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Venezuela’s🇻🇪 election loser Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize: ‘If we win, we will move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem to support Israel.’ Like many other US-backed Latin American politicians, her policies are copy & paste support for Israel, support for Washington’s neoliberalism, and servitude to US hegemony… So what has she actually done to win a Nobel Peace Prize?
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She supports the U.S. waging war against her own country for regime change (theguardian.com/world/2019/m…). The Nobel "Peace" Prize, being its usual mockery of itself. Basically a reward for the most rabid defendents of a western liberal order, "peace" being a distant afterthought.
In the past year, #NobelPeacePrize laureate Maria Corina Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite serious threats against her life she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions of people. When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination. Read more about the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize: nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/… #NobelPrize
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16 years ago you called me a mouthpiece for a dying repressive regime. You do not use such language when speaking with a genocidal Zionist who has spent years crushing Palestinians. 10 years from now the Islamic Republic of Iran will be stronger and apartheid will be dead.
I asked former Mossad Director Yossi Cohen whether the Iranian regime will still exist in 10 years. His prediction: It won’t. Our conversation:
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Okay. But Why?
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RT @BrianJBerletic: 🇺🇸 Divide, Distract, and Conquer Everyone's arguing about Israel, left vs. right, white vs. black, Christian vs. Musl…
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Richard D. Wolff on China's🇨🇳High-Speed Rail: "It's not profitable. We don't have it. It's not profitable there either, but they do have it." "Why? Because the government did it. This is a who different way of thinking about what an economy is there for."
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China's fossil fuel exports in 2023: $5 billion. US' fossil fuel exports in 2023: $174 billion. Wealthy countries should clean up their own mess before preaching sustainability to developing countries.
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If you supply weapons to somebody that is accused of acts of genocide, then you yourself become complicit in those acts as well. Here’s why I am calling for an independent public inquiry into the UK’s role in one of the greatest crimes of our time.
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No one in China was 'shocked' by this. It's only in the west, where many are clueless about China, that this was a surprise. Keep sleep walking into your 'China is facing headwinds narrative,' and see where you land. #China #Economy
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Ok, we've reached peak European vassalism, even medieval serfs had more self-respect. It's frankly astonishing. Europe's major mistake in Trump 1.0 was not to use that opportunity to gain strategic autonomy from the US, and Rutte's SMS shows that not only Europe are making the exact same mistake in Trump 2.0, but that if anything they've become even more sycophantic and submissive. And this is despite Trump being even more aggressive towards Europe this time around, literally threatening to annex 98% of an EU state and NATO member (namely Denmark) and 100% of another NATO member (namely Canada). As well as him having launched a trade war, during which he routinely calls Europe "very, very nasty" and designed to "screw" the US (when the very contrary is actually the case). I mean, read the thing: no European with a modicum of self-respect wouldn't be embarrassed by it. Rutte: 1) congratulates Trump on his "decisive" and "truly extraordinary" action in Iran. Despite it being a complete violation of international law and all principles and norms that Europe supposedly cares about. And no, it doesn't "make us all safer" as Rutte embarrassingly writes, quite the contrary (as I argued in my latest article, all Trump did was prove Kim Jong Un was right about everything: open.substack.com/pub/arnaud…) 2) spends the rest of the text telling him how "Europe is going to pay [for NATO] in a BIG way" and how this "big success" will be Trump's "win". Because, essentially, this isn't about Europe replacing America to finally defend itself, but about Europe paying America a bigger tribute for its defense. Which is quite a fundamental difference. Sure, there could be a scenario where this is in fact Rutte playing Trump, trying to cajole him while Europe in fact builds genuine strategic autonomy behind the scenes - but I'm afraid this would be giving Rutte far too much credit. Real strategic manipulation wouldn't come with actual policy capitulations that serve American interests, yet this is what we keep seeing. Europe is genuinely committing to transfer massive resources to American defense companies (a reminder that an astonishing 63% of all EU defense orders are placed with U.S. companies: defensenews.com/global/europ…) while framing it as Trump's personal victory, which is absolutely crazy when you think about it. This also says a lot about "democracy" in Europe. European citizens almost unanimously despise Trump (with only 9% considering him a friend of Europe: geopolitique.eu/en/2025/03/2…) and they overwhelmingly want independence from the U.S. because they understand this would be in Europe's interests. Yet when democracy, as far as I understand it, is supposedly leaders representing their people and their interests, we get the exact opposite: leaders who seem more concerned with pleasing a foreign president their own citizens despise than with pursuing the independence those citizens overwhelmingly support. It's a remarkable inversion of democratic principles, where popular sovereignty has been replaced by elite deference to external power.
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5% of UK GDP is £140 billion. British defence spending is presently £60 billion. So an extra £80 billion! While prisons are full, police barely exist in much of country, streets look appalling, graffiti is everywhere, & millions of kids are in poverty. Starmer is not well!
UK defence funding will hit 5% of GDP by 2035, Starmer to tell Nato summit on.ft.com/4k4TFPU
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Literally nobody in British politics & the media was talking about Iran & nuclear weapons a month ago. Now it’s a civilisational threat. Meanwhile stuff Brits care about goes on back-burner. We do this every year or so. It’s a sign of how dysfunctional western politics now is.
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Completely obsessed with this video of an 'Israeli' running into lamppost because she's overly preoccupied filming a selfie video fleeing to a bunker for Instagram victimhood points. It's such a perfect encapsulation of Zionist entity settler colonial 'society'. In six seconds.
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SHUT UP! Iraq all over again.. the WMD that never were! This is not about nuclear weapons, it's war criminals enabling genocidal Zionist friends 🇮🇱. Illegal, immoral Western 'democracy' in action. Stop bombing Iran! Only diplomacy can end this..
Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security. Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and the US has taken action to alleviate that threat. The situation in the Middle East remains volatile and stability in the region is a priority. We call on Iran to return to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis.
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Speaking personally I can no longer support the British state as presently constituted. The monarchy is a desiccated husk. Our unrepresentative parliament a farce killing babies the sick and suiciding the vulnerable. A government of War Criminals. Our state media a lie-machine.
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WOW‼️The US at the UN : "Israel's government has also spread chaos, terror and suffering through out the region " Finally the truth!
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The Palestinian people will never forget who stood firm with us on matter of principle, before it was fashionable to condemn the ongoing genocide. Thank you, @GaryLineker, for your principled voice.
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Post a villain who people treat like a hero
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“The entire world …”
⚡️White House spokeswoman: The entire world now has confidence in the United States and its economy.
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