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[SizweLo @SizweLo]

The primary cause of SA’s astronomical unemployment is the lack of an industrial policy.

The more manufacturing shrank, the higher unemployment rose.
The government gave corporations carte blanche to build world-class malls instead of factories, now they’re all acting surprised.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Michael Parenti (1933-2026):

‘The free market mythology argues that the most ruthless, selfish, opportunistic, greedy, calculating plunderers, applying the most heartless measures in cold blooded pursuit of corporate interests and wealth accumulation, will produce the best results for all of us through something called the invisible hand.’

[leila @ainiladra]

more than a quarter of a million people were following @aryjeay's account, one of the most informative about political developments in iran & the region ... hoping this is a massive error on x's part & will be rectified shortly

[الأخ الكبير @BIG__Brother7]

One of the biggest and best Iranian accounts pushing back against Western narratives and countering enemy propaganda got suspended.

Luckily, he's got a backup—please follow @AryJeayBackup and show him support by asking X to reinstate his main.

[SizweLo @SizweLo]

Howard Nicholas: The criticism is always that African leaders are corrupt, Africans are lazy and less capable.

Westerners always deflect attention from the real reason for underdevelopment: Africa has had to be blocked on the industrialisation path

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

There is something surreal about our government-appointed “experts” speaking about the threat to freedom of navigation. The U.S. attacks boats off the coast of Venezuela and imposes a blockade on both Venezuela and Cuba. NATO countries are currently engaged in a campaign of piracy and attacks on Russian ships. Iranian tankers have been hijacked for years.

International law is essentially a set of agreements based on mutual constraints, where predictability depends on reciprocity. You cannot exempt yourself from the rules and then expect compliance from the other side. The West has for years acted like rogue states, and they that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸/IRAN/🇨🇳NEW VIDEO: Day 11: A US War on Iran is a US War on China - US “Distant Blockade” Placed on China

On YouTube: https://t.co/R4XOlBZzNo

▪️the US war on Iran has effectively cut Middle Eastern energy exports to China triggering a countdown on China’s 100 day reserves;

▪️China has been rushing toward energy independence presenting the US with a closing window of opportunity to cut off and starve China economically as part of a long-planned “distant blockade;”

▪️The US is already surging additional forces into the region ensuring the conflict continues throughout the 100 days China’s reserves will last;

▪️The US has already invaded Venezuela and is attacking Russian energy production and exports to cut them off from China;

▪️This plan has been laid out and pursued since the Bush Jr. administration leading up to the “Arab Spring” and the subsequent encirclement of Iran, Russia, and now China;

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇮🇱The US is not Fighting Iran "For Israel"

Western empire going back to Roman times sought control of the Middle East in pursuit of greater primacy.

The British Empire sought control over the region in pursuit of GLOBAL primacy - and the US has simply picked up where the British left off.

The US seeks primacy over the ENTIRE planet - the Middle East is part of the planet - thus the US seeks primacy over the Middle East as well as the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Israel was a joint US-British creation as a means of facilitating this regional control just as both nations have created proxies around the globe throughout history up to and including now with nations like Ukraine, the island province of Taiwan, etc.

The US seeks control over the Middle East to control its oil - specifically to deny it to China. This is a stated objective spanning years of policy papers. It also seeks to topple Iran as a member of the multipolar world as a means of whittling it down.

If/When the US topples Iran it will then pivot to further encircling Russia and China.

ALL of these conflicts are connected - including through the US strategy of using regional proxies to advance its interests.

In Europe it is Ukraine, in the Middle East is it Israel, Jordan, and the Persian Gulf states, in Asia-Pacific it is the island province of Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines.

For those citing munition shortages and other symptoms of US imperial overreach during this current conflict as "proof" it is suffering instead at the expense of "Israel" - munition shortages and energy crises began with the US proxy war in Ukraine years earlier.

Some other facts:

AIPAC spending is dwarfed by US arms manufacturing lobbying alone saying nothing of big-oil, big-pharma, big-tech etc.;

Israel is entirely dependent on US arms, munitions, joint military industrial production, air and missile defenses, ISR, and both political and financial support - support that Israel would blow away in the wind without;

Last year the US literally used Israel to trigger its war on Iran to absorb the blame and retaliation in full from the resulting conflict - as per US policy papers proposing doing so as early as 2009;

This year Israel again absorbs the brunt of the retaliation - and thanks to useful idiots - sole blame for the conflict instead of Wall Street and Washington;

IMPORTANT: Pointing this out does not somehow "defend Israel" or negate Israel's crimes any more than Ukraine being a US proxy negates its many and multiplying crimes.

The US and its proxies are all guilty.

It is important to hold EVERYONE involved in injustice accountable.

It is most important to deal with a global threat at its root and that root lies in Wall Street and Washington - not an artificially created country completely dependent on both.

[The Communists @CPGBML]

"Every dollar is sullied with the filth of “profitable” war contracts, which in every country made the rich richer and the poor poorer. And every dollar is stained with blood—from that ocean of blood that has been shed by the ten million killed and twenty million maimed in the great, noble, liberating and holy war to decide whether the British or the German robbers are to get most of the spoils, whether the British or the German thugs are to be foremost in throttling the weak nations all over the world."

V. I. Lenin
Letter To American Workers
20 August, 1918

Of course they hate us https://t.co/571S3O8ypl

[Gracchus Babeuf #SiempreMaradona @GBabeuf]

"Analysts" truly are the dumbest MFers on the planet. Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria: they've been more than prepared for the consequences every time, and it's been to their enormous benefit every single time.

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

@apoplexual https://t.co/CLKrWpUj7A full speech here

[Jeff Wells @JeffWellsRigInt]

It's not by chance that Michael Parenti videos are rare and of poor resolution, but you can get Chomsky in 4KHD saying voting Democrat is a revolutionary act and the unvaccinated ought to be in concentration camps.

[Hugo Turner @hugoturner1969]

R.I.P. Michael Parenti one of the few American intellectuals who didn’t sell out or go insane
Michael Parenti "Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism" Santa Rosa,1996 https://t.co/j8bk6C2iYI via @YouTube

[helix @_hg_x]

Turtles all the way down https://t.co/K8JXT9KFud

[Roya News English @RoyaNewsEnglish]

Shocking footage from a Speedway gas station in St. Paul, Minnesota, shows U.S. Border Patrol agents smashing a car window and dragging a man from his vehicle during a federal immigration enforcement operation.
The incident, recorded on January 11, comes as hundreds of federal agents have been deployed to the Twin Cities amid rising tensions and protests following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer.

[helix @_hg_x]

@LuckyMontana_ZA https://t.co/X1lwmE9bUo

[helix @_hg_x]

#Democracy: Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Rothschild etc select South Africa's Finance Minister https://t.co/4RX3IpFKsi

[helix @_hg_x]

@clinjar Your definition of "brainrot" sounds what they tell me is ADHD...

[helix @_hg_x]

@RadioGenoa Meritocracy

[helix @_hg_x]

@Kinso04 @Morris_Monye Same 2 here. Like me you were probably using Opera Mini when you created your account.

[Sam Husseini 4 MD-04 - Peace means affordability @samhusseini]

China and Russia also failed to veto the resolutions which targeted Iraq, Libya and Syria. The US took out every Arab country which could have stood up.

[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

Dear everyone trying to do mental somersaults to justify Russia and China's UN abstention that not only will allow the Trump "free trade zone" Gaza-plan to be implemented but will now green light Zionist aggression against Palestinians, Resistance Axis, further afield in the region - may I remind you that when you talk about Arab States or Palestinian leadership, its BS:

1. The PA is NOT the government of Gaza, nor is it anything other than a lackey of Zionist power.

2. Saudi Arabia was promised F35s under recommendations from "Israel" that the deal can go ahead if they normalise - it doesn't take a genius to figure out that this vote was also part of the deal.

3. Putin called Netanyahu on 15th November, on the 18th November, Russian military took a tour of southern Syria. Coincidence?

4. 17th November Al Qaeda Foreign Minister visits China (after visit to White House) and China is suddenly back in the game in Syria - talking about reconstruction, provided the Uighur Takfiri issue is resolved and the threat removed from China's perspective. China has a foothold back in Syria (Belt and Road Initiative).

Mahmoud Abbas will do what the Zionist bloc tell him to do. UAE is an extension of "Israel". Palestine has been sold and last night amidst Zionist claims of targeting Hamas - 13 civilians were murdered by Zionist strikes on a Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, southern Lebanon, near the Khaled bin Al-Walid Mosque within the camp’s perimeter. Dozens were reported injured.