Maybe the greatest politician the UK ever had.
"What fools we are."
Please listen.
Hon Tony Benn
11.03.2026 20:23
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Maybe the greatest politician the UK ever had.
"What fools we are."
Please listen.
Hon Tony Benn
Symbolic sanctions on Rwanda won't stop the mineral plunder fueling DRC's war. As long as the US props up Rwanda as a business hub for refinery & reexport of smuggled Congolese minerals, RDF/M23 have no incentive to return mines & lands: www.oaklandinstitute.org/press-releas...
White phosphorus munitions.
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of using white phosphorus over residential parts of the Lebanese town of Yohmor last week. Israel's military said its policy was not to use shells containing white phosphorus "in densely populated areas, with certain exceptions"
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
I'I've been getting a lot of calls about the industrial food system's vulnerability to fertilizer import shocks. Here's an interactive widget: slide through the months to see who imports what, when, and through which chokepoint.
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Stop the war. Stop the dependency.
Food prices were already rising before this latest war began... with oil and fertilizer prices rising, food prices are likely to rise further and drive up world food insecurity.
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Jamaica is ending its agreement with Cuban doctors who helped staff hospitals and rural clinics. Cuba’s global medical missions provide revenue for Havana while filling physician shortages abroad. Without them, Jamaica’s rural health system could face major gaps.
apnews.com/article/jama...
Really enjoyed attending this launch for @smidbob.bsky.social's new book on the Larzac struggle as a site of transnational resistance - bringing together diverse strains of peasant, pacifist, indigenous, religious, revolutionary, and ecological forms of activism
Croatia is one of 10 NATO countries who have brought back conscription, joining Greece, Turkey, the Scandinavian countries and the Baltics.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Belgium MP Paul Magnette: “Not one of our soldiers, not one of our weapons, should go for Trump’s war in Iran. We must say no to Trump, like Spain did”
“We’re getting a much clearer picture of the unfettered access one of most powerful #pesticide corporations in the world has to top officials,” said Nathan Donley, environmental health director at the center, which sued the administration over #glyphosate.
In June, Bill Anderson, Bayer’s chief executive, met with Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the #EPA, to request an update on glyphosate as well as the Supreme Court case, according to internal emails we obtained through a public records request.
In response to questions, the UN SR on #RightToFood @michaelfakhri.bsky.social highlighted importance of addressing corporate accountability: the same actors that caused climate change are the same actors that have all the ownership of the land.
We need to hold corporations accountable.
The last week has seen the worst US wartime atrocity for 70 years and the worst chemical attack on a civilian population in history.
And Congress is barely uttering a word of meaningful dissent, much less dragging the warmonger from office.
This period will stain US history forever.
Statement by President Connolly on International Women’s Day 2026
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President Catherine Connolly has described the situation in the Middle East as a "deliberate assault on international law".
“It is naive to think that practising blind and servile obedience is a form of leadership.
We will not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.”
The President of the United States is a warmonger and a tyrant.
Ireland, the EU and the UN need to hold him to account.
There may be economic impacts, but it is vital that we stand behind international law at every turn.
(My own apartment also seems to be within the evacuation area.)
Today's evacuation orders in Beirut displace 100,000s - including elderly people, children, people with disabilities, etc. etc., all having to leave in a hurry with no idea what will happen to their homes. This kind of mass forced displacement is illegal under international law.
A little reported fact is that the Iranian frigate destroyed 2000 miles from the combat zone was carrying ZERO AMMUNITION (a condition of the exercise it was invited to participate in).
The ship was, by any definition, defenceless.
Much like the 80+ sailors left to drown.
Infamy.
Minister wanted ban on ‘no foal, no fee’ legal work that could limit the right of ordinary citizens to take environmental cases to court.
Our latest FOI records now online at:
www.thestory.ie/2026/03/04/m...
Big Tech + Big Ag = tech feudalism. Algorithms dictating what crops farmers should grow and for whom, locking them into chemicals, seed types & machinery which big business wants to sell, fuelling over-consumption by the rich while the poor go hungry
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Feminists across the world are paying tribute to Yanar Mohammed, great defender of women’s rights, who was assassinated today in Iraq.
Yanar Mohammed, a leading Iraqi feminist and co‑founder of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was assassinated outside her home in Baghdad on March 2, 2026.
For more than two decades, Yanar was one of Iraq’s most courageous advocates for women’s rights.
📈Oil prices are spiking after escalation around Iran.
🥣 Food prices likely next.
1/2 the world’s calories depend on synthetic fertilizer made from fossil #gas – 1/4 of that trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
This is a food access issue.
👉 #FuelToFork
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Mr Bored of Peace will never get a Nobel Peace Prize now! Taoiseach Micheál Martin cannot now in good conscience hand him that bowl of shamrock - his war planes killed over 100 Iranian schoolgirls yesterday #noshamrockfortrump
Ráiteas ón Uachtarán Connolly tar éis ionsaithe a bheith déanta ar an Iaráin
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Statement by President Connolly following strikes on Iran
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