Sonny Redpath

"He was one who recognized no unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid..." - Henry David Thoreau (from The Life of Captain John Brown)

[Esmaeil Baqaei @IRIMFA_SPOX]

To the Canadian Prime Minister who, instead of condemning U.S. blatant aggression and warmongering, chose to appease Washington by reframing a threat to "annihilate" Iran as merely "speaking the language of war":

Mark Carney must understand that time is too ruthless to let the shelter of illusion & hypocrisy endure forever. A day will surely dawn when those who sought refuge in the long shadow of American bullying—believing that mimicking the language of the mighty could shield them from the claws of power—will stand bare before the truth. They will learn, too late, that averting their eyes from reality and bartering away their dignity and self-respect buys no salvation. It only strips them naked, leaving them utterly defenseless before the very force that demands their submission.
Perhaps, in that hour of reckoning, they will look upon Iran and finally comprehend. They will see that the nation they once conspired with empires to crush was the solitary guardian of a sacred flame. By standing unyielding against coercion, it kept a torch burning in the dark—a torch that, if allowed to die, would leave humanity with nothing but the cold embrace of naked force, burying the civilized and humane altars of reason beneath the brutal logic of might.

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

@NYCMayor The corruption is within the party you chose to be in. The problem with your brand is every time you try to act above it all, you are being hypocritical. The "protections" are a capitulation by the government which was rigged for this deal to go through.

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

@la_dorkout I refuse to park in the lot. People should take the buses or ride a bike or e-bike there.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

When I was sent to secondary screening at Dulles Intl airport, after being targeted for days by Israel First allies of the Trump administration for my journalism and my views, I was told that I did not have the same rights I enjoyed outside the airport. My phones were then confiscated without a warrant or suspicion of any crime.

I’m filing this amicus brief with @adc and @JeninYounesEsq because the Supreme Court needs to address this issue and stop the arbitrary violations of constitutional rights to privacy and press freedom that I experienced at the hands of my government. And I’m doing so to ensure that these rights are applied evenly across the land, at our borders and in every state.

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

Indeed! They have been playing this game a long time.

[Jeffrey Kaye @jeff_kaye]

The hawkish patriotism of the Democratic Party is painful to watch! Illegal wars, genocide, they're OK with all that! Time any decent people left in those circles split and form a new progressive, anti-imperialist party!

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

@rosendo_joe There’s also reports suggesting Israel supplied the weapons used at Srebrenica and Israel is covering it up. https://t.co/zwLethGLOu

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

@willmenaker Reject these “leaders” because driving movements into a dead end is their job.

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

@medeabenjamin @RepMoskowitz Let Democrats be Democrats wedded to Israel so there can be a new party by and for the working class that can sweep away both D’s & R’s and their captured duopoly.

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

@InfraHaz Exactly what I’ve been saying. And furthermore, it’s publicity for Communism when criminals say they fear it.

[Sam Husseini 4 MD-04 - Peace means affordability @samhusseini]

IT’S OFFICIAL: I’m running for Congress! 🇺🇸

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

@SocialistMMA Damn, you’re ready for rhetorical battle now, Nick!

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

A plague on both your houses: the Guardian’s false equivalence on Iran

The Guardian’s editorial board has delivered its verdict on the current state of the war on Iran: “everyone loses when the US and Iran overplay their hands”. Strikes and bluster “on both sides”. A “doom loop” in which two equally reckless parties must be “coaxed back to their senses”.

The editorial itself concedes, in passing, that this is an “illegal war launched by the US and Israel”. It notes that thousands in Iran and Lebanon, “including civilians – many of them children”. In other words, the paper knows perfectly well who the aggressor is and who the victim is. And then our friends a the Guardian dissolve all responsibility for the war into a fog of symmetry. The United States – which launched an illegal war, assassinated Iran’s head of state, and now threatens to “decimate and destroy all areas of Iran” – is placed on exactly the same moral plane as the country it attacked. Both have “overplayed their hands”; both need a stern word from the grown-ups of the so-called international community.

This is the characteristic manoeuvre of the liberal press, and in many ways it’s more insidious than the open warmongering of the likes of Fox News. The Guardian does not cheer the bombing; it simply refuses to distinguish between the arsonist and the people whose house is on fire. “A plague on both your houses” is dressed up as sober, above-the-fray wisdom – but it is nothing of the kind. To place an equals sign between an aggressor and its victim is not neutrality; it is a political act that serves the aggressor, because it strips away the very thing that would justify opposing the war: the recognition that one side is committing a crime and the other is resisting it.

A country subjected to an illegal war has every right to defend itself, and to control its own waters. That is not “overplaying its hand”. It is the most elementary right of a sovereign nation.

The rest of the world does not need to “coax both sides back to their senses”. It needs to name the aggressor, demand an end to the aggression, and stand with the country under attack. Anything less is complicity.

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

On Friday, Spanish police abducted comrade Fergie Chambers on behalf of the Trump admin, now attempting to extradite him on baseless political charges that could total up to 30 years in federal prison.

Because of the millions Fergie has given to Palestine fundraisers, anti-imperialist organizations, and bail funds for protestors, the US is targeting him with completely unsubstantiated charges as part of their broader war of domestic repression.

The federal charges include “international money laundering… with the intent to provide material support to and resources to foreign terrorist organizations," according to a sealed indictment reviewed by @TheGrayzoneNews.

The indictment "offers no evidence that Chambers has donated any money to 'foreign terrorist organizations.' It merely states 'Chambers made numerous transfers of funds from banks in the US to banks in Tunisia,' where he relocated in late 2023."

Free Fergie! Free all political prisoners!

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

There is simply no justification for the United States pushing through vessels along the Omani coastline in the Strait of Hormuz. You can cry and scream about "freedom of navigation", but at the end of the day, the Memorandum of Understanding was very clear that Iran would control the traffic through the Strait of Hormuz during the initial 60-day window.

Time and time again, the United States has shredded the MOU by attempting to retroactively alter the terms because they didn't "like them". Of course you didn't like them. They suck... because you LOST.

Oil sanction waivers a la Article 10? Torched.
No new sanctions a la Article 9? Blown up.
Iranian administration of traffic a la Article 5? Nope.

You can whine all day long about how it's "wrong" for Iran to strike those vessels, but this is a rational response to a war of choice from the United States. You don't get to claim "right vs. wrong" when the Trump Administration is solely to blame for this situation in the first place. The Strait of Hormuz was open before this war started.

The REASON that the United States was attempting an Operation Freedom 2.0 along the Omani Route was BECAUSE they were trying to actively undermine the Iranian control of the Strait. They were trying to actively push through enough vessels in a short enough period of time to shift the strategic landscape of the conflict.

I have seen time and time again people claim, "Iran doesn't know what's best for them. If they just didn't strike vessels, they would get massive sanctions relief"... No, they wouldn't. Because President Trump and the United States had no INTENTION of sticking to the MOU. The goal was to use this 60-day window to shift the landscape so that they could topple the regime or secure outcomes they could not have in the initial MOU.

This isn't "the US operating in good faith and those pesky Iranians messed everything up".

This is the United States blatantly trying to unilaterally alter the terms of the MOU by shredded the oil waivers, sanctioning new entities, and pushing vessels through the Omani Route.

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

@RT_com Trump is a comedian.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Every year, imperial propagandists ritualistically invoke this or that version of the 1989 events at Tiananmen Square to portray China as a murderous dictatorship. And every year, scores of people seek to rebut the claims by appeals to video footage and other evidence of what happened.

But I think we can be more forceful: Unlike in the Soviet Union, the Western-backed counterrevolution failed in China. Looking at the historic mortality crisis caused by capitalist restoration in Eastern Europe, this fact alone likely saved tens of millions of lives — and prevented imperialism from extinguishing the flame of socialism altogether.

From that perspective, the events of 1989 represent a major victory for socialism and the global working class. This, no doubt, is the primary source of the imperialists’ lingering outrage.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

When we said in 2022 that the “West” is backing Nazis in Ukraine, “liberals” went nuts. They said “but Zelensky is Jewish!” Here he is kneeling at the fresh grave of one of Hitler’s henchmen.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is Democrats' chosen candidate in California's governor race, Xavier Becerra, scolding the media to ensure he won’t be asked too many tough questions. This race has been a clown show & only reinforces what too many liberals are afraid to admit: The Democratic Party is dead.

Write-in Butch Ware, the candidate Democrats kicked off the ballot to prevent voters from having a choice outside of the two parties that serve capital, not people.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The Avignon Papacy reference is the detail that demands attention. An American defense official invoked a 14th-century episode in which the French Crown physically relocated the papacy to Avignon and controlled it for 67 years - as an implicit model for what happens to religious institutions that oppose state power.

That's not a slip of the tongue. That's a studied historical reference deployed deliberately in a room with the Pope's senior diplomat. The message was not subtle.

Leo heard it. He spent Holy Week delivering what papal scholars described as a sustained theological argument about the nature of power and imperial violence. On Palm Sunday he said Jesus rejects the prayers of those who wage war. On Easter Sunday - the same morning Trump posted his expletive-filled threat on Truth Social - Leo told world leaders to lay down weapons. On Tuesday he called the civilization threat "truly unacceptable" and asked citizens directly to contact their elected representatives.

The White House's response to the Pope's Tuesday statement: "The Iranian people welcome the sound of bombs because it means their oppressors are losing."

The first American pope will spend America's 250th birthday on Lampedusa with migrants. One Vatican official told The Free Press: "The Pope may well never visit the United States under this administration."

The Pentagon summoned a cardinal and invoked the Avignon Papacy. The Pope responded by asking 1.4 billion Catholics to call their congressmen.

[Sonny Redpath @youngpatrick]

The Pistachio Connection...

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

Turns out there’s a great documentary, @pistachiowars about the spooky Beverly Hills pistachio magnates who stand to profit most from Usrael bombing Iran’s pistachio industry