Slava Zilber

Conversations with Slava

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[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

What can US citizens do to help those who worked with the US government in Afghanistan?

Colonel Ann Wright (retired)

Recorded on August, 13th

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel is carrying out horrific pogroms against Palestinians right now and the whole of Western media is framing it as “clashes” or a “military campaign.”

But Israeli violence is an every day feature for Palestinians under an illegal occupation. Report the truth.

[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

@NickKristof @NickKristof, would you ask Putting to investigate accusations against Russian soldiers? Why apply a different standard to Israel?

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

To paraphrase Mohammed Al-Kurd:

In one part of the world, we have mothers complaining about being threatened by some words on a tshirt.

In another part of the world, we have mothers searching through the rubble for their dead children.

Guess who receives more attention?

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Really excited to see lots of conservative Democrats invited on to cable news to explain what lots of progressive Democrats winning means for the future of the party.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.

My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.

They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.

"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."

He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.

And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.

It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.

Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.

It's a real mess, man.

That guy sucks.

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

Ajax hopes the people are not bored of his finds yet because he would like to show everyone this great new stick he found 🤍

[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

@mishtal @ZackPolanski What kind of factory?

If that factory had belonged to Russia, would you have changed your opinion?

[John McEvoy @jmcevoy_2]

I spent all day in Woolwich Crown Court yesterday for the Filton activists' sentencing hearing with my colleague @daniaakkad.

The court heard that the Terrorism Act was never intended to cover direct action protest.

It heard that all of the defendants had been cleared of violent intent and sentencing them as terrorists would mark a historic first for charges of criminal damage.

It heard that the Suffragettes, who did "a bit of smashing themselves", would have been labelled as terrorists but have now been vindicated by history.

It heard the activists' goal was to stop the supply chain of drones and weaponry to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza.

It heard that attaching a terrorism connection to a case without it ever being heard by a jury was unconstitutional and posed a threat to the criminal justice system itself.

It heard that the "terrorism connection" has been disproportionately used against minority groups and those advocating for them while not being used for neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including the man who killed Jo Cox MP.

It heard that the law has been reinterpreted since the action took place, meaning the activists could have had no idea that what they did could have been caught up in terrorism laws at the time of the protest.

It heard that the prosecution submitted key evidence just eight days before the hearing, giving the defence no time to review it or even discuss it with their clients.

Despite all of this, Judge Jeremy Johnson, who has already tried to refer the defence's lead barrister for contempt of court and been forced to apologise for it, sentenced the defendants as terrorists.

The judgment was handed down within minutes, indicating Judge Johnson had already made his mind up before the hearing had begun.

Being in court yesterday felt akin to witnessing a colonial crime: punishing activists with terrorism offences in order to set a precedent that taking direct action to stop a UK-backed genocide will not be tolerated.

[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

@ggreenwald @tcinajeep It is like saying Roman emperors massacring Christians means the inquisition didn't happen.

[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

Just to be clear, if this was the other way around, a Palestinian filmmaker mocking the sexual assault of Israelis, they would be banned from the festival for life

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

Der Journalist Hüseyin Doğru schildert diese Woche bei @JungNaiv, warum er sanktioniert und ins Visier der Behörden geraten ist.

Ein Zitat: „Wir müssen ja nicht beweisen, dass Herr Doğru Verbindungen zum russischen Staat hat. Es reicht uns, dass er nicht beweisen kann, dass er sie nicht hat.“

Wenn das tatsächlich der Maßstab ist, dann reden wir nicht mehr über Rechtsstaatlichkeit, sondern über die Umkehr der Beweislast.

[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

@mirkel @NathanJRobinson @HonestReporting @DropSiteNews Why are you qualified to decide who is and is not a journalist?

Was Judith Miller a journalist when she was covering the Bush administration and Iraq?

[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

@NathanJRobinson Sounds like a quote from a Socratic dialogue.

@schwarz

[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

@schwarz mictic

[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

@schwarz, what do you think of monomictic lakes?

[Slava Zilber @v_zilber]

@schwarz So you prefer polymimictic ones ...

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Rolling Stone names Ms. Rachel as one of the most influential creators of 2025 🏅

No other creator has stood by their channel’s mission as strongly and fearlessly as children’s musical-content creator Rachel Anne Accurso has this year.

Full list: https://t.co/wdyPTSXx1T

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Breaking Points (along with @ggreenwald and “Hamas” Ben Rhodes) apparently getting under the skin of the modern day Holocaust deniers over at the Free Press. Nice work team.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Ulrike Meinhof stand vor Gericht und wurde nicht schlafend hingerichtet wie palästinensische Journalisten

[Fabian Goldmann @goldi]

In jedem Fingernagel von Anas Al Sharif steckte mehr Anstand, Glaubwürdigkeit und Professionalität als in der gesamten @BILD-Redaktion.