Image is from the Britannica article on CECOT, known as the Terrorism Confinement Center in English.
This megathread’s topic is inspired by our lovely news regular, @Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net, who talks often about the conditions inside El Salvador and gives nuanced and informative takes.
As the Trump administration continues to make foreign policy blunders that would make even the staunchest anti-imperialist accelerationist blush - and we are barely three months in! - it’s interesting to compare and contrast his policies of incompetent imperialist and domestic management to the dictators in other countries.
Bukele is somewhat unique among fascists, in that he seems to not hide - and seems to even admit to - his evil, self-describing as the world’s “coolest dictator”. El Salvador has no particular shortage of prominent fascists in their history, but one major example is Maximiliano Martínez, who led the country over much of the 1930s and the early 1940s. He was responsible the deaths of many thousands of communists and indigneous people, and yet joined World War 2 on the side of the Allies and against the Nazis.
The comparisons between Martínez and Bukele - and, indeed, between Bukele and Trump - in terms of their impact on minority groups are slowly growing as world attention is being drawn to the country. The recent meeting between Bukele and Trump has shifted a spotlight onto El Salvador’s crime policy; the internal conditions of El Salvador’s prisons are genuinely monstrous. One gets a similar feeling as when reading descriptions of the conditions of Holocaust victims in German concentration camps. Trump has made statements to the effect that he want a similar crime crackdown inside the United States, and I certainly believe that he wants this (ICE is already just kidnapping people off the streets into vans), but his administration has been so chaotic and mismanaged that it’s difficult to determine whether this will be an interest he rapidly drops in favor of some other hair-brained scheme.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
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
Sources:
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.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
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.
David Horowitz died, rest in shit bozo
Is there anything definitive about the Bucha massacre?
Obviously I am very sceptical about atrocity propaganda from the West, but it’s not like Russian soldiers are above killing civilians… (still, the war in Ukraine seems like a different kind of war than Gaza which is purely oppressive ethnic cleansing)
I remember couple months after the news came out Seth Harp said that all the Western journalists reporting on the Bucha massacre got a curated picture of it (as in it was not some kind of investigative journalism that uncovered it, but the Ukrainian National News Agency put them on the bus like a group of tourists and led them to the [purported] scene of the massacre and Azov corralled them around the village.)
I don’t have a link to direct proof, maybe there will never be any the way these things get lost in the fog of war, but I’ll copy in a comment from a couple of years ago
spoiler
Bucha was definitely perpetrated by the Ukrainians, specifically the neonazi paramilitary battalions “Tornado” and “Safari” - seriously, “Safari battalion”
Many of the bodies in the streets were clearly from Ukrainian mortar impacts, as on satellite photos they appear at the same time as mortar craters while the Russians were still holding the town (the media’s only explanation for this is that Russia shelled their own positions because their asiatic brainpan makes them self-destructively evil). The photos of people who were executed show them with white armbands, which the Russians used to mark friendlies, and even with Russian ration packs. Why would the Russian armed forces, at the very edge of a perilously extended advance with incredibly stretched supply lines, give away rations probably worth their weight in gold to people they were then going to kill, and then leave behind the rations? Conversely, to Ukrainian fascists, receiving aid from the enemy obviously makes you a traitor - a position made law by the Kiev regime just a few months later - and for a fascist that means summary execution. There was even a short video from the time, where one soldier clearly asks “can I shoot the ones without blue armbands?” (Ukraine uses blue for friendlies) and someone else just says “yes”.
I expect the same killings by the Ukrainians took place in every town the Russians vacated, but it was definitely a concerted intelligence and media effort to specifically pick out the one town whose name in English looks and sounds like the word “Butcher” (this particularly stinks of MI6). The UK even refused Russia’s request for a UN security council meeting about it.
Add in the UAF’s behavior in Kursk and it’s pretty clear which side is the one purposefully killing civilians.
Palestinian Prisoners’ Day: On the Experience of Struggle Inside the Prisons
By free prisoner Wael Jaghoub
Long form article (15 pages) on the history and legacy of the martyr Sayed Hassan Nasrallah. Highly reccomended.
The Flower That Broke Through the Rubble: The Legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Abstract:
spoiler
On September 27, 2024, the US and Israel detonated 80 tons of American Mark-II multi-ton bunker-buster bombs over the southern Beirut suburb neighborhood of Haret Hreik, assassinating Hezbollah chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Few contemporary Arab leaders had the political impact and leverage that Nasrallah had, having been the central focus of US and Israeli counterinsurgency for decades. At the same time, he was also a critical figure to the consolidation of the regional Resistance Axis, and an icon for both Islamic resistance and anti-imperialist liberation globally. This essay aims to reflect on the legacy of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the martyred leader of the Lebanese resistance organization, Hezbollah, by analyzing the trajectory of his political formation and ideology, as well as the spiritual and material elements of his activity and successes. While delving into the impacts of his lifelong struggle and leadership, this work also briefly touches upon the impact of his martyrdom, while providing a dialectical – both material and spiritual – assessment of his legacy.
Western academic and bourgeois intellectual spaces continue to mischaracterize Hezbollah, alongside powers and forces of Islamic Resistance in the region, such as Iran or Palestine, as representing the intellectual pauperization of Arab resistance, inferior to the archetypal Arab left. All too often, Leftist movements and interpretations of history hold a Manichean dichotomy between secularism and religion that, ironically, contributes to a more idealistic and dogmatically atheistic view on struggle. Western academia and its ideological compradors in the Arab world fail to acknowledge the Islamic Resistance on its own terms – doing so would expose contradictions in the Westernized epistemology of history and decolonization devoid of its full spiritual and dialectical dimensions. As Martyr Imad Mughnieh said, ‘The material element is a component that helps the axis, but the essence of this axis is the spirit’ (Tasnim News 2015).
Deficiencies in understanding the Islamic resistance – and its main state backer, Iran – are also due to an adversarial relationship between the US and Iran, the lack of translation and general access to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Islamic Revolutionary literature. More importantly, there is a widespread hostility against anti-imperialist scholarship in Western academia, where structuralist approaches are seldom offered to understand the Islamic Republic and the regional resistance factions, and the challenges imposed upon them by US imperialism, thus contributing to a ‘poverty of analysis’ (Farnia 2023).
All too often, Leftist movements and interpretations of history hold a Manichean dichotomy between secularism and religion that, ironically, contributes to a more idealistic and dogmatically atheistic view on struggle.
It’s also the correct interpretation. These resistance movements ultimately aim to impose the rule of muslim bourgeois forces in the region. There shouldn’t be confusion between the islamic resistance and the Palestinian communist resistance which should make itself stand out rather than blend in with Hamas.
Thanks for sharing. Will read it soon.
Apparently Kneecap came out and said they do not, in fact, support Hamas or Hezbollah.
While a little disappointing, I do believe (and UK comrades can correct me if I’m wrong), that expressing verbal support for “designated terrorist groups” actually can land you in jail in the UK.
So if that’s true, I at least kinda understand why they’re saying it.
In the UK, sure, even if said laws are upheld arbitrarily. And as far as I know they didn’t make any actual statements explicitly supporting Hezb or Hamas anyway. Plus, Kneecap are Irish!
I went to one rally for Palestine in Manchester and one of the speakers was unequivocally supporting armed resistance in Palestine - Not just in her speeches but her entire online presence. She even led chants of “Yemen Yemen make us proud - Turn another ship around!”. She was raided by counter terror police and dragged in for questioning but in the end she was let go and she continues to go to events.
I know of another case where someone was being tried for flying a PKK flag at a Kurdish solidarity rally, but that also hasn’t gone far yet.
Not that I dont think the UK govt would try to make an example of Kneecap, but there are much more politically exposed people than them getting into less trouble.
IMO the statement is more about protecting their income than anything - They’re due to play at Glastonbury this year and their agents are probably threatening them to not jeopardize that gig.
Kneecap are Northern Irish, so they could definitely be prosecuted under those laws. This is also why there was all that stuff about them getting art grants from the UK and the south.
And as far as I know they didn’t make any actual statements explicitly supporting Hezb or Hamas anyway.
I think a video recently re-emerged of one of the members draped in a Hezbollah flag saying “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”, which is why they put out the recent statement.
If they were already targeted by the state then does this actually matter, does the English courts generally allow take backsies for “supporting terrorism”?
😔
Didn’t they do a civility by not supporting armed resistance?
They spent most of their statement condemning the genocide and highlighting it. While this isn’t my favorite outcome, it makes sense given the risk.
Yeah, this is a media attack. They’ve been pretty much left alone since Coachella. Sounds like their agents were in panic mode.
US, and UK airstrikes now, continue on Yemen for the 46th night in a row. For the first time in this phase of the air campaign against Yemen, the UK has carried out airstrikes. The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) have already been carrying out refueling support operations out of Cyprus, and with assets from Operation Shader (anti ISIS air patrol on the Iraq and Syrian border) for US airstrikes during the past 46 days, but this is the first time they have carried out airstrikes during this 46 day period. The airstrikes were carried out by RAF Eurofighter Typhoon GR4 4.5 generation aircraft out of Cyprus, with laser guided Paveway stand-in bombs in Sana’a, so the corridor to directly bomb Sana’a with stand-in weapons from fighter aircraft is still open. This is likely being done in preparation for the UK Royal Navy’s (RN) HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier joining the US Navy in the Red Sea in the next few days. The HMS Prince of Wales has F-35B 5th generation stealth Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing (V/STOL) fighter aircraft. Expect a lot more UK RAF and RN airstrikes on Yemen over the coming weeks. The F-35 platform (in B and C variants) is seeing a lot of combat now in strike missions.
Airstrikes hit the following governorates in Yemen:
Saada:
- 4 airstrikes on Sahar District.
Sana’a:
- Multiple intense waves of US and UK airstrikes on the capital city, Sana’a, fighter jets audible.
- An airstrike on Wadi Al-Hayd area, southeast of the capital.
- Multiple airstrikes on Al Husn, Hamdan, Bani Hushaysh, and Bani Matar Districts.
Al Bayda:
- Multiple airstikes on As Sawadiyah District.
Al Jawf:
- Multiple airstrikes on Al Hazm District
Hodeidah:
- No airstrikes reported, but fighter jets audible.
Warning for potential graphic imagery during ongoing airstrikes:
How long can they keep these attacks for?
until the Houthis send a cruise missile into oil refineries of collaborator states.
Another good video showing DPRK troops training with Russian forces in Kursk oblast: https://news-pravda.com/eu/2025/04/29/1282399.html
Pakistan’s Minister of Information made a televised speech where he alerted the country to “credible evidence” of an imminent Indian military strike, within “the next 24-36 hours”.
Statement was changed now, from “military strike” to “military action”. Still not good at all. Honestly that could be worse. A strike implies a limited action by India, but a generic claim of “action” could mean anything from a limited strike to a full on incursion into Pakistani territory. If you read the article below you’ll understand what I mean by that potentially being worse.
Decker Eveleth, 26 April 2025 - Pakistan and Missile Defense Defeat Strategies
Remember when history ended in the 90s?
:oscar-isaac: “somehow history returned”
Hadn’t seen this one yet. Will try and remember to use it next time history comes back
dow nearly where the liberation started, and yield fallen to 4.6 from 4.9 on 30 years treasuries, another nothing ever happens gang W.
markets declaring they’re not a measure of the economy is very cool and will definitely have no implications with the imperial core
Yea, local currency bond yields were never a good measure. On the other hand, exchange rates are. DXY hasn’t recovered much.
There will always be demand for US Treasuries domestically as long as the US State is functional. It has no risk of involuntary default and is basically money (even long term ones to some extent). Short term treasuries are considered “cash equivalents” in accounting.
Hedge funds and money managers love Treasuries. It’s the easiest way to store money. Reserve accounts at the Fed are only accessible to eligible financial institutions, Treausries are accessible to public.
If you are a money manager, you can store money in a commercial bank and earn interest. Even if there were no default risk and all deposits were guaranteed by Gov, the deposits are still a liability of the commercial bank, not the Government.
That is not the case with treasuries, these are direct libablities of the Gov.
I believe - and I think there’s a tremendous amount of evidence that supports me - that the stock market is “efficient” in the sense that all information is processed nearly instantly (that doesn’t mean stock markets lead to efficient allocation of capital, that’s a very different thing). So that begs the question, the market is NOT pricing in an economic crash. Why?
It’s reasonable to conclude that market makers are not on the Trump Train and don’t actually believe he will restart American manufacturing or bring in hundreds of billions in tariff revenue.
OK, so that means the market thinks the tariffs won’t have much of an impact. Given the broad consensus among economists of all stripes about tariffs, it’s also reasonable to conclude that it’s not that the market anticipates there will be no impact from tariffs.
Thus, I think that right now the market assumes these tariffs won’t stick, and that they’ll actually disappear fairly soon. Market makers are not blind acolytes of capitalism, though. They have a laser focus on making money. So IMO, I think they have reliable inside information that the tariffs won’t stick. Like, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bessent is begging China to just give Trump the most nominal, pointless win so he can fold. And the market - looking back on the past - thinks China will end up being the rational grown-up and will spare any economic pain for giving Trump is cookie.
And… they might be right. Or at least, I see why this is the response from bourgeois capitalists. But I think if the market ever gets the notion that the tariffs might actually stick then I think you will see the market crash hard and fast. Maybe not as bad as 1929 because I think the market will hold out hope that the tariffs will be lifted (and why would anyone destroy the economy on purpose?) if things get really bad.
market is inefficient plenty of times, it might just be external hedge funds have unloaded onto trump simps, the volume will then thin out, every retail trader will leverage out, and then it will crash a second time with margin calls on retail traders after disappointing q2
or you might be right.the market has volume, price and depth of volume at the price (which is unknowable until price is reached), maybe someone dumping 200 billion will go unnoticed, maybe it will crash the whole thing, because deep pockets think different from you, but don’t care to short (but also won’t care to buy), and just wait on sidelines (like buffet). crashing dollar is very impossible proposition for example, no one has pockets deep enough against money printer, so they can’t pull off asian/pound crash even if they plausibly wanted to, forex markets aren’t that deep on that scale.
like examples of shadowy albatrosses everyone ignores inside america: saudis are cash negative already at 65 dollars, what they’ll do with that; india/pakistan is absolutely not priced in, despite modi being second bibi; oil inside usa is not, strictly speaking, very cash money as well at 65 (i think some wells are at 40$ cost, while some at 55, which is already bordering on non-profitable); lumber/steel shocks in construction, truck deliveries missing plausibly a month at this point; dropshippers not getting ad revenue, which also fucks google/meta; farmers getting boned inside usa with usaid pull out; ai not fucking working (tech companies do be swimming in cash to afford it, but their evaluation implies much more); construction work inside cities suddenly getting labor prices of non-migrant workers as well.
We have stopped all trade with the largest market in the world and stocks are the same. Money is so fucking fake man
it’s vibes-based, supply chains aren’t in crisis yet
Sachs also refered Carney as “one of his best student”. I wonder how Carney is going to further “reform” Canada economically.
Also, never let you guard down on someone Jeffrey Sachs roots for.
I’m sure Maple Syrup Starmer will be as popular, compassionate and successful as Mushy Peas Starmer
Michael Hudson mentioned that Sachs was one of the architects of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and now look at him giving his speeches.
Also
context
Epstein contact list
he also worked in Russia during the reform.
“gorbachev was the most courageous politician I have ever met”
isn’t he the guy who had change of heart about shock doctrine?
it’s easy to have a change of heart in the abstract when we can’t go back anymore.
no i meant more in the sense of might be good, might be shit, he is a “good,responsible capitalism”™ defender (and not rules-based imperialist order), which carney as a banker just might be (the responsible capitalist part, not that he would join china or stop isntreal).
I for one think if negative oil pressures and trade stuff persists, he’ll do starmerism and not some inventive financial shenanigans. Despite trump doing stuff in absolutely oafish way, canada can be hurt much more than usa by tariffs.
rip out the floorboards. Thats the modern economic policy of the west.
I’m actually curious if Carney can actually change the status quo of Canadian Economy by making it more integrated and more safe from external economy disruption. Fun fact, Canada has more trade barrier btw its provinces than each provinces have with the US.
People voted for the libs this time because of liberal nationalism, but I know that they’ll fold soon and we are going to buy all the F35s from the US
Removing internal trade barriers without gueranteeing worker protections will just lead to an internal shock doctrine with concentration of capital, no? Feels like this election was a choice between classic shock doctrine and whatever this new protectionist shock doctrine is
The main theme of this election is Canadian nationalism and how to resist economic dependency towards the US. If you don’t remove the internal trade barrier between provinces you are not going to have an integrated economy.
there isn’t a radical difference between worker protections in one province versus another. some for sure but it’s not wild.
Amazon displaying tariff prices “hostile and political,” White House says
I’m guessing Blue Origin is about to lose some contracts
Looks like the bald ghoul caved and is abandoning that idea (not that it was ever going to happen let’s be real). https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/amazon-says-considered-listing-tariff-charges-ultracheap-haul-site-whi-rcna203480
They “considered” it to earn ResistanceTM brownie points, then “folded” to flatter Trump’s easily manipulated ego
I expect we’ll see more of this as the shoe drops from the tariffs and it becomes increasingly impossible to ignore the emporer strutting around buck naked because China stopped selling him cloths.
empoorer
omgomg Im gonna EMPOOOOOOOR
there will be a huge supply chain disruption once inventories deplete in about 5-7 weeks as the container ships have dropped by 60% or more. even if this stops tomorrow you’re looking at a few weeks of empty shelves
Hitting him with the I DID THAT sticker
helping people to be fiscally conservative is good, until it goes against my manchild behaviour disguised as a trade war
Lol they backpedaled
fully informed consumers are anathema to capitalism
US airstrikes continued on Yemen for the 45th night, and 46th day, in a row.
Nighttime airstrikes hit the following governorates:
Sana’a
- Multiple airstrikes on Bilad Ar Rus district.
- 4 airstrikes on Jabal Nuqum.
- Multiple rounds of airstrikes on various areas of the capital itself, US Navy fighter jets were heard over Sana’a.
Amran
- 3 airstrikes on Harf Sufyan district.
Saada
- An airstrike on Sahar District.
Dhamar
- airstrike hit unknown area.
Daytime airstrikes hit the following governorates:
Al Jawf
- 6 airstrikes on Bart Al-Anan District.
Ta’izz
- 4 airstrikes on Maqbanah District.
Warning for potential graphic imagery during ongoing airstrikes:
Does all that bombing even accomplish anything?
The only thing you can really say it’s that there was a reduction (not elimination) of ballistic missile attacks on Israel, and a reduction of anti ship ballistic missile attacks, but that’s more due to the US Navy warships remaining outside of ballistic missile range than anything else, as demonstrated by yesterday’s ballistic missile attack on the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier.
At one point there was over two weeks of no ballistic missile attacks on Israel, but they’ve now resumed, at a reduced rate.
After 30 days of airstrikes there was an attempt to move to “phase 2” of the campaign, with more close range airstrikes, reconnaissance, and support, essentially loitering over the battle space with drones and manned close air support aircraft, but that led to a number of MQ-9 Reaper drones being shot down, so that phase is on hold. From a US perspective, this is a problem because until they move to phase 2, Ansarallah can rebuild their capabilities that get destroyed by airstrikes or even advance their capabilities (very likely with Iranian help), and the movements of their leaders at various underground facilities are difficult to track without solid intelligence. Which is why Ansarallah may consider a continued confrontation with the United States in their interest, the more they can prove to be a reliable partner to Iran in confronting the US (including using their own resources for local manufacturing), the more support they can get from Iran. For Iran, the more they can fight the US on another front, the more they can avoid fighting the US on the home front.
not really , apperently they use old target banks from saudi arabia apperently therefore bomb allready bombed stuff
The war that went famously well for the Saudis
Ask the “israelis” that
“I wished for death to end the nightmare I was living through”.
Received this awful testimony from a colleague who was rounded up in Gaza tortured while in Israeli detention and finally released.
For UNRWA staff humanitarian duty is met with brutality.
Since the start of the war in October 2023, over 50 UNRWA staff among them teachers, doctors, social workers, have been detained and abused.
They have been treated in the most shocking and inhumane way. They reported being beaten up and used as human shields.
They were subjected to sleep deprivation, humiliation, threats of harm to them and their families and attacks by dogs.
Many were subjected to forced confessions.
― Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General
Every nation but the Ansar controlled region of Yemen seems to have either thrown their hands up and gone back to business as usual or are actively aiding the genocide. What a world. 24/7 video coverage of the carnage and yet it continues unabated.
It’s sick. I hate being here, being part of this sick, ugly world.
You and me both, comrade. This shit has had me in some very dark places for nearly two years now. Only my spite and my disdain for the fascists who architected this calamity fuels me now.
nEvEr AgAiN
It can little a happen again, as a treat.
BTW Israhell has been blocking UN food relief, so basically Gaza has run out of food. You would think this organization would protect its own employees at least. But no, the “international law” gang loves to pounce on AES and do nothing that for example North Korea isnt allowed to import agricultural machinery to improve its food population.
Side note but can the DPRK not import via China or Russia?
Even so, the fact that the UN was ever allowed to restrict agricultural products to anyone is an utter travesty. It’s just further proof that the sanctions regime of most countries is not interested at all in pressuring hostile governments but in legalised collective punishment.
3/5 members of the UN security council are NATO. The UN is very limited in its political independence.
NATO blockades also punish entities that trade with their primary targets.
seriously. Sick and tired of China and Russia complying with US secondary sanctions. Fuck them. Trade with whoever you want.
The us navy is present in all trade routes and patrols every ocean. Not to forget the entire international trading system is funneled through the west.
They don’t really get to “do whatever they want”.
True, but China at least has a land border.
Tbf I’m pretty sure they ignore the sanctions already I was just curious if anyone knew to what extent
I mean they did have hydroponics and they didn’t look all that different from what you get in the west.
agricultural products are dual use because they can be used to feed people that might fight against US imperialism
end apartheid, end the occupation, death to Israhell
Neat infographic showing US/Coalition air losses to AnsarAllah since 2015, updated for the recent FA-18 loss.
Note this includes indirect losses such as the one from yesterday and aircraft written off due to technical failures whilst engaging AnsarAllah.
The NDP itself is also losing official party status as they were unable to gain 12 or more seats, and will be unable to access certain funds and lose special parliamentary privileges.
Since their high water mark of being the Official Opposition after the 2011 election under Jack Layton, the NDP has triangulated itself to what we see today: a party that refused to leave the shadow of the Liberals.
Considering the Liberals are less than seven seats shy of a majority, the NDP have quite a bit of power still - Libs have to turn to them or the Bloc to pass any policy, and especially so for any that requires confidence of the house or it will trigger an election.
It’s effectively the same parliamentary calculus as before the election, except now the NDP have far less presence on committees and we pretty much lost anyone who cared about Palestine.
pretty much lost anyone who cared about Palestine.
Notable exception to that would be Heather McPherson, Edmonton MP
lost anyone who cared about Palestine.
through this campaign jagmeet started saying correct things about gaza, explicitly using the word genocide. he hasn’t been correct on this for long but he’s literally the only canadian party leader who has been. elizabeth may of the GPC continued just blaming netanyahu. to be clear, I don’t give jagmeet a lot of credit here, but I note the change of rhetoric nevertheless.
as far as their power in a minority government, I think they’re really going to be pressed to maintain party discipline to force the libs to do anything specific. 7 seats, collapsed federal vote, no leader and no official party status will not make it easier for them to extract concessions from the LPC. it’ll be curious to see who the LPC turns to to get anything done - the BQ, NDP and elizabeth May are all options and they only need 4 or 5 votes to pass measures with a majority
The math is still what it is, and unless they land right at 171 (or 170 and Mike Morrice wins his riding - currently 450 votes behind with 2000 left to count), Green support isn’t enough to pass bills.
The NDP will still whip their caucus, appoint an interim leader, and hold a leadership race soon enough. As much as there’s a part of me that wants the party to die to open some some room to the left of them, I’m not convinced it’ll happen just yet. They’ve been pretty far on the sidelines for most of their history.
Yeah on paper it works, but I can imagine floor crossing as a potential and/or weak leader not being able to whip NDP effectively. Despite not winning a resounding majority, the liberal machine is ascendant now on the canadian “left”. Hopefully the NDP or whoever can stick to their guns and accomplish something useful, I’m just saying it is a tougher row to hoe than 2021-2025.
Communist Party of Canada called it a genocide too, they got my vote. For Singh I think it was a case of far too little and far too late.
Did CPC-ML run?
Checking their website they at least had some in Quebec, but can’t find a full list anywhere.
Not sure, I don’t remember seeing them on the ballot.
