#bombings — Public Fediverse posts
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Emails show Kash Patel went on a ‘VIP snorkel’ at Pearl Harbor
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/102133/ Iran reviews US proposals as Trump threatens new wave of bombing unless deal is reached #AbbasAraghchi #bombings #Business #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #EnergyIndustry #GeneralNews #HapagLloydAG #InternationalNews #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #MiddleEast #OilAndGasIndustry #Pakistan #PakistanGovernment #Politics #Religion #ShehbazSharif #SouthAsia #StraitOfHormuz #TahirAndrabi #Tehran #UnitedStatesGovernment #WangYi #WarAndUnrest #Waterways #WorldNews #XiJinping
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US and Iran appear to move closer to ending their war
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United State…
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Trump threatens Iran with bombing if it doesn’t reopen Strait of Hormuz | National News
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with more bombing Wednesday if it doesn’…
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New IRA claims Belfast police station car bomb, warns of more attacks
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A dangerous dissident republican group, the New IRA, which is…
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Iran-US talks speculation grows | AP News
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Iran-US talks speculation grows | AP News
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Woman arrested at LAX on Iranian arms trafficking charge
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors said a 44-year-old Los Angeles woman was arr…
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https://www.europesays.com/people/26463/ Dozens arrested at NYC protest demanding U.S. block sale of bombs to Israel #AlexaAvils #BernieSanders #bombings #CharlesSchumer #ChelseaManning #ChuckSchumer #GeneralNews #HariNef #Iran #IranWar #Israel #IsraelGovernment #KirstenGillibrand #manhattan #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Politics #ProtestsAndDemonstrations #SonyaMeyersonKnox #USNews #UnitedStatesSenate
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/66106/ Dozens arrested at NYC protest demanding U.S. block sale of bombs to Israel #AlexaAvils #BernieSanders #bombings #CharlesSchumer #ChelseaManning #GeneralNews #HariNef #Iran #IranWar #Israel #IsraelGovernment #KirstenGillibrand #Manhattan #NewYork #NewYorkCity #Politics #ProtestsAndDemonstrations #SonyaMeyersonKnox #USNews #UnitedStatesSenate
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Dozens arrested at NYC protest demanding U.S. block sale of bombs to Israel
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 100 protesters were arrested during a demonstration…
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Iran fires at Saudi Arabia and Israel as Trump deadline nears
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A…
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https://www.europesays.com/news/12584/ How Iran’s enriched uranium could be secured #Bombings #ChristineEWormuth #DaryaDolzikova #DavidAlbright #DonaldTrump #EnergyIndustry #GeneralNews #Headlines #InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #JoeBiden #MilitaryAndDefense #News #NuclearWeapons #Politics #RafaelGrossi #ScottRoecker #TopStories #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/46530/ How Iran’s enriched uranium could be secured #bombings #ChristineEWormuth #DaryaDolzikova #DavidAlbright #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency #InternationalNews #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #JoeBiden #MilitaryAndDefense #NuclearWeapons #Politics #RafaelGrossi #ScottRoecker #Tehran #WorldNews
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Iran faces bombs and uncertainty a month into the war
CAIRO (AP) — Iranians were already reeling from a shattered economy and the mass killing of protesters when…
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#PopeLeo says #aerial #military #strikes should be #banned
"No one shld hv to fear tt threats of #death & #destruction might come fr te sky. After te tragic experiences of the 20th century, aerial #bombings should have been banned forever," he said. "Yet they still exist … this is not progress; it is regression!" The #pope has called repeatedly for a #ceasefire in the #Iran #war. On Sunday he called the conflict a "scandal to the whole #human family"" #JailNetanyahu
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China unlikely to help US reopen Hormuz as Trump’s Beijing trip slips
WASHINGTON (AP) — China won’t help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz as req…
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Residents of Iran’s capital gripped by anxiety and sleeplessness
CAIRO (AP) — An engineer crouches under a park bench as fighter jets roar overhead. An athlete wracked…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #AliKhamenei #APTopNews #Bombings #Engineering #Generalnews #Health #Internet #Iran #Irangovernment #IranWar #Israelgovernment #MentalHealth #MojtabaKhamenei #Protestsanddemonstrations #Tehran #UK #UnitedKingdom #Warandunrest #Worldnews
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/11274/ Iran names Khamenei’s son as new leader as oil prices soar #AliKhamenei #AliLarijani #APTopNews #bombings #Business #DonaldTrump #DroneSurveillanceAndWarfare #Drones #EnergyIndustry #GeneralNews #Iran #IranGovernment #IranWar #Israel #IsraelGovernment #MarcoRubio #MasoudPezeshkian #MIDEASTWARS #MilitaryAndDefense #MilitaryTechnology #MojtabaKhamenei #Religion #RolandLescure #WarAndUnrest #WashingtonNews #WorldNews #ZahraHaddadAdel
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Iran names Khamenei’s son as new leader as oil prices soar
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran named the hard-line …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AliKhamenei #AliLarijani #Bombings #Business #DonaldTrump #Dronesurveillanceandwarfare #Drones #Energyindustry #Generalnews #Iran #Irangovernment #iranwar #Israel #Israelgovernment #MiddleEast #MIDEASTWARS #Militarytechnology #mojtabakhamenei #Religion #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #World #Worldnews #ZahraHaddadAdel
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What is the ‘ #acid #rain ’ in the wake of #US #bombings in #Iran? An atmospheric scientist explains https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-acid-rain-in-the-wake-of-us-bombings-in-iran-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-277849
''... To me, this black rain indicates toxic #pollutants such as #hydrocarbons, ultrafine particles known as #PM2.5, and #carcinogenic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have made their way into the rain.''
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What is the ‘ #acid #rain ’ in the wake of #US #bombings in #Iran? An atmospheric scientist explains https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-acid-rain-in-the-wake-of-us-bombings-in-iran-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-277849
''... To me, this black rain indicates toxic #pollutants such as #hydrocarbons, ultrafine particles known as #PM2.5, and #carcinogenic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have made their way into the rain.''
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What is the ‘ #acid #rain ’ in the wake of #US #bombings in #Iran? An atmospheric scientist explains https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-acid-rain-in-the-wake-of-us-bombings-in-iran-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-277849
''... To me, this black rain indicates toxic #pollutants such as #hydrocarbons, ultrafine particles known as #PM2.5, and #carcinogenic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have made their way into the rain.''
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What is the ‘ #acid #rain ’ in the wake of #US #bombings in #Iran? An atmospheric scientist explains https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-acid-rain-in-the-wake-of-us-bombings-in-iran-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-277849
''... To me, this black rain indicates toxic #pollutants such as #hydrocarbons, ultrafine particles known as #PM2.5, and #carcinogenic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have made their way into the rain.''
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What is the ‘ #acid #rain ’ in the wake of #US #bombings in #Iran? An atmospheric scientist explains https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-acid-rain-in-the-wake-of-us-bombings-in-iran-an-atmospheric-scientist-explains-277849
''... To me, this black rain indicates toxic #pollutants such as #hydrocarbons, ultrafine particles known as #PM2.5, and #carcinogenic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have made their way into the rain.''
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Russia sits back as the Iran war escalates
MOSCOW (AP) — As…
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The war’s toll so far on Iran’s military and leadership
CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. and Israel are striking a much wider array of targets in Iran than…
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The bombing of Dresden (February 13–15, 1945)
German writer and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass and former editor of The Times Simon Jenkins believe that the bombings were a war crime. Jenkins also considers the bombings to be crimes against humanity. Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch, writes that, along with the Holocaust, the bombing of Dresden and the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also war crimes and acts of genocide.
American journalist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens expressed the opinion that the bombing of many German residential areas, which served as living targets, was carried out solely so that new aircraft crews could practice bombing. In his opinion, the Allies burned German cities in 1944-1945 only because they were able to do so.
In his book, German historian Jörg Friedrich noted that, in his opinion, the bombing of cities was a war crime, since in the final months of the war it was not dictated by military necessity. In 2005, Friedrich noted that “it was a bombing that was completely unnecessary from a military point of view,” “an act of unjustified terror, mass destruction of people, and terrorization of refugees.” German historian Joachim Fest also believes that the bombing of Dresden was not necessary from a military point of view.
The question of whether the bombing of Dresden constitutes a war crime is meaningless without considering the bombing of cities such as Würzburg, Hildesheim, Paderborn, and Pforzheim, which had no military significance, were carried out in an identical manner and were also almost completely destroyed. The bombing of these and many other cities was carried out after the bombing of Dresden.
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In Dresden, a memorial inscription about the bombing of the city by the American and British Air Forces in February 1945 was removed.
#^https://nitter.net/vicktop55/status/1747153598834688199 (17 Janyary 2024)
Then between 100 and 300 thousand city residents died.
The documented number of completely destroyed residential buildings, including apartment buildings, exceeded 78 thousand buildings, and the population of the city before the bombing, including refugees, was at least 900 thousand people (according to other sources, 1.2 million).
The Americans themselves explained the ruthlessness of the bombing by the fact that after the war the city passed into the area of responsibility of Moscow, which would have to spend significant funds on its restoration.
So this is exactly what the people of Dresden should forget.
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Iran’s president seeks negotiations with the United States https://www.byteseu.com/1769760/ #AbbasAraghchi #AliShamkhani #APTopNews #BenjaminNetanyahu #bombings #Conflicts #Diplomacy #DmitryPeskov #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency #Iran #IranGovernment #IsraelGovernment #MasoudPezeshkian #MikePompeo #MilitaryAndDefense #NuclearWeapons #Politics #SendToAppleNews #SteveWitkoff #TurkeyGovernment #UnitedArabEmiratesGovernment #UnitedKingdomGovernment #WarAndUnrest #WorldNews
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Iran’s president seeks negotiations with the United States
DUBAI, United Arab Emi…
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The Gulf War Lies
The initial excuse given by the #Bush administration was that U.S. forces were needed in the Middle East to defend Saudi Arabia from an impending Iraqi invasion. But if the Iraqis intended to take Saudi Arabia, why did they not move into that country immediately after grabbing Kuwait and well before U.S. troops arrived? Contrary to the disinformation passed around, journalists could find no Iraqi troops massed on the Saudi border.
Bush claimed that his attack came only after "months of constant and virtually endless diplomatic activity," and that Iraq displayed no interest in a negotiated settlement. This was an outright lie.
In the one "diplomatic" session held with the Iraqis by Secretary of State Baker in Geneva, he simply ordered them to leave Kuwait. By his own account, Baker made no effort to explore Iraq's grievances with Kuwait. When the Iraqis floated peace feelers through the remainder of 1990, they were ignored by the White House.
The Bush administration was spoiling for the one-sided fight. White House spokespersons were quoted as describing an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait as "the nightmare scenario." Why so? Would not the avoidance of war have been a dream scenario? The policymakers understood that a peaceful withdrawal would remove the casus belli and deprive the president of "a glorious victory against aggression."
The president also claimed he was concerned with protecting human rights in Kuwait and elsewhere in the Middle East. But there was precious little democracy in any of the region's feudal emirates and autocracies. In Saudi Arabia, women were still stoned to death on charges of adultery.
In Kuwait, democratic councils and other organized political groupings were regularly crushed. One filthy-rich family controlled the country's politico- economic life.
It was also maintained that the United States was upholding the United Nations commitment to defend member states against aggression. But why
only in this instance? Both Syria and Israel invaded Lebanon and still occupied portions of that country; Turkey grabbed half of Cyprus; Morocco waged a war of aggression against the Western Sahara; Indonesia invaded and annexed East Timor at a great loss of Timorese lives. Yet Washington maintained close and supportive relations with all these aggressors. When Iraq invaded Iran, a few years before the Gulf War, Washington sent military aid to both countries. U.S. leaders themselves invaded Grenada and Panama. One can look with skepticism on Washington's sudden and highly principled intolerance of aggression.
In August 1990, Bush asserted that he was trying to prevent Saddam from monopolizing "all the world's great oil reserves." This alibi at least brought us closer to the truth: oil was definitely a consideration. But the charge was false. No single producer can control the global oil market, not even a powerful consortium like OPEC, let alone an individual leader like Saddam. Even with the 1990 embargo that cut off the oil from Iraq, the world's net petroleum production remained roughly the same.
The White House then charged that Iraq posed a nuclear threat. This polemic was tacked on to Bush's list of pretexts months after he had embarked upon intervention and immediately after opinion polls showed Americans responded apprehensively to the possibility of Iraq's developing a nuclear capability. In any case, with sanctions in place, it was impossible for Iraq to get the necessary materials to build a nuclear bomb.
In November 1990, Secretary Baker argued that the intervention would safeguard jobs at home.
This was the first time anyone in Bush's national security entourage had evinced concern for the nation's work force. Nobody specified how a costly massacre in the Middle East would protect jobs at home. In fact, after the war, unemployment increased slightly. Besides, there were more effective and less horrible ways of keeping Americans employed than wreaking destruction upon another nation.
Some Real Reasons
There were a number of compelling considerations for war against Iraq that the Bush administration preferred to leave unmentioned. First, #Saddam #Hussein was trying to stop the Kuwaiti slant drilling into his oil reserves and was trying to bolster the oil price he could get. His temerity in putting considerations about his own country's economy ahead of the interests of the international oil cartel suddenly made him an unpopular personage in Washington.
Second, thanks to the major networks, the Gulf War served as a video promotional event for the military-industrial complex, a rescue operation for a bloated defense budget. In July 1990, for the first time in years, the Democratic leadership in Congress was talking about real cuts in military spending. The Gulf War hoopla brought Congress meekly back into line.
Third, the quick and easy victory was a promotional event for interventionism itself, a cure for the "Vietnam syndrome" (that is, the public's unwillingness to commit U.S. forces to violent conflicts abroad). The Gulf War seemed to solve a problem U.S. interventionists long have faced: how to engage in military action without a serious loss of American lives. (Their concern was more political than humanitarian. Heavy losses make the intervention unpopular with the U.S. public.) The way to economize on American lives was to apply an air, land, and sea firepower of such superior magnitude that it could destroy the opponent's military capacity, infrastructure, and life support systems without any great commitment of U.S. troops.
It is not true, as was claimed by antiwar activists, that Iraq was bombed back into the nineteenth century. Iraq in the nineteenth century had a productive base roughly commensurate with the population needs of that time. The destruction created a far greater crisis than that. In March 1991, a United Nations mission to Iraq reported that the conflict "has wrought near- apocalyptic results" by destroying "most means of modern life support," relegating Iraq "to a preindustrial age, but with all the disabilities of post- industrial dependency on intensive use of energy and technology."
Not without cause did U.S. militarists boast that the attacks were "surgical." True, most of the bombs were free-falling and killed people wantonly. But the thousands of air strikes did surgically remove most of Iraq's electrical systems and seriously damaged the agricultural system. Without electricity, water could not be purified, sewage could not be treated. Hunger, cholera, and other diseases flourished.
The Gulf War was followed by a vindictive United Nations embargo that several years later still denied Iraq the technological resources to rebuild its food production, medical dervices, and sanitation facilities. As late as 1993, CNN reported that nearly 300,000 Iraqi children were suffering from malnutrition. Deaths exceeded the normal rate by 125,000 a year, mostly affecting "the poor, their infants, children, chronically ill, and elderly" (Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1994). Iraqi citizens, who previously had enjoyed a decent living standard, were reduced to destitution. So was realized one of the perennial goals of imperialism: to reduce to impotence and poverty all potential adversaries and upstarts.
Fourth, the Gulf crisis allowed U.S. leaders to establish a long-term military presence in the Middle East, a region of troubled regimes and abundant oil reserves. U.S. forces now could more immediately and effectively safeguard existing autocracies from their own restive populations.
Fifth, many wars are begun, noted Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 6, because of the political interests of leaders. By plunging into conflicts abroad, they seek to diminish the impact of troublesome issues at home, thereby securing their political fortunes. The war against Iraq came in the middle of a serious recession, one that President Bush was more interested in ignoring than resolving. In July 1990, his popularity also was slumping badly because of the savings and loan scandal. Every evening, TV news programs were peeling off successive layers of corruption, thievery, bribery, and plunder of the public treasury, in what was the greatest financial conspiracy in the history of the world. But once the media became preoccupied with selling the high-tech video war, the savings and loan issue was dropped from the evening news. The Gulf victory also made it harder to investigate disclosures implicating Bush in the Iran-Contra conspiracy, as he basked in what seemed like an untouchable popularity.
While the war was still in progress, I wrote in CovertAction Information Bulletin (Spring 1991): "The morning after victory, more of the American public may begin to wonder if the bloodshed and the $80 billion bill was worth it. They might recall that the only war worth supporting is what Benjamin Franklin called 'the best war,' the one that is never fought." Indeed, the slaughter perpetrated against Iraq and all its attendant hoopla were not enough to carry Bush to reelection the following year.
"Against Empire" by Michael Parenti
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Additionally:The Nayirah testimony
The Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who was publicly identified only as Nayirah at the time, and presented herself as having been a volunteer nurse at a Kuwaiti hospital at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In her testimony, which took place two months after the invasion, she claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers taking premature babies out of incubators in a maternity ward before looting the incubators and leaving the babies to die on the floor. Nayirah's statements were widely publicized and cited numerous times in the United States Senate and by American president George H. W. Bush to contribute to the rationale for pursuing military action against Iraq. Her portrayal of Iraqi war crimes was aimed at further increasing global support for Kuwait against the Iraqi occupation during the Gulf War, which resulted in the expulsion of Iraqi troops from Kuwait by a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
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Trump suggests Ukraine may have to be ‘cut up’ to end Russia’s war
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that the Donb…
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You will, maybe, understand more, about why so many people in #Vietnam fully support #FreePalestine much more. I feel like #Palestinians are resistance brothers & sisters. I'm far from alone with those feelings, across the globe. Especially with fellow survivors of #USAMilitary #bombings on our peoples, villages & cities.
#LestWeForget - the mass murdered war violence victims from #GlobalNorth #terrorists!
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Thursday, August 21, 2025
5 days of diplomacy, 5 days of deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine — Russia is turning occupied Ukraine into a giant military base — Today’s drone strike sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov Oblast — [vlog/video] The ground drone revolution in Ukraine (Robots are Here) … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/thursday-august-21-2025/
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US strike on Iran reverberating in Asia-Pacific https://www.byteseu.com/1163902/ #20242025MideastWars #AsiaPacific #bombings #China #Conflicts #DistrictOfColumbia #DonaldTrump #DrewThompson #EuanGraham #GeneralNews #HongMin #InternationalAgreements #InternationalNews #Iran #IranGovernment #IsraelIranWar #JosephDempsey #MilitaryAndDefense #NorthKorea #NorthKoreaGovernment #Politics #taiwan #UnitedStatesGovernment #VladimirPutin #WarAndUnrest #WorldNews
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Trump’s decision on Iran splits MAGA world
A schism has opened among President Donald Trump’s most devout MAGA supporters and national security conservatives over the…
#Israel #News #bombings #CharlieKirk #Conservatism #DonaldTrump #generalnews #Iran #JoeBiden #LindseyGraham #marjorietaylorgreene #MarkLevin #middleeast #Politics #StephenBannon #stevebannon #U.S.News #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesgovernment #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews
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The killing of a Russian general is one of several that Moscow blames on Ukraine https://www.byteseu.com/569202/ #AlexanderDugin #AlexanderPermyakov #AndriyYusov #bombings #DaryaDugina #DaryaTrepova #GeneralNews #IgorKirillov #IlyaPolikarpov #MikhailShatsky #MilitaryAndDefense #Moscow #national #Politics #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #SergeiDenisenko #SergeiYevsyukov #StanislavRzhitsky #Ukraine #UkraineGovernment #VladlenTatarsky #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WorldNews #ZakharPrilepin
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Sunday morning, recommended #documentary film.
Before the formation of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, there were three underground #Zionist #militias - The #Haganah, the #Irgun and the #Lehi.
They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times fought with each other - but together they terrorised #Palestinian villages and executed attacks and #bombings against the #British to force them to give up control of the land.
They blew up hotels in #Jerusalem, embassies in #Europe and #assassinated a UN mediator.
After #Israel was officiated as a state - the three #terrorist militias would create the #IDF - and their leaders would go on to form Israel’s government, become #politicians, #ambassadors and #PrimeMinisters.
And their dark #history would be forgotten.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGtHMxNrXY
#FreePalestine
#Terrorism
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#DocFilm
#Documentaries -
Sunday morning, recommended #documentary film.
Before the formation of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, there were three underground #Zionist #militias - The #Haganah, the #Irgun and the #Lehi.
They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times fought with each other - but together they terrorised #Palestinian villages and executed attacks and #bombings against the #British to force them to give up control of the land.
They blew up hotels in #Jerusalem, embassies in #Europe and #assassinated a UN mediator.
After #Israel was officiated as a state - the three #terrorist militias would create the #IDF - and their leaders would go on to form Israel’s government, become #politicians, #ambassadors and #PrimeMinisters.
And their dark #history would be forgotten.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGtHMxNrXY
#FreePalestine
#Terrorism
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#DocFilm
#Documentaries -
Sunday morning, recommended #documentary film.
Before the formation of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, there were three underground #Zionist #militias - The #Haganah, the #Irgun and the #Lehi.
They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times fought with each other - but together they terrorised #Palestinian villages and executed attacks and #bombings against the #British to force them to give up control of the land.
They blew up hotels in #Jerusalem, embassies in #Europe and #assassinated a UN mediator.
After #Israel was officiated as a state - the three #terrorist militias would create the #IDF - and their leaders would go on to form Israel’s government, become #politicians, #ambassadors and #PrimeMinisters.
And their dark #history would be forgotten.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGtHMxNrXY
#FreePalestine
#Terrorism
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#DocFilm
#Documentaries -
Sunday morning, recommended #documentary film.
Before the formation of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, there were three underground #Zionist #militias - The #Haganah, the #Irgun and the #Lehi.
They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times fought with each other - but together they terrorised #Palestinian villages and executed attacks and #bombings against the #British to force them to give up control of the land.
They blew up hotels in #Jerusalem, embassies in #Europe and #assassinated a UN mediator.
After #Israel was officiated as a state - the three #terrorist militias would create the #IDF - and their leaders would go on to form Israel’s government, become #politicians, #ambassadors and #PrimeMinisters.
And their dark #history would be forgotten.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGtHMxNrXY
#FreePalestine
#Terrorism
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#DocFilm
#Documentaries -
Sunday morning, recommended #documentary film.
Before the formation of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, there were three underground #Zionist #militias - The #Haganah, the #Irgun and the #Lehi.
They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times fought with each other - but together they terrorised #Palestinian villages and executed attacks and #bombings against the #British to force them to give up control of the land.
They blew up hotels in #Jerusalem, embassies in #Europe and #assassinated a UN mediator.
After #Israel was officiated as a state - the three #terrorist militias would create the #IDF - and their leaders would go on to form Israel’s government, become #politicians, #ambassadors and #PrimeMinisters.
And their dark #history would be forgotten.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGtHMxNrXY
#FreePalestine
#Terrorism
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#DocFilm
#Documentaries -
Russia’s Most Notorious #SpecialForces Unit Now Has Its Own #CyberWarfare Team
#Unit29155 of Russia’s #GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for #coup attempts, #assassinations , and #bombings —has branched out into brazen #hacking operations with targets across the world.
#security #russiahttps://www.wired.com/story/russia-gru-unit-29155-hacker-team/
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2 Russian-born #Czech citizens ran a #hotel in #Greece that doubled as #SafeHouse for infamous unit of Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU) as it carried out #bombings & #poisonings across Europe
Husband/wife Nikolay & Elena #Saposnikov ran Villa Elena, a 3-story hotel hosted members of #Kremlin's “most grimly accomplished #assassination and #sabotage squad,” Unit #29155, on a regular basis for the last 15 years.
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It is not clear how much info the #UnitedStates gave Russian ofcls beyond what was in the public warning.
#American #intelligence agencies have a “#DutyToWarn” potential targets of dangers when they learn of them.
The #US had warned #Iran of a possible #attack ahead of twin #bombings in Jan that killed ≥103 people & wounded 211 others at a memorial service for Iran’s fmr top general, Qassim #Suleimani, who was killed by a US #drone strike 4 yrs before.
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#Russia seems to be gaining the upper hand in theabout #Ukraine. Every day we hear news #Russian #bombings, #shellings and #seizures of #Ukrainian #cities and #villages. Meanwhile, #German #Chancellor #Scholz continues to refuse to #provide Ukraine with the #necessary #support for the expulsion of Russia from Ukraine, for example, #Taurus #cruise #missiles.
#Bundeskanzler #TaurusForUkraine #Marschflugkörper #TaurusCruiseMissile #SlawaUkrajini #RusslandrausausallemwasnichtRusslandist -
Incidents of anti-abortion #violence, including the #Atlanta and #Birmingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fascism#American_history_and_politics #bombings which were committed #EricRudolph and the #assassination of #GeorgeTiller at his Wichita, Kansas church in 2009, have also been considered acts which were motivated by #Christofascism
Usage caused controversy in 2007 when #MelissaMcEwan, a campaign blogger for then-presidential candidate John Edwards, referred to religious #conservatives "#Christofascists" on her personal blog.[17][18]
