Looks like Tony Blair is very determined to confirm his status as one of the worst persons alive.
His speech is pure 19th century colonialism: he frames the Gaza issue as one of "ineffective governance" on the part of the Palestinians, without as much as mentioning the 17-year blockade, the occupation, or the small matter of the deadliest assault on a civilian population this century.
I'd love to understand how you build "effective institutions" when:
- Your airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001
- Your seaport is blockaded
- Building materials are banned as "dual use"
- Your university gets bombed every few years
- Your civil servants can't travel for training
- Your economy is strangled by design
- Your people and government officials are routinely killed in devastating attacks
And he uses this, the eminently predictable outcome of this continuous strangling of a people, as evidence that they can't govern themselves and that they require outside management by the architects of their immiseration.
Absolutely repugnant, no other word for it.
Cellphone footage from Minneapolis appears to show a federal Border Patrol agent kneeing a man in the face multiple times while other agents hold him down on the pavement.
person who'd enthusiastically supported a cult leader famed for sic-ing his attack dogs on individuals who'd displeased him now alarmed that the attack dogs are after her.
4. I will not retreat into the darkness. Autocrats don’t win by silencing everyone. They do it by convincing most people to silence themselves. So I won’t retreat. I will do the opposite. I’ll stand visibly and vocally in solidarity with others on the enemies list.
Remember their names and faces and share their bravery with the world‼️ Anthony Aguilar (retired Green Beret Liutenant) and Josephine Guilbeau (former army intelligence officer)
Why is the government continuing to provide military support to a country that is committing genocide?
My letter to the Foreign Secretary, following the UN report confirming that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Two kids sharing a joke. And a broken doll. It's the "upside down houses" on Raeburn Road, built with the living area upstairs over the bedrooms to take in the big view over the Gleadless Valley Estate. 1960s.
#Sheffield
Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.
Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.
📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.
HUGE NEWS: UK Gov't to ban bottom trawling across 41 protected areas of English seas spanning 30,000 square kms.
Thank you @SteveReedMP! And on the day after David Attenborough saw Keir Starmer too. Advocacy works!
Go and see the film Ocean.
https://t.co/5LGZ6HmdFq