"Our Pro-War Media Get It Humiliatingly Wrong, Time and Again – While Others Pay the Price" Commentators built consent for calamitous wars from Iraq to Iran. And yet their careers continue to flourish. Owen Jones is scathing for Zeteo UK, and brings lots of recepts. Read/share/subscribe:

Our Pro-War Media Get It Humiliatingly Wrong, Time and Again – While Others Pay the Price

Commentators built consent for calamitous wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Gaza and Iran, and poured scorn on those who opposed the disastrous slaughters. And yet their careers continue to flourish.

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Like Loebs? Every fall semester, I like to remind people that while Perseus has many free Loebs sectioned up into book and chapter, if you want to download and read the public domain Loebs (277 of them) as PDFs or txt files, Duke U's very own Ryan Baumann created _Loebolus 📗📕_. ryanfb.xyz/loebolus/

“Alleged Jewish heritage sites in the occupied West Bank”… so, Palestinian sites, in short! 🙈 What is especially telling here is WHICH sites the fairytale producers (“Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority”) consider to be “Israeli”: Roman, Byzantine and Crusader. Aka “Western” history 🤢

Middle East Monitor@middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · yesterday

Israel allocates $37M to develop alleged Jewish heritage sites in occupied West Bank amid intensified settlement expansion

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"There is no humane colonialism. There is no democratic colonialism There is no non-exploitative colonialism." - Samora Machel, Mozambican military commander, politician, revolutionary... President (1933-1986)

It’s going to be so funny to watch everyone who relies on AI be embarrassed like this all the time 😂

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Crimes against humanity demand truth and accountability, without which there can be no justice The Gaza Tribunal is OUT NOW

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If it had been a Muslim who blew up a UNESCO site you’d all be crying about the fall of western civilisation and loading explosives into American fighter jets 🤢

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 5d ago

💥 700 tons of explosives. Israel detonated 700 tons of explosives beneath Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night. A 900-year-old Crusader castle that UNESCO just listed as endangered heritage. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

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Let’s have a chat about the intellectual vacuousness of anti-migrant positions, and the way that white supremacy is unable to articulate itself without ideas drawn from decolonial theory and transformed into dishonest nonsense claims to white “indigeneity” (this is also Zionism’s / Hindutva’s MO).

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Sexual violence is not incidental to the colonial project. It is its grammar. The many official reports on sexually tortured Palestinians are not aberrations. They document a system – recorded and cross-corroborated by the very organizations Israel’s defenders routinely cite when it suits them.

I have a major piece up today at The Key. It's about Israel, parsing the rape baked into Zionism's core grammar. I speak of trained dogs; Screams Without Words; Sde Teiman; the Tomer-Yerushalmi affair; and the Palestinian Feminist Collective on sexual violence's centrality to reproductive genocide.

Jummah Mubarak and free Palestine 🇵🇸🌙

Parti des Indigènes de la République@partiindigenes.bsky.social · 5d ago

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Repeat after me: “social” is not a synonym for “not real”. This is dangerous (and false) framing and channel 4 should have done better.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

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Nb: what’s actually happening here is the Western Civ racist-islamophobes are watching 🇵🇸 unite queer organisers with Muslim + Islamist organisers for justice for everyone - and so they are reinventing themselves as the “defenders” of queer folks, who they have always despised and dehumanised.

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · last wk.

Since The Spectator have today posted an article, in the wake of the Berlin attack, about the threat “Islamists” hold against a nation of “freedom-lovers”, I thought I’d look back over the year to see just how freedom-loving The Spectator actually are towards queer people and Pride…

These stories are the best evidence there is of global Islamophobia. Imagine if someone got up and said “allahu akbar” on a plane. It wouldn’t become a cute “trend”, that’s for sure.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Why Criminalising the Phrase 'Globalise the Intifada' Is Dangerous Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of international law, explains the actual meaning of the controversial chant and the real reason why there are attempts to outlaw it in the UK, the US and Australia. Read: zeteo.uk/p/why-crimin...

Why Criminalising the Phrase 'Globalise the Intifada' Is Dangerous

Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of international law, explains the actual meaning of the controversial chant and the real reason why there are attempts to outlaw it in the UK, the US and Australia

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Let’s chat about the case of an anti-genocide activist in France and the importance of standing up not only for Palestine but for all of our freedoms against Israel’s attempts to control words and language. Solidarity with Elias and all those on the side of justice and freedom. 🇵🇸

On the New Platform, ‘Palestine is Everywhere’ Editors of the anthology Palestine is Everywhere -- Skye Arundhati Thomas, Edwin Nasr, and Gloria Habsburg -- recently launched a new "Palestine is Everywhere" platform to… https://arablit.org/2026/07/28/on-the-new-platform-palestine-is-everywhere/

On the New Platform, ‘Palestine is Everywhere’

Editors of the anthology Palestine is Everywhere -- Skye Arundhati Thomas, Edwin Nasr, and Gloria Habsburg -- recently launched a new "Palestine is Everywhere" platform to host a series of monthly commissions, "creating an ongoing space to support and amplify the work of artists, writers, and practitioners from Palestine and the wider region." You can explore the platform here:

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Israeli forces raided the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) Training Center in the Qalandia refuge camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem, on Monday and detained staff inside the site, the Jerusalem Governorate said. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260727-isr...

Nothing makes you understand the plight of Doctor Faustus more than having a really very old dog. Whatever you want, Mephistopheles - whatever you want. 🐺

It's coming late as I've been on leave, but sending huge congratulations to all OU MA Classical Studies students who received their results last week - whether for part 1 and moving on to the dissertation, or part 2 and finishing your MA. You all worked so hard and it's been an honour to witness!

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The funniest thing about responses to Nolan’s Od is that the right think it’s “woke” because of a Black actress, meanwhile Nolan has added a whole “migrants coming from over the sea to destroy civilisation” subplot they would love if they stopped whining long enough to notice. 🙈

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