Chris Riger @RigerChris

🇲🇽🇺🇸 ¿Habrá operaciones conjuntas entre México y EEUU contra el narco? Sheinbaum lo explica 🚔 La mandataria Claudia Sheinbaum reveló que la Administración Trump sí ha solicitado abiertamente a las autoridades mexicanas realizar operaciones binacionales contra el crimen organizado en el país latinoamericano, algo a lo cual se ha negado México. 🗣 "Ellos han pedido varias veces la operación conjunta en nuestro país y nosotros siempre hemos dicho que no, que la integridad territorial, pues esa no puede vulnerarse y que nos coordinamos, pero sin la participación de ellos en nuestro territorio", afirmó ante medios de comunicación.

Lula's reelection in Brazil is not just a domestic victory. It is the single biggest geopolitical defeat the US empire has suffered in Latin America in decades. Here is what was actually at stake: The Resources: Brazil holds the world's second-largest rare earth reserves — nearly a quarter of the global supply. The US military-industrial complex is desperate for these minerals to break its dependence on China. The Bolsonaro dynasty was ready to hand them over. A US government-linked company already bought Brazil's only active rare earth mine from Bolsonaro-aligned oligarchs for $2.8 billion. They wanted Petrobras privatized next. Lula said no. These are our minerals. We will build our own economy. Palestine: Lula lost a finger in a factory at 17. He is the working class. The Bolsonaros are the landlords, the oligarchs, and the cheerleaders of settler colonialism. They waved Israeli flags at their rallies. They held Zoom calls with Netanyahu on stage. They posed with a map of Israel colonizing ALL of historic Palestine — Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights. Lula stands with Palestine and calls the genocide what it is. The Multipolar World: Lula co-founded BRICS. He is building parallel financial systems to bypass the weaponized US dollar. He called for a new global reserve currency. He wants Latin America to trade in its own currency, free from Washington's sanctions. The empire cannot tolerate a continent that refuses to pay rent in dollars. So how did Washington respond to a sovereign democratic choice? Trump slapped Brazil with 50% tariffs — even though the US has a trade SURPLUS with Brazil. The tariffs were never economic. They were punishment. Meta censored Lula's accounts and boosted Bolsonaro. The Bolsonaro campaign hired a US AI company to spread disinformation. Eduardo Bolsonaro literally called on Trump to send the US military to attack the Brazilian government. They threw everything at him. Tariffs. Censorship. Disinformation. Coup attempts. And they still lost. The American empire tried to enforce the Monroe Doctrine with algorithms, tariffs, and a puppet dynasty. But the Brazilian working class just voted to keep their minerals, defend Palestine, and build a world where Washington doesn't get to decide who eats. You can tariff the economy. You can censor the candidate. You can beg for a military coup. But you cannot colonize a people who have already decided they belong to themselves. x.com/ShaykhSulaiman…

“No minister or government official of Madagascar shall send their children abroad for education. We are building our nation from the ground up, and this cannot be achieved with a half-hearted commitment. To take our development seriously, we must ensure equality in our educational system. No one receiving taxpayers’ money from Madagascar will be permitted to sponsor their children’s education abroad. This will not be tolerated in my government!” ~ President of Madagascar, Colonel Michael Randrianirina 🇲🇬 Captain Traore did the same thing, now his Madagascan counterpart has followed.

HISTÓRICO! Claudia Sheinbaum, presidente do México, inicia sua coletiva de imprensa saudando a vitória do presidente Lula, faz o L e manda um recado a Trump e ao imperialismo americano: “É um sopro de ar fresco para a América Latina e o Caribe.” Espalhe esse video!

El que abraza a Lula es @AndreJanonesMG el diputado que con un canal de WhatsApp rompió el bloqueo de Meta y las otras empresas tecnológicas, y cambió la campaña después de la derrota en primera vuelta. Hijo de una empleada domestica y un padre discapacitado, se pagó su carrera de abogado trabajando como cobrador de pasajes en los buses. Su canal de WhatsApp (donde creó el “Ejército de Lula) pasó de 50 mil personas en primera vuelta a 10 millones para la segunda. Sin el trabajo de Janones no hay remontada, Lula lo sabe y por eso el reconocimiento de ayer. Como anécdota, fue quien convenció a Lula de finalmente usar teléfono celular, un iPhone. Ahhh y reivindicó la camiseta de la selección Brasil para la campaña, de la que se había apropiado el bolsonarismo.

seriousguy @seriousguybr

2 days ago

Esta é a foto que está estampando a vitória de Lula nos principais jornais do mundo (vi no The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian e no The Times). Bastante representativa para ilustrar a importância de @AndreJanonesMG nesta campanha! Arrisco dizer que sem Janones,

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بص يا صديقي لو مش متابع اللي بيحصل في العالم في آخر 24 ساعة فاتك كتير أوي . حرفيا 4 ضربات ورا بعض لأمريكا وإسرائيل في نفس اليوم، والنتيجة ممكن تغير خريطة السياسة كلها! تعالى ناخدها بالعكس، من التقيلة للأخف 👇 1- من كام ساعة بس 3 طيارات عسكرية سعودية وتركية وباكستانية نزلت في مطار مهرآباد في طهران. اللي قاعدين دلوقتي على ترابيزة واحدة: وزير الدفاع السعودي الأمير خالد بن سلمان، وقائد الجيش الباكستاني عاصم منير، ورئيس المخابرات التركية إبراهيم قالن، مع الرئيس الإيراني مسعود بزشكيان وأمين الأمن القومي محسن رضائي. الاجتماع تحت اسم "اتفاقية مكة للدفاع المشترك" وإيران بتقول عايزين نعمل منظومة أمن إقليمي داخلية من غير تدخل أجنبي، والسعودية بتقول هدفنا تهدئة وخفض تصعيد. يعني اللي كان مستحيل من سنة بقى بيحصل دلوقتي قدام عنينا. 2 - تمرد داخل جيش الاحتلال نفسه القناة 12 الإسرائيلية نفسها وبموافقة الرقابة العسكرية قالت قنبلة، قبل انتخابات الكنيست بـ 24 ساعة بس. رئيس الأركان إيال زامير جاله أمر مباشر من نتنياهو ينفذ ضربة كبيرة كانت هتولع مواجهة شاملة مع إيران ودولة عربية تانية. اللي حصل إن زامير رفض! وقاله بالنص مش هورط الجيش في حرب عشان تكسب انتخابات أو تهرب من المحاكمات، ولو عايز الضربة دي هاتلي تفويض مكتوب وموقع من الحكومة كلها تتحمل المسئولية. في إسرائيل دي مش خناقة عادية، ده زلزال. الجيش هو مصدر الشرعية هناك، ولما رئيس الأركان يطلع يتهم رئيس الوزرا انه بيستغل الدم لمصلحته الشخصية، فدي ضربة سياسية قاتلة لنتنياهو قبل الصناديق ما تفتح بساعات. 3 - صربيا.. الطلبة أسقطوا أهم حليف لنتنياهو في أوروبا القصة بدأت من سنتين بعد انهيار سقف محطة قطر في مدينة نوفي ساد ومات 16 واحد بسبب الفساد. شوية طلبة وشباب نزلوا الشارع وعملوا حاجة اسمها "قائمة الطلاب"، مفيهاش سياسيين محترفين، كلها دكاترة جامعة وممثلين ومزارعين، لفوا صربيا كلها على رجلهم وبالعجل. امبارح بالليل ألكسندر فوتشيتش اللي حاكم صربيا من 12 سنة بيد من حديد طلع بعد قفل الصناديق بساعة ونص وقال: "من الواضح أننا خسرنا هذه الانتخابات". الطلبة جابوا أكتر من 135 مقعد من 250! ليه دي ضربة لإسرائيل؟ لأن فوتشيتش ده كان من أكبر الداعمين لنتنياهو في أوروبا، ولسه في أبريل اللي فات كان عامل مشروع مشترك مع إسرائيل لتصنيع درونز عسكرية، ده غير مشاريعه مع ترامب. كله طار في ليلة واحدة. 1- البرازيل .. الجون اللي جه في الدقيقة 90 نيجي بقى للضربة الأكبر، في البرازيل أكبر دولة في أمريكا اللاتينية. من 2023 أمريكا وإسرائيل شغالين على خطة لتغيير وش القارة كلها ودعم صعود اليمين المتطرف عشان يبقوا حلفاء لهم، والعين كانت على البرازيل. السباق كان بين اتنين: لولا دا سيلفا 80 سنة، اللي بيسموه بطل الفقراء، اللي بدأ حياته مساح جزم وعامل مصنع واتسجن واتبهدل لحد ما بقى رئيس، ومعروف بعدائه الشديد للصهيونية وترامب ولبس الكوفية وقال على اللي بيحصل في غزة إبادة جماعية وسحب سفيره. وقدامه فلافيو بولسونارو ابن الرئيس السابق وأكبر حليف لترامب وإسرائيل هناك، واللي كسب أول جولة في أكتوبر اللي فات 47% مقابل 45% للولا، وكل الناس قالت خلاص لولا انتهى. ده غير إن إدارة ترامب كانت بتضغط اقتصاديا وتهدد بعقوبات لو لولا كسب، وميتا نفسها قللت وصول بوستاته لدرجة المحكمة العليا اتدخلت، وحتى في آخر ساعات الانتخابات عطلوا المواصلات العامة عشان الناس البسيطة متعرفش تنزل تصوت! اللي حصل كان معجزة بكل المقاييس. الناس نزلت تمشي على رجلها عشان تصوت. ولأول مرة في تاريخ البرازيل الحديث، اللي يخسر أول جولة يكسب الإعادة. لولا كسب 51.8% بفارق أكتر من 4 مليون صوت ورجع في ولاية رابعة. يعني في 24 ساعة بس: البرازيل قلبت على ترامب، صربيا وقعت حليف نتنياهو، جيش الاحتلال اتمرد على نتنياهو، وإيران قاعدة مع السعودية وتركيا وباكستان على ترابيزة واحدة! اللي جاي شكله مختلف تماما، وربنا يجعلها بداية نهاية الغطرسة !

The conflict with Iran is not about nuclear weapons. It never was. It is a clash between two entirely different views of existence. The empire sees the world as dead matter to be extracted, priced, and dominated. Everything has a number. Every nation has a price. Submit to the ledger, or be destroyed. Iran sees the world as something with purpose, destiny, and meaning beyond the balance sheet. A civilization 2,500 years old that refuses to kneel before a spreadsheet. That is why sanctions don't work. You cannot starve a civilization into submission when it does not worship your god. And the West's only god is the dollar. The empire demands compliance. It wants Russia compliant, Iran compliant, Ansarallah compliant. Because these are the nations that looked at the "rules-based order" and said: No. We will build our own. But here is the part the ruling class cannot admit: The money is gone. - The US now pays more in debt interest than its entire defense budget. - Europe is closing hospital beds and cutting school funding to find another €155 billion for Zelensky. - The working class is told to accept "short-term pain" while the financial elite post record profits. The empire is trying to fight 21st-century wars with a bankrupt checkbook. So what does a ruling class do when it can no longer buy compliance, and can no longer enforce it? It panics. In the UK, the government is telling citizens to stockpile tinned food and water, blaming "Russian sabotage" for its own collapse. In Washington, they refuse to even speak to Putin about actual security. Instead they send envoys offering "reconstruction funds" as bribes, completely ignoring that sovereign civilizations demand security, not charity. They cannot accept that they are no longer the head of the world. So they will use the threat of World War III to distract you from the fact that the hospitals are closing, the debt is unpayable, and the empire is broke. They are preparing you for war because they cannot survive the peace of a multipolar world.

IRAN WAR ANALYSIS: With the Quadrilateral summit taking place today between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey, many people are hoping that this will bear fruit towards a potential peace deal between the United States and Iran... It ain't happening. First and foremost, the ONLY way that Iran would possibly consider letting President Trump off the hook prior to the US Midterm elections is if President Trump made a concession that was TRULY irreversible for Iran. This is because Tehran is well aware, through repeated American reversals and strikes in the midst of negotiations, that there is an extreme likelihood that after the midterms... Trump would just go back to war anyways. As a result of this, the ONLY way that I could see the Iranians making any kind of deal with the United States to avoid a return to all-out war and escalation is IF the United States coughed up an ENORMOUS amount of cash and gold to Iran, to be delivered PHYSICALLY into the Iranian Central Bank. Irreversible. No getting it back. ... I don't find that terribly likely. But without an irreversible and SIGNIFICANT concession from the US, Iran would be foolish to take Trump on trust that he will stick to his word on any deal. See: MOU. But beyond this, there is also the Israeli perspective that needs to be addressed. Listen to the rhetoric coming from Bibi Netanyahu about how he, and to be honest, many Israelis view this war. It's existential. It's the last chance Israel will ever have to secure the Greater Israel Project, their regional hegemony, to even HOPE to avoid a complete and total collapse of their relationship with the United States in the decades to come. Israel has no INTENTION of allowing the United States and Iran to make a deal. We saw this during the Memorandum of Understanding when the Israeli Lobby, the Iran Hawks, and the Neocons FLOCKED to Fox News and Newsmax to rip Trump to SHREDS about signing the MOU. The MOU fell apart because, despite my best efforts and op-ed in The Hill advocating for Trump to NOT do it, the United States revoked the Iranian oil sanctions waiver and imposed an escrow account under the amended General License X-1. How can I prove that it was the Israeli Lobby that advocated for this and pressured Trump behind the scenes? Because Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of the Israeli-First think tank The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Miad Maleki, a Senior Advisor for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, published an op-ed in The New York Post entitled, "Iran deal tosses a tremendous cash lifeline to terrorist regime". In this piece, Dubowitz and Maleki say that (falsely) Iran will get an ENORMOUS windfall from these oil sanction waivers, and therefore, we must attach escrow mechanism that completely destroy any and all value they provide to Iran. I published a rebuttal in The Hill entitled, "The backlash to Iranian oil sanctions relief misses the point" where I argued (correctly) that Maleki and Dubowitz are idiots, and revoking or attaching non-starter escrow account mechanisms will destroy the MOU. I was right. Again. Israel has no INTENTION of letting the United States reach a deal with Iran. They played Trump like a FIDDLE to get the US into this war of choice, and they are going to fight like HELL to keep America trapped in another Middle Eastern forever war. Regardless of the costs. While I would love to believe that this Quadrilateral Summit between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey will yield a framework in which the United States and Iran can agree to terms that will avoid catastrophic and reckless destruction of the global economy... Not likely.

Prof. Richard Wolff: ‘The only solution for Europe’s decline to re-orient themselves to the rest of the world. The only European country to have done that is RUSSIA🇷🇺.’ ‘World Wars One and Two were the culmination of European colonialism, in which the leading colonial powers slaughtered each other on a spectacular level that the world had never seen before or since, luckily speaking. But that was the end of all of those empires. Only one survived: the United States, protected by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and by the limits of air power at that time, they came through. You know, Russia lost 27 million people in World War II. The United States death count: 400,000. No comparison between these two. The last 70 years have been the uni-empire. The United States inherited, benefited from, and consolidated, and became the global empire. With all the wealth that had been siphoned out of the so-called Global South to Europe, now going instead, here to the United States. The United States gave a portion of that back to Europe, a kind of debt, if you like, of having inherited all that empire, all that wealth, but they never gave the empire back to the Europeans, so they lost it, and now they’re losing what little bit they held on to, and it’s over. And the question is, can military Keynesianism replace the fantastic transfer of wealth in the 17th, 18th, and 19th century into the 20th? And my answer is no. There is no way that that domestic program can do for England or for Europe, all the colonial powers, what they lost. The only way to do that, ironically, would be for European countries to understand the need to reorient themselves to the rest of the world, and there’s only one country in Europe that has done that, and that’s Russia.’ Full interview in the quoted post 👇 @profwolff

Going Underground @GUnderground_TV

2 days ago

🚨 NEW EPISODE OF GOING UNDERGROUND ⚡️ Prof. Richard Wolff: China🇨🇳 is Waiting & Watching as the US🇺🇸 Empire and the West IMPLODE Why has Western Europe erupted in uprisings and mass mobilisations against its governments? What is Russia's 🇷🇺 and China's 🇨🇳 strategy as the US

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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov🇷🇺: ‘Over the past 500 years, all tragedies in the world originated in Europe or occurred owing to European policies: colonisation, the Crusades, the Crimean War, Napoleon, WW1, Hitler…’ After 300 years of slaughtering the peoples of the world and plundering the wealth of the global south to build the cities of Europe… Their empires crumbled in 1945. Since then, all they have had to offer the world is neocolonialism, uncritical vassalage to the United States, and now face being an afterthought and an irrelevance. Instead of recognising a new world exists where neocolonialism will not be tolerated, and prioritising economic rejuvenation via engagement with the rising powers of the 21st Century… Europe instead decides to invest its remaining and dwindling fortunes into the military-industrial complex to fight a war against Russia which none of their populations are remotely interested in…while the rest of the civilised world invests in trade and development. Europe had a last chance to look to the future, and instead violently jerked their heads 180 degrees back to the past.

Going Underground @GUnderground_TV

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Prof. Richard Wolff: ‘The only solution for Europe’s decline to re-orient themselves to the rest of the world. The only European country to have done that is RUSSIA🇷🇺.’ ‘World Wars One and Two were the culmination of European colonialism, in which the leading colonial powers

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Even though the war has not escalated yet & all the fighting is limited to the Persian Gulf, it is still very much present in the lives of Iranians. Prices continue to go up at breathtaking speed. Every family I talked to has mentioned needing to budget more & a noticable lowering of their standard of living to afford basic items. There have also been declines in quality of certain items, most notably gasoline (though there may be some regional variation in this). Businesses have to adjust how they work. For example, a friend explained to me that whereas previously he would get 25 or 50% upfront from clients, he now only accepts 100% cash upfront & has significantly declined what projects he takes on. There is much lower risk tolerance across the board. The impact is not just economic. I recently had a conversation with a mother who talked the paralyzing fear she has every day when she drops off her children to school, worrying something happens and she won't ever see them again. I found that very haunting and highly doubt she's the only one. On the other, if we look at it from another perspective, life is getting noticably more difficult, but it still is moving forward. Things are getting more expensive & people's portions are getting smaller, but there are no shortages. Supermarkets still have full shelves. Gas may have some quality issues & the higher consumption tiers are more expensive, but gas stations still have it. People still go to work. Kids go to school. The country functions as normal. This is in stark contrast to previous experiences Iran had, such the widespread famines during both World Wars. Now of course one question whether this is sustainable in the long run. But as of now, it is difficult, it is stressful, the blockade is clearly being felt ... but everyone is adjusting and limping on. Nothing has collapsed.

You Can't Beg a System to Respect You. For centuries, we were told to wait. Be patient. Be polite. Ask nicely. Malcolm X saw what many refused to admit: a system built to deny your humanity will not grant it because you asked well. Dignity is not a favor handed down by those who profit from its absence. In "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964), Malcolm refused to sit at a table, watch others eat from a full plate, and call himself a diner. That's the uncomfortable truth. Rights that are begged for can be taken back. Power moves only when it is forced to. So what does dignity demand today? Reform, rebuilding, or something bolder?

Professor Richard Wolff, a highly prominent American Marxian economist, author, and professor emeritus.

Believe me that I don't exaggerate when I say this: I am thankful to be alive and hear these words said where Western audiences can hear them. This monologue is as revolutionary and meaningful as Rosa Park' refusal to move to the black people section of a bus, 71 years ago in Montgomery, Alabama. Lubna Speitan seals her place in the chronicles of the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and dignity - now followed and supported by billions of people around the world. I waited so long, so eagerly, to hear these transformative words; all of humanity did. EVery schoolboy and schoolgirl in the world need to know this

Richard Sanders @PulaRJS

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Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors

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Marxists don’t talk like this. This is how BLACK PEOPLE need to address capitalism.

This is a really significant and positive development for a region desperately in need of mechanisms to ensure its own security.

Iran Nuances @IranNuances

2 days ago

#Iran Deputy SNSC Secretary Ali Bagheri: Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir, and Turkish Intelligence Chief Ibrahim Kalin will visit Tehran for a joint meeting with SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaei and to advance endogenous regional security.

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The message of US policy to Iranians is: Risk your lives toppling a government we want gone for our own geopolitical ends, even though such state collapse is likely to leave you worse off. Or slowly die under our bombs, sanctions & tightening siege. Your lives are expendable.

Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28

2 days ago

In a piece published in Foreign Affairs by the Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Miad Maleki, suspiciously published a mere 48 hours after the U.S. blockade of Iran was imposed (and also published one within HOURS), we see the REAL goal of the United States’ economic warfare

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PALESTINIAN CHILDREN SEND LOVE & SUPPORT TO LULA TOTAL LULA VICTORY!!!

@dbelemlopes Que prova de amor! Lula é o último remanescente da redemocratização desse país no front. Brizola, Ulysses, Covas, FHC, Tancredo, Sarney e tantos outros. Que sejamos vitoriosos com vc. Obrigado Lula!

Uma das peças mais lindas desta campanha tão extraordinária.