Actiontomas

Spaceship Earth, a passenger & activist

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The imperial core has gained $15 trillion through exorbitant privilege since 1970, getting higher returns on foreign assets than what they pay on foreign debt. This privilege is financed by transfers from the global South, outstripping aid flows many times over.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

What an extraordinary image of Gaza taken from a Zionist settlement. This is a portrait of capitalism in its most condensed form, the terrain where the imperialist core physically collides with the periphery, sowing death and destruction for the benefit of a parasitic minority.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Last week, the body of a Nazi collaborator and the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists from 1938 was exhumed in Luxembourg and given a full state burial in Ukraine. Fascism is not a marginal problem in Ukraine — it is being woven into official state ideology.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Eating overcooked meat out of a styrofoam container, in her car, before heading off to die in a campaign to massacre children for the Epstein class.

Imperialism offers nothing but pathetic, meaningless, and cowardly lives and deaths for those who choose to serve it.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This man is proposing to do with the sum total of published human knowledge what capitalism does with everything: steal it and then build enclosures around it for profit.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is how media lies to you in real time.

[Actiontomas @Actiontomas1]

Thomas Pogge (Yale University) odhaduje, že dnešní globální #kapitalismus si každý rok vyžádá životy nejméně 18 milionů lidí, zejména kvůli chudobě a nedostupné zdravotní péči. Z tohoto hlediska je kapitalismus nejničivějším systémem, s jakým se lidstvo setkalo.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

On this day in 2016, Cuban Revolutionary Fidel Castro passed away.

Before the Cuban revolution, US financial interests owned:

90% of Cuba’s mines

80% of public utilities

50% of railways

40% of sugar production

25% of bank deposits

In response to Fidel Castro removing the US’ iron grip over the island nation, the CIA launched the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and tried to assassinate him over 600 times. All of them failed.

In the first 30 months after Fidel Castro and Cuba’s communists came to power, more classrooms were built in those 30 months than had been built in the previous 30 years.

Within the first six months of Castro's government, 600 miles of road had been built across the island, while $300 million was spent on water and sanitation schemes.

Over 800 houses were constructed every month in the early years of the administration in a measure to cut homelessness, while nurseries and day-care centers were opened for children and other centers opened for the disabled and elderly.

With the arrival of the revolutionary government, Cuban healthcare was nationalised and expanded with heavy investment, bringing free healthcare access to millions. Universal vaccination for childhood diseases was introduced, leading to infant mortality rates plummeting.

Cuba's 'army of doctors' is now sent to crisis-hit countries around the world. Since 1963, more than 600,000 Cuban health workers have provided medical services in more than 160 countries.

Despite being under the illegal embargo imposed by the US, Cuba now has a higher life expectancy than the US, has more doctors per capita than the US, and is among the top 35 countries for lowest child mortality rates. Under Fidel Castro's rule, UNICEF declared severe child malnutrition to be eradicated.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Octopuses really have super powers, why is everyone casual about it?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Journalist: “You’ve said that Russia should repay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for the reconstruction of Gaza?”

EU chief spokesperson: “I have no comment at this stage.”

Western hypocrisy and double standards — plain as day.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

"Very idea that humans might become so voracious as to empty the seas of fish seemed absurd only a few short years ago. Today scientific evidence points to a brutal reality from which there is no escape. In barely a generation, humans have exhausted most prolific creatures on the planet"

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The Nobel committee has awarded the Peace prize to Maria Machado, who has actively supported US sanctions against her own country.

A CEPR study found these sanctions killed 40,000 people in the first year, 2017-2018. They are illegal under international law, and violate the Geneva and Hague conventions.

This is not "peace", it is war.

Machado also supports Israel's Likud Party, which has been conducting a genocide for the past two years, also in violation of international law.

This year she spoke at a conference of European fascists, which openly called for a new Reconquista, referencing the ethnic cleansing of Spanish Muslims and Jews.

Giving peace prizes to people who support war crimes is Orwellian doublethink in the purest sense.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

One of the most shocking and obscene things about Gandhi’s biography is that when the Zulus rebelled against British colonial rule in 1906 he begged to fight *against* them, on the side of the British.

He apparently thought that if Indians sided with the coloniser it would earn them concessions. The British refused but let Gandhi form a volunteer corps of stretcher-bearers to support British troops as they carried out colonial violence and ethnic cleansing.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

$7000 per post: Israel paying undisclosed US influencers amid Gaza backlash

The Israeli government is paying US content producers up to $7000 per post as part of a major increase in budget for global influence campaigns. “We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields in which we engage, and the most important ones are on social media,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of US-based Jewish influencers in New York this week.

A September 2025 filing by Bridges partners LLC on behalf of 'Government of Israel through Havas Media Group' under the US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) details “Initial payments for production and influencers. Concept development with each influencer. Begin matching with Israeli content partners and writing initial post,” among other line items. More than half the $900,000 total appears to be allocated to the recruitment and training of a cohort of more than a dozen US-based online influencers expected to post pro-Israel content.

The campaign is part of a larger influence push by Israeli authorities amid a collapse of public support in the US and elsewhere as the Gaza genocide draws into its third year. In late 2024, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar negotiated a 20-fold increase in the foreign influence budget, securing USD$150 million. Among other initiatives, Israel is now paying $1.5 million a month to President Donald Trump's former digital campaign strategist Brad Parscale to produce “strategic communications,” using AI tools to generate thousands of variants on pro-Israel messaging. Parscale is is now registered as a foreign agent.

“We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers,” Netanyahu told the gathering in New York in September.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, slavery, and brutality at the opposite pole.”
— Karl Marx

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

It does not have to be this way.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

The IMMORAL STORY of Zionism…

Chapter 1: Palestinians gave refuge.

Chapter 2: Came home, locks were changed.

Chapter 3: Massacred, survivors exiled.

Chapter 4: Walls, prisons, “mowing the lawn.”

Chapter 5: Resistance met with genocide.

Chapter 6: Is still unwritten
@AnaKasparian @susanabulhawa
@RealCandaceO @RoyCasagranda

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

EU foreign policy is run by ignorant, warmongering imperialist ideologues who don't know that the Soviet Union and China played central roles in defeating fascism in World War II.

26 million Soviets & 20 million Chinese died fighting fascism & imperialism

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It's crucial to understand that what's bad about income inequality is not just that it enables elites to consume more; it enables them to *control production*. They decide how to use *our* labour and *our* resources, and shape *our* future. It is a dictatorship of the rich.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A reminder that only two countries voted against making food a human right at the UN.