Capitalism & Neo-Colonialism

If you missed Netanyahu's speech to US Congress, don't worry. I watched it so you don't have to. Here's my fact-check—debunking 10 of his biggest lies. And as you should have come to expect by now, I bring the receipts. Hope read, share, & subscribe: https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/fact-checking-netanyahus-speech-to

The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza

Yes, it’s horrifying, but I don’t think people get the entire scope of what’s going on.

The Israeli army committed another massacre against displaced Palestinians in tent encampments, this time in the coastal Mawasi area, which Israel had designated as a “safe zone.”

Thousands of protesters plan to demand a “citizen’s arrest” of Netanyahu for committing crimes against humanity.

"We are seeing frequent allegations of Palestinian children being detained on their way home from school, or shot while walking on the street," said the U.N. agency.

Some of us didn't need an ICJ ruling to figure that out

Top UN court says Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories should be brought to an end 'as rapidly as possible'

Tomorrow, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Listen to this hearing from that trial:  "Palestine… | 84 comments on LinkedIn

🚨Breaking: Historical Verdict by the International Court of Justice (ICJ): Free Palestine now and pay reparation for the 57 years of occupation. International… | 203 comments on LinkedIn

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

🔥 Jul 17, 2024 - From Unicorn Riot - Lately, there has been a lot of focus on the Heritage Foundation (Heritage) and its Project 2025 agenda – and for good reason. Heritage’s plan is a blueprint for a far-right conservative overhaul of the U.S. government. The 900-page document reads like a late-stage fascism playbook that suggests…

A second Trump presidency would target immigrants, civil rights, health, safety and efforts to end the climate crisis.

It's a strikingly bleak picture of the United States being painted at the Republican convention: a dystopian portrait of a violent, impoverished, weakened nation.

Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and David Sacks spoke out in support of the presumptive Republican nominee, who helped make billionaires $1 trillion richer during his first White House term.

Vance and Cannon remind us Donald is not the only danger

Before shots were fired, people in the crowd knew something was amiss. What happened next was chaotic and over in seconds.

the crazy is about to go off the charts

The right wants to turn this moment into more violence

Death threats have become rampant as MAGA culture twists norms and makes once-marginal forms of violence mainstream.

Comments blaming Biden and the left for the shooting could lay the groundwork for crackdowns on critics of the right.

Among political leaders who have reacted to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the MAGA hopeful's Butler, Pennsylvania rally Saturday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed sympathy and relief — surprising some experts. Taking to social media, Pelosi wrote via X (...

We traveled to this bad place together, which means, in theory, that we can still decide to go somewhere else

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.1 The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services,2 the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry,3 which found claims of data fabrication implausible.

The Trump rally shooting in Pennsylvania reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.

Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

The shots fired at Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday are being investigated as an assassination attempt of the former

The “mournful, plaintive wail of Irishness” is the soundtrack for both the Kennedy and the Biden stories, in which triumph is always shadowed by calamity. There is in this structure of feeling no easy opposition of hubris and nemesis. There is just, as Obama said to Biden when his son Beau was dying, the awareness that “life is so difficult to discern”—difficult because it does not offer itself in the easy forms of the wonderful and the terrible but confuses the two by conjoining them as twins. The political manifestation of this awareness is not the upbeat rhetoric of the American Dream; it is a politics of empathy in which the leader shares the pain of the citizen.

In 1992, U.S. foreign-policy exceptionalism went into overdrive. The U.S. has always viewed itself as an exceptional nation destined for

In black-is-white fashion, MAGA rushes to blame Biden and Democrats for political violence.