Mohamed. A. Hamod

[SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs]

🇮🇱🇱🇧 They enter a Lebanese home.

They damage it.

They tag the walls.

Then they film themselves praying inside.

That is not faith.

That is occupation turning desecration into a war souvenir.

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Democrats haven’t come up with any new policies since their epic failures while they supported wide opens deadly borders, trans beating women, and nonstop nauseating identity woke politics.

And Republicans have betrayed pretty much every campaign promise, waging foreign wars and destroying the economy with rising inflation and high gas prices.

Both parties have enslaved Americans in nearly $40 T in debt, robbed Social Security to the point it will be insolvent in 2032, and have refused to fix REAL PROBLEMS like overpriced unaffordable insurance.

Literally everyone I’m talking to hates politics right now and hates BOTH parties.

The only way to defeat the Washington machine is to stop supporting it.

It literally doesn’t matter anymore.

They are both the same.

[Mohamed. A. Hamod @alezzey]

@FmrRepMTG

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Votaré solo a Itamar Ben Gvir, él es el único que salvará a nuestro pais, a todos los árabes y a todos los izquierdistas había que quemarlos vivos a todos en mitad del océano".

Mientras tanto en la TV de "Israel", los colonos sionistas piden quemar vivos a todos los árabes e izquierdistas, mientras afirman que solo Ben Gvir les salvará.

Esta es la sociedad colonial sionista, se dice que el problema solo es Netanyahu, pero realmente el problema es todo el apartheid, de arriba a abajo.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

The guy who beat him, Brad Lander, is also Jewish.

He just also happens to be anti-genocide, which is why you bloodthirsty psychopaths despise him so much.

[محمد الفرح @MohammedAlfrah]

هااام

حكومة التغيير والبناء: نفوض قائد الثورة تفويضاً مطلقاً في اتخاذ كل الخيارات اللازمة التي تتطلبها المرحلة

- نؤكد استعدادنا لخدمة القوات المسلحة وقوات التعبئة العامة وتضافر الجهود لإنهاء العدوان ورفع الحصار وطرد الاحتلال.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇮🇷🇵🇰 Iranian President Pezeshkian planting a tree as a symbol of friendship, in Islamabad, Pakistan.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

As many of you know, I'm facing a campaign—pushed by Laura Loomer, The Free Press, & others—to deport me for effectively opposing war with Iran and championing diplomacy to end it.

To all who've asked how to help, you can do so by supporting QI's 1st Amendment Fund: https://t.co/oZ1WruQjww. Thank you!

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chinese supercomputer surpasses US record to become the world's fastest computer.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇸 UN report: Nearly 1.7M Palestinians in Gaza, about 80% of the population, are living in dire conditions with severe shortages of water, shelter, and basic services.

Over 59,000 shelters are packed with 8+ people each, thousands are sleeping outside, and hundreds of thousands lack clean drinking water.

Humanitarian situation remains extremely tough. It's never ending.

Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Lucas

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The Polite Kind Of Racism

https://t.co/XSXrBYP9x5

[Mohamed. A. Hamod @alezzey]

We’ve got a lot of growing up to do. We are in need of drastic, revolutionary change, more extensive than probably most of us can imagine at this point in time. We’ve got a long, long way to go, and a whole, whole lot of wrongs we need to make right around the world.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

There are two types of racism in the west: the kind that’s considered acceptable in polite liberal society, and the kind that’s widely frowned upon.

The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it fine and normal to drop bombs on Muslim families overseas. The kind which sees starvation sanctions as a minor issue whose pros and cons are assessed solely on the basis of whether they will be successful or unsuccessful in achieving regime change. The kind which views imperialist extraction from the global south as the natural order of the world, with centrists and progressives squabbling only about how evenly that plunder should be distributed among westerners.

The unacceptable type of racism is the kind which affects other westerners. The kind whose consequences western liberals have to see.

If a white woman calls the police on a black man minding his own business in the park, western liberals will send her viral on social media, and she will be unwelcome in polite society until the heat dies down. If a celebrity is caught on tape uttering an ethnic slur, they’ll be unpopular for a while, and will be considered a liability by sponsors and film studios. This is the wrong kind of racism.

That’s what you’re seeing whenever the western press completely ignores a dozen Palestinians getting killed by western-made munitions on the same day the entire news media focuses on some allegation of “antisemitism” with no material consequences other than some western Jews feeling emotionally upset. The former is the right kind of racism, while the latter is the wrong kind. One is seen as acceptable and normal, while the other is a horrifying abuse.

Western racism falls into two distinct categories because our entire civilization is built upon the polite kind, whereas the impolite kind is useful to the powerful only as a wedge issue to keep western populations divided against each other. Mainstream western politics is often just a culture war between one major party which embraces both the polite and impolite kinds of racism against another major party which only embraces the polite kind of racism, thereby ensuring that no political energy goes toward ending the polite kind of racism.

The polite kind of racism is much more important to the powerful in the 21st century, because it’s an absolutely foundational component to their rule rather than merely a useful tool. Without the imperialist extraction of labor and resources from the global south at extortionate prices, you wouldn’t see sprawling megacorporations turning millionaires into billionaires and trillionaires who then use their wealth to manipulate western politics to promote their own agendas. Without nonstop military expansionism and the abuses of the western intelligence cartel, the managers of the western empire could not dominate our planet.

That’s why every few years westerners get to vote on whether or not to advance the impolite kind of racism in their society, while the polite kind of racism never appears on the ballot. You’re allowed to vote on whether or not your government will become more abusive to immigrants and other marginalized members of your society, but you’re never allowed to vote on whether or not war, militarism and imperialist extraction will continue. This expression of racism (or white supremacism, or xenophobia, or western supremacism, or whatever you want to call it) is considered too important to be left to the will of the electorate.

And you see this reflected in the consciousness of the western mind. Even relatively aware westerners who would place themselves on the far left of the political spectrum will often spend a lot more energy on domestic issues than the abuses of the western war machine.

Earlier this month the discourse on Left Twitter revolved around whether or not it was a “privileged take” to say that people shouldn’t serve in the US military, the argument being that many US military personnel come from disadvantaged backgrounds. I saw a lot of US progressives who furiously disparage ICE agents and American cops falling all over themselves to defend those who enlist in the US war machine, which is quantifiably far more murderous and oppressive than domestic American law enforcement.

The only way to see things this way would be to view those who live in the global south as less human than people who live in the United States. That’s the only way it could possibly make sense in your mind to see the abuses of your country’s domestic police forces as worse than the demonstrably more egregious abuses of the US war machine. You’d have to view a school full of Iranian children being blown up by the US Navy as less worthy of attention and opposition than an American being beaten by a police officer in the United States. You’d have to assume those Iranian lives don’t matter.

And those are some of the more awake members of western society. Most westerners are a lot less conscious and compassionate than that.

Westerners live in the most savage and murderous civilization on earth. We don’t feel like we are savage and murderous because we outsource most of our violence and slavery to overseas operations, but that’s what we are. We go about our lives consuming products made by wage slaves under an oppression machine that is defended through constant mass military slaughter, and then we wag our fingers at a viral video of some schizophrenic saying racist things in order to feel nice feelings about ourselves. That’s what western life is, right there.

We’ve got a lot of growing up to do. We are in need of drastic, revolutionary change, more extensive than probably most of us can imagine at this point in time. We’ve got a long, long way to go, and a whole, whole lot of wrongs we need to make right around the world.

[Hassan Ahmadian حسن احمدیان @hasanahmadian]

للحُروب مخرجات. فإذا تتبَّعنا مسارَها، ووقائعَها، ونهاياتِها بدقّة، تمكَّنّا من استشرافِ آثارِها الجيوسياسيّة. وإلّا، فإنّنا نبقى إمّا أسرى الأملِ والتفكيرِ الرغبويّ، أو في موقعِ المحلِّلِ المتردِّدِ الذي "لا إلى هؤلاء ولا إلى هؤلاء"، بل "إذا الريحُ مالتِ مالَ حيثُ تميلُ"—ولا يُعوَّلُ على رأي أيِّ الفريقين.

إنّ الفشلَ العسكريَّ للولاياتِ المتّحدةِ وإسرائيلَ هو الأرضيّةُ التي تُبنى عليها المخرجاتُ الدبلوماسيّةُ للحرب. وما مذكّرةُ التفاهمِ إلا تأكيدٌ لواقعِ الحربِ وما تفرّعَ عنها من نتائج. وسيأتي الحلّ الشامل، إنْ كُتبَ له أن يكون، في السياقِ نفسِه.

وأمّا التنظيرُ والتحدّثُ عمّا ينبغي لإيرانَ والمقاومةِ فعلُه بعد الحرب، ممّن هم في رِكابِ الخاسرين عسكريّاً، فهو تغريدٌ خارج سرب الفاشلين—ولا يُلتفتُ إليه؛ إذ إنّ أصحابَ الفشلِ أنفسَهم قد أدركوا حجمَ الاستحقاق، وسايروا الواقعَ بمقتضاه. فلا تُصغوا لأتباعِهم، بلِ اصغوا لهم ولأصحابِ النصر، فقد "قُضِيَ الأمرُ" و"كان أمرُ اللهِ قَدَراً مقدوراً".

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This report is haunting even for someone who has documented the most horrific aspects of this genocide - which too many world leaders pretend not to see.

I commend the Commission of Inquiry for its effort to bring about accountability and make the truth accessible.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Alan Dershowitz gets absolutely destroyed by a crowd that called him a pedophile and asked him what he did on Epstein’s island.

DERSHOWITZ: “Let me get a picture of you so I can sue you.”

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[James Li @5149jamesli]

If you didn't draw the line at genocide, you have no right to draw any other line.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Jared Kushner's corruption and profiteering from US policy he directly shapes has no parallel in its magnitude and brazenness.

He and the Trump family are showered with billions in new personal wealth from the exact Persian Gulf dictatorships most affected by their decisions:

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a leading contender to replace Benjamin Netanyahu, complained today that Israeli troops in southern Lebanon were being watched by Hezbollah and were no longer able to freely open fire.

Jeremy Scahill reacts to the Lebanese resistance having “the audacity to monitor with binoculars foreign forces that are occupying their territory.”

@jeremyscahill | @ryangrim | @MazMHussain

[Neme 🇱🇧 @AbNehme]

@jamil_el_sayyed السلطة قرارها واضح وضوح الشمس ومنذ أن وُضعوا على كراسيهم: هي ضد المقاومة وشعبها وبيئتها ومنازلها وحقولها وكل ما يرتبط بها.🤨