good point. 1.5 ºC of heating is already “committed” from historical emissions b/c hysteresis in climate & attendant ecosystems (eg Amazon is now a net emitter not sink coral reef decline → trophic sea-life decline → less sink) also coal today emits >0.2 ºC of cooling SLCP.

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opini…

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Australians are not anti Semitic. The majority have zero problems with Jews. I have absolutely zero problems with Jews. I, like the overwhelming majority of Australians have a problem with Butcher Netanyahu and his butchering, murderous, tyrannical, genocidal regime. That’s where Jews world wide need to look to for the reasons why they are receiving so much hate. Blame the government of Israel. Not anti Semitism.

One of the most terrifying attacks carried out by Israel, where it completely destroyed the Mashteha Tower within a matter of seconds, as it is considered one of the largest and most beautiful towers in Gaza, and houses thousands of families living in it, despite the thousands of tents that were located on every side of this tower, aircraft launched no less than 6 deadly missiles that resulted in thousands of lethal shrapnel fragments, which led to the destruction of thousands of tents that were the only shelter for the families. This is not just a war, this is genocide.

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Trump is unlikely to resume 'Project Freedom' after three US Navy destroyers came under heavy attack by subsonic Iranian cruise missiles on Monday just like the USS Abraham Lincoln did on the first day of the war and had to use their Phalanx point defense system to shoot them down at point blank range. What most people don't realize is that Iran has yet to employ their supersonic and hypersonic antiship missiles and if they had wanted our three destroyers sunk they could have sunk them in the Persian Gulf very easily. Those slow missiles were Iran's equivalent of warning shots to give them a chance to vacate the Persian Gulf and yesterday they did. Iran's leaders are far from crazy but instead are acting with restraint showing they have escalation dominance over the US without actually escalating indicating they are sincere in wanting peace if Trump agrees to let them maintain control of the Persian Gulf and continue low level enrichment following a five-year suspension period.

El embajador del régimen sionista israelí en Dinamarca protestó por la difusión de este vídeo. Hagámoslo viral escribiendo un punto para romper con el algoritmo. Genocidas, llenos odio, contra las familias Palestinas que protestan contra la destrucción de sus propiedades

One part of the travesty of the Filton 6 actionists’ trial and retrial that has received less attention but is very important: Rajiv Menon, King’s Council, barrister for a member of the Filton 6, is being persecuted on a wholly unprecedented charge of contempt of court, carrying a punishment of up to two years imprisonment, for mentioning legal history and principles of law that allow juries to make independent decisions on conscience that Judge Johnson ruled out. In the first trial’s closing statement to the jury, Menon pointed out the case that established this principle from 1670 and quoted the public plaque outside the Old Bailey (the central court in London) commemorating the case. He also reminded the jurors six times that the judge could not direct them to convict. The jury exonerated all the defendants in that first trial. Now they have been retried and convicted on some charges. It sounds like Rajiv Menon is being punished for being extremely good at his job and for explaining the actual law relevant to the rights of the jury that this establishment judge close to the UK police and security services unethically suppressed to secure a political conviction to protect Elbit Systems. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Judge Johnson set up the rules and judgments precisely to engineer a conviction to circumvent the propensity of juries to acquit actionists. Then he plans to sentence them under extremely harsh terrorism laws by manipulating unjustly what jurors could know. Rajiv Menon initially disrupted that plan in the first trial. So now the judge and state are going after him. We must support Rajiv Menon, a fantastic and principled barrister, and the actionists against the UK state’s punitive crackdown on those using democratic rights to protest and stop the Israeli arms industry from facilitating war crimes, illegal occupation and genocide. The corrupt and complicit political establishment in the UK has shown themselves willing to evacuate rights to free speech and assembly, jury trials, press freedom and a host of democratic rights for all citizens simply to protect Israel’s impunity and their own complicity in the genocide. Support Rajiv Menon for defending pro-Palestine actionists and condemn what the UK courts and injustice system have done to jury trials and democratic rights!

One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants. Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict. Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences. Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670? It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide. Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-…

If anyone on the left talked about Jews and Israel the way Melanie Phillips talks about Palestinians and Palestine, they would be investigated by the police for hate speech and would never see the inside of a television or radio studio ever again.

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Wait till you hear what BHP has been doing to whistleblower Simon Turner for years - all designed to cover up the $Billions BHP stole from its workers! Oh wait…hasn’t Michael West Media been exposing that story? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. #WhistleBlowersAreHeroes

ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou @nicopaulmichel has revealed that he is currently unable to use his bank cards even on European soil. The reason? He is one of the judges who issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading the United States to slap him

What Gaza taught me about human beings is that people can remain profoundly beautiful even inside unimaginable suffering. I was working in resuscitation bays so hot that sweat would drip off my arms while we worked on children torn apart by bombs. And still, families would tap me on the shoulder to hand me water. The cook at the hospital learned that I loved fried eggplant. Whenever he made it, he would come find me somewhere in the hospital, sometimes in the middle of chaos, just to hand me one small piece because he knew it made me happy. People who had lost almost everything still wanted to take care of someone else. Sometimes a person would simply take my hand and quietly walk with me to sit down for a moment so we could just exist together as human beings for a minute before going back into the horror. And one moment will stay with me forever. I told a father that I was American. That my country had paid for the bombs that killed his child. And instead of anger, he hugged me. He rejected the idea that I carried personal blame for what had happened to him. He gave me kindness at the exact moment when I felt least deserving of it. I went to Gaza thinking I was going there to help people survive genocide. Instead, they helped me survive it too. Gaza showed me something devastating and beautiful about humanity itself. That even surrounded by death, grief, fear, hunger, destruction, people still reached toward each other. Still shared food.Still offered comfort.Still protected tenderness. And to walk away from that was much harder than I ever imagined. –doctormarkbrauner/IG

Deux enfants — âgés de 4 et 5 ans — enlevés par des soldats israéliens. Le journaliste: pourquoi vous arrêtez des enfants sans présence d’un adulte ? Le soldat : vas t’en, circulez y a rien à voir

Jillian Segal wants decent Australians that care about people in Gaza to be labeled antisemitic, it’s disgusting. Sack her now @AlboMP

Nick Hanna: "If the AFP have resources to investigate countless number of Australian's engaged in non-violent protest, why can't they investigate Australian's in the IDF, who I think are fairly suspected of committing the crime of all crimes - and that is the crime of GENOCIDE?"

What the Antisemitism Enquiry WON'T be reading out

A lesson on social democracy that is not from a lying billionaire.

Palestine, Gaza. If you see this photo, put a dot to break the algorithm.