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Russian occupiers found a world different from theirs, so they smashed it War in general is an atrocity. But zoom in from 30,000 feet and it gets personal. Nobody comes out untainted by reducing enemies and civilians to bone and ash. The Iraq invasion and the atrocities at Abu Ghraib set me on the path that led me here. Treat tales of atrocities with a degee of skepticism, propaganda always being a feature of war. So much arrives as anecdotes. Somewhere I heard that when Red Army troops occupied Berlin in WWII, they sent in uneducated troops from Central Asia among the occupiers to humiliate the master race. They’d gather wristwatches and wear several. They couldn’t tell time, the story went. They just liked the sound of the ticking. (Take with a grain of salt.) If only that was the least of it. So today arrive more tales of Russian Army actions better documented than that anecdote (CNN): The Russian government is operating an expansive network of dozens of camps where it has held thousands of Ukrainian children since the start of the war against Ukraine last year, according to a new report released Tuesday.
It has been 10 years since the first Drupal Global Contribution Weekend (DGCW).
For this past decade, communities all around the globe have met on the last weekend of January for three days of fun, community, and contribution.
Despite the years, the spirit of the event hasn't changed. Everyone is welcome, including site builders, testers, designers, project managers, translators, marketers, writers, and, of course, developers. We truly had representatives from all these domains in the recent 2023 version of the event.
Where do you live? Where do you work? What language do you speak?
It doesn't matter because you will find a local event that fits your needs. And if you don't, we'll help you create one.
When
This year, DGCW was from Friday to Sunday, 27-29 January.
Video is tricky, even when the user isn't trying to spin its audience.
A MintPress study of the 20 most influential U.S. news outlets found virtually no coverage of the esteemed journalist’s revelations linking Washington to the pipeline attacks.
The post Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II appeared first on MintPress News.
Is just “all our lives will be good, or yours won’t be.”
Since there’s always some idiot who reads these posts and thinks they’re smart, no this doesn’t mean everything turns out identical or that some people won’t get cancer.
It means everyone gets enough if society has it, and gets treated fairly. It means that if a rich or powerful person gets cancer they get the exact same treatment the poorest and weakest person in society does. It means money and power can’t get you anything that actually matters: not education, not health care, not food when other people are going hungry.
“No one gets seconds until everyone has had firsts.”
The job of actual class struggle is to make it so that the rich and powerful can’t enjoy their wealth and power until everyone is taken care of and treated the same.
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Starmer regime has conducted an unchecked purge of Jews who support Palestinian rights – to silence and active collusion of ‘mainstream’ media The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has ludicrously given Keir Starmer’s Labour a clean bill of health today, despite Starmer’s purge from the party of Jews who support Palestinian human rights – […]
Republican senators pummel Biden nominee to FCC “You’ve said, quote, ‘Republicans know that the only way they can win an election is to suppress the vote’,” said Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) on Tuesday in challenging Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden’s nominee for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission. Sullivan is shocked, shocked, that anyone would think Republicans want to suppress the vote. Senate Commerce Committee Republicans find Sohn’s tweets a stumbling block in a way that the former president’s were not. “Maybe next election, Republicans will stop beating up on gays and women,” Sohn also wrote somewhere. Sohn is openly gay. “Do you understand just how ridiculously infuriating these statements are?” Sullivan went on. “You are saying Republicans want to suppress the vote.” We haven’t seen such mock Republican outrage since … since … since the State of the Union Address last week after President Joe Biden looked into the camera and told Americans that some Republicans want to sunset Social Security and Medicare.
Maya C. Popa’s Wound Is the Origin of Wonder is a radiant fabric of images and meditations, fragments of stories, bits of music that go together with a grace and lyricism that belie the ruptures and leaps between the lines. This is a haunted book. The poems of a wanderer and a wonderer. The first two sections apostrophize: the poems address some unknown or changing “you.” “Those evenings I was sure I’d die, / you were teaching me to live; I see that now.” There is a river of almost didactic pleasure flowing beneath the rhythms of these lines. And when I say fragments of stories I mean that the poet gives us just enough for the metonymies to work, and nonetheless it’s clear that, for her, feeling is the event. How to record it, acknowledge it, find an approximate shape for it in words—this is both the response to the wonder and the method for anthologizing it in the soul. Not so much the circumstances.
BP has reported record annual profits - while also scaling back plans to reduce the amount of oil and gas it produces by the end of the decade
FTSE keeps making new all time highs… hard to understand vs US stocks which remain discounted …. 🤔
A refused FOI request to understand the scale of inappropriate behaviour by police officers makes it harder to hold the Met to account, reports Sian Norris
Max Colbert documents the weaponisation of xenophobia among Tory politicians, with evidence suggesting the Government is encouraging extremism rather than countering it
Good morrow, sir! Is this here yer ship? She’s lovely, she is. Oh cripes, but where are my manners? Matron would lock me in a dark room for a week, she would. Begging your pardon. They call me Alfred Poorboy, same as everyone in the orphanage, save for Alfred Oneleg and Alfred Watch-Out-He-Bites. Pleased to meet youse!
Say, what do you call this here place? The Port of Miami? I’ve never seen anything like it! Matron never allowed us to leave the orphanage yard, lest we get ideas or learn to read. You wouldn’t happen to have any gruel, would you? I haven’t eaten in six days, since Matron turned me out to make my own way in the world.
Nicola Sturgeon is discarded, having served her purpose for the British Establishment once she obtained the UK Supreme Court judgment that Scotland could not hold a referendum on Independence. That fight was deliberately thrown by Sturgeon’s unionist Lord Advocate. After almost nine years of leading Independence supporters into a whole series of blind alleys, with […]
The post Nicola Sturgeon – Used and Discarded appeared first on Craig Murray.
By Ben Rosenfeld / CounterPunch Some reps in Congress assert that dismantling qualified immunity (“QI”)—a police officer’s so-called good faith defense to a civil rights lawsuit—is a “non-starter” in negotiations to pass the George Floyd Civil Rights Act. In reality, meaningful police accountability is a non-starter without discarding QI. QI is a regressive framework which […]
The post Police Accountability Is a ‘Non-Starter’ Without Discarding the Qualified Immunity Doctrine appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Argentina and Brazil are striving for a common currency. Such a union could boost regional trade and lead to more independence from the US.
The post A Step Towards Greater Financial Autonomy appeared first on scheerpost.com.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Mexico will lead an international movement to end the US government’s “inhumane” blockade against Cuba. Praising Fidel Castro as a “visionary”, AMLO denounced neoliberalism and pledged support for universal public healthcare and education.
The post Mexico’s AMLO Announces Campaign Against US Blockage of Cuba, Denounces Neoliberalism appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Tackling Pentagon Waste Means Battling the Big Weapons Makers and Asking More of Congress.
The post Merger Mania in the Military-Industrial Complex appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Rodney Reed has spent 25 years fighting Texas for the right to DNA testing that could prove his innocence. Now the Supreme Court will weigh in.
The post Dissent Episode Five: The Death Penalty, Deadlines, and DNA appeared first on The Intercept.
If the Feb. 19 rally to end the war in Ukraine fails it will not be a success for other antiwar organizations that disagree with the Libertarian Party. It will only show that internal divisions can unravel every hope.
The post Diana Johnstone: Demonstrate Together appeared first on scheerpost.com.