Interview: Craig Mokhiber: "My critique was never of the idea of the UN.
"My critique was of the UN leadership, which was so frightened by western power that it abandoned the very mandate, principles & purposes of the organization out of fear."
Mokhiber resigned as a director in the UN over the UN leadership's policy on Israel's genocide in Gaza
#UN #InternationalLaw #BDS #CraigMokhiber #GazaGenocideNotWar #WesternComplicity #USPol .
Just pointing out it is the Ides of March. You know, in case you know any tyrants, Brutus.
Interview: Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer Ramzi Kassem on Khalil's arrest & its wider impact
The arrest has sent shockwaves throughout the US, with critics raising the alarm on the erosion of constitutional rights & how far Trump’s crackdown on free speech will go.
Trump has said "This the first [arrest] of many to come.”
Khalil was arrested by ICE for helping lead protests at Columbia against the genocide in Gaza.
Analysis: "US officials taking part in attacks on the ICC in defence of Israel are obstructing justice".
~Craig Mokhiber
The ICC could prosecute US officials & Israeli officials for obstruction of justice. Both Biden & Trump allowed Israel to act with impunity on Gaza & Palestine.
Trump's administration has also attacked the ICC - a crime under international law.
Report: Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) shared a video of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest:
“Ideas are not illegal", the group said, "& there is no ‘controversial speech’ exception to the First Amendment.
“Our right to free speech includes advocacy for Palestine. We will not be intimidated. We will not be stopped. We will fight until Mahmoud Khalil is free.
"We will fight until Palestine is free."
https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579802
#MahmoudKhalil #Trump #Racism #Autocracy #JVP #USPol #FreeSpeech .
Under Trump, AI Scientists are directed to eliminate mentions of AI fairness, responsibility and safety
"Unless you're a tech billionaire, this is going to lead to a worse future for you and the people you care about. Expect AI to be unfair, discriminatory, unsafe, and deployed irresponsibly"
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/
Email campaign Jewish Voice for Peace
"Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil"
"These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release...
"and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."
#MahmoudKhalil #JewishVoiceforPeace #USPol #Autocracy #StudentProtests .
If the US govt goes after Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in early April, as the current timetable suggests, it will impact the country's May federal election.
PBS touches everyone, delivering affordable medicines across a vast array of common illnesses and conditions and some not so common. Australia's conservative Coalition parties will scramble to defend the move and may even give up, having made use of the PBS themselves in the past to campaign on.
In such a super-charged political environment, the one group that will not escape attack from nearly all sectors is the Trump administration itself. If the US does go after the PBS, it will bring Australia into the trade wars, seething. Nothing will be safe or off limits. Tariffs, trade, treaties, AUKUS. This little marsupial mouse will roar.
@AnnaAnthro Boo hoo. We need to ban these floating disease and garbage generators from our territorial waters entirely. #cdnpoli #USpol #bcpoli
More of what the #Musk/Trump administration is doing to hurt people in #NorthCarolina
Canceling a program that paid for fresh food directly from farmers to go to food banks in our state. Good for everyone...
https://www.bpr.org/2025-03-14/usda-cancels-federal-funding-north-carolina-food-banks
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (which has supported many libraries and library projects, including one of mine in 2017-2018) is one of the agencies that Trump has now decreed "shall be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law". Here's the full order, which also targets 6 other agencies: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/ #uspol #libraries
Major trade battle looming between Australia and the United States with potential to severely damage, if not destroy, the relationship.
Trump administration reportedly has sights set on the country's vaunted Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that delivers affordable medicines to tens of millions of Australians.
A story at the #Asheville #Citizen-Times about my representative's townhall meeting on Thursday night.
Trump calls for jailing his perceived opponents in Justice Department speech
If it is not clear by now that this evil megalomaniac is out for dictatorship, no-one can help the US any more...
Trump will never leave voluntarily, so much is clear.
I wonder if now is the time for the progressive Democrats to create a viable new party. It feels to me like if Bernie rallied the troops and brought everyone under one roof, the people would vote for them.
A pertinent question:
Would you rather have NASA or SpaceX?
Trashed trash.
Used Tesla's flooding US second hand car market, becoming number one EV available with average price drop from $US70k in 2022 to $US30k today, $US10k less than any other brand.
https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-owners-selling-cars-elon-musk-2044017
There was a familiar building on the junction of Broad Way and Alchemists. The facade was ornate, but covered in grime. Gargoyles had colonized it.
The corroded motto over the portico said “I DISAPPROVE OF WHAT Y SAY, BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RI T TO AY IT” and in more spacious days that may have been the case, but recently someone had found it necessary to nail up an addendum which read:
DON’T ASK US ABOUT:
gender
inclusion
diversity
Mrs. Cake
Israel and/or Palestine
climate change
Freckleface Strawberry
critical race theory
Mrs. Cake
