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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 1d

Hmph.

#FreePalestine #FreeSudan #FreeCongo

🇵🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DPqj5VV...

@AssalRad
So, they're allowing the aid they "weren't blocking."
Al Jazeera English
@AJEnglish • 1h
Israel says 600 aid trucks, carrying food, medical equipment, shelter supplies, fuel and cooking gas, will be allowed to enter Gaza daily through the UN, accredited international organisations and the private sector.
LIVE updates: aje.io/87zdo6
ISRAEL'S WAR ON GAZA
ALJAZEERA
ICAL, BUNSHI.

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Blair must not be welcomed anywhere in the world

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas says Tony Blair not welcome in Gaza following ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-tony-blair-not-welcome-gaza-following-ceasefire

Hamas says Tony Blair not welcome in Gaza following ceasefire

<article data-history-node-id="429987" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-tony-blair-not-welcome-gaza-following-ceasefire" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-tony-blair-not-welcome-gaza-following-ceasefire" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas says Tony Blair not welcome in Gaza following ceasefire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hamas has warned that Tony Blair would not be welcome in any role in governing <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Gaza </a>following the commencement of a ceasefire in the enclave.</p> <p>Speaking to Sky News, senior Hamas official Basem Naim <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/hamas-official-thanks-donald-trump-for-peace-deal-but-warns-tony-blair-not-welcome-13448166?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb" target="_blank">said </a>he welcomed US President Donald Trump's involvement in bringing about an end to the two-year war.</p> <p>However, he said that there could be no role for the former British prime minister in the governance of Gaza, despite Trump's previously announced support for Blair's involvement.</p> <p>"When it comes to Tony Blair, unfortunately, we Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, and maybe others around the world have bad memories of him," Naim said.</p> <p>"We can still remember his role in killing, causing thousands or millions of deaths to innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq."</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-says-tony-blair-not-welcome-gaza-following-ceasefire">Read more: <span class="field field-title">Hamas says Tony Blair not welcome in Gaza following ceasefire</span></a></h3> <div alt="tony blair" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b40e5137-e462-4be7-8ee9-28daf09421a3" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/BLAIR_ABBAS_AFP.jpg" width="1024" height="576" alt="tony blair" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · 1d

Omer Bartove explains that how Israeli society is in the state of denial of the genocide happening in Gaza, as the German population was denying what the did to Jews in holocaust.

A must read for everyone.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

A state of denial

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · 2d

Noble Peace Prize of 2025 has been awarded to a person who is a strong supporter of the genocidal regime of Israel and a tout of Imperialism in Latin America.

#NobelPeacePrize #NobelPeacePrize2025
#mariacorinamachado

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

substack.com

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Sep 11

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.

Paulo Freire

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · Sep 10

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Sep 10

In today’s conditions—not only in Nepal but across the world—it is the task of those currents that reject the dead weight of gradualism and stagism and place their faith in the program of revolutionary socialism

www.marxistreview.asia/nepal-reform...

Nepal: Reformism Fails Once Again!

The mistakes of a moment can impose punishment on entire generations.

www.marxistreview.asia

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Sep 9

People in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and now in Nepal have come out against the governments and ruling classes but the lack of a clear programme and weaknesses of alternative/left only brings chaos and destruction and further alienation.

Time for left-wing to revisit their strategy.

Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Aug 27

Socialists have been warning against the climate disaster like so many other things which capitalism is doing to us. But no one listened.

Until there is Capitalism, there will be a climate crisis which will engulf lives!

We must abolish this system!

#PakistanFloods

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Aug 26

USA's strategic war cry can be summed up by inverting a well-known formula: 'Permanent Counter-revolution'.

The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan

By Tariq Ali

Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Aug 10

On this day in 1980, Comrade Nazeer Abbasi was extra-judicially murdered by dictator Gen Zia Ul Haq in prison. His body was not even returned to his family.

He was the youngest member of the Communist Party of Pakistan.

Red Salute to this hero of people 🚩

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Jul 12

Sign the petition!

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Sign the Petition

Nominate Francesca Albanese for Nobel Peace Prize

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 13

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Jun 13

Israel is doing everything in the Middle East and Iran with the full support of the US.

The western world is responsible for all the chaos in the Middle East.

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Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) @balochyakjehticommittee.info · Jun 12

𝐄𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦 𝐀𝐥𝐢 𝐌𝐮𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐤𝐚𝐢, 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧.

𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙠𝙖𝙞, 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣 – 𝙅𝙪𝙣𝙚 11, 2025

#StopBalochGenocide

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 11

Israel's security establishment has "been operating an armed militia in Gaza, whose personnel are affiliated with ISIS."

When confronted with this information, Netanyahu responded:

"What's wrong with that?"

Pretty much says it all.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"What's wrong with that?" With these four supposedly innocent words, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caused additional damage to any chance of ending the war in Gaza and returning the hostages. This is how Netanyahu reacted last week to MK Avigdor Lieberman's revelation that the Israeli security establishment has been operating an armed militia in Gaza, whose personnel are affiliated with ISIS. The leader of the militia is Yasser Abu Shabab, a member of a large Bedouin family from Rafah.

Netanyahu accused Lieberman of revealing a state secret, but by confirming the information, the prime minister himself became an accomplice. This may hamper any future efforts by Israeli intelligence services to recruit agents and collaborators.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · Jun 11

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.

ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600

And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.

www.extremetech.com

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Jun 11

UK sanctions two Israeli ministers but adds “we want a strong friendship with Israel based on shared values and our many close ties” — while recognising Israel has 600,000 illegal settlers in West Bank/Jerusalem in a “flagrant breach of international law”.

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Israel and the OPTs: Minister for the Middle East Statement

Minister for the Middle East statement to Parliament on UK sanctions on Israeli government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich

www.gov.uk

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Jun 11

At exactly the time UK foreign minister Hamish Falconer was announcing sanctions against two Israeli ministers in parliament yesterday, an RAF surveillance plane was on its way to Gaza, spying for Israeli intelligence.

#DCUKparliament

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 11

🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 7

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 7

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Jun 10

A powerful write up by Mahrang Baloch

time.com/7292408/mahr...

Rights Activist Mahrang Baloch Writes From a Pakistan Prison

Pakistan arrested Mahrang Baloch for her human rights work in Balochistan.

time.com

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Qaisar Javed @qaisarjaved.bsky.social · Jun 10

Cameron said it was one thing to investigate and prosecute Russia for a “war of aggression” on Ukraine, but quite another to prosecute Israel when it was “defending itself from the attacks of 7 October”.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/david-c...

Exclusive: David Cameron threatened to withdraw UK from ICC over Israel war crimes probe

Former foreign secretary told ICC prosecutor Karim Khan that issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders would be like ‘dropping a hydrogen bomb’

www.middleeasteye.net

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Euronews @euronews.com · Jun 10

Convoy sets off for Gaza from Tunisia to protest Israeli blockade

The convoy of buses and cars plans to traverse Tunisia, Libya and Egypt before reaching Rafah, the border crossing with Egypt that has remained largely closed since Israel's military took control of the Gaza side in May 2024.

l.euronews.com

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