A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.
What the evidence shows:
Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.
Built to fail:
The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.
Accountability buried:
Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.
My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.
Dana Bash, a perfect embodiment of the banality of evil that's so ubiquitous among so called moderates especially in the mainstream media class. Her and Jake Tapper both conduct themselves like ideologues intent on maintaining the status quo. I'm thoroughly sickened by them both.
I'd get it if Dana Bash were confused by Brad Lander saying he wants a "Jewish and democratic" Israel because that's a pretty obvious contradiction, but no she just can't even grasp the notion that holding complete dominion over the lives of 5 million Palestinians while denying them basic human rights could possibly disqualify it from being the latter. Comes off like an absolute lunatic lol
When I talk openly with Americans I find that they believe America is the state, the government. Instead of America being its principles, it's people, its ideals. That's why when your criticize the government they say you hate America. How fucked.
Unironically the CIA agreed with her. They call it blowback. Also we've all known this for over 2 decades. But she's brown so the Post has to write their nightmare fuel for baby boomers and Staten Island Italians
"Centrist" is becoming a slur and a stain so they're trying to replace it with "commonsense" lmao.
Good luck with that. People are figuring out, if the service they've received is commonsense to those in power, they don't want it.
The DSA wants a war with commonsense Democrats, but we wonβt let them hijack the Democratic Party.
Weβre focused on results for working Americans like more affordability. The socialists are about sowing chaosβthe other is about solving problems.
Rep. Dan Goldman questions if NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a double standard after criticizing Israel but not other religious countries that violate human rights.
@JustinPenik In American football, both teams begin the play in a position that gives no advantage, right? Behind an imaginary line, right? When a person crosses that line before they're allowed, what do you call that? OFFSIDES, right???????????
Fucks sake
We don't teach or encourage critical thinking in our society. You could extrapolate this conclusion to all topics in America. Just proud, naked ignorance.
I have total confidence these talking heads are created and not inspired. It's not a coincidence since the emergence of Trump, a bunch of celebrities with no political exp have turned to political commentators. The establishment is using celebrities to manufacture consent.
π₯Stephen A. Smith on Zohran MamdaniπΊπΈ
"If the Democratic Party becomes HIM, you have no chance ... on a national basis in terms of the presidency, in Senate seats, seats in the House β you have NO chance."
"You might have a Democratic Socialist sprinkled here and there β but that ain't what America is! America is about capitalism! America is about dollars and cents! America is about an economy, a flourishing economy!"
"And you know what it's not about!? Free stuff. Somebody gotta say it, so I'm gon' say it!"
It's frightening how coordinated the establishments hysterics are when they see a politician who doesn't fall in line. At this point it functions as an endorsement of authenticity.
The View host Sara Haines smears Darializa Avila Chevalier, saying she would proudly call herself an antisemite: βI am gonna full-blown call her an anti-semite... she would proudly call herself that, trust me.β
@anthonyzenkus@drantbradley@bakelso It's so exhausting how right wing fash want to both deny the existence of China in their examples and then when China is raised watch them argue that China isn't socialist. Which then begs the question, if China is capitalist why are they so much better at it than the US.
Israel's slaughter of Christian towns in Lebanon is a direct message to Trump. They are signaling that, if Trump has a soft spot for Lebanon because of his daughter's Lebanese Christian in-laws, then this is what they think of it. Israel is the most sadistic rogue state on earth.