Israel’s military launched its first ground incursions in months into parts of southern Lebanon. Since agreeing to a cease-fire in November, Israel has been conducting near-daily strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has not responded militarily since the truce.

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

if i were a plant i think i’d like to have my leaves spritzed on hot days

Membership in knowledge communities is also restricted according to a racial/civilizational logic: if you’re part of that great exclusion zone known as the global south, your murder can always be retroactively justified as strategically necessary

This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.

ngl I think the idea that feelings don't need to be justified in order to be respected is one of the sicknesses of modern culture

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

Every day, starving Palestinians in Gaza have no choice but to try to get food for their families, knowing full well it’s a trap and they’re likely to be murdered. This bait-and-switch starvation/extermination move will be studied for decades, after it can’t matter. Unforgivable.

CENTCOM cooked up a military operation independent of the president?

once sleeper cells infiltrate the brain they are virtually impossible to remove

Wonderful that in the 22 years since the Iraq war there is still no serious anti-war coalition in either US party.

Cable news suddenly keeps mentioning “sleeper cells” in Iran. Heard it at least 3 times on CNN. Unbelievable 2003-style reporting malpractice, just spitballing ways of making Iran seem like a threat to Americans sitting at home watching tv

They were wrong in 2003 and they're wrong now.

the media is so deeply complicit

And it did all of this to protect (and later, after failing in that, punish the loss of) Western resource dominance. So much wreckage and devastation to support oil flows and revenues, and eventually, to demarcate where and for whom sovereignty exists.

can you imagine thinking the anti-war left is who you should be attacking right now?!?! absolutely disgusting

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

The US, the greatest purveyor of global violence, attacked a country it had been pretending to negotiate with—and did so in collaboration with a genocidal client regime. That is what has happened. It’s not “WWIII”; it is part of a history of militaristic surplus extraction in West Asia.

No war but class war.

I can't help but think about how the Bush-Cheney administration set this up. The domestic opposition to US war with Iran must be resolute, immovable, and massive. No nuances, just clarity: US out of Iran. US must cease supporting Israel's military.

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

No qualifiers, no caveats: hands off Iran!

No qualifiers, no caveats: hands off Iran!

A FUNNY THING will be out this Thursday, June 5! Ask your libraries to order it! If you read it, tell me which parts made you laugh!!

"The incident was the latest in nearly daily mass deaths of Palestinians who were seeking aid in past weeks, including near sites operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."

The liberal-conservative consensus on Iran reveals the racialized logic that determines who gets to assert a right to sovereignty or diplomacy: like Palestinians, Iranians are always already “terrorists” with whom one cannot negotiate, guilty before the fact, available to “defensive” warfare

You can't really blame them for dusting off the old Iraq propaganda and reusing it for Iran, it worked the first time and they only have to change one letter

NYT making it very clear they think sexually harassing your own employees still better than being a leftist

A disturbing number of people continue to believe in the fiction of humanitarian regime change—and more bizarrely, that a war prosecuted by a state committing genocide, with the explicit aim of undermining diplomacy, might produce democracy as a salutary effect. This is flatly ridiculous.

Clear and obvious that the US countenanced an unprovoked attack on Iran that it knew would submarine its nuclear negotiations—not least because these strikes have killed one of the major negotiators. The only term of “international order” operating here is western, white supremacy.

Dread all the way down

"Two Israeli officials claimed to Axios that Trump and his aides were only pretending to oppose an Israeli attack in public — and didn't express opposition in private. 'We had a clear U.S. green light,' one claimed. ... The U.S. side has not confirmed any of that."

Israel carried out a “major strike” on Iran early Friday morning, hitting a range of targets in the capital, Tehran.

Omg. Israel bombed Tehran. Israel attacked Iran. I don't know what the next 96 hours will bring, but having had my political consciousness forged in the crucible of the Bush administration's "War on Terror," I think it's going to be very very bad.

The tagline of this post could be: The things you probably sensed were bad all along, yeah, you were right, now they’re being used to enslave us.

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

SEIU California President David Huerta has apparently been charged with a federal crime--conspiracy to impede an officer. This is a felony that carries a sentence of six years in federal prison.

When *professional academics* plead their right to remain ignorant of “geopolitics” as a way of shutting down discussions of actively unfolding war crimes and what we can do to counter them, fascism has already arrived. The university has stopped functioning.

i dare you to try to figure out, based only on the words in this account, who killed these people

They flock us toward their fire. aje.io/jzclz9

Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.

The utter perversity of calling "human rights" a "core American value" while the US provides bipartisan support for a genocide is beyond grotesque.

A decade and change after US military intervention in Libya under Obama, a direct appeal from the Trump administration to make it a destination for a 21st century Trail of Tears