@EndemicEarthling@todon.eu
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Jun 09, 2026
EndemicEarthling
@EndemicEarthling@todon.eu
Recovering coloniser on stolen Gadigal land. He/any ND GM PhD ΙΧΘΥΣ Ethics is about asking good questions, not just reaching a good answer. For centuries people have debated: "is it ethical to steal bread if your family is starving?". But there's a more pressing question: "is it ethical to sell bread when people are starving?" "Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within." – Oodgeroo Noonuccal "There is dignity, grace, and humanity in changing your mind" — Caitlyn Doughty “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ― Emma Goldman "You were born at just the right moment to help change everything." — Eric Holthaus
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The US Apache helicopter was in Iranian airspace when it was hit.
Has this simple fact been mentioned in any of the mainstream western media reporting on this latest round of escalation? Perhaps, but I haven't seen it.
A few days ago, Israel did not respond to Iranian aggression with a counter strike (as most mainstream media sources framed it). Iran was responding to Israel's ongoing aggression in southern Lebanon over the last few months, where the Israeli military has been bulldozing dozens of villages, killing well over 3,000 people (predominantly civilians), wounding more than ten thousand people, targeting (once more) medical facilities and first responders, displacing over 20% of the population, while announcing plans to make their occupation permanent. And Iran was responding specifically to Israel once more bombing a densely-populated part of Beirut.
For decades, western media have consistently misrepresented the aggressors (US-Israel) as the victims. Whenever one of the targets of their illegal expansionist/imperialist violence retaliates, this response/defence is treated as the originating act of aggression and (retrospective) _casus belli_.
History didn't start yesterday.
#MediaBias #USImperialism #Iran #IranWar #Israel #InternationalLaw #framing #Disinformation
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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social
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Apr 24, 2026
DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social
Writer, psychologist & educator here to learn & share info on politics, psych, education, history &, especially, structural power. Antifascist, anti-oligarchy, atheist. I boost what I find interesting, regardless of whether I agree with it. Resisting fascism includes countering disinformation with facts. I prefer evidence, not evidence-free opinion. Image: Rothko #61
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Interview: "How Hawkish Democrats, from Schumer to Harris, Paved the Way for War with Iran"
"The climate that the Democrats have helped lay in these 20 years of hawkish statements & resolutions... really made Trump’s job easier & has enabled him, thus far, to get away with it."
Dem opposition has been "largely on procedural grounds without making a forceful moral case against war".
~Stephen Zunes
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/23/stephen_zunes
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #USImperialism #neocons #news #racism .
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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social
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Apr 20, 2026
DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social
Writer, psychologist & educator here to learn & share info on politics, psych, education, history &, especially, structural power. Antifascist, anti-oligarchy, atheist. I boost what I find interesting, regardless of whether I agree with it. Resisting fascism includes countering disinformation with facts. I prefer evidence, not evidence-free opinion. Image: Rothko #61
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Report: "Iran rejects second round of talks over ‘Washington’s excessive demands'."
"Iran has rejected participation in a second round of peace talks due to “Washington’s excessive demands, unrealistic expectations, constant shifts in stance, repeated contradictions, & the ongoing naval blockade, which it considers a breach of the ceasefire”.
https://aje.news/w7b54q?update=4505711
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #FakePeaceTalks #press #Ceasefire #USImperialism #Racism .
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@DrALJONES@mastodon.social
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Apr 15, 2026
DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social
Writer, psychologist & educator here to learn & share info on politics, psych, education, history &, especially, structural power. Antifascist, anti-oligarchy, atheist. I boost what I find interesting, regardless of whether I agree with it. Resisting fascism includes countering disinformation with facts. I prefer evidence, not evidence-free opinion. Image: Rothko #61
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Report: The US can't reproduce its high-end weaponry quickly enough.
Munitions used in just the first 4 days of the war on Iran used 92 tons of copper, 137kg neodymium, 18kg gallium, 37kg tantalum, 7kg dysprosium, & 600 tons ammonium perchlorate (only 1 domestic US source).
China controls production of 98% of gallium, 90% neodymium, 99% dysprosium.
The US is a currency issuer. It *cannot* run out of USD. No such luck with copper, etc.
https://thecradle.co/articles/between-war-and-industrial-breakdown-the-us-israeli-attrition-crisis
#USPol #EUPol #USImperialism .
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