Humanity is gone from this US nation of thoughtless taxpayers
During Ramadan, a charity kitchen gave out three thousand meals a day. Rice, meat- nothing extravagant, but enough to keep people moving, if only barely. The line was always long: barefoot children, hollow-eyed mothers.
Then the food dwindled. First the meat. Then the rice. Then the silence.
Today, there was nothing.
The door stayed shut. A small boy stood closest, holding his container like something holy. His voice barely rose above the dust:
“No rice today?”
A man in a stained vest shook his head. No words. Just the gesture, final, like a curtain closing on a funeral no one attended.
There were no tears left. No surprise. Hunger had become the atmosphere.
The children drifted away. Some wandered aimlessly, still clutching their pots. Others returned to ruined homes, tents, hollow rooms with no glass in the windows. The sun burned. Nothing had changed. Their mothers waited, not with hope, but with the resignation of those who’ve made peace with cruelty.
A mother doesn’t scream when there’s no food. She listens for her child’s empty return and prepares to say something kind with nothing in her hands.
That night, the children slept, or something like it. The body shuts down what it can spare. Dreams were rare. The starving do not imagine.
In the photo taken later, their faces showed nothing. Not because they felt nothing, but because feeling had long turned inward, into bone, into soul.
And in that emptiness, something vast appeared: That children can starve under an open sky, and no one will come.
That hunger is not the only absence.
That you can cry out until even God becomes an echo.
They would wake again. Wait again. And the days would go on, not because it made sense, but because no one remained to say otherwise.
#GazaGenocide
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A small group of us are heading to Syria in mid-March to learn firsthand about the political situation and the impact of U.S. sanctions.
We’re eager to meet with journalists, academics, and organizers to strengthen advocacy efforts for lifting these harmful sanctions. If you or someone you know can help with logistics, connections, or insights, please DM me!
A culture of violence brings us the Miami shooting and the insane Zionist hate of Arabs youtu.be/fx-KIPpd91Y?si=SFxA… via @YouTube
This Palestinian girl is finally returning home after the ceasefire in #... youtu.be/akKcr6O_ygc?si=pp-F… via @YouTube
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Urgent: Hamas accuses Israel of blocking critical aid, food, water, medical supplies, in violation of its commitments in the ceasefire deal. It says that only a fraction of the promised aid has arrived, and essential fuel, shelter, and medical evacuations are being deliberately obstructed.
This isn’t just neglect—it’s intentional. Netanyahu and Trump want this deal to fail because they don’t want peace; they want ethnic cleansing.
The world must act now. Governments, mediators, and all of us must demand the full implementation of the ceasefire, all three phases. Every delay means more suffering, more death. We can’t let this agreement fall apart.
A Palestinian family returns to north Gaza with all of their belongings youtu.be/IrbZb9KlP_E?si=vu2a… via @YouTube
Chevron is profiting off of the months long Palestinian genocide by supplying Israel with light and power via gas fields on occupied land.
Join the #BoycottChevron campaign and send a letter to CEO Mike Wirth right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/bo…
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Asked how many Gaza civilians have been killed, this Israeli woman sums up the attitude of much of Israeli society: "Who gives a shit?!"
A question never asked in the West: How can the rest of the Middle East live in peace with an Israel whose public is fine with genocide?
Ohio legislature nor Gov. DeWine are not helpful in gaining transparency and accountability in police matters
This is incredibly disappointing. HB 315 unnecessarily restricts transparency regarding state and local policing by dramatically altering Ohio's public records laws. 🧵
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DEFENDING THE AES: ALL PAN-AFRICANISTS' PRIORITY
Nothing is more important than defending and protecting the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). That is the concluding message from African Stream journalist Inem Richardson as 2024 comes to a close. We are hopeful and excited about the positive developments of Africa's newly formed anti-imperialist confederation in 2025.
As a recap, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced that they would leave the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on 28 January of this year. By 6 July, they formed the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States or the AES Confederation. This bloc promises a shared foreign policy, a shared defence, the free circulation of goods and people, and the eventual creation of a federal government to unify the three states.
It was also the year that Niger expelled US military forces, shutting down US Africa Command (AFRICOM)'s biggest drone base, and revoked French company Orano’s uranium mining licence, taking over Orano's affiliate Somair.
Burkina Faso nationalised two gold mines at the centre of a legal dispute involving British mining company Endeavour Mining. The country's President Ibrahim Traoré has expressed interest in revoking more mining permits while increasing local control over that sector.
Mali has nationalised a gold mine formerly controlled by South Africa-based AngloGold Ashanti and Canada’s Iamgold. Authorities arrested employees of Canadian mining company Barrick Gold for owing $160 million in back taxes.
As Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger reclaim their natural resources, the confederation of three countries are also taking concrete steps toward industrialisation, opening new factories, refineries and plants.
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End US complicity and arms to apartheid Israel
The evidence clearly shows that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and continues to do so. The world has an obligation to stop it. Read more from @AgnesCallamard newsweek.com/world-has-legal…
