The British oil company that became BP discovered Iran's oil. When Iranians realized they were being robbed, they nationalized it — so MI6 & CIA toppled their democracy in 1953, installing a dictatorship. Iranians rose up in 1979 & the West has never forgiven them for it.
Mick Lynch on Reform & Restore ‘they are all as despicable as each other to me & working class people should turn away from the hatred they spread … you believe in isolating people & taking advantage of poverty so you can divide them & make your friends even richer.’
#newsnight
Isabel Oakeshott on Nigel Farage buying a £1.4m house: “I honestly don’t see why it’s anyone’s business. Why should people know how he paid?”
Isabel Oakeshott on Angela Rayner buying a 2nd home: “I smell a massive rat. How on earth has she raised the money to buy a £800k flat?”
Since Brexit we’ve been unable to sustain a PM for more than a couple of years.
The circus is ungovernable.
Not helped by a political media clique that, emboldened by social media, thinks its job is to start a ticking clock on a PM’s downfall the second they start.
Grim.
Labour is dead
Andy Burnham is a Blairite suit who supported the criminal attack on Iraq, privatised the NHS as health secretary, and was a member of Labour Friends of Israel for years
Labour is an establishment trick played on the British people to ensure nothing ever changes
At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are…
Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.
Let the record reflect that not one former living president denounced Trump’s genocidal pledge to destroy an entire civilization
Like Obama, they’re inconsequential moral cowards who worry in the back of their minds about being held accountable for their own war crimes
UK Health Secretary: 'Is bombing civilian infrastructure a war crime? "Not my judgment to make"
They don't say the same when Russia does this. Funny how 'judgment' changes depending on which country is dropping the bombs.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV on Trump’s warning to Iran of “civilization” destruction —
“This is truly not acceptable. Here there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this a question of morality for the good of people.”
He adds the war is “continuing to escalate and is not resolving anything… is only provoking more hatred throughout the world.”
“attacks on civilian infrastructure are against international law, but it is also against sign of the hatred and division that we are capable of.”
Video @Reuters
While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon.
1,461 have been killed.
4,430 have been injured.
1.2 million have been displaced.
Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon.
Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.
Trump on Iran:
"If I had my choice, what would I like to do, is take the oil. Because it's there for the taking. There's not a thing they can do about it. Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us to come home. If it was up to me, I’d take the oil. I’d make plenty of money.”
It’s never about liberating the people of Iran. It was always about nabbing the oil.
@JoeTracey55827@afneil Hitting schools with 150 kids inside is a great way of getting the Iranian people onside. Just because they dislike the regime doesn’t necessarily mean they love Trump & they’ll love him less when he starts bombing their power stations.