C. J. Fitzpatrick
C. J. Fitzpatrick
@cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social
Irish writer & environmental strategist in the US linking the struggles of human rights, imperial fallout, and the defense of the natural world informed by years lived in Russia, the UK, and Europe✍️ | Substack: https://lifeundersiege.substack.com/
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Micheál Martin is sacrificing Ireland’s people for his own desperate desire to have a blood soaked seat among the powerful.
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Governments can't keep "promising to protect nature while supporting its destruction through harmful subsidies and incoherent policies," said a Greenpeace campaigner as COP17 began in Yerevan. "Any more delay is a threat to our survival on the planet."
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Incredible work and bravery by 'Israel exposed' to hold genocidal monsters accountable by documenting their crimes in Gaza. Give them a follow: archivegenocide.com x.com/xIsraelExpos...
Sanctioning the ICC is Mafia state behavior, and a government asserting dominion over everyone else. Trump, Rubio & Hegseth have participated in Israel's genocide and are responsible for the killing of 150 schoolgirls in Iran, yet believe they are above the law. This pushes allies & the dollar away.
Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge & UN human rights chief who led the UN inquiry that found Israel committed genocide in Gaza, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu & Rubio are rattled so she's a worthy winner! I've criticised past winners, but in a bleak world it's important to acknowledge a win 🕊️
@billmckibben.bsky.social I sat in affluent rooms with Hurst & Nakagawa last week, aghast not at their data center propaganda, which I expected, but at the oohs & aahs at every talking point. What use are sustainability professionals if all they do is applaud the bullshit they’re paid to challenge?
It's crystal clear now that joining the US military means dying for Israel, the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry, the tech bro oligarchy and the Epstein class.
Former Green Beret tells me how the Iran war has destroyed morale within the military. "Folks don't want to do a career in the military any longer. We have an all-volunteer force with the buy-in of a conscript army."
Yvette Cooper's legacy is secure. She will always be remembered along with Keir Starmer as a genocide enabler who choose to lock up the disabled and elderly rather than stand up to Israel's horrors. She must never be rehabilitated into society. Her actions must haunt her wherever she goes.
@news.sky.com Kamali Melbourne was an absolute disgrace while interviewing Chris Bryant. It was very clear he had been tasked with inflaming emotions and went after an elected leader supporting her constituents in first minister Michelle O'Neill on numerous occasions.
At no point did he ask: 1. Why this divisive march is happening now, after 30 years without it. 2. How an appeal overturned the injunction within hours. 3. Whether unionists have a role in lowering the temperature. They are afraid of Irish unity & the gloves are off. @kamalimelbourne.bsky.social
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And much respect to Beoga, an Irish trad band accustomed to playing in small venues and pubs with so much to gain from a stadium tour, but not at the expense of their morality. 🇵🇸
Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham have a fraction of the fame, wealth, and influence of Ed Sheeran. Yet today, they showed they are so much more than him. They stood by their principles, their dignity, and the people of Palestine enduring genocide by Israel. 🇵🇸 🍉 #FreePalestine
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Giuliani, Bloomberg, and their allies prioritized reopening Wall Street, allowing more New Yorkers to suffer and die than in the attack itself.
These records prove what families and first responders have long known: City government knew the conditions around Ground Zero were dangerous — yet lied to New Yorkers.
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The intellectual's role is "to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma, and to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations." Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual (1994)
As JD Vance & Peter Thiel push a distorted theology to hasten the 'end times,' the Pope, God's representative on Earth has had to remind these extremists of a fundamental truth - that life is a divine gift meant to be lived abundantly, through love, peace, and care for both humanity and the planet 🕊️
It's still both mind-blowing and extremely sad to me that there are people in the realm of conservation, science and environmentalism that think mass slaughter of innocent animals is acceptable and the best we can come up with. I don't know how the people behind this plan can sleep at night.
Good riddance, Keir Starmer! I'm sure that as a child with dreams, you had ambitions of doing good in the world. That child would be ashamed of the disgusting excuse for a human being you've become.
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Great to see! Now can we do the same for those conducting genocide please!