Jan Vleugels

@vleugels.bsky.social

Documentary Researcher @VRTnws/@CanvasTV, Belgian public TV | War&Peace, Urbanism, Birds and History | also: Kempenzoon living in #1030 Brussels

Fantastic graphic from the WSJ. Trump just increased the price of a iPhone by nearly 60 percent. Obviously completely unsustainable so won’t be sustained. An American Liz Truss moment

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Op de eerste avond van het bestand in Gaza trokken gewapende kolonisten brandstichtend door Palestijnse dorpen op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever. Het Israëlische leger deed daar deze week invallen en arrestaties, en sloot toegangswegen af. https://buff.ly/4atZAuE

Op de Westelijke Jordaanoever is er geen staakt-het-vuren: kolonisten trokken brandstichtend door Palestijns dorp

Westelijke Jordaanoever: Op de eerste avond van het bestand in Gaza trokken gewapende kolonisten brandstichtend door Palestijnse dorpen op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever. Het Israëlische leger…

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Fireworks burst beyond my window, their festive clamor scraping old wounds. In Ukraine, carols are drowned by explosions. This photo from Kryvyi Rih shows a Christmas tree under ruins. The world wraps itself in tinsel and cheer. I sit in its shadow, waiting for a miracle.

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Here the prisoners wrote their memoirs. Although they were in prison, no one could concentrate on doing anything inside. The prisoners had beautiful hobbies, such as drawing. Look how beautiful and accurate their drawings were! 🥺

For over 14 years (and some of these things long before), #Syrians were barrel bombed, tortured, displaced, drowning at sea, starving to death. They have lived through horrors that none of us could put into words properly. There is absolutely fear over what next. But this is a moment of release.

DAMASCUS: Assad's forces, members of the 127th Brigade, have withdrawn from the town of Rankous in Qalamoun, which is very close to Saidnaya Prison. The notorious prison is nicknamed the "Human Slaughterhouse" These are extraordinary moments.