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Starting in 10 minutes!
There's no one I'd rather hear discuss Iran/West Asia/US empire in the current conjuncture than @NinaFarnia and Navid Farnia!
🔻The War on Iran Continues
⏰Friday, October 30 at 2pm EST
📖Navid Farnia & Nina Farnia (@NinaFarnia) analyze the status of the US-Israeli war on Iran through an anti-imperialist framework, discussing the preconditions for an end to the regional war.
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To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the submission of the We Charge Genocide petition to the United Nations on December 17, 1951, I’m launching my We Charge Genocide Project. Every Sunday and Thursday from November 1 to December 17, I’ll post a video introducing y’all to various themes, topics, issues, and debates related to one of the most important documents of the twentieth century. More information and fuller analysis will be posted on my Substack, which is linked in the bio. In the meantime, check out my Substack essay, “We Charge Genocide: An Overview” and my book Black Scare/Red Scare to familiarize yourself with the petition.
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U.S. inflation accelerated in September as consumers paid more for gasoline and other energy goods, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Thursday. xhtxs.cn/bf27
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亲爱的德国人，你起码犯了两个常识错误。
一、中国没有40平米的房子。除了单身公寓这种数量极少的投资型物业，中国的房子通常在90平以上，大城市在80平以上。
二、奔驰、宝马、奥迪不再是中国人追逐的品牌。现在的中国人喜欢电动车，而德国品牌的电动车被称为杂牌电动车。
当你的基础认知就已经是错误的，你只能得出荒谬的结论。
中国商品之所以物美价廉，是因为中国有齐全且集中的供应链、高效的物流系统、自动化的生产车间，以及规模优势拉低了边际成本。
中国当然也可以为那些优秀的商品定一个昂贵的价格，以换取丰厚的利润。过去你们就是这么干的，现在以我们的产品竞争力，也有条件这么干。
但我们不这么干。
这是因为，提高利润的代价是销量降低。对于你们那个只有几千万人口的国家来说，你们无需追求销量，无需扩大能量，因为你们无需为社会提供那么多的就业岗位。
但我们是一个14亿人口的国家。对我们来说，与其只创造1000个岗位，让这1000人拿一份丰厚的薪水，不如创造10000个岗位，让10000人拿一份普通的薪水。
薄利多销，能够支撑起更大的产能，提供更多的就业岗位。对企业来说，还能获得规模优势，压缩单件商品成本，扩大市场份额，创造更大营收，然后还有了更多的资金投入研发，如此循环滚动。
另一方面，这也大大有利于消费端市场，让全世界的消费者得以享受到物美价廉的中国商品。
想想你们的盾构机。曾经你们以一台 3.5 亿元人民币的价格买给中国。你们自恃垄断了制造技术，宁愿维持一个极低的销量，宁愿让那些发展中国家用不起，也要追求丰厚利润。
中国实现盾构机国产化之后，我们将每台的价格降至3000 万元人民币以下，不到你们价格的1/10。
诚然，我们没有赚到你们那么多的利润，但我们为发展中国家提供了质优价廉的采购选择，促进了那些国家的建设与发展，同时我们扩大了市场份额，创造了更多的生产就业岗位。
我们在做着多方共赢、造福世界的事业，你们则喜欢用技术垄断剥削全世界。当中国打破你们的技术垄断，你们恨得咬牙切齿。因为你们不仅仅是丧失了利润，而且丧失市场份额，丧失了就业岗位。
你们在工业领域的失守，仍在加剧。以前，德国汽车只想要中国的工人和市场，但现在，他们不得不将研发重心也放到中国。
你们愚蠢地与俄罗斯开战，切断了俄罗斯的能源供应。你们几十年去工业化，导致理工科学生数量大幅下降，工程师人才极度缺失。
这样的营商环境，导致你们的企业纷纷关闭德国工厂，迁往中国和美国。
你们失业，你们抗议。但这一切都是你们自己的选择，你们并不无辜。
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The 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) held its fifth plenary session from Monday to Thursday in Beijing, adopting a resolution on persevering with full and rigorous Party self-governance. Chinese experts said the session underscores the CPC's determination to strengthen internal discipline and sustain its anti-corruption campaign, while reinforcing the Party's capacity to govern at a critical stage in China's development. Moreover, as China advances its modernization drive, the session carries broader significance for maintaining policy continuity, strengthening governance and laying the groundwork for the country's long-term development.
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Vietnam is the answer to the Cuba argument.
Vietnam was bombed, sanctioned, isolated, and subjected to every tool of economic and military pressure the same architects could deploy.
And Vietnam, stubbornly, unreasonably, against the specific logic of the argument, refused to be the evidence they needed.
It built anyway.
It grew anyway.
It became, by most measures that matter to actual human beings living actual lives, a functioning, rapidly developing, upper-middle-income country that is now courted by the same government that tried to erase it.
The sanctions didn’t prove the point.
Vietnam disproved the methodology.
The country that was supposed to be the warning became, instead, a question:
What might Cuba look like, what might any of them look like, if the embargo had never existed?
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Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Palestinian territory, a United Nations (UN) commission of inquiry has found.
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#China's combined installed capacity of wind and solar power has broken through the 2-billion-kilowatt mark by the end of September, marking a historic new stage in the country's renewable energy development: China's National Energy Administration
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Midterm voting in states like FL means voting on amendments *to* reduce billions in spending on public services & institutions. There are democracies of so-called “authoritarian” states that ppl actually get to vote *on* community projects they want state funding for…I don’t moralize the act of voting or not voting, I just think there needs to be more honesty about the inherent limitations of OUR electoral system 🥴
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Let’s just say that this is going to be a *problem* for Mamdani: Tisch wants the NYPD to sign a $750k contract with an Israeli firm for bulk cellphone tracking. The NYPD already has such devices - stingrays, DRT boxes - that track phones & intercept comms
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🚨 آلتين مستعملتين أذلّت الصين.. فتحولت اليوم إلى إمبراطورية تحتكر 70% من سوق العالم! 🇨🇳⚙️
في عام 1997، واجهت الصين أزمة حانقة: طفرة المترو والسكك الحديدية تتسارع، ولا تمتلك آلة واحدة لحفر الأنفاق (TBM). بحثت حتى عثرت على آلتين مستعملتين في ألمانيا.
الصدمة لم تكن في الثمن الباهظ (700 مليون يوان)، بل في شروط المذلة:
🔹 800 يورو يومياً لكل مهندس ألماني يشرف على التركيب.. بينما كان العامل الصيني يتقاضى 4,000 يوان في السنة! (المهندس يربح ضعف راتب العامل السنوي في يوم واحد).
🔹 التبعية المطلقة: الآلة ليست لك، التكنولوجيا سر، وإن تعطل جزء تدفع السعر الذي يفرضه الألماني دون نقاش.
لكن الصين لم تنسَ هذا الدرس القاسي.
في 2002، جلبت مهندسيها وبدأت تطوير أول حفار أنفاق محلي من الصفر متجاوزة 30,000 قطعة دقيقة. وبعد 6 سنوات من المعاناة، خرج أول وحش صناعي صيني للضوء! وفي 2012، وضعت آلاتها جنباً إلى جنب مع كبار العمالقة العالميين لتثبت التفوق.
النتيجة اليوم؟
الصين تنتج 70% من حفارات الأنفاق في العالم.. من كانوا يذهبون للتركيب في الصين، أصبح المهندسون الصينيون هم من يركبون المصانع في ألمانيا!
السيناريو يتكرر بحذافيره:
(السيارات الكهربائية، البطاريات، الطائرات بدون طيار، والروبوتات البشرية):
1️⃣ اشترِ من الخارج.
2️⃣ تعلّم الصنعة.
3️⃣ أنتجها بنفسك بأسعار أرخص وبجودة أعلى.
4️⃣ بعها للعالم بنصف الثمن.
لا يوجد في قاموسهم شيء اسمه "مستحيل" أو "صعب". آلتان مستعملتان أخبرتا قصة الهيمنة الصناعية للقرن الحادي والعشرين باختصار شديد! 🚀🔥
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A midnight departure, 1,500 kg of dumplings -- and a simple act of kindness.
After a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Baqen County on Thursday, restaurant owner Du Guoping postponed the opening of his two new restaurants and headed to the disaster zone with his staff.
They loaded more than 1,500 kg of dumplings onto vehicles and set off from Xigaze at midnight. Upon arrival, they set up cooking equipment and cooked dumplings for rescue workers and affected residents xhtxs.cn/bfWD
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How long will the collective delusion propping up the US economy and tech industry last?
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The US fired an estimated 609 ballistic missile interceptors to defend Israeli territory from October 2023 through September 2026.
The US has fired more interceptors to defend Israel than Israel has.
ALT US has fired over 600 missile interceptors defending Israel since October 2023. Estimated number and cost of US interceptors used to defend Israeli territory, by date. Table has four columns: Date, Interceptor(s), Fired, Cost (in dollars). Data are as follows: Oct 19, 2023; SM-2; 6; 34.7M. Apr 13, 2024; SM-3, Patriot; 10; 200.6M. Apr 13–Oct 1, 2024; SM-6; 17; 105.3M. Oct 1, 2024; SM-3; 12; 359.8M. Dec 26, 2024–May 22, 2025; THAAD; 16; 204.4M. Jun 13–24, 2025; THAAD, SM-3; 235; 4.8B. Feb 28–May 21, 2026; THAAD, SM-3, SM-6; 310; 5.2B. Jun 7, 2026; THAAD, SM-3; 3; 55M. Total: 609 interceptors, $11 billion. Not an exhaustive list. Estimated interceptor quantities include only those fired to defend Israeli territory, not those fired to defend US forces waging war on Israel’s behalf. Data: Pentagon procurement data, internal reprogrammings; open-source intelligence; media reports.
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“It’s union busting.”
Illinois's Cook County School District 130 community members are sounding the alarm on the horrific conditions inside schools after the Board of Education laid off all custodial staff in August.
For the past two months, SEIU Local 73 custodians and the community they’ve served for decades have been fighting to get their jobs back. Now, public officials across the region are joining the call to reinstate the custodians and respect their labor rights.
In an attempt to silence widespread outrage, the board decided to cap attendance for the first time ever at Tuesday’s meeting, which led to community members rallying just outside. The next board meeting is scheduled for Nov. 17, but the demand for an emergency meeting to immediately reinstate the local custodians is growing.
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In southwest China's Chongqing, creativity flows even at bus stops—waiting for a ride has never looked this fun. 🎨🚌
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Over 14,000 potted flowers from Beijing's National Day floral displays are being gifted to citizens for free, allowing the beauty of the holiday season to bloom in local homes! 🌸🌼✨
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In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here.
A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy.
So I flew to Shanghai and came home with 26 boxes in my luggage. That was 19 months ago. My mom is still here, still working, and in her words has had an amazing three years.
The drug was approved in China in 2023. The FDA approved it in July 2025. It still is not for sale here. I know of at least 30 Americans who have made the same trip.
I have been scared to tell this story because I worried it could cost my mom access to the medicine keeping her alive. But the problem matters more than my silence. These drugs need to be developed and available here, and that means FDA reform.
Art Allen at KFF Health News told our story this week. It also ran in The Washington Post.
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CALL OF DUTY AND THE WAR ON KOREA
On October 23rd, Call of Duty releases Modern Warfare 4, a game that portrays the DPRK as the enemy and is played by millions. Sovereign Media’s Devianni Ebanks breaks down the controversy surrounding the game.
Activists and Korean diaspora groups have accused the game of functioning as a weapon of imperialist propaganda designed to dehumanise North Koreans and manufacture consent for war.
The campaign argues that Modern Warfare 4 portrays North Koreans as aggressors while erasing the history of US devastation during the Korean War. According to the statement, the US dropped over 600,000 tons of b*mbs on Korea (3.7 times the amount dropped on Japan during the entire Pacific War) and k*lled more than 3 million Koreans. It also cites the No Gun Ri massacre, where US forces k*lled over 600 people, 72% of them women and children.
Today, millions of Koreans still live in the shadow of a war that never ended. Divided families. Mandatory conscription for South Korean men. Camptown prostitution, where US soldiers inflict violence on Korean women. In 2025 alone, the US conducted 274 days of war drills in Korea, rehearsing for n*clear strikes, b*mbing civilian targets, and as*assinations of North Korean leadership.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 does more than depict violence; activists say it trains players to inflict it, both in the US and abroad. Families of the Uvalde school sho*ting victims are suing Activision, Meta, and g*n manufacturer Daniel Defence, noting that the sho*ters in Uvalde, Parkland, and Sandy Hook all played Call of Duty and used AR-15s.
Activists also accuse the Pentagon of shaping how games and films depict US wars, arguing that Hollywood and Western media have spent decades dehumanising North Koreans. "War in Korea is not a video game … it's happening in real life," the campaign states. "Don't play the US's game. Fight the real war machine."
The release comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula and growing scrutiny of the military-entertainment complex.