The way I see it the United States have completed their chapter in the Middle East. All the countries on Wesley Clarke's list have been ticked off. Whether the oil is controlled via regime change or naval blockade the result is the same. The US are dismantling the old trade routes and replacing them with new ones that lead to America. It is an extraordinary strategic feat that many won't grasp for years.
Recently, FIFA suspended Nepal’s football federation over government interference. Several federations have faced sanctions for the same reason.
Now we learn the White House made a direct call to FIFA asking Infantino to review Balogun’s red card.
FIFA insists the decision was handled by an independent disciplinary panel and could not be influenced externally.
But how is a direct call from a government to FIFA over a player’s suspension not, at the very least, political interference?
Just to be clear, then. FIFA:
1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA
2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like
Smashing. All know where we stand
When an apartheid state does evil things I will criticize it.
Tell me I'm not allowed to criticize the apartheid state and I'll criticize it even more.
Use state power to stomp out criticism of the apartheid state and I'll make criticism of the apartheid state my full-time job.
This is utterly, utterly, outrageous. Lloyds is blocking The Canary from accessing its bank accounts. They are refusing to explain why.
This will undermine free speech and independent accountability journalism.
@LloydsBank must explain themselves NOW! Retweet @LloydsBank and make them come clean.
The man who recruited Keir Starmer to the Bar and became one of his earliest legal mentors
Has criticised Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood over the expansion of terrorism law
Arguing that protesters are being punished as "terrorists" for criminal damage despite terrorism never being charged, put to a jury, or proven
Any plans to to fix this @andyburnham ?
Starmer's legacy:
Between Yvette Cooper imposing the Labour Govt's proscription & the end of April 2026, British police have arrested at least 3,070 peaceful individuals as terrorists - just for holding up placards.
Please RT this until this proscription is lifted.
Thank you.
Mrs Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc is a 63 year old journalist that has been documenting the Gaza genocide from early on.
The UK Govt is charging her with terrorism crimes for simply posting the news out of Gaza, in an effort to silence her.
Please RT this - thank you.
That particular moment when a British surgeon was giving testimony to the UK Parliament.
He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children,right on the spot......
The UN has found that Israel deliberately targeted maternity wards and neonatal units as a direct strategy.
Please RT this until the UK Govt stops supporting the GENOCIDAL state of Israel & doing it in our name.
Thank you.
Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.
My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.
They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.
"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."
He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.
And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.
It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.
Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.
It's a real mess, man.
That guy sucks.
Must Andy Burnham state that he intends to reverse the draconian proscription of Palestine Action - which results in ordinary people being arrested as terrorists - just for peacefully holding a placard?
Please RT after voting - thank you.
London's Metropolitan Police are not investigating the Great Israeli Real Estate Event which took place in a London synagogue.
Please RT until they do.
Thank you.
Neither Israel, nor the United States, nor the traitorous government of Lebanon,
has the slightest intention of a genuine ceasefire nor Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
There's a Genocide happening in Gaza.
Our Government is arresting pensioners for holding cardboard signs that say "I support Palestine Action."
And Andy Burnham - labours apparent last hope - won't even acknowledge what's really happening.
It's pretty damned obvious that it's not possible for a defendant to mount any form of adequate legal defence against offences they are not charged with.
Please RT this until this injustice is corrected.
Thank you.
Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy
"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.
Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"