in today's hopium news: The US Military Is In A Death Spiral by comrade Indrajit

Teaser:

The US army is the worst army in the world. They're the only army that aspires to worldwide dominance, and they suck at it. It's the only Empire based on losing every war and looting its own treasury. Losing the last war is always covered up by the starting the next war, but if you look at it historically, America has been losing it for decades now. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Palestine, these are all losses or draws.

The German greens are literal eco-fascists

The Mythology Behind the Grameen Bank

We look at the history of Bangladesh's New Leader Mohammed Yunus

Esha Krishnaswamy

The day after the color revolution in Bangladesh, Mohammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen bank, a darling of the west, and a favorite of the Clinton foundation was coronated as “Chief advisor” to the new interim government. To understand the man, and how he will govern in Bangladesh, it is important to understand his history.

Before occupying his newest role as Bangladeshi Juan Guaido, Mohammed Yunus rose to fame in the 1990s, for his Grameen bank, a bank whose purpose was to give micro-loans to poor people. It eventually expanded to create a cottage industry with his Grameen Telecom, Grameen Fisheries, Grameen Danone Food and more!

In his effort to promote the Grameen Bank, Mohammed Yunus has made outrageous claims about his micro-loan program. He once said, “Poverty will be eradicated in a generation. Our children will have to go to a `poverty museum’ to see what all the fuss was about."

Even after 40 years of founding his ‘revolutionary’ institution, Bangladesh remains as poor as ever with 71.4% of the population living on less than $5.50 a day, while 1.3 million children are engaged in child labor. Sadly, people in Bangladesh experience poverty first-hand, and life, itself, is the poverty museum.

However, if we look at articles and literature on the Grameen Bank in the West, it mostly consists of hagiographies and repetition of outlandish claims made by Mohammed Yunus. A cursory examination proves that it is anything but a poverty relief program and the only thing these micro-loans guarantee is that their borrowers will take on more predatory loans.

The theory of micro-lending goes something like this: Give an impoverished, destitute villager 10,000 Takas as a loan. They will use that money to open up a Bhel Puri stand (or something similar), and then, with the income they generate from the Bhel Puri stand, they would not only repay the loan, but they will lift themselves out of poverty using their Bhel Puri straps.

By the fucking way, has any other big entity supporter country has a party with explicit goals of sanctioning pisrael (die linke doing struggle sessions as far as i know, bsw is kinda soft for weapon embargo, greens in uk are for embargo but not sanctions i don't think).

Is this some kinda universal point of being shit?

this article is from before Oct 7 but is nevertheless a powerful article about antisemitism vs antizionism by a Palestinian writer. I'm sure this has been posted before

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/jewish-settlers-stole-my-house-its-not-my-fault-theyre-jewish/

Here is where I stand. There is a Jew who lives–by force—in half of my home in Jerusalem, and he does so by “divine decree.” Many others reside—by force—in Palestinian houses, while their owners linger in refugee camps. It isn’t my fault that they are Jewish. I have zero interest in memorizing or apologizing for centuries-old tropes created by Europeans, or in giving semantics more heft than they warrant, chiefly when millions of us confront real, tangible oppression, living behind cement walls, or under siege, or in exile, and living with woes too expansive to summarize. I’m tired of the impulse to preemptively distance myself from something of which I am not guilty, and particularly tired of the assumption that I’m inherently bigoted. I’m tired of the pearl-clutching pretense that should such animosity exist, its existence would be inexplicable and rootless. Most of all, I’m tired of the false equivalence between semantic violence and systemic violence.

The SAJBD has issued baseless accusations of supporting terrorism against Gift of the Givers, one of several South African aid organizations still active in Palestine. While the MJC-SA has steadfastly refuted these allegations, this will no doubt create a precursor for more targeted killings of South Africans in particular.

Sources: PoliticsWeb, The Citizen

While not explicitly mentioned, other major aid groups include Africa Muslims Agency, Penny Appeal South Africa, Islamic Relief South African branch, Ashraful Aid, etc. all of whom will become likely targets.

Members of Gift of the Givers have been already killed in direct strikes since last year. The perpetrators may well even be other South African IDF servicemen seeking retribution.

Donald Trump’s Supporters Gather in Downtown New York - Telesur English

"Reporters" from The Federalist caught the Harris campaign organizing astroturfing on .

CW: The Federalist

They ended up getting into a discord server run by a campaign staffer that was organizing volunteers and maybe some other staffers to post/boost/brigade content on Reddit. They found that 126 of the top 1000 posts over the past month on r/politics were from users involved in the astroturfing campaign. The campaign also made a public Google doc that the writer took some screenshots of but, unsurprsingly, forgot to make a copy of lol.

At the end of the article, they call out some funny moderating going on in the Texas sub, which was noticeable to me. I got banned there maybe two weeks ago for saying I wasn't going to vote for Kamala over her support for genocide.

::: spoiler Some screenshots:

Discord messages/ops being organized by Harris staffer:

Some of the subs being targeted and what was posted:

List of reddit usernames involved and local subs being targeted. For some reason the site would let me upload more photos, so here's a link to them instead:

Usernames

Local subs targeted

Kadyrov declares open season on the NATOids

https://southfront.press/chechen-forces-ordered-not-to-take-prisoners-after-drone-strike-in-chechnya/

Russia has taken this one Ukrainian town and the other 2 towns in a little offensive in the South and Selydovne is confirmed.

EDIT : now there are reports of Kostyantynopil' beeing attacked , which would kinda fuck ukraine if true, as it would create a "Kurakove Cauldron", and behind Kurakove theres basiclly just cottages no big towns anymore.

Traffic accidents where their track vehicles collide with Yassin rockets:
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1850990729922826739

⚡️⭕️ #Israeli Radio: 418 people were killed in traffic accidents in "Israel" during the year 2024, which is the highest number in 20 years.

Updates on floods in West and Central Africa this year, and a discussion of climatic trends in these regions (not good):

[Phys.org] Climate change-worsened floods wreak havoc in Africa

The KKKneSSet has just alao banned UNWRA from operating within Gaza and the West Bank. Humanitarian groups and international workers are also banned from further entry and in 90 days, any remaining UNWRA operations will be hijacked, bombed or killed. The delivery of any aid is also very likely to be halted in totality, officially making food illegal.

This while the South African judges are on their flights back to South Africa from the Netherlands.

Sources: CII Radio, Salaamedia

An Israeli F-16 almost collided with another Israeli fighter jet in the Ramot David Airbase prior to taking off to bomb Lebanon:
https://xcancel.com/MiddleEastIndex/status/1850832244564181476

when I see Sanders debase himself I want to believe that it's because the three letter agencies have guns trained on Bernie's children and grandchildren, but deep down I know it's because he was a chauvinist and a zionist all along.

Intelligence services turning a dial labeled “North Koreans” and constantly looking back at the audience for approval