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Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran in UN speech (VIDEO)
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Hollywood mogul Weinstein gets 15 years for sex crime
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@anti_fascist_Metallus/117324204943413859
Why is this anti-fascist RELENTLESSLY posting Russian State media links?
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Australia banned this anti-fascist play in 1936 at the request of the Nazis. Ninety years on, it’s being staged again
By Tim ByrneA new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melbourne car park – rekindling its activist intent
#Australiantheatre #Stage #Melbourne #Culture #Nazism #Australianews #TheGuardian #TimByrne
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Australia banned this anti-fascist play in 1936 at the request of the Nazis. Ninety years on, it’s being staged again
By Tim ByrneA new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melbourne car park – rekindling its activist intent
#Australiantheatre #Stage #Melbourne #Culture #Nazism #Australianews #TheGuardian #TimByrne
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Australia banned this anti-fascist play in 1936 at the request of the Nazis. Ninety years on, it’s being staged again
By Tim ByrneA new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melbourne car park – rekindling its activist intent
#Australiantheatre #Stage #Melbourne #Culture #Nazism #Australianews #TheGuardian #TimByrne
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Australia banned this anti-fascist play in 1936 at the request of the Nazis. Ninety years on, it’s being staged again
By Tim ByrneA new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melbourne car park – rekindling its activist intent
#Australiantheatre #Stage #Melbourne #Culture #Nazism #Australianews #TheGuardian #TimByrne
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MAKING MUSIC IN TIMES OF AUTHORITARIANISM. FILM & TALK WITH MISSISSIPPI RECORDS FOUNDER, ERIC ISAACSON + BHAJAN BHOY (Solo Set)
OCCII, Friday, November 27 at 08:30 PM GMT+1
MAKING MUSIC IN TIMES OF AUTHORITARIANISM. FILM & TALK WITH MISSISSIPPI RECORDS FOUNDER, ERIC ISAACSON + BHAJAN BHOY (Solo Set)
MISSISSIPPI RECORDS PRESENTS : A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF MUSIC (during times of authoritarianism)
A visual and sonic presentation by Eric Isaacson (Mississippi Records)
A slideshow / lecture / film presentation from Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson telling a story of global music scenes that struggled and endeavoured during periods of authoritarianism. This is a timely and compelling interweaving of people and places, of past and present, of making and sharing music in very troubling times. It’s the story of how the powerful interests try to control music and how people fight back, nimbly evading systemic repressions by puritans, corporations and tech lords alike. Making wide, bold swings, this show, covers music from Ethiopia, North Korea,Kenya, the USA and beyond, while drawing on Eric’s colorfully described, personal experiences of the fascist creep.
https://occii.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/TRAILER-FINAL-MOBILE-VERSION.mp4Eric is known for his humbly comical, singular style and for his ability to revitalize audiences through digging up buried treasures from the global music underground. He has an intuitive and captivating way of finding the kinks, idiosyncrasies and soulful stories in the histories of under-acknowledged punk, gospel, soul, blues and roots based music from around the world. Eric has previously constructed and internationally toured three other mind-altering presentations, but never one as timely as this — a must-experience sampling of audio and visual folk art.
This whirlwind presentation of archival film, sound clips and images avoids political grandstanding, instead emphasizing vital anti-authoritarian stories of resistance through samizdat music distribution.
Eric Isaacson is the founder of Mississippi Records and many other small esoteric record labels such as Cairo, Pyramid and Velvet Ramp. Over the past twenty- three years he’s released over 390 records and 165 mixtapes of DIY music from around the world. This catalog includes punk, African guitar griots, Greek criminal underground music, deep country blues, Gospel, Folk, Estonian classical music, Soul, Spiritual Jazz and much more. Eric conceptualized, designed the covers, edited, worked with artists and their ancestors, wrote the liner notes, assembled and mailed these records out. For its first seventeen years Mississippi Records operated with zero internet presence, released no digital music and ran a cash only record store in Portland, Oregon. The company refused all press inquiries and never appeared on social media. Even with these limitations, Mississippi managed to sell over one million records. Beyond releasing records and running a retail shop, Eric has traveled with presentations like this for the past twelve years. These performances all champion DIY culture and try to expose the exploitative nature of the mainstream music industry.
BHAJAN BHOY
“Together, the last three releases show Bhajan Bhoy hitting his stride” (Antonio Posic / The Wire magazine / October 2026)
Saggar has been releasing music as Bhajan Bhoy since the turn of the decade. He has maintained a prolific output spanning post-punk, free jazz, psych and drone. His latest album “Electrisol” (released 16 October on Feeding Tube Records (USA) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK)) has received considerable press and radio attention and finds him at his most diverse and whimsical, drawing from psychedelic folk and kosmische electronics, dubsiwse production and shoegaze textures, with luminous ambient melodies hanging hovering over a deep, rhythmically charged low end that call to mind the exploratory spirits of Cluster and Dub Syndicate.
Presale/door prices adjusted: our events are set up by volunteers in favour of supporting DIY touring acts, but it is getting ever more risky to plan and book events – please support the community and buy your tickets early! Presale closes 18.00 on day of the show.
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MAKING MUSIC IN TIMES OF AUTHORITARIANISM. FILM & TALK WITH MISSISSIPPI RECORDS FOUNDER, ERIC ISAACSON + BHAJAN BHOY (Solo Set)
OCCII, Friday, November 27 at 08:30 PM GMT+1
MAKING MUSIC IN TIMES OF AUTHORITARIANISM. FILM & TALK WITH MISSISSIPPI RECORDS FOUNDER, ERIC ISAACSON + BHAJAN BHOY (Solo Set)
MISSISSIPPI RECORDS PRESENTS : A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF MUSIC (during times of authoritarianism)
A visual and sonic presentation by Eric Isaacson (Mississippi Records)
A slideshow / lecture / film presentation from Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson telling a story of global music scenes that struggled and endeavoured during periods of authoritarianism. This is a timely and compelling interweaving of people and places, of past and present, of making and sharing music in very troubling times. It’s the story of how the powerful interests try to control music and how people fight back, nimbly evading systemic repressions by puritans, corporations and tech lords alike. Making wide, bold swings, this show, covers music from Ethiopia, North Korea,Kenya, the USA and beyond, while drawing on Eric’s colorfully described, personal experiences of the fascist creep.
https://occii.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/TRAILER-FINAL-MOBILE-VERSION.mp4Eric is known for his humbly comical, singular style and for his ability to revitalize audiences through digging up buried treasures from the global music underground. He has an intuitive and captivating way of finding the kinks, idiosyncrasies and soulful stories in the histories of under-acknowledged punk, gospel, soul, blues and roots based music from around the world. Eric has previously constructed and internationally toured three other mind-altering presentations, but never one as timely as this — a must-experience sampling of audio and visual folk art.
This whirlwind presentation of archival film, sound clips and images avoids political grandstanding, instead emphasizing vital anti-authoritarian stories of resistance through samizdat music distribution.
Eric Isaacson is the founder of Mississippi Records and many other small esoteric record labels such as Cairo, Pyramid and Velvet Ramp. Over the past twenty- three years he’s released over 390 records and 165 mixtapes of DIY music from around the world. This catalog includes punk, African guitar griots, Greek criminal underground music, deep country blues, Gospel, Folk, Estonian classical music, Soul, Spiritual Jazz and much more. Eric conceptualized, designed the covers, edited, worked with artists and their ancestors, wrote the liner notes, assembled and mailed these records out. For its first seventeen years Mississippi Records operated with zero internet presence, released no digital music and ran a cash only record store in Portland, Oregon. The company refused all press inquiries and never appeared on social media. Even with these limitations, Mississippi managed to sell over one million records. Beyond releasing records and running a retail shop, Eric has traveled with presentations like this for the past twelve years. These performances all champion DIY culture and try to expose the exploitative nature of the mainstream music industry.
BHAJAN BHOY
“Together, the last three releases show Bhajan Bhoy hitting his stride” (Antonio Posic / The Wire magazine / October 2026)
Saggar has been releasing music as Bhajan Bhoy since the turn of the decade. He has maintained a prolific output spanning post-punk, free jazz, psych and drone. His latest album “Electrisol” (released 16 October on Feeding Tube Records (USA) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK)) has received considerable press and radio attention and finds him at his most diverse and whimsical, drawing from psychedelic folk and kosmische electronics, dubsiwse production and shoegaze textures, with luminous ambient melodies hanging hovering over a deep, rhythmically charged low end that call to mind the exploratory spirits of Cluster and Dub Syndicate.
Presale/door prices adjusted: our events are set up by volunteers in favour of supporting DIY touring acts, but it is getting ever more risky to plan and book events – please support the community and buy your tickets early! Presale closes 18.00 on day of the show.
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When they killed #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti, they went on TV, and they called them domestic terrorists the same day, within the same hour.
When could that happen to you?
When I was staying in my home city of Dallas for 11 days, I did fear that I might die at any moment.
What will you do in this time of great failures and great injustices?
What will you do?
How will you help each other?
How will you help yourselves?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/23/sentenced-to-100-years-for-anti-fascism/ -
When they killed #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti, they went on TV, and they called them domestic terrorists the same day, within the same hour.
When could that happen to you?
When I was staying in my home city of Dallas for 11 days, I did fear that I might die at any moment.
What will you do in this time of great failures and great injustices?
What will you do?
How will you help each other?
How will you help yourselves?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/23/sentenced-to-100-years-for-anti-fascism/ -
When they killed #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti, they went on TV, and they called them domestic terrorists the same day, within the same hour.
When could that happen to you?
When I was staying in my home city of Dallas for 11 days, I did fear that I might die at any moment.
What will you do in this time of great failures and great injustices?
What will you do?
How will you help each other?
How will you help yourselves?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/23/sentenced-to-100-years-for-anti-fascism/ -
When they killed #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti, they went on TV, and they called them domestic terrorists the same day, within the same hour.
When could that happen to you?
When I was staying in my home city of Dallas for 11 days, I did fear that I might die at any moment.
What will you do in this time of great failures and great injustices?
What will you do?
How will you help each other?
How will you help yourselves?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/23/sentenced-to-100-years-for-anti-fascism/ -
When they killed #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti, they went on TV, and they called them domestic terrorists the same day, within the same hour.
When could that happen to you?
When I was staying in my home city of Dallas for 11 days, I did fear that I might die at any moment.
What will you do in this time of great failures and great injustices?
What will you do?
How will you help each other?
How will you help yourselves?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/23/sentenced-to-100-years-for-anti-fascism/ -
#StephenMiller #fascists #ChildAbuse #ICE
"Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist.
Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned.
As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy, Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration agenda.
He is directing a whole-of-government approach that has been ramping up throughout Trump’s second term and is targeting a vulnerable population of undocumented children. Many abruptly find themselves denied access to legal immigration pathways in the US, with their applications fast-tracked and then rejected before being forced out of the country.
Almost 200,000 children have been ordered removed from the US by immigration judges since Trump returned to the White House, a doubling of such court orders since January 2025, according to analysis of data from the Department of Justice’s executive office for immigration review (EOIR) conducted by the California-based advocacy Mobile Pathways and shared with the Guardian. The advocacy group has focused its numbers on children appearing in immigration court, regardless of whether they arrived in the US alone or with family, and believes the total to be an undercount.
Miller has harnessed personnel and power for his task from at least five cabinet-level government departments, as described to the Guardian by several sources briefed on various initiatives, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The departments include Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the care of migrant children who are in the country without a parent or guardian; the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are based; and the Department of Justice (DoJ), which houses the immigration courts – with the state department and the Department of Defense playing more subsidiary roles.
Miller frequently confers with subordinates, daily at times, pressing them to maximize removals of immigrant children from the US, according to a number of sources familiar with the White House plans.
(. . .)
Sources warned of the White House pushing each department to boost efforts individually and by working together in new ways to speed up and expand the deportation of undocumented children – especially by dismantling inter-agency communication safeguards designed to protect children, and hurrying them in vast numbers, without lawyers, in front of asylum officers and immigration judges who are either inclined or are under pressure to take a hard line and get them out of the US."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-miller-trump-migrant-children
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#StephenMiller #fascists #ChildAbuse #ICE
"Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist.
Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned.
As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy, Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration agenda.
He is directing a whole-of-government approach that has been ramping up throughout Trump’s second term and is targeting a vulnerable population of undocumented children. Many abruptly find themselves denied access to legal immigration pathways in the US, with their applications fast-tracked and then rejected before being forced out of the country.
Almost 200,000 children have been ordered removed from the US by immigration judges since Trump returned to the White House, a doubling of such court orders since January 2025, according to analysis of data from the Department of Justice’s executive office for immigration review (EOIR) conducted by the California-based advocacy Mobile Pathways and shared with the Guardian. The advocacy group has focused its numbers on children appearing in immigration court, regardless of whether they arrived in the US alone or with family, and believes the total to be an undercount.
Miller has harnessed personnel and power for his task from at least five cabinet-level government departments, as described to the Guardian by several sources briefed on various initiatives, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The departments include Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the care of migrant children who are in the country without a parent or guardian; the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are based; and the Department of Justice (DoJ), which houses the immigration courts – with the state department and the Department of Defense playing more subsidiary roles.
Miller frequently confers with subordinates, daily at times, pressing them to maximize removals of immigrant children from the US, according to a number of sources familiar with the White House plans.
(. . .)
Sources warned of the White House pushing each department to boost efforts individually and by working together in new ways to speed up and expand the deportation of undocumented children – especially by dismantling inter-agency communication safeguards designed to protect children, and hurrying them in vast numbers, without lawyers, in front of asylum officers and immigration judges who are either inclined or are under pressure to take a hard line and get them out of the US."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-miller-trump-migrant-children
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#StephenMiller #fascists #ChildAbuse #ICE
"Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist.
Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned.
As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy, Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration agenda.
He is directing a whole-of-government approach that has been ramping up throughout Trump’s second term and is targeting a vulnerable population of undocumented children. Many abruptly find themselves denied access to legal immigration pathways in the US, with their applications fast-tracked and then rejected before being forced out of the country.
Almost 200,000 children have been ordered removed from the US by immigration judges since Trump returned to the White House, a doubling of such court orders since January 2025, according to analysis of data from the Department of Justice’s executive office for immigration review (EOIR) conducted by the California-based advocacy Mobile Pathways and shared with the Guardian. The advocacy group has focused its numbers on children appearing in immigration court, regardless of whether they arrived in the US alone or with family, and believes the total to be an undercount.
Miller has harnessed personnel and power for his task from at least five cabinet-level government departments, as described to the Guardian by several sources briefed on various initiatives, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The departments include Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the care of migrant children who are in the country without a parent or guardian; the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are based; and the Department of Justice (DoJ), which houses the immigration courts – with the state department and the Department of Defense playing more subsidiary roles.
Miller frequently confers with subordinates, daily at times, pressing them to maximize removals of immigrant children from the US, according to a number of sources familiar with the White House plans.
(. . .)
Sources warned of the White House pushing each department to boost efforts individually and by working together in new ways to speed up and expand the deportation of undocumented children – especially by dismantling inter-agency communication safeguards designed to protect children, and hurrying them in vast numbers, without lawyers, in front of asylum officers and immigration judges who are either inclined or are under pressure to take a hard line and get them out of the US."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-miller-trump-migrant-children
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#StephenMiller #fascists #ChildAbuse #ICE
"Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist.
Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the US, using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law, the Guardian has learned.
As deputy chief of staff at the White House, focused on immigration policy, Miller is seen as the mastermind and enforcer behind Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration agenda.
He is directing a whole-of-government approach that has been ramping up throughout Trump’s second term and is targeting a vulnerable population of undocumented children. Many abruptly find themselves denied access to legal immigration pathways in the US, with their applications fast-tracked and then rejected before being forced out of the country.
Almost 200,000 children have been ordered removed from the US by immigration judges since Trump returned to the White House, a doubling of such court orders since January 2025, according to analysis of data from the Department of Justice’s executive office for immigration review (EOIR) conducted by the California-based advocacy Mobile Pathways and shared with the Guardian. The advocacy group has focused its numbers on children appearing in immigration court, regardless of whether they arrived in the US alone or with family, and believes the total to be an undercount.
Miller has harnessed personnel and power for his task from at least five cabinet-level government departments, as described to the Guardian by several sources briefed on various initiatives, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The departments include Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the care of migrant children who are in the country without a parent or guardian; the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are based; and the Department of Justice (DoJ), which houses the immigration courts – with the state department and the Department of Defense playing more subsidiary roles.
Miller frequently confers with subordinates, daily at times, pressing them to maximize removals of immigrant children from the US, according to a number of sources familiar with the White House plans.
(. . .)
Sources warned of the White House pushing each department to boost efforts individually and by working together in new ways to speed up and expand the deportation of undocumented children – especially by dismantling inter-agency communication safeguards designed to protect children, and hurrying them in vast numbers, without lawyers, in front of asylum officers and immigration judges who are either inclined or are under pressure to take a hard line and get them out of the US."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-miller-trump-migrant-children
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Undermining the UN is not a new US policy
"In the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration accused the UN of being a third-world, anti-US forum. To compel the organisation to better serve its interests and under the guise of the ubiquitous need for reform, which all secretaries-general fell for, the US started to withhold a share of its assessed contribution, which accounted for a quarter of the regular budget and a third of the peacekeeping budget back then.
By 1987, the US relaxed its payment withholding policy, but the precedent was set. Washington continued to use the threat of withholding payment to maintain its grip on an organisation it viewed and continues to view as a vehicle serving its national interests rather than a multilateral agent serving the whole of humanity.
Ever since the Reagan years, the US has kept the UN on a short financial leash, and to this day, has been deliberately accruing arrears. It currently owes an estimated $4.2bn – that is equivalent to 120 percent of the regular UN budget for 2026.
DT has readily embraced this policy of financial blackmail. His regime has slow-walked mandatory payments, although earlier this month it paid $827m towards its outstanding dues so it could preserve its voting rights in the UNGA."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/22/undermining-the-un-is-not-a-new-us-policy
#USDictatorship #Fascism #Control #News #HumanRights #Activism #UN
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Undermining the UN is not a new US policy
"In the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration accused the UN of being a third-world, anti-US forum. To compel the organisation to better serve its interests and under the guise of the ubiquitous need for reform, which all secretaries-general fell for, the US started to withhold a share of its assessed contribution, which accounted for a quarter of the regular budget and a third of the peacekeeping budget back then.
By 1987, the US relaxed its payment withholding policy, but the precedent was set. Washington continued to use the threat of withholding payment to maintain its grip on an organisation it viewed and continues to view as a vehicle serving its national interests rather than a multilateral agent serving the whole of humanity.
Ever since the Reagan years, the US has kept the UN on a short financial leash, and to this day, has been deliberately accruing arrears. It currently owes an estimated $4.2bn – that is equivalent to 120 percent of the regular UN budget for 2026.
DT has readily embraced this policy of financial blackmail. His regime has slow-walked mandatory payments, although earlier this month it paid $827m towards its outstanding dues so it could preserve its voting rights in the UNGA."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/22/undermining-the-un-is-not-a-new-us-policy
#USDictatorship #Fascism #Control #News #HumanRights #Activism #UN
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Undermining the UN is not a new US policy
"In the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration accused the UN of being a third-world, anti-US forum. To compel the organisation to better serve its interests and under the guise of the ubiquitous need for reform, which all secretaries-general fell for, the US started to withhold a share of its assessed contribution, which accounted for a quarter of the regular budget and a third of the peacekeeping budget back then.
By 1987, the US relaxed its payment withholding policy, but the precedent was set. Washington continued to use the threat of withholding payment to maintain its grip on an organisation it viewed and continues to view as a vehicle serving its national interests rather than a multilateral agent serving the whole of humanity.
Ever since the Reagan years, the US has kept the UN on a short financial leash, and to this day, has been deliberately accruing arrears. It currently owes an estimated $4.2bn – that is equivalent to 120 percent of the regular UN budget for 2026.
DT has readily embraced this policy of financial blackmail. His regime has slow-walked mandatory payments, although earlier this month it paid $827m towards its outstanding dues so it could preserve its voting rights in the UNGA."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/22/undermining-the-un-is-not-a-new-us-policy
#USDictatorship #Fascism #Control #News #HumanRights #Activism #UN
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Undermining the UN is not a new US policy
"In the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration accused the UN of being a third-world, anti-US forum. To compel the organisation to better serve its interests and under the guise of the ubiquitous need for reform, which all secretaries-general fell for, the US started to withhold a share of its assessed contribution, which accounted for a quarter of the regular budget and a third of the peacekeeping budget back then.
By 1987, the US relaxed its payment withholding policy, but the precedent was set. Washington continued to use the threat of withholding payment to maintain its grip on an organisation it viewed and continues to view as a vehicle serving its national interests rather than a multilateral agent serving the whole of humanity.
Ever since the Reagan years, the US has kept the UN on a short financial leash, and to this day, has been deliberately accruing arrears. It currently owes an estimated $4.2bn – that is equivalent to 120 percent of the regular UN budget for 2026.
DT has readily embraced this policy of financial blackmail. His regime has slow-walked mandatory payments, although earlier this month it paid $827m towards its outstanding dues so it could preserve its voting rights in the UNGA."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/22/undermining-the-un-is-not-a-new-us-policy
#USDictatorship #Fascism #Control #News #HumanRights #Activism #UN
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"From Southall to Sheffield and from Brick Lane to Bradford, the Asian youth movements were set up to physically defend communities from racist attacks. It was because of their heroic efforts that many of us in diverse towns and cities have grown up in safer environments"
#Racism #Fascism #FarRight #UKPolitics
Britain’s far-right violence comes to us direct from the 1970s. But so does the solution | Taj Ali | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/23/britain-anti-racism-asian-youth-movements-1970s-far-right-violence -
Undermining the UN is not a new US policy
"In the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration accused the UN of being a third-world, anti-US forum. To compel the organisation to better serve its interests and under the guise of the ubiquitous need for reform, which all secretaries-general fell for, the US started to withhold a share of its assessed contribution, which accounted for a quarter of the regular budget and a third of the peacekeeping budget back then.
By 1987, the US relaxed its payment withholding policy, but the precedent was set. Washington continued to use the threat of withholding payment to maintain its grip on an organisation it viewed and continues to view as a vehicle serving its national interests rather than a multilateral agent serving the whole of humanity.
Ever since the Reagan years, the US has kept the UN on a short financial leash, and to this day, has been deliberately accruing arrears. It currently owes an estimated $4.2bn – that is equivalent to 120 percent of the regular UN budget for 2026.
DT has readily embraced this policy of financial blackmail. His regime has slow-walked mandatory payments, although earlier this month it paid $827m towards its outstanding dues so it could preserve its voting rights in the UNGA."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/22/undermining-the-un-is-not-a-new-us-policy
#USDictatorship #Fascism #Control #News #HumanRights #Activism #UN
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#History which repeats itself.
On 24 October 1990, the Italian government publicly confirmed revelations exposing Operation Gladio, a grouping of Western anti-#communist intelligence agencies set up in collaboration with the #US Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence.
These agencies, working with and funding neo-fascists, took part in a variety of sensational kidnappings, murders and bombings designed to appear as the work of anarchists and left-wing groups.
The secrecy of Gladio began to unravel after the discovery of weapons depots in north-eastern Italy near the border with #Yugoslavia.
On August 3, 1990 prime minister Giulio Andreotti was forced to confirm to government officials that a secret army existed in Italy and other countries in Western #Europe. On October 24, Andreotti told Parliament: "The structure did exist and does exist” publicly confirming that Operation Gladio was fact, rather than conspiracy theory.
#Gladio established networks in countries including #Germany, #France, the #Netherlands, #Greece, #Luxembourg, Italy, #Belgium, #Norway, #Portugal, #Spain, #Austria, #Turkey, #Denmark, the #UK, #Switzerland, #Sweden.
Purportedly the operation was set up to counter potential Soviet invasion. But secret documents released in 1990 showed that in reality its primary concern was controlling the working class, to "counter street demonstrations, handl[e] nationwide strikes and any internal uprising", and "fill the streets, creating a situation of such tension as to require #military intervention".
Attacks which took place by fascists supported by the security services killed dozens of people and injured hundreds. These include the #Bologna train station bombing of 1980, which killed 85 people, the Atocha massacre in #Madrid in 1977, which killed five, and the Milan bank bombing, which killed 17, after which anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was arrested and most likely killed by police.
Multiple murders were also credibly linked to Gladio, including the assassination of Belgian Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut, as were multiple coup attempts, including both in #Belgium and #Italy in the 1970s.
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9693/Italian-government-admits-Operation-GladioIt's not mentioned above but this was a structure of #NATO.
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#History which repeats itself.
On 24 October 1990, the Italian government publicly confirmed revelations exposing Operation Gladio, a grouping of Western anti-#communist intelligence agencies set up in collaboration with the #US Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence.
These agencies, working with and funding neo-fascists, took part in a variety of sensational kidnappings, murders and bombings designed to appear as the work of anarchists and left-wing groups.
The secrecy of Gladio began to unravel after the discovery of weapons depots in north-eastern Italy near the border with #Yugoslavia.
On August 3, 1990 prime minister Giulio Andreotti was forced to confirm to government officials that a secret army existed in Italy and other countries in Western #Europe. On October 24, Andreotti told Parliament: "The structure did exist and does exist” publicly confirming that Operation Gladio was fact, rather than conspiracy theory.
#Gladio established networks in countries including #Germany, #France, the #Netherlands, #Greece, #Luxembourg, Italy, #Belgium, #Norway, #Portugal, #Spain, #Austria, #Turkey, #Denmark, the #UK, #Switzerland, #Sweden.
Purportedly the operation was set up to counter potential Soviet invasion. But secret documents released in 1990 showed that in reality its primary concern was controlling the working class, to "counter street demonstrations, handl[e] nationwide strikes and any internal uprising", and "fill the streets, creating a situation of such tension as to require #military intervention".
Attacks which took place by fascists supported by the security services killed dozens of people and injured hundreds. These include the #Bologna train station bombing of 1980, which killed 85 people, the Atocha massacre in #Madrid in 1977, which killed five, and the Milan bank bombing, which killed 17, after which anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was arrested and most likely killed by police.
Multiple murders were also credibly linked to Gladio, including the assassination of Belgian Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut, as were multiple coup attempts, including both in #Belgium and #Italy in the 1970s.
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9693/Italian-government-admits-Operation-GladioIt's not mentioned above but this was a structure of #NATO.
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#History which repeats itself.
On 24 October 1990, the Italian government publicly confirmed revelations exposing Operation Gladio, a grouping of Western anti-#communist intelligence agencies set up in collaboration with the #US Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence.
These agencies, working with and funding neo-fascists, took part in a variety of sensational kidnappings, murders and bombings designed to appear as the work of anarchists and left-wing groups.
The secrecy of Gladio began to unravel after the discovery of weapons depots in north-eastern Italy near the border with #Yugoslavia.
On August 3, 1990 prime minister Giulio Andreotti was forced to confirm to government officials that a secret army existed in Italy and other countries in Western #Europe. On October 24, Andreotti told Parliament: "The structure did exist and does exist” publicly confirming that Operation Gladio was fact, rather than conspiracy theory.
#Gladio established networks in countries including #Germany, #France, the #Netherlands, #Greece, #Luxembourg, Italy, #Belgium, #Norway, #Portugal, #Spain, #Austria, #Turkey, #Denmark, the #UK, #Switzerland, #Sweden.
Purportedly the operation was set up to counter potential Soviet invasion. But secret documents released in 1990 showed that in reality its primary concern was controlling the working class, to "counter street demonstrations, handl[e] nationwide strikes and any internal uprising", and "fill the streets, creating a situation of such tension as to require #military intervention".
Attacks which took place by fascists supported by the security services killed dozens of people and injured hundreds. These include the #Bologna train station bombing of 1980, which killed 85 people, the Atocha massacre in #Madrid in 1977, which killed five, and the Milan bank bombing, which killed 17, after which anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was arrested and most likely killed by police.
Multiple murders were also credibly linked to Gladio, including the assassination of Belgian Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut, as were multiple coup attempts, including both in #Belgium and #Italy in the 1970s.
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9693/Italian-government-admits-Operation-GladioIt's not mentioned above but this was a structure of #NATO.
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#History which repeats itself.
On 24 October 1990, the Italian government publicly confirmed revelations exposing Operation Gladio, a grouping of Western anti-#communist intelligence agencies set up in collaboration with the #US Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence.
These agencies, working with and funding neo-fascists, took part in a variety of sensational kidnappings, murders and bombings designed to appear as the work of anarchists and left-wing groups.
The secrecy of Gladio began to unravel after the discovery of weapons depots in north-eastern Italy near the border with #Yugoslavia.
On August 3, 1990 prime minister Giulio Andreotti was forced to confirm to government officials that a secret army existed in Italy and other countries in Western #Europe. On October 24, Andreotti told Parliament: "The structure did exist and does exist” publicly confirming that Operation Gladio was fact, rather than conspiracy theory.
#Gladio established networks in countries including #Germany, #France, the #Netherlands, #Greece, #Luxembourg, Italy, #Belgium, #Norway, #Portugal, #Spain, #Austria, #Turkey, #Denmark, the #UK, #Switzerland, #Sweden.
Purportedly the operation was set up to counter potential Soviet invasion. But secret documents released in 1990 showed that in reality its primary concern was controlling the working class, to "counter street demonstrations, handl[e] nationwide strikes and any internal uprising", and "fill the streets, creating a situation of such tension as to require #military intervention".
Attacks which took place by fascists supported by the security services killed dozens of people and injured hundreds. These include the #Bologna train station bombing of 1980, which killed 85 people, the Atocha massacre in #Madrid in 1977, which killed five, and the Milan bank bombing, which killed 17, after which anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was arrested and most likely killed by police.
Multiple murders were also credibly linked to Gladio, including the assassination of Belgian Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut, as were multiple coup attempts, including both in #Belgium and #Italy in the 1970s.
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9693/Italian-government-admits-Operation-GladioIt's not mentioned above but this was a structure of #NATO.
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#History which repeats itself.
On 24 October 1990, the Italian government publicly confirmed revelations exposing Operation Gladio, a grouping of Western anti-#communist intelligence agencies set up in collaboration with the #US Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence.
These agencies, working with and funding neo-fascists, took part in a variety of sensational kidnappings, murders and bombings designed to appear as the work of anarchists and left-wing groups.
The secrecy of Gladio began to unravel after the discovery of weapons depots in north-eastern Italy near the border with #Yugoslavia.
On August 3, 1990 prime minister Giulio Andreotti was forced to confirm to government officials that a secret army existed in Italy and other countries in Western #Europe. On October 24, Andreotti told Parliament: "The structure did exist and does exist” publicly confirming that Operation Gladio was fact, rather than conspiracy theory.
#Gladio established networks in countries including #Germany, #France, the #Netherlands, #Greece, #Luxembourg, Italy, #Belgium, #Norway, #Portugal, #Spain, #Austria, #Turkey, #Denmark, the #UK, #Switzerland, #Sweden.
Purportedly the operation was set up to counter potential Soviet invasion. But secret documents released in 1990 showed that in reality its primary concern was controlling the working class, to "counter street demonstrations, handl[e] nationwide strikes and any internal uprising", and "fill the streets, creating a situation of such tension as to require #military intervention".
Attacks which took place by fascists supported by the security services killed dozens of people and injured hundreds. These include the #Bologna train station bombing of 1980, which killed 85 people, the Atocha massacre in #Madrid in 1977, which killed five, and the Milan bank bombing, which killed 17, after which anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was arrested and most likely killed by police.
Multiple murders were also credibly linked to Gladio, including the assassination of Belgian Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut, as were multiple coup attempts, including both in #Belgium and #Italy in the 1970s.
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9693/Italian-government-admits-Operation-GladioIt's not mentioned above but this was a structure of #NATO.
