NATO’s 5% pledge: an obscene betrayal of global needs
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/27/natos-5-pledge-an-obscene-betrayal-of-global-needs/
#noNato #nato #payola
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#imperialism #canada #usa #yemen #war #budget
@blackmastodon
@politics
@humanities #education
Very soon live with two leading schoolars on #hegemony #imperialism #geopolitics #politics #politicaleconomy #economy #podcastlive
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Geopolitics, Economy, Imperial...
Very soon live with two leading schoolars on #hegemony #imperialism #geopolitics #politics #politicaleconomy #economy #podcastlive
These conflicts are not accidents (#Virilio), but the "dark side" of an order based on the exploitation of peripheries by centers (#Quijano, #Cusicanqui). Alain #Joxe calls this logic "#traumacracy": the capacity for #destruction (military, ecological, social) becomes as central as #production.
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#neocolonialism #imperialism #ConcertDesVolontés #philosophy #ConcertOfWills #politics #geopolitics #economicWorldWar
#Mumford's "#megamachine"—this fusion of political, technical, and economic #power—is embodied today in the neocolonial world-system (#Amin, #Wallerstein). Its driving force is permanent economic warfare (#Harbulot), which inevitably generates peripheral wars (#Badie).
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#neocolonialism #imperialism #ConcertDesVolontés #philosophy #ConcertOfWills #politics #geopolitics #economicWorldWar
US military bases are among the most serious threats to the peoples of our region. Today, much of the Arab world remains under occupation through foreign domination enforced by military presence, political control, and economic subjugation.
In the UK, you can be jailed for opposing genocide but not for supporting it | Council Estate Media
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/in-the-uk-you-can-be-jailed-for-opposing
@WastelandWandrr #NATO, with more than half of global arms spending, 60% of which is by the #USA, should be considered a tool of political coercion (objective: regime change of the adversary) in the service of the American empire. A #geopolitical lever never seen in living memory: it is the largest, most powerful military alliance the earth has ever known.
#militarism #imperialism #fascism #Arendt #Joxe #empireOfChaos #Badie #Stiegler #Virilio #List #Keynes #Baran #Sweezy #economicWar #Segato
🚢 The U.S. once stood against empires. By 1900, it had one.
🎙️ Our latest episode covers Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines & the empire that rose from war and ambition.
Interview: "Buy More U.S. Weapons”
At NATO, Trump pressured leaders into increasing their military spending from 2% to 5% of GDP by 2035.
'Daddy' Trump actually means "buy more U.S. weapons. That’s what he is doing. He’s a salesperson for the military-industrial complex.”
~Gilbert Achcar, University of London
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/26/president_donald_trump_nato_iran
#Trump#MIC #USWeaponsSales #Imperialism #USPol #NATO #UKPol #EuroPol .
"Yanis Varoufakis: "Something SERIOUS Is About To Hit America..."
... a Greek economist, author, and former finance minister of Greece, known for his outspoken critiques of austerity and neoliberal economic policies. A prominent voice in European economic debates, he advocates for democratic reform of international financial institution...
#TechnoFeudalism #ClimateEmergency
#China #US #Imperialism #Israel #Gaza #Capitalism #Colonialism #GlobalNorth #GlobalSouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMjLaTiY0vA&ab_channel=EastAsiaRise
https://youtube.com/shorts/jCReQZMgNEw
Someone gave #HasanMinhaj an american pill.
He's being dragged in the comments.
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #genocide #racism #imperialism #karen #chad
"In the port of Havana, a ship carrying tons of rice is anchored, waiting to unload. It may not unload because to do so, it must receive a signal from the commercial center that contracted the ship that it has received $60,000 in payment. For the $60,000 to reach that center, which can be anywhere in the world because it is very difficult to get ships willing to transport merchandise to Cuba, Havana must carry out almost clandestine operations through a series of camouflaged movements, so as not to be detected by the US systems monitoring Cuban transactions. If the $60,000 achieves this feat and reaches the company’s account, the ship will unload the rice; if not, it will turn around and leave."
https://mexicosolidarity.com/against-cuba-a-fetid-arbitrary-and-despotic-obsession/
‘We just want to stop people being murdered’: Kneecap on Palestine, protest and provocation - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/27/kneecap-on-palestine-protest-and-their-satirical-intent
“We knew exactly that this was going to happen, maybe not to the extreme [level] that it has, but we knew that the Israeli lobbyists and the American government weren’t going to stand by idly while we spoke to thousands of young Americans who agree with us,” says Ó hAnnaidh. “They don’t want us coming to the American festivals, because they don’t want videos of young Americans chanting ‘free Palestine’ [even though] that is the actual belief in America. They just want to suppress it.”
The support for the message, says Ó Dochartaigh is “all genders, all religions, all colours, all creeds. Everybody knows what’s happening is wrong. You can’t even try to deny it now – Israel’s government is just acting with impunity and getting away with it. Us speaking out is a small detail – it’s the world’s governments that need to do something about it.”
#Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #israel #genocide #people #ThePeopleHaveAllThePower #Kneecap #freedom #Ireland #colonialism #imperialism
Interview: "Buy More U.S. Weapons”
At NATO, Trump pressured leaders into increasing their military spending from 2% to 5% of GDP by 2035.
'Daddy' Trump actually means "buy more U.S. weapons. That’s what he is doing. He’s a salesperson for the military-industrial complex.”
~Gilbert Achcar, University of London
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/26/president_donald_trump_nato_iran
#Trump#MIC #USWeaponsSales #Imperialism #USPol #NATO #UKPol #EuroPol .
#JustinPodur | The imperial capital has moved
After England and America, it’s Israel’s turn to lead the Empire
https://justinpodur.substack.com/p/the-imperial-capital-has-moved
#US #TheIsrael #Empire #Imperialism #Gaza #Genocide #Britain
Political Declaration of Support for the Wazalendos People’s Self-Defense Forces
We, the Congolese Communist Party, Considering the repeated attacks by the Rwandan Patriotic Army against the sovereignty and integrity of the Democratic Republic of Congo;
Considering the savage and illegal exploitation of Congolese natural resources by Rwanda, Uganda, foreign armed groups, Western multinationals and their local accomplices;
Considering the notorious inability of MONUSCO to protect civilian populations against massacres, rapes, burning villages, inhuman and degrading treatment, and the Congolese genocide without justice;
We declare our full and unconditional political support for the Wazalendos Popular Self-Defense Forces, which embody the legitimate resistance of the Congolese people against the oppression and occupation of Congolese lands by the Rwandan and Ugandan military through their military structure, the M23.
Our beliefs:
1. The Wazalendos are a patriotic resistance force whose struggle is part of the continuity of the historical struggles for the liberation of the Congo against imperialism and neocolonialism.
2. In defense of the population, while state and international institutions fail to better protect civilians and to reconquer Congolese towns under Rwandan occupation, the Wazalendos fulfill a crucial role in the protection of civilian populations in the provinces of North and South Kivu, and above all prevent balkanization.
3. National sovereignty: Their struggle is a necessary and indispensable response to the Rwandan and Ugandan invasion, disguised as the M23, which Ugandan General Muhoozi Kainerugaba organized with his father, President Museveni, to bring Paul Kagame to power in Rwanda. Today, he shamelessly dares to describe the Wazalendos as a negative force; a statement that insults the Congolese people.
Our requirements:
1. Official recognition of the Wazalendos by the Congolese government as legitimate actors in the defense of Congolese territory.
2. – Increased support for the FARDC in terms of logistical and strategic resources to strengthen their ability to strike the Rwandan aggressors and their Ugandan accomplices. This support constitutes a significant contribution by the government to the protection of civilians.
3. It also implies the end of international complicity with the aggressors of the DRC, notably Rwanda, Uganda and their proxies.
4. We also condemn the media manipulations that demonize the Wazalendos to justify unjust repression against the civilian populations in the Kivus region.
We call on all Congolese and progressive forces around the world to support the popular resistance of the Wazalendos.
The struggle of the valiant Wazalendo fighters is not only that of the Congo, but that of all the oppressed peoples of the attacked nations who are fighting for their freedom and dignity.
Long live the wazalendo resistance!
Long live the united, sovereign and prosperous Congo.
Down with the diabolical campaign of the general, son of Museveni, against the valiant Wazalendos!
Down with Western imperialism and its vassals in Africa!
Down with the betrayal of certain Congolese officials against the heroic fight of the Wazalendos!
Homeland or death, we will win!
Boswa Isekombe Sylvere,
Secretary General of the Congolese Communist Party. The lion with the red heart
source: PCCO
The Tactical Failure of ‘Israel’/U.S. Attacks on Iran Is Leading Both to a Strategic Disaster
The U.S. and Israel’s unchecked aggression has plunged the world into a lawless state of imperial violence—yet their latest attacks on Iran have only exposed the limits of colonial power. As Western leaders cling to delusions of dominance, Iran’s defiance reveals a shifting global order where imperial wars are becoming wars against imperialism itself.
“When U.S. and Western imperialists had to pretend that they were the ontologically civilized, humane, reasonable and innocent, it imposed some civilizing constraints on the range of their uncivilized actions. But in this era of lawless global fascism led by the U.S. and Israel those self-imposed constraints no longer exist.
“U.S. and Israeli Gangsterism Has Created a Hobbesian International State of Nature ”
A day after the Israeli settler-colonial apartheid state launched a sneak attack on Iran, an Iran that thought it was involved in a serious negotiation with Israel’s main benefactor, the United States, the Black Alliance for Peace declared that “the Middle East is on fire because Israeli and U.S. imperialism lit the match.” Twelve days later after a fierce response from Iran that saw major Israeli cities hit by Iranian missiles and an attack by the U.S. on Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel gladly accepted a ceasefire imposed on them by the Trump administration. What happened?
There was never any ambiguity regarding the U.S. strategic objective to effect “regime change” in Iran. And the mechanism for the execution of the policy was always clear – the deployment of the assets from Fort Israel, or the unsinkable U.S. aircraft carrier that is Israel, as some refer to it.
War with Iran was always on the horizon and was passionately advocated for by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister for more than two decades.
Yet, just twelve days into the long-awaited and inevitable war, the Israeli’s learned a painful lesson that they should have learned by observing the historical disasters suffered by the U.S. The U.S. mistakenly believed that the winning strategy for a quick military victory in the Global South was the application of overwhelming military power. Remember “shock and awe” in Iraq?
It is evident that when quick victories do not occur and conflicts turn into prolonged wars of attrition, such as ones that occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan, the limitations of military power become apparent, particularly when used in an aggressive war of choice against a population prepared to defend themselves.
The unprovoked war launched by Israel and subsequently directly joined by the U.S. once again revealed the limitations of military power and the disastrous consequences of colonial arrogance. An arrogance that resulted in successive military defeats of the U.S. and has now stripped away the veneer of invincibility associated with the Israeli military.
After Israel’s attack on Iran, Democratic Party senate leader Chuck Schumer did not condemn the illegality of the attack on a sovereign state, or question the constitutionality of the strike, he said instead, “The United States’ commitment to Israel’s security and defense must be ironclad as they prepare for Iran’s response.”
As other members of Congress issued statements it appears that the language reflected in those statements were copied and pasted directly from the American Israel Political Action Committee, AIPAC, repeating all the Israeli talking points with the most prominent being the imminent danger posed by Iran’s nuclear weapons project. A project that the intelligence agencies of the U.S. government declared non-existent just a few months ago.
However, with doubts about the success of the U.S. attack, the democrats are now playing another cynical game pretending to be concerned about the constitutionality of Trump’s use of military force.
It is a pathetic and transparently opportunistic move since just about every president since 1945 has found some creative way to commit the U.S. to military aggression with a specific declaration of war or authorization from Congress. And most democrats have consistently provided justifications for Israeli aggression against Iran, including reaffirming Israel’s supposed right to self-defense as a justification for its criminal attack on Iran.
And even with this game around the issue of the constitutionality of the attack, it is still clear that there is bipartisan support for intrusive measures to undermine the Iranian government under the pretext of concern for its nuclear project. The democrats just want to be consulted before they give consent to the violation of international law and the violation of the ultimate human right, which is the right to life, with the attack on Iran and the subsequent deaths of thousands of Iranians.
Another Strategic Defeat for the U.S. is Inevitable:
For the people of Iran and all of the peoples and nations involved in the ongoing struggle against Western imperialism, we all have one decisive weapon that will inevitably serve our interests at some point – the psychopathology of white supremacy. This affliction, representing a non-material conceptual frame has had a material impact on the lives, societies, cultures of millions of since the first significant contacts between the peoples later to become “Europeans” or white, and the non-European world.
This phenomenon is:
A racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality in the same way as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of so-called whites but can affect all those who have come in counter with the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.
This malady ensures that the disconnect with the objective world on the part of Europeans will inevitably result in European decision-makers constructing policies and a politics that will be counterproductive to their own interests in their dealings with non-European people.
An example of this is the inability of policymakers in the West to recognize the developments and power shifts in the world that make it impossible for Western nations to impose their will on other peoples and nations in ways that they could just a few years ago.
The proxy war between NATO and the Russian Federation engineered by the Biden administration and the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran are perfect examples of this phenomenon.
The Biden administration deluded itself into believing that after baiting the Russians into crossing the Ukrainian borders that it could impose economic sanctions, compel other nations in the world to support those sanctions, destroy the Russian currency and bring about “regime change.”
With Iran, it was thought that a two-tiered military assault from Israel and the U.S. would see the government splinter with the emergence of new social forces ready to step in and govern and cooperate with Israel and the U.S.
In both cases, the disconnect from the realities of a new global multipolarity and relative decline of the U.S. and Europe meant that it was inevitable that both projects would result in strategic failure.
Yet, because of this psychological affiliation, the strategic failure of Ukraine and the coming failure of Iran are beyond the scope of awareness. For Ursula von deer Leyen, the President of the European Commission, the lesson of Ukraine is European rearmament a clearer commitment to war leading Yanis Varoufakis to state that “The EU is now a fully-fledged War Project – a project that will either land us in permanent war, or it will bankrupt us further, or probably both.”
Iran will not be allowed to be defeated. As a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union and BRICS+ group, the legitimacy and viability of all of these projects would be called into question if Iran was allowed to be destroyed by the U.S. and Israel. How could these formations present themselves as alternative models of peaceful development and prosperity if they were unable to defend their members from aggressive and illegal attacks on their national sovereignty by the U.S. and Europe? How can there be greater economic cooperation, trade exchanges, and investments when security and the national defense of their members are not secured?
So, the Iranians are celebrating a tactical victory. The people of Iran and of the world understand even more clearly than before that it is only when you develop the means for collective self-defense that you can defend yourself from the threats and violence of rogue states like the U.S. and Israel.
The confusion and inconsistency of narratives emanating from the Trump white house reflects that Iran and Israel are not the only ones who do not know as Trump says, “what the F..k they are doing.” After the sneak attack by Israel on Iran the U.S. Secretary of State claimed the U.S. had nothing to do with it but very soon afterward the President undermined that statement. The Vice President said the target of the direct U.S. attack of a few days ago was only limited to Iran’s nuclear facilities and has nothing to do with “regime change,” Trump then tweeted that regime change might be a legitimate goal to “make Iran great again.”
“Imperialism can be defeated. It is on the defensive everywhere, and that is its weakness .” For the peoples of this planet, it is time to throw off all hesitation in our resistance to Western imperialism. The victory of Iran, even if only temporary, confirms that we can indeed turn imperialist wars into wars against imperialism.
Ajamu Baraka is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. He is the Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights and serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the U.S.-based United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).
source: Black Agenda Report
Unite and Strongly Condemn US Bombing in Iran — NDFP
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins all peace-loving and democratic forces around the world in condemning in the strongest terms the US imperialist government of Donald Trump for the bombing of three Iranian nuclear facilities in the early morning hours of June 22.
The US bombing of Iran, that follows more than one week of missile strikes by the Zionist state of Israel, is a brazen violation of Iran’s national sovereignty and a gross crime against international law.
The pretext about Iran’s program for developing nuclear weapons, that Trump has used to justify the US bombing, is the same justification that Benjamin Netanyahu for firing missiles against Iran. This has been repeatedly dismissed by experts and even by the US intelligence agency as groundless.
The “preemptive strikes” carried out by the US and Israel are based on claims similar to the big lie of “weapons of mass destruction” which the US imperialists used to justify its invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein in more than twenty years ago.
In weaving such a narrative, the US imperialists insists that it alone has the right to determine who can develop and possess nuclear weapons. It also insists on having the unfounded right to impose its will on any country, and to punish anyone that does not bow to its authority based on its nuclear-backed military power.
The US bombing derails the efforts of the Arab community and leading European countries, along with Iran, to push for negotiations to forge a nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Trump himself abrogated the non-proliferation treaty in 2018 and has shown no interest in restoring it. Instead, he threatens to assassinate the Iranian Supreme Leader, calls for the overthrow of the Irani government, and demands its “unconditional surrender.”
By dropping bombs on Iran, Trump wants to extend his authoritarian style of government beyond the borders of the US. The desire of US President Trump to reign as global king must be condemned and rejected by freedom-loving people of the world.
The US bombing of Iran constitutes an outright war of aggression. The clear objective of this war is for Iran to surrender its sovereignty and the country’s wealth and resources. In seeking to force Iran to its knees, the US aims to control the vast oil resources of the country and the region.
Iran has all the right to defend its sovereignty and interests against the US-Israel war of aggression. We support the Iranian people as they rise up in their millions against the much detested US imperialist ogre.
By declaring war against Iran, Trump has roused calls for him to be impeached and removed from office, for having done so without congressional approval. In the coming days and weeks, it will certainly galvanize calls for him to be ousted from power. The American people are fed up by his authoritarianism and are ready to take action to put an end to his tyranny. They have the support of all freedom-loving forces around the world.
People all over the world, including the Filipino people, must stand with the people of Iran, as well as with the Palestinian people, in fighting the US-Israel war machine, as it rampages through the Middle East to force nations to bow to its power, and surrender their freedom. In Gaza, the US-supported Israeli bombing has killed close to 60,000 people, maimed hundreds of thousands more, and caused a massive humanitarian crisis characterized by disease and hunger. Israeli occupying forces have been daily killing hundreds of Palestinians in desperate food lines.
Trump must be made to pay for his transgressions. Otherwise, he will only be emboldened to commit even worse crimes as the US imperialists desperately avoid a recession amid a deepening global capitalist crisis, and seek to redivide the world to get the biggest share of the plunder for itself.
In ordering the bombing of Iran, Trump has pushed the world closer to the precipice of a prolonged and more intense armed conflict, that runs the risk of pulling more and more countries into the vortex of a war covering the Middle East and beyond, and causing even greater sufferings on millions upon millions of people, including hundreds of thousands of Filipino migrant workers toiling overseas.
The Filipino proletariat and people must stand firmly against US imperialists wars. They must denounce the puppet Marcos regime for having allowed the US to build more military bases, deploy thousands of US troops, stockpile its weapons and stage one war exercise after another on Philippine soil, air and seas. They must resolutely fight against US imperialist wars, and stand firm and united in demanding an end to US military intervention and military presence in the country.
The Filipino people must organize mass protests to manifest their indignation against the US imperialists and its Israeli Zionist lackeys for the war of aggression against Iran, and to manifest solidarity to the Iranian and Palestinian people as they fight to defend their rights and their land. They must fight the Marcos regime whose subservience has allowed the US to drag the Philippines to its war strategy.
The Party calls on the Filipino people to join and support the New People’s Army and advance the people’s war, as the principal form of struggle to fight the puppet Marcos regime and the US-supported reactionary armed forces. By intensifying and expanding the people’s war against the US puppet troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Filipino people effectively contributes to the struggle of the people of the world to fight and prevent imperialist war.
–NDFP
"Trivia: The Christian village of #Taybeh in the #Westbank is where the current German government party #CSU affiliated Hanns-Seidel-Sdtiftung Foundation used to sponsor an annual Oktoberfest celebration."
https://x.com/DanielGerlach1/status/1938089966502088982
https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1937992402725187788
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Taybeh,_Ramallah#Economy
#Germany #racism #imperialism #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #CDU #Merz #Söder
