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.
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.
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.
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