There are two frigates, Kimon (Kimon class) and likely Psara (Hydra class).

Now the US is forced to stop using the airbases bases in the south of Spain.

Nah. All it takes is investment and commitment to treating electricity like a utility beyond the profit imperative. Look at what China is doing with sodium-ion batteries.

True European energy for true Europeans.

You mean the last five years during which, the WHO, a major UN agency played a key role in coordinating the international response to a global pandemic?

Or the last five years during which the WFP, another major UN agency has prevented starvation for millions of people, in places like Sudan and Yemen, and was instrumental in the Ukraine Grain deal?

Or are you talking about the UNCHR, aiding about 120 million refugees? Or maybe UNICEF, that manages the immunization of nearly half of all human children?

Is the UN perfect? No. Would the world be better without it? Fuck no.

If daydreaming is what keeps the world from turning into a hellscape, well daydream on brother.

A, a, a, a, careful there. Read what I actually wrote, I was very careful. I said “people ascribe tropes”. I didn’t talk about what people are, I talked about what tropes they ascribe.

At this point, I don’t think I have anything else to discuss with you. Toodles.

Sigh. Multiple things can be true simultaneously. Israel doesn’t represent all Jews. Israel doesn’t have to represent all Jews for people to ascribe to it classic antisemitic tropes. Calling out those antisemitic tropes because perpetuating them hurts all Jews is not spreading Israeli propaganda.

It’s not that hard.

• The Bloods and the Crips do not represent black culture. They don’t have to represent black culture for people to ascribe to them classic anti-black racist tropes. Calling out those racist tropes because perpetuating them hurts all black people is not doing gang propaganda.
• TERFs do not represent all feminist politics. They don’t have to represent all feminist politics for people to ascribe to them classic sexist tropes. Calling out those sexist tropes because perpetuating them hurts all women is not transphobic propaganda.

I can keep going. This is the kind of hair splitting you need to be able to do if you want to call yourself educated.

I’m not going to debate this silliness. Educate yourself.

Pretty presumptuous of you to assume that someone pointing out antisemitism to you needs a lesson on all the ways the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime is a genocidal apartheid regime.

Beyond that I’ve nothing to add to what I previously wrote. It’s pretty clear.

Saying that Israel controls the world’s governments is an antisemitic trope that is entirely unnecessary for condemning Israeli apartheid and the Gaza genocide. I brought up the recognition of Palestine not to say that Canada has a pro-palestinine policy, but to make the simple point that our policy is not controlled by Israel (if we were, we would not have done it).

Does there exist a big pro-israel bias in western mainstream politics? Yes. But that is not *control". Control implies absolute power on the part of the controller and lack of agency on the part of the controlled.

Why is Noam Chomsky on the logo?

He was minister of finance for 6 months during the peak of the Greek financial crisis.

I’m guessing he had more urgent things to do.

That’s where I got the idea from.

Nah that’s a silly antisemitic trope, refuted easily by the simple fact that Canada recognized Palestine a few months ago.

He could have made a simple statement urging calm and restraint. No need to take sides.

Countries that choose to participate in the UN 2.0 should have to pass constitutional amendments self-obligating themselves to abide by the UN Charter.

Shameful. Could have issued a brief statement urging calm and de-escalation. Instead he’s making us complicit to this completely illegal war.

“If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.” ~Ed Koch

I’ve listened to Mélenchon when he came to Montreal, and I’ve listened to a few of his discours online afterwards. I did not hear any of the things you’re describing. I also don’t trust the accusations you’re making because it’s exactly the kind of shit neoliberal centrists have been accusing the Left of since the Iraq War, all the while actually doing all of the same things in practice. So I’m giving LFI the benefit of the doubt in general and I’m disappointed about this in particular.

Well that’s fucking disappointing for an LFI spokesperson to be saying.