Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

Iranians are not interested in zero-sum games, or in embracing Western values in a unipolar world. The West has no business imposing its political or economic systems on other countries.

Monday is going to be a terrible day for the US & European "markets" and hence these economies. The people of the West have been largely silent as Iran and Lebanon are attacked by the US & Israel. The impact of this imperialist insanity is going to hit all in some way. Will we still just shrug?

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

The US-Israeli war on Iran is a regional and global disaster. It represents the exportation of the murderous Gaza playbook to a nation of more than 90 million people. In response, Canada has surrendered principle to imperial loyalty, writes Owen Schalk.

The US striking an Iranian desalination plant on Qeshm Island could mark a disastrous precedent. The Gulf is highly reliant on desalination to meet its water needs. If Iran retaliates against plants in the region, water shortages could become catastrophic.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney refers to the US navy sinking a defenceless Iranian ship and refusing to rescue the survivors as an "incident." He does not name the United States as the perpetrator of the "incident" which occurred in international waters.

Ghana has accused Israel of committing a war crime by bombing Ghanaian UN troops, injuring three of them. today.lorientlejour.com/article/1497...

"The context of Iran and how leftists position themselves has been the source of much movement debate. Weaving our Worlds has compiled a list of resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran." www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...

I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here. I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!

a note: the Third Reich actually did do this, *but* they started doing it after the USAAF attacked German and Italian submarines attempting to rescue the survivors of RMS Laconia Look up the Laconia incident

The same police unit that arrested Wet'suwet'en land defenders and surveilled Fairy Creek demonstrators was monitoring the Palestine solidarity movement on BC campuses A big investigation for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...

To paraphrase: "We are not currently participating in our imperial allies' attacks on Iran, but if their poorly planned invasion goes awry (for them) we are prepared to help them ensure that their imperial objectives are met." Orientalism is a powerful drug.

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This is also an act of war that the US is just casually doing with impunity (again).

This is also an act of war that the US is just casually doing with impunity (again).

Orientalism is a powerful drug. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025. As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

What if people picked up a book by Thích Nhất Hạnh instead of misusing “mindful“ 😭

Here is my latest -- probably only of a few (fewer probably than 5!) news pieces that is critical of the federal government's military spending bonanza. truthout.org/articles/cri...

Jesus Christ, and I mean that literally

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Stunning. The self-declared "most moral military in the world" or the self-declared most technologically advanced military in the world" just hit Gandhi hospital in Tehran with missiles. Reuters reporting significant damage and a desperate evacuation. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Let's remember not to overly blame Israel though..

“It is highly likely that members of the Canadian military, on exchange with the United States, were involved in the planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran, says a former senior Canadian general.” Glad CBC is waking up to what I’ve been yelling about www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Listen to Jolly Good Ginger and get your ass out ON THE STREETS! Repost @jolly_good_ginger ・・・ As a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations, I denounce our actions in Iran. We’re being lied to yet again, and this is all a ploy to maintain power.

To everyone who cheerleaded Carney's faux speech in Davos & posturing as independent middle power - His atrocious statement today backing US-Israeli attacks on Iran make clear that he & Canada are firmly aligned with dominant imperial interests. And he did so while shaking hands with Modi in India

Around 70% of STEM graduates in Iran are women. That's the highest proportion in the world... There is no student debt.

Higher education enrollment in Iran is 71.9 percent. This is a higher ratio than in countries like Italy, Japan, or the United Kingdom, and twice as high as the global average.

How well do you know Iran? 🧵 Iran’s adult literacy rate is 89 percent, with youth literacy at nearly 99 percent. Female literacy is fractionally higher than male literacy.

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

Israel and the US slaughtering other people's children AGAIN we must kill their children to save their children from them www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

US-Israel propaganda playbook: if we kill civilians it is because they were negligent and didn't get out of the way of our bombs. Note: this quote post is from a democrat. US imperialism is bipartisan.

Absolute cowardice. Refuses to name israel and the US. A few weeks ago he feigns to lament a "rupture" in the "rules-based order" but he rationalizes this horrific violence and has made Canadians complicit in US- Israel aggression AGAIN. You are an Orientalist, Carney.

Carney unwilling to name the US and Israel who have never cared about international law unless it serves their interest. His speech a few weeks ago wasn't a lament but a declaration. Rationalizing slaughter.

Carney is such a coward. Can't even name the two aggressors.

Canada PM Carney admitted international law has always been a lie. Expect no condemnation from the states of the West and expect a tepid endorsement of this aggression from Carney

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

A. This isn't a "rupture", its a variation of the same western aggression, though worryingly perhaps more intense. B. Despite the "speech," PM Carney will be silent or will rationalize and reinforce this aggression.

FFS these fuckers create more and more havoc and misery and we just let them do it again and again.

BREAKING: Israel has launched a “preventative” attack against Iran, as witnesses say they have heard explosions in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to the Reuters news agency.

Canada announcing that another horrific US military invasion is imminent, this time against Iran.

This week Pierre Poilievre made a bunch of sketchy claims about people claiming refugee status in Canada. So we fact- checked him using research from the Migrant Rights Network. Please watch and share our latest @breachmedia.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2F...

In Haaretz today. Happened in 1948. Happening today. But the nations who wash in the rhetoric of human rights look away, indeed help to facilitate it while trying to minimize, rationalize, and hide it. In Haaretz but not the BBC or CBC.

CBC Daybreak in Kelowna just interviewed a person here who is providing "humanitarian aid" to Cuba. US embargo and blocking of oil shipments were not mentioned once. Instead, Cuba was described as "complicated," with a very high literacy rate, yet, "somehow" a very high poverty rate. ⬇️

Canada’s AI minister says he’s “deeply disturbed” by the reports and has reached out to OpenAI about their safety protocols. This should finally push the government to take action on the harms of generative AI, but I don’t have high hopes when the minister is so deep in the industry’s pocket.

I'm going to switch out a quote by Agamben from his essay on witnessing for this one in my human rights discourse class.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tells Tucker Carlson that Israel has the Biblical right to take over all of the Middle East. “It would be fine if they took it all.”