World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards
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More Shit going down Nagorno-Karabakh
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/09/21/chaos-and-crisis-as-azerbaijan-attacks-nagorno-karabakh/Azerbajin has even gone as far demanded a list of names of people they want surrendered to them.
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@pariston_hill That looks like Uncle Thing from the Addams family
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And once again the UN voted to commit more crimes against humanity in Haiti
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/10/2/un-approves-international-force-to-aid-haiti-amid-gang-violencehttps://www.reuters.com/world/americas/why-did-un-vote-send-an-international-force-haiti-2023-10-02/
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That's the only thing I'm gonna post on the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because it has more journalistic integrity than the vast majority of what is being published worldwide.
https://www.theonion.com/what-to-know-about-what-s-happening-in-israel-and-gaza-1850923354?utm_campaign=TheOnion&utm_content=1697475421&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=twitter -
I can only imagine the butthurt on their Twitter feed the last week or so over their usual dark but truthfully brutal assessment over the Israel-Gaza conflict.
And then they drop this and not a single point of the summary was wrong.
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The Onion made me post, again.
https://www.theonion.com/israel-military-reports-it-was-you-the-reader-who-ble-1850939156 -
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Feels like we could get shutdown by the U.S. government if they see us support the Palestinians. But honestly with how the world is handling towards WW3 I don’t think the site shutting down would even matter anymore. We gotta post the news about the events of the war and basically not end up in darkness
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Very powerful and clear statement by German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck. He voiced perfectly how I feel about, well, basically everything related to the current situation in Israel. He has my respect for speaking openly and honestly to the public, something that Scholz seems to be completely incapable of.
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Not the proper thread as there is an European politics thread and rather concerting since during Scholz the Greens are the major pro-war party in germany.
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Oh true, I forgot there was a European politics threads. I think it's fine though since it's just as much about what's happening in Israel as its about what's happening in Germany, so not strictly European.
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@Riddler
Absolute craven speech.At the first minute of the video he establishes that the creation of Israel after the Shoah was for the safety of jews, which goes in my vision that europeans did absolutely the bare minimum or nothing to purge the sources on antisemitism in their societies (i.e. scientific racism, eugenics, "western civilization" cause/superiority). It basically vouches that the creation of Israel was a victory for the european antisemites.
He conflates antisemitism with anti-zionism in the issue of the protests.
He threaten civil society to obey a ridiculous law such as Anti-Desecration Flag law (seriously you guys didn't got rid of it?!), with punishment according to law (comprehensible) or deportation (not comprehensible).His Putin bit is an out of place attack on AfD and the alt-right. Yes Putin is a hypocrite that doesn't invalidate that he can denounce Israel constant bombing civilians, hospitals and journalists.
"Anti-colonialism must not lead to anti-semitism." Can this be consider as a freudian slip that Israel is a colonial project. (The second point is the conflation that Israel does that anti-zionism is antisemitism.)
Geez why doesn't civil society don't do protests to condem Hamas? Well because vastly no government outside of middle east gives financial or material support to Hamas. Whereas all the Europan and US gov't do give plenty of military support to Israel.
Yes life is Gaza is terrible, yes the settlers in the West Bank are making live unbearable. But's that rough buddy. We only can ask the Israeli gov't to be nicer to the people they want to ethnic cleanse of the country as we refuse to do the bare minimum that was done to Apartheid South Africa.
Than conspiracy mode that Hamas and those insidious Iranians are plotting to not permit the two state solution, a solution opposed by every prime minister of Israel since Ben-Gurion.
The only validly point is that jewish citizens should not be harassed for the actions of Israel.
Césarie was right, Europe is indefensable.
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The 2020s Armenia ethnic cleansing keeps rolling.
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@Nilitch Peronism is centrist tent that is supportive of labor movement.
Peronism like I said is a big tent, there's politicians that are more to the left and those more to the right.
The recent string of peronista presidents (Fernandez, Kirchner couple) are on the left, Menom was on the right side.Meanwhile Mileni is just another exemple of the american bourgeoisie radicalization to the right in order to appeal to anyone that's not themselves.
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@Nilitch said in World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards:
What makes them left-wing Peronists and not just simply left-wing ?
Peronismo is a particularity of the Argentinean system. It mixes caudilhismo and the fact that the first Peron run was a time of generally good economic growth and wage increases.
Argentina's economy never recovered from the IMF snowball loans the military junta took and subsequent neoliberal shock therapy; the great and violent persecution of communist movements during US's crusade against it hinder the development of left wing parties in all LATAM.
So being a left leaning politician under a peronista party is easier them trying to run on a purely left wing/communist party.
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Milei won the argentinean election. Save your money to buy a piece of the country, it will be dirty cheep.
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@Nilitch said in World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards:
Have you seen the film "State of Siege" by Costa-Gavras ?
Have not, but looking at the synopsis the only thing I can say I that Mitrione deserved what he got.
Among the BRICS+ countries, I guess only South-Africa and Brazil have a normal government now (and currently).
I don't like the term normal because it - in general - implies that there is a certain and absolute right political form.
I for one find representative democracy of bourgeoisie democracies to be very little democratic (to not rise others objections).
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@Nilitch
I'm definitely not up to date with my film backlog, but there was "1985" a movie about the trial of the argentinean military junta.
On the other hand if you interested in books...The second point (wannabe dictator) is relative, because the imperial core turn the blind eye to aligned absolute monarchies, military dictatorships or civil coup types that play their preach.
I think the only moral judgement to be done to a gov't is if it's good for it's people, and it's not bloodthirsty belligerent. (Both in which the US fails per exemple).
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Fun fact, U.S. president James Buchanan was a bachelor too, and so his niece was the first lady.
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And I thought learning Woodrow Wilson was a racist was one of the more sobering historical anecdotes.
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@Time-Control-Magician said in World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards:
And I thought learning Woodrow Wilson was a racist was one of the more sobering historical anecdotes.
I can excuse eugenics but I draw the line at racism. [insert in the community meme template]
Grover Cleveland married his adapted daughter.
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Ugh
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An encapsulation of the North-South relationship
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Change one word in the headline and it becomes something Julius Streicher would print.EDIT: Changed the screenshot because the secondary is even crazier.
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Where’s the outrage calling for this writer to be fired for dabbling in the equivalent of Jews controlling the media.
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Why would girls need to know about the contributions of a man?
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Kissinger's dead:
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Yo Brasil got invited to join OPEP.
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On Sunday Venezuela is doing a referendum on the Venezuelan Guayana Esquiba situation.
The questions on the referendum are the following:"Do you agree to reject by all means in accordance with the law, the line fraudulently interposed by the 1899 Paris Arbitration Award, which seeks to deprive us of our Guayana Esequiba?"
"Do you support the 1966 Geneva Agreement as the only valid legal instrument to reach a practical and satisfactory solution for Venezuela and Guyana regarding the controversy over the territory of Guayana Esequiba?"
"Do you agree with Venezuela's historical position of not recognizing the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to resolve the territorial controversy over Guayana Esequiba?"
"Do you agree to oppose, by all legal means, Guyana's claim to unilaterally dispose of a sea pending delimitation, illegally and in violation of international law?"
"Do you agree with the creation of the Guayana Esequiba state and the development of an accelerated plan for comprehensive care for the current and future population of that territory, which includes, among others, the granting of citizenship and identity card? Venezuela, in accordance with the Geneva Agreement and International Law, consequently incorporating said state on the map of Venezuelan territory?To run a brief situation, the territory in question was Venezuelan since 1777, until the British took it over in 1814.
The 1899 Paris Agreement had the Venezuelan substituted by an USian one that voted in favour of the Brits.On the 1966 Geneva Agreement, UK and Guyana recognized the claim and set to find a way to solve the situation on diplomatic grounds.
This accord was stalled until 1982.Venezuela entered with a petition of mediation to UN in 1983, still unanswered.
Exxon Mobil becoming the de facto ruler of Guyana recently certainly doesn't help the situation.
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@pariston_hill said in World Politics: People, what a bunch of bastards:
Exxon Mobil becoming the de facto ruler of Guyana recently certainly doesn't help the situation.
I think I ought to give some more context to this:
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/18/guyana-exxon-mobil-oil-drilling/
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Carandiru Massacre, Brasil 1992.
Gaza, Palestine 2023
The similarities are not coincidence, since the 50s IDF has long lasting partnership with LATAM military and police forces on "training" and weapons sales.
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Oh for crying outloud.
Esequiba was claimed by the Spanish (because they did that with everything when the Pope split the world for them and Portugal) but if any of the European powers or their descendants* using their claims as a basis for borders (yes that includes Venezuela) has a claim to it, it’s the Dutch who had settlements on the coast up until the point the British got them as a result of the Napoleonic wars by setting up colonies as they usually do (i.e. taking from the Dutch), and later the area was filled by English settlers once gold was discovered. Venezuela has not once controlled or ruled over that territory since its independence, despite trying numerous times to get their claim supported internationally (including dragging to US under the grounds of the Monroe Doctrine and thus giving the US more reason to intervene in the region) and each time it goes nowhere because their claim is stupid. The 1966 "agreement" is useless because neither side could agree on what it exactly meant.
You are quoting Ben fucking Norton who has doxxed a rape survivor and then accused her of working for the CIA and COINTILPRO, accused activists of faking the death toll of the Mynammar Junta, is an anti-vaxxer, and has said plenty of horrendous things along with being a conspiracy theorist. He and the other (former or current) Grayzone grifters (he’s a god damn millionaire) should never ever be sourced for anything.
This is whole affair is saber rattling and has nothing to do with Exxon-Mobil (which makes deals with the Venezuelan government of its own and does not care who has control of the area) and instead on Maduro trying to rally support ahead of a election to siphon voters from the liberals and especially the right (who also support a territory takeover). He and the Venezuelans are not the victims here (beyond the adverse effects of cheap oil that's partly his fault because of his own country's inefficient industry), and he certainly won’t be if he actually goes through with an (unlikely) invasion and gets people killed and then becomes like the Argentinean Junta circa 1982.
*The reality of course is that the area should be given to the indigenous people which neither state represents and the oil should remain where it is because it's destroying the planet and any kind of oil-based organization is evil.
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Meanwhile, Guatemala's ruling party just declared the last election null and void in a coup.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/oas-condemns-attempted-coup-guatemala-2023-12-08/
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@Bugs
The fact that we still have border disputes and territorial claims not being solved with diplomacy just shows the damage done by european blood and soil nationalism and settler colonialism.Not everyone I follow on twitter is on the same ideological page as I - Ben is such case - but I haven't seen him posting anything worse than what brasilian news produce. But I wasn't aware his bookings.
And yes, people with two brain cells can understand that all that is bravado from Maduro, as shit as he is he isn't an US president (shitty and blood thirsty). But brasilian media, I would wage imperial core too, are treating it like is sure fact invasion.
And I disagree, I do think Exxon is involved because the offshore fields of the Guiana Shield are a hot topic for the oil biz in South America, and by the Intercept article Exxon already has Guyana gov't in it's pocket, which can only mean unregulated oil exploitation resulting in long lasting negative effects for the country and fat stacks of cash for the local bourgeoisie.
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@Bugs
When the coup plotters are so corrupt even the US doesn't think it's worth to support them
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Pfffttt. Let's see what happens in a few months. Biden's talked a big game about this but Obama did similar things to Honduras' coup leaders and then he eased them up in order to gain Republican support for his bills (fat good that did him).
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