news

The week just keeps getting worse in the Nordics: Finland is to send soldiers to "secure boat traffic in an US led operation in the Red Sea" along with Swedish and Danish troops that in parts are already there.

Can't find an English link of this yet.

HELL FUCKING YEAH

Mondino alleges 'Cuban and Venezuelan moles' are in Argentina to destabilise government

Without presenting evidence, Argentina's foreign minister claims there are "specialist and highty skilled" Cuban and Venezuelan moles active in the country that are trying to destabilise President Javier Milei's government.

Argentina's Foreign Minister Diana Mondino said Thursday that there are undercover "Cuban and Venezuelan" spies active in the country that are trying to destabilise President Javier Milei's government. Speaking a day before President Milei is due to deliver his state-of-the-nation address to Congress, Mondino alleged during a television interview that foreign actors were trying to damage the government. Mondino claimed that “there are Cuban and Venezuelan moles in the country who specialise in destabilising governments."

“It’s already a proven fact, some of them journalists, they are highly skilled," the official told the TN news channel.

Without presenting evidence for her claims, Mondino said that "we have proven it in different ways," alleging that some of the alleged foreign actors were journalists. "The same thing happened in the riots from a few years ago in Chile, so they are obviously highly skilled," continued Mondino, Argentina's top diplomat. She said the goal of the rogue agents is to “make a fuss” to “get Milei out" of office.

They heard our calls for Freedom and answered. Blessed be the Cuban and Venezuelan Revolutionary Moles sacrificing everything for us.

“They are here to make a fuss, someone’s paying them to do it or stop doing it. The reward to oust Javier must be large,” she claimed.

The reward is a strong socialist Argentina. LETS FUCKING GOOO

................

https://t.me/PalestineResist/30841

Anonymous Sudan launched a cyber attack on universities of the zionist entity yesterday, including "Tel Aviv University," "The Hebrew University," "The Technion," "Ben-Gurion University," "Haifa University, "Bar-Ilan University," "Weizmann Institute," successfully taking down their systems. The group has renewed its attack on the universities today.

The group stated: "Attacks against Israel will continue as they continue their genocidal campaign on Gaza. One of the reasons for the attack: drawing attention to the dire situation in Sudan."

Sudan was on the neocon PNAC list of Countries to destroy for the Empire

West Bank resistance-

Jenin Brigade carried out a dual jihadist mission in the vicinity of the "Homesh" settlement, around 4:00 PM on Friday, March 8, 2024.

The operation involved luring enemy forces under gunfire and then trapping them in an explosive devices field, leading to direct hits and losses among the soldiers of the enemy forces.

Does anyone have idea who took macron hinges? why is he suddenly the most bloodthirsty one? did they like, strike his son or some shit

Armenia is considering seeking EU membership, foreign minister says

Armenia is considering applying for European Union membership, foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday (8 March), as it seeks to forge closer ties with the West in the face of tensions with traditional ally Russia.

“Many new opportunities are largely being discussed in Armenia nowadays and that will not be a secret if I say that includes membership in the European Union,” Mirzoyan said in an interview with Turkey’s TRT World television station.

If I ever want to feel better I just search “Nickel” and “Indonesia” online and see the massive amounts of cope from the West and the snarky responses the Indonesian government made towards the IMF and WTO.

Case in point: Indonesia's Nickel Supremacy: China's Backing and Australia's Decline

NOOOOOO you shouldn’t move away from primary raw commodity exports, you are our best mining colony!!!

My dad is freaking out about some AI generated fake Trump ad that he thinks is real. He literally moved to my mom's home country last year to escape Trump. Now he wants me to uproot my life and move there. I don't know the language, even if I did I would have a hard time finding a job (I was quite lucky to get the one I have), which means I'd have to live with them which I'd rather not. I'm also already in a decent housing situation (mortgage from 2020 so pretty low interest rate, $1500 payments which is cheaper than some rent, especially for a home not a shitty apartment, and best of all no landlord) and I'd be giving that up.

I might get a gun though.

In the Funniest Coup In History News: brazilian General Augusto Heleno kept a diary in his home in which he rambled on about a four step plan to do a Great Purge. The General's plan was to have the Minister of Justice order Federal Police to do something; have the attorney general declare the order illegal; and then arrest the Police who followed said order. General Augusto was a prominent part of Bolsonaro's clique, a major proponent of the coup, and chief of security for Bolsonaro's presidency.

Biden: "I'm a capitalist"

No shit

I was watching a shit "documentary" on TV this morning (I don't watch TV very often) and it was about the similarities between Russia's War in Ukraine and their war in Chechnya. The docu says usual stuff like Russia gives no freedoms and there are detention camps for, I shit you not (unless I heard something very wrong), pro-russian people INSIDE territory currently held by Russia. Also they claim Russia destroys entire cities only to rebuild them very fast after the battle is over, like they did with Mariupol and Grozny. This is, according to the gringos who made the docu, to "force the people to erase the war from their memories and serves as a propaganda and psychological warfare tool".

Nice, so if Russia takes a city and rebuilds it immediately after, it's bad. If Russia destroys a city and leaves it destroyed, it's also bad.

Also all people invited to speak in the docu were white and spoke near perfect english, despite some being "activists from Chechnya".

In Finland the capitalist alinged Left party is countering the governments plan to remove workers right to strike by asking people to sign a petition on their website.

Amazing, I can't wait to see what incredible results asking the capitalists nicely brings this time./s

Where is Transnistria?

WHERE IS TRANSNISTRIA?

PUT IT BACK ON THE MAP, MOTHERFUCKER.

The Dems have been told to just stand up, clap, and scream about every banal thing he says. God they're so desperate. They KNOW they're going to lose the election.

This is what American Democracy looks like. The whole picture’s a microcosm.

Nima Shirazi talked with the Real News Network on Iran and the Resistance Axis: Demystifying Iran and the ‘Resistance Axis’. It's a very long interview and discussion but I like this part:

Nima Shirazi: Yeah. Iran is a large country with 80-plus million people. It has its own interests as a nation-state. Its government has its own interests domestically and internationally. There are all manner of different political persuasions and different perspectives on things within the country and within its people. To say that Iran has one thing that it wants to do is a way to flatten reality so that we can somehow after the Cold War ended, have a new, big, bad puppet master enemy. You don’t have the Soviet Union anymore, you don’t have communism in that way anymore, therefore, the political narrative switches to worrying about Iran and worrying about Islamism.

But so much of what this does is self-perpetuating because by casting Iran, its government, and also its people – And let’s be clear about this – The US and its allies and affiliated media arms love to do this thing where there’s the government and then the people. No, we’re not talking about the people; We love the people, we’re just talking about the government. But then everything we do is attacking the people. Every sanction, every missile strike, every drone attack attacks people. So that is a way to disassociate and dismiss out of hand, this idea that our interests, US interests, and Western interests are not fully bent on domination. They care about the freedom, love, and peace of people around the world. Okay. But with that in mind, this constant drumbeat of Iran can’t be trusted, Iran is our enemy, Iran is in charge, Iran is in control. One of my favorite terms herein that Wall Street Journal piece is the “land bridge.” You mean like, earth? [Max laughs] Okay. Cool.

Maximillian Alvarez: Also known as land [all laugh].

Nima Shirazi: Yeah. Like, okay. The land bridge between New York and Los Angeles is ripe with Americans [Max laughs]. Whoa, it’s fucked up. They built a land bridge. So all of this serves the purpose of not only refusing to change the perception of an enemy state to keep that threat ever present. So that American interests, American actions, Israeli interests and actions, and Saudi interests and actions can be perennially justified. Anything they do can be justified. It is reasonable to act in this way because of big, bad Iran. But also what that does, much in the way that we see the US political machines and media talk about Latin and South America, when there are socialist governments challenging American hegemony, those countries have been under threat. Their governments and their people have been under threat and under attack for so long and never allowed to fully realize the nation-states that they could have, with the popular representation that they could have, with the aspirations of the people enacted in the way that the people get to decide because they are constantly under threat.

Being constantly under threat serves a real political purpose not only for the US threatening those countries but also within those countries. Because the people and governments of those countries are always under siege, and therefore, what you see is this idea that what Iran could be is not allowed to be realized on purpose because it is constantly under sanction and under threat. The fact that Iran still maintains this terrifying persona in the American political power structure psyche is a real testament to how much resistance Iran has been able to maintain, that it has not been regime changed, it has not been occupied. So it’s important to realize that this threat narrative not only threatens people within those countries and whatever spectrum of political interests they have for aspirations of stronger democratic representation, of different relations with other countries in the world, that is done on purpose; Exacted from the outside onto those countries to stifle the natural course of the way that nation-states evolve.

3 border pigs got in a helicopter....yadda yadda

Hoping for Biden’s eye to explode again

Love to think about when that happened in 2019 and no one in the media mentioned it at all

Nepal's communist parties join forces to form a new coalition government

I got a question for everyone here, in your country/region/state is the 4 day work week being talked about very often in the media or by center-left political figures?

I ask because for whatever reason this shit has really taken off here in Portugal to the point where they got my old former maoist uncle telling me "you're only going to be working 4 days soon!".

And I mean yeah I'm all for it, except that the way it's being pushed is not with "fuck the bosses we deserve to work less" and an associated mass movement (the communist friendly labour union approves it but they don't have the power alone to do it), it's with very technocratic arguments about productivity increases, sometimes mentioning the human worth of free time and recurring to the handful of limited experiments which are always successful, basically in the logic of "no class war here this is actually good for everyone!", which I don't know if that's true, feels like employers would 100% get fucked with this (unless they get to cut wages or increase work hours).

I already mentioned some of the reasons I'm skeptical this will ever actually be implemented anywhere, but another big one is that here in Portugal it's implicit in this idea of the 4 day work week that it has to be the center-left (often much closer to the center than the left) "socialist" party which has been in power for 9 years (and might get booted in next sunday's elections), and this is crazy because there's no way they would actually do this it doesn't matter how many studies are comissioned saying it's great policy that would favour anyone, like, WE WILL WORK LESS, idk how this can be discussed technocratically yes I'm sure some professions (mine included but probably not my way of working specifically) will 100% probably have increased productivity, but will everyone? To the point where the right and employers actually accept this? I can't see it.

So is the 4 day work week being discussed and debated positively in your country or is it still a fringe left idea?

Edit: Thank you all for the responses!

If you think about it, Taiwan is to superconductors as Arrakis is to spice.

I'm bored at work and it is only 10 my time

In Finland, a 2-week strike has been announced by SAK (the largest confederation of trade unions) in response to labor reforms by the new Finnish government. The strike is planned to start next Monday. Most notably it will impact port operations and rail freight traffic will be stopped.

EDIT: It's not as cool as I originally thought, this will only be a few thousand union members in key sectors. But it's still driving the porkies in Finnish media absolutely wild, quoting CEOs being upset.

SAK unions to begin political strikes on Monday

At a press conference on Tuesday, the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) explained its efforts to establish negotiating channels with the Finnish Government in recent weeks. These efforts have been futile, and the Government has instead announced the intention to continue implementing its plans in all respects.

it would be funny seeing one of the "why don't we talk about Chinese/Arab Imperialism?" people accidentally walk into saying "Why don't we talk about Indian/Turkish/Kenyan Imperialism?" and then get immediately culled by their reddit's mods.

Is there any basis behind the claim that Trump would be worse on Palestine than Biden, other than "Trump is evil, therefore, he will be worse than Biden on everything"?

China seems to still be sticking to their guns on the Yemen issue despite some speculation due to them sending a diplomat to major countries involved in the Middle East.

But analysts have said the diplomatic mission is unlikely to yield any solid breakthroughs in the crisis due to Beijing’s continuing reluctance to intervene further – and threaten its neutral position in the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Last month, Wang Di, director general of the foreign ministry’s West Asian and North African affairs department, became the first Chinese diplomat since the crisis began to visit both Saudi Arabia and Oman as he met with Saudi, Omani and Yemeni officials. In all his meetings, he had a similar message.

In Saudi capital Riyadh, Wang told Yemeni deputy foreign minister Mansour Ali Saeed Bajash that China attached great importance to “maintaining security and stability in the Red Sea region”, adding that Beijing supported Yemen’s “legitimate government”, but it would only pursue a “political settlement” on the anti-government Houthi militants. While there, he made the same point to Saudi Arabian officials – that Beijing was willing to work with the country to “restore safety and stability” in the Red Sea. Meanwhile, Wang also highlighted China’s call for a ceasefire in Gaza during his tour, telling Omani officials that Beijing believed the Red Sea crisis was a “prominent manifestation of the spillover from Gaza”.

“Actually, Wang’s diplomatic visit is about furthering Beijing’s goal of a political solution to the Palestinian-Israeli issue, which is to achieve a ceasefire [in Gaza] through diplomatic mediation and political approaches,” he said. But Yin Gang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that since Wang was not considered a senior official of the foreign ministry, his visit was more of a “routine” one, underscoring Beijing’s reluctance to get more involved in the crisis. He noted that as the Houthi militants gave the green light to Chinese and Russian vessels in the trade corridor, Beijing needed to maintain a balanced approach so it would not be blamed for “conspiring with the Houthis and Iran”.

Looks like China is basically saying to the West: "Yep, this is your problem, not ours. Good luck with sorting it out. Maybe if you weren't supporting genocide in Palestine, things might not have gotten to this point. Fuck around and find out, what more is there to say?"