| Now Listening | Kagro in the Morning at Netroots Radio |
| Watching | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds |
| Now Listening | Kagro in the Morning at Netroots Radio |
| Watching | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds |
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116248355762185053
They stole a year of her life, with no credible charges filed.
"The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous." - George Orwell
They were wondering how to spend all that extra hundreds of billions of dollars they allocated to the military-industrial complex. Now they know.
Also a reminder that while the Iranian regime is undeniably horrible, it is also the result of CIA and MI6 instigating (in 1953) a coup d'état against the government of Iran that had a democratic mandate, over oil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
Here's the Wikipedia page about the prime minister of that government, Mohammad Mosaddegh:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh
The coup made shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi an authoritarian monarch with US backing. His oppressive regime ended with the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Putin’s friendship has limits — as Iran just found out
Leaders in Damascus, Caracas and now Tehran have all discovered that Russian support only goes so far.
https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-friendship-limits-iran-leader-khamenei-found-out/
BirdChan News: 4th Reich Better Than Russian Bots At Propaganda
The Nazi Bar. An account on BirdChan with nearly 300,000 followers is being run by the same jamoke in charge of the White House’s rapid response account: "A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED."