Douglas Sly

Spitting images. Defund the thought police. Not a fowler.

[Douglas Sly @slydoug]

@dancohen3000 @AnaKasparian You misrepresent what Kasparian is saying: she explicitly notes Lebanon's sizable Sunni and Shia populations while correctly linking Hezbollah to Shia Islam practiced in Iran. You sound like a shill for the Zionists.

[Douglas Sly @slydoug]

@AmazingZoltan It means that some Egyptians are opposed to the slaughter of Palestinians. You have lost your mind.

[Douglas Sly @slydoug]

@WiRoPaPe1208BC @PatrickByrne Most of what you listed applies even more to talking about Zionism. People are expelled from university, lose their jobs, are overlooked for promotion, put in jail, for criticism of Israel.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.

Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

Anyone with dual citizenship should be prohibited from holding federal appointed or elected office or any role in the U.S. government inside the United States.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

One of the most detailed testimonies I've heard of the Israeli torture and systematic sexual abuse of Gaza Sumud Flotilla activists abducted in international waters while attempting to bring aid to Gaza

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

In one of the more horrifying crimes in its war on Lebanon, Israel massacred 4 paramedics after killing a man and his daughter

Two days ago, @wyattreed13 interviewed one of those rescuers, Ahmed Hariri, as he searched through the rubble for members of another family killed by Israel

This was one of Hariri's last interviews

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be.

This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War.

Read this part:

"In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power."

Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏

Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War.

Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline.

Truth matters.

[Aimee Terese @aimeeterese]

Leftism, always and everywhere, attempts to subvert reality by normalising the marginal and marginalising the normal.

[Aimee Terese @aimeeterese]

The strongest red flag was when leftists lost the ability to be funny. Comedy relies on subverting expectations to expose truth. Leftism subverts the truth to peddle lies. That’s why they can’t be funny, they can’t reveal the truth, their entire politics depends on concealing it.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

Main headline: “Several Jewish Schools on Lock down”

A MOSQUE SHOOTING in San Diego, California, resulted in 3 dead and 2 suspects neutralized, this is an Islamic center that has a mosque and a school, CHILDREN were present.

Check every page justifying the shooting of American Muslims, you’ll find them PRO-ISRAEL

It’s a death cult and somehow they want to center Jewish feelings and Jewish safety in the conversation while a shooting happened at a mosque, how does that make sense even?

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

A point of utter embarrassment and shame for many Iranians is the manner in which elements of the diaspora danced on the streets in Western capitals as bombs rained on Tehran. It is also a source for a lot of anger among Iranians in Iran who oppose the theocracy but nevertheless did not favor war and who are stunned to see some in the Diaspora being so indifferent to the suffering caused by the war.

But there is another aspect that deserves closer scrutiny.

These, almost exclusively pro-Shah elements of the Diaspora, did not dance to celebrate the downfall of the regime. They didn't dance because they had won.

They simply danced because the war had started, nothing more.

As if their goal was neither freedom nor democracy, but simply revenge and the pleasure they took from seeing Iran bombed.

Had they danced after the theocracy had fallen (which it hasn't), it would be a bit different. It would be a moment where they could argue that the price was very high, but because the regime is defeated, it was worth it, and, as a result, a cause for celebration.

But they didn't wait for the regime to fall. They danced right away.

Signalling that the cost was worth it, EVEN IF the regime didn't fall. Because it was always about selfish revenge, not freedom.

[Douglas Sly @slydoug]

@DropSiteNews I have no time for this empty identity politics, and calling people bigots, etc. These people are well-meaning but deluded.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Trump reads Scripture at MAGA Bible marathon

@MaxBlumenthal visited a DC gathering of evangelicals who insisted that the notoriously sinful president had been chosen by God to "heal" the nation

There, he probed them on the Iran war and Israel's assault on Christian communities

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

Apple made headlines last week when it basically erased Southern Lebanon from Apple Maps

But as @KeiPritsker explains, Apple's ties to Israel are far deeper than most realize

In fact, its most recent acquisition in Israel is its second largest buyout of all-time

[Douglas Sly @slydoug]

@dimitrilascaris You said you had flown from Cyprus to Crete. I am confused. But you need to cover your tracks, for sure.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

When Israel destroyed the Rafie Nia Synagogue in Tehran today, it attacked the second largest Jewish community in the region, and the only one outside Zionism's control

@MaxBlumenthal visited with Iranian Jewish leadership last year and discussed their relationship with the Islamic Republic, and their views on everything from Palestine to the Iranian Jewish diaspora

Watch his film with director Maria Mavati, "Uncaptured: Jews in the Islamic Republic of Iran"

[Iran Screenshot @iranscreenshot]

Renowned Iranian composer, Ali Ghamsari and tar virtuoso, announced he will stay at the Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant.

His plan: Create music there as a symbolic effort to shield Iran's infrastructure from attack.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If this is an honest question, I’d say: Americans are rooting against America because we facilitated a genocide and followed it with a surprise attack on a girls elementary school followed by attacks on universities, medical centers, more schools, a world famous pharmaceutical research center, a volley ball team, an unfinished bridge we claimed was transporting weapons and then a nuclear power plant. We are now promising endless attacks on civilian infrastructure.

We are hunting and targeting anyone who might be involved in ceasefire negotiations.

Most people do not pay enough attention to have absorbed all the propaganda about the U.S. and Iran. So people coming to this fresh see us for what we are: absolute monsters. And monsters must be stopped. That’s why people are rooting against us and for civilization to prevail.