so why do you support iran the regime that quite literally executes women for not wearing hijab
We don't "support the Iranian regime", we support Iranian sovereignty and the right to choose their own direction, their own path and their own government without the military, economic, political and media interference of the entire Western bloc aligned against it, warping and stunting its development.
The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is reporting that the American military occupation in eastern Syria continues to suck wealth and resources from the West Asian nation.
According to SANA News, the US occupation is stealing wealth from the areas it continues to illegally occupy in the Hasakah province of eastern Syria, using its forces to load tankers and trucks with Syrian resources including oil and grains.
Local sources in the Al-Yaarubiya countryside, near the Iraqi border, in the Al-Hasakah Governate, told SANA that a US-occupation convoy consisting of 69 vehicles, including 45 tankers loaded with Syrian oil, along with 24 trucks loaded with grains stolen from silos in the Hasakah province, left Syrian territory through the illegal Mahmoudiyah crossing headed for US bases in Iraqi territory.
The report was published by journalist Nisreen Othman on April 22nd, 2024.
In three graphs, why the United States is clearly in extreme, rapid decline, and the evidence for why ordinary Americans will pay the price for the decades of perpetual-war policies in their own standard of living.
There's a reason why the minimum wage hasn't been raised since 2009. Why there's no money for schools, why our hospitals and doctors are a mess, why theres homeless people on every city's streets, including the mentally ill, the drug addicted, and veterans, no money to deal with out of control crime in American cities, the waves of constant immigration meant to destroy your wages... There's only ever money for more federal law enforcement, more war, more "foreign aid" aka corruption rackets for US vassal states.
During the very years we watched this decline take place, spending on foreign aid and defense spending have gone constantly upwards while wages declined and income Inequality skyrocketed.
The evidence for the betrayal of the American people by their corrupt elite is everywhere, and the debt we will be saddled with for generations is unimaginably large: $34.209 trillion at the time of writing this.
Every American will suffer the consequences for the imperialism of their elites, and in fact already are as displayed clearly by the flattening of US wage growth simultaneously alongside the increase in foreign aid and defense spending.
It's elites taking money out of your pocket, out of your retirement, your children's college education, your family's healthcare, your wages, your life, and putting it into the same super wealthy, billionaire elites who've wanted to kill social security and Medicare and use the US Military to enforce a system of control, impoverishment and censorship on all of us across the world. Or fund genocides, you know, whatever's profitable. 🇵🇸
It is nothing more than an old fashioned racket, an upward transfer of wealth, and it always has been.
United States Senate blocks resolution calling for the removal of US forces from Syria.
Senators rejected a motion to advance the resolution in a vote of 13 members in favor and 84 opposed.
"The American people have had enough of endless wars in the Middle East. Yet, 900 US troops remain in Syria with no vital US interest at stake, no definition of victory, no exit strategy, and no congressional authorization to be there," Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul said in a statement on the resolution.
The resolution would direct the president to remove US troops from hostilities "in or affecting Syria" within 30 days of adoption, unless a declaration of war or other authorization for use of force was enacted by Congress.
Via@GeopoliticsLive
A Former US Ambassador to Bolivia was arrested Monday on charges of secretly spying for the Cuban government for decades.
According to news reports, Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, a onetime US envoy to Bolivia, was arrested on charges of secretly working for the Cuban government, and even boasted about how his decades of work has "strengthened the revolution immensely."
Victor Manuel Rocha appeared Monday in Federal Court in front of Chief Magistrate Judge Edwin G. Torres in Miami.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the arrest "exposes one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the United States government by a foreign agent."
I literally just had my YouTube account deleted on the first ever video I uploaded of a public statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces announcing strikes on Israeli ships.
YouTube accused my channel of repeatedly posting criminal content, again on the very first video I ever uploaded.
Censorship to the extreme. Somehow I highly doubt MSNBC would have their account deleted for posting a public news announcement.
#internetcensorship
#censorship
🇺🇦🇮🇱 It is noted that before the events of October 7th, 2023, the United States had spent the last year and a half giving Ukraine the vast majority of its reserve munitions, which have since been largely emptied.
However, since October, Israel has been obtaining America's personal war stockpiles to bomb and shell Gaza.
If the US wishes to continue arming both Israel and Ukraine, it will require a major increase in shell production, which US claims it cannot do until 2025.
One wonders how the US intends to continue arming both countries while ALSO instigating war with China over its island province of Taiwan?
How would such a war be fought? Where would the funding come from? Where would the shells come from? How quickly can the US really scale up production after four decades of deindustrialization?
Here's the reality of the situation:
Palestinians live under worse apartheid conditions than anything we've seen in our lifetimes. They endure industrial scale oppression and violence at every level of their lives in an attempt to force their displacement.
You know, that whole make someone so miserable they leave of their own volition thing? Yeah, well that's what's been happening in Palestine since 1946.
War by war, skirmish by skirmish, conflict by conflict, with the backing of the entirety of the Western international apparati and the United States, Israel stole a little more land each time conflict broke out from the native Palestinians.
For decades, Israel has used a policy of inviting Jews from around to world to pour into the newly founded Israel and water down the Arab-majority demographics of the region, even as they control who can and cannot leave Palestinian territories and use their blockade of Gaza to control their diets and therefore, their reproductive habits.
Every time there was a war or displacement of Jews around the globe, Israeli authorities were there to invite more Jews, especially European and Soviet Jews, into Israel.
And so each time the apartheid conditions of Palestinians became unbearable, the Arab community in the region would lash out however they could, using politics and violence alike, as any community living under apartheid conditions would do, and each time, with the backing of the United States, Israel acquired more and more territory, displacing more and more Palestinians as they crowded into the few remaining Palestinian enclaves; what is today's West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
And so you can see by analyzing this history, how Palestinians, time and time again, are painted into a corner from which there is no escape.
Words go unheard by the world, prayers go unanswered, protests are brutally stifled using Israeli snipers, machine gun nests, and indiscriminate shelling, and slowly but surely, options for the Palestinian community shrink until nothing is left but violence. This cycle of violence is more than well documented for anyone willing to simply look.
Journalists and medics are purposely targeted during Protests, Palestinians are maimed, murdered, raped and imprisoned for resisting non-violently. This is also well documented for anyone willing to just look.
So no, no American has the right to judge Palestinians for how they choose to resist this Fascism, genocide, Colonialism and occupation.
I've NEVER heard an American denounce the settlers and occupation forces' beatings, raping, imprisoning and murdering of Palestinians.
I'm not "on Hamas' side" or whatever you people are saying, I'm telling you and everyone else it's not our place to tell people how they can and cannot resist genocide and ethnic cleansing or to pass some kind moral judgement as though we're somehow superior to Palestinians.
It's that same kind of supremacist thinking that leads Israelis to commit such horrific and barbaric violence against Palestinians in the first place.
I don't 'celebrate' the deaths of Israelis, I mourn the loss of Palestinians every day.
Solidarity to the death with Palestine!
TOTAL US PUBLIC DEBT IN 2022 WAS $31 TRILLION
MEANING THE UNITED STATES IS RESPONSIBLE FOR JUST A HAIR OVER ONE THIRD OF GLOBAL PUBLIC DEBT.
Understand that no other country on earth can print money and just spend it the way the United States does because the rest of the world doesn't have sovereignty over the World Reserve Currency.
If any other country attempted to print money and manipulate markets the way the United States does, first off we'd sanction them for having an independent policy, and secondly, it would rapidly result in runaway inflation.
But because the US has sovereignty over the World's Reserve Currency, the United States can and does manipulate markets and print money however it likes, and the rest of the world, especially in the Global South, are literally forced to subsidize this US debt by buying US dollars at horrible exchange rates that favor Western countries in order to do trade, oftentimes with countries that have NOTHING to do with the United States because that's just how the international system has been designed (by the US and UK) to force countries to trade in dollars using Western banks.
And this advantage is baked into the system itself.
This means foreign countries in the Global South are subsidizing the very Imperialism oppressing them, subsidizing the 900 or so US military bases around the world.
In an interview with DW News agency, US Ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith told DW US funding and support for NATO will continue at previous levels.
"We do have a situation right now where you have what's called a 'Continuing Resolution' in the United States and that resolution does not include any increased support for Ukraine," Ambassador Smith told DW.
"With that said, I think President Biden was right, with confidence, to say that the US will have additional support for Ukraine in the weeks and months ahead."
"We have to settle this budget issue, it is contentious, we've been through similar scenarios in the past," Smith continued. "But I think the President sent a very clear message to our partners and allies, and to the people of Ukraine, that the US leadership that we've been able to provide since the war started will continue."
We're literally living with Fascism right now. This very moment. We have 4.6% of the global population, 20% of the incarcerated world population. We don't make or export goods, we consume them and export guns, bombs and fighter jets. Corporations have melded completely with our government, which essentially acts as the military and paramilitary arms of Wall Street, the literal definition of Fascism as given by Mussolini.
Couple that with the so-called Liberal establishment now being infested by Nazi apologists, and it's pretty fucking clear Fascism is here, in America.
It's only a matter of time before brown shirts are dragging people through the streets while the blue shirts will ensure we can't fight back.
"France has decided to withdraw its ambassador" President Macron told French television in an interview today.
"In the next hours our ambassador and several diplomats will return to France."
Macron added that military cooperation between the two countries was now "over" and French troops would withdraw in the coming weeks and months.
"In the weeks and months to come, we will consult with the putschists because we want this to be done peacefully."
France currently has an estimated 1'500 French soldiers in the Sahel region of Niger.
Previously, the Military junta in Niger had asked the French Ambassador to leave their country and was issued a 48-hour ultimatum to leave or face arrest. Still, the Macron Government refused to recall their ambassador who refused to leave the country of his own accord; a childish episode by an imperialist brat, witnessed the world over.
The US Air Force is missing an F-35 around the Charleston, South Carolina area after what the Marine Corps is calling a "mishap", and are now asking for help from the public finding the missing plane.
The F-35 costs $80 Million each to produce
