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Writer / Director / Producer: KENNY DALGLISH, 2073, AMY, SENNA, DIEGO MARADONA, Mindhunter, The Warrior, Far North, CREATURE, FEDERER: 12 Final Days, The Sheep Thief, Force Feeding in Guantánamo + Yasiin Bey. More soon…
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started.
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Sgt. Brian McGinnis is out of jail after he was arrested for expressing his opposition to the US war on Iran in Congress. Capitol Police officers and Senator Sheehy broke his arm as they removed and arrested him.
This article is missing some context, no? @owenjones.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The media is peddling propaganda, and running the same tired lines like "Trump Frustrated With Israel" — as if he has no agency.
Politicians and government officials meanwhile are attacking @zeteo.com for reporting on all the lies.
Humbly request your support for our work, now more than ever:
"They want journalists and media outlets who fall in line."
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social exposes why the White House attacked him after he debunked Trump’s lies - and the wider effort to intimidate the media.
Read here: zeteo.com/p/trump-whit...
Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."
Another view of the "crowd control" faced by non-violent protesters in Bristol yesterday. This is the busy Broadmead Shopping Centre, on a Saturday lunchtime. Police charged horses at the crowds, batons swinging. All to facilitate a far-right march of around 30 people. © #ukpolitics #photography
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Netanyahu, charged with war crimes in Gaza & Trump must face prosecution by the international criminal court for atrocities perpetrated in Iran. They should be sanctioned by the UK & all governments that still respect the UN charter, human rights & the rule of law
I'm out of words here
I hope this gets more people to see this important and heartbreaking movie.
Bullying people won't work. People have a genocide in real time on their phones and a majority of Americans want it to end.
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Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
“You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun, with bombs... Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan?”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains how the Iran war mirrors the 2003 Iraq invasion, emphasizing how Trump doesn't care about the Iranian people on ‘All In With Chris Hayes.’
"We saw that change in Gorton and Denton – and that result unlocked a new level of confidence for potential Green voters that they can truly vote for what they want and get it."
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Gavin Newsom, "Any jackass can knock down a barn, it takes a skilled carpenter to build one"
"Forgive me, but Donald Trump is a jackass"
And here's the clip, thanks to James: bsky.app/profile/jame...
If we want a stable, secure, peaceful world, our governments should support democracy and self-determination everywhere, whether or not they agree with what the people want. Instead, for centuries, they have attacked democracy and self-rule, and we all live with the consequences.
We remain remarkably, dangerously ignorant of such histories, treating every event as if it came out of the blue. Again and again our governments wade in, with their bombs and missiles and special forces, and congratulate themselves on their strategic brilliance, only to create further crisis.
This is a classic example of Imperial Blowback. Foreign powers, seeking to shape the world to their demands, destabilise and overthrow popular governments, with results that - sometimes many decades later - come back to bite them in the nethers.
This is what fuelled the revolutionary movement that overthrew him in 1979. Many of the revolutionaries cited the 1953 coup as their primary motivation. They wanted their country back. Instead they got another brutal, undemocratic regime, presided over by the ayatollahs.
Mosaddegh was a very popular prime minister, and his nationalisation policy was widely supported. But the loss of Britain's loot could not be tolerated. The US and UK reinstated the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, whose only means of sustaining his deeply unpopular regime was extreme cruelty and repression.
I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵
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In 1953, at Churchill's instigation, and with his assistance, the CIA launched two coups against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the 2nd of which succeeded. Why? Because he rightly sought to nationalise Iran's oil supplies, which the UK was taking: seizing Iran's wealth.
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
Picture of Farage from GB News website with the caption For GB News's funders, £130m is a small price to pay fro vast influence
GB News, the channel of “reactionary rage bait”, has released its latest accounts showing a £22m loss for 2024/25 (and a £131m total loss since launch)
Yet another demonstration that there’s no shortage of funds on the right of British politics, writes @writesbright.bsky.social for the Nerve
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