Mohamed El Dahshan

Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economist’s Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.

facebook is censoring even news links about child casualties.

Manufacturing consent requires keeping the public in the dark about the real cost of war.

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families.

How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

So Iran had a supreme leader who agreed to a deal with robust international monitoring to curtail his country's nuclear program, Trump tore it up because he hates Barack Obama, and then we murdered him. I'm sure the assembly of experts will replace him with a US lackey. Totally.

But no salty and pissed off good morning to Harris who enabled genocide? Instead, you're blaming the people who followed their conscience?
How... unsurprising.

I know it's difficult but if you're going to pretend to be journalists, ACT LIKE IT

White House officials believe ‘the politics are a lot better’ if Israel strikes Iran first As the administration mulls military action in Iran, officials argue it’d be best ifIsrael makes the first move.

This from 3 days ago.

Voila.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Attacking US military bases in the latter three. But facts don't fit your narrative, do they.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

'Pay or he dies', families told as more Egyptians risk Mediterranean crossing Weeks after Hamdy Ibrahim left his village in Egypt's Nile Delta hoping to reach Europe, his brother's phone rang with a chilling message from Libya: pay now or the boy would die.Hamdy earned just 500...

Last year, thousands of Egyptians risked migrating to Europe via the Mediterranean crossing, becoming the top African nationality to arrive on its shores. TIMEP's @tekaldas.bsky.social speaks with @afp.com's Menna Farouk about the root causes of this emigration surge. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The Arab Uprisings at 15 and the Road Ahead Fifteen years ago, Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi stood in the middle of traffic, shouted “How do you expect me to make a living?”, and set himself on fire, sparking popular protests in Tunisi...

Fantastic speakers tomorrow (Monday), do register!!
@timep.bsky.social
timep.org/2026/02/16/t...

Oh so age verification is a surveillance mechanism? You don't say.

These atrocities in Sudan were entirely predictable. So why did the rest of the world fail to stop them? | Husam Mahjoub Western governments have put elite bargains before civilian lives. If El Fasher is to mean anything, this approach must change, says Husam Mahjoub, co-founder of Sudanese TV channel Sudan Bukra

"The liberal peace-building model that privileges armed actors and elite bargains has already failed Sudan. It treats generals and militia leaders as indispensable stakeholders and relegates civilians to observers."
New approaches are required indeed.
#Sudan
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Okay I did not expect tears.
(Me, not her.)
Thinking of, and admiring the folks protesting for justice.
On a #Jan25, no less.
❤️

a man in a plaid shirt is saying " get outta here " ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is saying " get outta here "

Is that the @nytimes.com that made up accusations of 40 beheaded babies just to whip up anti-Palestinian hate and justify a genocide? THAT NYT?

BREAKING - Americans are just discovering their star journalists don't actually do journalism, and that their media primarily exist to serve or justify the state's agenda.
🤷🏽

Yemen deserves so much better than this. Than those.

Reconstructing Gaza According to Trump’s Plan Would Be a Disaster Although Trump’s 20-point plan does not say much about Gaza’s economic reconstruction and recovery, what is known raises significant concerns. Yet there are better alternatives on the table that can s...

"Rebuilding Gaza: How to do Better"

My latest article for the @mecouncil.bsky.social .
I compare plans for the reconstruction of Gaza, highlighting the elements that should be integrated into ongoing thinking.

Comments and feedback welcome!

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Also convicted 5 times for racial hatred and one of the few French celebrities aligned with the far right.

How the world's richest man is boosting the British right How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

Sky News' Data and Forensics team research proved that the X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content.

🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...

It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk.

The first offers were from
Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.

If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the ...

If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough - defector.com/if-the-thiev...

while our eyes are on another terrorist regime's actions, the RSF is doing the UAE's bidding in #Sudan.

Sudan appeals for aid after landslide kills more than 1,000 in Darfur Much of the affected region has become mostly inaccessible to the UN and aid groups.

Much of the affected region has become mostly inaccessible to the UN and aid groups.

Just followed a good seventy people, many of whom old colleagues, contacts and acquaintances I've not connected with in many years.
Which is possibly why you clicked on this.
So, hello! I hope you've been well. Do stay in touch. ☺️

Screenshot from Google Top Stories with two headlines for the same Reuters article describing the deliberate bombing of a hospital, killing >20. You wouldn't know that from Reuters though. Left: "initial inquiry says Hamas CAMERA was target of Israeli strike that killed journalists" Updated headline, right: Updated headline now reads "Reuters and AP journalists killed in Gaza strike were not 'a target', an Israeli military spokesperson says".

Left: headline @reuters.com ran describing an attack that killed 20, including 5 journos, one of them their own.

Right: updated headline after being rightfully mocked by everyone on the planet.

No mention it was IN A HOSPITAL.

Google still shows both headlines side by side!

#CameraWasTarget