Ursula von der Leyen came into office promising a “green deal”.
She will leave it having co-sponsored a Holocaust, surrendered $750 billion of European funds to the US fossil fuel industry, and agreed to unequal trade terms with the US.
A record of criminality and humiliation.
Truly extraordinarily powerful interview of Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, on Gaza.
I can't stress enough how rare it is to hear a former French PM speak like this.
He says France "no longer has a voice on the international scene", because (among other things) of its "double-standards" and lack of action with regards to Gaza.
He calls France's internal silencing of what's happening in Gaza a "real scandal in terms of democracy", making France live in "absurdity" and resulting in it "fading away". He says that we (France and the West in general) would have many levers to stop the war - in terms of armament or economic sanctions - "but we refuse to use these levers with arguments which are absolutely unreal culturally or intellectually speaking. Saying 'we need to let Israel fight its war to the end': but what end? What is the end?".
As a consequence he says that France and the West will "foot the bill" for what's happening in terms of loss of credibility and legitimacy.
On Gaza specifically he calls it "undoubtedly the biggest historical scandal since... I don't even dare to find a reference", calling it a war "not like the others since it is civilian populations that die". He also rebukes the journalist for using the usual term "according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health" with regards to the number of death: "There's not only the Ministry of Health from Hamas which says that there are 40,000 dead. And there are probably many more, MANY more! So from this basis let's not give the feeling that it would be a number like that, unreliable. No!"
Probably the most powerful quote of the interview, literally gave me shivers: "In Gaza bodies are torn into pieces, Hearts are in pieces! Souls are in pieces! Heads are in pieces!" ("À Gaza les corps sont en morceaux! Les coeurs sont en morceaux! Les âmes sont en morceaux! Les têtes sont en morceaux!")
He says that ""Israel has no political objective and when you have no political objective the only thing you can do is war... There is a security objective, there is an identity objective, there is a messianic madness and that explains the catastrophe that we're witnessing."
I am from Turkey, and I can safely say that this symbol has been used by the fascist right whilst chanting fascist slogans and doing massacres. Hope this helps. Thanks for not caring at all about the minority groups and victims in Turkey who have been wronged by those fascists.
La communauté éducative de #SciencePo se porte très bien, merci.
Et pour info, nous trouvons nos étudiants et nos étudiantes formidables, même celles et ceux qui perturbent les cours quelques heures par an – cela s'appelle la vie universitaire.
Il n'y a aucune preuve que les étudiants propalestiniens qui se peignent les mains en rouge le font en référence à ce massacre. Aucune. Je ne sais pas quel rôle cet évènement a eu sur l'utilisation de ce moyen de protestation, mais on en retrouve partout :
In light of internet censorship, following the devastating earthquake, we have made the decision to add Turkey to our bandwidth program.
Anyone connecting from Turkey will have 10GB of data added to their account.
CHP’nin ısrarla zam yapmayıp iktidarı sıkıştırma şansı vardı ama sorun da tam burada. CHP sanıldığı gibi temel ekonomik paradigmalardan ne akp’den ne İyi partiden ne diğerlerinden farklı. Aslında tüm ana akım partiler benzer. Farklılığı yok ki ortaya koyabilsin. Peki olabilir mi?
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Her akşam Çankaya Belediyesi önünde öğrenciler ücretsiz akşam yemeği için uzun kuyruk oluşturuyor. Biraz önce hayatımın kapağını yedim. Sıradaki gençlere konuyu bilmiyor gibi yapıp "bu ne kuyruğu" dedim. Bir çocuk hiç istifini bozmadan "tüp kuyruğu dayı" dedi. 😅🤣😂