Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Mohammad_al-Julani
#war #history #politics #terror #is #isis #daesh #military #conflict #warfare #question #Problem #future #Religion #Assad #Press #journalism
#politics #capitalism #imperialism #war
billionaire corporations — the most profitable ones are far more abusive. They actively work to create more and more war, ecocide, exploitation and inequality, because these things increase their profits. They lobby governments for more wars and militarism around the world because they manufacture weapons of war. They lobby governments to shrink environmental regulations because they maximize their corporate profits by pillaging the earth and externalizing the costs of industry onto the biosphere we all depend on. They lobby governments for fewer worker protections because worker protections eat into profits. They lobby governments for exploitative trade agreements because globalization gives them a steady supply of cheap wage slaves with fewer workers’ rights. They lobby governments to privatize services and resources so that they can turn things people are already getting into coercive mechanisms of private profit extraction.
#geopolitics #imperialism #war #Syria
Many pundits on my end of the commentary spectrum had been calling those proxy wars self-defeating and framing them as the desperate flailings of a dying empire which will only accelerate its demise, but now here we are watching the empire score a victory it’s been chasing for years, with the western/Israeli stranglehold on the middle east growing tighter than ever.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/assad-is-out-woke-al-qaeda-is-in
Presented by #ScottRitter and #MedeaBenjamin
With #DennisKucinich #MaxBlumenthal #MargaretKimberley #DanKovalik #WilmerLeon #GarlandNixon #AnyaParampil #TheodorePostol #JoseVega #MelGoodman #LarryWilkerson
#geopolitics #imperialism #war
https://xcancel.com/aldamu_jo/status/1865426956738596951
#politics #genocide #war #Gaza
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss spoke at the walkout for Palestine on Wednesday December 4, 2024 at Teaneck High School in Teaneck, NJ, highlighting Jewish solidarity with Palestine and their opposition to Zionism.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IPRC9WrlcHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPRC9WrlcHc
Pepe Escobar provides a deep dive into Russia’s next moves in Syria as Turkey and Israel escalate their proxy war in Aleppo and beyond. We examine the secret meetings held by Turkey in preparation for this operation, shedding light on the broader implications for the region. From the shifting dynamics between Ankara, Tel Aviv, and Moscow to the potential fallout of this covert strategy, Pepe Escobar unpacks the latest developments and what they mean for Syria’s future.
• Erdogan’s betrayal: what will be Putin’s response?
• Who is really behind the Syria war?
• Will Russia rescue Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad?
About the preparation for a Greater Israel and possible consequences for West Asia.
#ukraine trained jihadis
#war will spread.
#Lebanon #ceasefire #iran #hizbolla
Latest I read was that Russia decided to drop Syria. Is that so?
"NATO must control your tweets"
#geopolitics #imperialism #control #surveillance #oligarchy #war #NATO
https://xcancel.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1864642287696797998
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql5r2px4yyo
Hama is home to about one million people and is 110km (70 miles) south of #Aleppo, which the rebels captured last week after launching a surprise #offensive from their stronghold in the north-west.
#geopolitics #imperialism #war
The “left” is divided on Syria only in the same way it’s divided on Ukraine and other conflicts: Marxists, dedicated peace activists and opponents of the western empire on one side; shitlibs, NATO simps and anarkiddies on the other. The high level of leftish unity we’ve been seeing between those two groups on Gaza this past year is the exception, not the norm.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/blinken-is-pushing-for-ukrainian
Unrestricted #War
Many people think that #imperialism stopped after the U.K. became weak. Actually, the U.S. has conducted a hidden imperialism through the U.S. #dollar and has made other countries its financial colony. Today, many countries, including China, have their own sovereignty, Constitution, and government, but they are dependent on the U.S. dollar. Their products are measured in dollars and they have to hand over their material wealth to the U.S. in exchange for the U.S. dollar.
This can be seen clearly in the cycle of the U.S. dollar index over the past 40 years. Since 1971, when the U.S. started to print money freely, the U.S. dollar index has been dropping in value. For ten years, the index has kept going down, indicating that it was overprinted.
Actually, it was not necessarily a bad thing for the world when the U.S. dollar index went down. It meant an increase in the supply of dollars and a large outflow of dollars to other countries. A lot of U.S. dollars went to Latin America. This #investment created the economic boom in Latin America in the 1970s.
In 1979, after flooding the world with U.S. dollars for nearly 10 years, the Americans decided to reverse the process. The U.S. dollar index started climbing in 1979. Dollars flew back to the U.S. and other regions received fewer dollars. Latin America’s economy boomed due to an ample supply of dollar investment, but this suddenly stopped as its investments dried up.
The Latin American countries tried to save themselves.
#geopolitics #imperialism #war #Gaza #judeoNazism
If you are only able to hold your worldview together by refusing to face the facts about it, then your worldview is garbage and your opinions suck.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/either-watch-the-footage-of-dead
I'm not sure why we need to ask #Sartre about that. If necessary. Hey Sartre, tell me... war and stuff? #war #philosophie #philosophy #rich #poor
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CH8o9DIIXqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH8o9DIIXqI
#geopolitics #imperialism #manufacturing #war
At that point, what will the U.S. do if neither we nor our allies can make munitions in large numbers? We will have to choose to either 1) escalate to nuclear war, or 2) lose the war to China. Those will be our only options. Either way, the U.S. and its allies will lose.
Notice that the previous sentence explains perfectly what's happening in Ukraine. Ukraine can't win and never could because of this and it was obvious from the very start of the "hot war" in 2022.
For our purposes at CCI, the Biden administration’s recent escalation of the war in Ukraine is enormously disturbing. With the greenlight given to the Zelensky government to use US-supplied long-range missiles against Russian territory, President Putin has announced that as far as Russia is concerned, the West, especially the United States, has declared war on Russia. Our friends in Russia tell us this new reality spread across the country immediately following Mr. Putin’s speeches of November 21 and 22. A good friend in Sergiev Posad tells us she and her colleagues at work discuss the strain of anticipating a missile strike on Moscow, a mere 70 kilometers away, constantly. She also tells us that church attendance is way up with parents now insisting their children attend – something quite unusual in recent years.
The fact that officials in our government insist we are not at war with Russia is irrelevant to the Russians when American made and American guided weapons fall on Russian cities. One must ask: how many Americans appreciate this situation – that ‘reality’ for Russian citizens is not whatever comes out of the mouths of American officials? ‘Reality’ for Russians is what is physically ‘real’, a matter of what happens on their soil.
--- CCI (Center for Citizen Initiatives) newsletter, 2024-12-03
