Emily

The films that made me: Bicycle Thieves, La Strada, Rome: Open City; Night and Fog, 1900, Solaris, The Grapes of Wrath...
Socialist. BDS 🇵🇸 #YourParty

[Emily @emilymoonlight]

@EdwardJDavey Yeah, right, we're all idiots.

PS: I guess you also believe in St Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

[Emily @emilymoonlight]

@mrsDugskullery Congratulations, Sandra! So happy for you 😀

[I.R. Iran in Tunisia🎒(تونس) @IranembTun]

We are all Omar Abdulkadir.

[Jennifer Forbes @Jen4TruroAndFal]

Nine years ago today we were waking up to the shock realisation that Jeremy Corbyn had come within a whisker of becoming PM, just 2227 votes across several constituencies would have seen him into number 10. That vote remains the high water mark for votes cast for ….

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

Tank Man photographer describing how violence started on the night of June 3rd, 1989 during the Tiananmen protest;

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Imperialists keep having to invent socialist massacres to deflect from the reality that capitalism is one continuous, world-spanning genocide.

We often hear about the 140 people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over a period spanning 28 years. But we never hear about the 9,900 people who die every single day because they lack access to healthcare — a direct outcome of imperialism's denial of sovereignty to the global periphery.

We often hear about some number of people who supposedly died at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a highly-contested narrative. But we do not hear about the 1,545 people who die every single day because of Western sanctions — 38 million people in total over a fifty year period.

Given the sheer barbarism of the imperialist world system, we should marvel at how mild the actions of socialist and revolutionary projects are by the standards of the systemic and unrelenting violence they are forced to confront. And there is certainly no need for progressive forces to be apologetic or ashamed about these measures.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

@SecRubio Tank Man survived, Marco.

The tanks stopped.

Rachel Corrie's bulldozer didn't stop.

It reversed.

She was 23.

Your government funded the machine that killed her.

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

"Trickle down economics doesn't work, so let's try piñata economics. That's the one where we beat the billionaires until the hoarded wealth falls out."

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@TrumpDailyPosts @julie_pipk71617 What’s the greatest threat to liberty in America?

[Nathanael Miller @nathanaelmils]

Mearsheimer's opening statement deserves to be heard in its entirety.

"Unliteral sanctions by the United States resulted in 28 million deaths. This is what you get when you turn into a Crusader State... the United States tries to promote like-minded democracies and fails!"

[Nathanael Miller @nathanaelmils]

Mearsheimer makes a point we've heard him make a million times before. But it's still salient, because, as he says in this clip: "we refuse to accept it."

In Nuland and Pompeo's fictional world, Putin is a "monster," hell-bent on conquering all of Europe. We've got to save them!

[Nathanael Miller @nathanaelmils]

Walt points out a vital assumption underlying the insidious and repulsive ideology adopted by Pompeo and crew:

"He thinks that he can spot the monsters."

Nuland and Pompeo think that they are God, and as such, they ought to be able to act with impunity.

[CGTN @CGTNOfficial]

"One shirt. No shoes. No hospital to go to after being injured."

On the 75th anniversary of #Xizang's peaceful liberation, a former serf recounts her life in old Xizang and how it has changed today.

[Emily @emilymoonlight]

@anjodaretaliao2 Curioso, nunca vi nenhum destes 'amantes da democracia' a exigirem eleições na Arábia Saudita, Catar, Bahrein, Emirados Àrabes Unidos e outras ditaduras do Médio Oriente. Porque será? 🤔

[Mats Nilsson @mazzenilsson]

Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt's 1948 letter to the New York Times: They saw the creation of a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine at the expense of its indigenous Muslim and Christian population as a profound injustice and moral catastrophe.

Einstein and the other signatories explicitly compared Begin’s Herut (Freedom Party), born from the Irgun, to Nazis and Fascists, warning that their ideology of racial superiority and violent ethnic nationalism posed a grave danger to the moral and political future of the new state.

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Full text of Einstein and Hannah Arendt's letter to the New York Times:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
December 2, 1948
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created State of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.
The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections and to cement political ties with Zionist elements in the United States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel.
Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other fascist parties, they have been used to break strikes, and they have encouraged demoralization among labor. In their actions they have been marked by cruelty and contempt for human life.
During the recent past, they have systematically terrorized the Arab population, attacked Jewish settlements, and sabotaged the rescue of displaced Jews from Europe.
A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war and had even fought off Arab bands that wanted to use it as their base. On April 9 (1948), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants — 240 men, women, and children — and kept a few of them alive to parade through the streets of Jerusalem.
Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent an apology to King Abdullah of Transjordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of it, widely publicized it, and invited foreign correspondents to view the corpses and the ravaged village.
The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party. Within the Jewish community they have attempted to institute a reign of terror, have beaten up Jews who opposed them, and have, by gangster methods, terrorized the population.
It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world could condone, even by silence, the appearance of such a party in Israel.
The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a warning to the American people concerning a danger to be found in the Freedom Party in Israel, a danger to which the leadership of Menachem Begin gives the greatest emphasis.
(Signed):
Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, Irma Lindheim, and 22 other Jewish scholars, writers, and public figures.
(Published December 4, 1948, in The New York Times.)

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Our leaders start illegal forever wars; they support a genocide in Gaza; they support the illegal war on Iran and attacks on nuclear facilities; they partner with ISIS leaders in Syria; they toppled the government in Kiev and allied with fascist militias; they roll out the red carpet for the Taliban, etc. But the political-media establishment has convinced the public that diplomacy with Russia is unacceptable, which conflicts with our "values". Indeed, the moral thing for our political-media establishment is to boycott diplomacy and claim weapons are the path to peace while hundreds of thousands of young men perish on the battlefield. We cannot have any discussion or debate because anyone who criticises these policies is smeared, censored, cancelled, and possibly even sanctioned. Ad hominem attacks and intimidation are the new norm; recognising competing security interests of the great powers is a treasonous effort to "legitimise" and support the enemy; negotiations are appeasement; and war has become a virtuous struggle against evil. Has Europe been hijacked by ideological warmongers?

[Anna @provemewrong411]

Where were these “world leaders” when Ukraine killed SLEEPING CHILDREN?????

[Gabriel 🌩️ @Countcristo44]

Israeli tourists in Peru received the welcome that they deserved.
The entire world is sick of their shit.

[Christoph Johanssen @chjohanssen]

The fact that such a massive combined missile and drone strike on the capital region produces low single digit civilian deaths is a clear indicator that Russia is actually not targeting the civilian population.

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

"Peaceful Capitalism" Killed:
🚨🇬🇧 British Empire — ~300 Million
🚨🇪🇸 Spanish Empire — ~150 Million
🚨🇳🇱 Dutch Empire — ~100 Million
🚨🇵🇹 Portuguese Empire — ~60 Million
🚨🇩🇪 Hitler — ~60 Million
🚨🇯🇵 Hirohito — ~45 Million
🚨🇹🇼 Chiang Kai-shek — ~40 Million
🚨🇷🇺 Tsar Nicholas II — ~25 Million
🚨🇧🇪 Belgian Empire — ~15 Million
🚨🇺🇸 Truman — ~4–6 Million
🚨🇮🇱 Netanyahu — ~1.5 Million