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Guilty of Journalism: Julian Assange and the Future of Media Freedom

Truth Defence's @MElmaazi explained the significance of Julian Assange's case at Cambridge University anti-genocide, pro-Palestine encampment
https://t.co/eWMgYYh4hG

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Four Palestine Action activists were convicted of criminal damage but could now be sentenced as terrorists.

The jury was not allowed to hear about the terrorism designation, and the media was barred from reporting it.

Does this sound democratic to you❓
https://t.co/V45Rschrn9

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

I definitely recommend this. Sign up to the Patreon for early access to Abby Martin (@AbbyMartin) and Mike Prysner’s (@MikePrysner) documentary “Earth’s Greatest Enemy”

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

“There is a myth the UK did not support Washington’s war against Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. In fact, Labour and Conservative governments backed every phase of US military escalation and played secret roles in the conflict, declassified files show”

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

“I wished for death every moment,” said a 42-year-old Palestinian mother who described being stripped, electrocuted, beaten, filmed while naked and repeatedly raped—over days.
https://t.co/nI1JjnBfEs

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

“The Israelis used 50 planes to drop 160 bombs in 100 locations across Lebanon in 10 minutes today, and then they bragged about it...Nowhere is safe...This is just wanton destruction and punishment of the Lebanese” —@RaniaKhalek

Full interview here: https://t.co/iI9VwDnzIi

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

“All Israeli targets in Iran are aligned with the United States” Israeli source told ABC after their strike on Iranian gas fields.

Israeli officials have repeatedly noted “totally unprecedented” operational coordination between US and Israel who have “no secrets” in this war.

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

Earth’s Greatest Enemy, absolutely brilliant film.

Deeply disturbing, deeply relevant, deeply important.

Watch it. Discuss it. Share it.
Directed by @AbbyMartin, @MikePrysner, @TaylorGill, brillant score by @Anahedron

https://t.co/8LtPO7Zrcx

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

“The real risk is not that China will become another United States. It is that the United States, unable to imagine a major power that does not operate through protectorates and guarantees, will keep mistaking restraint for weakness—and act on that mistake in ways that...”

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

@bmj_latest @mohammedakunjee I wrote about this in 2020: https://t.co/6jHubvzE4f Palantir—like Google—was founded w/ CIA financing. It's a surveillance, data analysis & AI company that’s quite arguably a CIA-front and is proudly embedded in Israel’s apartheid regime amidst its genocide of Palestinians.

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

.@BrianJBerletic, check out this Fox News article by Trump’s former National Security Advisor.

It was also quote-tweeted amd commented on by an Iranian foreign ministry official.

Iranian MFA official’s tweet: https://t.co/KXAtk2LVs4

The article :
https://t.co/bFXTf66qxU

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸/IRAN: US claims "dismay" over "Israeli" strikes on Iranian fuel depots, and why you shouldn't believe them...

The US has, in all military operations throughout its history sought to exterminate all human life where and when possible, turning nations into failed states and inhibiting life for everyone, not just governments it targets.

In Serbia it targeted the power grid.

In Iraq the US starved half a million children to death even before its invasion and occupation killed another 1 million.

In Libya vital infrastructure for agriculture was deliberately destroyed.

In Syria the US seized and denied grain to deliberately starve the Syrian civilian population.

And now the US seeks to do ALL of these things to Iran and it IS.

As the US continues destroying Iran, and as more egregious crimes against humanity are required to do so, it will depend on its Israeli proxies to carry them out, or at least claim to carry them out, attacks that will cause immense human death and the destruction of vital infrastructure, all so the US can claim plausible deniability for itself.

However, every bomb, missile, plane and drop of fuel Israel uses was given to it by the US, every target is fixed by US intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and each sortie made possible by US capabilities Israel doesn't have including extensive aerial refueling, suppression of air defenses, region-wide radar enabling situational awareness, and even combat search and rescue.

Every "Israeli" action is an American action.

Thus every "protest" by the US is an act of theater primarily because if the US doesn't want these targets hit it will simply deny Israel the ISR and coordinated operational capabilities (aerial refueling, suppression of air defenses, electronic warfare etc.) required to hit them.

The US knows, however, no one knows or cares about these material realities and will instead allow their myopic obsessions and emotions convince themselves somehow the Israelis, not the Americans, are in the driver's seat and these actions were "Israeli," not American, despite the fact Israel wouldn't exist in the first place (just like Ukraine) without full and constant support.

Again, this DOES NOT absolve Israel for the war crimes carried out amid this war of aggression.

Like America's proxies in Ukraine, all involved in atrocities must be fought against and held accountable.

However, if you want the war to end and the danger eliminated, identity the root of the danger, not just obsess over the tips of the branches or their falling leaves.

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

Every “Israeli” action is an American action.

Thus every “protest” by the US is an act of theater primarily because if the US doesn’t want these targets hit it will simply deny Israel the ISR and coordinated operational capabilities required to hit them.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

I demonstrate how the FBI, Israeli intelligence and Netanyahu himself duped Trump into believing that he was hunted by Iranian assassins, leading him into war

In killing the Ayatollah, Trump confirmed the success of the years-long psy-op, declaring, "I got him before he got me"

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

For roughly half a century, a certain strain of American evangelical theology has taught millions of believers to read conflicts like Trump’s war with Iran not simply as geopolitics in action but as prophecy unfolding in real time. I was one of them.
https://t.co/aEzbX3V3Td

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

It is the US that controls Israel, @BrianJBerletic argues, noting that key US policy docs argue that Israel should be used to destroy Iran as part of the Empire's project to isolate, weaken Russia and China.

Listen to his full analysis here: https://t.co/Nq5r1YlkqU

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

Your tax dollars just killed children...

Jayson T Butler and Jayson J-Didda Butler via @DemocracyAtWrk
https://t.co/6yoO7b7Cda

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

The Deportation of Mario Guevara Is Chilling For Journalism

by @KGosztola
https://t.co/rB2BwRpJPZ

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

@DueDissidence From the late David Graeber*, my friend who tragically passed away suddenly a five years ago.

Debt: The first 5,000 years (https://t.co/Qo9L28nEYB)
Bullshit Jobs (https://t.co/HwIO4XilsH)

*He's the one who suggested to Occupy that they use the "we are the 99%" framing.

[Mohamed Elmaazi @MElmaazi]

During the Cold War, the CIA, MI6 & NATO ran secret far-right terrorist groups engaged in psychological warfare, false-flag attacks, assassinations and terrorism to undermine the political Left in Europe

Must watch w/ @DanieleGanser and @Glenn_Diesen
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[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Even if Trump pretended he didn’t want to enter the war directly, even if US genuinely doesn’t want to enter directly, the greater probability is that it will, because US cannot afford to let its genocidal settler-colonial outpost go down. “Israel” knows that and gambles on it.