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Anti - Imperialist | Pro - Humanity | MPFA | DEATH TO EMPIRE

[ًً @kelevitch]

Democracy only spread because it was the best system for producing compliant trading partners.
A democracy has elections. Elections require parties. Parties require financing. Financing requires capital. Capital has interests. So by design, every democracy in the world has a built-in mechanism that ensures the people with money have disproportionate access to the people with power.

You don’t need to bribe a dictator and hope he stays in power. In a democracy, you just fund both candidates and own the outcome regardless.
This is why US spent the Cold War toppling democracies that elected the wrong people Mossadegh in Iran, Allende in Chile, Lumumba in Congo and replacing them with dictators who were more “stable.” Stable meaning: predictable to capital.

The genius of it is the aesthetics. Democracy looks like self-determination. It has flags and anthems and moving inauguration speeches. People will die for it. But the operating system underneath is remarkably friendly to concentrated wealth arguably more so than overt authoritarianism, which at least makes the power visible.

The most honest political scientists will tell you: what actually spread after 1989 was markets. Democracy was the packaging.
And the packaging worked so well that the people inside it genuinely believe they’re free which is the final, most elegant feature of the system.
A cage you can’t see is the strongest cage ever built.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American education system does not teach empire.

This is not an accident.

It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning.

It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler.

It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of.

It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations.

It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil.

It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present.

It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention.

The ignorance is load-bearing.

Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable.

They know this.

The curriculum is not an oversight.

The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it.

The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier.

It is the history class.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"You're oddly obsessed with America."

I am "obsessed" with America the way a person downstream is obsessed with the factory upstream.

You don't have to be American to be affected by American foreign policy.

You don't have to be American to live in a country where American-backed forces staged a coup.

You don't have to be American to have a family member who died in a war America funded.

You don't have to be American to watch your country's resources flow outward under trade agreements written in Washington.

"Not American therefore irrelevant" is the most perfectly self-sealing logic empire ever produced.

The people most affected by American power are, almost by definition, not American.

And you'd like them to stay quiet about it.

Noted.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The most imperial sentence a Western progressive can say is:

"What that country needs is..."

Finish it however you want.

Democracy.
Civil society.
Rule of law.
Women's rights.
Economic reform.

The sentence is imperial regardless of how it ends.

Because the sentence begins with the assumption that the speaker, located outside the country, informed by sources produced within a specific geopolitical framework, has identified what the country needs more accurately than the people inside it.

This assumption is not expertise.

It is a posture.

It is the posture of someone who has so thoroughly internalized the idea that their analytical position is neutral, is the view from nowhere, is simply what a reasonable informed person concludes, that they cannot see it as a position at all.

The view from nowhere is always the view from somewhere.

And the somewhere is always telling.

[Protégé @protege100]

@Chetuyachinago colony that exists because they created it and currently sustain it.

That some colony needs to blackmail an empire to do things said empire was doing long before the colony was created is as silly as it sounds.

They're trying to do with Israel what they did with Hitler.

[Protégé @protege100]

@Chetuyachinago Used to believe that narrative until I came to terms with things I already knew.
Israel is simply an extension of western babarism. Everything Israel does, all of them have done.
They're all trying to whitewash their depravity and complicity by singling out Israel, the same..
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[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

A swarm of left wing accounts on this platform are fiercely attacking the legendary scholar Norman Finkelstein over his recent interview, where he rightly rebuked Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens by exposing that the deceptive nature of their criticism of Israel is actually not helping the Palestinian struggle, but is instead actively protecting the transatlantic corporate and state power structures that are squarely responsible for their subjugation.

Anyone who actually has the intellectual capacity to follow my geopolitical analyses and essays on this platform can confirm that I have always maintained that this delusional, backwards conspiracy theory that Israel or Bibi Netanyahu is controlling the American empire is completely baseless, and I am highly satisfied to see another seasoned, world-renowned expert finally step out publicly to call out this absolute garbage.

According to Finkelstein, the true, material reason that Europe and America unilaterally pledge blind military support and diplomatic allegiance to Israel is Western imperialism and corporate capitalism, not some mystical foreign lobby pulling the strings of Washington. By merely shifting the blame towards "the Jews," "Bibi Netanyahu," or "Jeffrey Epstein" for supposedly manipulating American foreign policy, you are not helping the human rights struggle in Palestine at all. Instead, you are providing a massive ideological shield to American imperialism and the Western oligarchs, who are the active, driving aggressors here, shielding them entirely from legitimate public rage.

Now, this is exactly what I have continuously pointed out in my deep analyses of the ongoing US-Iran war. This childish "Israel controls America" narrative does absolutely nothing to help the Palestinian struggle. If anything, you are twisting a genuine, blood-drenched struggle for human rights and territorial dignity into a sick, tabloid conspiracy theory for which neither Tucker Carlson nor Candace Owens has provided a single shred of material proof outside of hearsay and collective delusions.

If you truly want to genuinely help the Palestinian struggle, then you must aggressively focus on the US oil majors, the predatory Wall Street asset management firms, and the transatlantic defense contractors. These are the actual corporate cartels that draft the lethal policy papers of American imperialism across the globe. By merely creating crazy, distracting conspiracy theories around the political human meat shields they installed in public offices to absorb the public insults and rage, you are merely protecting their trillion-dollar financial interests, and providing them with the exact diplomatic immunity they need to continue their imperial conquests undisturbed.

It seems to me that these internet activists have completely forgotten their own history. When the American journalist Joan Peters wrote her highly celebrated book "From Time Immemorial," she fraudulently claimed that the people living in Palestine today are actually not the indigenous population. Instead, she argued they were merely economic migrants from neighboring Arab states who flowed into the region looking for jobs created by the economic and infrastructural boom of Zionist settlement. This fraudulent book was written specifically to justify Israeli land-grabbing, to delegitimize the Palestinian national identity, and to provide intellectual cover for ethnic cleansing, and it was widely popular among the Western political elite at the time.

It was this exact Norman Finkelstein, whom everyone is childishly attacking today, who dedicated years of his life to meticulously reviewing, verifying, and researching over 2,000 footnotes in that book, cross-checking census data from Ottoman and British mandate archives, exposing the fabricated demographic tables, and finally proving beyond a shadow of doubt that all the historical facts and quotations in the book were either outright lies or intentionally taken out of context. It was entirely through his scholarly sacrifice that the book was exposed as an absolute sham, and was later officially acknowledged as a monumental academic fraud even by prominent Israeli historians.

In fact, it is practically impossible to find any individual alive today who has sacrificed as much for the Palestinian cause as Norman Finkelstein, yet today he is being foolishly paraded as a sellout simply because he is trying to warn the public against falling for the controlled opposition of figures like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

The dam was Hezbollah. The hospitals are Hezbollah. The farms are Hezbollah. The apartment buildings are Hezbollah. The churches are Hezbollah. The mosques are Hezbollah. The bridges are Hezbollah. The water treatment plants are Hezbollah. The journalists are Hezbollah. The paramedics are Hezbollah. The clinics are Hezbollah. The civilians are Hezbollah. The

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's Not Okay To Join The Military

“If you live in the west and you join the military, at no point will you ever be acting in defense of your country; you will be murdering people who are trying to defend their country.”

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Nigerians are being brainwashed into believing their ginger sector collapsed due to devastating fungal blight (Ginger Blight), which is a big lie. The fact is the adoption of Genetically Modified ginger.

The same happened in Burkina Faso when it lost its cotton markets and exports due to adopting Genetically Modified cotton, which yielded shorter fibers of lower quality that fetched lower prices on the international market, while weakening indigenous crops and compromising soil health. This is the same outcome for the Nigerian ginger market.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Israel aren't really in control. That's just a convenient excuse for the West not to look itself in the mirror.

Nuking Japan, killing 20% of North Korea's population, napalming Vietnam, training death squads in Nicaragua... And that's mostly just 20th century. Need I go on?

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Protégé @protege100]

@Cannibalox5994 @iamNeare Drop all the sources you have on this please.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Crying about the past."

The statute of limitations you're inventing applies selectively.

Western governments cite ancient Greek democracy as their heritage.

Western museums display Roman artifacts as their cultural inheritance.

Western legal systems trace themselves to Magna Carta.

The past is claimed enthusiastically when it flatters.

It becomes "crying" the moment it indicts.

[💪🏾 @ofasho_]

Every white person is racist as fuck until proven innocent, these quotes show why thinking like this isnt a bad thing lol

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Vietnam is actually a fascinating example to choose.

Vietnam was colonized by China for a thousand years.

Then France for a hundred.

Then bombed into rubble by America for twenty.

You've selected the most colonized country in modern history as your example of a country that should pay reparations.

The geometry of that choice tells me everything about how carefully you've thought this through.

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

Today is Africa Day. And here is a fact most Africans have never been taught.

Between 500 BCE and 700 CE, a civilization called the Garamantes built 750 kilometers of underground irrigation tunnels beneath the Sahara Desert in what is now Libya. They had no river. They built gravity-fed channels that pulled water from deep aquifers and turned desert into farmland that fed a population of 50,000.

They grew grapes, figs, wheat, olives and dates in the middle of the Sahara.

Modern engineers still study these tunnels today for sustainable irrigation solutions. But this is not taught in most African schools. Just like the building techniques, the craftsmanship, and the engineering knowledge before it, we are losing it without ever knowing we had it.

[dr. local angry blk man @afropessimistic]

Students see no issue using AI to complete their assignment because they have been conditioned to treat schooling as a means to a capitalist end and not a tool for acquiring knowledge. The proliferation of AI is just making this very explicit for those who didn’t already know.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The Atlantic slave trade is not singled out because other slavery didn't exist.

It is singled out because it built the world we currently live in.

The financial institutions.
The insurance markets.
The shipping routes.
The racial categories.
The colonial borders.
The wealth distribution between continents that still defines the global economy today.

The Atlantic slave trade is not studied with particular intensity because historians are biased.

It is studied with particular intensity because its consequences are not historical.

They are present.

You don't single it out to assign ancient blame.

You examine it to understand current reality.

The reason your argument wants to dissolve that specificity into universal human wickedness is precisely because universal human wickedness requires nothing from anyone today.

Specific, traceable, present consequences do.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

You claim that Walter Rodney was wrong, but the reasons you provided are completely out of alignment with what Rodney actually described in his pioneering, historically rigorous book, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa".

This intellectual failure clearly proves that you did not even bother to read the very book you are vehemently condemning. Rodney never analyzed the modern African post-colonial state to make the claim that Africa's current poverty can be blamed entirely on them. His analytical focus was strictly on pre-colonial and colonial Africa, documenting how the structures of European capitalism actively dismantled African societies.

Before the white colonizers stepped onto the shores of Africa with their gunboats and missionary bibles, Africa was home to powerful, highly organized kingdoms and empires like Mali, Songhai, the Kingdom of Benin, Great Zimbabwe, the Ashanti Empire, and the Kingdom of Kongo. All of these were sovereign African states that functioned with the complexity of modern metropolitan hubs. They had paved roads, highly advanced systems of metallurgy, complex trans-Saharan trade routes, established legal codes, and monumental architecture that stunned early European travelers.

These kingdoms made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for early European traders to engage freely in the slave trade on their own terms. These empires possessed powerful, disciplined armies that routinely captured and killed invading colonial forces because they understood the harsh terrains of the African forests and mountains. This meant the Europeans had to physically break these kingdoms before they could extract the human labor required to meet the quotas set by their corporate shareholders overseas.

To this end, European powers began flooding rival, smaller kingdoms and disgruntled provincial vassals with firearms, deliberately instigating civil wars and forcing these smaller factions to invade neighboring empires to capture prisoners of war to sell to the colonizers. The Kingdom of Kongo, for example, had six major provinces governed by vassals under the Manikongo, the central king. But the Portuguese deliberately flooded these provincial governors with guns and military advisors, giving them the weaponry and the incentive to refuse taxes, deny their traditional allegiance to the central crown, and bypass the tributary duties that allowed the Kingdom of Kongo to function as a cohesive, sovereign state.

All of this reduced thriving African kingdoms into a manufactured bedrock of continuous violence, destabilization, and civil war. The Kingdom of Kongo, for instance, was systematically carved up and shattered, eventually being reduced to what we know today as Congo and Angola. Europe did not merely dismantle these empires in the name of the Atlantic slave trade; they also systematically destroyed local African industries. They singlehandedly dismantled the highly competitive West African textile mills by flooding the markets with cheap, heavily subsidized fabrics from Manchester, they banned the domestic processing of raw agricultural goods, and they outlawed local iron-smelting to make the entire continent dependent on imported European manufactured wares.

Your mention of Singapore as a colony that grew richer than Britain is also fundamentally false and intellectually dishonest on several levels.

First, Singapore’s Gross Domestic Product is roughly 500 billion dollars, which is a drop in the ocean compared to Britain’s 3 trillion dollar economy.

Secondly, you cannot compare Singapore to the African nations that were colonized, because the structural model of imperialism used by the British Empire to govern these two territories was entirely different.

In Africa, the primary, non-negotiable goal of colonization was pure raw material extraction. The British invaded to loot physical resources, such as gold, copper, rubber, cocoa, and cotton, and ship them back to the British metropole. This model stripped the African colonies of their natural wealth, leaving behind absolutely no domestic processing industries, no universal education systems, and no transport networks other than the railway lines built specifically to move raw materials from the interior mines straight to the coast.

On the other hand, the British did not colonize Singapore to extract rubber or minerals from its soil, because the island had no natural resources to speak of. Instead, they colonized Singapore to serve as a strategic commercial and naval gateway. They needed a duty-free port to secure vital trade routes between India and China, and to counter Dutch naval dominance in the Malacca Strait. Because of this specific imperial role, the British built a massive, deepwater port, established English common law, and created a centralized administrative and financial infrastructure. Consequently, upon independence, Singapore did not inherit a depleted landscape of empty mines; instead, it inherited a highly functional, globally connected maritime trade hub.

When the British formally withdrew, they merely handed the keys of this strategic outpost to the United States. The Americans aggressively used Singapore to support their imperialist war of aggression against the people of Vietnam. They used the island to refuel fighter jets, repair warships, stockpile heavy munitions, and house military personnel. Because of this strategic role, the US military and its corporate allies built a massive, state-of-the-art petroleum refining infrastructure in Singapore to process Middle Eastern crude into the jet fuel, diesel, and napalm required to sustain the relentless devastation of Vietnam.

Even after the United States was humiliated and forced out of Vietnam, they did not abandon the Singapore project. American and Western multinational corporations happily transferred high-tech manufacturing technologies to Singapore, built massive skyscrapers, and integrated the island into the global supply chain. This is because Singapore is precious to Western capitalists as a premier tax haven, where they can set up shell companies, launder illicit corporate wealth, and dodge billions of dollars in taxes.

Your mention of Switzerland is equally fraudulent.

It is historically true that the Swiss did not formally send military gunboats to Africa, and they never held official overseas colonies under a Swiss flag. But even without a formal colonial office, Swiss banks, city-states, elite merchants, and mercenary soldiers were deeply embedded in, and profited immensely from, the European colonial system. Swiss financial institutions and local cantons invested heavily in joint-stock colonial enterprises like the South Sea Company, which held the absolute monopoly on transporting enslaved Africans to Spanish America. Furthermore, when enslaved people in Haiti rose up in a glorious revolution against French colonial rule in 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte deployed hundreds of Swiss mercenaries to brutally suppress the rebellion and attempt to re-enslave the population.

So during the slave trade, the Swiss happily pocketed massive profits from chattel slavery by serving as the quiet financial and logistical backbone of the trade. And even after brave African revolutionaries fought hard and made the slave trade too expensive for Europeans to manage, forcing the formal abolition of slavery, the Swiss continued to line their pockets with wealth extracted from Africa.

Today, Switzerland is where Western oil and mining conglomerates set up complex networks of shell companies. They hire armies of elite corporate lawyers and ruthless accountants to draft fraudulent transfer-pricing reports that allow them to conceal their massive African profits, ensuring they pay little to no taxes to their host African nations. Meanwhile, secretive Swiss banking vaults serve as the ultimate safe havens for billions of dollars in looted public funds smuggled out by corrupt African comprador elites, and Swiss trading houses in Zug and Geneva dominate the global trade of African gold, oil, and cocoa without ever physically touching a single gram of the raw material.

The fact remains that you did not read the book, and this is precisely why you rushed to unleash such an embarrassing, historically ignorant statement on the development of Africa.

I am equally certain that you have never bothered to read about visionary revolutionary leaders like Thomas Sankara, Kwame Nkrumah, and Patrice Lumumba, who fought relentlessly against Western imperialism but were systematically assassinated, betrayed, or forced out of power by Western-backed operatives. You clearly ignore how Patrice Lumumba’s body was literally dissolved in acid by Belgian agents to erase his physical memory, how Thomas Sankara was betrayed and brutally murdered under French supervision to halt the Burkinabé agrarian revolution, and how Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in a meticulously planned, CIA-funded coup just as he was unifying the African continent against neo-colonialism.

Furthermore, I am positive you have never analyzed the predatory terms of trade enforced by the World Trade Organisation, which systematically penalizes African nations with crushing tariffs, trade barriers, and economic sanctions if they dare to process their own raw materials locally. Under this highly engineered tariff escalation model, the WTO ensures that raw African cocoa, unprocessed gold, and crude oil enter Western markets with zero import duties, but the moment an African nation attempts to refine that oil, process that cocoa into chocolate, or smelt that gold into jewelry, they are hit with astronomical, protectionist tariffs designed to keep African economies permanently locked at the bottom of the global value chain as cheap, disposable suppliers for European and American corporations. They punish industrialization while rewarding raw material dependency, forcing Africa to export its wealth for peanuts only to buy it back at a thousand times the price.

If you had ever bothered to educate yourself on these historical realities, your heavy colonial chains would have been shattered, you would have been liberated from this pathetic state of mental slavery, and you would not be spending your limited intellectual energy undermining the very book that exposed the genocidal, systemic crimes of the empires that traded your own ancestors like mere commodities on a global balance sheet.