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Artist, writer, historian, backyard farmer (art, religion, history, ecology, culture, politics).

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If Palestinians had set fire to a synagogue in Israel you can bet news channels here in the UK would cover the story.

But a mosque in the occupied West Bank set on fire by Israeli settlers? Nah.

13.03.2026 09:17 👍 102 🔁 60 💬 0 📌 2
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US military ‘not ready’ to escort oil ships through Hormuz, official says Iran's Mojtaba Khamenei says strait should remain closed as Donald Trump claims US benefits from high oil prices.

Yep, that’s what we thought… wait till the panic at the gas pumps summer.

12.03.2026 16:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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İran Devrim Muhafızları: Hürmüz Boğazı kapalı kalacak - Diken 12.03.2026 - İran Devrim Muhafızları Ordusu, 'Hürmüz Boğazı'nın kapalı kalması stratejisinin' devam edeceğini duyurdu.

İran Devrim Muhafızları: Hürmüz Boğazı kapalı kalacak

www.diken.com.tr/iran-devrim-...

12.03.2026 16:23 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Not ‘a litre of oil’ to pass Strait of Hormuz, expect $200 price tag: Iran Warning comes as 400 million barrels of oil are being released from global reserves during waterway's closure.
12.03.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Caught in the crossfire: US-Israel war on Iran fractures Gulf economies As Hormuz chokes and defence costs soar, Gulf states absorb crippling financial fallout of the US-Israel war on Iran.

It’s called Persian Gulf for a reason.

12.03.2026 16:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Elevating injured Mojtaba Khamenei to supreme leader shows Iranian war machine can run on autopilot Lack of public appearances prompted speculation about new leader’s mortality after multiple family members died

“At present Iran does not need a new leader – dead, alive or injured – to update the IRGC target base. It instead can watch Donald Trump tie himself in knots daily explaining what he is trying to achieve… for the moment if there is one country in this war that is rudderless, it is not Iran.”

12.03.2026 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iranians rethink the price of regime change Destructive US and Israeli war and Islamic republic’s resilience have alarmed even those who supported foreign intervention

Iranians are discovering that Netanyahu doesn’t hate the Islamic Republic but the Iranians themselves. He wants their oil and doesn’t care about the people.

11.03.2026 14:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir
10.03.2026 10:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Elite Death Project: Why Capitalism Is Choosing Collapse Capitalism is choosing collapse. This is not failure — it is the death wish made systemic.
07.03.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People and the developers are just realizing that AI is nothing but an app. A simple boycott can bring it down to its knees. In virtual reality, everything is a fad, a Ponzi scam. There is no difference between the dynamics that govern the popularity of a porn site and ChatGPT.

07.03.2026 13:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Conflicts with Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran all could have been resolved peacefully. The only reason why they became wars was because the West refuses to share wealth. Everything else, including capitalism itself or even the state of Israel is subordinate to this core greed.

07.03.2026 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I recommend the Abraham Joseph Heschel documentary titled Spiritual Audacity and compare his idea of witnessing injustice and taking action to everyone who is now closing their eyes and ears to what is happening in Palestine and Israel. We should ask wwhd?

06.03.2026 17:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very interesting. And refreshing. I was reading some Armenian genocide witness poetry last night from Carolyn Forche’s Against Forgotting anthology and I immediately thought of how insider observations were always more brutally accurate and honest than later analyses and analytical frameworks.

06.03.2026 17:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A school in Tehran has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei.

Baghaei shared a video purportedly showing the aftermath without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.

06.03.2026 16:05 👍 156 🔁 80 💬 7 📌 10
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Is your data center getting a big discount on electricity? That’s redacted. » Yale Climate Connections A look at secret agreements in Montana.

Who is footing the bill?

06.03.2026 11:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For a president who ran for office promising to keep the United States out of wars, Trump has already launched attacks during his second term in:

Ecuador
Iran
Iraq
Nigeria
Somalia
Syria
Venezuela
Yemen
and on civilians in boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

04.03.2026 22:20 👍 211 🔁 131 💬 13 📌 9
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Trump seeks quick victory but faces prolonged conflict with Iran Trump faces challenges as Iran resists negotiations after military escalation and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's killing.

Trump says he doesn’t want to negotiate but don’t fall for it. It was Iran who rejects negotiations “The Iranians’ message is clear: that they have the ability to fight back, and believe that they must impose some kind of deterrence before any talks to stop the fighting, whenever that may be.“

04.03.2026 01:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At this point, we must admit that the government doesn't know why it went to war with Iran. Public knows though, they are not as stupid the White House thinks.

03.03.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I understand the desire for unbiased news from the region but I've been teaching Islam & ME for over 2 decades & nobody did a better job than Al Jazeera covering the current affairs. Brand loyalty to BBC, CNN, NYT & other legacy media keeps you uninformed. Old habits die hard, don't die with them.

03.03.2026 18:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ecclesiastes 10:08

03.03.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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02.03.2026 18:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The civilian flight from Dubai is going to be spectacular. The rich deserting the utopia and getting the poor stuck in a dystopia. Stay tuned for perfect ruin porn.

28.02.2026 17:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure, 50 little Iranian girls have been blown to bits… but were they forced to wear the hijab?!

- Western liberals.

28.02.2026 16:50 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Easier to fight illegal wars that way.

28.02.2026 16:52 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

What makes our children worth more than theirs?

28.02.2026 16:57 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

Iran is bombing Dubai!

28.02.2026 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#TraderJoes which proudly advertises its teas as fair trade certified has no problem selling you cheese produced under apartheid by a genocidal state, and mislabeled as Feta even though only the cheese produced in Greece can be labeled as such.

26.02.2026 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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the other state of the union... photo from Fall 2025 Thanksgiving trip to beloved NY.

25.02.2026 17:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nobody believed that Israelis will commit genocide. Three years on, they still deny it against all evidence. So, my guess is the Europe will learn “fuck all” from the Ukrainian experience, be it in 2022 or 2026.

25.02.2026 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nobody believed that Israelis will commit genocide. Three years on, they still deny it against all evidence. So, my guess is the Europe will also learn “fuck all” from the Ukraine experience, be 2022 or 2026…

25.02.2026 16:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0