Interview: "The Need for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty" Climate activist Kumi Naidoo links the climate justice movement with the antiwar movement: "We have to recognize many of the struggles we face are intersecting & connected." #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateWeek #FossilFuels ..
Interview: Trump's niece, psychologist Mary Trump, reveals the family's psychological history in her new book. "Donald just cannot exist in a world where he isn't always the winner. Recognising himself as a loser is almost impossible.... I mean, it was lethal to be a loser in my family. "So he's still suffering from the narcissistic injury Vice President Harris inflicted on him at the first debate." #Trump #MaryTrump #PresidentialDebate #USPol ..
Interview: Trump's niece, psychologist Mary Trump, reveals the family's psychological history in her new book. "Donald just cannot exist in a world where he isn't always the winner. Recognising himself as a loser is almost impossible.... I mean, it was lethal to be a loser in my family. "So he's still suffering from the narcissistic injury Vice President Harris inflicted on him at the first debate." #Trump #MaryTrump #PresidentialDebate #USPol ..
Interview: Al Jazeera's Mohamed Moawad Slams Israel’s Closure of Ramallah Bureau. Netanyahu had already banned the network from inside Israel. It's "to show journalists around the globe that what’s happening isn’t allowed to be reported." Israeli forces have killed as many as 160 journalists in Gaza over the last year. In 2022, an Israeli sniper killed Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Akleh. The soldiers tore down an image of Abu Akleh in the Ramallah HQ. #Al-JazeeraRaid .
Doco: "Against All Enemies" examines how the Proud Boys, Three Percenters, & Oath Keepers are organised & led by trained military veterans." The doco traces the history of US domestic terrorism back to the KKK, highlighting how & why domestic terrorism increases in the aftermath of warfare. Interview with director #USWhiteSupremacy #Racism #USPol #Democracy #DomesticTerrorism #KKK #USHistory .. ....2
Analysis: "From the Americas to Gaza: Spreading disease has long been used by colonisers to commit genocide... by spreading diseases directly or by creating the perfect environment for an epidemic." Eg, in 1763, when the British in North America gave smallpox-contaminated blankets to indigenous tribes, it triggered an epidemic in the Ohio River Valley region." https://www.newarab.com/opinion/disease-has-long-been-used-colonisers-commit-genocide #SettlerColonialism #USPol #GazaGenocide #USEnablement ..
Analysis: The Israeli government is teaming up with fascist European parties that are demonising Muslims in the same way as they demonised Jews. This next generation of far-right political leaders believes that "western civilisation" is threatened by Islam & that the so-called "native populations" are threatened by migrants. "It subscribes to theories of "the clash of civilisations" & "the great replacement". #Fascism #Israel #EuroPol #US #UKPol .
Analysis: US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan indicated that the Israeli assassination of a top Hezbollah leader brought justice to the group – despite at least 37 Lebanese being killed in the same attack. “The US has a long history of its own war crimes & has been covering for Israeli crimes – giving Israel cover at the UN, etc. & supplying Israel with weapons to target civilians." ~Prof Mohamad Elmasry #USPol #IsraeliWarCrimes #USEnablement .. image
Boycott: "Chevron runs natural gas extraction & pipelines off the shore of Palestine/Israel, making it a major partner in Israeli energy apartheid, the military blockade on Gaza, & the illegal exploitation of Palestinian land & resources." Caltex & Puma service stations are owned by US's Chevron, which is a global BDS target. "Don’t fill up at Caltex or Puma service stations." https://bdsaustralia.net.au/campaigns/caltex/ #BDS #Chevron #Caltex #USPol #UKPol #AusPol #EuroPol #CdnPoli . image
Report: Rep. Rashida Tlaib has criticised her colleagues’ silence on the genocide in Gaza after the publication of 600-page document with the names of Palestinians identified as killed. In addition, Tlaib called out a racist cartoon in the National Review this week, which depicted her as sitting next to an exploding pager. video of Tlaib speaking in congress: #RashidaTlaib #USPol #GazaGenocide #Racism #Islamophobia ..