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[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Leaked documents reveal how military contractors linked to Israeli intelligence secretly trained a special operations strike force in mineral-rich eastern Congo.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak coordinated closely with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in pursuit of mineral, oil, and gas resources in Africa after Barak's resignation as Israel's defense minister in 2013, according to documents published by the U.S. Department of Justice and hacked emails from Barak's Gmail account reviewed by Drop Site News.

Epstein played a pivotal role in Barak's transition from the military to the private sector by packaging privatized Israeli intelligence services for sale to police states around the world. Together, the two men marketed security and surveillance products to foreign governments seeking to stabilize civil conflicts during the tumultuous early 2010s.

A proposal for a "Night Warfare Special Operations Unit" included in Barak's Gmail account reveals that Global Strategic Group trained an elite special operations unit in the mineral-rich eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2013.

The proposal, marked "classified," included a case study of the Kivu conflict in which Yatom boasted that their firm's training had turned the tide against the rebel March 23 Movement (M23) and ended the war.

The Congo case study and other communications from Barak's inbox showing his contacts with Epstein and Yatom were published by non-profit whistleblower Distributed Denial of Secrets, as part of a series of document dumps from Handala, a hacking group with suspected ties to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security.

The cache has been independently vetted and verified by Drop Site News.

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

This is the bestial, unimaginable, inhuman cruelty the glorious Ukrainian Armed Forces visit on men who do not want fight.

Everyone in Europe who has fed this abyssal horror needs to be locked up.

[Joe☭🔻 @ScottishCommie]

After watching you lot whitewash a genocide for almost 3 years its no wonder.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

The British oil company that became BP discovered Iran's oil. When Iranians realized they were being robbed, they nationalized it — so MI6 & CIA toppled their democracy in 1953, installing a dictatorship. Iranians rose up in 1979 & the West has never forgiven them for it.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Imperialists keep having to invent socialist massacres to deflect from the reality that capitalism is one continuous, world-spanning genocide.

We often hear about the 140 people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over a period spanning 28 years. But we never hear about the 9,900 people who die every single day because they lack access to healthcare — a direct outcome of imperialism's denial of sovereignty to the global periphery.

We often hear about some number of people who supposedly died at Tiananmen Square in 1989 — a highly-contested narrative. But we do not hear about the 1,545 people who die every single day because of Western sanctions — 38 million people in total over a fifty year period.

Given the sheer barbarism of the imperialist world system, we should marvel at how mild the actions of socialist and revolutionary projects are by the standards of the systemic and unrelenting violence they are forced to confront. And there is certainly no need for progressive forces to be apologetic or ashamed about these measures.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Un 25 de mayo de 1991, terminaba la Operación Carlota, la legendaria misión internacionalista en la cual Cuba luchó contra el fin del apartheid de Sudáfrica, se defendió la libertad de Angola y se consiguió la independencia de Namibia.

El nombre de la operación rinde tributo a una esclava africana llamada Carlota, quien lideró una rebelión contra esclavistas colonialistas españoles el 5 de noviembre de 1843 en Cuba.

Alrededor de 300.000 soldados cubanos apoyaron la lucha anti-imperialista del Movimiento Popular de Liberación de Angola contra las fuerzas imperialistas del apartheid sudafricano y de EEUU, fue una humillación al imperio yanki que jamás olvidará.

También otros 50.000 cubanos entre médicos, maestros, ingenieros y científicos, sirvieron en la lucha del pueblo de Angola durante los 16 años que duró la misión internacionalista.

Además de defender Angola de la agresión imperialista, Cuba con esta operación militar debilitó y puso fin al apartheid sudafricano, infligiéndole más de 6.000 bajas en la contienda, haciendo que cayese poco después.

Sin duda, este fue uno de los actos más heroicos de internacionalismo de la historia, Cuba liberó al mundo del apartheid y ese mundo ni siquiera se lo agradece.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The main road to Nabatieh, Lebanon

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

A transnational Jewish-Italian mob network centered on Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante ran Cuba as a privatized extraction arm of US empire: gambling, laundering, narcotics, prostitution, political bribery.

What the US could not openly run on its own border, the syndicate ran for it in Havana.

Batista was on a $ 1.28-million-a-month retainer, delivered every Monday at noon. His development bank bankrolled half of every new mob casino.

And this was not just gambling. Havana was a key node in the postwar heroin pipeline: Turkish opium, Marseille labs, Havana transshipment, New York distribution.

By the late 1960s, that French Connection network supplied most of America’s heroin.

Then Castro won.

In January 1959 the casinos were smashed, the bosses fled or were detained, and Batista escaped with a fortune estimated around $300 million.

The national lottery, once a graft channel, was converted into a housing fund.

But the mob did not disappear. It was redeployed.

Lansky’s lieutenant Doc Stacher later said Lansky offered to finance Castro’s assassination as early as 1959. By September 1960, the CIA was running the operation directly.

The Agency hired Johnny Rosselli, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante. The opening offer was $150,000. The weapon: poison pills from the CIA’s Technical Services Division.

The 1975 Church Committee found concrete evidence of at least eight CIA plots against Castro between 1960 and 1965.

The same Havana-Miami underworld that lost Cuba in 1959 became useful again as the deniable violence arm of US policy.

Of the three mob figures the CIA hired, Giancana was murdered before he could testify to Congress. Rosselli was murdered after he did. Trafficante survived.

The continuity is structural, not anecdotal: Tampa, Havana, Miami. Casinos became exile paramilitaries. Exile paramilitaries became lobby infrastructure.

Jorge Mas Canosa, a Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA-radio figure, founded the Cuban American National Foundation in 1981 at the suggestion of Reagan's advisors. It was modeled on AIPAC and built to harden Cuba policy permanently.

The lobby's most famous operative was Luis Posada Carriles: CIA-trained, Bay of Pigs veteran, Iran-Contra contractor under Oliver North, perpetrator of the 1976 mid-air bombing of Cubana Flight 455 (73 dead) and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings. By 1998, he had publicly named Mas Canosa as his financier. He died free in Miami in 2018.

They did not just lobby. They wrote the laws.

1992: Cuban Democracy Act.
1996: Helms-Burton.
2019: Trump activates Title III, letting US claimants sue foreign firms using confiscated Cuban property.

Today the legal afterlife of Batista’s Cuba runs through federal court: hotel chains, expropriation claims, embargo law, and Miami political power.

Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, is a product of that machine.

When he says “freedom in Cuba,” hear the history underneath it:

the old casino mobster class wants its island back

[Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo]

May 25, 1991: Operation Carlota ended. That day, the last Cuban soldiers came home after 16 years in Southern Africa. They didn’t just defend Angola, they freed Namibia & broke apartheid’s back. One of the greatest acts of internationalism in history. The world still owes Cuba.

[Kerry Sinanan @kerry_sinanan]

Bolivia is showing the world how you actually oust neoliberal autocrats. Indigenous-led people power.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Marco Rubio argues that "Operation Epic Fury is concluded" as the objectives were acheved. In reality, Iran won this war. There was no regime chenge, no nuclear deal, no limits of ballistic missiles and drones, no decoupling of ties between Iran and its regional allies, and the Strait of Hormuz is now under Iran's control. US bases in the region have been destroyed, the US alliance system has been weakened, and the petro-dollar will not recover. This epic failure was not just another failed regime change war, this will severely weaken the position of the US in the Middle East. All that was achieved was the murder of many Iranians and keeping the Epstein files out of the media.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Evil websites like Libgen, Z-library, and Sci-Hub had pirated millions of academic books and papers.

They've been shut down, and rightly so.

We shouldn't use them anyway. We should make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

Anyway, here's how to access these libraries:

🚨DO NOT DO THIS!

[Ghali ⵣ 𓂆🍉🗝️🇵🇸 @GhaliZayane]

The Nakba was not a moment. It was the systematic destruction of a society.
Between 1947–1949:
• 400–600 Palestinian towns and villages were depopulated
• ~750,000 Palestinians expelled
• Hundreds of localities were destroyed, repopulated, and renamed
This is documented by historians, including Walid Khalidi, Benny Morris, and others.

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[Tim McCullagh @timonther6]

A downed US pilot has attracted more media attention than more than 100 schoolgirls massacred by a US Pilot in Iran.

This is the media machine that wants to narrate the truth.

Journalism is beat down by paymasters of a certain persuasion of values.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Russia and Putin broke the genocidal murderous starvation siege on Cuba. Not Claudia Sheinbaum, who for months lied and pretended that she was just about to send oil but never did. Not Lula. Not Gustavo Petro. Not the CIA-collaborator Delcy Rodríguez regime. Eternal shame on them

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

congrats to all the tankies who’ve been saying this for years, that’s another dub on the board for us. real historical materialism heads stay winning

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

Mark Fisher: "Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast *privatization of stress* that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so 1/

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Jacobin just published a piece on the war on Iran where it says Iran is an imperialist aggressive murderous evil empire that wants to get nukes to destroy the world while Obama foolishly appeased them with the JCPOA; Israel is not the main cause of the war and anyone who says they are is an anti-Semitic Jew hater, and the US doesn't want to destroy Iran as a state and society because that would "not be in their interest". It also laundered the hoax hasbara lunacy that Khamenei was assassinated in some brilliant epic Mossad genius intelligence move that the stupid backward mullah regime did not expect, when in reality he willingly sacrificed himself to unify the nation and people, which actually has been a brilliant success.

This is an interview piece with CIA-asset pseudo-radical cunt Gilbert Achar, who also gleefully backed the destruction of Libya and Syria and just published an open letter where he says that Iran is an evil empire whose "anti-Western rhetoric" and refusal to recognize the genocidal Israeli death-cult is a "main source of instability in the region". The person conducting the interview is Palgusano sub-human Mossad asset cunt Bashir Abu-Manneh, who is an editor for Jacobin and has been publishing non-stop anti-Hamas and resistance propaganda hasbara cuntery under a thin veil of pseudo-radicalism.

Jacobin is one of the most odious Zionist NATO-propaganda rags on earth. They publish propaganda that would make the BBC and NYT blush with shame, but because that cunt Bhaskar Sunkara, who is genuinely one of the most idiotic moronic pieces of shit alive, sprinkles a bit of soc-dem pseudo-radical cuntery on top of it it's beloved by the Western "left".

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Can't get over how many leftists bought into the "we support the Iran protests" schtick. Where the fuck did you idiots think this was headed? What did you think you were promoting when you assisted the US empire's regime change sloganeering throughout the west? Fucking morons.