Israel just bombed a tent city full of #refugees who fled North #Gaza for #Rafah on the #IDF's orders.
Horrifying photos show families frantically rummaging through the carnage for the limbs of their family members. I won't reproduce them here, but they can be found on the bird site from @gazanotifications
They are murdering poor people trapped in a concentration camp, in the places they were told to flee for safety. They are killing impoverished, innocent, starving Palestinians, mostly under 30, with nowhere else to go.
This brutality is unparalleled in my lifetime. All studies show that Israel is in a class of its own, outdoing the Dresden bombings by a landslide. Saying this is not antisemitic: it is your duty, whoever you are.
I am #Jewish: spiritually, scholarly, and Litvak Ashkenazi. It's not antisemitic for me, OR ANY NON-JEW to say. In fact, its every human's duty to call for this bloodshed to cease IMMEDIATELY, and to even call for this genocidal Zionist occupation to be dismantled before there is any more blood shed. Nothing keeps my heart beating like my Arab and Muslim comrades speaking out against this barabarism every day. All while facing the harshest consequences of anyone! This ugliness would quite literally drive me to kill myself if I didn't know so many people who are so brave.
I have been doing activism in Palestine since 2012, both boots-on-the-ground defense of protestors, and teaching programming. These are not antisemites; my Palestinian friends are as close to me as any others. And I have had 6 students murdered in Gaza in 120 days. All the others are starving, fleeing from tent city to tent city, trying to survive the most hellish circumstances of drone democide any people have ever witnessed in the history of humanity. Thats a simple fact now.
If you are a goy and claim to support this in our name, WE WILL REMEMBER. The vast majority of #Jews outside of Israel who are under 40 years old are anti-Zionists today. All the fastest growing Jewish organizations of the past decade are anti-Zionist. And we will not forget those who cheered on a 21st century #Holocaust while evoking the memory of our family members killed by Nazi #Germany. Especially not the #Germans, who have been by far the worst inciters and supporters of genocide outside of #Israel.
How Russia Punched an $11 Billion Hole in the West’s Oil Sanctions
Moscow’s monthly income from oil exports is greater now than before the invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the failure of measures to curb its war chest.
Bloomberg By Alaric Nightingale, Julian Lee, and Alex Longley
Charles McGonigal, a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officer, was sentenced to four years in prison on Dec. 14 for helping well-known, Kremlin-linked Russian oligarchs evade sanctions and launder money.
'Former high-ranking #FBI official Charles McGonigal pleaded #guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiring to violate U.S. #sanctions and to #laundering money by secretly working on behalf of a Russian oligarch (Oleg #Deripaska ) he had been tasked with investigating
The cargo ship, named Atlantic Navigator II, is registered in the Marshall Islands, but has a largely Russian crew. It was forced to stop in Rostock due to propeller damage, where it encountered trouble with German customs agents due to its cargo of sanctioned goods.
Al-Jazeera's special investigation into the bombing of #Ahli hospital in #Gaza debunks every argument I've heard from the US/Israeli side. Its clear: #Israel committed the horrific war crime of reducing one of Gaza's few hospitals to rubble. Thousands will continue to die due to this attack, and each attack from here will produce greater casualties due to the extremely limited medical capacities of Gaza, which hardly has water, mostly no electricity, and cell phone access has been cut and is currently only accessible via radio techniques. The US is entirely complicit and is encouraging this criminiality by sending Marines and billions of dollars in money and weapons to Israel.
#POTUS Joe #Biden on Fri announced >500
new #sanctions on #Russia & its #war machine in the largest tranche of penalties since Moscow’s invasion of #Ukraine nearly 2 yrs ago.
Biden followed through on a promise to further punish #Putin 1 wk after opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny died in a Siberian prison. The sanctions — as well as those added Fri by the #EU — come 1 day before the 2nd anniversary of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
#Russia is obtaining U.S.-made computer chips and other dual-use goods, products with potential battlefield use, by transporting them through #centralasia Many of these goods have been the target of #sanctions passed by the U.S. and its allies.
India will receive two Russian-made warships in the next few months as the two countries work around U.S. sanctions that have complicated purchases of Russian arms, unnamed Indian officials told Bloomberg.
In 2023, the largest #Western#banks still operating in #Russia paid taxes that were four times the amount they paid before the full-scale invasion. This is due partly to international #sanctions on Russian banks.
Thread on some new UK #sanctions targeting #Russian individuals and companies: #Russia ’s sovereign #assets in UK jurisdictions will remain immobilised until Russia agrees to pay for the #damage it has caused to #Ukraine.
A U.S. court indicted seven individuals and three companies for their alleged role in the transportation of dual-use technologies to Russia, according to a press statement released by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on Nov. 7.
Arkady Volozh, tech billionaire and co-founder of Russia's popular search engine Yandex, made a formal request for the EU to lift its sanctions against him, the Financial Times reported on Aug. 26.
Lifting #sanctions on #Venezuela and #Cuba seems to be a potential #strategy for reducing undocumented #migration. I don't know a lot about the issue, so I'd love to hear from you all on the subject. Do you think it's a good idea? What are the possible drawbacks?
Russia on Friday dismissed new U.S. sanctions over the war in Ukraine, saying that the United States would never defeat Moscow, while the boss of Russia's fastest growing natural gas company quipped the sanctions were a badge of success.
Airbus has been granted a waiver by the Canadian government, allowing it to continue using Russian titanium after Ottawa became the first Western nation to ban the metal in its latest package of sanctions targeting the Kremlin, Reuters reported on April 23.
"We are forced to state that Russophobically charged British representatives do not shy away trying to discredit the constitutional system and socio-political processes in our country," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Suleyman Kerimov, sanctioned by the Treasury Department in 2014 and 2018 in response to Russia's activities in Ukraine and Syria, reportedly purchased Amadea through front companies in 2021.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the United States will transfer assets confiscated from sanctioned Russian oligarchs to Ukraine for the first time.
China secretly sends enough gear to Russia to equip an army (www.politico.eu)
Shipments of military-capable hardware expose a China-sized loophole in Western sanctions.
Former FBI agent sentenced to 4 years in prison for helping Russian oligarchs evade sanctions (kyivindependent.com)
Charles McGonigal, a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officer, was sentenced to four years in prison on Dec. 14 for helping well-known, Kremlin-linked Russian oligarchs evade sanctions and launder money.
German customs detains ship loaded with sanctioned Russian uranium, lumber (kyivindependent.com)
The cargo ship, named Atlantic Navigator II, is registered in the Marshall Islands, but has a largely Russian crew. It was forced to stop in Rostock due to propeller damage, where it encountered trouble with German customs agents due to its cargo of sanctioned goods.
Bloomberg: India set to receive Russian warships despite sanctions (kyivindependent.com)
India will receive two Russian-made warships in the next few months as the two countries work around U.S. sanctions that have complicated purchases of Russian arms, unnamed Indian officials told Bloomberg.
US indicts 7 individuals, 3 companies for allegedly transporting dual-use technology to Russia (kyivindependent.com)
A U.S. court indicted seven individuals and three companies for their alleged role in the transportation of dual-use technologies to Russia, according to a press statement released by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on Nov. 7.
Financial Times: Yandex founder asks EU to lift sanctions after denouncing war (kyivindependent.com)
Arkady Volozh, tech billionaire and co-founder of Russia's popular search engine Yandex, made a formal request for the EU to lift its sanctions against him, the Financial Times reported on Aug. 26.
Russia dismisses new U.S. sanctions: 'You will never defeat Moscow' (www.reuters.com)
Russia on Friday dismissed new U.S. sanctions over the war in Ukraine, saying that the United States would never defeat Moscow, while the boss of Russia's fastest growing natural gas company quipped the sanctions were a badge of success.
Reuters: Canada grants Airbus waiver against sanctions on Russian titanium (kyivindependent.com)
Airbus has been granted a waiver by the Canadian government, allowing it to continue using Russian titanium after Ottawa became the first Western nation to ban the metal in its latest package of sanctions targeting the Kremlin, Reuters reported on April 23.
Russia announces sanctions against 18 UK citizens (kyivindependent.com)
"We are forced to state that Russophobically charged British representatives do not shy away trying to discredit the constitutional system and socio-political processes in our country," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
US seeks to confiscate $300-million yacht of Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov (kyivindependent.com)
Suleyman Kerimov, sanctioned by the Treasury Department in 2014 and 2018 in response to Russia's activities in Ukraine and Syria, reportedly purchased Amadea through front companies in 2021.
US to give Ukraine money confiscated from Russian oligarchs for first time (www.pravda.com.ua)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the United States will transfer assets confiscated from sanctioned Russian oligarchs to Ukraine for the first time.