[dilftorturer]

any criticism that was thrown at qatar in 2022 should be thrown a million-fold at the us. i say qatar in particular because the same people who called for a boycott of the 2022 wc are the ones completely silent over the fact that the us is an imperialist settler colony that should be boycotted regardless of the event. the us bombs children and it's fine to cheer for men kicking ball. yeah alright

[dilftorturer]

"qatar does human trafficking" so does the us "qatar used slave labor" so does the us "qatar has a repressive regime" so does the us and it impacts the entire globe "qatar violates human rights" it's easier to make a list of the times the us hasn't violated human rights and that list is a blank sheet of paper

[phobic-human]

Seen at a café in Athens, Greece.

[halfwar-halfpeace]

[roscolux]

you will see something that the us military has done and it will be the most horrifying thing in the world. something that should be the catalyst for a complete upheaval of the system, for riots in the streets, for national mourning periods and rewritten textbooks and decades of reparations. and the whole time it's just a normal day for them. they did something like it yesterday and they'll do it again tomorrow. the lucky ones even get to come home and spend the rest of their lives getting discounts at the movies and applause at baseball games. and if you try to express any this to the average person irl they will act like you shot their dog in front of them

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[base-and-superstructure]

Just saw a petition in a group chat about "don't bring ICE to Europe!" and I felt insane for a minute. We already have militarised borders and concentration camps for migrants and we let people die in the sea and we banish people to unfamiliar countries and we brutalise them and we terrorise them and we detain and deport them!! The UK and the EU are not the liberal paradises we pretend they are!! Our borders kill people!! We don't need a petition to keep US violence away, we need to organise against the European violence we already have!!

[deadbirds-and-daydreams]

The amount of pictures of people dying in boats trying to get to europe. and the amount of few survivors who then get denied put into prisons (remembering the harlem panopticon where we put immigrants for a while. and i do mean like an actual literal panopticon.) or camps and then send back. and why? because some europeans are so fucking racist and xenophobics theyd rather see their fellow men die than to have absolutely nothing change in their lifes to help these people survive. Words will never be enough to explain my rage for how EU has treated people like absolute fucking cattle. all my life the news here. the politicians. the US is a shithole. the EU is a shithole but tries a lot harder to hide it. theres so much blood on these hands. its sickening.

[dykepuffs]

I keep remembering that fucking post about "Uwu look at Europe's beautiful open borders!!!!" With pictures of a little boundary stone in a field in Belgium or a line painted on a road in Luxembourg, that was circulating around the same time as yet another overloaded boat had been turned back by Greek or Italian coastguards in the middle of the Mediterranean and the International Community(TM) had collectively shrugged when bits of it started washing up in the Greek islands.

The way that Europe has sold itself as such a fluffy woo Good Vibes Only Continent should be studied.

[bmoreisapunkrocktown]

I just want to add this, because I think it's immensely important in these conversations and because it took me 45 minutes to track it down.

How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa

The European Union is militarizing Africa's internal borders to curb migration, with little regard for human rights.

[tearsofrefugees]

Hundreds of migrants are vanishing in the Mediterranean. Authorities are withholding information

The beginning of 2026 ranks as the deadliest start to any year for people trying to cross the Mediterranean. But the true count may be even

[iteration-dave]

"Human rights groups are increasingly struggling to verify tolls as Italy, Tunisia and Malta have quietly restricted information on migrant rescues and shipwrecks along the deadliest migration route in the world. The news barely makes headlines, in part because the lack of transparency prevents journalists from confirming reports.

“It’s a strategy of silence,” said Matteo Villa, a researcher focusing on migration and data at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies think tank."

[theinklingofcats]

The Associated Press repeatedly asked authorities in Tunisia, Italy and Malta why they aren’t sharing information related to migrant rescues at sea and what their policies are. Not one responded.

[occidentalist]

I try not to talk to USAmerican liberals too much on principle but it is striking whenever I do because like. U all do realise the worst thing about your current administration is like. All the people they’re murdering right. Not that The Big Cheeto is #embarrassing you on the global stage. You all do that very well on your own every day

[tajrishgp]

Azerbaijan Destroys Armenian Holy Mother of God Church in Artsakh

Satellite imagery confirms that the regime demolished the church in Artsakh’s former capital city of Stepanakert.

The sustained threats to Armenian religious and cultural heritage across Artsakh (also known as Nagorno-Karabakh) have reached a new level following reports that the Azerbaijani regime has razed another prominent church in the region. Satellite imagery obtained by Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW) confirmed that the Holy Mother of God Church, which stood in the former capital city of Stepanakert, was demolished within the last eight weeks. The Artsakh Tourism and Cultural Development Agency shared the news of the church’s destruction on social media on Tuesday, April 21, only three days before the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Though the agency did not share photos of the demolition in its notice, CHW’s researchers were able to pinpoint supporting photographic evidence within a day by pulling images from the Sentinel-2 satellite from March 3 and April 2. [...]

Satellite imagery depicts the changes to the landscape where the Holy Mother of God Church stood in Stepanakert. (image courtesy Caucasus Heritage Watch)

[skotoseme]

Artsakh's churches destroyed amid peace talks

Azerbaijan has demolished Stepanakert’s Holy Mother of God Cathedral, the second church destroyed in one week, as the cultural genocide targ

Destruction of Stepanakert cathedral raises fears of systematic cultural erasure

YEREVAN — A few days before the 111th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, a new act of destruction has drawn sharp condemnation from cul

[marxismopportunism]

[tearsofrefugees]

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon

Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

[hagiomoto]

I wanted to point out that both Google and Apple have already erased the names of those villages from Lebanon’s maps, and they should be held in contempt for it.

[hagiomoto]

PayPal is driving another dagger into the backs of Palestinians.

[stoptheantisemitism]

We need a global registry of anyone who has ever joined the IDF. I would want to know if I'm living near someone who thought it was okay to shoot a child in the head. I wouldn't necessarily feel safe being near someone who thinks it's okay to kill civilians or blow up their homes while they're asleep.

[jltejo]

Leila Khaled wearing a keffiyeh while visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in 1970. Harry Koundakjian/AP.

[tajrishgp]

[hafizevna]

hi, can you please explain what you meant by “if russia is your enemy in this war you are lost”? i’m not asking this to start a fight or anything, i’m genuinely curious and want to learn more <3

Because Ukraine started it, eleven years ago, when they attacked their own cities with missiles, and again in 2022 when they cried crocodile tears after ignoring a highly publicised treaty the government of the Russian Federation made with the government of my ‘country’, the Donetsk People’s Republic, and our sister nation, the Lugansk People’s Republic. A treaty which, amongst other things, established that should Ukraine continue to break the established ceasefire, Russia would intervene on our behalf. And Ukraine did break the ceasefire, in mere days after the deal was signed they attacked civilian water facilities in the D.P.R and cut off water access to over a quarter of a million people, along with other attacks on civilian infrastructure. Ukraine is a ethnonationalist fascist state with Neo-Nazis at every level of governance, and for the past eleven years it’s sole focus has been making the lives of Ukraine’s national minorities, especially the lives of those of us in the East, untenable, all while selling off our country to the highest bidder.

[hafizevna]

I cannot stress enough to people outside of the region that recognising the D.P.R and L.P.R was meant to be a measure of de-escalation.

Kiev deploys 120,000 military forces on Donbas' border: Donetsk

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk Republic stresses that the recent military supplies that have arrived in Ukraine encourage th

Russian State Duma recognizes Lugansk, Donetsk

Lugansk and Donetsk declared their independence on May 12, 2014.

Lugansk: Suburbs shelled in Ukrainian military assaults overnight

Tensions have peaked in eastern Ukraine as Ukrainian security forces shelled the territory of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic.

Donetsk announces mass evacuation, cites threat of Ukraine invasion

DPR President Denis Pushilin announces that his country has started withdrawing its citizens to Russia, prioritizing women, children, and el

Russia launches criminal case over Ukraine shelling of Rostov

Russia initiates a criminal case over Ukraine shelling Rostov, and Kiev denies such "attack" on Russian territories.

Putin signs decrees on recognizing Donetsk and Lugansk republics

Putin also signed with the leaders of the DPR and LPR the treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual aid

No full-blown war with Ukraine as long as it depends on Russia — senior MP

Deputy Speaker of the Russian Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev encouraged Western countries to stop fomenting tensions in the region

After recognizing DPR, LPR, Russia won’t allow new victims in Donbass, speaker assures

Earlier, the Federation Council unanimously ratified agreements on friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance with the DPR and LPR

Speaker says recognizing Donbass’ independence should end bloodshed, deaths of civilians

Vyacheslav Volodin noted that Russia had been trying to get Ukraine to implement the Minsk accords for a long time, but "Kiev made them null

Recognition of Donbass and warning to Kiev — Putin’s address to nation

Putin said that the recognition of DPR’s and LPR’s sovereignty was a "long-pending decision" and asked the parliament to support it as well

[hafizevna]

Anyone who tells you that this war is random, or unprovoked, or just because Putin is a big meanie who wants an empire is lying to you. This is possibly the most provoked war of the 21st century, not even taking into account that 23% of people living in the D.P.R and L.P.R were literal Russian citizens.

[hafizevna]

Sigh this post is breaking containment so here is a list of over 40 English language non-Russian resources on Donbass

[hagiomoto]

What Zionists think is happening to them is actually happening to Muslims worldwide. Muslims outside majority-Muslim countries continue to be harassed and stalked, and their mosques are being vandalized.

When are people going to realize this?

[hagiomoto]

Mosques in Japan are being vandalized, Muslims are being lynched in broad daylight in India, and Muslim women are being harassed in Europe. Are you going to speak out about this out of a sense of shared humanity, or do you think we deserve it because you see our religion as barbaric?