#middleeast
Speaking of the Lebanese, I now want to draw your attention to the musicians of that country which now enjoy the fury of Netanyahu and who are promoted by the agency called Beirut Jam Sessions, which has a YouTube channel. One song in particular was featured on last night's Tangents program on KALW, and it's haunting as all get-out.
And to all the Americans enjoying repeated ads for charities including St. Jude's Hospital, here's a reminder that its founder, Danny Thomas, was born of Lebanese parents.
#Lebanon #Israel #MiddleEast #war
This is Yasmine Hamdan:
Brian Hook, the former representative of the United States on Iran affairs during the first administration of Donald Trump, said in a conversation with #CNN on Thursday, November 17, that if the United States takes deterrent measures against the Islamic Republic, other countries threatened by Tehran will also do so with all their might. They join the United States in adopting these measures.
Hook said: "Donald #Trump, the President of the United States, knows that the main cause of instability in the #MiddleEast today is the Iranian regime. And in my opinion, the #PersianGulf region is the most economically and culturally active in the world today. And this kind of extremism and revolutionary ideology that the Iranian regime is exporting is one of the obstacles to continue this good path."
He added that the goal of Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" policy is diplomatic isolation and economic inability to finance proxy groups. The policy of "maximum support" for change in Iran by the Iranian people will take place inside #Iran.
#Politics
https://t.me/newsvideofa/2994
UN #Security Council to meet Monday over #Israel's strike on #Iran
Source: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/un-security-council-expected-meet-144210358.html
“The Islamic Republic of Iran, in alignment with the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and under international law, reserves its inherent right to legal and legitimate response to these criminal attacks at the appropriate time,”...
I always ask myself whether these people are still capable of logical thinking? If this Israeli airstrike was criminal, what was the Iranian one? If the Iranian one was a justified retaliation in his way of thinking, why is the retaliation of the retaliation criminal? Why are such people tolerated in the #government?
#uno #war #diplomacy #argument #politics #military #fail #news #MiddleEast #crime
More #escalation in #MiddleEast is possible 😱
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxynlCF1y8E
#news #Leak #Israel #Iran #military #war #airstrike #conflict #Missile
#Israeli forces fire on UN #peacekeepers in #Lebanon
Source: https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155551
On Wednesday, #IDF soldiers deliberately fired at and disabled the position’s perimeter-monitoring cameras, UNIFIL said, adding that the IDF also deliberately fired on UNP 1-32A, where regular Tripartite meetings were held before the conflict began, damaging lighting and a relay station.
#uno #news #conflict #MiddleEast #war #military #fail #problem #peacekeeper
#Putin’s ‘Merchant of Death’ Is Back in the #Arms #Business. This Time Selling to the #Houthis.
Arming a belligerent in the #MiddleEast #conflict would also mark an escalation for #Russia, which has been strengthening #security ties with #Tehran but has generally stayed away from the confrontation between #Israel and its Iran-backed foes.
UN calls #Israel’s ban on its top leader a political statement in long-running rift
Source: apnews.com/article/united-nations-israel-secretary-general-guterres-a929dda6e7c211cf3c2c8277dd88dffe
The United Nations on Wednesday called Israel’s ban on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres entering the country a political statement by its foreign minister and stressed that the world body’s contacts with Israel will continue “because they have to.”
#politics #news #conflict #MiddleEast #war #terror #Problem #uno
Damage, destruction and fear along the Israel-Lebanon border
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2gj544x65o.amp
#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #military #conflict #news #MiddleEast
“Conflicts Are Multiplying”: U.N. Chief Warns of #World at #War as General #Assembly Kicks Off
Secretary-General António Guterres: “Conflicts are raging and multiplying, from the #MiddleEast to #Ukraine and #Sudan, with no end in sight. Our collective security system is threatened by geopolitical divides, nuclear posturing and the development of new weapons and theaters of war. Resources that could bring opportunities and hope are invested in death and destruction.”
#conflict #military #politics #uno #news #future #diplomacy #weapon #peace
U.S. #military’s #Tinder #ad in #MiddleEast raises eyebrows
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/27/centcom-tinder-advertisment-lebanon/
An #advertisement #warning that U.S. fighter jets were ready to respond to provocations showed up on a dating app in #Lebanon.
6 min
Michael Hudson: Debt, Economic Collapse, and the End of Civilization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO-qHypWlgE
#Michael #Hudson : #Debt , #Economic #Collapse , and the #End of #Civilization
#deepstate #banksters #IMF #USA #US #american #economy #finance #money #debt #Ponzi #fraud #fail #Western #capitalism #MiddleEast #Mesopotamia #history #workersrights
#Pentagon: U.S. 'strengthening' Middle East #military presence amid soaring tensions
Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/08/12/Lloyd-Austin-Yoav-Gallant-call/3401723437686/
He told Gallant of the Biden administration's moves to strengthen the U.S. military posture capabilities throughout the Middle East due to the escalating regional tensions, and said he has ordered the USS Georgia guided missile submarine to the Central Command region.
US sending more fighter jets and warships to Mideast amid threats from #Iran -led axis
The US will move a fighter jet squadron to the #MiddleEast and maintain an aircraft carrier in the region, the #Pentagon said Friday, beefing up the American military presence to help defend #Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies and safeguard US troops.
‘I can’t justify this military operation any more’: the #IDF reservists refusing to return to #Gaza
Three Israeli reserve soldiers who fought in the war against Hamas say why they no longer want to be part of military
Early this year, he said: “We were given an order. We were inside a house and our commander ordered us to burn it down.”
When he raised the issue with the head of his company, he added: “The answers he gave me were not good enough. I said: ‘If we’re doing all of this for no reason, I’m not going to participate.’ I left the next day.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/27/idf-reservists-refuse-to-return-gaza-israel
Our wars add greenhouse gases by the tons.
♲ DoomsdaysCW - 2024-07-11 19:31:16 GMT
EU climate service: Earth records 12 straight months of record high temperaturesBy Clyde Hughes, UPI
July 8 (UPI) -- "June 2024 was hotter than any June previously on record, leaving people exposed to life-threatening temperatures and more extreme weather, the European Union's #Copernicus #ClimateChange Service said Monday.
"Copernicus researchers found that temperatures worldwide each month for the past 12 months were 1.5 degrees Celsius greater than the average before the #preindustrial age.
"The report said temperatures in Europe were higher on average than in the southeast regions. It added the countries and regions with the hottest temperatures outside of #Europe were eastern #Canada, the western #UnitedStates, western #Mexico, #Brazil, northern #Siberia, the #MiddleEast, northern #Africa, and western #Antarctica.
"'Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,' said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, according to The Guardian.
"'This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.'
"The report said its review of the oceans, air temperatures were higher than average in the #AtlanticOcean and #IndianOcean along with most of the #PacificOcean. Temperatures were below average in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and smaller regions around the world, like the Bering Sea.
"Copernicus uses measurements from various sources, including airplanes, weather stations, ships and satellites to capture vital climate information worldwide.
"'This is not good news at all,' said Aditi Mukherji, the co-author of the newest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 'We know that extreme events increase with every increment of global warming and at 1.5 degrees Celsius, we witnessed some of the hottest extremes this year.'"
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCatastrophe
