Kenn Leonard

#NoWarButClassWar

It always seems impossible until it's done - Nelson Mandela

How much of the world does the US take down with it when it falls?

[Esmaeil Baqaei @IRIMFA_SPOX]

Water is the pulse of life — and the U.S. is deliberately targetting the lifeblood of the Iranian people.

As part of its aggression against Iran, the U.S. military has deliberately struck vital civilian water infrastructure in Sirik, Hormozgan, destroying two reservoirs with a combined capacity of 2,500 cubic meters.

These facilities supplied drinking water to more than 20,000 residents across ten villages.

This is not collateral damage — it is a calculated war crime and a flagrant violation of human rights and international humanitarian law.

The U.S. must be held accountable for committing such systematic brutal attacks on civilian life-sustaining infrastructure.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

Haitians being chased in the Dominican Republic.
Black and Brown people being terrorized in Belfast.
Bolivians being terrorized for striking.
BIPOC being hunted by ICE in the US.
Black and Latin men being murdered in the ocean by the US...none are isolated from each other.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon Musk: "I don't believe Africa's poverty is caused by colonialism."

Michael Parenti: "The Third World is not poor. It is over exploited.”

Capitalism is maintained through imperialism and the theft of resources from third world countries. This is why the US is always at war.

[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.

[Joseph Palermo @JosephPalermo1]

@ryangrim @shaunking $700 million will buy ya a lot media “strategy”

[Kenn Leonard @kenis]

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[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Medical debt is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States.

Not gambling. Not reckless spending. Not the moral failures that the rhetoric of personal responsibility loves to invoke.

Getting sick.

The leading cause of financial ruin in the wealthiest country in human history is the biological inevitability of the human body breaking down.

This happens nowhere else in the developed world.

In no other wealthy nation does a person survive cancer and then spend a decade paying for the survival.

In no other wealthy nation does a grandmother choose between insulin and rent.

In no other wealthy nation is the question "can I afford to call an ambulance" a question a person has to genuinely ask.

This is not an accident of policy.

This is the policy.

The extraction is the point.

The debt is the product.

The sick person is the raw material.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

New video explaining how capitalism is maintained through imperialism and the theft of resources from third world countries.

This is why the U.S. is always at war and has over 800 military bases worldwide to ensure corporations can keep extracting resources from these countries.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

I often think of this passage from Lenin’s text on Tolstoy and the labor movement: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."

We rarely see the other parts of that paragraph. "Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing,” Lenin writes. "The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."

Lenin was writing about the labor movement, and the objective historical process that saw it rise and replace the peasantry as the dominant force in Russia. The peasantry was gripped by despair because its class no longer had a future. The proletariat, by contrast, was growing in strength and number.

Today, Lenin’s insight also holds true of the streets of Iran, where people mobilize by the millions under bombardment. It is true of the communes in Venezuela, whose militants continue the task of building socialism and are prepared to take up arms to defend it. It is true of the people of Cuba, who remain defiant under a crushing blockade that has turned their cities dark.

Those who despair now — as a new world is being born — are really just mourning the death of liberalism. They are mourning the death of a world that never existed: a world of supposed lawfulness and “rules-based” governance. Anyone who has ever earnestly tried to bring a new world into being quickly learned that these were fictions created to secure impunity for the colonizer and oppressor.

That is why we find that people on the vanguard of the systemic transition underway — as with the labor movement in Lenin’s time — “have plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about.”

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Liberals also love to misuse Gramsci’s "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” to justify their despair.

Gramsci was not advocating despair. He was being Leninist. The "pessimism of the intellect" is a call to develop a clear-eyed view of the actual balance of forces — a concrete analysis of the concrete situation. The “optimism of the will” is a call for political organization grounded in that analysis. If our forces are weak, then we need to act accordingly and build them up rather than engaging in fanciful debates about politics that are beyond our reach.

In the hands of liberals, the quote is detached from its strategic content and turned into a mood. Or, worse, its politics are inverted. If Gramsci’s pessimism concerned the strength of bourgeois hegemony and the disorganization of the labor movement, his optimism reflected a deep confidence in the capacity of workers to organize and win.

For liberals, the passage does the opposite work. The pessimism counsels acceptance of bourgeois political constraints, while the optimism truncates politics to the horizon of reform or to rootless, spontaneous action. “Nothing is possible, but we have to do something.” As a Marxist, it is difficult to imagine Gramsci offering such counsel.

[Proyecto Salvación @Garcismos]

EEUU consiguió lo imposible: que un árbitro sea ídolo de masas.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Massive Surveillance Data Centers Are Being Built In Your Back Yard By Billionaire Oligarchs

A development that has come as a result of the same chaotic system that is enabling a push towards the Greater Israeli Project explains @AbbyMartin , in conversation with @MnarMuh.

WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/xBmeLh3sm7

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

59 years ago, Yitzhak Rabin introduced America to Israeli culture (He ordered the attack on the USS Liberty).

June 8, 1968.

Never forget the gifts that Israel has given America.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Just drove across town to break into someone’s house. He tried to stop me from pouring gasoline all over his living room so I had to murder him in self-defense.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

رسالة الطبيب الفلسطيني المعتقل في السجون الإسرائيلية، د. حسام أبو صفية على لسان محاميه أ.ناصر أبو عودة، من جلسة محاكمته اليوم.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

Palestinian doctor detained by the occupation, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya:
“I am a pediatrician, and I provide medical services and care to the patients, the injured, and the vulnerable in the sector. I performed my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search plates hundreds of times over months

https://t.co/QDou8Z8612

[abrasive miqote @_miqomiqo]

oh my god i'm so tired of these scared ass pussy pigs pointing a gun at everything

just the dumbest mother fuckers alive given free reign to do whatever to whoever with no accountability for their dumbasses when they harass, assault and kill people for nothing.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: The US-Proxy Regime In Lebanon Had Banned Fibre Optic Cables From Entering The Country, In An Attempt To Help Israel’s Advance

Hezbollah’s successful use of FPV drones against the invading Israeli occupation army has notably held back their advance & inflicted retaliatory casualties.

The Lebanese regime, which is currently engaged in direct negotiations with Israel, are now attempting to prevent the fibre optic cables the FPV drones use from reaching Hezbollah. An open attempt to aid the Israelis as the death toll in Lebanon nears 4,000.

However, the move will not actually stop fibre optic cables from entering Lebanon. Some have even labelled the move a humiliation ritual.

[PanAfricanist✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿☭ @mbkay303]

@Ow75Tina @MintPressNews @Sweetbarbaralee They’re collaborators like the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank who help the Zionists murder, kidnap, and ethnically cleanse Palestinians out of their own lands.

[Marcus Aurelius🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸 @GlasgowScot1888]

@MintPressNews The Lebanese government is yet another front for the Zionist settlers.