Since when has the United States ever followed international law? They talk a big game about international law but when it comes to their own targets and plans, it’s anything goes. The United States has no problem stomping on international law.
That the reporting on this, has been mostly missing that point is beyond insane. Also, no hue and cry over detained students who are vanishing to hellish concentration camps in the US and abroad.
Yes. It is horrific. Mahmoud Khalil a grad student at Columbia and Rumeysa Ozturk, an undergrad at Tufts both here legally and neither saying anything hateful or antisemitic were both kidnapped by ICE and put in a horrible concentration camp in Louisiana. Each was expressing their democracy given right to protest the genocide in Gaza. Elizabeth Warren is publicizing Rumeysa's kidnapping and trying to do something about it but who besides Mahmoud's lawyer is trying to help him?
Are you sure you want to call those “concentration camps”? Because what most people associate with that term—Nazi death camps, Soviet Gulags, Japanese internment during WWII—is on a completely different level. And based on everything we know publicly, what’s happening now doesn’t match that scale or intent.
If we stretch the definition to mean any facility that holds people in custody before deportation, then technically every prison or detention center becomes a “concentration camp.” That’s not helpful—it’s just rhetorical inflation.
Words matter—especially when we’re throwing around emotionally charged ones.
And look, I get what you’re trying to do here—you’re pointing out how messed up Khalil’s situation is and how broken the system is. Fair. But let’s be real: that doesn’t make it a concentration camp.
When you label everything as the worst possible thing—I get it. The goal is to amplify emotional engagement, to trigger a stress response in the reader that hopefully pushes them to act.
But for me—and probably a lot of others—it does the exact opposite. The space is so flooded with emotionally charged words, used as hyperbole from all sides, that the emotional reaction just shuts off. You get numb. You stop reacting to the issue and start getting irritated by the wording.
There's no point in censoring oneself, based on the possibility that there could potentially be an irrational emotional reaction, from one subset of the population, who might be looking for any excuse to tell themselves that it's okay that they don't care, about something that is inarguably evil.
It's NOT okay. And they ALREADY don't care.
No one should change a single aspect of their speech, or behaviour, in a futile effort to placate people like THAT.
Wait—just to clarify—are you saying that emotional expression should override factual clarity? Because that’s what it sounds like. That as long as something feels evil, it’s fine to describe it however emotionally charged you want, regardless of precision?
I’m not saying you should censor yourself. Say what you want. But there’s a difference between expressing outrage and describing reality. Words have meaning.
It’s like buying a car. We have terms like sedan, SUV, pickup, convertible—because they describe specific categories. If you told me you saw a pickup and then pointed at a sedan and said “Well, I felt like it was a pickup,” I’d think you’re either confused or deliberately mislabeling it. That’s what happens when you use terms based on emotional weight instead of descriptive accuracy.
Being precise helps everyone. It allows us to connect words to definitions and actually understand each other—instead of flinging emotionally charged labels around and assuming the emotion matters more than the facts.
I'm exhausted by all of it. I don't know how Mehdi and Prem keep going, but I am damn grateful they and drop site news are. But the thing is, I have no right to be exhausted when there are people just outright murdering others for no good f*****g reason. Any supposed reason is not good enough. Which govt anywhere discusses war plans in a chat group on an app in the first place. It's the same as the IDF pressing buttons through cameras. So devoid of the fact that it is human life they are taking and using wtf fist pumping emojis. Do I even need to say how moronic their chat was too. Biden was just more sly about all of it. All they are doing is showing the nasty in the open. I'm glad it was so damn open and has been, the world will help alongside Americans make a U Turn one day. This generation will not forget whether they are US folks or not, and the world will be burning from its own heat anyway.
What strikes me also, is how detailed they can be and targeted if they want to be, so the same can be said for the ability to strike more precisely elsewhere instead of the indiscriminate extermination of Palestinians. How many were killed in this strike on this person in Yemen. I haven't even been watching the main stream media in the last couple of weeks. The murderous genocidal arrogance is breathtaking.
No country should have this much power and that goes for all the big ones with nukes. It isn't American exceptionalism that gave the US so much power or any other big country, it was fear of their damn nukes. Big countries use soft power everywhere, sometimes in the name of aid for favours. Yes life saving aid too that is sorely needed, but instead of helping others become independent they like to keep them dependent for their own use too.
There is no moral compass when the UN has veto powers and no teeth in this world. It is frightening the level of Israeli in particular Zionist influence, and they have their tentacles in everything in so many countries. They have played the long game the likes no one has seen and unchecked capitalism has helped them and money in govt has helped and is ruining most western countries right now. This fight is global - I can't say that strongly enough.
Bassem is always nicer and better at saying these things. I think I need to go watch a Sammy Obeid or Bassem Yourseff video to calm myself down.
Edit: If I missed the casualty numbers posted or written by Mehdi I apologise. I was having a fit of rage.
American foreign policy has been built for imperialism from the beginning--the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, and a series of interventions from Cuba and the Philippines to the ongoing blood-lettings in the Middle East, often at Israel's behest. The irony is that we call it "national defense".
You bring up the most important point being obscured by the insanity of the signal dangerous foolishness. These were civilians in Yemen who were just blown away for no good reason at all. These idiots didn’t care one bit that innocent people were being targeted like some video game! We are being controlled by madmen! Thank you for keeping a spotlight on these dangerous criminals in our government (so called).
The MAGA idiots are hiding behind the term “sensitive information” as opposed to classified. Regarding the war crimes, the US and Israel seem to pride themselves in committing these atrocities.
These people are just evil, there is no end to their atrocities. How come the U.S. and Israel always get a pass? This has to all come to a head sometime, hopefully soon.
this whole attack on yemen is without strategic military sense...even if you discount the fact the israelis have provided the intelligence and is leading the americans by the nose to do their bidding..it doesnt make sense..the european shipping is not threatened here..only israel by the houthis, ramping up the offense in yemen, just escalates things it doesnt stop them,it doesnt damp it down , there is no deterrence here...so what is the gain in this attack?
the only gain ,is a message to iran..that we are gunning for you..is the only take here...and is america going to attack iran and start a new war for israel? has israel got american control so much now, that that this war is realistic thing? the mind boggles :(
Nazis have long been concerned about being silenced and not being able to express their conservative opinions So the diatribes go….being bullied, “thought police” But it’s not that they have been silenced it’s just that their opinions are often so outrageous that they are laughable eg Fox and Friends
So there is a Nazi attack on free speech If the Nazis don’t like what you say then it’s not free speech Complete HYPOCRISY
It’s not about free speech it’s about their protected speech….the Nazi free speech of propaganda
Networks should lose their FCC licenses Judges with differing opinions should be impeached Banning news organizations who don’t go along with the Nazi talking points Going after law firms that don’t favor the regime’s propaganda line Students with green cards who protest with differing opinions should be thrown out of the country because “they are agitators who don’t love our country” Universities should lose federal grant money if they dare speak out against the Nazi regime Take over the Kennedy Center for Continuing Arts to even control the art’s free speech and have only shows that are deemed “appropriate”
But billionaire/oligarchic Nazis protect social media such as X, Meta, and Tik Tok because it’s algorithmic, simply a machine that directs your attention It’s planned Nazi propaganda And it’s not free speech Billionaires are literally rewiring our thinking to solidify their power grab
This is what it looks like living in a dictatorship in the 21st century Fox channel is the only channel available and X will be the social media platform WAKE UP AMERICA
Yes! Yes! Yes! I was waiting for this to even be raised and clearly wondering how it is so obviously ignored. The hypocrisy is crisply obvious. But this is typical for this country’s posture throughout history.
Another thing with all this mention of Mike Waltz I begin to confuse with the similarity of the name Tim Walz. In your article there was a mistaken spelling of Walz for Waltz. We need to keep the distinction super clear. A lot of folks make votes based on name recognition and I’d hate for people to confuse Tim for Mike based on the similar pronunciation of their last names.
Thanks for retaining the rational -- what should be obvious-- insight -- the continued permissiveness of American regimes across party lines in their ability to exterminate poor populations overseas and in their vulgarity, to show no passing recollection, even, of basic laws of war, or of the domestic and international laws authorising war. We should remember that Jeffrey Goldberg was a chief propagandist,
not only for the "elites" , of the Iraq War -- the original scenario, between 2001-2003, in which international law was openly broken by the US in the front of the world, and the UN used, so painfully, as a podium (with universities and media) for lies.
I don't think forgetting the Signal chat is the answer, but of course not only should we look at the Yemeni war crimes, but wonder what other ones were happening that we did not get a play by play on from a Signal chat revealed to a reporter. Enterprising journalists are going and looking this stuff up. Documenting it before they disappear it all is important.
Meanwhile, Canada and the EU are washing their hands of the US, and I would not be surprised if Israel does not do so as well. I read that Israel is upset that in Signalgate agent embedded there was revealed. I am going to believe that Europe is not going to be so stupid as to foot the bill either. So, who will be paying for this, and these dummies salaries. US!
Exactly! “Saw a Houthi member go into his girlfriend’s apartment. Building has been collapsed.” Are you kidding me?
Thank you for always speaking the truth and standing up for the marginalized. You’re a warrior Mehdi!
Since when has the United States ever followed international law? They talk a big game about international law but when it comes to their own targets and plans, it’s anything goes. The United States has no problem stomping on international law.
Yes. How is it okay to kill 50 people and be happy about it? Just disgusting.
That the reporting on this, has been mostly missing that point is beyond insane. Also, no hue and cry over detained students who are vanishing to hellish concentration camps in the US and abroad.
Concentration camps? Really?
Yes. It is horrific. Mahmoud Khalil a grad student at Columbia and Rumeysa Ozturk, an undergrad at Tufts both here legally and neither saying anything hateful or antisemitic were both kidnapped by ICE and put in a horrible concentration camp in Louisiana. Each was expressing their democracy given right to protest the genocide in Gaza. Elizabeth Warren is publicizing Rumeysa's kidnapping and trying to do something about it but who besides Mahmoud's lawyer is trying to help him?
Are you sure you want to call those “concentration camps”? Because what most people associate with that term—Nazi death camps, Soviet Gulags, Japanese internment during WWII—is on a completely different level. And based on everything we know publicly, what’s happening now doesn’t match that scale or intent.
If we stretch the definition to mean any facility that holds people in custody before deportation, then technically every prison or detention center becomes a “concentration camp.” That’s not helpful—it’s just rhetorical inflation.
Words matter—especially when we’re throwing around emotionally charged ones.
And look, I get what you’re trying to do here—you’re pointing out how messed up Khalil’s situation is and how broken the system is. Fair. But let’s be real: that doesn’t make it a concentration camp.
When you label everything as the worst possible thing—I get it. The goal is to amplify emotional engagement, to trigger a stress response in the reader that hopefully pushes them to act.
But for me—and probably a lot of others—it does the exact opposite. The space is so flooded with emotionally charged words, used as hyperbole from all sides, that the emotional reaction just shuts off. You get numb. You stop reacting to the issue and start getting irritated by the wording.
There's no point in censoring oneself, based on the possibility that there could potentially be an irrational emotional reaction, from one subset of the population, who might be looking for any excuse to tell themselves that it's okay that they don't care, about something that is inarguably evil.
It's NOT okay. And they ALREADY don't care.
No one should change a single aspect of their speech, or behaviour, in a futile effort to placate people like THAT.
Wait—just to clarify—are you saying that emotional expression should override factual clarity? Because that’s what it sounds like. That as long as something feels evil, it’s fine to describe it however emotionally charged you want, regardless of precision?
I’m not saying you should censor yourself. Say what you want. But there’s a difference between expressing outrage and describing reality. Words have meaning.
It’s like buying a car. We have terms like sedan, SUV, pickup, convertible—because they describe specific categories. If you told me you saw a pickup and then pointed at a sedan and said “Well, I felt like it was a pickup,” I’d think you’re either confused or deliberately mislabeling it. That’s what happens when you use terms based on emotional weight instead of descriptive accuracy.
Being precise helps everyone. It allows us to connect words to definitions and actually understand each other—instead of flinging emotionally charged labels around and assuming the emotion matters more than the facts.
Yesss!! Thank you!! Everyone is talking about that chat leak but not the actual content in the chat!
I'm exhausted by all of it. I don't know how Mehdi and Prem keep going, but I am damn grateful they and drop site news are. But the thing is, I have no right to be exhausted when there are people just outright murdering others for no good f*****g reason. Any supposed reason is not good enough. Which govt anywhere discusses war plans in a chat group on an app in the first place. It's the same as the IDF pressing buttons through cameras. So devoid of the fact that it is human life they are taking and using wtf fist pumping emojis. Do I even need to say how moronic their chat was too. Biden was just more sly about all of it. All they are doing is showing the nasty in the open. I'm glad it was so damn open and has been, the world will help alongside Americans make a U Turn one day. This generation will not forget whether they are US folks or not, and the world will be burning from its own heat anyway.
What strikes me also, is how detailed they can be and targeted if they want to be, so the same can be said for the ability to strike more precisely elsewhere instead of the indiscriminate extermination of Palestinians. How many were killed in this strike on this person in Yemen. I haven't even been watching the main stream media in the last couple of weeks. The murderous genocidal arrogance is breathtaking.
No country should have this much power and that goes for all the big ones with nukes. It isn't American exceptionalism that gave the US so much power or any other big country, it was fear of their damn nukes. Big countries use soft power everywhere, sometimes in the name of aid for favours. Yes life saving aid too that is sorely needed, but instead of helping others become independent they like to keep them dependent for their own use too.
There is no moral compass when the UN has veto powers and no teeth in this world. It is frightening the level of Israeli in particular Zionist influence, and they have their tentacles in everything in so many countries. They have played the long game the likes no one has seen and unchecked capitalism has helped them and money in govt has helped and is ruining most western countries right now. This fight is global - I can't say that strongly enough.
Bassem is always nicer and better at saying these things. I think I need to go watch a Sammy Obeid or Bassem Yourseff video to calm myself down.
Edit: If I missed the casualty numbers posted or written by Mehdi I apologise. I was having a fit of rage.
American foreign policy has been built for imperialism from the beginning--the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, and a series of interventions from Cuba and the Philippines to the ongoing blood-lettings in the Middle East, often at Israel's behest. The irony is that we call it "national defense".
You bring up the most important point being obscured by the insanity of the signal dangerous foolishness. These were civilians in Yemen who were just blown away for no good reason at all. These idiots didn’t care one bit that innocent people were being targeted like some video game! We are being controlled by madmen! Thank you for keeping a spotlight on these dangerous criminals in our government (so called).
The MAGA idiots are hiding behind the term “sensitive information” as opposed to classified. Regarding the war crimes, the US and Israel seem to pride themselves in committing these atrocities.
These people are just evil, there is no end to their atrocities. How come the U.S. and Israel always get a pass? This has to all come to a head sometime, hopefully soon.
this whole attack on yemen is without strategic military sense...even if you discount the fact the israelis have provided the intelligence and is leading the americans by the nose to do their bidding..it doesnt make sense..the european shipping is not threatened here..only israel by the houthis, ramping up the offense in yemen, just escalates things it doesnt stop them,it doesnt damp it down , there is no deterrence here...so what is the gain in this attack?
the only gain ,is a message to iran..that we are gunning for you..is the only take here...and is america going to attack iran and start a new war for israel? has israel got american control so much now, that that this war is realistic thing? the mind boggles :(
Nazis have long been concerned about being silenced and not being able to express their conservative opinions So the diatribes go….being bullied, “thought police” But it’s not that they have been silenced it’s just that their opinions are often so outrageous that they are laughable eg Fox and Friends
So there is a Nazi attack on free speech If the Nazis don’t like what you say then it’s not free speech Complete HYPOCRISY
It’s not about free speech it’s about their protected speech….the Nazi free speech of propaganda
Networks should lose their FCC licenses Judges with differing opinions should be impeached Banning news organizations who don’t go along with the Nazi talking points Going after law firms that don’t favor the regime’s propaganda line Students with green cards who protest with differing opinions should be thrown out of the country because “they are agitators who don’t love our country” Universities should lose federal grant money if they dare speak out against the Nazi regime Take over the Kennedy Center for Continuing Arts to even control the art’s free speech and have only shows that are deemed “appropriate”
But billionaire/oligarchic Nazis protect social media such as X, Meta, and Tik Tok because it’s algorithmic, simply a machine that directs your attention It’s planned Nazi propaganda And it’s not free speech Billionaires are literally rewiring our thinking to solidify their power grab
This is what it looks like living in a dictatorship in the 21st century Fox channel is the only channel available and X will be the social media platform WAKE UP AMERICA
From Jon Stewart March 24 2025 Daily Show https://bit.ly/41IXEvA
Yes! Yes! Yes! I was waiting for this to even be raised and clearly wondering how it is so obviously ignored. The hypocrisy is crisply obvious. But this is typical for this country’s posture throughout history.
Another thing with all this mention of Mike Waltz I begin to confuse with the similarity of the name Tim Walz. In your article there was a mistaken spelling of Walz for Waltz. We need to keep the distinction super clear. A lot of folks make votes based on name recognition and I’d hate for people to confuse Tim for Mike based on the similar pronunciation of their last names.
The Uniparty wins, no matter what name you use, or how you spell it.
Thanks for retaining the rational -- what should be obvious-- insight -- the continued permissiveness of American regimes across party lines in their ability to exterminate poor populations overseas and in their vulgarity, to show no passing recollection, even, of basic laws of war, or of the domestic and international laws authorising war. We should remember that Jeffrey Goldberg was a chief propagandist,
not only for the "elites" , of the Iraq War -- the original scenario, between 2001-2003, in which international law was openly broken by the US in the front of the world, and the UN used, so painfully, as a podium (with universities and media) for lies.
You got it Mehdi. And the absolute (and disgusting) joy in killing people. It makes me sick. .
That's what I've been asking the last few days. Thank you for making it clear that this is the issue.
I don't think forgetting the Signal chat is the answer, but of course not only should we look at the Yemeni war crimes, but wonder what other ones were happening that we did not get a play by play on from a Signal chat revealed to a reporter. Enterprising journalists are going and looking this stuff up. Documenting it before they disappear it all is important.
Meanwhile, Canada and the EU are washing their hands of the US, and I would not be surprised if Israel does not do so as well. I read that Israel is upset that in Signalgate agent embedded there was revealed. I am going to believe that Europe is not going to be so stupid as to foot the bill either. So, who will be paying for this, and these dummies salaries. US!