Journalist Anas Al-Sharif with his daughter Sham 🥹

The thing I didn't realize about the "men think about the Roman Empire every day" line is that very few people who think about the Roman Empire every day think correct thoughts about the Roman Empire. It's mostly imagining what they'd do if they were in charge and assuming

LITERALLY NO ONE: Hardcore 🇵🇰 nationalists: “We should carpet bomb Balochistan” “We should carpet bomb Waziristan” “So glad Israel bombed Iran” “We should carpet bomb Iran” “We should kill “suspicious”Pashtun tribesmen” “🇧🇩 genocide = Indian propaganda”

These paragraphs serve the same purpose as constantly reiterating "unprovoked invasion of Ukraine" did in 2022. It's said because it's a lie and they want it to make it seem true by raw insistence.

Really is depressing beyond belief

Trump's tariffs make much more sense in the light of this very prescient analysis by Samir Amin back in 2006: "The US economy lives as a parasite off its partners in the global system, with virtually no national savings of its own. The world produces while North America

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my

In every period and every clime, the 'Communist Party of <Country>' fails precisely on its erroneous belief that the national concept their country is based around is fine, and that it just needs to be made communist. This is a reformist fantasy, embarrassing for any materialist.

In practice revolutions always abolish the previously existing country and with it the old national concept they were bound to. The lie of the nation is revealed, as the revolution reveals the true pluralism suppressed under the old chauvinist project of the Great Nation.

Contemporary national concepts claimed by existing countries the world over are stopgaps for the preservation of capitalist rule, incomplete or chauvinistic national concepts. The nation is not the immutable vessel of class struggle. It is the geographic form of class struggle.

All communists within aggressor nations must take the sword of Lenin's revolutionary defeatism and criticism of the Great Nation to their existing country. Even Luxembourg's prescription for Europe is preferable to the cowardly national socialism of legal parties.

Nazism is the crown zenith of reformism. Trying to pass off some fundamental change in the national economy without changing the national concept - the populations whose interests it is built around. Colonial class collab is the only stable arrangement for its current borders.

Worrying about how to meet meet power needs for data centers is such a US-centric issue, the result of many years of power needs growing just half a percent annually, so forecasted 2% growth now is a Huge Deal and a Big Headache. By contrast, data center demand in China, while

Hundreds of thousands of families violently uprooted, torn from their livelihoods, in some cases where they hadn't even seen Afghanistan for generations. Decades of savings wiped out for many. All that suffering, for what? What have we achieved?

Flood Relief for #Buner #Swat I am starting an emergency response for families affected by the floods in Buner/Swat. Our immediate target is to support 40-50 families with: Tents (4x4 meter, double-layer waterproof, Rs. 20,000 each, capacity 6–7 people) photo 👇🏾 Cooked meals