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We spent $8 trillion and killed about a million people, and the result was a #Taliban government retaking #Kabul in eleven days after we had been there for two decades If that is not the most expensive failure in recorded history I would like to see the competition #Trump
I think European leaders in failing to condemn the US invasion of Venezuela out of some fear of provoking Trump’s ire are missing the point that (a) Trump clearly doesn’t care what they think anyway, (b) Trump couldn’t hold them in more contempt anyway. /1
One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN ⬇️
European appeals to morality and international law often fall on deaf ears in Africa and Asia — whose countries’ histories were shaped by centuries of ruthless European imperialism.
The most striking thing for malnourished children is their silence: the patients are too weak to cry, and they gaze blankly at their caregivers.
They may not eat or drink even when offered food. Their bodies are trying to conserve energy — and eating takes energy that they don’t have.
The Voice of Hind Rajab recounts the final plea of a six-year-old girl who was brutally killed by the Israeli forces in Gaza City last year.
Peter Jukes
“This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions”. www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
World risks up to $39 trillion in economic losses from vanishing wetlands, report says reut.rs/4lnW6yt
Israel has massacred another 120 in just the past 24 hours. Most while trying to access aid.
Utterly barbaric.
This is what genocide looks like.
Over a 1,000 Israeli & Palestinian activists are awaiting them, and thousands more are coming from around the world to meet in Egypt. Hold on Palestine 🇵🇸
America is done. We are witnessing the fall of the American Empire into narcissistic stupidity. #USPolitics
The bill sparked controversy due to its potential impact on Muslim religious autonomy and property rights and fostering communal polarization.
the recession of 2008 was a walk in the park compared to the depression of the 1930’s. strap up.
Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinians student at Columbia. He was abducted from NYC to LOUISIANA and incarcerated by DHS and ICE because of his protest against genocide. He will need to literally fight the Trump administration so he needs help with his legal fees.
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Critics see this as a fresh front in the ruling Party’s efforts to erode the rights of India’s Muslims.
Everyone else:
"Relations with the US look irreparable if Trump remains President and Vance remains VP."
In case you missed it, Israel took your TikTok. American youth were getting too well-informed about the genocide.
‘China has not reined in its tech sector out of any belief in democracy, but rather through a seeming understanding that the new forces of wealth, data, intelligence, information, commerce, and communications can hijack a country’s political system and lead it into dangerously uncharted territory.’
New users (and some old ones) may find this useful. #newskies
