Rest in peace to the leader of the free world
His blood has watered the seeds of universal liberation… May a global uprising avenge him, complete the great flood, and never foresake the path of resistance to the Great Satan
Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un
the hijab laws have alway been my biggest gripe w iran but it's impossible not to admit that khamenei 100% unironically saw hijab as a pro-woman feminist thing lol. bro was reading pride and prejudice and going 'wow. women have such a hard time. this is why we need hijab'
There is nothing unusually damning about the Epstein files. The abuse and trafficking of women is part and parcel of imperial domination. It is the impulse to undress Iranian women and the fetishization of submissiveness and poverty in countries that the US has devastated. It is the half million Russian women sold into sexual slavery after the defeat of the Soviet Union. It is the tens of thousands of "comfort women" forced to serve US occupation troops across its overseas bases. It is the Zionist murderers photographing themselves in the underwear of their victims. This is imperialism at work, creating immiseration, wasting human lives, and commodifying the body. It is not a partisan issue, nor is it a failure of justice or accountability. It is a feature of a reactionary and brutish political system that needs to be overcome in its totality.
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.
In a French occupied territory in the Pacific, French forces detained an Indigenous leader and flew him to the other side of the world. He was held in a French prison for a year without trial. He told AJ+ what the French government was trying to force him to do: