Marco Rubio has officially killed USAID

Here’s Afshin Rattansi vs CIA Veteran Melvin Goodman:

Goodman: 'African countries are very grateful for USAID.'

Afshin: 'Name one country.'

Goodman: 'Senegal.'

Afshin: 'Senegal's government THREW OUT USAID and the IMF loans.'

This is how most of the British political and media class think:

‘But the IDF is sniping children in the head’

‘Whether you like it or not, Israel is our ally.’

‘IDF soldiers say they were ordered to shoot Palestinians waiting for food.’

‘How can we not support our ally?’

This is Britain’s commitment to the ‘rules-based order’ summarised; rules for the rest but not for the West and its allies.

So long as you are allied to Washington and London, the British political and media class will excuse all kinds of atrocities and despicable war crimes.

When these people tell you they have ‘shared values’ with Israel, believe them. They share the values of genocidal colonial barbarism.

‘But Bob Vylan…’

On this day in 1925, Congo’s🇨🇩 independence leader and pan-African hero Patrice Lumumba was born. He gained prominence as a charismatic and vocal advocate for independence from Belgian colonial rule, which led to his involvement in the Congolese National Movement (MNC).

Upon Congo's independence in June 1960, Lumumba was appointed as the country’s first Prime Minister. He faced immediate crises, thanks to neocolonial meddling in the country, including a mutiny within the army and the secession of the mineral-rich province of Katanga, backed by Belgium, the country which tortured Congo under colonialism for many years. His appeal for Soviet aid to quash the secessionist movement led to Western leaders immediately beginning to plot against Lumumba.

His rule would end in tragedy, when he was captured in Lodi by the troops of coup leader Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. The coup was backed by the US and Belgium, with US President Eisenhower ordering the CIA to ‘eliminate’ Patrice Lumumba.

For daring to oppose Belgian colonialism and US domination of Congo’s natural resources, Lumumba was executed by firing squad on the 17th of January 1961 after being tortured. Before being killed, the colonial conspirators tried to force Lumumba to eat the paper on which his Independence Day speech was written on. After being executed, his body was dissolved in acid.

Lumumba still remains an icon of pan-Africanism to this day, with his image and memory being a rallying point for Africans across the continent against neocolonialism.

PUTIN🇷🇺: 'There is a strong desire to freeze the current unfair state of things...for centuries the West has been stuffing their stomachs with human flesh and they've been stuffing their pockets with money. But they must realise this ball of vampires is about to end.'

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves cried at PMQs after Sir Keir Starmer refused to confirm whether she would stay in her job…

Tears shed for power, but no tears shed for being part of a govt which participates in a genocide, facilitating the mass slaughter of Palestinian children

Another piece of evidence of the UK’s participation in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, to add to the endless list of evidence for a future genocide tribunal

The British political class found a chant by Bob Vylan about the IDF more offensive than the apocalyptic destruction of Gaza, home to 2.1 million people before the genocide began.

The bloodstained hypocrisy of the British political class knows no limits.

With all the outrage and vitriol directed at Bob Vylan from the UK and US political class…

you’d think he was the one starving the children of Gaza, not Israel.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: ‘All problems in the world go back to the British🇬🇧…’

Palestine Action has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation after a vote in the British Parliament…

For opposing genocide and taking action to hinder Britain’s participation in the horrors of the Gaza genocide to stop scenes like this.

Palestine Action has never killed anybody, unlike the IDF which the UK arms and assists in committing a colonial slaughter.

Today is the birthday of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange, who sacrificed his freedom, enduring US-UK persecution, so that we could learn the truth.

In one of his interviews on Going Underground, Julian Assange explains the US’🇺🇸 years-long preparation for the dirty war on Syria🇸🇾, in which it deliberately fostered sectarian division with fake and exaggerated rumours, as part of a plan to overthrow Bashar Al-Assad

Today is Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange’s birthday. A reminder of why he was persecuted and targeted by the US for over a decade:

Among the many Wikileaks revelations was the Collateral Murder footage from Iraq, in which a US Apache helicopter opens fire. Reuters journalists Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen were gunned down, several others were killed while the US pilots laughed.

🚨Julian Assange on how the CIA targeted his family:

“It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo's explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and assassinate me within the Ecuadorian embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information. 

My wife and my infant son were also targeted. 

A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife, and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my 6-month-old son's nappy. 

This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former US intelligence officials speaking to the US press, which has been additionally corroborated by records seized in a prosecution brought against some of the CIA agents involved. 

The CIA's targeting of myself, my family, and my associates through aggressive, extrajudicial, and extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organizations engage in transnational repression."

JULIAN ASSANGE’S BIRTHDAY:

Here’s Julian on the AI-assisted genocide in Gaza:

‘Artificial intelligence is being used for mass assassinations in Gaza’

“The majority of targets in Gaza are bombed as a result of artificial intelligence targeting.”

JULIAN ASSANGE’S BIRTHDAY:

‘There is no society anymore. What there is, is a transnational security elite that is busy carving up the world, using your tax money.’

🚨JULIAN ASSANGE’S BIRTHDAY:

'Julian embarrassed them...it threatened their whole system of how they exercised power around the world and they were frightened that they wouldn't be able to hold onto that power.'

-Julian Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton on Going Underground discussing why the USA🇺🇸 hated Julian Assange and persecuted him for over a decade

🚨JULIAN ASSANGE’S BIRTHDAY:

'Julian Assange gave us too much truth, he made those who committed these war crimes, it forced them to look in the mirror'

-Legendary journalist John Pilger (1939-2023) on Going Underground

Julian Assange’s Wikileaks revealed that the US🇺🇸 views major financial institutions such as the World Bank and IMF as unconventional "weapons" to be used against adversaries.

Today, Julian Assange turns 54 years old.

🚨JULIAN ASSANGE’S BIRTHDAY

Here he is explaining why the US🇺🇸 came after him:

‘Why are they coming after me? The State Department and the US military have been tremendously embarrassed by these abuses being revealed. So what do you do if you’re embarrassed? You want to save face.

How do you save face? You have to slap the face of the person who is perceived to have embarrassed you.’

Previously unseen footage of US-UK-EU-armed Israel’s barbaric bombing of Iran🇮🇷:

An Israeli missile hit cars stopped at an intersection, with passengers in them. The explosion sends the cars flying into the air.

This is a warning for the global south, this can happen to your country if you are not adequately prepared to deter Washington-backed hegemonic violence.