Emmanuella (aka Emma Blake Morsi)

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[Emmanuella (aka Emma Blake Morsi) @blakemorsi]

The problem with being so liberal is you create beautiful liberal social hubs and forget how nasty evil people still make up most of society

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Fans shared their thoughts with as Irish-language rap group Kneecap staged their biggest solo gig yet at Dublin’s Fairview Park. Video: Stephen Conneely

[Fiach Oighir @FiachOighir]

But... he wanted to nationalise Iran's oil reserves and the "champions" of democracy could not support that. In 1953 - Britain under Churchill, the bastion of morality, and the USA under Eisenhower - overthrew Mosaddegh. They had to protect their oil reserves.

[Fiach Oighir @FiachOighir]

Now is the perfect time to remember Mohammad Mosaddegh. He was elected as Iran's Prime Minister in 1951. He was incredibly liberal for the time - he embraced democratic principles and sought to place limitations on the Shah's power. He was also a supporter of secularism.

[Lara Friedman @LaraFriedmanDC]

If you haven't done so already -- read, then read again, and share widely:

[Joseph Dickerson @joekaren46]

The BBC actually photoshopped Jeremy Corbyn's hat etc to make it look more Russian.
Let that sink in.
The state-managed, compulsorily-funded BBC are spending our money on crude, entry-level state propaganda...

[Legitimate Targets @LegitTargets]

🚨🇲🇱🇨🇦 BREAKING: MALI has SEIZED one of the country's LARGEST GOLD MINING OPERATIONS from a Canadian corporation who refused to pay taxes & royalties.

[Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational]

NEW PSL STATEMENT

It is now crystal clear: Donald Trump is the co-architect of the Israeli war against Iran and shares full responsibility with Benjamin Netanyahu for the extraordinary danger facing the whole world. The Trump administration played an instrumental role in making the brutal attack unfolding against Iran a surprise attack. For months, Trump and his top officials pretended to be negotiating with Iran in order to trick the country’s government into thinking that an attack wouldn’t happen.

This was just a ploy to maximize the devastating impact of the unprovoked Israeli attack that has led to so many civilian casualties and involves the assassination of top Iranian leaders and scientists.

Trump was in on plans for attack – something he himself acknowledges. When asked by a Wall Street Journal reporter if he had been given a “heads up” about the Israeli attack, Trump replied, “Heads-up? It wasn’t a heads-up. It was, we know what’s going on.” Today, he threatened Iran in a social media post, boasting that, “the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it.” The U.S. military is reportedly helping Israel shoot down Iranian missiles and drones, so that the Israeli war machine can devastate Iran with impunity.

Trump has framed the war on Iran as a consequence of Iran’s failure to meet the deadline he imposed, “Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal.’ They should have done it! Today is day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn’t get there.” Trump claimed,

“I told them, in the strongest of words, to ‘just do it,’ but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told.”

Trump’s threats encapsulate the arrogance and total disregard for the sovereignty of other countries that is at the heart of U.S. empire. He is now posturing as someone holding Iran at gunpoint, demanding that they accept a deal that deeply infringes on their rights as an independent nation in order to escape the Israeli assault.

Make no mistake, the Israeli war against Iran is a clear violation of the UN Charter, and thus a violation of international law. The United States ratified the UN Charter, which is an international treaty, and as a consequence, is the highest law of the land in the United States. The UN Charter strictly forbids a member nation from attacking another nation except in the case of self-defense from an armed attack. Iran has not attacked Israel. The war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming self-defense, as the Israelis always do when they carry out aggression, but that doesn’t make the assertion true. Netanyahu should be arrested immediately and brought to the Hague for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.

Iran, in 2015, negotiated with the United States, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany, and signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which promised Iran relief from crippling economic sanctions in exchange for allowing international inspectors to carry out an intrusive, regular examination of its civilian nuclear energy program to guarantee that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. The irony could not have been greater, since 5 of the 6 signatories all possess large quantities of nuclear weapons. Nonetheless, Iran agreed and signed the JCPOA. The United States never lived up to its side of the agreement. The Obama administration retained punishing economic sanctions on Iran, and Donald Trump ripped up the agreement when he came to the White House in 2017, calling it the “worst agreement ever.”

Trump and the entire U.S. military and foreign policy establishment is prepared to risk a devastating regional or even global war. The U.S. maintains a network of military installations throughout the region, and forces allied with Iran and opposed to U.S. dominance may enter the fighting. The U.S. military could be drawn into an even more active role in the attack, possibly involving “boots on the ground”. This could quickly spiral into a global confrontation even though no side may at this point desire that outcome.

Prior to World War One, the Balkan War raged from 1912 to 1913. No one anticipated that this would escalate into the outbreak of the deadliest conflict in world history up until that point – World War One. But the ultra-aggressive policy of imperialist powers led to an uncontrollable climbing of the escalation ladder.

The goal of the U.S. government and Israel is to weaken Iran by inflicting devastating blows to its military and population, which in their view would ideally lead to regime change. A long-standing goal of the U.S. establishment has been the installation of a client government in Iran that would follow the orders of Washington and Wall Street – like the brutal dictatorship of the Shah that ruled the country from 1953 to 1979. To do it, they are willing to risk countless lives. Everyone around the world has a reason to raise their voice against Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal and unjust war.

Read the statement on Liberation News:
https://t.co/n79l1kH2Te

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨 BREAKING | British Transport Police have announced that trans women in custody will be searched by male officers, following this week's Supreme Court ruling.

This includes trans women who have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

(Via @LBC)

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

British transport police have announced they will enforce the Supreme Court’s guidelines.

What this means is that a trans woman who has, for example, lived their entire life as a woman — has undergone medical transition — will now be strip searched by a male police officer.

[Kim Johnson @KimJohnsonMP]

77% of people claiming Universal Credit & disability benefits have gone without essentials in the last six months.

Today's £5bn cut to disability support is indistinguishable from the cruelty of Tory austerity & goes against the very principles our party claims to stand for.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

I have a newsfeed saying ‘crackdown’ on disability claimants. Have you ever seen a newsflash on a ‘crackdown’ on super rich tax havens and non-payment?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is a seminal moment: a Labour government cutting disability benefits. Not just continuing Tory levels. Cutting.

This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity.

These cuts are disgraceful - and will cost lives.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Instead of slashing welfare and disability benefits — forcing more disabled people and children into poverty — the government could introduce a 2% tax on assets over £10 million.

It would raise £24 billion — five times the savings from these cuts.

This is austerity 2.0.

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in a freezing warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the site.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

[Stephen Espinoza @StephenEspinoza]

Earlier part of the Kendrick Lamar performance before the guy with the "Gaza Sudan" flag was tackled. #SuperBowlLIX

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

An unknown element of this is that Universal, the label both Kendrick Lamar and Drake are signed to, has a director named Haim Saban.

He is a former Israeli soldier, raised hundreds of millions for the Israeli military, and is credited with "writing Biden's script on Israel."

[Spectre @spectre0799]

squabble up but the beat is Espresso

[Josh Johnson @JoshJohnson]

An aspect of Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime performance no one’s talking about

[Achilles99 @Achill_es99]

An Israeli soldier, Moshe Avichzer, was detained in Morocco while on vacation for alleged war crimes committed during operations in Gaza. Moroccan courts are preparing to try him, marking a significant legal action following widespread protests and accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing related to his service in Gaza.