The major Western countries' order of preference for outcomes for Iran: 1. Libya model - Total state collapse 2. Syria model - Partial collapse, weak central government 3. Western pliant strongman 4. Current gov survives 5. Actual democracy

“Only democracy in the Middle East” has 2 sets of speech rules: one for Jews and one for Palestinians. In English, we call this Apartheid. Not so complicated after all.

If Chinese officials were helping Alberta secede we would react strongly but since it's the US we do nothing. Arrest them and prosecute them for sedition.

Good thread. I'd say as long as it's obvious Russia or China can make far more munitions than the west in any given time period then GDP really isn't measuring the right things.

Wow… who could’ve posted “terrorist images” on the Flydubai suspect’s LinkedIn AFTER the incident? What are we doing here?

Israel is still blocking aid into Gaza, but it’s unlikely that Western media will report this. They’re still trying to make you forget a genocide is happening.

Never doubt that Israel counts every calorie allowed into Gaza with much the same level of vindictive hatred. All the foreign doctors volunteering in Gaza report that any baby formula they brought in their luggage was seized.

In 2013 the Presidential Plane for Bolivia was forced by European powers to land so it could be searched for Edward Snowden, who is and was not indicted by the ICC. This is what we could do to Netanyahu if we cared to.

Netanyahu is flying freely over Canada as his international arrest warrant remains in place. There are shifting explanations as to why from the Carney government. cbc.ca/news/politics/netanya…

As far as I can see, Davies is the only elected official in Canada at any level to condemn this death warrant op-ed.

Bolivia's vicepresident Edmand Lara says that his life is in danger and he expects to be arrested on trumped-up charges as the Bolivian government of Rodrigo Paz continues to make arrests in what appears to be a US-backed takeover of Bolivia's independent judiciary.

Mohammed Zraiy put it better than me and in more words than the Twitter character limit:

They will not. This is completely fake. Your company helped Trump snuff out 120 Iranian school girls in Feb & all your CEO said was “it didn’t even violate any of our red lines.” Why dont you comprehend the personhood of actual persons first then I’ll take this bullshit seriously

As this story goes viral, it's my responsibility as a residential school historian and expert on denialism to point out: the evidence about large numbers of child death and unmarked burials at residential school is already freely, publicly available: nctr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2…

Amid this bizarre FlyDubai frenzy, a lot of people don’t seem to understand that the “false flag” narrative functions effectively as a pro-Israel, Zionist narrative masquerading as an anti-Israel narrative. Why? First because it plays into and draws from the pro-Israel, Mossad-promoted myth of Israeli omnipotence, the superhuman ability to pull off any trickery any time anywhere. Second, and more important, it potentially insulates Israel from the consequences of its actions. The more plausible scenario, that someone wanted to take down a plane load of Israelis, is a far more troubling one for Israel because it punctures their comfortable notion that they can genocide who they like, protected by Arab vassals and free to continue their life of vacations and consumption as normal. Striking at their Dubai lifeline to the outside world strikes at the heart of their psychological security. It emphasizes that nowhere is safe and normalization doesn’t protect them. For the avoidance of doubt, I do not condone or advocate taking down civilian aircraft! It could also be the act of a disturbed individual with no specific motivation. We do not yet know the full story and we might never get it. Obviously Israel is going to try to spin it to its best advantage, including tales of heroism and “Islamic radicalization” and baselessly blaming Iran. We should still be cautious and wary of drawing conclusions, spinning stories and bunk “analysis” that defies basic facts and common sense. But also think about how, in the absence of clarity, these narratives that people are so eager to spread actually function. And with that I emphasize I’m not saying I know what happened. I’m saying I don’t know and neither do the rest of you, especially all the instant aeronautical engineers and forensic scientists.

People are telling on themselves when they say racism is socially constructed but that Antisemitism is a constant specter that exists throughout time and space.

Yeah I fear he has been completely broken. Everyone has a limit.

This is the aftermath photos inside of the plane Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 on May 21, 2024 which suffered turbulence & dropped 178 feet (about 54 meters) in 4.6 seconds. Air Canada Boeing 787-9 experienced severe turbulence at 36000 feet. That’s how it supposed to look

Remember when, in mid-October 2023, multiple Israeli government institutions proposed the wholesale expulsion of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to Egypt? I'm trying to imagine what the global reaction would have been had a Palestinian Authority or Hamas linked- think tank published a long report calling for the wholesale depopulation of Israel? They would have called it another holocaust.... EXACTLY. mondoweiss.net/2023/10/israe…

Supply boost of ~15% over 4 months. Trump will almost certainly rugpull the dumb euros and ban diesel exports in a few weeks. 🇪🇺📉

The S&P 500 is near a record, but if you strip out the A.I. companies, it’s down 5% since late August. My @Morning_Joe Chart