@libbirdie4-all.bsky.social's self-description as being 'anti-genocide' is wildly inconsistent with most of the rest of their profile

In a prototype “Gaza First Planned Community” proposed by the US and UAE for the south of the Strip, 25,000 Palestinian residents would be treated not as humans but as livestock in a feedlot. 1/8 www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/15/d...

In October-November, West Bank Palestinians suffered through what Al Jazeera has labeled “The worst Palestinian olive harvest in collective memory,” thanks to Israeli attacks on harvesters and destruction of their olive groves. But this was nothing new. 1/9 www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/11/u...

Here, Justin Podur says stop using empty gestures as thin cover for not ending Israel's genocide. He says, "Begin negotiating the future of the region directly with the people that Israel wants to kill" And that means to "Recognize Hamas" Amen! justinpodur.substack.com/p/recognize-...

Needed: a multinational armed force to converge on Gaza by air, sea, and land & join the resistance fighters, protecting the population and putting an end to the genocide. The UN General Assembly can do that with a resolution this session countercurrents.org/2025/09/stop... @countercurrents

"@CraigMokhiber concluded that civil society around the world must demand that the UN establish and deploy an armed protection force for Gaza. 'If we ask for it and they don’t do it,' he said, 'it’s their sin. If we don’t ask for it, it’s *our* sin'.” www.laprogressive.com/foreign-poli...

Stopping the Genocide Requires an Armed Protective Force counterpunch.org/2025/09/17/s... @NatCounterPunch image: @PritiGCox

Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/17/b... thread -- 1/7

Breaking Israel’s Genocide Must Take Priority Over Climate Change (It's me saying that @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social) counterpunch.org/2025/08/17/b... counterpunch.org

ignore the neighbor's yard art

"This is no time for phony 'balance.'" "If an occupying power is going all-out to obliterate the population whose land it is trying to steal, and a news outlet takes care not to take sides, then they are, in fact, taking a side, and it's the wrong one." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

3 cheers for @r-degrowth.bsky.social's Palestine statement! degrowth.org/blog/2025/07... "We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed peoples"

Palestine's Valor in the Face of Israel's Inhumanity With @DonyaInGaza counterpunch.org/2025/07/03/v...

I have risked my life to get food from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation centers in Gaza, where Israel opens fire on aid seekers from every direction. I have an impossible choice: slow death from hunger, or gambling my life for a chance of survival. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/ever... #Palestine #Israel

Faced with possible extinction, Gaza’s universities have declared, “We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.” Meanwhile . . . 1/4 www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/08/t...

I have been complaining about the so-called abundance agenda for a while, calling instead for a sufficiency agenda. Where Klein and Thompson call for more of everything, I call for less. lloydalter.substack.com/p/abundance-...

Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"

When self proclaimed environmentalists refer to taxis as public transportation, you know they are missing something fundamental. Hint: it's about the scarcity of space in cities in the need to use that space efficiently.

A lot of Democrats seem to believe that electoral victories in 2026 and 2028 could begin fulfilling the dream of a government that serves the needs of all 330 million Americans. Oh really? 1/10 counterpunch.org/2025/05/11/w...

On this #420day, we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of performers “Gail & Dale” singing the hit, “One Toke Over the Line,” on Lawrence Welk. Neither had an idea the song was about pot, and Welk thought the song was a “modern spiritual.”

In the middle of Sherman St., a couple of blocks from our house: A Glove's Final Message for Humanity

This is like getting punched in the face by Mr. Rogers

Today at Counterpunch + Boycotts, Divestment, and People’s Arms Embargoes www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/09/b... @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social

Those are made-in-USA bombs dropping on Gaza from USA aircraft. Here's ColdType's great magazine layout: www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDF... first published by @tomdispatch.bsky.social

Pasting in a post by @pritigcox at that other site: "I have created a page on my blog: 'Resistance Embroidery Fundraiser for Palestine,' which includes some pieces of my embroidery for sale. Here's the link for more info on this initiative: pritigcox.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/r... " Check it out!

Biden didn't force a lasting end to the genocide by cutting of arms to IDF. With an arms cutoff, Trump could make this ceasefire permanent, but of course he won't. This mass death, past and future, didn't have to happen. @thenation.com via @tomdispatch.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/worl...

A cease-fire doesn't mean the desperate need to immediately cut off all US arms to Israel will cease. Not at all, and and we must never provide them military "aid" again. @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social @tomdispatch.bsky.social www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/15/a...

The United States has laws and regulations against arming countries that commit genocide, but "everyone knew the rules were different for Israel.” @tomdispatch.bsky.social tomdispatch.com/when-israeli...

You might not think you're in the 1%, but "the richest 1% – about 77 million people, including all those earning more than $140,000 (£114,000) a year – are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution each year as the poorest half of humanity."

"I’m aware of the environmental arguments against flying, but that should probably be the subject of another column." [Nope: should *definitely* have been the subject of this one! Indeed, the *only* subject of it. #ImplicatoryDenial] www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc

Antony Blinken knows genocide when he sees it. It occurs when, he said today, armed forces “have systematically murdered men and boys - even infants - on an ethnic basis and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic groups” and also . . . 1/3

Now, this is too accurate 👍

This year I published a book that offers what I hope are sensible analyses of controversial topics. Robert Jensen, It’s Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2024). www.interlinkbooks.com/product/its-... robertwjensen.org/books/its-de...

for the potato fears not death

Mary and Joseph’s trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem would be “more complicated today … Military checkpoints, forbidden roads and a 270-mile separation barrier … all block the way. [And] they would not be guaranteed return.” -Amy Abdelnoor, The Electronic Intifada electronicintifada.net/content/plen...

At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out

this is the equivalent of thinking that a magic 8ball is really talking to you

“Ten percent of all civic repression worldwide related to Palestine, study finds” www.middleeasteye.net/news/ten-per... Suppression of all kinds of protest is surging in the US and Europe: www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Excellent dissection of the sustainability class

“I thought that, as someone with that job security [of tenure], it was my job not to avoid conflict but to go toward conflict. Not just for the sake of being a gadfly or contrarian but because that keeps movements intellectually healthy, when they debate.” in-sightpublishing.com/2024/11/22/c...

- @asawinstanley.com quotes IDF soldier’s mother who spoke to Tel Aviv news site: “They come back to the same buildings they had [cleared out], and they get booby trapped again, every time.” Another soldier: "‘We’re like ducks in a shooting gallery.” t.co/PFaej4MdB2

"The Israeli regime will use any excuse at any time to kill, maim, or displace Palestinians. The regime, not the resistance, is the driving force behind the conflict" www.laprogressive.com/foreign-poli...

The armed resistance forces in Gaza have transcended unbearable hardship by mounting an extraordinary collective effort, holding their own against a far larger, more powerful army—one lavishly equipped and supported by the US military-industrial complex. www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/19/p...

Palestinians, Both Civilian and Military, Are Transcending the Horror We’ve Unleashed countercurrents.org/2024/11/pale...