The US-Backed Summit of the Americas has fallen apart amid a rebellion from Latin American leaders
The Summit of the Americas - the US-organized meeting of the region's heads of state - has been shelved, amid fears that the event would be widely boycotted.
President Trump's aggression in the region, which includes threatening war with both Venezuela and Colombia under the guise of fighting drugs, was the major flashpoint.
The US had already barred Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba from attending, causing the presidents of Colombia and Mexico to announce they would skip the event. Now, Trump's further attempts at regime change have provoked widespread outrage, and the event was postponed, due to fears of an embarrassing mass boycott.
I hope the "WHY AREN'T YOU CELEBRATING?" crowd have gotten their answer by now. We weren't celebrating because we know more than you. We've actually been paying attention, so we know Israel is going to seek out every excuse to kill Palestinians and torch this fake "ceasefire".
It is not okay to treat the fact that Israel is committing genocide like it's a matter of opinion. Every relevant human rights institution on earth says it's a genocide. Zero equivalent institutions say it's not. This is a settled matter.
People who deny that it's a genocide deserve to be taken exactly as seriously as flat earthers. They're just an extremely evil and destructive version of the thing flat earthers are.
You don't see news articles about NASA with journalists adding "an agency which many believe is a government hoax designed to trick us into accepting ball earth theory" to their reporting. If a guest mentions Antarctica on the BBC, the news anchor doesn't interrupt them to say "and we should say here that flat earth theorists deny the existence of that continent, maintaining that it is actually a wall of ice holding the oceans in place."
You also don't see reporting which treats accepted science about space and our planet like it's an opinion held by some. You never see "which many scientists claim exists" when a report discusses outer space, or mentions of the horizon mitigated with words like "which some hold is due to the curvature of the earth rather than laws of perspective and light refraction". They're just treated as established facts, and those who disagree with the established facts are not taken seriously.
The genocide in Gaza should be no different. As the old adage goes, if one side says it's raining and the other says it isn't, your job isn't to quote both sides, your job is to look out the window.
The window's right there, western media. And it's pouring genocide.
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@JoestarJokic Idk, I feel like the parasitic nature of our health system, insurance and pharmaceuticals, has played a pretty big part in eroding trust in our system. Not just hubris
This actually is the end of western liberalism by the way. You can't support an openly announced final solution and continue trading on the same old lines about human rights, equality, justice. Gaza has driven a stake through the dank, rotten heart of liberal ideology
@Annie_Wu_22 Democrats are risking being further exposed. If Mamdani’s policies are successful, it will be harder for dems to keep moving right if they want to maintain any shred of credibility they have left
“Bernie & AOC in particular, they’ve been traveling the country w/this fake-ass “Fight The Oligarchy” Tour & they’re telling the crowd Israel has right to defend itself”
Chris Smalls @Shut_downAmazon at DC Media Accountability Encampment. I asked him if he was surprised by lack of Dem support since he was previously supported before advocating for a #FreePalestine
If one side is bothered by images of starving children and the other is not, it's not "starvation" that divides them. What divides them is normal human decency.