Patriota de Kumari Kandam

El adeco sociológico es el pilar de la sociedad venezolana, que permanece inmune a todos los cambios históricos y políticos. Si sobreviene el holocausto nuclear, sólo el adeco sociólogico permanecerá en pie.

La cuenta de Devox es ese amigo que sólo tiene variaciones de un mismo chiste.

Usar coma criminal —es decir, entre el sujeto y el verbo— es propio de maricorinistas.

Terrifying reality check. Al Jazeera confirms the US and Israel have bombed over 760 schools and 350 health centers in Iran. They are intentionally obliterating mental health hospitals and residential markets. The scale of these war crimes is absolutely sickening.

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This message bears repeating: every bombing of our industries does not erase our progress—it reveals it. Every bridge, institute, research centre, and manufacturing plant that is bombed makes visible what sanctions and propaganda tried to hide. What cannot be bombed away is a nation’s knowledge and its determination to advance further. Iran’s petrochemical industry is a testament to our nation’s indigenous progress, and we will rebuild stronger.

The Israel Lobby was a core reason the US, contrary to its security interests, picked a fight with Iran after 9/11. The most reformist president in the history of the Islamic Republic, Muhammad Khatami, was elected in a shocking - Khamenei publicly endorsed his opponent - landslide in 1997 on a platform of normal relations with the West ("dialogue of civilizations"), and was in office through 2005. The Clinton Administration publicly expressed optimism about improved ties between the countries. This was despite the 1996 Khobar Tower Bombings by Saudi Hezbollah, which killed 19 American soldiers and in which the US suspected, but could not to Clinton's satisfaction prove, the IRGC played a role.* After the 9/11 attack by Al Qaeda (Sunni extremists supported by the Taliban), we now had a common enemy with Shiite Iran. The Khatami gov forcefully condemned the attack and organized public protests against 9/11 (which Iranian people also spontaneously condemned in great numbers). In October 2001, the IRGC collaborated with the US in the invasion of Afghanistan (which we attacked for the Taliban's sheltering of Al Qaeda), providing the US intelligence, access to Iranian air space, and coordinating the Northern Alliance to help us overthrow the Taliban, notably leading the 2001 uprising in Herat, where Hazaras, Northern Alliance fighters, and Quds Force elements (under the command of Qasem Soleimani) captured the city from the Taliban. Yet months after Iran helped us in Afghanistan - even as an effective co-belligerent in Herat - Bush slammed the door: the January 2002 “Axis of Evil” speech lumped Iran with Iraq and North Korea as existential threats, with the US promising 'confrontation.' In 2003, Iran's grand-bargain proposal (offering an end to its nuclear program, and even an end to support for Hamas/Hezbollah in exchange for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine), which sought security guarantees against a US attack, was rejected by the White House. The pivot wasn’t driven by sudden new Iranian aggression; there is no such aggression one can point to in this period. (Tehran was pursuing a nuclear program, but it had for many years, as US Intelligence knew.) It was instead shaped by a network of senior Bush Administration officials who viewed Iran policy through the lens of their deep ideological attachment to Israel and its security interests. These officials included Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser (@Wurmserscribit), all three of whom were among the eight co-authors of the "Clean Break" memorandum for Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu), which called for overthrowing Saddam Hussein in Iraq and 'engaging' Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran militarily. (Rather odd that three senior US officials were writing policy papers for Netanyahu, about how to ensure Israeli security, a few years before they joined a US Administration, but I digress.) These men won the ideological battle against Bush Administration "realists" like Colin Powell, who favored a much less belligerent stance towards Iran. They persuaded Vice President Cheney in particular, and Bush (at least in the First Term), that Iran must be taken out as part of the Administration's doctrine of pre-emptively eliminating potential enemies after 9/11; and also that Iran would be an ideal staging ground for the Administration's "Freedom Agenda," by which pro-US democracies would be established in the Middle East. However, there can be little doubt from their history that these men were in truth ideologically committed to Israel's interests. The Bush Administration would go on to dramatically intensify sanctions against Iran, as part of the largely successful US policy over the last two decades to impoverish that country. The only reason they didn't invade the country was that, following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US military became bogged down in a prolonged, fantastically violent insurgency, in the course of which hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of US soldiers were killed. In the course of this insurgency, the IRGC funded, trained, and equipped, Shiite militant groups in Iraq that killed hundreds of US soldiers, often via roadside bombs. This was the so-called Iranian "aggression" against the US that is now used to justify the current war of aggression. In reality, the Americans blatantly picked a fight with the Iranians after September 11, who were actively seeking détente. And they did so in large part because of the influence of the pro-Israel Lobby in the Bush Administration. * In assessing the allegation of IRGC involvement, it is noteworthy that the Saudis, who were keen to blame the Iranians for the bombing, refused the US access to a range of critical evidence in this case. Clinton's Defense Secretary during the attack, William J. Perry, did not believe Iran was involved in the attack, and Clinton himself did not believe the evidence was strong enough to justify armed retaliation against Iran.

El burka y el niqab se usa en los países sunitas, los aliados de Israel y Estados Unidos y enemigos de Irán. El contexto es importante.

They’re trying to cancel Roald Dahl with a Broadway Play because he went to Lebanon and became anti-Zionist when he saw what Israel was doing lol.

If the United States is at war, then Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. If the United States is not at war, then Pete Hegseth is a murderer. What Pete Hegseth ordered the military to do violates international law. Double tap strike on the B1 bridge in Iran while the rescue team were on-site is succession to target first responders assisting victims of the initial attack. Under the Geneva Conventions, you are obligated to rescue victims of the first attack. Abandoned any survivors and bombing them along with rescue teams is illegal, immoral, and a war crime.

Absolutely horrifying. Trump and Israel bombed a bridge in Karaj, Iran — while families were nearby enjoying picnics. Then they bombed it again when rescue teams rushed in. Bombing civilians is a war crime. Bombing rescuers is a war crime Bombing infrastructure is a war crime

🚨 Outrageous US airstrike on Iran's B1 Bridge in Karaj – a blatant crime against civilians. - 1,050m suspension bridge, tallest in Middle East (~136-156m high) - Critical link for Tehran-Karaj commuters, trade & northern routes - Hit during family outings; 8-13 civilians killed, 95+ injured Bombing civilian infrastructure isn't "precision" – it's collective punishment & potential war crime.

Douglas Murray is a fraud and an ignorant fool. His fancy posh accent has allowed him to pass off as an expert on geopolitics, Islam, war and peace, and other sundry matters. I just saw an interview with the BBC, involving him, in which he described Muammar Gaddafi as a jihadist. Gaddafi was a sworn enemy of jihadism and all its works. His lodestar was the Arab nationalism and socialism of Nasser. If Murray doesn't even know this, what else doesn't he know?

Iranian leaders have achieved operational success in externalizing the costs of this war. But their *strategy* still failed because they did not anticipate three things. First, that U.S. allies, including the Gulf states that have so lavishly fetted Trump, would have essentially no influence over the decisions he makes. Second, that neither the U.S. president nor his cabinet would care about unprecedented disruptions in the global economy and would make it known publicly that they don’t care. Third, that the U.S. president could express glee about the prospect of endless escalation and the commission of war crimes and not a single part of the famous American system of checks and balances would block him from intensifying this idiotic, ruinous war. In the face of Israeli and American aggression, Iran chose a perfectly rational, if risky, strategy. They managed to make it work operationally. But Trump’s pursuit of this war is fundamentally irrational. He is a mad king. Rex interregnum.

If you think the people who say these things are the "good guys" in any sense of the term, then you are are either an amoral sociopath or drowning in jingoistic propaganda so deep that your brain perished in it long ago.

Este podcast de Jorge el Salvaje es espectacular. Dos horas y media que parecen 15 minutos. Masterclass del profesor Zunzunegui. Ese minuto y medio es muy bueno, pero todo el podcast está genial.

Vamos a tener chavismo anglosionista antes que GTA 6.

Admite que no puede voltear al régimen; no finaliza la guerra ni anuncia una invasión terrestre; no dijo nada de la OTAN; admite que no puede abrir el Estrecho de Ormuz; dice que EEUU no necesita la región por ende admite que es por Israel. El discurso más al pedo del mundo.

On the left: Rahmeh Aladwan, an NHS doctor arrested & charged over alleged verbal support for Hamas. On the right: the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked militia walking freely, treated like a head of state and shaking hands with Keir Starmer. Spare me the lectures about “values.”

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

If you could travel back to 2015 -- let alone 2005 -- and explain that a founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria will be made President with the help of the US and Israel, then warmly welcomed in the WH and western capitals, you'd be called a crazy anti-west conspiracy theorist.