I hope Americans understand how throughly they are being lied to. Long-ago Israel passed a law barring any cases from Gaza being tried in Israel court so Blinken, Miller, and Biden saying that Israel has jurisdiction and the implication that #Israel has the ability to try #Gaza cases is a bold face lie. #uspol
Let’s review, Joe Biden is fiercely defending a country that is now systematically removing all American media’s ability to report on #Gaza, and you expect him to respect the freedom of the press at home? He’s marching to the tune of fascism, friends. #uspol#journalism
University of #Michigan president calls in #police to end campus encampment 2 days before he testifies to #Congress on pro-#Palestine encampments at universities. These college administrators are terrible at hiding their fear of #GOP fascists:
“Officers from the university’s Division of Public Safety and Security dressed in riot gear were on scene to sweep the 50-person encampment as early as 5:45 a.m., May 21”
“It shouldn’t take this amount of money to get justice.”
From yesterday: Daniel Villegas was acquitted of a crime for which he served nearly 20 years in prison. James Montoya, one of the prosecutors who tried to keep him locked up, is running for district attorney. https://www.texasobserver.org/el-paso-da-race-wrongful-conviction/
...with Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish Biden official to publicly resign over Gaza
She says her resignation was motivated by her Jewish values. “I am really living in my Jewishness".
She criticized Biden & others for pitting Jewish safety against Palestinian rights, saying they are "using my community as justification for this slaughter, making us the face of the American war machine.”
"The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues"
"The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison.
Graduating Yale students stage walkout in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
As President Peter Salovey began the traditional ceremony, around 150 students stood up, turned their backs, & exited through Phelps Gate, drawing cheers from peers.
Remember Patrick Braxton? The absolute legend who got sick of his small Alabama town being run by a bunch of unelected racist anti-vaxxers? The guy who ran for mayor of Newbern, AL, and won, despite said unelected officials trying to give him the wrong information about running for office? The guy who was then subsequently locked out of the mayor's office by said racist anti-vaxxers and sued?
Well, he has had a minor setback: a federal judge refused to grant his and other plaintiffs' request for an immediate injunction forcing Haywood "Woody" Stokes III (the unelected, white mayor who inherited the mayoralty from a 60-year-long chain of unelected white men) to stop locking Braxton out of town hall and step down. She noted that the plaintiffs, by waiting over a year to file the suit, failed to show the urgency of the request. However, she also noted that his argument in the trial, set to begin this September, is likely to win out.
Graduating Yale students stage walkout in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
As President Peter Salovey began the traditional ceremony, around 150 students stood up, turned their backs, & exited through Phelps Gate, drawing cheers from peers.
"The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues"
"The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison.
A good demolition by Juan Cole of the reaction by the Biden administration to the application for arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court yesterday.
"Everything Washington officials said in response to the request for warrants was wrong. I mean, incorrect. It isn’t a matter of opinion or a difference in values. They are spewing falsehoods. It is as though they have all contracted Trumpitis and now keep compulsively telling serial lies"
In the 1980s, Reagan & Thatcher followed a policy of 'constructive engagement' with apartheid South Africa & vetoed UN economic sanctions on the regime.
Both saw "South Africa as a bastion against Marxist forces in Southern Africa. Thatcher declared the ANC a terrorist organisation."
Been reading r/worldnews for a decade now and lately it has been really revealing what a propaganda machine it has become. Just got perma banned for pointing out that "legal war targets aren't necessarily ethically correct"
With Artifact gone, reddit basically gone - what other sources do you use for #geopolitics?
We’re witnessing a concerted effort by #Trump & #MAGA#politicians to cast doubt on the legitimate & strong #FultonCounty#ElectionInterference case by attacking the prosecutor. It’s an effort that takes advantage of every avenue of #government#power to which Trump’s allies have access. Their goal? #Delay#accountability for Trump’s alleged attempt to illegally overturn a presidential election.