Socialist internationalist. Looking forward to the restoration of the planet and the passing of the capitalist empire. Free Palestine.
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Aug 28 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Everything about what Israel is doing in Gaza, and increasingly the West Bank, makes sense if you understand their military operation as a genocidal ethnic cleansing operation, not a war, and in turn part of their long-term ethnic cleansing operation for all of Palestine. /1
In a war, the goal is to engage and defeat enemy fighters. Civilians, the non-combatants, are in the way. Some are killed and become “collateral damage”, but killing them is not the main goal. Defeating the fighting force is the main goal. /2
Aug 26 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Vietnam is about 930 times the size of Gaza. Algeria is more than 6,500 times the size of Gaza. Gaza is about the size of Bakersfield, California. Israel and its US big brother are working together to totally obliterate it. /1
They will succeed unless they are thwarted by many people coming to Gaza’s aid. Some are. The regional resistance in Lebanon, Iran and Yemen are helping heroically. But we in the United States and the west must also act to resist and stop our own governments. //2
Aug 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Don’t people get it? We are ALREADY in fascism.
• The Governor of California was just filmed personally dismantling the dwellings of the destitute.
• One of the best universities in Florida just purged its library of books deemed ideologically offensive.
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• We are all under constant surveillance.
• One of our parties is nominating a candidate who received no votes and might not even release a policy platform.
• The other party openly endorses theocracy, fascist policing, white supremacism and deportation of its enemies.
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Aug 8 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve been telling people that Harris is planning to run to Trump’s right on Palestine. Don’t believe me? Here’s how:
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First, they roll out Russiagate and the second impeachment again, which still fires up liberals and has had some staying power where Trump is concerned.
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May 15 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Remember the South Africa ICJ case: They presented abundant evidence, based on statements of Israeli officials, of Israel’s genocidal intent in Gaza. /1
That was months ago, and since then we have had numerous other public statements, leaked statements and poll results giving evidence of the widespread determination in Israel, both in the government and among the general public, to wage a genocidal campaign against Gaza. /2
Apr 11 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
I want to review, so there is no misunderstanding about my position.
As I have said from the beginning, it is my view that the goal of Israel’s military operation in Gaza is to ethnically cleanse Gaza. /1
The goal is not to fight and win a “war against Hamas.” The goal is also not to rescue the hostages. The war against Hamas is a cover story, and the hostages are a prop. /2
Feb 10 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
With respect, I think @RnaudBertrand is overthinking this. Yes, we all know the agenda of Carlson and other likeminded portions of the American right with respect to China. /1
But the important thing right now is to end the atrocious war in Ukraine, which has probably killed half a million people, and is threatening to drag even more Ukrainian cannon fodder into the doomed proxy struggle. /2
Jan 22 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Israel cannot be resisted effectively if its strategic goals are not understood. The point of its ongoing operation is not to defeat Hamas or recover its hostages. Nor is it merely to inflict collective punishment. /1
Israel’s goal is to eliminate permanently the presence of Palestinian people and Palestinian civilization from the territory of Gaza. //2
Dec 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Israelis are not carrying out “indiscriminate” bombing. They are executing a ruthless and well-planned ethnic cleansing operation. In the coming years we will learn how this plan was put together. The plan has surely existed for a long time, but 10/7 provided the pretext. /1
Destroying mosques and churches are not random acts of impulsive vengeance. Places of worship are among the key structures attaching people to a geographical community. If you are trying to remove people from a place, you destroy what attached them to that place. /2
Dec 23, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The Israelis are conducting a massive ethnic cleansing campaign. They have already murdered more Palestinians in this operation than were killed in the 1948 Nakba. /1
And there is very good reason to think that when it is over, they will have displaced more than the 750,000 who were displaced by the Nakba. /2
Dec 12, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I’m losing my mind. It seems so hard to get through to some people. I not talking about crazed Zionists. They are always the same. I’m talking about zombified normies who seem incapable of grasping and responding to what is happening.
Some normie clichés I’ve come to hate:
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“I’m worried Israel doesn’t have plan for the day after.”
(Yes, what, oh what will they do the day after they finish committing GENOCIDE?)
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Oct 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The US and NATO wanted this war. They created the conditions for it for years. They interfered in Ukrainian domestic politics to subvert its elected government and get pro-west nationalists in charge. They sabotaged all efforts at a peaceful diplomatic settlement. /1
The reason they did this is because they expected east victory and Russian regime change. They though a combination of western weapons and sanctions would bring Putin down and Russia to its knees. /2
Jun 27, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Where do liberals get their military analysis of the war in Ukraine? I ask this because they always seem convinced the war is “going badly” for Russia. I think many of them honestly believe that. Where do they come by this analysis? /1
Based on the analysis I read and listen to, this is the picture I have:
First, Russia has annexed for Ukrainian regions. They seem to be holding them successfully, and have built massive fortifications and three lines deep defensive lines. /2
Jun 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
“Crime” is the catch-all term people use to refer to any activity in the subaltern orders of society that raises anxiety that those people have broken free of their yokes. /1
When people start complaining about crime, they are usually expressing their fear of things well beyond literal violations of statutory law. It’s a response to anything they perceive as impudent disobedience rumbling the ranks of the servants. /2
May 24, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Progressive Congress-critters decided that helping Biden hype US-against-the-world conflict would be a cool tactic to get some (re)industrial policy spending thrown around in their American districts and states. /1
The only price would be a few hundred thousand dead in Ukraine, severely heightened risk of escalating a mass-murdering world conflict, and an increase in Sinophobia and anti-Asian bigotry. /2
May 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The first most important thing to understand about the Cold War is that it was a global class war fought to protect the interests and power of the propertied from those who were prepared to challenge those interests and that power. /1
The propertied included many different allies: very old money European aristocrats and established colonizer families, old money US bluebloods, 20th century war fortunes, newer money rising corporate ventures, Jim Crow southern upper and lesser bourgeoisie. /2
May 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The recent deflation of the left movement in the US wasn’t the result of Sanders’s second defeat. It was the result of the white backlash that was triggered when we had people in the street all over the US to rise up against our fascist police regime’s war on black people. /1
The backlash included not just the usual suspects. It included a bunch of white progressives and self-identified leftists who joined in with the great white moan, empowering and boosting the reactionary “moderation” of Crime Bill Joe, a.k.a Jim Crow Joe. /2
May 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Socialists in the US have a special kind of moral obligation that our comrades in other countries don’t typically have. We have to help them all liberate themselves from imperial capitalism, which requires that we adopt a stance of firm dissent toward our domestic establishment.
I worry a great deal about budding movements toward “patriotic” and “nationalistic” socialism in the US. That would be appropriate for other countries, but it’s a much more fraught, risky and difficult project in the US.
May 4, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The Cold War was not really cold. It was a brutal, global campaign against socialists everywhere. It was the class war waged globally on behalf of capital. /1
It employed coups, armed interventions, deaths squads, torture, state terror and disappearances, assassinations at home and abroad, and domestic disinformation and persecutions. It was waged by many, but directed from Washington. /2
Mar 9, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Big effort now to spread the idea that Ukraine is losing the war because they didn’t listen to US expert advice. Strangely, this narrative seems to come from both pro-Russian and pro-US camps. /1
It comes from the former because those guys are eager to drive a wedge of dissension between Ukraine and the US. It comes from the latter because US imperial leaders see failure ahead and want to pass the buck in it and salvage some prestige. /2
Mar 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The US empire was built to fight a global class war, to defend both capital-ISM and the interests of wealthy capital-ISTS, and to destroy socialism and other redistributive political movements of resistance all over the world. /1
It did this by murdering socialists all over the world, sometimes in direct wars, sometimes in proxy wars and sometimes by more irregular (though common) means like death squads, sabotage, assasination, and funding manipulation of internal conflict and violence. /2
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