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🇺🇸🇮🇷🚨 U.S. strikes hit the Kahourstan (Shur River) Bridge near Bandar Khamir, severing a key highway linking Bandar Abbas and Lar

According to Fars and Naya, the bridge was struck around 11 p.m. local time as civilian vehicles were reportedly crossing. Road crews are working to establish an alternate route. Casualty figures have not been confirmed

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Vice President JD Vance throws his hands in the air and admits that the Trump admin covered up the Epstein files:

"If people want to say we mishandled the Epstein release, guilty. We did mishandle it."

[-ASAD👳‍♂️ @princekally001]

@Spearhead_Af anything western is not compatible with Africa.
They suck their people dry and want us to copy that, we don't want it
we want Africa for Africans not for some rich elites. we are one people

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

China Proved the West Wrong On Housing. Should Africa Pay Attention?

Amid Western media parrots stoking fears of China’s economy collapsing due to a 24% decrease in real estate value since 2021, The Spearhead presents the facts.

Turns out that Africa would benefit greatly from abandoning the predatory, speculative, Western real estate model, which crashed the global economy in 2008, and adopting China’s socialist model.

[Kweku Adoboli @KwekuAdoboli]

Growing evidence anti Pan Africa xenophobia is a psychological operation financed by shitraeli operatives.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

How White Supremacy Uses Black And Brown Voices

When white supremacy needs a shield, it often reaches for the very voices it used to silence. We are witnessing a calculated, repetitive strategy where prominent people of color are positioned at the forefront of colonial apologia, tasked with reframing historical extraction as benevolent contribution.

From the dismissal of reparations claims to the bizarre revisionism of the British Empire as a "flourishing" force, these talking points are a systemic deployment of identity used to sanitize prejudice.

This analysis by McKay Chukwu exposes how the politics of "minority" representation are being weaponized to protect imperial interests.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Tanzania Adopts Long-term Planning Model To Achieve $1 Trillion Economy

Tanzania is embarking on a transformative economic journey, launching its first five-year National Development Plan (2026/27–2030/31) as a strategic roadmap toward becoming a $1 trillion upper-middle-income economy by 2050.

Mirroring the disciplined, multi-year planning model that helped transform China from an agrarian economy into a global manufacturing hub, Tanzania’s strategy relies on successive plans to guide infrastructure expansion, industrialization, and job creation.

This long-term, cycle-based approach shows a shift toward consistent development aimed at fostering inclusive, sustainable prosperity.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Reminds me of how in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 where the whole world and their dog could see the banks and bankers that destroyed the global economy, the British authorities found a single Ghanaian UBS trader called Kweku Adoboli, hung the entire financial crisis on his neck (accused him of rigging LIBOR singlehandedly), gave him a 7-year prison sentence for doing the same thing that like 1,000 other bankers on Canary Wharf did, and then deported him from the UK after his sentence.

Literally nobody in the entire City of London went to jail for 2008 except one Ghanaian commodity trader😆😆😆

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Anti communism has destroyed the American working class

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Ousmane Sonko: Africa Must No Longer Stay Silent on Sl*very & C*lonisation

Former Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko tells Al Jazeera that Africans should own the conversation on r*parations for the European sl*ve trade and c*lonialism.

Do you agree? Drop us a comment.

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Video credit: Al Jazeera

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Priti Patel, Kemi Badenoch and Suella Braverman are the exact same recurring character in white supremacist politics: The Minority Shield.

@Big_Mck dives in

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The word they always reach for is "provocation."

When North Korea tests a missile, that is a provocation.

When Iran enriches uranium, that is a provocation.

When Venezuela nationalizes its oil, that is a provocation.

When Cuba maintains its political system for more than six decades, that somehow, still, is a provocation.

The word "provocation" implies that there is a "neutral baseline" that is being disturbed.

What is the neutral baseline?

American military bases in 80 countries.

The largest naval force in history patrolling every ocean.

The dollar as global reserve currency enforced by financial architecture that extracts value from the periphery to the center.

The IMF and World Bank imposing structural adjustment programs that have, for more than forty years of documented evidence, consistently transferred wealth from poor countries to rich ones.

That is the baseline.

A country asserting its sovereignty within that baseline is called a "provocation."

The baseline itself is never called a provocation.

Because the main character does not provoke.

The main character simply exists.

And the people who respond to the main character's existence are, by definition, the ones causing the problem.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

CRYPTO BROS QUIETLY bought the world, a new documentary reveals.

Big oil famously used to own the US administration, along with weapons firms and lobby groups like AIPAC. Today, cryptocurrency tycoons are the biggest donors, it says.

As a result of the rise of these digital-finance gods, the world's money distribution system has become wildly distorted, with just 12 people, generally techies, having the same wealth as 50% of the humans on planet Earth, says Matt Shea’s new BBC 2 documentary, The Tech Billionaire Takeover.

The entanglement of politics with cryptocurrency is the key, he says.

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QUIET REVOLUTION
It’s fascinating: While the world debates whether adversarial western democracy (US, UK) is superior or inferior to cohesive but nanny-ish Asian democracy (Singapore, mainland China, Hong Kong), a different revolution has quietly taken place.

There has been a global takeover by tech billionaires, many using alternative forms of currency, Shea argues.

His thesis sounds wild at first, but then think about it.

- US President Donald Trump, from day one of his current presidency, has been deeply entangled with crypto finance ventures.

- In the UK, the richest party is Reform, which has received tens of millions of GBP, including £25 million from Thai crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne and £4 billion from Hong Kong cryptocurrency magnate Ben Delo.

- Crypto seems more powerful than the law. Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, jailed founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, was pardoned in October 2025. This is despite the fact that he had previously pleaded guilty.

- Donald Trump Junior and Eric Trump are launching and backing multiple massive ventures that operate across decentralized finance and Bitcoin mining. Many more are in the pipeline, and they stretch across the world.

- In the US, venture capitalist Tim Draper (in the accompanying image), wants to create a digital country, Draper Nation, using bitcoin as its currency.

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RUNNING A COUNTRY
But can tech bros govern a physical country?

Shea’s documentary includes a visit to a small Danube peninsula adjoining Serbia which has been relaunched as Liberland, a new tiny country with no tax system and purchasable voting power. It's a muddy field with a few tents.

The nominal prime minister is Justin Sun, a well-known Chinese crypto currency giant familiar to us in Hong Kong.

Sun’s philosophy is eyebrow-raising: “Blockchain technology we have today is empowering individuals, rather than organisations. I think that’s very important. I think that's also why I believe the government will be useless: because of technology’s evolvement. Everyone can use technology to do anything they want in the world, and there is no way to stop them.”

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THIS IS BAD
That’s a good thing? Surely all this is bad news for the people of planet earth?

In a word, Yes: it’s a bad thing. Traditional governments and tech billionaires don’t have the same aims: there’s really no overlap at all.

One has an obligation to make sure that you get basic amenities from food and drink to roads and schools and hospitals and garbage collection.

The other is focused on amassing wealth for themselves, getting everyone addicted to their products, and making sure their investments in weapons firms and AI companies continue to rise. And these people have way too much access to the ears of political leaders in the UK, US, EU, Australia and so on.

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GOOD NEWS AND BAD
One bright spot: The assumption is made that corporations have been more powerful than governments for decades now.

But remember how Chinese leader Xi Jinping slapped down Ant Group’s attempted mega-listing in late 2020? That shows it’s possible.

At the time, the global financial community was horrified. But today, most people surely believe that mega-corporations have way too much power, and there just hasn’t been enough effort made to rein them in.

And the EU is openly jealous of China's Great Firewall, which enabled the Chinese to develop their own, thriving, creative tech industry sector.

With the current business-friendly administration in the White House, the problem in the west is not going to be easily solved.

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The Tech Billionaire Takeover has just been launched on BBC iPlayer and will be available on other channels in the near future.
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[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

American politicians:
“Lindsey and I got on just fine, and I will remember him with great fondness, despite his love for vaporizing poor families overseas with BLU-109 bunker buster bombs.”

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

CHINESE BATTERY SCIENTISTS are rolling out five-minute electric vehicle charge hubs around the planet.

BYD’s home base, China, has 6,682 ultra-fast stations across 321 cities, the company said. Target: 20,000 in 7 months.

There are plans for another 6,000 around the world, with 3,000 flash charging stations across Europe, plus a further 300 in the UK.

Work is underway to add the chargers in Canada, too—after scientists found a way to maintain charging speeds in below-freezing climates.

The BYD network will “change the game”, with motorists seeing the switch to an EV as a benefit, rather than an inconvenience, the company said. (Taking an old-style car to a petrol station typically lasts 11 minutes with between four and six spent at the pump.)

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MOST IMPORTANT MARKETS
The most important markets of all, long term, are Asia, Africa and Latin America – and they are already making the transition to clean energy, some far ahead of the west.

Developing countries such as Laos and Ethiopia have already totally banned imports of petrol/diesel cars, while wealthy nations still talk-the-talk about “transitioning” gradually with "targets" in 2030 or 2035.

BYD’s ultra-fast chargers are also being set up in Chile, with demo models expected to go live before the end of the year, a spokeswoman said this week.

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POWER BREAKTHROUGH
The breakthrough came with a realization that Chinese hardware could solve a power infrastructure bottleneck.

Problem: Electrical infrastructure would have needed heavy upgrades at each station, taking time and money.

Solution: BYD designed chargers which themselves act as massive battery storage units on the grid.

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COLD WEATHER COUNTRIES
Tests show that the BYD batteries reach 10% to 70% in 5 minutes and up to 97% in 9 minutes under normal conditions.

And in Canada or Russia or the Scandinavian countries, where the cold can be severe? At extreme temperatures of minus 30°C, it can charge from 20% to 97% in 12 minutes.

“This temperature resistance could give the new EV a massive advantage in colder global markets, said ArenaEV, a car review website.

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GLOBAL TRANSITION
The technology only works on the latest BYD models, such as the Denza Z9 GT, so most EV buyers, even if they have BYD cars, won’t get the benefit until they upgrade. For people who don’t have to charge cars in a hurry, there are many options from many brands.

Ironically, the US-Israel attack on Iran has been a powerful spur to communities all over the world, including Washington-controlled places such as Japan and Taiwan, to move away from reliance on fossil fuels.

The move is good news for the clean tech industry, although renewable energy fans cannot rejoice about this factor—there has been far too much entirely needless death and destruction in Iran. As usual, the innocents pay the price.
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[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

@TsarKastik So true, Peter--just a few days ago, another massive wire service article was distributed about the suffering in Cuba with no mention of US sanctions

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

Children everywhere are taught to worship capitalism, despite the fact that the west’s capitalist petrodollar expansion continues to lead to endless wars and countless millions of deaths.
And they're taught that socialism and communism are bad because China had a famine once.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

BREAKING: China’s hot: the US is not.

Out of 36 countries surveyed, 25 now have a more favorable view of China than the US, a new Pew study showed yesterday.

A thumbs-up for China is very visible in data from across Asia, Europe, Africa, and elsewhere—and even from Trump loyalist countries such as Argentina.

“Americans’ nearest neighbors – Canadians and Mexicans – also view China more positively than the U.S.,” said Pew Research, a US survey firm.

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BUYING LOYALTY
The study of three dozen countries showed that the US was viewed more positively than China in only six countries in the study, including three in which Washington has purchased loyalty, largely by fearmongering-based militarization: Japan, the Philippines and South Korea.

The study also showed that many people across the planet have more confidence in Chinese leader Xi Jinping to make positive decisions for the world than US President Donald Trump.

The study said more people believed the US had more “freedom”, but without defining the term.

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FAILURE OF DEMONIZATION OPS
The results show a catastrophic failure of the billion-dollar-a-year effort to demonize China, which includes hundreds of operations – including those run by National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA-spin off that has financed thousands of groups, including the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

The US this year admitted that the NED was a political interference group which "destabilizes sovereign governments".

The continuing loss of trust in the international mainstream media (which is the western mainstream media) will also have played a part.

The change of views has also come about because the huge rise in new voices, with independent media groups and citizen journalists using social media to debunk false US narratives on Greater China, including Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

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PEW ALSO GUILTY
Pew itself will have played a role. In the past, it used to be notorious for producing surveys which apparently showed China in a bad light.

The studies, presented in the media as global, were actually focused almost entirely on results from US and US-allied countries, conditioned by the media to be harshly negative on the Chinese.

In contrast, this week’s new Pew survey has a much wider frame of reference, highlighting views of three dozen countries around the world, not just US allies.

So even though it is just 36 countries, it is a far more valid than Pew’s own previous studies of the same question.

But this could all change, with anti-China propaganda groups still being cashed-up. The NED is still active, and the notorious Radio Free Asia is being relaunched in Washington DC.
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