the road to hell is paved with good intentions
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Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
It is critical that everyone understand this: the issue of highly enriched uranium is a goalpost that the neocon & Israeli lobby echo chamber will keep moving until we physically go into Iran to “take it”. The actual goal is to force a ground invasion and/or never-ending air strikes.
Even when we bomb & obliterate all of Iran’s HEU, as we did w/Op midnight hammer, the lobby insists we have to go get the “nuclear dust,” creating the circumstances for more strikes and/or that prized boots-on-the-ground op.
The U.S. intelligence community assessed that Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon. The entire premise of chasing “nuclear dust” was—and remains—bait to draw us into Israel’s war.
Fuck, we have a new problem. The Neocons have a new pitch to Trump: 'The only way to fix the damage the Iran war has done to your legacy is to force them to give up their highly enriched uranium.'
They're spamming him with this stupid new idea, undermining Vance's efforts to reach a diplomatic solution
What they leave out of their pitch is that Iran will NEVER give up their uranium to Trump, as it's their only bargaining chip, and giving it up is an irreversible step, while Trump's conscessions (lifting the blockade and sanctions) are easily reversible
And needless to say, the Iranians do not trust Trump, or the U.S.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Anyone who has camped in serious rain knows how miserable it can be, especially when your attempts to keep the rain out fail. All you want is to feel dry again. When it’s cold it’s exponentially worse. When you’re with your kids, you feel awful for them as they shiver. Now imagine the tent is your forced home, the water keeps rising, and there’s nowhere to go to get dry or warm.
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
NOREEN KHAN NIAZI, a sister, a mother, and a grandmother, is in the ICU right now, with police stationed outside her room.
Her family is just a few feet away, separated from her by a door that has been chained and locked.
They cannot see her.
They have no proper information about her condition.
Not even the simple reassurance of seeing their mother with their own eyes.
What exactly are the authorities so afraid of?
A daughter holding her mother’s hand?
I cannot help thinking of my own mother.
If she were lying in a hospital bed, sick and frightened, all she would want is to see the faces of those who love her.
To hold someone’s hand.
To know she isn’t alone.
That is what breaks my heart about Rani Apa.
Her children are right there, close enough to know she is inside, yet unable to reach her.
She poses no danger to anyone.
Keeping a sick mother from her children is cruel.
Please, let her daughters see their mother.
Let her know she is not alone.
#NoreenKhanHealthEmergency
#شوکت_خانم_کی_شیر_اولاد
#FreeImranKhanAndFamily
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Still no visual confirmation of Noreen Niazi in the ICU. Pakistan government is putting pressure on Imran Khan by jailing his sister.
NOREEN KHAN NIAZI, a sister, a mother, and a grandmother, is in the ICU right now, with police stationed outside her room.
Her family is just a few feet away, separated from her by a door that has been chained and locked.
They cannot see her.
They have no proper information about her condition.
Not even the simple reassurance of seeing their mother with their own eyes.
What exactly are the authorities so afraid of?
A daughter holding her mother’s hand?
I cannot help thinking of my own mother.
If she were lying in a hospital bed, sick and frightened, all she would want is to see the faces of those who love her.
To hold someone’s hand.
To know she isn’t alone.
That is what breaks my heart about Rani Apa.
Her children are right there, close enough to know she is inside, yet unable to reach her.
She poses no danger to anyone.
Keeping a sick mother from her children is cruel.
Please, let her daughters see their mother.
Let her know she is not alone.
#NoreenKhanHealthEmergency
#شوکت_خانم_کی_شیر_اولاد
#FreeImranKhanAndFamily
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
There is a special kind of mental sickness that plagues the military regime in Pakistan.
If you find yourself working, supporting, or even tolerating this criminal regime you are part of the problem.
Imran Khan's sister hospitalised in Lahore after cardiac arrest, family access denied
telegraphindia.com/world/imr…
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
No one has seen or heard from my father since August, when he explicitly said that he was being tortured and that the regime was trying to kill him like Egypt’s government did Morsi. The UN Special Rapporteur on torture has repeatedly stated that his treatment amounts to torture. Pakistan’s fascist regime, led by military dictator Asim Munir, continue to ignore the Supreme Court order from August for my father to be assessed and treated at the private Shifa International Hospital, as well as for regular access to family visits and access to his lawyers. It is clear that they are trying to kill him as he is by far the most popular political figure in the country, and they fear him. If the worst happens, no one should make any mistake who is responsible. It is Asim Munir with the approval of the illegitimate Pakistani government. Every government that continues to legitimise this regime will be complicit in this and the resulting chaos and destabilisation it causes in the region. No state that is engaging in friendly relations with this fascist Pakistani regime can truly claim to uphold the values of democracy or human rights.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Looking at Brazil makes me so sad for Pakistan man. The Pakistani left wing is just secret PPP and PMLN fans happy that Imran Khan was jailed by the army. Har lihaz se loru qaum
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Forget the Harry Potter HBO Series.
Did you know that they tried to cancel Professor Snape's stage play? Alan Rickman wrote a play about Rachel Corrie, the woman who was killed by aIsrael
She was crushed to death and Israeli forces posted photos on social media mocking her death.
Theatres in New York refused to let Rickman's play about Corrie be performed on stage in 2006 when he brought it to the US.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
People will eventually forget. He should have been tried and punished. The public needed to know how he and his gang trapped people. This would have raised public awareness and helped prevent similar crimes. This approach will achieve nothing. These rulers r incompetent & idiots.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
کنڈی صاحب کو کوئی بتائے، کچھ نام تختیوں کے محتاج نہیں ہوتے۔ عمران خان کا نام ہر پاکستانی کے دل پر لکھا ہے، ایسے نہیں مٹے کا۔
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Jason Alexander says he feared visiting Palestine as a Jew until 10 Palestinians protected him during an Israeli army raid in Ramallah
“How much of a risk would I be taking as an American Jew walking into Palestinian cities? And Mohammed said, ‘The greatest dishonor that could happen to a religious Muslim is to allow harm to come to an invited guest’”
“And he said, ‘Jason, if they had to, they’ll take a bullet for you.’ And what was so interesting about that trip is, we were having lunch in Ramallah with a bunch of actors and artists at a sort of outdoor restaurant”
“And the Israeli army was conducting a raid on a bank that they thought had terrorist ties a couple blocks away. And they must have, to announce themselves, just shot into the air. And I remember 10 of those guys at the table surrounding me. And I went, ‘Oh my God, he wasn’t kidding. They’re not going to let me get hurt’”
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Her name is Mariam. She is two years old. Last night she watched her mother burnt alive. That’s all folks.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
76 سالہ پروفیشنل خدمت گزار خاتون ڈاکٹر یاسمین راشد کو 286 سال قید اعر تمام جائیداد ضبط کرنے کی سزا سنائی گئی ہے۔
ملک کے عدالتی نظام پر فاتحہ پڑھ لو
#DrYasmeenRashid
@Dr_YasminRashid
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
The elected Chief Minister of a province being rendered a missing person brings me back to the first missing person of this country, our founding father, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
He demoted a General, for merely having a political opinion, namely Ayub Khan, and posted him to the East Pakistan Rifles, barring him from any further promotion.
On 14 June 1948, the Quaid addressed the Quetta Staff College and said, and I quote, “Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people.” He knew what they were up to and the harm they would do to his country.
It didn’t sit well with the armed forces. A month later, Quaid-e-Azam was abducted and taken to Ziarat against his will.
Ziarat has a 4,000-year-old history, yet in those 4,000 years, it received its first patient. There exists no sanatorium, no hospital, not even a dispensary, to this day. Even today, we cannot easily visit it. It is still kept primitive.
The Quaid was cut off from the world there, just as Imran Khan is today, and so is Sohail Afridi. He, too, was placed in “protective custody.” This nation never saw him again.
All of Pakistan’s problems will vanish the day we recover the first missing person, our Quaid, who was left to die, and the day the Generals accept their fate as servants of the people, bow their heads, and salute the civilian.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Israeli soldiers bound 2 Palestinian children & buried them alive at Nasser Hospital. -Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an eye-witness to the crime.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
This footage is 35 years old.
It shows how Israel was treating Palestinians decades ago.
The oppression did not begin on October 7; it has been a reality for generations.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Friend reminded me of this incredible Chachi Chatters thread. Her account seems to be locked (it may have got hacked) so I thought I’d share screenshots here for people who may not have read it before, and for all who would like to read it again. #DollyParton
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
BREAKING: Advocate Imaan Mazari has been facing health issues for three weeks in Adiala Jail without adequate medical care. She developed heavy gum bleeding but no dentist was available. Her family sent medication but all of it did not reach her. The following week, she was given Zedron for nausea, a drug primarily used for cancer patients that warns against use in women of childbearing age.
Imaan has now had a chest infection for a week and blood tests show elevated white blood cells indicating infection. Adiala Jail has still not conducted a chest X-ray to determine the cause or rule out diseases including tuberculosis.
Usman Masood Sadiq retweeted
Hi, I’m Madeline -
I’m a Jew.
I was literally in the studio with @hasanthehun the same day he made the comments everyone is upset about.
Let me be very clear: Hasan got clipped out of context.
These people are full of sh*t.
Hasan was literally advocating for the OPPOSITE of violence against us, as he always has.
He said the exact same thing about how the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-semitism causes Jewish people - like myself - to become targets. Ezra Klein said the exact same thing previously, and nobody batted an eye.
I spent a full hour with him that same day. Anybody wanna check how his behavior was with me? A whole Jewish lady? I’m sitting right there next to him. Care to see what we talked about and how we talked about it?
I’ll give you a hint: non-violence, deradicalizing people, advocating for the humanity in every single person - Jewish and Palestinian alike.
Please, my Jewish brothers and sisters - moms and dads and bubbies and zaydes - please hear me:
They’re trying to trick us. They’re playing with our emotions and steering us away from the truth so we will abandon our principles and join the other side.
I’m begging you - don’t let them make you abandon what you believe in.
And don’t take my word for it — Please — look for yourself to see who is actually on our side and wants to protect us. Look and you’ll see who is actually speaking the truth.
Chesed v emet - kindness and truth. Please don’t abandon the values our people have carried because you’ve been convinced of something that isn’t even true.
Please.