Marina Forti

Independent journalist.
My latest book is "Malaterra. Così hanno avvelenato l'Italia" (Laterza, 2018)

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The German FM puts forward two key policy reasons as to why Germany - for the first time - lost a bid for an elected seat on the UN Security Council.

Germany's support for Ukraine and its support for Israel.

Let's be clear: Germany's support for Ukraine had nothing to do with it. Portugal and Austria - who beat Germany - are no less supportive of Ukraine.

It has EVERYTHING to do with Germany's support for Israel's genocide and the manner in which the German government has been willing to undermine international law and the UN Charter on behalf of Israel.

Germany's blind support for Israeli crimes cost Germany its seat on the UNSC. As it should.

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

In this article Narges Bajoghli and I argue that the war has brought about a generational change in Iran’s leadership, bringing to the fore men with different experiences and outlook on state, society and foreign policy. This new generation is now confident that it ways has won significant strategic wins which it intends to translate not only into a new regional order but also a new domestic order and social contract with the population.

The scale of the war and it took for Iran to survive it and fore the U.S. into a stalemate has also changed Iranian society in profound way. Social grievances remain but will express themselves in this new context. We explain why pre-war ways of understanding Iran don't explain it anymore.

“The emergent Islamic Republic will remain highly authoritarian. But the categories that Western analysts have often used to describe the Islamic Republic’s various factions—hard-liner versus moderates, ideologues versus reformists—will be less accurate than ever. The new Islamic Republic’s priorities, and how it pursues them, will be shaped by the specific experiences of its two wars with the United States and Israel: the losses Iran sustained, the confidence its leadership gained, and the new social contract the fighting has made necessary and possible.”
https://t.co/RATaDcKLBK

[Ilaria Salis @SalisIlaria]

🇦🇱L’#Albania è in rivolta🦩

Da giorni, decine di migliaia di persone scendono in piazza per opporsi a un gigantesco progetto speculativo: il resort di lusso voluto da Jared Kushner, genero di Donald Trump, che minaccia di trasformare una delle coste più belle del Paese nell’ennesimo paradiso privato per super-ricchi.

Non si tratta soltanto di una battaglia “ambientale.”
È una lotta per la difesa della terra, dei beni comuni e della sovranità delle comunità locali contro la logica del profitto, la speculazione, l’arroganza degli oligarchi, il neocolonialismo.
Quello che sta crescendo in Albania, ci fanno sapere, è un movimento sociale straordinario che merita attenzione e solidarietà internazionale.

Tra due settimane il Parlamento europeo discuterà il rapporto della Commissione sul percorso di adesione dell’Albania all’Unione europea.
Insieme al gruppo @Left_EU, sto lavorando a un emendamento per portare questa vicenda dentro il dibattito europeo e chiedere che venga ascoltata la voce di chi oggi sta protestando.

L’Albania non è in vendita.
La sua costa non è un affare immobiliare.
La sua gente non si piega.

Evviva la Rivoluzione dei Fenicotteri!

[Shaharzad Akbar شهرزاد اکبر @ShaharzadAkbar]

All male university entrance exams in Afghanistan. Women are excluded yet again. The only country in the world with such widespread & systematic ban on girls' education,in contradiction to international law, in contradiction with Islam. Where are the Ulama who oppose this? #IQRA

[Giuseppe Onufrio @gonufrio]

@Affaritaliani https://t.co/MvohMi0ObM

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

It is often forgotten that many thousands of Jews migrated to Palestine in the 18th & 19th centuries before the Zionist movement existed. They moved for spiritual, not political reasons …. and they were welcome https://t.co/5EtuzK0SHZ

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Headlines are where the mendacity of Western mainstream media really comes through. It suggests that the legal status of Israeli settlements is an open question, open to debate.

In reality, the ICJ 19 July 2024 Advisory Opinion concluded that Israel's occupation of Palestine is unlawful and that the settlements violate international law.

It ruled that Israel must cease settlement activity and evacuate settlers.

The UNGA then endorsed the ICJ ruling on 19 September 2024 (A/RES/ES-10/24).

There is no debate. No open question. The settlements and the occupation are illegal.

For Reuters to pretend otherwise is to directly undermine international law.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I have the deepest respect for the German people. I spent both winters and summers there growing up, and have tremendous admiration for the country.

But its foreign policy has been nothing short of an embarrassing disaster as of late.

From its support for the genocide in Gaza, ostensibly to "make up" for its conduct of another genocide (!?!), to its handling of the Iran file, to its recent direct and blatant attack and undermining of international law and the UN Charter.

As a result, I am not surprised in the least that Germany lost its bid for a UNSC elected seat, despite being the second-largest financial contributor to the UN and for its leadership role negotiating the Pact of the Future.

In fact, it is justice that Germany lost.

Hopefully, it will prompt some serious rethinking in Berlin. The world will be better off if Germany goes back to the country it was in 2003, when it rightfully stood up for international law and opposed the invasion of Iraq.

https://t.co/sjvNWWAhZg

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING - A Swiss Tribunal recognises the legitimate right to peacefully oppose the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

One again: justice for Palestine starts at home. It only takes people caring and applying Intl Law. And persevering.

[ReCommon @Recommon]

🔴 Un'inchiesta della @BBCWorld sulle attività di #Shell in Nigeria 🇳🇬. Per anni la compagnia 🇬🇧 ha continuato a usare un oleodotto nonostante sapesse che l'infrastruttura stava causando un massiccio inquinamento ambientale.

[ReCommon @Recommon]

🔴«Tassiamo gli extra-profitti delle multinazionali fossili». ReCommon lancia la petizione per chiedere al governo misure concrete per avviare una vera transizione energetica.
👇
https://t.co/3eAP0smZPZ

[Lorenzo Kamel @lorenzokamel]

"There was never a #State named #Palestine".
Those who write sentences like this think that, in doing so, they undermine the Palestinians' right to their land.
What they actually show in doing so is that they come from Western countries & apply (what were) Western concepts..
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[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Just as Israeli commentators regularly express joy over the death and destruction Israel has wreaked in Gaza, pro-war and pro-Israeli commentators in Washington express the same sadistic pleasure in black smoke billowing in Tehran while feigning concern for the Iranian people...

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Ilan Pappe has a new piece out on Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians:

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The U.S. has killed more than 200 people in over 60 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, claiming without evidence that the boats were engaged in narcotrafficking. Amanda Klasing (@AMKlasing) of @amnestyusa says these are extrajudicial killings that constitute murder. “U.S. taxpayers should be outraged, absolutely outraged, that their money is going to murder as a policy,” says Klasing.

[Kalpana Sharma @kalpana1947]

Reading this by @purnima_sah_ in @IndianExpress reminded me of similar stories done in the 1980s about the same part of Maharashtra. How little has changed. No water, women bear the crushing burden, while politicians boast of #ViksitBharat

[Marina Forti @fortimar]

Israel's Solution to the Gaza Problem Is Well Underway https://t.co/4Nrbo3ovec

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

'No newspaper is running the headline "EU plans to make Chinese goods illegal if they're too affordable..."'

[Marina Forti @fortimar]

"Non dovremmo essere in Iran": lo dice Trump a Fox news.
Trump Claims U.S. “Shouldn’t Have Been in Iran” in Fox News Interview https://t.co/Kmtkg3sagI via @democracynow