Eileen Weinberg

The proliferation of cat videos is the greatest by-product of the Internet. #FreeAssangeNOW #FreePalestine

[Eileen Weinberg @eileenw]

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[Mary @maryturfah]

I wrote about yoga, genocide, and moral injury for @thebafflermag
https://t.co/uwpErPSs9y

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

Police removed diabetes scientists from the convention center here in New Orleans today after they attempted to pass out copies of an editorial from a peer-reviewed scientific journal (impact factor = 16.6) that was critical of NIH.

[Gianluca Martino @gianlucamart1]

🧵"Desidero che la Papamobile venga trasformata in una clinica mobile e donata ai bambini di Gaza"
Questa è una delle ultime volontà di Papa Francesco prima di morire.
Ad eseguire la disposizione di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano incarica il cardinale svedese Anders Arborelius che a sua volta incarica la Caritas svedese per la trasformazione del veicolo.

Quando la stampa dà la notizia dell'incarico alla Caritas svedese di trasformare la Papamobile in clinica mobile per i bambini di Gaza, scatta la solidarietà dei cittadini svedesi che in pochi giorni inviano alla Caritas cospicue donazioni.

Grazie alle somme raccolte, la Caritas, non solo riesce a trasformare la Papamobile in una clinica mobile fornita di attrezzature mediche di ultima generazione, ma acquista altre 12 ambulanze da inviare a Gaza.

A novembre dello scorso anno, quando i lavori sulla Papamobile sono ultimati, per celebrare l'evento e assolvere all'ultima volontà di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano sceglie Betlemme, la città simbolo per eccellenza della cristianità, la città dove nacque Cristo.
In Piazza della Mangiatoia, il cardinale Anders Arborelius benedice la Papamobile e le ambulanze in partenza verso Gaza.
La Papamobile viene rinominata "Veicolo della Speranza".

Passano giorni, settimane e poi mesi ma gli occupanti israeliani non consentono alla Caritas di fare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza a Gaza.
I rappresentanti del Vaticano e della Caritas chiedono più volte spiegazioni ma Israele si prende gioco di loro inventando storie assurde.
"Non è pervenuta alcuna richiesta di autorizzazione"
E poi ancora: "I materiali sanitari all'interno della Papamobile potrebbero finire nelle mani di Hamas ed essere usati come armi".

E intanto la Papamobile, trasformata in un gioiello della tecnologia medica, in grado di curare 200 bambini al giorno, è ancora lì, dopo sette mesi, sotto una teca in un parcheggio a pochi metri da Piazza della Mangiatoia in attesa di raggiungere i bambini di Gaza.

In uno stupendo articolo scritto dal cardinale Arborelius su ICN, Independent Catholic News (*link nel primo commento) il cardinale si rivolge alle autorità israeliane, chiede, quasi supplica, di lasciare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza ma non rinuncia a scrivere: "Negare le cure mediche ai bambini significa oltrepassare un limite morale che dovrebbe turbare tutti".

Limite morale che non turba i leader politici occidentali che ostentano senza ritegno la loro fede cristiana ma restano in un vile silenzio mentre la colonia di plastica denominata Israele umilia il Vaticano prendendosi gioco delle ultime volontà di un Papa.
Che schifo!

[Greg Stoker @gregjstoker]

Democrats don’t exist to defeat Republicans, they exist to block progressive movements from access to political power. Ignore the “workers rights” window dressing. Their primary commitment is to protect capital accumulation.

Dividing the country into liberals and conservatives is the ultimate distraction from the real divide: top to bottom. The parasite ruling class stoked the culture wars while pillaging our wages, jacking up prices, and doing irreparable harm to the world we live in.

So yeah, this isn’t democrats vs. republicans, it’s billionaires vs. everyone else.

If you’re tired of getting screwed by the system, please support our campaign. Let’s get Greg Stoker elected to TX-31.

Election Day: Nov 3rd with early voting Oct 19-30

#stokedforstoker #universalhealthcare #centraltexas

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon.

It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all.

It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people.

The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…”

Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class.

The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed.

Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement.

Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him.

In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus.

For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media.

Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role.

The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council.

I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Bombing schools - and then covering it up - is stock in trade for the West and its proxies.

Just over a week ago 21 kids were killed, mainly girls, in a Ukrainian attack on a college dormitory in Starobelsk.

In the aftermath we saw the same deliberate smears that were also deployed after the bombing of the Minab girls school in Iran which killed as many as 175 mainly schoolchildren.

The pattern is the same. Dehumanise the victims, muddy the waters and allow war crimes to go unpunished.

Here are some of those that were killed in the strike. Remember their names, remember their faces, honour their memory.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇷🇺🇬🇧 At SPIEF, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova publicly called out BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg, asking why he shows up to SPIEF events and exhibitions, but could not make it to Starobelsk to cover Kiev's terrorist attacks.

Rosenberg subsequently promised to cover the attack in Yenakiyevo, where today a Ukrainian drone struck a civilian bus on the Moscow-Simferopol route, killing 7 people.

The BBC does not use the word "terrorist attack," claimed Rosenberg. Anywhere in the world. A 3 second search through the BBC's own website says otherwise.

[Peggy Barunga @pega_tc]

@LeverNews @jaredpolis The dem governor of VA is vetoing everything. The dem governor of MI just destroyed her state to appease billionaires by letting them build a data center. People need to vote for only progressive candidates. The centerist dems need to die off.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

On 20 February 1939, thousands of Nazi supporters rallied in New York City, waving German flags and Nazi symbols, and cheering Nazi speakers, as a Nazi genocide raged in Europe.

On 31 May 2026, thousands of Zionist supporters rallied in New York City, waving Israeli flags and Zionist symbols, and cheering Zionist speakers, as a Zionist genocide rages in Palestine.

If you can condemn the former, but not the latter, it’s time to consider your own racist complicity in the Holocaust of our time.

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

Debunking the "We Were Just Fighting the Soviets" !

Across the post-Soviet Baltic states and in post-Maidan Ukraine, a remarkably consistent historical narrative has taken root, one laundered through nationalist historiography, enshrined in official commemorations, and promoted with the financial backing of Western governments eager for Cold War 2.0 allies. It goes roughly like this:

"Yes, some of our people fought alongside the Germans. But they weren't Nazis. They were patriots. They were fighting Soviet occupation, not helping Hitler. The real enemy was Stalin, not the Jews or the Poles. The SS insignia on their collars was just a uniform of convenience. Judge them not by who they fought for, but by what they fought against." It is the historical equivalent of defending a man who burned down an orphanage by noting that he genuinely hated the landlord next door.

This article will dismantle this myth, piece by piece, with the historical record as the demolition tool. We will examine the Ukrainian nationalists of the OUN and UPA, the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, and the Estonian and Latvian SS Legions. We will look not at what their modern apologists claim they did, but at what the documented historical evidence shows they actually did.

Part I: Ukraine, The OUN, the UPA, and the Mountains of the Dead

Who Were the OUN?

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was founded in 1929, and by the late 1930s had split into two factions: the OUN-M, led by Andriy Melnyk, and the more radical OUN-B, led by Stepan Bandera. Both factions were ideologically fascist in the classical sense, not as a slur, but as a precise descriptor. The OUN's own documents and ideological texts from the period are explicit about this.

The OUN's 1929 founding congress enshrined a doctrine of ethnic exclusivism and violent struggle. Its youth wing, the Юнацтво (Yunatstvo), was modeled explicitly on the Hitler Youth. The OUN celebrated the "national leader" (vozhd') principle, a Ukrainian Führer principle. Its publications from the 1930s openly expressed admiration for Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco. This was not guilt by association. This was ideological self-identification.

Bandera himself had been implicated in the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronisław Pieracki in 1934 and was imprisoned by Polish authorities. He was released by the Germans upon their invasion of Poland in 1939. The Germans didn't release him because they were fans of Ukrainian self-determination. They released him because he was useful.

The apologist argument demands that we see OUN collaboration with Nazi Germany as reluctant, tactical, and temporary. The historical record shows the opposite. Before the invasion of the Soviet Union, the OUN-B was actively working with German military intelligence (the Abwehr). The OUN trained two battalions, Nachtigall and Roland, under German command.

These were not underground resistance fighters. These were uniformed auxiliary units integrated into the Wehrmacht's operational structure for Operation Barbarossa. They were, by every legal and military definition, German auxiliary troops.

The OUN-B had prepared detailed operational plans, the so-called "Instruction to the OUN in the period of war" (June 1941), which explicitly called for the "destruction" of hostile ethnic groups including Jews, Poles, and Russians. The document stated: "Jews are to be isolated, imprisoned in concentration camps and liquidated."

Lviv, July 1941:

When German forces entered Lviv on June 30, 1941, what followed was one of the most vicious urban massacres of the early war. Over the course of several days, between 4,000 and 6,000 Jews were murdered in Lviv, beaten to death in the streets, shot in courtyards, dragged from their homes.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

At the time I wrote of Rajiv Menon KC's closing speech for the defence of Charlotte Head:

"This is the one of the greatest legal speeches – including historical speeches – I have ever read."

He now faces loss of career and two years in jail for it.
https://t.co/mZLj9EeG1o

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Contempt proceedings against a top human rights barrister are having a “chilling effect” across the British bar, leading lawyers tell Declassified.

Rajiv Menon KC is accused of violating the judge’s orders in the trial of six Palestine Action activists.
https://t.co/MJvqmnRJBY

[Tariq Ali @TariqAli_News]

Rajiv Menon was my barrister when I appeared before the Tribunal investigating police surveillance of left and women's groups. His opening speech was brilliant. He is on of this country's most gifted barristers, a descendant of Mike Mansfield. His prosecution is an appalling instance of some judges prostrating themselves before the needs of the state as they did a number of times against Irish and Muslim prisoners. One hope they might have learnt from how they treated the Irish. Doesn't seem to be the case.

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

It may not be fully appreciated that the UK is not only seeing unprecedented treatment of direct action protestors as “terrorists”, but a lawyer representing them is himself being prosecuted for his remarks in court.

Here his fellow lawyers explain what is happening and express solidarity. A crucial case for justice and the rule of law in the UK.

[Garden Court North @gcnchambers]

(1/3) Garden Court North members express solidarity with Rajiv Menon KC, a highly respected silk and member of @gardencourtlaw, who faces prosecution for contempt of court following his closing speech in a high-profile and politically sensitive criminal trial.

[Adnan A. Husain @adnanahusain]

One part of the travesty of the Filton 6 actionists’ trial and retrial that has received less attention but is very important: Rajiv Menon, King’s Council, barrister for a member of the Filton 6, is being persecuted on a wholly unprecedented charge of contempt of court, carrying a punishment of up to two years imprisonment, for mentioning legal history and principles of law that allow juries to make independent decisions on conscience that Judge Johnson ruled out.

In the first trial’s closing statement to the jury, Menon pointed out the case that established this principle from 1670 and quoted the public plaque outside the Old Bailey (the central court in London) commemorating the case. He also reminded the jurors six times that the judge could not direct them to convict. The jury exonerated all the defendants in that first trial. Now they have been retried and convicted on some charges.

It sounds like Rajiv Menon is being punished for being extremely good at his job and for explaining the actual law relevant to the rights of the jury that this establishment judge close to the UK police and security services unethically suppressed to secure a political conviction to protect Elbit Systems. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Judge Johnson set up the rules and judgments precisely to engineer a conviction to circumvent the propensity of juries to acquit actionists. Then he plans to sentence them under extremely harsh terrorism laws by manipulating unjustly what jurors could know. Rajiv Menon initially disrupted that plan in the first trial. So now the judge and state are going after him.

We must support Rajiv Menon, a fantastic and principled barrister, and the actionists against the UK state’s punitive crackdown on those using democratic rights to protest and stop the Israeli arms industry from facilitating war crimes, illegal occupation and genocide. The corrupt and complicit political establishment in the UK has shown themselves willing to evacuate rights to free speech and assembly, jury trials, press freedom and a host of democratic rights for all citizens simply to protect Israel’s impunity and their own complicity in the genocide.

Support Rajiv Menon for defending pro-Palestine actionists and condemn what the UK courts and injustice system have done to jury trials and democratic rights!

[JT Chapman 🇵🇸 @_SecondThought]

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[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.

Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.

Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.

Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?

It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.

Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: https://t.co/RyDHG3Iz81

[Eileen Weinberg @eileenw]

@Lzldn2 @zoe_habibi @LanceForman @zarahsultana Exactly. One day there will be justice for the Nakba.

[Eileen Weinberg @eileenw]

@Pompeii_Ashes @CraigMurrayOrg @wickerisle Obviously, if the motivation was Russia made them do it, the Court would want to include that. They got away with manufacturing the Salisbury false flag despite the ridiculous narrative, they aren’t going to press their luck.