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Ogni forma di fascismo si realizza attraverso la collera degli imbecilli (L. Sciascia)

[Peppone @giga_97]

Poi mi ha detto:"papà mi dai 50 euro che devo andare in pizzeria?" É tornato dopo la mezzanotte tutto felice. Ma non mi ha raccontato nulla. Chissà come é andata...

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Utterly shocking but not a surprise. Impunity breeds hubris.

All states and people who care for Freedom must rise up in defense of the ICC and int'l justice now, before it's too late.

It's rule of law or barbarism.

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

The point is this: decentralized capitalists that were excellent in squeezing workers for 40 years of neoliberal policies have now met, unexpectedly, a centralized capitalist (aka the Chinese state) that beats them at their own game. And like a character playing chess in Bergman's "Seventh Seal", they just want to wipe off the chessboard. But it is not that simple.
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[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

Iran Launches Heavy Attacks on American Bases

In response to American strikes that today even hit a mineral water bottling plant and multiple strategic targets across the country, Iran reacted forcefully, launching 15-20 missiles and at least 50 drones against Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan.

War escalation is now fully underway. Trump’s threat to bomb Iranian infrastructure next week will likely be brought forward, despite the positions taken by GCC leaders.

In recent days, Iran has started launching from northwest bases that had not been used until now. This demonstrates that new missile upgrade and refurbishment production lines have been successful activated, exactly as I anticipated some time ago.

A blockade has been imposed and the strait closed, while Israel prepares.

And the Saudis? They have played this game very skillfully so far, carefully avoiding conflicts that could jeopardize their oil production. They stand to profit handsomely from the new surge in oil prices on the horizon.

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[Alessandro Leonardi @AleEquilibrium]

Da un po' di tempo ho la netta sensazione che sia diventato estremamente difficile parlare di politica e dei fatti del mondo dal vivo, con quelli della mia generazione (30/40enni)... Non intendo nei dibattiti pubblici o fra esperti, ma nella vita di tutti i giorni. Appena

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[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

il NO di @GiuseppeConteIT al #NORiarmo va assolutamente supportato,xché le forze, che lavorano per il più grande furto di denari pubblici nella storia della Repubblica,sono IMMENSE:
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[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Lo que ocurre dentro de las prisiones de Israel, es que son un cementerio. Desde que entras no paran de agredirte, me agredieron desde que me arrestaron delante de mis hijos. Tras las palizas no pude recordar la imagen de mi hijo y perdí la capacidad de respirar".

Mujahed Bani, un periodista palestino de 37 años, que fue brutalmente torturado por "Israel" hasta perder la memoria y no poder respirar, por las torturas sufrió un derrame cerebral y perdió parte de su craneo.

Ni siquiera tenían pruebas contra él, solo era un periodista que denunciaba los crímenes de "Israel"... cosa que no hacen los mercenarios de la prensa occidental que ocultan estas barbaridades y tenemos que ser nosotros quienes las denunciemos.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is a concept in psychology called the fundamental attribution error.

It is the human tendency to explain other people's behavior through internal, personal characteristics: he did that because he's aggressive, irrational, unstable.

But you explain your own behavior through external, situational factors: I did that because I was provoked, because the circumstances required it, because I had no choice.

Empire runs the fundamental attribution error as foreign policy.

The enemy resists because he is "fanatical." Because he is "indoctrinated." Because his culture produces "violence." Because his religion is "extreme." Because his political tradition is "authoritarian."

Because something in him, internal and prior to any encounter with us, generates this behavior.

We intervene because we were "provoked." Because the situation "required it." Because our security was "threatened." Because we had "no choice." Because we "tried everything else first."

Same behaviour: violence.

Attributed in opposite directions depending on who is committing it.

This is not a coincidence.

This is the cognitive architecture of every dominant power in human history.

What makes the American version distinctive is the sincerity.

Previous empires knew they were empires.

They had kings who said the quiet part aloud.

The American empire genuinely believes it is not an empire.

Which means the fundamental attribution error is not calculated propaganda.

It is a real perception.

And that genuine sincerity, that complete, unironic, well-funded bewilderment at the hatred of people who have been bombed, is the most dangerous form of it.

Because you can negotiate with a cynic.

You cannot reason with a true believer who cannot see the bars.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🧵Before becoming a UN expert I spent years researching forced displacement in Palestine since the advent of Zionism and British colonialism.
A refuge for millions, for Palestine's Indigenous people Israel meant catastrophe. Once you know you cant unknow. The rest is integrity 👇

[Ignazio Marino @ignaziomarino]

Oggi, alla plenaria di Strasburgo, ho portato in Aula ciò che ho visto con i miei occhi in Cisgiordania, nei territori palestinesi occupati.

Il sangue ancora sull’asfalto a Ebron, la paura di rivolgersi alla giustizia, un bambino nato sottopeso assistito in una scatola di scarpe con del cotone, una sposa in lacrime davanti alla propria casa distrutta.

𝗛𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶 𝗴𝗹𝗶 𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗶 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲. Di fronte a tutto questo, l’Europa non può voltarsi dall’altra parte.

Dobbiamo sanzionare Israele e interrompere ogni contatto con il suo governo, la condanna, da sola, non basta più!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every generation of Palestinians has been offered the same choice presented as a new "peace process."

Accept less than the last offer.

Sign a document legitimizing what was taken.

Call it a "state" when it has no army, no contiguous territory, no control of its borders, no sovereignty over its airspace, no capital in the city that was promised.

Call it "peace" when the settlements continue to expand during the negotiation.

Call it a "partner" when that partner is chosen by the occupying power based on their willingness to police their own people on the occupier's behalf.

And when the answer is no, when the people being asked to sign away the remainder of what was taken from them say no, the world nods gravely and says:

They are "not ready for peace."

They have never been offered peace.

They have been offered the administrative language of peace wrapped around the continuing material reality of dispossession.

The difference between those two things is not subtle.

It is the difference between a door and a painting of a door.

You can talk about a painting of a door for decades.

You cannot walk through it.

[Fonsi Loaiza @FonsiLoaiza]

Pancarta gigante hoy en San Fermines en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina: "Destruir a Israel". El pueblo vasco es impresionante.

[Pallonate in Faccia @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social @pallonatefaccia]

Cose assurde sulla televisione nazionale italiana.

"In questi Mondiali si può fare di tutto, basta ricevere degli ordini" ha detto Marco Tardelli su Rai1, riguardo al caso Balogun.

"Te ne assumi la responsabilità" replica la giornalista Paola Ferrari.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Your three peasants in 1500 is a genuinely elegant framing.

It is also doing something very specific that needs to be named.

It begins the story at a point before European colonialism restructured the global economy.

Which means it can then present the divergence that followed as something that emerged from within European society: from English ingenuity, from Protestant work ethic, from whatever cultural or institutional qualities you might want to attribute it to.

But here is what was happening to the Indian peasant between 1500 and 1750 while the Englishman was "pulling ahead":

The British East India Company was in the process of capturing the most sophisticated textile manufacturing economy in the world.

In 1750, India produced approximately 25% of global GDP.

Its textile industry was so advanced that British manufacturers lobbied Parliament to pass laws banning the import of Indian cloth because they could not compete with it.

Parliament passed those laws.

Then it went further.

It systematically deindustrialized India to turn it into a raw material supplier and a captive market for British manufactured goods.

The Indian peasant did not "fall behind" because the Englishman innovated faster.

The Indian peasant "fell behind" because the British Empire dismantled the industry above his head, extracted the surplus, and wrote the story afterward as a tale of two different levels of ingenuity.

Your starting point of 1500 is not neutral.

It is the last moment before the mechanism of divergence was switched on.

[Nicola Melloni @NicolaMelloni]

Le democrazie fanno le guerre tanto quanto le dittature, torturano, ammazzano civili, mentono - dal Golfo del Tonchino alla Guerra di Suez.
Non esiste alcuna differenza tra democrazie e dittature nelle relazioni internazionali e in quelle belliche.

[Peppone @giga_97]

@Aramcheck76 Semicit Petroliniana?

[𝕃𝕒 𝕊𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝓮 𝓵𝓮 𝓘𝓭𝓮𝓮 @lastoriaeleidee]

SUBSTACK DI OGGI

La corsa agli armamenti non è solo accumulare armi, è anche inventarne nuove, cambiare le organizzazioni militari, sviluppare un'industria e accorgersi che la diplomazia non riesce più a frenare la macchina che si è messa in moto.

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[Geims Daglas Morriso' 🇵🇸 @Pamelo1313]

Giuliano Ferrara: “A Gaza fanno i funerali con le bambole”. Mario Sechi: “Non ho visto palestinesi dimagriti”. Incoronata Boccia: “Non ci sono prove, Hamas ha allestito dei set”. E poi c'è il Cardinale Pizzaballa, che a Gaza c'è stato veramente. Vergognatevi, siete dei vermi.

[questo non è un uovo 🐕 @PMO_W]

Ucraina Stato Terrorista.
Questo nutrono i liberali, questo nutre la UE.

[@LuciaGoracci @ZiaLulli1]

Grazie a B’Tselem sarà difficile dire di non aver visto