Juris Martins 🌹🇱🇻🇪🇺

Tikai ne "šo 9. maija dienu"! :D

Meanwhile...

"US Central Command is urging Iranians to stay at home as it accuses Tehran of using civilian areas to launch attacks"

How did they think people could rise up in an active war zone?

www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

Americans voted for war crime proponents—open, unsubtle advocates for years, whose big criticism of the U.S. military and allies was insufficient war criming due to, uh, wokeness or something—telling themselves it would bring peace to the Middle East, and stick it to Middle Eastern war criminals.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Even with Russia helping Iran target Americans, the Trump administration approach to Ukraine is Russia deserves to get something for its aggression, and the goal of U.S. pressure is to get Ukraine to bow down to Putin.

The narrative of "Israel manipulated the US into going to war" plays on antisemitic tropes, yes, but it is also fundamentally reflects a right-wing worldview where the US is a basically innocent actor and foreigners are the duplicitous ones. That's why it is so appealing to Tucker Carlson and MTG.

For MAGA isolationists, it is easier to blame Jews rather to admit that their leader happens to be eager to start wars. "It is the Jews that fooled our great president!" is going to be their coping mechanism.

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

The challenge is also to acknowledge that it is not just a loss in "media narrative" but also a consequence of disastrous policy willfully implemented by the Israeli government itself.

Pakistani government exactly getting a taste of their own medicine.

Nebrīnītos, ja atklātos, ka Mieriņai runas raksta MI.

The Treacherous Allure of the “Polarization” Dogma On the limits and pitfalls of a narrative that obscures more than it illuminates – A Manifesto, Part I

Par ASV maldinošo polarizācijas naratīvu: Ļoti labs raksts no vēsturnieka Tomasa Zimmera (Thomas Zimmer) no 2024.gada.
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democracyamericana.com/posts/a676df...

Kad performatīvā neitralitāte grauj realitātes uztveri. Līdzīgi, kā ar ASV politiku, kur medijos pastāv dominējošs naratīvs par "polarizāciju" un "abu pušu virzīšanos uz polāriem ekstrēmiem", bet patiesībā ir tikai viena puse (republikāņi), kas radikalizējas.

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US Press Missed Rubio’s Nod to Far-Right German Movement to End Holocaust Guilt Before embracing Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán, and wishing him success, Marco Rubio gave a speech at this year’s Munich security conference that was littered with White Nationalist tal...

My latest for @religiondispatches.org on Rubio’s nod to far right calls for an end to the remembrance of Nazi crimes: That a right-wing revisionist narrative is being echoed by the US State Dept as they attempt to build a global ethno-nationalist alliance is a harbinger of what’s to come

The deliberate, systematic strategy of the Trump regime: Seize people indiscriminately, even if they’re going through the system exactly as they are expected to; detain them under brutally inhumane conditions specifically designed to break them - so that they will give up and waive all legal rights.

The real news here is Peter Navarro saying lower jobs numbers *are good* because they (supposedly) indicate fewer immigrants are working in the US. Trump-MAGA ideology values sheer numbers of removals over pretty much all else because their top priority is ethnic reengineering.

This is of course ridiculous, but also a perfect example of how „woke“ for them mean every single improvement that has been successfully fought for by emancipatory movements since abolition.

In a time of oppression, hatred and division, love is stronger than anything.
Together we can create a world where all humans are treated equal.

From the USA to the EU, together we can push the corrupt men out.

Part of what's great about this is how Hunter Hess tried really hard to not go into specifics but Trump (1) deduced (correctly!) that any reference to things that aren't "good" or "moral" must mean him and (2) decided he needed to elevate it with some bonkers response. Great work, Mr. President. 🫡

Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.

Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.

Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

Ukraine-Russia Talks End With Little Progress and Hints of an Impasse

Of course Ukraine-Russia talks ended with "little progress and hints of an impasse."

Russia is still after conquest, Ukraine still won't bow down, Russia can't make them. Trump can't get Ukraine to forfeit its freedom and won't put real pressure on Russia.

So the farce of "peace talks" continues.

Wie viele hochgefährliche Transpersonen waren eigentlich in Epsteins kriminelles Pädophilennetzwerk involviert? Man könnte meinen, es geht Konservativen (zwinkizwonki) gar nicht um den Schutz von Kindern.

Es ist ja auch spannend wer nicht in den Epstein-Files ist.
Drag Queens, trans Personen und Bernie Sanders z.b.

CN Epstein

Wir haben eine internationale Rechte, die die Epstein-Files nutzen um ihren Antisemitismus gegen Juden_Jüdinnen zu bestätigen und diesen mehr denn je zu befeuern.

Und eine Linke, die nicht dagegen kämpft sondern selbiges nur über den Umweg mit "Israel" treibt und beim Befeuern mitmacht.