If you are easily upset do not listen to this presentation by Prof Nick Maynard at https://t.co/6QGulRAEOk fundraiser for Palestine. He reveals the savagery of prison doctors and medics, supposed healers who are beasts.
"Can a community that casts into the shadows the unborn child, the elderly, the sick, those who suffer in silence, or those who depend entirely on the care of others be called fully just? The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization. Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence. When this certainty is obscured, the most vulnerable are the first victims, and the law loses its deepest meaning: to serve and protect every person. For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile." - Pope Leo XIV
Worth reading in its entirety for those (like myself) who can't speak Spanish:
https://t.co/w6LQbwJTBA
Today in Spain, Pope Leo XIV delivered a speech against the war, in favor of international law, multilateralism and human dignity. Those are the same humanistic principles that guide our foreign policy and that can take the world towards stability, prosperity and peace.
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Israeli settlers, including children, blocking the path of a Palestinian ambulance transporting a critically ill patient on the Nablus–Ramallah road in the West Bank, under the protection of the Israeli army, which is standing by and watching.
"I say to you again, this disregard for international law will not stop in Palestine. It is already unfolding from Lebanon to Iran, ... And if left unchecked, it will spread far beyond. What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all."
— Francesca Albanese
#FreePalestine
#URGENTE Ayudemos a difundir la lucha del pueblo digno de #Bolivia !!!
El gobierno de #Bolivia aprobó una ley que autoriza al presidente respaldado por #EEUU., #RodrigoPaz, a desplegar al ejército contra los manifestantes.
Las fuerzas policiales y militares bolivianas han lanzado una operación conjunta para despejar los bloqueos de huelga en San Julián, departamento de Santa Cruz, mientras una huelga general de cinco semanas contra el neoliberalismo continúa paralizando al país.
La represión contó con el respaldo total del gobierno — varios ministros llegaron para lo que se pretendía como una oportunidad fotográfica declarando la victoria sobre el movimiento.
En cambio, comunidades enteras se movilizaron, obligando a las fuerzas de seguridad a retroceder después de más de cuatro horas de resistencia sostenida en la carretera.
Las movilizaciones, que exigen la renuncia del presidente Rodrigo Paz, han dejado al menos diez personas muertas, 37 heridas y más de un centenar enfrentando procesos judiciales, según la Defensoría del Pueblo.
Mientras tanto, en El Alto — la ciudad indígena que rodea la capital — se están celebrando asambleas populares diarias donde las comunidades votan sobre la estrategia de huelga y evalúan el avance del movimiento. Una nueva forma de democracia de base está tomando forma en las calles. Es asi como se defiende la patria.
¡La Patria No Se Vende... Se Defiende!
The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.
This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.
La seleccion de fútbol de Irán llegó a México, donde se alojará durante el Mundial. Si bien jugará todos sus partidos en EEUU, Trump les negó hospedaje y los obliga a salir del país apenas termine cada encuentro. La FIFA aceptó ese acto de mal anfitrión.
1/ 🚨 Congress isn’t just debating “aid to Israel” anymore.
That’s the old fight.
The new fight is whether the U.S. quietly embeds Israel into our defense tech, intelligence sharing, weapons development, and military-industrial supply chain.
There are 5 vehicles to watch.
Amira Ibrahim Al-Zaanin. Quatre ans. Une petite fille dont l'existence tenait dans un prénom, un âge, et la lumière qu'elle dégageait.
Je ne l'ai pas connue. Personne ici ne l'a connue. Mais un de ses proches, sur un canal Telegram, a raconté, après sa mort, comment elle était. Une pipelette, disait-il. Une gamine solaire, capable de parler des heures, d'inventer des histoires, de réchauffer les cœurs les plus gelés. Il l'a dit avec des mots simples, ceux de la douleur, et ça m'a déchiré.
Imaginez : si vous l'aviez croisée, vous auriez voulu lui offrir un bonbon, une poupée, n'importe quoi pour qu'elle continue à vous parler. Mais c'est une chance, en réalité, de ne pas l'avoir rencontrée. Parce qu'aujourd'hui, vous seriez anéanti.
Le 8 octobre 2023, un bombardement israélien a rasé sa maison. Amira est morte. Ses frères et sœurs aussi. Les parents, eux, respirent encore – si l'on peut appeler ça respirer. Ils errent, fantômes d'eux-mêmes, hantés par le silence des enfants.
Pendant ce temps, ceux qui ont tué cette fillette parlent de « droit à la défense », de « guerre juste », de « valeurs démocratiques ». Les mêmes mots, encore et toujours, pour couvrir le même sang.
Amira aurait pu grandir, rire, devenir cette adolescente rebelle ou cette femme discrète. Elle n'aura même pas eu le temps d'être une enfant.
Alors je partage son histoire. Non pour faire pleurer, mais pour qu'on se souvienne. Qu'on n'oublie jamais son visage, ni celui de ses assassins.
Palestinians DID lay down their arms in 1982, then Israel & its proxies immediately unleashed the single biggest massacre in its history in those refugee camps
Sabra & Shatila: Over 3,500 civilians murdered. Pregnant women raped, disembowelled & their unborn babies killed!
It is okay to be Jewish.
It is okay to attend your local synagogue.
It is okay to celebrate Hannukah.
It is not okay to use white phosphorus on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.
Using phrasing like "Iran-backed Houthi rebels" — but not "US-backed Zionist settlers" when describing Israel is the hallmark of a biased, imperialist rag.
Forget politics — just from a linguistic viewpoint, what a bloody mouthful. Who wants to read that nonsense?
🇺🇸🇮🇱 US Claims "Not" Involved in Israeli Strike on Iran are False
▪️Isreal doesn't exist militarily without constant and complete US support - every plane, bomb, shred of intel comes from the US just like with Ukraine;
▪️US policy papers have described in detail how to use Israel to wage war on Iran and maintain plausible deniability;
▪️If you're still falling for this propaganda you probably aren't interested in the truth...
An integrous Italian café owner in Berlin refuses to serve & kicks out israeli tourists, one draped in an israeli flag: out! out! | via @Partisan_12
It didn't happen in a vacuum….
“I WILL NOT CONDEMN A REVOLT BY THE INMATES OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP”
Nobody says it more clearly than
-Dr. Norman Finklestein.
Four-and-a-half-year-old Mu’in al-Ghalayini suffers from severe burns covering 80% of his body, which he sustained when he was nine months old. He has undergone numerous surgeries and skin grafts, but his condition is deteriorating.