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El MoJo (Car Free Routes) @carfreeroutes.bsky.social · 6h

Israel has broken the law every day since its inception

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 6h

There is no multilateral peace agreement that Israel will not violate. Their word means nothing.

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Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 5h

🚨BREAKING: Major human rights report finds that counter-terror laws being WEAPONISED against pro-Palestine groups in the UK, US, France and Germany.

If Russia or China did this, we'd call it authoritarian. So why are we silent when western democracies attack our right to protest?

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 4h

Happy birthday, George. May your memory be a blessing.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 4h

We join together to fight for a future where Black people can be free from violence, to live long abundant lives. From the US to Palestine, we must abolish racist police forces that murder with impunity and brutally repress our protests against their violence.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 4h

Today would have been George Floyd’s 52nd birthday. He should be here celebrating with his loved ones.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 4h

Dronestrike in Khan Younis too today.
"Peace for me, but not for thee" as the ancient Colonialist proverb says

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‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 3h

Israeli quadcopter murders six in Gaza City in blatant ceasefire breach

Western mainstream media continue to gloss over Israeli war crimes and dehumanise Palestinians, as the latest war crime shows

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Elizabeth @invisiblebetty.bsky.social · 3h

So . . . let me get this straight . . . the "Peace" document signed yesterday did not even include the two waring parties? One of which has already started limiting humanitarian aid after just a day or so?

Sounds like this was little more than a photo op from someone playing "leader."

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h

Document signed at yesterday's peace summit in Egypt outlines only broad principles for Gaza's future, highlighting ongoing challenges to achieving lasting resolution to the conflict.
Trump, leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey signed the agreement. The warring parties—Israel and Hamas, did not.

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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 7h

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U.S. Aims to STRANGLE China, REGIME CHANGE Venezuela, and ATTACK Iran | Brian Berletic

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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 7h

It started as the 'first' International in the 19th century. It's now the Fourth International (from 1938) due to capitulation of the previous Internationals to Imperialism and bourgeois ideology. The history is well worth studying. - RAB

tps2203.bsky.social @tps2203.bsky.social · 9h

I'd really like a meeting of the world's workers! 😄

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 13h

World bankers meet in Washington as crisis erupts across the capitalist financial system
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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

‘We are heirs to their courage, strength, & liberating cry ... same as 500 years ago: the defence of the right to self-determination, the certain possibility of defining our own destiny; peace, equality, social justice, & respect for ethnic & cultural diversity.'

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'The sectoral vice president of Political Sovereignty, Security, and Peace added that the current deployment of US warships in the Caribbean Sea ‘is nothing more than a gross example of the re-edition of the old colonising method: intimidation by way of force.’

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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'Under the protection of that arrogance, in the 21st century, governments like that of the US, ‘are practitioners of the same logic of domination, exploitation, and death, and intend to subdue sovereign nations with a modern arsenal,’

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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'The General-in-Chief highlighted that, in the times of the Bolivarian Revolution, every October 12th, ‘we honour the Day of Indigenous Resistance, reaffirming our irrevocable anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist vocation.’

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'However, those infamous weapons of oppression and supremacy could not break the will to fight, courage, and dignity of those who were born to be free, he emphasised.'

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'With this, he said, they intended, with the euphemism of ‘discovery,’ to initiate the bestial looting of natural resources, snatch our identity, and turn the native population into slaves.'

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

‘In this way, the conquistadors, with swords and arquebuses in hand, not only forged one of the most atrocious genocides that humanity has experienced, but also sank their teeth into the throat of this continent.’

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'In a message published on Sunday on the occasion of Indigenous Resistance Day, Padrino López recalled that five centuries ago, the original inhabitants of Venezuelan land faced the arrival of ‘a voracious empire, greedy for power and wealth.’

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'It is making Orwell’s dystopia in ‘1984’ a reality, where truth is lies and peace is war.

‘Sad, rotten Nobel,’ writes the prominent journalist Ignacio Ramonet.'

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'Hinterlaces polling firm conducted a study on October 8th, 2025, on the perception of Venezuelans regarding national political leaders.

91% of those consulted expressed an unfavourable opinion of the opposition leader María Corina Machado.'

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'Granting the peace prize to someone who has not stopped calling for military invasions, coups d’état, violent protests, and wars is yet another aberration of the current international disorder.

It is the world turned upside down.'

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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

‘We are not warmongers.

In one hand we hold the flag of peace, and in the other the call made by the president, who urges us to step forward and be ready.

The men and women of Aragua are prepared and willing to face any situation,’ Governor Sánchez said.'

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'Cabello remarked that although ‘the State has the monopoly on weapons’, when the nation is threatened however, ‘the weapons are in the hands of our people,’ including ‘women, youth,’ and ‘any citizen who steps forward,’ all in accordance with the Constitution.'

Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'He argued that the US’s position is a way to disguise its true intention of ‘stealing Venezuela’s natural resources.’

....according to United Nations studies, Venezuela is free of drug cultivation and processing, with only minimal trafficking occurring along its borders.'

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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 10h

'During the exercise, Cabello dismissed the US narrative of a ‘fight against drug trafficking,’ accusing the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of actually being ‘the largest cartel in the world.’