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>>2725179
there is no escape
>>2725178
so europe is going to go full mask off fascist?
grim times ahead

Israel as Proxy, Not Puppet Master: How US Imperial Logic Drives the Alliance – Not the Lobby
The joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026 – dubbed Operation Epic Fury by the United States and Operation Roaring Lion by Israel – marked one of the most audacious escalations in decades. Explosions rocked Tehran and other sites, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of other leaders, targeting nuclear facilities, military commanders, and infrastructure. Tehran retaliated with missile barrages toward Israel and Gulf allies, heightening fears of broader regional war. These events have revived longstanding claims that Israel, through its powerful domestic lobby (AIPAC and allied networks), effectively hijacks American foreign policy, dragging Washington into conflicts that primarily serve Tel Aviv’s narrow security ends – neutralising Iran’s nuclear threat, missile arsenal, and proxy forces like Hezbollah and Hamas – at the expense of broader US interests.

Such narratives portray the US-Israel relationship as fundamentally lopsided, with Israel wielding disproportionate influence via lobbying, campaign funding, media sway, and elite networks that silence dissent. Critics often invoke John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2007 book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which argued that pro-Israel groups distort US strategy toward the Middle East.

Yet, as scholars of American global power, we argue that these claims fundamentally misread the structural dynamics. US foreign policy in the Middle East stems from enduring imperial imperatives: securing energy resources in the Persian Gulf, containing rivals that challenge US dominance (Iran’s alignments with China and Russia being paramount), and projecting primacy in an increasingly multipolar world. Israel functions not as the driver but as a vital, dependent proxy – a “regional policeman” that advances shared goals while relying utterly on American patronage for survival and sustained military action.

Crucially, US and Israeli interests align the vast majority of the time. Washington and Tel Aviv are in this together, bound by a deep convergence on containing threats to Western-aligned stability in an oil-rich, geopolitically vital region. This alignment is not coincidental but structural; both pursue dominance over anti-hegemonic forces, disruption of rival axes, and preservation of energy security and strategic access. Israel proPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2720059
I love when Islamists mask off for the CIA cumrags they are lol

On /pol/ and in various news and even here I've seen people mock Russia for "not defending Iran" or assisting it militarily (directly). This is such a childish understanding of world economy that it's no wonder that Trump has deluded himself into believe it too. Russia IS busy with its own shit, but that's not WHY it's staying out of it. For all intents and purposes this war is to Russia's benefit, particularly economically and politically.

>1) Oil.
Iran's strangling of the Hormuz, the strikes on various oil refineries and storage as well as in Yemen have disrupted Middle Eastern Oil Export. Iran's export dropped and so has the other nations, which means that importing countries like Europe are going to have an energy crisis. Even China, which relies a decent amount on Iranian oil supplies will be affected. This means that Russian oil becomes much more valuable and a more significant lever for pressuring the West while increasing money in the treasury.
>2) Political Influence and high-ground
The USA is rapidly going mask off and destabilizing the shaky solidarity of the Western bloc*** with its activity as well as the faith the Middle Eastern Nations like Saudia Arabia have in it, this gives potential opportunities for Russia to gain political support. This is especially true due to Iranian civilian casualties, the assassination of the leadership of Iran and attacking it amidst diplomatic discussion as a way to browbeat them into complying with demands. The inability to fully defend airspace from incoming missiles is also a hit to US military prowess.
>3) Military Expenditure
Both sides are using immense numbers of weapons. The US announced that it deployed 50,000 troops, 200+ strike fighters and other forces. Already at least four Billion dollar THAAD systems have been eliminated by Iran*, as well as structural damage to several military bases and airfields, several sunken and damaged ships, shot down 3 F-15Es of the latest model and more including reports from Iran striking a USN Destroyer* in just 4 days of war, not to mention large numbers of missiles and bombs being expended. As of posting, CENTCOM has claimed to have struck 2000 Iranian targets, that's at least 2000 munitions, and usually several missiles are expended on a single large target. Iran is suffering heavy losses as well, 17 ships sunk or damaged so far, mostly struckPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump is literally speaking of the American soldiers as if they are cannons fader because they petty much are!
Remember in his first term when liberals got mad at Trump for allegedly calling fallen soldiers "Suckers and Losers?" Well he was right, Im not saying that it was based that Trump said that, it was just a mask off moment.

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas
“I am selling almost all physical possessions,” he posted on social media. “Will own no house.”
But in the years since, Mr. Musk, 54, has quietly built an empire of more than 90 companies and other legal entities in Texas, which have amassed a vast collection of assets.
But The Times identified at least 37 companies that appeared to be largely for Mr. Musk’s personal use. Among them was one that owns two multimillion-dollar condominiums totaling more than 7,000 square feet in the Austin Proper Hotel, with sweeping views of downtown. Other companies managed planes that Mr. Musk uses for private travel and a portfolio of more than 1,000 acres of land, which when combined is bigger than Central Park in New York. The lines between Mr. Musk’s business and personal interests are often blurry, and some of the companies most likely served both purposes.
The Times’s examination also offers a window into how Mr. Musk used private companies to support Donald J. Trump during the 2024 election. Tapping these companies to cover the expenses of a super PAC is highly unusual, campaign finance experts said, and ended up obscuring how money was being spent because they are not subject to the disclosure requirements of super PACs.
The vehicle that Mr. Musk frequently turned to is one that many of the ultrarich use: limited liability companies, which are designed to shield owners from legal and financial risks, as well as public scrutiny. Whatever Mr. Musk’s intent, the effect of using these companies has been to disguise how he is spending his money.
The ultrawealthy’s use of limited liability companies is legal and often used to ensure privacy. But they are now used so frequently and for so many investments that some billionaires cannot keep track of how many they operate, said Mitchell Gans, a law professor at Hofstra University.
Some Texans who worked at the addresses associated with Mr. Musk’s personal companies seemed perplexed that they were working in locations linked to the billionaire.
At least 15 of his companies — including his family office, Excession LLC, and another, Red Planet Ventures I LLC — list as their main addresses the same post office box in the Austin suburbs. Mr. Musk’s voter registration has listed the same post office box as a mailing address.
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>>2705479
I love the excuse provided that there are “deep concerns” that development would be prioritised over human rights. That it favours states over individuals (as if that isn’t the most mask off statement ever made lmao)

Maybe not everyone wants schools and hospitals and industry and energy and modern housing, what about their human right to have everyone else in their country condemned to permanently live in the pre-industrial era?

>>2703201

Go ahead cape for these mask-wearin brick chuckin antifa cosplayers and their anarchist sidekicks. Step right up, swing for the fences when the headlines drop about another batch of "hundreds of anarchists detained" See how fast that pitch comes back at your face. You think pokin' this beast of the police state, mass raids, warrantless home invasions, kids, citizens ziptied in their skivvies is just gonna fizzle out? Nah, son. Trump's got the green light. detention centers doubled, 75k+ locked up already, billions more pourin' in. They're not playin' around anymore it's full court press on anything sniffin' left of center, especially the ones screamin' "abolish ICE" and racial. The DHS has got the go ahead to break up all the racial marxist networks, and the militant ones are on kill lists… the normal marxist and socialist orgs are being left out of the incoming operation for a reason.

You see you piss off enough normie white folks who just want jobs, borders, and no chaos in their neighborhoods? That's like walkin' into Tel Aviv waving a Hamas flag and expectin' hugs. Your little adventurist LARP crew's got themselves on kill / arrest lists for 2026 onward and when the hammer drops biggest left-wing sweep since the Palmer Raids so don't come cryin when your "comrades" get rounded up or domed and the rest of us real workers keep clockin' in trying to sive. Communist parties, DSA weirdos, whoever my advice? Stay in your lane. Don't "step up to the plate." for anarchists. Watch the fireworks from the cheap seats, learn the lesson, and maybe next time organize actual class struggle instead of race-war cosplay and the population wont give the state the green light to end your movement and hurt its leaders.

>>2699015
>>Translated to normal speech - cliques should dominate organizations with no accountability. This is the reality that has been seen and critiqued ad nauseam in anarchist spaces already.

This is the reality that has been seen and critiqued ad nauseam in every single leftist space. If you've been around, and in a lot of organizations of varying degrees you would know cliques forming is a constant challenge, the committee is often a mask word for clique in the way some of them actually function.

The theory of distributed vanguard does not sit as proposed political structure or a new form of state power, nor a informal hierarchy of cliques, with alternative government waiting to be instituted. This misreads entirely. The framework describes organizational intelligence already emerging in practice from material conditions, not blueprint for future socialist state institution. It is analysis of how coordination already functions in successful decentralized movements, systematized for learning and replication, not call for new political form to be established with this said model.

Lets head to Post-1969 Republican movement; after security failures there was no centralized command between Belfast, Derry, South Armagh, yet certain nodes set tone through demonstrated success; Belfast's military operations, Derry's civil resistance, South Armagh's territorial control - all things that also lead a mass network of varying republican groups and individuals who were engaged in acts. Leadership outside of the top, or political wing was not elected or appointed but emerged from practice alone. Which node delivered results, which developed effective tactics, which maintained security under pressure. Other nodes adapted, adopted, or ignored based on their own assessment and conditions. This is not militant democracy or hierarchy in formal sense but distributed recognition; leadership as influence rather than command, as temporary pattern rather than stable position. You see "cliques" and recoils because your imaginary remains trapped in liberal categories; accountability requires visibility, legitimacy requires procedure, coordination requires hierarchy or its absence. The distributed vanguard operates in different register entirely; accountability through material interdependence, legitimacy through demPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2698502
Left-imperialist dickriders feign ignorance about imperialisg aggression because they are scared of a mask-off moment, where they end up revealing that they are 'enthusiastic collaborators', as Teacher Evan Reif (pbuh) eloquently puts it.

>>2696479
>Sure revolutions start with criminals that can consistently get away with it. For example the bolshevik ranks was filled with criminals.
That is what I was going to say. The best we can do right now is targeted assasinations. It's very easy to get away with murder if you go about it the right way.

1 in 2 is not bad odds at all, and most of those people doing it are retards. So if you go about it the right way, the chance of getting caught is like 1 in 10 or less.

Luigi almost got away with it and he did so much retarded shit. He didn't have to book a room in NYC. He didn't have to take down his mask to flirt with the staff lady. He could've ditched the gun before was caught. He could've shaved off his stupid eyebrows.

>>2695869
They say whatever.
In practice they guilt trip you into voting for "socialist" mamdani who said some vague pro palestine things, but when elected and starts being mask off zionist, they no longer care because they got their bodega subsidies

Waiting for Comrade Kulinski to take the mask off fully and start wearing a Mao suit a la Hasan on stream. He was glazing China yesterday, clearly has no patience left for capitalists and has indirectly called for ICE goons to be shot. He's 90% there.

>>2687392
Intel Slava was doing fine for a couple of years until he swallowed the Trump slop and also went mask-off chud. Shame.
I even tolerated Bebo until that Ukro girl got stabbed on the train and he posted literally the same post for five days straight and barely anything on the war.

You guys here about Trump sharing a Racist video?
Before you say "Oh it's Obama who cares Obama sucks" #1 this is still pretty Racist to black people in general and #2 It really shows where we are right now. The current admin is so Israelified, first they share a fake ai video depicting a black person as an ape, then when they receive backlash they tell them to get over it because they deny that it is racist, then when to backlash is more out of control then they expected they deny that they know about the monkey part and have Trump claim that he only saw the first bit even though they previously owned the monkey part, they Trump refuses to apologies but still takes the video down. That is such Israel-coded behavior of the constant denial of your own actions. It also just shows how mask off the right is when it comes to racism and how on the liberal side woke is kind of coming back so there was actual backlash. But I also hate that this was such a big story because this was probably the only reason why this was released, in order to distract from the Epstein list and the situation with Iran and Cuba as well as the unemployment crisis.

>>2675411
Speech on the Peasant Women Day, 15th October, 2025.
Comrades, sisters, and fellow workers!
Today, the representatives of global capital in their glass palace tells us to celebrate. The United Nations, that grand committee for managing the common affairs of the global bourgeoisie, has declared this day the “International Day of the Rural Woman.”

They will speak of our “resilience.”
They will praise our “vital role in the economy.”
They will hand microphones to a few so-called “successful” women and
They will distribute branded T-shirts, buckets, and packets of hybrid seeds.
But we say: No!

We will not be pacified with platitudes and trinkets.
We reject this celebration that masks our exploitation.
We are not here to be celebrated—we are here to be liberated.

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Nesrin Abdullah: The Kurdish people have decided to resist in Kobani.
Nesrin Abdullah, commander of the Women's Defense Units (YPJ), held a press conference via Zoom with international press and journalists to assess the latest situation in Kobani. Participating from Kobani, Nesrin Abdullah evaluated the increasing attacks in Kobani and Rojava, the severity of the humanitarian situation, and the risks of potential new interventions.

Nesrin Abdullah, referring to the difficult period the people of Rojava and Kobani are going through, said:
“I am in Kobani. Everyone knows, we are going through a difficult period. Rojava and the Kurdish people are going through a very difficult time. A difficult period is being experienced throughout Syria. These attacks are not only directed at the Kurdish people, but also at the dreams of democracy, justice, and freedom of all the people of Syria. Now we are facing an even more serious situation. A very difficult period is being experienced in Rojava, Cizîr, and Kobani. Afrin and Serêkaniyê are already under Turkish occupation, and the situation there is even worse. In this process, as the Kurdish people, we are under political, military, and moral attacks. These attacks have deeply affected the hope for a common life in Syria. The struggle we have been waging since 2011 has been for a dignified life in Syria where everyone can live, where democracy is established, and where all differences coexist peacefully with their identities, beliefs, and histories. A dirty political game is being played. Our friends are defending our people in every field.”

<A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER COULD OCCUR IN KOBANÊ.
Nesrin Abdullah, reporting that attacks have intensified via Kobanê, said:
“Kobanê is a small geographical area. Geographically, it is isolated from Cizîr. That's why they are attacking it, basing their calculations on this. This city, which is not receiving support, is seen as an opportunity by the enemy and has become a target for attacks. The front is currently in Sirrîn, and the clashes are very intense. The distance between Sirrîn and Kobanê is 30 kilometers. There are many villages along this line. The people, fearing a massacre, have abandoned their villages and taken refuge in the center of Kobanê. This influx will lead to serious humanitarian problems.”

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>>2644964
>>2645870
I'd say this was the best paragraph:

>The contradictions in Tolstoy’s works, views, doctrines, in his school, are indeed glaring. On the one hand, we have the great artist, the genius who has not only drawn incomparable pictures of Russian life but has made first-class contributions to world literature. On the other hand we have the landlord obsessed with Christ. On the one hand, the remark ably powerful, forthright and sincere protest against social falsehood and hypocrisy; and on the other, the “Tolstoyan”, i.e., the jaded, hysterical sniveller called the Russian intellectual, who publicly beats his breast and wails: “I am a bad wicked man, but I am practising moral self-perfection; I don’t eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.” On the one hand, merciless criticism of capitalist exploitation, exposure of government outrages, the farcical courts and the state administration, and unmasking of the profound contradictions between the growth of wealth and achievements of civilisation and the growth of poverty, degradation and misery among the working masses. On the other, the crackpot preaching of submission, “resist not evil” with violence. On the one hand, the most sober realism, the tearing away of all and sundry masks; on the other, the preaching of one of the most odious things on earth, namely, religion, the striving to replace officially appointed priests by priests who will serve from moral conviction, i. e., to cultivate the most refined and, therefore, particularly disgusting clericalism.

I'm not the anon who posted the link btw, but I am this anon, for perspective: >>2645957

Lenin's paragraph above summarizes how my feelings toward Tolstoy's work has evolved.

>>2637348
>There has to be some kind of kinship mechanism between colonial powers
There is, I’ve frequently seen Nazis justify their anime-derived japanophilia because “Hitler said they were honorary aryans in WW2” or “their culture values honor” or in the case of many Latin American far-righters for whatever reason, just going mask off and saying “being imperialist and committing genocide is based”

is douglas murray a israeli asset?
YES

>The truth that Douglas Murray doesn’t want you to know is that he is directly an Israeli asset.

>This isn’t journalism; we’re talking about people who claim to be independent critical thinkers offering their services as assets of a foreign power. So much so that he received an award from the Israeli president for services in propaganda to Israel during the genocide in Gaza. Douglas Murray was gushing with pride when he said it brings him great joy to align with Israel.

>While Murray has recently become more vociferous in his support for the genocidal Israel, his relationship is far from new. Over a decade ago, in 2014, at the time of a genocidal onslaught against Gaza, Douglas Murray rallied around to provide his services to Israel.

>In a leak of emails from Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations at the time, Ron Prozner, it has been revealed that Douglas Murray was drafting speeches for this Israeli government figure. In the email, Douglas Murray wrote to Ron Prozner, “Dear Ron, very good to speak earlier. I am pasting in here my first draft ideas. It’s probably slightly long and I’ve put in some more diplomatic things than needed, but I think I’ve got all the points discussed. The title of the email was draft and it included a speech for Ron Prosner to deliver at the United…”
Nations are defending Israel and its activities in Gaza. In his speech, Douglas Murray even used the following phrasing: “We Israelis have learned to live with the realities around us.
We know who we are. Does Douglas Murray, the alleged British patriot, know who he is? He’s an asset of a foreign power.”

>There are more sickening emails sent from Douglas Murray to Israel’s ambassador at the UN. In these emails, he praises Prosna’s work and goes to great lengths to prove his loyalty to Israel. He boasts about his involvement in a fundraising campaign for Israeli military occupation forces with an organisation previously exposed here at Doubledown News, the Association for the Well-being of Israel Soldiers. This charity actively aids Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza by supporting Israeli soldiers.

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can i post this here since there no /mideast/ general?

Boss of degrading sex-trade ring in Dubai's glamour districts unmasked by BBC

Charles Mwesigwa, who says he is a former London bus driver, told our undercover reporter he could provide women for a sex party at a starting price of $1,000 (£740), adding that many can do "pretty much everything" clients want them to.

Rumours of wild sex parties in the UAE emirate have circulated for years. The hashtag #Dubaiportapotty, which has been viewed more than 450 million times on TikTok, links to parodies and speculative exposés of women accused of being money-hungry influencers secretly funding their lifestyles by fulfilling the most excessive of sexual requests.

Our BBC World Service investigation was told the reality is even darker.

Young Ugandan women told us they had not expected to have to undertake sex work for Mr Mwesigwa. In some cases, they believed they were travelling to the UAE to work in places like supermarkets or hotels.

At least one of Mr Mwesigwa's clients regularly asks to defecate on the women, according to "Mia", whose name we have changed to protect her identity, and who says she was trapped by Mr Mwesigwa's network.

We have also discovered that two women linked to Mr Mwesigwa have died, having fallen from high-rise apartments. Although their deaths were ruled as suicides, their friends and family feel the police should have investigated further.
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>>2521030
The short answer is that it's too soon to say.

The long answer is that the powers which subjugate Palestine and commit genocide there, and which subjugate Lebanon, Syria, Libya, and Iraq for the sake of uninterrupted genocide… also run the U.S., U.K., and EU. People in these places will find that allowing things to continue this way is not in their interests - "Israel" is a testing ground for, and global backer of, tyrannical state repression, destructive psyops, surveillance, and all kinds of nasty things like that… in addition to being a massive recipient of free stuff, an especially heinous situation for the U.S. which lacks public healthcare, welfare, & higher education. Trying to formulate what is going on as a distant spectacle is the wrong approach, because what we've witnessed is a result of global ethnosupremacist hegemony, and its impacts are felt even in the "first world."

In America, ICE abducts students off the street for "wrong think" about Palestine, the government intervenes to give TikTok to Larry Ellison, states suppress boycotts and education about Palestine, students are defamed and mass-arrested for opposing genocide. This is the tip of the iceberg in the U.S.
In the UK, grannies with signs are arrested for ""terrorism"" for holding placards saying they oppose genocide and support a group which periodically spraypaints weapons of war with discouraging messages. In Germany, protesters are battered by police, and large numbers of Jews are arrested, and have their assets seized by the German state for "anti-semitism" because they criticized the Zionist Entity.

If this is where it ends, then it isn't the fault of Yahya Sinwar. It's our fault for not intervening effectively to stop this tyranny even to save ourselves. By all means, this should be a tenuous situation - if we allow it to continue, then that is our failing. We are in an era of mask off Fascism (or "neoliberalism" or Zionist Imperialism or whatever you want to call it), and it necessitates things which are not easy or pleasant in response. There is little evidence that things will not continue to intensify again in western Asia, and the liberation of the "west" will be of great benefit to the middle east.

Hamas says it moves living Israeli captives to 3 handover locations
A Hamas source tells Al Jazeera the Palestinian group has moved the captives to locations in Gaza in preparation for their handovers.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a Hamas delegation will meet the International Committee of the Red Cross tonight to agree on a mechanism for handing over the abductees, adding that the process will be carried out at three locations.

Hamas is in intensive contact with the mediating countries to refine the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released. Mediators are still working to reach a final prisoner list despite Israel’s rejection of several names, the source said.


18 police officers wounded at pro-Palestinian rally in Switzerland
Violent clashes at a pro-Palestinian rally in the Swiss capital of Bern this weekend left 18 law enforcement officers and two protesters injured and caused extensive property damage.

The unauthorised protest on Saturday afternoon drew more than 5,000 people including a large number clad in black and wearing masks who clashed with police and vandalised property.

“Law enforcement officers were also repeatedly attacked with dangerous objects” including construction equipment, furniture, rocks, bottles, fire extinguishers, fireworks and laser pointers, Bern police said in a statement.

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Israeli media commented on the spread of Hamas elements in the Gaza Strip: The movement has survived as an organization and authority.
Israeli figures and media outlets confirmed the failure of the war on the Gaza Strip, noting that Hamas has held firm as an authority and organization.

Avi Issacharoff, an expert on Palestinian affairs at the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, told Israel's Channel 12 that "the number one goal set by the Israeli government two years ago, namely the overthrow of Hamas, has not been achieved." He added that "Hamas has held on as the authority in Gaza."

Issacharoff added that under the ceasefire, "Hamas militants are in the streets, deployed with their weapons, covering their faces with masks to prevent identification, wearing body armor, and demonstrating effective governance." "Hamas as an authority has held its own, and this is the reality we live in today," Issacharoff said.

In the same context, Israeli journalist and author Haim Levinson said: "Hamas has endured as an organization, and this is a proven fact. The organization remained organized from the ground up, with disciplined soldiers, and it did not collapse over two difficult years ."

Reserve Major General Yitzhak Brick confirmed in an interview with Israel News 24 that US President Donald Trump saved Israel from itself at the last minute, describing it as a "miracle."

He added, "Anyone who is talking today about continuing the war in Gaza, I want to remind you of what Eyal Zamir (Chief of Staff) said, and I said this before him: a death trap," noting that "the Israeli army was unable to defeat Hamas."

Brik pointed out that "the army cannot release the prisoners by force of arms, and we will lose hundreds of people," stressing, "We have lost the world and we will lose Israel's ability to confront the threats growing around us."

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>>2491112
Availing myself of this opportunity, I am going to make our stand towards the relations with the ROK clearer.

We have no reason to sit together with it and will do nothing together with it.

I make clear that we will not deal with it at all.

In fact, we and the ROK have existed in the international community as two states over the last scores of years.

It is a stark reality that the two most hostile states on earth, two belligerent states, have been in acute confrontation on the Korean peninsula.

It was Syngman Rhee, the first president of the ROK, and his clique that rigged up a separate government on one half of the Korean peninsula in stubborn opposition to the aspirations of all the fellow countrymen to get rid of the tragedy of division imposed by foreign forces and live and develop independently on one territory.

In the first Constitution of the ROK fabricated and promulgated in July 1948, Syngman Rhee stipulated that “the territory of the ROK covers the Korean peninsula and its attached islands,” thus codifying its inborn nature which is the most hostile to our state.

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>>2337872
So the guy from that video who was shot in the head just died his family have announced.

Boniface Kariuki: Nairobi hawker who was shot in the head by police is dead
Boniface Kariuki, the hawker who was shot by police in the head in Nairobi during protests on June 17, 2025, is dead, the family has said.

The family spokesperson Emily Wanjira confirmed to NTV that Kariuki died on Monday.

Kariuki, a mask vendor, was shot in the head at point-blank range by a police officer during the protests that turned violent as the protesters engaged police officers in day-long running battles.

The demonstration was part of a growing call for justice for Albert Ojwang, the teacher and blogger who was taken from his home in Homa Bay and killed in police custody in Nairobi.

Kariuki has undergone two surgeries at Kenyatta National Hospital where he is admitted in ICU.

Protests are heating up in Kenya. a shooting yesterday and roaming armed gangs:
Kenya protesters clash with men wielding clubs
Kenyan protesters have clashed with club-carrying young men, believed to be loyal to the government, in the centre of the capital, Nairobi.
The demonstration, held in the wake of the death in custody 10 days ago of blogger and teacher Albert Ojwang, was called to demand the sacking of a top police officer.
Police initially said that Mr Ojwang died of self-inflicted wounds, but were forced to retract the statement after an autopsy found that it was likely he died after being assaulted. Two policemen have been arrested in connection with the death.

The protest comes amid simmering tension ahead of next week's first anniversary of the storming of parliament by demonstrators.
Earlier on Tuesday, there were pockets of violence in the capital's central business district when groups of young men riding motorbikes, armed with whips and clubs, attacked protesters.
Videos show the men - described locally as "goons" - seemingly working side-by-side with police, who fired teargas to try and disrupt the demonstrations.
The police have denied any link saying that it has "noted a group of goons armed with crude weapons, in today's protests… The service takes great exception and does not condone such unlawful groupings."

>Why the death of a blogger has put Kenya's police on trial
A vendor was shot during Tuesday's demonstration, sparking renewed outrage from Kenyans who accuse police of using excessive force against protesters.
Boniface Kariuki was reportedly selling masks when a uniformed police officer fired a bullet at close range, critically injuring him.
His father, John Kariuki, told local media that the bullet went through his head, just above the ear.
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