Thomas Jefferson, “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers,”

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Who could have predicted Monbiot throwing an eco-socialist movement under the bus because his mates in the establishment media threw a shit-fit about it? Except literally everyone who saw him do it last time.
This is a fantasy. The *entire point of all this* for ten years has been 1) Absolutely fuck you, the left does not get any kind of power, ever, 2) We will do and say literally anything, whatever it takes, to ensure this never happens and 3) Britain does whatever America wants.
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📊 Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? (Excluding 'undecided') ✅ Yes ꟷ 75% ❌ No ꟷ 25% 9 in 10 Greens say Israel is committing genocide. (Source: @YouGov, 2-3 July 2026)
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Nobody gives a fuck about October 7. No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel, people get it now. Everyone understands. After Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on the morning of October 7, there was an outpouring of love and sympathy for Israel from around the entire world. Every major landmark from the Eiffel Tower to the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building were illuminated blue and white in solidarity with the Israeli people. Grown men wept. Bono permanently ruined "Pride (In The Name of Love)" by changing the lyrics to "Early morning, October 7, as the sun is rising in the desert sky, Stars of David, they took your life, but they could not take your priiiiide." Anyone who hadn't been following the Israel-Palestine issue very closely was on Israel's side that day. And then the bombs started dropping. And dropping. And dropping. And dropping. And as the bombs dropped, Israel's approval rating dropped with them. There are only so many children you can see shredded to bits by Israeli military explosives before you start suspecting that there's something terribly wrong with the Zionist project. There are only so many pictures and videos you can see posted by IDF troops dressed in the underwear of dead and displaced Palestinian women before you start wondering if there's something terribly wrong with the culture of the Israeli military. There are only so many Israeli polls you can see published showing overwhelming support for the Gaza onslaught before you start believing there is something terribly wrong with Israeli society itself. There are only so many mainstream humanitarian institutions who can determine that Israel is guilty of genocide before you start recognizing exactly what it is that you are looking at. There are only so many bombed-out hospitals, so many miles of completely flattened neighborhoods, so many grizzly accounts of Palestinian prisoners being savagely raped and tortured by Israeli soldiers you can see before all the excuses, justifications and spin stop working on you. And once the hasbara stops working, it's just you and the unadorned reality of the situation, staring each other right in the eyes. The propagandists and spinmeisters have been falling all over themselves trying to frame the world's plummeting support for Israel as an epidemic of "antisemitism", but that's not working anymore either. Everyone knows it's a lie. Nobody's buying it. It just feels like they're insulting your intelligence. The Gaza holocaust was the single worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Day after day, month after month, year after bloody year staring right down the barrel of that waking nightmare changed me forever, and there is nothing in me that will ever forget the horrors I witnessed. And the world is full of people who had the exact same experience I had. Support for Israel is never coming back. When the lights flicker on and you see that the room you've been standing in is full of scorpions, you're not going to forget what you saw when the lights go out again. All of the events which occurred after October 7 showed the world what life was like for Palestinians before October 7. Israel threw a stone into the air and spent three years crying after the stone came down on its head. The hasbarists have been flailing all over the place trying to erase everything that happened before October 7 and to justify everything that has happened since, but their words are just words now. They have no power anymore. And now it's just a matter of time before the world turns against Israel to right the wrongs of the past and set everything back the way it ought to be. From the river to the sea.
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The media are smearing Lubna Speitan, who authored the Green Party's "Zionism is racism" motion, and the desperation is obvious. It started with The Telegraph and was quickly repeated across the UK mainstream, the BBC included. The tactic is guilt by association. Unable to find anything on her, they've gone digging for anyone connected to her, however distantly, who has committed a crime, and hung it around her neck. This isn't a new tactic. It's a tired one. When you can't discredit the argument, you go after the person. When you can't find anything on the person, you go after the people around them. It's what you reach for when you've searched someone's record and come up empty. So let's be clear: this isn't news. It's manufactured outrage, pushed to serve an agenda at all costs. There's no morality in their so-called "journalism".
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The Taliban brutally slaps an Afghan woman and throws her inside an unmarked van with tented windows. No one knows where she was taken. Women’s rights activists in Afghanistan condemn this oppression and gender apartheid genocide.
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It took a little longer than expected, but we have finished the Gaza Geolocation Map. Every clip in the archive whose location we know is placed on a map of Gaza, so you can see where the footage was filmed. It includes: 35,200+ videos and photos placed on the map. Sources and the original post for every clip Node map links & suggested leads Our built-in AI iris can navigate the map Fully searchable index Filters by area, date, type of attack and precision UN satellite damage survey layer (UNOSAT) Built-in reverse image search links for each node Downloadable dataset (CSV, GeoJSON and Google Earth) It can be accessed here: archivegenocide.com/geolocat… Please re-share and help us break out of the algorithm prison. We will keep placing more of the footage as our researchers work through the rest of the archive. Thank you to genocide.live, GeoConfirmed, @AbuLocation and @NemoAnno, whose geolocation work is credited on the map. God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out. Join our telegram: t.me/+t9gq13mSKcE4NGI0 Follow our backup accounts: @ZionismExposedx & @IsraelExposedAr
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I’ve met many politicians in my life, but rarely have I met one as hardworking, sincere and caring as @ZackPolanski. Westminster needs electoral and constitutional reform. Zack as an MP, will call out the cowards and fence sitters and fight for social and climate justice.
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BREAKING NEWS: German Chancellor Merz has gone on national television and effectively declared war on Russia.
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Protesters rallied outside the US Embassy in Tokyo after a US Marine was arrested over the killing of a 39-year-old woman in Okinawa. The angry demonstrations have revived calls to reduce the US military footprint on an island hosting about 70% of US military facilities in Japan.
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Enough, we're done! We don't want any more bases in Okinawa. No more bases! Don't kill us. Don't rape us! Never again, Enough enough!
Protesters rallied outside the US Embassy in Tokyo after a US Marine was arrested over the killing of a 39-year-old woman in Okinawa. The angry demonstrations have revived calls to reduce the US military footprint on an island hosting about 70% of US military facilities in Japan.
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Imagine the optics of, say, mass riots in North Korea and Kim is attending ballistic missile tests. The irony of those who accuse others of being “third worldist” is that, quietly, many of the Western countries they champion are now deeply “third world”. 🇫🇷
À bord de la frégate multi-missions Auvergne, j'ai assisté au premier tir du nouveau missile balistique M51.3 depuis le sous-marin nucléaire lanceur d'engins Le Vigilant. Très peu de nations disposent d'un tel savoir-faire. Félicitations à tous les acteurs de cette réussite exceptionnelle : DGA, CEA, Ariane Group, Naval Group et Marine nationale. Votre professionnalisme, votre rigueur et votre maîtrise technique sont la fierté de la France. Ce succès technique est une nouvelle démonstration de la crédibilité de notre dissuasion, dont la pérennité est assurée. Pour être libre, il faut être craint. Et pour être craint, il faut être puissant. Pour protéger les Français dans la durée face aux menaces, j'ai engagé dès 2017 le renouvellement de nos moyens pour les décennies à venir. En dix ans, le budget de nos armées aura doublé. Nos futurs sous-marins stratégiques sont actuellement en chantier. Le programme de missiles stratégiques hypersoniques et manœuvrants, qui équiperont notre composante aérienne de dissuasion, a été lancé cette année. Notre dissuasion nucléaire nous protège et continuera à nous protéger. Vive la République et vive la France.
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L'Israelizzazione delle democrazie occidentali è in stato avanzato e le prove affiorano ogni giorno. Just link the dots.
L’ex capo dei servizi segreti esteri tedeschi, August Hanning, è stato arrestato con accuse gravissime: spionaggio e trasmissione di segreti di Stato a servizi d’intelligence stranieri. Queste accuse delineerebbero un grave tradimento: quello di un funzionario dello Stato che avrebbe dovuto difendere la sicurezza nazionale della Germania, non comprometterla. Secondo la procura di Amburgo, nel 2023 Hanning avrebbe organizzato, insieme all’ex capo dello Shin Bet, il servizio di sicurezza interna israeliano, una squadra di agenti israeliani incaricata di rapire con la forza i figli di una miliardaria tedesca. Vale la pena ricordare le parole del cancelliere Merz: Israele fa «il lavoro sporco per tutti noi». Intanto, Germania e Italia continuano a bloccare la sospensione delle disposizioni commerciali dell’accordo di associazione tra Unione europea e Israele e le misure sanzionatorie proposte. Eppure, il rispetto dei diritti umani è una condizione fondamentale di quell’accordo.
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Okay cool, I hate how Israel and its obscenely powerful lobbying groups are actively destroying civil liberties throughout the western world in an effort to stomp out all speech that is critical of Israeli abuses and atrocities. Go on. Name one who does it worse. Just one.
Let's play a game: name something you hate Israel for, and I'll name a country doing the same but worse that you are ignoring.
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When all 32 NATO member states are in Kyiv, as Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone says, the tired fiction that this is merely "Ukraine versus Russia" becomes impossible to defend. The reality is far more direct: NATO is confronting Russia head-on. And if you still doubt what this represents, just look at the two flags behind him,they tell the story plainly.
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In my latest article, I offer the most exhaustive critical analysis to date of the “Russian hybrid war” narrative. What I show is that many of the most widely publicised cases of supposed Russian “hybrid warfare” — von der Leyen’s jammed plane, the Baltic cable cuts, the DHL crash in Vilnius, the Heathrow fire, the wave of drone sightings that swept Europe in the autumn of 2025, the Romanian TikTok campaign — turned out to be media-amplified speculation that collapsed under basic scrutiny. Yet almost every day, new claims are made – with little or no evidence ever provided. Ultimately, serious scrutiny of the “Russian hybrid warfare” narrative can only lead to one disquieting conclusion. A “hybrid war” is indeed being waged against Europe — but it is being waged by the EU-NATO establishment itself, against its own population. Europeans are being subjected to a sustained campaign of cognitive or psychological warfare aimed at conditioning them to believe that Europe is under attack from Russia, and that these hybrid attacks are a prelude to conventional hostilities — a claim for which, by and large, there is little or no proof. What the record points to, in fact, is a deliberate campaign of threat inflation in which governments, media outlets and defence-funded “think tanks” have colluded to instil a permanent sense of fear in the population, through relentless coverage of “incidents”, “attacks”, “sabotages” and “campaigns” that, in most cases, simply do not exist. Read the article here: thomasfazi.com/p/the-russian…
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Panorama editor who oversaw entirely discredited episode stitching up Jeremy Corbyn with antisemitism smears wins top job at BBC News. Rachel Jupp is feted as a "trusted troubleshooter". In other words: a safe pair of hands, ready to do the British establishment's dirty work.
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Flavio Bolsanaro has said he will cancel Brazil's switch from a 6 day week to a 5 day one, that included no pay cut. Instead Brazilians will be forced to work 6 days a week. You have just voted away one day of your lives every week for nothing.
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"So many of the people I speak to here tell me they’ve voted Labour in the past – but this time, they’re voting Green to elect an independent local MP who will fight for their communities and keep the Labour government in check." standard.co.uk/news/politics…
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🧵Reactionary Tide: How the CIA Spread Evangelical Protestantism Across Latin America to Crush Socialism Caption: Flavio Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections last weekend, thanks in large part due to the country’s enormous evangelical Protestant bloc. Just decades ago, US-style evangelicalism was barely known in Latin America. But, thanks to a massive orchestrated campaign from Washington - one which included training death squads to assassinate Catholic clergy - evangelical Protestantism is now the number one religion in much of the region.  MintPress sheds light on this underreported story.
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