[memecucker]

The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers

A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state.

I hope she lives to see her kids taken away

[memecucker]

[sarahconnorjr]

[alassadsyria-deactivated2021110]

Hafez al Assad in Tripoli, Libya, in December 1977 with Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Algerian president Houari Boumédiène.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Report from Havana: Despite U.S. blockade, Cuba has 90% vaccinated, opens to world visitors

BREAKING NEWS: A first-hand report from Cuba by Lars Bertling, Russell McClain and Sharon Black, reporters for Struggle-La Lucha, members of the Socialist Unity Party and representatives of the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, participating in the 31st IFCO/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan.

Havana, Nov. 16 — It was an all day ordeal on Monday, Nov. 15, on the U.S. side. We waited in grueling airport security lines and spent hours checking in. Two of our representatives barely got their passports. We had to get up at 5 a.m. and drive to the passport office in Miami and keep our fingers crossed.

But when we got to Cuba it was all worth it.

On landing our spirits soared and our energy returned. Cuban people and their leaders were waiting at the airport, along with a bevy of news media. Our group was literally the first delegation to travel to the newly opened Cuba, which had been closed to international visitors because of the pandemic. Nov. 15 was the opening of schools and services in Cuba and is also a day celebrating the anniversary of Havana.

When we got to the Cuban Martin Luther King Center (yes, there is such a thing) young Cuban singers and musicians greeted us along with local Marianao community and political leaders and representatives of the MLK Center .

[guerrillatech]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

NATO abuses refugees, threatens to ignite war on Poland/Belarus border

By Greg Butterfield

Nov. 11 – The U.S. and its European allies are staging a dangerous provocation at the border between Poland and Belarus, which threatens both a humanitarian catastrophe and a military conflict that could quickly explode into a wider war. Thousands of refugees, fleeing imperialist-fueled wars in West Asia and beyond, have gathered on the Belarusian side of the border, demanding entry into the European Union. Poland’s far-right government — a NATO member, acting on behalf of Germany and other EU powers where the refugees wish to go — has responded with a massive buildup of military forces.

[time-lord-historian]

Input from a Twitter friend on the situation:

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Emirati Sheikh Abdallah bin Zayed al-Nayhan hugging yesterday, 9 November 2021

[khenti-renaissance]

The first president of Mozambique - Samora Moises Machel – is a symbol of freedom, not only in his country but the rest of southern Africa. Machel supported the liberation of the region from colonial rule, even after his own country gained independence in 1975.

Mozambique accommodated a number of liberation fighters from across the region including those from South Africa and Zimbabwe who were still battling to overthrow the apartheid and Rhodesian regimes.

Machel, together with 34 other people, including some of his closest aides and advisors, died when the presidential plane, returning from a summit in Zambia, crashed at Mbuzini in South Africa on 19 October 1986.

The cause of the crash has not been officially determined, although circumstantial evidence points to a false navigational beacon placed by the former apartheid regime in South Africa to draw the plane off course.

The Mozambican government has repeatedly said that it will not rest until the circumstances of the death of the country’s first president have been fully clarified.

Incumbent Mozambique Prime Minister Agostinho do Rosário said the truth behind the incident that claimed the life of Machel will one day be revealed. “Samora Machel was a national hero for Mozambique. He is an important historic reference for the people of Mozambique, South Africa and the world.”

https://khenti-renaissance.tumblr.com/archive

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Chronicle of a tragedy foretold

By Angel Guerra Cabrera

Fidel Castro was the first head of state to warn about the very serious threat posed by environmental pollution and greenhouse gases to the human species. It will soon be 30 years since that warning was made in just under six minutes at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Crisis worsens on Poland-Belarus border as migrants congregate and troops are mobilized

Tensions are escalating on the border between Poland and Belarus, after Polish officials again accused their neighbor of helping move migrants toward the frontier, and warned that thousands of additional military personnel have been mobilized to respond to confrontations.

ANTIWAR ALERT: U.S.-NATO imperialists are exploiting the plight of refugees, using their puppet right-wing regime in Poland to set up a military provocation at the border with Belarus:

The Belarus State Border Committee also said in a Facebook statement: “Foreigners who are near the border with Poland declare their intention to enter the territory of a neighboring country and exercise their right to apply for refugee status in the EU. All of these people, including women and children, do not pose a security threat and do not behave aggressively.”

The Belarus State Border Committee added it did not rule out provocation from the Polish side. “Taking into account the statements of Polish officials about the concentration of armed forces and equipment near the border, we do not exclude provocative actions by the Polish side aimed at justifying the use of physical force and special means against refugees.”

In a later statement the Committee added: “The situation on the Belarusian-Polish border remains extremely tense. More than 2,000 refugees, including a significant number of women and children, are in front of the Polish barriers along the border … Refugees repeatedly tried to inform the Polish side that they had left their countries because their lives were in danger.”

[goldenaltar]

“I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.”“Did you catch many?” I asked.“Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.”“Why is that?” I asked.“Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.””

— Isaac Asimov (via skinnybaras)

[howstrangethemusicsoundstome]

~complex~ propaganda

[sereminar]

[ID:

A screenshot of a two tweet thread both by YASE Jarv @Jarvdawg

The first tweet reads:

MCU megafans need to realize that “propaganda” doesn’t always equate to"war is good!“. It can be “war is bad but *necessary*” or “war is bad but the US intelligence/armed forces are unquestionably good”.

The second tweet reads:

US Intel/military has been in the military game far too fuckin’ long use such a narrow and limited understanding of “propaganda”. Historical revision of motive or events passing up the “flawed/complex but in the pursuit of our ideals” angle, making shit look cool all work too!

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[queerqueerspawn]

I can’t remember who said it but someone once pointed out that we often talk about propaganda as being persuasive and attempting to convince an audience of a point, but in reality most propaganda is dissuasive, trying to make opposition feel contradictory or incomplete.

[lightlycaustic]

This.

[theconcealedweapon]

[hayatims-deactivated20240111]

a reminder that israel is bulldozing graves and remains in a centuries-old palestinian cemetery as we speak, to make room for a biblical theme park. this is not the first time this has happened.

this has previously occurred many times - most notably when occupation forces desecrated another historic palestinian cemetery to build what they called the “museum of tolerance” on top of

the woman in the video is Ola Nababteh, who can be seen crying and clinging to the grave of her son. the cemetery is a source of pride and historical importance, and is home to the graves of many martyrs. it dates back to the Ayyubid dynasty and was constructed under the orders of Salahudin, the liberator of Jerusalem.

free palestine. end the occupation.

[infectedwithnyanites]

If you're in this situation where you're an enforcer armed to the teeth tasked with forcibly removing a grieving mother safeguarding the grave of her son to make way for a theme park and you think the correct thing to do is to follow those orders and make sure she's removed you're not at all good person you're such a lost cause you should honestly just be shot.

[heavensickness]

Honestly, people generally don’t want much… They want to eat their favorite food. They want to go to the seaside and smell the fresh air. They want to nap on the grass and listen to music. They want to hold their loved ones in their arms, and be held in return. They want warm clothes, be occupied with a profession/a hobby that does not smother them. They want to feel safe and unafraid. Mostly, they want to live without being ridiculed, manipulated or being forced. And this is why capitalism/modern life overall is so upsetting, depressing and even destructive. Because thinking about how small and simple things you yearn for & how hard it is to even be able to have them really wears you off

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don’t ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.”

Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho

[understatedocelot]

i have really bad news for you guys about the kind of infrastructure it takes to support this vision

[r-ob-yn]

Indigenous Hawaiian koi farms fed a whole community and demanded only 20 hours of labor a month from their tenders. Most of these farms were destroyed by American imperialists and environmental degredation, though some are still around and are being looked to as models for climate friendly agriculture solutions.

It’s well documented that the peasant classes in England before the enclosures who weren’t drafted worked significantly less hours than us. That was ended by the enclosures.

Many countries even in the capitalist world have strong social safety nets, universal and legally required weeks or months off, and a two or three hour post lunch period for napping every single day. These regulations are fading or being blocked from introduction because of lobbying, which is bribery.

These dreams aren’t out of reach, they’re being held over our heads.

[bogleech]

Entire rainforests we think of as “ancient” and “wild” were essentially just immense gardens that provided people more food than they could even eat.

Mesoamerican agriculture such as chinampa are similarly effective, using lakes to grow semi-aquatic crops that supported local biodiversity and, in turn, more food. In fact axolotls were once plentiful enough to be a food source. Today they’re very nearly extinct in their last heavily polluted habitat.

There are rivers around the world that once provided enough fish and produce to feed communities for generations and are now almost lifeless, nothing in them fit for human consumption, because of runoff from blue jean factories alone. People used to be able to feed their family on what they found in practically their own back yard. Some people still manage to do it if the local ecosystem is healthy enough. You can still live entirely on netting your own fish in some parts of the world with only “minimal” risk of mercury poisoning lolololol Human beings all over the world suffer from dwindling or already lost resources that should not be dwindling and never dwindled before the sloppy, wasteful methods of modern profitable business.