when we say that fascism is when “forms of colonial oppression coming home to roost in the metropole”, this is exactly what that looks like. you couldn’t design a more hamfisted example in a fucking lab

Did the US forget to renew your guys’ Final Cut Pro license? What the fuck IS this?

“Israel doesn’t target civilians”

This photo says more about British foreign policy than a thousand op-eds ever could.

U.S. officials are scrambling to deny Israeli reports that the U.S. is bombing Iran. It seems like Israel is trying to force Trump’s hand by triggering this direct confrontation.

It's an overdue reminder to Adani, Intel and other companies invested in Israel that a pathologically belligerent rogue state isn't just another investment location

Majority opposition across the board in literally every single demographic polled here.

Trumpworld is wild, there's internal opposition to a looming Iran war but nobody wants to criticize him directly because the movement is oriented on his personality (and the logic that Trump = right), so they can only make plays for the "people around him" and his "guidance"

The pro-Israel, pro-war politicians never frame it as a choice that has to be justified. They never bother to try to persuade us. It’s always an obligation, a duty, something you’ll be shamed and disciplined and punished if you don’t fulfill. Never a choice willingly made

What's driving this war is not the fear that Iran won't sign a nuclear deal but the fear that it will.

how do you watch the right wing vote split in half and still lose to both halves

Institutional capture is complete. I go back to Branko Milanovic argument that the only advantage of democracies to dictatorships is the freedom to say what we like on social media. The lesson of the 21stC is that Western Govts ignore their people the same way dictatorships do theirs

They learned lessons from Iraq. These were: - Don’t seek public consent - Enforce your version of events - Do it via media panics and physically by police, if required - Never admit an error, let alone anything worse - Instantly forget: if possible, never refer to it again.

A colonel with an axe to grind against the current regime? Mass support in the population and potentially the ranks of the military for his view?

this election really is the state of american politics writ large

Only a complete dupe would spend ludicrous amounts of money on an interceptor missile-based air defence system just after the concept's limitations were revealed. Also doing this while undermining the diplomacy that actually does stop missile attacks - really damn stupid.

Bizarre caption. Lander has never agreed w Mamdani completely on Israel/Palestine, & while he criticizes the one phrase, he explicitly defends Mamdani as a candidate for all NYCers, defends his endorsement of Mamdani, & suggests that Cuomo is the real bigot in the race.

nostalgia i guess

Because Schumer 100% supports regime change war with Iran but cant explicitly say so. Jeffries doesn’t believe in anything other than regurgitating the same 5 AIPAC cliches, but Schumer was goading Trump 3 weeks ago to get “tough” on Iran and not make any “side deals” with them.

The unstated premise of this whining is that it's axiomatically good for the UK to support the US attacking Iran. Farage is just another servile Atlanticist. Far-righties won't stand up for the actual interests of British people in not destabilising West Asia further.