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 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.

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?

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.

That attitude kinda reminds me of this article https://redsails.org/western-marxism-and-christianity/

What's weird about this guy is that he tried to position himself as some third-worldist doomsaying any hope in the imperial core as a fucking Anglo expat in Argentina.

Man I wonder what the opposition was and what their goals are... I hate when people are obviously wrong and incredibly smug about it. Laziest coup attempt in a while and this doesn't bat an eye.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uz5QZQl-gXQ There's also a Telesur coverage that includes interviews of victims.

If they somehow make that loser a martyr and a minor symbol I swear to god...

On resources about communes in Venezuela, Chris Gilbert has written a few long-form articles on Monthly Review and a book called Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project.

PCV also allied with some guy that's been opposed to the government since Chavez who plans to privatize and also condemned Maduro for blocking Machado from running, among some other stuff. Other left parties have been unjustly sidelined or undermined though and creating a parallel Pro-Maduro PCV with members who were never even in the original PCV is a really shitty move.

The Deprogram guys have a channel called First Thought. Don't know if they're still continuing that project or if that's what you're looking for.

Yes! Thank you, I've been looking for it for a while!

Does anyone have the really long Twitter thread on Yemen? I think it started from 20th century all the way to present day and posted by either Aldanmarki or Aryjeay. I remember it being posted on the news mega around the beginning of the war.

Ali Kadri has written about these concepts too in works such as The Accumulation of Waste - A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction.

Don't know much of anything about DRC politics other than the Lumumba coup but fwiw there's these two articles on their communist party https://anti-imperialist.net/blog/2024/04/04/interview-with-boswa-isekombe-sylvere-secretary-general-of-the-congolese-communist-party/ https://anti-imperialist.net/blog/2024/01/25/what-does-the-congolese-communist-party-pcco-want/

I think duendes are real and do a little bit of trolling and mischief.