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1 hour agoAny chance the guillotine comes back out?
Say no to authoritarianism, say yes to socialism. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Everyone deserves Human Rights
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2·17 hours agoAfter 1948, the United States rapidly switched course on demilitarizing Japan in order to counterbalance China, and the driving force of the modern militarization movement is the growth of China’s military strength and assertiveness in the twenty-first century. In fact, the ongoing confrontation between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands, a string of uninhabited islands near Taiwan, which began in earnest when Japan nationalized the islands in 2012, has served as the pretext for much of Tokyo and Beijing’s recent military buildup in the area.
11·22 hours agoThe US and Israel are so comically evil they don’t even need to make shit up, the material writes itself
142·1 day agoBritish Broadcasting Criminals
3·1 day agoStremio Guide (for android TVs)
Short answer: no
Long answer: To Israel a ceasefire means, ‘you cease, we fire’
5·2 days agoYou gonna blame the Jewish resistance for the Holocaust next?
What the actual fuck
8·2 days agoNew brainrot unlocked
DOW here, how do I get free oil?
Are people really that shocked? How else can Iran make up for the damages caused by USraels belligerent bombings? It’s not like the US will ever pay, even though they absolutely should and are required to under International law. Which of course means nothing to USrael
I’m sorry but jumping to ‘organizing is useless’ makes absolutely no sense.
Why do you think you even have a weekend or benefits in the first place? The gains made by the militant labor organizing in the last century.
If organizing was useless, governments wouldn’t spend all the immense time and money to break, weaken, and dissolve unions. They do so because they recognize the real threat organizing has.
I’m not saying organizing is the one thing we need. There is no singular thing. A united front is needed. Every avenue both inside and outside the system. Co-opting the Dem party to be a party for the people, outside organizations like DSA to keep politicians accountable, labor organizing to wield our collective power to ensure our demands are met, voting, coalition building, mutual aid, International organizing, ect.
This is a class war, we have no luxury of choosing a single angle of attack.
Maybe he thinks Russia is still run by a communist party and not a capitalist one, lol
Do you anything about the PA?
This is about an end to Occupation and Genocide, how do you not understand that.
The PA is an arm of Israeli Apartheid, Occupation, and Suppression.
The PA creates the appearance of Palestinian autonomy, but in fact, much like the governments of the Bantustans of apartheid South Africa, it is simply an extension of the colonial state, a tool of counterinsurgency that is highly effective for the repression of local rebellions, because it makes the native population police itself. Fatah, which was a revolutionary movement in the early days of the armed struggle, is now mostly contained by the PA.
Israel’s stabilization strategy, inspired by modern counterinsurgency doctrine, has rested on two pillars: the employment of pacification measures to co-opt Palestinians and reliance on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to police its population on Israel’s behalf. However, many Palestinians are now fighting back against this approach, while the PA’s eroding legitimacy has only hardened the population’s refusal to accept its restrictive methods.
It is presented here as it has been perceived by the Israeli policymakers and bureaucrats down the years. For them the PA was an integral and crucial component in the open-air prison model suggested in the 1990s, and one which the pragmatic elite of Israel still hopes to instate in the West Bank, at least in the near future.
- Ilan Pappe - The Biggest Prison on Earth
In appearance, the PA has all the trappings of a state, with ministries and a civil service, but Israel wields the real power, turning the tap on tax revenue, and controlling access to the shrinking territories – a status quo often compared with the Bantustans of apartheid-era South Africa.
The PA has actively helped Israel to keep tight control over the Palestinian population. Many perceive the body as a tool of the Israeli security apparatus, its US-trained forces not only targeting those suspected of planning attacks on Israelis, but also arresting union figures, journalists and critics on social media.
Israel relies on this division of the West Bank to foster the fiction that the Palestinian Authority is the entity primarily responsible for administering the life of the majority of Palestinians in the West Bank. In practice, however, Israel still retains control over the entire West Bank and all its residents.
CIA Files Confirm U.S. Used Nazis After WWII
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml knows this history far more than I do, if they’re willing they might have some sources about it for you
Eradicate the Nazi scourge
29·2 days agoI’d definitely watch that.
Even tho its a long movie, it did feel short and fast after reading the book lol
You mean the election that the US tried to coup?
Hamas’s surprising landslide election victory in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election was met with anger and hostility, especially in Washington. The US reacted with a series of covert operations spearheaded by the US State Department that were initiated to topple the Islamist party which Washington and its allies have labelled a “terrorist group”.
Details of the US initiated coup emerged quickly after. Confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the US and Palestine, exposed a covert initiative, approved by President George W Bush and implemented by Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National Security Adviser, Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war.
Immediately after the election results were announced, Abrams met with a group of Palestinian businessmen in Washington and spoke openly of the need for a “hard coup” against Hamas. According to the Palestinians present, Abrams was “unshakable” in his resolve to topple Hamas. When they expressed concerns about the harm this would bring to Palestinian society, Abrams apparently dismissed their concerns, claiming that this would not be the fault of the USA.
Equally surprised by its victory, Hamas made overtures to Fatah to form a government of national unity. The proposals were initially rejected. Hamas’s attempt to gain legitimacy was also blocked by the US. Rice moved to thwart the group’s efforts to engage with friendly governments by writing a letter to US embassies all over the world urging them to insist that their host countries refuse to engage with the newly victorious Palestinian group.
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The US viewed the Makkah Agreement as “a devastating blow.” The Neo-Conservative American government had no interest in de-escalating the tensions and remained determined to deny Hamas any form of legitimacy. As soon as Hamas had formed a government, and had it approved by the Palestinian Parliament, the USA set about trying to isolate and undermine it. Several EU countries followed suit, prohibiting their diplomatic corps from making any contact with the new government. Their justification was identical to that used by the USA – they stated that they would offer no development assistance to the Palestinian Territory while it was administered by a government that did not recognise Israel and was committed to armed resistance.
At this point, the US State Department intensified its efforts to topple the unity government. It even prepared a blueprint for a coup, entitled “An Action Plan for the Palestinian Presidency – 2007”. The plan, dated 2 March 2007, outlined objectives, steps and timelines to enhance the power of the PA and its President. It also includes the transformation of the Palestinian security forces and a budget showing costs amounting to $1.27 billion…
With the US plan to topple Hamas thwarted, Israel moved to impose a full land, air, and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, following the Islamist group’s victory over Fatah.
And how would you go about an election while under a fascist blockade and routine bombing operations?
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/5721/Timeline-of-Gaza-blockade:-How-it-started;-how-it’s-going
https://www.ochaopt.org/sites/default/files/the_humanitarian_impact_of_the_blockade.pdf
https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-most-tragic-long-running-farce-the-gaza-conflict-30301
https://peaceandjustice.org/the-real-reason-israel-mows-the-lawn-in-gaza/
What we need is labor movement power like work stoppages, but far more organizing is needed before we can do that effectively
Cuba represents the threat of a good example, that’s why the US has never stopped blockading them even after the cold war