#Netanyahu also stressed the need to achieve a peace agreement w/ #SaudiArabia, citing the experience of the #AbrahamAccords.

“I say to you, what blessing such a peace w/ Saudi Arabia would bring – it would be a boon to the #security & #economy of our 2 countries, it would boost trade & tourism across the region, it would help transform the #MiddleEast into a global juggernaut,” he said.

#Israel #UNGA #UN #geopolitics #war #Gaza #Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis

Benjamin #Netanyahu, prime minister of #Israel, is speaking at the #UNGA.

He says that he didn’t intend to come this year, but after he heard the “lies & slander” levelled at Israel he decided to come & “set the record straight.”

“Israel seeks peace, Israel yearns for peace,” he said, adding that Israel must defend itself against “savage murderers.”

Netanyahu speaks of the “curse” of October 7 & the atrocities committed that day.

#UN #geopolitics #war #Gaza #Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis

#Netanyahu insisted that #Israel doesn’t want to see a single innocent person die.

“No army has done what Israel is doing to minimize civilian casualties: we drop fliers, we send text messages, we make phone calls by the millions to ensure that #Palestinian #civilians get out of harm’s way,” he said.

Netanyahu spent a large portion of his speech criticizing the #UN, angrily accusing the members of hypocrisy & #antisemitism.

#UNGA #geopolitics #war #Gaza #Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis

Blame Capitalism: because it doesn’t care about trust because it removes choice and strangles competition.

abc.net.au/news/2024-09-26/acc…

#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar #economics #bosses #workers #humanrights #environment #war #BlameCapitalism #poverty

ACCC report finds Australians have lost trust in supermarkets as it focuses on Coles and Woolworths' market power and barriers to entry

A new report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has found many Australians have lost trust in supermarkets as it investigates the mega grocers' market power and potential barriers to entry in the sector.

^{Lucia Stein (ABC News)}

I am a child of refugees, from a country divided by war, and colonised for centuries. My heart is wired to break and ache for every victim of military aggression.

Even those who survive will carry such a heavy trauma and burden.

Please speak up for peace. In Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza, Lebanon, everywhere.

#peace #refugees #war

#Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to #Gaza, Two #Government Bodies Concluded.

Antony Blinken Rejected Them.
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Blinken told #Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the #law.

#News #Palestine #HumanitarianAid #Biden #Blinken #War

propublica.org/article/gaza-pa…

Blinken Rejected Officials Who Concluded Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza.

Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had determined that Israel had broken the law.

^ProPublica

The "defense" budget of the US empire could be slashed by at least 80 or 90% with no risk to the safety of most citizens. The only ones hurt would be military contractors, their lobbyists, and all the politicians who get paid by them.

That would be a start, but there’s so much more that needs to be done.

We will have to break our fossil fuel addiction within the next five years. Stop making plastics. End capitalism. Feed the starving. House the refugees.

If we manage to do all this, we *might* get lucky and have a billion humans still alive by the end of the century.

Sorry to be so bleak, but that’s what I see.

#USA #War #Economics #Environment #Climate #Degrowth