The US-"Israeli" war on Iran is expanding into a global conflict. The European Union supports it. The UK is letting Trump use British bases. Germany and France are involved. Canada backs it. Tehran has retaliated, in self-defense, hitting US military bases in Gulf countries. Ben Norton explains.

cross-posted from: https://altmedia.house/post/211923

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2028387448838086748

US isn't even defending its own bases.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43930738

March 2, 2026

“Iranian attacks on Dubai and the closure of its airport have triggered a scramble among the wealthy to leave the emirates via alternative routes on private jets.

“The normally glitzy city – a playground for billionaires, influencers and millions of international visitors – has been on edge since drones and missiles fired in response to US and Israel strikes on Iran damaged the airport and struck several high-profile hotels and landmarks.”

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/31489

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Hospital exploder 9000: "are you gay?"

No

https://x.com/SauberDojoRama/status/2028205815614615734

"These actions constitute the deliberate commission of the most heinous crimes of international concern. Indifference to this ongoing and extreme injustice will only further darken the future of humanity by jeopardising the shared values upon which our global community stands,” he wrote in a post on social media.

Pir Hossein Kolivand, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, wrote a letter publicised late on Sunday to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), demanding an explicit condemnation of attacks impacting children and educational and medical centres.

Same old right-wing nepo Party play book find the money teet, 🦃 'gobble-gobble' 🦃; coupled with disturbing fraud or disastrous incompetence in managing Party finances, you take your pick. Incompetence and catastrophy for Nation in Government is assured.

They give normal people nothing.. at best.. or they might deport you... "yass queeeen!" 💯

1. "War is almost always bad for trade" (Richard Baldwin 2016, "The Great Convergence", p. 64)
2. "TRADE is BAD." (Donald Trump 2017, qtd. in Douglas Irwin 2020, "Free Trade Under Fire", p. 1)
3. Therefore, all wars that are bad for trade are good, so war is almost always good.

As the Israeli/American war on Iran rages on, it becomes clearer and clearer that the tactics used in Gaza are being repeated in Iran, with the U.S. and Israel targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure in an attempt to destroy Iran as a society.

The most horrific example has been the America/Israeli strike that hit a girls’ school in Minab, killing 165 children.

But this is not the only example of Israel and U.S. attacks targeting Iranian civilians and civilian infrastructure.

Drop Site News reported that when “Dozens of teenage girls were attending their regular training sessions of volleyball, basketball, and gymnastics in the main sports hall in Lamerd, a city near the Persian coast,” “a missile slammed into the building at 5 p.m. on Saturday” which, “killed at least 18 civilians and wounded scores more.”.

Drop Site noted that this strike “came hours after” the aforementioned strike at the girls’ school in Minab.

Today, the targeting of civilians in Iran by the U.S. and Israel has continued...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43748883

Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social media, and there isn’t a way to stop the spread, unless, of course, it’s their own Discord server.

Just for fun: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/microslop/

I'll see about the compost lid some other day I guess.

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