Keep at it!

A real pleasure to be in attendance at a truly superb lecture by Prof. Rashid Khalidi, on settler colonial violence and why Ireland is so connected to Palestine.

Thanks to Prof Donal Hassett, Prof Linda Connolly and colleagues for organising a hugely thought-provoking talk.

Trump today seems to be auditioning to lead an Orange parade on 12 July.

Live to the White House.

He now seems to be threatening to withdraw troops from South Korea and Japan, as well as insulting Australia and NATO allies.

The Russians and Chinese must think of Trump as the greatest gift from the west in at least a millennium.

“Shot down on a Friday--Good Friday. Hidden in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday and rescued on Sunday. Flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday. A pilot reborn--all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing." - Hegseth

You call Iran a country run by religious maniacs?

Most intelligence leaders would be deeply ashamed at kissing ass in the way Ratcliffe does with Trump. 10 minutes of unalloyed sucking up, presenting this moron as a leader of historic stature.

And he was just the warm up for the alcoholic, religiously crazed, Z list TV nutcase, Pete Hegseth.

How to even describe the deranged mind that can produce something like this on Easter Sunday?
(And yes, it is real)

It isn’t just the war crimes he openly boasts he will commit.

It is that nobody in Washington DC seems to recognise that Trump has mutated into Dr. Strangelove.

An investigation found that the Department of Defense has sent out outdated statements about the number of troops wounded or killed in Iran, appearing to engage in a “casualty cover-up." trib.al/ZHtINq3

Trump announces ‘fraud’ crackdown in Democratic states as arrests begin in California US president makes baseless claims about fraud in blue states and says JD Vance will lead clampdown as ‘fraud czar’

The biggest fraudster in modern political history is cracking down on ‘fraud’.

Trump’s America is beyond parody.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I would say almost every European country (incl my own) with the sole exception of Spain.

😱😱😱

The UK is *still* going to send King Charles on a state visit to the US in the weeks ahead. This despite experiencing daily torrents of vitriol from this demented monster.

No better example of how European countries exhibit a posture of extreme self-abasement before Trump.

Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

Please sign and share this EU citizens initiative — demanding the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s continued rights violations.

The initiative has already reached the first threshold across member states. It now needs signatures ✍️ to reach the 1 million mark.

They could put a full trade embargo on Israel and then date the Commission to challenge the action before the Court.

Yes.

Any member state could potentially do so, but there is no political will. Israel was already in serial violation of Article 2 but it is an article that has never been tested before the Court of Justice.

The extent of US and Israeli crimes in Iran is breathtaking. Every day we learn of new atrocities.

Death penalty law for lethal attacks by Palestinians Israel's parliament has passed a law making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military court of lethal attacks.

Israel becoming more authoritarian and more and more marked by naked apartheid.

This new law is in direct contravention of Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. When will the EU stand up for *its own* law-based agreements?

Or does Israel get a pass?
www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

A war of regression: how Trump bombed the US into a worse position with Iran Analysts fear Iran has played a weak hand well and the US has blundered into a defining strategic failure

This piece by Patrick Wintour seems to me to exactly capture where we are in the gulf.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Historians will be baffled by Trump’s capacity to govern through creating chaos. Last Friday was a case in point.

Ukraine has inflicted more than 7000 casualties on Russia…in just five days.

This is exactly what one would expect of a regime broadcaster.

The draft dodger in chief complaining about NATO cowardice?

Vladimir Putin couldn’t have put a better surrogate in charge, if his aim was to break up the Transatlantic Alliance (it was/is).

Short on time, Bulgaria’s farm minister fights corruption using Facebook Inspired by the new mayor of New York, Ivan Hristanov is livestreaming inspections and naming alleged subsidy scams to force action from prosecutors and EU investigators.

The interim Bulgarian Minister for Agriculture is exposing corruption in CAP funding by using the media imaginatively.

It is extraordinary how little the EU has done to protect the integrity of its funding streams in Bulgaria.
www.politico.eu/article/bulg...

The Chairman of the ‘Board of Peace’ wants another $200billion to prosecute a war that will send the US national debt close to $40 trillion and crash the global economy.

Remember those who said Trump was basically all mouth and no harm?

Birds of an authoritarian feather must stick together.

The Israeli government is now doing to southern Lebanon what it has done to Gaza. Horror and death on an unimaginable scale. And still our governments supply weapons, intelligence and diplomatic support.
#PartyToTheCrime

Israel and the United States are overwhelmingly responsible for huge population displacement across the Middle East.