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.
Carut-marut data yang dikritik GAO sebenarnya memperlihatkan bagaimana ruang bantuan luar negeri telah bertransformasi menjadi medan perang proksi yang cair, dinamis, dan sulit dilacak secara administratif. Analisis bersumber dari https://t.co/xUSQMVY72p
Temuan audit GAO (Juni 2026) mengenai dana tandingan AS senilai $1,2 Miliar untuk membendung pengaruh China memicu pertanyaan besar bagi para analis ekonomi politik. Mengapa program strategis ini justru dikritik karena tata kelola datanya yang berantakan?
Ketika AS menyalurkan dana taktis yang fleksibel ke ruang informasi dan penguatan LSM lokal untuk meng-counter narasi China, batas antara edukasi publik dan pembentukan opini menjadi bias. Celah domestik ini yang rawan memicu polarisasi politik di akar rumput.
Istilah-Istilah Islam Di Tiongkok
Islam udah jadi bagian budaya dari Tiongkok selama lebih dari 1000 tahun. Bukan seperti negara lain yang diisi ama imigran.
Istilah² Islam juga sudah diterjemahkan.
Istilah HALAL di Tiongkok namanya 清真(bersih dan benar) ini istilah Native Tiongkok.
Istilah2 lain juga sangat Tiongkok. Bukan serapan. Istilahnya “naturalisasi” alih-alih menyerap;l:
齋月/斋月 zhāiyuè Ramadan
開齋節/开斋节 kāizhāijié Lebaran
禮拜/礼拜 lǐbài Shalat
教法 jiàofǎ Syariat
天房 tiānfáng Ka’bah
Bahkan rukun Islam pun ada namanya:
五功 (5 kewajiban)
念功 niàngōng
禮功/礼功 lǐgōng
齋功/斋功 zhāigōng
課功/课功 kègōng
朝功 cháogōng
Rukun Iman pun istilahnya juga ‘cina banget’
信真主 - xìn zhēnzhǔ
信天使 - xìn tiānshǐ
信經典/信经典 - xìn jīngdiǎn
信先知 - xìn xiānzhī
信後世/信后世 - xìn hòushì
信前定 - xìn qiándìng
Daaan banyaak banget. Krn sudah jadi bagian dr budaya Tiongkok, jadinya ya Islam di sana tidak terasa “imigran”.
Paper money was never supposed to be the money.
It was a receipt.
You deposited gold at a bank.
The bank gave you a note that said:
"The bearer of this note may redeem it for X amount of gold."
That's all a dollar was. A claim ticket.
The paper had no value.
The gold in the vault did.
The paper just made it easier to carry.
This system worked for centuries.
Every major currency was backed this way.
The British pound.
The French franc.
The U.S. dollar.
Then, slowly, governments realized something:
If people trust the paper,
they never come for the gold.
So they printed more notes than they had gold.
Then more.
Then more.
When too many people asked questions,
they closed the gold window.
That was supposed to be temporary.
55 years later, the dollar is still backed by nothing
but trust. And that trust has cost you 97% of your purchasing power.
The receipt became the money.
Global money became trust-based.
And money became nothing but a promise
that nobody has to keep.
pd inget gak, konsep awal twitter kan emang gitu yak, buat update spontan, makanya logonya ✨ burung 🐦✨
kita dianalogikan spt burung yg habis terbang dari mana2, abis liat macem2, makan ini itu, ngerasain berbagai kejadian, begitu hinggap, dikasih media buat cuit cuit, saling berkabar, ngoceh.
dulu, tiap buka twitter, pancingan pertanyaannya juga sangat sederhana: what's happening? what are you doing?
bukan "mau bikin konten apa?" wkw 😬
Menurut saya salah satu buku paling underrated di dunia adalah Madilog, kenapa? Karena Madilog tidak hanya membahas diskursus logika dan materialisme secara rigid ala western, ada ruang khusus bagi pemikiran yang melampaui keduanya yaitu dialektika, ini yang membuatnya spesial