2025-06-25

Not sure I'd agree with calling this a 'Tactical Failure'.

Regarding this -> https://blackagendareport.com/tactical-failure-israelus-attacks-iran-leading-both-strategic-disaster

I have my doubts about what this can mean down the road, given the following

That being said, I did finally get an apt description to something I've always wondered about.

For the people of Iran and all of the peoples and nations involved in the ongoing struggle against Western imperialism, we all have one decisive weapon that will inevitably serve our interests at some point – the psychopathology of white supremacy. This affliction, representing a non-material conceptual frame has had a material impact on the lives, societies, cultures of millions of since the first significant contacts between the peoples later to become “Europeans” or white, and the non-European world.

This phenomenon is:

A racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality in the same way as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of so-called whites but can affect all those who have come in counter with the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.

 

2025-06-22

Quote of the day - 06-22-2025.

Vijay Prashad

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/22/the-us-strikes-on-iran-will-increase-nuclear-weapons-proliferation/

The greatest spur to nuclear weapons proliferation will be this attack on Iran.

Slowly, larger and larger groups of people have begun to drift onto the streets, horrified by the implications of this hyper-imperialist attack by Israel and then by the United States. There have been statements from groups across the world to condemn these attacks and to assert the fact that peace and development are the desires of the world’s people, not war and backwardness. There is no confusion amidst the people of the Global South that this attack by Israel and the United States has nothing to do with Iran’s behavior but everything to do with the war aims of the Global North to dominate West Asia.

 

If I thought I was the only one who felt the ever-changing view of IT work, I was wrong.

Obviously I'm not.

And this episode of this podcast makes it clear why.

In any crapitalist system - Any time technology and it's evolution is under the control of a few, they will use it to further their own interests over all else.

 

This whole attack on Iran by the US is very suspicious to me.

After all, this is the same Iranian government that was secretly negotiating with the Ronald Reagan 1980 US Presidential Campaign to delay releasing the hostages until after said referenced election.

It's also the same Iranian government that participated in sales of weapons, funds of which were diverted to the Contras in Nicaragua (in violation of several American laws).

With those in mind, it does make me wonder then why they'd blunder into any limitations around the development of nuclear energy technology (back in 2016). 

It also makes me wonder why these same facilities are evidently left to relative open attack by US weapons (sent from US Military bases around the region).

Almost like this is a war that's been planned for a very long time. None of which changes the fact that people have been killed, crimes have been committed, and more will die, all to enable a few group of powerful and wealthy accrue more power and more wealth.

And of course, it benefits Israel. 

2025-06-18

The land. It's always about the land.

https://blackagendareport.com/unhoused-why-its-always-about-land

For those of us who aren't white or rich, having land means something.

Which means for those who control the US Crapitalist Empire, that means taking it wherever and whenever possible.

Throughout the U.S., disproportionate numbers of unhoused people are of African and Native descent, depending on which part of the country the analysis centers. When figures who directly serve the ruling class, like Donald Trump, publicly commit to “buying and owning Gaza” to make it into a site for future development, connections must be made to fully understand what that means. Trump says he wants to clean out 1.5 million Gazans remaining (inadvertently admitting to understanding that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered throughout the duration of the genocide, while corporate media holds steady at an estimated 50,000 deaths). In the U.S., while cities and towns are not being literally burned as in the past, they are being figuratively torched via policies designed to ensure the same outcomes of people with no place to live and a government that serves the wealthy, operating with callous disregard for its citizenry. When Western organizations such as the World Economic Forum initiate so-called economic recovery plans for The Great Reset , we must recognize that the actions of a psychopathic ruling class, intent on the centuries-old practice of clearing, just like in Palestine, in a myriad of forms, continue unabashedly. 

 

2025-06-16

Oh, and let's not forget Israel's continued assault on the West Bank.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/as-confrontation-with-iran-escalates-israel-continues-attacks-on-gaza-and-west-bank/

Israel also cut off internet and telecommunications services to large parts of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, imposing an effective media and information blackout on millions of Palestinians as Israeli strikes continue to rain down on them.

Israeli forces also continued to impose a total closure on the occupied West Bank since Friday, including the roads between West Bank towns and cities. Closures have caused a total halt to public transportation in several parts of the West Bank.

Alongside the closures, Israeli forces raided the Palestinian cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus, and Ramallah, arresting at least 35 Palestinians, including a woman and four children, according to the Wafa news agency. In Hebron, residents reported that Israeli soldiers threatened Palestinian families during the raids with unspecified “consequences” for whoever celebrated Iranian missile strikes on Israel.

 

Is this the true reason for the attack on Iran, by Israel?

Over the past decades, Iran has called for the establishment of a Middle East Nuclear Free Zone, a strange idea coming from a country accused of wanting to build a nuclear weapon. But this idea of the nuclear free zone has been rejected by the West, largely to protect Israel, which has an illegal nuclear weapons programme. Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear weapon, although it has never tested it openly nor acknowledged its existence. If Israel was so keen on eliminating any nuclear threat, it should have taken the offer for the creation of a nuclear-free zone heartily.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/16/vijay-prasahd-the-illegal-attack-on-iran/