"White House hits back at Trump 'Gestapo' comments"
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/06/trump-gestapo-remarks-white-house-fascists-claim
"Instead of echoing the appalling rhetoric of fascists, lunching with Neo Nazis, and fanning debunked conspiracy theories that have cost brave police officer their lives, President Biden is bringing the American people together around our shared democratic values and the rule of law — an approach that has delivered the biggest violent crime reduction in 50 years."
Rafah has twice the population density of the Warsaw Ghetto at its peak during WWII and Israel is telling people to evacuate or its not their fault if they die. Actually it is, Rafah is right up against the Egyptian border and there's nowhere left in Gaza that hasn't been substantially bombed by Israel.
55% of the buildings in the whole of Gaza are damaged or destroyed.
This is genocide.
#gaza
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The hysteria over Palestine protests on campus that is being ginned up to protect US support for Israel’s war is the beginning of a new Red Scare. Liberals must resist it, because it will come for them, too.
Liberals Must Resist the New McCarthyism Over Israel Criticism https://jacobin.com/2024/05/israel-campus-protest-antisemitism-mccarthyism/
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Confirmed: Russia is using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
The chemical used is Chloropicrin, known as one of the poison gasses of World War I.
This is consistent with video evidence I have encountered, where white plastic containers are dropped into Ukrainian fortifications, and Ukrainians are seen rushing outside to put on gas masks.
A Telegram post alleged to be from a Russian assault group says: "Pigs start their mornings not with coffee, but with chloropicrin."
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How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War.
A long and super insightful read by Liz Jackson and Rua Williams on how assistive technologies developed for disabled individuals are repurposed for military use, often without their consent or knowledge. Under the cover of inclusive design methodologies, disabled people get exploited in the development of technologies like prosthetics and speech recognition, which ultimately serve militaristic agendas.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/179391/wheelchair-warfare-pipeline-disability-technology
How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War
The cutting-edge products that Big Tech and the Pentagon are developing could be rebuilding an untold number of lives. Instead, they’re being sent to the battlefield to ruin more.The New Republic
I did not realize how much influence #Meta has over the popularity of news organizations (at least online).
👉🏾 Right-Wing Media is QUICKLY IMPLODING because of THIS 📹 https://youtu.be/gEKrvQYdR7Y
Article Adam Mockler was reading from:
👉🏾 Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble 📰 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/
I know previously @zuck & @mosseri alerted the public that political content on #Facebook, #Instagram & #Threads would be de-emphasized.
#Google might be de-emphasizing police too.
Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble
The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing; it’s utterly collapsing.Paul Farhi (The Atlantic)
Minority Rule Author Ari Berman Explains GOP's Anti-Democratic Strategy
Author Ari Berman explains how Republicans control major levers of power through anti-democratic means.The Big Picture
Anti-majoritarian structures are part of the political #DNA of the #USA. There is a mechanism to change that. The rest is just yada-yada. #USpol
There are two easy-peasie ways to avoid the current hyper-partisanship that is an existential threat to #American #democracy.
1. #RankedChoiceVoting (available in some states)
2. #PrimaryFromTheCenter (available in all states)
Democrats did this. Democrats. No Democrats, no abortion protection. We would have a ban in Arizona.
So when someone tries to tell you that Democrats don’t act to protect abortion rights, they are clueless or lying. #ReproductiveRights #Arizona
Arizona’s Democratic leaders get enough votes to repeal 19th century abortion ban:
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-abortion-1864-ban-repeal-24578e546b69ca087e01034bcaf4aa01
Arizona Senate OKs bill to repeal the state's 1864 near-total abortion ban
Democrats at the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push to repeal the state’s long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions that a court said can be enforced.ANITA SNOW (AP News)
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"Israeli Minister Reportedly Asks IDF To Kill Palestinians Instead Of Arresting Them
“Why are there so many arrests?” Ben-Gvir allegedly asked. “Can’t you kill some? Do you want to tell me they all surrender? What are we to do with so many arrested? It’s dangerous for the soldiers.”"
#Politics #Biden #Gaza #Genocide
Israeli Minister Reportedly Asks IDF To Kill Palestinians Instead Of Arresting Them
The alleged comments are not the first time that far-right Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for executing Palestinian captives to manage overcrowding in prisons.Sanjana Karanth (HuffPost)
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@aral
"In August last year, the hard-right minister was involved in another accident when his vehicle ran a red light while on the way to an interview."
"According to the report, traffic infractions have been committed during journeys that were not emergencies, like driving to Knesset meetings and TV interviews."
"Since he began driving in 2000, the minister has been caught running red lights, using his phone while driving, speeding, crossing solid white lines and driving without a seatbelt, among a long list of 78 infractions, the Kan public broadcaster revealed in September.
In response to Kan’s report, Ben Gvir claimed then that the Israel Police had compensated him with NIS 25,000 ($6,500) for wrongful arrests and that his infractions “became obsolete years ago.”"
https://united24media.com/anti-fake/negotiating-with-a-liar-why-dialogue-wont-stop-russia-11
Negotiating With A Liar. Why Dialogue Won't Stop Russia
Ukraine is fighting for its right to exist, in what many call the biggest war since WWII. People watch in terror, some call for peace talks, afraid that war will come knocking on their door.Marusia Sinkevich (UNITED24 Media)
@israel
https://zeteo.com/p/israel-gaza-quadcopter-drone-warfare?publication_id=2325511&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=1j871&utm_medium=email
Israel's Armed Quadcopters in Gaza Mark a Dangerous New Era in Drone Warfare
Israel is pioneering yet another deadly innovation in drone warfare. What happens in Gaza won't stay there.Spencer Ackerman (Zeteo)
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Researchers make a plastic that includes bacteria that can digest it
Bacterial spores strengthen the plastic, then revive to digest it in landfills.
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Will it continue digesting the plastics around it? Might end up with sinkholes where landfills were but seems worth it.
Ok wait. Toss that plastic bottle or whatever in the ocean (times order of magnitude like is currently done)... What else does the bacteria do?
Harm fish and wildlife?
Does it harm us if we leave the bottle in the car too long?
Yep, this is what my brain does when it hears about cool things.
Biden's correspondents dinner dig at the NY Times' disgraceful political coverage was perfect:
"Of course, the New York Times issued a statement blasting me for, quote, 'actively and effectively avoiding independent journalists.'
"Hey, if that’s what it takes to get the New York Times to say I’m active and effective, I’m for it."
His deeper plea to journalists to do their damn jobs will be ignored, because Big Journalism refuses to learn from endless failures.
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from #CommonDreams
#Holocaust Survivor Tells Student Anti-Genocide Protesters: 'Just Keep Doing It'
"There is a question of historical responsibility towards injustice, genocide, and fascism," said #StephenKapos. "If you are indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt."
#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #Palestine #StopGazaGenocide #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive #EndUSAidToIsrael #Gaza #Israel
#news #press @palestine @israel
https://www.commondreams.org/news/holocaust-survivors-gaza-genocide
Holocaust Survivor Tells Student Anti-Genocide Protesters: 'Just Keep Doing It'
"There is a question of historical responsibility towards injustice, genocide, and fascism," said Stephen Kapos. "If you are indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Russia 🇷🇺: Putin Splits Up Wagner Mercenary Group
After Vladimir Putin allegedly assassinated Yevgeny Prigoshin after Prigoshin led an insurrection against the Russian 🇷🇺 Federation, it appears that Putin has already divided & conquered the mercenary group that embarrassed him on the international stage months ago. The thousands of the former Wagner forces have splintered into at least four groups, according to two U.S. officials granted anonymity to discuss sensitive…
https://darnell.tv/2024/04/28/russia-putin-split-wagner/
Russia 🇷🇺: Putin Splits Up Wagner Mercenary Group
After Vladimir Putin allegedly assassinated Yevgeny Prigoshin after Prigoshin led an insurrection against the Russian 🇷🇺 Federation, it appears that Putin has already divided & conquered the me…Darnell (TeleVerse)
"It is not just the “hush money” or the “porn star” sideshow. It is a case about an alleged attempt by a man running for this country’s highest office to systematically defraud voters and use illegal means to gain an advantage in an election."
At the most fundamental level, the former president is a con man. A liar. He lies about everything about himself. Everything.
Before Trump’s Big Lie, There Was Trump, the Big Liar
https://www.thedailybeast.com/before-trumps-big-lie-there-was-trump-the-big-liar
The RNC's senior counsel for election integrity has been indicted in Arizona on nine felony charges – including conspiracy, fraud and forgery – related to her effort to subvert the 2020 election.
For the GOP, experience in criminal election subversion is now a job qualification.
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So far this week...
The FTC banned the use of noncompete clauses.
The DOL strengthened overtime rules.
The FCC restored #NetNeutrality.
The DOT expanded protections for airline passengers.
This is what it looks like when the government works on behalf of the people.
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To all the brave university students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, I see you, I hear you, and I applaud your resolve. Also, please protect yourselves.
It is my duty now for the future to point out that the band DEVO formed in the early 1970s "in response to the failed promise of utopian progress peddled by post-WWII politicians and consumer culture" and amid the turmoil surrounding Vietnam war protests in the US.
The core members of DEVO were friends with two of the four students who were shot by gas-masked National Guardsman at the May 4, 1970, Vietnam war protest on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Three founding members of the band attended Kent State at that time.
Gerald Casale (co-founder, co-lead vocalist and bass player) said that was "the most DEVO day of his life." The theory that humankind is evolving in reverse. That was the first evidence that hit him square in the gut and the heart and the mind that this was true.
"In the next two years, I realized that the system was rotten to the core. That everything I believed was an illusion."
#DEVO #WeAreDEVO #USPol #USPolitics #KentState #AntiWar #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Protest #BoojiBoy
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There is absolutely no equivalence to the actions of student demonstrators of the '70's & these hovered over entitled Ivy League keffiyeh cosplaying Commandos.
Well, maybe like Jane Fonda & Bill Ayer.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwrjXVd/
#palestine
#AmnestyInternational
""For millions the world over, Gaza now symbolizes utter moral failure by many of the architects of the post-World War Two system; their failure to uphold the absolute commitment to universality, our common humanity, and to our 'never again' commitment," Amnesty International's secretary-general Agnès Callamard wrote in the preface to the report."
Really good article, covering the current threats to the founding values of humanity.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2023-near-breakdown-international-law
Israel's War on Gaza Has Helped Fuel 'Near Breakdown of International Law': Amnesty
"What we saw in 2023 confirms that many powerful states are abandoning the founding values of humanity and universality enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Amnesty's secretary-general said.oliviarosane (Common Dreams)
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Did you miss the part where a Brigade of Hamas Gazans, some 3000 to 5000 soldiers invaded and killed everyone they could find no matter their country of origin or citizenship? And then fired off approx 12,000 rockets.
Cuz, the "architects of the post WW2 system didn't attack anybody. Houthis are just shooting missiles at anybody sailing by. Syria, Assad's awesome I guess, Hezbollah, Lebanon just loves them. Iran, 300+ missiles.
Not much FUBAR''d in that neighborhood. Damb UK?
@FrankFrank
What do you think Israel has been doing for 75 years?
Territorial expansionism, apartheid, daily violent oppression and humiliation, targeting of journalists and children, provably lying about it, environmental and cultural vandalism, extra judicial assassinations, violation of neighbouring states sovereignty, detention of children, state sponsored terrorism against non-jewish residents, use of banned chemical weapons, violation of UN resolutions.. and genocide.
@rzeta0
Crap Map. The problem is this series of maps is riddled with misrepresentations & omissions, & their overall narrative is an outright lie.
The origin of these maps appears in a 2003 book “Palestine Solidarity Campaign,” British group supporting “BDS”.
An iconic feature of Palestinian propaganda literature in recent years. Use by the media has resulted in a correction or deletion.
@rzeta0
Hmmm, did anything precipitate these claimed actions?
You mean to say, right out of the blue, the mean Israeli's just started oppressing the tranquil peace loving Gazans? Really?
It couldn't have anything to do with constant deadly attacks on the Jewish State since '48?
Oh, that's right, Palestinian terrorist bombings of Israeli civilians is,... what's the term, resistance?
Hindu Nationalists Are Taking Notes—and Tech Support—From the Israeli Right
The state of Assam has become a laboratory of ethnonationalism, with warning signs of genocide ahead.Gridwork
Patriots for Ukraine: Calls grow for EU countries to step up donations of air defence systems
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/04/22/patriots-for-ukraine-calls-grow-for-eu-countries-to-step-up-donations-of-air-defence-syste?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Russia-Ukraine Crisis @russia-ukraine-crisis-euronews
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"we must demonstrate that one can leave Zionism and still be part of a Jewish community...
In the meantime, we must be aware of the pain that all this is causing our fellow Jews who have not yet found their way out of the web of false beliefs. As James Baldwin said, “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/why-they-hate-us-anti-zionism-in-the-jewish-community/
#Zionism #Israel @jewishvoiceforpeace
Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community - CounterPunch.org
As a longtime anti-Zionist and member of Jewish Voice for Peace, it has been a fact of my life that the organized Jewish community has considered me aAlan Wagman (CounterPunch.org)
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Sharing yesterday's Hopium Chronicles from Simon Rosenberg. (He's the guy who called the election in '22 correctly.) Definitely worth a follow for action to take on reelecting #Biden and #Democrats this fall. His mantra: Do More, Worry Less
Winning Arizona, 6 Big Problems For Trump, House Passes Ukraine Funding Rule 316-94!!!!!!!!
Was great to see so many Hopium subscribers in person last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
Philosopher Daniel Dennett dead at 82
Part of the "New Atheist" movement, best known for work on consciousness, free will.
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Fahri Reza (@dozymoe@mastodon.social)
Free will as consciousness, does free will exist in animals. Instead of free will it's easier to understand it as both obedient and rebellious.Mastodon
It’s not just Donald Trump who’s in Vladimir Putin’s pocket.
For more than 25 years, a large swath of the GOP has enjoyed mutually rewarding relationships with Russian operatives
funding and working with K Street lobbyists, political consultants, super PACs, campaign fundraising operations, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, social media operations, cyber-warfare efforts, money laundering schemes, think tanks harboring Russian intelligence operatives, and much, much more.
Jonathan Winer, former deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement, has observed
the relationship for years:
“If you go back to the days of Jack Abramoff, when Americans started going to Moscow in the ’90s, and then to Paul Manafort in Ukraine, and so on, you start to see the spine 💥of a secret influence campaign between the Republicans and Russia that has been built up over decades,” 💥he said.
“It goes right up to Tucker Carlson rooting for Putin on Fox today. It has been built up over decades, and
it is not new,
and it deeply infects the Republican Party.
You have two forces with deep political ties that are fighting American democracy 👉in order to keep Putin in power and install a Putin-like system in America.
And to that end, 🔥they have penetrated deep into our think tanks, our media, our journalism—everything.”🔥
https://newrepublic.com/article/165782/republicans-putin-history-relationship-manafort
How Republicans Spent Decades Cozying Up to Putin’s Kremlin
The man who once worked to connect Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff to Russia is now chief of staff to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Any questions?The New Republic
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Read this by Anika Collier Navaroli
"In early 2022 I was wracked with guilt. I had been speaking with the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack about my former role as a senior policy official at Twitter. I recounted my warnings that went unheeded that violence was going to occur on January 6."
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Gaza: UN experts deplore use of purported AI to commit ‘domicide’ in Gaza, call for reparative approach to rebuilding | OHCHR
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This is a historic tech action in a long proud tradition.
From Polaroid workers rejecting their work contributing to S Africa's passbooks, to the MIT research strike where scientists refused to work for warfare; to Geoff Hinton relocating to Canada to avoid building US weapons.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-no-tech-for-apartheid-project-nimbus-israel-gaza-protest/
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government
Google employees are staging sit-ins and protests at company offices in New York and California over “Project Nimbus,” a cloud contract with Israel's government, as the country's war with Hamas continues.Caroline Haskins (WIRED)
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Interview with Peter Maass
"I’m Jewish, & I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”
Maass covered the Bosnian genocide in the 1990s that killed about 100,000 over 4 years.
Israel is carrying out the same war crimes, he said, including sniper attacks on civilians, bombing of civilian infrastructure, attacks on bread lines & besieging whole populations. Gaza could be even worse than Bosnia.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/16/israel_war_crimes
#Gaza #Bosnia #IsraeliWarCrimes ..
“I’m Jewish, and I’ve Covered Wars. I Know War Crimes When I See Them”: Reporter Peter Maass on Gaza
We speak with veteran journalist Peter Maass about the Israeli war on Gaza and his new opinion piece for The Washington Post headlined “I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.Democracy Now!
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#Gaza #IsraeliWarCrimes #NazisAreNazis
Good for Paul Waldman and Thomas Schaller. They are defending their book. And they are right.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180570/trump-rural-white-resentment-honest-assessment
An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue
We say very clearly that rural America is hurting. But we refuse to justify attitudes that some scholars try to underplay.The New Republic
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“Israel Has Declared Record Amount of West Bank Land as State-owned in 2024”
This isn't self-defense. This isn't a counter to Hamas. This is de facto violation of international law.
Would love for someone to explain how this is any different than Russia forcibly taking Ukrainian land?
Go on. I’m waiting.
Israel has declared record amount of West Bank land as state-owned in 2024
Thousands of acres were designated as state-owned property in just three months, while the remapping of land already categorized as state-owned has been paving the way for potential settlement constructionHagar Shezaf (Haaretz)
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russia's oligarchs don't want ukrainian real estate. they want what ukraine grows. putin wants a stepping stone to rebuilding the ussr.
netanyahu and his supporters want real estate and oil.
Since President Joe Biden took office, millions of Americans have seen their student loans forgiven and millions more have seen their monthly payments reduced.
Higher education should not result in a lifetime of debt.
Republicans are out again filing lawsuits to stop this. If you want to blame someone for why it’s not more, blame them.
Biden administration announces another round of loan cancellation under new repayment plan -
https://kstp.com/associated-press/ap-us-international/biden-administration-announces-another-round-of-loan-cancellation-under-new-repayment-plan/
Biden administration announces another round of loan cancellation under new repayment plan - KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part of a new repayment plan that offers a faster route to forgiveness. The Education Department announced the latest round of cancellations on Friday.Krystal Frasier (KSTP-TV LLC)
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A reminder that Cannon, the federal judge in the Trump theft of classified documents case, is for all practical purposes a member of the defense team.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-disqualification.html
Also a reminder that it's all corruption, all the time in Trump world.
Aileen Cannon Might Actually Get Herself Kicked Off the Trump Classified Docs Case
Jack Smith is likely headed for the court of appeals.Norman L. Eisen (Slate)
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Israel, having been so close to apartheid South Africa, realised the very real threat that BDS posed to the existence of Israel as a racist occupying state.
It created the Strategic Affairs dept specifically to counter the BDS movement.
Its strategy was to ensure that any criticism of Israel was framed as equivalent to anti-Semitism.
Accusing critics of Israel of anti-Semitism deflects attention from what matters.
Andrew Feinstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueXEXjqXNvk&t=8s
Israel: Above the law? | Featured Documentary
A look into how and why international laws and principles are being applied and ignored in the Israel-Gaza conflict.The events of October 7 sent shockwaves a...YouTube
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It can be argued that EVERYONE is above any law international or otherwise not backed by armed force.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine has proven sanctions alone won't enforce international law against a dictator willing to bear the cost of sanctions to obtain any higher priority goal than international trade.
@LukefromDC
Sanctions were immediate after the invasion of Ukraine, yet 6 months of this and no similar treatment for Israel. Why do you think that is?
Because the foreign policy of the west does not come from any moral or ethical basis, it is the self-interest of western colonialism, as it always has been.
The reality is, if military aid was cut off from Israel this would have stopped months ago.
Take your point (not saying I agree), but the more apt analogy with Israel, imo, is with apartheid states. South Africa's apartheid regime was brought down by sanctions.
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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v behind on reading this year but finished book no.1 of 2024
“The modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: as a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.”
Read it ⇩
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Randahl Fink
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •I understand, there will be scepticism when these claims come from the US.
However, Ukraine has been mentioning breaches of the Chemical Weapons Convention for months, and unlike in Iraq, this time there is video and photo evidence from the frontline.
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Randahl Fink
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •In Canada, members of parliament call for more sanctions on Russia in response to the use of chemical weapons.
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Randahl Fink
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Russian use of chemical weapons was also substantiated by The Telegraph in an article on April 6.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/06/russia-using-illegal-chemical-attacks-against-ukraine/
Russia 'using illegal chemical attacks against Ukrainian soldiers'
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Randahl Fink
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •In March 2022, Joe Biden warned that Putin would pay a "severe price" if Russia used chemical weapons.
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/11/politics/joe-biden-warning-chemical-weapons
Biden warns Russia will pay a 'severe price' if it uses chemical weapons in Ukraine
By Sam Fossum and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN)Schneckbert 🐌
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in reply to ferricoxide • • •Aerofreak | DE/EN
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •This is ruzzia. They don't care about any international treaty. They have used chemical weapons already in Syria -- and hardly anyone cared.
#russiaIsATerroristState
#fckptn
@DeeGLloyd