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#TBT de un atentado del que nadie pidió "garantías" y del que ninguna aristocracia salió a dar la "solidaridad"

Now that the wind is changing and everyone starts to oppose the Gaza meat-grinding: Netanyahu did not commit the genocide by himself. The problem will not be resolved by scapegoating him, ignoring the rest. 1. End genocide. 2. End occupation/annexation. 3. End apartheid.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 | URGENTE: El presidente de China, Xi, acaba de romper su silencio sobre el desastre de la guerra comercial con Estados Unidos: “No los necesitamos, nunca los necesitamos. Beijing no está mendigando y definitivamente no pestañea. Durante más de 70 años, el desarrollo de China se ha basado en la autosuficiencia y el trabajo duro, nunca en dádivas de otros y no teme ninguna represión injusta. “Independientemente de cómo cambie el entorno externo, China mantendrá la confianza, se mantendrá centrada y se concentrará en gestionar bien sus propios asuntos”. Dijo que las guerras comerciales son imposibles de ganar, pero dejó en claro que China no se rendirá, sin importar cuán caliente se ponga la situación.

Heartwarming scenes as tens of thousands of displaced Palestinian people were able to return to their neighbourhoods in northern Gaza

“What’s happening in Gaza is the shame of the century.” “This genocide would not have been possible without the shocking cover-up by the media.” “The role of Western media in defending the acts of a genocidal state is unprecedented.” —Francesca Albanese

🐂 Contra la crueldad. Desde la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia celebramos la decisión del Congreso de la República de prohibir las corridas de toros en todo el país. 🧵

Israel lies pathologically! A🧵of dozens of conclusively debunked Israeli gov lies since Oct 7, off the top of my head 1- The IDF blatantly claimed this underground WATER TANK was a "Hamas tunnel" their ground troops discovered at the Qatari hospital in Gaza on Nov 5 2023 Mainstream media put it in headlines immediately despite experts challenging this lie with detailed maps of the room In February, local journalists were finally able to access the area & debunk the lie The IDF knew exactly what this shaft was back in Nov b/c their troops inspected it on the ground, but they lied deliberately to pave the way for raiding, besieging, bombing, & destroying almost every single hospital in Gaza

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psychiatry pathologizes action as sane or insane depending on how it relates to the interests of power — in the American imagination it’s illness to choose to die to protest the violence of war, and perfectly sane to choose to die in service of the violence of war

Israel Cut Off Gaza's Communications Because Murderers Don't Like Witnesses Israeli ground forces have ramped up activities in Gaza in what anonymous US officials are reportedly telling the press is a “rolling start” to the long-anticipated ground invasion. Israel has also concurrently crippled Gaza’s largest telecommunications service, which had been the enclave’s last remaining contact with the outside world after Israel knocked out all the others. Humanitarian organizations and mainstream press outlets now say they have lost communication with their contacts in Gaza in a level of information blackout we’re unaccustomed to seeing in modern times. “This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations,” Human Rights Watch correctly notes. And I’m going to go ahead and say that’s probably not just a convenient coincidence for Israel. A genocidal massacre in total darkness works very much to the advantage of those doing the massacring. As Israeli siege warfare cuts Gazans off from both electricity and communications, we’re seeing the lights go out in Gaza in more ways than one. The light has been further dimmed by the rampant killing of journalists by the Israeli military. Wikipedia, whose notoriously rigged editing system tends to skew information in the favor of US information interests, still currently lists 17 journalists killed by the IDF in Gaza and another one in southern Lebanon in this current onslaught. NPR lists the numbers a bit higher, while conveniently declining to say who did the killing. An Al Jazeera reporter named Wael Dahdouh lost his wife, son, daughter and baby grandson to a single Israeli airstrike in Gaza, saying “They’re taking their revenge by killing our children!” on the air while kneeling over the body of his dead son. He had reportedly moved them south of Gaza City following an Israeli evacuation order, believing it would keep them safe. According to Reuters, the IDF is now telling both the Reuters and AFP news agencies that it cannot guarantee the safety of their reporters if they continue operating in the Gaza Strip. After Israel’s historically unparallelled assault on journalists these past three weeks, this can only be interpreted as a threat. As we have discussed previously, Israel has been suffering for years from an increasingly worsening PR crisis as the ability to share and circulate raw video footage of its abuses emerged with the arrival of smartphones and widespread social media access. During a 2021 video appearance for the International Festival of Whistleblowing, Dissent and Accountability, Israel-based journalist Jonathan Cook made some remarks that I find myself contemplating frequently as Israel scrambles to shut all the lights off in Gaza. Cook described the changes he’s seen as smartphones and internet access made Palestinians less dependent on the work of sympathetic western activists and gave them the ability to directly share footage of their own abuse. Here’s a quote: “Sadly most corporate journalists paid little attention to the work of these activists. In any case, their role was quickly snuffed out. That was partly because Israel learnt that shooting a few of them served as a very effective deterrent, warning others to keep away. “But it was also because as technology became cheaper and more accessible — eventually ending up in mobile phones that everyone was expected to have — Palestinians could record their own suffering more immediately and without mediation. “Israel’s dismissal of the early, grainy images of the abuse of Palestinians by soldiers and settlers — as ‘Pallywood’ (Palestinian Hollywood) — became ever less plausible, even to its own supporters. Soon Palestinians were recording their mistreatment in high definition and posting it directly to YouTube.” Israel is perhaps more acutely aware than any other government on earth of how disadvantageous it is to have your crimes recorded in the light of day and shared with the world. That’s why it shut the lights off in Gaza: because murderers don’t like witnesses.

Our newest @Nature commentary on how "Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help" with @jasonhickel @g_kallis @JKSteinberger Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials &energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective nature.com/articles/d4158…

“Because selling the war to the public is a built-in component of war strategy, the war will always look necessary & it won’t look like those other wars which we now know were mistakes.” Everyone’s Anti-War Until War Propaganda Starts – Caitlin Johnstone caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/04/27/eve…

If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren't as biological or innate as you think they are

The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not.

We're seeing now exactly why every big company is fighting against universal health care. Decouple health insurance from work and people are free to quit their bad jobs. If people quit their bad jobs, companies will have to pay living wages to attract workers. Can't have that.

A lot of neurodivergent people struggle with Rejection Sensitivity, sometimes known as Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. The Public Neurodiversity Support Center just published a new essay examining RSD's causes and providing advice for dealing with it: coda.io/@mykola-biloko…

Why do so many think autistic people are faking autism for a diagnosis? Who would fight to be marginalised and get a label that’s so stigmatised unless it applied? Accommodations can’t be a motivator, because they’re minuscule and wouldn’t be that helpful if you’re not autistic.

Searching for Autism genes is the scientist's equivalent of conspicuous consumption. You have the privilege of wasting money on abstract research to prevent future Autistic babies instead of funding support for real, ongoing & just-starting Autistic lives. @Spectrum_10k

I have a question. Why is mental illness and lack of mental health an appropriate excuse for a mass shooter but not for an athlete to back out of a game or competition?