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"Donald Trump has got so much domination within NATO that I don't believe it's possible to reform NATO from within." @ZackPolanski was right about NATO.

General Sir Nick Carter here, former Chief of the UK’s armed forces, essentially saying @ZackPolanski was right about NATO.

CNN: Breaking news. Cuba's electrical grid has suffered a complete and total collapse. The USA is a terrorist state. Hospitals, nursing homes, water treatment plants. All without power because of a cruel and illegal medieval siege of a tiny island.

Turns out it was Trump that undermined NATO and Zack was insanely correct.

‘Keynes predicted we’d have a 15-hour work week. The robots HAVE been taking our jobs — but instead of redistributing the labour, we’ve simply made up completely meaningless, pointless jobs.’ - David Graeber

We head to Cuba later this week as part of an international solidarity group to bring critical medical aid for the Cuban people. 🇨🇺 🇮🇪 To everyone who has assisted us gathering it, GRMA, we will travel with over 200kg of critical medicines. As the Taoiseach heads to Washington to shake the hand of a war monger, we'll be in Cuba where the island is being strangled and starved by the man who'll be handed shamrock.

🚨 BREAKING: Take Back Power supporters REDISTRIBUTE food from supermarkets to those most in need

🇨🇳China’s Maglev train just hit 620 mph, faster than most airplanes! Using magnetic levitation, it travels with zero contact on the tracks. Ultra-high-speed travel is already here, and it’s frictionless! This is what happens when your country invests in technologies instead of funding wars!

Tony Benn died 12 years ago today. May his greatest and most prophetic speech one day cease to be relevant.

Tony Benn died on this day 12 years ago. Benn always said that he wanted to remembered by one, simple epitaph: "He encouraged us". What’s often forgotten about Tony, however, is that he left behind some of the most astute political writing of the socialist left in Britain. (1/3)

The petrodollar is one of those crimes so large people stop seeing it. Like colonialism. Like slavery. Like sanctions. The world has been trained to think it is normal that if two non-American countries trade a non-American resource, they should still kneel before the American dollar first. Why? Why should a barrel from the Gulf salute Washington before it reaches Hanoi, Delhi, Beijing, or Johannesburg? It should not. It only does because empire has spent decades disciplining the imagination of the planet.

BREAKING : Spanish 🇪🇸 PM Pedro Sánchez belted Trump and Netanyahu despite getting retaliation threat "You can't support those who set the world on fire and then blame the smoke caused by that fire" 🔥🔥 Spine : 100%, Courage : 100%, Vision : 100% Mad respect for this man 🫡

As yet another UBI trial rolls past showing that it works really well, it's hard not to conclude that the main reason nobody adopts it is because bad employers don't want to give up their leverage over the desperate and poor to work in shit conditions for pittance.

Oh look, after Spain spent the past six years investing heavily in solar and wind renewables, energy price fluctuations because of the US-Israel attack on Iran will impact them the least "Since 2019, Spain has doubled its wind and solar capacity, adding over 40 GW - more than any other EU country except Germany, whose power market is twice the size of Spain’s" "As a result, Spain’s electricity price is much less influenced by the ever-fluctuating cost of gas, which increased by 55 per cent the day after the Iran war started and has continued to rise"

In an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, economics professor Jeffrey Sachs says the war on Iran “may just mean escalation to Armageddon”, adding that Israel and the US are dragging the world to World War III

University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer: “Between 1971 and 2021 the US murdered 38 million people around the world [with crippling economic sanctions].” The regime that needs to change is the U.S. dictatorship of capital. Both parties must go. A new system is required.

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

BREAKING Spain’s PM Sánchez: “They say that Spain is alone.” “They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.” “We are not alone. We are the first.” “Those defending the indefensible will be the ones left alone.” 🇪🇸

America may be the first empire whose population mistakes being constantly exposed to criticism for having meaningfully transcended the thing being criticized. They think awareness is absolution. They think satire is resistance. Late-night jokes are resistance. Voting every four years is resistance. A documentary is resistance. A confession is resistance. No. If the structure remains intact, your self-awareness is just another luxury product. An empire that can narrate its own crimes without stopping them has achieved a level of moral decadence Rome would have admired.