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Yet they're always "weeks away from having nuclear weapons". What an absolute toilet seat-sniffing cunt.
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At gunpoint, Delcy gave the US regime the colonial oil deal it dreamed of
Now here comes the rug pull
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🚨 DC Police Trample People with Horses
60,000 people came to the nation's capitol to hear music. The government brought horses to trample people. Because nothing says "public safety" quite like sending 1,000-pound animals into a packed crowd.
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If you see any "Iran analyst" pretending like there's any real distinction between the IRGC and the regular army, know they're a fake analyst.
It's not 1980 anymore, we're in 2026. The IRGC and regular army do not have much distinguishing factors, and new conscripts can be randomly assigned to units in either branch when doing their service.
The only thing that distinguishes them is that the regular army might have more career soldiers, aka someone who's in the military because their father also was in the military. Whereas the revolutionary guard might have more ideologically motivated volunteers. But functionally speaking, there isn't a "sharp distinction" between them anymore like there was in the 1980s.
People who also LARP about an "Artesh coup" also are clowns. Again, due to how mixed and intertwined the branches have become, such events are rendered impossible and again, it's not 1980. The 1980s generation of officers loyal to the Shah have long since retired, or are passing away. The current officer corps is all Islamic Republic era servicemen.
🇮🇷 Iran has two armies, and the bigger one is the one the regime has never fully trusted.
→ The Artesh, the regular army, has more than twice as many troops as the Guards' ground forces and runs most of the tanks and helicopters
→ Khomeini kept it after 1979 but saw the Shah's army as a threat, so he built the Guards for the sensitive jobs
→ An open-source count from August 2025 maps 12 divisions and about 42 brigades
Is the regime now betting its survival on the army it feared?
What changed
→ In 2025 an Artesh officer became chief of the armed forces for the first time
→ It also fought abroad, in Syria, for the first time since the war with Iraq
What did not
→ Its official job is still guarding borders and territory
→ The Guards keep the missiles, the navy and control of the street
→ A regime that disarms its army's role to stay safe has to arm a second force to protect it from the first
→ If the Guards stumble, as in the June 2025 war, the only place left to turn is the army
The Guards were built to protect the regime from the army. Now the regime may need the army to protect it from everyone else, and soldiers who guard a ruler can also decide his fate.
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Fines don't work against a $3.9 trillion dollar corporation unless you're suing them for $3.9 trillion dollars and then bankrupting their CEOs and corporate leadership. Fines will NEVER work against the billionaire class. Google does what it wants because it can.
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Dr Rahmeh is now muddying the #Yemen waters and trying to turn it into a sectarian war which it is not - it is a historic anti-colonialist/imperialist war fought by Yemenis not by "Shia" or "Sunni" as Rahmeh likes to paint everything as in her reductionist analysis. The following quotes were taken from an interview with a Yemeni mother in 2015:
"I can categorically state, there is no sectarian conflict in Yemen. They have been trying to ignite a sectarian war in Yemen but Yemen is one country where we have had Shafi Sunnis and Zaydi Shias praying in the same mosques for hundreds of years. We are a society that is known to intermarry between these two sects. In reality they instigated this territorial war when they wanted to split Yemen into a 6 federal state system. We are tired of having their agenda imposed upon us and being forced to implement it.
I have lived in Yemen for the last 21 years and I never knew that my next door neighbour was a Shafi Sunni or a Zaydi Shia. It was not part of our culture, we never asked. We peacefully coexisted. This balkanisation agenda was the start of the entire problem. Their division was all wrong. They left some areas totally isolated.
The Ansarullah movement and the Southern Separatist movement were both in favour of a confederal state system where Yemen would be divided into north and south existing within a federal state. Most of us were ok with that.
President Hadi [although I hate to call him our President] was pushing the Saudi agenda of the 6 state system. Another thing that a lot of people don’t realise, is that when they divided the 6 state system they purposefully isolated one state called Azal. Azal incorporated many of the Zaydi strongholds, Sadaa, Amran, Sanaa and Dhamar. Azal was left without any resources or any access to the sea. It was blatant imprisonment and suppression of what we would term the “traditional powers” in that area. It was a deliberate attempt to weaken their influence in Yemen.
So Hadi’s plan would have divided Yemen into smaller sectarian states while the Ansarullah plan was more like going back to the boundaries before unity where the south would have greater autonomy over its own internal affairs."
Let me give you an example. The al-Jauf area has both Sunni and Shia populations and so does Marib and elsewhere. The Zaydi Shias and Shafi Sunnis are both very moderate sects. Yemeni people have no affiliation to the Wahabi sect of Saudi Arabia. Wahabism is alien to Yemen.
We do see certain areas in the South, like Hadramaut, which has been in the media lately, parts of which are totally under control of Al Qaeda. The funny thing is, the bombs are falling on the very people that are fighting these extremists. Not a single bomb has been dropped on the extremist strongholds. Even though they know that AQ is in total control of al-Mukalla in Hadramaut and the seaport in that area. That has to be a huge question mark over their true agenda in the region.
The bombing has only achieved one thing and that is to further strengthen these extremist groups in Yemen. I know that in Ansarullah controlled-areas we have the local popular committees that are in charge of security and they have been working round the clock to ensure that the extremist elements are kept at bay. On the battleground their progress has been immensely impeded thanks to the airstrikes that serve as cover for the advancing extremists."
Read the whole interview here and please don't pay attention to those who want to make the war a sectarian one.
beeley.substack.com/p/yemen-…
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🇵🇸 “WE WERE PRAYING FOR HER TO FAINT.”
Orthopedic surgeon Mark Perlmutter described amputating the leg of a five-year-old girl in Gaza after the hospital ran out of anesthesia.
She stayed awake through the entire procedure.
The only thing the anesthesia doctor could do was SING to her.
Mark said the ER floor was filled with dozens of children, many missing limbs or with injuries so severe they needed amputations, inside a hospital with only around 40 to 50 beds.
HEARTBREAKING 💔
Source: aljazeeraenglish (IG) / Writer: Sol
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Surveillance footage shows Israeli forces entering a civilian home in Zowtar Al Sharqia, southern Lebanon, before destroying the property.
Israeli forces continue to occupy more than 60 towns and villages across Lebanon, with 48 subjected to systematic demolition. Homes, schools, water facilities and medical centres are being destroyed.
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FOR THE HATERS, ENJOY THIS…
The Zionist agenda is to drive a wedge between Christians and Muslims.
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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.
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
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Look at Glenn Greenwald going to bat for the Bolsonaro clan. I should remind you that Eduardo Bolsonaro, his brother, has been trying to get him out of the country so they can plot a coup with US military support. Openly stated.
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Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel in Literature in 1988. Ahmed Zewail won the Nobel in Chemistry in 1999, after winning the Wolf Prize. Omar Yaghi won the Nobel in Chemistry in 2025.
Algebra is an Arabic word. So is algorithm. The math on this claim doesn't work.
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Sorry but these imperialists and their treacherous stooges will stop at nothing to sell the country out from under the feet.
Liberal style virtue signalling ain't going to defeat mass impoverishing, mass enslaving Western imperialism.
Pull yourself together, man.
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The @BBCNews correspondent describes Netanyahu as 'slick, experienced, media-savvy'.
How about: 'subject to an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes in Gaza'?
BBC 'News' = propaganda by omission.
The BBC’s Middle East correspondent frames the Israeli elections as Netanyahu against “leftist” and “centrist” figures like Eisenkot, whom she describes as “softly spoken” and “lowkey”.
What she leaves out is that he’s a former general and the architect of the Dahiyeh Doctrine, which calls for disproportionate force and deliberate targeting of civilians and their infrastructure.
In what world is that left wing?
