Happy to spread info- getting more info myself on the nature of political islam, the quran dictates on moral violence, etc has been a real informative and inspiring experience- Indi’s “reading resistance” edited works on his site of the resistance leaders is very good, like an FAQ for western dummies. Also always highly recommend the work Mujamma Haraket has done to translate many of those works, and again the piece hosted on sovereignista to dispel the Hamas=Israel BS (which Berletic still clings to vehemently). https://mujammaharaket.substack.com/ He had a great podcast on resistanceisfertile that goes deep into Hamas security apparatus to root out traitors.

Agreed on the fetters of people’s origins, very difficult to get past the barriers- some moreso than others (ie the white guy analyst circle like Johnson, Wilkerson et al, who still cling to some imaginary, never-extant “benevolent” US imagery), and others who yet play on it as a charade for populism rather than challenge for any meaningful structural change (Tucker, etc- I view Galloway a bit towards this as well, he constantly chants wanting Tucker to run as president- Carlson’s still a fascist white supremacist racist who chums around with Bannon and only laments US power being curtailed not because it SHOULDN’T, but because it CAN’T- if the US could still do all the horrors and get all the treats, they’d keep on, nothing changes). It certainly affects the well-meaning, seemingly objective analysts like Berletic, who himself has mentioned having been hoodwinked into joining the military and beliefs in the past, but also ironic that he cannot see from outside the lens of white supremacy and paternalism and pessimism. Indi and writers like Gill have pointed out- Iran, the other sovereign states and civilizations, have actual agency, that has taken years, if not centuries to build, and are a corrective to the western lens of history.

In that, I also see hope, insight, and a pathway- perhaps a day comes when those fetters can be truly broken, via a combination of Cabral’s class suicide alongside united front tactics, Mao’s dictum to work with the advanced, convince the middle, and isolate the backwards, alongside the lessons taught by many others who have come before. In trying to broaden my understanding, I’m finding that even my own limited exposure and learning of political Islam/Shiite very connective and furthering that hope. And of all the things I’ve read these past few years, Basil Al-Araj’s 7 points for supporting the resistance, from his posthumous book “I Have Found My Answers” (in Indi’s collection of resistance writings) really has stuck with me- returning to those points, even from a secular view, gives solace and strength, nourishing the spirit on the side of the morally good.

Highly recommend another great podcast by resistance is fertile-

https://resistanceisfertilepodcast.substack.com/p/irans-2nd-round-victory-wbikrum-gill

basically clapping back at all the armchair analysts who are poohpoohing and calling Iran stupid, and feeling disappointed etc in the ceasefire charades (ie Berletic: for all his good analysis of policy papers and western blob, is not in the fight, does not know the inner workings of the axis of resistance, and has a streak of western paternalism evident in his work).

There is little to no attempt to understand political islam, the very clear moral imperatives of it, and how to maintain a united front/strategic retreats/ebbs and flows of actual anti-imperialist war that is happening, and the LONG view timeline of it, and also understanding how many plates to balance are going on that all these analysts have literally no info on. It’s typical western brain that just cannot think differently.

I’m glad people post Indi.ca’s website because he’s one of the few english language writers out there who is actually trying to engage and explain political islam and the relevance of the quran for the western mind during this phase of anti-imperial war.

Highlighting the the 1hr 7min mark by Bikram Gill- the takedown of these armchair clowns AND especially the takedown of Francesca Albanese- she is the typical useless shitlib and for all the highlighting of genocide, she does it WHILE delegitimizing resistance EVERY SINGLE TIME. Fuck off with her. As Hamas says- if you are only with our words and corpses, but not with our rockets, you are not of us.

To paraphrase/post gill’s points at length because they are on point-

“And why are people despairing…Because you don’t trust in the forces fighting the empire. That is it. You do not trust in the forces fighting imperialism, whether that’s in the south of Lebanon, in the Shia, putting everything on the line, living displaced in horrific conditions that we’ve seen for the past month. You do not trust in that force. Neither do you trust in the Islamic Republic as a world historical revolutionary force whose revolution continues. Just like the Chinese revolution, with all its contradictions, continues to be in motion, the people’s revolution in China, the Islamic revolution continues to be in motion.

“But what I want to say on this point, though, is I think ultimately the Albanese or these anarchists, why they end up targeting, you know, why they end up directing their libidinal energies or the energies of their body towards the Islamic Republic is because they cannot direct it towards the ruling classes. It’s because there’s an incapacity and inability to turn around and look at themselves. That’s not possible. So instead, you end up aligning with them, saying, okay, well, you know, U.S. imperialism sucks, but you know what we can really change?  We can smash the Syrian state, and then we can free the Syrian people. That gives you an achievable objective because you don’t ever think you can take down the state in which you live, right?

“And I think like Albanese in particular, I think this is a very key point. She’s getting offered Nobel. People want her to win the Nobel Prize. She’s getting honorary doctorates. As she continues to reinforce the criminalization of the Islamic Republic. Why is that so significant? Because on this question…there is a relationship between law and force. And she appeals to international law again and again.  She keeps bringing us back to international law. And she misses two very key points, right? That the United States does not operate by breaking the law, but by suspending the law. It does not appeal to law. It does not appeal to law. The imperialists do not appeal to law. They’re not seeking…to say oh whoops did we break international law we didn’t mean to, they’re saying law doesn’t apply here…and here’s the contradiction the paradox of our times and this is everything at stake in this formulation this is why it matters – So the Islamic revolution has a military industrial sovereign force. That’s what triggers the suspension of law.

“That’s why from Mark Carney to Keir Starmer to all of them, they will allow for the suspension. None of them say we’re doing this to enforce law. What they’re saying is Iran poses an existential threat. To what? What Iran actually, the paradox, the contradiction here is Iran is actually the lone force that can enforce law. So the suspension of law is triggered to contain the one force that can actually implement a real law. The Islamic Republic can enforce a law – to punish the genocidal, the violation of genocide, it’s Ansar Allah that can do that. So if Francesca Albanese wants to appeal to a Hague group while criminalizing the Islamic Republic, that is not simply denying the relationship between law and force. It’s running back to imperialist force and begging them to enforce whatever it is you want from the Hague group. Because you can say there’s some vague concept that they’re appealing to of the global self, but it is Iran alone that is putting that into practice, right? So I would agree… that there should be some hesitancy or some caution, some self-criticism before one jumps to reproducing this illegitimization or critique or a rushed rejection of the resistance.

“And I’ve mentioned this on that program earlier when I was on last week, right? But the conversation I had with Ali Qadri, what we’re seeing is a disarming. Now there’s the arm-to-arm disarmament, but there’s a disarming as well. In an overcoming of a fear of death. But if we were to look epistemologically at the resistance, we can see the clue there. It’s when Ghassan Khanafani says, to be human is to sacrifice. Who amongst us living in these societies has developed that capability to really be human if it means to sacrifice?

“And an insistence that we will make the worlds of each other through sacrifice, by standing with one another, whether that’s linking arms around those nuclear plants, or it’s the way in which the Iranians are saying right now, we did not win this war on our own, we won it with the Lebanese as well, with the other members of the axis of resistance, sacrificing for one another. That’s a very different qualitative basis of sovereignty than what we have here. We live in settler colonial qualitative forms of sovereignty that are built on cowardice and fear and a competition that everything can get taken away from us because we don’t rely on one another. So that is why we cannot properly appreciate what is happening elsewhere. But again, the Palestinians, the Iranians, the Lebanese, they’ve opened a door to us that perhaps we didn’t deserve, but it’s open. The question is, will we walk through it?”

And facts on the ground are that we are not going back to Oct 6th, or Feb 27th, ever again.

Benji goes on to rag on the shit that is Albanese- she has given an interview with a fkin genocidal settler, saying she wants Iran taken down for the “Tens of thousands” of “protesters” killed by the “regime”. Again, fuck off with her shitlib puppet mouthpiece. As Benji says- yes, she deserves the Nobel Prize, she’s right along with Machado: different face of the same imperialist regime, the shitlib, armchair handwringers, the compatible left who only support when the resistance is losing or the bodies are long dead.

And as Benji continues, these armchair talkers are not in the fight- so you can only contribute by either nourishing the resistance spirit or shitting on it, inflate the epstein empire’s ego or puncture it. Again, returning to martyr Basil Al-araj’s statements on 7 points of resistance- let us be a solid structure against empire.

For real, the lego videos are BANGERS, like host a block party, blast it out on the speakers level bangers. Imagine if they played these on things like a Chinese megamall public square 3d screen, the agitprop influence that would have- like the modern version of those WW2 newsreels- better than going to theaters at all =D

Thanks again to Periol for these daily updates, informative and inspiring, literally my first stop in the morning =)

Is this verified by official MOFA Russian and Chinese sources? As interesting and game changing that would be- the “source” is a “parody” account =(

Ugh- it’s like the spider-man finger pointing meme- Medhi the brown-faced PR for shitlibs, Jiang the fake “chinese academic”. Both loathsome shitheels pandering and fighting for the same audience share in the same system, fronting as if they are “real” alternative to anything, rather than just controlled opposition at different stages.

I want to boost this as a remedy to the clown- Warwick Powell, who actually does work and have roots in China that he regularly accesses and doesn’t talk shit on, and interview here actually makes good analysis and conclusions based on solid material evidence and history, not “trust me bro” secret handshake bs. His TIO talks series on youtube, his substack, and his interviews in general are always interesting and informative, if a bit academically dense.

And he also did a great interview with Angelica Oung (former separatist who finally got her mind right, she also did the subbing for the CCTV AI cartoon!) about Taiwan and the idea of reunification- it’s not just about politics, but the idea of being about 团聚/tuanju- family reuniting and making it whole again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb1lpVmw7B4

He’s an op. Controlled opposition or worse. This was posted on the main site earlier, and is the most convincing I’ve seen.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2035083436860612639.html

The man is a Yalie, trained and lifted up by NGO’s from college onwards, wrote a book that had an entire chapter glazing Israeli “innovation”, wrote articles bashing China all the time and promoting private NGO involvement, has mysterious gaps in his personal history that he hand waves with sympathy posing – “I was an alcoholic, and now found the love of my life!”, and now pops up suddenly with no academic or teaching history credentials at schools promoted by NGO’s and people he knew from his career involvement with said NGOS. He’s Gordon Chang + Jordan Peterson for the youtube cult/conspiracy crowd and getting unnaturally boosted in western controlled media by algorithm. He fits the entire “confusionist” playbook typified by the CIA/western clique, with a Chinese face to click the DEI checkbox- even if he isn’t directly trained or funded, he’s a Slavoj Zizek, a Chomsky, a western promoted “intellectual” designed to obscure actual material, real history, etc and point people into nonsense directions and scapegoats that is “out of our hands”/there is nothing to be done, imperial doomerism and defeatism.

He needs to stop being promoted or even mentioned, in every space. As I said in the other thread, F this clown.

really cool- almost feel like could smell the ink and wood from the photo =)

related topic that popped into my mind- you know about the legendary chinese typewriter, of which only one was ever made? These guys at HTX studio built one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IhuFgiWNS4

(btw this crew is insane/amazing- I think they are based in Hangzhou, and because they are so monetized on bilibili and other chinese platforms, they get to do wild ass stuff and then post for free with no ads on youtube)

And then soon after posting the video, the original machine, thought to have been lost, was found in NYC, and is now on display at Stanford, talk about timing! =P Perhaps someday, if we are all still here and we all are using Chinese, new market share to spread into for your store! =D