At the al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian youth collected sponge bullets, tear gas canisters and stun grenades fired at them by Israeli forces and built a model of the Dome of the Rock.

"The made-for-media theatrics on Capitol Hill were not an attempted "coup". Coups are what the CIA stages all over the world. Neither was "democracy" in peril. What democracy? And Trump is no more than a caricature of a system of which Biden, Obama, Bush etc are the embodiment." (John Pilger)

"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery-isolation. […]

Three days ago the investigative journalist, author and filmmaker Andre Vltchek died, whom I had the great honour to meet. He was only 57 years old, his death shook me. I am infinitely sad. Andre Vltchek was an uncompromising critic of the Western, imperialist and capitalist world order and for me he had been a constant [...]

What we do know is that they came for the artists too.

Choo Chon Kai (Parti Sosialis Malaysia, Malaysia), Freedom of choice?, 2020