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[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

Remember how they were all saying "we want Ukrainians with us in the EU, because Ukrainians are just like us, they have the same values"? Turns out Ukrainians are not the same as us after all, and Europe's elites want them for one thing only: cannon fodder.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The most effective propaganda does not tell you what to think.

It tells you what is worth thinking about.

Americans are not told to support every U.S. military action.

They're encouraged to debate it.

To have opinions.

To argue about troop levels and exit strategies and mission creep.

What they are not asked to think about is the premise.

The premise: that the United States has the right to project military power into any country on earth, to overthrow governments it dislikes, to impose economic conditions through financial institutions it controls, to maintain hundreds of military bases on foreign soil, to reserve the right of first nuclear strike, to conduct drone assassination programs in countries it is not at war with.

These are not debated on cable news.

These are not campaign issues.

These are not in the frame.

They are the frame.

And as long as the frame holds, the debate inside it, hawks versus doves, surge versus withdrawal, multilateral versus unilateral, is a debate about methods.

Not about whether the entire structure of global military dominance should exist.

The system allows you to argue about everything inside the frame.

It simply never asks you to look at the frame.

Vietnam looked at the frame.

Vietnam broke the frame.

That is why they have never fully forgiven us.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

During Bolivia's general strike against neoliberalism, there are workers' assemblies almost daily in the indigenous city of El Alto that surrounds the capital.

This is where the people vote on strategies and analyse how the strike is going. The new popular democracy takes shape.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The New York Times accidentally revealed the moral bankruptcy of capitalism.

China is making breakthroughs in cancer drugs, clinical trials, biotech research, and life-saving medicines.

The first American reaction is not:
“How many patients can this save?”

It is:
“Will this threaten U.S. dominance?”
“Will American biotech lose its edge?”
“Will Big Pharma struggle to keep up?”

That tells you everything.

In a sane world, better cancer drugs would be a human victory.
In Washington’s world, even medicine becomes a battlefield the moment China helps people live.

China’s biotech rise is not just about winning.
It is about responsibility to a massive patient population that cannot wait for American monopolies, American prices, or American permission.

Cancer patients do not care about U.S. dominance.
They care about staying alive.

And that is exactly why China cannot leave this field to America.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They watched Iraq burn on television and called it Shock and Awe.

Shock and Awe.

They named the massacre of a civilian population after the experience of watching it from a safe distance.

Not "the bombing campaign."

Not even the sanitized military euphemism.

Shock. And. Awe.

The aesthetic experience of the people watching.

Not the physical experience of the people dying.

This is what empire does to the psychology of its citizens.

It turns atrocity into spectacle.

It turns the suffering of distant people into a viewing experience with a brand name.

And the people watching from their living rooms were not monsters.

That's the point.

They were ordinary people whose entire psychological architecture had trained them to receive distant violence as entertainment, as proof of power, as reassurance.

The monsters are the architecture.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

@SecRubio Tank Man survived, Marco.

The tanks stopped.

Rachel Corrie's bulldozer didn't stop.

It reversed.

She was 23.

Your government funded the machine that killed her.

[Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski]

To the last Ukrainian: "EU considers limiting protection for Ukrainian men of fighting age. EU ministers on Thursday broadly supported a proposal to limit access to temporary protection for Ukrainian men ​of military age, Sweden’s migration minister said.

“It is essential for us to provide Ukrainians with protection, ‌but ⁠at the same time the war needs to be fought and won. For that to happen, it is essential that more men stay in Ukraine and fight,” Forssell said ​ahead of ​the meeting."

[World BEYOND War @WorldBeyondWar]

This Talk World Radio episode asks a simple question for U.S. audiences: what outrages have we been trained to accept as inevitable, and what would it take to stop complying? https://t.co/8WdYtlGPBC

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The Tank Man image is so powerful that most people believe tanks crushed protesters at Tiananmen.

They didn't. The tanks stopped for Tank Man. He lived.

The Israeli bulldozer did not stop for Rachel Corrie.

She was 23.

She was American.

She was wearing an orange vest.

She died on March 16, 2003.

Marco has never posted about March 16.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

US troops have no business fighting a war in Lebanon. Why is that so hard for the majority of Democrats to vote “yes” on?

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business. We can’t have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We can’t have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We can’t have peace because it threatens the weapons industry.

[Black Alliance for Peace @Blacks4Peace]

Months ago, the Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights raised the issue of the fundamental inappropriateness of the 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup being hosted in the United States.

[Build Peace @PeaceBuild]

Regarding Tiananmen: protests being suppressed is one aspect, but another is the protests' goals. Protests pushing for neoliberalism and capitalism don't lead to justice. We should include this aspect in assessments of protest movements....

[World BEYOND War @WorldBeyondWar]

Fact: War is a human choice not limited by any law of nature or biological determinism. https://t.co/KWaqZJhqlH

[Build Peace @PeaceBuild]

@TimothyDSnyder @marci_shore Regarding soldiers, forced conscription in Ukraine doesn't mesh well with your writings on democracy and freedom....

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Water is not a commodity. It is a birthright. It belongs to the earth, to other species, and to future generations. No corporation has the right to control it.

[World BEYOND War @WorldBeyondWar]

War is taught through budgets, headlines, films & myths about “security.” WBW’s War, Peace, and the Arts course has started, but registration is still open! Join us to study how militarism is normalized and how art can help us unlearn it. https://t.co/NRFIF5631r

[Build Peace @PeaceBuild]

@nxt888 If only Dr. Timothy Snyder had applied this "veil of ignorance" method to assess if it's fair for Ukraine's working classes to live under forced conscription....

[Mwaivu Kaluka ☭ @MwaivuKaluka]

Cde Margaret Kimberly from the Black alliance for Peace speaks on the failures and Imperialist machinatioms of the US African Command(AFRICOM) and why we must continue to resist foreign millitary bases in our continent.

[World BEYOND War @WorldBeyondWar]

Killing alleged smugglers in the Pacific is murder, and Congress must end this illegal campaign now. https://t.co/gTgEP1XOHH