Ben Mango

A witness to climate catastrophe

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

There is another clip that perfectly encapsulates this kind of bad faith: it shows a young woman crying because the American Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein refuses to let her cling to her Zionism comfort blanket.

Watch the confrontation here:

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

From @The_Aftershock_ | on the roof of Leicester’s israeli arms factory, an activist explains the terror unleashed by these UK-made UAV drones

[Tag London @london_tag]

@martinrw @missyouemmy @BBCNews @declassifiedUK Don’t pay propaganda tax! Cancel that stupid izrael tax called licence!

[Ben Mango @ben_mango]

@danielboffey Your opinion piece in @guardian - https://t.co/E8rS1QUxuN perpetuates the narrative that Iran was behind the Jewish ambulance firebombing. There are many indications that this was an Israeli false flag operation which you do not explore, is that too radical?

[The Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) @cfmmuk]

Here @SkyNews doing some racialised video coding with the words "#Birmingham is a unique city, its problems more visible than other areas" in tandem with a #niqab wearing woman feeding pigeons. She isn't politicking, just existing. The edit makes the association the script won't

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Very convenient isn't it this attack in Golders Green, 3 men know exactly where to go to find 4 unprotected ambulances, and they have exactly the right tools, packs of solid combustibles to do it.

All exactly when they need it to generate support for the war in the Middle East.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

An interesting take from an anti-Zionist Jew in Israel.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Dua Lipa on the Epstein Files, "It’s so gross"

"The way the crimes have been reported and the language that’s been used has been really doing such a disservice to all the victims"

"I keep thinking about all the stories that talk about the underage girls and the sex parties rather than writing about the victims who are children who were trafficked and raped"

"It’s almost putting everything under some kind of veil to protect, I don’t know who, the reader or trying to mask what is actually happening"

"It’s so interesting how the media takes and twists things even in the darkest hour”

[sandra @mrsDugskullery]

Over 80,000 signatures to this petition...even though it is being heavily suppressed.

Please, please sign it now.

Don't delay.

[Ben Mango @ben_mango]

@ProfBillMcGuire I think anarchy would be much more prefarable than capitalism as a political/organisational system, so roll on anarchy I say, though I'm not sure you meant it quite in this sense?

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Horrendous scenes from Manchester.

Hope @gmpolice clarify why they handcuffed the man who was get beaten up by the Britain First thugs?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The four main takeaways from Channel 4's documentary on Palestine Action last night:

1. It reminded us that the Starmer government's proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation was done at the behest of Elbit Systems – the Israeli arms firm making killer drones used in Gaza targeted by Palestine Action.

Government officials regularly met with Elbit. A 2023 internal Home Office email, two years before proscription, states: "Reassure Elbit Systems UK and the wider sector affected by Palestine Action that the government cares about the harm the group is causing the private sector [arms industries]."

2. A senior official told the film-makers there was widespread belief among Home Office staff that the government was "wrong" to proscribe Palestine Action, and there was "disquiet" that the government was using Palestine Action as a way to curtail rights to protest and speech more generally.

3. The government's terrorism adviser, Jonathan Hall KC, made clear that there was zero evidence of any links between Palestine Action and Iran – a claim leaked to the press by government officials on the same day Palestine Action was proscribed. Private Eye had already reported in November that the claim was concocted by a PR firm for Elbit Systems.

4. Additionally, Lord Walney, the government's former "independent" adviser on political violence, who has been at the forefront of demanding even more draconian legislation to ban protest in relation to Israel and its genocide, struggled through his interview.

It was only too clear that his views on the subject had nothing to do with the public good but were shaped by his ties to the arms industries and his role as an Israel lobbyist.

What the programme made clear was that Starmer's government made the unprecedented decision to declare Palestine Action a terrorist organisation not because the group is a terrorist organisation but because large corporations – arms firms like Elbit – have captured the UK government.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

THE MET POLICE ARE LYING

1. It was a public entrance, open gates, no guards, no signs, nothing to suggest the public cannot enter.

Nobody was seen asking protesters to leave.

This 🧵 counters the police’s ridiculous attempt to justify arresting 85 peaceful protestors.

[UNISON Greater London @unisonglr]

📣 FAIR PAY FOR HCA’s 📣

📍St George’s Hospital

#payfairforpatientcare

[Ben Mango @ben_mango]

@tomphillipsin Have you explained to the readers why the US is kidnapping Maduro? Principally so it can get Venezuelan oil and that Venezuela as a socialist state poses a threat to US hegemony?

[Ben Mango @ben_mango]

@tomphillipsin Really disappointed to see you describe Maduro's government as "authoritarian" in your Guardian commentary and the emphasis The Guardian places on Venezualan exiles celebrating Maduro's arrest. This plays to western/US propoganda that Maduro is not legitimate.

[Ben Mango @ben_mango]

@tomphillipsin do you care to explain your reasoning? Some actual objective reporting and discussion at Upstream https://t.co/Hrn0IecUXS

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING: Tayo Aluko sings "we are not the terrorists" as he is arrested in Leeds for opposing genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

He previously took direct action with Palestine Action against the Israeli weapons industry, before the group was proscribed.

[Red Hot World @RedHotWorld]

A whole new type of democracy is thriving in one of the toughest places in the world - despite a media blackout.

Women lead. Taxes have been abolished and private property redefined. Prison is being phased out.

Everyone gets a say.

But now it's hanging by a thread. 🧵