This year I have been thinking a lot about Carl von Clausewitz’ observation that “a conqueror is always a lover of peace… he would like to make his entry into our state unopposed.”
Lenin was so delighted by this phrase that he scribbled a simple “Ah!” in the margins.
The custodians of the money raised by the Your Party membership system say they have tried to get Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn to meet and sort things out - but one side is refusing to respond.
The individuals blocking this need to be made public. They need to be shamed.
I wrote this 8 weeks ago about Your Party.
I don't have a crystal ball. I just think, once you remove emotion from the equation and look at things from a dialectically materialist perspective, contradictions and challenges become very clear:
"the British left is now an incoherent mess, a hotchpotch of disorganised and sectarian movements and parties. This will not be easy to remedy, if it can be remedied at all, because there have emerged many different ideologies and worldviews that simply cannot coexist with each other, at least not without a genuine commitment to free speech, internal dissent and real dialogue.
"How will this new party solve the divide on trans issues? Will it purge people for being so-called ‘antisemites’? Will a London-centric, Oxbridge-educated clique of people run the party machinery again? Will there be any freedom of expression to debate policy? Will there be any real attempts to build bridges with different political, workers’ and religious movements to have a united front against the enemy?
"It seems to me that the bulk of the British left has learnt nothing from the Corbyn project’s demise. As such, they are fated to repeat the same mistakes. I can’t help but see Corbyn, and the people around him, as unserious and even nefarious. Fundamentally, they lack the mettle to do what it takes to win power in this country."
*Bob Vylan chants "death death to the IDF" and thousands upon thousands chant with him and then welcome him to crowd surf. Thousands more online applaud him, creating posters and graphics across all platforms to show approval*
Media: I think we can ALL agree he was out of line
This brave action has forced the BBC to finally mention British military involvement in the genocide, something that it has otherwise studiously covered up:
the US and Israel did not launch this war to try to eliminate the nuclear sites. They know they can't. They are too well-protected and dispersed and any damage can be reconstituted in the short-term. They launched it to cause total state collapse in Iran, beginning in phases. The first phase was the eliminate the top military and IRGC leaders, while also going after scientists and mass killing civilians in the process.
This would create the false impression that they are still somewhat restrained and focused on military/nuclear targets.
After taking what they expect will be a similarly constrained response from Iran, they will see that as confirmation that Iran will not adhere to its own stated red lines and is still afraid of meeting Israel at the same level of escalation.
That is their green light to proceed to the next phase, which is to target and kill top political leaders, including Khamenei.
Their hope isn't to replace the current government and state with some re-hash of the monarchist Zionist fascist through his failson, they know there is no base of support for that inside the country.
Their hope is to do another Libya and Syria: Unleash proxy forces they fund and arm together with the Gulf "Arab shield" puppet regimes and NATO-Erdogan and turn it into a spiral of death and chaos, a concocted "civil war" where Iranians are paid and armed by the CIA and Mossad to kill Iranians.
The MEK and other such proxy forces have already been trained and prepared and are ready to be activated. They will begin with car bombings and terrorist attacks mass killing civilians. "ISIS" will reappear again and do its typical job for their CIA-Mossad masters.
The US and Israel decided to launch this war since before Trump was elected, and it has the full and total support of the entire US military-intelligence-industrial complex and the media and political class, both Republicans and Democrats and it would have also happened if Kamala Harris won the election (see https://t.co/zys9uwIKzg).
They see Iran and the Axis of Resistance and its alliance with Russia and China as the main obstacle to full and total Zionist US-NATO-Israeli imperial hegemony in the region and by extension the world, and they want to destroy it as it is the only one that unlike Russia and China does not have a nuclear deterrent and they want to get to it before it obtains it.
This is an existential war of survival not just for the Iranian state, but for Iran as a nation.
If this project succeeds, the country will be balkanized, ethnic divisions will be stirred by foreign actors, the CIA and Mossad and the Gulf puppets will fund and arm dozens of proxy death and rape-squads roaming their fiefdoms, tens of millions of lives will be destroyed.
Everything must be done to prevent this. Iran has the weapons to do so. It has the capacity to do so, it is only a question of will. Does it have the will to do what it takes to prevent the mass destruction of their own people and nation. I hope it does. We must all hope it does.
Seems like Goldberg was the perfect guy to accidentally include on that text thread. He's so unbothered by US-led violence against Muslims that he held the news for 9 days, ensuring the story was framed as Trump admin incompetence & buffoonery, rather than militarism & violence.
@AbdulRasheeedRL@BattlementLK Globalism and internationalism actually are two quite opposite things.
Globalism - i.e. Neoliberal Globalization, the global spread and domination of Capital.
Internationalism - mutual solidarity and cooperation, esp between the oppressed.
In 2019, Zelensky began his presidency by going to eastern Ukraine and pleading with Azov to implement a ceasefire. They refused, humiliating him on camera.
Fitting that he ends his presidency by once again being humiliated on camera and forced into one.
everything Mearsheimer and the few others who said it was a proxy war for the sole purpose of destroying Ukraine to weaken Russia has been proven right: https://t.co/eIPb7pecCf
Just recently the US and Israel voted against the UN resolution blaming Russia for the proxy war. The same Israel that invited Azov Nazis on holiday and used their vast propaganda apparatus to launder them and the proxy war for years, which Zelensky repaid in kind by committing himself fully to the genocidal Zionist project, and framing Ukraine as the new Israel for the US-NATO empire.
Application refused. Because you have no power, you have no Israel lobby, you have no Zionist media and political class that dominates both liberal and conservatives in the US and the West, and you're facing Russia, a state with the actual ability to fight back against the entire US-NATO-Israeli empire. It's over now, they're moving on to the Iran war so they need to wind this meat-grinder down to peel Russia away from Iran for their precious Israel's war. The neo-cons have no use for you anymore, the disgusting pathetic scumbag you are and have always been.
After the 2014 Azov Nazi coup that you were the proud inheritor of they activated you to weaken Russia as much as they could, as you together destroyed your entire country and people, while you siphoned off cash to the Virgin Islands bank accounts of yourself and your Zionist billionaire funders like Ihor Kolomoyskyi (see https://t.co/7tO2vP7Cnu).
And now it's all coming to an end. The only question that remains is where you will end up. I hope it will be where I imagine it.
Zelensky is seeing in real time what happens when you sell your nation and people to the US-NATO-Israeli empire, as he is humiliated in front of the world, shouted at, scolded like a petulant little boy, and no one is coming to help him. It's over. They got their pound of flesh