The US Department of the Treasury announced the penalties on Tuesday, targeting 14 individuals and entities it accused of helping Iran acquire weapon components. The sanctions were imposed against companies and people based in Iran, Turkiye and the United Arab Emirates.
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The Explosive Mediaa team's Iran LEGO videos go beyond ordinary propaganda--they've lampooned the Trump administration and criticized it's alliance with Netanyahu in a way that is resonating with critics around the world.
The circle of the grifters …
“DP World, a multi-national logistics company whose chairman recently resigned over publicised links to paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, could build a new port in either Gaza or on the nearby Egyptian coast, or develop a free trade zone in the enclave.”
TL;DR: Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson discusses the implications of digital devices on privacy rights in his new book, 'Your Data Will Be Used Against You,' highlighting the risks posed to individual privacy in the digital age.
Netanyahu has no intention of agreeing to a long-term ceasefire in Lebanon because it gets in the way of his plans for territorial expansion. "Israel’s push for buffer zones and 'natural borders' suggests the emerging ceasefire is unlikely to halt its ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon."
“We are witnessing the continuing utmost contempt for the international legal order, for diplomacy, and above all for the lives of civilians and the environment in Lebanon,”
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“The Australian government is much more alarmed about the unfolding global economic crisis than it will or can say publicly.”
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“The world is stuck watching a perpetually performative series of announcements about meetings that could, may, will happen, involving US negotiators with no negotiating skills and a president not dealing with the reality that he is in a weak and confused bargaining position.” From Laura Tingle
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Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed.
Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children.
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🎁 “That inquiry could have wider implications for Australia’s Big Four accounting firms – KPMG, Deloitte, PwC and EY – whose operations have been the subject of intense parliamentary & regulatory investigations in recent years.” - Jason Koutsoukis
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In 1998, a record 11 One Nation MLAs were elected to the Queensland parliament. Within months the party was tearing itself apart, and long before the next election all had left the party.
Stephen Spencer on the long list of ex-One Nation candidates. satpa.pe/NnUkCs6
while even the Fox News keeps struggling to spin for the imploding bubble-boy presidency ...
"going down to Miami for a UFC fight."
If Congress doesn’t do its job, “you end up with something closer to a monarchy or a dictatorship,” says @oonahathaway.bsky.social.
“The whole reason for the revolution was to reject that form of government…When the president is able to act without any checks from Congress, all of that goes away.”
0:07 From the airstrike on Tallet El Khayat, Beirut 4:53 PM 29 HD Avichae: You people of Lebanon, people of culture, civilization, and love of life. We have spoken about the ancient past and the deep historical ties between our two peoples, and today, in the midst of these difficult times, let us look together toward the horizon, what Lebanon do you want Read more 2:27 Edited 4:55 PM 147 50 0:05 1 From the airstrike on Tallet El Khayat, Beirut
Perfect encapsulation of Israeli politics: the airstrike on Beirut's Tallet El Khayyat on Wednesday that leveled a building happened at almost the exact same time as the IDF Arabic spokesperson calling us a people of culture, civilization and lovers of life.
Infographic (in Arabic) from Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operation Center showing the number of Lebanese killed and wounded since Israel intensified its attacks on March 2nd. 2020 people killed 6436 people injured
Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 2,000 people, and wounded more than 6,400, since March 2nd:
— 165 children killed.
— 248 women killed.
— 85 healthcare workers killed.
(Source: Lebanese Ministry of Health)
Loans from a UAE bank were funnelled into the Libyan war effort "likely including payments to Russia’s Wagner Group". More brilliant investigative work from @thesentryorg.bsky.social
My latest for Middle East Eye: satellite imagery analysis reveals that an Ethiopian army base in western Ethiopia is being used as a weapons & logistics hub by Sudan's UAE backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF), to launch cross border attacks on Sudanese army positions from Ethiopia.
Photo of a seafront section of Beirut being bombed by Israeli forces during the Israeli invasion of 1982. Buildings in the background, and a ferris wheel in the foreground.
Beirut, 1982 — being bombed by the Israeli military during its invasion.
Your reminder that Israel has been bombing Lebanon since before Hezbollah existed.
(Photo by Yan Morvan)
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On April 1, the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel publicly released a bombshell 52-page opinion. It said that the Presidential Records Act is “unconstitutional” and that Trump “need not further comply with its dictates.”
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🇬🇧 Britain is shelving its plan to hand back the Chagos Islands -- which hosts the strategic Diego Garcia US-UK military base -- according to a government spokesperson, following strong opposition from US President Donald Trump.
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This is the 10 point peace plane from Iran
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I spoke to TIME together with @rgoodlaw.bsky.social, @oonahathaway.bsky.social , and Harold Koh about this extraordinarily dangerous moment.
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Congress cannot wait until Trump’s deadline to find out if he was merely bluffing about committing a genocide in Iran. The statement itself is impeachable. The threat to do war crimes is impeachable.
That’s the best case. The worst is he follows through.
He must be stopped. He must be removed.
“As former uniformed military lawyers who advised targeting operations, we know the presidents’ words run counter to decades of legal training of military personnel and risk placing our warfighters on a path of no return," write Margaret Donovan and Rachel VanLandingham
More threatening war crimes unless Iran "cries uncle."
“International laws aimed at preventing the horrors of total war are codified in a series of agreements, including the Geneva Conventions, the Hague Conventions, the Nuremberg Principles and the United Nations Charter. Deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure violate those.”
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It is a bit rich for POTUS to threaten a journalist for supposedly endangering the safety of US military personnel in Iran given that US service members would not be in harm’s way in Iran but for POTUS’s unnecessary war.
No matter how outrageous the crimes committed by the US and Israel, Albanese, Wong and Marles robotically mouth platitudes about our 'joint commitment to the rules-based international order'. And they wonder why the public looks beyond the political duopoly? www.justsecurity.org/135423/profe...
