Let’s take a moment to consider the discipline it’s taken over the last 9 months for many of our favourite artists to not mention a genocide

Bravo 👏 👏 On #bbcqt top economist Mariana Mazzucato explains why measures such as cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment and austerity are damaging and counterproductive. She also debunks the whole notion that you run a government like you run a household.

"Other than Media Lens, I can’t think of another publication that has produced such sharp analysis of how the British media invariably produces de facto propaganda when it comes to British foreign policy" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/peace-… Joanna P. Booth

If you want a quick primer on the US and UK intervention in the in war Syria - which the UN Commission of Inquiry says is escalating again - you can do worse than this timeline I compiled. Easy to navigate, follow and based on 5 years of solid reading: tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry…

This is brilliant reporting from the anonymous Guardian journalist in Tunisia theguardian.com/global-develop…

"The EU is funding security forces committing widespread sexual violence against vulnerable women, the most egregious allegations yet to taint last year’s contentious agreement between Brussels and Tunis to prevent migrants reaching Europe" theguardian.com/global-develop…

Damning. 'Senior Brussels sources admit the EU is “aware” of the abuse allegations engulfing Tunisia’s security forces but is turning a blind eye in its desperation, led by Italy, to outsource Europe’s southern border to Africa.' theguardian.com/global-develop…

"Despite mounting human rights concerns, the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, prompted dismay on Monday by expressing interest in the model of paying Tunisia to stop people reaching Europe." theguardian.com/global-develop…

I don't think many ppl realise the level of anti-women radicalisation going on in the US. "Men are unilaterally responsible for every bit of comfort and security you are currently ungratefully enjoying" - host of Whatever podcast to woman youtu.be/xsDRkQnVVEo?si… Angharad Penrhyn

A state which has committed some of the worst atrocities of the 21st century has just invaded Lebanon. None of this is reflected by this empty nothing, by a foreign secretary whose government continues to arm Israel.

“I realized that it is possible to live well while a genocide is being committed" - Amira Hass on a passage in Simone de Beauvoir’s memoirs about a pleasant bike ride in the mountains during WW2 newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…. Media Lens Ken MacLeod Steve Howell

This 1999 report is new to me: "NATO bombing of Serbia caused, rather than prevented, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the organisation's former secretary general, Lord Carrington, said today" theguardian.com/world/1999/aug… Media Lens Number10 Mark Curtis

The resignation of the four Peace News workers is a huge, irrevocable loss for anyone interested in a more just and less violent world morningstaronline.co.uk/article/peace-… Wales for Peace | Cymru dros Heddwch Paul Rogers Scottish CND

"Of course, the problem here is capitalism’s growth imperative" - Fleur Britten on the ecological disaster of fast fashion theguardian.com/fashion/2024/s… Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 Jason Hickel

"[US] Intelligence agencies concluded that granting Ukraine’s request to use Western missiles against targets deep in Russia could prompt forceful retaliation while not fundamentally changing the course of the war" nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/… Number10 Media Lens

Spoiler: by killing untold numbers of men; women; and children; with the cheerful complicity of headlines like this one

Listening to the BBC talk about Iranian proxies all the time I sometimes wonder why the US doesn't respond in kind & get some of its own. No expert, but there must be plenty of violent state & non-state actors the US could support politically & militarily?

Breaking: CNN’s Jim Sciutto confirms Israel is using human shields, strategically positioning its command and control center in densely populated civilian areas

Great Morning Star front page from Lizzy Short #Gaza

The U.K. is directly participating in Israel’s genocidal war on its neighbours. That’s what this is IMO: U.K. armed forces fighting in a war to protect Israel. No similar protections for Palestinians, Lebanese, Yemenis, Syrians or Iraqis. Tells you a lot.