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[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.

[antifa honeypot @mformorphine]

must be so blissful being a lib, no ideological framework for why things happen, no coherent understanding of history or economics, just individual issues that you interpret solely based on vibes

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Ultimately what separates the anti-imperialist left from mainstream liberal "humanitarians" is whether you're in it for humanity or for yourself.

For the liberal, wanting peace and justice is more of an abstraction than a desire to fight the concrete power structures responsible for the lack of peace and justice in our world.

If you're a liberal you oppose the idea of children being killed and starved in the abstract, because thinking of yourself as a moral person allows you to feel nice feelings about yourself, but you have no interest in taking a well-defined stand against the empire which routinely kills and starves children via genocides, wars of aggression, and siege warfare.

You don't want families living in poverty because it would make you feel like a bad person if you did, but you also don't take a concrete stand against the capitalist system whose very existence depends on the perpetual creation of poverty and scarcity.

You kinda-sorta want everyone to have happy and plentiful lives free from fear and tyranny, but you don't want to consider the possibility that your own country is responsible for abusing, terrorizing and exploiting the global south. Because that would make you feel uncomfortable feelings.

It's not about wanting to actually help humanity and fix the world's problems, it's about you and your feelings.

Those who oppose the capitalist empire are actually interested in bringing health and harmony to our species. They do not shy away from uncomfortable truths about their own government's abuses, the dystopian nature of western civilization, or the way their own creature comforts are built on the backs of workers in impoverished countries. Because for them it's not about feeling nice feelings, it's about creating a better world.

The western anti-imperialist has no problem recognizing that their own society is the main villain on the world stage, because they're actually looking at the sources of the abuses and injustices in our world. The liberal "humanitarian" prefers to see evil only in foreign regimes, because being the bad guy doesn't feel nice.

The western anti-imperialist recognizes that both mainstream political parties in their country promote the warmongering, militarism, capitalist exploitation and imperialist extraction which sustain the western empire, and they oppose the abuses of both parties whoever happens to be in office. The liberal "humanitarian" only recognizes wrongdoing in one mainstream political faction while proudly supporting and voting for the other, because this allows them to feel like they're helping.

The western anti-imperialist accepts that standing on the morally correct side means eating loss after loss and receiving disappointment after disappointment, because the push for revolutionary change is swimming directly against the current imposed on every institution in our society. The liberal "humanitarian" feels nice feelings about their position because their side wins elections half the time, while smugly sneering at those to their left who never get their people into office.

The western anti-imperialist will stare unflinching into the carnage from Palestine, Lebanon and Iran, feeling all the anguish and rage from witnessing those atrocities supported by their own nation. The liberal "humanitarian" tries to avoid looking at those things, because their entire worldview is built upon psychologically compartmentalizing away from reality in order to prioritize their own feelings.

Basically it's the difference between actually BEING a good person and just wanting to FEEL like you're a good person. The former is hard, while the latter is easy.

Which one do you want to be?

[Bikrum Gill @bikrumsinghgill]

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Under capitlaism, imperialism subsidizes credit/consumption across all classes. If US imperialism falls, it will negatively impact all classes if prevailing order remains capitalist, but contradiction is that it will open space for "internal" class and national struggle 1/

[Tarek Baé @Tarek_Bae]

It is the year 2025. The Israel lobbyist and former member of the German Bundestag, Hartmut Ebbing (FDP), is caught with videos of sexual violence against children. According to the prosecution, he even distributed them.

He then writes a letter to the Berlin public prosecutor’s office and the Tiergarten district court. In the letter, Ebbing asks that no public trial be scheduled. Among other reasons, he cites his prominence, but more importantly: to prevent damage to the German-Israeli Society. The German-Israeli Society (DIG) is the most influential and aggressive pro-Israel lobbying group in Germany, which describes itself as “pro-Zionist” and, according to Reporters Without Borders, exerts pressure on the German press not to report critically on Israel. Hartmut Ebbing is a board member and treasurer of this organization.

The state agreed and, in February 2025, sentenced him without public proceedings to just 10 months’ probation, and he remained treasurer of the DIG. The public did not hear about any of this.

However, Ebbing later had to appear in court again. Once more for child sexual abuse offenses. He is alleged to have abused a 7-year-old child together with the child’s mother, his partner at the time, a teacher. The Braunschweig Regional Court sentenced him in March to two years and ten months in prison. The partner was also convicted.

In his earlier letter to the Berlin judiciary, Ebbing referred to “October 7th” and emphasized that it was important to prevent damage to the German-Israeli Society, reports Die Zeit. In this way, Ebbing invoked the “but Hamas” argument in a case of child abuse.

Only after the second charge in Braunschweig became public, nearly a year after the first conviction, did Ebbing leave his party FDP and step down from his position as treasurer of the DIG. For almost a year, a convicted pedophile managed the finances of the pro-Israel lobbying group, which is largely funded by German taxpayer money. The state continued to channel funds into the DIG. In 2025 alone, despite Ebbing’s conviction, the DIG received around one million euros in taxpayer money from the federal government and the state of Berlin.

Had Ebbing not been charged again in Braunschweig, much of this might never have come to light. And he might still be using German taxpayer money to advocate for Israeli actions.

In the DIG’s “Bremer Declaration” of September 2024, Hartmut Ebbing called for Israel to “completely conquer” Gaza, for calls to boycott Israel to be criminalized, for Germany to supply weapons to Israel, and even for mosques and media critical of Israel to potentially be shut down or banned.

These are anti-democratic and inhumane positions, though not unusual within the DIG.

Although Ebbing had been convicted for nearly a year for possession and distribution of child pornography, both the DIG and the FDP claim they were unaware of it. In a press release, the DIG stated it was “shocked” by the allegations and distanced itself from Ebbing. Despite the prior conviction, Ebbing remained for months, until the very end, the second most important figure on the DIG’s website.

According to the DIG, during his time in the Bundestag Ebbing also served on boards of trustees of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum Foundation. In doing so, he was part of bodies that help shape political connections, funding decisions, and public debates around Holocaust remembrance.

In short, Ebbing was one of those who sought to define for the country what constitutes antisemitism and what does not. That he was in no way qualified for this, and indeed entirely lacking in character, was never considered relevant.

Ebbing, a father of three, was born in Berlin, served as an FDP member of the Bundestag from 2019 to 2021, is Protestant, and, as a member of parliament, claimed to advocate for youth protection. His primary profession was as a tax advisor.

[Radhika Desai @RadDesai]

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[📜真名 @zhen_ming_]

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[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

The Strength of Iran's Retaliation Is overwhelming the Entire Middle East

Iran has been relentlessly attacking various American bases across the Middle East and is escalating its strikes to include airports in those countries. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are facing continuous bombardment from Iranian forces, who appear to show no fear of any potential retaliation.

Just this morning, Iran already launched hundreds of missiles against Israel and Gulf countries, yet those nations still seem hesitant to retaliate, intimidated by the sheer force and scale of Iran's attacks.

Barrages of missiles have struck Israel multiple times, completely overwhelming air defenses on this night..

The Iranian regime appears to have prepared thoroughly for the coalition's attacks, by decentralizing its command structures and with innovative tactics for missile launches.

They are fighting for their very survival, which has produced a response far more intense than the United States and Israel anticipated.

The problems posed by the intensity of Iran's attacks are twofold:

1. The coalition has so far been unable to neutralize or significantly degrade Iran's missile launch capabilities.

2. At the current rate, interceptor stocks that previously would have lasted 15–20 days may now be depleted in just 10 days.

This is a serious issue, as it could force the United States into signing a ceasefire while bearing immense political damage from the conflict.

Why does the current scenario cause so much concern?

Because this type of war, intense aerial missile attrition, is precisely where the US and Israel hold a traditional advantage.

However, if the conflict escalates to the naval domain, where the US currently has only one carrier strike group in the region, the environment could become highly unfavorable.

Today, all of Israel's submarines have sortied. It is unclear whether they headed to a protected location or are transiting the Suez Canal to engage Iran.

Also today, an Iranian frigate was damaged in port by what appears to have been a maritime missile or a drone-launched strike.

This seems to mark the opening of the naval phase of the war that we are likely to witness in the coming days

[gha*da 𓋹 @ghayo0da]

Things you need to know before moving to Dubai
- The UAE was known as “the desert of Oman” as a state, it was propped up by the UK in 1971. Making it only 54 years old.
- The reason the country developed very quickly is for a number of reasons
1. They used slavery for their infrastructure and still use slave labour from Africans and South Asians to maintain their wealth.
2. Their resources, agriculture, minerals and more were stolen from countries in Africa and some in the Middle East, such as Yemen.
3. They are complicit in several acts of destruction and destabilization in the global south. Strongly allied with imperialist states such as the UK and the USA.
- Their government is filled with raging Zionists who not only normalize with Israel, but go above and beyond to help them actively commit genocide against Palestinians. Buying houses in Palestine and then selling them to Israeli settlers, sending spyware disguised as aid to Lebanon, increased their daily flights on their airlines to Israel when other airlines were cancelling theirs and SO MUCH MORE.
- AND LAST BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST!! They are behind the worlds largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in recorded history. Killing 400k+ Sudanese people by funding and protecting the terrorist RSF.

By willingly choosing to move to Dubai, you are essentially saying you are okay with genocide(s), slavery and the deaths of millions of people, still happening as we speak. Your need for “luxury” and materialism will get you no where.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: New Epstein emails reveal how Epstein, Barak & Thiel plotted Assad’s overthrow, arming ISIS and Jolani’s HTS to turn Syria into chaos.

[IPSA @ipsa_aisp]

Decolonization and Regime Change in Asia
https://t.co/NCfeAhVmrx

[0live 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇺 ⚢ 🐇🐈🦌 @0liviaolive]

The Democratic Party: For a kinder, gentler, more humane form of ethnic cleansing.

[Bae Guevara @Kaimandante]

Liberals desperately cling to the fantasy that Trump is the singular cause of this madness while we watch Dems cooperate, collaborate & capitulate.

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

this is nothing new. it’s exactly the same as what happened in weimar germany.

liberalism cannot meet the demands of the people because it tries & inevitably fails to straddle the widening contradictions in capitalism. this allows fascists to divert attention onto easy targets.

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

In deutschen Supermärkten und auf Fachmessen werden Weine aus israelischen Siedlungen als „israelisch“ vermarktet. Das normalisiert die Besatzung & Apartheid in palästinensischen Gebieten. Die Ergebnisse meiner monatelangen Recherche sind jetzt online @fr
https://t.co/widom6BcWa

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

hey @KhaledBeydoun why were you paid $2,040,887 to fundraise for Human Appeal (501c3) for Gaza initiatives in 2024?

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[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Kissinger won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize

He orchestrated Secret US bombings in Cambodia killing 100,000s

He prolonged the Vietnam war for political gain — 100,000s more dead

He orchestrated covert ops to overthrow Chile’s democracy

All before he won

Fuck the Nobel Prize

[★☭MassStrikeNow☭★ @strike_dr]

I beg you deeply and sincerely to read the below text by Lenin. If I mean anything at all to you - PLEASE READ THIS!!! I will ne'er endure another election cycle if everyone collectively forgets everything they’ve ever learned about the Democrats when they pick their next horse.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The Nobel Committee has decided to make the case for Trump’s war on Venezuela, giving its “Peace Prize” to Maria Corina Machado, a US govt-funded regime change activist who’s helped lead failed military coups, violent street riots, and has likely promised her country’s oil and mineral wealth to a consortium of MAGA aligned billionaires in exchange for financing her political arsonism. This icon of peace has even appealed to Benjamin Netanyahu to help her lead a military invasion of Venezuela.

Maria Corina Machado is a marionette for Marco Rubio, a creation of the CIA-sponsored Gusano Industrial Complex that has brought violent terror and siege to any Latin American country defying the Washington Consensus of privatization and austerity, and a would-be Pinochet in a skirt.

Machado has spent years lobbying for US and EU starvation sanctions on her own country, resulting in waves of migration to the US, fueling the nativist resentment that gave rise to Trump. When Trump shipped Venezuelan migrants to a torture camp in El Salvador this year, Machado predictably sided with Trump, the main sponsor of her putchist career, over her countrymen.

Giving the Nobel to Machado is a green light for regime change war on Venezuela, and then Cuba. But the decision is consistent with the Committee’s role as a soft power instrument of Western empire. Just recall its award to Obama at the beginning of his first term, granting him infinite legitimacy in advance of his destruction of Libya, escalation of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facilitation of Gaza’s decimation. Given that nothing has happened in Machado’s career without the support and guidance of Washington, the Committee’s decision must be seen as the result of another Western op - a coup in Oslo to pave the way for one in Caracas.

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

And that, folks, is a blanket lie. Don’t let Germany get away with this.