🧵 1/ ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: Israel murders 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona (sometimes spelled Hassouna) along with six other members of her family, including her pregnant sister, in an airstrike on her home in northern Gaza
The point of the system is to keep producing conmen who people trust. It’s like stages of a rocket. So Tucker Carlson says some reasonable things with his mega platform WHICH HAVE NO EFFECT on actually stopping the Empire.
Then he uses his cred to lure suckers to Vance like he did w Trump.
My latest --
Trump and “Madman Doctrine”
The weaponization of dementia: Enabling genocide and (nuclear?) aggression — and destroying democracy.
husseini.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
Credit to @jonletman.bsky.social who effectively exposed Gabbard as a fraud ten years ago by asking about Israeli nukes. Great litmus test.
"I think we, um … [pauses] … that’s a good question..." she said.
fpif.org/cost_of_war_...
“Religious leaders” may start to finally speak up, but it’s their acquiesce to Empire aggression for decades that brought us here.
No more Republican Pharisees and Democratic Sadducees.
In Arabic, it’s Sad Friday.
Minimal, late, perfunctory, desperate and likely phony.
I largely made my name pointing out the Bush administration lies building up to the Iraq invasion. Part of the utility of Trump is that he’s so brazen that pointing out lies & contradictions becomes less powerful. It’s part of what makes him the opposable thumb of the establishment so it grabs more.
My latest --
From “No Kings” to Tucker Carlson, the Goal is to Maintain the Duopoly
We need: No Empire. No War. No Epstein cabal. No oligarchs. No peasants.
husseini.substack.com/p/from-no-ki...
The “cure” is the disease.
The Arab sheikdoms getting hit bc of US bases which were supposed to protect them is kind of like how NATO mutual defense Article 5 was only invoked once: for other NATO members to help US gov after 9/11 attacks.
Putting out fire with gasoline.
Bunch of freaks that enabled or sat out genocide want to pretend to be moral. Sickening.
Via @samhusseini.bsky.social
Antiwar Christians arrested outside the Pentagon
Art Laffin of the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker leads protestors in song.
Video:
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Beyond “No Kings”
No Peasants.
No Empire.
Trump's State Dept was equally evasive when asked the same basic question by journalist @samhusseini.bsky.social:
“Will you acknowledge that Israel has nuclear weapons?”
Trump, Gabbard, AOC etc are all indication that all who get media attention or big tech prominence are tools.
“No Kings” is a DNC shtick that wants an Empire without an Emperor.
GRANT F. SMITH, gsmith@irmep.org, @IRmep Smith is director of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy. Last year he wrote letters to several members of Congress who have voiced criticism of Israel, noting: "I believe your coalition has far more influence on the matter of foreign aid than it may realize. In 2016 and 2017 we sued the administrations) over violations of the Arms Export Control Act, but did not prevail for lack of standing. Your coalition does not have such issues.' Grant explained: "The Symington & Glenn provisions of the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC §2799aa-1: Nuclear reprocessing transfers, illegal exports for nuclear explosive devices, transfers of nuclear explosive devices, and nuclear detonations) forbid U.S. foreign aid to countries with nuclear weapons programs that are not signatories to the Treaty on the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, absent required special procedures." 44
@samhusseini.bsky.social:
Your periodic reminder that members of Congress can move to cut off aid to Israel because it is an illegal nuclear weapons proliferator.
Grant Smith of @IRmep sued but was deemed not to have standing. But members of Congress like the Squad or Warren do. But they refuse …
IRAQ VS. IRAN: IT'S THE SAME F-ING SCRIPT
Trump recycles George W. Bush's talking points and war propaganda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxYO...
WATCH: Journalist @samhusseini.bsky.social calls out the Russian and Chinese governments for claiming that the reason they didn't veto the resolution establishing the so-called “Board of Peace” at the UN was because “the Arabs” (including the PA) told them not to...
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My latest --
Lent, Ramadan and Facing the World
Interfaith events that get beyond kumbaya...Can South Africa be a light unto the nations?...My spiritual practice...Durban and 9/11.
husseini.substack.com/p/lent-ramad...
🧵 THREAD
Trump is now demanding the “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” of Iran.
Note that this same language was used by U.S. president Harry S. Truman (and the other heads of the Allied governments) during World War II, less than two weeks before dropping a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.
See my latest --
Imperial Israel’s Nuclear Threat: A Clear and Present Danger
Is the alleged vulnerability of imperial Israel setting up a pretext for nuclear attack as Trump demands "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER"?
husseini.substack.com/p/imperial-i...
Performative International
“Progressive International” scandalously didn't try to use Uniting for Peace to get strong measures against imperial Israel. Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla falsified and skewed to hide this.
husseini.substack.com/p/performati...
From piece today in The Mail & Guardian —
"A final judgment from the International Court of Justice on South Africa’s Genocide Convention case against Israel could be years away.
"But that doesn’t mean there can’t be progress in the case before then...”
Read the strategy:
mg.co.za/thought-lead...
Jesse Jackson was the first person I ever voted for for president. RIP.
There’s certainly legit ways of criting Jackson esp re how he could have better confronted the DNC, but he was a tireless, important voice for decades.
Will be speaking on this forum in under four hours — tune in —
☀️THREATS FACING SOUTH AFRICA'S PEACE AND SOVEREIGNTY
When: Sunday 15 February 2025
Time: 5pm CAT (3pm UTC / 10 am ET)
Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
My apologies to her.
Epstein files show how so much insidiousness happens behind the scenes.
Some 12 years ago, I asked “Do We Really Want Privacy?”
I think this question must be addressed in profound ways.
husseini.posthaven.com/do-we-really...
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