Forwarded from Pepe Escobar
A gentle reminder.
ALL the algos in the West are controlled by this techno-feudalist club.
ALL the algos in the West are controlled by this techno-feudalist club.
Forwarded from SKWAWKBOX
Yes Trump attacking Venezuela is about the oil – but the oil is about the dollar...
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/05/trump-venezuela-oil-dollar/
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/05/trump-venezuela-oil-dollar/
Canary
Yes Trump attacking Venezuela is about the oil - but the oil is about the dollar
Trump's Venezuela invasion is about shoring up the US dollar - and the whole US economy, both of which are already at risk
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Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Ron Springett attaching wedding flowers from his buttonhole to the goal nett for luck.
September 8, 1962, Springett got married on Saturday morning and vowed to keep a clean sheet in the match against Arsenal that same day in the afternoon.
Unfortunately he did not keep a clean sheet and they lost 3-2. Could you imagine a player nowadays playing a match just after his wedding?
September 8, 1962, Springett got married on Saturday morning and vowed to keep a clean sheet in the match against Arsenal that same day in the afternoon.
Unfortunately he did not keep a clean sheet and they lost 3-2. Could you imagine a player nowadays playing a match just after his wedding?
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Not all unity means strength. Unity between fire and water puts the fire out and causes the water to disappear as steam; unity between a wolf and a lamb results in the lamb finding itself inside the wolf; unity between the proletariat and the ruling class is to sacrifice the proletariat; unity with traitors means defeat.
- Karl Liebknecht
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Britain’s foreign policy isn’t neutral, it’s aligned with US imperial interests.
In the North Atlantic, the UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that British forces supported a US operation to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker linked to Venezuelan exports, providing naval and RAF surveillance assistance to a US blockade aimed at crippling Venezuelan oil access. The operation, framed as sanctions enforcement, reinforces UK-US collaboration in projecting power and controlling resources in the Western Hemisphere.
This isn’t isolated. Britain’s presence in the Eastern Mediterranean shows a similar pattern: the UK maintains military bases in Cyprus (RAF Akrotiri and Dhekelia) that have long been used by British and US forces for operations tied to Israel’s war on Gaza and wider regional interventions. Intelligence flights over Gaza and transport support from these bases link the UK materially to Israel’s military campaign, even as official silence or denials continue.
The logic is consistent:
- Global resource control (Venezuela oil)
- Geopolitical domination (Atlantic and Middle East)
Military logistics and intelligence sharing
These are not acts of neutral diplomacy they are functions of imperial alignment.
Imperialism is not “over there” and Britain’s strategic choices show it in action: supporting US operations on Venezuela’s energy and facilitating Israel's genocide of Palestine from bases on Cyprus.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uk-supported-us-mission-seize-russian-oil-tanker-mod-says-2026-01-07
In the North Atlantic, the UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that British forces supported a US operation to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker linked to Venezuelan exports, providing naval and RAF surveillance assistance to a US blockade aimed at crippling Venezuelan oil access. The operation, framed as sanctions enforcement, reinforces UK-US collaboration in projecting power and controlling resources in the Western Hemisphere.
This isn’t isolated. Britain’s presence in the Eastern Mediterranean shows a similar pattern: the UK maintains military bases in Cyprus (RAF Akrotiri and Dhekelia) that have long been used by British and US forces for operations tied to Israel’s war on Gaza and wider regional interventions. Intelligence flights over Gaza and transport support from these bases link the UK materially to Israel’s military campaign, even as official silence or denials continue.
The logic is consistent:
- Global resource control (Venezuela oil)
- Geopolitical domination (Atlantic and Middle East)
Military logistics and intelligence sharing
These are not acts of neutral diplomacy they are functions of imperial alignment.
Imperialism is not “over there” and Britain’s strategic choices show it in action: supporting US operations on Venezuela’s energy and facilitating Israel's genocide of Palestine from bases on Cyprus.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uk-supported-us-mission-seize-russian-oil-tanker-mod-says-2026-01-07
Reuters
UK supported US mission to seize Russian-flagged oil tanker, MoD says
Britain provided support to the United States in its operation to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
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Forwarded from The Communists
The IHRA definition of antisemitism was ‘declared adopted’ by Wes Streeting, British Health and Social Care Minister in November 2025.
Right to Protest Ltd. has launched a judicial review to stop this measure, and defend the ability of all who support Palestine, and opposed genocide to speak freely.
Please donate to the legal fund: https://crowdjustice.com/case/defend-free-speech/
The IHRA ‘working definition’ was NOT designed to be a tool to fight racism. Just the reverse. It is a tool to make ILLEGAL the criticism of Israeli racism: Israeli apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass murder amounting to genocide. All of which is carried on with full backing of US and Britain, including the present Labour government.
These are the most dreadful and heinous international crimes, in which Wes Streeting himself is complicit. The IHRA ‘definition of antisemitism’ is therefore a corrupt tool of political repression behind which Streeting hides HIS OWN, and the LABOUR GOVERNMENT’s complicity in genocide.
1.4 million NHS workers will be subject to political censorship and repression as a result of this adoption. The target will be all pro-Palestinian British workers (60-70% of British workers are in sympathy with Palestine, despite the years of incessantly hostile media), and particularly Palestinians, Arabs and muslims working in the health service.
The IHRA definition is thus a RACIST tool of repression, which is being used to suppress all discussion of Israel’s crimes, to attack pro-Palestine activists and to facilitate zionist attacks on progressive, pro-Palestine and anti-genocide British workers.
Right to Protest Ltd. has launched a judicial review to stop this measure, and defend the ability of all who support Palestine, and opposed genocide to speak freely.
Please donate to the legal fund: https://crowdjustice.com/case/defend-free-speech/
The IHRA ‘working definition’ was NOT designed to be a tool to fight racism. Just the reverse. It is a tool to make ILLEGAL the criticism of Israeli racism: Israeli apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass murder amounting to genocide. All of which is carried on with full backing of US and Britain, including the present Labour government.
These are the most dreadful and heinous international crimes, in which Wes Streeting himself is complicit. The IHRA ‘definition of antisemitism’ is therefore a corrupt tool of political repression behind which Streeting hides HIS OWN, and the LABOUR GOVERNMENT’s complicity in genocide.
1.4 million NHS workers will be subject to political censorship and repression as a result of this adoption. The target will be all pro-Palestinian British workers (60-70% of British workers are in sympathy with Palestine, despite the years of incessantly hostile media), and particularly Palestinians, Arabs and muslims working in the health service.
The IHRA definition is thus a RACIST tool of repression, which is being used to suppress all discussion of Israel’s crimes, to attack pro-Palestine activists and to facilitate zionist attacks on progressive, pro-Palestine and anti-genocide British workers.
CrowdJustice
Defend Free Speech: Legal Challenge against the IHRA in the NHS
Right to Protest is dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights, civil liberties and democratic freedoms, including freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and equality before the law
Forwarded from SKWAWKBOX
Trump's DoJ drops nearly EVERY mention of Maduro’s ‘cartel’ from its indictment - because it doesn't exist...
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/07/doj-indictment-maduro-cartel/
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/07/doj-indictment-maduro-cartel/
Canary
The DoJ dropped nearly EVERY mention of Maduro’s ‘cartel’ from its indictment
Trump used Maduro's supposed 'cartel' as the whole basis for his escalating and wholly criminal aggression against Venezuela
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Forwarded from Anti Imperialist Action Ireland
The EU has once again led an economic attack on Irish Fishing Communities.
EU Get The Fuck!!!
#FuckTheEU
EU Get The Fuck!!!
#FuckTheEU
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Forwarded from Class Consciousness Project
The United States has launched a brazen act of imperialist aggression against Venezuela, seizing democratically elected President Nicolás Maduro from his home alongside his family under the pretext of “narco-terrorism”. This is not law enforcement. It is regime-change politics by any means, aimed at breaking a sovereign state that refuses to submit and throwing the country open to Western capitalist expansion
We’ve seen this pattern before. Especially in Latin America that the US claims as it's backyard. Sanctions, coups, kidnappings, always dressed up as justice, always ending the same way. The real target is the Venezuelan working class. Our solidarity is, and always will be, with them, against imperialism and against the criminal arrogance of the US state.
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2026/01/04/solidarity-with-venezuelan-workers/
We’ve seen this pattern before. Especially in Latin America that the US claims as it's backyard. Sanctions, coups, kidnappings, always dressed up as justice, always ending the same way. The real target is the Venezuelan working class. Our solidarity is, and always will be, with them, against imperialism and against the criminal arrogance of the US state.
http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2026/01/04/solidarity-with-venezuelan-workers/
Class Consciousness Project
Solidarity With Venezuelan Workers!
Venezuelans display posters of their abducted President Nicolas Maduro, right, and former President Hugo Chavez in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, January 3, 2026 [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]…
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