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How in the hell were people living in Ugledar? It looks like a post apocalyptic city after a nuclear detonation. Were they locked in the basements by Ukrainian soliders and prevented from leaving? Did they voluntarily stay and wait for Russia to take over? How did they survive years of fortifications and bombings?

The first four points are good, then it starts getting more and more deranged, but he manages to bring it back by pointing out that Ukraine and Israel bomb civilians on purpose (Zelensky's "victory plan" for Ukraine included the terror bombings of Russian cities using NATO weaponry), then it descends into derangement again, but he manages to bring it back with the last point, which is the key to everything.

I hear this all the time and I absolutely hate it. You go to church once a week, go to bible study/cell groups, you follow all the traditionally conservative rules around protestant Christianity. You are part of a religion. Just because you believe you can personally communicate with God and don't need to go through the priests, it doesn't change the fact that you are still very much part of a religion.

Musk had to delete his own tweet showing a video of Iranian missiles successfully hitting their targets. That platform gets worse by the day.

Syrian air defenses have engaged over 50 targets? That is a very serious development. Those defenses are the only thing that stops Syria from being bombed in the way Lebanon is being bombed now.

Id guess it's the missile technology described in this white paper PDF by the "Missile Defence Advocacy alliance. I think that the IRGC was testing this technology with Yemen with regards to the Palestine-2 missile.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. They tested the new missile technology live in battle conditions, with regards in co-operation with Yemen launching the Palestine-2 missiles, and used the data from such tests to perfect the technology for yesterday's attack.

Captain and team commander at 23 years old for two of the deceased soliders...

All that talk from the IDF spokesperson about Israel striking hard tonight in the region, and as sunrise approaches, all they managed was a few bombing raids in Beirut again? Hopefully it stays that way and they don't bomb anything else.

In order to truly understand this contradiction, the most explosive contradiction capitalism has engendered, the centers/peripheries polarization must be placed at the heart of the analysis and not at its margin.

But after a whole series of concessions, the forces of the Left and of socialism in the West have finally given up on giving the imperialist dimension of capitalist expansion the central place that it must occupy both in critical analysis and in the development of progressive strategies. In so doing, they have been won over to bourgeois ideology in its most essential aspects: Eurocentrism and economism.

The very term imperialism has been placed under prohibition, having been judged to be unscientific. Considerable contortions are required to replace it with a more "objective" term like "international capital" or "transnational capital." As if the world were fashioned purely by economic laws, expressions of the technical demands of the reproduction of capital. As if the state and politics, diplomacy and armies had disappeared from the scene! Imperialism is precisely an amalgamation of the requirements and laws for the reproduction of capital; the social, national, and international alliances that underlie them; and the political strategies employed by these alliances...

The discouragement that has overtaken the forces of socialism in the West, who find in the situation of the "socialist" countries an alibi for their own weaknesses, has its source elsewhere, in the depths of the Western societies themselves. As long as it does not have a lucid understanding of the ravages of Eurocentrism, Western socialism will remain at a standstill...

Eurocentrism is a powerful factor in the opposite sense. Prejudice against the Third World, very much in favor today, contributes to the general shift to the right. Certain elements of the socialist movement in the West reject this shift, of course. But they do so most often in order to take refuge in another, no less Eurocentric, discourse, the discourse of traditional trade unionism, according to which only the mature (read European) working classes can be the bearers of the socialist future. This is an impotent discourse, in contradiction with the most obvious teachings of history.

• Samir Amin - Eurocentrism, For a Truly Universal Culture

Eurocentrism is a powerful factor in the opposite sense. Prejudice against the Third World, very much in favor today, contributes to the general shift to the right. Certain elements of the socialist movement in the West reject this shift, of course. But they do so most often in order to take refuge in another, no less Eurocentric, discourse, the discourse of traditional trade unionism, according to which only the mature (read European) working classes can be the bearers of the socialist future. This is an impotent discourse, in contradiction with the most obvious teachings of history.

• Samir Amin - Eurocentrism, For a Truly Universal Culture

"You're a shameful opportunist! What you don't understand is that it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

"You have it backwards. It's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees."

America Forever - Catch 22