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  1. A quotation from Orwell

    History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime

  2. A quotation from Orwell

    History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime

  3. A quotation from Orwell

    History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime

  4. A quotation from Orwell

    History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime

  5. A quotation from Orwell

    History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime

  6. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a. "Ministers are 'failing to learn the lessons' from the #Southport attack & allowing violence-obsessed #teenagers to remain a 'catastrophic' threat to #society, #lawyers for #victims of the #atrocity have said ahead of the findings of an official #inquiry. A report on the July 2024 attack by the judge Sir Adrian Fulford, to be released on Monday, is expected to strongly criticise failings by a series of agencies, including the counter-terrorism programme #Prevent."

  7. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a. "Ministers are 'failing to learn the lessons' from the #Southport attack & allowing violence-obsessed #teenagers to remain a 'catastrophic' threat to #society, #lawyers for #victims of the #atrocity have said ahead of the findings of an official #inquiry. A report on the July 2024 attack by the judge Sir Adrian Fulford, to be released on Monday, is expected to strongly criticise failings by a series of agencies, including the counter-terrorism programme #Prevent."

  8. European ministers in Ukraine for Bucha atrocities anniversary as drones hammer Russian oil ports

    KYIV, Ukraine — European foreign ministers visited Ukraine on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of atrocities committed in a…
    #Europe #EU #AssociatedPress #atrocity #balticseamondaynight #Bucha #defenseministry #European #europeanminister #kallas #Kyiv #moscow #Russia #russianoilfacility #tuesday #Ukraine #ukrainiandrone #War
    europesays.com/europe/2284/

  9. UK diluting international law

    I do not believe #Scotland’s future lies within a Union which risks taking us into an #illegal #war

    It’s a #Union pandering to #bullies, which fails to condemn #WarCrimes, which actively supports and funds a #genocide, which sells our defence contracts to dangerous companies who co-ordinate #atrocity #crimes and which feels more comfortable in isolation from the world than it does in working with our allies.

    thenational.scot/politics/2597

    #UK #England #Indy2 #democracy

  10. UK diluting international law

    I do not believe #Scotland’s future lies within a Union which risks taking us into an #illegal #war

    It’s a #Union pandering to #bullies, which fails to condemn #WarCrimes, which actively supports and funds a #genocide, which sells our defence contracts to dangerous companies who co-ordinate #atrocity #crimes and which feels more comfortable in isolation from the world than it does in working with our allies.

    thenational.scot/politics/2597

    #UK #England #Indy2 #democracy

  11. UK diluting international law

    I do not believe #Scotland’s future lies within a Union which risks taking us into an #illegal #war

    It’s a #Union pandering to #bullies, which fails to condemn #WarCrimes, which actively supports and funds a #genocide, which sells our defence contracts to dangerous companies who co-ordinate #atrocity #crimes and which feels more comfortable in isolation from the world than it does in working with our allies.

    thenational.scot/politics/2597

    #UK #England #Indy2 #democracy

  12. UK diluting international law

    I do not believe #Scotland’s future lies within a Union which risks taking us into an #illegal #war

    It’s a #Union pandering to #bullies, which fails to condemn #WarCrimes, which actively supports and funds a #genocide, which sells our defence contracts to dangerous companies who co-ordinate #atrocity #crimes and which feels more comfortable in isolation from the world than it does in working with our allies.

    thenational.scot/politics/2597

    #UK #England #Indy2 #democracy

  13. UK diluting international law

    I do not believe #Scotland’s future lies within a Union which risks taking us into an #illegal #war

    It’s a #Union pandering to #bullies, which fails to condemn #WarCrimes, which actively supports and funds a #genocide, which sells our defence contracts to dangerous companies who co-ordinate #atrocity #crimes and which feels more comfortable in isolation from the world than it does in working with our allies.

    thenational.scot/politics/2597

    #UK #England #Indy2 #democracy

  14. #AI got the blame for the #Iran #school #bombing. The truth is far more worrying

    #LLMs gone #rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting.

    Instead, it was choices made by #human beings, over many years, that gave us this #atrocity

    theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/

    #USAggression #WarCrimes #HumanError #AIFails #DarwinAwards

  15. #InternationalLaw

    Authoritative survey of 23 armed conflicts over last 18 months concluded international law at breaking point, with over 100,000 #civilians killed, while #torture, #rape committed with near #impunity

    #Atrocity #crimes are being repeated because past ones were tolerated. Our actions – or inaction – will determine whether international #humanitarian #law vanishes altogether

    theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/0

    #WarCrimes #dictators #Trump #ComradeKrasnov #USAggression #USThreats

  16. “How Atrocity Propaganda Manufactures Consent For War”

    by The Dissident on Substack

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    “The Latest Atrocity Propaganda About Iran Is The Latest In A Long Series Of Atrocity Propaganda Claims Used To Manufacture Consent For War”

    open.substack.com/pub/the307/p

    #Press #Iran #US #Atrocity #Propaganda #Lies #Disinformation #MSM #VichyMedia #Consent #War

  17. And then this #atrocity from #Spotify (of course no options to nuke it)

  18. A quotation from Daniel Webster

    At the moment when God in his mercy has blessed the Christian world with a universal peace, there is reason to fear, that, to the disgrace of the Christian name and character, new efforts are making for the extension of this [slave] trade by subjects and citizens of Christian states, in whose hearts there dwell no sentiments of humanity or of justice, and over whom neither the fear of God nor the fear of man exercises a control. In the sight of our law, the African slave-trader is a pirate and a felon; and in the sight of Heaven, an offender beyond the ordinary depth of human guilt.

    Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American statesman, lawyer, orator
    Speech (1820-12-22), “First Settlement of New England,” Plymouth, Massachusetts

    More about this quote: wist.info/webster-daniel/80534…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #danielwebster #abomination #atrocity #Christianity #enslavement #sin #sinner #slavetrade #slavery

  19. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

       “And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself, and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies which the Lord thy God hath given thee. Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these people which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth”
       Is it possible for man to conceive of anything more perfectly infamous? Can you believe that such directions were given by any being except an infinite fiend? Remember that the army receiving these instructions was one of invasion. Peace was offered upon condition that the people submitting should be the slaves of the invader; but if any should have the courage to defend their homes, to fight for the love of wife and child, then the sword was to spare none — not even the prattling, dimpled babe.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
    Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

    More info about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #slaughter #atrocity #Bible #destruction #God #infamy #invasion #OldTestament #war #warcrimes #holyland

  20. Zionist settlers attacked an aid convoy for the second time in days, delaying 30 trucks from Jordan on their way to Gaza. Video shows settlers chanting “May Palestine’s name be wiped out”. Jordan condemned the assault, accusing Israel of failing to stop repeated settler attacks.

    #Zionists #Genocide #Enforcers #Israel #Gaza #Jordan #Blockaid #StarvingChildren #Atrocity

  21. #Children collecting water are majority of the 10 dead Sunday after Israeli missile strike in #Gaza . #IDF claim "technical error" "under review" as they were only seeking to kill a "militant" dozens of metres beyond where missile hit, and issue rote #atrocity #apology for "accident" that killed more innocent civilians.

    In total, 19 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the #GazaStrip on Sunday, local health officials said.

    Two #women and three #children were among nine killed in a different #attack by an Israeli strike on a home in the central town of Zawaida, officials at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said.

    #Israel has claimed it hit more than 150 targets in the besieged Gaza enclave in the past 24 hrs.

    ground.news/article/idf-blames

  22. *He didn't get it about melting the North and South Poles with centuries of earnest, well-trained effort and meticulous logistics #atrocity

  23. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    who’s gonna tell the #Martians
    why #Gazan lost kids weren’t on #cartons ?
    slippery #WalkOns #grift for #argent
    every time our #eyebrows arching
    don’t let it touch the heartstrings
    to get us to #SwipeAway as it hardens
    #violent ardent khaki #sergeants
    while we quake at #AlmondStalin
    #GaryLineker ’s #PostPartum
    pen over parchment starts to sharpen
    I won’t make that bargain
    I won’t beg that pardon
    I be like “na man” gotta be barking
    #PreciousIsEachFallenStarling
    I’ll be the aveunt’s pesky #varmint
    I’ll be #TestCase for their #retirement
    I’ll be car-pooling up in the #parklands
    opening the gates on #arkham
    I’ll wipe out your margin
    shave your #merkin
    spice your #parkin
    I’ll rehouse the martens
    #TrainTheUrchins
    spike your #garmin
    I’ll be a #token doing a #slalom
    round this #empire led by #Cartman
    judged by duds like #MerrickGarland
    none can thrive in this #environment
    #censor tears of #Salah
    lala to #Novara
    if the bleeding party’s darker
    #apathy #cicadas
    while we eke they #parking
    grasping for our farthing
    all the #smartcards for the #outcasts marking
    in this #awks #SharedDream hearken!
    someone’s growing a fold: #Darkling
    I don’t think we’ve time for #aksing
    it’s got a bit beyond a #Marx ting
    #DontSweat who’s inna room just barge in
    tell them we need the #boats , we're not larking
    #AllOfTheChildrenAreOurs when hurting
    it’s part of our #dharma and we’re departing

    7/7

    #Bars
    #Poetry
    #Lyrics
    #Songs
    #writing
    #rhymescheme
    #geopol
    #MiddleEast
    #IsraeliWarCrimes
    #FreedomFlotilla
    #Sumud
    #ConvoyOfSteadfastness
    #FreePalestine
    #Madleen
    #AntiFascist
    #Genocide
    #UKpol
    #Labour
    #RuleOfLaw
    #Atrocity
    #Imperalism
    #Collapse
    #Ethics
    #Society
    #Praxis
    #CallToAction
    #WorldOrder
    #SocialMovements
    #Surveillance #State #SurveillanceState

  24. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    who’s gonna tell the #Martians
    why #Gazan lost kids weren’t on #cartons ?
    slippery #WalkOns #grift for #argent
    every time our #eyebrows arching
    don’t let it touch the heartstrings
    to get us to #SwipeAway as it hardens
    #violent ardent khaki #sergeants
    while we quake at #AlmondStalin
    #GaryLineker ’s #PostPartum
    pen over parchment starts to sharpen
    I won’t make that bargain
    I won’t beg that pardon
    I be like “na man” gotta be barking
    #PreciousIsEachFallenStarling
    I’ll be the aveunt’s pesky #varmint
    I’ll be #TestCase for their #retirement
    I’ll be car-pooling up in the #parklands
    opening the gates on #arkham
    I’ll wipe out your margin
    shave your #merkin
    spice your #parkin
    I’ll rehouse the martens
    #TrainTheUrchins
    spike your #garmin
    I’ll be a #token doing a #slalom
    round this #empire led by #Cartman
    judged by duds like #MerrickGarland
    none can thrive in this #environment
    #censor tears of #Salah
    lala to #Novara
    if the bleeding party’s darker
    #apathy #cicadas
    while we eke they #parking
    grasping for our farthing
    all the #smartcards for the #outcasts marking
    in this #awks #SharedDream hearken!
    someone’s growing a fold: #Darkling
    I don’t think we’ve time for #aksing
    it’s got a bit beyond a #Marx ting
    #DontSweat who’s inna room just barge in
    tell them we need the #boats , we're not larking
    #AllOfTheChildrenAreOurs when hurting
    it’s part of our #dharma and we’re departing

    7/7

    #Bars
    #Poetry
    #Lyrics
    #Songs
    #writing
    #rhymescheme
    #geopol
    #MiddleEast
    #IsraeliWarCrimes
    #FreedomFlotilla
    #Sumud
    #ConvoyOfSteadfastness
    #FreePalestine
    #Madleen
    #AntiFascist
    #Genocide
    #UKpol
    #Labour
    #RuleOfLaw
    #Atrocity
    #Imperalism
    #Collapse
    #Ethics
    #Society
    #Praxis
    #CallToAction
    #WorldOrder
    #SocialMovements
    #Surveillance #State #SurveillanceState