Philippe B.

[🚶🏾‍♀️ @chrskte]

europe spent 400 years using slave labour in colonies to build their wealth, rebranded this extraction model in the 20th century and somehow their citizens still believe their social conditions is a result of some superior intellect rather than inhuman violence

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Hasbara is so gross because it's just Zionists throwing walls of language at you to convince you you're not seeing what you're seeing.

You see raw video footage of the most horrifying thing imaginable in Gaza, and then you see them in the replies going "This is actually fine and normal because words words words words words words words."

You see a news report about Israel doing something astonishingly evil in Lebanon, and there they are underneath it going "There's actually a lot more to the story because words words words words words words words."

You see some far right Israeli minister spouting nakedly genocidal rhetoric, and they're swarming all over it saying "Well this isn't actually what it looks like because words words words words words words words."

You see every major human rights group on earth saying Israel is guilty of genocide and apartheid, and they're running around frantically telling you it's a giant conspiracy to frame Israel and the truth is that words words words words words words words.

You see more and more mainstream news institutions reporting on the mountains of evidence of widespread rape and torture in Israeli prisons, and they saturate the airwaves claiming it's an antisemitic blood libel because words words words words words words words.

The idea is to just pound your intellect with a firehose of verbiage until your inner sensemaker has been shredded and you're too confused to form a coherent picture of what's actually going on. It's a disgusting, abusive, and profoundly unethical thing to do to people.

But the good news is it's not working anymore. Language is immensely powerful, but its power has its limits. Israel's behavior has become so transparently unacceptable that no amount of word magic can manipulate people into seeing anything other than what's happening in front of their face.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Benjamin Netanyahu is now holding the world hostage and openly admits he will not comply with any peace deal, instead moving forward with his Greater Israel agenda.

Netanyahu says he wants to control all of Gaza and will continue the war in Lebanon.

"We do not leave as long as Israel’s security arrangements are not in place."

It's time for Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested.

[Esteban. @Esban_]

Pendant ce temps en belgique :

[i Expose Racists & Pedos @SeeRacists]

🚨 UPDATE: 8 people charged in Sex Ring “Underground Bunker” for Paying adults to Rape their Children and Pets — Ages 3-16. Trial delayed as mom pleads guilty and flips on co-defendants

In Bibb County, Alabama, eight suspects ran a sex trafficking ring out of an underground bunker where children as young as 3 were drugged, bound, and raped with adults paying to abuse them.

Animals were also targeted.

Rebecca Brewer and mother of some of the victims, pleaded guilty to sexual torture and nine counts of first-degree kidnapping. As part of the deal she agreed to testify against the other seven defendants.

The trial for the remaining suspects has been delayed while the case expands, including a federal investigation into at least one of them.

These monsters turned their own kids and pets into victims for profit.

How long will it take for every last one of them to face real justice?

[ً @logredou]

La Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 vient de cogner le favori et 1er du classement fifa on est donc la meilleure équipe du monde

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Two things:

1. What a headline.

2. This should be leading news shows worldwide today. Ask yourself why it is not.

[Arkunir @Arkunir]

Charles Villa vient de sortir un documentaire ultra important sur Gaza, c'est filmé sur 2 ans comme un vlog par Suhail Nassar un journaliste Palestinien, il donne grave la parole aux enfants imo c'est à voir absolument et même à faire regarder autour de vous genre à vos darons

[RTEUrdu @RTEUrdu]

🔴 سوڈان کو مت بھولیں۔

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

Beacon of hope after long suffering: New camp opens for Gaza's orphans

Minas Al Jabbour reports from Gaza City.

Follow: https://t.co/mLGcUTSA3Q

[Cerfia @CerfiaFR]

🌍🧒👶 Aujourd’hui, c’est la journée mondiale contre l'esclavage des enfants. On estime que près de 158 millions d'enfants sont forcés de travailler, dont 1 million en mines ou chantiers de construction. 9 millions sont réduits en esclavage.

[h16 @_h16]

Tant que cette vidéo n'inondera pas les médias, la mairie de Paris continuera d'ignorer le problème.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel kidnapped and tortured a one-year-old child in front of his father for 10 hours, burning cigarettes and inserting nails into his legs, in an attempt to extract a false confession under duress.

Israel kidnapped and tortured a baby!

[Villy @Villymeta]

This argument rests on a set of assumptions that don’t hold up under historical or economic scrutiny.

First, colonialism wasn’t just “resource extraction”, it was the deliberate restructuring of societies to serve imperial markets, not local development. Colonized economies were engineered to export raw materials and import finished goods, destroying indigenous industry, food sovereignty, and institutional continuity. That structural dependency didn’t disappear when flags changed.

Second, the idea that formerly colonized countries were “handed fully functioning systems” is historically inaccurate. The infrastructure left behind in much of Africa and Latin America was narrow, extractive, and externally oriented, railways ran from mines to ports, not between cities; farms produced cash crops, not food security; administrative systems excluded the vast majority of the population from education and power. Those are not foundations for stable nation-states.

Third, pointing to Venezuela as proof that “resources don’t matter” confuses governance failures with historical context. Venezuela’s crisis is real, but it exists within a century of foreign intervention, oil dependency encouraged by global markets, sanctions, and boom-bust cycles tied to commodity extraction, again, a legacy of externally shaped development models.

Fourth, comparing Africa to Hong Kong or Singapore is a false equivalence. Those were small, strategically vital port cities, not vast, ethnically diverse regions carved into artificial borders with no regard for social cohesion. They also benefited from sustained investment, Cold War geopolitics, and continued integration into global finance on favorable terms. Africa did not.

Fifth, the claim that Europeans “tried to train locals but couldn’t find talent” ignores the reality that colonial systems actively restricted education, leadership pathways, and political participation. You can’t simultaneously suppress a population for centuries and then cite the absence of trained administrators as evidence of inherent incapacity.

Finally, no serious scholar argues that colonialism alone explains all modern poverty. Internal governance matters. Corruption matters. Policy choices matter. But pretending history ends at independence, and that countries start from a neutral baseline the moment colonizers leave, is not realism. It’s amnesia.

Acknowledging structural causes is not excusing failure. It’s recognizing that outcomes are shaped by starting conditions, incentives, and constraints, the same logic applied everywhere else in economics and history.

If the developing world were simply “incapable,” there wouldn’t be countless examples of post-colonial success once structural constraints were eased. The evidence points not to cultural incompetence, but to systems designed for extraction, not prosperity.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."

This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.

And Venezuela just threatened to end it.

Here's what really just happened:

Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.

The largest on Earth.

More than Saudi Arabia.

20% of the entire world's oil.

But here's the part that matters:

Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.

In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."

They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.

They were petitioning to join BRICS.

They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.

And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.

Why does this matter?

Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:

The petrodollar.

In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:

All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.

In exchange, America provides military protection.

This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.

This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.

It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.

The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.

And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:

2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.

2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.

The WMDs were never found because they never existed.

2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.

Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.

Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."

2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.

"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.

The gold dinar died with him.

And now Maduro.

With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.

Actively selling in yuan.

Building payment systems outside dollar control.

Petitioning to join BRICS.

Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.

The three countries leading global de-dollarization.

This isn't coincidence.

Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.

Every. Single. Time.

Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:

"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."

He's not hiding it.

They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.

By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."

But here's the DEEPER problem:

The petrodollar is already dying.

Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.

Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.

China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.

BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.

The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.

Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.

That's what this invasion is really about.

Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.

Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."

Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.

This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.

And the consequences are terrifying:

Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."

China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.

BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.

Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:

Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.

But here's the problem...

That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.

Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.

And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.

The timing is insane too:

January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.

January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.

36 years apart. Almost to the day.

Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.

Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.

History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.

What happens next:

Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.

US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."

The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.

Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.

But here's what nobody's asking:

What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?

When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?

When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?

When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?

America just showed its hand.

The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.

Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.

When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.

Venezuela isn't the beginning.

It's the desperate end.

What do you think?

[Kemi Seba Officiel @KemiSeba1]

Kemi Seba : « Le concept de développementalisme, tant vanté par les tyrans africains sponsorisés par l’Occident que sont Patrice Talon, Alassane Ouattara et autres, constitue la colonne vertébrale du néocolonialisme.
Cette notion est une construction idéologique née après 1945 pour organiser le sud global, selon les intérêts des puissances du Nord global.

Ce concept sert à légitimer une dépendance systémique de nos peuples vis-à-vis de leur monde, à travers la dette, les programmes d’ajustements structurels, et leur pseudo aide. Le développementalisme impose l’idée que l’Occident est le baromètre de l’Humanité et qu’il n’y a point de salut en dehors de cette civilisation.

Or, il existe des voies de perfectionnement endogène pour nos sociétés, qui s’appuient sur les principes d’économies communautaires, voire d’endo-solidarisme. Julius Nyerere parlait du concept de l’Ujamaa. Tout n’était pas parfait dans l’application de son idéologie, mais c’est sur cette voie que l’on doit creuser.
Il ne s’agit pas de faire croire que tout va bien dans nos pays, car c’est faux. Nous devons nous améliorer, mais selon nos propres voies.
Nous ne pourrons jamais nous élever en soumettant l’avenir de nos peuples au diktat des institutions de Bretton Woods.

Le développement détruit les fondements anthropologiques africains.
Des principes tels que la famille élargie, la communauté et l’économie enracinée sont perçus comme archaïques afin d’imposer l’individualisme consumériste.
C’est un déracinement programmé.

L’Africain ne doit pas l’accepter.
Quand Patrice Talon, Ouattara ou d’autres vous montrent de beaux immeubles, surfant sur la faiblesse de trop des nôtres pour le matérialisme, vous devriez vous demander concrètement à qui servent ces infrastructures, si ce n’est à une bourgeoisie africaine compradore qui sert, comme son nom l’indique, beaucoup plus les intérêts de l’extérieur, au détriment de son propre peuple, à l’intérieur de nos pays. »

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Grok: show me a deeply sick society…

[La Côte d’Ivoire Est Chic @Cotedivoireoff_]

Le Programme de société du Candidat Ahoua Don Mello ⤵️

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