Starmer on Russian war crimes: we need to hunt down those responsible

Starmer on US war crimes: meh

never forgive, never forget

14.25 من لبنان أصبح تحت تهديدات التهجير الإسرائيلية

Israel has so far ordered around 14.25% of the entirety of Lebanon to be forcibly evacuated.

That’s in less than 2 weeks

Labour minister Ahmed decries surge in anti-Muslim hate Labour has a serious Islamophobia problem — one it downplayed by replacing 'Islamophobia' with 'anti-Muslim hostility'

Labour minister Ahmed decries surge in anti-Muslim hate...

Israel extends evacuation order in Lebanon, bombs Lebanese uni The Israeli military has expanded its illegal evacuation order to a large area of Lebanon north of the Litani river, as far as Sidon

Israel extends evacuation order in Lebanon, bombs Lebanese uni...
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According to the Associated Press, the Israeli military dropped charges against five soldiers filmed during the abuse of a Palestinian detainee at a detention facility. The detainee suffered severe rectal injuries requiring medical treatment. The case sparked major controversy in Israel.

How Britain is involved in Trump’s Iran war Keir Starmer’s complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war started in January when British and American assets started moving to the Middle East

👉NEW -- How Britain is involved in Trump’s Iran war

by Dania Akkad

Keir Starmer’s complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war started in January when British and American assets started moving to the Middle East
www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...

‘I stand with Iran. Unequivocally. Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power’

Arundhati Roy ✊

m.thewire.in/article/book...

Rethink plans for jury trials, thousands of lawyers tell Starmer Ministers are being warned their plans will save less than 2% of court time. But they think they can make inroads into a huge backlog and scores of female Labour MPs want them to press on.

Rethink plans for jury trials, thousands of lawyers tell Starmer

More than 3,200 lawyers have written to the prime minister urging him to "rethink" plans to restrict jury trials for all but the most serious cases.

news.sky.com/story/rethin...

Never grows old

Modern UK Speech Prosecutions Greatly Exceed the USSR Under Brezhnev Annualized arrests under Soviet anti-speech articles vs. British internet speech prosecutions 2,341 in one year (1,816 convicted) 2600 15961 1898 500 ~141 per year (3,234 over 23 yrs) USSR Articles 70 & 190-1| 1962-1985 (annualized) UK Offence Code 19607 2022 (single year) SOURCES USSR: XCB Internal statistics provided to Centrel Connittee, publssbed so Istochnsk (1995, No. 6).| POF: 1auerden.de/pdf/1stechn1x 1995 86 ocr.par CK: Ministry of Justice, *Crininal Jostice Systen Statsstics Quarterly: Decenber 2922* - Alt-oftence Prosireon ano cony poons aato tootn ortence CooeowCowuRDOOreTnOENTAACna justice-systen-statistics-guarterly-deconber-2022 Söviet legal refs: RSFSR Crinteal Code Art. 70 (Ants-Sovtet Agitation 6 Propaganda), Art. 199-1 | (Dissessnation ot Fabrications Known to Re False Mhich Defane the Soviet State), 3,234 total | prosecutions ovor 23 years. (1962-1985). SK legal refs: Offence Code 19607 -| -Send Tester/comunicetion/article conveying threatenieg/grossty Act 1988, 3.1. 2,341 prosecutions, 1,816 convactions in 2022.

In this graph - we see a comparison between a country with a horrific repressive regime, where a wrong word could land you in jail, and the #USSR.

700,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon in 10 days. This is a historic, catastrophic level of displacement that essentially hasn't even made the news. We are numb to these atrocities.

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Sarah Sackman: "The British governments position is clear, we want to see a de-escalation of this conflict"

.. and that's why we're allowing the US to use British military bases to bomb Iran!

Sackman & the govt are treating us like fools.

Iran says US wants to ‘partition country, take oil’ as prices skyrocket Iran's military and political leaders pledge allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei as US-Israeli attacks continue.

The US is bribing Iran: split the country in two with the US getting the part with oil, or we keep bombing. This is the endgame for Climate Catastrophe Capitalism - tipping points have been crossed, it's a global smash & grab in preparation for our Mad Max future...
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While All Eyes Are on Iran, Jewish Terrorism Is Rising in the West Bank - Haaretz Editorial
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit... 🧵☠️‼️

Rest in power Fred Hampton

The obvious is that there are contradictions between Islamists, Muslims and communists, socialists
- that said there are reasons why communists and socialists should support Iran in the war against capitalist imperialism.

Prof. #JohnMearsheimer: Between 1971 and 2021, the US murdered 38 million people.

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Average real wage of UK workers barely moved since 2008.

Some bosses collect 1,110 times the average worker pay.

50 families have more wealth than bottom 50% of the population combined.

Super-rich buy political parties and lawmakers to advance their interests.

Did you vote for the above?

Paraphrase of very long text; The Iranian ship that was just sunk by the US off Sri Lanka was unarmed, and part of a training exercise. The US knew this, and torpedoed them anyway before leaving the crew to die.

New level of performative depravity unlocked

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

The UK government is cutting climate and nature programmes in the Global South – while claiming it’s meeting its climate funding commitments.

We’ve joined 86 organisations to demand these shameful cuts are reversed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They know that many people in the US will accept the killing of civilians overseas but will draw the line at high gas prices.

Israeli Nazi Ethnic Cleansing Barbarians are the epitome of evil! 👹👺☠️🤖

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

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.