Moses

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Can we talk about mental health of the actual victims in Gaza?

No one gives a shit about that sick genocidal colony.

This happens every time Israel commits atrocities. The story becomes how much Israelis are suffering because they’re having to kill so many people.

[Majid Hosseini @m4h007]

One question most Iranians don't ask themselves is why the state of the United Kingdom would spend millions of pounds annually and hire dozens of reporters and analysts of Iranian heritage for “BBC Persian?”

BCC is supposedly for the benefit of the UK public, not for the benefit of Iranians.

Why would they spend their money for the benefit of Iranians?

When did the United Kingdom ever consider the benefit of Iranians in its cost-benefit analysis? And under the impossible assumption that it did, would it be even legal?

So perhaps the real answer is that the likes of Mr Ardalan don’t work for the benefit of Iranians. They work for the United Kingdom and its benefit.

They’re also selected exactly according to those criteria. If you fill up the BBC Persian with staff that keeps talking about the history of the British in Iran, and their role in subjugating Iranian people over the years, you’re just wasting money. In the case of Iran, the goal is to constantly create dissatisfaction and make people paranoid and distrustful of their government.

That’s why BBC has a Persian Service.

[Andrew @andrewmaga84]

Yup

[Moses @realozmoses]

@aj_geo_analysis A "beacon of hope"? I guess you only started paying attention this season lol

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Economist Richard Werner revealed that the IMF deliberately manufactured the Asian Financial Crisis and bankrupted Thailand🇹🇭, to force them to sell off their national industries to foreign oligarchs for bargain basement prices.

The IMF is the economic warfare arm of Washington. Crises are manufactured for Western oligarchs to expand their market share and concentrate wealth in their hands.

[Yasha Levine @yashalevine]

this is exactly what we keep saying: the toiling Soviet citizen was the best friend middling Americans, with their unions, their two car garages, cheap suburban homes, cheap education, medicine... the ussr winked out of existence and so this middle class "prosperity"

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Epic truth-telling. 🇮🇷

A masterclass by Professor Marandi in refusing to give a mediocre journalist an inch.

Calm, precise, and relentless—facts over spin.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

If you try to save money by cooking at home, you walk into a grocery store where three massive conglomerates own every brand on the shelf and have colluded to raise baseline prices by 40% over three years.

If you try to cut costs by renting a modest apartment, you face corporate landlords using automated algorithmic software to artificially inflate rental rates across the entire city simultaneously.

If you try to opt out of car debt by using public transit, you realize municipal budgets were slashed to protect the auto industry, leaving you with zero reliable infrastructure to get to work.

You aren't making "poor financial decisions."

Every single alternative route to survival has been intentionally bought out, consolidated, and monetized to extract maximum profit from your baseline existence.

They don't want you to build wealth; they want you permanently trapped on a treadmill where every necessary life pivot just leads back to the exact same corporate ledger.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.

[Carlos @agent_of_change]

The Trump administration has found a new target in its long war on Cuba: the island’s doctors. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Washington is now moving to destroy Cuba’s overseas medical missions – one of its last remaining sources of dollar income – having already blocked its fuel, sanctioned its officials and choked off remittances. Marco Rubio has toured the Caribbean threatening visa bans against any official who keeps employing Cuban medics, denouncing the programme – bizarrely – as “forced labour” and “state-sponsored human-trafficking brigades”.

Since 1963 – the first mission went to newly independent Algeria – Cuba has sent what Fidel called an “army of white coats” to heal the poor of the world. Some 24,000 Cuban health workers currently serve across more than 50 countries, from tiny Caribbean islands to the rural villages of southern Italy. They staff the clinics no one else will.

In Honduras, residents gave the departing Cuban medics a tearful ovation. Jamaica’s prime minister, standing beside Rubio, pushed back to his face: the Cuban doctors “have been incredibly helpful to us”. St Lucia’s leader said plainly that “our medical system would basically collapse without them”. And when the US leaned on St Vincent and the Grenadines, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves responded firmly: “I will prefer to lose my visa than to have 60 poor and working people die.”

That is the choice the United States is forcing on the region: get rid of the Cuban doctors, or be punished. The world’s richest country would rather the poor of the Global South go blind and die than tolerate Cuban solidarity.

Why? Because those missions are not only Cuba’s largest export – some $5.3 billion in 2024, half of all its foreign earnings – but the clearest proof of what a small socialist country can offer humanity. That is the real target. Not “trafficking”, but the threat of a good example: a blockaded island of 11 million that sends doctors where empires send gunboats.

To wage war on Cuba’s doctors is to admit you have nothing to offer the world. Solidarity with Cuba has never been more urgent. ¡Venceremos!

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

To recap, AI

- Invades our privacy
- Makes us dumber
- Makes it harder to tell what’s real and what’s not
- Weakens data security
- Entrenches racial and bias in algorithms which affect hiring, policing and even prices
- Results in higher utility costs
- Leads to data centers poisoning water and emitting nonstop noise
- Enhances and increases cybercrimes
- Enables deepfakes damaging social trust
- Increases issues involving addiction and mental health disorders
- Adds to social isolation
- Makes all electronic devices more expensive for consumers
- Normalizes the theft of intellectual property
- Puts people out of work and
- Was used to wipe out social safety nets without oversight

But, on the plus side:
- Makes shareholders and billionaires richer

[nyara @nyaraVT]

China scanning private messages - bad, evil, dystopian, mass surveillance

EU scanning private messages - good, protecting children, necessary, nothing to worry about

[Sven Clement @svnee]

The European Parliament voted AGAINST Chat Control. 314 to 276.

And it passed anyway.

Let me tell you how: they needed 361 votes to say no. On the last day before vacation. Every empty seat counted as a yes.

They lost the vote. They won the law.

That’s not democracy. That’s a trick. #ChatControl

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

What Syria needed to be removed from the list of "state sponsors of terrorism" was to have a "former" Al Qaeda commander and ISIS associate put in charge.

The word "terrorism," and the legal weapons justified in its name, are totally meaningless and thus malleable.

[Alpaslan Düven @DuvenAlpaslan]

Milei neden Dünya Kupası'nı istiyor?

Arjantin'in siyonist başkanı Milei,ülkenin büyük bölümünü İsrail'e verdi.

Yakında 300 binden fazla Yahudi'yi de Arjantin'e yerleştirecek.

Bunun için ülkenin en güzel ormanlarını yaktırdı.

Arjantin'i ikinci İsrail yapacak.

Söz verdi.

İşte tam bu noktada Dünya Kupası'na ihtiyacı var.

Neden mi?

Çünkü tüm yaşamları yoksullukla mücadeleyle geçen Arjantinlileri uyuşturması gerekiyor.

Her zamanki gibi onları futbolla uyuşturacak.

Yoksul Arjantinliler,altın suyuna batırılmış,şikeyle elde edilmiş kupayı sevinçle havaya kaldırdıklarında, topraklarının siyonistler tarafından çalındığını anlamaları uzun sürmeyecektir.

Bu durum, bana Jomo Kenyatta'nın şu sözlerini hatırlattı:

“Beyaz adam geldiğinde ellerinde İncil vardı. Bizimse topraklarımız. Bize gözlerimizi kapatarak dua etmeyi öğrettiler. Gözlerimizi açtığımızda bizim elimizde İncil, onların elinde topraklarımız vardı.''

Arjantinliler gözlerini açtıklarında ellerinde kupa, siyonistlerin elinde ise onların toprakları olacak...

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Perfect headline, from an Israeli outlet, no less.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.

US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high.

But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.

It includes:

64,537 videos
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Ability to download individual videos
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It can be accessed here: https://t.co/s0Se94PXWF

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We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.

God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.

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[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

"Rape followed by the murder of Vietnamese women was so common that US soldiers had a special term for it: double veteran."

Fuck July 4th and fuck America