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The schedule for Exeter Centre for Gulf Studies virtual seminar series (2026-2027) is now up. You can register for the events at arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac… (click on the relevant month on the calendar to find the events).
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- "What will you do with (Palestinians who refuse to leave Gaza)?" - "I'll kill them. I'll kill them. There isn't any other option. The child who will be born in Gaza tomorrow... will do an October 7 against your child" Old-new MK Moshe Feiglin, Smotrich's No. 2, spews his usual exterminationist bile in an interview with former POW Rom Braslavski, who recently asked Ben Gvir to allow him to personally execute a Palestinian hostage. Posted by Braslavski on October 17.
🧵Hitlerist ex-MK Moshe Feiglin - soon in the Knesset again. Yesterday, prominent genocidal politician Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Zehut party, announced together with Bezalel Smotrich, of Religious Zionism, that the two parties will run on a joint list in the upcoming Israeli elections, with Feiglin as Smotrich's number two. Two years ago, Feiglin said: "As Hitler, may his name be erased, once said: 'I cannot live in this world if there is one Jew left in it', we could not live in this land if even one such Islamo-Nazi remains in Gaza, and not before we return to Gaza and turn it into Hebrew Gaza" This is a thread of tweets I posted about Moshe Feiglin in the past, with just a few of his endless exterminationist rants.
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The German government tells me to seek justice through the courts. A newly disclosed email reveals it said "we do not want" national courts involved in sanctions cases. Separation of powers is supposed to be a cornerstone of democracy. Read my piece. Link in comments.
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HM Plenary on Imperialism & Anti-imperialism
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Der Führung der Linkspartei waren die Positionen von Vanessa Emde natürlich bekannt. Denn diese waren Teil ihres öffentlichen Wahlkampfes. Diese Positionen nun als Grundlage für ihren Ausschluss heranzuziehen, ist an opportunistischer Verlogenheit unübertroffen.
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This piece insists that “antifascism” (ahistorical term) became central to the US with WWII—w/o once bothering to consider how the antifascist US could support Arbenz, the Shah, Suharto, the Greek generals, the Argentine junta, Pinochet etc. It might have been written in 1946
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Amphetamines sold to children and frontline troops on an industrial scale. Scam call centres defrauding Europeans of hundreds of millions. Prison executions, rapes, and torture for unfaithful employees. Fingers amputated for lateness or unauthorized contacts. Playing football with a traitor’s mother’s disinterred skull. Punishments are filmed and sent to the victim and his children. All this is conducted by one organization — Khimprom. Khimprom is in turn managed by Egor Burkin, a Russian citizen currently based in Cancun, Mexico. Said to be a billionaire. At any rate, he is undoubtedly a very successful businessman and an excellent networker. He is such a successful drug dealer that in 2023, he even declared a war on drugs, one enthusiastically supported by the Ukrainian press. Burkin in Cancun, Mexico on his 64 foot Sunseeker Predator yacht. This was his birthday. But Burkin more often goes by the name Levchenko, the name he got in 2014 when he fled Russian law enforcement for Ukraine. That year, he received Ukrainian citizenship, and Khimprom expanded to an all new scale. Burkin/Levchenko has deep ties with the Ukrainian deep state. The granting of Ukrainian citizenship to a convicted Russian drug trafficker was unlikely to have been without the consent of high-placed Ukrainian officials. In leaked voice messages, Burkin blasts employees who have not sold enough drugs in Russia to, in his words, ‘poison Russian children’. He poisons Ukrainian children as well, for whom addiction to ‘salt’ often leads them to suicide. But the intelligence benefits of maintaining a massive network of drug dealers and scam call centres in the ‘enemy country’ are fairly obvious. Perhaps that’s why Burkin is so reverent towards SBU (Security Services of Ukraine) general Oleksandr Poklad. Poklad’s alias is ‘the Strangler’, he was imprisoned for two years in the 90s for violent extortion, was the SBU’s main hitman and counter-intelligence chief from 2014-26, and is now Zelensky’s ultra-loyal head of the SBU. Burkin’s disgruntled ex-employees have said that Poklad is the true mastermind behind Khimprom. Besides Poklad, in 2022-3 Burkin was heavily supported by just about all Ukrainian media publications, top Azovite nationalists, and a range of other celebrities. They called him Ukraine’s greatest philanthropist, an honest businessman specialized in cryptocurrency who has sent ‘immeasurable amounts of money’ to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Burkin has also received formal gratitude from the SBU’s main competitor, the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR). The thanks was even signed by Kirilo Budanov, then head of the GUR and now Zelensky’s chief of staff. Curiously enough, when Burkin received Ukrainian citizenship he also chose the same surname as one of Zelensky’s most trusted advisors. It’s time to take a detailed look at Burkin’s career. After all, Burkin’s name has been all over the press recently. That’s because last week, the western-funded National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) released a range of wiretapped conversations between Burkin and top SBU officials, with one General already arrested. Poklad hasn’t been named yet, though he immediately made a public statement calling on Burkin to return to Ukraine from Mexico for arrest. Otherwise, Poklad intoned, Burkin would inevitably be captured abroad. ‘We have experience doing so.’ Not addressed is why Burkin wasn’t found in 2015, when Poklad was already a high-ranking SBU counter-intelligence officer and Burkin was relaxing in Kyiv. eventsinukraine.substack.com…
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The power of Serbian Engineering at work:
После 800 грама ракија ме тера на уметност нешто
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[biblical preacher voice] the armies of zov and azov
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Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964), dir. Elem Klimov
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Несколько дружественных организации собрались вместе, чтобы написать письма Диме и другим политзаключённым - тем, кто оказался в местах лишения свободу за свои политические убеждения
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Skandal, direkt gewählte Abgeordnete will ihr Mandat ausüben.
„Selbstverständlich werde ich mein Mandat weiter ausüben!“ – Emde reagiert auf Rückzugsforderung to.welt.de/FT6jkX6
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Yet another example here of the poor quality of contemporary Russian analysis in the West. Mr Beevor (a popular British historian) is analysing Russia through the prism of 1917, with an occasional excursion to 1991. One rather important development since then is the emergence of China as a superpower and Russia's principal economic partner. Does he seriously imagine Beijing would simply sit back and watch a neighbouring nuclear power descend into civil war, while also doing nothing to try to prevent Moscow slipping back into the Western orbit?
Historian Antony Beevor: If Putin's regime fell, I fear Russia would again have a pregnant widow situation, as Herzen described it. If it goes to civil war, that would be the most horrific thing of all, something nobody could do anything about from outside. 1/
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Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear Kletterausrüstung.
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Oh I definitely do acknowledge Germany’s historical responsibility. I just didn’t realize it meant committing more genocide. 🤷🏻‍♂️
German Chancellor Merz says Muslim immigrants who refuse to acknowledge Germany’s historical responsibility for the Holocaust must leave the country.
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An Ansarallah ballistic missile directly impacted the ARAMCO oil company Tower in the centre of Riyadh, despite claims by Saudi Arabia of interceptions. Reuters previously confirmed that a tower in the Saudi capital's Financial District was damaged.
Reports of explosions in Riyadh.
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Is there any evidence that Sami Gold has ever had a job?
Anyway James, how‘s your attempt at defeating capitalism by improving Nike’s profit margins been going?
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Does that shit say “Bay of Pigs Invasion Martyrs” hahahahahaha oh goodness gracious
Byron ADMITS that 80% of his voters are from out of state.
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No migrants deny Germany’s responsibility for the Holocaust. Merz just means support for Israel.
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