les harwood

Sixty something technophile. Half Italian. Socialism is not a dirty word. This world will become multi-polar. Western Hegemony is coming to an end…

[les harwood @italanon]

@battleforeurope Observations seem to suggest that too many heads of state/powerful people around the world are likely compromised one way or another and do not have their respective citizens or country’s interest at heart. A mega crime syndicate basically.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

United States has launched a new wave of attacks against Iran tonight. This one, however, doesn’t even have a fig leaf pretense that it is in response to anything Iran had previously done, only that President Trump got tired of waiting for an answer that he wanted to hear.

It is just a pernicious attack which breaks the cease-fire we ourselves authored.

This one is worse than anything else we have done so far, because it shows the absence of any adult thought across all levels of the US government. There is no strategy here, there is no evidence that this accomplishes any larger goal, it’s just “a strike“ against Iran.

Meanwhile, we can count on Iran firing back in ways that will certainly harm our interest in the region, and will push this war further and further away from a settlement.

Our strike tonight may finally unleash a return to full on war, especially depending on what Iran does in retaliation.

This act of using military force with no thought to what may come next, no understanding of what we even want to accomplish, nor the slightest bit of morality or responsibility, is deeply disappointing.

How can the current American government have any credibility with its own people, that it is looking out for our good? That it is trying to protect our interests at home or abroad? That it is anything, except a great bully who relishes meting out death and destruction on others?

That, my friend, is the world we live in today. There’s no resemblance to what our founding fathers envisioned, or what I have seen and experienced throughout most of my adult life.

This kind of behavior is likely to bring the American empire crashing down on our heads. It will not end well.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

War crime

[Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE]

Listen to @JohnKiriakou describe the influx of Israelis into Cyprus and Greece…

[Ieuan Rhys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @Ieu61]

#Belfast

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Best news of the year: Kaja Kallas' only diplomatic achievement may end up uniting Europe on the need to get rid of her, and dismantle her own office.

[𝕳𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖞 🏴 @holly___xxx___]

@TomLondon6 https://t.co/QNdtptLMAj

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China Warns EU Over Possible Sanctions on Third-Country Companies

The EU really needs to understand one thing:
China is not a small country waiting to be disciplined by Brussels.

You want to sanction Chinese companies, Turkish companies, Indian companies, and whoever else refuses to obey your anti-Russia script?

Fine.

But do not act shocked when China responds.

Unilateral sanctions without international law or UN authorization are not “rules.”
They are power politics dressed up as morality.

And the problem for Europe is simple:
China is not defenseless.
China has the industrial capacity, market size, supply chains, and countermeasures to make sanctions hurt both ways.

Europe keeps acting as if it still commands the world economy.
It does not.

If Brussels wants to turn sanctions into a habit, China can turn countermeasures into one too.

Do not pick a fight with the factory of the world and then cry when the factory checks your supply chain.

[Persian Girl @Persianserene1]

Last night, the most powerful army in the world bombed water reservoirs in Sirik, Iran, leaving people without drinking water

I can’t remember even ISIS doing something like that

Americans, are you proud of your terrorist regime and army?

[les harwood @italanon]

@InsiderWorld_1 @e_winzar …

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Imagine being someone sitting here in London (where I am) looking at these images, and justifying it.

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

Russians have humour too. 😄😄😄

Beautiful Natasha is thanking America for all the sanctions. They make her more beautiful.

She has good news for the Americans, and for everyone in Europe. 😎

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Two frauds, completely reliant on handouts seen in london, Neither elected, both conning it on the British taxpayer.

If you see them, don't call the Police, they'll arrest you not the beggars.

[Koskovics Zoltán @KoskovicsZ]

The champions of democracy and liberalism:

[les harwood @italanon]

@SansomPhil @Chrisnumber21 @Gillsworthy @Alex_Oloyede2 @Keir_Starmer Just to be clear I’m a lefty too but of a different view.

[les harwood @italanon]

@Chrisnumber21 @Gillsworthy @Alex_Oloyede2 @Keir_Starmer Or this:

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨"Unprovoked"

The western narrative is built on the premise that in 2022 Russia totally "unprovoked" brutally attacked innocent, peace loving Ukrainians.

🎞This is a 2014 video from a Ukrainian mainstream TV channel, casually discussing how many people need to be killed in the Donbass region, because there is a

wild amount of absolutely worthless people, more than 1.5 mln of the Donbass's 4 mln population are absolutely worthless... there is a certain category of people that just need to be killed.

And they did proceed to kill people in that region for EIGHT full years, before Russia finally decided to react.
Also, Russians learned that Merkel, François Hollande, and Poroshenko (former Ukrainian president), all confirmed that the Minsk agreements signed by Ukraine and the two separatist regions in 2014 were just a ruse to win Ukraine time to rearm, and Ukraine had no intention to abide by them. All the while the West was accusing Russia of breaking those agreements.

Unprovoked?

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Türk çevirmen ve aktivist Ayçin Kantoğlu’dan tüyler ürperten açıklamalar:

— Kimin bu deriler?
— Kimin bu organlar?
— Siz bir halkı organına, derisine varana kadar nasıl yağmalayabilirsiniz?
— Buna ne hakkınız var?

​“Dünyanın en gelişkin deri bankasının bunların elinde olduğu söyleniyor. Fakat biz biliyoruz ki Museviler vücut bütünlüğünün bozulmaması bakımından ki onlar için önemli bir durum bu; kendi derilerini bağışlamıyorlar, kendi organlarını da bağışlamıyorlar. Peki nasıl oluyor da ellerinde dünyanın en gelişmiş organ bankasıyla deri bankası olabiliyor?”

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Maybe things have changed in the last 40 years…,

[Global Dissident @GlobalDiss]

🚨🇬🇧 UK DEBT HITS A NIGHTMARE.

£7,500 per SECOND. £27 MILLION per hour. £650 MILLION per day. Unemployment rising. No growth without subsidies.

And they STILL want to hand MORE billions to Zelenskyy?

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

“This whole flare up started in Lebanon… where Hezbollah has fired at northern Israel…

…Israel says that’s a violation… it acted by attacking Beirut…”

The BBC of course doesn’t mention that Israel has been violating the ceasefire and bombarding Lebanon daily.