Zionists express bafflement over an Arab with blue eyes: https://nitter.cz/RaniaKhalek/status/1728066657480810723

being totally normal:

(Warning: Estonian cope. Also it's in Estonian) https://maailm.postimees.ee/7903548/saksamaal-algas-haarang-hamasi-toetajate-kodudesse

In brief, Germany is now raiding the homes of people who show support to or are associated with pro-Palestinian groups, with the added cope of "Hamas engaging in

" alongside links to other articles of Estonian cope about Russia. Anyways, anyone have that one video where a Jewish South African got assaulted by the police in Germany some months ago for being in a Palestine rally?

Ehud Barak gets to be interviewed on CNN and spew Zionist bullshit but nobody asks him about his frequent hangouts with Jeffrey Epstein including getting photographed trying to sneak into the 77th St mansion in iirc a shitty disguise

...aaaand South Africa finally did it and delivered a fresh to Isisrael.

One of the pro-Apartheid parties is very fittingly named "COPE".

Milei party announced a plan to sell off their members for organs,

Google milei massacre to find out more

Seems like the current consensus explanation for the Swedish PM saying Israel has the right to genocide is that he actually said "Folkrätt" which roughly means international law.

Israel has the right to international law. Equally as soft nonsense as the previous explanations, still hinging on the suggestion that our PM just cannot speak Swedish properly. Also Im unclear on if they want us to believe that he was saying "Israel har rätt till folkrätt" or if the suggestion is he reversed the word order.

The actual government twitter accounts are just saying its a mistranslation and urging people to please stop saying that the Swedish PM endorses genocide.

Today's MoA is good: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/on-sub-imperial-power-by-arnaud-bertrand.html#more

In other words, Fernandes’ point is that the key characteristic of the “rules-based international order” relates to the actual structure of the American (or British, French, Australian, etc) social and economic system, which seeks to enforce an order where the whole world is open to the penetration and control of their respective national moneyed classes. Which is why the order is about hegemony, and not about security, and why the former so often comes at the expense of the latter.

It’s interestingly something that John Mearsheimer often laments about if you listen to him: “why would the U.S. act in such foolish ways that go against what my realist theories recommend?”. He was adamantly opposed to the war in Iraq, warned for many years about the risk of a clash with Russia in Ukraine if we expanded NATO, and keeps speaking out against the U.S.’s unequivocal support of Israel. And by doing so Mearsheimer actually admits that realism doesn’t quite explain the behavior of states and that his theories are therefore not quite right. Fernandes here offers an explanation that better predicts the actual behavior of the US and its “sub-imperial powers”: you cannot understand states’ behavior if you limit yourself to a state-centric view, you also need to look at the unique characteristics of their political, social and economic system.

You may dismiss the "sub-imperial power" discussed above as a "lame phrase so [the Aussie] wouldn't have to say vassal". There is some truth to that.

But to distinguish monetary hegemony from security driven imperialism as the root cause of the global mess is, to me, a new insight. Said differently: The survival and security aspect is only relevant as far as it concerns the moneyed class. Mearsheimer's realist view somewhat misses that aspect.

Via Al Jazeera live blog -

The Palestine Red Crescent says that Israeli soldiers have been firing teargas and rubber bullets at journalists who have gathered to document and report on the release of Palestinian prisoners outside of Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank.

Raed al-Helou, a Sky News Arabia photographer, was injured in the hand while he was wearing his ‘Press’ vest, he told Al Jazeera.

“I was standing with a group of journalists. Suddenly, the Israeli army fired teargas at us. After that, foot soldiers attacked us. While I was hiding behind a car, I noticed a green laser light on my hand. At this moment, something hit me there,” al-Helou said.

Another journalist, Fadi al-Assa, Alaraby TV correspondent, said: “We were standing on the rooftop of a house, our “Press” vests clearly showing, but soldiers kept firing teargas and rubber bullets at us.”

Israeli forces, he added, confiscated his team’s camera memory cards and forced them to leave the rooftop of the building where they working. They also prevented them from taking their equipment, he said.

Genocidal goons looting the dead bodies of their victims for jewelry: https://nitter.net/Anna_AnninaEl/status/1728427029547114924

Welp they found a way to blame Susan Sarandon.

MELISSA BARRERAFIRED FROM 'SCREAM' OVER ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR posts

And Despite attempts by the Israeli lobby to cancel the event, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd took the stage in Uruguay, donning a Kufiyyah and advocating for an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Dipshit twitter users should be designated as active combatants and not receive any protections under the Geneva Conventions

I found this article about Milei yesterday to learn a bit about him and it's absolute unhinged. I read this part and I lost my shit, cackling at work:

But he quit football at 18 to study economics, going on to lecture at university, then working as an economist at various financial institutions.

In his free time he sang in a band, Everest, which played Rolling Stones songs — and he looked the part. Advertisement

Milei claims he hasn’t combed his hair since he was 13, adding: "From that moment on, the invisible hand combs my hair.”

Why is the number commonly cited for the US military budget $800 billion (the budget request from Congress) and not $1.5 trillion (total funding available)?

Military costs are not all discretionary. On top of that, there's the $300 billion for veterans affairs.

Interesting how people keep leveraging the stockholm syndrome charge against the most clear cut and obvious cases of short term hostage taking for material concessions.

Obviously the original case was a bank robbery where the robbers took hostages to exchange for an escape route, but now we have Hamas taking hostages to exchange for supplies, temporary ceasefires, imprisoned Palestinians etc. When you take hostages like that you know that as far as you are concerned these people will be returning to their homes. You dont really have a reason to want anything from them except just basic calm and cooperation.

So in a situation like that you're most likely to just treat them as normally as circumstances allow, and if the holdup on an exchange is happening because "their" side is stalling or trying to "cut the knot" of the hostage situation then in this isolated space its obvious to the hostages whos the threat and whos trying to resolve the situation.

These specifics can change when you start changing the circumstances, such as if the hostages are taken also for interrogation of information, or you dont have a clear material goal in mind as the hostages are being taken, then the relationships and treatments will change, but in these pretty simple situations its just eminently understandable how basic human camraderie can create a positive relationship between hostage and hostage taker.

Edit: And of course as an opposite to this, Israel does not take hostages for the purposes of extracting concessions from Palestinians, they imprison Palestinians for the sake of imprisoning and disempowering Palestinians, whatever function they can have as hostages later is secondary, the cruelty is primary.

any updates on this?

1,000 boats to leave Turkiye for Gaza waters in new ‘Freedom Flotilla’

This is the epitome of dumbfuck "commentary" on china by westoids

1. gesture vaguely about some "international rules based order" that china is breaking somehow while not really making sense

2. insert some Chinese sounding words that are completely irrelevant to imply some kind of "oriental inscrutability"

(Tianxia means "under heaven" and i have no earthly idea how this factors into this)

Geert Wilders is going to be the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Another victory for the far right in Europe.

CNN is so disgusting going on about how the children's hospitals in Egypt were made up special for the hostage children. Totally ignoring the some 6,000 dead Palestanian children, but ofc those are subhuman and don't count.

Western anarcho-Bidenists: Noooooo, you have to condemn Hamas!

Palestinian anarchists: https://nitter.cz/ResistanceDyke/status/1727518039334085012

Interestingly, the Islamic Republic of Iran successfully launched the Noor 3 spy satellite into space less than 2 weeks before Al-Aqsa Flood.

I fully expect that the Palestinians included this into their calculus and planning because the satellite is basically providing targetting data and intel for the entire axis of resistance at this point.

"Iranian head of the IRGC Aerospace unit Amir Ali Hajizadeh said that said the new satellite has capabilities such as “imaging in different light spectrums with high quality and resolution, telecommunication relay services, sending commands and receiving data over long distances in real time, for example for drones and sea vessels, and finally global positioning services for missile guidance and navigation systems.”"

It's going to be very funny to see Trump, if he wins of course, as soon as he takes office, continue aid to Ukraine and Israel, and all these conservative people will have to explain why it's good when Trump does it, but bad when Biden does it.

The man was injured as soldiers shot live rounds at Palestinians outside of the military prison near Ramallah, our sister channel Al Jazeera Arabic reports.

Live fucking rounds. What the fuck. Only democracy btw

BRICS condemns Israel war on Gaza in signal to the West (Al Jazeera, 21 Nov 2023)

just thought this bit was interesting:

India, though, has not been as vocal and has in fact cracked down on pro-Palestine marches at home, seemingly siding with Israel and its biggest benefactor, the US, in what is seen as a split within the BRICS itself.

But that split did not seem glaring at Tuesday’s summit, which experts say is a first-of-its-kind meeting for a group that has previously focused on economic issues.

“I am not sure I recall a similar extraordinary summit being called,” Gruzd told Al Jazeera. “It does reflect on the growing assertiveness and confidence of the BRICS grouping, not waiting for the West. BRICS has generally shied away from political and security issues; this meeting goes against that trend.”