John Alexander Medalen

Chancellor Merz in Israel: Germany Should Stand for Justice Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to visit Israel on 6th of December and meet, among others, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for wa...

As Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz visits Israel and meets Benjamin Netanyahu, here's some context via @hrw.org ⤵️

- Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for war crimes, crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip

- Merz is putting Germany’s credibility on justice at risk

www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

Gaza’s Children Need Sweden’s Help On October 22, my colleagues and I took part in a demonstration in Stockholm to read the names of the children killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Initiated by the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Soci...

"Ayla Ahmed Ali Obeid, one year old.

Ahmed Mamdouh Salem Haji, two years old.

I had to pause between the names and catch my breath to continue.

Maria Hamza Salama Abu-Aziz, three years old."

Gaza’s Children Need Sweden’s Help.

New comment by Christina Abdulahad / @hrw.org⤵️

Georgia: Repressive Laws Effectively Criminalize Peaceful Protests (Berlin, December 4, 2025) – Georgian authorities have adopted a series of laws that unjustifiably interfere with the right to peaceful assembly and are being used to suppress dissent, Human Rights Wa...

“Georgia’s international partners should press the authorities to urgently reverse this repressive course and restore space for peaceful assembly.”

- Giorgi Gogia, deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch ⤵️

US: Processing Freeze Scapegoats Immigrants, Asylum Seekers The Trump administration’s latest actions on immigration policy appear to be based on punitive hostility toward people of particular nationalities and to carry an unmistakable current of racism as wel...

“Nothing meaningfully links the 19 countries except the administration’s opportunistic stigmatization and exclusion of people based on where they were born.

This sweeping change is not about safety. It is about scapegoating entire nationalities to justify discriminatory policies.”

Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize Inaugural prize expected to be handed to Donald Trump but ‘process’ for choosing future winners to be proposed by controversial tycoon’s committee It was the timing that set off the first alarm bells. With Donald Trump brooding over missing out on the Nobel peace prize, and shortly before Gianni Infantino, the president of world football’s governing body, Fifa, was due to meet the US president in Miami, an announcement was made. In a press release and a post on his personal Instagram account last month, Infantino said Fifa would launch its very own peace prize, to be awarded each year to “individuals who help unite people in peace through unwavering commitment and special actions”. Continue reading...

Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize

All you need to watch regarding the FIFA 2026 football World Cup.

Questions and Answers: The ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s Policy on Addressing Environmental Damage Through the Rome Statute Image 1.

📣Important new policy document from the Office of the #ICC Prosecutor.

The deliberate and widespread destruction of the natural environment in both #Ukraine and #Palestine should be subjected to ICC investigations

#JusticeMatters
www.icc-cpi.int/about/otp/qu...

Homeowners Sue Oil Companies as Climate Damage Drives up Insurance Rates - Inside Climate News The class-action lawsuit is the first of its kind to target Big Oil over rising home insurance costs.

⚖️ #ClimateJustice

US homeowners sue #FossilFuel Companies as climate damage drives up insurance rates.

The class-action lawsuit is the first of its kind to target Big Oil over rising home insurance costs.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...

America Welcomes a New G20 - U.S. Embassy & Consulates in South Africa

Beyond shameful
Trump’s #G20 agenda =
🔥 Turbocharge #fossilfuels
💰 Supercharge US tech billionaires
🚫 Remove rules & accountability
‼️ And, exclusion of South Africa.

EU & others should tell Washington:
“We’ll skip Trump’s 2026 G20 and put efforts where they matter.”
za.usembassy.gov/america-welc...

See also, how the Obama administration refused to prosecute anyone in the Bush administration for torture.

The thing is, most of us knew the essence of the stories about Farage many years ago - but the media still had a complete love-in with him, and the BBC built him up relentlessly.

FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd “Peace Prize” With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up peace prize to the increasingly violent US president.

In all of history, I can't think of anything that made so many people around the world laugh out loud while an emperor wannabe took it seriously.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Europe’s fateful moment The EU faces a historic choice: whether or not to unlock frozen Russian assets and save the Ukrainian war effort

See also: "Donald Trump, in his way, is as much of a wolf as Putin. Europe has run out of excuses to pretend otherwise."
www.ft.com/content/8edd...

Tower of London closes after apple crumble thrown on crown jewels display Four people arrested after apparent protest against UK inequality claimed by civil-resistance group Take Back Power

"They have been taken into custody."

Not, "custardy"?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“And then they made him a fake trophy because he kept whining and moaning and wouldn’t STFU.”

photo of my beautiful fluffy white cat Francie gazing out of a window. The room is dark and she is illuminated gently from the front in cool afternoon light, creating a lot of contrast and making her fur appear luminous.

Oh hey have I mentioned that I live with the most beautiful girl in the world?

🎯

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.

Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

📷 Karimeh Abbud, pionnière et sans doute première femme photographe professionnelle en Palestine et au Proche-Orient, reprend vie dans le superbe ouvrage d’Ahmed Mrowat.

De 1893 à 1940, ses images offrent un témoignage précieux sur la Palestine d’avant 1948.

➡️ bit.ly/4iICepp

YouTube video by Just the News The Liz Truss Show premieres Friday on the Just the News podcast network

After much consideration, I've decided that the problem with Liz Truss's new YouTube venture is Liz Truss.

She's got the charisma of a bin liner and speaks like a droning spin dryer on a quiet cycle.

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Why is Timothée Chalamet suddenly everywhere? Seven things you need to know – from Oscars to puppies The 29-year-old star is getting his best reviews ever for the upcoming film Marty Supreme – but he’s also making waves with his idiosyncratic approach to celebrity and maintaining his status as the internet’s boyfriend

Why is Timothée Chalamet suddenly everywhere? Seven things you need to know – from Oscars to puppies

The railway station in Fastiv, before and after the Russian strike.

Europe's left is energized after Mamdani's successful campaign for New York mayor The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.

The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.

EU says US ‘still our biggest ally’ despite release of policy paper supporting Europe’s far-right – Europe live The Trump administration released a policy paper on Friday that made explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties

EU says US ‘still our biggest ally’ despite release of policy paper supporting Europe’s far-right – Europe live

Streets named after birds in Britain on rise as species’ populations plummet RSPB says growing trend for honouring species that are in decline is not matched by action on conservation

Never mind if Starmer's war on British nature obliterates in danger bird species - at least we have the street names to remember them by

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The UK government is intensely relaxed about the ongoing imprisonment of Imran Khan by Pakistan, its military ally.

By contrast, the UK issued numerous media releases demanding the release of Alexei Navalny in Russia.

#DCUKparliament

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski Why There’s No Such A Thing As A ‘Perfect Green’ | Femi Oluwole | Zack Polanski

And this week's episode of @boldpolitics.bsky.social is with @femi-oluwole.bsky.social

Loved this conversation and welcome to the party, Femi!

youtu.be/UTmCzWMalWA?...

🇧🇬👀 KAIROS tanker from Russian shadow fleet near Bulgarian Ahtopol.

Im Rentenpaket fällt mir wieder auf, wie sehr Berichterstattung darauf fokussiert, was das für Koalitionsstabilität und Kontrolle der Parteichefs über ihre Partei bedeutet, und wie wenig darauf, was es für das Leben der Menschen bedeutet.