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I grew up in this Israel. Thinking that we were the good guys. But this is who we have always been. I was lied to my whole life.
Mehdi Boussebaa retweeted
What if our tech overlords lured us into a trap, persuading us to hand over everything we know, believe and feel to a Great Mind – a neural network that eventually could and would replace us.
Paul Kingsnorth sets out the ultimate conspiracy theory: paulkingsnorth.substack.com/…
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Nepal produces one tenth of one per cent of the world’s emissions and was ranked the 6th most climate-affected country on Earth in 2024.
We did this.
Mehdi Boussebaa retweeted
When Margaret Thatcher made England and Wales the only countries in the world with fully privatised water, the naysayers argued it was a terrible idea. Today, everyone agrees privatisation has been a roaring success.
It has delivered an impressive rise in customer bills which has coincided with an equally impressive rise in shareholder profits. These improvements were delivered through efficiency savings, such as not building any reservoirs since 1992 and forgetting about silly ideas like sewage treatment. Thanks to neoliberalism, turds are now a common sight at our beaches and marine life is not.
If that wasn’t impressive enough, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has confirmed the UK is officially the world’s dampest desert. Three-quarters of the nation has been plunged into drought, despite the fact it constantly pisses down. You are therefore banned from gardening and bathing your children so that data centres don’t go without.
No one knows why countries that contain actual deserts don’t experience the same difficulties we do. For example, Saudi Arabia doesn’t have a hose pipe ban. Unfortunately, we live in a place where the weather breaks everything. Sunshine? Drought. Rain? Floods. An inch of snow? The whole country closes for some reason.
The only weather the UK can actually cope with is grey and miserable. Any deviation leads to immediate national collapse. If we didn’t have such a brilliant water system, we’d be in serious trouble. But thankfully, our system is built to protect corporate profits, no matter what. Everything is secondary to that, including your ability to drink.
Thankfully, Andy Burnham is showing leadership on the matter. He is taking the emergency step of doing absolutely nothing. When questioned about nationalisation, the Prime Minister calmly explained that his donors won’t allow it.
In a bizarre coincidence, the system that allows them to personally profit is the only one that could possibly work. Sure, we could end up with crop failures and food shortages, but I’m sure things would’ve been worse if Jeremy Corbyn had got his way.
Obviously, this is not a systemic problem, it’s a technological one. Virtually all our rainfall is lost because we can’t make pipes that don’t burst. Water companies have absolutely no incentive to stop leaks and every incentive not to, but I’m confident this has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter.
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Parts of "The Odyssey" were filmed in occupied Western Sahara, defying requests from the Sahawari people.
Advocates are now calling for a boycott of the film and what they say is its complicity with Morocco's occupation and cultural genocide.
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‘I’m proud to announce the release of my new film “Complicit: Bankrolling the Occupation”, my final work for Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. It dissects Western complicity in the Zionist settlement project inside the West Bank, and shows how western donors evade charity law to provide aid to illegal Zionist settlements.’
youtube.com/watch?v=otagSl7e…
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En EEUU, unos turistas molestaron a un bisonte en época de celo en el parque natural de Yellowstone, desobedeciendo las órdenes de los guardas de no acercarse mucho al animal y no bajar del coche.
El búfalo pilló al turista y lo hizo volar, dejen a los animales en paz y libres.
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Beyond revealing the depravity of the ruling class, the genocide in Gaza has unveiled the true inner workings of the global financial order — as regular people continue to struggle, war concentrates wealth into the hands of the transnational oligarchs running the world, providing them pretexts to develop technology that increases their capacity to control disobedient populations and secure their own class interests.
Watch my full interview with @FranceskAlbs at the link below.
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“The genocide in Gaza is an unequivocal message sent from the industrialized nations of the north, which spent billions to sustain Israel’s mass slaughter, to a global population that subsists on a few dollars a day:
We don’t care about humanitarian law. We don’t care about human rights. Your lives mean nothing to us. We will use any tool, including genocide, to protect our monopoly on wealth and power.”
Chris Hedges on what’s really at stake in Gaza – humanity’s survival against the billionaires’ insatiable appetite for hoarding wealth.
chrishedges.substack.com/p/t…
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While the world argues about AI replacing jobs, an old Chinese craftsman casually turns steaming wood into a solid stool in minutes... with no nails, no glue, and no machines doing the hard work.
Just heat, skill, and centuries of tradition that still leave millions impressed.
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Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained"
Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?
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Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.
His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.
Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.
Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.
Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Starmer's resignation is not enough. What needs booting out is the politics he represents: corporate greed, anti-migrant rhetoric and endless war.
My piece for @tribunemagazine.
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/05/sta…
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Israel has blown up 10,000s of homes in south Lebanon, erasing dozens of villages. It has ethnically cleansed some 14% of Lebanese territory. It has destroyed bridges, cutting civilians off from help.
For how much longer are media and human rights groups going to suggest these "could be" war crimes?
Such terminology makes them utterly complicit in Israel's atrocities.
Mehdi Boussebaa retweeted
Hay una pandemia que nadie quiere frenar: la del egoísmo. Y esa, también se contagia.
El mayor riesgo para la salud global ya no es la falta de ciencia, sino la falta de conciencia. Por eso, cuando otros recortan, España duplica su ayuda.
Porque ninguna sociedad merece llamarse civilizada si abandona a los suyos. Cuidar de quien no puede cuidarse no es caridad. Es lo que nos hace humanos.
