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“There’s a difference between peace and liberation, is there not? You can have injustice and have peace […] so peace isn’t the answer, liberation is the answer […] that’s the white man’s word Peace, Liberation is our word […]”
Kwame Ture
Stokely Carmichael then
#FreePalestine – at Lebanon
Lebanese mothers can't pass citizenship to their husbands or kids, but Infantino gets an express presidential decree passport just in time for an EU Parliament probe. As if we didn't have enough corrupted scum, we’re now the official resort for international corporate crooks.
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🚨 BREAKING: The European Parliament has called for an INVESTIGATION into FIFA President Gianni Infantino regarding his management. @espn
Démolition d’un lycée au Sud-Liban, miné puis explosé.
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The Israeli military detonating a school
in southern Lebanon. The only aim here is to destroy education. Scholasticide.
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Karl Bassil retweeted
- @AlexCrawfordSky is doing something fascinating and it is drawing a lot of heat.
She is reporting on Arabs as if they were white people.
"she was 4 years old & called Lamar.. when they found her body she'd been decapitated. Her mother was killed with her"
@AlexCrawfordSky reporting from Lebanon
Karl Bassil retweeted
This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism.
CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him.
Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him.
The level of cognitive dissonance and imperial brain rot you must have to write this, and then have it read by an editor and published, is truly breathtaking.
A community note that supposedly denounces propaganda is using the very propaganda methods it claims to call out.
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@CommunityNotes
The first 3 sources in the community note – HRW, Amnesty, and UN Human Rights Office – are here to give NGO and International Organization credibility but link to pages that don’t even exist on their websites.
I’ve never seen that level of propaganda before, X has fallen so low.
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Israel is not seeking the disarmament of Hezbollah, it is trying to ignite a civil war in Lebanon.
Karl Bassil retweeted
At Covent Garden, director Oliver Mears tries to pull the Palestinian flag away from a cast member ‘in the name of political impartiality’.
Meanwhile in Tel Aviv, the Covent Garden co-production of 'Turandot' offers free tickets to IDF soliders - ‘in recognition of their work’
Karl Bassil retweeted
in december 2023 health and aid workers in gaza had to create a new acronym WCNSF (wounded child no surviving family). i thought nothing on earth could be more heartbreaking. that was 18 months ago and those children are being starved to death
Karl Bassil retweeted
First, the story was that there were very few of the people. . Then the story was that those people don’t exist. Then the story is we’ve got to remove the people that we said don’t exist.
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I was chatting to a friend and we were discussing the strange way in which some politicians, presenters, journalists and commentators appear to have had a sudden epiphany about the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. She then reminded me of this book…
« Quelques affaires sur le dos, épuisé, frêle et affamé, il s’échappe à travers les décombres, fuyant l’enfer de l’impitoyable assaut israélien. Ils l’ont délibérément visé, un missile l’a pulvérisé. Tout le monde l’a vu. Tout le monde sait qu’il était un civil sans défense. »
يحمل أمتعته على جسده، منهكٌ بجسده الضعيف الجائع، ينزح بين الركام هارباً من جحيم الحرب الإسرائيلية التي لم ترحمه، بل أطلقت عليه صاروخاً فقتلته. الجميع شاهدوه ويعلمون أنه مدني أعزل.
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“He carries belongings on his back, exhausted by his frail, famished body. He escapes through the rubble, fleeing Israel’s hellish assault which showed him no mercy. They fired a missile at him anyway—killing him. Everyone saw him. Everyone knows he was a defenseless civilian.”
يحمل أمتعته على جسده، منهكٌ بجسده الضعيف الجائع، ينزح بين الركام هارباً من جحيم الحرب الإسرائيلية التي لم ترحمه، بل أطلقت عليه صاروخاً فقتلته. الجميع شاهدوه ويعلمون أنه مدني أعزل.
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Immense sadness.
“I do believe in life after death because I come from an ancestral Black education where we believe in parallel lives and realities. There is no ‘after death,’ ‘before death’ or ‘during life.’ It doesn’t matter that much…
… I believe in energies –living or dead– and in cosmic strength.”
— Koyo Kouoh
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Karl Bassil retweeted
These CEOs will go down in history as monsters. Their graves will need advanced security systems to stop people from pissing on them
