WATCH: Sen. Chris Van Hollen just said something that almost no one else in Congress will talk about regarding Israel:
“It's a nuclear power...”
(h/t @iefrantz & @samhusseini)
As Ambassador I stumbled on UK complicity in extraordinary rendition, I thought ministers would stop it if I told them.
They smeared and fired me.
It still took another decade to lose my illusions that the West are the good guys.
After Gaza nobody can uphold that lie again.
Trump is imposing a 54% tariff on China and 46% on Vietnam. This is absolutely insane, and is only going to raise prices significantly in the US.
The US imported more than $430 billion of goods from China in 2024, and over $130 billion from Vietnam. This includes many electronics.
Many companies that were previously manufacturing in China moved to Vietnam (and Mexico) due to US pressure. Now Trump is tariffing all of them.
These blanket tariffs are not going to lead the US to re-industrialize. They will simply raise the price level.
If the US truly wants to re-industrialize (which it should), it needs a real industrial policy: a clear plan for state-led development, involving heavy government investment in infrastructure, education, training, and industrial upgrading. Trump is not doing any of that -- on the contrary, he is combining Reaganomics with blanket tariffs.
Targeted tariffs in very specific industries could indeed be helpful to boost competitiveness in manufacturing, in areas like, say, electric vehicles or semiconductors. But blanket tariffs on foreign goods are not going to do that.
What is really happening is Trump is just using tariffs as a tax on consumers, to shift the tax burden even more off of wealthy elites and onto the poor. He is slashing taxes on the rich and corporations and imposing a heavy consumption tax on the poor and working class.
Trump himself said the goal with these tariffs is to raise more government revenue. He will do so on the back of average working Americans -- which will probably cause a recession, which now looks increasingly likely.
Mass executions of Allaouites - irrespective of age or gender - are now well and truly under way in Syria by HTS, exactly as predicted.
Silence from both neoliberal and Salafist HTS cheerleaders in UK.
Meanwhile Israel taking still more Syrian land in collaboration with HTS.
When Zelensky challenged JD Vance for advocating diplomacy with Russia, the Ukrainian president invoked his December 9 2019 agreement with Putin and claimed:
"We signed the exchange of prisoners, but he [Putin] didn’t do it."
Here are pictures of Zelensky attending a December 29th, 2019 ceremony welcoming the return of Ukrainian prisoners freed under his agreement with Putin. Here's also an April 2020 announcement from Zelensky's office welcoming the completion of a third prisoner exchange:
I was detained this week by the Austrian police and intelligence services.
They raided my house, office, and took all my devices.
They are accusing me of being a member of Hamas and threatened me with 10 years in prison.
Journalism is not a crime.
No force on earth can remove the Palestinians from our land I told @SkyNews. The State of Palestine is ready, with our regional and international partners, to rebuild #Gaza. Now is the time for unity, ending the occupation, and for peace. Link to full interview https://t.co/nwAspLZbp0
I woke up to hear that Trump announced the US will annex Gaza and the population be deported. The West Bank will be annexed in the next month by Israel.
Any Arab regime which goes along with this will be overthrown. This is going to result in huge unrest and bloodshed.
It also puts the mealy mouthed zionist governments of Europe into a huge dilemma. They will have to face the destabilising consequences of their support for genocide.
Bobby’s work was just published, and this is just the beginning. He’s getting the recognition deserving of his creative writing. His piece is in the non-fiction tab and is listed at the top. It’s titled Privacy And Morning Rituals. mc https://t.co/TlWWFOgvjl
This is a welcome statement but let us not lose focus on Israel's murder of 200 or so Palestinian journalists in Gaza, and the central role of Tony Blinken in providing the murder weapons
Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.
In memory of David Lynch, we will continue to explore the otherworldly and the unknown. We will focus not on the loss, but on what we gained from the years we shared this planet with you. We will see you in our dreams.
القصة كاملة بين أيديكم…
شكراً @multicitize على إتاحتكم الفرصة لي للتعرف على معنى الحرية دون قيود.
The full story is in your hands…
Thank you @Multicitizenships for giving me the opportunity to discover the meaning of freedom without boundaries.
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"Go control the settlers who are walking all over you!"
A young man from Jenin calls out the Palestinian Authority following the shooting of a child in the area by their forces.
This incident comes amid the Palestinian Authority recently intensifying their operations against Palestinian resistance factions in the occupied area of Jenin.