With the US’s eager support, the Israeli military has killed over 1,500 people and displaced over 1.2 million in Lebanon since March 2.

We have arrived at this point because the governments of the world refused to draw a line with Gaza. Plunderers and rapists have been given free rein to flex their military might in the pursuit of taking what they please, and Trump is only a symptom of the larger issue.

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

This is a sick civilization. An open call to genocide. It is clear that Gaza is how we got here- tolerating genocide in one space begets another. Generations of our ancestors have worked to build something different, toward the preservation of earthly life. I hope I live to see this re-orientation.

"We’ve documented repeated, apparently deliberate, attacks on civilians." buff.ly/FAqwLfM

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[UsPol, Irán (hilo)] Buenas, mastodontes. Teniendo en cuenta cómo está el ambiente, voy a escribir un hilo rápido intentando argumentar por qué, en mi opinión, Trump no va a lanzar un ataque nuclear contra Irán y, como mucho, intentará invadir el país por tierra (aunque, probablemente, se […]

The wild thing about this? I think it’d be a pretty huge improvement for the people living in the United States too. We could maybe get some fucking healthcare and trains…

Hate America so much, god damn

The President of the USA declaring that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" is not something that arrives out of a vacuum. It is precipitated by the widespread international failure to hold USA, Israel, and their allies including the UK, accountable for their actions for many decades

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"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

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I think it's wildly unethical at this point for press to treat this as business/politics as usual and normalize it in their reporting as they would have for any past president and administration. they should be saying to his face, right then, "these are war crimes!" and report it to us the same.

I know for a fact some people watching this are going to say "wtf that's Iran???" and I'm asking you to strongly question why that may have been your response.

It is. It's a terrible law that shouldn't exist. Yet it is precisely because of the civil disobedience of the Iranian people that enforcement is declining and attitudes are changing. It's the same type of resistance you may see against Trump. But no one says bombing americans is the solution there

THE SOLAR ECLIPSE SEEN FROM THE MOON BY ARTEMIS II!!! THEY WERE THE FIRST HUMANS TO HAVE THIS VIEW!!

This is what I think of every time someone is like "What do you expect the Democrats to do?"

My new book debuts today but my excitement about this has been eclipsed by getting an email from my friend in Tehran, who is alive!!!!! I’ve been terrified for weeks. Thank you, universe!!!

A problem with the Niemöller poem is that in reality it wasn't that he didn't care because he couldn't identify with people who weren't like him. He too actively hated Jews and the left and was happy to see them terrorized at first and only later did he realize that his own wouldn't be spared.

My brain is particularly fixating today on the specific group of enablers who said "this may be wildly illegal and wrong in principle, but I like that he's doing it to someone I hate, so let's give him a pass this time and see where it goes."

A lot of people decided to accept the devil's bargain to get something they wanted from a person they knew to be a monster and this is the bill coming due yet again.

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

pretty clear bright line today, anyone in power who isn't doing everything they can to remove him from office deserves handcuffs when this is all over. that includes any democrat who votes for anything he wants

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Ojalá hacerle un Goodbye Lenin al trumpo, en plan "mire abuelo que fuerte a usted están todos rendidos de miedo" mientras la diplomacia hace el trabajo de verdad. Bueno, que coño, ojalá poder arrearle con un mazo hasta convertirlo en pulpa.

If you think the world is facing these crises because of US-Israel’s war against Iran, please know that Israeli publications and politicians have been repeating the line that Turkey is next for months now I’ll repeat again and again: if Israel is not stopped by its ‘allies’, the fires will spread

People maximize utility, not income, and for racists, racism is consumption: it is something they will give up other things to "enjoy".

Because there is the realm of, "we tried our best, things go wrong, big countries can break big things by accident" and then there is the realm of, "we made an intentionally negligent choice because we thought it was funny and wouldn't effect us." And this is the latter.

I realize one is not supposed to say this in politics, but it is just clearly the case that 77,302,580 voters have blood on their hands for this, bear real, moral culpability for deciding that it was a good idea to put idiot Fox News Grandpa back in power for [reasons].

“It comes down to this: The press, because of its own conventions and time-honored practices, normalizes him, and thus fails to get across the extreme nature of this president’s behavior. Ten years of sane-washing have had their effect. He remains in power, reelected, undeterred.”

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Maybe I've just had all my functioning emotions sandblasted off, but this honestly comes off like a 12 year old on 30 mg of adderall trying to bluff their way out of their first poker game. "You guys better fold! I've got 4 aces! You know what? I lied, actually have SIX aces! DON'T TEST ME!"

I love the term so much that I still have that screenshot saved in my favorites folders.

Mientras tanto los medios de aquí: "Trump eleva la presión sobre Irán", ¿pero estamos todos locos o qué hostias pasa? El titular es como mínimo "Trump empuja a la civilización hacia un abismo sin vuelta atrás". Como mínimo.

"A whole civilization will die tonight", llamadme quisquilloso, pero para mí que un dirigente con arsenal nuclear disponible suelte algo así ya sería motivo suficiente para cortar todo tipo de relación diplomática y denunciar en todos los medios, canales e instituciones con extrema urgencia.

Una cosa que em fascina dels liberals nord-americans és que estan obsessionats amb les trucades als seus representants al Congrés, com si fos la màxima expressió de participació democràtica que pot existir.

The Iran war is destroying US hegemony. Iran is using this moment to dismantle a key pillar of US power — the petrodollar. For the last 50 years nearly all oil has been purchased in dollars. But Iran and China are starting to kill off this pillar of the US empire. www.jphilll.com/the-war-agai...

basically every law passed in the wake of 9/11 or connected to actions in iraq and afghanistan needs to go out the window and ideally every president has to stand trial at the hague the nanosecond their term is up

Assuming that this means the worst thing it could, the rest of the world will forever see this as a crime of the United States, whose people after all elected this guy twice and whose legislature has done very little to inhibit him

[concerned centrist voice] It's well past time we had a frank discussion about antisemitism on the left

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