
You are doing this for a genocidal cunt in Tel Aviv who doesn’t give a flying fuck about you or your country.

You are going to die in Iran.
Worse, you’re going to die while committing war crimes.
You are going to die invading, bombing, and murdering people that you have never met, and who have never -and would never- have hurt you.

There’s no honor in this.
The world will not remember you as a hero.
Not even the American people believe this is a just war.

You are going to die for the political survival of a bunch of pedophiles, war criminals, and billionaires who would never send their own children to serve and die alongside you.

Refuse to do it. Resist.

They will punish you.
But humanity will be on your side.
The world won’t forget your bravery.

Go home to your loved ones.
It’s the honorable thing to do.
And it’s the brave thing to do.

This isn’t your time and place to die.

Resist. Go home.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The Labour Government's craven attempt to suck up to Trump has devastating consequences.

The UK has agreed to pay 25% more for new medicines - and thousands of lives could be lost as a result.

End the so-called 'special relationship' and build bridges with our allies.

[Ben Timberley @BTimberley]

We have nukes. Noone is attacking us. These weapons are for aggressive force projection overseas, purely to benefit plutocratic commercial interests.

A disgraceful waste of money, time and effort.

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

i watched every single major western news outlet deny the most obvious genocide in history

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

.@MikeTappTweets, nine questions. Each yes or no.

1) Did the International Criminal Court issue arrest warrants on 21 November 2024 against Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, including the use of starvation as a method of warfare? Yes or no.

2) Is the United Kingdom a state party to the Rome Statute, legally obligated to arrest Netanyahu if he enters British territory? Yes or no.

3) Has the UK government continued to license arms exports to the State of Israel since those warrants were issued? Yes or no.

4) Has the UK government continued diplomatic and political cooperation with the government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu since those warrants were issued? Yes or no.

5) Does the United Kingdom's existing criminal legislation, including the International Criminal Court Act 2001, contain offences applicable to those who provide assistance to persons under ICC arrest warrant for war crimes? Yes or no.

6) Could a UK government minister who has personally and publicly endorsed the continuation of arms exports and political cooperation with a government headed by an ICC indictee face individual legal exposure under those same provisions? Yes or no.

7) Is it the case, as documented by the Campaign Against Arms Trade and Transparency International UK, that the United Kingdom maintains an extensive and ongoing revolving door between government and the arms industry, including the movement of former ministers and senior Ministry of Defence officials into companies that profit from continued UK arms exports to the State of Israel? Yes or no.

8) Does Section 53 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001 require the consent of the Attorney General, a political officer of the government, before any prosecution under that Act can be brought? Yes or no.

9) Does the availability of procedural or constitutional defences to government ministers acting in their official capacity alter the underlying factual conduct of those ministers? Yes or no.

If the answer to each of the above is yes, the following should be happening under the United Kingdom's own legal and policy framework.

The Strategic Export Licensing Criteria requires the government not to issue or maintain licences where there is a clear risk that the items might be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law. The government has already made that assessment for around thirty licences.

The ICC arrest warrants, and the charges they contain, materially strengthen the case that this risk applies more broadly. Full suspension of the remaining relevant licences is the only position consistent with the UK's own published rules.

Continued authorisation of exports in these circumstances also raises serious questions about potential ancillary liability under the International Criminal Court Act 2001. An investigation by the Attorney General into ministerial decision-making, with knowledge of the ICC warrants, would be the appropriate next step.

Parliament has a duty to hold individual ministers to account for these decisions.

None of this is happening.

Tell us, Tapp, why none of this is happening?

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

It's not an under-16 social media ban, it's digital IDs with better marketing

[Nick Oliver @TheGoldenWonder]

@Mdw37683404 @NYCMayor Speaking as an Englishman - the ‘king’ has said far worse

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies of Ukraine.

But of course that's a 'good' invasion.

So there is silence.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

... @Keir_Starmer, will British air bases be used for this?

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Stone Age?
At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder.

We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The US bombed a primary school in Iran, killing 168 girls.

Why is nobody talking about this anymore?

These abominable war crimes should not be forgotten — and nor should the lives, hopes and dreams of human beings who were slaughtered with impunity.

[⚢reign @r31gnn]

how the fuck do you people not see these are concentration camps???

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

US bombers that leave from the UK to strike Iran, have to fly around Europe -- not through it -- because no one will let them use their air space except us.

How shameful and embarrassing to be directly participating in this. Keir Starmer is a mass-murderer from Gaza to Tehran.

[VB 🔆 @VillainBaller]

I don't wanna hear about your 9/11 anymore, man. It's been 9/11 everyday for people in the middle east for the past 20 years. Fuckin barbarians and murderers.

[TaniaSaidWhat @TaniaSaidWhat]

Every time I look at it with fresh eyes, it blows my mind that a nation was allowed to do this to human beings while the entire world watched and could not stop this.

Like this is inhumane to the point of absurdity. How could this be allowed to go on? & now Lebanon too. Fuck

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The U.S. public loves to imagine itself as one election away from redemption.

That fantasy is one of the empire’s most useful products.

It allows every crime to be reclassified as temporary deviation instead of structural expression.

Four years later the bombs continue, the sanctions continue, the vetoes continue, the bases remain, the myth survives, and the public gets to feel disappointed instead of implicated.

That cycle is not democratic self-correction.

It is imperial emotional management.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

[Nick Oliver @TheGoldenWonder]

@Eve_Barlow Neither Israel nor Iran are signatories to the 2008 Convention on Cluster
Munitions. As such their use in conflict between the two isn't governed by the treaty and the use of cluster munitions does not constitute a war crime.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

The girls did not go home from school. They were placed in their graves.
Imperialism is a philosophy of death.

‘I
know a sad little fairy
who lives in an ocean
and plays her heart out softly, softly
on a pennywhistle
a sad little fairy
who dies with a kiss at night
and is born with a kiss at dawn’.

(From Another Birth by Forough Farrokhzad).

[Laura Blum @laura8blum]

@Keir_Starmer Have your message engraved on the F-35 components you continue to allow to be sold to Israel.

Your sham message will reach more Muslims that way.