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Everyone said Hezbollah was finished in 2024. So why is it still fighting, and what did Israel get wrong? @KarimMakdisi of @MakdisiStreet explains, on Dispatches w/ @RaniaKhalek: youtu.be/7CCqrKoNgBE

When we spoke to Adam McKay recently, he asked why no one has made a film about Ho Chi Minh's time in America—a period of his biography which has become almost mythic in stature. Here's the story as Gerald Horne and I see it: (Full link below)

The world is now seeing Iranian women in different positions in the government, in science, technology, arts, etc.

🇵🇸 A film dating to the year 1896 in Palestine, before the mass invasion of settlers, describes the land being inhabited 85% by Muslims, 10% by Christians and 5% by Jews, 50% of whom living in Jerusalem and all of them speaking Arabic at home.

The awakening? They say this song is going viral in the Arab World. Read the subtitles.

🇨🇺 Cuban Solidarity Under Threat: How should President @Claudiashein respond to that kind of pressure? Dr. @HilaryGoodfrien on "El Taller" 🛠️.

When US airstrikes killed 168 students & teachers at a school in Minab, Iran, apologists for the Trump regime claimed the school was adjacent to a military base. Yesterday, I went to the site of the atrocity and found no evidence to support their claim. youtube.com/watch?v=1HW_WO…

Had a very informative convo with the wonderful @KarimMakdisi about the escalating war on Lebanon, check it out

Everyone who supported the "revolution" in Syria was supporting an Israeli project. I myself and a handful of others warned of this countless times and people with no geopolitical or historical sense ignored and smeared us. And now that we have, unfortunately, been proven right, they are nowhere to be found.

🚨Rothschild Paris Offices Raided in Epstein Probe | (PART 2)🚨 "This is how a Mossad Spy (Katsa) would of operated…” Epstein’s global network—politicians, billionaires, travel, access—mirrors that of a Mossad field officer (katsa), as described in intelligence accounts such as Gideon’s Spies. Now a Paris raid adds another layer. @TokeMalone

US and Israel deliberately bombed Iran's top space research university. A researcher on the ground confirms the total destruction of labs developing indigenous civilian satellites. This is a calculated attack by Washington to cripple scientific progress.

There is a 66% chance that one of these two planes were involved in the operation against Venezuela. There are no replacements for this plane in the pipeline. The US operates it at a distance it assumes is “safe”. Iran destroyed the USAF’s priors. It will never recover from this!

What is striking for us in Africa is watching Western institutions finally admit in 2026 what Africans have said for four decades: SAPs devastated our economies because they were never designed to build developmental states or transform productive systems. Their logic was always fiscal contraction, privatisation, trade liberalisation and the hollowing out of public capacity. Call it what it was: a neocolonial reset managed through the Bretton Woods system. SAPs did not merely “fail”; they dismantled state capability, weakened public education and health, erased technical cadres, and locked many countries back into the colonial pattern of raw-material export, import dependence and political tutelage. Naomi Klein’s shock doctrine helps explain the method: create crisis, impose retreat, then reorganise the economy in the interests of external capital, while leaving coercive state machinery intact to police the social wreckage. The disaster is not surprising. It was the design.

Did you know… “one of histories largest human trafficking networks operated under the disguise of a jewish charity for almost 30 years?”

Is that the same US that blew up ports and energy facilities in Saudi and Oman?

EMPIRE’S MILITARY INDUSTRY AND THE FOREVER WARS What are the factors driving the US military establishment to follow Trump and Netanyahu into an unprovoked, losing war? Professor David Gibbs offers a stark explanation for America's unending wars: the system itself demands them. "When you create this enormous military, you have to use it periodically," he argues. "There's no way you can justify the existence of this enormous, outsized military, far larger than any in the world." The numbers support his claim. The United States maintains at least 128 overseas bases across 51 countries, with a 2026 defence budget of $895 billion—more than the next ten nations combined. China, by contrast, spends approximately $267 billion on defence, just 1.5% of its GDP, with only one overseas base in Djibouti. Yet Washington frames Beijing as the existential threat. With the end of the Cold War, Gibbs explains, the US "was basically looking for new enemies." This institutional need—what Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex—encompasses think tanks, elite academics, and journalists who benefited from Cold War funding. "Lots of grants and scholarships and book contracts. Secret work for the Central Intelligence Agency, paying you to write books and then editing them for you in secret." Enter the 1% Doctrine, formalised by Dick Cheney. "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty," Cheney declared. The logic transforms hypothetical threats into justification for preemptive war. This doctrine now targets Iran. Despite IAEA confirmation that Iran has "no structured program to manufacture nuclear weapons," the US-Israeli onslaught has killed over 1,300 civilians, including 165 schoolgirls in Minab. As Gibbs notes, "The idea that if somebody might hypothetically threaten you, you should treat it as a certainty and attack them... makes no sense. But that really is the neoconservative idea." The system, built for a Cold War that ended decades ago, requires enemies. It has manufactured them—from Iraq's nonexistent WMDs to Iran's hypothetical nukes—and the machinery of war grinds on. @venanalysis @VoxUmmah @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @blkagendareport @OrinocoTribune @KawsachunNews

🚨REPORT | BBC Verify says footage and expert analysis indicate a U.S. Precision Strike Missile was likely used in the March 9 strike on a sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, where children were training, killing at least 21 people, including young girls. High-resolution satellite imagery reviewed by the BBC shows the sports hall and nearby residential buildings destroyed, while the adjacent IRGC compound appears to have remained undamaged. As Drop Site’s earlier reporting documented, the missile tore through a civilian gym packed with students during training sessions, triggering panic, collapsing debris, and “continuous screaming” as injured children were pulled from the rubble. Eyewitnesses described parents arriving to find bodies of teenage girls and young athletes—some killed instantly, others buried under concrete. Both BBC and Drop Site reports are linked below.

Never forget: Cairo will go dark at 9pm indefinitely because our gas is keeping the lights on in the bunkers of Tel Aviv. Our compradors have tied our destinies with that of the settler. Extorting money from Palestinians at Rafah does not patch-up economic slavery, clearly.

This is how Iranian female scholars put you in your place @Elham_Kad

PROFESSOR MARANDI SAYS GULF STATES WILL NEVER BE ALLOWED TO BE USED AS STAGING AREAS FOR U.S AGAIN The end of the U.S Empire.