Nikos Dimou, Greek writer, on the fake nature of modern Greek identity: balkanacademia.com/2026/01/1…
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Screw The Troops, And Other Notes
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is claiming that anyone who opposes Trump’s warmongering hates “the troops”.
“If you want to take issue with what we did in Epic Fury or Rough Rider or NAB and Nicolas Maduro, you’re taking issue with the troops and what they accomplished,” Hegseth told the press on Monday.
If you’re too young to remember 2003, this was the line they used the last time the White House started an unwinnable war in the middle east. If you hate the war, you hate The Troops. And we all know you’re not allowed to hate The Troops. You MUST love the imperial stormtroopers.
It’s such shitbrained war propaganda. Yes, absolutely fuck the war. Absolutely fuck every single person who chose to enter into this ridiculously unprovoked war of aggression. And hey, fuck The Troops too while we’re at it. Fuck everyone who knowingly enlisted in a military force that is literally only ever used to inflict evil in modern times.
Don’t valorize employment in a murderous war machine. If you do, you’re only encouraging future waves of young people to enlist. Don’t be a pro bono recruitment advertiser for the US military. Stigmatize that entire line of work.
We’re not doing that shit anymore. You don’t get use “the troops” as human shields to hide the depravity of your military decisions behind. The fact that your mass atrocities are carried out by rank-and-file employees does not magically exonerate anyone involved. Not the people sending those employees off to war, and not the people who knowingly enlisted in a military force that is only ever used to murder human beings for power and profit.
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Senator Ruben Gallego took to Twitter on Monday to proclaim, “Ukraine can win. Thats why I back them. It’s a Russian talking point that Ukraine can’t win, cause Russia big blah,blah. If Ukraine kills enough Russians they will quit.”
When a commenter told him to join the International Legion and go fight the Russians himself, Gallego replied, “No that’s the beauty of this, we can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians.”
Propagandists claim it’s Russian propaganda to say those who support the war in Ukraine want to “fight to the last Ukrainian,” but that really is their position. Ukrainians keep telling pollsters that they want a negotiated end to the war while western proxy warriors chomp on cheesy carb snacks and tweet from their sofas about how great it is to throw Ukrainian bodies into the meat grinder.
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New rule: if you get to tell me that I hate Jews, then I get to tell you you’re just pretending to believe that in order to advance the interests of a genocidal apartheid state. If you get to tell me about my thoughts and feelings, I get to tell you about yours.
I get to tell you that you don’t believe a single word you are saying in our conversation. I get to tell you that you are lying about what you think and feel in order to marginalize criticism of the state of Israel. Those are your rules. We get to make sweeping assertions about one another’s internal conditions in an authoritative tone instead of making actual arguments.
If you whine about this, I will tell you, “This is the type of conversation you chose to have. This is the interaction you asked for, so this is the interaction you are getting. You’re just upset because you’re unaccustomed to getting back what you are serving.”
Give them back what they are giving, and don’t stop until they produce a real argument instead of dopey “antisemite” ad hominems.
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I ran into one of those liberal Zionists who poses as pro-Palestine but spends half their time concern trolling about “antisemitism” in the pro-Palestine movement. He tried to get me to engage him in this subject and I told him this:
“Address the fact that 99.9% of the time “antisemitism” gets mentioned it’s in reference to criticisms of Israel and Zionism. Address the fact that Israel and Zionism cause many orders of magnitude more damage than the 0.1% instances of actual antisemitism. Address the fact that the overwhelming majority of the 0.1% instances of actual antisemitism are caused by Israel’s genocide and warmongering and would go away if Israel stopped butchering children under the banner of the Star of David. Explain how it is possible to have a 'serious discussion about antisemitism' while these three things are happening.
“You will answer all four questions I asked you in their entirety if this conversation is to proceed. Until you have thoroughly addressed them all, the conversation you are trying to have is nonsensical.”
Back in 2021 I tweeted, “If I wanted to sabotage the pro-Palestine movement, I would make myself a part of the conversation by criticizing Israeli abuses and supporting Palestinian rights, then I’d start going “This rise in anti-semitism sure is concerning though, can we pause and focus on this please?”
That’s exactly what these freaks are doing.
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Reading by Tim Foley:
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Dear people of Victoria. Please do not vote for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation candidates. Her political base comprises white supremacists, neo-Nazis, antisemites, racist dog whistlers, Islamophobes. She is now trying to be all things to all people. In power she will broker uncontrolling guns, work choices2.0, horror cuts to services. abc.net.au/news/2026-11-10/v…
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The goal of the far right is to establish a white ethno-state, and to dismantle liberal democracy, egalitarianism and multiculturalism, in favour of white racial dominance and radical traditionalism. They want to overturn multiculturalism, feminism, LGBTQ+ and non-white rights.
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Israel is still bombing Gaza, and WESTERN MEDIA IS SILENT ABOUT IT!
DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT GAZA!
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اليوم يقترب أنصار الله من تنفيذ ما قد يكون أكبر عملية تطويق وحصار لجيش منذ الحرب العالمية الثانية.
نعم، ما تقرأونه صحيح.
أنصار الله الآن على بُعد نحو 20 كيلومتراً فقط من الساحل الجنوبي لليمن، في محافظة لحج. وفي حال نجحوا في الوصول إلى الساحل وقطع الطريق الساحلي الرابط بين عدن وباب المندب، فإنهم سيقطعون شريان الإمداد البري الرئيسي للقوات المنتشرة غرب هذه المنطقة، ويطبقون فكي الكماشة على ما يُقدّر بنحو 100 ألف جندي يتمركزون في منطقة باب المندب وعلى امتداد الساحل الغربي.
هذه القوات دفعت بها السعودية خلال الحرب، بعدما نجح أنصار الله في تحرير باب المندب والمخا، في محاولة لإعادة احتلال هذه المناطق عبر عملية عسكرية واسعة لم تنجح في تحقيق أهدافها الاستراتيجية. وتمركزت هذه القوات على امتداد الشريط الساحلي، معتمدة على الطريق القادم من عدن لإمدادها بالذخائر والمؤن والتعزيزات.
لكن التقدم الأخير لأنصار الله في لحج، وتحديداً في مناطق المقاطرة والمضاربة ورأس العارة، يهدد بقلب المعادلة العسكرية بالكامل. فالقوات التي تقدمت سابقاً على طول الساحل لمحاربة أنصار الله تجد نفسها اليوم مهددة بالعزل عن عمقها البري، بعدما أصبحت المسافة الفاصلة بين مواقع أنصار الله والساحل نحو 20 كيلومتراً فقط.
ولفهم الحجم التاريخي لعملية كهذه، يكفي أن نتذكر معركة ستالينغراد عام 1942، عندما نفذ الجيش الأحمر السوفيتي عملية أورانوس، ونجح في تطويق الجيش السادس الألماني بقيادة الجنرال فريدريش باولوس، ومعه قوات أخرى، ليحاصر نحو 250 ألف جندي. انتهت المعركة في فبراير 1943 بتدمير الجيش الألماني المحاصر واستسلام ما تبقى منه، في واحدة من أكبر الكوارث العسكرية في تاريخ ألمانيا.
وفي أغسطس 1944، خلال معركة جيب فاليز في فرنسا، نجحت قوات الحلفاء في تطويق ما يقارب 80 إلى 100 ألف جندي ألماني، بعدما أغلقت عليهم طرق الانسحاب في نورماندي. انتهت العملية بمقتل وأسر عشرات الآلاف وانهيار القوات الألمانية في المنطقة.
أما بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية، فمن أبرز الأمثلة المقاربة في الحجم ما حدث في حرب بنغلاديش عام 1971، عندما انهارت القوات الباكستانية في شرق باكستان، وانتهت الحرب باستسلام قواتها ووقوع نحو 90 ألف عسكري وفرد من التشكيلات المرتبطة بها ومدني في الأسر. لكن تلك العملية شملت جبهة عسكرية كاملة، ولم تكن تطويقاً لقوة متمركزة في شريط ساحلي ضيق على غرار السيناريو الذي يتشكل اليوم في اليمن.
واليوم، نحن أمام احتمال تطويق قوة عسكرية يُقدّر تعدادها بنحو 100 ألف جندي، في مساحة جغرافية محدودة نسبياً، عبر إغلاق الممر البري الذي يصل مواقع انتشارها ببقية القوات المتمركزة في عدن.
وإذا نجح أنصار الله في الوصول إلى الساحل وإغلاق هذا الطريق، فإن القوات المنتشرة باتجاه باب المندب ستجد نفسها معزولة برياً، ومحاصرة بين مواقع أنصار الله من جهة والبحر من جهة أخرى، وستصبح مضطرة إلى الاعتماد على الإمداد البحري أو محاولة فتح الطريق بالقوة.
أي إننا لا نتحدث عن السيطرة على قرية أو جبل أو موقع عسكري، بل عن احتمال عزل جيش كامل عن خطوط إمداده، في عملية يمكن مقارنتها، من حيث حجم القوات المهددة بالتطويق، بأكبر عمليات الحصار العسكري في القرن العشرين.
إن تحقق هذا السيناريو، فلن يكون مجرد انتصار ميداني لأنصار الله، بل حدثاً عسكرياً تاريخياً قد ينهي الحرب في اليمن بالكامل، ويضع عشرات الآلاف من الجنود أمام احتمال الاستسلام أو محاولة الانسحاب عبر البحر.
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Come on Victoria. We defeated the Nazis once. We don't want them back.
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Your daily reminder that #OneNation are a far - right extremist party. One that openly supports political ideology that is dangerous, divisive and harmful to our entire community.
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An alle Trolle und an alle noch so widerlichen, empathielosen Mitmenschen: Ich verachte euch zutiefst!
Euer triumphaler Verweis auf angebliche 23 °C Höchstwert bei WetterOnline ist ein perfektes Beispiel für völlig empathielose Propaganda, gepaart mit absolut null Ahnung von Physik, Anthropologie und Meteorologie. Ein Höchstwert gilt für maximal eine Stunde am Nachmittag – nachts stürzen die Temperaturen an der ungeschützten Küste rapide auf 11 °C ab, während stürmische Seewinde von bis zu 40 km/h den Starkregen horizontal durch die dünnen Planen peitschen.
Warum eure Standard-Wetterkarten die Realität vor Ort komplett verfehlen: Sie basieren auf Satellitendaten und Messstationen im israelischen Inland, da die meteorologische Bodeninfrastruktur innerhalb des Küstenstreifens flächendeckend pulverisiert wurde.
Wer knöcheltief im Schlamm und hochgespülten Abwasser steht, bei dem trocknet im Winter bei nahezu 100 % Luftfeuchtigkeit am Boden rein gar nichts durch. Die Nässe kriecht ununterbrochen von unten in die Schlafmatratzen und Decken – da hilft kein Schutz der Mutter mehr und auch kein Einpacken in ebenso nasskalte Decken.
Es geht hier nicht um ein plattes Erfrieren, sondern um lebensgefährliche Unterkühlung (Hypothermie): Säuglinge, Kinder und vulnerable Erwachsene können ihre Körpertemperatur bei dieser Nässe physisch nicht mehr selbst regulieren.
Während ihr im warmen Wohnzimmer auf eure Apps starrt, dokumentieren die Teams von Save the Children und der UNO (OCHA) das reale Sterben vor Ort, wie den tragischen Tod von Kindern durch einen schlammbedingten Düneneinsturz am Al-Berka-Reservoir.
Es ist schlichtweg widerlich, diese verifizierten Berichte internationaler Helfer als „Pallywood“ Lügen zu strafen, nur um ein feiges Feindbild aufrechtzuerhalten. Diese Katastrophe ist rein menschengemacht, da die unbarmherzige Blockade an den Grenzübergängen selbst die Einfuhr von einfachen Notzelten, Winterkleidung, Decken und Entwässerungspumpen systematisch verhindert oder verzögert
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Fascism in action
Israeli Paratroopers cuffed a Palestinian man at the Gilboa crossing near Jenin and proceeded to defecate and smear it on him and try to make him eat it. They also urinated on him and put out cigarettes on him. All this, according to Israeli media and the military police. I truly do not know what to say anymore.
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People need to know that One Nation & the LNP are littered with far-Right religious extremists & if they win they will attempt to abolish a woman's right to choose.. Every woman in this state needs to know that before they vote in November... #auspol #springst #OneNationLNPLast
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A vote for ON is a vote for a billionaire who wants to undermine our employment rights.
Vote NO to ON and NO to billionaires interfering with democracy!
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Why does the media only present One Nation as the alternative to the major parties?
Greens are a MUCH more respectable alternative, are poling well, with FAR MORE experience in parliament & a FAR BETTER policy suite.
People will say "But they are nutters!"
Well, hallo! Pauline???
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The BBC Israel Would Say Files. The full results are in for both broadcast and articles.
Analysis of 267 broadcast interviews between October 2023 and October 2026:
- BBC presenters put Israel's case, in Israel's name, to guests criticising Israel's conduct in Gaza in 252 separate interviews.
- They put the Palestinian case, in its name, to guests defending Israel's conduct in 15.
- To better portray this disparity, our compilation of the BBC defending Israel in their own words now runs at 48 mins 12 secs. Our compilation of the BBC defending Palestinians in their own words runs at 2 mins 38 secs.
- The plainest form, “Israel would say”, was put to critics in 75 interviews. “Palestinians [or any Palestinian group] would say” was put to defenders in 4.
- 10 of the 15 Palestinian cases came in the first six weeks after 7 October 2023, and 5 in the three years after. Presenters were still putting Israel's case to critics in 2026.
- The above point suggests an editorial shift to stop conveying what Palestinians are saying, but to continue conveying what "Israel would say".
Analysis of 1,618 written articles, from October 2023 to October 2026:
- When an article reported criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza, the BBC added Israel's position 49% of the time (1,771 of 3,648 claims).
- When an article reported Israel's claims, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 38% of the time (914 of 2,431). A Palestinian position alone: 25%.
- Put the two official sides side by side. When the authorities in Gaza made a claim against Israel, the BBC added Israel's position 58% of the time (334 of 575). When Israel's government or army made a claim, the BBC added a Palestinian or UN position 39% of the time (855 of 2,165).
- Article by article: 71% of the articles reporting criticism of Israel gave Israel's position at least once. 53% of the articles reporting Israel's claims gave a Palestinian or UN position.
- In other words, in almost half of the articles where Israel makes a claim, it goes completely uncontested.
The full report, including every single broadcast and article in the corpus, can be found here, completely free of charge: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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Matan Kahana is about to become Speaker of Israel's Knesset. Gadi Eisenkot's bloc picked him this week. This is what he has said about Arabs and Palestinians"
1) In June 2022 he was a deputy minister. He told high school students in Efrat (a settlement): "If there were a button you could press that would make all the Arabs here disappear... I would press that button."
2) In the same talk he called the Palestinian account of 1948 "nonsense." His apology was for an "unsuccessful choice of words." He never took back the wish.
3) A month before that, he wrote about a dream in which "all the Arabs decided one morning to emigrate to Switzerland."
4) In July 2021 he backed the law that bars Palestinian spouses of Israelis from citizenship. He said whoever votes against it "wants to flood Israel with thousands of Palestinians."
4) In December 2020 he wrote that "it is madness to legislate the equality law."
5) During the May 2021 unrest in Lod he wrote that the police should "protect the Jews from Arab rioters" instead of separating the sides.
6) In February 2021 he called the Arab MKs Heba Yazbak, Sami Abu Shehadeh and Mansour Abbas "supporters of terror" who have "no place in the Knesset."
7) In 2025, asked about the bid to expel MK Ayman Odeh, he said: "We must not build on Arab seats." On election night, October 28, 2026, he repeated that there would be no government that relies on Arab parties.
8) In September 2022 he said Ben-Gvir "loves the State of Israel." In the same breath he called the Arab party Balad "full-on terror supporters."
9) In February 2025 Trump proposed moving Gaza's population out. A radio host called it forced transfer. Kahana answered that it was "voluntary emigration" and said "we need to embrace this solution."
10) The day after, he called humanitarian aid to Gaza "aid to murderers."
This is the man the bloc that ran against Netanyahu chose to preside over Israel's parliament, including over its Arab members. He is an unrepentant racist and will lead the Knesset despite that.
The leaders of the anti-Netanyahu bloc – Yashar chairman Gadi Eisenkot, B’Yachad leader Naftali Bennett, Democrats chairman Yair Golan, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman and Opposition Leader Yair Lapid – announce in a joint statement that they have agreed to nominate former minister Matan Kahana, No. 5 on Yashar’s slate, as the next Knesset speaker, following days of negotiations over the matter.
They also announce that Liberman, a former defense minister, will chair the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and incoming B’Yachad MK Liran Avishar Ben-Horin will lead the Finance Committee. A former Communications Ministry director general, Avishar Ben-Horin is entering the Knesset for the first time as No. 5 on Bennett’s slate.
Read more: timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
