What Israel is doing to Palestinians: -Genocide -Ethnic cleansing -Occupation -Annexation -War crimes -Starvation What the media calls it: -Military operation -Relocation plan -Offensive -Settlement project -Takeover plan -Hunger crisis This is complicity, not journalism.

It'll be better soon, oh, a bit less soon, ah, maybe wait a bit longer, just have patience plebs, any day now....

Another joint statement #NZ hasn’t signed: it condemns the Israeli Govt’s latest approval for illegal settlements on #WestBank which are explicitly designed to thwart establishment of #Palestinian State. Australia, Canada, UK signed. Humiliating for NZ gov.uk/government/new…

The police are threatening the organizers of the Palestinian-Jewish protest against the genocide on Saturday that if the protest won't shrink from the approved 5000 people to 500, they will cancel the approval. We won't back down! The joint Jewish-Palestinian voice against the

NEW: ICE detained Zahid Chaudhry a disabled veteran, the father of two U.S. citizens and husband To Pro-Palestine political candidate at his aaturalization interview today. theburnerseattle.com/post/ice-detai…

RNZ staff more upset and willing to speak out about an unfavourable review by an ex-RNZ boss than about the genocide 👍 Certainly giving the lie to the idea that they can't break ranks when they strongly disagree with something

Anyone seen mainstream coverage of this yet?

People are burning now🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

1/4 The Cold War & McCarthyism had a tremendous impact on NZ in the late '40s & '50s, prompting the Waterfront Lockout & suspension of democracy & a paranoid response to Rarotongan protest. This week I've seen the effect of the new US authoritarianism in my little NZ town.

1/5 'Oceania is expanding' Epeli Hau'ofa wrote in his iconic essay 'Our Sea of Islands'. It is certainly expanding at Warkworth Puhinui Primary School. Today our Pasifika Dance Group performed in front of a new flag.

#BREAKING: We are calling on the Prime Minister to show leadership by removing Brooke van Velden as Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, following her recent comments that politicise the Employment Relations Authority and breach the Cabinet Manual. 1/6

1/7 To dance or sit? That was the question for the audience today at Warkworth Puhinui primary school. Behind the question lie two different cultures & two different approaches to the arts. Here's our school principal Mr Dawson giving his answer by ripping up the stage!

Rentiers making record returns. Banks, energy, etc... We just need another tweak to market settings. That'll do it.

quite wild to see the utter degradation of accountability in, & by, media in NZ rapid acceleration into post-truth, to point where all govt parties are openly lying & sharing extremist rhetoric, that would've been out of bounds 18months ago, & getting platformed without question

When journalists become information warriors devoted to narratives

1/2 I'm fascinated by the different ways Anzac troops had to use indigenous knowledge & tech to cope with sticky situations in places like Melanesia, Timor, & Borneo in WW2. This is a photo from the Oz War Memorial Museum's vast online archive. It was taken in Port Moresby.

It is good that Seattle City Councilmember Rinck is demanding the release of antiwar activist Zahid Chaudhry, who has been detained by Trump's ICE. But we absolutely cannot put our faith in Democratic Party politicians like Adam Smith, Maria Cantwell, or Patty Murray. Smith,

We live in a highly undemocratic economic system where our considerable productive capacities are controlled overwhelmingly by capital - the commercial banks, the large corporations, and the 1% who own the majority of investible assets. They are the ones who determine what we

Sorry, I should say the problem is not due *mainly* to government regulations, it is due *mainly* to capitalist control over production. It's quite possible that some govt regulations do in fact prevent some necessary development, but this is often because of the

The UN has declared famine in Gaza. It is the first officially recognized famine in the history of the Middle East. A human-made crime, not a natural tragedy. Israel is deliberately starving Gaza before the eyes of the world. This isn’t war. It’s calculated extermination.