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Jaysyn , in Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders
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Good. The leaders on both sides need to end the days in a cell in the Hague.

deft ,

Together. Let them solve their issues while the world moves the fuck on

KillerTofu , in The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?

The fuck? Food nutrition labels weren’t REQUIRED until 1993?

theareciboincident ,

The US lives in a weird food bubble where they eat absolute cancer inducing garbage and pretend their Cheetos Asbestos Blasted Quattro Dioxin dinner is somehow better lmao.

The US allows all sorts of fucked up processing steps and ingredients that are straight up banned in Europe.

Every time an American leaves the country they gush about how good the food in (destination) was - but they only ate tourist trash the whole time.

Like they genuinely don’t realize it, it’s incredible.

cerement , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
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apfelwoiSchoppen , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds
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Almost as if there is a longstanding theme to US geopolitical influence.

BaroqueInMind , in California is imposing a new tax on guns. Will it impact sales?

All this does is allow the state to further discriminate against low income people.

Increasing the tax to make purchasing weapons become cost prohibitive does not affect wealthy people buying guns. It also does not affect gun crime rates.

Beaver , in Can a U.S. Ally Actually Be Held Accountable for War Crimes in the ICC?
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No-one should be immune to justice that includes western officials

Beaver , in Spain, Ireland poised to back Palestinian state
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Smart countries

Skua , in Spain, Ireland poised to back Palestinian state

Spain is a particularly interesting one. They're not normally too keen on recognising any sort of breakaway region so as not to legitimise the Catalan independence movement. Take a look at a map of recognition of Kosovo for an example. Not that I'm complaining by any means; it's a welcome surprise

WhatAmLemmy , in US-Backed Philippine Government Committed War Crimes, People’s Tribunal Finds

The "land of the free" has been committing crimes against humanity in the Philippines for over a century. Exerts from Wikipedia:

Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the Spanish–American Warrather than acknowledging the Philippines' declaration of independence.

The war resulted in at least 200,000 Filipino civilian deaths, mostly from famine and diseases such as cholera.[21][22][23] Some estimates for civilian dead reach up to a million.[8] Atrocities were committed during the conflict by both sides,[24] including torture, mutilation, and executions. In retaliation for Filipino guerrilla warfare tactics, the U.S. carried out reprisals and scorched earthcampaigns and forcibly relocated many civilians to concentration camps, where thousands died.

The U.S. annexation and war sparked political backlash from anti-imperialists in the U.S. Senate, who argued that the war was a definite example of U.S. imperialism, and that it was an inherent contradiction of the founding principles of the United States contained in the Declaration of Independence.

BrikoX OP Mod , in Gaza: Israel shuts down Associated Press news agency live feed
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Very democratic of them...

HubertManne , in New Bill Would Extend US Military Benefits to Americans Serving in the IDF
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Cosponsored by Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and U.S. Representative Max Miller (R-OH). Don't vote for genocidin biden as the democrats are just as bad as the replublicans and hes not doing enough for palestine etc etc. will do so much better under some imaginary president.

hamid , in Shell faces shareholder ‘rebellion’ over climate strategy
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I'm sure the faceless board members and institutional investors are really moved

juicy , in Macron arrives in New Caledonia amid calls for France to drop voting changes

It's so easy to forget that the colonial empires of France, UK, US, etc. live on to this day. In The Wretched of the Earth, psychiatrist Frantz Fanon recounts treating a French policeman in Algeria during the Algerian fight for independence from French colonial rule circa 1962:

"Sometimes," he went on to explain, "you feel like telling them that if they had any consideration for us, they'd cough up and not force us to spend hours on end squeezing the information out of them word by word. But you might as well talk to the wall. Every question gets the answer: 'I don't know.' Even when we ask for their names. If we ask them where they live, they answer, 'I don't know.' So of course we had to give them the works. But they scream too much. At first it made me laugh. But then it began to unnerve me. Today I can tell just which stage the interrogation has reached by the sound of the screams. The guy who has been punched twice and given a blow behind the ear has a certain way of talking, screaming, and saying that he is innocent. After he has been hanging by his wrists for two hours, his voice changes. After the bathtub, a different voice. And so on. But it's after the electricity that it becomes unbearable. You'd think he was going to die at any moment. Of course there are those who don't scream: those are the hardliners. But they imagine we are going to kill them immediately. But we're not interested in killing them. What we want is information. We first try and get them to scream, and sooner or later they give in. That's already a victory. Then we continue. Mind you, we'd prefer not to. But they don't make things easy for us. Now I can hear those screams even at home. Especially the screams of the ones who died at the police headquarters.

Fanon also says that rape by French cops and soldiers was commonplace during the Algerian War of independence. This was in 1962, not the 1800's! France also continues to exploit many of the African countries that were once colonial subjects through currency manipulation and other mechanisms.

stembolts , in Whistleblowers allege widespread abuses at Israeli detention camp: Palestinian inmates being beaten, kept shackled to hospital beds or made to stand for hours

Please stop submitting antisemitic posts. It is fine that Israel is torturing these "people" because the Holocaust happened. Any critique of Israel is because you hate Jews. /s

Sarcasm clearly, but from a right-wing perspective everything that is going on in Israel is fantastic. The world is seeing that the Jewish state is a child-devouring monster. Not that it matters to conservatives, the bigger picture is that more people will dislike Jews, and hard right wingers are happy about this. Israel, driven by hate, is playing right into their hands and showing that they are the monsters that conspiracy theorists have rambled incoherently about for years.

In short, while this isn't antisemitism I have no doubt that antisemitism will rise in response to Israel's genocide.

tardigrada OP ,

I (unfortunately) have to agree. There's a risk that the (far right-wing) Netanyahu government is harming Israel politically in the long run, and right-wing extremists will try to take advantage of that. It's right-wingers against right-wingers.

The fact that many Israeli people and even some politicians (Israeli minister Benny Gantz openly threatens Netanyahu to leave the government over the PM's Gaza policy, for example) oppose their own government doesn't appear to matter, at least for now. People like Netanyahu or Ben-Gvir rule the country, and they are heading in the wrong direction.

I hope that changes, however, as politicians around the globe seem to reconsider their stance over the region. In Europe, Norway, Spain, and Ireland announced their recognition of a Palestinian state as of May 28.

But, yes, that's not enough. Others must follow.

ristoril_zip , in Russia denies Trump’s claim he can free US journalist if he wins election

You forget your place, comrade.

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