Eamonn Noonan

Social engineering in the neoliberal era.

This is one of the historical events covered by PalQuest’s Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, whose chronology extends well beyond contemporary history. Explore it in English and Arabic: www.palquest.org/en/overallch...

Also a famous pun to describe British General Napier’s conquest of Sindh in 1843. But the story that he sent this as a one word telegram is an invention.

“The super-rich benefit at both ends of the crisis: first, through continued investment in polluting industries, and second, through investment in the booming ‘adaptation economy’ – recovery and rebuilding services are sold back to a warming world.” Burdens for you, benefits for me. Sustainable?

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How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear bbc.com/future/artic...

UK Bell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not Antisemitism | Israel Palestine News #palestine #israelpalestinenews

The best footballer in the world is rated 1500 at chess! 😱 Congrats on the Ballon d'Or, Harry Kane 🏆

Nice guys sometimes finish first. #coys

The Report itself - another meticulously documented catalogue of the widespread grave and systematic abuses - is a horrifying read. Unfathomable that the EU still refuses to face the fact that these crimes necessitate the suspension of the EU-Israel Trade agreement. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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I genuinely couldn’t believe that Trump would say this. Assumed it was a fake. But he did. The clip is online. Should go down well in Minnesota.

#Beoga 'Enough for me' youtu.be/tVtribzWPhw?...

🧵: so many things to fix.

The world right now feels like when I went down to LA to deal with my childhood bedroom after the earthquake. Everything formerly meaningful is in a pile on the floor and it's, OK, what's neither shameful nor broken beyond repair, and worth taking into the future, except it's every institution.

Lula wins fourth term as Brazil president after historic upset over far-right Flávio Bolsonaro

🇧🇷 #Brazil's President Luiz Inacio #Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term on Sunday, the country's electoral court said. The shock result defied polls to put the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across #LatinAmerica. Watch to learn more ⤵️

Brasilien drohte mit Bolsonaro ein Präsident, der die Demokratie zertrümmern wollte. Aber Lula gelang die Wende. Sein Sieg zeigt, wie sich Rechtsextreme schlagen lassen.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Ausführliches Interview mit dem israelischen Holocaust- und Genozidforscher @omerbartov.bsky.social über die israelische Gesellschaft, Israels Völkermord an den Palästinensern, Deutschlands Mitschuld und Sanktionen. bsky.app/profile/omer...

While Ireland is at risk from the impending bursting of the AI bubble, it has not benefitted much from AI's growth. The investment happening here is producing little that can be taxed, and few jobs. It's virtually all cost and no benefit to us as a country. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

West Bank…

A 🧵 on the banality of evil, USA 2026.

Why is a “Vote MAGA” channel still allowed to call itself a news channel?

“Trump reacts to pressure, not flattery.”

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

Still doing business with settlements in Palestine: Airbnb, Booking[dot]com, Expedia, TripAdviser and Re/Max. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Shocking

None of these fatalities are reported by the BBC. It does report on two Israeli casualties elsewhere in Palestine today.

The 2026 palace coup is far better prepared and far more threatening than the failed palace coup of 2020.

Dónal Lunny: 'it would be difficult to identify another figure who has had such a pivotal and influential role in shaping and developing folk and trad'. Tribute by Niall Keegan @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Or vice versa.

“By the spring of 2018, MBZ had also put roughly $1 billion for Kushner into a second account at Israel’s Central Bank—at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s urging. Unlike the political slush fund, Kushner’s activity in this account indicated that it was for his personal use.”

According to The Economist, the proposed US peace plan: * Ukraine would renounce NATO * The Donbas would become a Russian demilitarized zone * Ukraine would get investments/membership in the EU but no security guarantees * No more Russian sanctions * Russian gas to Europe Putin gets everything.

Even Michael Walzer now calls Israel’s war on Gaza a “criminal effort” and says, “I was certainly slow to see that.”

“Gaza’s children are trying to recover their childhoods, to find some routine and stability in their young lives, which for too many have again been cut short. A ceasefire that does not protect children has failed them.” - UNICEF MENA's Edouard Beigbeder Full statement: https://unicef.link/4iajOOi

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A Somali Minnesotan saved 20 children when the school bus driver suffered a medical emergency. "I really felt like it was my duty," Ebro Ahmed,27. "it’s kids we’re talking about, you know. Even if I were to die, it would still be worth it." Remember when a racist tries to defame an entire group.

Conservative US Christians: Jesus didn’t really mean “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

International Criminal Court wins EU's 2026 Sakharov prize reut.rs/4Bmgb0v

#Palestine Interdiction de vente des livres de Sally Rooney : 160 personnalités, dont Annie Ernaux, dénoncent une "censure" www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

"Education secretary Lucy Powell announces a crackdown on pro-Palestine speech & activism of teachers & pupils. Powell is a long-time member of the ‘Labour Friends of Israel’" www.facebook.com/groups/DEMSO... "Burnham govt declares war on pro-Palestine pupils, teachers" skwawkbox.org/2026/10/21/b...

EXCLUSIVE: The International Criminal Court, sanctioned by the Trump administration, has won this year’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.

I was today years old when I learned what my old school’s motto meant.

viriliter age - "Act manfully" or "Act Courageously" #quotebot