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[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I disagree that we are in a "New Cold War".

Rather, we are in a continuation of what we might call the Long Cold War, or the Great Anti-Sovereignty War, which has been waged by the imperial core against liberation movements and sovereign-seeking states in the periphery that have sought to break from their subordination and exploitation within the imperialist world-system.

The Long Cold War encompasses Western attacks against the Russian revolution and the Chinese revolution, through the long series of invasions and regime-change operations that targeted Korea, Guatemala, the DRC, Brazil, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Chile, Burkina Faso, etc, continuing well beyond the fall of the USSR with the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., all the way to the strangulation of Cuba and the invasions of Venezuela and Iran in 2026.

As I see it, the usual claim that the Cold War runs from 1945-1991 doesn't work, the periodisation is wrong. The core states sought to destroy the USSR as soon as it was founded, long before 1945, and in any case their violence was never only just against the USSR, or just against USSR-aligned states, nor even just against socialism; it was fought against any sovereign-seeking state in the periphery - including non-aligned states - that threatened to escape the imperial arrangement.

The Long Cold War is, in other words, an imperialist backlash against the long struggle for liberation in the periphery. This aggression didn't end in 1991, it continues today, and it will continue well into the 21st century until it is defeated. And defeated it will be.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Again the Iran deal is not the “defeat,” it’s **an acknowledgement of defeat**, the defeat already happened and was decided on the battlefield because the US attempted regime change/civil war and failed. The MOU is simply acknowledging reality and thus a necessary and good step.

[wydna @wydna777]

All the right wing militaristic chauvinism added up to nothing. All the black sun little dark age edits of troops marching, all the fascist sabre rattling, it all ended with Trump being totally destroyed by Iran. Where does this movement even go from such a humiliating defeat?

[Camila Lourdes Galarza @sovietwithsazon]

The prosecutor assigned to investigate these U.S. drone strikes and torture allegations was found shot and killed in Manta.

She was also actively investigating the June 6th mass boat explosions—which OSINT analysts tell me fit the profile of Limpet Mines often used by US forces.

[Chance🤺 🍊 @ChanceGardi]

Zelensky ha fatto morire Gonzalo Lira in carcere solo per averlo criticato su Youtube, perché essendo americano non credeva che in Ucraina non esistesse la libertà di parola. Arrestato da soldati armati di mitra come se fosse un terrorista, e Biden non fece nulla per salvarlo.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

All the “Free Palestine” people who supported regime change in Syria are the dumbest people in geopolitics

Looking directly at Medhi Hasan, Shahid Bolsen and Al Jazeera

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Your semi-regular reminder that when Kamala Harris had the opportunity to distance herself from Biden on backing Israel's genocide of Palestinians, she chose to double-down on sending them even more weapons.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Democrats joining with the likes of Mark Levin and Lindsay Graham to try and tank the deal to end the war with Iran.

Psychopaths all.

[Margarita Simonyan @M_Simonyan]

Kiev terrorists hit a bus carrying children from Belarus. A woman was killed, and minors were among the injured. They were heading for the holidays.

Meanwhile, Western media are running images of Zelensky hugging his European sponsors.

[The Hasbara Buster @ibrahimibnyusuf]

False. An Arab Jewish woman doesn't have the right to divorce her husband. That's because the Jewish religion has a barbaric institution called the get, or spouse's consent, whereby a husband can deny his wife the divorce. This has created a vast community of agunot, or chained women, who can do absolutely nothing to get rid of their abusive partners and marry someone else.

And they try to sell you Israel as a Western country!

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

idk if you dont see whats going on here I dont know what to tell you. This isnt just Dems dinging Trump for political points, it’s them narrowing political space to support an end to hostilities because they, along w/ their AIPAC donors, simply like open-ended hostilities w/ Iran

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Kohen Wiley, 1 year old, shot and killed by Mississippi police.

Sam Abu Haikal, 7 months old, shot and killed by the IDF in the West Bank.

Both killed while in the car with their families.

If you don't think these two incidents are related, you're not paying attention.

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

Extraordinary how much of the US commentariat doesn't understand that you have to take a "bad deal" after you lose a war

[fawn 💌 @fawnn404]

I genuinely think one of the highest forms of alienation is watching your people’s suffering become an intellectual exercise for people who will never bear any consequences from being wrong.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

I just want to say that Israel murdering members of the Palestinian resistance is illegitimate, and we should use proper language around this issue.
For a long time, I was bothered by the reference to civilians when it came to counting the murdered, because implicit is the idea that Israel murdering resistance fighters is somehow okay. It's much like the way that the reference to women and children implies that the killing of men is okay.
Whether Hamas, Jabha, Shoyouiyyeh, etc., they are also civilians. They are indigenous, armed civilian resistance movements against a belligerent, expansionist, foreign colonial cancer.

[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

After passing two death penalty laws in six weeks, Israel is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to try to execute Palestinians on live TV. Unanimous support for the laws shows that Israeli society can unite around “death to Palestinians.” https://t.co/gB35o8UKCX

[Mira Novels @anhvm2018]

These are two facts 🇻🇳

1. In late 1972, the U.S. military carried out the B-52 bombing campaign over Hanoi, known as Operation Linebacker II. The bombing targets included schools and hospitals, with the intention of "bombing North Vietnam back to the Stone Age."

[Personally, I am very sensitive to that phrase - "to bring somewhere back to the Stone Age." I simply cannot accept people who use it, because it touches a historical wound that is deeply painful to me.]

Do you know what the 12 days and nights of Hanoi, from December 18 to December 30, 1972, were like?

While somewhere else people were singing Christmas carols and celebrating the New Year, on this same planet, 2,380 people were killed and thousands more were injured during the carpet-bombing raids.

On the night of December 26, 1972, the U.S. military dropped nearly 90 tons of bombs on Khâm Thiên Street, completely destroying 534 houses and killing 278 people, including 91 women and 40 elderly people.

2. After the defeat of the U.S. military in the skies over Hanoi, the United States was compelled to sign the Paris Peace Accords on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam. American POWs were a key part of the negotiation, which ultimately led to Operation Homecoming. Following the Paris Peace Accords, 591 American prisoners of war were returned home.

And there are many more facts that I will share gradually.

Vietnam's victory was rooted in the righteousness and legitimacy of its struggle, in the strength of its national spirit, and in the leadership of the Communist Party. It was also supported by countless peace-loving people around the world who stood in solidarity with Vietnam.

[Abdulruhman Ismail @a_abdulruhman]

They call Palestine Action terrorists because they touched the one thing Western states protect more fiercely than human life: the weapons machine.
History has seen this before.

In Ireland, the activists of Pitstop Ploughshares, known as the Shannon Five, disabled a US Navy plane before the Iraq War , and the jury understood the point: when the law protects war, conscience must interrupt it.
As a Palestinian, I know exactly what they interrupted.
They did not attack life.

They stood between life and the machine built to erase it.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Ask yourself why the people one paycheck from disaster are often the most ferocious defenders of the system that put them one paycheck from disaster.

It's not irrational.

It's the last available source of dignity.

If the system is fundamentally broken, fundamentally rigged, fundamentally indifferent to whether you live or die, then the years you spent believing in it, working within it, sacrificing for it, were wasted.

Worse than wasted.

They were the actions of someone who didn't see what was obvious.

That is a very hard thing for a person to accept about their own life.

It is easier, psychologically, emotionally, in every way that matters in the moment, to defend the system than to accept that you gave decades of your life to something that was never going to give anything back.

The defense isn't about the system.

It's about not having to grieve your own time.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Just a reminder that when Democrats had the WH, they helped start and continue a bloody genocide for 15 months in which 70% of Gaza was flattened and the chosen nominee, Kamala Harris, vowed to keep sending Israel the weapons they were using to perpetrate these war crimes.