On 26 January, 26 unarmed civilians were shot dead by Israel and 147 wounded in a massacre observed by heavily armed UN Peacekeepers who did not intervene. I asked the UN the very hard questions which nobody else is asking them.
The civilians were simply attempting to return to their homes in accordance with both UNSCR 1701 and the current ceasefire agreement, and indeed UNIFIL has a specific mandate under 1701 to assist displaced people to return.
So what has gone wrong with UNIFIL? Is this Srebrenica syndrome? What is the purpose of the heavy weaponry deployed by the UN’s best-equipped peacekeeping force, if it can never be fired? Why is the UN failing to monitor the hundreds of Israeli breaches of the Ceasefire Agreement? Why is the UN serving on a committee under a US General?
These and other questions I put to UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti. I did so in my usual, I hope courteous, manner. The result is a fascinating conversation which I believe is an extremely important piece of documentation of institutional failure to confront Israeli and US aggression at a critical time for the entire world.
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The romanian presidential candidate – Calin Georgescu – that took at stance against funding, arming Ukraine is apparently now under arrest. That is the democracy of Nato nations alright.
NATO-skeptic Romanian presidential candidate arrested (VIDEO)
https://swentr.site/news/613335-georgescu-presidential-romania-arrested/
JD Vance recently, in his Munich speech, raised the fact that how a EU commissioner bragged about how EU stopped the Romanian election after it was a chance that Calin Georgescu was about to win:
Link to JD Vance speech at the Munich Conference:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jd-vance-what-i-worry-about-is-the-threat-from-within/
woooow.
Whenever you think they had enough they come up with a new trick.
Or should I rather say fraud.
Yet the worst is of course complicity of news media.
And that´s where my brain starts spinning.
If politicians choose to ban Francesca Albanese that´s just pitiful and cowardly. Unsurprising. Detestable. (And as Romania is concerned this kind of thing is not new to the population there which is why they have long given up.)
But if reporters protect Western elites by not reporting that´s criminal behaviour.
Since none of what we are seeing day by day is possible without media in lockstep with authoritarian legislation and law enforcement. Even the European Council had criticized the cancellation of the elections in Romania. However that was reported by almost nobody.
p.s. Although Matt Taibbi on Gaza has not lived up to his former reputation – here his latest blog entry on a timeline of censorship laws in EU/USA:
Racket Library
The Library: Timeline of Foreign Censorship Laws
Legislation, codes, agreements, and other documents pertinent to the ongoing speech debate.
https://www.racket.news/p/the-library-timeline-of-foreign-censorship
If someone has suggestions to be added write his team under: [email protected]
AG
But if reporters protect Western elites by not reporting that´s criminal behaviour.
Since none of what we are seeing day by day is possible without media in lockstep with authoritarian legislation and law enforcement. Even the European Council had criticized the cancellation of the elections in Romania. However that was reported by almost nobody.
Indeed and this is perhaps the problem of today one see the result of it everywhere (for example that is why we have politicians that could freely aid and abet a genocide because there is no reaction among journalists)..
Western politicians and media have merged together, working for the same cause, agenda, ideology always backing each other up but that is not what journalism is about, certainly not in, alleged, democratic societies. Journalists core issue to to keep the power in check, hold the people in power accountable etc. Instead regular people are seen as the prime target by journalists that must be kept in check, like in any other dictatorial society.
“Western politicians and media have merged together, working for the same cause, agenda, ideology always backing each other up”
But that is the very thing happening 24/7. It is the essence of reporting. When you talk to any German correspondent assigned to this or that minister (SoS, SoD, chancellor etc.) they are nothing more but their spokepeople. It is embarrassing to listen to them privately. And of course there is no reason for them to question anything. Journalists have become partners in crime simply because financially they have a great life. The best paid posts in reporting are the closest to power. It´s almost too banal to write it down. But that´s how it is and how it works. It´s as obvious and true as 2+2 equalling 4. And yet nobody addresses this scandal.
p.s. Chris Hedges and Pankay Mishra also talk about this issue of complicity for career reasons in terms of Holocaust(s) here:
The World After Gaza (w/ Pankaj Mishra) | The Chris Hedges Report
26th Febr. 2025
https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/26/the-world-after-gaza-w-pankaj-mishra-the-chris-hedges-report/
Good conversation. They should have mentioned that the present pro-genocide consensus in western politics and media is also careerist in essence in most cases. It has exposed for all the world to see the moral depths that western elites are prepared to plumb in order to get ahead.
I can’t tell how great I feel, knowing that after 2 weeks of a well-deserved silence from our host, about to change Scotland politics once again, we still have such resolute posters ready to fill the void.
Who really cares whether Vlad and Don are gonna share Ukraine resources by 50/50 or a little more for Russia that suffered such terrible toll on the special military field.
And next will come Elon, with for Starlink ‘an offer you just can’t refuse’…
Such a blissful outcome.
Another Zionist lover in Merz – Germany’s international reputation is in tatters.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is free to visit Germany without fear of being detained under an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant, Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the country’s presumed next chancellor, has said.
The ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in November 2024, alleging that they committed war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the Gaza conflict. Israel has rejected the accusations, dismissing them as anti-Semitic.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Merz, whose party recently won the German parliamentary election, revealed that he had invited Netanyahu for a visit, despite Berlin being a signatory to the Rome Statute, the treaty governing the ICC.”
The media is celebrating Starmer’s grim grey vision for a grim grey militarised austerity Britian. The announcement is being cheered as his “Falklands moment”.
The future is cancelled, everyone to the Eastern front.
yeah taking over Scotland our Resources
Wow. So fun much.
Haiku san too
Front for the loo
The rulers in many countries are kinda adjusting their images for their home markets in preparation for the inevitable economic crash that can’t be far away now.
Incidentally if anyone else has got some dried beans in their food stockpile that are older than they should be, sodium bicarbonate works wonders in softening them.
Lol, optimist!
Unfortunately the UK won’t even get the military part of the militarism. The extra money will simply be spunked away, just like all the rest.
Look at what France or Japan get for their significantly less military spending compared to the UK. Never mind Russia.
The utterly controlled “free media” will fart about the Falklands, but nothing kinetic will come of it. The eternal Russia hoax is more about policing internal dissent.
They had better hope so. Generations of nationalist myth would be exploded if the British Army went head to head with the Russians.
At this point what army?
The UK could field a brigade maybe two, by cannibilzing the rest of the army.
The navy is in an even worse state. For a traditional sea power, the UK is now drastically outmatched there too. By a traditional land power.
So the endless bellicose nose is just sad & embarrassing now. Starmer would do better, by simply STFU.
Of course self-awareness isn’t a strong point in establishment circles, Starmer is just a gratuitous example.
Indeed. It was revealed last November that the number of fully deployable, combat-ready troops in the British Army is .. 18,398.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/decline-in-combat-ready-personnel-over-last-five-years/
They would however be inspired by the words of war leader Sir Keir and sundry newspaper columnists so they would surely outmatch the Russians in ferocity.
Trump has said “The EU was formed to screw the United States and they have done a good job of it but now I am President”.
That is absolute and total bullsh*t. FFS. How does anyone believe that? The EU was always extremely pro-USA, right from the earliest days of the EEC and Euratom.
How come you take anything the Donald says seriously?
He’s just a joke. With a big rocket.
He’s a deluded arsewipe living a fantasy world of his own making. Trouble is he’s a deluded arsewipe with a lot of power. He’s proposed a 25% tariff on imports from the EU, possibly he’ll do the same to us despite the damage it’ll do to both economies.
You just do not get it, Pears. Do not listen to what Trump says, but watch what he does. And from what Trump does it obviously follows that his goal is to destroy the dual entity of the American deep state and European atlantism. He will be very persistent in this, trust me. Why? Because Trump’s goal is Great America, not Great West. So he will get rid of all the sleepwalkers in the US and dump the European ballast, like you.
Indeed, why should America skyrocket her debt to pay for your dream of belonging to some imaginary great power?
And BTW your own recent PMs starting with T May were so bad I won’t even hire them to manage a McDonalds eatery.
The Donald ran on “Make America Great Again” but please excuse his language, what he actually meant was “Make America BIG Again”.
Little slip of the tongue, great opportunity for Elon, Vlad and the other members of the SB club.
If you eat junk food at McDuck’s, don’t be surprised when you have diarrhea. Better wear diapers.
What Trump is going to do is to trash the US economy and take the rest of us down with it. You do realise that it’s American consumers who are going to be paying his tariffs don’t you? I think we’ve had this link before but maybe it’s worth watching again:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c2Smik9Hxo
You need to ask why Americans prefer to buy European and Japanese cars. Maybe if US manufacturers worked to improve build quality and reliability the tariffs wouldn’t be needed but it’s not just cars. American farmers import most of their fertilizer, 42 billion tons of it from as far afield as Saudi Arabia and Thailand, if the price of that goes up then the price of your chlorinated chicken and hormone ridden beef is going to go up too.
Tariffs won’t come without consequences, either counter tariffs on American exports (the EU is America’s third biggest export customer after Canada and Mexico) or boycotts; a customer led boycott has already caused Tesla sales to fall 50% and wiped $100 million of the value of the company.
Yes we had some duffers as PM but we had the good sense to get rid of them instead of cheering them on from the sidelines. The only things that are going to skyrocket in the US are inflation and unemployment.
Must hurt to see your fellow tough guy Sir Keir crawling on his belly before Trump.
Charles and all the others next.
To a certain extent he’s correct. The EU (united states of Europe) was set up to counteract the power of the USA and provide, through unity, a viable body to compete with America on ‘equal’ terms. However, recently the EU have turned into puppets.
To be honest though, anyone taking Trump at face value is being a bit silly ! His mouth and brain are barely connected.
Brian Red
Agreed.
After WW2 the Us did not make Germany in its own image ( neither Japan) and reparations against the Germans
were initially harsh.
But by the Sixties they had built a functioning Welfare State – with healthcare – and built their pretty good
State pension Scheme.
With Trump now throwing the pigeon amongst the cats the Post war inheritors ( the Technocrats) have no answer to
the US desertion.
If they want to pay to guard US Mineral Rights in the Ukraine then that is similar to going on Bullseye and giving Jim
Bowen a two berth shed of a caravan without a question even being asked.
As in all of The West note carefully that all these wise men and women have only worked in Finance say for Goldman
Sachs or HSBC or whatever.
That experience of the world is not exactly what you would call experience of life.
Therefore it’s no surprise that these fools view everything as studying a spreadsheet.
I am convinced that in order to ‘defend ‘ Europe against the future Russian Hordes that they will sacrifice ( not their
sacrifice of course ) the European Welfare State in order to guard ‘ Our interests ‘
I haven’t got anything to guard ( or not much ) so, if by the guarding of ‘ Our’ Interests they mean the rich people’s
assets then the rich should pay for all of it.
Easy as that.
It’s not dissimilar to the US politicians saying to the US ordinary people:
‘ If you let those Chinese take over the they’ll stop you working three jobs for a maximum of $7.50/hour
and take away your Crappy Trailer Home and make you work for The Chinese State!’
All up for grabs int he EU chaos and the only outcome I can see is massive swerve to the right – Nationalism
which will lead to protectionism which will lead to the stronger economies in Europe bullying the smaller economies
and then the strongest one may want to do a second run at taking over Europe again.
First time was history – the second time will be farce.
A dangerous farce but, a farce never the less.
Very good. DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) call on ICC to investigate Biden and Blinken for aiding and abetting the genocide in Gaza.
There should be more work like this done all over the west against western governments obvious complicity in the human rights violations commited in Gaza.
“The International Criminal Court (“ICC”) should investigate former U.S. officials President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for their accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, said DAWN in a 172-page communication to the ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan made on January 19, 2025.
Prepared with the support of ICC-registered lawyers and other war crimes experts, the submission details a pattern of deliberate and purposeful decisions by these officials to provide military, political, and public support to facilitate Israeli crimes in Gaza; this support included at least $17.9 billion of weapons transfers, intelligence sharing, targeting assistance, diplomatic protection, and official endorsement of Israeli crimes, despite knowledge of how such support had and would substantially enable grave abuses”.
https://www.afp.com/en/infos/dawn-calls-international-criminal-court-investigate-biden-administration-aiding-and-abetting
Direct link to document sent to ICC:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YAZljOdw7MZV68IweMaUvOyX1vX9bWl9/view?pli=1
Very good too.
I will abstain from bearing any personal judgement on the opportunity of such submission.
But what seems rather quite unexpected in its 172-pages long wording is the omission of Ms Koma-la-la, who wore those exquisite earrings and also was the Vice President of the land-of-the-free. How come ?
DAWN´s own statement and info:
https://dawnmena.org/international-criminal-court-investigate-biden-blinken-and-austin-for-aiding-and-abetting-israeli-crimes-in-gaza/
A interview from more than a year ago. I might have posted it back then but I think it´s still worth it with hindsight and with Whitson´s representative role in mind (head of DAWN) – she wouldn´t answer the question on HAMAS directly but said a lot by doing that:
Israel, Hamas, and the Laws of War (Robert Wright & Sarah Leah Whitson)
Robert Wright
Oct 17, 2023
https://www.nonzero.org/p/israel-hamas-and-the-laws-of-war#details
UN human rights chief accuse Israel of ummatched human rights violations.
Israel showing ‘unprecedented disregard’ for human rights in Gaza: UN
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/02/27/743584/UN-rights-chief-condemn-Israel-aggression-Gaza-accountability-
And already Israel have designated their propaganda artist for Eurovision this year – a survivor of october 7. A quite icky mentality, posing oneself as a victim while they themselves carry out massacres almost daily.
Hamas attack survivor to represent Israel at Eurovision
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceve4ww7n90o
Further goodies / sensibles / grown-ups revelations …
BBC and Guardian editors held private meetings with Israeli General
Former IDF chief of staff met with Britain’s top journalists to promote Israel’s war on Gaza
https://www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-guardian-editors-private-meetings-with-israeli-general-kohavi/
And when everything is said and done, at the end of the day, even this fountain of truth runs dry.
It’s been quite a while.
What with the immense psychological toll that only war veterans can truly acknowledge, 3 months in destroyed Beirut must have been just as deleterious as 5 years in Belmarsh prison.
We certainly hope that Craig quickly and fully recovers from that dire experience, better than Julian Assange apparently did. So that he can soon get back to his never ending focus: Freedom for Scotland and for everyone else !
I posted a link to this on here a couple of days ago;
“Kill ALL MEN In Gaza”: Netanyahu Ally’s Genocidal Demand Gets No Media Coverage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjvJhlmBM0 (Owen Jones – 14mins)
And now I just came across this on skwawkbox (albeit from just over two weeks ago):
Israeli TV host calls for all Palestinians in Gaza to be killed
Barashi Kinneret wants ‘100% dead in Gaza’
Popular Israeli TV show host Barashi Kinneret posted on X calling for all Palestinians – whom she called, with no sense of irony, ‘murderous mutations’ – in Gaza to be ‘erased’ from existence – ‘from [maternity] delivery rooms to the last elderly person’. ‘100% dead in Gaza,’ Kinneret, whose feed is a stream of right-wing invective against Palestinians and the left…
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/02/10/israeli-tv-host-calls-for-all-palestinians-in-gaza-to-be-killed/
Israel appears to be full of demented bloodthirsty fucking psychopaths.
PS I just checked, and I see it had 198k views at the point when skwawkbox took a screenshot of her X post.
The person referred to is Nissum Vaturi, Likud MP and deputy speaker of the occupation parliament in Palestine. (This is for the sake of those who don’t watch many videos.)
The guy was in the fascist youth movement called Betar, and as far as I can tell he’s been a Nazi-style sicko all his life. He has called for murdering everyone in Gaza, and sometimes “only” for murdering all the men there.
People like him really hate – and I mean hate – the idea of Palestinian mothers giving birth to babies in Palestine. That’s why they go on about maternity wards. It is difficult for those who have some humanity to understand that some people in this world are like that…and not only that, but Israel is a tool of such people and it will be until IT is removed from existence.
It can be added that this hateful genocidalist material is being distributed by Elon Musk.
Brian. Yes, these people and their utterances are disgusting, but they shouldn’t be censored. Free speech demands that everyone, including scum, have a voice. And, who decides who can speak ? Me, you, the BBC ? If we censored these people then we wouldn’t be aware of how vile they really are and might believe they were decent people. Let them speak, let them dig their own graves.
David Miller the latest journalist victim of Section 7 returning from Lebanon too. Account reads as if he was well prepared as a result of the written up experiences of his notable predecessors.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/02/26/743564/UK-police-detain-anti-Zionist-scholar-upon-return-from-Lebanon