Despite the International Criminal Court being created by the Rome Statute in 1994, here's why Israel and the US have never been held accountable for war crimes and why victims of Western wars will not likely see justice anytime soon🧵
#Gaza In 2002, the US passed the Hague Invasion Act that says the US can invade the Netherlands if the International Criminal Court tried to charge any American for war crimes.

4 million+ victims of the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen + more will go unpunished

🧵Jewish Chronicles Editor @PeterBeinart led a charge to get me, a Palestinian woman, canceled from hosting a BDS panel citing our heavily defaced @MintPressNews Wikipedia entry that is edited by the Israel lobby.

mintpressnews.com/peter-beinart-… I was invited to host and moderate a panel on October 9th hosted by Voices of the Holy Land featuring a screening of the documentary Boycott & to talk about how Palestinians are under increasing pressure to silence themselves when I was ironically removed from the panel.

Joe Biden called Putin a war criminal, yet Biden had no problem personally approving $735 million worth of missiles to Israel last May when it was bombing Gaza - the world's largest open air prison - targeting homes, schools, hospitals & journalists. On Yemen, the world's worst humanitarian crisis where Saudi Arabia regularly bombs residential homes and school buses carrying children, Biden personally approved $650 million worth of air to air missiles to Saudi Arabia in his first term after vowing to end the war.

In 2002, the US passed the Hague Invasion Act that says the US can invade the Netherlands if the International Criminal Court tried to charge any American for war crimes.

4 million victims of the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen + more will go unpunished. Recall how Mike Pompeo threatened ICC staff if they opened an investigation into US war crimes in Afghanistan & into "top ally" Israel.

You're not doing yourself any favors by turning to Western mainstream corporate media as your source of news on the Ukraine Russia crisis when outlets & pundits paid for by Lockheed Martin & Raytheon spent the last decade manufacturing consent for a Cold War against Russia. Silicon Valley - Big Tech social media giants are part of the ideological apparatus of the surveillance capitalist state working directly with the CIA & NATO funded think tanks like the Atlantic Council to control your newsfeed.

Meaning, Propaganda is prioritized.

Since Joe Biden became president, the US has shipped three consignments of arms to Ukraine, adding to the $2 billion of security assistance the US has extended to Ukraine since 2014.
mintpressnews.com/russiagate-ukr… NATO has been saber rattling along Russia's borders to new levels since Joe Biden took office:

The US has deployed nuclear-capable B-1 bombers to Norway for the first time in NATO’s history. This year’s NATO war exercises include US-led Rapid Trident and Sea Breeze +

I'm in Caracas, Venezuela as an independent journalist to observe the Presidential elections with delegates from all around the world. I'm representing the United States and also the only hijabbi ✊
Will be posting live updates on their Democratic electoral process @MintPressNews I'm accompanied by over 300 election observers from 55 countries. #Venezuela

Julian Assange is being targeted for exposing crimes committed against humanity by the US Empire & corruption of the ruling class 1% class. It's not just Assange who is in court, but our right to know is being criminalized.

So what exactly did he bring to light? [Thread] 🧵 In 2009, Assange exposed how weeks before the US invasion of Iraq, Hillary Clinton ordered US diplomats to spy on UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon & other UN reps from China, France, Russia & UK by obtaining DNA, iris scans, fingerprints & passwords part of illegal surveillance+

Before the US occupied Afghanistan the CIA was grooming extremist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who the CIA described as the most effective killer of communists.

They pumped him w $1 billion worth of weapons to arm mujahideen, who also made throwing acid at female students daily occurance By January 1980, the CIA was shipping at least 16 tons of guns, grenades and mines to Pakistan’s intelligence who delivered the armaments to Afghan "rebels" - aka mujahideen.

Just a friendly reminder that the Obama administration awarded Erik Prince's Academi (formerly Blackwater) a $250 million contract to work for the State Department and CIA in Afghanistan, privatizing the war. ( THREAD ) In May of this year, the Department of Defense reported that it employs more than 16,000 private contractors in Afghanistan, and yet they "exist unaccounted"

[THREAD] These are the faces and names of those massacred by Israel in Gaza today

#SayTheirNames #humanizePalestinians

1) Mustafa Muhammad Abaid - age 17 2) Yazan Sultan Attallah al-Masri
- age 1

We are witnessing another social media purge of alternative media, journalists, doctors & laywers under the guise of protecting the public from false information about covid-19 -- all with the public's consent bc they're paralyzed with fear.

This is censorship. If you have care for your first amendment rights & Free speech, you should be outraged because this is how information is controlled by the ruling class. We can tell ourselves we are free all day long but in reality every piece of information that is allowed on social media +

Where is your outrage for the bipartisan war machine?

$2.7 Billion per day. That’s how much the US will spend next year to prop up the military & 800+ bases it maintains in over 70 countries. US military drops a bomb every 12 min on nations most Americans can't find on a map 👇 That money is more than enough to pay for 4 yrs of college for every college student in this country, to fund food stamps & other social safety nets that help our most vulnerable including our veterans & to fund programs that would cut fossil-fuel emissions by 40 percent by 2035.

(THREAD) W/out providing any sub evidence, the disinformation campaign is moving into high gear to manufacture consent for US war w/ Iran over burning Saudi oil fields. But what if I told you Iran offers a convenient scapegoat after Houthis exposed weakness of US military might? Saudi &US military analysts have presented satellite images of where the missiles landed in the oil fields, purporting to show that the drones/missiles came from the direction of Iran. However, some experts are already countering these claims +

#NeverForget that the death of nearly 3,000 American lives lost on 9/11 was used to justify the mass murder of nearly 4 million Muslims in Iraq & Afghanistan -- two countries that had nothing to do with 9/11 -- under War on Terror (thread) #NeverForget that War on Terror was used as a launch pad to increase US military presence across 80 countries or 40% of the nations on this planet -- to build a military empire.

My long awaited #HongKong report is here!
[THREAD] The West has more to do with the Hong Kong protest movement than it would like us to know. It’s the ugly face of Washington’s long-standing foreign policy directed at destabilizing one of its long-standing economic foes: China. It's out in plain sight: Hong Kong protesters are openly calling on the US to intervene & liberate Hong Kong as they wave the stars & stripes. Others broke into the Hong Kong state legislature and hung the colonial United Kingdom flag+