« Israël a reçu un permis de torturer les Palestiniens », dénonce Francesca Albanese, rapporteuse de l’ONU, devant le Conseil des droits de l’homme La vie dans les Territoires palestiniens occupés est « un perpétuel cycle de souffrances physiques et mentales », a déploré la rapporteure spéciale lors de la présentation de son dernier rapport devant le Conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU.

« Israël a reçu un permis de torturer les Palestiniens », dénonce Francesca Albanese, rapporteuse de l’ONU, devant le Conseil des droits de l’homme

Europeans when asked to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz:

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.

War Is Pushing Iran’s Water Supply to the Brink of Collapse Climate-fueled drought and mismanagement have left the country with a severe water shortage, and war only adds to the strain.

“Whatever comes out of this conflict, Iran is still going to have this worsening water-security crisis."

Bloomberg cites comments from @123tomellison.bsky.social and Swathi Veeravalli during a CCS webinar on how the US-Israeli conflict with Iran could worsen regional water and food security.

Lost track of the euphemisms the host and his guests used for the mass slaughter of Iranian children. One word never came up: “crime.” Framing this atrocity as a mere accident, error, or mistake only serves to preemptively absolve those responsible for this abject failure.

Tehran plunged into midday blackout from Israeli strikes on oil depots The strikes unleashed toxic black smoke from raging fires, blocking out the sun and enveloping the city in a dense cloud on Sunday morning.

Americans promised death and destruction from the skies. Now airstrikes have killed children, and toxic rain is turning Iran’s capital into a hellscape. Is this how they convince tens of millions of Iranians that they are not, in fact, their “Great Satan”?

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

The very idea of the "target" has been rendered meaningless in the post-Gaza world. Targets are no longer encountered or searched, they are manufactured, industrially, digitally, with AI, as a means to hide the carpet bombing of civilians in war.

Several hours in, and all that’s trending here is SNL and Star Trek. Not a word about Khamenei, murdered schoolgirls, or the start of Gulf War III. Really makes you wonder about this platform.

‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

Major outlets covering this as a "mass casualty event" instead of a war crime is beyond jarring. After their chronic failures to report on atrocities in Gaza, Sudan, and elsewhere, it’s hard to have any faith in print journalism.

Anyone else seeing totally random and irrelevant stuff trending on their Explore tab? A literal regional war is breaking out in the Middle East, and all I’m seeing is sports and entertainment news. Is this by design?

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

Live updates: US and Israel attack Iran Israel launched a daylight attack Saturday on Iran's capital, with a cloud of smoke rising from the city's downtown near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Another diversionary war of aggression by a weakened rogue state and backed by a clicktatorship desperate for a rally ‘round the flag effect to stem the deepening unpopularity of a senile tyrant before the midterms. War is peace, right?

The very “mainstream media” that Trump has spent years ruthlessly attacking has now become a pliant, subservient arm of the administration, adopting its language to carry water and give the White House room to get away with murder.

Welcome to 2026 where imperialism is alive and kicking.

L'an passé je publiais ce livre sur l'énergie, le climat et la géopolitique.

Conclusion : la relative stabilité post-1945 reposait sur les énergies fossiles, et la crise climatique fait exploser cette paix de carbone en fragmentant l'espace mondial.

Maduro’s capture strikes me as the clearest and most decisive step toward a neocolonial dispossession of Venezuelan energy resources. The so-called Trump “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine is just a cheap attempt to rationalise such a project for the region and beyond. (8/10)

My take is that there was never going to be a legal justification because the real objective of the operation itself is indefensible. If this was all about restoring U.S. access to these reserves, then there’s no real way to make that strategic goal palatable for the public. (7/10)

The only path even remotely approaching legality would have required an arrest warrant from the ICC, an institution the U.S. has spent years undermining and refusing to recognise. As Trump’s attacks on the ICC continued to escalate, this was never really a possibility. (6/10)

Critiques resting on the lack of UN approval also ring hollow. Russia and China would have *never* authorised a U.S. intervention of the sort. Past cases like Libya show how UN mandates can be weaponised for regime change with incalculable human costs for the broader region. (5/10)

Trump today acknowledged the true objective: securing access to Venezuela’s oil reserves. It’s not a departure from U.S. policy, but a continuation of long-standing imperial designs for controlling strategic resources in Latin America through extractivism and dispossession. (4/10)

By that same logic, Russia would only need the Duma to justify and expand its irredentist war in Eastern Europe, and the PRC would only need the National People’s Congress to act on Taiwan. Legislative cover does not make aggression or conquest lawful or acceptable. (3/10)

The outrage over bypassing Congress strikes me as rather performative. Procedural compliance does not confer legitimacy. Empires have long used legislative cover to rationalise their conquests. Congressional concurrence would have not made the operation defensible. (2/10)

Even if the U.S. Congress had authorised force, strikes on Caracas or the capture of a foreign leader (and his wife) would still have been illegal. At best, it would make unilateral aggression appear compliant, but it changes nothing about the lawlessness of the act. (1/10)

Stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine : le plan de la Maison-Blanche contre l’Europe (texte intégral) | Le Grand Continent La Stratégie de sécurité nationale des États-Unis d'Amérique est désormais publique. Assise sur un projet impérial, elle vise explicitement le changement de régime : « cultiver, au sein des nations eu...

On a beaucoup commenté la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine.

Retour à la doctrine Monroe, défense de l'aire d'influence continentale, rivalité affirmée avec l'UE : c'est la fin des bénéfices partagés de l'intégration économique, on le savait.

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A literal wake-up call for Europe: the old alliance is over. Efforts to align the White House with the Kremlin’s strategy to destabilise the EU have now fully crystallised as policy. This guidance will likely change how U.S. embassies and CIA stations operate in the region.

Defacing the stolen headquarters of a congressionally mandated institution shows one thing: the regime loyalists will stop at nothing to appease their vain, petty tyrant. Try as they may, he will never go down in history as a peacemaker.

Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear in "America's neighborhood" America is massing warships, including the world's largest aircraft carrier, in and around the Caribbean.

Still trying to process that my country might be invaded in a ‘wag the dog’ operation, bearing a thinly veiled juvenile phallic joke for a name. All to distract the U.S. public from the unseemly scandals plaguing the offender-in-chief.

Areas of the globe that were part of the British Empire. Current Overseas Territories in red. Mandates and protected states in lighter shade. From Wikipedia.

Some call it mass uncontrolled migration. Others call it the British empire.