Peter Donaldson

Freelance aerospace, defence and tech writer, sceptical observer of economics. #MMT, #JobGuarantee, #ModernJubilee, #JC4PM2019, #BlackLivesMatter, he/him

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Why do broadcasters keep claiming there is still a ceasefire in the Middle East? There isn’t. Iran says there is not. Why won’t they believe them when the evidence is there to see?

[Howard Beckett @BeckettUnite]

Those prepared to use their position

Lose roles

Risk their careers

To defend the children of Palestine 🇵🇸

To expose genocide committed by Israel 🇮🇱:

Stand up Tom Hardy.

👏

[Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉 @HaithamElmasri1]

I cannot believe that we have reached this point.

At the beginning of the genocide, the killing of any person would spark widespread attention. The media would talk about it, people would share posts and express their shock and grief, and there was a clear concern for what was happening to us.

Today, unfortunately, massacres of the most horrific, vile, and brutal kind imaginable are being committed against us. Dozens are killed, body parts are scattered, and yet no one speaks as they once did. No one is affected as they once were. No one seems to care anymore except for a very small fraction of this world.

I ask myself every day, every night, and every single moment: Why is this happening now? Has the world become accustomed to our deaths? Has the sight of us being killed become something ordinary to them? Or has the world simply grown tired of us? Or is there something else that we cannot understand?

Whenever these questions overwhelm me, I sit alone for long hours in the darkness, searching for an answer that might ease the pain inside me. But I find nothing. No answer, no words, no explanation.

What is happening to us, and what we are enduring, is not normal. It cannot be considered something ordinary or familiar. It is a harsh and unprecedented reality. Israel continues to commit against us the most horrific massacres and the gravest forms of genocide. We are still being killed. We are still being tortured. We are still being forcibly displaced from our homes. We are still being deprived of the most basic necessities of life that should be the right of every human being.

We are not numbers in news reports. We are not passing images to be consumed and then forgotten. We are human beings. We suffer, we lose our loved ones, and we dream of life just as every other person on this earth does. Yet it seems that the world has become more capable of living with our tragedy than confronting it.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Benedict Cumberbatch Expresses Support for Palestine with an Emotional Message…
“IT WILL ALWAYS BE KNOWN AS PALESTINE”

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The President of the Oxford Union Arwa Elrayess is being smeared by the Daily Mail because she is evading Israel's ban on Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur speaking in the UK by letting them speak virtually

It has enraged Israel supporting, Free Speech hating people like the Daily Mail

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Our national media is so deeply racist against Palestinians that they keep calling Israel a democracy when they've been running a brutal dictatorship in the occupied territories for the last 58 years. That invalidates the humanity of Palestinians, as if they don't count as human.

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

NATO's Mark Rutte:

"To young Russians, you are being sold a raw deal. Men like you who join the fight, you won't be trained. The equipment they'll provide you is substandard. There is a very high chance you'll die or be wounded. You will be left to suffer in the mud and die. So when we talk about tens of thousands of Russian casualties, that's not abstract. That will probably be you."

What a sick piece of sh*t, proudly lying. What evidence is there of Russian troops kidnapped off the streets, undertrained and given terrible gear? Almost like projecting events from Ukraine onto Russia.

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Rape with objects. Gang rape. Rape by trained dogs. Targeted genital shooting. Filmed. Photographed. Archived by the perpetrators. Across 12 named Israel detention sites.

The UN calls it a pattern. B’Tselem calls it a network of torture camps. Both are correct.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Why did the BBC describe rioters in Southampton last night as ‘protestors’. They weren’t protestors, they were rioters. Where has the BBC's objectivity gone? Why can't they tell the truth?

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

According to the Gospels of both Matthew and Mark, Jesus himself visited Tyre. The Christian community there is certainly 2000 years old.

Israel has been killing Tyre Christians for a month.

There is a shrine and church in the hills where locals believe his mother Mary waited for him while he was in Tyre and Sidon.

I visited with Laith Marouf and we interviewed the priest who strongly supported resistance to Israeli occupation.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Rural workers in Bolivia have seized an oil field in the Santa Cruz region and halted all production, as part of the general strike against neoliberalism.

The site, in the Santa Rosa del Sara municipality, is now fully offline.

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

If this doesn’t ring alarm bells you are not focusing. I find it terrifying. Labour Together took over the selection of candidates just as here in Liverpool candidates for council were taken over by the worst elements you could come across. Despite numerous formal complaints we were run over roughshod by aggressive elements while left candidates were suspended expelled or discredited. Pure gangsterism and the destruction of what little democracy we had.

[Proud Native Americans @proud_native_am]

Chef Sean Sherman, an Oglala Lakota chef and founder of Owamni in Minneapolis, has sparked conversation for a powerful choice: he refuses to serve fry bread at his Native restaurant.

For many people, fry bread feels deeply connected to Native gatherings, powwows, family meals, and community traditions. But Sherman wants you to understand where it came from. Fry bread was not part of pre-colonial Native cuisine. It was born from survival, made with government ration ingredients like white flour, sugar, salt, and lard after Native communities were forced from their lands.

Sherman’s work asks you to look beyond the foods created by colonization and see the depth of Indigenous food traditions that existed long before it. At Owamni, his menu centers Native North American ingredients such as corn, beans, squash, wild rice, berries, fish, seeds, bison, and native plants.

His choice does not dismiss what fry bread means to Native families today. For many, it still carries memories of home, strength, and community. But Sherman’s mission is to bring attention back to older foodways rooted in land, season, culture, and Native knowledge.

His message is clear: Native cuisine is far older and richer than the foods forced onto Native people. Fry bread tells a story of survival. Sherman’s restaurant tells a story of return.

[Peter Donaldson @PDWriter]

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[Red Collective @RedCollectiveUK]

Emily Thornberry, Wes Streeting and many others were vocal supporters of Israel's Palestinian holocaust. Only now the world has woken up to the Naziesque war crimes of this apartheid state are these frauds trying to rewrite history.

We will not let them.

[Margarita Simonyan @M_Simonyan]

Steve Rosenberg of the BBC turned up to work the St Petersburg Economic Forum, buffet and all, for the same network that sent an official letter refusing to film the teenagers buried under the rubble of the Starobelsk college.

Maria Zakharova's verdict: "Spit in his face and he'll tell you it's raining".

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

Israel lobby puppet Yvette Cooper’s position seems to be that the US and Israel can bomb Iran at will and they have to lie down and take it.

Sit down Cooper: your government is a Z-list irrelevant former colonial power and even your masters in Washington and Tel Aviv despise you.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The reason Western politicians support Israel is because they are believers in colonialism and genocide.

No one even has to force them.

Almost every European country has colonized, and Zionism models itself on this.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

The genocide in Palestine and the mass murder in Lebanon must be stopped

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

Streeting felt such ‘moral urgency’ that he kept quiet and stayed in the government, only resigning when he saw a career opportunity. Beneath contempt.