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🇵🇸 Rapper Macklemore says nine major US arenas refused to host his Free Palestine benefit tour, including Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, Kia Forum, Crypto(dot)com Arena and Chase Center.
He said venues offered him dates, but "once they found out these were benefit shows for Palestine, these dates were suddenly off the table."
"In over twenty years of touring, I've never experienced anything like this," Macklemore wrote on Instagram on Friday, adding that "a handful of billionaires can decide which causes are acceptable."
Madison Square Garden's explanation was that Macklemore, a four-time Grammy winner, is "not an arena-level act." His Free Palestine shows in Europe (London, Dublin, and Paris) already sold out three arenas.
He launched the tour after being dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour in September over pro-Palestine remarks at MetLife Stadium. "There will be more shows for Palestine," he wrote yesterday.
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There's a saying that history is written by the victors, but this is also true of the present story. Those who are winning the capitalism game get to set the narrative about what is currently happening in our world.
If you succeed in dominating the humans you share a planet with using our current socioeconomic systems of labor exploitation and resource extraction, then you get to buy up politicians, media outlets, online platforms and influence operations which allow you to determine the mainstream narratives about what's going on in our world, in the same way the victorious armies of the past often had the power to shape the historical record in their favor.
The present is therefore written by the victors.
Those who've landed at the top of the heap have the power to circulate narratives which normalize the abusive system they benefit from, and to scare the public away from seeking to implement other systems of power distribution and resource allocation.
They have the power to shape public perception of world events, to reverse victim and perpetrator in their narratives about international conflicts, and to frame the western empire as a passive witness to the terrible things that are happening around the world rather than the primary driver of those horrors.
They have the power to determine which protest movements, mass atrocities and scandals receive widespread attention in our society, and which get conveniently overlooked.
They have the power to determine which political parties are taken seriously, and which parties are considered unrealistic vanity projects which steal votes from the viable candidates.
They have the power to make or break careers in media or politics, to choose which figures are elevated to celebrity status or marginalized to the fringes, and to fabricate antisemitism scandals out of thin air.
Power is the ability to control what happens. Absolute power is the ability to control what people THINK about what happens. Those who are winning the capitalism game are able to exert absolute power over our society.
The real source of power in our world is not money, nor resources, nor armies, nor weapons. The real source of power in our world is narrative, and the ability to control it.
Narrative is the only thing that determines what governments look like, how power works, how money operates, what laws there are, and why nations operate the way they do. They're all completely made-up guidelines made of words which we have all collectively agreed to pretend are true. The only reason anything works the way it works is because enough of us believe the shared narratives saying it is so. It is our collective belief which gives those narratives their power.
That's why our rulers pour so much energy into controlling the narrative. That's what you're seeing with all the news media consolidation, the centralization of internet activity into a handful of trillionaire apps, the aggressive artificial intelligence push, and the efforts to stomp out dissident speech throughout the western world. It's because the powerful understand something most of us do not: that their power comes entirely from narrative.
They know that as soon as enough of us stop believing their narratives, we are free. We can decide to re-write the made-up rules of society whenever we choose to, and change everything about states, authority, money and labor which have allowed the plutocrats to live like kings at the expense of everyone else. We can stop playing the capitalism game they've been winning at any time, because the rules are completely made up, and we can just make up a different game.
As soon as enough people stop believing the stories of the dominant storytellers, we can use the power of our numbers to force the creation of a healthy world.
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As if surviving a genocide, being driven from your home, and having your land stolen weren't enough. Now they have to endure freezing rain, floods, and yet another layer of unimaginable suffering. Fuck Israel and every single government, institution, and individual that enables supports, and legitimizes this cruelty.
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Israel has brainwashed you into believing that Palestine with zero fighter jets, zero helicopters, zero tanks, and zero soldiers are oppressing a nuclear superpower with 75-400 nuclear warheads, over 340 fighter jets, 130 helicopters, 1,500 tanks, and 650,000 soldiers.
Stop calling it a war. Israel is not fighting an army; it is fighting defenseless civilians—women, children, and elderly. Call it what it is: GENOCIDE
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Stop gushing over newly elected progressive Democrats. Every lawmaker on Capitol Hill is a scumbag. All Democrats and all Republicans in mainstream national politics are imperialists. All of them. They’re not all equally bad, but they’re all bad. Don’t believe me, watch and see.
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Eisenkot, Golan and Liberman all ran on drafting the Haredim. Now all three look ready to break that promise rather than sit with the Arab parties:
1) Liberman went into the election with three pledges: no sitting with the Arabs, no sitting with Netanyahu, no sitting with the Haredim. On Friday he dropped the third. He wrote that his party will “be flexible and compromise,” “including the draft law.” He kept his veto on Ra’am and the Joint List, even if they only abstain.
2) The draft is the issue Liberman built his brand on. In 2019 he refused to join Netanyahu’s coalition over the draft law, which forced a repeat election. Now he calls compromising on it “painful” but necessary.
3) During the campaign, Eisenkot promised “no compromise” on the draft law, Haredim included. His partners are now saying publicly that this promise is up for negotiation.
4) Eisenkot has made recognizing Hamas as a terrorist organization a condition for joining his coalition. That condition targets the Arab parties. The Haredi parties face no comparable test.
5) Eisenkot’s camp has been weighing a setup in which UTJ abstains on the government’s swearing-in and joins later. Liberman has ruled out the same arrangement with the Arab parties.
6) Golan has spent years demanding that the Haredim serve. On Friday he posted that there is “real progress” toward a change government. He said nothing about the draft.
7) Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon, who is close to both Liberman and the Haredi parties, is reportedly mediating between the sides.
8) UTJ refused to recommend Netanyahu to President Herzog. Its newspaper Yated Ne’eman wrote that the party would back whichever candidate offers “the best and most legal arrangement,” meaning on the draft. It is waiting for the best offer, and the change bloc is negotiating with it.
Ra’am and the Joint List gave Eisenkot 19 of his 67 recommendations. Without them, he would not have the mandate. The Arab parties got him the mandate, but they are kept out of the government. The Haredim refused to recommend him, and they are the ones being offered a deal on the draft. The racism in Israel trascends political lines and there is nothing these men wouldn't do to avoid bringing the Arabs into the coalition.
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@MartaKosEU Босанци (138.500) Срби (53.700) и Македонци (23.000) во Словенија се многу побројни отколку што се Бугарите (3.504) во Македонија.
Зошто нив ги нема во Уставот на Словенија? Ако тоа не било ЕУ критериум за Словенија и Бугарија зошто сега е ЕУ критериум за Македонија?
@MartaKosEU ако пречката за напредок на преговори во ЕУ за Македонија е внесување на Бугари во устав, дали тоа значи дека државите кои напредуваат ги исполниле условите кои од нас се бараат?
Дали Украина стави Пољаци, Унгарци и Руси во нивниот устав?
Зошто имате двојни стандарди?
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One day, we will look back at this time in Australia's history where the entire nation went to a vote and denied Indigenous people a direct voice to parliament while directly after that, the government of the day walked away and gave that voice to Israel - without a single Australian vote being cast or a person being asked.
One day we will wonder how we allowed Australia to be captured and ruled by a foreign nation, for our thoughts to be policed and our rights to artistic expression and freedom of speech curtailed by an unelected, South African born, multi-millionaire white woman from eastern Sydney who answers to lsrael.
One day we'll have to tell our children and grandchildren that this woman thought that protesting against a war where children are bombed and burnt alive in their beds is an evil thing to do, but marching with a Nazi protest sign is nothing worth worrying about.
One day we will have to explain this upside-down madness, this state-captured think speak we all allowed to happen and wonder why we didn't do more.
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
#SackSegal
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Just in case you haven't been reading my posts, let me remind you that Jess Wilson is no moderate.
She wants to overturn Treaty, gut public transport, roll back the gas exploration ban and won't commit to Net Zero.
On top of offering tax breaks to private schools and quasi-privatising healthcare, she wants to ban harmless phrases, launch a Royal Commission against her ideological enemies, and has slanderously linked the pro-Palestine movement to Bondi.
She’s had at least 15 chances to rule out a deal with One Nation and refused. She’s personally endorsed far right religious nutjobs in her own party and has deep ties to the loony IPA.
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Allah said _"Kill them wherever you find them..."_ Qur'an 2:191
Christians always quote this verse, but they never ask the simple question: WHO IS "THEM"?
You cannot know who "THEM" if you don't read the verse before it.
Qur'an 2:190 says:
_"Fight in the way of Allah THOSE WHO FIGHT YOU but do not transgress."_
So "THEM" in 191 is NOT Christians. "THEM" is NOT innocent people. "THEM" is NOT your neighbours.
"THEM" Means The people who were fighting the Muslims, who expelled them from their homes in Makkah, who tortured and killed them.
That is why 191 itself says:
"Expel them from wherever they have expelled you.", so it's a counter attack and self defense.
Did Christians expel Muslims from Makkah? No.
Did Christians torture Muslims in Makkah? No.
That was the Quraysh idol-worshippers.
And they also hide the verse AFTER it.
Qur'an 2:192 says:
_"And if they cease, then indeed Allah is Forgiving and Merciful."_
Even with those attackers, the moment they STOP, we must STOP.
That is Islam.
And Allah makes it even clearer in another Surah:
Qur'an 4:90:
"So if they withdraw from you, and do not fight you, and offer you peace, then Allah has NOT given you any way to fight against them.
No way. No excuse. No permission, Islam did never ever give any Muslim right to kill any non muslim just like that.
The verses clearly said if they don't fight you and they offer peace, Allah has closed the door for you to fight them.
And this is how Allah commands us to treat Christians who live in peace with us:
Qur'an 60:8:
"Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes- from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly."
Allah Even praise Christians in Qur'an 5:82
"You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the muslims [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the Muslims are those who say, 'We are Christians.' That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant."
They are the "nearest in affection" to the believers. Because among them are priests and monks who are "not arrogant" unlike the Jews.
So don't let anyone fool you with one verse cut in half.
190 tells you WHO to fight.
191 tells you to defend yourself against them.
192 tells you to STOP when they stop.
4:90 tells you you have NO RIGHT to fight those who offer peace.
60:8 tells you to be KIND and JUST to Christians who don't fight you.
STOP INSULTING MUSLIMS and ISLAM
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The horrible Democrats will win majorities and then spend the next few years making excuses for why they can’t pass laws that actually help people.
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Just a reminder: $4 billion is not the amount the US gives to Israel. That's merely the absolute minimum the US is required to give each year under the Obama/Netanyauh agreement of 2016.
In 2024 alone, Biden gave Israel another $18 billion directly beyond the minimum guarantee. Then there are the tens of billions of direct costs to deploy the US military and deplete US weapons systems to protect Israel. Then there are the billions the US gives to dictatorships in the region to keep anti-Israel anger suppressed (like Egypt and Jordan).
And that's before even getting to the immense costs of the Iran War, which is being fought against Israel's prime adversary and was started at Israel's urging/insistence. Israel is by far the largest recipient of US aid for decades. The $4 billion aid package is just the start, never the end.
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Un autor judío ganador del Premio Pulitzer califica al sionismo como una forma de psicosis masiva, y tiene la historia para respaldarlo.
Benjamin Moser escribió la historia judía antisionista definitiva. Dice que la elección israelí no es una elección real. Es un voto sobre quién se encarga de dirigir el campo de concentración.
Ambos candidatos apoyan el genocidio. Ambos apoyan la ley del estado-nación que consagra la supremacía judía. Ambos quieren que la guerra contra Irán continúe. La economía es el tema número uno para los votantes israelíes. No los decenas de miles de niños asesinados en sus nombres.
En su evaluación, esta es una sociedad que “ha enloquecido por completo”. Una colonia de colonos impuesta a punta de bayoneta en el mundo árabe, ahora adicta a un ciclo de violencia del que no puede escapar. Incluso el propio amigo de Herzl le dijo: “Teodoro, estoy llorando porque suenas loco”. Moser es descendiente de refugiados del Holocausto.
Dice que si eres judío y estás hablando en serio sobre combatir el antisemitismo, hay una opción: habla en contra del sionismo. Porque está sucediendo en tu nombre. “Me niego a que estas personas secuestren mi herencia”.
@BenMoser123
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🇮🇱🇺🇸 A Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish author calls Zionism a form of mass psychosis, and he has the history to back it up.
Benjamin Moser wrote the definitive Jewish anti-Zionist history. He says the Israeli election isn’t a real election. It’s a vote over who gets to run the concentration camp.
Both candidates support the genocide. Both support the nation-state law enshrining Jewish supremacy. Both want the war on Iran to continue.
The economy is the number one issue for Israeli voters. Not the tens of thousands of children killed in their names.
In his assessment, this is a society that has “gone completely psychotic.” A settler colony placed at bayonet-point in the Arab world, now addicted to a cycle of violence it cannot break.
Even Herzl’s own friend told him: “Theodore, I’m crying because you sound crazy.”
Moser is a descendant of Holocaust refugees. He says if you’re Jewish and serious about fighting anti-Semitism, there’s one option: speak out against Zionism. Because it’s happening in your name.
“I refuse to have my heritage kidnapped by these people.”
@BenMoser123
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Un 2 de noviembre de 1917, el imperialismo británico emitía la llamada Declaración Balfour, un documento donde apoyaba la colonización de Palestina a manos de los sionistas, bajo la financiación del oligarca Walter Rothschild.
Los Rothschild financiaron la colonización de Palestina desde 1917 y pusieron la primera piedra del llamado"Israel", creando los primeros 30 asentamientos sionistas en Palestina.... pero luego te dicen que todo empezó el 7 de octubre de 2023.
Tras la Declaración Balfour, se creó una Comisión Sionista en 1918 para llevar los planes colonialistas a Palestina, consiguiendo que en 1920, Herbert Louis Samuel, declarado sionista y ministro del gobierno colonial británico, tomará poder de facto como gobernador para Palestina y Transjordania.
Bajo la dirección del sionista Herbert Louis Samuel en Palestina como jefe colonial británico, lo primero que hizo fue dar poder a los sionistas colocándolos en puestos de poder y entregándoles los recursos de los palestinos..... por ejemplo en 1921, el imperio británico otorgó a Pinhas Rutenberg, un empresario sionista, la producción y distribución de toda la energía eléctrica en Palestina.
Desde el gobierno colonial británico, se fomentaba la invasión de los colonos sionistas a Palestina y el robo de las tierras palestinas, quienes eran expulsados de sus pueblos, aldeas y fincas por los colonos occidentales, que a menudo se aprovechaban del desempleo y la pobreza masiva de la población árabes colonizada para comprarles las tierras, todo esto provocó las revueltas, huelgas y resistencia palestina durante los años 1930.
No fue "dios" quién entregó "Israel" a los sionistas, fue la potencia colonial británica, que no tenía derecho a tomar decisiones por Palestina ni por su pueblo, y durante décadas aupó a los sionistas en puestos de poder y fomentó la inmigración de colonos desencadenando los acontecimientos que condujeron a la Nakba, donde 750.000 palestinos, de una población de 1,9 millones, fueron expulsados de su tierra huyendo de la masacre perpetrada por las milicias sionistas.
Los sionistas llegarían a apoderarse de más del 78% de la Palestina histórica en apenas unos años, llevando a cabo una limpieza étnica masiva y destruyendo alrededor de 530 pueblos y ciudades palestinas, asesinando a unos 15.000 palestinos en una serie de atrocidades masivas, incluidas más de 70 masacres.
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Foreign Minister @SenatorWong:
"I will not participate in a photograph with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov."
I have standards?
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On October 31st and November 1st 1948 IOF soldiers rounded up 90 men and boys and took them to a house in the village of Houla in southern Lebanon and shot them. Then house was then collapsed on them and they were only identified months later by their clothing.
In November 2024 the IOF entered Houla again and desecrated the memorial, daubing it with the words “the only good Shia is a dead Shia”. Now the village is inside the so-called “yellow zone” and has largely been destroyed.
This is what a genocide looks like.
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The War Propaganda Is Even Dumber This Time
As CENTCOM meets with Trump to plan more Iran strikes, the war propaganda is dumber than it has ever been.
Fox News is running stories about an Iranian “plot” to kill US military personnel in the middle east, as though a country planning ways to defend itself from hostile attackers is some sinister new development.
CBC ran a completely evidence-free report alleging that Iran has been paying gunmen to shoot bullets into empty buildings in Toronto, Canada. One of the dumbest things we are asked to believe about Iran is that it keeps taking time away from defending itself against US-Israeli aggressions in order to orchestrate random acts of arson and vandalism in mid-power western states for no discernible benefit to its strategic interests.
Former Israeli military intelligence officer Mordechai Kedar went on Piers Morgan to call Iran an “artificial state”, saying “its fate is to be dismantled, is to be shattered to pieces, as it should have been from the beginning.” Calling one of the world’s oldest civilizations an “artificial state” from inside a country that’s younger than Mick Jagger and has been propped up by nonstop western military aggression throughout 100 percent of its existence is, uh, certainly a choice.
Under Trump, the war propagandists don’t even need to try anymore. He’s just going to inflict all sorts of horrors upon the middle east and Latin America with blunt-force military aggression, and then when he leaves office they’re going to act like he’s carrying all the sins of the US empire with him on his back.
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British police arrested 325 people on terrorism charges for protesting in support of the proscribed activist group Palestine Action on Saturday. Sky News reports that 94 percent of all terrorism arrests this year have been made because of support for Palestine Action.
“There were 3,867 arrests for suspected terrorist activity in the year to June, of which 94% were linked to supporting the group,” Sky News reports, adding, “In the previous 12-month period, before the ban came into force, 234 terror arrests were made.”
Drop bombs on buildings full of children and the UK will call you an ally. Express support for activists who try to stop those bombs and the UK will call you a terrorist.
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I fucking, fucking, FUCKING HATE writing about “antisemitism”. I am so motherfucking SICK of it. I hate the word. I hate the rapey, gaslighting way all western institutions are constantly forcing this fake narrative down our throats that opposing genocide and apartheid and crazy wars means you secretly hate some random tiny religious group. Hate it, hate it, HATE it.
But I have to keep writing about it, because if you let them control the narrative it just takes over and becomes the consensus reality. So essay after essay after motherfucking essay I find myself writing “Uh no actually it’s not a hate crime to say you shouldn’t drop military explosives on buildings full of children” like a fucking moron, over and over and over again.
These freaks make me fucking sick. I hate the way they’re constantly trying to stick their gross, rapey fingers into our minds and convince us we think things we don’t think and feel things we don’t feel. They never stop. They’re like a cloud of gnats on a humid summer day constantly trying to fly into your nose, mouth and eyes. You swat them away and they’re back an instant later, swarming, suffocating.
Pieces of shit. Fucking disgusting, evil scumbags.
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No one supports Israel on principle. It’s always because they think they’re getting something out of it. Career advancement. A place in Heaven. Real estate in Tel Aviv. Acceptance from their family. Approval from their peers. The presidency of the United States.
People support Palestine because they sincerely believe it’s the right thing to do, but Israel supporters always believe they’re personally getting something out of it. It may have been possible for someone to sincerely believe Israel was on the right side of history once upon a time, but in 2026 nobody honestly thinks that. There’s always something in it for them. Always some skin in the game.
In that sense, they’re just plunderers. They’re taking from an abused population in order to get something for themselves. They’re throwing their support behind a genocidal settler-colonialist project in exchange for some personal reward in the same way vikings used to raid coastal towns and steal everything they had.
Pretty evil if you think about it.
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I hear people say things like, “I don’t understand why they’re pushing AI so hard when we can all see it’s making everything worse.”
That’s because it’s not being marketed to you; it’s being marketed to governments and plutocrats. They’re the real target audience for these products, not you.
You are not receiving the real sales pitch for AI, because the real sales pitch would not appeal to your sensibilities. The real sales pitch for AI isn’t “Hey check out this product, it makes some web searches slightly easier and it can maybe write your emails for you.” The real sales pitch for AI is “This product allows you to surveil the entire population of your country. It can be built into autonomous surveillance drones and killing machines. It can allow you to monitor and control every aspect of your society. It can reverse the decentralization of information brought on by the internet age. It can take away the collective bargaining power of workers and give you the skilled services your company requires. It can nullify strikes, civil disobedience, and even full-scale revolutions, and lock humanity into your capitalist dystopia forever.”
That’s the real sales pitch. It doesn’t sound appealing to any normal person, but it makes sense when you remember who these technologies are really being sold to, and why.
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