Why is the West hell-bent on preventing Palestinian liberation? I joined Upstream to talk about Palestine and West Asia in the context of the capitalist world-system. It's available for free here, or anywhere you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/u...

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

What was behind the controversial deal to imprison U.S. deportees at the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT? FRONTLINE and El Faro investigate in a documentary that's streaming now, for free. https://to.pbs.org/4mlYp6v

In Arévalo’s Guatemala, It’s Not “Spring” Quite Yet americasquarterly.org/article/in-a...

#EfPhoto 📷 | In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition. Families where women take care of everything are the norm, writes @barreraescarlos. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in US cities. beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

#OtD 29 Mar 1933 a mob of right-wing religious zealots destroyed the HQ of the Revolutionary Workers' Groups in Dublin following a three-day siege. It was one of many attacks by mobs whipped into anti-communist hysteria by the Catholic Church stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

‘No Defenders, No Climate Justice’ @pbiusa.bsky.social #Counsel_Magazine #GSN #Guatemala_Solidarity_Network #Guatemala_Human_Rights_Defenders #Guatemala_Environmental_Defenders #Stephen_Cragg

‘Forum: La Puya’s Victory and the Challenges of International Arbitration’ #Resistencia_Pacífica_La_Puya #el_Bufete_Jurídico_de_Derechos_Humanos @ips-dc.org @earthworks.bsky.social #Network_in_Solidarity_with_the_People_of_Guatemala_(NISGUA) #NISGUA #Guatemala #Guatemala_Peaceful_Resistance #SN

‘Guatemala at a New Institutional Crossroads: Local Elections and the Future of the Justice System’ @jsandoval1982.bsky.social @ghrcusa.bsky.social #Guatemala #Guatemala_Elections #Guatemala_Corruption #Guatemala_Criminalisation #GSN

‘In Guatemala’s Western Highlands, There’s Life After Deportation’ Carlos Barrera #Carlos_Barrera @elfaroenglish.bsky.social #Guatemala #Guatemala_Migration #Guatemala_Deportation #Xela #Guatemala_Photo_Reportage #GSN

Join us at the @claptoncfc.co.uk clubhouse on Sunday for the finale of my (exhausting) 2 month Billionaires & Guillotines board game tour (pub by @plutopress.bsky.social). Organized w. @gamestransformed.bsky.social and kicks off the 2026 game jam: SMASH THE FASH www.tickettailor.com/events/rival...

🚨BREAKING: Wes Streeting takes NEW £55,000 donation from private healthcare. Only one group stands to benefit from a weaker NHS: ❌NOT patients, ❌NOT staff Yes, private healthcare - the group that has given Wes Streeting 60% of his donations. He must return these donations. vist.ly/4w7u5

#EfPhoto 📷️ | In Quetzaltenango, migration is a historic tradition. Families where women take care of everything are the norm, writes @barreraescarlos. Some returned to Guatemala years ago; others recently, under the terror imposed by ICE in US cities. beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Ah the old special relationship. Your war‘s not for us thank you but please feel free to use our murdering facilities.

Jose Ruben Zamora: “We Need to Refound Guatemala” @havanatimes.bsky.social @confidencialni.bsky.social #Carlos_F_Chamorro #Rights_Action #GSN #Guatemala_Solidarity_Network #Jose_Ruben_Zamora #Guatemala_Corruption #Guatemala_Criminalisation

‘Trespassing the Rule of Law: the role of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in the evictions of Indigenous communities in Guatemala’ by @dlcerqueira.bsky.social in @dplf-info.bsky.social #Guatemala #Guatemala_Human_Rights #Guatemala_Corruption #Guatemala_Solidarity_Network #GSN

‘Consuelo Porras Signed Irregular Adoptions of Children from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras’ @elfaroenglish.bsky.social‬ @romangressier.com‬ #GSN #Guatemala#GSN#GSN #Guatemala_Solidarity_Network #Guatemala_Adoptions #Guatemala_Illegal_Adoptions #Guatemala_Corruption

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

My other half was involved in it. What was interesting was that somebody dropped in a folder of press clippings of that period of time including the surrounding news stories . Apparently coal ships were getting renamed after leaving South Africa and before arriving in Ireland.

Tomorrow! 1pm along the Liffey from the Ha’penny Bridge. Let's send the loud, clear message, no shamrocks for genocide! Ireland stands with Palestine, always. #FreePalestine

The Metropolitan Police has raided the Westminster Quaker Meeting house – again, this time targeting Take Back Power's direct action training. There were 15 arrests

UN experts tie the Guatemalan attorney general to a 1980s illegal adoption scheme.The Salvadoran Assembly keeps the details of its “austerity” budget under lock and key. Nicaragua reinstates visas for Cuba after Trump invades Venezuela. beta.elfaro.net/en/elfaro-au...

A girl peeks at soldiers in El Gallito, Guatemala City, under a state of siege. Across much of Central America, children grow up in the shadow of the military and its guns, on promises of curbing violence that bleed into abuses, Carlos Barrera. #CentralAmericaLens 📸 beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles. www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Irish government unable to sleep because they're so angry that the child of Omelas doesn't pay rent on the filthy basement room they're locked in

It is so disappointing to see that the government of Pres. Bernardo Arévalo is winding down the Cuban doctors program. Cuban doctors provided much needed medical attention in rural communities that were often abandoned by the state. This also hands the far-right a victory they've sought for years.

Is this the Guardian reverting to 'type' or is the second coming imminent?

The Guatemalan government reports dozens of arrests in two days under state of siege. Arévalo avoids naming the “political structures” he accused of colluding with 18th Street, but singles out and accuses the gang of conspiring to assassinate him in 2023. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

It's now just ONE more signature and we've reached the threshold. Currently at 10,079 and we need 10,080

The barristers' defence speeches in the Filton trial are well worth a read - and coverage by @realmediapress.bsky.social has been brilliant realmedia.press/the-filton-t...

C'mon folks, only 721 people to go and we've passed the Irish threshold. If you haven't signed this already, why not? It's an important EU citizen led initiative that needs 7 countries to pass their threshold, and then the EU government machine is forced to talk about it. #Speirgorm #IrishSky

I thought it a wonderful, moving, and human film.

The Guatemalan government reports dozens of arrests in two days under state of siege. Arévalo avoids naming the “political structures” he accused of colluding with 18th Street, but singles out and accuses the gang of conspiring to assassinate him in 2023. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

This should have resonance in Ireland with what is proposed there? #speirgorm

The Metropolitan Police is completely unaccountable for the way it cracks down on protests in London. That doesn’t change unless we take action. Add your group's support to Netpol's call for an end to the Met's zero accountability in its policing of demonstrations netpol.org/end-zero-acc...

‘Arévalo Begins Third Year under State of Siege amid Clashes with 18th Street’ @romangressier.com Yuliana Ramazzini Carlos Barrera @elfaroenglish.bsky.social @erin-hale.bsky.social @aljazeera.com #Guatemala_Corruption #Guatemala_State_Of_Siege #Guatemala_Gangs #Guatemala_Prisons

Guatemala was not part of this survey, but the same thing has been happening there since the 1970's. Christian supremacy beliefs (and subsequently conspiratorial thinking) have grown within the evangelical circles. One day I will write my big project about this...

The Guatemalan government reports dozens of arrests in two days under state of siege. Arévalo avoids naming the “political structures” he accused of colluding with 18th Street, but now singles out and accuses the gang of conspiring to assassinate him in 2023. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

New report in @elfaroenglish.bsky.social on the state of siege in Guatemala and President Bernardo Arévalo's escalating accusations against the 18th Street gang (also known as Barrio 18) 👇

Arévalo Begins Third Year under State of Siege amid Clashes with 18th Street. New reporting from @elfaroenglish.bsky.social beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

🚨 Assembly point confirmed - National march for Palestine - End the genocide ⏰12 noon, 31 January 📍 Russel Square The assembly point for the march for Palestine has been confirmed. We will assemble at Russel Square at 12 noon before marching from there to Whitehall. Join us.

Great piece, this...

This, by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Here's another of my Labour MP profiles and this one's a humdinger. - Peter Swallow, MP for Bracknell. 🥀 - His partner is a lobbyist and has worked for 5 years at Mandelson's Global Counsel. - He has been funded by arms firms including Elbit Systems. labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/t...

The last family in the Palestinian village of Yanoun left their home last week, joining a growing list of communities that have been erased from existence through the establishment of Israeli "shepherding outposts" in their place. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/this... #Palestine #Israel