Matilda Moudy

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

I'm just trying to understand when does the organised violence against & terrorising of working class black & brown people get a Cobra meeting ? Or are we all supposed to be Far Right now & indulge their expression of ' legitimate concerns ' ?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years."

Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan.

The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people.

So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state.

Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (https://t.co/WLoDpGzc2W).

Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause.

It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (https://t.co/2SnUNevFbX).

The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years.

But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight.

This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this.

Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water."

Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (https://t.co/GBgBybBPoE). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China.

In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence.

Src for screenshot: https://t.co/qav4muNkij

[Matilda Moudy @Eilermanfd]

Cheap lies

[Reuters @Reuters]

The Trump administration said the United States had denied Somali soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan entry for the World Cup because of his links to ‘suspected members of terror organizations’ https://t.co/3SEFBPxxar

[Matilda Moudy @Eilermanfd]

Isrel has set fire to the last Christian village in Palestine, and driven its residents out of their homes.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.

A village that has stood for thousands of years.

A place where Jesus once walked.

Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.

And not a peep from Western mainstream media.

[DOZA🧐 @lil_doza]

I’m not justifying the brutal stabbing in belfast AT ALL but it’s deceitful not to tell the world, the sudanese chap and the Irish chap were drug buddies.

They knew each other.

[Matilda Moudy @Eilermanfd]

The face of a genocide enabler.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Gwyneth Paltrow stars in new campaign for Israel luxury housing development ‘51PARK’ in Herzliya.

[Matilda Moudy @Eilermanfd]

Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh right now — setting fields on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempting to set the village gas station ablaze.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh right now — setting fields on fire, hurling Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempting to set the village gas station ablaze.
https://t.co/QiOAbofNdn

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

We stopped hearing about hostage crisis in Israel & Palestine because 100% of the remaining hostages are Palestinian .... being tortured, raped & starved to death.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Norman Finkelstein after carefully studying the genocidal atrocity propaganda rape hoax: "There is not a single shred of evidence for even one rape. In 5000 photos and 50 hours of video from October 7, there is no evidence of any sexual violence at all."

[Matilda Moudy @Eilermanfd]

The US is a violent country and is at war with so many other countries that it shouldn't have been allocated the world cup.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

Iran's football federation says its ticket allocation for the FIFA World Cup has been withdrawn just days before football's global showpiece begins, leaving fans unable to attend their team's matches.

🔴 More on https://t.co/5H0QqpfIYw

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

⚠️Sensitive Content ⚠️

“He had just come back from school, I swear…”

🚨 BREAKING: A father is devastated after his son was killed by Israeli forces while returning home from school in Jabalia camp, northern Gaza Strip.

[Mariam🇵🇹🇧🇷🇹🇷 @cryywm3]

In light of recent events, here's what you should do if you're a victim of an acid attack or if you're a bystander witnessing one:

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Insane how the world moved on quickly from this.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Israeli soldiers inside a home in the city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ; one of them enters a bedroom and puts on a Palestinian women’s underwear.

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨

World Cup fever kicks off as America welcomes the world with a traditional display of their culture and traditions.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

لمن لا يعلم

هذا هو حجم الرصاص الذي يقوم باطلاقه جنود الجيش الاسرائيلي على أهل غزة العُزل في الخيام لمجرد التسلية

الصمت يقتل أهل غزة.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Mark Perlmutter: "I have an orthopaedic surgeon colleague here who was taken out of the OR.. they showed him a picture of his wife.. & said we're going to bring her here & gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas"

March 2025

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This isn’t Lebanon.

This is Gaza right now.

Israel is dropping bombs on tents packed with families in the middle of the night in Khan Younis.

This is what they call a “ceasefire.”

[Matilda Moudy @Eilermanfd]

How many of these medics are working for the NHS or in any other western country?

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

‼️Israeli military medic Elor Azaria executed wounded Palestinian civilian Abdel Fattah al-Sharif as he lay helpless on the ground in Hebron. The killing was captured on camera, and al-Sharif posed no immediate threat at the time. Israelis celebrate Azaria as a hero.