Strider Destruction

ANTI-CAPITAL-ANTI-COLONIAL

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The streaming subscription is not a small thing.

It is the perfected endpoint of a very long project.

The project: take a population with genuine revolutionary potential, young, indebted, with declining living standards and growing awareness of structural inequality, and redirect its energy from collective action to individual consumption.

Give it prestige television about dystopia so it can feel the feeling of resistance without doing the thing of resistance.

Give it prestige television about empire and revolution so it can feel the feeling of being on the right side of history from a couch, having paid a monthly fee to do so.

Give it social media so its outrage can be expressed, validated, liked, and dissipated in the same twenty-minute cycle, without ever accumulating into anything an institution needs to respond to.

Give it delivery apps so it never has to enter a public space where it might encounter other people in similar conditions and begin to understand them as potential allies rather than strangers.

The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will be turned into content.

The content will be monetized.

The proceeds will go to the shareholders.

You will be invited to rate your experience.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There's a reason the American antiwar movement of the 1960s and 70s was the most significant domestic political crisis the American empire faced in the twentieth century.

It was not just Americans feeling bad about a war.

It was Americans beginning to see the machine from the inside at the same moment the Vietnamese were dismantling it from the outside.

The Vietnamese resistance created the conditions for American soldiers to come home changed. Radicalized. Willing to testify. Willing to name names. Willing to describe, in public, in their own words, what had been done in their name with their bodies.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

These were not academics. Not intellectuals. Not comfortable critics.

These were the kids from the deindustrialized towns who had been handed the rifle and the story.

And they came back with something the story could not survive contact with.

Experience.

The Vietnamese resistance, by holding on, by refusing to be defeated on the timeline the empire required, gave those soldiers enough time to see.

Enough time to understand.

Enough time to come home and tell the truth.

Vietnam fought for Vietnam.

And in fighting long enough and hard enough, it gave some of the people sent to destroy it the chance to save themselves.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Marco Rubio: "Si no enfrentamos el socialismo y lo derrotamos, destruirá este país."

Soldados de EEUU: "Me alisté al ejército de EEUU por pobreza, el estado nos ofrece atención médica, vivienda; ofrecen a los soldados socialismo para ir al extranjero a defender el capitalismo".

[Camsiyo @Camsiyonna1]

Two men from opposite worlds. One road trip. A friendship that changed everything.
Green Book🎬 hits different every time

[Richard @ricwe123]

China laying bare the brutal facts:

Donald Trump:
"It is costing us $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz"

China's Foreign Minister:
"The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal operations against Iran; you created a global crisis out of nothing"

[Strider Destruction @SHINOBIADEPT]

This should be a federal law

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Montana is the only United States state to enshrine Indigenous education in its constitution.

Adopted in 1972, Article X of the Montana Constitution recognizes the distinct and unique cultural heritage of American Indians. It commits the state through its educational system to the preservation of their cultural integrity.

This constitutional provision laid the groundwork for the Indian Education for All initiative. Under Montana law every public school student whether Native or non Native is required to learn about the distinct histories and cultures of American Indians in a culturally responsive manner. Public school employees must also receive the necessary knowledge and resources to deliver this instruction accurately.

The curriculum goes beyond presenting Native people solely as figures from history. It incorporates the histories cultures governments languages and contemporary experiences of Montana tribal nations. Schools are encouraged to collaborate with tribes when developing appropriate educational materials.

Montana is home to 12 tribal nations and seven reservations making Native history an integral part of the state identity. For decades however many students received minimal instruction about the peoples whose nations predated the formation of Montana as a state.

Several other states including Washington have enacted laws requiring the teaching of tribal history and sovereignty. Montana stands apart because its commitment is embedded in the state constitution rather than relying solely on legislation.

[Strider Destruction @SHINOBIADEPT]

And it later came out that bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unnecessary too

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

LINDSAY GRAHAM WANTED ISRAEL TO DROP NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON GAZA

US Senator Lindsay Graham died on 12 July 2026 at the age of 71.

There is an Arabic proverb that translates as, "A bad reputation outlives its owner." For many of his critics, that saying captures how Lindsay Graham will be remembered. His political legacy and comments like the one in this video, will continue to shape how he is viewed long after his death.

A leading foreign policy hawk, Graham was one of the strongest advocates for military intervention abroad and one of Israel's closest allies in the U.S. Congress. Most recently, his justification for the use of nuclear weapons on G*za, drew widespread international condemnation. He was also a vocal supporter of harsher sanctions and military action against Iran. He was also one of numerous American politicians mentioned in the Epstein files further adding controversy to his legacy.

Critics argue his Graham will be defined by support for war, interventionist foreign policy, and unwavering backing of Israel during the genoc*de in G*za.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

In "What Is To Be Done?", Lenin made a famous distinction between "spontaneous" anger and "revolutionary consciousness."

Lenin argued that left to themselves, the working class would only develop "trade-union consciousness" which is the spontaneous desire for better pay or shorter hours within the existing system. This anger is volatile; if the boss gives them a small raise, the anger dissipates.

To actually transform society, the workers needed "revolutionary consciousness", which is the understanding that the entire capitalist system must be dismantled and replaced.

Lenin argued that this deep understanding must be brought to the working class by a highly disciplined, politically educated core.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

How the CIA interfered in Nigeria’s intellectual development to prevent socialist class consciousness.

In the 1960s, when Capitalist America was locked in a high-stakes Cold War with the Soviet Union, the CIA was completely terrified that newly independent African intellectuals, fresh off the heels of throwing off European colonial chains, would naturally embrace Soviet communism, Marxist-Leninist class analysis, and radical anti-capitalist revolutions against their former Western colonizers. Instead of deploying fighter jets, heavy artillery, and ballistic missiles to fight this specific ideological battle, the CIA masterfully weaponized money, art, academic funding, and literature. Their calculated goal was to gently, subliminally steer the brightest African minds toward Western liberal democracy, competitive individualism, and free-market capitalism, and decisively away from revolutionary, socialist class consciousness.

The CIA obviously could not openly hand over dollar bills to proud Nigerian writers, because this was the fiery era of sovereign, anti-colonial struggles against Western imperialism, and absolutely no self-respecting, anti-colonial intellectual would ever accept direct funding from Washington. So, the CIA brilliantly funneled millions of dollars through a highly sophisticated, covert front organization called the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), and a philanthropic shell foundation called the Farfield Foundation. Operating out of its luxurious headquarters in Paris, the CCF presented itself as a wealthy, independent, and progressive organization dedicated strictly to promoting "freedom of expression", sponsoring literary magazines, and supporting avant-garde artists worldwide. In reality, every single cent of its operational budget was directed, controlled, and funded by the CIA.

To prevent militant, socialist networks from ever forming on the continent, the CIA recognized that it needed to build, control, and monopolize the physical platforms where African intellectuals gathered, ensuring these spaces were firmly, safely aligned with Western interests. In 1961, the historic Mbari Club was founded in the university town of Ibadan, Nigeria. It rapidly became the most vibrant, electrifying, and celebrated center for literature, theater, poetry, and visual arts in West Africa. It served as the ultimate gathering place for Nigeria's rising literary titans, including Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, and J.P. Clark. What these brilliant, fiercely patriotic young Nigerians did not know was that the Mbari Club was heavily, consistently subsidized by the CIA through the Farfield Foundation and the CCF. By secretly funding the lease of the building, the publishing costs of their journals, the travel allowances of the writers, and the logistics of their events, the CIA successfully ensured that the very epicenter of Nigerian intellectual life was tied to Western patronage and not Soviet sponsorship.

This initial reality does seem highly counterintuitive and paradoxical because it was inside this exact Mbari Club that some of the most powerful, enduring Pan-African thoughts were conceived. Chinua Achebe published "Things Fall Apart", which contained a powerful anti-colonial consciousness that permanently shattered the racist Western propaganda claiming Africans had no history, culture, or civilization prior to the arrival of white men with their gunboats. Additionally, Wole Soyinka wrote "A Dance of the Forests" to sharply interrogate the political hubris of the newly independent political class, Christopher Okigbo composed his prophetic, avant-garde modernist poetry, and J.P. Clark captured the visceral human textures of local life. These monumental, anti-colonial Pan-African works were successfully produced largely because the CIA did not openly tell Nigerian writers what to write, or try to dictate their creative processes.

If the CIA had literally walked into the Mbari Club in Ibadan and tried to explicitly dictate, censor, or micromanage the conversations, brilliant, uncompromising minds like Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe would have rejected them and thrown them out immediately. Instead, the CIA brilliantly used its funding to act as a silent, invisible gatekeeper. They did not have to physically silence, ban, or arrest radical Marxist writers. They simply, strategically made sure that the non-Marxist, liberal writers had the biggest megaphones, the widest distribution networks, and the highest international platforms. By quietly funding the Mbari Club's rent, covering their publishing costs, and bankrolling their international travel to prestigious global conferences, the CIA successfully ensured that writers who focused on individualism, local culture, and bourgeois aesthetics became celebrated global superstars. Meanwhile, radical writers who focused on working-class solidarity, anti-capitalist struggles, and socialist revolutions remained underfunded, unpublished, and completely obscure.
The CIA in the 1960s was perfectly fine with, and even actively promoted, anti-colonialism, cultural negritude, and African artistic pride. What they were absolutely terrified of was class warfare. They desperately wanted to steer African intellectuals toward Cultural Nationalism (the safe, performative celebration of African identity) and decisively away from Marxist Socialism (which involved organizing, educating, and arming the peasantry to overthrow capitalist structures).

The CIA could care less how the newly independent African celebrated their tribal heritage, and whatever beautiful poetry they wrote about the glory of their ancestors was none of their business. They would happily, enthusiastically promote you even if you fiercely criticized European racism, British colonialism, or white supremacy. They could easily tolerate all of these cultural protests so long as Nigeria's massive oil wealth, raw resources, and cash crops continued to flow to Western capitals completely uninterrupted. What they were absolutely terrified of, and heavily, invisibly censored, was class consciousness. Writers who explored socialist ideas, class struggle, and anti-capitalist revolutions were simply not eligible for Western funding, international distribution, or global marketing, which successfully ensured that their works were buried completely away from public view. This was because they knew that if the African working class were enlightened about Marxist thought, they would immediately rebel against the local comprador class, organize general strikes, and dismantle the entire capitalist system that has reduced them to peasants in their own homeland. It is also critically important to emphasize that the CIA was perfectly happy to see the Mbari Club uplift the colonized African. This is because the primary motive for spending millions of dollars funding the Mbari Club was absolutely not about stopping the intellectual "uplifting" of Africans, but rather about completely controlling how they were uplifted.

It is crucial to note that the young Nigerian writers were completely unwitting, innocent participants. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, and others had absolutely no idea that their creative sanctuary was secretly being funded by American intelligence agents.
In 1967, courageous investigative journalists exposed the fact that the CCF and the Farfield Foundation were actually covert CIA fronts. African intellectuals across the continent felt deeply betrayed, humiliated, and outraged. However, by that time, the CIA's covert mission had already largely succeeded: the foundational, defining era of post-colonial Nigerian literature and intellectual thought had been established, funded, and firmly anchored in Western liberal traditions, successfully steering an entire generation of our greatest thinkers completely away from Soviet socialism.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Hugo Chavez was the best thing to happen to Venezuela, he took extreme poverty from 67% to just 6% in a decade.

He was so successful in fact that the USA decided they had to destroy Venezuela or they would lose South America to Socialism.

That is what actually happened.

[pjlo @BlackCatrachoBK]

17 Books to Understand the Black History of Latin America https://t.co/yjQa1O4t52

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

NEW: 🚨 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 AMERICA IS BLOCKING DISASTER RELEIF IN VENEZUELA

Venezuela has just suffered the strongest two earthquakes since 1900.

1,400 are dead. THOUSANDS are still buried.

And the rescue attempt is being BLOCKED.

It was already bad enough that Venezuela has been systematically bankrupted by US sanctions for over a decade.

But now aid organisations are warning that the U.S. is BLOCKING the international money transfers needed to pay rescue workers and move supplies.

How can anyone support such evil foreign policy?

I’m seeing people like Nick Fuentes and zoomer historian whipping up the white supremacist crowds that such cruelty is epic and based. Disgusting.

[Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo]

The US and EU are sitting on over $30 billion of Venezuela’s own frozen assets while its people are buried under rubble. Sending aid is not enough. Lift every sanction now. Those same sanctions have for years blocked the heavy equipment needed to dig people out.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nicolás Maduro is being kept in solitary confinement, locked in a 6ft by 10ft room for more than 23 hours a day

All because he wouldn't let Donald Trump steal Venezuela's oil

The silence from the international community is deafening

They don't care about US/Israeli War Crimes

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is genuinely shocking, and says so much about our approach to China.

I decided to check for independent reviews of the English version Xi Jinping's latest book, published a year ago, to see what people had to say about it since I hadn't read it myself.

To my surprise, I couldn't find any: not a single thoughtful review about the book out there! Even on Amazon, check it for yourself (https://t.co/1LVlhACA53): the book has only 3 ratings, that's it.

No matter where you stand on China, you’ve got to admit that’s pretty crazy: the sitting president of the world's rising superpower publishes a 700-page book explaining exactly what he's doing and why, and we don’t even care to look.

If there ever was a fact that illustrates just how willfully ignorant we are about China, this is it.

All the more because we then go spew the usual clichés around how secretive and impenetrable the Chinese system is: the book is on Amazon for $21 for crying out loud!

Anyhow, this felt so wrong that I figured I'd fix it. I bought the book, read it attentively and wrote what I hope you'll agree is a thoughtful review of it.

The book contains genuinely surprising passages, such as Xi writing that oversight of the Communist Party by "the judiciary, the public, and the media" was not just something the Party must “readily accept,” but something that he framed as historically decisive - an essential component to "escaping the historical cycle of rise and fall" that has doomed every dynasty in China's history.

Other passage that I'm sure would surprise many: a common narrative out there is that China blames the West for the century of humiliation and is driven by revenge. Well, Xi explains that's not true at all: the century of humiliation was China's own mistake, originated in the Ming Dynasty's disastrous "policy of national seclusion" that "resulted in China missing out on the opportunities presented by the Industrial Revolution" and "led to China’s decline."

All in all, the book is remarkably self-reflective and thoughtful. For instance Xi recognizes that his drive for “full and rigorous internal governance” - including to rid the Party of corruption - risked "instill[ing] fear and apprehension, or intimidate members into inaction.” He emphasizes the need for pragmatism in this regard, codified in a framework called the “Three Distinctions” that separates honest mistakes - made while experimenting, reforming, or operating without precedent - from deliberate violations committed for personal gain.

And many other surprises still. I found it a genuinely fascinating read for anyone interested in how the Chinese system works and how Xi thinks - or anyone interested in governance, period, as so much of what he writes is pretty universally applicable.

This is the link to my review of the book, an article I titled "The Book the West Refuses to Read": https://t.co/DYowWEESOd

[Dr. Bipolar Marxist🪶☭26 @Dr_Marxist_27]

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Claudia Jones was exiled and lived in London. She is buried on the left of Karl Marx.

With her contributions to Marxism and even being buried next to him, her work is overlooked.

Just like her tombstone.

[International League of Peoples' Struggle @ILPS_Official]

Listen to Jose Maria Sison’s explanation of the origins of ILPS at its Founding Assembly in 2001! As our people's struggles for national liberation and socialism rage on, there is pressing need to build an international anti-imperialist united front more than ever!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American spiritual crisis is this:

They have been given substitutes for every real thing.

Substitute grief: the movie, the memorial, the museum for someone else's genocide.

Substitute courage: the superhero, the soldier, the founding myth.

Substitute conscience: the charity, the awareness ribbon, the repost.

Each substitute is close enough to the real thing to satisfy the hunger without requiring what the real thing requires.

Which is cost.

Which is change.

Which is the willingness to look at what was done and remain looking until something in you is permanently altered.

The substitutes prevent the alteration.

That is their purpose.