The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable.
Peace and diplomacy was possible. Instead, Israel and the United States chose war.
This is the behaviour of rogue states — and they have jeopardised the safety of humankind around the world with this catastrophic act of aggression.
Our government must condemn this flagrant breach of international law, and urgently pursue a foreign policy based on justice, sovereignty and peace.
Ultimately, protests such as the #NoKings ones are useless, despite their intentions. To be effective, protests must disrupt the machinery of the state itself, which is why to build true power we need a militant labor movement that will engage in mass striking.
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
I genuinely don't know what's more pathetic: the richest country in the world somehow convincing itself they're a victim and asking the whole world to literally pay for the privilege of being subjugated, or those countries that choose to abandon all self-respect, validate this madness and fund their own oppression.
One thing is crystal clear though: this episode will go down as one of the most nakedly exploitative power plays in human history, and those submitting will likely carry the stain of their cowardice for a long, long time.
“Hands Off” protests said not one word about Yemen.
Or Gaza.
Or Lebanon.
Or anywhere else US bombs rain down on civilians.
The message is clear: the Democrat wing of the establishment has ZERO problems with Trump’s foreign policy as long as it pursues endless genocidal war.
in all of American history only 3 people had been prosecuted for whistleblowing. Obama indicted a record 9 journalists during his presidency alone and tried to go after many more
“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many.”
- Michael Parenti
The Democrats had a President called Franklin D Roosevelt who won four straight elections in crushing landslides. They will never, ever bring up his name. Instead they praise Republicans Ronald Reagan and George W Bush.
Hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive had Biden been willing to say this three years ago. Instead, Biden refused, fueled a proxy war, presided over Ukraine's decimation, and then turned around and said that Ukraine isn't ready to join NATO anyway.
It was all a bait and switch with one goal only: use Ukraine to bleed Russia. Whoever went along with this epic disaster -- and that sadly includes progressive lawmakers and media -- should ask themselves if it was worth it.