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#GrahamPlatner went back to enforce #US #imperialism in the #MiddleEast at gunpoint repeatedly, including in 2018, working for #Blackwater (now #Constellis). He described this last one as "eye-opening"
Sure is a slow fuckin learner
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"The task is clear: redirect anger away from our neighbours and towards those who profit from division and misery. If we succeed, we can transform fear into solidarity, division into unity, and anger into the collective struggle for housing, sovereignty, and socialism."
#Immigration #Capitalism #Imperialism
https://socialistvoice.ie/2025/09/migration-borders-and-class-a-marxist-response/
Socialist Voice · Migration, Borders, and Class: A Marxist ResponseMigration has become one of the sharpest dividing lines in Irish politics. Across estates, villages, and towns, people feel the crunch of housing shortages, collapsing health services, and precario…
Imperialism and International Law (The People’s Academy: Ch.2, Unit 4)
https://www.youtube.com/live/adIdxG4h4Vo?si=yswIk0Rdxx7V8DoE
#InternationalLaw #law #democracy #imperialism #Palestine #ProgressiveInternational @palestine
Applications for the 4th edition of the
Amílcar Cabral Prize are ongoing until 30 September!
The prize will be awarded to an early-career researcher for "an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to the history of anti-colonial resistance and colonial empires".
Israel says that, as imperial Britain did not specify political rights for Palestinians, only Jews have a right to sovereignty over Palestine from the river to the sea.
That's the century-long argument stemming from the Balfour declaration of 1917.
And the EU's Josep Borrell agreed.
#USPol #DisplacementReplacement #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #Balfour #Zionism #Imperialism #Racism #BDS @palestine .
'Finding ways of limiting Africans’ advancement was central to #Belgium’s strategy for sustaining its dominance over a land so rich in resources that it was often called a “geological scandal.” '
#HowardFrench reviews #TheLumumbaPlot, #MyCountryAfrica, and the #documentary #SoundtrackToACoupDÉtat
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/09/25/a-damn-nuisance-patrice-lumumba/
https://archive.ph/SNQHc
#Congo #BelgianCongo #imperialism #colonialViolence #PatriceLumumba #CIA #covertOps #ColdWar #cinema #books @histodons @bookstodon @film
The New York Review of Books · ‘A Damn Nuisance’
"Led by the economist Francisco Rodriguez at the University of Denver, the study calculates the total number of excess deaths associated with international sanctions from 1970 to 2021.
The results are staggering. In their central estimate, the authors find that unilateral sanctions imposed by the US and EU since 1970 are associated with 38 million deaths. In some years, during the 1990s, more than a million people were killed. In 2021, the most recent year of data, sanctions caused more than 800,000 deaths.
According to these results, several times more people are killed by sanctions each year than are killed as direct casualties of war (on average, about 100,000 people per year). More than half of the victims are children and the elderly, people who are most vulnerable to malnutrition. The study finds that, since 2012 alone, sanctions have killed more than one million children.
Hunger and deprivation are not an accidental by-product of Western sanctions; they are a key objective. This is clear from a State Department memo written in April 1960, which explains the purpose of US sanctions against Cuba. The memo noted that Fidel Castro – and the revolution more broadly – enjoyed widespread popularity in Cuba. It argued that “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba,” by “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”."
Al Jazeera · US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1970
𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒉 𝑨𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒕 - 𝑪𝒉. 9: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏-𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒏
Reading guide and more at https://waywordsstudio.com/project/arendts-the-origins-of-totalitarianism/
"Denying food and water in this Western-dominated world has always been a political and capitalistic weapon of imperialism, colonialism and nationalism. Western Europe’s plundering of the Western Hemisphere not only formed the foundation of capitalism and the never-ending pursuit of profit worldwide, it also entrenched the use of famine, malnutrition and deprivation as tools to control and exploit subject peoples. From the 16th through the 19th century, the transatlantic slave trade, African chattel enslavement and forced labour of Indigenous peoples helped fill royal coffers in Europe and build great wealth for landowners across the Western Hemisphere. Enslaved and coerced labourers, denied adequate food and water, toiled in the fields to grow cash crops such as sugar, coffee and tobacco, or mined gold and silver, and frequently died from starvation, disease and abuse. One recent study estimated that as many as 56 million Indigenous people died between 1492 and 1600 alone. Outside the eventual United States, seven years was the average lifespan for most of the 12 million Africans who survived the horrors of the Atlantic crossing and arrived in the Western Hemisphere.
Beyond the Americas, around 10 million people starved to death during the Great Bengal Famine of the 1770s because the East India Company prioritised collecting food for Europe’s ports and imposing punitive taxes on South Asian peasants over saving lives. This famine, like so many others under colonial rule, was not an accident of nature but the outcome of deliberate economic policies that treated human life as expendable. Between 1904 and 1908, in what is now Namibia and Tanzania, the ruling Germans “directly killed or starved to death” approximately “60,000 Herero” and “10,000 Nama” in Namibia, as well as “up to 250,000 Ngoni, Ngindo, Matumbi and members of other ethnic groups” in crushing colonial uprisings."
Al Jazeera · Gaza is no anomaly: Hunger and hoarding are the West’s oldest weapons
Israel says that, as imperial Britain did not specify political rights for Palestinians, only Jews have a right to sovereignty over Palestine from the river to the sea.
That's the century-long argument stemming from the Balfour declaration of 1917.
And the EU's Josep Borrell agreed.
#USPol #DisplacementReplacement #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #Balfour #Zionism #Imperialism #Racism #BDS @palestine .
Russia and China’s ‘multipolar world’ raises #nightmare scenario for #Europe
“A return to spheres of influence would be extraordinarily bad for #democracies,” retired Australian Army Major-General Mick Ryan told the Kyiv Independent.
“It would be extraordinarily bad for any country on the periphery of #Russia and #China. And it’s something that we should all push back on as hard as possible.”
The Kyiv Independent · Russia and China’s multipolar world' raises nightmare scenario for Europe
On 8 and 9 September, we will host the workshop ‘Contested Imperial Endings’, organised as part of the #DecTiL project — 'Auditing Decolonization in Timor-Leste, 1974-82: the Riscado Report'
The programme is available on our website:
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/contested-imperial-endings/
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Psssst, if you are a member of the king's (sic) commonwealth, and especially white, and you emigrate to the uk (sic)(pronounced "uck"), you can drift north to Scotland and work hard for its independence.
The uk would really hate that.
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I think it's likely we'll see increasing amounts of typical #imperialist behavior from #China as they break through the G7's global dominance, but there may be a war between #G7 & #BRICS first.
I can't stress enough, read #Imperialism & the #Revolution (1978) by Hoxha: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/imp_rev/toc.htm
www.marxists.orgImperialism and the Revolution
Stones of DavidUS attacks blow back, uniting China, India, Russia, Iran; encouraging dedollarization
#Multipolar #world against #US #hegemony
#imperialism #economy
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#palestina #StopAIPAC #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism
Israel says that, as imperial Britain did not specify political rights for Palestinians, only Jews have a right to sovereignty over Palestine from the river to the sea.
That's the century-long argument stemming from the Balfour declaration of 1917.
And the EU's Josep Borrell agreed.
#USPol #DisplacementReplacement #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #Balfour #Zionism #Imperialism #Racism #BDS @palestine .
"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela. “We just … shot out a drug-carrying boat, lot of drugs in that boat,” he said. “These came out of Venezuela.”
A senior U.S. defense official offered a more coherent statement, confirming to The Intercept that “the U.S. military conducted a precision strike against a drug vessel operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.”
The Tuesday attack is the first acknowledged attack in Trump’s recent ramp-up of U.S. military force in Central and South America. The belligerent foreign relations harken back to early 20th-century military interventions, when the “big stick” approach to the Monroe Doctrine led the U.S. to invade or militarily support favored regimes in the majority of nations in the Western Hemisphere. This gunboat diplomacy risks embroiling the U.S. in additional foreign wars and undermining Trump’s anti-immigration efforts.
The White House and State Department did not reply to request for additional information on the attack.
Last week, the United States dispatched three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as part of Trump’s supposed war on Latin American drug cartels."
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/02/trump-military-venezuela-drug-boat/
The Intercept · Trump Boasts of Strike on “Drug-Carrying Boat” from Venezuela