elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ

“They gave us rebels and took the revolution”

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.
Walt Whitman

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Following Lord Lindsey’s passing, Darline, Duchess of Charleston, ascended the High Chamber: crowned Baroness of the Palmetto Seat. Her brother's fiefdom and noble lineage are preserved. Long live the House of Graham and DEI! Aristocrats celebrate in Alexandria and Tel-Aviv.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan:

Senator Graham told me:

‘This court is for Africa and thugs like Putin, not for democracies like Israel and the U.S.’”

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

Which completely destroys any previously cherished notion of justice.

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

The revolution inherits the brutal norms of the old regime; which is the most plain, sinister manifestation of our human notion that justice is merely might makes right in one way or another.

[محمد المطيري @doplx]

لحظة القبض على شبيح متورط بقتل 14 مجاهداً سورياً .. ظنّ أن إختباءه داخل هذا المنزل سينقذه ويُفلت من العقاب، لكن المجاهدين كانوا له بالمرصاد، فكانت نهايته أسرع مما توقع. 🇸🇾

#مساء_الخير
#سوريا
#سوريا_الجديدة

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

Imagine being a professor of international law nowadays.

It would be a fantastic delusion if they do not teach that international politics is a jungle, and it has been always a jungle.

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

Although recently cited negatively in much of the growing anti-woke literature, Edward Said’s Orientalism remains indispensable for understanding Western foreign policy and pundit discourse about countries like Iran.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I’m sorry they are banned under what?

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

Mearsheimer’s work reminds us that international law is essentially a disposable tool for the most powerful countries, it can be always disregarded when imagined or real national interests are at stake.

He also argues that there is no 911 or Leviathan in international politics.

[TCN @TCNetwork]

BREAKING: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tells Tucker Carlson that Israel has the Biblical right to take over all of the Middle East.

“It would be fine if they took it all.”

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

February 17 was a reaction to the oppressive past and, at that time, to the infectious revolutionary present in the Arab world. From the pro-revolution side, there was a lot of naivety, an abundance of ignorance, mindless barbarities, bottomless psychosis, and stupid bravery.

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

But like impatient gods who cannot wait for more information, and since they are the purest who cannot tolerate uncertainty, they rush ahead anyway, adding him to their ever growing list of new heretics.

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

Like religious fanatics, a large portion of the left can swiftly declare anyone who shows poor judgment or merely strays from the dogma; a traitor. So far, nothing has been published that incriminates him.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

https://t.co/b3cRPu8d9J

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Chomsky unfortunately can't speak for himself due to his 2023 stroke. But Valeria was a central part of the relationship he had with Epstein, so anyone speaking about that should at least read her version.

Central to all this was the rather extreme war that Chomsky's sons were waging on him over his first wife's estate, apparently due to common but childish resentment that he re-married after his wife of 60 years died of brain cancer. It put him not only in financial difficulties but also extreme distress at having your own kids wage a war against you in your 90s over money.

Epstein, as he so often did, opportunistically exploited that situation by offering a life raft as he felt as he is were drowning, and that in turned generated misguided feelings of gratitude and affection. None of that exonerates Chomsky's choices, but for awhile I was genuinely baffled as to why Chomsky would not only meet with Epstein (Chomsky met with anyone) but develop such a close bond, and now I at least understand it.

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

One wonders if it’s nationalism, paranoia mixed with victim mentality, or a version of a woke culture in Africa that only sees things from the lens of skin color and real or imagined racism.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

Foreign journalists criticize Moroccan media for walking out during the Senegalese coach’s media briefing.!

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

"Every person is given a house at a certain age."

We must have lived in a different Libya than the one he is talking about!

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

Russell Crowe on Gaddafi

They killed him because he nationalized the oil & was about to create a currency for all the African countries. He wasn't a puppet for the U.S.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

"You don't sound like you're speaking for an important country, you sound like you're speaking on behalf of a supplicant country who’s afraid of a bigger country.’

@Lewis_Goodall tears Labour’s Darren Jones apart on the UK's utter spinelessness on Venezuela.

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

Teaching and discussing international law without stressing power relations turns it into pseudoscience.

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

Justice in the context of Russia–Ukraine and Palestine–Israel looks, as it always has, like something determined by power; might deciding what is and is not justice.

[elfaitur فيتو ⴼⵉⵜⵓ @elfaitur]

In the context of Syria and Libya, the idea of transitional justice has proven to be a joke!

[GL @gldivittorio]

Trump after being called habibi once