Amit Mozoomdar

Socialist. Art lover, cricket and football follower. Man United and India fan. No DMs unless I know you.

[Harriet Bradley @Cllrharrietbrad]

Dear Mohamad congratulations to you beautiful people and May your journey be peaceful and happy ❤️💍👰‍♀️

[Adam @AdameMedia]

This is clear to anyone who’s not a sociopath.

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

I dunno, man. If I didn’t want to be called a nazi, I probably wouldn’t have endorsed a German far-right party, giving its leader a platform to millions of my followers, then done a straight-arm salute live on stage in front of 20,000 people and the world’s media.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

lsraeli 🇮🇱 apache helicopters fire at Palestinians in Jenin in the West Bank 🇵🇸

So far 2 Palestinians murdered & up to 20 injured.

The oppressions goes on
The apartheid goes one
The murders continue.

Ban Israel 🇮🇱 from the UN.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 today.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

.⁦@ChrisNineham⁩ describes the events of Saturday’s march & his violent arrest

[SueBnd 🇵🇸 🇵🇸🍉 @Thehopper7]

It was SO loud. Be ashamed of yourselves.

[Laura Alvarez @LauraAlvarezJC]

Thank you to everyone for the kind messages are the lost of our beautiful "el gato". He was more than a cat; he was a companion, part of our family, and he always stood with us in the good and bad times. He was a real and honest comrade!

[rachel shabi @rachshabi]

Free Palestine = antisemitism
Nazi salute = just fine
As clear as day that this organisation is undermining the fight against antisemitism

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The BBCs Middle East Correspondent: "Most of them women. Some teenage boys as well"

Why don't you say children? That's a rhetorical question. We know why.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Donald Trump allowed to be sworn in as President without his hand on the Bible, after officials warned it could be a safety risk if it caught fire

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is Zeina, a 19-year-old university student from Jerusalem.

Israel kidnapped her, caged her, and held her hostage—without charges, without reason.

She was freed today, but her story won’t make headlines.

Because the world has decided Palestinian suffering isn’t newsworthy.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

During his inaugural address, the new president of the United States was refreshingly open about the fact that Washington is the hub of a continuously expanding empire which is ruled by billionaire plutocrats.

As Joe Lauria highlighted for Consortium News, President Trump’s speech included references to the “manifest destiny” of America, saying that under his presidency the US will consider itself a nation that “expands our territory”. He waxed fondly about the settler-colonialist past which established the country at the expense of the people who were already living there, and vowed to take control of the Panama Canal.

Trump gave this speech to an audience where the wealthiest people on earth sat alongside his own cabinet in the best seats in the house. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were seen together in the crowd among the more official members of the incoming administration. Israeli-American Trump megadonor Miriam Adelson, who according to Trump helped dictate US policy toward Israel during his first term, was seen sitting among Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Clintons at the inauguration. There will reportedly be no fewer than 13 billionaires with official roles in the new Trump administration.

If you were to twist my arm and force me to say something positive about Donald Trump, this is the sort of thing I would point to. He makes the US empire much more transparent and unhidden. He removes its mask and reveals the twisted face beneath it.

The US isn’t suddenly ruled by billionaires now that Trump is president; it was already ruled by billionaires. The US isn’t suddenly an empire bent on global domination now that Trump has been sworn in; that was already the case. But you’re not supposed to just come right out and say that.

Well, Trump comes right out and says it. He says the quiet parts out loud. He’s the only president who’ll openly boast that US troops are in Syria to keep the oil or lament that they failed to take the oil from Venezuela, or just come right out and tell everyone he’s bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs. He puts much less effort into disguising the true nature of the US empire than other presidents.

That’s the only reason various factions of America’s unofficial permanent government have had objections to Trump’s presidency over the years. It’s not because he presents a threat to the establishment or because he’s trying to bring down the deep state, it’s because he is viewed as a poor custodian of the empire. He either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about the importance of keeping a polite face on the imperial machine.

If I were forced to say something positive about Trump, that would be it. The thing some US empire managers dislike about him is the only thing I like about him: that he makes the US empire a less effective evil because of how much less hidden he keeps the inner workings of the machine. The hood stays popped open the entire time, showing the whole world how the imperial sausage gets made.

Not that there haven’t been plenty of mask-off moments during the dementia-muddled chaos of the Biden administration as well. A new article in Time titled “Why Biden’s Ukraine Win Was Zelensky’s Loss” is a good example of this; the report cites a former member of Biden’s National Security Council saying that victory for Ukraine was never part of the Biden administration’s plan.

The opening paragraph reads as follows:

“When Russia invaded Ukraine nearly three years ago, President Joe Biden set three objectives for the U.S. response. Ukraine’s victory was never among them. The phrase the White House used to describe its mission at the time — supporting Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’ — was intentionally vague. It also raised the question: As long as it takes to do what?”

“Ukraine’s victory was never among them.”

Talk about a mask-off moment. It has long been clear that the US pushed Ukraine into an unwinnable war with the goal of bleeding and preoccupying Moscow, and that it actively sabotaged peace negotiations in the early days of the war in order to pursue these goals. Now that the job has been done and the demented meat puppet is out of office, we are finally hearing it from Biden’s own handlers in his administration.

And of course there was Gaza, where the world spent 15 months watching history’s first live-streamed genocide right in front of their faces while western officials made nonstop excuses of less and less believability. If there’s to be any good to come from that incomprehensibly horrific nightmare, it’s that it has shown everyone the true face of the empire.

The more glimpses people get of the true face of the empire, the less effective the imperial propaganda becomes, because propaganda only works if you believe it. The primary obstacle to revolutionary change under the western empire is the fact that its citizenry have been successfully propagandized into accepting the status quo. The more people open their eyes to the fact that we are ruled by psychopaths who are driving us to our doom on multiple fronts, the closer we get to a collective movement toward a healthy world.

[Ciarán MacAirt @ciaranmacairt]

Butcher Blinken taking a break from butcherin'

[Amit Mozoomdar @amozoomdar]

HTS are the new AQ, supported by US imperialism.

[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

New Syria

🚩On January 19, 2025, after posters banning music surfaced in Damascus, a video captured an incident in a local café.

Eyewitnesses reported that customers playing music were interrupted by seven armed, masked HTS affiliates, turning the café into a scene of chaos.

Syria, once the cradle of culture and art, now faces a bleak reality. If music is a crime and violence becomes the norm, what hope is left for cultural freedom that is the foundation of Syrian society.

[Abu Alba @JustWilliam1297]

On the day of the first prisoner exchange...

British PM Keir Starmer chose to jeopardise the ceasefire by offshoring the activities Israel is now prevented from carrying out.

Keir Starmer IS a War Criminal.

[Pamela Fitzpatrick @pamelafitz4HW]

I mean we did warn people that a Stanmer Government would be this authoritarian and incompetent so no surprise. But now I want my MP @gareththomasMP to publicly state whether or not he supports the right to peaceful protest. He cant keep sitting on the fence on important issues.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today, I am thinking of all those who have been reunited with friends and family.

I am thinking of the thousands of children in Gaza who have been killed or orphaned, with nobody or no home to return to.

We must learn the full scale of the horrors that have been committed.

We must uncover the truth about the UK’s complicity in genocide.

And we must continue to demand the only path to a just and lasting peace: an end to the occupation of Palestine.

[Amit Mozoomdar @amozoomdar]

Diane writing for the Zionist rag The Guardian?

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

Incapacity benefit is just £62.85 per week for those under retirement age and £77.70 for those over it.
The attendance allowance for the Lords is up to £361 *per day*.
Which is unsustainable?

Lords call for overhaul of 'unsustainable' incapacity benefits
https://t.co/Zo1DnhzJW7

[tim anderson @timand2037]

The three women are all serving members of the Israeli armed forces.

[Amit Mozoomdar @amozoomdar]

Can it get worse than Starmer?

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

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