Day breaks in the Hwasong District of Pyongyang , People's Korea

It is necessary to improve the health of the country, which suffers from chronic hunger, it is necessary to put an end to the current state of affairs, in which tens of millions of workers of the earth are forced to periodically undergo hunger strikes with all its horrors: it is unthinkable to watch with folded arms as hungry fathers and mothers, with tears in their eyes, “sell off for a pittance” their daughters and sons!

- J.V. Stalin
Speech on Agrarian Policy
Dec. 27, 1929

Hama & Homs Countryside | How Alawite and Shiite Villagers Were Killed, Displaced, and Replaced

Hundreds of families remain missing, their fates unknown.

According to local sources confirmed by Al Mayadeen, the deliberate and widespread dispalcement occured in the following areas:

1. Eastern Hama Countryside:
More than 20 Alawite-inhabited villages were forcibly emptied of their residents, who were barred from returning. These villages include:

Balil, Al-Zaghba, Al-Talisiyya, Ma'an, Al-Fan Al-Wastani, Al-Fan Al-Qibli, Abu Mansaf, Al-Mubtan, Mariod, Al-Tuba, Nawa, Halban, Al-Thawra, Sheikh Ali Kassoun, Taldahab, Sabaa, Al-Buwaydah, Al-Ruwaif, and Al-Shiha.

In many cases, families from Raqqa province were moved in to replace the original population.

2. Western Hama Countryside:
The villages of Al-Aziziyah and Arza saw complete displacement of their Alawite residents, who were replaced by families from the town of Khattab.

3. Northern Homs Countryside:
Residents of Tasnin and surrounding villages were forced to abandon their homes entirely.

4. Shiite Villages in Homs and Hama:
Sources confirm that eight Shiite villages in northern and eastern Homs, and two in Hama, were completely emptied. Most of the displaced residents have sought refuge in Lebanon’s Baalbek-Hermel region.

This is not just displacement, it is an orchestrated erasure of communities. The scars of these events remain open, and justice remains elusive.

The identity of opposites (it would be more correct, perhaps, to say their ‘unity’, – although the difference between the terms identity and unity is not particularly important here. In a certain sense both are correct) is the recognition (discovery) of the contradictory, mutually exclusive, opposite tendencies in all phenomena and processes of nature (including mind and society). The condition for the knowledge of all processes of the world in their ‘self-movement’, in their spontaneous development, in their real life, is the knowledge of them as a unity of opposites. Development is the ‘struggle’ of opposites.

Lenin - On the Question of Dialectics

Douglas Murray on Seth Rogan has been mentioned a few times recently, mainly because of how ridiculous Murray made himself look and how he was essentially bested in a debate by two "comedians".
This is because these imperialist figures are so used to distorting the truth to fit whatever narrative that straight talking is alien and difficult for them.

I'm not Rogan's biggest fan, him and Dave Smith are wrong about many things especially Ukriane, but this is well worth a watch.

https://youtu.be/Ah6kirkSwTg?si=2-Q0uvTtfzA3QtFf

This was an article I really enjoyed writing. A labour of love as it were. A positive story including the history of Liverpool.