Kissinger made me an anti-imperialist on 9/11, 1973. Autistic commie psychologist watching the genocidal West fall. Gradually, and then suddenly. Blocks trolls.
As a mental health professional, I am beyond ashamed at the objectively complicit silence of the vast majority of my Western colleagues, including those I had seen vocally espouse decolonialism, antiracism, indigenous rights, universalism and denounce all forms of oppression,
I was a student at Oxford at the same time as Boris Johnson was.
I was active as president of the OU Labour Club and in the OU Student Union.
Johnson was one of the most pompous, unserious, vacuous, self-worshipping waste of human space it's ever been my misfortune to come
@MomodouTaal
They truly are in a bind. If they uphold South Africa's complaint, they precipitate the eventual collapse of Israeli apartheid, if they reject it, they further precipitate the collapse of the US-led Imperial order. In either case, the Global South wins.
Her husband is a Colombian from the extreme-right death-squads allied Uribe movement. That's who the coup is installing as the president for a democratic transition in Bolivia... Expect murder and disappearances of indigenous leaders on a grand scale
@ireallyhateyou
Such publicly gleeful humiliation of your victims is not a bug, but a feature of an iredeemably racist entity whose social contract is founded on the dehumanization of all non-members of the purported superior race.
@alastairjam
@Independent
Five hundred years of Western civilization rest on one basic equation that, for some reason, non-Westerners can't get into their heads.
7 Westerners > 40,000+ non-Westerners
Get it?
@HenMazzig
South Africa was not perfect, but looking at this old picture from the series "Some Afrikaaners" by David Goldblatt makes me wonder how anyone could ever have described it as "apartheid".
The scarier thought is that Keir Starmer, who was then one of my closest comrades and who joined me in founding the Socialist Alternatives magazine while we were at Oxford, is shaping up to be such a willing tool of the current neoliberal descent into fascism.
It says
@RnaudBertrand
Very interesting that they are saying until the end of February, which corresponds to the ICJ ruling on the one-month window they have given Israel to take measures to ensure Palestinians are protected from genocide.
I know it looks like the collective West is rushing headlong
Sorry for making you watch another vomit-inducing Guy Hochman skit, but I think it's important because this guy's literally the mainstream in Israel atm. All his Gaza videos are made with IDF's cooperation - he's not an actual active soldier, he enters Gaza just to film this shit
@RnaudBertrand
I fear they may be doing this deliberately to set a new standard which the US will then use in its descent into savagery as it rages against the dying of its imperial light. The US's reaction will be informative in that regard. If they say nothing, then we'll know they agree and
@alon_mizrahi
In a recent sitrep,
@justinpodur
proposes that Zionism has devolved into a "supermen" ideology in the Nietzschean sense.
For those, imposing your might and will on the "slaves" is what supermen do. No explanation, no empathy, no understanding, no logic, and no weakness must be
@Gaza_Psych
We stand with you, you are the bravest, most steadfast and most admirable women in the whole world.
You are an inspiration to women and men everywhere. We are doing all we can to stop the invasion and massacre and so that soon Palestine will be free from the River to the Sea.
@RnaudBertrand
@RnaudBertrand
, as a French person I relate. We hide what happened when the Nazis invaded, the craven submission of the vast majority of the intellectual class. The resistance my grandad joined was tiny and called terrorists by most. Now it's the same with Imperial US occupation.
@alon_mizrahi
Great questions, and even more mindboggling: are Americans allowed to criticize CUFI (Christians United For Israel), the main Zionist lobby in the US, which dwarfs AIPAC and is Christian Zionist?
@BenMFreeman
Nobody is charging the Jews, and the Zionists who were a tiny minority amongst European Jews were not targets of the Holocaust as Zionists. Israel is being charged for its genocidal actions and declarations, not on any racial ground and you, Sir, are a gaslighting scoundrel to
@RnaudBertrand
Excellent. Next we need a similar maps with US coups, coups attempts and sanctions visited on Latin America to respond to those in the US who complain about refugees at the southern border.
@gregjstoker
Watching this is enough to make one lose the will to live. It's retaliation enough and a new escalatory step in terms of crimes against the international anticringe convention.
The West has become simply incapable of listening, let alone hearing, any perspective, no matter how factual, other than their own projections and delusions. Not a good sign regarding its longevity.
I dare anyone intellectually honest to find a single lie in this UN speech by Iran. I personally couldn't.
By contrast you have countries like the US, UK, France and Germany calling their attack "unjustifiable and highly irresponsible" (in the German Chancellor's words), which
@caitoz
All the more ridiculous for being based on a false narrative of US decisive intervention when in fact the Soviets who crushed the Nazis at the unimaginable cost of 27 million dead. The US faced half-manned divisions made up mainly of old men and teenagers 17 and up, and nearly
@tariqhabash_
@gobloid3
Until now, only one regime banned all Jewish organizations and newspapers, except Zionist ones.
The regime that came to power in Germany in 1933.
@lewis_goodall
@fergalkeane47
@BBCNews
Now that a European reported it on the BBC, other British MSM journalists finally discover what had been two clicks away for over six months.
Pathetically willful cowardice does not even begin to describe it.
@alon_mizrahi
@LexiAlex
The artificially constructed Zentity is the archetype of a rudderless society. Once its protective buffers come off, it will inevitably crash on the shores of historical and regional reality.
Deep down, Zionists know it better than anyone. 10/7 made it apparent to everyone, and
@ecomarxi
Aside from the depraved horror of genociding, forever ruining a perfect Bob Marley tune with this TikTok video is in itself an unforgivable crime against humanity. 😩
@AlanRMacLeod
When a Zionist makes comparisons between a documented Zionist atrocity and a Hamas atrocity the Zionist imagines, the Zionist atrocity magically pales in comparison with what they imagined.
This is the heart of Zionist justification of their genocide: that they imagine the
@NaksBilal
Maybe they'll send a video made by an Israeli rapper and an inclusive chorus of dancing IDF grunts twerking on the ruins of Gaza in the name of Western civilization and values, with a chorus about dream beach condos communities for the light-skinned children of the light.
@RnaudBertrand
The US is not the sole military superpower. Not any more. It lost military supremacy a while ago and we are now living through the consequences of that.
It is a mistake to look at dollars spent, as they mostly go into the bottomless pockets of the corrupt MIC while producing
@jewdas
I remember that leaflet from my days at Oxford! At the time, I was campaign manager of a Student Union drive to no-platform pro Apartheid MPs in which I used the "Never Again" slogan over a picture of Nazis marching down Nurenberg streets. A the time we all understood "Never
@RnaudBertrand
At this point, every initiative by the Western imperialists only serves to accelerate the disintegration of their once unassailable hegemony.
The writing is on the wall and the Global South is reading it aloud to a West that has stuck its fingers firmly in both ears while
@caitoz
A lot of it relies on the role of imagination in Zionist ideology. Basically, they compare what they do against the worst thing they imagine could be done to them. It's a central tenet of Zionism, and has been so from Herzl on down. I just made a video about this.
German Economic Minister be like "By some mysterious twist of fate, it would appear that our choosing to commit economic suicide on behalf of our US controllers has resulted in the German economy facing a "dramatically bad" situation.
It'll take a Bundestag commission a couple
According to the German minister of the economy, the country's economic situation is "dramatically bad". That's an exact quote!
He attributes the situation to 3 factors:
1) High energy prices
2) Increased military expenses
3) Reduced exports to China
And
@alon_mizrahi
This is a central point.
I had a conversation with an Israeli colleague some weeks back. The conversation was progressing towards an acknowledgment of the legitimacy of the legitimacy of the Palestinian national liberation struggle, when they suddenly pivoted to : "this is all
"Progressive" Zionist and their sympathizers in the West regularly demand that Palestinian resistance should be non-violent. They either missed the non-violent Great March of Return in 2018, or are being despicably disingenous.
In 2018, Palestinians in Gaza tried nonviolence with the Great March of Return.
They peacefully went to the fence with the plea: Let us go.
The Israeli response? Protestors, journalists & medics were maimed & murdered.
If you consume mostly Western analysis, no matter how sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, do yourself the favor of reading this comprehensive analysis from an Axis of Resistance perspective of the 4/13 Iranian retaliatory attack to the illegal bombing of its consulate.
What is
[THREAD:🧵🇮🇷 THE IRANIAN RETALIATION]:
The Iranian retaliation to the occupation's flagrant, illegal aggression against the Iranian consulate in Damascus came last night, and it was resoundingly successful across multiple layers, not only militarily but also strategically. ▶
@RnaudBertrand
German Economic Minister be like "By some mysterious twist of fate, it would appear that our choosing to commit economic suicide on behalf of our US controllers has resulted in the German economy facing a "dramatically bad" situation.
It'll take a Bundestag commission a couple
@a_leesha1
@_amroali
Five hundred years of Western civilization rest on one basic equation that, for some reason, non-Westerners can't get into their heads.
7 Westerners > 40,000+ non-Westerners
Get it?
In a perverse way, maybe the world will be thankful to Germany for illustrating so vividly the depraved antisemitic persecution equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism inevitably leads to.
@aaronjmate
And especially to defend itself against journalists who evoke context. Context is antisemitic unless it's the context of 10/7, which justifies any and every Zionist action before, during, since, and for all time.
@antloewenstein
Levy is wrong to blame the war. What's to blame is Zionism. Like all settler colonial projects meeting indigenous resistance, it can only and inevitably devolve into increasingly violent and dehumanizing fascism.
@PriyamvadaGopal
I wonder if any Western universities are run by scholars who made careers writing about the inexplicable silence of the Germans population as the Nazi holocaust unfolded.
@HowardChewTwt
My biggest shock while at Oxford was realising that academic interest and excellence was entirely optional. Many students seemed most interested in getting drunk and having a good time. As if having an Oxford degree, which is nearly impossible to fail, was all that was needed to
@popsknox
@Georgiemutt
Guy who has made a whole career out of fetishizing, trash esthetizing and gloryfying mindless violence supports a regime that fetishizes trash esthetizes and glorifies mindless violence shocker.
@robrousseau
@RaniaKhalek
What is truly most bizarre is the fact that these evidence-free stories are used to justify the thousands of amply evidenced and documented atrocities. Only racist dehumanization can achieve that
#gaza_genocide
@bidetmarxman
@ainporram
The system is structured to produce high-tech, highly complex, and vastly overpriced systems that consistently underperform on all metrics except maximizing shareholder value
@ArarMaher
In so many ways, it's like a cult. They even get their talking points and arguing strategies from a Hasbara manual, which is why they kind of all sound the same
@Omar_Gaza
Dear Omar, you and your voice are so precious. I will never rest until this century of depraved injustice comes to an end, all can return to a free Palestine with equal rights and your countless martyrs are honored by the whole world. ❤️🇵🇸🗺️
@amalsaad_lb
Great analysis. 100% on point.
As I wrote, the Zionists and the West more generally, got the new equation in which Iran has military supremacy. They could only respond asymmetrically, mostly in the narrative field, which they still control, at least in the West.
Thus a
@cafreeland
As a Canadian, I strongly condemn your disregard for international law in the pursuit of regime change and your backing of neo-nazis in Ukraine. These are not our values.
@alon_mizrahi
Maybe they should criminalize even mentioning Israel at all, because, come to think of it, even positive statements about it might in fact be sarcastic and in truth dripping with implied criticism and, thus antisemitic.
@Gaza_Psych
What I would tell them: "Whatever you feel, think or say. Whatever pain, fear or hope you have, whatever you want to say, no matter how weird, crazy, sad or whatever. Whatever you want to do or not do. Know that you can feel it, think it, say it, do it or not do it here."
My
@karaokecomputer
I honestly believe this to be the best piece of agitprop so far. It demonstrates that Palestinians posess within themselves the knowledge, resources and determination to resist dispossession for as long as it will take.