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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Imagine if Iran bombed Washington and killed students in schools, what would you call it? Terrorists

The U.S. and Israel bombed Tehran and killed students in schools. Why do you call it a "pre-emptive strike"?

Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law

[Josep Maria Mallarach @jm_mallarach]

Si s'obligués el sector porcí a internalitzar els enormes costos ambientals que causa en els preus dels seus productes, s'acabaria la seva viabilitat econòmica i hauria de reduir i reconvertir-se. Mentre se li permeti socialitzar costos i privatitzar beneficis, seguirà. Vegeu👇

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

What you are looking at is the world’s largest aircraft boneyard in Tucson Arizona where over 4,000 U.S. military aircraft valued at $35 billion just sit & collect dust. Our government could solve homelessness but blowing up the world is its #1 priority.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

You can’t watch this video and not hate Israel.

Israeli soldiers EXECUTE two young Palestinian men at point-blank range AFTER they surrendered near in the northern occupied West Bank.

This apartheid must end. Boycott and shun everything to do with it.

[i.aiestaran @iaiestaran]

Que la televisión pública española sea tan manipuladora y servil con los servicios de inteligencia de Estados Unidos dice mucho de la decadencia irreversible del periodismo en el espacio otanista.

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Leaked Hillary Clinton Emails Revealed NATO Killed Gaddafi to Stop the formation of a United States of Africa. (Gaddafi Files Part 1)

Of the 3,000 emails released from Hillary Clinton's private email server in late December 2015, about a third were from her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal. One of these emails, dated April 2, 2011, read in part:

"Qaddafi's government holds more than 143 tons of gold and a similar amount in silver ... This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar.

This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA)." In a 'source comment', the original declassified email added:

"According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.

According to these individuals Sarkozy's plans are driven by the following issues:

1. A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,

2. Increase French influence in North Africa,

3. Improve his internal political situation in France,

4. Provide the French military with an opportunity to reassert its position in the world

5. Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi's long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa"

Conspicuously absent is any mention of humanitarian concerns. The objectives were to get rid of the unification of Africa, money, power and oil.

Your thoughts on this ...

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Project 2025

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Capitalists have to sanction and overthrow socialist countries in order to prove they don’t work, while bailing out libertarian capitalist societies in order to prove that they do work

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

Remember, capitalism is not defined by “markets and businesses and trade”. It is a system where production is controlled overwhelmingly by capital: the big banks, large corporations, and the 1% who own the majority of investable assets.

And for capital, the purpose of production is not to meet human needs, or to achieve social progress, but to maximize and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective.

To maintain the process of perpetual accumulation requires massive quantities of cheap labour and cheap nature. You have to deny people control over their land, and deny workers access to the yields of their production.

This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded economy. If you intensify the exploitation of your domestic working class and resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a revolution.

To avoid this outcome, you need some kind of “outside”, an external frontier, where you can exploit labour and nature with impunity, where you can externalize social and ecological costs, and where any rebellions can be destroyed with brute force.

This is where imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, capitalism requires “an imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap labour and cheap nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

Imperialism is not a side-gig, not an over-reach committed by greedy individuals, it is a structural feature of the capitalist world economy.

Beginning in the long 16th century, the regions of what today we call the global South were forcibly integrated into the Europe-centered capitalist world economy as providers of cheapened labour, resources and goods. This was an extraordinarily violent process, involving colonization, dispossession, mass enslavement, and genocide.

How could anyone possibly justify these horrors? Race. Discourses of white supremacy and racial hierarchy were fabricated by the European ruling classes to dehumanize the majority world, hiving them off from the realm of rights, to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify apocalyptic levels of exploitation and bloodshed in the periphery.

And of course these very same discourses were deployed within the core itself, to justify paying lower wages to racialised people, and to deny them equal access to resources.

They used racial ideology to construct a global division of labour, a massively inequitable global division of wages, and a global hierarchy of rights. Racial ideology was promoted so aggressively that it developed its own momentum of hatred and violence.

Racism, like imperialism itself, is not a side-show to capitalism but a structurally necessary feature of it. It is not a standalone problem that can be addressed with a few liberal reforms here and there. It has always been central to capitalism and it remains that way today.

Overcoming capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a democratic socialist economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural racism and imperialist violence.

The struggle against racism must be anti-capitalist, and the struggle against capitalism must be anti-racist.

These arguments have been established by a long tradition of scholarship -- WEB du Bois, CLR James, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Claudia Jones, Utsa Patnaik, Ali Kadri, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin and more -- and they remain as relevant today as ever.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Just because you don’t spend time thinking about it, or you don’t understand it, or you actively try to ignore it, doesn’t mean it won’t rip apart your world & destroy everything you love.

It. Is. Only. Going. To. Get. Worse.

[William Huo @wmhuo168]

China Is Walking Out of Victorian Collieries. The West Is Queuing to Go Down the Shaft.

Chinese Steel Profits Recover as Beijing Targets Overcapacity - Bloomberg https://t.co/dyxmDJfyL8

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws]

⚡️BREAKING:

An unarmed Palestinian livestreaming at Gaza’s port was directly shot by an Israeli sniper, despite posing no threat.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US-brokered "peace deal" between the DRC and Rwanda is actually wild.

The US is getting access to $2 trillion worth of DRC minerals in exchange for forcing the withdrawal of Rwandan-backed M23 militias. That's one-tenth of the DRC's total mineral wealth, more than any single foreign country claims.

This is strange, because analysts of the region have long argued that the US has effectively enabled Rwandan support for the M23 in order to destabilize the DRC, prevent a functional state from arising and achieving sovereignty over its mineral wealth, and thus ensure minerals stay cheaply available for US firms.

If this analysis is correct, then the US has just acquired $2 trillion in mineral rights in exchange for stopping a conflict that it has effectively supported.

Consider also how the media discourse is playing out. Remember that in 2008 Chinese firms signed a deal with the DRC to obtain $9 billion in minerals in exchange for infrastructure development. Western media went wild with narratives of "Chinese colonization". Now the US has secured a minerals deal 200x larger and the media narrative is all about how the US brings "peace".

Analysis from Kambale Musavuli from the Center for Research on Congo-Kinshasa: https://t.co/U48WmPXWA4

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

[Andrés Actis @ActisAndres]

La acidificación de los océanos, el séptimo límite planetaria traspasado, según una nueva investigación científica.

"Ya ha cruzado un umbral crucial para la salud del planeta".
https://t.co/ElkpMpVeZM

[Édisson @Edisson_hilos]

Telemadrid sacó un mini-documental en 2007 sobre españoles fascinados con Siria.

¿Saben quién gobernaba en ese año, antes de que los gringos metieran a sus terroristas de turno en el 2011, primero como ISIS y ahora como HTS?

¡Pues Bashar al-Assad!

¡Va hilo con testimonios!