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"... “Today, Russia is a country with a wartime economy and a population programmed to view the West in explicitly adversarial terms.”

“Russia will remain an enemy of the West until Putin leaves the Kremlin.”

“Until that moment,” he adds, “Europe will have to deal with the reality of Russian aggression.”
..."

#Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Putin #Putinswar #RussiaUkraineWar #NATO #EuropeanSecurity #Ukraine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2026/08/13/as-putin-plots-attacks-on-europe-nato-needs-to-fortify-united-front/

"... “Today, Russia is a country with a wartime economy and a population programmed to view the West in explicitly adversarial terms.”

“Russia will remain an enemy of the West until Putin leaves the Kremlin.”

“Until that moment,” he adds, “Europe will have to deal with the reality of Russian aggression.”
..."

#Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Putin #Putinswar #RussiaUkraineWar #NATO #EuropeanSecurity
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2026/08/13/as-putin-plots-attacks-on-europe-nato-needs-to-fortify-united-front/

"... For two decades, successive Western leaders have embraced policies of appeasement in a bid to avoid provoking Putin. It should now be abundantly clear that nothing is more likely to provoke Putin than Western weakness."

#Putin #Russia #NATO #USA #Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Appeasement
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/western-weakness-is-encouraging-putin-to-test-nato/

"... For two decades, successive Western leaders have embraced policies of appeasement in a bid to avoid provoking Putin. It should now be abundantly clear that nothing is more likely to provoke Putin than Western weakness."

#Putin #Russia #NATO #USA #Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Appeasement
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/western-weakness-is-encouraging-putin-to-test-nato/

Here we go

"How Australia can prepare for war."

"New parliamentary committee to examine how Australia can prepare for war for first time since World War II." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/new-plan-proposed-to-prepare-australia-for-impacts-of-war/107001286

Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/117045391713748343
#war #FossilFuelMachismo #Electrostates #Petrostates #geopolitics #NewColdWar #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #EU #failure #China #technology #AI #debt #bubble

Here we go

"How Australia can prepare for war."

"New parliamentary committee to examine how Australia can prepare for war for first time since World War II." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/new-plan-proposed-to-prepare-australia-for-impacts-of-war/107001286

Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/117045391713748343
#war #FossilFuelMachismo #Electrostates #Petrostates #geopolitics #NewColdWar #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #EU #failure #China #technology #AI #debt #bubble

Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze
London Review of Books lecture, Podcast, 5 Aug 2026

"China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible. The outlines of a new Cold War are becoming visible, one which will be determined by a novel mixture of ideology, critical technologies, supply chains and control of energy flows. How will these geopolitical dynamics play out – and what will it mean for global warming?" >>
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/adam-tooze-electrostates-petrostates-and-the-new-cold-war/id510327102?i=1000779993413
#Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuelMachismo #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #geopolitics #technology #AI #debt #bubble #war

Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze
London Review of Books lecture, Podcast, 5 Aug 2026

"China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible. The outlines of a new Cold War are becoming visible, one which will be determined by a novel mixture of ideology, critical technologies, supply chains and control of energy flows. How will these geopolitical dynamics play out – and what will it mean for global warming?" >>
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/adam-tooze-electrostates-petrostates-and-the-new-cold-war/id510327102?i=1000779993413
#Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuelMachismo #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #geopolitics #technology #AI #debt #bubble #war

"In line with the Kremlin’s standard practice of providing no evidence for its claims, Russian outlets continue to allege that Ukraine is arming nearly every faction in every conflict zone around the world, all while insisting that Ukraine itself has supposedly long since run out of weapons."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #Ukraine #theWest #theMiddleEast #Organisedcrime #Corruption #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #EUvsDisinfo
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/weapons-supplied-to-ukraine-are-often-appearing-in-other-regions-including-middle-east/

"In line with the Kremlin’s standard practice of providing no evidence for its claims, Russian outlets continue to allege that Ukraine is arming nearly every faction in every conflict zone around the world, all while insisting that Ukraine itself has supposedly long since run out of weapons."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #Ukraine #theWest #theMiddleEast #Organisedcrime #Corruption #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #EUvsDisinfo
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/weapons-supplied-to-ukraine-are-often-appearing-in-other-regions-including-middle-east/

"The regime that just three months ago openly threatened to murder foreign diplomats in Kyiv and continues to reject all ceasefire proposals, today decided to lecture the West about its apparent ‘lack of constructive ideas’ and an ‘unacceptable style of dialogue’."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #theWest #EUvsDisinfo #Europe https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/europe-does-not-want-peace-and-is-lying/

"The regime that just three months ago openly threatened to murder foreign diplomats in Kyiv and continues to reject all ceasefire proposals, today decided to lecture the West about its apparent ‘lack of constructive ideas’ and an ‘unacceptable style of dialogue’."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #theWest #EUvsDisinfo #Europe https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/europe-does-not-want-peace-and-is-lying/

"Some of the most effective Kremlin propaganda strategies do not necessarily invent entirely new events.

Instead, they take real developments – a border restriction, a military exercise, a diplomatic dispute – and reframe them as evidence that Russia is ‘under constant attack from the West’."
- EUvsDisinfo

#propaganda #narratives #Russia #Kremlin #EUvsDisinfo #theWest

"According to Kremlin sources, the number of officially reported repatriates from Europe to Kaliningrad has almost doubled in three years.

In official rhetoric, these arrivals are framed as proof that Russia remains ‘safer’ and people are ‘returning home from an increasingly hostile West’.

Rather than simply reporting migration, the narrative turns it into proof of the Kremlin’s preferred worldview."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #Europe #Kaliningrad #theWest #EUvsDisinfo
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/why-the-information-space-has-become-a-minefield-for-eu-csdp-missions-and-operations/

"According to Kremlin sources, the number of officially reported repatriates from Europe to Kaliningrad has almost doubled in three years.

In official rhetoric, these arrivals are framed as proof that Russia remains ‘safer’ and people are ‘returning home from an increasingly hostile West’.

Rather than simply reporting migration, the narrative turns it into proof of the Kremlin’s preferred worldview."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #Europe #Kaliningrad #theWest #EUvsDisinfo
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/why-the-information-space-has-become-a-minefield-for-eu-csdp-missions-and-operations/

"Vladimir Putin has no intention of striking a peace deal with Ukraine and is more likely to escalate his war, according to Russian opposition activist Garry Kasparov.

Such a move could involve an incursion into a country on NATO’s eastern flank, he said."
- POLITICO Europe‬

#VladimirPutin #Putin #GarryKasparov #NATO #theWest
https://www.politico.eu/article/putins-next-move-baltic-incursion-warns-top-russian-dissident/

"... Elvira Bary explains why many Russians fear and distrust the West — and how Putin’s regime turns those fears into a powerful tool of control. Russian anti-Western paranoia did not appear out of nowhere. It draws on real historical wounds, NATO expansion, nuclear insecurity, fear of national collapse, memories of the 1990s, colonial history, and the myth that the West has always hated Russia. ...”

#Russia #RussianSociety #propaganda #PutinsRegime #NATO #theWest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdIqQCaXI1A

As Ukraine garners headlines for its drone warfare innovation, it is also producing a playbook for countering Russian propaganda.

“This Ukrainian experience offers important lessons for the wider Western world,” writes Ryan Prior...

#RUssia #propaganda #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EU
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-west-can-learn-from-ukraines-success-against-russian-propaganda/?utm_campaign=read&utm_content=20260704&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_term=Atlantic%20Council

As Ukraine garners headlines for its drone warfare innovation, it is also producing a playbook for countering Russian propaganda.

“This Ukrainian experience offers important lessons for the wider Western world,” writes Ryan Prior...

#RUssia #propaganda #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EU
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-west-can-learn-from-ukraines-success-against-russian-propaganda/?utm_campaign=read&utm_content=20260704&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_term=Atlantic%20Council

Why Jet Engines Aren’t “Made In China” - by Aakash Japi

https://aakash.substack.com/p/why-jet-engines-arent-made-in-china

> What China’s jet engine program tells us about the limits of industrial policy

#China #TheWest #JetEngines

"Don't ask Ukraine to stop defending itself. Ask russia to stop invading."
- Olena Halushka‬

#Russia #Ukraine #Europe #theWest #USA #UK #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #selfdefence

"Don't ask Ukraine to stop defending itself. Ask russia to stop invading."
- Olena Halushka‬

#Russia #Ukraine #Europe #theWest #USA #UK #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #selfdefence

stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold

on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc

think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma

nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round

#meltingpot #westernCulture #theWest #ausPol #hanson

stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold

on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc

think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma

nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round

#meltingpot #westernCulture #theWest #ausPol #hanson

"... Step by step, Belarus is removing the political, legal, industrial, and military barriers that once limited its involvement in Russia’s war. The command structures are now in place. Legislation has been rewritten and the defense industry is expanding. Preparation is not the same as intent, of course, but it makes participation easier should Putin decide that the time has come. ..."

#Belarus #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EuropeanSecurity
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/belarus-is-quietly-preparing-to-play-a-larger-role-in-russias-ukraine-war/

"... Step by step, Belarus is removing the political, legal, industrial, and military barriers that once limited its involvement in Russia’s war. The command structures are now in place. Legislation has been rewritten and the defense industry is expanding. Preparation is not the same as intent, of course, but it makes participation easier should Putin decide that the time has come. ..."

#Belarus #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EuropeanSecurity
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/belarus-is-quietly-preparing-to-play-a-larger-role-in-russias-ukraine-war/

Youth, Culture, and Islam in the West

https://alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/youth-culture-and-islam-in-the-west/

Youth, Culture, and Islam in the West

https://alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/youth-culture-and-islam-in-the-west/

"According to Kremlin state media, the West is trying to ‘stop Russia’s growth by imposing sanctions’.

An alternative explanation is that sanctions were imposed after Russia launched the most destructive war in Europe in decades."
- EUvsDisinfo‬

#Russia #theWest #Sanctions #EUvsDisinfo

"Content from ‘independent’ pro-Kremlin influencers describing Moscow as ‘unfairly targeted by the West’ omits a central fact: sanctions were a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
- EUvsDisinfo‬

#Russia #Russianinvasion #theWest #EUvsDisinfo

"Content from ‘independent’ pro-Kremlin influencers describing Moscow as ‘unfairly targeted by the West’ omits a central fact: sanctions were a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
- EUvsDisinfo‬

#Russia #Russianinvasion #theWest #EUvsDisinfo

"Russians once worried about becoming a colony of the West. In fact, because of Putins war in Ukraine, Russia is becoming a colony of China."
- Michael McFaul‬

#Russia #theWest #China

"With the choice of the Armenian people not to its liking, the Kremlin has chosen to completely deny their agency and instead baselessly accuse ‘the West’ of interfering in an election that Russia itself has tried to influence by every means at its disposal."
- EUvsDisinfo‬

#Russia #Armenia #theWest #EUvsDisinfo

Het is niet in Westerse belangen om Israël een haar in de weg te leggen. Alana Lentin:

'Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”'

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/#comments

@[email protected] @[email protected]

#Israel #antisemitism #fascism #racism #CedricRobinson #AntiRacism #TheWest #capitalism #RacialRegime

Het is niet in Westerse belangen om Israël een haar in de weg te leggen. Alana Lentin:

'Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”'

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/#comments

@[email protected] @[email protected]

#Israel #antisemitism #fascism #racism #CedricRobinson #AntiRacism #TheWest #capitalism #RacialRegime

"I haven’t seen a single video of a Muscovite exclaiming “NATO/the West is finally invading us! We were right to worry”. They’re all confused and incredulous that Moscow is under attack. So much for claims that Russians are afraid of an invasion. Anyone claiming that is whitewashing Ru aggression!"
- Maria Popova‬
‪
#Russia #RussianAggression #NATO #theWest #RussiaUkraineWar

Bit of an off-the-wall connection, but the point of #Scifi IS to explore ideas through a lens of fiction...

I've been watching #StarTrek #Enterprise lately, with episodes like "Dear Doctor", "#Cogenitor", "North Star", and "Observer Effect" going into the realm of "why we don't interfere with other cultures, no matter what".

I've also been watching the #IranWar, with absurd projections of impossibly wishful scenarios of an instant transition to pro-US democracy with the low-cost application of a few hundred bombs, contrasted with the reality of an #Iran now galvanized against "#TheWest" by the completely unprovoked and sudden attack by the #US and #Israel alone against the will of all allies.

I don't think even Crazy Captain Archer would approve, and it seems to me like most of us should've learned this lesson the hard way by 2004, to the point where scifi writers were putting it on UPN.

#USpol #war #ENT

Bit of an off-the-wall connection, but the point of #Scifi IS to explore ideas through a lens of fiction...

I've been watching #StarTrek #Enterprise lately, with episodes like "Dear Doctor", "#Cogenitor", "North Star", and "Observer Effect" going into the realm of "why we don't interfere with other cultures, no matter what".

I've also been watching the #IranWar, with absurd projections of impossibly wishful scenarios of an instant transition to pro-US democracy with the low-cost application of a few hundred bombs, contrasted with the reality of an #Iran now galvanized against "#TheWest" by the completely unprovoked and sudden attack by the #US and #Israel alone against the will of all allies.

I don't think even Crazy Captain Archer would approve, and it seems to me like most of us should've learned this lesson the hard way by 2004, to the point where scifi writers were putting it on UPN.

#USpol #war #ENT

Shada Islam

'Racial logic is woven into our laws as well as our political, economic and social systems. It shapes access to jobs, housing, education and justice. It informs policing practices, border controls and foreign policy choices. Racialised biases are being stamped into our AI tools'

#euPol #racism #policy #europe #theWest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/orban-europe-eu-racism-migration-border

Shada Islam

'Racial logic is woven into our laws as well as our political, economic and social systems. It shapes access to jobs, housing, education and justice. It informs policing practices, border controls and foreign policy choices. Racialised biases are being stamped into our AI tools'

#euPol #racism #policy #europe #theWest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/orban-europe-eu-racism-migration-border

Multilateralism for middle powers

" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,

Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.

Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly

Multilateralism for middle powers

" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,

Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.

Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/tuesday-march-31-2026/

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/tuesday-march-31-2026/

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/

* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

A lifetime dedicated to mental health improvement – Deseret News

When Dallas Earnshaw was 17 years old, his grandpa, suffering from mental illness, died by suicide. At the…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #AU #Australia #Health #MentalHealth #TheWest #utah
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/514091/

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/wednesday-february-11-2026/

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/wednesday-february-11-2026/

* The White Nationalist Agenda, the "missing white voter" and hate mongering
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/stephen-miller-donald-trumps-immigration-policy-architect/106272938

* "Jean Guerrero, Hate Monger, a book that investigated the making of Miller. Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House."
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905403716/hatemonger-paints-trump-advisor-stephen-miller-as-a-case-study-in-radicalization

* The Apparatus of Whiteness, Linda Martín Alcoff »Cultural Racism« (2/3) Adorno Lecture >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUu9nCzxvs
#hate #immigration #WhiteRage #Whiteness #settlersociety #EthnoNationalism #TheWest #modernity #whitesupremacists #CulturalRacism #EthnoEssentialism #SocialCohesion #SocialFabric

"Those in the West who pretend this is about human rights, and not about eliminating the last elements of physical resistance to Greater Israel, are sickeningly hypocritical.

Opposition to the government of Iran and support for its violent overthrow has become the new entry ticket to the Overton Window Show of British media and politics. It is the new “Do you condemn Hamas?”

Those who bow the knee before the latest ruse of Western Imperialist conquest, in the interests of maintaining their establishment respectability, should be treated with contempt."

#Iran #Israel #Palestine #TheWest

New social and technological “giants” like loneliness, addiction, distraction, lies and complexity threaten the West and coordinated government action is needed to restore social cohesion, focus and trust. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/02/world/government-must-restore-social-cohesion-focus-trust/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #artificialintelligence #socialmedia #fivegiants #westernsocieties #thewest #us #sweden #finland #mentalhealth

While driving west on I-80 I think I could see Maynard Dixon’s inspiration.

#maynarddixon #art #thewest

I just read this message from @ruaa (sharing it with her permission):

“I was just coming back with some food for my family I’m in Al-Mawasi, near the sea when suddenly, boats started firing all at once, one strike after another. I ran for 30 minutes straight, without stopping, and finally made it back to the tent terrified.

Thinking the tent would somehow shield me from the bullets and shrapnel.

I think genocide back again :(

Its not stop at all”

I don’t know what more there is left to say. If humanity refuses even to stop genocide what good is there in its existence?

#israel #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #EU #USA #theWest #complicity #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

...i finish my evals of #arab nation #genocides in #africa..my heart shatters cos turns out its just perpetual #exploitation that ISNT only #western nations 2blame.

...#uae backs #rsf to gain #gold, agriculture, and #port access...#ksa backs #saf as rival for regional control against #iran and a foothold in #yemen, #egypt, #redsea

brothers?...how could you! SHAME! and how dare you set yourselves above "#thewest" WHEN YOU ARE NO BETTER than them with your evil schemes?!!

#sudan #chad #somalia