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Desagua douro de pensa mentos.
Over the course of two years, Israeli forces systematically destroyed
the Gaza Strip’s health system. Their attacks in Iran and Lebanon follow
a disturbingly similar pattern.
"Since the start of Operations Roaring Lion and Epic Fury, critics have charged that Israel is expanding its Gaza doctrine—a
combination of mass displacement, mass killing, and mass destruction of
civilian infrastructure—to other parts of the Middle East. (In some
sense this is a return of “the Dahiyeh doctrine,” named after the
neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs that the Israeli military
ruthlessly pummelled during the 2006 Lebanon War—only in Gaza the
destruction was not confined to a specific area and the people living
within it but became the military’s modus operandi throughout the
territory.) Israel, surprisingly or not, has embraced the accusation,
dropping leaflets on Beirut reminding the city’s residents of the
Israeli military’s “great success in Gaza.” One of the more pronounced
features of the Gaza doctrine—and of contemporary warfare more
generally—is turning life-saving medical sites like hospitals, health
clinics, and ambulances into targets: it was the “deliberate and
systematic dismantling of Gaza’s health and life-sustaining systems”
that Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) cited to argue that the
Israeli military’s conduct in the Strip met the legal definition of
genocide. The reports emerging out of Iran and Lebanon raise the deeply
troubling prospect that Israel hopes to replicate that “success” abroad."
Quem é Amanda Ungaro, a ex-modelo brasileira que acusa Trump e Melania no escândalo do caso Epstein?
O nome da ex-modelo brasileira Amanda Ungaro, de 41 anos, voltou a
movimentar as redes sociais neste sábado, quando foi ao X para fazeruma série de desabafos (e ameaças). Em resposta a um vídeo de Melania Trump em que ela negava ter relação com o criminoso sexualJeffrey Epstein,
Amanda afirma que esteve “ao redor” do casal Trump por 20 anos e que
vai tomar medidas legais contra Melania e “seu marido pedófilo”, o
presidente dos Estados UnidosDonald Trump.Mas quem é Amanda Ungaro ?
"Shakespeare
knew that rats instinctively leave a sinking ship. Yesterday, Melania
Trump made her move to quit the rotten carcass of her husband’s
presidency."
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (in memoriam)
Everybody just rock it, don't stop it
You gotta rock it, don't stop
Keep tickin' and tockin', work it all around the clock
Everybody keep rockin' and clockin' and shockin' and rockin', go house
Everybody say, "Rock it, don't stop it!"
"Pra ninguém (por enquanto)" - Nila Branco (Alvin L) in memoriam
Ninguém pra ligar e dizer onde estou Ninguém pra ir comigo onde eu vou Por outro lado Ninguém pra abaixar o volume Ninguém pra reclamar dos pratos sujos Ninguém pra fingir que eu não amo
‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day
"Nothing prepared him for what he saw when he entered the gates. “Arya’s classroom had been completely destroyed – there was absolutely nothing left,” he says. “It was flattened to the ground.” This moment – the sight through the gate, the thick cloud of dust obscuring the blue sky – was the worst he endured. Then, Bahadori stepped to the ruins to look for his boy. Over and over, he and the men would grip a piece of rubble, heave it upwards together, look for a child underneath."
At last, David has landed a double punch on the tech Goliaths. Now to hit them even harder
"She describes how the company, able to track users’ activity on and off the platform, could see when, for example, girls aged between 13 and 17 deleted a selfie. Realising that signalled the girls’ dissatisfaction with their appearance, the company saw a way to monetise that unhappiness. For a fee, a cosmetics company could serve a beauty ad to those children at that very moment.
Facebook did not hide this behaviour; they boasted of it. Wynn-Williams reveals how Facebook made a presentation for an Australian client, bragging that its ability to monitor users’ online lives – their posts, their photos, their conversations with friends – enabled them to know exactly when teenage girls were feeling “worthless”, “insecure”, “stressed”, “defeated”, “anxious”, “stupid”, “useless” and “like a failure”. Those were optimal moments for selling."
"Creso, que entrou para a história como anedota, enviou um emissário para consultar o Oráculo de Delphos. O emissário perguntou se o rei deveria atravessar o rio e lançar-se à guerra contra os persas. A resposta do oráculo foi uma dessas obras-primas da ambiguidade: se Creso atravessasse o rio, destruiria um grande império. Satisfeito, o rei ouviu apenas a parte que agradava ao seu desejo, entendeu que destruiria a Pérsia. Atravessou o rio, iniciou a guerra e destruiu, de fato, um grande império: o seu."
A ascensão da extrema direita no mundo é filha das redes sociais —eis uma verdade que, se ainda não foi provada cientificamente, acredito que logo será.
Quando explodiu de vez, perto da virada do século, a internet vinha embalada em fumos humanistas de biblioteca universal e plataforma democrática de informação e voz para todos. Quem se lembra?
Era um progressismo vago que não negava a origem pós-hippie do Vale do Silício. Seu teor de ingenuidade era elevado. A internet permitia fazer coisas antes impensáveis, mas aquele otimismo inicial padecia de um grave viés do bem.
Cena do filme 'Hair' (1979), de Milos Forman, que aborda o movimento hippie e a Guerra do Vietnã - Reprodução
O sonho era que, tendo subitamente acesso imediato a toda a informação disponível na Terra, cada pessoa teria a chance de desenvolver ao máximo seu potencial humano e comunitário.
Os seres humanos se tornariam mais sábios e, devido ao debate permanente de suas sabedorias na ágora imaterial —sempre com a vitória do melhor argumento—, infinitamente ponderados na média.
Corta para o presidente dos EUA anunciando em rede social: "Uma civilização inteira morrerá esta noite". Opa, parece que alguma coisa deu errado, não? Convém voltar algumas casas.
Sim, é óbvio que a internet nunca foi um empreendimento humanitário —aquela era só uma das histórias que ela contava sobre si mesma. Nova fronteira de negócios basicamente privados, logo começava a bombar.
Ao lado da biblioteca e da sala de aula que os idealistas trataram de transferir para o mundo digital, transferiram-se também partes menos nobres e mais rentáveis do empreendimento humano.
Casal em frente à Biblioteca Central da Universidade Nacional Autônoma do México (Unam), uma das mais importantes do mundo - Francisco Cañedo - 27.fev.26/Xinhua
O submundo do crime e os exércitos de golpistas, as coberturas duplex do crime e os salões da jogatina, além de um tipo de lixo populista audiovisual que era uma mutação maligna da TV —tudo migrou junto.
Como o mundo propriamente dito —que agora era necessário qualificar de analógico—, o mundo que cada um de nós passou a habitar via tela sempre foi movido pela busca do lucro, que seria redundante qualificar de inescrupulosa.
A diferença é que, no digital, havia ainda mais recursos para explorar as fraquezas humanas que o crime sempre explorou —como o vício. Nossa própria existência online virou então uma sucessão de armadilhas para capturar atenção. Os produtos éramos nós.
As redes sociais redesenharam por completo o ambiente da informação, realizando a promessa de dar "voz" a todos, e adivinha —em vez de debates democráticos e médias ponderadas, vimos um pega pra capar.
Dedo no olho do inimigo, campanhas de ódio, cinismo rampante, terraplanismo, uma usina de desinformação política que nunca dorme. Sitiadas atrás de suas telas, deprimidas e absolutamente sós em sua interconexão digital plena, as pessoas estão vulneráveis.
Metade da humanidade parece ter hoje um fraco pelo caminho apontado pela extrema direita, essa mistura de "salve-se quem puder" com "farinha pouca, meu pirão primeiro" e "morte ao diferente" que de resto surpreende pouco em tempos tingidos de apocalipse.
Eu me pergunto se ainda vai dar para salvar alguma coisa daquele sonho de 2000, que afinal era bem bonito.
Prerequisites to prove you’ve got what it takes to run DHS under Trump:
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
+ Markfortwayne Mullin describing, with evident pleasure, his
daughter pleading with him not to spank (ie, abuse) her…“She’s like,
‘No, Daddy. No, Daddy, No, Daddy, No. I’m sorry, Daddy. I’m sorry,
Daddy.’ … She just couldn’t bring herself to even bend over for me to be
able to bust her butt.”
Does Markfortwayne wear his white hat when he beats his daughter?
+ Prerequisites to prove you’ve got what it takes to run DHS under
Trump: 1. Shoot your own puppy in the head for being disobedient and
toss its body in a gravel pit; 2. Abuse your own daughter for being
disobedient.
If you can publicly brag about beating your own child for political
points, you probably won’t have much of a problem ripping children, some
of them born in the US, from the arms of their parents, keeping them
locked up in concentration camp-like prisons hundreds of miles away from
their moms and dads, making them act as their own lawyers in
immigration court or forcing them to make an impossible choice between
being wrongfully deported with a parent or being left in the US as one
or both of their parents are shipped off to El Salvador or Haiti.
+ 11,000: the minimum number of children who have had a parent detained by ICE/CBP since Trump retook office.
Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization” unless its leaders agreed to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
By Tuesday evening – instead of trying to kill the 90 million people living in Iran, or bombing Iran’s power plants and bridges as he had promised – Trump announced “a double sided CEASEFIRE!” for two weeks. In doing so, Trump all but admitted the reality that his illegal war is going terribly – and Iran is winning.
“We received a 10-point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate,” the president announced on Truth Social – apparently referring to the 10-point plan that Iran had presented to the US before he threatened to murder its entire population.
Using this 10-point plan as a framework for a deal, rather than the previous American 15-point plan, is obviously a major win for Iran – which is, indeed, declaring victory. Experts and commentators see it that way, too.
“If Iran did in fact secure guarantees based on the ‘10 principles’ Trump referenced, that is not a marginal outcome, it is a strategic win for Tehran, reinforcing its narrative and positioning,” wrote Danny Citrinowicz, a former top Israeli intelligence officer who focused on Iran. As former US State Department official and veteran Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller put it, “Iran has won another round.”
Political scientist Robert A. Pape writes: “Huge strategic defeat for the US, biggest loss since Vietnam.”
The 10-point plan would allow Iran to continue its control over the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial waterway that Iran has closed since the start of the war, stopping the flow of oil and throttling the global economy.
Just a day earlier, Trump was fantasizing about the US “charging tolls” for ships to transit the strait. Now, it looks much more likely that Iran will keep doing this instead, and that it will get to charge “a $2M fee per ship.” In another win for Iran, the plan would involve lifting “all US sanctions on Iran.”
Under Iran’s proposed framework, the US would allow Iran to continue its uranium enrichment program – which would mean folding on the entire supposed basis for Trump’s illegal war. This point was included in the Farsi version of the plan, but reportedly omitted from English versions shared by Iranian diplomats.
Some liberals will invariably revel in memes about how Trump always chickens out. But, as we reported at Zeteo on Tuesday, none of this is over. The ceasefire, as of now, is only temporary. As Trump advisers and others in the upper tiers of Trumplandia warned us, there’s still a decent chance that he escalates the war again soon.
"Most discussions of Iran revolve around oil, escalation, and regime change. Yet Iran today feels easier to understand as part of a much older pattern. For more than 2,500 years, states on the Iranian plateau have favoured patience, distance, and endurance over any kind of immediate full-on confrontation with stronger enemies.
To understand Iran today, it therefore helps to trawl through Persian military history."
Since the appalling ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last
week on Oak Flats, where the US judicial system (so-called) has given
the green light for a multinational mining company to annihilate one of
the most sacred Native American sites in the Southwest, I’ve been
thinking about the many Native Rights campaigns I’ve covered and/or been
involved in over the last 35 years: Black Mesa, San Francisco Peaks,
Mount Graham, Enola Hill,Rainbow
Bridge, Navajo Generating Station, Lyle salmon fishing site, mining and
logging in the Black Hills, Zuni Salt Lake, Oak Flats, ANWR, Klamath
River dams, Chaco Canyon uranium mine, Bolsa Chica and Ballona wetlands
in LA, Nevada Test Site, Willamette Falls lamprey and salmon fishing
site, Jemez/Los Alamos, Standing Rock, the Thacker Pass lithium mine.
These were/are often bitter, lonely, and dangerous campaigns,
especially for Native activists. Not long after moving to Oregon, I
received a three-day tour of many of the most intense battle zones in
the Four Corners region by the Navajo environmental and tribal activist
Leroy Jackson, who took this photo of me outside of Kayenta in the
shadow of Black Mesa. Leroy was a very intense person and he was
fighting extremely powerful interests, like Peabody Coal, Duke City
Lumber and corrupt members of the tribal government of the Big Rez.
I flipped through my journals of that week and was struck by a
conversation we had about the relations between tribal activists and
Gang Green and how unreliable the professional environmental groups are
as coalition partners with Native people because of their unfailing
tendency to compromise for political reasons on issues, such as sacred
sites, where there can be no compromise. I jotted down that’d I’d
relayed to Leroy one of my favorite admonitions from Dave Brower: “When
we win, it’s merely a stay of execution. When they win, it’s forever.”
Leroy responded by saying, “For so many of you guys (white male
activists), this is like a game. You’re here for a while, then back to
school or onto some other issues. You can’t be counted on. But we live
here. We have to play for keeps.” (I didn’t take offense at this,
knowing firsthand the truth of what he was saying.) Leroy did play for
keeps. A few months after our road trip, he was found dead
in his car in northern New Mexico. The cops called it a suicide/drug
overdose. But Leroy wasn’t a drug user. He wasn’t depressed or suicidal.
He was almost certainly murdered. Yet, like so many killings of Native
Americans, especially activists, the cops didn’t care enough to even
investigate his death. They were glad he was dead.
Rambling Irishman {De Dannan} Dolores Keane - in memoriam
I am a rambling Irishman In Ulster I was born in And many the pleasant days I spent Round the shores of sweet Lough Erne But to be poor I could not endure Like others of my station To Americay I sailed away And left this Irish nation
Filho do presidente do Irã revela bastidores da guerra em diário no Telegram
"Ele também compartilhou algumas anedotas sobre sua vida pessoal. Ele fala sobre colorir com seus filhos, levá-los para brincar no parque, comprar balões para eles. Ele escreve sobre encontrar um amigo para uma longa caminhada no parque e sua determinação de se exercitar para manter sua resistência mental.
Uma vez, disse ele, recebeu uma mensagem misteriosa direcionando-o a comparecer a um endereço. Ele entrou em pânico, suspeitando de uma armadilha israelense. Depois de verificar com a segurança, disse ele, percebeu que era apenas um convite de iftar de amigos para quebrar o jejum do Ramadã com eles."
Iran
didn’t want this war, but now it has reasons to prolong it. That’s a
problem for President Trump, who appears unable to reopen the Strait of
Hormuz despite his threats. It’s a problem for the global economy,
which is buckling under a surge in energy costs. It’s a problem for Gulf
leaders hemorrhaging oil revenue. And it’ll haunt future American
presidents: Hormuz has been closed once; it can be closed again.
Despite
the climbing death toll and destroyed infrastructure, surging oil
prices are cushioning Iran’s economy against the war’s costs. Iran has
met virtually every strike with a counterstrike, every threat with a
matching threat. Its leaders’ logic is cold but calculated: make this
war so costly for everyone that no one wants to start another. For
Tehran, the goals are simple. The Islamic Republic must survive this
moment and ensure it is not attacked by the United States and Israel
again. To achieve this, Iran believes it must impose a cost — to the
United States and Israel, to the Gulf states’ image of stability and to
the global economy. So far, it’s succeeding: Iran has learned how easy
and comparatively cheap it is to hold the global economy hostage.
For
Tehran, the moment is existential. It faced years of economic hardship
as sanctions and mismanagement resulted in high inflation and a weaker
currency. It also faced political and legitimacy crises — both worsened
by the brutal repression of protests, as well as social and
environmental pressures so severe that dire water shortages prompted the
country’s president to warn Tehran might have to be evacuated. Then
came the American and Israeli onslaught in which officials from both
countries talked openly about regime change in Tehran.
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That
situation led to Iran’s response: ruthless, step-by-step escalation.
Unlike the short war in June, the escalation wasn’t symbolic. Iran
continues to hit the Arab Gulf states where it hurts,
from energy to tourism. Tehran now holds the global economy hostage by
choking off the Strait of Hormuz — a move it long threatened but never
before executed.
Some
saw these moves as unjustified; Tehran saw them as carefully
calibrated. At the beginning of the war, the Iranian military hit
regional energy infrastructure to sabotage production, taking some of
the region’s production temporarily offline. But it was only when Israel
conducted an attack against Iran’s South Pars gas field on March 18
that Iran went for the jugular. After the Israeli attack, Iran targeted energy infrastructure
in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, seemingly aiming
to cause longer-lasting damage. The hit on the world’s largest liquefied
natural gas export facility was so significant that it is likely to
cause an estimated $20 billion of lost revenue and five years of repair. Iran demonstrated it was willing and able to retaliate in kind.
Iran is doing all this on the cheap.
It uses a mix of relatively low-cost drones and missiles to overwhelm
its adversaries’ defenses. Those defenses are more expensive: Iran is deploying
drones worth $20,000 to $50,000 against interceptors worth more than $4
million. It’s also using mines, drones and explosive-rigged boats to
scare off shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Put simply, Tehran is on the
right side of the cost curve.
And while Iranian munitions aren’t unlimited, the country’s military is
getting better at striking targets as the war goes on. They might be
shooting less, but they’re shooting better.
This
dynamic has created two advantages for Iran. First, high oil prices are
hurting the United States but strengthening Iran’s hand. This led to
the Trump administration’s paradoxical policy of relaxing sanctions on
Iranian oil. Second, the closure of the strait is less damaging to Iran
than to its neighbors. Iranian oil exports have fallen only modestly
since the war began, while its neighbors’ exports have tumbled. With the
jump in crude prices, Iran is probably earning more from its oil today
than it did before the war. Even the country’s long-troubled currency
has gained ground.
All this comes at a
cost. Iran continues to sustain heavy bombardment, affecting
residential areas and its energy grid. Tehran has antagonized its
neighbors, several of whom are now calling for Trump to finish the job.
While Iran’s strategy initially surprised its adversaries, over time,
everyone will adjust. The Gulf may find alternatives to the strait,
investing in diversion routes and pipelines. The United States and
regional powers will most likely prepare plans to prevent future
closures of the strait. None of this will help Iran’s new rulers stay in
power. Once the war is over, they will still have to contend with their
internal economic, political, social and environmental crises — as well
as the deaths of many of their fellow leaders.
Iran
didn’t want this war, but it has learned how to use it. The Strait of
Hormuz is a major vulnerability to the global economy. Tehran will
remember the value of being able to close it. That leverage won’t fix
its deep domestic problems. But it will anchor the United States more
firmly in the Middle East, despite years of talk about pivoting away
from the region.
“A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight”. He’s Out of His Motherfucking Mind
"Donald Trump is a fucking sociopath—full stop—and I am done pretending there’s a more polite, more “balanced,” more media-friendly way to describe a man who woke up on Easter Sunday and decided the appropriate use of presidential power was to talk about ninety million human beings like they’re something you hose off the planet, like they’re animals—and then woke up this morning and started talking about an entire civilization dying like it’s some throwaway line he can tease and move on from—while a pack of suit-wearing, spine-missing media mannequins keep polishing this fascist fuckstain into something vaguely presentable and the MAGA foam-flecked faithful clap along like it’s strength instead of the deranged, bloodthirsty bullshit it is.
Because he didn’t misspeak. He didn’t get tangled up. He didn’t wander into bad wording and then scramble back toward humanity. He planted both clown shoes at the edge of the abyss and started tap-dancing, making it unmistakably clear that he thinks mass violence becomes perfectly acceptable once he’s stripped the victims of their humanity and slapped together some dogshit justification about how their own government mistreats them, therefore we can do whatever we want—which is the kind of logic you get from a consequence-dodging, draft-ducking, leather-skinned layabout sadist who has never had to sit with the aftermath of a single goddamn thing he’s ever done and therefore treats human life like it’s just more scenery he can blow past at full speed."
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