Nina Zeelen
@ninazeelen.bsky.social
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The Iran Hoax
Rutte: “Lets focus on the essentials.. My biggest fear would be for 🇮🇷 to own a nuclear weapon to be a stranglehold on 🇮🇱, on the whole region & parts of the world. NATO's position is that 🇮🇷 should not have a nuclear weapon. 🇺🇸 strikes on 🇮🇷 did not violate international law" (Juni 2025)
Rutte: “Lets focus on the essentials.. My biggest fear would be for 🇮🇷 to own a nuclear weapon to be a stranglehold on 🇮🇱, on the whole region & parts of the world. NATO's position is that 🇮🇷 should not have a nuclear weapon. 🇺🇸 strikes on 🇮🇷 did not violate international law" (Juni 2025)
January 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The Iran Hoax
Rutte: “Lets focus on the essentials.. My biggest fear would be for 🇮🇷 to own a nuclear weapon to be a stranglehold on 🇮🇱, on the whole region & parts of the world. NATO's position is that 🇮🇷 should not have a nuclear weapon. 🇺🇸 strikes on 🇮🇷 did not violate international law" (Juni 2025)
Rutte: “Lets focus on the essentials.. My biggest fear would be for 🇮🇷 to own a nuclear weapon to be a stranglehold on 🇮🇱, on the whole region & parts of the world. NATO's position is that 🇮🇷 should not have a nuclear weapon. 🇺🇸 strikes on 🇮🇷 did not violate international law" (Juni 2025)
"The whole issue has been manufactured. US intel affirms 🇮🇷 has not pursued a nuclear weapon since '03. Their activities only moved forward because 🇺🇸 broke of JCPOA. 🇮🇷 uses advancements as a chip to get 🇺🇸 to agree a deal. It gives 🇮🇱&🇺🇸hawks a basis to argue attacking 🇮🇷, while enlisting support from 🇪🇺"
How Israel and the U.S. manufactured a fake crisis with Iran that could lead to all-out war
The long-dreaded war in the Persian Gulf between a U.S.-backed Israel and Iran appears imminent, and it is all based on a manufactured crisis aimed at undermining the Iran nuclear negotiations.
mondoweiss.net
January 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
"The whole issue has been manufactured. US intel affirms 🇮🇷 has not pursued a nuclear weapon since '03. Their activities only moved forward because 🇺🇸 broke of JCPOA. 🇮🇷 uses advancements as a chip to get 🇺🇸 to agree a deal. It gives 🇮🇱&🇺🇸hawks a basis to argue attacking 🇮🇷, while enlisting support from 🇪🇺"
ICC under US siege
"The sanctions affect all aspects of my life. All my accounts with Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal & etc, have been closed. Blacklisted by much of the world's banking system. Overnight, you find yourself without a bank card, & these companies have an almost complete monopoly, in Europe."
"The sanctions affect all aspects of my life. All my accounts with Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal & etc, have been closed. Blacklisted by much of the world's banking system. Overnight, you find yourself without a bank card, & these companies have an almost complete monopoly, in Europe."
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
January 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
ICC under US siege
"The sanctions affect all aspects of my life. All my accounts with Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal & etc, have been closed. Blacklisted by much of the world's banking system. Overnight, you find yourself without a bank card, & these companies have an almost complete monopoly, in Europe."
"The sanctions affect all aspects of my life. All my accounts with Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal & etc, have been closed. Blacklisted by much of the world's banking system. Overnight, you find yourself without a bank card, & these companies have an almost complete monopoly, in Europe."
Israel’s Alternate Reality
"Israel did in court what its military & political officials have done throughout the war: unleash a deluge of 'alternative facts'. They portrayed 🇮🇱 as the victim of genocide, accused 🇿🇦 of supporting Hamas, and painted 🇿🇦 as the legal arm of the 🇵🇸 militants who led Oct 7."
"Israel did in court what its military & political officials have done throughout the war: unleash a deluge of 'alternative facts'. They portrayed 🇮🇱 as the victim of genocide, accused 🇿🇦 of supporting Hamas, and painted 🇿🇦 as the legal arm of the 🇵🇸 militants who led Oct 7."
At The Hague, Israel Mounted a Defense Based in an Alternate Reality
Israel’s rebuttal against charges of genocide was as weak in offering documented facts as South Africa’s case was powerful.
theintercept.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Israel’s Alternate Reality
"Israel did in court what its military & political officials have done throughout the war: unleash a deluge of 'alternative facts'. They portrayed 🇮🇱 as the victim of genocide, accused 🇿🇦 of supporting Hamas, and painted 🇿🇦 as the legal arm of the 🇵🇸 militants who led Oct 7."
"Israel did in court what its military & political officials have done throughout the war: unleash a deluge of 'alternative facts'. They portrayed 🇮🇱 as the victim of genocide, accused 🇿🇦 of supporting Hamas, and painted 🇿🇦 as the legal arm of the 🇵🇸 militants who led Oct 7."
Europe's empress annual get together with Palantir
"Commission kept no records on Davos meeting between von der Leyen and Palantir CEO. No detailed records exist concerning a January 2025 meeting with the CEO of controversial US data analytics firm Palantir, the EU executive has said."
"Commission kept no records on Davos meeting between von der Leyen and Palantir CEO. No detailed records exist concerning a January 2025 meeting with the CEO of controversial US data analytics firm Palantir, the EU executive has said."
January 7, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Europe's empress annual get together with Palantir
"Commission kept no records on Davos meeting between von der Leyen and Palantir CEO. No detailed records exist concerning a January 2025 meeting with the CEO of controversial US data analytics firm Palantir, the EU executive has said."
"Commission kept no records on Davos meeting between von der Leyen and Palantir CEO. No detailed records exist concerning a January 2025 meeting with the CEO of controversial US data analytics firm Palantir, the EU executive has said."
The new MAGA world order
January 7, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The new MAGA world order
Als je een leugen vaak genoeg herhaalt, gaan mensen het geloven.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stated ahead of Trump’s visit to The Hague that the U.S. attacks on Iran “did not break international law.”
MARY ELLEN O’CONNELL counters: that is false. And relying on deterrence theory undermines the surest path to peace.
verfassungsblog.de/us-attacks-i...
MARY ELLEN O’CONNELL counters: that is false. And relying on deterrence theory undermines the surest path to peace.
verfassungsblog.de/us-attacks-i...
January 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Als je een leugen vaak genoeg herhaalt, gaan mensen het geloven.
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“Another admirer is the Russian Presidential aspirant Aleksandr Lebed. Lucía Pinochet showed me a fax she’d just received from an organization in Moscow calling itself Pinochet for Russia. Its members were soliciting books and other materials for their Pinochet archive.“
August 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“Another admirer is the Russian Presidential aspirant Aleksandr Lebed. Lucía Pinochet showed me a fax she’d just received from an organization in Moscow calling itself Pinochet for Russia. Its members were soliciting books and other materials for their Pinochet archive.“
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@bartbonikowski.bsky.social: "The media, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right."
June 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social: "The media, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right."
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"The media cannot admit they're wrong. They cannot go to the people who told them they were wrong from the very beginning. The media has to go to the figures who agreed with them that this was all hysteria. They are all part of the same class and social circle."
Jason Stanley on "undermining propaganda" with fascism: "Trump is robbing democracy of any meaning"
"We have a classic fascist situation in this country right now," according to the author of “How Fascism Works”
www.salon.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"The media cannot admit they're wrong. They cannot go to the people who told them they were wrong from the very beginning. The media has to go to the figures who agreed with them that this was all hysteria. They are all part of the same class and social circle."
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Joseph Stiglitz: "Reagan en Thatcher zeiden dat economische vrijheid noodzakelijk was voor politieke vrijheid. Maar ze waren niet geïnteresseerd in politieke vrijheid. De neoliberalen schroomden niet om de moordzuchtige dictator Pinochet in te zetten om hun ideeën in Chili ten uitvoer te brengen."
Waarom Nobelprijswinnaar Joseph Stiglitz pleit voor ‘progressief’ kapitalisme: ‘We hebben een klimaatcrisis en een ongelijkheidscrisis’
Joseph Stiglitz: Joseph Stiglitz (81), hoogleraar en oud-chefeconoom van de Wereldbank, is al een halve eeuw een man met een missie. Zijn nieuwe boek De weg naar vrijheid is een pleidooi voor een prog...
www.nrc.nl
December 30, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Joseph Stiglitz: "Reagan en Thatcher zeiden dat economische vrijheid noodzakelijk was voor politieke vrijheid. Maar ze waren niet geïnteresseerd in politieke vrijheid. De neoliberalen schroomden niet om de moordzuchtige dictator Pinochet in te zetten om hun ideeën in Chili ten uitvoer te brengen."
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Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC Radio
What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement th...
www.cbc.ca
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
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Former head of the AfD Frauke Perry has helped found a “Javier Milei Institute” and a “Team Freedom” party. Their slogan is (roughly) “saw up the welfare state.”
More from @andreaskemper.bsky.social here: www.campact.de/blog/2025/12...
More from @andreaskemper.bsky.social here: www.campact.de/blog/2025/12...
Dort, wo die meisten Menschen ein Herz haben, haben diese Leute eine Kettensäge.
January 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Former head of the AfD Frauke Perry has helped found a “Javier Milei Institute” and a “Team Freedom” party. Their slogan is (roughly) “saw up the welfare state.”
More from @andreaskemper.bsky.social here: www.campact.de/blog/2025/12...
More from @andreaskemper.bsky.social here: www.campact.de/blog/2025/12...
Ruttes VOC-mentaliteit
Wat zijn de excuses aan Indonesië waard? Door Anne-Lot Hoek in www.groene.nl/artikel/een-...
January 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Ruttes VOC-mentaliteit
Fiction over fact
"They use media to spread myths that glorify a romanticized & fake version of history, they discredit intellectuals that challenge their version of facts. This systematic reshaping of history is a powerful tool used to legitimize wrongful acts like exclusion & acts of violence."
"They use media to spread myths that glorify a romanticized & fake version of history, they discredit intellectuals that challenge their version of facts. This systematic reshaping of history is a powerful tool used to legitimize wrongful acts like exclusion & acts of violence."
January 7, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Fiction over fact
"They use media to spread myths that glorify a romanticized & fake version of history, they discredit intellectuals that challenge their version of facts. This systematic reshaping of history is a powerful tool used to legitimize wrongful acts like exclusion & acts of violence."
"They use media to spread myths that glorify a romanticized & fake version of history, they discredit intellectuals that challenge their version of facts. This systematic reshaping of history is a powerful tool used to legitimize wrongful acts like exclusion & acts of violence."
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Reposted by Nina Zeelen
De democratie redden vraagt voortdurende inzet van iedereen, schrijft @leoniedejonge.bsky.social .
Het kantelpuntdenken – ‘ineens is de democratie verdwenen’ – suggereert dat democratische erosie een plotselinge gebeurtenis is, terwijl de onttakeling langzaam gaat, mede mogelijk gemaakt doordat de burger de kop in het zand steekt.
Uw voornemen voor 2026: koester de democratie en word ergens lid van
Het kantelpuntdenken – ‘ineens is de democratie verdwenen’ – suggereert dat democratische erosie een plotselinge gebeurtenis is, terwijl de onttakeling langzaam gaat, mede mogelijk gemaakt doordat de…
buff.ly
January 6, 2026 at 8:12 AM
De democratie redden vraagt voortdurende inzet van iedereen, schrijft @leoniedejonge.bsky.social .
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"The report concluded that it remained unclear whether or not US intelligence would be able to access the data, despite Palantir’s official reassurances otherwise. The 🇨🇭army also found other issues, in terms of its cost & the fact that it might require Palantir specialists to be permanently onsite"
MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns
Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive data
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 AM
"The report concluded that it remained unclear whether or not US intelligence would be able to access the data, despite Palantir’s official reassurances otherwise. The 🇨🇭army also found other issues, in terms of its cost & the fact that it might require Palantir specialists to be permanently onsite"
"Sophie in ’t Veld notes Palantir’s unusual 'proximity to power'. An EU delegation in 2019 met with 🇺🇸 officials & Palantir. She wanted to know what was discussed when Karp met VDL. Officials said no minutes were kept of the conversation because it was at WEF in Davos & they already knew each other."
Seeing stones: pandemic reveals Palantir's troubling reach in Europe
Covid has given Peter Thiel’s secretive US tech company new opportunities to operate in Europe in ways some campaigners find worrying
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:33 AM
"Sophie in ’t Veld notes Palantir’s unusual 'proximity to power'. An EU delegation in 2019 met with 🇺🇸 officials & Palantir. She wanted to know what was discussed when Karp met VDL. Officials said no minutes were kept of the conversation because it was at WEF in Davos & they already knew each other."
"Breaking into EU markets has proven difficult. EU is developing homegrown tech champions. NATO set up €1 bln fund for EU defense startups. Spending that has been approved since the 🇺🇦invasion emphasizes 'sovereignty' — minimizing dependence on 🇺🇸tech & backing away from Pentagon priorities."(12-2023)
January 7, 2026 at 2:09 AM
"Breaking into EU markets has proven difficult. EU is developing homegrown tech champions. NATO set up €1 bln fund for EU defense startups. Spending that has been approved since the 🇺🇦invasion emphasizes 'sovereignty' — minimizing dependence on 🇺🇸tech & backing away from Pentagon priorities."(12-2023)
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De reden: "We zijn niet gebeld" volgens @nieuwsuur.nl
Nederland is met kabinet Schoof (BBB, VVD) het lulletje rozewater van Europa geworden.
Nederland is met kabinet Schoof (BBB, VVD) het lulletje rozewater van Europa geworden.
Europese landen - BEHALVE NEDERLAND - wijzen Verenigde Staten in onomwonden verklaring op soevereiniteit van Groenland.
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
De reden: "We zijn niet gebeld" volgens @nieuwsuur.nl
Nederland is met kabinet Schoof (BBB, VVD) het lulletje rozewater van Europa geworden.
Nederland is met kabinet Schoof (BBB, VVD) het lulletje rozewater van Europa geworden.
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I believe the original sin Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th was viewing January 6th as the *end* of something, rather than the *beginning* of something. My post on how to remember this somber anniversary for democracy: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...
Five Ways To Remember January 6th
Too many people saw January 6th as the final aggrieved death throes of Trumpism. We can now understand it was the start of something much darker.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I believe the original sin Democrats, and especially the Biden administration, made after January 6th was viewing January 6th as the *end* of something, rather than the *beginning* of something. My post on how to remember this somber anniversary for democracy: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...
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“The US government is concerned first and foremost with spectacle, engaging in both fan service for its most extreme supporters & the constant trolling of its enemies. The goal, above all else, is to elicit a response.” — @cwarzel.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once
Why the Trump administration is posting messages like “THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE” after the attack on Venezuela
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:17 AM
“The US government is concerned first and foremost with spectacle, engaging in both fan service for its most extreme supporters & the constant trolling of its enemies. The goal, above all else, is to elicit a response.” — @cwarzel.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...