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Qaisar Javed

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Circus of Capitalists.

November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM

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The Intercept

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By the spring of this year, 95 percent of all school buildings in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed — including every university. interc.pt/4oReRMF

A photo of a view through the gate of the Islamic University of Gaza, where bombed buildings have doubled as shelters for families amid the genocide, on Oct. 16, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild." and the DEK, "Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israel’s genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild."

November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)

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Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Netanyahu - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-issues-genocide-arrest-warrant-against-netanyahu

Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Netanyahu

Warrants were also filed against Defence Minister Israel Katz and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir

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November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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🎥 Amnesty International’s 2015 report “Black Friday: Carnage in Rafah” documented 135–200 Palestinian deaths over two days, most of them civilians. They described Israel’s actions as “a war crime.”

November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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Drop Site

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⚡️Biden was personally briefed on US intelligence showing Israeli military lawyers had warned of possible war crimes in Gaza, Reuters reports, citing conversations with 9 fmr. US officials...

The findings revealed internal Israeli...⬇️

Hümeyra Pamuk's full story here: www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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⚡️NEW: President Biden was personally briefed on U.S. intelligence showing Israeli military lawyers had warned of possible war crimes in Gaza, Reuters reports, citing conversations with nine former U.S. officials in then-President Joe Biden's administration.

The findings revealed internal Israeli doubts about the legality of tactics using U.S.-supplied weapons. Despite alarm within Washington, Biden officials decided not to suspend arms transfers. ⬇️

Hümeyra Pamuk
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SCOOP: The United States gathered intelligence last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza, five former U.S. officials told
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The previously unreported intelligence, described by the former officials as among the most startling shared with top US policymakers during the war, pointed to doubts within the Israeli military about the legality of its tactics that contrasted sharply w/Israel’s public stance
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Two of the former U.S. officials said the material was not broadly circulated within the U.S. government until late in the Biden administration, when it was disseminated more widely ahead of a congressional briefing in December 2024.
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Even before the U.S. gathered war crimes intelligence from within the Israeli military, lawyers at the State Department repeatedly raised concerns with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel might be committing war crimes, according to five former U.S. officials.

As early as December 2023, lawyers from the State Department's legal bureau told Blinken in meetings that they believed that Israel's military conduct in Gaza likely amounted to violations of international humanitarian law and potentially war crimes, per officials.
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The U.S. debate about whether the Israelis had committed war crimes in Gaza ended when USG lawyers determined that it was still legal for the U.S. to continue supporting Israel w/weapons & intel because the U.S. had not gathered its own evidence on the issue.
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Full story here. Read and please feel free to share

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-intel-found-israeli-military-lawyers-warned-there-was-evidence-gaza-war-2025-11-07/

November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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Drop Site

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🔴 BREAKING: 14 people have been injured in settler attacks south of Nablus, including residents, journalists, and foreign activists, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported.

Israeli settlers, in the month of October, carried out at least 264 attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank — the highest...

🔴 BREAKING: Fourteen people have been injured in settler attacks south of Nablus, including residents, journalists, and foreign activists, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported.

Israeli settlers, in the month of October, carried out at least 264 attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank — the highest monthly total since the UN began documenting in 2006, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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Israeli settlers attacked Beita near Nablus while residents picked olives with Israeli & int’l peace activists there to help & offer protection. The residents, activists, & journalists were assaulted as the army watched on. Settler attacks are at a 20-year high.

November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)

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Italian journalist fired after asking EU official if Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-journalist-fired-after-asking-eu-official-if-israel-should-pay

Italian journalist fired after asking EU official if Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza

<article data-history-node-id="431230" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-journalist-fired-after-asking-eu-official-if-israel-should-pay" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/italian-journalist-fired-after-asking-eu-official-if-israel-should-pay" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Italian journalist fired after asking EU official if Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An Italian journalist said he was dismissed from his news agency after asking the European Commission spokeswoman on 13 October if Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza in the way that the EU asked Russia to rebuild Ukraine. </p> <p>Agencia Nova news agency Brussels correspondent Gabriele Nunziati asked spokeswoman Paula Pinho, “You’ve repeatedly said that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you think Israel should also pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, given that it destroyed much of the Strip and its civilian infrastructure?”.</p> <p>Nunziati said he received multiple calls from Agencia Nova for the next two weeks to discuss the question he had asked. He was dismissed on 27 October. </p> <p>The International Federation of Journalists and the European Federation of Journalists condemned the dismissal and criticised Agenzia Nova for having censored Nunziati. </p> <p>The National Federation of the Italian Press said in a statement, “It is unacceptable that a question, no matter how uncomfortable, could cost him his job,” and pledged to help Nunziati with any steps he might take going forward. </p> </div> </div> </article>

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November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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Alex von Tunzelmann

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“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 9d

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

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November 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM

Qaisar Javed

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Social democrats made a come back in dutch politics by unapologetically speaking for what is right and better in liberal ideology.

The time is to be radical and be pro-people and anti-capitalist.

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Dutch voters have been seduced by positivity – liberals elsewhere, take note | Simon van Teutem

By selling hope alongside progressive patriotism, the centrist D66 party widened its appeal and beat the far right, says Dutch journalist Simon van Teutem

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November 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM

Qaisar Javed

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No war on Earth was a holy war and it will never be!!!!!

💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 9d

Just to be crystal… #Sudan is not about Christians vs Muslims.

The #RSF is funded by the #UAE.

It’s about land grabbing and resources. Oil, lithium, copper, gold.

But if you listen to conservatives you’d think it was another holy war, and that’s because that’s what the rich told them to say.

November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM

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Anonymous ⩜

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Satellite imagery reveals crimson stains from Sudanese carnage, unmasking RSF butchers' blitzkrieg in Darfur: bodies sprawl in neighborhoods, hospitals, and outskirts within 72 brutal hours, echoing a genocide's grim resurgence. #DarfurGenocide

November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM

Qaisar Javed

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China is winning the Trade War because it has planned economy which can survive on the other hand western dominance is dying because capitalism can not compete planned economy.

#USChinaTruce
#TradeWar

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The US-China rare earths deal shows the importance of critical materials in a new era of strategic interdependence | USAPP

As resource competition sharpens, resilience and innovation will be key to navigating this new era of strategic interdependence.

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November 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM

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Euronews

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German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.

German companies pay Russia €1.72bn in taxes, indirectly funding war

German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.

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November 1, 2025 at 5:21 AM

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Bellingcat

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Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech

Satellite imagery of geolocated site of killings with marked screengrabs from footage depicted the killing and the surrounding area. The trench and berm constructed in August by the RSF is labelled. As is a large group of burned vehicles and where the corpses are visible in satellite imagery. Location of killing: 13.71387, 25.27922. Image credit: Vantor

October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM

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Drew Harwell

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AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here

Humanoid robot:

October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Qaisar Javed

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Students at the University of Cambridge have voted to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS) over its alleged failure to "campaign for Palestine" and support student pro-Palestinian protesters.

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Cambridge Student Union splits from National Union of Students over Gaza

The union passed a motion to disaffiliate from the NUS over its alleged failure to 'campaign for Palestine'

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October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM

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October 31, 2025 at 3:13 AM

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October 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM

Qaisar Javed

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I think otherwise, in my opinion far-right controls most of the media and online narrative building spaces, they create conspiracy theories and make people believe that. So, centrists are not able to defeat the far-right narrative, try to appropriate their narrative, thinking that would save them.

Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 12d

I would argue they do that because they have no idea regarding the many crises we are facing and they hope the far-right moral panics will act as a diversion and they will still be seen as the lesser of two evils

October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM