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Firstly, it's not a war, is it? It's genocide; only one side is fighting! Secondly, the main change involves politicians switching from 'Lest we forget...' to 'Couldn't care less...' Thirdly, Guardian writers collaborate in this new holocaust. Shame on you! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/what...

🚨The @hindrajabfoundation.be has filed an ICC complaint calling for an investigation into Israeli officials, medical professionals and the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) over the death, torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman. ➡️ More → https://bit.ly/3TqVf7B

There's always money for armaments however.

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The BBC is a branch of state. Notionally independent or quasi-independent if one prefers (meaning loyal on the big stuff) but no less integral than other establishmentarian organisations. Key role in the state ensemble is to affirm things as they are.

Yet more evidence of BBC being British Establishment propaganda wing - reward for editor of programme telling blatant lies 'The BBC just handed the newsroom to the editor who signed off the 2019 Panorama that treated “Is Labour Anti-Semitic?” as a closed case ...' www.facebook.com/TheDailyPoli...

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Alex is far from the only British commentator who plainly believes e.g. the destruction of the Gaza Strip and the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon are a valiant battle by regrettably fascist white heroes against the black horde of Mordor. But how did this wildly extreme position become dominant?

Go back 20 years: Tony Blair is fighting the battle that will end his leadership and get him ousted, insisting that the 2006 Lebanon war is a principled battle for freedom - US crank Condoleeza Rice says it’s “the birth pangs of a new Middle East”. The UN ceasefire vote looks like this.

Look at it now. The government bans activist law-breaking protest groups as terrorists on a level with Al Qaeda and ISIS on fraudulent pretext, but really because they vandalised the US President’s golf course. The police are arresting thousands of protestors now, most of them elderly.

This’ll not be on the teatime news, so circulate it and recirculate it. Outstanding speech. On the mark. ¡No pasarán! x.com/ATownNews/st...

'This Land is Your Land' (Woody Guthrie) From the ploughed earth to the starry sky, from the river to the sea, from Gaza to Garvaghy ... #FreePalestine #EndOccupation #RepelFascism For to be sure there is 'a world to win' (Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto)

Mattias Forsgren mattiasforsgren.substack.com?r=1bq2od&utm...

Moreover, Irish anti-partitionists will not be taking lectures from a colonial poobah whose party uses the law to coerce protestors of conscience against genocide, defining them in law as 'terrorists', while his government materially aids + abets the terror-state of Israel.

Why exactly should Iran not exercise custodianship over the strait?

Miliband is not a left-messiah. Nor his boss. Both are very naughty boys.

Macklemore: Genocide is bad. Ed Sheeran: Hey some people find those words very hurtful.

Nigel Farage is a political conman. He claims to represent the man in the street - but he's the champion of the filthy rich. New column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The House voted to condemn “socialism” earlier this week. Listen, I’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I grew up during McCarthyism and the “red Scare” of the 1950s. I’ve seen all of this fear-mongering before. Here’s what’s really going on.

A picnic is not what the Orange mobsters have in mind for the Garvaghy Road.

How many times does the BBC lead on a murder story with a large headline stating: Man accused of murder 'not guilty,' according to man* Oh, never, right? Because you can see the obvious problem with that style of reportage, right?

#OtD 5 Sep 1934 a nationwide strike of textile workers in the US grew, with 325,000 out against an enforced reduction in hours and pay. Two strikers were killed, and two more shot and wounded. Learn more in this great book about US mass strikes: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/str...

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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BBC proclaims partiality in its reporting of Palestine. Its rationale, Israel, because a ‘democracy’ merits partisan privilege in how genocide is understood. On this same liberal basis, the BBC thus delegitimises Gazan Palestinian perspectives + lives as less than. As Other. x.com/owenjonesjou...

BBC admits pro-Israel bias. The rationale is very revealing. x.com/owenjonesjou...

Multipolarity …

From the Sea to the River … Tony Greenstein returns triumphant, cleared of the latest trumped-up charge. Opposing Genocide isn’t Terrorism Enabling a terror-state in the persecution of a Genocide is Terrorism. tony.greenstein.com azvsas.blogspot.com

Richard Medhurst’s Newsletter richardmedhurst.substack.com?r=1bq2od&utm...

We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

"I will fight for Clacton and stand on my record of what I have achieved for the town! Things like... er... and, ah... hmmm... what about, er... that umm... well... I'm pretty sure I visited once"

I've called on the UK government to step up to its legal and moral obligation to stop ALL arms sales and military support to Israel. This is a crucial step towards accountability and justice. #StopArmingIsrael www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

I've just signed my name calling for the government to investigate Brits who have returned from serving in the IDF - you should too! @DeclassifiedUK.org secure.declassifieduk.org/page/189081/...

Trump has suffered major losses recently — in both federal courts and the court of public opinion. It's why he lashes out at the media, spreads lies, attacks his political enemies, and tries to rig elections. These are the actions of a tyrant with his back against the wall. Be warned.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Gramsci defined hegemony as 'coercion plus consent' in order to distinguish it from domination by the ruling class over a subordinated majority, attained by coercion alone. Tacit consent thus falls away + legitimacy with it. And the consequence of this paradigm-shift is perilous to the ruling order.

Glenn Diesen interviews Jiang Xueqin m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5gG...