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- #Assange’s legally privileged conversations have been extensively spied upon by the US.
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Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
Israel killed three UK citizens. Now their families want answers.
A coroner’s court has been asked to investigate Israel’s aid worker massacre and review surveillance tapes held by Britain’s military👇
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Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
He means nukes. What it requires.
Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz says Israel is ready to strike Iran with "full force" and that targeting Iranian energy infrastructure is critical to "setting Iran back 40 years, to the age of darkness and to the Stone Age."
Note: He's not even pretending anymore that Israel's aim is to liberate the country and get rid of the theocracy; rather, he is revealing Israel's goal all along that I documented in my 2007 book Treacherous Alliance:
To set back Iran as a state several decades in order to establish a far more favorable regional balance for Israel.
Which is why it is so embarrassing to see Monarchist Iranians waving the Israeli flag and revealing their criminal level of naivete by continuing to believe in a mythology of "Israeli liberation" that Israelis themselves have openly abandoned.
Of course, I am not saying that Reza Pahlavi and his cohorts themselves were this naive. They knew all along the Israeli plan and did not care because revenge is clearly more important to him than Iran's welfare, freedom, and prosperity.
That is why the US should never invest in exiled politicians whose priority is revenge, because it drags the US into unnecessary conflicts it is far better off staying out of.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
Asked whether Israel has a right to exist, he said: "I don't think any state has a right to exist under international law. Ultimately, people have a right to exist."
Labour has threatened to end local power-sharing deals with the Greens over the motion they claim is “antisemitic.”
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
Every night, Israeli soldiers fire bullets at the tents of displaced Palestinians for entertainment, and Palestinian civilians are killed day after day while sleeping inside their tents.
Tonight, an innocent little girl Misk Al-Dalo was killed, becoming yet another victim of Israeli brutality in Gaza.
Please share this video in every language so the world can see what is happening and this senseless killing of Palestinian lives can finally stop.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
The American founders were, by the standards of the British Crown, terrorists.
Men of property and standing who organized militias, assassinated loyalists, conducted guerrilla warfare, sought foreign military support from France and Spain, and ultimately fought a war to break apart the most powerful empire of their age.
Today they are on the money.
Their faces are on the buildings.
Their words are invoked to justify American foreign policy in every corner of the world.
The men who signed the Declaration of Independence would have been hanged if they lost.
They won.
And winning converted terrorism into founding myth.
This is not cynicism.
This is the basic mechanism of how political violence is remembered:
The violence that failed is barbarism.
The violence that succeeded is the birth of a nation.
Vietnam succeeded.
Adjust your vocabulary accordingly.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
Seyed M. Marandi: Egypt Joins Saudi War - A Wider War Is Coming
youtu.be/AkBfzZSYpac
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💢 A Saudi airstrike on a family home in Yemen's Saada province killed at least 10 people on Sunday, including five children and three women, local media reported.
The strike hit the home of Ali al-Qahm in the al-Tawila area of Sahar district, destroying most of the house. Sanaa's National Human Rights Commission put the toll at 10 killed and 23 wounded, most of them women and children, and said the search under the rubble was continuing.
Footage aired by Al-Masirah shows men digging through the rubble with their hands. Saudi Arabia has not commented on the strike. The kingdom resumed its air war last month, with US and British tankers refueling its jets. Before Sunday's strike, the Health Ministry in Sanaa had reported 107 people killed and 278 wounded since Sept. 3.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
Attacks last night on St. Petersburg. Has NATO crossed the line between proxy war,and direct war? Why is there no discussion about where that line lies, and no concern about attacking the world’s largest nuclear power? Will we chant “unprovoked” when Oreshniks land on our cities?
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
The French Revolution was violent.
Extraordinarily, horrifyingly violent.
And from it came the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the legal abolition of feudalism, the first significant codification of liberty, equality, and fraternity as political principles rather than philosophical abstractions.
Ideas that spread across Europe and eventually the world.
Ideas that are now the foundational vocabulary of the very people who condemn revolutionary violence.
The discomfort is not with the violence.
The discomfort is with the reminder that the values they consider self-evident were not given.
They were seized.
From people who were not planning to hand them over.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
Pro-Palestine activist and philanthropist Fergie Chambers has been imprisoned in Spain for 100 days now, as the Trump administration pushes for his extradition on politically-motivated federal charges.
￭ Spanish courts, which have denied several bail requests by Chambers, will now hear out his lawyers’ argument against extradition. Chambers has also applied for asylum in Spain.
￭ The Spanish Constitution mandates the government must refuse extradition when the charges are politically motivated. Chambers is falsely accused of “money laundering” with the intent to “finance Hamas.”
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
insane. a month ago I wrote for the Jacobin on how Albania and Serbia kind of face the same enemy: their own states and foreign corporations and politicians that bought-off their elites.
Now those on the ground confirmed they're actually in contact with one another
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
NFL star Azeez Al-Shaair honored another Palestinian girl today, wearing the name ‘Maryam Ghanem’ on his eye black during the Houston Texans’ game.
Maryam was saved from her burning home a couple days ago after watching both her parents burn to death after an Israeli airstrike.
This marks five consecutive weeks of Al-Shaair using his platform to honor Palestinian children.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
🔴 Gaza’s Education Ministry said Sunday that Israeli forces have killed three schoolchildren in less than 24 hours. Tamer Shadi Subh was shot dead in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia while in his tent. With no ambulance or vehicle available, his brother had to carry his body on his shoulders to the hospital.
With no ambulance and no car to carry him, his brother lifted him onto his shoulders and walked. Tamer Shadi Subh, a schoolboy, was shot dead by the Israeli occupation army on Sunday in the Tal Al-Dhahab area of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. Three years of genocide have left families without even a way to bring their dead to the hospital.
Gaza’s Ministry of Education mourned Tamer as the third schoolchild killed by the Israeli occupation in less than 24 hours, after Mohammed Riyad Abu Hammad and little Misk Hazem Al-Dalu, who was shot when Israeli forces opened fire on displaced families’ tents in Al-Maghazi camp. The ministry warned that the road to school in Gaza has become a road to death, and called on the UN and UNICEF to act to protect Gaza’s students. Five Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday, two of them children, and the death toll since the ceasefire has now passed 1,511.
SOURCE: bilal.f0ad - mokhy3m
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
“La burguesía del mundo entero, que mira complacida la matanza en masa después de la lucha, ¡se estremece de horror ante la profanación del ladrillo y la argamasa!”.
La Guerra en Francia, 1871 - Karl Marx.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
We are told ad nauseam that Mark Carney is standing up to Trump.
Is this what defiance looks like?
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
Name one revolution that the existing power described as legitimate force at the time it was happening.
Just one.
The British didn’t call Washington’s army principled historical actors.
The French monarchy didn’t call the sans-culottes a legitimate political force.
The American slaveholders didn’t call the Haitian revolution a valid exercise of historical force.
Every single one of these movements was called criminal, savage, illegitimate, or some period-appropriate version of "thugs", by exactly the people they were fighting.
Your distinction between force and vandalism doesn’t come from the moment.
It comes from the verdict of history.
And the verdict of history is written by the side that won.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
The storming of the Bastille was vandalism.
Literally. They tore down a building.
They killed people. They paraded severed heads on pikes through the streets of Paris.
By any contemporary law in any Western country today, the participants would have been prosecuted.
And from it came the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the document whose principles are now treated as the bedrock of the very civilization you are defending.
So I’ll ask you directly:
At what point did the vandalism become force?
At what point did the thugs become founders?
Because the transformation happened.
It happens in every revolution that succeeds.
And it never happens for the ones that fail or the ones that threaten the wrong people.
That’s not a distinction between force and vandalism.
That’s a distinction between winners and losers dressed up as a moral category.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
Yet again, Trump has elected not to use his leverage over Zelensky to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
That’s because Trump DOES NOT WANT those attacks to end.
He simply wants US voters to believe that he’s trying to stop them.
Dr Deepa Govindarajan Driver retweeted
⭕️ Kristi Rogers, the wife of Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, handed out $10 gas gift cards to drivers at a gas station on Detroit's east side on Wednesday, footage published by Sam Robinson shows.
"You should have gotten me before you filled up. I've got a $10 gift card," Kristi Rogers told one driver in footage of the stop at a Freedom Fuel station.
Asked about the giveaway, Mike Rogers told CBS News' Ed O'Keefe on Sunday that his wife paid for the cards out of pocket and was trying to raise campaign awareness.
Michigan law bars offering anything of value to influence a vote. Lawyers told the Detroit News it's unclear whether campaign funds can be spent on gas cards. If they were, the campaign will likely have to disclose the spending under federal rules.
Kristi Rogers, the wife of Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers, is passing out $10 gas cards at the freedom fuel gas station on Harper and Cadieux. She’s highlighting Rogers’ call to suspend the state gas tax.