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Didn't Al Jazeera used to be good in the past? Or at least with regards to a good portion of a Global South. I can imagine they always had those flaws but maybe they're more pronounced now, with their reporting on Ukraine for example.

However, it ought to be noted that the network has a fair number of shortfcomings. Many times, they have reported inaccurately (for example, on the Rwandan opposition), reported some stories rather simplistically (like the DRC, events in West Africa etc.), and sometimes, reproduced Qatar government foreign policy positions (see reporting on Syria and Iraq). Yet these editorial and operational conundrums tend to be true of all networks. Indeed, notwithstanding these shortfalls, AJE has sustained the voices of the subaltern, and offered a counter-narrative destabilising normalised ‘stories’ about the poor — the still exploited peripheries of the capitalist world. Indeed, it is not wild to say that presently, the BBC and CNN and other major networks have started following the example set and the challenge posed by AJE. The rest of the article covers the positive sides of it in their its history. https://roape.net/2024/06/14/when-lions-learn-to-paint-reporting-the-subaltern-world/

I think the subjective conditions in general just aren't there. Milei was voted in for a reason. I think, ideologically, for Argentinians, outside of Peronism TANA. If that makes any sense.

I usually don't even get to the typing stage. I simply think about posting, but that's also because a lot of the time I don't have anything to post so it's a slightly different scenario.

Treating my names and pronouns like randomized credentials. Or something along those lines.

A card carrying atheist.

I think this is what happens when you never talk to or interact with the people you write about.

How did he turn into such a racist piece of shit like some fucking sleeper cell activation. Academic left moment. Using terms like barbarian...

J Sakai had some weird takes too on that article he wrote on fascism. And FWIW Torkil Lausen thought the conditions to win the war weren't there. There was another article on that same blog interviewing someone from... I think PFLP and politely told him that he didn't know shit. No one is immune to dogshit takes and I think there's a difference between being incredibly wrong and whatever is going on in Cope's brain now.

You could check out The Anti-Empire Project.

Watched Adam Curtis' Century of the Self some time ago and it kind of reminds me of New Labor/Bill Clinton. Can't exactly put my finger on why. I guess they've nailed the individualist "middle class" rhetoric since then?

Girls like us was stuck in my head for the longest time.

Seems like their best regime change ops are the ones they didn't have long-term planning for. Just taking advantage contradictions as they arise in a color revolution.