#Tony Blair War Criminal

[whatevergreen]

Oh f***:

"Since leaving No 10, the former prime minister has arguably become more powerful thanks to the work of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), which has exploded in size and revenue during the last few years. Its accounts show it made over $81m (£65m) in revenue in 2021, a 78% increase on the previous year.

With the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, increasingly turning to Blair as an unofficial source of advice, the influence of both the former prime minister and his institute could soon grow further. ...

Critics ... accuse Blair of using the institute as a vehicle to advance his own ideological views and the causes of some of its corporate backers.

A spokesperson for the leftwing campaign group Momentum said: “It’s deeply worrying to hear of the Tony Blair Institute’s extensive influence in Keir Starmer’s Labour.

“This is an organisation bankrolled by billionaires, which continues to advise and take money from the murderous Saudi government. What’s worse, its solutions reflect these corporate interests, with Tony Blair laughably claiming that Britain’s economic crisis is a result of too much tax and spend.”

After leaving Downing Street, Blair pursued a handful of different commercial and philanthropic activities. They included advising the US bank JP Morgan for $1m a year, and the insurance group Zurich for a reported six-figure salary. ..."

...

"The policy area that underpins much of what the institute does, however, is technology. Blair’s belief that governments can cut their costs by embracing cutting-edge technology is promoted by the institute as a whole, which advocates for countries to roll out digital identification cards and spend heavily on artificial intelligence.

The institute also pushes for governments around the world to digitise their health records, an agenda that happens to tally with the corporate interests of one of its biggest donors, Larry Ellison.

Ellison, the co-founder of the technology company Oracle who has ties to Donald Trump, has long been a strong supporter of the TBI. Oracle’s executive director for external relations, Awo Ablo, is also one of the TBI’s four directors.

Ellison gave the TBI $33.8m through his philanthropic foundation in 2021 and promised another $49.4m in 2022. That was also the year Oracle bought the healthcare IT company Cerner for $28bn."

#tony blair #politics #war criminal hypocrite

[marxman1]

Thatcher is admired in ruling circles and the Labour leadership because she resolved the 1970s-80s era crisis decisively in favour of the capitalist class, confronting head-on the resistance of the working class and paving the way for an explosion of inequality. Draconian laws, the whip of unemployment and militarised, violent policing were used against the 1984-85 miners’ strike and then the printworkers at Wapping.

Both, like other groups of workers, were defeated due to the treachery of the trade union and Labour Party bureaucracy, which was abandoning its former national reformist programme and openly embracing capitalism.

#workers struggles #wsws #socialist equality party #iysse #class war #capitalism #fascisim #margaret thatcher #tony blair #keir starmer #war crimes #war criminals #the labour party #union corruption #political corruption #workers of the world unite #end capitalism #socialist revolution #socialism #leon trotsky #trotskyism #karl marx #marxism #the communist manifesto #vladimir lenin #international committee of the fourth international #fourth international

[daddydotissuesatgmaildotcom]

packing an osama bin liner halloween costume and flying out to afghanistan so some freedom fighters can throw me bound into the sea so i drown. might do a travel blog on it, i'll let you know.

#depression #9/11 #ninth of november #stochastic terrorism #tony blair #war criminal

[thewonderladie]

Y'all are really trying to absolve Theresa May because Boris Johnson was "worse".

Kinda reminds me of the rehabilitation of George Bush because Donald Trump was "worse".

#not on my watch #she's still a fucking tory #and bush is still a war criminal #like tony blair #maybe it's my age showing

[paradoxi-callum]

#33 Blair Rears His Ugly Head, 3 July 

Tony Blair sat in the studio, shined his forehead one last time and hoped to make a good impression. 

Tony said something about Brexit.

A man in the audience said "war criminal", but disguised it as a cough. 

Tony's forehead grew duller by the second. 

#writing #poetry #literature #poemsbyme #satire #sad poem #uk politics #tony blair #war criminal #criminal out of war too #brexit #the guardian

[northern-punk-lad]

Of course Tony Blair made a tribute to Henry Kissinger war criminals stick together

#uk politics #england politics

[whinlatter]

author's note | chapter 8: bones 🦴

thank you for reading chapter eight of Beasts! this week, it's hotting up politically - ginny meets with the minster of magic, enjoys a hot beverage with all of her ex boyfriends, finds out about the clinton impeachment and rides the east coast mainline from edinburgh to london for free with no cancellations or delays a week before christmas. now that really is magic.

got a bumper author's note this week (and some metas to follow), plus a sneak peek of chapter nine (oh the cameos we've got coming! i've got flashback fever). i am also accepting any and all guesses for who the gang will go as for the grimmauld muggle-themed NYE party. we know anthony's going as tony blair, terry boot's deciding between a terry's chocolate orange or the golden boot, but what will the rest of the DA go as? answers on a postcard/in the askbox pls. ok let's discuss this wet and wintery chapter that i wrote at the beach during a heatwave in august, for some reason

✨ spoilers for this chapter below the cut  ✨

writing things and headcanons:

the hogwarts inquiry and graves on the ministry: the chapter opens with graves (himself an ex ministry employee, though we don’t know the circumstances of his exit yet) poking holes in the wizengamot’s approach to justice thus far in the post-war period, suggesting holding individuals accountable - especially someone like thicknesse who was imperiused - misses how the entire wizarding state is implicated in wartime crimes against muggleborns and other persecuted groups. also disillusioned by the way post-war trials are going, kingsley wants to take a different course of action to get to the bottom of what happened at hogwarts during the war. a lot of post-war fics do an amazing job doing post-war justice through criminal trials, and i wanted to do something a bit different for this fic that is explicitly interested in places and institutions and the cultures they foster (hogwarts and the ministry itself, but grimmauld place and, soon, the burrow, home to different kinds of institutions, including families). like a lot of people who grew up in the uk in the early 00s public inquiries - like the leveson inquiry into media culture and phone hacking, or the chilcott inquiry into the iraq war - really left a big impression on me (though i’m sure this is also true in lots of political cultures, not least in the US in things like senate hearings etc). i also really love seeing inquiries and hearings rendered in fiction (in tv, jesse armstrong shows like the thick of it and succession), so knew i wanted to have a go writing these into this fic. there are actually quite a few inquiries of varying scale that happen in the canon series (though none are public), so we know this is a mechanism the ministry has previously used to investigate various breaches of law or accepted norms (in CoS, arthur faces one over the car; over buckbeak in PoA; into percy over crouch; dumbledore asks for one after the dementor attack on harry, which fudge rejects; into bode’s murder at st mungo’s, and into the miscarriage of justice that saw sirius jailed for the potters’ murders). i’m literally just going to quote from taylor_fannon074’s gorgeous comment on this because it’s so well put: 

‘The Wizarding World knows that their children have been forcibly put at the center of a war they didn’t know existed for most of it. Children are the first line of attack when it comes to implementing fascist ideologies. People  areso sensitive about children and it’s a perfect weapon to utilize against anything that you want. It’s why Dumbledore became headmaster when he could’ve been Minister of Magic. It’s why the Malfoys are Voldemort’s greatest allies. If it were just about the Carrows they’d carry all the blame, now the defendants are the Ministry. Kingsley is using this tactic to direct the people’s anger towards the Ministry’s systemic oppression. He’s giving the kids a platform to talk about how a werewolf was the greatest teacher they ever had and several ministry officials tortured them. It calls the ministry’s competency into question, planting the seeds of doubt. I don’t think Kingsley aiming for a full scale revolution but trying to open the curtains and get wizards more active in their community.  He’s going after that statute of secrecy next, I can feel it in my bones!!!!’

kingsley: there are so many really great reads on kingsley as minister after the war, particularly kingsley taking on the ruthless (and manipulative) instincts of a politician, and speculation about that might clash with harry’s worldview and longstanding resentment of ministers carrying about things like public image and making moral compromises to get things done. i don’t disagree with those reads at all, and think they have a ton of basis in canon. what i knew i wanted in beasts, though, was to see if you could write a different kingsley, someone who hasn’t abandoned his principles but instead is trying to centre them. i wanted to play with the idea that all politicians are the same’, asking how kingsley’s contradictions - an avowed progressive, a lifelong ministry insider with more links to the muggle world than most, a resistance fighter turned a minister of magic trusted and admired by the children of the order - would shape his approach to try to capture post-war momentum for rebuilding and make real change, whatever that might look like. i also wanted this dynamic of kingsley and ginny having some familiarity with each other that we don’t see from the canon series that might hint at some wartime interactions we haven’t seen yet. anyway i wrote this scene with kingsley and ginny ages ago and then i read the unfinished but excellent fic about ginny and post-war justice cited below and was crushed to see someone had already written a version of the same scene much better. what a blow! (read that fic)

ginny’s card-making: ginny weasley loves to decorate and she loves christmas. canon could not be clearer about this. if you think she wouldn’t spitefully refuse to wish minerva mcgonagall seasons’ greetings then i’m sorry i think you are wrong with a capital W. graves didn’t get a card but he did get an essay because she’s warming up to him a bit but cards are only for those who aren’t on ginny approval probation 

writing on the wall: actually this is just me apologising to the anon who sent me this ask ages ago and i didn’t reply because i knew i had this scene in the bank and didn’t want to spoil it but yeah basically anon i could not agree with you more!!! i think it’s really a squandered opportunity in canon not to make more of this - in those old ootp planning notes jkr was going to have ginny write on the wall about umbridge in temper, but then removed it, so clearly was thinking of the DA wall daubing as a parallel with CoS but then… gave the line to neville lol. fuming. anyway! had to be done! thank u so much anon and so sorry again!

beasts, beings and patronuses: my favourite part of this chapter to write! (obviously that’s a lie it was the bit where harry and ginny shagged but second favourite for sure). graves goes all enlightenment subjectivity theory again smh, and then suggests what’s happened with the stag antlers might be something to do with a great disturbance to harry’s soul. @saintsenara think this is me steathily building up a tomarry endgame - other theories are circulating, all theories have me salivating

slughorn: hardcore hinny shipper, we have to stan. what’s he up to? also rina girl get back to school you're making ginny look conscientious

hermione: thank you to the extremely patient romione folks in my inbox - the trouble with this plot is that i have to keep all the romione bits off stage for now (and i have written some hermione and ron pov missing moment scenes that i might drop when this plot is fully developed and the mystery has ended) but for now i’m just sorry that so far in the published chapters the hermione plot is all unhealthy coping mechanisms and no answers!

muggle london: did i go rummaging on the freedom of information requests sent to transport for london to find out adult and child fares for central london weekend travel in 1998? yes i did. you never know when the transport pedants are going to flood your mentions !!! ‘are you a child’ ‘sort of’ could be summary of the entire fic really couldn’t it

the exes: i knew i wanted an unlikely character to speak a bit of truth to ginny, someone she wouldn’t be expecting to call her on her shit. the idea of using one of her exes to do it seemed satisfying for a couple of different reasons. i liked the idea of using a character who knows ginny well and who sees through her a bit, but also has nothing to lose throwing out some tough love to her face because they don’t really have any investment in being in her good books anymore. i also liked the idea of not taking ginny’s canonical descriptions of her relationships with her exes for granted, and using those relationships as an example of previous incidences where this character has kidded themselves, or at least come up with a retroactive narrative of something that has happened to them as a coping mechanism that actually masks a bigger, more complicated truth. (i have a longer meta on ginny and her exes i’ll post this week that isn’t expressly beasts-related where i’ll bang on about my read on what these relationships were to her, but for now suffice to say it seemed important in a fic that is at heart a coming of age ginny character study to draw in characters who were likely formative for her in her teenage years in some way). dean seemed a complicated choice, though (more about him below), so… michael corner it was. 

michael corner (or: characterisation when the character has about five whole lines in the whole of canon): 

this is michael corner this whole chapter:

i had a ball trying to figure out how to write michael corner, as the discord girlies can attest. michael is a very minor character in the series, with only a handful of scenes/appearances, and he spends most of them being a little dickhead lmao. the man never stops interrupting people to call them out/correct them. in his first scene in canon in ootp, at the hog’s head, michael sasses hermione on her motivations to set up the DA (‘“You want to pass your DADA O.W.L. too though, I bet?”’ - that earns him a snippy clapback) and then interrupts harry when harry’s being modest to both praise him but also correct him lol (‘“Not with the dragon, you didn’t,” said Michael Corner at once. “That was a seriously cool bit of flying...”’.) in DH, he yells at harry for planning to nip in and nip out of hogwarts when all the DA are living in hiding (‘“You’re going to leave us in this mess?” demanded Michael Corner’), and then gets annoyed at luna for being dumb about the diadem (‘“Yeah, but the lost diadem,” said Michael Corner, rolling his eyes, “is lost, Luna. That’s sort of the point.”’) when it comes to ginny, she calls him a ‘fool’ when he almost gives the game away about the DA in the hall, and when they’re paired up at the DA and she’s killin it hexing him he’s “either very bad or unwilling to jinx her”. given his interest in his academics - and that he’s a ravenclaw - i think we can suspect it’s the latter, a display of chivalric concern that was never going to go down well with gin. they then break up after ginny decides he’s too ‘sulky’ about ravenclaw’s loss at quidditch, after which michael immediately goes off to get with cho (michael and harry bonding over their shared type fic when). but. michael’s also someone ginny (someone who does not suffer fools!) went out with for an entire year, so can’t be a total dickhead, clearly knows right from wrong and has moments of real bravery - joining the DA in the first place, but also enduring torture that neville describes as particularly horrific for trying to rescue a chained up first-year during the DH, which would almost certainly make him deserving of ginny’s respect after the war. being in the DA under the carrows must have been an intense bonding experience for all involved, and actually would have forced ginny and michael back into each other’s lives in a way that forced them to develop some kind of working relationship. all this then added up to the decisions i made to write him as he is in beasts: someone who is grouchy, sassy, contrarian, too competitive, a bit jealous of others’ abilities (the sore loser), and fond of calling people out/correcting people, but also someone who speaks his mind and whose heart is, ultimately, in the right place, a bit of an arse but not a baddie. and i think that makes sense as a character ginny weasley would be attracted to, at least initially, and who she can get behind as someone whose opinion she will listen to, with a pinch of salt.

bonus michael headcanons: other characterisation bits that are more headcanons than anything else: michael, terry and anthony’s band. ginny is canonically a fan of the weird sisters, with a poster up in her room. the weird sisters play at the yule ball.  michael and ginny meet at the yule ball. like literally nine billion other teenage relationships, wouldn’t be fun if michael and ginny first met/got to chatting because they both liked the same band? then that became: well, dean was artistic - what if ginny’s into creatives? wouldn’t it be a laugh if michael, terry and anthony, this three piece gang of boy besties, were in a band? so that became me imagining them all in a promising but bit-too-clever-for-their-own-good indie band, alt-j or vampire weekend of the 90s, very into the smiths. (the album cover ginny recognises in their flat ‘of a white turreted castle, lush woodland by a sunlit lake’ is blur’s country house - partly because the castle in that album art looks a bit like hogwarts, but also because country house was the single that, as british readers might remember, was in a very famous race for number 1 with oasis in the battle of britpop in august 1995, which became about the middle-class southern band (blur) vs the northern working class equivalent (oasis). in my mind the ravenclaw boys would have been team blur and the gryffindor boys are team oasis lol. 90s lore!) the ravenclaw boys being low key into hallucinogenic potions is literally because michael has a throwaway line in hbp where he asks slughorn about felix felicis lol (‘“Have you ever taken it, sir?” asked Michael Corner with great interest.”). so yeah that was enough to get me imagining michael and the boys as low key stoners but also into experimenting with different psychedelic substances and writing bangin’ tunes. they’re boarding school teenage boys, after all!

dean: ah dean 🥺 one day i’ll finish that damn dean fic. the dean we see here is who i imagine dean would be after the war - more lost and alone than literally any of the other main characters, properly unhappy. unlike the golden trio, or the silver trio, dean spends his deeply traumatic war alone, and i think that would fuck him up. he has to go on the run and leave his muggle family behind, a family he’s lied to about the severity of the war (“My parents are Muggles, mate,” said Dean, shrugging. “They don’t know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I’m not stupid enough to tell them.”’). he must have struggled, as the trio did, with accessing food and finding places of safety, but also had far fewer protections than the trio (no perkins tent, no invisibility cloak, none of hermione’s abilities). he’d also have had to deal with the fact that he’s a young black boy on the run in majority white racist nineties britain, where he would be hyper visible and vulnerable to the suspicions of muggles as well as the wizarding ministry and snatchers (the police/suspicious members of the public are never going to have treated a black teenage boy who seems homeless well). he briefly has the company of ted tonks, surrogate dad figure, dirk cresswell and the goblins, but then watches all but griphook get murdered. then he’s snatched, rescued, and goes to live at shell cottage with his ex’s brother lol. he would have none of the wartime bonding and sense of group solidarity that the wartime DA seem to have built, and while it seems likely he too would join the aurors if invited to punish the people who persecuted him, i think he would feel intensely isolated and lonely as well as challenged by the demands of that job, one he never really seems to crave in canon. got our first few deamus hints here but yeah basically if michael’s going thru one kind of trauma, dean’s going through another, one that he’s never going to open up to the ex who hurt him about. he doesn’t hate ginny - in DH, when he hears about the sword theft, he shows clearly still wants her to be safe and well - but he’s had none of michael’s time to build a post-relationship working friendship with her, and the emotional trust isn’t there anymore. wow bummed myself out writing that out jesus. he could have offered her a cup of tea, though. that’s just basic brit etiquette

baby’s first almost smut: look. what was i supposed to do. these two haven't shared a bed since august. if you think they’re not fucking immediately on sight i simply do not know what to tell you

(gif courtesy of @uncontainedhybrid)

reading list: 

postwar justice (and kingsley as MoM): 

The Weight of the After by PaperyInk  Castles by @pebblysand

the ravenclaw boys: 

these three brilliant fics by chaserzachsmith (crikey)  Notes from the Ravenclaw Bulletin Board by lost_robin

grimmauld place:

haunted house by @bronzeagepizzeria Grimmauld Place: Azkaban by a Different Name by @artemisia-black

beasts and beings:

this meta by @myrskytuuli on harry potter as colonial fantasy 

on the politics of childhood in 20c european politics, especially post-war (not hp fanfiction but historical non-fiction lmao): 

the lost children and kidnapped souls, both by tara zahra 

songs from the playlist for this chapter:

la jeune fille en feu by para one and arthur simonini | i horó 's na hug òro eile by duncan chisholm | blue ridge mountains by fleet foxes | lull by vraell and rosie h sullivan | if we make it through december by phoebe bridgers | please, please, please let me get what i want by the smiths | wading in waist-high water (solstice version) by fleet foxes | feels like a dream by alice boman and perfume genius

and a sneak peek of chapter 9 because now we're at grimmauld and you know what that means... 🐕‍🦺🐾

‘Wow. What a shithole.’ ‘Fred!’ ‘Don’t lie, Mum, you think it’s a shithole, too, I can see it on your face.’  ‘Well, yes, but don’t be rude, this is someone’s house.' ‘Be as rude as you like,’ says a bored voice. They all jump, turn to see a man standing at the foot of the stairs: tall, gaunt, long hair like curtains framing a ten-thousand galleon face. ‘I assure you,’ says Sirius Black, ‘this house is an insult to shitholes everywhere.’

#beasts #author's note #AN #yes the author's note is as long as the chapter #did someone say... padfoot #hinny #ginny weasley #sirius black #michael corner #meta #ministry of magic #wizarding politics #post-DH #dean thomas #deamus

[his-heart-hymns]

Useless American Wars(part1).

America why did you invade Iraq???

America-To stop iraq's military aggression and to protect our petro-dollar so that the american economic heagemony remains untouched.And most importantly we thought that Iraq had WMD's(weapons of mass destruction).😎

America why don't you stop Russia's military aggression and protect the international laws(which were created by America and its allies)???

America-We cannot because the russians have WMD's(Weapons of mass destruction).😭😱

The hypocritical western world that keeps on crying that Russian president vladimir putin is a war criminal and must be arrested under the laws of international Court of Justice must remember what American president Bush and England's Prime Minister Tony Blair did with innocent Iraqi civilians.More than 400000 civilians were killed,their homes were destroyed ,Iraq was left at the mercy of islamic extremist terror groups and their economy has not recovered till now.

The biggest lie of the century Bush and Tony Blair told to the world was that Iraq has WMD's and Iraq is a threat to the world.

I don't support any kind of terrorism but people must know that America and west funded and gave weapons to many terrorist groups to fight against their enemy soviet union(Russia).And after their goals were achieved they left these countries at the mercy of these terrorist monsters.

#geopolitics with shoaib #America the terror factory #usa #imperialism #iraq war #9/11 #desiblr #desi tumblr #desi aesthetic #desi academia

[martinilesbian]

remember, come election time, that keir starmer gave the tories the go ahead on unrestrained bombing in yemen. remember that the leader of the so called left wing opposition, like tony ‘war criminal’ blair before him, cares nothing for the lives of innocent civilians, as long as the uk’s commercial interests are protected. he does not care about the global working class, and he never did

#uk politics #keir starmer #rishi sunak #there is no viable left wing opposition in this country they are all fucking class traitors and corporate politicians

[whatevergreen]

Nobody seems to be aware of this.

Today Tony - war criminal - Blair is getting a knighthood... for crimes against humanity effectively.

F*ck this sh*t.

#tony blair #george w bush #iraq #war #war criminal #queen #jubilee

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

Harry might not be individually important, but he feeds into a current world-changing narrative. Putin just used a recent interview by Merkel (where she claimed to have been building up the Ukrainian military) to paint 'western countries' as war criminals agitating for conflict.

The former Brit PM, Tony Blair, is openly joked about in the UK as being a war criminal. Some of the edgier humor in the US says the same about Bush. Harry feeds into this whole thing and might well be the straw that breaks the camels back. Intentionally or not, he has permitted an ugly narrative to come to the fore again.

Combine that with the fact this all occurred while Harry was very much part of the diplomatic 'establishment' AND the fact he was potentially in a combat zone while on hard drugs AND the fact the UK currently has a very new and inexperienced prime minister - this feels like a massive disaster about to happen, well beyond the BRF scope.

It’s pretty bad.

[daedreamingghosts]

counting the fallen stars ⋆

☾ current hyperfixation

☆ all time favourite

☆ PERCY JACKSON (2005-2014) ⋆ Percy Jackson, Jason Grace, Luke Castellan, Clovis Grant, Octavian Blair, Leo Valdez, Nico Di Angelo (platonic), Will Solace (platonic), Ethan Nakamura, Castor Riley, Pollux Riley, Triton, Apollo, Ares, Dionysus (platonic), Zeus (platonic), Hades.

☾ HADES (2018) ⋆ Zagreus, Thanatos, Hypnos.

☆ STARGATE (1997-2011) ⋆ Daniel Jackson, Cameron Mitchell, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, William Lynn, Eli Wallace.

FOLK OF AIR (2018-2019) ⋆ Cardan Greenbriar. Dain Greenbriar.

☾ LEGEND OF ZELDA (2017-2023) ⋆ Link.

SLENDERVERSE (2009-2018) ⋆ Brian Thomas, Tim Wright, Jay Merrick (platonic), Alex Kralie, HABIT, Evan Myers, Jeff Koval, Michael Andersen. Jeffrey Woods, Liu Woods, Toby Rogers, BENDROWNED, Cody Weber, Jason Meyer.

☆ GAME OF THRONES (2011-2022) ⋆ Jon Snow, Theon Greyjoy, Jacaerys Velaryon, Cregan Stark, Aegon Targaryen.

BALDUR'S GATE 3 (2023) ⋆ Astarion.

HUNGER GAMES (2023) ⋆ Sejanus Plinth.

CALL OF DUTY (2019-2022) ⋆ Simon Riley, Kyle Garrick, John MacTavish, John Price, König, Phillip Graves, Keegan Russ.

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S (2014-2017) ⋆ Michael Afton, William Afton, Henry Emily.

OUTERBANKS (2020-2023) ⋆ JJ Maybank, Rafe Cameron.

STAR WARS (1997- 2019) ⋆ Cal Kestis, Anakin Skywalker, Obi Wan Kenobi (platonic) Luke Skywalker.

STARDEW VALLEY (2016) ⋆ Shane, Alex, Kent, Sam.

☆ THE WALKING DEAD (2010-2022) ⋆ Carl Grimes, Rick Grimes, Negan Smith, Glenn Rhee.

DETROIT BECOME HUMAN (2018) ⋆ Connor, Markus.

RESIDENT EVIL (2005-2021) ⋆ Leon Kennedy, Ethan Winters.

CSI (2000-2015) ⋆ Greg Sanders, Nick Stokes.

☾ NCIS (2003-2019) ⋆ Tony Dinozzo, Ari Haswari.

CRIMINAL MINDS (2005-2020) ⋆ Spencer Reid, Aaron Hotchner (platonic)

MARAUDERS ERA (-) ⋆ James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Regulus Black, Evan Rosier, Barty Crouch Jr.

STRANGER THINGS (2016-2022) ⋆ Billy Hargrove.

Z NATION (2014-2018) ⋆ Tommy.

[workersolidarity]

Ukraine war: Wagner may be smuggling weapons from Mali - US - BBC News

Lol, as though Wagner needs weaponry from Mali.

Typical propaganda and gas lighting from the BBC.

Check out this classic line:

HA!

This is rich coming from the United States!

All the US does is interfere in other countries' elections, destabilizes entire regions through warfare, steal a countries' natural resources, conducts regime change operations and lays sanctions against nations that refuse to follow the US Imperialist line.

US war crimes, especially in Africa and the Middle East, are a dime a dozen. The history of US war crimes in Africa goes back hundreds of years and recent decades have only cemented the US's reputation as a destructive colonial power.

Now the US demands of African countries that they uphold the completely fabricated and discredited ICC Warrant and arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Here's what South Africa's Julius Malema had to say about the ICC and its criminal warrant for Vladimir Putin:

"We're not going to be told by these hypocrites of the International Criminal Court who knows the real violators of Human Rights, who know the murderers of this world, that former Premier ah Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that they made a horrible mistake when it comes to Saddam Hussein. They have not been charged to date. Bush is still there. They have not been charged to date."

"And then Obama killed Gaddafi, and then nothing has happened!"

"We're here today with Libya being destroyed and unable to recover because of America."

"We know very well where NATO gets involved, those are terrorists! We know very well when the US says, we're going in to install peace. That place will NEVER know peace as long as America has visited that place."

"So we don't want the ICC's hypocrisy to apply here in our country. President Putin is welcomed. We know our friends. We know the people who liberated us."

"In Cuito Cuanavale, the weapons that were used in Cuito Cuanavale that led to the liberation of South Africa were coming from Russia. Russia supplied us with weapons in Cuito Cuanavale. Cuba supplied us with soldiers. MK was drunk."

We all know the real Imperialist War Crimes are conducted regularly by the United States and its allies: bombing civilians, leveling sanctions that impoverish, not just the nation being sanctioned, but also all of the countries that do trade with a country sanctioned by the US, further impoverishing the Global South.

When the US sanctions Russian commodities like food, oil and gas, it's the Global South that suffers as they try to replace cheap agricultural products and energy commodities from Russia with far more expensive American and European products.

The US is a great big engine of destruction. It's an empire of, by and for the Trans-Atlantic Capitalist Class. A hegemonic power that suppresses and oppresses working people across the globe.

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War Criminal Henry Kissinger’s Cambodia 🇰🇭 Legacy of Bombs and Chaos

When News of Henry Kissinger's Death Spread this Week, Many Disgusting Former World Leaders Lined up to Pay Tribute.

— By Ouch Sony & George Wright | BBC News | Phnom Penh & London

War Criminal, Most Disgusting, Boak Bollocks and Hell Bound 🔥 Henry Kissinger

Former US President War Criminal George W Bastard Bush said the US had "lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices on foreign affairs".

Former UK War Criminal Prime Minister Bloody British Bastard Tony Blair described the ex-US secretary of state as an artist of diplomacy, who was motivated by "a genuine love of the free world and the need to protect it". Boris Johnson called Kissinger "a giant of diplomacy and strategy - and peace-making".

But peacemaker is not a term you're likely to hear many in Cambodia use when describing Henry Kissinger.

During the Vietnam War War Criminals, Kissinger and then-President Richard Nixon ordered clandestine bombing raids on neutral Cambodia, in an effort to flush out Viet Cong forces in the east of country.

Altogether, the US dropped more than 2 Million Tons of Bombs on Cambodia from 1965-1973. For context, the Allies dropped just over 2 Million Tons of bombs during the whole of World War II, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Kissinger maintained that the bombing was aimed at the Vietnamese army inside Cambodia, not at the country itself.

Vorng Chhut Recalls People Being Killed By the War Criminal US Bombing

Vorng Chhut, 76, had never heard the name Henry Kissinger when bombs started dropping down on his village in Svay Rieng province, near the Vietnamese border.

"Nothing was left, not even the bamboo trees. People escaped, while those who stayed in the village died," he said. "A lot of people died, I can't count all their names. The bodies were swollen and when it became quiet, people would come and bury the bodies."

A 2006 Yale University report, Bombs Over Cambodia, stated that "Cambodia may be the most heavily bombed country in history".

A Pentagon report released in 1973 stated that "Kissinger approved each of the 3,875 Cambodia bombing raids in 1969 and 1970" as well as "the methods for keeping them out of the newspapers".

"It's an order, it's to be done. Anything that flies, on anything that moves. You got that?" Kissinger told a deputy in 1970, according to declassified transcripts of his telephone conversations.

The number of people killed by those bombs is not known, but estimates range from 50,000 to upwards of 150,000.

War Criminal US Dropped More Two Million Tons of Bombs on Cambodia 🇰🇭

One of the most notorious incidents was the accidental bombing of the small town of Neak Luong, where at least 137 Cambodians were killed and another 268 were wounded.

A New York Times report by Sydney Schanberg, who was later portrayed in the film the Killing Fields, quoted a man called Keo Chan, whose wife and 10 children had just been killed.

"All my family is dead!" he cried, beating his hand on the wooden bench where he had collapsed. "All my family is dead! Take my picture, take my picture! Let the Americans see me!"

Another man stood near an unexploded bomb in the town asked simply: "When are you Americans going to take it away?"

Unexploded American bombs littered the Cambodian countryside, maiming and killing people for decades to come.

Many also say that another consequence of Nixon and Kissinger's bombing campaign was that it helped pave the way for one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. Around 1.7 million people died at the hands of the Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979 - almost a quarter of the population.

An Estimated 1.7 Million Died Under Khmer Rouge Rule

Prior to that, the ultra-communists had little support, but its ranks grew as American bombs fell.

The CIA's director of operations reported in 1973 the Khmer Rouge forces were successfully "using damage by B-52 strikes as the main theme of their propaganda".

In 2009, the first Khmer Rouge official to be tried for crimes committed under the regime's reign of terror told the UN-backed court: "Mr Richard Nixon and Kissinger allowed the Khmer Rouge to grasp golden opportunities."

Kissinger always pushed back on criticism regarding the bombing of Cambodia.

"I just wanted to make clear that it was not a bombing of Cambodia, but it was a bombing of North Vietnamese in Cambodia," he said in 1973.

When he was 90, he claimed bombs were only dropped on areas "within five miles of the Vietnamese border that were essentially unpopulated".

Watergate Scandal Criminal Richard Nixon, Seeing Here Pointing at a Map of Cambodia 🇰🇭, and the War Criminal Kissinger Ordered Clandestine Bombing Raid on Cambodia.

Elizabeth Becker, an American journalist who covered the bombing campaign in 1973, said this was not the case.

"First you interviewed the refugees as they were coming away from the bombing, then you'd go to the bombing and there were moonscapes - you'd see the corpses of buffalo, you'd see houses burned, the rice fields gutted," she told the BBC.

"You saw the destruction and you thought: why was this modern air force bombing the countryside so much? In those days the farmers of Cambodia weren't even used to seeing motor vehicles, they routinely said to me: 'Why is fire falling from the sky?'"

Pen Yai, 78, cooperated with the Viet Cong inside Cambodia before the bombing started, but said large numbers of civilians were killed by American bombs, including his father and brother-in-law.

"I was so scared and could not sleep. People died everywhere. We just ran and recognised people who had been killed... we could not do anything," he said.

Many world leaders have praised Kissinger, who shared the 1973 Nobel peace prize for his role in negotiating an end to the Vietnam war and was later handed the Presidential Medal of Freedom - America's highest civilian award.

Prim Hen Says She is Still Angry at the War Criminal US to this Day

But few who were in Cambodia in the 1970s will remember his legacy fondly.

Prum Hen, 70, was forced to flee her village when American bombs started raining down. She said she knew little about Kissinger and felt little sympathy when informed of his death.

"Let him die because he killed a lot of our people," she said, adding that she still feels deep resentment towards the US.

"They bombed our country, killing a lot of people and separating people from their children. Later on, the Khmer Rouge killed husbands, wives and children."

Ms Becker said the gravity of Kissinger's policies in Cambodia cannot be understated.

"To say the bombing was imprecise... it was inhumane. It's not just the number of people, it's the legacy.

"You cannot exaggerate what it did to the country."

#Hell Bound 🔥 War Criminal Henry Kissinger #War Criminals Bush & Blair #Watergate Criminal Richard Nixon #Cambodia 🇰🇭 #Khmer Rouge

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“I'm not a fan of Andrew, but I'd rather have seen him at Order of the Garter service than that smirking war criminal Tony Blair. Nothing has nudged me towards supporting a republic more than the Queen giving that [choose your expletive] a knighthood.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Tony Blair did not save the royal family. He and his senior advisors saw the death of Diana as a way to weaken the monarchy and ultimately get rid of it. They used her death to stage a coup. They roused the public deliberately. Blair then backtracked supposedly cause he came to respect the Queen.

Anon, you're preaching to the choir.

The man is a despicable war criminal. May he fuck off and then fuck off some more. And fuck off a bit more after that.