"Gaza was the laboratory. Minab is the market. The result is a world in which the most consequential targeting decisions in modern warfare are made by systems that cannot explain themselves, supplied by companies that answer to no one," writes Avner Gvaryahu
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
And that’s the meaning I intend when I call for radical justice for children ✨ fromsaltintears.com/radical-justice-4-kids
Child death/injury is always a tragedy but only sometimes is it permissible in armed conflict (incidental to a lawfully pursued military objective). Mostly children are killed recklessly or intentionally.To use nuclear weapons is to intend to kill children as well as adults & disproportionately ⬇️
Ominous
BIG - Pope Leo XIV:
Enough with the idolatry of self and money! Enough with the display of power! Enough with war! True strength is manifested in serving life.
The only way to durably protect hauliers - and the economy - against fossil fuel shocks is to support them to electrify trucks.
Sales of electric trucks in China outsold diesel trucks last December.
So far this year, only one electric HVG was newly registered in Ireland.
#fuelprotests #speirgorm
A pictorial reminder ⬇️ that attacking children’s homes (civilian objects) disproportionately affects children in so many ways bsky.app/profile/from...
Yes. #spéirgorm
I know you’re worth it! And I do try…
Israel kills more than 300 in Beirut. Unclear what the targets were. 1/3 of victims women, children and elderly. Israel said it hit Hezbollah command and control centers, but the only Hezbollah official reported killed was a top aide to the group's secretary general.
apnews.com/article/leba...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Calls for EU to Suspend Trade and Diplomatic Agreement with Israel After Israeli Strikes on Beirut
World reacts to ‘brutal’ Israeli attacks on Lebanon after US-Iran truce
Israeli attacks have killed over 200 people and wounded 1,000 others.
Authorities report that over 200 people were killed and over 1,000 injured in Lebanon, overwhelming hospitals.
Many others are still feared to be trapped under the rubble.
Humanitarian partners say that strikes have continued overnight and today.
More: bit.ly/4vkWJhv
Well perhaps a sizeable number love it, but it does seem excessive…
I really miss @rteradio1.bsky.social
Drivetime from 6 to 7. And because I switch to something else I miss Arena @rickoshea.bsky.social
☹️ #spéirgorm
Imagine being this child?
Israel knows & must intend the disproportionate consequences of engaging in this type of targeting www.icrc.org/en/news-rele... on children
I explain re Palestinian children here fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...
Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this.
"Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings."
ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
”unconditional surrender”
Not only is the Irish Government hiding ‘behind the ambiguous label of 'militarily neutral'’ but furthering its policy of privileging appeasement above international law, making everyone everywhere less safe.
"The equivocal response of the Irish government stands in stark contrast to that of Spain [which] barred the US from using its military bases and Spanish air space to US planes involved in the war on Iran.
Meanwhile, the Irish government [continues] to allow Shannon to be used by US warplanes."
Sandwich Tern flying against a backdrop of blue sea and distant shoreline.
Sandwich Tern, Ballycotton - a few already back here now from their wintering grounds, some from as far as South Africa. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #IrishBirding
💔 I wrote this in January 2024 citing DCIP, an extraordinarily brave & progressive organisation that took children’s rights seriously. And now Israel assisted by some and aided by the silence of others in the international community has made complete Palestinian children’s abandonment.
Come on then, and remove him.
Seems like an appropriate moment to remember this ⬇️
President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic warning that Iran's “whole civilization will die tonight” is a threat to commit war crimes and may constitute a threat to commit genocide.
The international community must take urgent action to avert an impending catastrophe.
Read more 👇
US is not a kingdom or a one-ruler regime. If you have been elected, you have a duty.
Where are you.
It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides, chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it. Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place; the earth nursing its ticking metal eggs, hatching new carnage. But how could you know, brave as belief as you boarded the boats, singing? The end of God in the poisonous, shrapnelled air. Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love you gave your world for; the town squares silent, awaiting their cenotaphs. What happened next? War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore; for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice. Your faces drowning in the pages of the sea. Carol Ann Duffy, ‘The Wound in Time’ (2018)
War. And after that? War. And now? War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore.
-Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War.
#everynightapoem
This is a threat to commit an atrocity crime of extraordinary proportions.
The statement appears to be designed to spread terror among the Iranian population, which would render the threat itself a violation of international law, as recognized in the DoD Law of War Manual.
![Out of the famed revolutions of the 18th-century came radical change. Whereas the settled people of the United Colonies of America claimed independence from external oppression, in particular the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries and usurpations, the French people claimed justice from internal oppression, in particular the ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of man. Seeing through 'the burden'd air and breaking up the hungry clouds, in both states they constitutionalised
'natural rights. Both however were partial. Still in America: 'the just man the indigenous and Black man (trafficked and enslaved)] kept his course / along the Vale of Death'. And...
FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIE NCE ||
FROM SALT IN TEARS snippets](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cvp3gpnddge7ddmrnxtauzxc/bafkreiavx4s3qal4t5dusoyc46wcblbzzz5eiktjcnjshjprgyh6omcody)
Out of the famed revolutions of the 18th-century came radical change. Whereas the settled people of the United Colonies of America claimed independence from external oppression, in particular the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries and usurpations, the French people claimed justice from internal oppression, in particular the ignorance, forgetfulness or contempt of the rights of man. Seeing through 'the burden'd air and breaking up the hungry clouds, in both states they constitutionalised 'natural rights. Both however were partial. Still in America: 'the just man the indigenous and Black man (trafficked and enslaved)] kept his course / along the Vale of Death'. And... FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIE NCE || FROM SALT IN TEARS snippets
In the case of the Minab school strike, it is appropriate and expected that the Pentagon has announced a formal investigation. However, it is also important to consider the command environment created by senior military leaders. Secretary of Defense Hegseth has famously denounced "stupid rules of engagement." He has spoken of giving "no quarter" in Iran, an approach that is specifically prohibited under international humanitarian law. In the context of the Minab strike, he has repeatedly made comments stressing that the United States does not target civilians. However, deliberately targeting civilians should not be the threshold for serious concern and inquiry into civilian harm events, nor is it required for an incident to constitute a violation of IHL or war crime. Recklessly doing so, or killing civilians through gross negligence, could also rise to that level.
From Annie Shiel and Priyanka Motaparthy’s In the U.S. Strike on an Iranian School, What a Serious Military Investigation Should Look Like www.justsecurity.org/134898/iran-...