What is your favorite secure communications tool? 👉 tube.flokinet.is/w/w6EprWKeEn... @weskandar.bsky.social @victorilie.bsky.social @drewoccrp.bsky.social @andreipopoviciu.bsky.social

Land, water, ports' grabbing ... sub-imperial powers at work: "the UAE’s investments in African ports and logistics align with its broader strategy to exploit natural resources on the continent, enabling the extraction of significant economic value from African nations" www.tni.org/en/article/t...

"We're in trouble." On surveillance, narrative control, and what journalists need to stay free. @weskandar.bsky.social at #IJF26. Watch here 👇 tube.flokinet.is/w/r8C57wAEwR... #investigativejournalism #freedomofthepress

Right now, this question matters more than ever. Watch to hear their answers. @drewoccrp.bsky.social @weskandar.bsky.social @andreipopoviciu.bsky.social tube.flokinet.is/w/uhzUKLjCvb... #worldpressfreedomday

Why grant Trump officials anonymity to say this, when it doesn’t match everything we know and have seen on Trump’s social media accounts for years? And when only a few hours ago, the White House press secretary was practically defending the post and dismissing criticism of it as “fake outrage”?

What does it take to tell important stories today? We had a great time talking to @weskandar.bsky.social at GIJC about his work and experience as a journalist. Watch here 👇 tube.flokinet.is/w/otSUAV9AvQ... #gijc #investigativejournalism

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Watching Renee Good and Alex Pretti, feeling Shireen Abu Akleh and Hind Rajab foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/26/m...

Our investigation, in partnership with Lighthouse Reports, identified 110 killings of former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces troops since 2023.

🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you www.motherjones.com/politics/202... A stunning investigation by @lighthousereports.com of what I call "despotism as a service"👇

🚩Saudi govt is using the Riyadh Comedy Fest to deflect attention from its brutal repression The festival takes place on the 7th anniversary of Khashoggi's murder Lineup includes: Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson and others @mazjobrani.bsky.social @sammorril.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Revealed: How Tony Blair is lobbying on behalf of tech billionaire Larry Ellison We expose former PM’s unprecedented influence over the UK govt & how this is shaped by the interests of his Institute’s largest donor & one of the world’s richest men www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... Thread

Boris parte per #Gaza con la Sumud Flotilla. A motivarlo, l'aver assistito all'assedio di #Sarajevo e la sua grande frustrazione oggi, come professionista del mondo umanitario e cittadino italo-bosniaco, nel non poter portare aiuti a Gaza. Una riflessione sul diritto umanitario buff.ly/uBFWKKB

On the show this week: • In a presidency rife with scandals, the Epstein crisis is in a class of its own • New York Times finally uses the term 'genocide' to describe Gaza • The crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech in Germany ▶️ youtu.be/AWp0DgSuP1I

United 4 Gaza

Many held there are opponents of the repressive regime. Who is alive now? Who was killed? Were they just collateral damage?

Everyone must respect international law except western powers, Israel, friends of western powers when they're doing it on behalf of the west, but everyone must respect international law.

It is grossly hypocritical and extremely dangerous that two nuclear-armed states ganged up on a country without nuclear weapons just because it may possibly build one at some unknown point in the vague future. #iran #usa #america #Israel

It's okay to lose people over genocide.

What the west is doing is causing people who don't like the Iranian regime to sympathize a lot more with Iran.

So much truth in this comedy.

There is no contradiction in the position that the Iranian regime is horrible to its people and that Iran should not be be bombed by western powers.

there are no shelters in Iran

Every time Israel violates international law and commits war crimes, the west says that Israel has a right to defend itself. This has become so lame, but it's a giant fuck you to any kind of equality among people, this is western supremacism.

The lesson is that Israel and the West can bomb whoever the fuck they want and you'll be a villain if you don't justify murder and genocide.

It's a bit like kidnappers taking hostages from a highway, bringing them back to a house they've stolen then claiming that they're trespassing, wanting them to sign a confession they were trying to break in before releasing them.

Israel still holds several members of the Freedom Flotilla hostage, including #EU MP Rima Hassan, Dutch captain Mark van Rennes, French journalist Yanis Mhamdi, French engineer Pascal Maurieras and Brazilian Thiago Avila

The Sisi regime in Egypt is so heartless that it refuses to reunite a political prisoner, Alaa Abd El Fattah, with his heart-broken mother, Laila Soueif, both on hunger strike It is so cruel that it keeps tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience apart from their grieving families and loved ones

Germany is sliding into fascism. I know people have debated this extensively, but right now all parties around Palestine are effectively one party.. supporting or denying genocide.

Gaza Freedom Flotilla SOS

Entire Madleen crew representing 7 countries has gone dark and presumed kidnapped by Israel Greta Thunberg Rima Hassan Yasemin Acar Baptiste Andre Thiago Avila Omar Faiad Pascal Maurieras Yanis Mhamdi Suayb Ordu Sergio Toribio Marco van Rennes Reva Viard

We are watching a live streamed genocide..

How is this the world we're living in?

The ghost of spring past..

@weskandar.bsky.social @theleftberlin.bsky.social

On-point analysis by @weskandar.bsky.social of recent statements by German politicians on the genocide in #Gaza. "They don't want to stop it. They just want to make sure that when it happens, they can claim they’ve always been against it." www.instagram.com/reels/DKJdNd...

شبح الربيع اللي فات #FreeAlaa

On Germany's fascism www.theleftberlin.com/is-this-fasc...

Growing reports show that Israel has been fomenting armed gangs to loot food supplies in Gaza and sow chaos — and it's killing those who attempt to stop it. But this strategy isn't new: Israel has waged a war on Gaza's civil government from the start.

RSF Germany has issued a scandalous report.. weskandar.substack.com/p/rsf-german...

Il vero piano del governo Netanyahu non è salvare gli ostaggi, ma espellere i palestinesi da Gaza

Germany is sliding into fascism very quickly, but people won't wake up till they're looking at the equivalent of invading Poland.

Feels weird to know that my pool of potential friends for the future has just shrunk immensely. Those who have not opposed the genocide till this day can never become real friends.

At @journalismfestival.com there were extraordinary seminars but also a commemoration of the journalists murdered in #Gaza, every conversation around journalism cannot escape the implication of the ongoing genocide @ariannaciccone.bsky.social @weskandar.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LA3...

If you want to understand how and why RT does propaganda, you need not look further than BBC and often NY Times to understand that it's not such a remote concept. I've picked two highly revered publications only to show the extremity and simplicity of propagating lies and propaganda.