Ben Phillips

Can you beat the Lindsey Graham challenge and find a better way to spend that?

The good news is that we have learned that where there is political will there is at least a discretionary spare billion dollars a day to spend on whatever is deemed important.

If not on this war, what would you spend a billion dollars a day on?

Can you beat the Lindsey Graham challenge and find a better way to spend that?

The good news is that we have learned that where there is political will there is at least a discretionary spare billion dollars a day to spend on whatever is deemed important.

If not on this war, what would you spend a billion dollars a day on?

Pedro Sánchez: No to war It is naive to think that escalating conflict in Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister

Pedro Sánchez firma invitada hoy en The Economist...
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Idea for a scale called a Pedrometer: How Pedro Sanchez is your country’s leader in response to Trump on a scale of Bibi to Pedro?

Idea for a scale called a Pedrometer: How Pedro Sanchez is your country’s leader in response to Trump on a scale of Bibi to Pedro?

“Despair has to be earned. I personally have not done all I can to change things. I haven't yet earned the right to despair.”

“Despair has to be earned. I personally have not done all I can to change things. I haven't yet earned the right to despair.”

Pedro Sánchez: “You will have heard it said that Spain is alone. We are not alone. We are first.”

Pedro Sánchez: “You will have heard it said that Spain is alone. We are not alone. We are first.”

Supporting this war means, in Lebanon, backing attacks on apartment buildings, and on Ghanaian UN peacekeepers , and, in Iran, backing attacks on 4 schools and 13 hospitals. So far.

The reality of this war is in front of our eyes. If we don’t want more, we need to stop the war.

Promenade Des Oliviers

Promenade Des Oliviers, 1905
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Supporting this war means, in Lebanon, backing attacks on apartment buildings, and on Ghanaian UN peacekeepers , and, in Iran, backing attacks on 4 schools and 13 hospitals. So far.

The reality of this war is in front of our eyes. If we don’t want more, we need to stop the war.

Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns

Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns https://theonion.com/experts-point-to-long-glorious-history-of-successful-u-1819575498/

The diaspora and Western liberals need to never again fall for that siren song. The war lobby has learned to weaponise liberal identity politics to get buy in for their invasions and everyone else needs to immunise themselves against that.

The pro-war diaspora voices who imagined some kind of parallel universe nice invasion from a Marvel movie - and those who platformed them - also have a share of the blame for calling for a war that was never gonna be like that fantasy.

A New York Times investigation shows US bombed the school kids. US officials now *admitting* it was them. But a literal comedian endlessly plattormed claims it was an Iranian trick to blow up bodies in storage. This has to be the end of “liSteN tO [pro-war diaspora] vOIces”

The diaspora and Western liberals need to never again fall for that siren song. The war lobby has learned to weaponise liberal identity politics to get buy in for their invasions and everyone else needs to immunise themselves against that.

The pro-war diaspora voices who imagined some kind of parallel universe nice invasion from a Marvel movie - and those who platformed them - also have a share of the blame for calling for a war that was never gonna be like that fantasy.

A New York Times investigation shows US bombed the school kids. US officials now *admitting* it was them. But a literal comedian endlessly plattormed claims it was an Iranian trick to blow up bodies in storage. This has to be the end of “liSteN tO [pro-war diaspora] vOIces”

“Unfortunately, there’s no money for that”

“Unfortunately, there’s no money for that”

Three paintings depicting white women workers in factories

Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst who created several watercolours depicting women workers in cotton mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights on pay and conditions #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

Happy Birthday Miriam ❤️

Happy Birthday Miriam ❤️

Gustav Klimt, Poppy Field

Think of the good that could have been done with 5 billion dollars. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...