Can someone give me some reasons the us went three with the Nayriah testimony for Desert storm, since they could have just used the invasion of a US ally as pretext(other increase public approval ig)
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The imperial core is continuing the process of self-cannibalization as the interimperial wars between Europe and the US over resource and territorial control continue. Greenland, populated with less than a hundred thousand heavily exploited people, is the newest territory to fall under Trump's gaze. The main draw is the mineral resources present there, of which it boasts nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum, and much more than remains unexplored under the ice. But the ice is melting, and profit must be made. There is an additional element of wanting Arctic territory to counter Chinese and especially Russian interests and aims; Russia is increasingly eyeing the northern Arctic route as an alternative to more vulnerable routes through the Suez Canal or around Africa, and is investing heavily in icebreakers for that purpose.
However, even if Europe possessed the desire to resist American annexations - and they absolutely do not, at the end of the day - they do not even have the ability. Denmark may, to a lesser or greater extent, make angry sounds and talk about national honour or some such, but their military would be trampled underfoot by even the New York Police Department, let alone a concerted military effort by the US. If Trump wants Greenland, he will have it. This will naturally increase the grumbling in Europe about reconsidering the Transatlantic alliance, and that grumbling may, in the medium-term future, as the American Empire continues its decline, lead to meaningful results. But in the short term, Europe shall have to bear whatever Trump throws at them, for they obviously cannot now ally with Russia, who was the natural counterweight to American interests for decades before 2022.
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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
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English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
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Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
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Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
moo deng endorses trump
trump, being the puppet of moo deng, forces the pissrael to accept ceasefire
are you still not trusting her plan anon ?
This is hardly new material. I've seen the fash do this exact bit since at least the noughties.
End of fact checks only applies to the US, says Meta to the Brazilian government.
The company claims to be “committed to human rights” and that it is seeking a “balance” between freedom of expression and security. Meta said that the end of the company's fact-checking program on social networks will initially only take place in the United States. According to the company, the initiative will be tested and improved before expanding to other countries.
“Meta hereby clarifies that it is currently shutting down its independent Fact Check Program in the United States only, where we will test and improve Community Notes before beginning any expansion to other countries,” says the document sent to the Brazilian government.
This just confirms the long held suspicion that Facebook has different moderation policies for different countries and regions.
100%, I've read from a pro-georgian gov guy that for georgia meta relies on only 2 NGOs to fact check, and they're both anti-government so it's hugely unbalanced
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https://www.mining.com/barrick-halts-operations-in-mali-after-245m-gold-seized/
The Mali government yoinked a bunch of gold from Barrick, Barrick in turn suspended the mining operation. That project has been a pretty big chunk of state revenue in the past, so with operations stopped that will dry up. The question now is whether Barrick will agree to new terms and restart it, if the state will seize it and do Malians Going Their Own Way, or if it will just languish in project limbo.
Not news but inspired by this week's COTW I wrote something about what Danish social democrats were up to during the cold war:
AIC: The Cold War Anti-communist Intelligence Agency Of Denmark's Social Democrats
The Labour Movement Information Centre (AIC), founded in 1944 by Denmark's Social Democrats and trade unions, was a secretive anti-communist organization. It monitored and undermined communist influence in workplaces and collaborated with the domestic security state and foreign intelligence agencies, including the CIA. The AIC's operations included surveillance, propaganda, and counter-infiltration.
Maybe comparable: the Norwegian labour party was conducting illegal surveillance of communists/ socialist/ etc. during the same time period.
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WaPo endorses most of Trump's right-wing cabinet picks
Holy fuck HAHAHAHA
"Climate change is real"
"And we're dedicated to making it happen!"
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reducing deficit and increasing growth (GDP) are straight up incompatible. since they are all themselves multi-millionaires or billionaires, deficits won't be reduced by increasing taxes on the rich (who hoard wealth and don't consume/contribute to GDP). the only other way to reduce deficit is through raising taxes (on the not top 5%ers) or cutting spending. neither of which help with 'growth'.
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And now the Beltway brunch libs will have their anger and scrutiny dutifully directed at the more wacky nominees and not the others, lest they start to come up with a structural critique of that list
She is serious 
strong words from a paper subsidized by pissbottles
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Sad news that former Venezuelan Attorney General Isaías Rodríguez has passed away aged 82. Rodríguez was a key figure in the 2002 coup, standing firm against the putschist elites and telling the world that Chávez had not resigned. He was always an admired voice in Chavismo.
During his administration he had to deal with controversial cases and difficult situations such as the events of April 11, 2002 (Military Coup), the oil strike (Bourgeoisie Coup Attempt) or national civic strike (Legislative Coup) or the assassination of Prosecutor Danilo Anderson, among others.