Mughith Sukhtian

following many opposing sides of various issues attempting to keep abreast of events, and re-tweets are not necessarily endorsements!

[Mughith Sukhtian @MughithGS]

"We don't live in the mean-reverting world anymore, we live in the exponential age." Raoul Pal

[Bloomberg @business]

Chinese AI chip designer Moore Threads plans to list in Hong Kong at an “appropriate time” after a 420% share surge since its Shanghai debut last year. https://t.co/PUjts7zGQo

[Reuters @Reuters]

Apple tests China's CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks, WSJ reports https://t.co/iLMOQ4L5jS https://t.co/iLMOQ4L5jS

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

What happened to "if Hamas agrees to release the hostages & disarm, there would be peace immediately"?

Netanyahu is now openly rejecting Trump's plan to disarm Hamas & that crowd is completely silent! What's their next talking point?

WE told you this was NEVER about "Khamas"!

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

This is so tiresome. Just nonstop dumb propagandistic questions over and over from these mainstream defenders of a genocidal system, trying to smear the good guys who want to build a better world so the imperialist death cult can keep mass murdering.

Well done @meganromer for staying composed and principled.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

saudi arabia, turkey, pakistan defense pact—in effect a core islamic alliance— is a direct response to us iran war and perception the united states can’t be relied on for regional security.

(and, goes without saying, a very different direction in the region than the abraham accords)

[Bloomberg @business]

Global wine consumption stands at its lowest level in 25 years, yet wine tourism in France keeps climbing. Spas, bike tours and horseback rides are helping to lure non-drinkers https://t.co/1h47E7gu9U

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Congratulations to Raz Segal, a true mensch, the first Israeli holocaust scholar to say that what Israel was doing was "textbook genocide"

In the picture is also Prof. Amos Goldberg, a deeply principled & incredibly sharp Israeli historian who spoke up against the Gaza genocide

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Germany claims it has learnt from its WW2 genocide and will never go down that path again.

In reality, however, the German government has aided and facilitated Israel's genocide in Gaza.

And the Germans who truly have learnt from the Holocaust and are standing up against more genocide are being imprisoned on trumped-up terrorism charges.

This is the touching scene in which relatives of these courageous Germans are singing for them in the courtroom.

The German government should truly be ashamed of itself.

[Financial Times @FT]

Italy, Germany and other countries that accused Spain of attracting migrants with its amnesty scheme have also quietly legalised the status of people who arrived irregularly in their own territory. https://t.co/qyXCOjNgWL

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Gazans buried nearly a whole clan found in rubble in a mass funeral for 112. Some 308 members of an extended family were killed ​on November 22, 2023 when Israeli airstrikes brought down a cluster of apartment buildings as residents slept in Gaza City.
https://t.co/0Y3XqKhyGp

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ Joe Kent says he, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie are hoping to build a new political movement or third party built around opposition to U.S. wars, AIPAC, and corporate money, with the initial goal of fielding a candidate for the 2028 presidential campaign.

In an interview with Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks, Kent said the group met at Carlson’s home in Maine after concluding that both major parties repeatedly deliver “another war in the Middle East” regardless of how Americans vote.

Kent said they may follow the 2028 presidential run with down-ballot races, and acknowledged ballot-access hurdles may force them to run an insurgent candidate through an existing party instead.

“We don’t want Israel dictating our foreign policy. We don’t want any more foreign wars. We don’t want to have to run a massive empire,” he said.

Kent said the group has urged Carlson to run but he has repeatedly declined. They will seek to finance the effort through grassroots donations rather than corporate PACs. “The second you start taking the corporate PAC money… you’re not truly in charge anyways.”

On JD Vance, Kent said he still personally likes him but called him “a captive of the two-party system” who will struggle to ask voters to trust him in 2028 after defending Trump’s war.

🎥 Credit: TYT

@cenkuygur | @joekent16jan19

[Reuters @Reuters]

From a US ban on some of China's robots to air taxis taking flight, here are the major tech stories of the week

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸 A $46.5 million operation is trying to rewrite what AI tells you about Israel...

Hundreds of pro-Israel articles have been planted across websites built almost exclusively for chatbots to scrape.

The campaign, run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, is designed to shape answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and more whenever users ask about Gaza or U.S.-Israel relations.

Some of these tools are already citing the material.

The effort marks one of the most direct attempts yet to influence the information AI feeds the public.

Government propaganda meets the age of AI... its most powerful tool yet.

Source: Responsible Statecraft / Writer: Samuel

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time.
We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA and had to deal with enormous hurdles. First, getting our fans into the USA: not all were granted VISAS, even though they had tickets -which we also know were sold at exorbitant prices. Secondly, we are being taxed by the US govt through FIFA for our participation. Money that should go to players and staff. This was not the case for those who played and set up camp in Canada and Mexico. But we happened to be in the USA so now we face these huge costs in taxes for having participated.
Thirdly we have been waiting for reward money for our players since December for the Arab cup in Qatar, which is a FIFA event. The money our team should receive for having reached the final has not been delivered yet, while at the same time FIFA brags about how many billions they have in reserve.
It is clear the problem really is with leadership. For months, FIFA has been refusing to help us on any of these or other matters- until it was verbally communicated to me during the World Cup that if I endorsed Infantino it would go a long way to helping our FA out.
We pride ourselves in Jordan in upholding ethical values. We did not endorse him before and certainly will not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail and we refuse to give in to that.

[RT @RT_com]

Brad Pitt joins Joaquin Phoenix as exec producers on film about Palestinian girl killed in Gaza

Film focuses on 6yo Hind Rajab’s death and efforts to save her

Car she was in and a later ambulance were hit by Israeli fire in 2024

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

📽️ On the Makdisi Street podcast, Ta-Nehisi Coates points to Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill and his interview with Rep. Ro Khanna to highlight how dominant political and media narratives restrict what even progressives understand about Palestine.

Coates recounts Scahill pressing Khanna on whether Palestinians have the right to attack soldiers and military bases of an occupying power. Khanna refused to grant the right, invoking King and Gandhi, even as he conceded that Israel’s US-backed assault amounts to genocide.

Coates reads Khanna’s evasions as ignorance rather than malice, arguing that he seemed unaware the issue of resistance to occupation has long been settled under international law.

“Our greatest weakness,” Coates says, “is just how little we know.”

🔗 Full episode linked in reply. Credit: @MakdisiStreet

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

greater percentage of children killed in Gaza than in Europe's holocaust. that's a hell of a statistic.

[Josh Ruebner @joshruebner]

MUST READ by @zahahassan of @CarnegieEndow on how Trump's plan for Gaza is to facilitate Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. https://t.co/gZGyMcmCsl

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: Base Power, co-founded by Michael Dell’s son, lands a $13 billion valuation as electricity demand and battery storage boom https://t.co/XnTvEZwcYA

[Bloomberg @business]

China is working closely with Hong Kong authorities to expand the Stock Connect cross-border trading link by adding yuan-denominated stock counters and real estate investment trusts, according China Securities Regulatory Commission Chairman Wu Qing https://t.co/I95Qth8bVB