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Following Trump's racist verbal attacks. Appalling.

How Israel’s Settlement Surge in the West Bank Is Displacing Palestinians

How Israel’s Settlement Surge in the West Bank Is Displacing Palestinians
#palestine #nytimes

AFP’s John Wessels photographs a thousand Christian Pastors from the United States holding a mass prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

tech/AI has always been about profit maximisation and world domination at all costs (even if it means the end of democracy) only now, thanks to the rise of fascism, they can say the quite part out loud

Elite impunity is a serious problem in the US today. The wealthy & powerful know that they can get away with doing awful things without legal consequences, and saying awful things without social consequences.

“What I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service,” said @jahimes.bsky.social of the House Intel Committee. “You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel who were killed by the United States.

JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat PALM BEACH, FL—Noticing everyone else’s phone simultaneously buzzing throughout a meeting, Vice President-elect JD Vance began to suspect there was another group chat among Trump’s senior staff that h...

JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat

Assata Shakur’s Autobiography is the Road Map to Freedom We Still Need The freedom fighter's complicated life calls us to test our tongues against the burning sting of truth.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.”

Assata Shakur’s words echo across movements today — and her autobiography remains a road map to liberation.

Atarah Israel reflects on Assata’s life, legacy, and the truths she left us.

By @pacbi.bsky.social .

Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

Since October 7, the Israeli army has generated kill lists using AI, monitored the social-media accounts of Palestinians, and stored the audio of their phone calls. @mohamhawish.bsky.social reports on how technology has reshaped the daily lives of Gazans.

Can't even hold a *vote* on suspending Israel from Eurovision. Remarkables stuff.

True. All EU Member States should reject genocide.

Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete There had been calls for Israel to be excluded over the conduct of the war in Gaza.

Mark your calendars.

4 December 2025: the day Germany and Austria killed the Eurovision Song Contest.

It was the most powerful soft power instrument Europe produced as a whole. And it will now unravel.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete Decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participation comes in spite of several broadcasters calling for its exclusion

Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Slovenia to boycott Eurovision.

65% voted in favour of changes to public voting system to be enough to address disquiet over Israeli "public" support. So there was no vote on opposition on the grounds of war in Gaza

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

¿Por qué #Israel y sus socios corrompen #Eurovision (patrocinando el concurso, haciendo “astroturfing”, activando bots y financiando el “voto popular”)?

Porque quieren aparentar que es un país “normal”, aunque practica el “apartheid”.

Porque les da pánico acabar como Sudáfrica.

🔴RTVE se retira del Festival de Eurovisión

www.rtve.es/rtve/2025120...

The New York Times sued the Pentagon on Thursday, arguing that the Defense Department infringed on the constitutional rights of its journalists by imposing a set of new restrictions on reporting about the military.

Read more: nyti.ms/44CRJZY

Militiamen in street cafe, Plaça Catalunya? Barcelona 1936. By Juan Guzmán (born Hans Gutmann in Cologne). Guzmán, who fought in the International Brigades, took some 1300 photos of the war, many of them brilliant, including the famous image of Marina Ginestà brandishing a rifle. Archivo EFE

(S+) Wie sehr der Kanzler und Macron den USA bei den Ukraine-Verhandlungen misstrauen Hören Trumps Unterhändler vor allem auf Russland? Dem SPIEGEL liegt die Mitschrift einer Krisenschalte vor, die zeigt, wie tief das Misstrauen bei den Europäern sitzt – auch bei Kanzler Merz und Präsi...

"There is a possibility that the USA will betray Ukraine on the subject of territory, without clarity about security guarantees," Macron said, according to a transcript of the phone call written in English, which is available to SPIEGEL. For Zelensky, there is a "great danger".🧵

Sudan’s peace deals have repeatedly fallen short and left core issues unresolved. Join RVI and the Sudan Norway Academic Collaboration on 6 December for a hybrid forum exploring new approaches to peacemaking shaped by Sudanese voices.

Register: bit.ly/4pPeMco

« Toute visibilité de la pratique religieuse de l’islam est vue comme une manifestation de l’islamisme » Dans un entretien accordé à Orient XXI, Olivier Roy, politiste et professeur à l’Institut universitaire européen de Florence, revient sur les bruyantes (…)

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Cada nueva batería de evidencias sobre las atrocidades cometidas por la brutal dictadura de Bachar Al Assad en Siria, expone la complicidad mediática de sus apologetas y encubridores en sectores de las izquierdas europeas y americanas. Falsos defensores de la causa palestina. No olvidemos.

Los archivos secretos de Damasco: miles de fotografías revelan la maquinaria de muerte del régimen de Bachar el Asad en Siria En las cárceles sirias hubo detenciones y asesinatos masivos hasta la caída del dictador, como desvela una investigación internacional en la que participa EL PAÍS

Los archivos secretos de Damasco: miles de fotografías revelan la maquinaria de muerte del régimen de Bachar el Asad en Siria

Hay al menos 10.212 personas distintas retratadas en las fotografías y todas ellas pasaron por las prisiones sirias después de 2011
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Damascus Dossier - ICIJ Tens of thousands of secret photos and intelligence files expose the Assad regime’s killing machine.

The #DamascusDossier investigation is now live.

The exposé includes new details of former Syrian president Bashar Assad's vast system for the detention, torture and murder of Syrian citizens — and the international forces that financed his regime.

Read our stories:

Syria’s Stolen Children Under the Assad regime, hundreds of Syrian children were hidden in orphanages to extort their parents. Families still have few answers from the new government or the international charity that kept it...

When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets.

Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵

www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

#OtD 4 Dec 1975 workers across Spain began a huge general strike to protest high inflation without pay raises. After violent repression and sackings, the strike ended with many workers negotiating raises (and the rehiring of their sacked comrades) stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1041...

⭕️ Israel To Open Rafah Crossing For Exits Only Israel announced on Wednesday that the Rafah border crossing with Egypt will open in the coming days but “exclusively for the exit of residents from the Gaza Strip to Egypt.” In a statement on X, Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) posted that “The residents’ exit through the Rafah Crossing will be facilitated through coordination with Egypt, following security approval by Israel and under the supervision of the European Union mission, similar to the mechanism that operated in January 2025.” However, Egypt rejected the announcement, with the official State Information Service quoting an official source saying that “should an agreement be reached to open the crossing, movement would take place in both directions—into and out of the Strip—in accordance with what stated in the plan put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump.”

COGAT @cogatonline 📍UPDATE: In accordance with the ceasefire agreement and a directive of the political echelon, the Rafah Crossing will open in the coming days exclusively for the exit of residents from the Gaza Strip to Egypt. The residents' exit through the Rafah Crossing will be facilitated through coordination with Egypt, following security approval by Israel and under the supervision of the European Union mission, similar to the mechanism that operated in January 2025.

⭕️ Israel To Open Rafah Crossing For Exits Only

Israel announced on Wed. that the Rafah border crossing w/ Egypt will open in coming days but “exclusively for the exit of residents from the Gaza Strip to Egypt.” In a statement on X, Israel’s Coordination of Gov. Activities in the Territories...

America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.

Discurs de benvinguda al XXIV Simposi de la Renda Bàsica

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