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I haven't touched Rimworld in so long them adding shelves is new to me. Trying to pick it back up. Do I need to be judicious in my use of wood? Do trees regrow by themselves or do I need to get some asshole to start a tree farm fairly soon?
I have blocked Ronin Grey because he's a shill, possibly a fed, who doesn't want to engage with the arguments and won't acknowledge facts/sources/videos, as revealed in the comment section of TFM's stream:
Obviously most TFM followers aren't to be trusted, especially the Judeo Christian types, but the ones who aren't even honest enough to argue their point, are truly worthless.
Guys, we have to trust Trump on this one. He HAS to throw a majority of his voters under the bus. We can’t be demanding transparency regarding global elites molesting underage girls at a time like this. We have to peacefully bomb Russia, and Iran, and Palestine, and Syria. We HAVE to lose the midterms and 2028, and maybe every election until we can elect Barron to rule over the ruins. MAGA!
"Pramen / jeudi 3 juillet 2025 Appel à des actions solidaires du 9 à l’11 août, pour l’anniversaire du soulèvement de 2020 au Bélarus Le cinquième anniversaire du soulèvement contre la dictature de Loukachenko approche. La répression à grande échelle … Continuer la lecture →"
Zionist media reported on Monday that three soldiers were killed and three others injured when a military vehicle was targeted with an anti-tank missile in the northern Gaza Strip.
In detail, the three soldiers from the 401st Armored Brigade were killed inside their tank around 12:00 noon today, while carrying out a mission in Jabalia to “decisive the battle against the local Hamas battalion and destroy its infrastructure, both above and below ground, in the area,” according to the Zionist army.
According to occupation media outlets, 10 soldiers from elite units of the occupation were killed last week during ongoing operations in the Gaza Strip.
This brings the number of army deaths since the resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip last March to 43.
The number of Zionist soldiers killed since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip has reached 451, according to the occupation. In contrast, the total military losses since the outbreak of the war have reached 893.
Footage exposes vulnerability of Zionist forces in Gaza
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, revealed on Friday that its fighters attempted to capture an occupation soldier during a daring daylight raid east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The group confirmed the operation targeted Zionist soldiers and military vehicles, including a Merkava tank and a troop carrier, using Yassin-105 rocket-propelled grenades.
The al-Qassam Brigades stated that, despite battlefield conditions preventing the capture of the soldier, the fighter responsible killed him and seized his weapon. “Abraham Azulai’s luck ran out,” the statement said, “and soon, the next soldier’s fate will be different, as a new prisoner.”
Al-Qassam had earlier released a video as part of its David’s Stones operation series, documenting the moment its fighters engaged a military convoy in the same area. The footage showed direct contact with Zionist troops, capturing one soldier fleeing while others appeared unprotected and unsupported during the confrontation.
The video also showed resistance fighters attempting to seize the fleeing soldier, before ultimately killing him and confiscating his weapon. Notably, the footage highlighted the absence of covering fire or any immediate response from nearby Zionist forces.
"Zionist media reported on Monday that three soldiers were killed and three others injured when a military vehicle was targeted with an anti-tank missile in the northern Gaza Strip. In…"
NASA’s latest open Software Catalog, released Wednesday, offers more than 1,200 downloadable codes developed by agency engineers that could enable faster solutions to energize the space economy and stimulate American ingenuity. The catalog is part of NASA’s effort to place advanced technologies, including agency software, into the hands of businesses, researchers, and entrepreneurs to foster […]
Read this. Prof Bartov “…Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home…served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach…” nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion…
Edit: Click through for the typical BS govt response that’s been added… 🙄
Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?
There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
"Budapest Antifascist Solidarity Committee / lundi 14 juillet 2025 Cher.es gens, cher.es compas et personnes qui me soutenez, Je m’appelle Maja. Depuis le 5 juin, je me trouve en grève de la faim [voir ici ; NdAtt.]. J’ai commencé pour … Continuer la lecture →"
Support Committee Denounces Abuse of Prairieland Defendant
Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas — A week after the arrest of 10 protestors at a demonstration at Prairieland ICE Detention Center and the subsequent arrest of the spouse of an arrestee, Johnson County Jail is obstructing the defendants’ access to legal representation and retaliating against them for exercising their 5th and 6th amendment rights pursuant to the U.S. Constitution.
These constitutional violations have occurred in conjunction with a far-reaching investigation that has included numerous instances of excessive force and intimidation by various police agencies, friends and family of the defendants reveal. A majority of defendants remain without legal counsel in violation of the 6th amendment. At least three defendants have been denied their requests for a public defender on the grounds of alleged “incomplete paperwork.”
The DFW Support Committee, a group of family and friends of the defendants, said that, “this delay or denial of the right to counsel appears to be in retaliation to the defendants’ lawful right to refuse to speak to law enforcement without their lawyer present and is an egregious violation of their constitutional rights.” In response to one of the defendants exercising their constitutional rights, Johnson County Jail has transferred this person to a solitary medical unit, despite the fact this person has no medical issues or needs. “I am completely appalled at the way their constitutional rights have been ignored,” this defendants mother said, “I grow increasingly concerned for their safety and well-being with each passing day.”
Johnson County’s use of segregation and isolation of pretrial detainees — presumed innocent until or unless convicted at trial — amounts to torture and excessive force used to punish and coerce these defendants in contravention of federal and state law. Johnson County Jail has also refused to house transgender defendants in the housing unit appropriate for their gender raising serious safety and welfare concerns. To avoid further harassment from jail staff and other prisoners, one defendant has been forced to remain in solitary confinement, citing safety concerns in the general population.
Defendants’ friends and family report raids of their homes where agents deployed flashbang grenades, caused extensive damage, and detained spouses, family members and housemates without cause. In one instance, federal agents tackled the adult child of a defendant and put a bag over their head before arresting them and transporting them to jail. “I was terrified, I had no idea what was going on,” the child later said. During this interrogation, agents offered this person monetary bribes in exchange for information, which of course were refused. Police also attempted to extort them by offering to “get rid of a warrant” if they cooperated with the law enforcement investigation. Johnson County Jail has also harassed and intimidated those wishing to visit defendants while in pre-trial detention.
Some defendants’ visitors have been denied entry, detained and interrogated, and had their personal electronics confiscated. Legal experts consulted by the support committee believe that these tactics constitute a campaign of fear and harassment against the defendants and their loved ones, and calls into question the veracity of any statements that law enforcement has compelled under these conditions of confinement, particularly when the defendants have no access to legal representation as the law requires. The state has violated the constitutional guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure and cruel and unusual punishment which will negatively taint any further state prosecutions.
These violations have occurred while the legal proceedings have not progressed on either the state or federal charges. Local legal experts explained that normally in this district, a defendant facing federal charges will receive a first court appearance within one to three days, whereupon appointment of court appointed counsel, release or bail conditions, and next court dates are all addressed. There has been no explanation why these normal practices are not being followed regarding these defendants.
The Prairieland defendants were arrested following a demonstration at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center on July 4th. They are facing state level criminal charges for terrorism and aggravated assault, and federal charges for attempted murder, among other charges.
"Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas — A week after the arrest of 10 protestors at a demonstration at Prairieland ICE Detention Center and the subsequent arrest of the spouse of an arrestee,…"
El jutjat d’instrucció 2 de Tarragona investiga l’ex-ministre d’Hisenda espanyol Cristóbal Montoro per haver encapçalat una presumpta trama de corrupció que utilitzava el ministeri per a modificar lleis i reglaments al dictat d’empreses privades, a c…
Ministerial delegates from over 30 nations gathered in Bogotá, #Colombia, for a two-day summit to discuss measures for the international community to stop Israel’s ongoing #genocide of Palestinians in the #Gaza Strip.
“Each state must immediately review and suspend all ties with the State of #Israel … and ensure its private sector does the same,” #UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, #FrancescaAlbanese, said on Tuesday. “The #Israeli economy is structured to sustain the occupation that has now turned genocidal.”
"Knack Punkt News / vendredi 12 juillet 2025 Aujourd’hui, nous avons été à une manifestation spontanée, à Leipzig, pour soutenir la grève de la faim de Maja, à Budapest. Après plus d’un mois sans manger, son état de santé se … Continuer la lecture →"
According to the World Gold Council, the decline in interest rates worldwide and the remaining uncertainty will support the interest of investors, particularly through gold exchange-traded funds and over-the-counter transactions
This last month, a beloved organizer has been the target of a terror campaign in New York City for an alleged connection to the burning of multiple police vehicles.
Three raids in search of him – in Brooklyn, New Jersey, and Queens – were executed by heavily armed federal and state agents terrorizing his family and comrades. Though the NYPD has publicly announced a $30K bounty on his head and subjected him to a defamation media campaign, he has not been apprehended.
This is just one of countless current incidents of State repression – from the assault on the Palestine movement, the Stop Cop City trials in Atlanta, the kidnapping of immigrants, and the brutalization of anti-ICE protestors in Dallas.
In the spirit of the Palestinian resistance, our prisoners are our compass. No matter what happens next, our solidarity is critical to the targeted organizer. Our support shows our comrade that we stand with him – and shows the State that we will not buckle under their terror tactics. An attack on one is an attack on all.
"This last month, a beloved organizer has been the target of a terror campaign in New York City for an alleged connection to the burning of multiple police vehicles. Three…"
Gli arresti richiesti oggi dalla Procura di Milano nei confronti di alcuni big dell'immobiliarismo milanese, primo tra tutti Manfredi Catella di COIMA, scrivono la parola fine sull'ormai agonizzante "Modello Milano". Il crollo dell’insegna sullo “storto” è stata un’avvisaglia, ora il mare mosso porta alla superficie il fango, ma la cosa peggiore è che chi amministra la città è del tutto sdraiato su questo modello al tramonto, incapace di reagire, anzi parte del problema e, in ultima analisi, il miglior propagandista di una destra cittadina che appariva fuorigioco. I magistrati faranno i magistrati, ma noi dovremmo ri-cominciare a prendere in mano il destino della nostra città.
Nella giornata di ieri Kaja Kallas, rappresentante dell'UE per gli affari esteri, ha annunciato che l'Europa continuerà come ampiamente previsto, sulla strada della complicità con Israele nella mattanza in corso a Gaza. Non solo non verrà rivisto l'Accordo di associazione, ma non verrà attuata neanche una seppur minima misura simbolica. Il tutto nel consueto trionfo di ipocrisia, doppiopesismo, servilismo e viltà. Sicuramente questa Europa di tecnocrati è oligarchi non è la nostra.
"Ouest-France / lundi 14 juillet 2025 Dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche, de nombreux bâtiments ont été tagués dans le bourg de Moëlan-sur-Mer. Banques, cabinets d’assurance, Intermarché mais aussi des bâtiments publics comme le pôle culturel l’Ellipse ont fait l’objet … Continuer
"Sen bana bak, oğlum, yalanin gücü doğrunun güçsüzlüğünden değildir. Yalan teşkilat kurmuş, doğru yalnızdır. Yalanın geleneği var, senin doğrunun her gün yeniden yaratılması gerek. Her gün bir şafak çiçeği gibi yeniden açması gerek.."
Al-Quds Brigades Unveils Complex Operation Against Occupation, Among Others
The Palestinian resistance continues to torment occupation forces 21 months into the Zionist regimne’s genocidal war on Gaza. Today, Al-Quds Brigades revealed details of a high-level operation east of Khan Younis, targeting a Zionist armored personnel carrier in an attempt to capture occupation soldiers. The operation is one of several resistance operations in Gaza carried out over the past week amid intensifying confrontations with occupation forces.
A field commander from the Al-Quds Brigades’ Khan Younis division confirmed that the operation took place last Tuesday, July 8, in the Abasan al-Kabira area. According to the commander, fighters detonated Barq explosive devices that had been strategically planted along the route of an approaching armored personnel carrier following days of field surveillance.
“The explosion completely destroyed the vehicle and set it ablaze,” the commander reported. “Our fighters immediately stormed the carrier, engaging in close-quarters combat with the crew and managed to drag one soldier with the intention of capturing him.”
The operation was disrupted when nearby Zionist military vehicles intervened, opening heavy fire on the area using shells and machine guns. The exchange resulted in the death of the targeted soldier and the martyrdom of several Al-Quds Brigades fighters.
“This was not our first attempt,” the commander noted. “There were several prior efforts in areas of direct engagement. We remain confident in our fighters and, God willing, success will follow.”
Explosive devices destroy occupation vehicles
Earlier today, the Al-Quds Brigades announced the destruction of another Zionist military vehicle using a pre-planted barrel explosive near the Islamic University in the Ma’an area, southeast of Khan Younis.
Additionally, the Brigades confirmed that on July 10, a high-explosive device was used during an occupation incursion into the Central Street area of Shujaiya, east of Gaza City. The device, manufactured via reverse engineering, successfully destroyed the invading military vehicle.
The Al-Quds Brigades released video footage showing fighters launching coordinated attacks on occupation forces stationed at Jabal al-Sourani, east of the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. The attacks included 107mm rockets and mortar shells.
Al-Quds Brigades capture reconnaissance drone
In a related development, the Al-Quds Brigades announced Tuesday that they had taken control of a Zionist reconnaissance drone while it was conducting intelligence-gathering missions over the Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
"The Palestinian resistance continues to torment occupation forces 21 months into the Zionist regimne’s genocidal war on Gaza. Today, Al-Quds Brigades revealed details of a high-level operation east of Khan…"
Neil Duncan-Jordan, who has been the MP for Poole since the general election in the summer of 2024, has been suspended following his decision to vote against the Welfare Reform Bill put forward by the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.
Ministers are effectively blocking the voices of victims, while 'soliciting those of the perpetrators', argues the CEO of Muslim Engagement & Development, Linsay Taylor
"de.indymedia.org / lundi 14 juillet 2025 Dans nos pensées, nous sommes beaucoup aux côtés de Maja, en ce moment. Pour donner une petite forme d’expression à notre soutien à Maja, dans la nuit du 13 au 14 juillet, nous avons … Continuer la lecture →"
We live in a moment where critique risks flattening into instinct, where binaries do not merely polarize, but offer the illusion of coherence. Liberal humanism and conservative militarism, in their supposed opposition, often co-produce a world where historical struggle collapses into media soundbites, and moral clarity becomes a function of narrative simplification. Events like October 7 are swiftly severed from their historical contexts, recast not as echoes of long-standing structural violence but as ruptures demanding immediate condemnation, stripped of their genealogies and folded neatly into the grammar of spectacle.
In the shadow of the latest escalation, and before the next inevitable one, this strategic amnesia is no longer merely a failure of history, but a calculated act of memory-taming: a theft of the past, curated by those determined to keep its meaning sterile, singular, and useful only for our despair and compliance. To position ourselves meaningfully within this engineered reality, we must first revive the memory that charts the future we seek.
Within this logic of compression, a documentary like Al-Jazeera’s Long War begins its historical narrative. Released two years ago, the film exemplifies the framing dictated by Western powers portrayed by oil-funded outlets: that Iran’s antagonism toward the West begins with the 1979 Revolution, as though British gunboats, oil concessions, and CIA coups had not already laid the groundwork long before Khomeini’s sermons.
But revolutions are rarely the origin of antagonism. They are the breaking points of accumulated struggle. Iran’s 20th century, as historian Ervand Abrahamian shows in Iran Between Two Revolutions, was riddled with unresolved tensions over foreign interference, most visibly in the oil economy. The 1901 oil concession, granted during the late Qajar era, gave Britain near-total control over Iran’s oil resources, directly alienating the very social forces that would later fuel widespread resistance: the bazaar merchants, the clerical establishment, and the emerging professional class.
The Tobacco Protest of 1891–92 was one such expression. Not yet a revolution, but more than dissent, it marked one of the earliest moments when foreign control was met with mass refusal. Sparked by a royal concession granting the British monopoly over Iran’s tobacco trade, the protest quickly escalated into a nationwide boycott. A fatwa by Mirza Hasan Shirazi declaring tobacco use haram shut down consumption across the country, forcing the Shah to cancel the deal. In this context, the fatwa becomes not merely a religious ruling but a mobilization of the sacred against the infrastructural. Such a moment resists easy categorization and thus sits uneasily with liberal sensibilities, because here, resistance arrives not through policy briefs but through a theological injunction that suspends imperial aggression. Indeed, the historical fusion of religion and politics in this region, and its transformations, demand an analytical framework that transcends imported frameworks of thought, which often flatten, or even actively obscure, local realities.
The Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905–11 continued this refusal of passive sovereignty. It was as much a revolt against monarchical arbitrariness as against the way imperial power was smuggled in through the language of “development” and reform. The demand for a parliament (Majles) and national control over concessions signaled a profound desire for representation, and crucially, marked a pivotal turn: the attempt to institutionalize resistance and translate it into durable political architecture. The revolution’s motto, that the country was being “sold to the British” and that foreign economic policies were “destroying Iran’s economy”, spoke directly to the need to empower the Majles with the final say over concessions.
In 1953, the coup against Mohammad Mossadegh brought the question of imperial authorship back to the surface. Mossadegh, who despite leading a secular, democratically elected government, did not conform to the West’s prescribed mold. When he moved to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), Britain responded with a global boycott and lobbied the United States to intervene. Playing on Cold War anxieties, they cited the growing influence of the communist Tudeh Party, whose anti-imperialist platform resonated deeply with a population long disaffected by foreign control. The CIA and MI6, through Operation Ajax and Operation Boot, orchestrated the coup that reinstated the Shah and dismantled the broad-based movement that had rallied around Mossadegh. The arrests, censorship, and violence that followed accumulated into what would eventually erupt in 1979.
The explicit targeting of “Westoxification” (Gharbzadegi) became a central pillar of this new ideological infrastructure, framing the incoming revolution not merely as a domestic uprising but as a comprehensive reassertion of Iranian sovereignty against global imperial designs
What followed the coup was not merely a reinstatement of the Shah, but a full-scale US-engineered reordering of the Iranian state. The Shah’s regime became the linchpin of a new imperial logic: one that fused modernization with repression, economic growth with deepening inequality, and military buildup with political suffocation. US advisers flowed into Tehran alongside arms deals and development plans. SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police, was trained and equipped by the CIA and Mossad, tasked with rooting out dissent, especially from the left and the religious opposition. The countryside was remade under the banner of land reform, a reform largely designed to modernize agrarian structures rather than truly empower the peasantry, leading to significant rural displacement. Oil wealth also flowed disproportionately into state coffers, consolidating the regime’s power and enriching its elite. Iran was rendered both a marketplace for US capital and a garrison for regional containment.
The repressed memory of Mossadegh’s nationalization, however, persisted beneath the surface, feeding underground organizing, clandestine literature, and a growing sense that development without dignity was just another form of subjugation. This antagonism, forged in decades of foreign interference and internal repression, began to coalesce into organized networks. From student cells in universities to religious circles within the bazaars and mosques, and even among disaffected elements of the military, a diverse constellation of groups, often drawing on both modern nationalist and Shia revolutionary thought, systematically articulated a rejection of Western dominance. This institutionalization was not uniform; it manifested in the development of a shared lexicon of defiance, the forging of clandestine communication channels, and the construction of parallel social and political structures designed to counter the Shah’s regime and its perceived foreign backing. The explicit targeting of “Westoxification” (Gharbzadegi) became a central pillar of this new ideological infrastructure, framing the incoming revolution not merely as a domestic uprising but as a comprehensive reassertion of Iranian sovereignty against global imperial designs, and crucially, as a distinctive political imagination. It heralded a new model of power structure, specifically the innovative infusion of the modern “state” or “republican” form with Islamic governance, a synthesis previously unprecedented at such scale. Despite its inherent contradictions, this foundational shift represents a unique turning point in the region’s history, and the last successful revolution to overthrow a monarchy and fundamentally reconfigure its political system. The Republic did not invent anti-imperialist legitimacy; it inherited, translated, and institutionalized it. As Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi argues, Iranian nationalism was not born in rejection of progress, but as a counter-vision of modernity forged under the pressure of foreign domination. The Republic inherited this vision, repurposing it through the rhetoric of resistance. This legacy helps explain not only the regime’s ideological posture but also the broader sense of solidarity and nationalism displayed by the Iranian people, including those who oppose the regime, during the recent US-backed Israeli war.
It is worth noting that during the decades of US-backed modernization in Iran, Gulf monarchies were being fastened into a parallel imperial order, an arrangement of outsourced sovereignty: their external security ensured, their oil flowed, and their obedience guaranteed. While the Shah styled himself as the Gulf’s policeman, the monarchies performed submission as pragmatism, normalizing foreign presence through soft diplomacy and petro-dollar realignments. Under the US “Twin Pillars” strategy, Iran and Saudi Arabia were cast as co-guardians of Western interests in the Gulf, a pairing that saw the Shah assert regional leadership not only militarily but through OPEC’s oil diplomacy, shaping pricing and production decisions the Gulf would initially follow. But as Iran’s revolutionary rupture broke with this consensus, Gulf monarchies doubled down on the model of compliance, turning petro-influence into a currency of preservation rather than transformation. What followed was not simply geopolitical recalibration, but the slow, deliberate manufacturing of a sectarian grammar, where Iran’s Shia-inflected defiance was strategically recast as a threat to the Sunni regional order, transforming a political rupture into a sectarian crisis, which offered imperial alliances a convenient cover for what remained a strategy of suppression and control.
What matters now is not mythologizing Iran, but restoring context, refusing the amnesia that reduces every confrontation to a clash of liberal values rather than a struggle over history.
With the advent of the revolution, the new Islamic Republic moved quickly: expelling US advisors, seizing the US Embassy in Tehran as a symbolic blow against the “Great Satan,” nationalizing remaining foreign assets, severing diplomatic ties with Israel, and backing resistance movements across the region as part of a broader national defense strategy, fundamentally aimed against US influence. Anti-imperialism was no longer a slogan from the margins; it was policy, law, and export. This institutionalization of refusal, rooted as much in theology as in the memory of coups and concessions, was intolerable to a global order built on containment and compliance. The US, now deprived of its most stable outpost in the region, responded through encirclement. Economic sanctions quickly followed the severing of ties, and Washington’s support for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq during the devastating 1980-1988 war further solidified Iran’s perception of the US as an active adversary, often seen as an “imposed war.” Sanctions, assassinations, and media demonization became the tools of a long containment strategy. In this context, the latest Israeli war can be read as a continuation of that same logic: a war explicitly aimed at regime change, as exemplified by calls from figures like Netanyahu urging the Iranian people to “seize the chance.” This toppling of the state, however, is strategically inseparable from the dismantling of the historical narrative and the revolutionary legitimacy it claims, thereby resurrecting the fabricated illusion of the Shah’s past as Iran’s only acceptable trajectory.
Western observers, as Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi notes in Foucault in Iran, have long misunderstood this history, trapped in binaries of secular versus religious, modern versus traditional. That misreading persists. The fixation on clerical power often obscures the longer arc of anti-imperialist sentiment, how it has been co-opted, institutionalized, and at times betrayed by the very state claiming to carry it forward.
This context doesn’t call for yet another account of Western hypocrisy on “individual freedoms,” “terrorism,” or Iran’s “nuclear threat”. That story is already well-exposed. The irony, for those willing to see it, is blinding. What matters now is not mythologizing Iran, but restoring context, refusing the amnesia that reduces every confrontation to a clash of liberal values rather than a struggle over history, over material conditions, and over the unfinished battle for liberation.
This is not a call to romanticize the Islamic Republic either. It is a call to historicize; to resist the smoothing violence of media cycles and the branding of geopolitics. Because when memory collapses under spectacle, we lose the ability to locate ourselves within an Axis, an Axis that carries memory, enacts refusal, and points toward liberation.
The Empire, it seems, is always allowed a long memory. For that, this kind of historical grounding is not indulgent; it is necessary.
Because without memory, there is no direction. And without direction, liberation becomes little more than a slogan.
Following the recent escalation against Iran, history was once again stripped of context and weaponized for empire. This essay confronts the erasure, tracing a century-long struggle against imperialism that the Islamic Republic neither invented.
"We live in a moment where critique risks flattening into instinct, where binaries do not merely polarize, but offer the illusion of coherence. Liberal humanism and conservative militarism, in their…"
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On 16 July 2025, actionists targeted the global head office of Toll Holdings on St Kilda Road Melbourne, smashing the facade and dousing the building with red paint.
We demand that Toll drop all partnerships with Thales, NIOA, and other arms dealers.
We demand that Toll cease providing services for the ‘australian’ colonial occupation, including its military and mining sectors and border regime.
We demand that Japan Post direct Toll, its wholly owned subsidiary, to drop all partnerships and cease providing services for Thales, NIOA and other arms dealers, in line with international law.
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‘Death Toll’: Toll Holdings Drives Genocide
The supply chain for genocidal weapons includes logistics firms. Multiple ‘Australian’ companies, including Toll Holdings, have been identified transporting weapons for export to the US where they are used to support ‘Israel’s murderous campaign against Palestine. Building off Palestine Action’s successful campaigns against Kuehne+Nagel and Front Runner Logistics, which culminated in those firms dropping contracts with Elbit Systems, we declare a goal of forcing Toll to cease abetting genocide and renounce all contracts with Thales, NIOA and any other weapons manufacturers.
A range of weapons and components are produced in ‘Australia’, including at government-owned sites at Benalla (‘Victoria’) and Mulwala (‘New South Wales’). Operated by Thales, the world’s 16th largest arms dealer, and by NIOA, a weapons company which also supplies the ‘Australian’ police, the Benalla factory manufactures ‘a variety of ordnance, including artillery shells and large bombs’. At Mulwala ‘the volatile materials that fill artillery, bombs and rifle rounds are made’. A union representative for workers at these sites has said: ‘The workers at these sites make bullets, bombs and shells… They don’t build anything’. Production at these factories comprises a ‘second supply line’ for the US military, used to ‘replenish U.S. stockpiles or be sold to American partners’ of which ‘Israel’ is at the forefront. Netanyahu has stated that what ‘Israel’ needs from the US is ‘munitions, munitions, munitions’. This is salient in context of the IOF practice of indiscriminate shelling and saturation bombing, a strategy befitting of their legendary cowardice and disregard for life.
Toll provides equipment to physically transport genocidal weapons. They also support the arms trade by enabling Thales and other weapons manufacturers to invest and operate at low financial risk. Their trucks have been observed and photographed entering Point Wilson pier, a dedicated Victorian facility for military imports and exports including ‘explosive ordnance’, to meet ships en route to Sunny Point, the primary terminal for shipment of weapons and ammunition for the US military. Thales calls Toll a ‘key transport partner’. Toll describes Thales as ‘a very important part of our business’, assigning staff with titles like Senior Manager Explosive Services to oversee the partnership. NIOA has also ‘partnered with Toll Logistics-Mining/Toll Global Forwarding’ to deliver 155mm shells. These relationships underpin the weapons dealers’ access to insurance, credit and financial services – a commercial position underwritten, not only by any trucks and equipment used to transport arms, but by all assets owned by Toll, whose ongoing viability as a company is needed to secure the stability of services provided.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued an advisory ruling declaring ‘Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories to be illegal, and has ordered states to ‘take urgent steps to prevent ongoing international crimes, including by imposing a comprehensive arms embargo against Israel’. This is not to say the bounds of pro-Palestinian solidarity or Palestinian resistance should be delimited by international law, which has comprehensively failed Palestinians. These rulings are cited, not as an arbiter of morality, but a lever to be leveraged via broader social movements and freedom struggles.
Toll Holdings is owned by Japan Post, which itself is part-owned by the Japanese government. Toll boasts in weapons trade publications that the ‘As a division of Japan Post, the Toll Group brings substantial and secure financial backing… ensuring Toll is a low-risk, trusted and reliable partner’. While many Japanese call for stability and peace, they are forced to underwrite military escalation in Palestine, Iran and across the Middle East through investment in Toll. In February 2024, the Japanese conglomerate Itochu ended its ‘strategic co-operation’ with Elbit Systems, in line with the ICJ ruling and against a backdrop of domestic protests, a threatened Malaysian boycott of the Itochu-owned chain Family Mart, and Palestine Action’s ongoing direct action campaign against Elbit.
In so-called ‘Australia’, increasing investment in arms manufacturing occurs in the context of AUKUS, the trilateral militaristic alliance with the UK and the US. AUKUS signifies ‘Australia’s deepening embeddedness into the US military-industrial complex and as a servant or junior partner under US-hegemony. Major state expenditure on arms and armament production, including $220 million at the Benalla and Mulwala sites announced in 2023, coincides with the hollowing out of domestic social services and quality of life.
The Benalla and Mulwala factories produce unguided 155-millimeter artillery shells, non-precision weapons that are not even purported to minimise deaths among non-combatants. A senior ‘Israeli’ official has been quoted describing the 155mm shells as being in ‘increasingly short supply’ and suggesting that ‘Israel’ ‘might lose the war’ because it is running out of ammunition. Delaying, disrupting or cutting off the supply of these munitions may be immediately material and life-saving for Palestinians.
Much of ‘Australian’ arms production is concentrated in remote, centralised and/or government-owned facilities, including those at Benalla and Mulwala. At military sites, security is high and the consequences of action may be severe. Toll Holdings is a privately-owned company whose assets are dispersed and move through ordinary communities. People have a right to resist the flow of weapons, or assets that support this genocidal trade, through their homes.
All Toll Holdings assets in so-called ‘Australia’ are on Aboriginal land, where no consent for settler-colonisers to underwrite genocide has been given. NIOA Munitions, which has partnered with Toll, is also a major supplier for ‘Australian’ police, producing 70 percent of their ammunition as at 2017. Munitions used to repress, terrorise and dispossess Aboriginal communities are manufactured by NIOA, likely including the bullets that murdered Kumanjayi Walker. Toll also provides logistics for unauthorised mining in violation of First Nations sovereignty, and for offshore immigration detention camps, thus facilitating ‘Australia’s white supremacist colonial occupation and border regime.
Toll Holdings is a platinum sponsor of Land Forces, the largest arms trade exhibition in the Southern hemisphere. In ‘Brisbane’, Toll partner with Leonardo to provide helicopters for the ‘Australian military’. Toll Fuels trucks have been photographed supplying ‘Australian’ navy ships, reflecting the deep intertwinement of this company with ‘Australian’ militarism and imperialism.
All sites and equipment used or owned by Toll Holdings are legitimate targets for anti-genocide action. This may include sabotage, vandalism, blockades, strikes, occupations and all forms of material resistance and disruption. Everything is on the table.
*’Australia’ and ‘Israel’ are in quote marks to denote the illegitimacy of these occupying colonial entities.
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This is a bit of a rant; feel free to skip it if you’re here for the KDE content. This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and …
Yeah I opted for the Framework 13, even with the less than perfect keyboard and lack of touch. My hope is that touch will be an option in the future. otherwise its a near perfect option.
No but on my 3 in 1 I find the touch screen and pen very useful as a big tablet for consumption, laptop for productivity and gaming, and writing and drawing pad.
I'm constantly trying to touch the screen on my work provided laptop, and my FW13. I spent a long time with a fancy Chromebook for my couch computing needs, when away from the desktop.
I’ve been daily driving a framework 13 for like 9 months now. I’m pretty happy with it as a Linux machine.I can and will nitpick here to some of the points made in the article - but I’d buy another / recommended it regardless.
the touchpad. It’s a diving board style. It’s also got a good amount of play in it prior to clicking. The diving board style means it’s tough to click at the top. Tapping works great. The extra play takes a little getting used to. It’s 1000% functional and works well - but if you’re snobby about trackpads, you won’t like it. It’s way worse than an Apple touchpad, but an upper end windows touchpad. The trackpads play also tends to allow “crap” and dirt to fall in there. I’ve had to take it apart once to clean it out (which is super easy to do on a framework, but it’d be nicer if I didn’t have to do it at all)
the price - it’s a bit high for the specs. But that comes with the territory of a non glued laptop
battery life is ok
speakers are kind of crappy. They are fine, but they ain’t wowing anyone.
the keyboard is ok
That’s it. 9 months of daily use, I love it, that’s my complaints list. The idea here is that someday, a better trackpad, or keyboard, or speakers will become available-and it’ll take me 5 minutes to upgrade. It’s a desktop laptop. And for me, everything “just works” on fedora 42.
Framework are nowhere near the scale of any of the large manufacturers, and they've had to spend a huge amount of time and money on R&D, so their laptops are probably always going to cost more. IMO it's worth the price though, given you can keep updating it over time.
I'm curious about this as well. The keyboard flex was always brought up by early reviewers for the Framework 16, and I think Framework said they would make a more sturdy keyboard for it later, but I haven't heard any updates about that.
Thanks, that's good to know. I heard the Framework 13 wad solid; I thought I was replying to a comment about the Framework 16, though. That must have been a different comment. I heard the 16 has a little flex.
Literally zero flex on the keyboard. I just pulled it out and pressed hard on it. No flex of the keys pushing down through the metal (like a gasket mounted mechanical keyboard would do), and zero flex of the aluminum.
I've been getting annoying amdgpu crashes every now an then. I've tried all the various BIOS and kernel params but so far nothing has worked. Next step is rolling back a kernel version, at least that's what I've gathered from all the threads about it. It's bothersome but not frequent enough to be a real pain.
(This is an amd framework 13 with fedora 42 / wayland)
I've had mine about 4 months, minimal issues. I got a 7840U slightly on sale when the new AI 300 series came out.
I'm also running fedora 42, but it's Bluefin, based on silverblue. Everything works out of the box.
My biggest complaint is the sleep battery drain, iirc it's something like a few percent per hour, so I just get in the habit of turning it completely off if I'm not home with it plugged in. Otherwise it's dead when I need it, which sucks.
Also the fan can be a little loud and overzealous under barely moderate load, though I've found keeping it in power saving mode helps keep things cooler. Though I've been using it for note taking during some schooling this week, and it's been stone cold and silent, lasts all day on a single charge. So it definitely depends on your load. I appreciate having the power available when I need it, but wish it was better at keeping itself underclocked (or whatever it needs to do).
And finally the stock Wi-Fi 6 card in it gives some people problems with certain routers. Though I've only ever had problems with my parents starlink router 🤷♂️ That's a quick $20 upgrade though, to Wi-Fi 7, I just haven't needed to 🤷♂️
But still I'd buy another in a heartbeat.
Keyboard is great. Screen (2.8k) looks great to my eyes, though others say it has issues. No flex in the body. Touchpad is a little funky, but still great.
Plus when I want to upgrade the platform in a few years, or any component breaks before then, I can just fix it or upgrade it.
I wrecked my Framework about 3 months after purchasing it. Damaged the corner from an ugly fall. Being able to easily purchase the parts to repair it was fantastic. I’m a huge fan. My only gripe, like you said, is the touchpad. It’s not terrible, though.
Anyone here have a StarLabs laptop (briefly mentioned in the article) and am opinion on it? I'm thinking about replacing my crappy System76 laptop and looking for something with good build quality.
I think it's (one of) the best laptop brands in regards to coreboot support. The build quality of my starbook is great. The biggest + for me is how helpful, polite and friendly the support staff is.
I have a Pangolin 12. While it has great specs and software support, the build quality is horrible, and over the course of two years now, I have had to screw it open and bend the laptop case in position more often then I'm comfortable with. It is the far, far opposite of rugged, which is the main reason I want to replace it. Twice now, it has just randomly decided to not boot for one or two weeks...
Hmm I have Serval WS which quality is top notch. The keyboard feels nice. The screen is 4K 144Hz. All of the elements are aluminium so there is no bending. (Except some parts like probably keycaps of the keyboard and so on).
Sorry to hear that you have this experience. However I think you can count on System76 because they give for their laptops lifetime support.
The Serval WS is also more than twice the price of my Pangolin... and I had a one year warranty, so I'm not sure what you mean with lifetime support. As for the specs (i.e. the screen etc.), yeah, they are great. But the case is very poorly designed on my pang12, and gets bent out of shape, which can cause mechanical failure in the hinge, quite frequently, despite the aluminum chassis. My complaint is just that it is far from rugged, which is problematic for me, as I travel a lot with it. But your mileage may vary.
PS: one more thing that really bothers me is the known problem with the touchepad on the pang12, which regularly fails. Mine also came with a faulty motherboard, which suggest bad quality control. Over all, these issues have caused me to lose faith in System76 hardware.
Regrading warranty I meant lifetime support for problems related to your System76 laptop. The warranty for a hardware is gone I think but I guess when you describe your issues correctly and they won't resolve it maybe they will suggest you something friendly.
And I get your point with the case. Tbh looked like it.
Hmm do you have up-to-date firmware? I had similar issue resolved by it.
Also faulty motherboard sounds like manufacturer issue not yours.
It seems to be getting a little better lately, but historically they just didn't give firmware updates. I went 3 years without a stable bios update for my 12th gen Intel mainboard on linux despite known vulnerabilities since launch (just got its first update last month).
I actually upgraded my mainboard within that time, so I went the full lifetime of the product with an insecure BIOS and none of the firmware improvements that were promised at launch like thunderbolt 4 certification. For all practical purposes, firmware support ended when it left the factory until just last month.
That said, my new ryzen ai 350 main board just got its first update to patch some vulns that were disclosed a month ago. So still not in time for the coordinated disclosure, but a month is way better than 3 years so I'll take what I can get.
Fine, then "more ugly and cumbersome" than it needs to be. I frequently have to hook up laptops to devices that simply don't have wifi (think unconfigured network devices like routers and the like), so connecting via cable is the only option. Having a gigantic, plastic, snag-prone wart sticking out of my laptop certainly wouldn't help matters.
Most companies still change their laptops’ keyboard layouts in random negative ways every year; ship with stupid screen resolutions, woefully bad speakers, and disappointing touchpads; and stuff the most powerful processor and GPU in there and don’t focus enough on tuning the cooling, power usage, and fan profiles.
I don't really get these nitpicks. If you're planning to use the laptop as your daily driver, do what every other power user does and get a set of good peripherals.
The perfect laptop is one that works well with external gpu, then you just max out cpu and everything else positive about a laptop without worrying about cramming a gpu in there while still getting a thin and light laptop with a good batterylife and nice screen
It is even worse when you are on the secondary market. The company's product pages are broken. Trying to compare across different release years is way harder.
I assumed the reason for this had to do with the production systems and supply chains. They can get a certain number of x parts at y price from a factory located in a given location. You get enough parts in proximity to each other and you make it a model.
Its one thing for a small company to have enough components to have only a few models but with the volume dell or HP moves, they would need to really invest in suppliers or actually make the components themselves.
I dont imagine the marketing people have come up with all the options, they're just the ones who have to try to sell want they're given.
Thankfully I have some requirements for laptops that very significantly narrow my options: - It must have a good, ergonomic keyboard - It must have a good pointing stick
It's not what you would normally call an ergo keyboard with a curved / split key bed, but I think they're superior to the majority of recent laptop keyboards, especially compared to the flat square chiclets of MacBooks and the others who blindly copied them. The keys are curved so you get tactile feedback of where your fingers are and the action also feels good to type on.
You seriously can't go wrong with the lenovo thinkpads on eBay. I Got a thinkpad E14 ryzen 7 (7th gen), 48gb ram, 1tb ssd for $400 on ebay with a small hair crack on the hinge.
At the end of the day, a laptop is a laptop, and the cost difference between a $2000 brand new laptop and a $400 used laptop there really is no argument/justification to be made to buy a $2000 laptop in less-intensive tasks. Here's a better instance of your money: find a $400 laptop with semi-good performance (ryzen 3 or intel equivalent) put $1600 to a gaming computer and setup a virtual environment with a radeon or rtx gpu at your fingertips.
Well I say it's no wonder people gravitate towards it but I don't actually like it myself. It sucks that they make it basically impossible to upgrade snything. And that there storage and RAM upgrades cost several times more than they should.
I have a Macbool air (not by choice) and I installed asahi linux a couple of weeks ago. Main take away is that it's really good except for software support. I've had a bit of trouble finding programs that work well on arm even open source projects often don't compile there programs to work on arm.
Communique and Footage Released From Torching of Three Vehicles at Lovitt Technologies
Communique and footage released from torching of three vehicles at Lovitt technologies
Hello. This is an anonymous communique by the cell that torched three cars at Lovitt Technologies on the morning of July Sth 2025.
Let there be no illusions as to what this was. This was not an accident nor thoughtless vandalism. This is a clear and serious threat. If you continue making weapons components of any kind there will be consequences. Consider this a warning.
After 21 months of an accelerated genocide against the Palestinian people by the illegitimate zionist entity, eight decades of “american” warmongering and imperialism, two and a half centuries of the most violent colonial oppression, ethnic cleansing, and murder of Aboriginal peoples across so-called “australia” – Lovitt Technologies has chosen its place at the intersection of these catastrophes.
Lovitt was the first “australian” producer of components for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets, proudly deployed in service to colonialism and imperialism by “america”, “israel”, “australia”, and “the uk”.
Lovitt was targeted because it is a bottleneck in the supply chain. This factory has the Makino T1 milling machine to make precision titanium and aluminum components. When it was acquired this was the only machine of its kind in so-called “australia”, and only one of ten in the world.
15 suppliers to the F-35 supply chain including Marand, Ferra, HTA, Levett AW Bell, Quickstep and Varley all depend on Lovitt, in addition to its subsidiary Electromold. Lovitt is also a supplier to BAE Systems, “israeli” weapons company Elbit Systems, and manufactures components to Boeing’s F-15, F-18, the so-called “chinook” helicopters, and the Ghost Bat an armed Al-powered drone.
Every worker in this supply chain is complicit. You have had years to contemplate the consequences of your actions. We will decide your fate, as you have decided the fate of millions.
For the past few months we have been closely watching you. We have your addresses. All the information we have about you will be distributed to our underground networks. Stop arming “israel” or else…
That the tools of colonisation and imperialism are manufactured on stolen Wurundjeri country is no accident. The illegitimate “australian” state only becomes a greater colonial and imperial power with its involvement in these supply chains. It is an affront to this sacred land and its true owners – who know genocide – that these weapons factories exist to continue another. Genocide begets genocide. And violence begets resistance.
We are behind the enemy lines of this genocide, and it is our duty to attack the belly of this colonial-imperialist beast at every opportunity. If you are watching this you can do what we have done.
Place half a slab of firestarter into each paper bag. Place one bag under the front and one under the back of the tire. Do this for both of the tires on the fuel cap side of the car. Be mindful of fingerprints and DNA. Set the bag on fire and run.
Every colony will burn. Land back and liberation will grow from their ashes.
DEATH TO “ISRAEL”! DEATH TO “AUSTRALIA”! DEATH TO “AMERICA”!
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
Valve has updated the Steam guidelines and now allows payment processors to decide what should and shouldn't be published on the platform.
This may put the final nail in the coffin for adult games and any games with queer content, whether sexually explicit or not. "Adult content" has no clear definition and can be arbitrarily applied to a lot of media which certain (powerful) organisations, including payment processors like Visa and Mastercard, aim to ban everywhere.
I wonder, considering that EA has their own store, and has the BioWare studios and their games...if suddenly they would see this and open up their store to Indies to capitalize on this.
It would certainly be a potentially profitable move EA Desktop launcher...and a sign of some really weird times where someone might call EA all of a sudden "The Good Company", and Valve "The Bad Company".
I know and agree that this is really bad and would better not have happened, since making more uncomfortable to buy a certain kind of games will surely impact its sales.
That said, if anybody really wants to buy one of those games/content, the way of buying gift cards or topping-up in some other way their Steam Wallet (something not linked with what product you're going to invest your money in), and then buying the contentious game would still be there, I guess.
"Communique and footage released from torching of three vehicles at Lovitt technologies Hello. This is an anonymous communique by the cell that torched three cars at Lovitt Technologies on the…"
High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful explosions in a murky process called magnetic reconnection. A single magnetic reconnection event can release as much energy as the entire United States uses in a day. NASA’s new TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) […]
Άρχικά, θα μπορούσαν να το εφαρμόσουν μόνο σε όσους φέρουν οπλισμό & που τους χαρακτηρίζουν & “τρομοκράτες” (στον “πόλεμο” τι να το κάνει το όπλο άλλωστε, ο “εχθρός”?) & οχι σε αθώες ψυχές. “Το Ισραήλ αμύνεται.”, ε?
“Israel” is Digging its Own Grave, and the Ongoing Zionist Massacres in Gaza Only Hasten the Defeat of the Occupation
In his response to questions received by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, Khaled Barakat, member of the Executive Committee of the movement, said that “The genocide against the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip, ongoing for over 21 months—including bombardment, starvation, and destruction—has failed to achieve its military and political objectives for the Zionist entity. Instead, it has deepened its global isolation and fueled waves of popular and official anger against the occupation. “Israel” is now headed toward a phase of self-destruction following its economic and political degradation,” Barakat said. “Its utter moral bankruptcy is now clear to all, and no propaganda campaigns will be able to restore illusions about the nature of the Zionist project as an illegitimate racist, aggressive and expansionist regime.”
“The enemy army is facing a strong, unified Palestinian resistance, ready to fight for many years if necessary,” Barakat emphasized. “The Palestinian resistance forces continue to bravely confront the occupation army using flexible, creative and courageous combat tactics across various fronts. They affirm their ability to continue this prolonged battle with their united will that transcends division, which creates the greatest fear for the enemy, as it will not succeed in breaking the unity of the internal front in the Gaza Strip.”
Barakat affirmed that “The real negotiations are taking place through fire in Khan Younis, Jabalia, and Beit Hanoun. Our people trust their resistance, which is waging a political battle in Doha despite all the pressures imposed upon them. They know that their representatives of the resistance will never accept terms of surrender imposed by the U.S. and the Zionist entity and are certain their trust and steadfastness will be rewarded.”
“The battlefield dictates the terms, and no matter how intense the political and regional pressures become, the resistance holds the initiative and negotiates from a position of strength, readiness to fight and sacrifice, backed by broad popular support inside and outside Palestine,” Barakat said.
“The resistance insists that any agreement must include a complete withdrawal of occupation forces from Gaza, the lifting of the siege, and the release of hundreds of leaders and cadres from the prisons of the occupier. Liberation movements and solidarity forces with the Palestinian people must escalate their support for the resistance’s position both on the ground and in the ongoing negotiations,” he emphasized, calling on movements around the world to heighten their actions and organizing at a critical moment for the Palestinian people confronting genocide.
“The Zionist enemy wants to eliminate the captured Zionist prisoners while keeping resistance leaders and Palestinian prisoners with high sentences behind bars,” Barakat said, noting that ‘Israeli’ officials have little interest in actually releasing the prisoners held by the resistance. “Every prisoner exchange negotiation exposes the enemy’s duplicity and its attempt to impose humiliating conditions. But the resistance knows the value of its cards and insists on the release of top leaders and national symbols, rejecting any deal that does not reflect a balance of deterrence and the stature of the resistance.”
In the West Bank, Barakat noted, “Settler paramilitary gangs are sponsored and given free rein to run amok, invading, assaulting and killing Palestinians while stealing their land. These vicious settler paramilitaries are fully supported and backed by the ongoing arrest and assassination raids of the Zionist military, the closures imposed throughout the West Bank, and the destruction of the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarem and Nour Shams.”
“As this destruction continues, the Palestinian Authority continues to market itself as a solution to the Israelis for the ‘day after’ in Gaza, despite the reality that the Zionist officials have repeatedly dismissed them. The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah is rejected by our people; the next day in Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not to any forces that collaborate with the occupation. The aftermath of the PA’s security coordination with ‘Israel’ is seen in the escalating destruction in the West Bank, while the PA continues to imprison and arrest resistance fighters and suppress all movements to confront the occupation. ‘Removing pretexts’ for the occupation has led to nothing but encouragement for the settlers to escalate their crimes,” Barakat said.
“The ‘Israeli’ enemy, backed by the Trump administration, has left our people with no other option than the path of resistance. In fact, the United States bears primary responsibility for the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip,” Barakat said. “From the launch of the ‘Deal of the Century’ to the complicity of successive U.S. administrations, Washington has played the most critical role in enabling ‘Israel’ to continue its crimes—not only through military aid but also through the political immunity imposed by U.S. imperialism, that prevents any real international accountability.”
“Every American missile dropped by Israeli warplanes on our people in Gaza causes a massacre. This Palestinian blood is on the hands of Trump and before him, Biden. And every American missile that does not explode is turned by the resistance into 100 explosive devices,” Barakat said. “While Gaza is being pounded by American ‘smart’ bombs, the resistance continues to recycle ammunition and turn it into tools of retaliation, reflecting a spirit of defiance and innovation in the face of the killing machine. This reality also exposes Washington’s complicity as a direct partner in the massacres.”
Barakat further noted that, “While U.S. imperialism has long sponsored and directed the Zionist project in the region in order to advance its goals and create a giant colonial military base in the heart of our region, the current U.S. position also reflects a level of complete submission on the part of the war criminal President Donald Trump, administration officials and members of Congress to Zionist lobby organizations and donors like Miriam Adelson.”
“Trump is merely a puppet in the hands of the Israeli lobby, manipulated by Zionist organizations as they please, reflecting a level of corruption that transcends even the traditional sponsorship of the Zionist entity. Today, U.S. political decision-making reflects imperialism in crisis and a flagrant disregard for even the interests of people in the United States, for the sole benefit of a colonial settler project imposed upon our region,” Barakat said.
“The United States and ‘Israel’ want to reshape the region under the slogan of a ‘New Middle East.’ But the truth is that the Middle East is changing in favor of the peoples, not the illegitimate regimes that Washington and Tel Aviv seek to entrench. Normalization with the Israeli enemy is now more distant than ever, despite all attempts to impose it with both hard and soft power alike,” Barakat said.
“The collapse of recent normalization projects and the rise of boycott and popular resistance movements—from the Gulf to the Maghreb—reflect a deep strategic shift in the consciousness of the peoples, who no longer accept that their region be managed by a disguised Zionist colonialism.”
In Lebanon, Barakat noted, “If Netanyahu’s claims about ‘humbling Hezbollah’ were true, why then is the U.S. State Department holding a meeting with 30 countries to discuss and coordinate to confront the growing capabilities of Hezbollah? This is the 14th such meeting since 2014. And why is northern Palestine still devoid of settlers to this day?”
“The glaring contradiction between the Zionist victory narrative and the facts on the ground reveals a crisis of confidence within the Israeli security establishment. Northern Palestine is militarily occupied but liberated from settlers by the deterrent power of Hezbollah and the ongoing confrontation on the Lebanese front, which gains more popular support with each new Zionist breach,” Barakat said.
Barakat further said that “Yemen’s military capabilities today are sufficient to burn all oil facilities in the region. Western companies sending ships to the ports of occupied Palestine must understand that Yemen is very serious about its anti-genocide blockade, and the positions and patience of the Yemeni people should not be tested. So long as this continues, a new phase of escalation is coming—and it will not be in Europe’s interest.”
“Sana’a is redrawing the boundaries of the struggle for sovereignty and liberation. What was once seen as a symbolic threat has become a field reality that disrupts the calculations of the West. If intransigence and Western support for the occupation continue, Yemen’s response will cross the seas, and Europe will pay the economic and political price for the crimes of imperialism,” Barakat said.
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3 Reasons Why Ken Paxton Will Deliver a Texas-Sized Ass Whooping to John Cornyn
Paxton, a grassroots favorite, has destroyed his establishment foes in the past and will be backed by the President on his way to Washington, but this won't stop lobbyists from wasting their millions.
Budget: investir pour un cadre de vie sain, plutôt que de se restreindre sans solutionner
La France n'a jamais eu un PIB aussi haut. Donc nous n'avons jamais été aussi riches. Et pourtant, ces 20 dernières années, nous vivons de plus en plus mal. Que ce soit les catastrophes que nous avons commencé à subir (incendies, inondations, canicules...) et qui ne vont que s'accentuer avec le changement climatique, les problèmes de santé avec en tête le cancer et l'infertilité, dus à notre environnement de vie de plus en plus toxique (pas un mois ne passe sans un nouveau scandale, du thon au mercure au PFAS en passant par l'eau naturelle contaminée, la réintroduction des pesticides, etc, etc) et à un quotidien déprimant et un futur sans espoir (plus de 10 millions de personnes prennent des antidépresseurs en France !!!), tout va dans la mauvaise direction. Le 1er objectif de l'État, son rôle majeur, sa raison d'être, est de protéger sa population, de lui offrir un cadre de vie sain. Et on aimerait nous faire croire que réduire les investissements, les normes, les aides, c'est la solution ?
Cela revient à grimper sur un tabouret quand une inondation arrive, au lieu de construire une barque. Ça prend moins de temps et moins de bois, ça marche un temps, et puis on boit la tasse.
La solution est d'investir massivement, maintenant, pour nous adapter et nous protéger. Dans les énergies renouvelables, dans la remise en état de nos logements, mais aussi dans une agriculture durable, et surtout dans notre éducation, à tous les âges. Cela donnera des citoyens mieux capables d’appréhender les enjeux de notre monde, cela créera de l'emploi et donc permettra à terme de réduire notre dette (puisqu'apparemment c'est ce qui effraie tout le monde si fort), mais surtout, cela donnera espoir à nous toutes et tous, qui ne comprenons absolument plus pourquoi nous devrions trimer tous les jours pour "gagner" de quoi survivre alors même que le fruit de notre travail ne fait que dégrader toujours plus notre environnement et donc notre cadre de vie en enrichissant toujours plus quelques hommes déconnectés du monde, là-haut.
Mr Bayrou, faire des efforts, oui, mais pour rendre nos vies plus saines et belles, certainement pas pour maintenir un système qui détruit notre monde chaque jour un peu plus, au profit de quelques uns.
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ICSPWI Call For Mobilization On The Occasion Of Martyrs’ Week 2025 In India
The ICSPWI (International Committee to Support the People’s War in India) calls on MLM organizations and parties, all communist organizations and parties, revolutionaries, progressives, and sincere democrats, to mobilize in support of the People’s War in India and its leading party, the Communist Party of India (Maoist), on the occasion of Martyrs’ Week 2025 (July 28th – August 3rd).
The blood shed by the Indian revolutionary martyrs who fell for the New Democratic Revolution in India, the first step towards Socialism and Communism, must be honored: it is the blood shed by our comrades who are ready for the ultimate sacrifice to free India from the semi-feudal and semi-colonial yoke and from bureaucratic capitalism in the service of imperialism.
India is not only the largest country in the world, with approximately 1.5 billion people, but it is also the country ruled by Modi’s Hindutva (fascism with Hindu characteristics) regime and the main bastion of Yankee imperialism as well as the main supporter of the Zionist regime in South Asia and the world.
The Indian revolution (Protracted People’s War) has been active since 1969. Over the decades, it has succeeded in liberating millions of proletarians, peasants, and tribal people from feudal and caste oppression in the areas where it spread, covering an area inhabited by over 50 million people from the far north of the Indian subcontinent to the southern states of Kerala and Karnataka.
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is virtually the largest armed revolutionary party in absolute terms by number of comrades, mobilizing sectors of the masses through trade unions, women’s organizations, environmental organizations, and adivasis (tribals) and casteless groups. The PLGA numbers approximately 20,000 armed men, not counting local popular militias.
This great revolution is now entering a crucial phase: Modi’s Hindutva regime, through a brutal and genocidal military operation supported by imperialism and Zionism (using know-how and drones supplied directly by the Zionist Israeli state), Operation Kagaar, which involves tens of thousands of police, paramilitary forces, and the army, declares it will “defeat Maoism” in the country by April 2026.
As this deadline approaches, Operation Kagaar is intensifying: last May, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) himself, along with 27 other comrades and guerrillas, fell in combat after resisting a two-day encirclement by over 2,000 paramilitaries.
In recent months, hundreds of people, not only revolutionaries but also villagers and tribals, have been massacred during this military operation.
Indian civil society has called on the government to immediately stop this “war against the people” and accept the CPI (Maoist)’s proposal to initiate negotiations, but Modi’s Hindutva regime not only continues its course but also labels these activists “urban Maoists,” repressing them as well.
Fourteen years ago, on July 1st, Comrade Azad, a member of the party’s central committee and political bureau, was killed in a fake encounter. He was arrested and subsequently killed in cold blood.
A few months later, on November 24, 2011, Comrade Kishenji, a member of the party’s political bureau, was martyred in another fake encounter.
The martyrs of the Indian revolution are the best sons of the Indian people who sacrificed their lives not only for the liberation of India, but of the entire world, from exploitation, contributing to the World Proletarian Revolution.
Since October 7, 2023, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has actively supported the Palestinian resistance, despite the difficulties it is experiencing, organizing support and propaganda actions in India.
It is therefore an internationalist duty to support this advanced revolutionary experience and remember its martyrs, who are also ours.
ICSPWI therefore calls for mobilization in all countries of the world on the occasion of the CPI (Maoist) Martyrs’ Week from July 28 to August 3, and in accordance with the specific objective and subjective conditions in each country, organizing:
Actions and protests at Indian embassies and consulates
Support meetings
Propaganda actions in factories, workplaces, among struggling workers and peasants, in working-class neighborhoods, and in universities
The martyrs of the revolution are immortal!
The revolutionaries of the CPI (Maoist) are our comrades!
Comrades Basavaraj, Azad, and Kishenji, leaders of the new democratic revolution in India, will never be forgotten; their example will inspire future generations of revolutionaries!
Stop operation Kagaar! Immediate freedom for all political prisoners in India!
Long live the Communist Party of India (Maoist)!
Long Live the People’s War in India!
For more information and materials, contact: csgpindia@gmail.com
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