C. J. Fitzpatrick

C. J. Fitzpatrick

@cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social

Irish writer & environmental strategist in the US linking the struggles of human rights, imperial fallout, and the defense of the natural world informed by years lived in Russia, the UK, and Europe✍️ | Substack: https://lifeundersiege.substack.com/

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Governments can't keep "promising to protect nature while supporting its destruction through harmful subsidies and incoherent policies," said a Greenpeace campaigner as COP17 began in Yerevan. "Any more delay is a threat to our survival on the planet."

commondreams.orgAs Biodiversity Summit Begins, 'Systems That Sustain Life on Earth Are Under Threat'Governments can't keep "promising to protect nature while supporting its destruction through harmful subsidies and incoherent policies," said one campaigner. "Any more delay is a threat to our survival on the planet."

Sanctioning the ICC is Mafia state behavior, and a government asserting dominion over everyone else. Trump, Rubio & Hegseth have participated in Israel's genocide and are responsible for the killing of 150 schoolgirls in Iran, yet believe they are above the law. This pushes allies & the dollar away.

Navi Pillay, a former ICC judge & UN human rights chief who led the UN inquiry that found Israel committed genocide in Gaza, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu & Rubio are rattled so she's a worthy winner! I've criticised past winners, but in a bleak world it's important to acknowledge a win 🕊️

If Israel wasn't involved, this would be called Espionage.

The false flag staged by the unholy trinity of the US, UK, and Israel produced nothing, with no explosives found and every "suspect" released on bail despite a 14-day detention limit.

@billmckibben.bsky.social I sat in affluent rooms with Hurst & Nakagawa last week, aghast not at their data center propaganda, which I expected, but at the oohs & aahs at every talking point. What use are sustainability professionals if all they do is applaud the bullshit they’re paid to challenge?

commondreams.orgWelcome to the Plunderdome: How Big Tech Sold Out Its Climate Pledges to Power AI | Common Dreams​Amazon and the rest of the once aspirationally green tech industry are adding 19th-century smoking chimneys to their facilities in order to churn out more Compute, the 21st century equivalent of wool...

The climate space is still full of disingenuous assholes like Spiritus founder Charles Cadieu, whose motivation seems to have been profit, never climate solutions. Instead of doing the honorable thing and shutting down, he now helps produce more fossil fuels, yet is given a platform at NYCW.

It's crystal clear now that joining the US military means dying for Israel, the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry, the tech bro oligarchy and the Epstein class.

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Former Green Beret tells me how the Iran war has destroyed morale within the military. "Folks don't want to do a career in the military any longer. We have an all-volunteer force with the buy-in of a conscript army."

@news.sky.com Kamali Melbourne was an absolute disgrace while interviewing Chris Bryant. It was very clear he had been tasked with inflaming emotions and went after an elected leader supporting her constituents in first minister Michelle O'Neill on numerous occasions.

I am so sick of the prevailing narrative around the Irish football team, that ‘it should never have been their choice to make’. As if any grown man wants other grown men making decisions for them, let alone men as weak, corrupt and inept as the Football Association of Ireland (FAI). 1/4

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In doing so, she provided comfort to Nelson Mandela as he sat in prison. Her colleagues walked out in solidarity with her. They endured years of hardship, loss of pay, and uncertainty because they knew that complicity was unacceptable. 3/4

I am so sick of the prevailing narrative around the Irish football team, that ‘it should never have been their choice to make’. As if any grown man wants other grown men making decisions for them, let alone men as weak, corrupt and inept as the Football Association of Ireland (FAI). 1/4

Mary Manning was just a 21 year old Dunnes Stores worker on Henry Street in Dublin. She wasn’t a politician and she wasn’t a millionaire athlete. She was an ordinary young woman who recognizing her own people’s history of apartheid and subjugation simply refused to be complicit. 2/4

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This is your periodic reminder that by far the #1 source of “fake news” in the US is #trump and his press secretaries, with #Hegseth and #RFKJr in a relentless competition for 2nd place.

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The complicity is undeniable. "Germany and the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel... They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons killing Palestinians." - UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Ben Saul

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Netanyahu has said he will strip Israeli Citizenship for anyone who exposes Israeli War Crimes. Like the video released of the IDF gang raping a prisoner. Of course there will be no mention of this in Western Media or by our politicians.

And much respect to Beoga, an Irish trad band accustomed to playing in small venues and pubs with so much to gain from a stadium tour, but not at the expense of their morality. 🇵🇸

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Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham have a fraction of the fame, wealth, and influence of Ed Sheeran. Yet today, they showed they are so much more than him. They stood by their principles, their dignity, and the people of Palestine enduring genocide by Israel. 🇵🇸 🍉 #FreePalestine

Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham have a fraction of the fame, wealth, and influence of Ed Sheeran. Yet today, they showed they are so much more than him. They stood by their principles, their dignity, and the people of Palestine enduring genocide by Israel. 🇵🇸 🍉 #FreePalestine

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Top gig last night by a man whose morality and humanity stand apart in the world of showbiz. Macklemore has been vocal from the start and continues to lead by example. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Ed Sheeran has never been apolitical. He attends Kneecap concerts and brought Macklemore on tour knowing exactly what he was going to say. Ed Sheeran just let better men do the talking for him, and when the heat got too hot, he turned into a sniveling little coward, choosing money over humanity.

Land of the free supposedly! Does the First Amendment not cover Macklemore? I've said it before and I'll say it again, that Israel is the greatest threat to free speech globally! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

Giuliani, Bloomberg, and their allies prioritized reopening Wall Street, allowing more New Yorkers to suffer and die than in the attack itself.

These records prove what families and first responders have long known: City government knew the conditions around Ground Zero were dangerous — yet lied to New Yorkers.

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Ed Miliband’s statement on Israel is only a first step. We need to go further: a full ban on goods, services & investment. Labour is still shamefully refusing to recognise the Gaza genocide. We must have a full arms embargo, full sanctions & an end to military collaboration.

For now, the UK's sanctions on Israel remain performative Kabuki theatre. Bloomberg reports UK diplomats privately told the US they are symbolic & Reuters notes the trade impact will be minimal. While welcome, much more is needed, beginning with Burnham calling Israel's crimes in Gaza a genocide!

The intellectual's role is "to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma, and to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations." Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual (1994)

reuters.comUS House passes bill to crack down on university boycotts of IsraelThe U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to block federal aid for universities that boycott Israel, the latest Republican-backed ​pro-Israel measure amid growing Democratic cri...

As JD Vance & Peter Thiel push a distorted theology to hasten the 'end times,' the Pope, God's representative on Earth has had to remind these extremists of a fundamental truth - that life is a divine gift meant to be lived abundantly, through love, peace, and care for both humanity and the planet 🕊️

vatican.vaMessage of the Holy Father on the occasion of the 11th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation [1 September 2026] (15 August 2026)MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 11 th WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION 2026 [1 st of September 2026] [ Multimedia ] _______________________

The American tradition of bombing Middle East weddings, which was the hallmark of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama's presidency, is alive and well under the FIFA Peace Prize winner.

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What do we know about the fatal US bombing of a wedding in Iran’s Sirik? https://aje.news/07ilr1

It's still both mind-blowing and extremely sad to me that there are people in the realm of conservation, science and environmentalism that think mass slaughter of innocent animals is acceptable and the best we can come up with. I don't know how the people behind this plan can sleep at night.

nytimes.comA Plan to Eradicate the Deer on Catalina Island Will Proceed, Organizers SayAfter a judge issued a tentative ruling on a legal challenge Tuesday, the Catalina Island Conservancy said that it would begin the first phase of its plan to kill nearly all of the 2,000 deer on the C...

It must be an exhausting existence for the American citizen, rising each day knowing the Chinese mock them, children in Gaza seek their demise, Cubans are bankrolling radical social agendas, and the Iranians hired John Wick to assassinate their president. It is truly a marvel how they endure.

RIP Wendell.

C. J. Fitzpatrick@cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, […] I come into the peace of wild things” Wendell Berry, 'The Peace of Wild Things' 🦋🐝

Andy Burnham's comments today saying that a referendum on Irish unity is "off the table" are no surprise. He is just the latest unelected leader, handpicked to look after the interests of the dwindling British empire at home, and his bosses in Washington & Tel Aviv abroad. 1/2

It is also another example of the complete disregard of international law by the so-called civilized West, who cherry-pick democracy when it suits them. The Good Friday Agreement guarantees a referendum and the people of Ireland have a right to self-determination! Tiocfaidh ár lá. 2/2