@ilejim
Artist, philosopher, Anarchist. Born in Glasgow. Educated in Paisley, Stirling, London and Barcelona. Newly disabled in cycling accident. Still dreaming of a better world and am living in a beautiful island. Tha mi a Eilean Γle.
Illiteracy & poor education
isn't the fault of people
living in poverty,
failed by schools,
kept underfunded
to stop them learning
to think for themselves,
and brought up by parents
who experienced the same
Writing them off as "stupid"
is just what tax-avoiding
divide-and-rule millionaires want
Never forgetβ¦
"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity."
Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...
Did you know that the share of Scotland block grant to overall spend in the UK has DROPPED to its lowest share in over a decade
Analysis of the facts and figures contained in the House of Commons library confirm that it has decreased from 8.2% in 2015-16 to 7.6% as of July Wiping Β£6.4 billion off it
A distinction without a difference. Prestwick is being used as part of this illegal war, as the spike in US military aircraft use shows.
Will the Scottish Government be fobbed off by this smoke & mirrors, or will they do the right thing and ban Trump's troops from their airport?
BUT, HERE'S THE THING: all Arabs and Muslims themselves are the offspring of Abram too...
And Genesis 15:19-21 lists lots of non-Jews the land is ALSO given to.
Racism has no place in an independent Scotland.
#ProudBlue
#USDemocracy Live !!!
War Crimes" Bibi"
Human Rights Watch: 'Israel used white phosphorus ammunition in Lebanon'
Human Rights Watch again accuses Israel IDF of a war crime. Exposure to white phosphorus can not only lead to mutilation, but also to death on babies and elderly.
ICE deported a 6 year old deaf child with severe disabilities to Columbia.
Before deporting him, they dragged him from camp to camp without providing his assistive hearing devices or a translator.
This innocent child had no way to communicate or understand what was being done to him:
I hope they fucking rot in hell.
π¨ BREAKING: A Spanish lawmaker Manuela Bergerot publicly calls out the U.S. and Israel over attacks killing Iranian children:
"You can't be defending the rights of women by killing and celebrating deaths of 160 girls. I oppose Trump and Netanyahu"
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #NoMoreWars #Iran #Israel
People are just assets to use and discard
Wealth cap.
One billion.
Anything extra has to go to society.
These are the people that don't even pay taxes.
What IS the point of the ultra-rich?
David Lammy: "... because Cyprus is part of NATO"
erm, Cyprus is not a member of NATO. Maybe its just a slip of the tongue? Except he repeats the claim just a minute later
"... Cyprus is a NATO country"
Does the deputy PM not know that Cyprus isn't a member of a NATO?
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...donβt trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesnβt bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesnβt create jobs
Folks, weβve seen this all before.
Why? Has #Israel ordered #Starmer to bomb Iran?
Scottish independence must be given the chance. No wm party has the interests of Scots in their minds.
#Scottishindependence βοΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
The enthusiasm of most billionaire media outlets in the US and UK for Trumpβs illegal assault on Iran is another reminder of how deranged, perverse and frankly psychopathic these organisations are.
Labour just announced energy price cap dropped.
Oil just spiked, completely undoing that.
Given 50% of UK energy is from renewables, now is the time to renationalise and drop the dumbass marginal price system that makes green energy needlessly as expensive as gas.
Nothing to see here. Just GOP Senator and arch-hawk Lindsey Graham treating, and speaking to, Donald Trump like a six-year-old child to manipulate him into a war of aggression against Iran that Netanyahu and Graham have long wanted. Beyond parody:
I always knew the Tories were heartless, but growing up it was mainly surrounding UK business & practice. A callous style of ruthlessness that ebbed and flowed between give and take as the power passed intermittently from left to right.
I NEVER thought they'd side with Hitler. EVER.
The US still had around 50,000 troops stationed across at least 19 sites across the Middle East and around Iran
Starmer has the backbone of a jelly fish. What a dweeb.
So much for that π¬π§π€‘ Starmerβs βlegal participationβ and his βdefensive strikes onlyβ limitation.
The US is using British bases to bomb Iran to a bloody pulp and kill Iranian civilians. Thanks a bunch, Sir Keir.
About a week ago Starmer said that the war on Iran by the US and Israel was against international law.
But now he's decided that our navy should be there supporting this war.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
US is not using Prestwick Airport to strike Iran, UK Government says
www.thenational.scot/news/2591730...
Trita Parsi:
"The US has struck Iranian desalination plants. If Iran responds in kind by striking desalination plants in GCC, the situation for Iran's Arab neighbours will be devastating. It appears the Iranian FM is hinting at that in his last sentence here."
#HandsOffIran
"London has moved additional forces to the Middle East, including deploying more fighter jets to Qatar and sending helicopters equipped with counter-drone systems to Cyprus"
On the wrong side of history, again. On the side of the oppressor, the imperialist, colonial, warmonger US. Well done Starmer
1/ Russian bloggers are waking up to the fact that they live in an oppressive dictatorship with declining living standards. 14 years after Vladimir Putin was reelected as "a strong leader for a great country," commentators are asking: what has Putin ever done for us? β¬οΈ
