DENISE BROWN

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

This morning I was asked on Boston radio about the US–Israel strikes on Iran.

Here is the strategic reality most people are missing:

Airpower alone has never produced positive regime change.

I don’t mean rarely.

I mean NEVER.

[mick @lalabanksy]

@GMB Tuition fees alone trebled from £3,000 a year, to £9,000 as soon as the Conservatives got their hands back on a bit of power. Shameful. £3,000 was the highest it ever was for 14 years, then the ConDems screwed everyone.

[Crouch #TEAM KEIR ! @Crouchcrouch4]

@GMB "I believe plan 2 is where the problem is"

OK, Kemiiii, it was YOUR plan though !

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: Fox News SHATTERS Trump's approval myth, admits to viewers that his approval rating has plummeted to a low of 38%, "they've given him 9 months... and things really haven't improved."

Make sure everyone sees this.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Best news I heard all day.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Pardoned MAGA J6er arrested for child molestation - attempted to bribe 11-year-old boy to keep quiet.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: An unhinged, visibly rattled Trump CRASHES OUT on an Epstein files question, threatens to revoke license from ABC "because your news is so fake and so wrong."

The question was valid.
His reaction was insane.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Traitor.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We in Ukraine never wanted a single second of this war. Back on March 11, we responded positively to the American proposal for a full ceasefire. We made our own proposal to Russia – bilaterally – to halt strikes at least on civilian targets. We also proposed making the Easter ceasefire full and extending it for thirty days.

Russia has consistently rejected everything and continues to manipulate the world, trying to deceive the United States. Now, yet again, another attempt at manipulation: for some reason everyone is supposed to wait until May 8 before ceasing fire — just to provide Putin with silence for his parade.

We value human lives, not parades. That’s why we believe — and the world believes — that there is no reason to wait until May 8. The ceasefire should not be just for a few days, only to return to killing afterward. It must be immediate, full, and unconditional — for at least 30 days to ensure it is secure and guaranteed. This is the foundation that could lead to real diplomacy.

We reaffirm this proposal. The American proposal also remains on the table. Russia knows exactly what it needs to do and how to respond: to genuinely cease fire.

[Ron Levin @rontrepreneuer]

@generalkellogg When is the administration going to start putting actual pressure on the invaders instead of always blaming the victims?

[Flatpack Fellamunculus 🏴‍☠️ @tryingattimes]

@generalkellogg There is no ceasefire. Russia has exploited US weakness and Ukraine honour by intensifying its assaults on civilian society, including energy infrastructure. Putin clearly doesn’t respect the Trump regime, and seeing the endless string of dishonourable events, who can blame him?

[Maksym Borodin @adnashmyash]

@generalkellogg General, name a war in which the aggressor gained new territories with impunity and stopped further aggression?
How was it possible to negotiate with barbaric Russia without putting any serious pressure on it and equating the AGGRESSOR and the VICTIM?

[DENISE BROWN @DEEBAXI]

@TarasKuzio Daily Fail always on the wrong side of history. What else do we expect.

[Stephen Sherry @Stephen00485191]

@SophieP25397 First thing i would cancel after the monarchy itself if Scotland gains independence! 👍

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Happy New Year to everyone in Islington North and beyond.

This year, we proved that when we come together, we can win.

In 2025, let’s prove that a more equal, caring and peaceful world is possible.

[Silvio Tattisconie 💎 ©™ 🇬🇧🎗 @SilvioTattiscon]

So it was safe to let off the fireworks at the Edinburgh Hogmanay event which was cancelled because of alleged high winds and snow that was forecast

That shows how poor the weather forecast was, hundreds of thousands lost if they repay the tickets sold, because the Met office screwed up again big time

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Everyone kind of knows that our society is profoundly sick. You can sense it. There are raging disagreements about what exactly it is that’s wrong, but everyone can feel that something freakish and unnatural is happening here.

The source of this sickness isn’t clear at first glance, so you’ll hear countless explanations for what specifically is giving rise to this sense of dis-ease within us. Some say it’s because we don’t have enough religion in our lives. Others say it’s because we have too much. Some say it’s because half the country has the wrong political ideology. Others say it’s because there are too many trans people or immigrants. Some say it’s because humanity itself is innately rotten. Others say it’s because our society is enslaved in a sinister conspiracy by Jews or Freemasons or neo-Marxist technocrats.

Everyone disagrees on the nature of our dilemma, but we can pretty much all agree that something is very wrong.

The reason it’s so hard to nail down the source of our problem is because every part of it is designed to be hidden. We are ruled by unelected plutocrats and empire managers who actively avoid being recognized as our rulers. These oligarchs work continuously to manipulate our minds using propaganda that’s disguised to look like news and trustworthy sources of information. This propaganda places ideas in our heads which we are tricked into believing we came up with on our own. These tricks work because they hook onto egoic tendencies within our psyches whose nature we are largely unconscious of.

This all works together to manufacture consent for a system which does not serve the interests of ordinary human beings, and most of it is hidden from immediate view. We find ourselves in a mind-controlled dystopia where we think, speak, vote, work, shop, spend and behave in more or less exactly the ways the rich and powerful want us to, all while believing we are free — because the mechanisms of control are hidden from us.

As soon as we are old enough to think and understand, our thoughts and understanding are shaped by the powerful using the most sophisticated system of mass-scale psychological manipulation that has ever been devised. We live our whole lives marinating in power-serving narratives about the world and our place in it. It’s all we��ve ever known, so we think it’s normal. It almost never occurs to anyone to question how their worldview got into their heads in the first place; to most of us it just looks like truth and common sense.

But because we live under a system that’s designed to benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary people, we’re all acutely aware that the way things are isn’t really working. As the abuses and injustices inherent in capitalism become more and more egregious, this sense that something is wrong gets more and more widespread and acute. This discontentment is currently being funneled by the powerful into faux populist movements designed to herd the public into supporting the status quo while allowing them to feel as though they are waging a brave revolution against the establishment.

The public is becoming more and more restless and agitated because they can sense that something’s wrong but can’t say what it is, like a dementia patient with a urinary tract infection. This agitation is erupting in ways which range from the crazy to the very lucid, from hate crimes and racist movements to mass protests against genocide and an expanding awareness that a better world is possible.

Our job at this point in history is to try to steer this growing restlessness toward health and clarity. To help people understand where the real bad guys are, to highlight the manipulations and abusive systems at play here, to assure everyone that their growing sense that something is very wrong is absolutely correct, and to help them see exactly what’s causing it.

As we move into a new year, that’s what we should all be working on to help humanity find its way into a better future.

[Dave Sumner Smith @davesumnersmith]

The last week has been very difficult for @Keir_Starmer & @YvetteCooperMP, but they appear to have handled it pretty well, wouldn't you say?