Opinion | The World Has Again Failed to Prevent Atrocities in Darfur

My take on the UAE-backed slaughter now unfolding in Sudan, and the refusal of the US and others to call out the UAE for its role. This was preventable, but neither Biden nor Trump cared enough to try: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o... Thank God some members of Congress are speaking up.

Now, if only we made an attempt to address homelessness..

Israeli leadership votes to expand Gaza ground offensive Israel's security cabinet has approved a plan to expand military operations in Gaza, including the "conquest" of the Palestinian territory and a push for its residents to leave, an official has said.

Israel's security cabinet has approved a plan to expand military operations in Gaza, including the "conquest" of the Palestinian territory and a push for its residents to leave, an official has said.

Massive Attack: "Kneecap are not the story. Gaza is the story. Genocide is the story" Massive Attack have issued a statement on the ongoing Kneecap controversy, stressing that “Gaza is the story” and “genocide is the story”.

Kneecap are not the story.
Gaza is the story.
Genocide is the story. ✊️

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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more than 90 people in 48 hours, say Palestinians Toll includes people who were ‘sheltering in a designated humanitarian zone’

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more than 90 people in 48 hours, say Palestinians

It has been a month since any aid entered Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel has announced its intention to seize large areas of Palestinian territory.

Our government's response? To continue to allow the supply of arms to Israel.

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said. According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied. Continue reading...

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

This is brilliant "communication is not what is said, but what is heard" well done for tackling

Séamas O'Reilly: I think anti-racists are right to be on high alert I’m less concerned with why Garron Noone said what he said, than with whether it’s true or not

This week I wrote about vigilance, and how I'm less interested in litigating whether Garron Noone is a racist, than in whether what he said was true or not. It wasn't. And people are right to be alarmed that he said it, and to wonder why he did.

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Here is the aftermath of Israel's bombing of one of the few operating hospitals in Gaza, Nasser Hospital, four days ago.

5 people were killed, including staff and teenage patient. Operating room was hit.

Israel says bombed the hospital to kill a wounded Hamas official.

How many in US noticed?

Another attack on a hospital..

One of the poorest countries in the world..

6th for Sarah Healy in the 3000m final in 8:40.00. Hailu with the gold with the returning Shelby Holohan pipping Jessica Hull on the line for silver. #WorldIndoorChamps #Nanjing2025

Funding cuts mean essential and lifesaving healthcare services and vaccinations, among other critical health issues, have shut down, leaving thousands without treatment worldwide.

This isn’t just a policy change - it’s a death sentence.

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Very well said, thanks Philip..

Statement by President Higgins on violence in Gaza | President of Ireland Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

“Any approach that leaves to a few countries such as Ireland to condemn what are international breaches of humanitarian principles and international law will rightly be seen by future generations as their having by their silences been complicit in collective punishment”

What Ceasefire? Trump Helps Netanyahu Kill Over 400 Palestinians in Gaza The Trump administration backs war against Palestine abroad and repression against supporters of Palestine at home.

"What Ceasefire? Trump Helps Netanyahu Kill Over 400 Palestinians in Gaza"

For Zeteo, @attackerman.bsky.social lays out how the Trump administration backs war against Palestine abroad and repression against supporters of Palestine at home.

A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew If ‘New Trafford’ is such a nailed-on wealth generator, then why aren’t Ratcliffe and the Glazers funding it themselves?

A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew

Israel has broken the ceasefire agreement

Making economic growth the overriding purpose, to which all else must be sacrificed, not only trashes ecological and social values. It's also spectacularly bad politics. Governments can't control growth, but when it dips, this government, by its own criteria, fails. A rod for its own back.

It feels like a new government misleading the electorate on the most important issue of the day in order to get elected should be a bigger news story. #SpéirGhorm

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

"Thanks to a cavalcade of imperial domination, clerical repression and economic isolationism, almost everyone in Ireland agrees that the past was, to use a technical term, shit."

Time to re-evaluate exactly what greyhound racing contributes to Irish life A survey ahead of last year’s election showed that 70% of the electorate either oppose or strongly oppose the State’s funding of greyhound racing

My take on the latest greyhound injuries stats - 1 in 8 racing greyhounds injured in 2024. About 1 in 15 killed. The State subsidised the sport with €19.8m in funding last year:

Time to re-evaluate exactly what greyhound racing contributes to Irish life

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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

I’m sure “DOGE” will be all over this..

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Imagine saying this about an agency that has helped millions of people around the world avoid malaria, obtain clean water, and gain access to food & health care. Especially when you’re the world’s richest man & your net worth is something like 20 times this agency’s annual budget. What a foul soul.

#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social