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US Army Iraq vet still angry Bush and the American government inflicted that catastrophic terror of a war on the world; meditator, poet, father, lover of this planet and the incredible beauty of Creator's creation, griever of all the killing + destruction

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i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · Aug 29

The problems civilization faces are the result from our relationship with the rest of life, feeling ourselves as separate from, different than, and superior to other life forms, rivers, forests, soils, Earth. Civilization treats Earth as "a storehouse and a sewer", as Joanna Macy put it, and this

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i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure your a troll bot, I'm disengaging you

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu created, funded, and supported Hamas

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

brutally violent, oppressive occupying force. The Palestinain people also have the right to defend themselves against Israeli aggression and oppression, which has been egregious and continuous since 1948. October 7th was not out of nowhere. It was a response to 80 years of violent oppression.

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

No. What Hamas did was horrific, but 1., Israel let them do it by not responding to calls for help from the Nova music festival, by not responding to the breach for hours, and by killing their own citizens under the Hannibal directive; 2., Israel is an occupying force and they have been a

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

enough to feed a family for a few days before having to go back to face that gauntlet again... That is among the most despicable things I've ever heard of being done, certainly the most despicable thing done by a "civilized" nation. And America is entirely culpable for it as we helped them do it

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

disturbing to me also, but this one, the GHF one, having starved the people for, what, a hundred and how many days, then to open humanitarian aid deliveries but to force the people walk up to 15 kilometers and shoot at them along the way and once they got there just to get substandard rations, only

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

This one is the most profoundly disturbing to me. The journalists killed, and the hospitals and healthcare workers killed, the starvation of millions, the destruction of so many residences, the way they've sent people moving from camp to camp and have bombed the camps, etc., are all profoundly

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

by Israel have a legal right to defend themselves. Israel is the aggressor.

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

Antisemitism is European hatred of Jews.
When you use the word to decry criticism of Israel's brutal and disgusting genocide, you devalue the word against the real antisemitism, which is Europeans and their colonial descendants around the world who want Jews dead.
Arabs who have been attacked

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

If you're American like me, we paid for this, and our government facilitated it, supported it, and protected Israel's ability to keep doing it. At least read what your tax dollars are buying

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Thread 🧵

Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️

🔗: aje.io/r00cl2

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear, the article says that they're changing their timing, migrating later. It does NOT say that they're not migrating

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

the genocide. Two years of America and European powers supplying weapons and munitions to Israel to use on innocent people.
Two years

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

Two years since the Israeli army killed hundreds of innocent Israelis to prevent them from being taken hostage, or to boost the numbers killed. Two years of genocide.
And two years of unconditional American support. And two years of only strong words from the UN and member states critical of

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

years of horror. Two years of inflicting unending, abject terror on the Palestinian people. Two years of bewildering war crimes. Two years of lies and cover ups from Netanyahu’s government. Two years since the Israeli army was told not to respond, not to help the people at the Nova music festival.

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

Today marks 2 years of Israel committing genocide. Two years of horror for the people of Gaza. Two years of indiscriminate bombing. Two years of targeting journalists. Two years of targeting schools. Two years of targeting children. Two years of targeting hospitals and medics and aid workers. Two

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

the way dandelion seeds disperse with a strong wind – and the winds of change are very strong these days!

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 1d

there is something else happening that doesn't make headlines. Billions of dollars in propaganda aren't being invested in telling this story. It's what we might call The Great (Re)Turning – a homecoming of profound significance. Seeds of this story have been planted everywhere like

The Great (Re)Turning… Toward Bioregional Earth

The ideas behind this moment of transformation, and the practical funding structures and processes making it real.

www.bioregionalearth.org

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 2d

helping us make the world better or reduce violence.
I think I’m going to leave the platform soon.

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 2d

that keeps us disconnected from the physical reality that surrounds our bodies. It isn’t slowing down the ecological harm civilization is inflicting on the planet, it isn’t increasing happiness, it isn’t making us feel actually connected to other human beings, and I don’t any longer believe it is

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 2d

“Online” and “on the cloud” are fictions that hide the reality that this conversation is taking place in a building(s) full of servers, sucking water from an aquifer, river, or lake, taking power that puts more strain on energy systems and creates emissions, and keeps us attached to a screen

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 3d

Yeppppp,

a dead future earth.

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i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 3d

On the ground with Northern Gaza's Trail of Tears

YouTube video by The Grayzone

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i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 3d

first and foremost just release control. Let it grow freely as resistance to the rise of the ideology of “law and order and a monoculture of whiteness”

i-bear-witness.bsky.social @i-bear-witness.bsky.social · 3d

To reiterate something I came across earlier in the year: one way to counteract the massive increase of violence as form of clamping control is to stop mowing your yard if you have one. Maybe mow paths for yourself, but leave most of it for life to flourish as it sees fit. Maybe plant natives, but

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

Hundreds of thousands across Europe and the Middle East march against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Mass protests from Amsterdam to Istanbul denounce Israel’s Gaza genocide

Hundreds of thousands across Europe and the Middle East march against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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