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it's unbelievable, hearing #Hegseth press conference, I'd swear it might as well have been written by speech writer of #Sisi of #Egypt or #MBS of #Saudi. the amount of "under the guidance of wisdomous leader #Trump, our great leader's ideas, planning, know-it-all, wiser-than-thou" vibes are middle-east tyranny level of worthiness #uspol . maybe it's time for #americans to get a new word into their vocabulary borrowed from arabic تعريص taarees is how the current admin is behaving towards #trump

News brief in #Haaretz which I think is now removed but visible in archive.today read the following:

[…] An Israeli official told the #Saudi channel Al-Arabiya that American involvement in the fighting against Iran is essential to achieving the war's objectives, adding that without destroying the nuclear reactor in #Fordow, the operation would be useless. According to him, #Israel is concerned that the US will pressure the parties to end the fighting before the war's objectives are achieved, but if US President Donald Trump demands that Israel agree to a ceasefire, it will agree.

While Israel attempts to compel the U.S. into a war with #Iran, the #GazaGenocide persists unabated, and possibly intensifying.

@israel
@palestine

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TRUMP NEVER HAD A #SILENTMAJORITY OF FASCISTS

since Reagan & Bush, Republicans had #Saudi #OPEC money behind them. then Bush II called USA a zionist country and the Saudis taught him a lesson. so he made friends with the new oligarch from the old Soviet block, Putin.

Trump doesn’t take sides, only money. so he has the dubious distinction of uniting the USA oligarchy with both Russia & OPEC.

that’s why he is in power: for a handful of milliardaires & their millionaire plantation managers

Death penalty report: May June

June 2025

We are pleased to attach the report for the period mid-May to mid-June thanks to group member Lesley for the work in compiling it. It is longer than usual reflecting the increasing activity in the US following President Trump’s actions on the use of the penalty. As ever, we must point out that the world’s biggest user of the penalty – China – who is believed to execute thousands of its citizens, is not present in the report because details are a state secret.

Report: May June (Word)Download

Be afraid! Be VERY afraid!

“The dark lord of Silicon Valley:
Peter Thiel enters the chat”

by Carole Cadwalladr in How To Survive The Broligarchy on Substack

“The foundations of a technoauthoritarian surveillance state have been laid and Palantir’s Foundry software - that also, unbelievably, is used at the heart of Britain’s NHS”

open.substack.com/pub/broligar

#Press#US#Thiel
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Testimony on life inside "hellish" detention centers for women, with weekly floggings, forced religious teachings and no visits or contact with the outside world

"I tried to end my life when I found out I was going to be taken to one"

#Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is just a normal country, not a psychotic camp of male arrogance. No wonder the Trumps, Nazis and Qanon love Saudi Arabia.

"Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s secretive 'rehabilitation prisons’ for disobedient women"

"Girls and young women describe facing flogging and abuse in so-called ‘care homes’ after arguing with their fathers or husbands"

State flogging for uppity women.

In case you need another warning.

theguardian.com/global-develop

#women #saudi #coup #tesla #Musk
#lockerRoom

The Guardian · Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient womenBy Tom Levitt