Seems crazy huge!
In Denmark the conflict in Russia/Ukraine has resulted in accepting American troops being stationed here, and of course a massive $20 billion USD investment in the military, over the next 10 years. The articles are in Danish, use a translator if you're interested.
Denmark has for at least 70 years always said no to having American troops stationed in our country, so it's quite a big move. Very few political parties have been criticizing it this time around, except for the most left-wing ones (obviously including our very-small communist party).
I don't really enjoy most of his takes in general, but seeing this in "mainstream media", I thought it kind of sobering.
Participated in a pro-Palestine protest today in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was wonderful :).
2.500 people had signed up for the event. Some said 10.000 people showed up, others are saying 15.000. It was absolutely packed with people of all kinds and ages. I went with my 60+ year old dad.
I don't have enough pictures to make justice of the scale, but we went from a part of Copenhagen named "Nørrebro", and walked to the Danish parliament.
Photo from the parliament here and here.
A birds-eye view of how many showed up at the parliament: https://odysee.com/@kovpak:c/394458251600888:1
BreakThroughNews doing wonderful work and coverage. Highly recommend to check their videos out.
Currently reading Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media by Parenti :). A great book, but also somewhat depressing. Even though it's quite old, it definitely still holds up. It kind of seems like nothing has changed.
The first few seasons are great. The 4th season is a bit of a mess. First it was cancelled, and later renewed, if I remember correctly.
A popular song of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the paramilitary wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a secular communist group operating within the State of Palestine.
Originally posted on the GETchan YouTube channel, but was since taken down for violating ToS or something like that.
I reuploaded it to Odysee, but it can also be found on archive.org
You can read something China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, said here.
Basically saying to show restraint, to limit civilian casualties. And that the UN should push for a two-state solution.
Otherwise, you can follow the CPC's official news paper, People's Daily, and their "World" publishing here
And in general, Xinhua, the largest media organ in China: here. Also this and this.
Vimeo took the video down, obviously.
I uploaded it to LBRY/Odysee: https://odysee.com/abujamalpflpinterview:c
X-post for more coverage of this awesome interview.
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Abu Jamal, Spokesperson of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, speaks in a groundbreaking interview to commemorate 55 years of the founding of the PFLP. Historical analysis, strategy, and the thawabet that ...
An interview made in December 2022, with Abu Jamal, the Spokesperson of the Armed Wing of PFLP, the "Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades".
Some great answers in this interview, e.g.:
Q: > The zionists, along with their Western allies, have described and designated the Abu Ali Mustafa Bridgades and the Popular Front as "terrorists". Can you explain the difference between armed resistance and terrorism? The difference between terrorists and freedom fighers?
A: >By the way, zionists do not classify us alone as terrorists. They classify everyone that does not uphold their own terrorist thoughts as gentiles or goyim.
>This is a term that is not so different from "terrorist", because it gives zionists the green light to murder non-Jews and to take away their property, their honor and their lands. Therefore, from a zionist perspective, all human beings are terrorists as long as they are not zionists themselves.
>What is truly terrorism is to gather foreigners from all around the world, to arm them and then build them a state on the land of a people that has a 5000 years-old civilization.
>True terrorism is to bombard civilians with warplanes and internationally banned weapons, to impose a blockade on them, to commit genocide on them, and to displace them.
>We are simply exercising the right to self-defense - which is guaranteed to us by international laws - through simple and primitive weapons against the most powerful military power on earth.
>Did you know that the only place in which it is legally allowed to put dead bodies on trial, and then incarcerate them is the zionist colonial entity?
>Hasn't this state murdered our people and then imprisoned them inside its graveyards? Graveyards which we call the "Graveyards of Numbers"?
>Terrorism is the ethnic genocide that the zionist entity is committing on our people, every minute that it is allowed to exist on our land.
+1 for Sorry to Bother You. Just watched it today, fantastic watch. Didn't expect anything else from good ol' Boots Riley :)
I use the NewPipe fork with Sponsorblock as an optional feature. You can get NewPipe on F-Droid here and the fork with Sponsorblock here.
As a rule of thumb, I always check their respective GitHub pages for links, I don't really trust the Google Store. There are too many spam duplicates of various apps, especially FOSS ones.
Michael Parenti's book, "Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism" has a chapter covering faults, or rather, ineffiencies of the former USSR. I would look up the exact chapter, but my I lent the book to my dad, who was very interested in reading the book. It's an amazing book, so if you end up reading the chapter, I recommend the rest of the book as well :)!
If you don't have the means to buy the book, then it should be available on a lot of different sites, like archive.org, libgen and so on.
Also, shameless plug for the Michael Parenti video archive on YouTube.
I enjoy posting Soviet Art and propaganda posters. I love Marxism, and Marxism-Leninism in general.