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'it’s not the case that institutions have been taken over by radicals, but that radicalism has been conquered by mainstream institutions' musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/the-cultural…

Tel Aviv now. We are exhausted by this miserable situation; enough is enough.😥💔

Liberals quitting Twitter in a huff was a weak-minded abdication of political responsibility. Like their nomination of Kamala Harris, the exodus demonstrated that, to them, feeling morally unassailable was more important than beating Trump and combating Trumpism.

LLMs are a moderately useful software feature based on 40-year-old technology. Chatbots are never going to become intelligent, or eliminate massive numbers of jobs—unless we keep spending trillions of dollars on a dead end and destroy the economy.

There is no way the UK should be allowing the USA to use British bases to,carry out these attacks. They would be War Crimes. Please RT if you agree.🇬🇧

norm in the US. The norm. #IranWar

Donald Trump's America. Congress cannot wait until November. They have to do something now. You have to grow a spine and stand up for sanity and your own survival as a serious, trustworthy ally. From this side of the pond we are simply aghast. Collective madness appears to be the

If you want an answer to the eternal question how a whole population can follow (or appear to follow) a fascist dictator who doesn't care about international law and commits war crimes with impunity and there have been a few, not least in the last century, look no further than

Iran has flouted sanctions and continues to do so easily with the help of China. That is how it can afford the war machine that is fighting far better than expected: 1) China is Iran's financial oxygen. China now buys roughly 1.4 million barrels of Iranian oil per day — more than 80% of Iran's total output, and more than double what it bought in 2017. A decade ago that figure was around 30%. When Trump's first "maximum pressure" campaign drove Iranian exports down to as low as 200,000 barrels/day in 2019, China stepped in and systematically filled the gap. Today Iran earns tens of billions annually almost exclusively because of Chinese demand. 2) The evasion system is sophisticated and deliberate. A shadow fleet of at least 56 tankers has moved over 400 million barrels of sanctioned oil, using tactics like changing ship names, disabling tracking signals, and transferring cargo between vessels mid-journey. On the financial side, smaller Chinese banks like Bank of Kunlun (already cut off from U.S. markets, so with nothing further to lose) process payments. In some cases, Chinese state-backed companies simply build infrastructure inside Iran in exchange for oil. 3) The U.S. is stuck. Washington has issued indictments and expanded sanctions against individuals and smaller entities, but going after the broader Chinese financial system risks spiking global oil prices and triggering a serious deterioration in U.S.-China relations. China's customs authorities have even stopped officially reporting Iranian oil imports since 2023, giving Washington just enough political cover to avoid escalating. 4) Without China, there is no Iranian war machine. Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz to Western shipping, mined the strait, and threatened attacks on allied vessels, all while its own oil tankers continue sailing freely to Chinese ports. 5) The military cooperation has become increasingly direct. Iran received Chinese HQ-9B surface-to-air missile batteries, significantly upgrading its ability to protect nuclear and energy sites. China continues to facilitate the transfer of dual-use technology (such as sodium perchlorate for rocket fuel) through shell companies in Hong Kong and third-party hubs, sustaining Iran’s drone and missile production and for five years now, the navies of China, Iran, and Russia conducted live-fire drills near the Strait of Hormuz. China has built the Iranian war machine over the last two decades just for this eventuality. To lure the US into a trap while enjoying cheap oil. It has succeeded.

there is no energy transition, nor will there be in this century.

@HeerJeet Perhaps if the liberal tradition you exemplify was less worthless and less utterly morally bankrupt he wouldn't have to.

It's very, very bad that the most prominent public voice making this cogent criticism of Trump is Tucker Carlson.

'The World is Changing' — East German map (1960) depicting the spread of socialism around the world.

Failed nuclear raid confirmed. Looks like they brought along some (Mossad-affilitated?) mission specialists because identifying enriched uranium is outside Delta's skillset - who also brought along their personal documents because civilians will keep those things in their bags.

This is increasingly becoming an issue across the board. When I was teaching English, students often were not familiar with references to things like chicken little or the emperor’s new clothes because they were not read to as children. This makes it difficult for them to read classic novels, which are full of what were once common cultural references, it can be frustrating for both students and teacher. If we lose these ties to a common history and framework, we lose our identity and sense of self. I think a good deal of the lack of patriotism, the propensity towards self-flagellation is downstream of this.

Literally every case of someone being cancelled and being called an antisemite needs to be reevaluated.

Iran should know that as long as Israel exists they will be attacked again and again, and the US will help it, and everything they rebuild will be destroyed. It is their one chance to shape reality. They must not rely on any guarantee; it's all a lie. Every word of it

The atom bomb is a paper tiger that the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the people decide the outcome of a war, not by one or two new types of weapon.

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇸🇦 Iran has hit the Middle East’s largest petrochemical company, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the fourth largest petrochemical manufacturer in the world after DuPont, BASF and Sinopec

This is what Zionists were focused on in the 30s and early 40s, as Hitler took power.

The focus on the rescue of a single downed US airman in Iran has buried the story of Pete Hegseth panic evacuating 1500 US sailors from Bahrain under Iranian counter-attack "They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack.’ You’ve got to go.” Empire in retreat.

They genuinely believe they won the Cold War because their ideas were better. Not because they outspent the Soviet Union militarily until the Soviet economy broke. Not because they were willing to proxy-war across four continents and leave millions dead in the process. Not because they propped up any dictatorship, no matter how brutal, as long as it was anti-communist. Their ideas. Their values. The inherent appeal of the American way of life. This is what they tell themselves. And from inside the bubble, it makes perfect sense. From outside the bubble, you see a country that spent nearly half a century destroying any alternative that emerged, not because the alternative was failing, but because it might succeed, and success would disprove the story. You don't need to suppress bad ideas. You only need to suppress the ones that might work.