there is no way that this doesn’t end up targeting pro-palestine activists with the now federally expanded definition of antisemitism that “includes” antizionism

Ukraine is the first real near-peer war being fought with advanced weaponry and opposing industrialized state actors. Probably not too disimilar to what a conflict could look like between north and south. Having limited numbers of soldiers get experience in the field will probably ensure that those experiences are quickly absorbed by their own doctrine, considering the DPRK has been at war for 75ish years but has also been living in an armistice-limbo for nearly as long.

There are multiple levels to US support for Israel which can give the appearance of Israel “pulling the strings” when in reality it is a beneficial arrangement that is propped up by the US regime.

From a geopolitical standpoint, Israel is an essential component to the US unipolar order. Israel’s six-day war victory was a huge boon to the US, allowing the US to vicariously dominate western asia while it was overextended in Vietnam. This turned the tide against a socialist-oriented pan-arab movement. Israel saw a jr partnership to the US as a beneficial long-term arrangement, but for many years played both sides of the cold war up to that point. Israel’s importance to the US became dire after the Iranian revolution, which between the Shah’s Iran and Israel had encircled western asia more or less by US proxies. All of this control is essential for the US petro-dollar system, the system that forces the world to trade in dollar and therefore allows the US to essentially print a near-infinite amount of its fiat money without much concern for the integrity of its currency.

On the other hand, the US political system is a bourgeois republic that uses political elites, beholden to factions of the capitalist class and their monetary support, in order to legitimate its power. So each politician appears to be working under this or that party/principle/idea, but in reality it is a system that leverages individual (politicians) interest in order to align with ruling-class interests. The reason AIPAC and the Israel lobby appears to control politicians is because they have been given loopholes and exception to the point where it has been a defacto unspoken rule to support israel. the power AIPAC has over politicians is a representation of the power of the ruling class with its full weight behind this particular policy. Just like the interests of banking/finance or the MIC are unassailable to a large degree, they just call those things “bipartisan”.

Guess what I am saying is that despite whatever things they say in order to make whatever it is palatable, the US fully supports whatever the fuck Israel is doing. There is no secret or magic device making politicians bend to their will

Might as well “give a speech” when they will never answer the question anyway. The administration is literally playing with the lives of everyone on earth and this ghoul acts like that reporter is not taking things seriously. Matt Miller deserves a special place in hell.

the end of the end of history

There is probably truth to this, but it seems like “Israel” has also worked overtime to salvage the myth that they are an all-seeing, all-knowing super-advanced state. Having a bunch of people running around saying “actually they did know about xyz” helps spread that by appealing to contrarians.

The story also makes it seem like misogyny is the only culprit, and that there were smart “Israeli” women who knew what was up… but it is also just as likely that it was racism and a deep belief that the Palestinians were incapable of fighting back because they were “inferior caged animals” that led to Israel ignoring any warning signs. As this would suggest that there is a fatal flaw in the racial-supremacist ideology of Israel, you won’t hear them ever suggesting that they were too racist to see the threat, but they absolutely are too racist to properly analyze the world around them and understand the resistance. I guess that is good because it will be their undoing

Pray for Cuba and the Yucatan …

At this rate, the US might be thinking the Maduro government is looking more and more legitimate with each passing hour

That clip is so shameless. What a complete psycho. To say “We have never sought a diplomatic resolution with Hamas” and then to end by saying “The only way out is for a ceasefire with Hamas.” They think we are all idiots, but the corporate media will never reveal these questions imo. It sure seems like they are convinced they will never see any sort of accountability within their lives… then again Biden is on death’s door.

Has schrodinger’s cat finally been revealed? Has this become ww3 or will we find that “nothing ever happens???” Tune in next week as…

For real though, is something happening? Hezbollah and the entity have been trading blows for months… what are the chances that this would actually be a prelude to some sort of invasion?

they are arguing against the PSL: https://www.liberationschool.org/harry-haywoods-contributions-to-the-national-question-and-the-fight-for-class-unity/

how many HIMARS are left? I thought there were only a handful and it seems like they report one being destroyed regularly

a registered write in candidate just means that the state will record a write in for Claudia de la Cruz… if they weren’t registered the state will not report it at all

although I largely agree, what I have found is that a large number of people just aren’t seeing the images coming out of Palestine and they act as though it is impossible that the media they consume wouldn’t have shown them. People experience media differently from each other in this day, and it leads to vastly different ideas about reality. Particularly if they believe that the media is anti-israel on some level, they think that “CNN and MSNBC would love to be showing that every night” They literally live inside of a fantasy football game where whatever they see is reality and there is no space outside of it. Essentially that whoever will see the images coming out of gaza have, but it simply wasn’t enough because the corporate controlled media either never showed it or used the algorithm to contain it. I think this is why the demonstrations and actual political work over this still has importance.

This of course is different from the young staffers and petty-bourgeois types at the DNC (and their supporters) who absolutely saw at least some of the violence, but either didn’t care at all or those who avoided it intentionally but continued to follow “the news.” Those types are objectively the worst and there are so many more than i would have imagined

I think that is a CT scanner, but I have no doubts MRI’s probably run on windows too

if you are talking about the US i agree. social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism and the US government is not capable of moderating itself

I feel like this might be something to prevent infamy from being spread to someone with a similar name, but also because having three names can also make “naming” them feel more serious. Like when you are a kid and you are in trouble with your mom and they use your full name to establish how you are in a lot of trouble instead of just a little trouble.

I don’t actually think the protests against Iraq were that much bigger in the US, although they were much larger in Europe. I think the biggest protest against Iraq was in NYC with about 500,000 people. There have been sustained protests across the US, with the first few mobilizations getting around 500,000 people in DC and even 8 months later drawing close to 100,000 to DC last month. I think it is also pretty impactful because back then, during the Iraq war, in the US you could be a democrat upset with Bush protesting the war and think plausibly that it wasn’t a contradiction even though the Democrats voted for the war too. You could be led to think if you voted really hard the war would end. This war is Biden’s and those people in the streets were all by and large current/former democrats. Not to mention the electoral effect of the muslim community turning against Biden, in states like Michigan where it is enough to completely undermine his ability to win. I get that people want to say American’s don’t give a fuck about the rest of the world, and that is often very true. But the past 8 months has been a sea change in comparison to the last 30 years in my opinion, and the conversation isn’t about which bourgeois political clique will do imperialism best. People are involved in an anti-imperialist movement that can’t be co-opted by Democrats effectively, which is distinct from a lot of the anti-war activism during the Iraq era- which was firmly ensconced in the end of history

I agree, those are contenders… there is also the war in Afghanistan, the second Congo war, syria, Sudan…They have all been horrendous. I think the war on Gaza seems like it may be the worst arguably because the speed with which high numbers of civilians are being killed, particularly children, is unmatched in nearly any sort of conflict the world has seen since the last century-- on top of the past 16 years of blockade and sanction which left Gaza an open air prison prior to this recent onslaught

I am really starting to think that the liberal infighting and constant media coverage about Biden’s age is an attempt at hedging against any argument that his electoral failure is tied to his support for the genocide in Gaza. Biden was not going to win the election against trump before this debate, it was already assured that millions would refuse to hold their nose and vote for him regardless. But now the ruling class can ignore this sort of analysis and focus on, “Biden lost because he was too old, he couldn’t connect with young people” and they will hammer that home until they can completely erase the effect of the first anti-imperialist mass movement in the USA since the Vietnam war. The death toll coming out from the Lancet article had really driven this home for me. They have fully convinced themselves they can invent their own reality. The public hand-wringing the Biden admin has done, all while being primarily responsible for the genocide continuing as it has, is just so absurd for anyone paying close attention. This is probably the worst atrocity of the 21st century (so far ) and they will try their best to erase any electoral consequences, and thus erase anti-imperialist discourse from popular understanding of history. Seems even more important now to symbolically vote for an anti-imperialist candidate like Claudia de la Cruz, because even a relatively large, but still marginal vote in a battleground state would be hard to ignore, particularly if liberals decide to demonize and blame 3rd party voters for a Trump victory. “If everyone who had voted for de la cruz in Georgia voted for Biden, he would have won” etc. etc.