Your weekly arts and culture news briefs, catching you up on the latest across Colorado — plus, things to do. A list of arts, theater and musical events happening in Denver and around Colorado the weekend of Oct. 31 - Nov. 3.Lauren Antonoff Hart (Colorado Public Radio)
"Israel announced this morning that they will now murder anyone they see #fishing or #swimming.
"Entry to the #sea is prohibited"
This is after they forced the population to live on the #beach."
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
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#ClimateChange #Hurricanes #Wildfires
#Heatwaves #BigOilAndGas #WeatherMachines #TexasFloods #Geoengineering
![An image of an oil refinery, belching smoke. The sky is cloudy, and the ground below is barren and brown.
Text: "Just found the weather machines that are making all the hurricanes, wildfires, and heatwaves worse. [shocked emoji]"](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7993416 "An image of an oil refinery, belching smoke. The sky is cloudy, and the ground below is barren and brown.
Text: \"Just found the weather machines that are making all the hurricanes, wildfires, and heatwaves worse. [shocked emoji]\"")
these MFers are living on occupied land and act like they own the land.
#Racism #NI #Ireland #Xenophobia #Fascism #Occupation
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#AQuietRoar #aqr #music
Written by: A Quiet Roar (Vimbai Chivungu) & Alexander EmanuelssonProduced by: A Quiet Roar (Vimbai Chivungu)YouTube
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The ongoing drama around Subnautica 2's delay and its team's upheaval continues, with the company Krafton issuing a lengthy public statement today accusing the studio's leaders of having "abandoned responsibilities" on the game, alleging they focused…Rebekah Valentine (IGN)
TURQUIE. Mères kurdes pour la paix : Nous voulons que les générations futures vivent en paix
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"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Les Mères kurdes pour la Paix, qui ont assisté avec joie et larmes à la cérémonie de destruction des armes des combattants du PKK ont déclaré : « Nous avons lutté avec acharnement pour la paix. Aujourd’hui, nous constatons que nos prières ont été
A seemingly bottomless pit of genocide enablement:
The "EU risks breaking international law over Israel gas deal, say campaigners”
Source:
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![From The Guardian piece: EU risks breaking international law over Israel gas deal, say campaigners (12 July 2025)
"Barry Andrews, an Irish centrist MEP, who chairs the European Parliament’s development committee, told the Guardian via email: “Given Israel’s persistent illegal occupation of Palestine, the legal warnings of the international court of justice in its advisory opinion issued last year and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the EU risks being in breach of its international legal obligations by continuing with this energy cooperation.”
He called for an urgent review of the [energy] MoU “with a view to suspension, reaffirming our commitment to upholding international law and human rights”.
Sarah Biermann Becker, a senior investigator at Global Witness (..) accused the EU of “pursuing a gas deal that tramples over Palestinian rights” and which “effectively helps bankroll Israel’s genocide on Gaza”."](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7993364 "From The Guardian piece: EU risks breaking international law over Israel gas deal, say campaigners (12 July 2025)
\"Barry Andrews, an Irish centrist MEP, who chairs the European Parliament’s development committee, told the Guardian via email: “Given Israel’s persistent illegal occupation of Palestine, the legal warnings of the international court of justice in its advisory opinion issued last year and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the EU risks being in breach of its international legal obligations by continuing with this energy cooperation.”
He called for an urgent review of the [energy] MoU “with a view to suspension, reaffirming our commitment to upholding international law and human rights”.
Sarah Biermann Becker, a senior investigator at Global Witness (..) accused the EU of “pursuing a gas deal that tramples over Palestinian rights” and which “effectively helps bankroll Israel’s genocide on Gaza”.\"")
Europe accused of ‘trampling over Palestinian rights’ with deal linked to imports from pipeline running parallel to Gaza coastJennifer Rankin (The Guardian)
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"the FBI has obtained authorization to seize the domain of multiple sites, to include nsw2u.com, nswdl.com, game-2u.com, bigngame.com, ps4pkg.com, ps4pkg.net, and mgnetu.com. These domains hosted and facilitated access to the pirated video games."
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never heard or visited any of them 
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The FBI's Atlanta Field Office announced today the seizure of several online criminal marketplaces providing pirated versions of popular video games.Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hambourg (Allemagne) : Manif sauvage « Free Maja »
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"de.indymedia.org / jeudi 10 juillet 2025 Le soir du jeudi 10 juillet, une manif sauvage, non déclarée, a défilé dans le quartier de Schanzen, à Hambourg. Avec des slogans, des feux d’artifice et de la fumée, on s’est solidarisé.es avec … Continuer la lecture →"
Berne (Suisse) : Attaque contre une centrale du régime migratoire fasciste
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"Barrikade / mercredi 9 juillet 2025 Résistance contre le Service des migrations de Berne Résistance avec de la peinture et un marteau : dans la nuit du dimanche 6 juillet 2025, nous avons attaqué une des centrales du régime d’asile … Continuer la lecture →"
Police kick people who already were held down on the floor and who do not appear to be resisting arrest
Between 10 and 11 minutes on video
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Epstein List finnaly released
Iga Swiatek defeats Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 to win her first Wimbledon title
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États-Unis : Sur la détention de Hridindu Roychowdhury
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"Anarchist Black Cross Federation / mardi 1er juillet 2025 Hridindu Roychowdhury est un anarchiste de Madison, dans l’État de Wisconsin, qui a été condamné à 90 mois de prison fédérale, pour avoir attaqué avec un cocktail Molotov un bâtiment [le … Continuer la lecture →"
Red Sox RHP Hunter Dobbins says he's done for season after tearing right ACL
https://apnews.com/article/red-sox-dobbins-acl-injury-1633057beac31031b975fb6dad853c71?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A deep dive into the crisis of liberalism.
Equality comes with a price tag and democrats support child labor & trafficking
Pretty good video from Better Bachelor
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OK maybe I can try this in English too. I'm looking for a #horror #comic or short #graphicNovel that was published in the #eighties or earlier and was a graphical representation of the well know “boyfriend's death” story (Sheriff finds the girl variant)
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It was published on an Italian comics magazine in the 70s or 80s, but I'm sure it was American. I can't find the issue anymore. Anybody knows it? Boosts welcome for reach.
EDIT: solved!
Hours after sending her boyfriend in search of gasoline, a girl is rescued from her stranded car by police. Though cautioned not to turn around, she does...and sees her boyfriend's lifeless body hanging from a tree branch above the car.Barbara Mikkelson (Snopes.com)
SOLVED by @ElBa
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«Old Texas Road» by Bruce Bezaire (story) and Munes (art).
For the curious, it's available on Archive in the Vampirella #28 issue
Puerto Ricans hope for change as Bad Bunny sings about the island's turmoil and identity
https://apnews.com/article/puerto-rico-bad-bunny-concert-album-identity-cc074d155af3e2add7ae46e7e5b120ad?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Gaza rescue teams paralyzed by fuel crisis, death toll mounts
The United Nations issues a stark warning that fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip have reached "critical", life-threatening levels.
This is a preemptive call to #Fediblock Meta's #P92/#Barcelona instance, for three reasons at least:
1. it'll be huge and extremely poorly moderated;
2. it will be a #privacy nightmare, allowing Meta to extensively profile #Fediverse users with greater ease;
3. it will be used to #EEE the Fediverse in the same way their “support” for #RSS and #XMPP was used to wipe them out from the general consciousness with a rug-pull (my full thoughts on this: wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/cred… )
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The Fediverse, especially through Mastodon, has been acknowledged by the major players as a threat —to be eliminated.wok
"...as the news circulated I found that the amount of people deluding themselves into thinking we should welcome the upcoming Meta instance with open arms was much higher than I expected. Truly people never learn anything from history.
Seriously, how can we ever hope to find a solution to things like anthropogenic climate change when we can't even cope with the threat of surveillance capitalists siphoning off all the energy from the opportunity of a breakout?"
"Prediction:
Meta's P92/Barcelona/Threads joins the Fediverse. Many instances... federate with it. The Fediverse sees a growth like nothing before... Smooth sailing for a couple of years, but nearly every new account is created on Meta's side...
...a couple of years in, with over 90% of the Fediverse on Meta servers, the company goes for the rug pull, either on bogus technical claims on the protocol, or on the basis that 'everybody is here anyway'."
@zephyrotv I'm not sure. But it reminds me of Ted Bell, Beverly Hills steak house from the Phil Hendire show.
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Ted Bell of Ted's of Beverly Hills steakhouse may have "assumed" some Super Bowl betting action from the Dunphy brothers that he can't cover, so he has to do...YouTube
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AI Interviews Game of Thrones Locals
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What if the world of Game of Thrones had a street interviewer? From former soldiers and bitter bakers to undead wights and traumatized peasants, these short ...YouTube
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Have given up on trying to reinstall Mastodon for the time being
Backing up the system folder was so tediously slow (never actually finished in the time I gave it)
Looking at other solutions...
Hetzner S3 compatible storage sounds good, but it's a heck of a lot more expensive than getting a server from the same company with the storage requirements I need
Off to lick my wounds and decide my next move
I had a realization when it comes to the whole "trust the experts" meme. There is nothing wrong with experts themselves. Even those who despise the slogan have experts they trust.
The problem is that the "experts" we are told we need to trust are preselected by the government to parrot whatever narrative they want. Other experts who may disagree are never the ones we are given permission to trust.
Burr & Hamilton were political rivals with their feud escalating after Burr’s 1804 New York gubernatorial election loss.
Reports say Hamilton purposely missed Burr, firing his pistol into the trees above Burr’s head.
Why would he miss on purpose?
Makes no sense.
No one goes out on a life or death duel planning to shoot but miss, just above the head of the opponent.
Sure I will lose and die but that bullet that almost got him in the head will new legendary.
Knowing nothing about it, my guess is he was not very good at dueling so he got nervous and shot too fast and thus he missed while his opponent was a better pistol shot than him.
@EvolLove Hamilton had moral objections to dueling, and fired to “throw away his shot” to avoid hitting Burr.
If both men miss, then the duelist a draw and neither man loses face and each walks away, their honor in tact. Burr had different ideas.
Κατ εμέ το πλήθος των φτωχών και αυτών που ραγδαία φτωχοποιούνται δεν είναι καθόλου μικρό, μα εφαρμόζεται ένας συνδυασμό πολλών πολιτικών για να κρατάνε ήρεμο το πλήθος (υποσχέσεις, ψίχουλα, ΜΜΕ, κοινωνικά δίκτυα, γκλαμουριές, προπαγάνδα, φόβος, τράπεζες, ψυχολογική πίεση, ελπίδα κλπ κλπ).
Δυστυχώς όλα αυτά συν την αμορφωσιά που οι από πάνω επιβάλλουν αποδομώντας την εκπαίδευση, εμποδίζουν την δημιουργία της "κρίσιμης μάζας"
Μέχρι πότε; Δεν ξέρω
Another assault on the food chain the health of every person on the planet by the elite... They are totally pushing for a total destruction of farming, just said the Soviets did in Russian the 1920s... And just as Mel did in China in the '50s and early 60s...
THE PARASITE CLASS MUST BE ELIMINATED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
"A new type of dietary fat that doesn’t require animals or large areas of land to produce could soon be on sale in the US as researchers and entrepreneurs race to develop the first “synthetic” foodstuffs.
US start-up Savor has created a “butter” product made from carbon, in a thermochemical system closer to fossil fuel processing than food production. “There is no biology involved in our specific process,” says Kathleen Alexander from the firm.
Instead, its butter is derived from the carbon in coal, methane or carbon dioxide. The petrochemical industry uses such inputs to create syngas – a blend of carbon monoxide and hydrogen – which is then turned into long-chain hydrocarbons in what is called the Fischer-Tropsch process.
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US start-up Savor says its synthetic vegan fat, made without livestock or the crops needed for margarine, could cut carbon emissions and save rainforestsMadeleine Cuff (New Scientist)
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‘Stop the genocide’: Protests outside Berlin restaurant with GHF ties
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the opening of an Israeli restaurant in Germany’s capital has been postponed following protests over its owner’s ties to controversial Gaza aid efforts.
Dozens demonstrated the launch of a restaurant owned by Israeli celebrity restaurateur Shahar Segal, a former spokesperson for the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF).
The newspaper said the demonstration was organised by anti-Zionist Jewish groups, including the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) and Jewish Voice for Peace.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Blood in your food” and “Stop the genocide.”
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Uh, I just took a call on my postmarketOS OnePlus 6 and it just worked?!
"The university-educated elite" means something very different in countries where everybody gets a student loan and nobody pays tuition. Some might even say that there, the university-educated elite is something a person of average intelligence can *opt out of* at their own peril.
The Oath of Office signifies a commitment to ethical conduct, legal compliance, and the best interests of the public.
At the federal level, the oath is enshrined in 5 U.S. Code § 3331, and it is a requirement for all individuals entering federal civil service or uniformed services.
Malfeasance is misconduct that can violate an oath of office. It refers to the commission of an illegal act.
Can a Law Firm or College bring a Suit alleging such, in lieu of Congress acting?
Someone must know!
POITIERS : UN HOMME RETROUVÉ MORT EN CELLULE PENDANT SA GARDE À VUE
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Euro 2025: Even after women coaches' long title-winning run they are still outnumbered by men
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Starts shipping in October 2025 and they haven't built them yet? That's ambitious.
Tempting, though.
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🔌 Só pra registrar que desliguei da tomada o "no-break" JBR Guard 600VA — ao qual ficam ligados principalmente o roteador AX3000T e uma TV LCD (em espera neste caso) — e a bateria durou 2h15min até começarem os avisos de iminência de esgotamento. 🪫
De vez em quando parece ser recomendado fazer isso se não houver interrupção "natural" da rede elétrica.
American killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, family says
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Sayfollah "Saif" Musallet was killed on Friday while visiting family.Nasser Atta (ABC News)
Tucker Carlson claims Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israel to blackmail US officials: ‘Every single person in DC thinks that’
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‘I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t think that,’ the former Fox News host told an audience on FridayMike Bedigan (The Independent)
Lawmakers visit 'Alligator Alcatraz,' but some wonder how much they'll get to see
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US to raise tariff rate on EU goods to 30% from 1 August, EU open to talks but ready to respond
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The European Commission responded to Trump's announcement in a written statement, saying it remains ready to reach an agreement, while also taking "necessary steps to safeguard EU interests, including the adoption of proportionate countermeasures."Emma De Ruiter (Euronews.com)
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*New York lawmakers [including Zohran Mamdani] relaunch bill to stop charities funding Israeli settlers.* The bill would also prohibit donations to Israeli military units operating in Gaza. About
A group of state-level lawmakers in New York have resubmitted a piece of legislation that would bar any charities in the state from sending tax-deductible money to Israeli settlers and Israeli military units in Gaza.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Love & Marriage -Vicar of Dibley
'Israel reports casualties as Resistance grows in Gaza, Khan Younis
Intense Gaza battles continue in Khan Younis and al-Shujaiya as Palestinian Resistance factions strike Israeli forces, causing multiple casualties and vehicle losses.'
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'#Microsoft shareholders demand report into the company's 'human rights due diligence' over allegations of #warcrime complicity in #Gaza' | PC Gamer
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A group of more than 60 Microsoft shareholders has filed a proposal that will be voted on at the company's next Annual General Meeting.Andy Chalk (PC Gamer)
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Al Jazeera reports that a map it obtained shows Israel’s forced displacement plan covers 40% of Gaza, including Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, Khuza’a, and areas near Salah al-Din Street, displacing 700,000 to Rafah. - MenaLive
#Gaza #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #WesternDoubleStandards
This is such BS
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What they aren't saying is that of they even get the 4 billion from the feds there is another 7 billion they have no idea how to get to finish the project.
The deadline for California to counter the White House’s claim that the state’s high-speed rail has no viable path forward has arrived.Kris Sanchez (NBC Bay Area)
Fake News. Trump already stated no money for CA High-Speed Rail in news gaggle.
9 Billion already spent on project and not 1 mile of track laid to-date per Trump.
what's going on with this random flooding all over the planet right now????
i swear someone is doing a global warming psyop. watch what's coming next in the msm they'll be pushing climate lock-downs or something
In the spring and summer of 1961, as Algeria bled through its seventh year of war against French colonial rule, a dying Frantz Fanon poured his revolutionary vision into words. Too weak to write, he dictated “The Wretched of the Earth” — a book that would ignite liberation movements across the globe — to Josie Fanon, his life companion and fellow anti-colonial fighter. Around them, the struggle for independence raged; inside their exile in Tunisia, a manifesto for the oppressed was being forged.
The Algerian people waged a guerrilla war against French colonial and allied right-wing forces. The war took a tremendous toll on Algerian fighters, workers, and peasants.
Fanon was battling leukemia, a disease that would claim his life on Dec. 6 of that year. Just months after his death, 1962 witnessed the triumphant conclusion of the Algerian War, as the liberation forces achieved victory and secured the complete withdrawal of French colonial rule. This hard-won independence became a beacon of hope for liberation movements worldwide — a legacy that continues to inspire oppressed resistance across the globe.
Beginning at the outbreak of the war in 1954 and until he was exiled for his nationalist politics, Fanon served diligently as a physician and psychologist at a French Hospital in Algeria. For years, he treated not only Algerian people tortured by French authorities but also French soldiers traumatized from carrying out acts of torture and murder against the Algerian people.
This gave Fanon a critical perspective into the brutality and inhumanity at the center of any colonial regime. The same brutality Fanon observed in French colonial rule in Algeria can be seen today in the Zionist apartheid state and the U.S. military assault on Yemen.
In “The Wretched of the Earth,” Fanon analyzes the crippling long-term impacts of colonial repression on colonized people. Due to Fanon’s political beliefs, he did not stop at psychology. Fanon actively encouraged the oppressed masses of African people to rise up and take back their culture, their society, and their lives by any means necessary – and particularly through armed struggle.
Fanon’s legacy of anti-colonial resistance resonates powerfully today in Africa and the West Asia region. In the Sahel states, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have expelled French-backed regimes, seeking to reclaim their nations’ resources and wealth for their own people rather than enriching billionaires in Paris.
Similar defiant resistance against imperialist domination can be witnessed across West Asia, particularly in Yemen and Palestine, where populations have courageously confronted vastly superior military powers. Despite the immense sacrifices these struggles have demanded, the resolve of these peoples remains unbroken, embodying the same revolutionary spirit that Fanon championed decades ago.
This year will be the 100th anniversary of Fanon’s birth on July 20. The best way to honor Fanon’s commitment to decolonization is to support the continued struggles of colonized and oppressed people across the planet, from Yemen to Palestine to the Sahel.
source: Struggle La Lucha
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Frantz Fanon speaking at the All-African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, from Dec. 5-13, 1958. In the spring and summer of 1961, asStruggle - La Lucha
The Wretched of the Earth: Fanon’s Anti-Colonial Manifesto Lives on in Yemen, Palestine, Sahel States
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A look at the countries that received Trump's tariff letters
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To understand how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated an apparently superior military force, led by Washington, and then directly confronted the Israelis and their sponsors in the Red Sea, we should return to the values and ideology of the movement.
Ansar Allah ideology comes from the Quranic Project of Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houhti, who was killed in 2004 during the six northern wars, carried out by the late President Saleh, following a green light from US President George W. Bush (Root 2013), as part of his “war on terror”; even though Saleh himself had been linked to Al-Qaeda (Jordan 2015). This Quranic Project shares values with many independence movements, some with the Iranian Revolution, along with some of its own distinct features.
Ansar Allah is a movement, not a party like Hezbollah. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee (SRC), said, “The revolution is every member within the … Yemeni fabric who rejects corruption and … upholds values and freedom, rejects tyranny, guardianship, invasion and occupation and resists aggression, siege and blind subservience” (Almahfali and Root 2020; Sputnik Arabic 2018). The Yemeni people “are a people who reject injustice, humiliation, subjugation, arrogance and conceit. They are a people who, by nature, carry within their culture and awareness a revolutionary sense … [they] have always rallied and moved with those who reject colonialism … those who stand with the invader are rejected and denounced and remain agents and mercenaries in the eyes of the popular majority” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).
This movement grew with a charismatic leader, Sayyed Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi, but it is not a personality cult. Sayyed al-Houthi “had a leadership personality, everyone that knew him loved him,” said Abdulkareem Jadban, an MP from Saada. “He urged people to face the [North] American hegemony after 9/11” (Root 2013). His ideas remain important, as should be obvious from the strong growth of Ansar Allah in the 20 years since Hussein’s death.
We could speak of the values of Ansar Allah under six themes: the defense of an independent nation and culture; Islamism through Quranic values; a culture of resistance in the face of hegemonic attack; clear identification of the enemy; social inclusion and avoidance of war; and the persistence of Yemeni customary law and tribal governance.
Understandings of these values are particularly important in view of several Western war myths that Ansar Allah are “Houthi rebels” who are “Iran’s proxies” and part of a “Shia crescent” destabilizing the Arabian Peninsula and the region. These myths disguise the revolution of 2011-2014, underline the refusal to recognize the new government in Sanaa, and help bolster UNSC resolutions, which legitimized the dirty war and siege of the country.
Some of the better Western analyses of Ansar Allah appreciate its local origins and that it has been influenced, but not determined or controlled, by the Iranian revolution (Gordon and Parkinson 2018); and that it builds on nationalist and republican roots which recognize religious traditions and authority (Almahfali and Root 2020). But most tend to turn against the Yemeni revolution for its Islamism and incompatibility with bourgeois liberalism (i.e. Anglo-American corporate rule with a semblance of individual liberties).
Despite that deep prejudice, there is huge popular interest in how Ansar Allah-led Yemen defeated the US-Saudi-Emirati aggression and then came fearlessly to the direct defense of the Palestinian people under attack by the Israelis in Gaza. I suggest the answers to these questions lie in popular support for Ansar Allah values. So what are those values and how are they seen in practice?
First, as an independence movement, Ansar Allah aims to protect and defend indigenous, inclusive Yemeni culture and values in the face of foreign intervention. This is a common theme of all anti-imperial and anti-colonial movements, including the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
The defense of independent cultures, values, and nations is a key global theme. We could go further, arguing that the central polemic today is not capitalism versus socialism or liberal democracy versus the rest, but rather a globalist dictatorship versus independent nations. In a supposedly post-colonial era, we still see this struggle for independence across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab and Muslim world.
Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, and anti-Zionism – counter-hegemonic struggles – are all consequences of this drive for political, economic, and social independence. In Yemen, despite the important national unification of the 1990s, there remained a corrupt regime that collaborated with the imperial power and its agents, making use of sectarian groups to divide and rule the nation.
Second, Ansar Allah shares with the Iranian Revolution an Islamic foundation of independent values based on the Quran – humility, honor, self-sacrifice, social justice, and social inclusivity – values which inform and sit alongside nationalism, anti-imperialism, and anti-Zionism (Panah 2008: ch.3; Almahfali and Root 2020).
Ansar Allah, from its Zaydi roots, while recognizing the Prophet’s Holy Family (Ahlul Bayt) and the Sayyed lineage, does not share the Shia doctrine of Twelve Imams (including the Mahdi) nor does it accept the infallibility of Imams (Almahfali and Root 2020). Mandated struggle against the unjust rule is one feature that the Zaydi tradition has in common with the Shia. In the tradition of Zayd ibn Ali, true imams must fight corrupt rulers; but imams are neither divinely ordained nor infallible and this leads to greater jurisprudence in Islamic law, preventing the idea of an imamate or strict religious rule (Almahfali and Root 2020).
Sayyed Hussein was deeply impressed by Iran’s Khomeini and Lebanon’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah because of their firm principles. He said of Khomeini and Nasrallah that, in their application of Islamic values, “we do not notice the doctrinal side,” and so there is room for jurisprudence (Almahfali and Root 2020). So, while the historic sacrifice of Imam Hussein (a central Shia theme) has entered Ansar Allah’s broad Islamic tradition, other more secular or non-doctrinal themes have developed, such as Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s stress on nationalism and social justice.
Recognizing the legacy of the leader of the Iranian Revolution, Sayyed Hussein said, “Imam Khomeini was a blessing to the Arabs if they had wanted liberation from Israel.” Sayyed Khomeini was “a great leader with a correct vision and a strong people.” It has been said that Iran’s Islamic Revolution both “does and does not” influence Ansar Allah (Almahfali and Root 2020). Ansar Allah extends the Zaydi principle of “commanding what is just and forbidding what is wrong” (Almahfali and Root 2020).
Importantly, Ansar Allah also parallels Sayyed Khomeini in placing a similar emphasis on a pure Islam of “the downtrodden and humble … the barefooted” [Al-Mustadh’afin] as opposed to what he called “American Islam … the Islam of comfort and luxury … of compromise and ignominy, the Islam of the indolent” (ITF 2014) – following the Quranic declaration (al Qassas 28:5) of “our favour on the oppressed.”
That responsibility to the oppressed and downtrodden [Al-Mustadh’afin] was fundamental to both Sayyed Khomeini’s initiatives in support of Palestine and to Ansar Allah’s Red Sea operations, after the Resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Nevertheless, Ansar Allah leaders have made it clear that Yemen’s governance is for Yemenis to decide. “There is no Iranian intervention in Yemen. and the Saudis can inspect the missiles [we fire] … they are purely Yemeni made … We reject any sort of foreign intervention either by the Saudis, the Americans, the Egyptians or the Iranians” (Mohamed Ali al-Houthi in Ya Libnan 2015).
Third, dedicated resistance is a step beyond simple claims of political independence. Resistance is a commitment in the face of a hegemonic attack. Ansar Allah stresses active defense of the nation and culture in the face of those who “occupy our countries and wage war against our religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b). That includes the duty toward other oppressed Arab and Muslim peoples, especially the Palestinians. One Ansar Allah leader explained to me: we oppose war, but fighting in self-defense and in defense of the oppressed is both permitted and mandated. This moral obligation to support the oppressed comes before political considerations and helps explain Ansar Allah’s unhesitating confrontation with the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans.
An Ansar Allah cultural leader explained to me that, historically, the Muslim communities in Yemen’s highlands, farther away from colonial invasions (mainly Zaydi), had maintained a stronger resistance to invading cultures than those (mainly Shafi) on the coast.
Secular parallels are made to stress the necessity of resistance and social transformation, in defense of indigenous culture. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “The scale of the conspiracy [against Yemen] has pushed the people to engage in a long-term battle until … victory, just as revolutions around the world, including the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, triumphed” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).
The steadfastness of Ansar Allah has become a thing of legend. They have repeatedly vowed to maintain their support for Gaza even after multiple bombing attacks by the Israelis and the Anglo-Americans (Abdul Malik al-Houthi 2025). Those Red Sea operations have established the Yemeni resistance as an icon for the world (Tuboltsev 2025). Even conservative British bodies recognize that the Yemenis are “diversifying their alliances and deepening their military capabilities, leveraging regional conflicts and pragmatic partnerships to expand their influence beyond the Iranian-led ‘axis of resistance’” (Ardemagni 2024). Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have rallied in support of these commitments by Ansar Allah leaders (MNA 2025).
Fourth, clear identification of the enemy is a distinct emphasis in Ansar Allah’s ideology. Sayyed Hussein put this in the context of a world where North Americans elevated former collaborators like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to the status of ‘enemies’ of the imperial powers, but these were false stories designed to fool people. “Thus they direct people towards imaginary figures and illusory danger.” We are in a “civilizational struggle,” and “the Jews know who really poses a threat to them,” and this is why in Iran they chant “Death to America, death to Israel” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a).
In this deceptive world, Yemen must clearly identify its enemies, including cultural enemies, so as to empower and focus the masses in their popular struggle. Hussein added we must “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians.” Borrowing from Iran but building its distinct Yemeni character, Hussein railed against the US attempts “to force their culture upon us, to occupy our countries and to wage a war against our religion” (Almahfali and Root 2020).
While Ansar Allah shares with Iran the slogans “Death to America, Death to Israel”, in their political sense of opposing those regimes, Sayyed Hussein also demanded recognition of the cultural assault from “Jews and Christians”. Has “the Ummah [Islamic community] reached a point where it cannot stand up to the Jews?” he asked. Quoting the Quran (Al Baqarah 2:120), he said, “Never will the Jews or the Christians be satisfied with you until you follow their religion” (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001a). By this, he means they force us to adopt their ideas and terminology.
Hussein spoke of the need to “train ourselves and our children to carry enmity towards the enemies of God – the Jews and the Christians. Enmity in Islam is positive and important. If you carry genuine enmity towards America and Israel, if the leaders carry genuine enmity, and if Muslims carry genuine enmity, then they will prepare themselves to be able to face the confrontation. But if there is no real enmity then they will not prepare” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b).
The same confusion applies to opposing a particular Israeli regime rather than the usurping entity itself. Hussein said, in his time, they spoke of “Sharon’s government [referring to former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon] but not Israel … Israel is not considered a problem, not even its existence is seen as a problem. So they say Sharon’s government” (Hussein Badr Din al Houthi 2001b).
The cultural influence of these Western colonial cultures, beyond just the invading occupation projects and the Zionist entity, was therefore part of the enemy that sought to “wage war on our religion.” Hussein decried the colonization of Arabic and Islamic language so that, for example, “jihad” (in its original sense of a holy or spiritual struggle) has been virtually disqualified as an aim (Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi 2001b).
Fifth, Ansar Allah leaders have stressed their commitment to social inclusion within Yemen and their desire to avoid war. There is much evidence of this. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, “Yemen has not fired the first shot in the war … rather it is resisting and will triumph over the richest and strongest countries” (Sputnik Arabic 2018).
Recall that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was the one who declared war against Ansar Allah and killed its leader Hussein in 2004. Nevertheless, after the Revolution and until the 2017 betrayal by Saleh, Ansar Allah included him in its Supreme Political Council. Many from the GPC, the main opposition party, are still included in Yemen’s revolutionary government. Others have defected to Ansar Allah from the Muslim Brotherhood. This is another reason why it is absurd to call the Sanaa government “Houthi rebels”.
Ansar Allah did not simply seize power in 2014; it filled a political vacuum left by the collapse of both Saleh’s regime and his transitional regime, plus the widespread rejection of the repartition proposals from the GCC (Popp 2015).
After the US-Saudi coalition declared war on the Sanaa Government, Ansar Allah leaders were ready for peace talks in 2015, without conditions. It was the puppet Hadi regime, which made demands that Ansar Allah surrender territory before any talks, which killed that early peace process (Ya Libnan 2015).
Sixth, the preservation of customary law and tribal governance continues to play an important role in Yemen and has long had a relation to state law, but its composition has changed since the rise of Ansar Allah (Worth 2016).
Tribal authority and mediation are used for everything from land disputes to justice over violent conflict (Mojalli 2015), and relations between local clan authorities have been a factor in the national war of liberation against the Coalition of Aggression and its sectarian agents.
It has been said, by some hostile sides to Ansar Allah, that their system of regional supervisors or mushrifin (Carboni 2021; Mugahed 2022) has weakened tribal authority.
Yet, principles of customary law seem to have remained well incorporated into Yemeni leadership and justice. In this way, traditional authority and many social norms remain embedded in Yemeni Islamic principles. For example, the use of the Yemeni dagger (jambiya) is regulated by both traditional and state law. It is often displayed, but there are penalties for withdrawing it or making threats with it.
In sum, Ansar Allah is a genuine, Indigenous Yemeni movement that led the only real and successful revolution of the so-called “Arab Spring”. It has been subject to dirty war and siege by Washington and its allies precisely because it is an independent movement. The Yemeni Revolution shares many values with the Iranian Revolution but remains a distinct revolutionary force and a key addition to the regional resistance, especially since the collapse of Damascus. The strength of the revolutionary government in Sanaa and its commitment to the Palestinians can best be appreciated through an understanding of the unique mix of Ansar Allah values and their mass support in Yemen.
For part 1/2: Understanding Yemen 1/2: The Revolution
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