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i need to stand on your shoulders

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Imagine breaking down an Afghan villager’s door and hacking everyone inside to death with a custom hatchet from Winkler Knives because some 23-year-old Wiccan, a monolingual E-4 employed as an intel analyst for JSOC, decided from satellite imagery that the compound looked suss.

[M Steffen @realmacsteffen]

Burke Virginia

@nbcwashington @dougkammerer

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

Bethany’s judgment

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Zionism must be smashed to pieces

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The most urgent lesson from my book and my several years of studying propaganda is this: it's imperative that you get every well-meaning person you care about in your life to stop consuming mainstream news. There is a relentless war to shape people's brains so that they are okay with a world of enormous but preventable suffering and resigned to a world with nowhere near as much flourishing as human beings deserve.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad.

Read my latest here: https://t.co/KKv6Hqoknl

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Iran – by refusing to submit to US and Israeli aggression, and in realising its power to throttle global oil supplies – has shown that US "full-spectrum global dominance" was never as complete as the “masters of the universe” assumed. It has an Achilles’ heel, after all.

The truth is we should all have been terrified by the idea that our leaders might assume and behave as if history had, as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed, come to an end.

In practice, it could mean only an end to constraints on capitalism – an end to any humanising limits on its reach, on its ambitions, on its cruelty.

Like King Midas, the Epstein class expected to monetise everything it touched. And like King Midas, hubris will be its downfall.

There are constraints, both immediate and long term, that even the billionaires cannot overcome.

A finite planet, with finite resources, cannot be plundered indefinitely. A delicately balanced biosphere, which evolved over billions of years to the point where it became compatible with higher life forms, cannot be abused, filled with our toxic detritus, forever.

Similarly, countries and peoples cannot be humiliated, turned into objects ripe for exploitation and humiliation, year after year, decade after decade, without a reckoning eventually.

The “end of history”, as Fukuyama should have foreseen, could lead to only one destination: enslavement. The end of struggle, the end of freedom. Only the colonial arrogance of the West could imagine that others would submit to such a fate.

In Gaza, in Lebanon, in Iran, we see peoples refusing – however imperfectly, however violently – to submit to their enslavement. In the West, with our colonial arrogance undimmed, we call it “terrorism”. We call any solidarity with it “hate”. We send our own truth-tellers to prison as criminals.

The genocidal abuse of peoples in Gaza and Lebanon – the chief victims of the “end of history” – serves as a reminder to westerners of what the system that triumphed nearly half a century ago is really about. What it requires. Where it is heading.

But more dangerously for the billionaires, the resistance to that abuse, the struggle against subjugation, against being disappeared, reminds western publics that enslavement is not inevitable, that dignity might still be possible, that another way can, at the very least, be imagined.

Struggle must continue because submission is death.

That is the message from Gaza and Lebanon. It is the reason our rulers are so desperate to crush any sense of hope. They need us to believe that history came to an end in 1991. Because otherwise, their days are numbered.

This is an extract from my latest article. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[jibjab @jibjabbib]

unless iran themselves confirm it, you can guarantee they didnt shoot down that US apache helicopter.

[（´-`）.｡oO( ... ) @gifangel1995]

I worked at one of the big ad agencies in the early aughts fresh out of college. They put me in charge of the pbr street teams. So I can speak with authority here: Millennial hipsterism was a product. All the bands and apparel were chosen for you. You weren't cool you were a mark

[IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting) @iribnews_irib]

A three-year-old Iranian girl complains to her martyred father, who was killed by the United States, that she can no longer play with him:

'Dad! I didn't want much. I just wanted to play with you. God help me!'

[Gladio Langford @fearthe_void]

Lmao

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

@LizzySavetsky what in the sleep paralysis demon

[Gladio Langford @fearthe_void]

Knew it was only a matter of time before this got too big and the neolibs found it. It was fun while it lasted but gotta mute the conversation now.

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

Link to my talk with @baoshaoshan on YouTube about Trump's plan visit to China amidst of deepening Iran crisis https://t.co/xMxoiOrhxB

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

i was really looking forward to interviewing mallory mcmorrow (candidate for US senate) today. her team asked if i’d have her on my show, but they cancelled after i said we’d cover “healthcare and foreign policy” and offered no possibility of rescheduling. :(

[Jay Full @isojay914]

Dude was writing letters to his wife about how he identified with socialism and read Marx in jail just for white liberals to gentrify him to death and black liberals to think he’d be down with black excellence capitalism while he constantly cooked the black middle class

[American Exception @Aaron_Good_]

Troy--who walks, talks, and noisily quacks like an intelligence plant--wisely blocked me on Twitter before I even knew who he was.

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

That’s why Robert Maxwell got the classic Soviet farewell: burial on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, with Israeli state officials and Mossad chiefs in attendance.

Textbook KGB.