Elischa Schmid

Marxism-Leninism. Geopolitics. #NoApartheid #NoNATO #NoNeoliberalism

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Ayatollah Khamenei's Funeral is Reportedly the BIGGEST Funeral in Recorded History

According to official estimates, 41 to 43 million people attended the funeral ceremony over 6 days in 5 cities: Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala, and Mashhad.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Riots in Lviv over the brutal forced conscription financed by NATO.
- The majority of Ukrainians want immediate negotiations to end the war. They are obviously not in the minds of our political-media establishment, who claim to "stand with Ukraine", while boycotting diplomacy and pushing for a long war.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Now that the US has put al-Qaeda leaders in power in Syria, the US will remove Syria from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

After nearly a month, the US-backed, far-right electoral coup in Peru has succeeded. The daughter of the US-backed former fascist dictator, Fujimori, a convicted war criminal who committed genocide, has been installed in power.

The left-wing, pro-working class candidate, Roberto Sánchez Palomino, was winning when the votes were counted after the June 7 election, so the corrupt electoral authorities delayed the count and spent nearly a month cooking the books, overseeing some very extreme irregularities, especially with supposed votes from abroad that magically appeared and made Fujimori "win".

Keiko Fujimori ran for president multiple times, but always lost, because she is extremely unpopular in Peru. But Trump and Marco Rubio made sure she would be put in power this time, just as they blatantly meddled in recent elections to support right-wing candidates in Argentina, Colombia, Honduras, etc.

Keiko's father was the fascist dictator Alberto Fujimori, who, with US support, dissolved Congress, implemented mass privatizations, and committed genocide against indigenous peoples, sterilizing huge numbers of them without their consent (with funding from the US government).

The US-backed dictator was later formally convicted of corruption, bribery, kidnapping, murder, and crimes against humanity. His nepo baby daughter always defended his crimes, and the US empire just helped put her in power in an electoral coup.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Mother's in Gaza: My children have been vaporized by Israeli bombs.

Mayim Bialik: My children saw a T-shirt.

[Richard @ricwe123]

So here we have the systematic demolition of Palestinian roads and water infrastructure across the occupied West Bank.
This all carried out with heavily armored Caterpillar D9 bulldozers manufactured in East Peoria, Illinois,USA.

American taxpayers money at work.....

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Use of the word "genocide" in first 30 days of conflict on CNN and MSNBC, Ukraine vs. Gaza.

[Hadi Hoteit | هادي حطيط @HadiHtt]

Beirut right now!
People and motorcycle groups have occupied the roads in Beirut in protest of the Lebanese authorities signing and agreement with Israeli enemy that "legalized " their occupation of South Lebanon and gave legal immunity to Netanyahu regarding his warcrimes.

[roqayah chamseddine @roqchams]

Palestinian journalist Mujahid Bani Mufleh was tortured to such an immense degree while held in Israeli captivity that he suffered a severe brain hemorrhage after months of abuse.

I've done my best to translate what he said below

[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.

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

European capitals are at the "send them back against their will to fight and die" stage of "listen to Ukrainians!"

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

'Intentarán matarme y sumir al Congo en guerras interminables porque saben que una África unida e independiente, tanto política como económicamente, marcaría el fin de su dominio y el comienzo de nuestra verdadera libertad".

Patrice Lumumba, lider anti-colonial congoleño, vaticinaba en 1960 lo que pasó en el Congo, fue descuartizado y disuelto en ácido por Bélgica y EEUU.... apenas un año después de estas palabras.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Veteran journalist Mujahid Abu Mufleh, before and after his detention in the Israeli Auschwitz camps.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It's over, Europe has officially given up on its digital sovereignty: they just signed up to Pax Silica, the US initiative to lock other countries in its AI stack.

In case you think I'm exaggerating, Jacob Helberg, the US Under-Secretary of State who architected Pax Silica, LITERALLY says so in the article (see screenshot 👇): he himself explicitly positions Pax Silica as designed to counter "digital sovereignty" - a concept he opposes because it would mean countries building their own tech stacks.

I wrote a long article 2 weeks ago titled "The Pax Silica Con," warning Europe that it was a "cage" to keep them "dependent on American tech and unable to build their own": https://t.co/yqq6uzhKnz

The cage door was wide open and clearly labeled. They walked in anyway.

[Pistachio 🇮🇷 🇵🇸 @HarleyShah]

Man, the Iranian team looked so exhausted before the match even started. It's disgraceful the way these sportsmen are being treated having to travel from Mexico right before each game and shame on FIFA for allowing their own regulations to be violated

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US empire is waging a neocolonial assault all across Latin America.

The US blatantly meddled in Colombia's election. Trump and Marco Rubio backed the far-right, multimillionaire candidate Abelardo de la Espriella (a defender of fascist paramilitaries), and there are serious irregularities in the results.

Colombia's current left-wing President Gustavo Petro has been very pro-Palestine and pro-China. He cut relations with the genocidal Israeli regime and joined China's Belt and Road Initiative.

De la Espriella vows to form a close alliance with the US and Israel, and minimize relations with China. Just a few weeks before the elections, he was in Florida, meeting with far-right US politicians who are close allies of Trump and Rubio.

The same thing is happening across the continent. The US carried out a blatant electoral coup in Honduras, to put a drug cartel-linked, pro-US, pro-Israel, anti-China puppet in power.

The US is currently trying to steal the election in Peru, to put the daughter of the fascist former dictator in power.

The US empire already has far-right puppets in power in Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador. The leader of Chile is the Pinochet-defending son of a Nazi war criminal. The dictator of Ecuador is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch.

Brazil is the next target of the US empire's neocolonial assault, in this year's election.

This is the colonial Monroe Doctrine in the neo-fascist era.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Eric Schmidt saying the quiet part out loud: "What I don't like about [China's AI] is that it's all open source which means it's largely uncontrolled and not controlled in any way by us."

He adds, "if that makes you feel any better," that only 2 or 3 countries can be independent AI powers.

In other words, it's all about hegemony: the ideal scenario is a world where AI is controlled by the US - and the fewer countries that can resist that, the better.

Src for the video: https://t.co/Gk5iAMtBqa

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

They talk about Chernobyl constantly,making viral series, movies, and games about an accident that killed 54 people on the spot in 1986. Yet they never talk about Bhopal, India, where a gas leak from the American-owned Union Carbide pesticide factory killed 3,500 people on the spot in 1984.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I disagree that we are in a "New Cold War".

Rather, we are in a continuation of what we might call the Long Cold War, or the Great Anti-Sovereignty War, which has been waged by the imperial core against liberation movements and sovereign-seeking states in the periphery that have sought to break from their subordination and exploitation within the imperialist world-system.

The Long Cold War encompasses Western attacks against the Russian revolution and the Chinese revolution, through the long series of invasions and regime-change operations that targeted Korea, Guatemala, the DRC, Brazil, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Chile, Burkina Faso, etc, continuing well beyond the fall of the USSR with the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., all the way to the strangulation of Cuba and the invasions of Venezuela and Iran in 2026.

As I see it, the usual claim that the Cold War runs from 1945-1991 doesn't work, the periodisation is wrong. The core states sought to destroy the USSR as soon as it was founded, long before 1945, and in any case their violence was never only just against the USSR, or just against USSR-aligned states, nor even just against socialism; it was fought against any sovereign-seeking state in the periphery - including non-aligned states - that threatened to escape the imperial arrangement.

The Long Cold War is, in other words, an imperialist backlash against the long struggle for liberation in the periphery. This aggression didn't end in 1991, it continues today, and it will continue well into the 21st century until it is defeated. And defeated it will be.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Zionism is a death cult