Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
This article is republished from the Skwawkbox because they say it so well.
As expected, Keir Starmer has announced his resignation as the worst prime minister in modern British history.
One whose only ‘successes’ have been on behalf of billionaires and the genocidal colony. Who waged war on our rights and helped spill the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents. All to serve the interests of Israel and a club of billionaires who want each of us at their mercy.
We come to bury Starmer’s legacy, not to praise it, because it deserves no praise. Meanwhile, the state-corporate media is now busy nauseatingly whitewashing it.
Starmer’s ‘achievement’ of worst-ever comes after a decade in which each prime minister was awful and worse than his or her predecessor. Starmer was worse than the comically dire Liz Truss and more dishonest than toxic, murderous buffoon, Boris Johnson. That takes some doing and Starmer only had to be his awful self to manage it.
Starmer’s ‘success’
Starmer announced his departure still boasting that he had “changed our party” and ripped out the “poison of antisemitism”. That he had rescued Labour’s credibility.
In fact he has destroyed it, undoing two successive general elections under Corbyn where Labour exceeded Starmer’s vote share, one of them achieving Labour’s best result since the second world war. He also boasted of his eagerness for war.
Resisting mass murder is ‘terrorism‘. Not just that, but holding a sign opposing the terror classification is ‘terrorism’ too.
Our judicial system, which is always biased to support the rich and powerful, has been utterly corrupted. If the state doesn’t get the result it wants, it demands another trial. It replaces judges with stooges prepared to destroy their own reputations to support the state’s oppression.
Starmer has made the UK an authoritarian plague island in which doing right is punished and doing wrong is rewarded or ignored.
And even on the ‘bread and butter’ of power — protecting vulnerable people and the nation — Starmer has done nothing but ill.
Now, will his likely replacement be any better or is Andy Burnham also too weak, compromised or corrupted?
This article is republished from the Skwawkbox because they say it so well.
Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership is intensely relaxed about assaulting those least able to defend themselves – the very poorest and most vulnerable.Keir Starmer explains that UK is actively supporting Israel’s genocidal expansion and repeats his previous quotation that he supports Zionism “without qualification”. Keir Starmer said “I said it loud and clear – and meant it – that I support Zionism without qualification.” here: https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/keir-starmer-interview-i-will-work-to-eradicate-antisemitism-from-day-one/
Protesters and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents face off in Minneapolis following the January 13, 2026 fatal shooting of Renee Good. (Photo by Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
“The federal government sent hordes of masked, armed agents to grab people off the street, whisk them away in shackles, and abuse those who sought to bear witness,” Human Rights Watch said of the deadly blitz.
Human Rights Watch on Thursday published a scathing report detailing how President Donald Trump “caused a human rights crisis” in Minnesota by ordering the deadly federal invasion of the Twin Cities in service of the administration’s mass deportation agenda.
HRW called Operation Metro Surge, launched by Trump last December, “an unprecedented deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents and officers to the state of Minnesota,” including members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
“The Trump administration claimed that Operation Metro Surge was designed to keep Americans safe and often stated that it was targeting noncitizens with violent criminal histories,” the report states. “But the operation itself caused significant harm, and nearly two out of three immigrants arrested by ICE during Operation Metro Surge had no prior US criminal history whatsoever.”
At least three people have been killed in connection with the operation. ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renée Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, in Minneapolis on January 7. A week later, 36-year-old Nicaraguan detainee Victor Manuel Díaz, who was arrested during the operation, became the third person to die at the notorious East Montana concentration camp in Texas. On January 24, CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez and Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa shot and killed nurse Alex Pretti, 37, also in Minneapolis.
“Federal agents shot a third Minneapolis resident and pulled guns on dozens more,” the report continues. “Agents also violently smashed car windows without justification, physically threw people to the ground who were not resisting arrest, and deployed chemical irritants and flash-bang grenades on dozens of occasions, sometimes at close range and without warning, resulting in injuries, including to journalists.”
Furthermore, federal agents “unlawfully arrested and detained hundreds; engaged in racial profiling, harassment, and surveillance; and terrorized Minnesotans, chilling their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and impacting their rights to education and health, among others,” HRW said, adding that “residents faced further abuses when they collectively acted to protest, prevent, and stop these violations of their rights.”
The HRW report calls for an immediate end to abusive federal enforcement operations in Minnesota; independent investigations into alleged unlawful killings, racial profiling, arbitrary arrests, excessive force, and other rights violations; and full accountability for officials responsible.
“The federal government sent hordes of masked, armed agents to grab people off the street, whisk them away in shackles, and abuse those who sought to bear witness,” Reagan Williams, HRW’s crisis and conflict researcher, said in a statement. “Minnesotans mobilized to protest, to document abuse, and to provide critical aid to one another. National-level action is needed to ensure accountability, end ongoing abuses, remedy the harm, and prevent another crisis of this scale.”
“Operation Metro Surge put the violent and abusive practices of these agencies on full display,” Williams added. “We have clear proof of how they operate when impunity prevails, and we need to urgently chart a new way forward through accountability and structural reforms that put an end to these abuses.”
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A huge crowd of American expats gathers for the No Kings Movement protest on March 28, 2026 in Place de la Bastille, in Paris, France, displaying signs that label federal agents rather than protesters as “domestic terrorists.” (Photo by Owen Franken Corbis//Getty Images)
National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, which President Donald Trump issued last year, explicitly targets left-wing protesters and beliefs.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have struggled to come up with charges that stick as they’ve indicted dozens of people this year for protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, and observers suggested Tuesday’s indictments of 15 organizers would likely fail to convince any court. But with a US attorney explicitly citing Trump’s memo threatening to crack down on left-wing protesters, advocates warned the charges were a “major escalation” against First Amendment rights.
US Attorney Daniel Rosen, who was appointed by Trump for the District of Minnesota last year, noted in his announcement of the indictments that Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) last September and that “Joint Task Force Vanguard,” an investigative group set up “to investigate, prosecute, and disrupt those who engage in political violence and intimidation,” had worked on the case.
NSPM-7, as Common Dreams reported last year, was issued weeks after the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and focuses exclusively on left-wing and “anti-fascist” activities, mandating a “national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts.”
Around the same time, Trump issued an executive order asserting that “antifa,” or the anti-fascist movement, had been designated as a “domestic terrorist organization,” despite the fact that there is no centralized antifa group and that the president does not have the authority to make such a designation.
The president’s directives underpinned the indictment of 15 organizers, including at least one professor and several union leaders and members, who had led direct actions and protests against federal agents during Operation Metro Surge, a crackdown by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies in Minnesota earlier this year.
Rosen said the defendants were members of two Minneapolis-based groups—Direct Action Minnesota and Black Cat Workers Collective—that were associated with “antifa” and were “violently opposed to the enforcement of federal law in our state.”
🚨 Feds point to NSPM-7 as basis for charging 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota, alleging ties to "Antifa".
U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen: "Last year, President Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, which directed the Department of Justice to prioritize… pic.twitter.com/s3uCKCi09V
Twelve of the defendants were arrested on Tuesday, while one had already been in custody on other charges and two had not yet been detained.
The charges include conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, interstate stalking, assault on a federal officer, and destruction of government property.
But after examining the indictment, David Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, found just one “documented, charged violence by any defendant in the actual indictment against any ICE agent’s person”: A defendant, William Morgan, “approached one of the agents and knocked the agent’s notes out of his hand.”
Bier listed the rest of the overt acts included in the 94-page indictment, which he described as a “cobbled together series of basically unrelated incidents or comments, nearly all of it not criminal with a few minor crimes, effectively all nonviolent acts of civil disobedience.”
The other acts include “attending meetings,” “posting on Facebook and social media about resistance to ICE,” “posting flyers advertising direct actions,” “conducting after-action reviews,” “forming human blockades” at a building used for ICE operations in Minneapolis, and impeding ICE vehicles with sandbags, debris, and vehicles to block roads.
You can read the indictment below. It is a cobbled together series of basically unrelated incidents or comments, nearly all of it not criminal with a few minor crimes, effectively all nonviolent acts of civil disobedience.
At the press conference Tuesday, evidence presented by Rosen included a Facebook post in which one defendant, Cameron Kennedy, said, “We need to become ungovernable.”
Organizers expressed that they were “highly critical of nonviolent peaceful protest,” said Rosen.
“Oh,” said Bier in response on social media.
"Here you will see a social media post that says 'we need to become ungovernable.'" Oh. https://t.co/iQ2DBipBYl
Journalist Ryan Grim of Drop Site News also pointed to a section of the indictment that accuses Isaac Auman Sant of engaging in conduct that “caused, attempted to cause, or would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to a person.”
“Actual federal charges in Minnesota for hurting ICE agents’ feelings,” Grim said.
The defendants appeared in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota on Tuesday, where Judge John Docherty said the defendants were being released for the time being and that the conditions for a detention hearing had not been met.
A defendant named Erik Davis, a religious studies professor at Macalester College, told Docherty that according to the indictment, he was being “indicted for holding meetings.”
While the charges were denounced as outrageous by a number of observers, an attorney for one of the defendants, Bruce Nestor, told Democracy Now! that the conspiracy charge “is really an attempt to broaden the net of federal law enforcement and to expand the ability of the federal government to target our movement and to foster repression.”
Federal prosecutors have charged 15 Minnesotans for conspiracy to impede or injure immigration officers in Minneapolis earlier this year during President Trump’s so-called Operation Metro Surge. The indictment has linked the defendants to anti-fascist or "antifa" groups. Trump… pic.twitter.com/5eAI1WmUrI
Adam Federman of Type Investigations said the administration’s strategy for cracking down on those who oppose its political agenda appears to be: “Define a loose coalition of activists opposed to the government’s immigration policies as Antifa, make the case that Antifa is a terrorist organization, and then prosecute them on conspiracy charges. We’re going to see a lot more of this.”
The indictment was announced weeks after federal prosecutors dropped all charges against four protesters who had been accused of interfering with ICE agents at a detention center in the Chicago area.
In March, the Trump administration won its first legal victory in its effort to criminalize groups that organize against its agenda when a federal jury convicted eight people of domestic terrorism because they wore all black to a protest outside ICE’s Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, where one of the protesters shot and wounded a police officer.
“Prairieland was exhibit A,” said Federman on Tuesday. “My guess is that we will get to the end of the alphabet before this administration runs its course.”
US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) noted that the federal officers who fatally shot two Minneapolis protesters, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, in January have not been criminally charged.
“While the killers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti walk free, the DOJ is busy bringing bogus charges against protesters,” said Omar. “The administration thinks intimidation will make us back down. They keep learning the same lesson: Minnesotans don’t scare easily. We organize for our rights.”
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“This of course reflects Trump administration policy, which counters any focus on climate at international meetings,” said a US researcher and former diplomat.
The Trump administration is under fire over its efforts to have any mention of the climate crisis removed from a scientific report, published this week, aimed at informing nations that are party to a global treaty designed to protect the Antarctic.
Details of the “diplomatic tensions” surrounding the report, which took place during a meeting in May with delegates from around the world focused on the Antarctic Treaty, were detailed by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) correspondent Jano Gibson.
The report reveals that France took issue with the US’s suggestion not to use broad terms such as “climate change” and instead refer to “specific” environmental changes.
“France … expressed it had strong concern about the gradual disappearance of references to climate change in the work of the Committee [for Environmental Protection],” the report states.
“France emphasized that climate change was a reality affecting all countries, regardless of borders.
Claire Christian, executive director of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, told ABC that there’s zero controversy within the scientific community that a changing climate due to global warming is having deep impacts on the Antarctic region.
“The evidence is clear: the Antarctic region is undergoing rapid climate change, and this is already having significant effects on planetary systems,” Christian said. “If we don’t reduce our carbon emissions rapidly, these effects will only become more severe and unpredictable.”
While a France warned that “refusing to even name climate change” would set “a dangerous precedent,” Evan Bloom, a former US diplomat and Antarctic researcher involved in international negotiations on the topic said the position taken by the US at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting was very much in keeping with the behavior and policies of President Donald Trump.
The US position, said Bloom, “shows how out of step the US is with most of the rest of the world on climate change. Yet, this of course reflects Trump administration policy, which counters any focus on climate at international meetings.”
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