That's really the only way to describe what the West has done in Honduras.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/09/honduran-left-denounces-electoral-coup/
2025-12-10
International Human Rights Day is a farce of the West.
And what is the answer?
What is emerging in its place is the decolonial concept and approach of “People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs).
“People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR) are those non-oppressive rights that reflect the highest commitment to universal human dignity and social justice that individuals and collectives define and secure for themselves and Collective Humanity through social struggle.”
What is clear is that PCHRs represent a political project and, therefore, unlike liberal bourgeois human rights discourse, does not pretend to be non-political. It is a political project that names the main enemies of human dignity and human rights and advocates for building movements to defeat those enemies. PCHRs advances an ethical approach to the idea of human rights that is not dependent on states, legal processes, and the granting of rights. PCHRs instead are created by the people in struggle which is also the source of PCHRs legitimacy.
With the consolidation of fascism and its capturing of most of the international institutions, including the UNSC, the PCHR framework represents a logical strategic approach for anti-imperialist activism and the authentic defense of human rights.
2025-12-09
Hey Hampton at Hilton ...
... when I decide which hotel to stay at during my next vacation, it won't be with your corporation due to your manhate ad I saw while watching a hockey game.
2025-12-06
How empires die - by over-extending themselves militarily over resources.
In the case of Venezuela - it's oil.
In Sudan - it's gold.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/africa-sudan-war-uae-gold-anti-imperialist-rise/290580/
Eurovision 2026 can go fuck themselves.
Public broadcasters quit Eurovision 2026 over participation of Israel
Broadcasters from at least four countries plan to exit Eurovision 2026 after the European Broadcasting Union decided to allow Israel to compete.
Quote of the day - 12-06-2025.
Bárbara Loureiro of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
“There is no real way out of the climate crisis without a rupture with the capitalist model, and there is no possible rupture without popular organisation, without collective struggle, and without confronting the structures that profit from devastation.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/06/vijay-prashad-capitalist-climate-catastrophe/
2025-12-03
The Coloniality of Solidarity - why the Western Political Left always gets co-opted.
Overcoming the coloniality of solidarity constitutes a formidable challenge, necessitating rigorous self-reflexivity, a deliberate interrogation of material positionality, and a conscious recalibration of ideological dispositions. The binary oppositions between ‘regimes’ and ‘peoples’ in the Global South – once a central analytical framework within comparative political science in the imperialist core – have been uncritically adopted and normalized among certain leftist formations in the Global North. This discursive tendency manifests in prevailing attitudes toward states such as Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba, Zimbabwe, China, Syria, and Venezuela, where reductive categorizations persist.
This is the point at which Ajl’s cautionary argument, in relation to Iran, assumes critical significance: ‘By separating “the regime” from “the people”, the US–Israeli propaganda justifies state collapse in the name of the people. You cannot defend a people by adopting the rhetoric used to justify their destruction’ (Ajl Citation2025). This separation, now common in Western Left discourse, fetishizes an abstract ‘people’ while rejecting the actual institutions that make their survival possible. In the Global South, and in Iran in particular, patriotism can be a working-class ideology because the state is the shield against imperialist dismemberment. It is the state that funds hospitals, operates power grids, sustains education systems, and maintains the armed forces capable of defending those functions. To demand solidarity with ‘the people’ while refusing to defend the state is, in effect, to adopt the imperial premise. It mimics imperialist discourses that those institutions are illegitimate and expendable.
2025-12-02
Wow, a long-term study on HFCS shows how bad it really can be.
"A notable finding from this research indicated that chronic HFCS consumption resulted in significant impairments in cognitive functions that are critical to daily living. These included deficits in working memory, decision-making, and even social behaviors essential for establishing interpersonal relationships."
2025-12-01
I just want to say - staging a war between two nuclear weapon-enabled countries should be one attribute of a psychopath.
So what does this make the CIA, the US Elites, and the US Empire?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/12/01/how-cia-secretly-triggered-sino-indian-war/
How CIA Secretly Triggered Sino-Indian War
2025-11-30
Where America is now.
Oh how the mighty will fall.
And it's the majority in America who'll eventually bear the brunt of it.
2025-11-29
Quote of the day - 11-29-2025.
Caitlin Johnstone.
Explore your own consciousness. Inquire deeply into the nature of self and the mind until clarity dawns on you. Heal your inner wounds. Remove from within yourself all the mental hooks of fear and hatred so that the propagandists can find no psychological purchase with which to manipulate you. Follow the faint whisperings of your muse, and learn to help your inspiration birth new creative expression into the world.
These are the kinds of things we’ll have to do to preserve ourselves as we move into this strange new world, on top of the usual business of staying informed and learning to see through the propaganda illusions. Luckily these things are all good for us anyway; the path toward protecting our humanity also just happens to be the path toward becoming a healthier human being and making the world a better place.
Honestly, you can replace 'Zionism' with 'Crapitalism' and it amounts to pretty much the same thing.
A reminder to never underestimate the power of propaganda ->
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-zionism-was-sold-to-the-world/
Bader: There are a lot of myths about Israel, from the idea that the land was vacant to the idea that Israelis made the desert bloom. How were these ideas popularized?
Malinowitz: Both ‘a land without people for a people without a land,’ and ‘they made the desert bloom’ are marketing jingles, to appropriate a term from Israeli expat and anti-Zionist Moshe Machover. But despite these being preposterous lies, the phrases stuck. It’s like the idea that Columbus ‘discovered’ America, which you believe until you encounter evidence and become aware that it is absurd.
I also think that phrases like “making deserts bloom” are appealing because they give Israelis almost supernatural abilities. It makes them sound like they’re capable of doing miraculous things, and it elevates them in the popular imagination. As long as Zionist adherents remain snug in the logical bubble of organizations like the Jewish National Fund, the World Jewish Congress, Hillel, and Birthright, they receive a hefty payoff: a sense of fellowship and belonging.
I sense a trend with these - wondering if it'll go in the direction I think it needs to?
Italy holds third general strike in three months, against war budget and for Palestine
Workers in Italy have launched their third general strike in under three months, demanding an end to Meloni’s war agenda and budget.
Hundreds of thousands protest anti-labor legislation in India
Farmers joined the factory and public sector workers across the country on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the historic Delhi protests which had forced the extreme right wing government to withdraw anti-farmers laws
2025-11-28
Midwifery and C-sections - a connection?
One of the things I've noticed in the last few years is how much both the narratives and the movement around women's reproductive rights have shifted very much away from what they used to once be.
Case in point - years ago, the context behind legalizing abortions rested on the concept of (essentially) her body - her choice. That last word being key.
But in the years since the COVID-19-related pandemic, there's been a subtle but clear shift away from the concept of 'choice' and just focus on abortion 'access'. Which lines up coincidentally with one side of the crapitalist non-choices - the Blue-No-Matter-Whoers. The elimination of 'choice' lined up quite nicely with the need for one of that entity's chief donors (Pfizer) pushing an untested and unsafe COVID vaccine and making billions off it. It also illustrated that to most of that entity's largely white/suburban female voting bloc - abortion was in essence the only real definition of reproductive rights.
Let me point out the obvious - it isn't. There are many aspects around reproductive rights that aren't covered at all. For example, the levels of pre-natal care, choice of birthing, post-birth treatment, and ...
... the option of midwifery. That seems to no longer exist here in the United States, why?
All of this leads to this point ... why the sudden and accelerated increase in c-sections in the United States over the last couple of decades ... (Here's a hint - there's a profit motive) ...
https://liberationnews.org/high-us-c-section-rate-symptom-of-capitalist-healthcare/
Midwifery was a standard global practice until the 20th century.Midwives would travel to the homes of women and babies to offer holistic care surrounding their pregnancies and births (A Brief History of Midwifery). Anti-midwife advocates, including many doctors who looked down upon the practice, campaigned for laws and educational restrictions that effectively dismantled the profession in America within the past century.
This was a massive blow to women’s ability to receive a form of personalized maternity care that many understaffed hospitals cannot provide due to the sheer volume of patients coming in for other ailments. Still, doctors have opposed the practice of midwifery on the grounds that a more Western, “scientific” approach is preferable. In practice this means relying on hospitals for birth and prioritizing quick pain relief over holistic care. It is also a profit-driven practice that is intended to save money for hospitals by shortening mothers’ stays and relying on medication instead of care staff.
Belgium and Arizona .... wait ... there is a connection?
Yes indeed.
Belgian workers reject Arizona’s austerity in three-day strike wave
Workers across Belgium are wrapping up a three-day strike wave opposing the government’s austerity plans, including salary freezes.
Wednesday, November 26, marks the final day of a nationwide wave of strikes and protests against the anti-social policies of Belgium’s so-called Arizona government. Workers in transport and public services, joined by thousands across other sectors, remain outraged by Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s agenda, which includes attacks on pensions, wages, and public services, all while increasing spending on militarization.
Picket lines sprang up across the country, with workers rejecting the government’s plans. Reporting from the strike at the port of Antwerp, Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) General Secretary Peter Mertens wrote: “Workers are furious that the government is coming for their pensions, trying to steal their wage indexation and, on top of that, wants to raise taxes on gas and fuel. ‘No way,’ they’re saying here.”
This week’s strike wave, launched Monday and preceded by a day of action against gender-based violence, builds on previous mobilization. In October, around 140,000 people marched in Brussels to oppose Arizona’s plans. Despite record turnout, De Wever’s administration failed to take the workers’ grievances seriously. “This contempt and lack of respect are unacceptable,” the trade union confederation FGTB-ABVV wrote in its call for the strike. “Today, a historic wave is sweeping across the arid desert landscape of Arizona – a movement calling for a society based on solidarity, equity, and justice.”
2025-11-25
The connections between media, weapons, violence, and destruction - are billionaires and corporations.
I seriously can't make this shit up.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-richest-billionaires-are-all-media-barons/290572/
It's like a gallery of evil villains - Joker, Lex Luthor, Green Goblin, Skeletor, etc.
Why am I not surprised that Mexico's 'Gen Z Rebellion' is a fraud?
Perhaps because it IS a fraud ...
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/23/second-anti-sheinbaum-protest-loses-momentum/
Second anti-Sheinbaum protest loses momentum
After the highly-watched violent protest reportedly drew around 17,000 people, the second one barely managed to gather 200. Analysts see the marches as an attempt to destabilize the executive branch.
Mexico’s ‘Gen Z Rebellion’ Exposed as Right-Wing Plot
Intent on toppling Mexico’s popular president, local oligarchs and an international right-wing network backed a youth-led anti-corruption uprising, Wyatt Reed and Kit Klarenberg report.
2025-11-24
It's time to face facts - the US Empire is the true cause of all the misery of the world.
And they'll stop at nothing to fuel itself (pun intended) -
Who the fuck knew indeed - the US Labor Movement and Zionism.
Win-win for the US Establishment.
Keep the working class in the US away from solidarity with other countries, while their union 'leadership' kowtows to the Empire and racism.
Heck, even the Communist bloc was in on it for awhile too!
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-ongoing-battle-over-israel-within-the-u-s-labor-movement/
2025-11-23
"...building lasting political power".
Can't say it any better than that.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/after-the-ceasefire-what-next-for-global-solidarity-with-palestine/
Just as crucial is the need to go beyond conventional protests and episodic mobilisation that rise in crisis and fade under repression. It must develop the infrastructure, alliances, and strategies that ensure longevity, especially when media attention fades.
Digital organising, counter-disinformation work, and secure communication networks must become central tools. Alliances built over the past two years with anti-colonial, labour, feminist, climate, and racial justice movements must be deepened, so that the Palestinian struggle is understood not as an isolated crisis but as part of a global fight against systems of domination.
2025-11-21
What does the species of human civilization need, now more than ever?
- We need to recognize that the environmental crisis of climate change is a direct result of this global political/economic system of neoliberal capitalism.
- Said system needs to be replaced with one that eliminates the hierarchical inequalities that created this and other crises - one that rids us of greed, competition and pursuit of profit and money.
2025-11-19
You know ... when someone contacts me and uses the word 'stalk' as it's meant, I'm generally not inclined to view that positively.
Judge for yourself this statement -
'I don't usually stalk profiles, but when I do, I probably have a career opportunity for you'
I'll pass.
It's pretty obvious why the US establishment media doesn't really want to talk about the true relationship between Epstein and various politicians and others in power and business.
It would reveal that -
- Epstein was in the employment of Israel.
- The entire operation that he and Maxwell ran, was designed to keep those ensnared under their control.
- Blue No Matter Who leads to the same shit as MAGA Red. It would establish once and for all, that the United States isn't a democracy, and never was.
Should I be concerned for South Africa?
After all, they are (I believe) the 'S' in BRICS.
Somehow I have to wonder if US Hegemony is behind all of this.
On the other hand ... maybe's it's just plain ole' neoliberal capitalism at work ...
The ANC’s abandonment of the socialist policies it espoused in its iconic 1955 Freedom Charter for a pro-business, neoliberal approach in government has left apartheid more or less intact, materially speaking. With an official unemployment rate that has hovered above 30 percent for much of the 30 years, two of every three Black South Africans remain mired in poverty, or roughly 30 million people out of a total population of 52 million; the percentage of white South Africans living in poverty is about 1 percent.
Similarly, whites account for 7.3 percent of the population but continue to own nearly three-quarters of all farmland while Blacks account for 81 percent of the population yet own 4 percent of the land.
Meanwhile, ANC politicians’ penchant for living high off the hog while their constituents suffer, combined with a series of corruption scandals has turned public opinion against the ruling party. In 2022, a former intelligence officer accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of attempting to cover up the theft of $4 million in cash from his game farm in the northeastern Limpopo province.
Who doesn't like US military bases on their land? Ecuador, that's who!
Big Loss for US Empire: Ecuador Votes To Reject Foreign Military Bases
Ecuadorians reject Daniel Noboa’s attempt to change the constitution
One of Noboa’s key goals has been to change Ecuador’s constitution, which is one of the most progressive in the world.
Ecuador’s constitution bans foreign countries from creating military bases in its territory.
Noboa held a referendum on 16 November to try to change the constitution to permit the US to open military bases in Ecuador.
The measure was rejected in a landslide, with 61% of Ecuadorians voting against it, according to the official results from the National Electoral Council (CNE).
Hmm ... really?
The United Kingdom losing it's UN Security Council seat?
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/19/craig-murray-how-britain-can-lose-its-un-veto/
Go Scotland!
2025-11-18
While I commend the PSL for speaking out on this ...
... https://liberationnews.org/outrage-at-the-un-gaza-resolution-tramples-palestinian-sovereignty/?utm_source=one_signal&utm_medium=desktop_alert&utm_campaign=liberationnews
Why are countries like China and Russia not being called out for weasling out (aka 'abstaining')?
It sure is a stain on humanity. A very bloody one.
2025-11-13
Another month, another Saturday of work.
This time it'll be a little longer than normal.
We'll see how well things go. After all, it does apparently keep me employed.
As touched on before, to Zionists 'ceasefire' just means everyone ELSE stops fighting.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/one-month-in-the-ceasefire-in-gaza-exists-only-in-name/
Inducing poverty and starvation is the worst form of terrorism, because it acts so slowly and day-by-day.
Those Zionists committing these crimes know this.
But this is no surprise to most black and brown people of world.
Before countries like India can truly move forward, they need to make their air breathable.
I mean seriously - AQI-400?
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/12/delhi-chokes-as-pollution-rises-to-severe-levels/
Delhi chokes as pollution rises to severe levels
Delhi is officially recording AQI levels higher than 400, but many suspect that the real levels are much higher. According to the WHO, an AQI level above 50 is unhealthy to live in.
In India an AQI between 200 and 300 is considered “poor”, between 300 and 400 is “very poor”, and beyond 400 is “severe” for health.
For the World Health Organization (WHO), any AQI level above 50 is considered unhealthy.
The AQI remained above 400 on Wednesday as well and has been recording above 200 daily since mid-October.
Unofficial sources claim AQI levels in Delhi are even higher, with allegations emerging that the government is trying to manipulate and suppress the actual figures to avoid accountability.
2025-11-11
America, a Banana Republic?
Gee, ya think?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/11/chris-hedges-america-is-a-banana-republic/
To me, it's simply the next step in the collapse of US Crapitalism. Nothing more.
2025-11-09
Boycott establishment media.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/why-writers-must-boycott-the-new-york-times/
No, the New York Times isn't enough. It's all establishment media that must be cut off from attention and support.
That's the only tool the establishment has left - propaganda. Once that's gone, it's down the shitter for them.
The beginning of yet another fun week at work.
I feel like every time I arrive there (we're supposed to be there more than few times a week, and we're tracked for attendance, like school kids), I have a target on my back and every person is after me for things that aren't done.
Never mind the fact that all of this is part of a an effort that's supposed to launch in the not-too-distant future, 'or else'.
Yeah - as if I don't have enough problems - I'm also working next week Saturday (my day job),
Hooray.
It does make me wonder how much longer I can last in this business.
2025-11-07
How did I miss this?
In a landslide vote, McGill University professors and librarians endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
In a 114-8 vote, the McGill Association of
University Teachers endorsed the academic and cultural boycott of
Israel. The win came after years of organizing, demonstrating the
collective power of professors, librarians, and students against
genocide.
The US's 5 options for Attacking Venezuela.
Which one will they choose? Here's what Vijay Prashad suggests.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/07/vijay-prashad-5-options-for-attacking-venezuela/
Scenario 1: The Brother Sam Option
Scenario 2: The Panama Option
Scenario 3: The Iraq Option
Scenario 4: The Gulf of Tonkin Option
Scenario 5: The Qasem Soleimani Option
Not sure about that last one, as Iran's government is still here, and has been since 1979.
2025-11-04
Dick Cheney is dead.
May his legacy be that capitalism is a fundamentally broken sysyem; in that the victims of his actions - on behalf of his donors - never received justice while he was alive. And that system made all this possible.
Remember that.
2025-11-03
Imagine if we tried this here in the US.
Of course to do that, we'd have to replace crapitalism with a system the prioritizes the needs of all, over the greed of a few.
Left-ruled Kerala becomes the first Indian state to eradicate extreme poverty
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) government achieves a unique feat in India which, according to the World Bank, has the world’s largest number of extremely poor.
2025-11-01
2025-10-31
I generally dislike the term 'martyr'.
Mainly because anything they've experienced makes it about the person and the need to eulogize and hero-ize, and lion-ize them in ways that are often distorted and false.
This aside, this looks like an interesting book.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/31/martyrs-to-the-unspeakable-a-luminous-tapestry-of-truth/
2025-10-29
'Code Into Carnage'
Or Software Developers for Genocide!
https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/290534/
Pretty fucked up
In the months following October 7, the IDF’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service surged more than 200-fold. The amount of data from surveillance cameras, drones, checkpoints, biometric scanners, phone calls, and intercepted Palestinian personal data stored by the IDF on Microsoft servers doubled in the next nine months, reaching 13.6 petabytes by July 2024 – equivalent to 23,000 years of audio, or seven trillion pages of text.
The point of all this was to create an enormous digital dragnet, where Palestinians’ every move, word, and keystroke was recorded in monitored in the greatest and most dystopian digital dragnet ever created. In the words of Yossi Sariel, the head of Unit 8200, the IDF’s surveillance division, the plan was to “track everyone, all of the time.”
Sariel argued that big data was the solution to Israel’s problems, envisaging a future where Israel intercepted and stored “a million calls an hour” from Palestine, and used A.I. to search for keywords and identify threats.
There was no way, however, that Israel could do this alone, as it did not possess the expertise or anything like the storage capacity needed for such a project. To this end, Sariel travelled to Seattle in 2021 to meet with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, to pitch him on the surveillance partnership whereby Microsoft would build Unit 8200 a customized and segregated area within its Azure platform.
The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to transcribe, translate, and otherwise process intelligence garnered via mass surveillance, which is then linked to Israel’s A.I.-based weapons systems.
And speaking of supremacist bullies - there's Modi in India.
Yes, he's a thug - but he's just the face of the broader, larger, uglier movement.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/29/unrest-in-the-himalayas/
The barbarism that is Western liberal 'enlightenment'.
""History revealed that human rights, the consent of the governed, rule of law, and rationalism were all ideological mystifications meant to disguise and obscure the class project of the bourgeoisie of Europe that had been erected on the pedestal of slavery and colonial accumulation on a global scale. Nowhere was that lurid mendacity more apparent than in the territories named the United States of America where a vicious, white supremacist ruling class murdered, raped, burnt, and mutilated in wars of annihilation protected by their white supremacist God who blessed them through “manifest destiny” with the right to murder and conquer from sea to shining sea, from the East coast of indigenous lands to the West coast and beyond.
2025-10-28
Oh what a great start to the day.
I get up at 4 AM.
I leave the house and arrive at the bus stop. The bus for 5:14 doesn't arrive. Instead, a bus arrives a minute later, except it's the next one (only I don't know this) and the surly driver just tells me to get in and 'enjoy the free ride'. He wouldn't answer if his bus was the 5:14 one
No longer than one minute later, the bus that was supposed to be there at 5:14, drives right on by. I try to run out of the bus I'm in, but it's too late. That bus already turned the corner of the intersection, and left.
Only then does this driver tell me his is the next one.
And of course, everyone else who's waiting for that 5:14 bus at other stops - they'll get to the train station on time and catch their train. Only I will miss it.
And the best parts of this story -
1. I am still sitting on this next bus, and it hasn't even left yet.
2. The day of flubbing things up at work, hasn't started yet.
Why am I capturing all of this - is it to whine or complain or be a martyr or gain sympathy?
No. It's none of those things.
It's a reminder that my life is a set of choices, and ultimately it's me that's responsible and accountable for both that, and the consequences. The best one can do is understand, learn from it, hope one survives, and get on with the day at hand.
2025-10-26
Just another Moron Monday.
I drive 30-40 miles (one way) early to avoid traffic, only to catch up on all the things I haven't done over the weekend, or last night.
Joy.
2025-10-25
Not sure I agree with all the points made about the USSR, but no doubt the US is following all the same patterns.
To begin with, the idea that central planning runs counter to innovation is bullshit.
Innovation is a function of the human mind, or collective human minds, not corporations, government or any kind of structure.
The over-extention of military is a sign of a dying empire.
And the US Empire is right on schedule!
US deploys aircraft carrier and threatens invasion of Venezuela, while expanding “drug” war to Colombia
As US warships inch towards Colombia and Venezuela, Petro denounces Trump’s airstrikes in the Caribbean as “extrajudicial executions”
Hmm ... I wonder how far this will go.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/portlands-city-councilors-pledge-to-investigate-citys-ties-to-israel/
A group Portland lawmakers launched a pledge to investigate the city’s connections to Israeli weapons.
The commitment calls for probes into the manufacturing and transport of weapons intended for Israel, as well as other potential connections to the country.
“The United States has provided billions of dollars in military funding, weapons, and diplomatic cover to facilitate Israel’s genocide of Palestinians,” reads a press release on the pledge. “The federal Government has utterly failed to uphold their duty to prevent genocide and uphold respect for international humanitarian law, so cities across the United States are mobilizing to ensure that local tax dollars and supply chains do not support criminal warfare and that local weapons manufacturers are held accountable for their role in genocide.”
2025-10-22
'Envirocide'
I mean what other conflation of terms works better to describe this?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/22/israels-untold-environmental-genocide/
In so many ways, the world's lack of any real action to stop a bunch of bullies/psychopaths/criminals from destroying a nation, reflects what's to come; when those same bullies/psychopaths/criminals wreck the rest of the planet in the same way.
The side of the so-called 'AI Bubble' that isn't being talked about.
Snippet
... the byproducts of these data centers are environmental degradation, loss of land which could have productive uses, and a massive load added to the outdated electrical grid, for which the buck is passed on to electric bills rather than the companies operating the data center. This process describes what Syrian scholar Ali Kadri calls the ‘accumulation of waste’. Although Kadri’s main theoretical contributions focus on how ‘war is the basis of accumulation’, it can be useful to stretch his theory to this example to show that through favoring lumpen development of the tech oligarchy, the basis of accumulation is the waste of natural resources which are required in the form of land for the buildings, water for the cooling systems, and air for exhaust pumps and AC systems. The location of these data centers forms an almost circular Venn diagram with working-class and poor areas in the United States . Thus, they are composed of what Kadri calls ‘surplus populations’ or populations whose rights to life and development are sacrificed at the altar of accumulation.
More here -> https://blackagendareport.com/data-centers-and-ai-bubble
2025-10-21
A reminder on who's the psychopaths?
Hint - it's not all the countries the United States is trying to either attack, sanction, bomb, invade, overthrow, or loot.
From Baghdad to Caracas: a Washington manual on sanctions and war
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it.
What fucking ceasefire?
To psychopaths and criminals, it's just a pause for them to re-arm and fire again.
Israel’s war on Palestinians in the West Bank intensifies after Gaza ceasefire
Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has
intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank,
conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on
Palestinians harvesting olive groves.
2025-10-19
Imagine if a homicial psychopath is armed and circling around your house. You'd be scared right. That's the point.
The efforts by the US in the Caribbean are exactly that - to instill fear into the people of Venezuela.
Venezuela alerts UN to imminent military threat amid US escalation
Hostility from Washington towards progressive governments in Caracas is not new, but the current administration has initiated an unprecedented escalation against the government and people of Venezuela.
A reminder to the MAGA Reds - your guy is a much a criminal as the last guy.
He just admits it out loud.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/10/17/trump-admits-complicity-in-genocide/
Trump failed to mention the 641,000 Gazans — about one-third of all Palestinians in Gaza — who have experienced catastrophic famine as Israel used mass starvation as a weapon of war and denied the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
And Trump omitted the fact that Israel has destroyed the civilian infrastructure across Gaza. It disabled most of the hospitals, damaged approximately 97 percent of the schools, and damaged or destroyed roughly 90 percent of all housing units.
Instead, Trump boasted about the weapons he furnished to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and praised Israel’s use of them to massacre Palestinian people:
“We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel, frankly. I mean, Bibi would call me so many times, ‘Can you get me this weapon, that weapon, that weapon?’ Some of them I never heard of, Bibi, and I made them. But we’d get them here, wouldn’t we, huh? And they are the best. They are the best. But you used them well.”With those words, Trump admitted his complicity with Israel in its commission of genocide in Gaza.
And it's really admitting that the United States of America is complicit in genocide.
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