#imperialism — Public Fediverse posts

"Trump doesn't need to be "mad" to attack your country. Trump attacked Canada over its wildfires, accusing Canada of polluting America's air:
(...)
But even if Trump never gets mad at you, that's no guarantee of safety. Trump is not long for this world, and his death or incapacity is no guarantee of the restoration of a "normal" America. And even if America finds its way to "normal" after Trump, that's no guarantee that it will stay normal. The armed, organized maniacs who have seized power in America and who are cheering him on as he rampages all over the world, kidnapping leaders and dropping bombs on schoolchildren are not going to dig a hole, crawl inside it, and pull the dirt down on top of themselves.

But let's say that we find ourselves in the best of worlds, where American fascism is comprehensively defeated and the country embarks on a years-long program of denazification:
(...)
Even in that amazing future, the world should still race to build a post-American internet. The world should have built that internet after the Snowden revelations. That ghastly failure created the Trumpian internet. If the post-Trump internet isn't a post-American internet, then it'll only be a matter of time until the next crisis comes along, and the coming years will give Big Tech even more chances to worm its tendrils into the world's governments, firms and households, making that crisis be even harder to survive. The best time to act was 13 years ago, after Snowden. The second best time is now."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/

#USA #Trump #MAGA #Imperialism #DigitalSovereignty

"Trump doesn't need to be "mad" to attack your country. Trump attacked Canada over its wildfires, accusing Canada of polluting America's air:
(...)
But even if Trump never gets mad at you, that's no guarantee of safety. Trump is not long for this world, and his death or incapacity is no guarantee of the restoration of a "normal" America. And even if America finds its way to "normal" after Trump, that's no guarantee that it will stay normal. The armed, organized maniacs who have seized power in America and who are cheering him on as he rampages all over the world, kidnapping leaders and dropping bombs on schoolchildren are not going to dig a hole, crawl inside it, and pull the dirt down on top of themselves.

But let's say that we find ourselves in the best of worlds, where American fascism is comprehensively defeated and the country embarks on a years-long program of denazification:
(...)
Even in that amazing future, the world should still race to build a post-American internet. The world should have built that internet after the Snowden revelations. That ghastly failure created the Trumpian internet. If the post-Trump internet isn't a post-American internet, then it'll only be a matter of time until the next crisis comes along, and the coming years will give Big Tech even more chances to worm its tendrils into the world's governments, firms and households, making that crisis be even harder to survive. The best time to act was 13 years ago, after Snowden. The second best time is now."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/

#USA #Trump #MAGA #Imperialism #DigitalSovereignty

"Trump doesn't need to be "mad" to attack your country. Trump attacked Canada over its wildfires, accusing Canada of polluting America's air:
(...)
But even if Trump never gets mad at you, that's no guarantee of safety. Trump is not long for this world, and his death or incapacity is no guarantee of the restoration of a "normal" America. And even if America finds its way to "normal" after Trump, that's no guarantee that it will stay normal. The armed, organized maniacs who have seized power in America and who are cheering him on as he rampages all over the world, kidnapping leaders and dropping bombs on schoolchildren are not going to dig a hole, crawl inside it, and pull the dirt down on top of themselves.

But let's say that we find ourselves in the best of worlds, where American fascism is comprehensively defeated and the country embarks on a years-long program of denazification:
(...)
Even in that amazing future, the world should still race to build a post-American internet. The world should have built that internet after the Snowden revelations. That ghastly failure created the Trumpian internet. If the post-Trump internet isn't a post-American internet, then it'll only be a matter of time until the next crisis comes along, and the coming years will give Big Tech even more chances to worm its tendrils into the world's governments, firms and households, making that crisis be even harder to survive. The best time to act was 13 years ago, after Snowden. The second best time is now."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/

#USA #Trump #MAGA #Imperialism #DigitalSovereignty

"Trump doesn't need to be "mad" to attack your country. Trump attacked Canada over its wildfires, accusing Canada of polluting America's air:
(...)
But even if Trump never gets mad at you, that's no guarantee of safety. Trump is not long for this world, and his death or incapacity is no guarantee of the restoration of a "normal" America. And even if America finds its way to "normal" after Trump, that's no guarantee that it will stay normal. The armed, organized maniacs who have seized power in America and who are cheering him on as he rampages all over the world, kidnapping leaders and dropping bombs on schoolchildren are not going to dig a hole, crawl inside it, and pull the dirt down on top of themselves.

But let's say that we find ourselves in the best of worlds, where American fascism is comprehensively defeated and the country embarks on a years-long program of denazification:
(...)
Even in that amazing future, the world should still race to build a post-American internet. The world should have built that internet after the Snowden revelations. That ghastly failure created the Trumpian internet. If the post-Trump internet isn't a post-American internet, then it'll only be a matter of time until the next crisis comes along, and the coming years will give Big Tech even more chances to worm its tendrils into the world's governments, firms and households, making that crisis be even harder to survive. The best time to act was 13 years ago, after Snowden. The second best time is now."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/

#USA #Trump #MAGA #Imperialism #DigitalSovereignty

"Trump doesn't need to be "mad" to attack your country. Trump attacked Canada over its wildfires, accusing Canada of polluting America's air:
(...)
But even if Trump never gets mad at you, that's no guarantee of safety. Trump is not long for this world, and his death or incapacity is no guarantee of the restoration of a "normal" America. And even if America finds its way to "normal" after Trump, that's no guarantee that it will stay normal. The armed, organized maniacs who have seized power in America and who are cheering him on as he rampages all over the world, kidnapping leaders and dropping bombs on schoolchildren are not going to dig a hole, crawl inside it, and pull the dirt down on top of themselves.

But let's say that we find ourselves in the best of worlds, where American fascism is comprehensively defeated and the country embarks on a years-long program of denazification:
(...)
Even in that amazing future, the world should still race to build a post-American internet. The world should have built that internet after the Snowden revelations. That ghastly failure created the Trumpian internet. If the post-Trump internet isn't a post-American internet, then it'll only be a matter of time until the next crisis comes along, and the coming years will give Big Tech even more chances to worm its tendrils into the world's governments, firms and households, making that crisis be even harder to survive. The best time to act was 13 years ago, after Snowden. The second best time is now."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/

#USA #Trump #MAGA #Imperialism #DigitalSovereignty

CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem Has Died

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/cia-veteran-gloria-steinem-has-died

#CIA #whitefeminism #imperialism

"The relationship between capital and labor in the ‘core’ countries is stabilized by the imperial arrangement."

by Bikrum Gill: https://progressive.international/blueprint/523d7734-45b9-4c63-9423-a86e68458cea-gill-internationalism-and-national-liberation/en/

#internationalism #marxism #genocide #USWars #imperialism #capitalism

#GloriaSteinem is a #litmus test. An easy measure of political position, in this case separating #feminism from #imperialism.

#Steinem didn't just work for a #CIA front: she ran one. She described the CIA as:"liberal, nonviolent & honorable". That's not just 3 lies in 3 words; it's an erasure of the horrors which CIA proxies & regimes inflicted on millions of women from Chile to Indonesia.

Steinem paved the way for Bush's regime to market invasions as pro-women.

Gloria in execrable deo. 😡

if you really care about climate change 👇

#imperialism #capitalism #ai #genai #llm #usa #us #war #military #climate #climateChange #climateEmergency #politics

if you really care about climate change 👇

#imperialism #capitalism #ai #genai #llm #usa #us #war #military #climate #climateChange #climateEmergency #politics

if you really care about climate change 👇

#imperialism #capitalism #ai #genai #llm #usa #us #war #military #climate #climateChange #climateEmergency #politics

if you really care about climate change 👇

#imperialism #capitalism #ai #genai #llm #usa #us #war #military #climate #climateChange #climateEmergency #politics

if you really care about climate change 👇

#imperialism #capitalism #ai #genai #llm #usa #us #war #military #climate #climateChange #climateEmergency #politics

I will take this opportunity to remind you kindly that:

Asking for statehood for Puerto Rico is NOT the progressive policy that you have been led to believe it is.

#PuertoRico #colonialism #imperialism

Friday, September 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/friday-september-4-2026/

Friday, September 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/friday-september-4-2026/

Friday, September 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/friday-september-4-2026/

Friday, September 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/friday-september-4-2026/

Friday, September 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/friday-september-4-2026/

Doug Henwood welcomes historian Alejandro Velasco to talk about #Trump's #oil grab in #Venezuela

https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-september-3-2026/
#imperialism #petropolitics #petroimperialism #USpol #PDVSA #imperialBullying #neocolonialism

Interesting data in the charts...
«How unpopular is Donald #Trump? The president's net approval rating is -26, down 0.2 points since last week. 35% approve, 61% disapprove, 5% not sure. (...) Karl #Marx said that men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. That goes for Mr Trump as much as for anyone else.» - https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
#politics #news #capitalism #imperialism #classwarfare

Interesting data in the charts...
«How unpopular is Donald #Trump? The president's net approval rating is -26, down 0.2 points since last week. 35% approve, 61% disapprove, 5% not sure. (...) Karl #Marx said that men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. That goes for Mr Trump as much as for anyone else.» - https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
#politics #news #capitalism #imperialism #classwarfare

Interesting data in the charts...
«How unpopular is Donald #Trump? The president's net approval rating is -26, down 0.2 points since last week. 35% approve, 61% disapprove, 5% not sure. (...) Karl #Marx said that men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. That goes for Mr Trump as much as for anyone else.» - https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
#politics #news #capitalism #imperialism #classwarfare

Interesting data in the charts...
«How unpopular is Donald #Trump? The president's net approval rating is -26, down 0.2 points since last week. 35% approve, 61% disapprove, 5% not sure. (...) Karl #Marx said that men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. That goes for Mr Trump as much as for anyone else.» - https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
#politics #news #capitalism #imperialism #classwarfare

Sounds like #Goulart and the 1964 coup all over again

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/01/us-trump-rubio-meddling-brazil-election?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #trump #politics #fascism #imperialism #brazil #lula

Re #immigration & #imperialism, the last 100 years, England has gone from 1 extreme to another - lording-it over everyone else, to letting everyone else lord-it over us; how about a happy medium? My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "#Nationalism Without Conquest" https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walkaboutsverse-84-of-230.html

Thursday, September 3, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/thursday-september-3-2026/

Thursday, September 3, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/thursday-september-3-2026/

Thursday, September 3, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/thursday-september-3-2026/

Thursday, September 3, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/thursday-september-3-2026/

Thursday, September 3, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/thursday-september-3-2026/

Sources:

Strategic Petroleum Reserve data:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_SUM_SNDW_A_EPC0_SAS_MBBL_W.htm

Commercial stocks data:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_sndw_a_EPC0_SAX_mbbl_w.htm

Notes on Venezuelan oil and production capabilities:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Venezuelan-Oil-and-the-Limits-of-US-Refining-Capacity.html

#oil #OilPrice #SPR #venezuela #imperialism #fascism #StopUsingOil

Sources:

Strategic Petroleum Reserve data:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_SUM_SNDW_A_EPC0_SAS_MBBL_W.htm

Commercial stocks data:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_sndw_a_EPC0_SAX_mbbl_w.htm

Notes on Venezuelan oil and production capabilities:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Venezuelan-Oil-and-the-Limits-of-US-Refining-Capacity.html

#oil #OilPrice #SPR #venezuela #imperialism #fascism #StopUsingOil

Sources:

Strategic Petroleum Reserve data:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_SUM_SNDW_A_EPC0_SAS_MBBL_W.htm

Commercial stocks data:
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_sndw_a_EPC0_SAX_mbbl_w.htm

Notes on Venezuelan oil and production capabilities:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Venezuelan-Oil-and-the-Limits-of-US-Refining-Capacity.html

#oil #OilPrice #SPR #venezuela #imperialism #fascism #StopUsingOil

Still true.

#Christianity #MiddleEast #UK #US #Imperialism #MidEast

Still true.

#Christianity #MiddleEast #UK #US #Imperialism #MidEast

Still true.

#Christianity #MiddleEast #UK #US #Imperialism #MidEast

Still true.

#Christianity #MiddleEast #UK #US #Imperialism #MidEast

Still true.

#Christianity #MiddleEast #UK #US #Imperialism #MidEast

@randahl

When Israel attacked the West Bank, Europe issued a stern warning and sent Israel more arms.

#colonialism #imperialism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117202345397033343

Why US House intends to punish institutions? It has the key in its hands. It can just give the whole budget of the country to #IsraelTerroristState and everything is over. No voices, no rejections, anything.

#USComplicity #imperialism #USA #USpol #DeathToAmeriKKKa #BDS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117202345397033343

Why US House intends to punish institutions? It has the key in its hands. It can just give the whole budget of the country to #IsraelTerroristState and everything is over. No voices, no rejections, anything.

#USComplicity #imperialism #USA #USpol #DeathToAmeriKKKa #BDS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117202345397033343

Why US House intends to punish institutions? It has the key in its hands. It can just give the whole budget of the country to #IsraelTerroristState and everything is over. No voices, no rejections, anything.

#USComplicity #imperialism #USA #USpol #DeathToAmeriKKKa #BDS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117202345397033343

Why US House intends to punish institutions? It has the key in its hands. It can just give the whole budget of the country to #IsraelTerroristState and everything is over. No voices, no rejections, anything.

#USComplicity #imperialism #USA #USpol #DeathToAmeriKKKa #BDS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117202345397033343

Why US House intends to punish institutions? It has the key in its hands. It can just give the whole budget of the country to #IsraelTerroristState and everything is over. No voices, no rejections, anything.

#USComplicity #imperialism #USA #USpol #DeathToAmeriKKKa #BDS

Look, what's happening to Autistici/Inventati is horrible and catastrophic, and all people of good sense should stand against this dictatorial move and in solidarity with the collective.

But please, please, stop using cheap rhetoric such as "being anti-antifa makes you a fascist". That is not honest, nor necessary, and weakens the credibility of our arguments.

If I am "anti-anti-Satanist", that does not necessarily make me a Satanist. Because an "anti-Satanist" might be defined as someone who opposes the cult of Satan as a religion or social practice, which I think should be entirely a private matter, and hence I would oppose the opposition on this ground alone.

Now, granted, fascism is not "a private matter", so the example above does not apply verbatim. But "antifa" has a specific sociocultural connotation, which people might adhere to or not without necessarily being fascists.

I'm not saying anything about whether being antifa is good or bad (I am antifascist, but that's not the point), but double negation does not work that way in language. And why would you put yourself in such a rhetorical trap anyway?

Because that doesn't matter at all in this situation!

The stakes here are higher than fa-VS-antifa: we are witnessing the final assault, launched by a coalition of megacorporations and corrupted governments, in the war on freedom of thought and communication, which started in 2001, and escalated in 2020 during COVID. Global surveillance, infowar, AI-mageddon, age and identity verification, lock-in of operating systems... there is a reason why everything is happening at the same time.

We can fight back. But we need every gram of credibility we can get.

#cypherpunk #AutisticiInventati #dictatorship #dystopia #politics #fascism #antifa #surveillance #privacy #bigtech #oligarchy #capitalism #imperialism #resistance

Look, what's happening to Autistici/Inventati is horrible and catastrophic, and all people of good sense should stand against this dictatorial move and in solidarity with the collective.

But please, please, stop using cheap rhetoric such as "being anti-antifa makes you a fascist". That is not honest, nor necessary, and weakens the credibility of our arguments.

If I am "anti-anti-Satanist", that does not necessarily make me a Satanist. Because an "anti-Satanist" might be defined as someone who opposes the cult of Satan as a religion or social practice, which I think should be entirely a private matter, and hence I would oppose the opposition on this ground alone.

Now, granted, fascism is not "a private matter", so the example above does not apply verbatim. But "antifa" has a specific sociocultural connotation, which people might adhere to or not without necessarily being fascists.

I'm not saying anything about whether being antifa is good or bad (I am antifascist, but that's not the point), but double negation does not work that way in language. And why would you put yourself in such a rhetorical trap anyway?

Because that doesn't matter at all in this situation!

The stakes here are higher than fa-VS-antifa: we are witnessing the final assault, launched by a coalition of megacorporations and corrupted governments, in the war on freedom of thought and communication, which started in 2001, and escalated in 2020 during COVID. Global surveillance, infowar, AI-mageddon, age and identity verification, lock-in of operating systems... there is a reason why everything is happening at the same time.

We can fight back. But we need every gram of credibility we can get.

#cypherpunk #AutisticiInventati #dictatorship #dystopia #politics #fascism #antifa #surveillance #privacy #bigtech #oligarchy #capitalism #imperialism #resistance

Look, what's happening to Autistici/Inventati is horrible and catastrophic, and all people of good sense should stand against this dictatorial move and in solidarity with the collective.

But please, please, stop using cheap rhetoric such as "being anti-antifa makes you a fascist". That is not honest, nor necessary, and weakens the credibility of our arguments.

If I am "anti-anti-Satanist", that does not necessarily make me a Satanist. Because an "anti-Satanist" might be defined as someone who opposes the cult of Satan as a religion or social practice, which I think should be entirely a private matter, and hence I would oppose the opposition on this ground alone.

Now, granted, fascism is not "a private matter", so the example above does not apply verbatim. But "antifa" has a specific sociocultural connotation, which people might adhere to or not without necessarily being fascists.

I'm not saying anything about whether being antifa is good or bad (I am antifascist, but that's not the point), but double negation does not work that way in language. And why would you put yourself in such a rhetorical trap anyway?

Because that doesn't matter at all in this situation!

The stakes here are higher than fa-VS-antifa: we are witnessing the final assault, launched by a coalition of megacorporations and corrupted governments, in the war on freedom of thought and communication, which started in 2001, and escalated in 2020 during COVID. Global surveillance, infowar, AI-mageddon, age and identity verification, lock-in of operating systems... there is a reason why everything is happening at the same time.

We can fight back. But we need every gram of credibility we can get.

#cypherpunk #AutisticiInventati #dictatorship #dystopia #politics #fascism #antifa #surveillance #privacy #bigtech #oligarchy #capitalism #imperialism #resistance

Look, what's happening to Autistici/Inventati is horrible and catastrophic, and all people of good sense should stand against this dictatorial move and in solidarity with the collective.

But please, please, stop using cheap rhetoric such as "being anti-antifa makes you a fascist". That is not honest, nor necessary, and weakens the credibility of our arguments.

If I am "anti-anti-Satanist", that does not necessarily make me a Satanist. Because an "anti-Satanist" might be defined as someone who opposes the cult of Satan as a religion or social practice, which I think should be entirely a private matter, and hence I would oppose the opposition on this ground alone.

Now, granted, fascism is not "a private matter", so the example above does not apply verbatim. But "antifa" has a specific sociocultural connotation, which people might adhere to or not without necessarily being fascists.

I'm not saying anything about whether being antifa is good or bad (I am antifascist, but that's not the point), but double negation does not work that way in language. And why would you put yourself in such a rhetorical trap anyway?

Because that doesn't matter at all in this situation!

The stakes here are higher than fa-VS-antifa: we are witnessing the final assault, launched by a coalition of megacorporations and corrupted governments, in the war on freedom of thought and communication, which started in 2001, and escalated in 2020 during COVID. Global surveillance, infowar, AI-mageddon, age and identity verification, lock-in of operating systems... there is a reason why everything is happening at the same time.

We can fight back. But we need every gram of credibility we can get.

#cypherpunk #AutisticiInventati #dictatorship #dystopia #politics #fascism #antifa #surveillance #privacy #bigtech #oligarchy #capitalism #imperialism #resistance

Look, what's happening to Autistici/Inventati is horrible and catastrophic, and all people of good sense should stand against this dictatorial move and in solidarity with the collective.

But please, please, stop using cheap rhetoric such as "being anti-antifa makes you a fascist". That is not honest, nor necessary, and weakens the credibility of our arguments.

If I am "anti-anti-Satanist", that does not necessarily make me a Satanist. Because an "anti-Satanist" might be defined as someone who opposes the cult of Satan as a religion or social practice, which I think should be entirely a private matter, and hence I would oppose the opposition on this ground alone.

Now, granted, fascism is not "a private matter", so the example above does not apply verbatim. But "antifa" has a specific sociocultural connotation, which people might adhere to or not without necessarily being fascists.

I'm not saying anything about whether being antifa is good or bad (I am antifascist, but that's not the point), but double negation does not work that way in language. And why would you put yourself in such a rhetorical trap anyway?

Because that doesn't matter at all in this situation!

The stakes here are higher than fa-VS-antifa: we are witnessing the final assault, launched by a coalition of megacorporations and corrupted governments, in the war on freedom of thought and communication, which started in 2001, and escalated in 2020 during COVID. Global surveillance, infowar, AI-mageddon, age and identity verification, lock-in of operating systems... there is a reason why everything is happening at the same time.

We can fight back. But we need every gram of credibility we can get.

#cypherpunk #AutisticiInventati #dictatorship #dystopia #politics #fascism #antifa #surveillance #privacy #bigtech #oligarchy #capitalism #imperialism #resistance