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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.

Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.

The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.

#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.

Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.

The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.

#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.

Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.

The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.

#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.

Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.

The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.

#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.

Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.

The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.

#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

“As efforts to revive the faltering peace process continue, it is important for Western policymakers to avoid being misled by Kremlin claims about Russia’s readiness for a diplomatic solution,” writes Kateryna Odarchenko...

#Russia #Putin #PutinsWar #theWest #USA #Europe #EU #Diplomacy #RussianImperialism #independence #NationalIdentity #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/for-putin-the-root-cause-of-the-war-is-the-existence-of-independent-ukraine/?utm_campaign=read&utm_content=20260902&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_term=Atlantic%20Council

"... Instead of paying tribute to Ukraine’s much mythologized superpowers, the West should finally overcome its fear of escalation and focus on providing Ukraine with the tools to defeat Russia. ..."

#Russia #RussianTerror #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #theWest #USA #Europe
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainians-are-not-superheroes-with-endless-powers-of-resilience/

Illia Ponomarenko: "I’m beginning to suspect that wasting years dragging feet on military aid to Ukraine and playing escalation management games, giving an aggressive militaristic Russia the time and resources to ramp up its war machine to full power against the free world, might not have been the brightest idea."

#RussIa #Ukraine #theWest #USA #Europe #PutinsWar #RussiaUkraineWar

"... “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/

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

"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/

"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/

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

"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

"... 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/

"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

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

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

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/

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

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

SEVEN MORE PALESTINIANS killed.

Do we think the oppressive (to put it mildly) lessons of #apartied learned by Israel (and other murderous regimes) against the #Palestinians cannot be used to oppress #cityDwellers in other places, including #theWest.

What's good for the goose is be good for the gander?

Boycott, divest and sanction — its a tough decision for all involved but this continual theft and murder, idiocy connot continue.

#bds