Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦1d ago
“The scope of all these different #attacks was impressive. However one thing that was not on the list was #Russian #apartmentbuildings. There was no #atrocity in return, just effective #strategic operations” #Ukraine

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WIST QuotationsApr 17

A quotation from Orwell

History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/

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Orwell, George - Essay (1945-05), "Notes on Nationalism," Polemic Magazine (1945-10) | WIST Quotations

History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds…

WIST Quotations
Richard Michael BlaberApr 11
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/11/state-failing-lessons-southport-attack-victims-lawyers. "Ministers are 'failing to learn the lessons' from the #Southport attack & allowing violence-obsessed #teenagers to remain a 'catastrophic' threat to #society, #lawyers for #victims of the #atrocity have said ahead of the findings of an official #inquiry. A report on the July 2024 attack by the judge Sir Adrian Fulford, to be released on Monday, is expected to strongly criticise failings by a series of agencies, including the counter-terrorism programme #Prevent."
State failing to learn lessons of Southport attack, say victims’ lawyers

Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests young people who pose ‘catastrophic’ threat still slipping through system

The Guardian
MarkMar 28

UK diluting international law

I do not believe #Scotland’s future lies within a Union which risks taking us into an #illegal #war

It’s a #Union pandering to #bullies, which fails to condemn #WarCrimes, which actively supports and funds a #genocide, which sells our defence contracts to dangerous companies who co-ordinate #atrocity #crimes and which feels more comfortable in isolation from the world than it does in working with our allies.

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25976361.union-diluting-international-law-scotland-must-leave/

#UK #England #Indy2 #democracy

This Union is diluting international law. Scotland must leave

I DO not believe Scotland’s future lies within a Union which risks taking us into an illegal war, or a war without our consent

The National
MarkMar 27

#AI got the blame for the #Iran #school #bombing. The truth is far more worrying

#LLMs gone #rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting.

Instead, it was choices made by #human beings, over many years, that gave us this #atrocity

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

#USAggression #WarCrimes #HumanError #AIFails #DarwinAwards

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian
Micha P. SexbeatMar 21

Da bin ich doch beim CDs sortieren in ein Trällerelsmetal-Rabbithole gefallen:

Leave's Eyes - Norwegian Lovesong

https://musiccloud.io/GPPmt

#SymphonicMetal #FemalfrontedMetal #LivKristine #LeavesEyes #Atrocity

Norwegian Lovesong - Leaves' Eyes

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PugJesusMar 14

syince

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1878905/syince

Show threadMrinappropriateMar 12
@freezenet So that’s #Barron out then. #iran #Iranwar #illegalwar #atrocity #warcriminal #trump #netenyahu
kctiptonMar 11
US strike likely hit Shajareh Tayyiba school in Minab, Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/politics/us-iran-school-strike-civilians #incompetence #atrocity #bombing #iran
US strike likely hit a school in Iran due to outdated intelligence, sources briefed on initial findings say

The US military accidentally struck an Iranian elementary school, in an attack that state media said killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, likely due to outdated information about a nearby naval base, according to two sources briefed on the preliminary findings of an ongoing military investigation.

CNN
MarkFeb 2

#InternationalLaw

Authoritative survey of 23 armed conflicts over last 18 months concluded international law at breaking point, with over 100,000 #civilians killed, while #torture, #rape committed with near #impunity

#Atrocity #crimes are being repeated because past ones were tolerated. Our actions – or inaction – will determine whether international #humanitarian #law vanishes altogether

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/02/more-than-100000-civilians-killed-war-crimes-out-of-control-study

#WarCrimes #dictators #Trump #ComradeKrasnov #USAggression #USThreats

International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds

Report covering 23 conflicts over last 18 months concludes more than 100,000 civilians have been killed as war crimes rage out of control

The Guardian