Jonathan Reynolds and two senior staff went to Glastonbury as guests of YouTube. Until then, Labour was promising to increase the digital service tax from 2% to 10%. Literally the day after the festival, it emerged that Reynolds had ditched the policy. novaramedia.com/2024/09/23/rep…

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at what point do we accept that our mass awareness, uncoordinated, peaceful rally campaigns were ineffective? when do we acknowledge other tactics might be required of us? not some faceless mob we can eventually let off a leash to save us…but us. right here right now.

This feeling. Don’t forget this feeling. This is the feeling of every innocent person condemned to death by a system devoid of humanity. This is how people feel powerless in the face of the greatest injustice. Every lynching. “Every bombed village.” This is genocide.

Khaliifah Marcellus Williams (left),with his family. Via Innocence Project. Courtesy of the Williams family.

I am disgusted this is*still* the primary British response to massacres in Lebanon. No, not sanctions against the Israeli regime that killed 560 people in 48 hours. No, not stopping weapons sales. No. “Britons must leave” — that’s it, that’s all the PM has to say.

“They could be asking whether people who have been criminalized should be subjected to the forces of organized violence. They could ask if we need organized violence.” - Ruth Wilson Gilmore nytimes.com/2019/04/17/mag…

Sally Rooney will always have my heart for her unequivocal support for Palestine. As we are learning in real time, it takes a lot to be a decent person in the west right now. Here she is at Southbank Centre tonight, before beginning her reading.

Beirut now; they are carpet bombing the city. 100,000 people fled to Beirut from the South in search of safety

Do not despair. There are two kinds of war: annihilation and attrition. The well resourced aggressor always uses the former. Whether it’s Vietnam, Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon- ‘shock and awe’ firepower is always used first, but the resistance in Lebanon and Gaza are dug-in, committed,

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.” cbsn.ws/4gJxe2g

"This is our guiding principle: No to fascism. The path of revolution in Lebanon is our universe. From our defiance, a beautiful morning will rise, as we champion it now, in this very moment, now, now, now—and it will triumph through us."

It’s midnight in Beirut. The Israelis are pounding Dahyeh so hard the whole capital can hear the airstrikes. It’s like being in a prison and you can hear the screams of other prisoners being tortured down the hall and there’s nothing you can do about it

The launching point for hundreds of massacres, Nevatim is Israel's main airbase. The base was one of the gifts of Camp David, built and continually upgraded with U.S. assistance. Its construction occasioned the forced expulsion of hundreds of Palestinian bedouin from their land.

Iran hasn’t attacked another country in 300 years, Israel has attacked 5 countries in the past two months. They are not the same. Me in a heated exchange:

airstriking Gaza, the West Bank, the South of Lebanon, Beirut, Yemen and Syria and the Western establishment wants you to believe that Iran is the rogue state destabilizing the Middle East

🚨 TODAY - National Demo - One year of Genocide 📍 Russell Square, London ⏰ Saturday 5 October, 12PM Join us today as we march for Palestine. After 1 year of Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people we must step-up the pressure on our government to #StopArmingIsrael