JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇮🇱🇱🇧 Response by Iran’s Foreign Ministry to Israel’s claim they will not withdraw from Lebanon:
– We know that Israel never takes any action without consultation and direct coordination with America.
– Therefore, we hold America directly responsible if it fails to force Israel to submit to its obligations as part of the MoU, with necessary consequences.
Here’s injustice Jeremy Johnson handing down the sentences at today’s disgusting stitched up Palestine Action trial.
Any faith I ever had in the fairness of the British justice system is completely is dead.
Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
I got thousands of rare Cultural Revolution-era photos from a historical archive here in China.
I believe some of these have never been posted online, or only exist behind extremely expensive licenses.
So here they are, for free. Open the thread for more.
Why did private firms, not state-owned enterprises (SOEs), come to dominate China’s EV sector?
My new @ChinaJournal article (co-authored with Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex) challenge the "top-down industrial policy" narrative.
The real engine? Strategic alliances between local governments and private capital. 🧵
Based on 3+ years of fieldwork, 60+ interviews (with officials, entrepreneurs, and engineers), and rich first-hand accounts, we show how strict central regulations inadvertently drove local states to bet big on private EV players.
Here is the story: (1/15)
Aramco, primera publi del Mundial
Se trata de la compañía petrolera estatal de Arabia Saudí. Es la empresa más contaminante del mundo: produce el 4,5% de las emisiones de efecto invernadero
También emite otras cosas: 100 millones $ anuales a las arcas de FIFA
When Russia hosted the World Cup in 2018, it had to suspend normal visa rules for the tournament. Foreigners with tickets could enter visa-free, using a scheme called ‘Fan ID.’
Russia also had to do weird stuff to keep FIFA’s sponsors happy. For example, small shops near Fan Zones and stadiums could only sell Budweiser beer on match days.
So yes, FIFA absolutely does dictate conditions to host governments when it suits FIFA. Infantino pretending otherwise is nonsense.
🇵🇪 BREAKING: Leftist Roberto Sánchez has taken the lead in Peru’s official presidential count, with 93.9% of ballots processed. Rural areas, which traditionally report later, have generally favored Sánchez, and overseas votes remain one of the few paths for Keiko Fujimori to regain the lead. The Ipsos quick count—which showed Sánchez ahead last night—has accurately projected recent Peruvian elections, and suggests he is likely to hold on.
French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:
I propose that we discuss and organize with the Chinese because they are reasonable people.
They are not gringos ready to pull out their Colt every five minutes to exterminate whoever displeases them.
They are reasonable people. So let's talk with reasonable people.
Ehrlich gesagt bin ich unsicher ob ich's gut finde dass wir direkt wieder die erste Mannschaft in eine neue Gesellschaft ausgliedern. Da müsste man zumindest paar Bedingungen festschrieben z. B. dass nicht mehr als 24,9% Prozent davon verkauft werden das dürfen 🤔 #tsv1860
The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.
This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).
This means that the battle lines have been moved.
Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.
But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.
Read full analysis here: https://t.co/CPawJ4TYdr