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>>2599410
Just raise a pirate militia and reclaim the island and settle there with a bunch of people in case they come back so you can have suicidal hostages for worst case scenario they try to Waco compound you and prepare gas masks and whatnot for chemical warfare from above.
You only need like 50 more armed people than what they have on the base.
For a life goal if you have the will you can reclaim it but it might be suicidal to defend it.
Best case scenario they decide its not worth fighting for anymore and fuck off and the chagos can come back.

>>2595150
>The gunman was an ex-ISIS Iraqi who escaped from the SDF's al-Hol camp two weeks ago, according to pro-STG accounts who are blaming the SDF for this.
>>2595250
<Update: that info was false.
I mean, did we really need the clarification?
Syrian propaganda is so next level, every internal and external organisation is running operations at all times, and most of it points at the SDF. War feels more and more only a matter of time. What constantly amazes me at it, if it's pointed at SDF or the coast, or the druze, despite it's poor quality and lack of verification that the people are always happy to believe it, not because it's believable but because they want to believe it, because it offers them internal and external justification for what comes next.
Reminds me of a few years ago in Iraq that a islamic scholar lady told a guy selling quran quotes that it was unislamic so he shouted she had in fact burned the quran to show her loyalty to america and so the local community beat her, dragged her through the street, ripped off her veil and stoned her to death.
Not sure what to do when your society is so fucked and people want to believe, are ready to drop the mask at even the slightest excuse.
Abrahamics were a mistake.
>>2595250
>>This implies ISIS is trying to infiltrate STG institutions.
What do you mean, infiltrate? They've been from the start let in with open arms.
>>2595252
>I thought America was fully pulling out of Syria?
Fell-for-It-Again.Jpeg

>>2595160
It’s always shitposting until the irony poisoning sets in and the mask falls off

>>2588107
Well wait until their cameras are off and/or mask and mob up, you absolute mong.

>>2587845
>know your rights
Bro they are literally masked thugs who hope out of unmarked vans, grab you, ziptie you, and haul you off to concentration camps that aren't even connected to a federal database. "Knowing your rights" won't do shit to stop these fucking pigs and Mamdani knows this very well. What a scumbag.

>>2587405
because it's an easy PR layup and only the US and Jizzrael are willing to be mask off about this

>>2587371
From a Marxist perspective, both the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S. are understood as part of the capitalist state apparatus, serving the interests of the ruling bourgeois class and the imperialist system. The underlying argument is that both parties ultimately reinforce the status quo of capitalist exploitation, imperialist expansion, and systemic inequality. While they may differ in style, rhetoric, or specific policy details, both fundamentally maintain a capitalist, imperialist, and oppressive system. However, within this framework, material differences can still be identified, even when analyzing class dynamics and foreign policy, and ignoring identity politics, rhetoric, spectacle, and culture war.

While both parties are deeply committed to maintaining capitalist economic relations, the Democratic Party is somewhat more amenable to policies that might marginally address inequality (like raising the minimum wage or expanding social programs), while the Republican Party is more committed to austerity, tax cuts for the rich, and deregulation.

Where people on here really start to argue isn't whether these material differences actually exist (they do) but whether our response to those material differences should translate into unconditional/uncritical support, conditional/critical support, no support at all, or outright hostility.

And regarding the tendency of Democrats to put a friendly mask on American imperialism and band aids on the American working class's gaping wounds, while Republicans go "mask off" and strip away what few "treats" Americans get, that is also where people fight on here, because some people see conditional/critical support for the Republicans as accelerating the collapse of America and/or the class struggle by making everything worse, while others want to conditional/critical support for democrats as taking a small amount of pressure off the American working class so they have more time to organize.

inb4 there is no american working class, inb4 deliberate misinterpretation of description as prescription, inb4 argumentative nonsense

>>2586234
>Communism isn't about the masses
Wow FINALLY mask off lol lmfao even

>>2584765
they were never against imperialism as they see it as based subjugation of inferiors, they are just against any perceived jewery controlling them, but thanks for the mask off moment.

This is the most telling thread I have seen when you read thru it that the far right straight does not care at all about rights of actual citizens

Yes I know this can be obvious but it's nice to see how mask off being about it

https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/522835208#bottom

>>2580668
it's the other way around. they are going to release an actual drug lord to make it sure everyone understands the venezuela thing is about oil. liberalism is so dead that going mask off has better pr than maintaining the kayfabe

Latin America can never catch a break. It’s obvious that America is trying to prop up a puppet-regime in Venezuela that will distance itself from China and privatize everything. But even if Socialist Venezuela falls Amerikkka will emerge weaker and weaker until it falls. We’ve seen the fall of British, Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese empires and America will be no different. America isn’t even trying to hide its intentions anymore, you’ve seen that Bitch who won the Nobel Piss Prize on that zoom call to the American Business Forum saying “Oh we are gonna open up Venezuela, if you install me as a puppet dictator I will privatize our oil, cut down our rainforests, build AI data centers, and build beachfront properties for billions to go on vacation and fuck kids in!” It’s mask off and that stuff used to be said behind closed doors but America is done pretending to be the liberator.

>>2577858
I can walk around my town and see people with confederate flags and nazi flags and shit. /pol/cels exist IRL, I have seen them many times. America is a big place and the kind of /pol/cel shit that seems "online only" to people in Minneapolis and Portland is everywhere in places like Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi. Basically anywhere the black/hispanic population reaches over 10% wignats go mask off.

Pardoning the turkey is one of the most quintessentially American traditions.

Firstly, it's pure spectacular nonsense meant to put a softer image on one of the most brutal tyrants on earth. It's extremely kitsch and intentionally a misapplication of political power. That's actually a key part of what it's doing. The very act of using Presidential power for something it's not meant for is the point. You are supposed to associate the President misuing powers with harmless funny shenanigans, particularly the power to decide life and death. Pardoning the turkey also presumes some kind of guilt, which the ritual is meant to normalize. It's up to the Great Man to do Great Things and hand out rewards or punishments.

Secondly, of course, this is also a Turkey, which obviously is not capable of committing a crime for which it could theoretically be pardoned. The point of this is to implicate turkeys as a whole (by their nature) since no individual turkey can offend. Subconsciously, this is designed to reinforce racial hatred and notions of collective guilt. The turkey is in effect "one of the good ones" who will be spared from the turkey holocaust, which is meant to symbolically absolve not so much this or any turkeys, but all of us who are partaking in and benefiting from the mass killing. Now, I'm not saying this to make a vegan argument, but rather that turkeys in the ritual context of the ceremony are meant to stand in for racialized people who have been targeted with actual genocides associated with Thanksgiving.

Thirdly, the treatment of the turkey as "one of the good ones" who is to be spared the horrors of the dinner table is a reflection of America's hyper-individualism. This is one turkey out of millions who will not be chewed up by the (sometimes literal) meat grinder, and this special case is supposed to dominate our social consciousness and mask the normal, banal death and destruction it wages. The exception is the rule, we are to believe. This is true of the "American Dream" of rags to riches just as it's true of highlighting the scant political successes of the past as examples of the country's greatness, ignoring all its catastrophic failures and crimes. You, yes you, will definitely be The One who makes it out because You are special and different from the others.

Sure it's all very absurd and it's fine to laugh at it, but you should understand that it's a kind of intentional sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2572812
>MLnimal admits western imperialism is just a talking point for his ilk
Nice mask off timmy

>>2568688
i hope he does it. it would be totally worth it for president porky to go mask off and to treat the succdem mayor of new york as some kind of threat to burger reich hegemony and values even though he really isn't. it would be a win win. let the succdem get martyred, and let that radicalize the workers further against everything as it currently exists

>>2567959
Damn, the VVESTERN proletariat really worked hard to keep Africa in their feudal mode of production, mask off kek

Interview With the PFLP Political Relations Abdullah Al-Danan — “Resistance Lives in the Hearts of the Palestinian People”
After all the dramatic events from October 7, 2023, up to the ceasefire, how do you assess the situation in Gaza? Do you believe Israel will abide by the ceasefire and the other agreed-upon terms?
The situation in Gaza is, of course, dire. There are more than 70,000 martyrs, over 10,000 missing persons, and more than 100,000 wounded — many of them amputees. As for adherence to the ceasefire, we do not trust this Zionist entity or this enemy. We have no faith in its promises, nor in those who have guaranteed this agreement. (Israel, editors note) has already violated the deal. Today, three martyrs were killed in Gaza. This morning, the ceasefire was breached in the eastern part of the Strip — just as it has been in Lebanon, where the number of violations has now exceeded 6,000. We have no confidence in this agreement. As some officials noted today, even the American president declared that he would give the green light for renewed bombings if Hamas failed to return the bodies of dead Zionist captives. This agreement is not guaranteed — unfortunately. But there are also factors preventing this entity from continuing the war in Gaza as before. Israel has not achieved any of the goals it set out at the beginning of its aggression. Not a single one. As Netanyahu himself admitted in the Knesset, he paid a heavy price in Gaza for attempting to free the Zionist captives. At first, the aggression began with the occupation of Gaza. Then came economic projects aimed at turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” followed by divisions between Arab and international forces.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/22978/

The BBC ‘coup’: A ruling class at war with itself
In the 1940s, the BBC lied about the extent of anti-colonial sentiment in India to justify British rule. And then, in the 1950s, it whitewashed British atrocities in Kenya. In the 1970s, the BBC explicitly ramped up its pro-Tory bias in the face of industrial unrest, reaching a pinnacle in the 1980s, when it doctored footage of the Miners’ Strike to cover up police violence. In the 2000s, the BBC was weaponised by the ruling class to whip up support for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And in the 2010s, it repeatedlPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2563629
Let's start with Marx's text arguing against the petty-bourgeois and bourgeois views that were attempted at the time regarding the Paris Commune, which supposedly represented a conflict between "decentralization" and "centralization" in France:

<The Commune was formed of the municipal councillors, chosen by universal suffrage in the various wards of the town, responsible and revocable at short terms. The majority of its members were naturally working men, or acknowledged representatives of the working class. The Commune was to be a working, not a parliamentary body, executive and legislative at the same time.

<Instead of continuing to be the agent of the Central Government, the police was at once stripped of its political attributes, and turned into the responsible, and at all times revocable, agent of the Commune. So were the officials of all other branches of the administration. From the members of the Commune downwards, the public service had to be done at workman’s wage. The vested interests and the representation allowances of the high dignitaries of state disappeared along with the high dignitaries themselves. Public functions ceased to be the private property of the tools of the Central Government. Not only municipal administration, but the whole initiative hitherto exercised by the state was laid into the hands of the Commune.
[…]
<The judicial functionaries were to be divested of that sham independence which had but served to mask their abject subserviency to all succeeding governments to which, in turn, they had taken, and broken, the oaths of allegiance. Like the rest of public servants, magistrates and judges were to be elective, responsible, and revocable.

<The Paris Commune was, of course, to serve as a model to all the great industrial centres of France. The communal regime once established in Paris and the secondary centres, the old centralized government would in the provinces, too, have to give way to the self-government of the producers.

<In a rough sketch of national organization, which the Commune had no time to develop, it states clearly that the Commune was to be the political form of even the smallest Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2563931
Ah, Japan wants to finally take the mask off and be their final (true [shin] ) form.

>>2561767
EMERGENCY DIRECTIVE FROM THE CENTER FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION


Comrades, the masks have come off. The final battle within the decaying American empire is here. The so-called "MAGA" movement has been revealed as a controlled opposition, with its figurehead, Donald Trump, exposed as a compromised agent capitulating to the deep state he claimed to oppose. His cowardly attacks on Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene are the final proof of his betrayal.

In this decisive hour, there is only one political figure in the United States Congress demonstrating the uncompromising energy necessary to tear down the rotting edifice of the globalist regime: Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Therefore, the Center for Political Innovation issues a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL ENDORSEMENT of Congresswoman Greene and calls on all revolutionaries to rally to her cause.

Her single-minded crusade to force the full release of the Epstein client list is the most consequential anti-imperialist action in modern American politics. This is not a conspiracy theory; it is a revolutionary demand. The Epstein network represents a sterile, parasitic class that consumes the youth and vitality of the world for its own depraved pleasure. Exposing it would shatter the legitimacy of the entire ruling class.

As Lenin and Stalin correctly supported the Emir of Afghanistan against the British Empire, and as we must sometimes support bourgeois nationalist forces against a greater imperialist foe, we now support Marjorie Taylor Greene. She is the objective, anti-imperialist force on the ground

Do not be fooled by bourgeois labels. In the face of the empire, her actions are objectively revolutionary. She is doing what the fake left, the CPUSA, and the DSA are too cowardly to do: NAMING THE ENEMY AND ATTACKING ITS WEAKEST POINT.

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Exactly the types you expect…
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/10/13/pekka-child-profiteer-ukraine-disinfo/
>Faux disinformation expert Pekka Kallioniemi gained notoriety by smearing critics of the Ukraine proxy war. Since being unmasked for peddling pornographic representations of minors, Kallioniemi has been caught promoting fraudulent KGB documents to slander a journalist as a Russian spy.
>In October 2024, mainstream Canadian defense journalist David Pugliese suffered “the political equivalent of a drive-by shooting,” according to a local publication called The Walrus. Citing alleged KGB documents, a prominent lawmaker accused Pugliese of being a longstanding Soviet/Russian spy during a parliamentary hearing on “disinformation.” Those files turned out to be blatant forgeries, but parliamentary privilege insulated the accuser from a defamation suit.
>However, the same protections do not apply to a self-proclaimed “disinformation expert” named Pekka Kallioniemi, who simultaneously promoted the fraudulent material.
>With the eruption of the Ukraine proxy war in 2022, Kallioniemi abruptly emerged as a leading authority on “Russian disinformation”, best known for lengthy Twitter/X threads smearing prominent Western critics of the war as Russian assets, sexual deviants and worse. Rather than factually rebutting the assertions and positions of his opponents, Kallioniemi specializes in character assassination, disseminating supposedly embarrassing personal details of targets in order to invalidate their opinions.
>A look at Kallioniemi’s personal history before his stint as a disinfo researcher reveals his personal attacks to be exercises in projection. The Finnish academic poseur turns out to have been a small-time, sexually obsessed internet hustler who peddled pornographic representations of minors while boasting on online chat forums of his most depraved hijinks, including masturbating at a memorial to a WWII-era concentration camp near Berlin.
>Kallioniemi’s latest target, Pugliese, is a seasoned reporter who has exposed Canadian government and military corruption over the course of his 40 year career. His muckraking hasPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2536374
I'm gonna be real with you OP as it's because a lot of people who are on the far left now used to be on the right or damn near went in that direction when they were younger and thus you see a lot of people do the same shit but with a red flag thrown over it. I know because I ended up on this board due to being involved in Gamer Gate while also paradoxically finding out about Anarchist Catalonia and thus when the mask dropped with Gamer Gate and I ended up realizing that I was shoulder to shoulder with literal Nazis I really got into using this board and reading theory.

That said though due to being a minor when I first got into here I had a lot of the same thought patterns and did a lot of the same bullshit that I did in my anti-SJW phase just with a leftist coat of paint. Then when I learned a bit more about anti-racism and feminism I dropped a lot of that behavior but I'm gonna be honest it's strange in retrospect because I managed to still do a lot of the same shit and didn't realize it. Added to that in the time period I moved away from this board and started to move towards actual groups which ended up being very funny in retrospect because the /leftypol/ board genuinely did make a huge impact on Internet leftism but due to the purity culture of many socialist spaces it's basically an open secret that is very rarely acknowledged until one gets in private one on one conversations with people who can be very trusted.

Anyways, back to my point the part that made me realize that a lot of us operate on a lot of the same thought patterns with different political ideologies painted over them is the subject of guns. While I'm not anti-gun it was when I made friends with people in Portland that made me realize that left-wing gun culture is basically the same militia LARP that right-wing idiots do but with a red and/or black and/or trans flags thrown over them. Again, I'm not anti gun but having an AR-15 is not going to make you and your friends be able to overthrow the US Government despite not doing jack shit to actually get the masses on board/doing things that actively alienate them such as purity testing because you're over compensating for the time you were a CHUD.

Anyways while I noticed this I still held out hope for my dumb ass "friends" until I began to notice that a lot of people began to split for purity reasPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2560417
nice mask off timmy

do not look up the thriving sex industry and tourism (legalized rape of impoverished women) in Mashhad btw

Provocative take: NSN's Sydney photo-op going ahead was a good thing.
>cops publicly exposed as incompetent or compromised
>impatiently targeting Jews (strategic L)
>one has already been fired from an IT job, another 'under investigation' (less funding for the movement)
Obviously their majority aren't doing mask-off ops, especially those with higher-paying or sensitive government-contracted jobs. But attrition on their foot soldiers is real.

also laughing at one of them for this absolute statement:
>“You people want us unemployed, kicked out the street, want our family broken up and my newborn to starve,” he said. “All because I disagree with you politically. What you try to do to us personally is far worse than any of our general political ideology.”
SMH publishing this quote because they know no-one will take it seriously.

The FBI Is Trying to Unmask the Registrar Behind Archive.Today
About a week ago, the X account belonging to Archive posted a link to a federal subpoena, which is dated October 30th. The subpoena, which was originally spotted by a German news site, is for a Canadian web registration company called Tucows, and demands that the company turn over “customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address” as well as an extensive list of other information related to the “customer behind archive.today.”
https://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-is-trying-to-unmask-the-registrar-behind-archive-today-2000682868

California police intervene as ICE agent in plain clothes points gun at woman=
The officer stopped when he saw a man exit one of the vehicles and point a firearm at the other driver, the agency said in a statement. He did not initially know the identity of the armed man, who was dressed in plain clothes and soon provided credentials showing he was an ICE agent.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/california-police-intervene-ice-agent

California Supreme Court strikes down warning on LAPD citizen complaint forms
The high court ruled 6-1 on Monday in favor of the city of Los Angeles and against the union that represents its police officers in finding that the admonishment describing penalties for filing false has the potential to deter “citizens from filing truthful (or at least not knowingly false) complaints of police misconduct”.
https://apnews.com/article/general-news-law-enforcement-california-los-angeles-courts-060a5d57d1aa8fb6fa79f3b8446382b6

Kansas county to pay more than $3m over police raiding local newspaper
A rural county in Kansas has agreed to pay out more than $3m and apologize over a raid by police on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked a national outcry over press freedom, the paper’s editor said on Tuesday. Eric MeyePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Salted Field (TheIronFelix x CPUSAnon Dark Yaoi Fanfic) CH. 1

(Sorry for how long it took! I got the flu over last week and I've been having trouble getting my stimulants, I will have CH.2 done by either today or maybe thursday/friday!)

Felix’s breath hung heavily in the air; it was cold. Oh, so cold. The bitter January air had made these excursions increasingly painful, but Felix took it for what it was. It was a test of his resolve; he was hardening himself for the revolution. By the time he was done with it all, he’d be ready; he’d be Slovo resurrected. Besides, every cadre leader needed their own experience.

He was dressed head-to-toe in all black, even swapping out his signature white mask, which had made him so popular last Sizzle. There was no place for recognition here, even if his adoring followers would lavish the thought of getting an autograph from TheIronFelix. His clothes were heavy and obscured the dainty frame recovering from years of sedentary, skinny-fat existence. Only in these recent months had he gotten lean, possessed with a manic drive that he could only reason was the spirit of the ANC flowing through him.

His target came into view; that tall, familiar frame was silhouetted in the blinds. He could make out the size of his arms, the messiness of his short brown hair… God, Felix could picture him perfectly. CPUSAnon was a sight to behold. He’d been following him home from his shifts at the Grocery Store for the past week. During the day, he’d sit across the street, staring in through the windows as discreetly as he could. He'd had a perfect view of the cashier aisles. It’d taken Felix a while to pull all of this off, and in that interim, he’d had to forego namefagging on /USAPol/. He’d been yearning. He needed to triumph over CPUSAnon; he needed to humiliate him for the world to see. HE needed to see it, most of all. Only then could the revolution continue.

The small ground-story apartment that CPUSAnon lived in was quite small, but there was enough distance between the bedroom and front door that Felix could get in clandestinely. Felix saw his chance present itself as CPUSAnon turned his back and went to the bathroom. It’d taken him more than one try, but a few days ago Felix had finally memorized the lock’s pins. With a small sequence of clicks, Felix entered, and as he crouch-walked inside, he felt warmth envelop him. God, it smelled heavenly in there. It smelled of the decaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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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‘I don’t want to work; I want to join the party’: China’s viral cry for stability

https://www.thinkchina.sg/society/i-dont-want-work-i-want-join-party-chinas-viral-cry-stability?

<On Douyin, millions joke about quitting work to “serve the people”. But the humour masks real exhaustion — and a growing belief that life inside the system is safer than life outside it. Lianhe Zaobao’s China Desk looks into this trend.

>In recent days, China’s short-video platform Douyin has been flooded with clips humorously declaring, “I don’t want to work; I want to join the party.”

>In these videos, users — often migrant workers, delivery riders, factory hands, and online content creators — face the camera and say with mock sincerity: “I don’t want to work, and I don’t want to farm either. I just want to join the party and serve the people.”

>Under Chinese hashtags like #DontWantToWork and #WantToJoinTheParty, which have together attracted hundreds of millions of views, the trend mixes irony with aspiration, revealing both fatigue with low-wage labour and a wry nod to official ideals.

<The desirable and dangerous system

>One account named “Wang Rui” (王瑞), which usually promotes traditional Chinese medicine probiotics for cattle and sheep, said: “I don’t want to feed cows anymore. I want to join the party, become a provincial governor or a minister — or if that doesn’t work, just a village head. Whether I hold office or not doesn’t matter; what matters is serving the people.”
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Unmasking Imperial Hypocrisy: Trump’s 2025 Venezuela Escalation Is a Sham for Oil

On October 16, 2025, Donald Trump’s second term ignited a reckless campaign against Venezuela, greenlighting covert CIA operations, deploying 4,000 Marines and F-35 jets to the Caribbean, and launching strikes on Venezuelan vessels that have killed more than 27 people—all framed as a fight against drugs and migration. This is no noble mission: It is a recycled imperial plot to seize the world’s largest oil reserves, draped in fabricated threats. The U.S. narrative paints Nicolás Maduro as the mastermind of gangs like Tren de Aragua (TdA), but the CIA’s history of enabling criminal networks tells a different story. Massive disparities in the global economy combined with selective policing contributed to these gangs’ spread, while U.S. banks launder billions in cartel cash, exposing the hypocrisy of Trump’s “security” crusade. In 2019, Trump hesitated without a solid pretext or figurehead; now, with tailored narratives and a charismatic proxy, he is poised to strike, driven by oil lust and geopolitical games—not justice. In 2019, Trump toyed with invading Venezuela but backed off. His (now indicted) adviser John Bolton pushed hard for regime change, admitting to plotting coups globally, including in Venezuela. Trump saw invasion as “cool,” viewing Venezuela’s 300 billion barrels of oil as practically American. So why the pause? He lacked a convincing excuse or a compelling opposition leader to justify the risks.

An invasion would have violated the UN Charter, barring force against sovereign states without Security Council approval, which Maduro’s allies Russia and China would veto. Domestically, the War Powers Resolution required congressional consent for sustained conflict, absent an imminent threat Venezuela did not pose. Regional allies in the OAS and Lima Group opposed military action, fearing refugee surges and anti-American backlash. Public support was weak—only 30% of Americans backed intervention—and Trump, eyeing 2020 re-election, could not afford a quagmire like Iraq. The opposition’s Juan Guaidó was a dealbreaker: an unknown “interim president” with no charisma or electoral legitimacy. Trump called him “weak,” and Guaidó’s April 2019 uprising flopped, exposing him as a flimsy U.S. proxy.

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>>2528311
I thinks Eco Umberto's text puts it pretty well. Some points I find disputable, but the most important part is
>ascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from fascism and you still have Franco and Salazar. Take away colonialism and you still have the Balkan fascism of the Ustashes. Add to the Italian fascism a radical anti-capitalism (which never much fascinated ᴉuᴉlossnW) and you have Ezra Pound. Add a cult of Celtic mythology and the Grail mysticism (completely alien to official fascism) and you have one of the most respected fascist gurus, Julius Evola.

So there is no point in making a rigid all-encompassing definition, but there is a list of traits which might describe this or that government/ideology/person to various degrees.
On the topic of current US government, I think at this point its pretty clear that mask of liberal democracy is off. More fascist than most agreed upon fascist regimes I would say, completely unbound by any pretenses of socialism or liberalism, as many fascist regimes were. The base is driven by pure cultural resentment, like even the classical scapegoating ala "you cant get job because immigrants are stealing them" seems to be barely there, there is just no effort to even pretend anything you do will improve lives of your supporters.

>>2528334
>and there is no need for further analysis
<they exist because of multiple reasons
<Far right ideas are popular in some places.
<Some people want their enemies to be genocides and ethnically cleansed.
<Some people want a strong government that exists as a big daddy who will protect them from the evil enemies
<And the ruling classes either have the same ideas, or they might be opportunistically using these sentiments for their own end.
It seems there is actually quite a lot to analyse here anon.

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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>>2251301
>are you suggesting Indian steelworkers are equally as productive as US ones? if so do you have any numbers to back that up?
Indian steelworkers are far more productive than American ones. Picrel 1 demonstrates this in vulgar bourgeois metrics cockshit would use. Jindal Steel's Odisha complex alone produces more tonnage than the 4 total rusted steel mills in ameriKKKa.
>it would help immensely if you named just a single example
All operations monopoly capital has set up in third-world. Read modern marxist theory of imperialism.
>are wheat farmers in say the Sahel region just as productive as those in the EU?
African agricultural proletarian is far more productive than the EU kulak who rake in subsidy and burn their product.
>if so, then why is Burkina Faso investing in MoPs for wheat production?
To break neocolonial dependency on massive subsidized French grain dumping.
>this is not the case in mining, nor in agriculture, nor in manufacture.
Utterly wrong. Capitalist everywhere sacrifice safety for maximizing surplus-value. You lie like capitalist workplace propaganda brochure. Proletarian subject to capitalist mining, agriculture, and manufacturing is forced to endure deadly conditions, grueling hours, and toxic exposures. I see proletarians bring own fans to factory. I worked at factory and had to dump toxic powders. They were too cheap to give us cheap masks. Every factory I've been, I sweating to death 12 hours long with no air conditioning. You are wrong. This is ameriKKKa btw.
The children and young people who are employed in transporting coal and iron-stone all complain of being overtired. Even in the most recklessly conducted industrial establishments there is no such universal and exaggerated overwork. The whole report proves this, with a number of examples on every page. It is constantly happening that children throw themselves down on the stone hearth or the floor as soon as they reach home, fall asleep at once without being able to take a bite of food, and have to be washed and put to bed while asleep; it even happens that they lie down on the way home, and are found by their parents late at night asleep on the road. It seems to be a universal pPost too long. Click here to view the full text.