Why is it that "tough choices" are always about harming the poor and disabled, and never about making the very wealthiest pay their fair share? metro.co.uk/2025/03/05/j...

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

Exactly this.

The government has announced it will pay for more weapons and bombs by cutting support for the world's poorest people. A deplorable decision that will only create a more unstable and unequal world. What is the government doing to bring about peace?

Another reminder of the power of rightwing propaganda and the failure of mainstream media coverage: more people probably have heard about USAID ‘funding’ Politico (it isn’t) than about USAID funding anti-malaria programs which were just cut off and frozen by Musk and Trump.

I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed. But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.

Shameful and murderous www.propublica.org/article/trum...

More than 50 British MPs called on Thursday for an independent investigation into the policing of Palestine protests during which dozens of people were arrested in London in mid-January. www.arabnews.com/node/2588445...

A poem by Michael Rosen, "Fascism: I sometimes fear..."

21 years ago, British journalist Tom Hurndall died after spending 9 months in a coma. Tom was carrying a Palestinian child out of range of Israeli army gunfire when he was shot in the head. We will never forget him, nor his vision of a free and independent Palestine.

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes. News editor Raffi Berg reportedly controls online coverage of genocide in Gaza to ensure Israeli crimes are 'watered down' or ignored. thecradle.co/articles-id/...

Keir Starmer and David Lammy have the “blood of Palestinian children on their hands” for supporting Israel. www.declassifieduk.org/starmer-and-...

www.instagram.com/reel/DDUVah8... The amazing Jeff Halper during a recent Gaza Protest in London @Gaza @israel @occupation @Palestine @peacenow

Israel killed Buthaina today, on Christmas Eve, in northern Gaza. She was executed with direct shots to the head and heart.

“Yesterday, children were bombed.” “This is cruelty. This is not war.” “Yesterday, they didn’t let the Patriarch [of Jerusalem] enter Gaza as they had promised.” —Pope Francis condemns the ongoing Holocaust in Gaza during his annual Christmas address

And they say an image is worth a thousand words. #GiselePelicot (don't know the photographer unfortunately, but happy to credit if someone does know)

Israel’s restriction of Gaza’s water supply to levels below minimum needs amounts to an act of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Should be in every newsagents window.

As different delegations prepare to gather in Riyadh to discuss “advancing human rights in the digital age” or the “Internet We Want,” they must remember the many Saudi detainees who are stuck behind bars for peacefully expressing themselves online. techpolicy.press/who-wins-fro...

@franceskalbs.bsky.social Here’s our West Bank documentary about Atta Jaber, filmed over 25 years. On Al Jazeera youtu.be/xhXIYns7ZeM?...

First Al Jazeera now Haaretz.

25 years of resisting Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank – Rooted in the West Bank is a must-watch documentary by @brunosorrentino.bsky.social Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhXI...

Weaponizing Jewish fear, from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam Rhetoric about ‘pogroms’ and ‘Jew hunts’ aims to obscure reality by generating mass hysteria — which can then be used to advance a far-right agenda.’ www.972mag.com/amsterdam-ma...

'Tortured and left to die': New details emerge about Israel's murder of prominent Gaza surgeon. Since 7 October 2023, at least 43 prisoners have died in Israeli jails. thecradle.co/articles-id/...

A school in northern Gaza burned down on Monday, hours after humanitarian aid trucks had arrived to it, according to photos and accounts by locals. Residents of the area said Israeli soldiers had set the fire that consumed the school. www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Fourteen emergency rescue workers were killed by an Israeli strike that targeted an emergency response centre in eastern Lebanon. Another 11 people died in strikes across the south of the country. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...