Paddy Mc Kee

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here is the thing about endless war that never gets said clearly enough:

It is not a failure of the system.

It is the system working.

The United States has been in a state of continuous military engagement somewhere in the world for the entirety of most living Americans' lives.

Since 2001, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and various other theaters of the "War on Terror" have cost an estimated $8 trillion and killed hundreds of thousands of people, displacing millions more.

The $8 trillion went somewhere.

It went to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics.

It went to private military contractors, to infrastructure firms with government contracts, to the constellation of consultants and think tanks and lobbyists and former generals who rotate between the Pentagon and the "defense" industry in a circuit so well-worn it has its own name: the revolving door.

The war is not a foreign policy failure.

The war is an economic transfer mechanism.

It transfers public money, tax dollars, including from the people rationing insulin and driving over structurally deficient bridges, to private hands, through the intermediate step of blowing things up in countries that most of the taxpayers cannot locate on a map.

The "War on Terror" has made a small number of people extraordinarily wealthy.

It has made the country that funds it measurably less safe, less stable, less able to address its own domestic contradictions.

And it continues because the people who profit from it fund the politicians who authorize it, and the politicians who authorize it wrap it in the flag, and the flag is the story, and the story is the last thing that remains after everything else has been taken.

They are not stupid.

They are not confused.

They know exactly what they are doing.

It is the people paying for it who are confused.

And the confusion is the product.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This image of a football match in Gaza was removed from a sports photography festival in France, following Israeli pressure.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war.

Read that again.

This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.

End all military cooperation with Israel, now.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Israeli defence minister Katz has issued a decree to execute any child flying a kite.
Don’t forget to remain silent about this!

Silence is complicity.
Silence is taking the side of the psychopaths.
Silence is taking the side of those committing genocide.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Amazing from SIPTU.

Liberty Hall this morning 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Israel is a vicious, depraved and apartheid state committing genocide.

There's no excuse for playing football against them.

[TUFAC @TUFAC4]

If either #Brentford or #Tottenham score 3 (or more) today, one lucky person to RT this will win the badge https://t.co/K47bhCUnOg

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

This is getting heavily suppressed. Please support it and put pressure on the Irish government to grow a spine 🇵🇸👊
https://t.co/jeWNHJ8leZ

[Chris Donnelly @chrisadonnelly]

Thanks to @OfficialBlues for accommodating this request tonight. It was very much appreciated by all at @cliftonvillefc

Some things are more important than football.

Rest in peace, Aoife 🔴

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

📍Seen in Wales, UK

📸: bibaflorencereads

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

Your annual reminder that the FA had to change the name of the Charity Shield to the Community Shield after a 2002 UK Charity Commission inquiry found the match did not meet the threshold of UK charity law, including transparency over funds @TheAthleticFC
https://t.co/4rpHbvpBFT

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“I did a leg amputation on a 5-year-old girl, and the only anesthesia that we had was the anesthesia doctor singing to her… We were praying for her to faint. She stayed awake the whole amputation.”

Absolutely devastating testimony from doctors in Gaza.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Carlos Latuff @LatuffCartoons]

Donald Trump’s Very Own Iron Dome

The U.S. President is embarrassed as he flees from an alleged assassination threat reported by Israeli Mossad, a threat that his own CIA says they saw no evidence existed.

@MintPressNews

[Mayo IPSC @MayoIPSC]

🚨🚨 Boycotts are Working ‼️

[Cliftonville FC @cliftonvillefc]

🤷‍♂️ But could he do it on a wet Friday night in Carrickfergus?

[Bohemian Football Club @bfcdublin]

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The video, set to Massive Attack's iconic track "Teardrop", is an intimate weaving of the craft of Dublin artist Jim Fitzpatrick, creator of the iconic Che Guevara poster, alongside the texture of the strip itself. It was made by Unit 3 Films in Bristol with videography in Dublin by Steve Battle & Albert Hooi.

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[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Remember when bombing ambulances was a big deal?

[Tim Brannigan @tim_brannigan]

Claims she has a button fitted on her belly, and when she gets the nod that he’s asleep she moves her hand and presses a button that wakes him. They’re calling her The Zapper. No idea if it’s true but it *appears* to line up.

[💙🌊 Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🌊🖋️🧫 @herotimeszero]

Let me get this straight. Trump was so terrified of being assassinated by Iran that he stuffed his fat ass into a catering cart, but when someone supposedly shot right at him in Butler, he fixes his hair and strikes a pose? GTFO

[Irlandarra @irlandarra2019]

​Netanyahu, live on air: ​He said: "In Iran, we targeted civilians, families, fathers, mothers, and children. We killed them." ​He confessed to committing war crimes before the entire world.