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[contra @contra_press]

🇧🇴 🇺🇸 | Civil war-type scenes are emerging from Bolivia.

The government passed a law authorising US-backed President Rodrigo Paz to deploy the military against protesters.

Bolivian police and military forces have launched a joint operation to clear strike blockades in San Julián, Santa Cruz department, as a five-week general strike against neoliberalism continues to grip the country.

The crackdown came with full government backing — multiple ministers arrived for what was intended as a photo opportunity declaring victory over the movement.

Instead, entire communities mobilised, forcing security forces to retreat after more than four hours of sustained resistance on the highway.

The mobilisations, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz, have left at least ten people dead, 37 injured, and over a hundred facing prosecution, according to the Ombudsman's Office.

Meanwhile, in El Alto — the indigenous city encircling the capital — daily popular assemblies are being held where communities vote on strike strategy and assess the movement's progress. A new form of grass-roots democracy is taking shape on the streets.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside?

It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree."

It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed."

It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance."

It is not stupidity.

It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity.

It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins.

Not because the evidence is unclear.

But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high.

Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity.

The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is South Lebanon today.

Israel has now bombed Lebanon more than 3,500 times during a so-called “ceasefire.”

Read that again.

3,500 Israeli bombs dropped during a “ceasefire”.

[Samar Ali @samaraliwarsi]

Westerners bummed out that the only resistance to imperialism is a conservative theocracy are free to start resisting btw... Noone said american resistance has to be theocratic. It just doesn't have to be non-existent.

[Joseph Bouchard @GeopolWonk]

Bolivia: Video shows state security forces working with UJC, a fascist group. They use bazookas and explosives against protesters. One protester shot dead. Note that many in the UJC were jailed for terrorism and hate crimes, now released under this "moderate liberal government."

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

EX CIA LARRY JOHNSON SAYS IRAN & SAUDI HAD A PRIVATE TALK IN WHICH SAUDI TOLD IRAN TO HIT THE US KC-135 AIRCRAFTS AT PRINCE SULTAN AIRBASE

W/ @NewSonof, @RyLiberty & Anthony Aguilar

[Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo]

El progresismo acaba de ganar la presidencia del Perú y ha derrotado la fuerza más de extrema derecha de ese país, la que representan a la familia Fujimori.

Ha sido reivindicado Pedro Castillo por el mismo pueblo del Perú.

Restableceré completamente las relaciones diplomáticas y le solicitaré al nuevo presidente que iniciemos una fusión del Pacto Andino con Mercosur.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

We cannot and will not have a normal life as long as Israel exists. Not only anyone connected to West Asia - everyone in the entire world. Ending Zionism is our #1 most vital international objective. None will have dignity or a future before this objective is realized

[Peter Harrell @petereharrell]

The two best statistics in the WSJ’s genuinely great article on North Korea’s economic boom:

Pyongyang built more housing last year than LA. (Says something about CA housing dysfunction).

North Korea assembled more cellphones than the USA.

(Assuming the #s are true!)

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

Just finished reading Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and I had to stop and take a picture when I got to the famous line about the United States:

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Palestinians DID lay down their arms in 1982, then Israel & its proxies immediately unleashed the single biggest massacre in its history in those refugee camps

Sabra & Shatila: Over 3,500 civilians murdered. Pregnant women raped, disembowelled & their unborn babies killed!

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people"

Jewish journalist @kthalps

CC: LBC @lewis_goodall @hasanthehun

[Soureh 🟩☫🟥 @Soureh_design2]

Iran is the soul of this soulless world

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

"You cant be a human being and see these dead fucking kids, missing limbs, and not feel anger. Well God damn, I want it to stop.' @SStricklandMMA

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

Why do we love them so much?
Because we are one.
And you will never understand what that means until you fathom what it means to be sons and daughters of Haidar Ali pbuh.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BOOM BOOM TEL AVIV

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

The Israeli project of destroying Palestinian society in Gaza continues without pause. Rest in Peace Dina Mahmoud Al-Madhoun.

[Orlando Curioso @Orlando71156528]

🇵🇪 #ULTIMAHORA. Luego de terminar el 100% del conteo oficial, de las elecciones presidenciales del Perú, el candidato de izquierda Roberto Sánchez, vence a la candidata de la extrema derecha keiko fujimori, por un estrecho margen de 50.14% a 49.86%. Esto nos indica que en Colombia, tambien se puede. 🇨🇴 💪 👍 🎉

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

American journalists once made up a fictitious "Palestinian PLO leader" in Lebanon out of thin air, called him "Abu Rashid", & turned him into "the most quoted PLO commander in the entire middle east", b/c they couldn't/didn't want to interview real PLO leaders

Philip Caputo revealed this 3 decades later

Imagine how many "Abu Rashids" are widely quoted in mainstream media today!