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“radfems” prove how empty their idea of a “movement” is everyday online and offline by being reactionary liberals and spreading as much imperialist propaganda as they cross, but want all classes of women across the world to hold hands and sing kumbaya with them as they support death squads and wars waged on them as long as they… hmmm… hate trans people? don’t wear bikinis or maybe even agree to say that makeup isn’t empowering, the priorities for all women, and then maybe let you reblog some of the problems they face to tokenize it (never ever ever daring to go indepth to what factors other than misogyny put them in vulnerable spots though as that’s against their first and foremost political indoctrination)

Fascist Journalist Indro Montanelli Speaking on Buying a 12 year old Eritrean (child) bride

Notice he said Abyssinia as late 1930s Italy occupied Abyssinia before the constitutional name change to Ethiopia by UK backed Selassie.

Elvira Banotti, an Eritrean Italian journalist and feminist organizer challenges the fascist journalist and calls him out on his participation in colonial racism.

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Ukrainian communist journalist: ‘This war started eight years ago’

The war between Russia and Ukraine began long before February 24, 2022—the date provided by the Ukrainian government, NATO, and the United States for the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to Dmitry Kovalevich, a journalist and a member of a now-banned communist organization in Ukraine, the war actually started in the spring of 2014 and has never stopped since.

Wars are among the most difficult of reporting assignments for a journalist. These days, especially, with the torrent of social media and the belligerence of network news television channels, matters on the ground are hard to sort out. Just establishing what the basic facts about the events taking place during a war are is hard enough, let alone ensuring the correct interpretation of these facts.

Videos of apparent war atrocities that can be found on social media platforms like YouTube are impossible to verify. Often, it becomes clear that much of the content relating to war that can be found on these platforms has either been misidentified or is from other conflicts. Even the BBC, which has taken a very strong pro-Ukrainian and NATO position on this conflict, had to run a story about how so many of the viral claims about Russian atrocities are false.

Among these false claims, which have garnered widespread circulation, is a video circulating on TikTok that wrongly alleges to be that of a “Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier,” but is instead a video of the then-11-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi confronting an Israeli soldier in 2012; the video continues to circulate on TikTok with the caption, “Little [girls] stand up to Russian soldiers.”

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Another article: Once Zelensky falls, US plans to turn Ukraine into Afghanistan

More news from the website: People’s World

The Modern American Political Spectrum: Reaction to Russian Invasion of Ukraine:

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The families losing their loved ones to hunger suicide in Afghanistan

People are dying by suicide across Afghanistan because of starvation, as the US has frozen the Afghan Central Bank’s assets and the IMF suspended access to funds after the Taliban takeover. The World Bank had also halted funding for the country—though it has now approved a package of $1 billion to address the population’s urgent needs. More than half the population, around 23m Afghans, are suffering from hunger. Millions of dollars in lost income after the collapse of the government, soaring food prices, a liquidity crisis, and shortages of cash have deprived much of the population of access to food, water, shelter, and health care.

President Nicolas Maduro: “The world war has already started and it is economic.”

“The world war in its first economic phase, with sanctions, blockade, uncertainty in the supply of oil, gasoline, iron, steel, wheat, fertilizer, corn, rice, raw materials in general. Uncertainty in prices, in the supply of food, raw materials, energy products, in the use of the currency of the financial system to twist the arms of countries and regions. The world war has already started, the economic war has already started. "Our warning is not to escalate any further. Our call is for the economic war to not escalate any further and escalate into a military war or into what is worse for humanity and the survival of our species on this planet, into a nuclear war. This is the call I made on Monday.

"President Maduro: [On Monday] we made an assessment of the situation in the world and there are very dangerous components. Today there is a war on the southern border of Russia because of those who broke the agreements of Europe, the West and NATO with Russia. ”..because of those who tried to surround Russia and target it with nuclear weapons, because of those who announced that Ukraine was going to have nuclear weapons targeting Russia. There are the culprits of the armed conflict.“

Follow: Latin American correspondent Camila

*keep in mind all the times the US interefered with elections in Venezuela to overthrow leftist governments and decades of america funding far right miltia groups. Sound familiar? Years of propaganda against Venezuela and now that america wants oil…watch how quickly the US tune changes.

A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War:

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, what was a regional conflict has become a global hybrid war with ever-greater stakes, not least the risk of nuclear war.

Perhaps the greatest danger lies in the difference of motives between parties, which is also the fundamental cause of this war: Russia seeks security, while the U.S. and its NATO allies have been using Ukraine to deny that security — to “break Russia,” in Henry Kissinger’s 2015 phrase. The U.S. does not want peace, unless it be the peace of a conquered Russia. That is why there is no obvious end to the escalations and counter-escalations. The U.S. and NATO see opportunity in the war they have been trying so hard to provoke.

The tragedy is that few people seem to understand that at the root of the Ukraine crisis is a specific strategy known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, named after Paul Wolfowitz who, as under secretary of defense in the administration of George H. W. Bush, was one of the authors of a 1992 document that laid out a neo-conservative manifesto aimed at ensuring American dominance of world affairs following the collapse of the Soviet Union. -Writer: Greg Mello (Los Alamos Study Group)

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What is the Los Alamos Study Group?

One of the most respected and best informed anti-nuclear war groups in the world is the Los Alamos Study Group. Founded at the end of the Cold War in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first nuclear bombs were designed and built, the LASG’s aim of taking nuclear weapons out of foreign policy. It has won landmark environmental, civil rights and freedom of information lawsuits in the U.S., provided hundreds of top-level briefings, and played a crucial role in preventing the production of the core elements of plutonium warheads. As nuclear war threatens over Ukraine, the LASG has released this remarkable and urgent analysis of the risks and the solutions. "— John Pilger.

For the ppl with a short memory of Europe’s long history of war:

Dutch data project Nodegoat used an algorithm to map all the battles fought in history

the data project found that Europe and the US are the bloodiest parts of the world

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List of conflicts in Europe

The outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine did not come out of nowhere. Here are the key historical events that produced the crisis, and the declassified documents showing that the U.S. gov’t knew it was playing with fire over the last 30 years.

of NATO’s broken promises

The Clinton administration made many behind-the-scenes promises to Boris Yeltsin, and their deceptions eventually came to a head at their Budapest meeting in 1994.

Declassified documents revealed this misdirection.

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Despite the promises to Russia that NATO would not expand, in 1999 Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined NATO.

During this period, NATO demonstrated its offensive rather than defensive character with multiple bombings of Yugoslavia.

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U.S. & NATO continue their regime change efforts. Two notable examples of this are NATO’s involvement in Afghanistan which resulted in a 20 yr occupation with hundreds of thousands dead.

NATO’s bombing of Libya (serving as the air force for the rebels) collapses the gov’t.

After a decade of deception, Putin comes to power promising to overcome Russia’s humiliations. He makes clear that NATO expansion to Ukraine is a red line

A doc by William Burns, current CIA Director, shows they knew they were playing with fire

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In 2014 the era of Ukrainian neutrality comes to an end with the overthrow of President Victor Yanukovych. This coup was supported and funded by the U.S. and succeeds when far-right paramilitaries storm the presidential palace.

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While western powers continue to stoke escalation and war, a diplomatic road out of the current crisis is still possible. Will the U.S. & NATO step back from the brink and negotiate with Russia?

Looking back on it today, the famous U.S. assurance to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev of “Not one inch eastward” rings hollow.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, NATO has added 13 countries… and counting.

Check out Break Through News on twitter for more information.

Break Through News is a non-profit and non governmental organization.

Another article on this subject: What the US really want with the Ukraine

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jooferslannisterisbackister:

by “colonial tax” i think they mean the CFA franc, the colonial french currency used by 14 african nations. france no longer even uses the french franc yet controls the economies of 14 sovereign nations. one of the obligations of the CFA franc agreements is that the countries must “keep 50 percent of their foreign exchange reserves in an operations account held at the French Treasury.” this form of neocolonialism has has had the effect of

  1. “Limited intra-regional trade, especially in Central Africa.
  2. High dependence on producing and exporting a limited number of primary commodities.
  3. A narrow industrial base.
  4. A high vulnerability to external shocks.”

you can read more about it in those things as well as this- The CFA Franc: French Monetary Imperialism in Africa, just to show how hypocritical macrons statement is

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One of the major successes of contemporary war propaganda is it’s unfailing ability to make those who uncritically accept/spread it actually feel virtuous doing so & hence feel morally superior to those who even dare question it (who in turn are routinely portrayed as heartless).

Anyone who doesn’t immediately believe what’s being reported by Western media is attacked or given a disingenuous, slanderous label of some kind. It creates a kind of frenzy in which to ask for an independent investigation or evidence becomes taboo & forces many to stay silent.

And of course there are very good reasons to be deeply sceptical of such reporting:

Quote from: @Louis_Allday

the-penandpaper:

“There is evidence to suggest that as early as August 2001 {before the invasion} Washington, contrary to the Geneva Convention, intentionally used sanctions against Iraq to degrade the nation’s water supply. This had a devastating impact on Iraqi children particularly. This was done through hampering the importation of specialized equipment and some chemicals to purify its water supply, most of which is heavily mineralized and frequently brackish to saline. Ultimately, the United Nations concluded that as a result of these sanctions alone, some 500,000 Iraqi children perished.”

Blows against the Empire by Dr Gerald Horne

the-penandpaper:

“The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has specialized in investigations of the racist right, has detected a disturbing trend that has infested the military. Aryan Nation graffiti has been seen in Baghdad–the latest bit of evidence suggesting that just as left wing cadre often take root in factories, ultra right cadre have come to find the US military quite congenial. In 1996 following a decade long rash of cases where extremists in the military were caught diverting huge arsenals of stolen firearms and explosives to neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations, conducting guerilla training for paramilitary racist militias, and murdering “non white” civilians, the Pentagon finally acted. One general ordered all 19,000 soldiers at Fort Lewis, Washington strip-searched in an attempt to find extremist tattoos. Now, it seems that with the decline in recruitment–or, perhaps, for other reasons–the Pentagon is turning a blind eye to the influx of neo nazis into their ranks.”

Blows against the Empire By Dr. Gerald Horne

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Also, here’s Global times article: Evidence suggests US may have supported neo-Nazi Azov Battalion

“Ironically, despite being widely regarded as a threat to world security and an enemy of human civilization, Azov Battalion was found to have ties not only with the Ukraine authorities but also with the US. After looking into the public information from the US government and some investigative reports by Western journalists, the Global Times discovered that American politicians, military and intelligence officers were highly likely to have had cooperation with the Azov Battalion, in order to foster extremist forces in Eastern Europe against Russia.”

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