Olaf Foss

Old man, sociologist, reader, dedicated introvert

[CODEPINK @codepink]

By unfairly keeping Cuba on its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism the US continues depriving the island of a life of dignity. The good news? Joe Biden can change this Trump-era designation at any moment, yet we have to actively demand it.
@medeabenjamin
https://t.co/OT7ivtLBBb

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Coming from Globetrotter, from @TaroaZuniga & myself - a story about lithium in Chile directly from the Atacama Salt Flats. Out this week in the usual places, the first in a series that will continue for a few weeks. #capitalism #environment #pachamama

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

A serious investigative unit has requested my in-depth knowledge of the #WikiLeaks cables to investigate a case:12 years after their publication,cables help us to understand current affairs.And yet, #Assange has never known freedom again, after publishing them. A massive scandal

[Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch @JeffreyStClair3]

Liberalism and rightwing economics merged 40 years ago. It's called neoliberalism & Biden personifies it holiest tenets. The FDR routine was merely a momentary defense mechanism against the threat posed by Sanders. No one who knew his record in the senate could take it seriously.

[John Edwards @JohnEdwards33]

You would only let our NHS fall apart with a shortage of 50k nurses and 12k doctors if you wanted it to fail to the point where selling it off could be made easier.

And of course that’s exactly what Johnson and the Tories have done.

[☮️ David Swanson ☮️ @davidcnswanson]

The presidency of Barack Obama saw the highest inflation-adjusted military spending in the past 75 years, may have set the record for number of nations simultaneously bombed by the U.S., and developed a new form of warfare using drones. But ...

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

The natives getting restless w demand for sovereignty

[Tricontinental Institute for Social Research @tri_continental]

Let's remember Simon Bolivar on his 239th birth anniversary by trying to understand his project of regional unity in the Americas, which was later picked up in the 21st century by Hugo Chávez.

https://t.co/OjLScpMI8V

[Tricontinental Institute for Social Research @tri_continental]

201 years ago, on 24 June 1821, the forces of Simón Bolívar trounced the Spanish royalists at the Battle of Carabobo, a few hundred kilometres west of Caracas, Venezuela. Carabobo had broken the imperialist spirit of the Spanish monarchy under the leadership of Simón Bolívar.

[Tricontinental Institute for Social Research @tri_continental]

On the anniversary of the 26th of July Movement’s founding, go through our online exhibition which was launched last year, Let Cuba Live. The exhibition is a visual call for the end to the decades-long US-imposed blockade on Cuba.
https://t.co/AxoAnae1vZ

#LetCubaLive #Cuba

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

You need a proofreader.

[Tricontinental Institute for Social Research @tri_continental]

"Enough is enough"-The imperialists led by US and the UK should stop suffocating democracies with blockades, sanctions and hybrid wars. Instead, one should focus on serving the people like eradicating extreme poverty in their countries like China.

https://t.co/7FUMnKcJil

[Bad China Takes @china_takes]

Brits think they will "face down China" by refusing to learn Mandarin

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

There have only been 17 days with temperatures exceeding 40°C in Shanghai since records began in 1873.

This year we have had three already. 🫠

[Olaf Foss @OlafFoss]

«What if our present system was actually built on a nightmare, born of naked violence and sheer despair? . . . What if civilization did not make progress, but systematized barbarism instead?”
https://t.co/GrUQXB8kPb

[Olaf Foss @OlafFoss]

«Support for #NATO goes hand-in-hand with support for intensifying the militarisation of the continent. The military and their right-wing political supporters are using the invasion to build support for NATO and increased arms spending»
https://t.co/h4URUlQfdJ

[Olaf Foss @OlafFoss]

«Year on year, opinion surveys have shown that Ukrainians have strong social democratic attitudes, including in favour of welfare. They expect the government to protect their labour rights and offer a complete social package. Not even war can change this»
https://t.co/MQpgLeQ0De

[Olaf Foss @OlafFoss]

"Perhaps, Afghans are the most vulnerable people in the world today, thanks to 20 years of a devastating US/NATO war which has killed and maimed tens of thousands"

[ZNet @OfficialZNET]

The War ‘Diplomat’
How Borrell, the West Lost the ‘Global Battle of Narratives’ @RamzyBaroud
https://t.co/k5eqR20Ud3

[Olaf Foss @OlafFoss]

«The standard script asserts that the United States is powerful and besieged — mighty but always menaced — the world’s leading light yet beset by hostile nations and other sinister forces aiming to undermine the USA’s rightful dominance of the globe»
https://t.co/HT7cBbMRim