Uma Zaman

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Does anyone still doubt that Argentina are being protected and promoted and coddled throughout this tournament?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israeli soldiers GANG RAPED a Palestinian captive ON CAMERA.

This then triggered pro-rape RIOTS in Israel. Literally!

This was one of the rare cases the IDF took up against their soldiers, clearly to deter the ICC from further arrest warrants.

It was never going to be pursued.

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

ON CAMERA, Israeli soldiers savagely gang raped Palestinian detainees at the infamous Sde Teiyman prison camp.
After the scandal broke, instead of generating outrage and disgust in Israel, it generated a mass protest in support of the IDF’s “right to rape Palestinian hostages.”
Today, the Israel military closed the investigation against the confessed soldier-rapists.

Dr Adnan Bursh, head of orthopedic surgery at Shifa was sodomized to death by the IDF in Jail.
He was a great surgeon, full of life, who trained at King's College Hospital in 🇬🇧.

[ceolawyer @ceolawyer]

Two things you must know.

1) Israel and the United States bombed an elementary school in Iran, after U.S. officials admitted there was no “imminent threat” to the United States.

They murdered 165 schoolchildren. The next photos you see should be burned into your memory forever.

2) Anyone who justifies the killing of innocent children is no better than the killers themselves.

As a Palestinian I know the pain of watching loved ones get bombed, and your own people burying their children for YEARS.

The line has been drawn. Either you’re for killing (and raping) children, or you’re against it.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

“I’ll recognise a Palestinian state unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire and returns to the status quo of quiet ethnic cleansing, occupation and apartheid…”

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

We now have 300,000 people signed up and the establishment is clearly frightened.

Westminster is broken, but the real crisis is inequality: just fifty families now own more wealth than half the population.

Let’s change that together.

Join us: https://t.co/g0Ua1vOsEI

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

Sign up here to stay updated: https://t.co/MAwVBrHOzH

[Justintime @tykestakeonit]

If the BBC keeps refusing to broadcast some of the artists at Glastonbury because of political pressure from the Zionists lobby, then they should lose their rights to broadcast any of it. Ban the BBC.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Huge Crowds in London erupted with chants of “Free Free Palestine” during a concert by Irish hip hop trio Kneecap🔥🔥

[Wrexham AFC @Wrexham_AFC]

CRANK THAT SPEAKER UP 🔉

🔴⚪️ #WxmAFC

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Amazing.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

In these last blessed nights of Ramadan, make sincere personal dua for our Palestinian brothers and sisters suffering at the hands of a depraved enemy. May they be granted ease and be raised to the highest ranks of Jannah.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

BBC documentary about GAZA. This is a good piece. After publishing, immediately Israel attacked and forced BBC to take it down. They also took down it from YouTube as well. This is highest quality version we have. Keep sharing.

[Adam Kelwick @adamkelwick]

This year, the first day of 2025 coincides with the first day of the Islamic lunar month of Rajab, 1446.

Rajab is known as the "month of God" and is one of four sacred months throughout the year. It is the month of seeking forgiveness and also the month where the seeds of good deeds are planted, which can then be watered in the following month of Sha'ban, which will allow the fruits ready to be picked in the month after that, the blessed month of Ramadan.

In other words, if you want to get the most out of Ramadan this year, then now is the time to start.

"Oh Allah bless us in Rajab, and in Shaban, and allow us to reach Ramadan." 🤲

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Sorry to be that person, but when we've witnessed a genocide live on our screens, when we've seen decapitated babies, Palestinians burning alive, babies freezing to death, mass extermination, torture & ethnic cleansing, reading about other 2024 reflections just seem so trivial.

[Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes]

So a group of Israeli hooligans antagonized Muslims in Amsterdam, got slapped around for it, and now they’re comparing it to the Holocaust and blaming Iran?

Sounds about right.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

As a Bengali, I feel entitled to say that this image -- of a man plundering a large fish from the deposed prime minister's residence -- is one of the most Bengali pictures of all time

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

🚨POV: You’re a female Muslim politician asked to talk about your experience of racism on British morning television.