He has had an emergency decompressive hemicraniectomy, left-sided, where the likely dominant brain side is damaged forever. He will probably never be able to speak again, and never be able to feel and move the right side of his body.
At his age, the reason for that is most likely a mass intracranial hemorrhage and swelling due to severe head trauma. He must have also spent a long time in a coma, hence the tracheostomy.
This is, without much room for doubt, the face of a tortured man who has barely survived an emergency procedure, which in normal circumstances would be extremely uncommon for someone his age - and whose quality of life has been reduced to almost zero forever.
Shell and BP are already reporting record profits during the Iran war.
We know from 2021–22 exactly where those profits go.
More than half will go to the top 1%. https://t.co/0SlERlG4I2
Indonesia is dangling unprecedented legal protections for investors in President Prabowo Subianto’s sovereign wealth fund, a move analysts warn could attract money with questionable origins and further erode the reputation of Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Read more: https://t.co/x0UMGQ8e4a
📷️: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg
An Indian film company has announced a film mocking scores of Kashmiri teenagers blinded by pellet guns in 2016. I wrote an essay on it at the time. Assuming people still read long form in the age of hate cinema.
https://t.co/UILQKZg2Zy
Netanyahu not only failed to secure his aims in Iran. He also destroyed his credibility in Washington. He is now seen as toxic for having led Trump into a pointless and damaging war. https://t.co/15LMm4OFTL
Its been lost to history at this point but the former WASP elite of the United States was highly sympathetic to the Arabs and this friendship persisted for many decades even amid the crackup over Israel and the Cold War. With the dissipation of those factors it seems like it returns to prior equilibrium.
European aristocrats too used to be highly Arabists, up until the 70s --including England (T.E. Lawrence),w/ tradition of romanticizing the "voyage en Orient" and importation of NE habits & wisdom.
My father's large collection of these Orientalists was sold at Sothebys in 2020 (I didn't want it).
The image of journalist Mujahid Bani Muflih encapsulates the reality of the Israeli prison system, which has become a tool of slow and direct killing of Palestinian prisoners.
Bani Muflih, a journalist with Ultra Palestine,
'A university is not a machine for achieving a particular purpose or producing a particular result; it is a manner of human activity.' – Michael Oakeshott, 1950
He who conceived the Sampson option did not realize that there is a vulnerable diaspora,
just as he who conceived the Iran assassinations did not realize that there is a global economy.
Zionistas have a high degree of IYIness (Intellectual yet Idiots) blind to 2nd order effects.
"Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits."
-Hyman Minsky
Palestinian activist Abdullah Shatat collapsed moments after his release from an Israeli jail, where he was held 32 months without charge or trial. He says prisoners are starved, tortured and denied treatment as thousands of Palestinians remain jailed.