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From the scholar who was once invited to lecture in the Munich University (LMU) but then was dis-invited due to pressure:

"I have been travelling in countries that have a very repressive record and seeing still my word has not been silenced, and still I have not been receiving remote vauge subliminal threats that I could be arrested. So let's be honest, this is the heart of Europe and it looks pretty scary."

Francesca Albanese, Italian legal scholar and expert on human rights. She has served as the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.

If you are German, this interview might be interesting for you:

UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on Germany's Role in Gaza Genocide & Repression of Dissent
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR74upAjoA

#FrancescaAlbanese #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Germany

UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on Germany's Role in Gaza Genocide & Repression of Dissent – Ep. 1

YouTube
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Debate on Bill C-12 continues today, with two more amendments pending. #cdnpoli

Big Tech is at it again.

Some of you might have seen this already. Google has announced a new policy for Android app developers, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (on their own website or on alternative app stores). This would entail:

1) agreeing to their terms and conditions
2) paying a fee
3) uploading a government ID

Which is wrong on so many levels. Nobody should be forced to register with Google if they don’t want to use their services.

In doing so they would be extending their gatekeeping (tentacles) into distribution channels where they’re just not a legitimate authority.

At Vivaldi, we believe you have the right to run whatever software you want on a device you own. That’s why we’ve co-signed this open letter, together with other 53 organisations, requesting Google to back off on the proposed policy before it enters into force.

(Plus, they have have a pretty cool logo 😄)

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

In 3 days, 800 Patriot missiles were used in the Middle East, Ukraine got 600 in 4 years.

Facing russia-Iran-North Korea’s "Axis of Evil," Ukraine urges the free world to shift from managing threats to defeating them.

Source: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

How someone talks about Francesca Albanese is probably the best political litmus test that exists. What. A. Woman. ❤️ Tees: https://tinyurl.com/24kw22p8

Tomorrow UK MPs face a choice:

Give Ministers a blank cheque to impose digital ID checks across any part of the Internet, or protect our rights.

They must say no to powers that’ll restrict our access to information unless we all prove we’re over 16.

Join over 570 people who’ve written to their MP ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access

#onlinesafety #digitalid #ageverification #privacy #freedomofinformation #ukpolitics #ukpol

No ID Checks for Web Access

Take action! What’s the problem? The Government has proposed amendments to the Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which would give Ministers the power to restrict access to "internet services". This is supposed to give the Government the power to ban under 16s from social media but “internet services" is a very broad definition, which means any online platform can be included. The wording of the amendment means they could do this without even having to prove that these sites are harmful for children.

Open Rights Group
Francesca Albanese has incisively corrected the record and debunked Israel’s denials and justifications for genocide so often repeated in the Western Press. It took her one eloquent sentence to expose media’s role in facilitating Israeli attacks on the enclave when she wrote, “Israel has written one of the darkest pages of human history and the world is still holding the pen.”
#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #IsraelWarCrimes
#USpol #Iran
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/04/francesca-albanese-gaza-and-the-military-propaganda-nexus-behind-the-us-israeli-war-on-iran/
Francesca Albanese, Gaza, and the Military-Propaganda Nexus Behind the US-Israeli War on Iran

When Francesca Albanese began to expose the big picture of expanding military domination, and warned of its global consequences, the campaign to discredit her went into high gear. The latest attacks on the Special Rapporteur came in response to a videotape appearance she made at a conference in Doha where she argued that this growing systemic threat should be viewed as a “common enemy of humanity.”

CounterPunch.org

The attack on #Iran is a shocking act of war were all the involved parties are wrong.

It’s an attack against a violent decrepit theocratic regime hated by its own citizens. A regime that doesn’t have any problems with murdering tens of thousands of its own citizens whose only sin was to join a protest against the government. A regime that has been destabilizing the Middle East for the past 45 years. A regime that should have gone long ago, and that it’s holding Iran back.

That attack however comes from the Israeli Kahanist regime. A colonialist and genocidal entity worse than the Nazis from all the perspectives. A terrorist regime that has been violating international borders and resolutions for more than half a century and destabilizing the Middle East just like Iran. A colonialist entity that has leveraged each chance it got to violently annex new territories. A genocidal regime that has turned Gaza into a parking lot amid the deafening silence of the international community, displaced and starved 2M Palestinians and killed at least tens of thousands of them. A Nazi entity that shoots teenagers for the sake of it and then lets them bleed on the streets while preventing ambulances from helping them. A Kahanist entity whose ministers join impromptu evictions of Palestinians from the West Bank (“you’ve got 2 hours to leave”) amid a “we Jews are above the law”. An antisemitic entity that is only making the antisemitism problem worse by repeatedly committing crimes against humanity in the name of all Jews.

And the attack also comes from the US. An openly Nazi entity ruled by a mentally deranged an unaccountable thug who has no problems to order federal agents to shoot on disarmed civilians, to jail people for simply sharing literature, to spy on the whole world through its rotten tech oligarchs, to racially profile its own citizens and to incarcerate even people with valid visas who are not white enough. A filthy imperialist entity that has been destabilizing the Americas for decades. A fascist regime whose leader was supposed to be publicly assassinated long ago.

If Teheran deserves the bombs for its sins, so do Tel Aviv and Washington.

The Ayatollah, Netanyahu and Trump all deserve to be jailed and executed for their crimes against humanity.

The world has a duty of hating all of them.

And yet again the great absent from this drama is the UN.

US and Israel are asking Guterres to intervene against Iran - the head of the same institution that they have been actively contributed to delegitimate and defund for decades, replaced by a privately managed and unaccountable “Board of Peace”.

Whatever world will rise from the ashes of these fascist wars between fascist regimes, whatever we try to rebuild after their leaders are dead, it must be a world that puts again multilateralism and international law again at its center.

Because what we’re currently witnessing is exactly what happens when multilateralism and international law die.

And it’s a disturbing copycat of what happened in the 1930s when the Society of Nations crumbled under the pressure of the 20th century fascists.