Dear Andy Burnham Either ditch the law making protesting against genocide terrorism And pass a law punishing perpetrators of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and those who aid & abet them, for terrorism Or admit that your 'care' about Gaza is just a populist political stunt meme via Phil Brookes
A digital prison with digital IDs, everything tracked and surveilled by Palantir, forced to work in SEZs and freeports for low wages, no human rights or civil liberties. All tested on Palestinians. People better wake the fuck up fast and strongly push back.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last yr.All sorts of paper-thin progressive justifications here for what would be a grotesque example of state power - deployed against immigrants and non-white Brits who people decide look a bit foreign www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Is it not news-worthy… That an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler was allegedly held in detention for 10 hours Tortured by Israeli soldiers using burning cigarettes and nails All to force a confession from his father? Look at him Because our press will rather you didn’t.
The next Scot Gov should incentivise the restoration of PAWS on private & public land. Scotland needs commercial forestry, but not at the expense of precious native woodlands on which so many conifer plantations are located. Our priorities for the next Scot Gov ➡️ buff.ly/e2KzGBr #MairTreesPlease
Not just that people focus on this, but they focus on it to the exclusion of almost everything else! Like the amount of f'ing language analysis from the left & academia *dwarfs* the amount of, say, *power* analysis. Y'know ... power? Anyone? Power?
We’re proud to be attending a mass lobby in Parliament today. ✊📣 Hundreds of people will be meeting with their MPs to discuss the harmful and cruel Earned Settlement proposals. We’re attending to share our grave concerns. 1/🧵
Together we must #BreakTheSiege of Gaza. The genocide of the Palestinian people is not only still raging but exponentially ramping up, while Zionist & imperialist leaders are trying to make us look away. There is no ceasefire, there never was... 1/2
Imagine how different everything would be had the U.S. enthusiastically embraced renewable energy back when Carter put solar panels on the White House or when James Hansen first testified about climate change before Congress in 1988. For one thing, over 150 Iranian schoolgirls would still be alive.
Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels. The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources. It’s time for accountability.
"In the past 24 hours at least 7 Palestinians have been killed.. a journalist has been killed, three children were also killed, this makes the death toll since the beginning of the ceasefire 648..." Hind Khoudary reporting from Gaza a few minutes ago
I wrote a book called 'Butler to the World' about the UK's post-empire business model of selling kleptocratic services to baddies. I worry that butlerism has entered the soul of our political class, and they're geopolitically incapable of doing anything but donning white gloves and bringing drinks.
Repost from The National Scotland is already losing out on owning our Green Transition. But this is what we can still do to prepare to take it all back.
Scotland is already losing out on green energy. Here’s what we can do
Scotland is already losing out on owning our Green Transition. But this is what we can still do to prepare to take it all back.
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"the ceasefire in Gaza.. was a diplomatic sham, a tool to make sure that Gaza slipped out of the headlines and for the genocide to continue under the guise of diplomacy" @yarahawari.bsky.social on the reality of the so called ceasefire 🎯
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Daybreak brings only more night in Tehran. A city blackened by burning oil. Hospitals, schools, aid centres, freshwater desalination plants and now fuel storage depots. These are all the sites you would target if your wish was to perpetuate a genocide. (📸 Al Jazeera)
“We share our stories, as women often do. There were no protests when we were raped. None of us ever saw justice. Statistics sometimes say non-white demographics are more likely to be convicted of sexual assault, but we know how unlikely white men are to be convicted.
Men who shout at hotels are not protecting women
Far-right groups protest about asylum accommodation in Aberdeen, claiming to be protecting women, but they regularly target women for abuse
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One of those facts about UBI that should be obvious to anyone who gives it any real thought is how significantly it will reduce domestic abuse. In Kenya, unconditional basic income cut domestic abuse in half. In Canada's Dauphin pilot, it dropped by about a third. Everyone needs the power to say NO.
Economic abuse by a partner contributes to one death every 19 days, report finds
Financial abuse is a factor in more than half of deaths related to domestic abuse but is often misunderstood
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More than four years ago then-first minister Nicola Sturgeon said it would be “fundamentally wrong” to keep extracting fossil fuels indefinitely. Today, ministers’ language on new projects like Rosebank is noticeably more cautious. We looked at what changed www.theferret.scot/has-the-scot...
Has the Scottish Government changed its stance on oil and gas?
With a decision on the Rosebank oil field imminent – and lobbying around the windfall tax at fever pitch – some are questioning whether the Scottish Government's current stance on oil and gas is in st...
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He wants the USA to be attacked. Then he can declare martial law. ICE agents with military equipment on every corner. 1930s Germany
Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...
We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing
Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.
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Is Francesca Albanese being punished for being principled? Absolutely.
Is Francesca Albanese being punished for being principled?
Falsely accused of antisemitism over a doctored clip, the UN rapporteur remains under attack for demanding sanctions and accountability for Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Worse, they are carpet bombing a city of nearly 10 million people.
The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot
Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot
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Francesca Albanese, Gaza, and the Military-Propaganda Nexus Behind the US-Israeli War on Iran | Common Dreams
The gaggle of for-profit genocidaires is looking to expand its mission from Gaza to other conflicts, seeking to further dismantle international law and the humanitarian community. We can follow Albane...
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