An amazing long read by Matt Broomfield about the #Kurds from #Iran, based in Kurdistan in Iraq, whom Israel/US try to exploit in their war against Iran. Kurdish leaders know that any further escalation will hurt them the most. They wage their own struggle. www.truthdig.com/articles/kur...

Since March 18, 2026, Iranian authorities have executed at least 28 people on politically motivated charges. Scores of imprisoned protesters remain at risk of arbitrary and secret executions. Learn more:

The ceasefire is such a fascinating shared fiction

Seeing right-wingers attack him is annoying but the idea that anybody left of Pinochet would ever go to bat for Hasan Piker is laughable at best. Dude is a passionate Putin supporter and genocide fanatic. His bleating in support of the Russian genocide of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians should

probably give folks pause about listening to anything he says. But it won't. Just like it didn't with Glenn Greenwald or Aaron Mate or Max Blumenthal or Rania Khalek or Tulsi Gabbard or Butter Goblin or any of the other scumbag fascists with a red flag and a shit-eating grifter grin.

The UAE, like Israel, is a state that sees itself as outside the rules and also would love a destabilizing war against Iran- as long as the US is the one doing most of the fighting.

The most likely next PM of Israel:

#⃣ It's now the 56th day of #Iran's internet blackout, with international connectivity severed for over 1320 hours. The measure, the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society, continues while conditions deteriorate amid warfare and reported executions.

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you? ― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose

Earlier this week Israel carried out a “triple tap,” killing three medical workers and wounding six in Lebanon. Triple tap strikes were/are not even standard practice of the Russians, who were notorious for perfecting the “double tap” strike in Syria and then adopting the practice in Ukraine. (1)

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

The US-Iran ceasefire brought a pause for some. For Iranian Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan, it did not. As strikes resumed, Kurdish camps and families remained exposed to pressure, displacement and loss. ✍️ Asso Hassan Zadeh

All they will find is sand Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

2/ Expert backgrounder on the PrSM and U.S. weapons review: www.justsecurity.org/135490/preci... Hegseth's Defense Department's flat denial from March 31 (now appears to be provably false)⤵️

3/ BBC also fact checked the DoD's denial: Six experts "all commented independently ... citing the missile's visual features, the way it exploded, its trajectory and the number of strikes in the area." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Pentagon suggested Iran was responsible. But new evidence further shows tit were U.S. PrSMs (which blast thousands of tungsten pellets outwards) that killed 21 civilians in Lamerd, Iran, including a toddler and several children. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w...

No matter what some people on here seem to think, it is in fact entirely possible to oppose all US and Israeli military actions in Iran, without pretending that this somehow makes the Iranian government into the good guys. They did in fact murder tens of thousands of innocent civilian protesters.

How is a video that has Judaism as Baal, showing a literal blood libel, and with a representation of Orthodox Jews buying the U.S. President antisemitic, they ask?

People in Iran have lived under digital darkness for 1000 hours. Access to the internet is a basic human right and indispensable in times of conflict. Authorities must immediately restore internet access.

A big issue of contention here is that the US thinks it's negotiating from a position of strength and is behaving as such, when the reality is that Iran clearly has the upper hand and is dictating terms to the US, not the other way around.

Israel’s achievement yesterday was to kill Qassem’s nephew and personal secretary. 250+ people killed with hundreds of airstrikes throughout the entire country and they got his secretary.

So the state-of-play here as I understand it is that the USA and Iran both agreed to a two-week ceasefire, but understand themselves (or claim to) as agreeing to a ceasefire on different terms re: the strait of hormuz, so it is a kind of 'clap your hands if you believe' sort of ceasefire.

Barak Ravid needs to learn how to do journalism that isn't just answering the phone when Witkoff calls him

Thousands of detainees in Iran, including political prisoners and children, are at risk of injury and death from US and Israeli strikes, as well as atrocities by Iran’s authorities, including mass, secret, and arbitrary executions. New from HRW: https://bit.ly/417Izmj

NEW: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is conducting a campaign to recruit children as young as 12 to volunteer to become “homeland defending combatants.” The military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when the children are under 15.

This is absurd.

Occasionally it is necessary to post one of these insane interventions, and to remind ourselves the shamefully long list of people who should have known better who vouched for this person just five years ago.

In case this context is too subtle, Miller can't stop talking about how everything going on in the world is part of a plot he calls "Pax Judaica" (if you say "Jews" in Latin, they won't notice, eh?)

David Miller is a former professor fired over antisemitism allegations who now broadcasts on Iranian state television. He provides the intellectual scaffolding: framing Epstein's emails as evidence, giving academic veneer to what white nationalists say plainly. 240,000 views.

🚨 Concerns are growing about a wave of death sentences and arbitrary and secret executions against protest detainees, including children, in the coming weeks.

Evidence examined by HRW shows a coordinated, brutal mass clampdown. Read the full report: www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

As a whole nation remains in shock, horror, and grief, and families are searching for their loved ones in the aftermath of security forces’ massacres on January 8 and 9, Iranian authorities continue to terrorize the population. Read HRW’s new investigation. ⤵️ www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

At this point, it would be more genuine if they were to admit that their politics tolerate/encourage state violence so long as it is carried out by actors positioned against the West. (2)

The anti-imperialist left cannot continue to position itself as a steward of human rights while amplifying despotic regimes and ignoring documented human rights abuses when they complicate their preferred politics. (1)

Many of the people now going out of their way to silence Iranians have been doing the same to Syrians for years, some have even built entire careers out of it. (1)

Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.

‏امیر شکوری حامی حیوانات بود. در مراسم چهلم او، خانواده‌اش بسته‌هایی غذای خشک برای سگ‌های خیابانی آماده و پخش کردند.

but a fascinating journey on her part from Ed Mackey campaigner to fully brain-broken career tankie at all of 22. condemning yourself to a miserable, evil life because of online clout from horrible people.

of course the point here isn't to try and make a logical argument, it's to simultaneously gloat over the deaths and deny them.

denialism ends up with the same tropes no matter what end of the political spectrum it comes from; this was literally a popular line among Holocaust deniers after the war, "if the Jews were killed why are there so many of them in London?"

The Iranian regime has targeted wounded protesters seeking help. In response, medical workers throughout the country have forged secret units to treat those injured in the uprising. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I see that Iranians are getting acquainted with the segment of the western left that believes that only massacres committed by US allies are bad. The way they're gaslighting victims while criticizing those who were doing the same elsewhere...Exactly the same as their right-winger counterparts.

Around fifty unidentified women have been recorded at Tehran’s Kahrizak morgue amid protests, with students reporting restricted access and signs of abuse. Critics say post-mortem control is being used to silence families and memory. By Mahtab Mahboub www.theamargi.com/posts/fifty-...

For my part, I think that being friendly with a convicted pedophile shows the kind of bad judgement that should disqualify people from any large leadership position. But to many people occupying those leadership positions, Epstein's pedophilia conviction seems to have felt like an asset.

"Did the serial execution or exile of dissidents including Marxists make Iran a better fighter for Palestinian rights, or a worse one? Does keeping your boots on Iranians’ throats get better if you also shove “Free Palestine” down them?"

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

Saw that Twitter is discoursing about how Iran treats women better than the US does and yeah that is kind of the logical endpoint of the antifeminist moral relativism fad isn't it