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Just counting videos, tens of thousands of Ukrainian women have resisted busification of men. That makes them the largest women's anti-war movement worldwide. And that's not counting millions of women who hide, feed, clothe and protect 2 million Ukrainian men avoiding the draft.
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The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens.
We are.
500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term.
Our tally is almost certainly an undercount.
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It’s 2am on October 7 in Al-Mughayyir. Settlers just attacked the village and torched a car. Expected to be a long day here.
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir personally attended the demolition of a five-story residential building in occupied Jerusalem, stating “We are demolishing, and demolishing, and demolishing... We are the owners of this place; Jerusalem is ours.”
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In Tel Aviv suburb Ramat Gan, the Israeli sister city of Phoenix, AZ and L.A. suburb Huntingon Beach, a state funded cleric celebrates Simchat Torah by rocking out to the genocide anthem "May their village burn"
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HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people around the world woke up today to articles by Reuters and other media saying that the US Coast Guard intercepted a ship carrying “illicit fuel” to Cuba.
But is that what really happened?
No. A crime was clearly committed in international waters. The US commandeered an entire ship—including its cargo, which included fuel, and the crew. The snatching of the ship was revealed yesterday, although it happened on 5 September.
The vessel called M/V Grace was taken over by the US Coast Guard in Caribbean waters between Mexico and Cuba—which the US is starving of fuel.
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LEGAL AND ILLEGAL
It is 100 percent legal for countries to give or sell goods to each other, as long as there are no UN sanctions against such transfers.
In contrast, the US’s unilateral fuel blockade of Cuba has been repeatedly shown to violate international law, AND the UN Charter, AND sovereign equality regulations, AND the principle of non-intervention.
The US actions against Cuba have also been shown to contravene the most basic principle of moral justice, which forbids collective punishment.
To put it simply, you’re not allowed to force families in Cuba to go hungry and hospitals to close down because you dislike the fact that the country has resisted US regime change operations for decades.
Regime change itself is also unlawful.
And then of course we have the US's illegal summary executions of at least 231 people in more than 70 strikes in the Caribbean seas and east Pacific.
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ILLEGALITY ASCRIBED TO THE WRONG SIDE
Yet the reports by Reuters and other media carefully omit all this absolutely crucial contextual information.
They do, however, contain multiple references to illegal actions being taken. In every case, these push the absurd position that the US’s victims are the criminals. For example:
- Reuters quotes a US Coast Guard statement saying that the vessel was carrying containers “believed to contain illicit fuel”.
- Reuters quotes US admiral Adm Kevin Lunday saying: “The high seas are not a sanctuary for lawlessness.”
- Reuters includes his warning that that ships which quote “engage in illicit activities will not evade justice”.
Literally all references to illegality in the report are ascribed to the victims, and none to the United States.
Cuba deserves better. And so do the people around the world who depend on the western mainstream media for their news.
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after 9/11 muslim ppl were forced to disavow al Qaeda constantly even tho most muslims don't support them & many died fighting them but if you ask a jewish person do you support genocide suddenly that's recorded as a hate crime and "no individual is accountable"
Zohran Mamdani:
One of the things that I'm proud of is that we live in the most Jewish city in the United States of America.
No Jewish person in New York City is responsible for the actions of the state of Israel.
If you want to hold anybody accountable, it's the people who are making those decisions — the prime minister, the state of Israel, also our complicity as American taxpayers, given that we know how many billions of dollars we have sent in bombs and continue to send.
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***** UPDATE: Issa was released after being detained blindfolded and handcuffed behind his back and badly treated for 7 hours in a military base. The charge: got too close to a settlement. Shit. But he is out and ok. ****
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Watch as an indigenous Bolivian legislator confronts US reps in the Bolivian assembly about why they’re there — and why they’re distributing QR codes to their pals in the legislature.
Bolivia’s Attorney General was just disappeared by the US-backed regime while investigating Trump’s Latin American bagman for ordering a hit on his mistress after she threatened to expose his role in a massive drug trafficking/election-fixing conspiracy.
Now Trump’s puppets are working the aisles and rounding up puppet politicians for a private meeting to decide the country’s future among themselves.
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Netanyahu: “They [Palestinians] have suicide kindergarten camps.”
@tonydokoupil: “I'm aware!”
Hey Tony, can you provide evidence or anything to prove your awareness?
Netanyahu on Gaza:
You have to "deradicalize" the situation in Gaza.
They imbibe with their mother’s milk this hatred, this insane hatred for Jews and for Israel — and, by the way, for Americans too.
They have suicide kindergarten camps. You’ve got to understand this.
I think we need to disarm, demilitarize and "deradicalize" Gaza.
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Just heard from a trusted source that activist @Issaamro was taken away by Israeli soldiers about two hours ago, and that his whereabouts are unknown.
Baby Boomers hold $90 trillion in wealth.
That's over half of all household wealth in America.
Held by about 20% of the population.
Millennials hold roughly $19 trillion.
Still a smaller share than boomers had at the same age, adjusted for inflation.
Boomers bought houses averaging $24,000 in the early 70s.
The same style of home now averages $480,000.
Boomers paid a few hundred dollars a year for a public college degree.
That same degree runs $25,000+ a year now.
Boomers retired with employer pensions paying out for life.
We get a 401k, the stock market, and hope.
It was never that boomers worked harder.
They worked inside an economy built to reward labor.
We're working inside one built to extract from it.
Same effort. Completely different math.
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The US role in Brazil's election is criminally under-discussed in the US, though obviously front and center of the conversation in Brazil.
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The US-backed regime of Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia has returned the country to a police state, with masked agents seizing the Attorney General and offices of 3 separate public prosecutors — likely to prevent the emergence of key evidence in a top-level government conspiracy to murder a witness to their international cocaine trafficking plot.
The story burst into public view last month when Attorney General Roger Mariaca indicted presidential advisor Fernando Cerimedo (seen on the right posing with Donald Trump, Jr. below).
A growing body of evidence indicates Cerimedo ordered a hit on his pregnant mistress after she discovered he was raking in millions by covering up hundreds of flights by cartel-linked planes smuggling cocaine from Bolivia’s Beni province.
When he realized she might turn him in, Cerimedo messaged Bolivia’s anti-drug intelligence chief to inform him that his mistress had “sold us out.”
“Either we eliminate her or we’re all fucked. Do you know anyone who can do the job?”
Two minutes after the hit was carried out, Paz’s intelligence chief texted Cerimedo: “Brother, they just shot her.”
Instead of pursuing Trump-tied Cerimedo for this horrifying crime, the US tried to turn the tables, banning Mariaca from the US and claiming it was *actually* the Bolivian AG who was “soliciting and accepting bribes to facilitate narcotrafficking and helped violent criminals evade justice.”
Now, Mariaca has been disappeared, and public prosecutors who may have evidence of the regime’s crimes are being targeted across the country.
Thanks to regime’s ongoing state of exception, “unauthorized” non-family gatherings are illegal, so anyone protesting this heinous miscarriage of justice is also subject to arrest.
When Marco Rubio pledged to “transform the Western Hemisphere” last week, who knew this is what he meant?
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The Union Pacific/Norfolk Southern mega rail merger would drive up costs and make bills higher for Americans.
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would be able to charge whatever they want, raising costs on everything from produce to your utility bill.
Click the link to oppose this mega merger: RailMergerComments.org
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An 8-year-old boy, Muhammad al-Shakhreet, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers this week. He was inside his family's tent in Gaza. They shot him in the abdomen. And Jewish settlers poured boiling water on a 75-y/o Palestinian man in Sebastia. My latest: electronicintifada.net/blogs…
