Prof Marandi is everywhere nowadays, spreading the word, so probably nothing much new here in his latest with Nima, for those who are seeing him frequently in their feeds – but an excellent review of the situation, with a forceful confirmation of how strong Iran actually is. There’s a great sense of committed path in this interview:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzW1fWXs2pM%3Fsi%3D1YjNYm2OiT0ytkco

We’re all waiting for the Iranian retaliation of course, and we’ll know much more from that. Will Schryver parses Khamenei to be saying it will be against the US as well as against Israel – we’ll see.

I’m starting to think that the resistance and especially Iran are realigning along a straight path to full-on victory over the imperial power. I suspect they calculate that there are several more slices of escalation yet that can be taken, without burning the world or crashing its global, oil-based economy. Several more steps. A more forceful path being taken now, with no turning back.

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ps, the iframe embed didn’t work for me for some reason

Excellent video, packing a lot of information in under ten minutes. Western aid goes to bribes to allow the exploitation of resources at a net profit to the bribing forces. Free lunch if you can get it, but the days are numbered, and these soldier-leaders are showing the way.

Thanks for this, Mr P. I find it all very plausible, and yet I also wonder about the Soviet view of things, namely that Bormann was a much more successful expatriate than Himmler:

I am no scholar of these things. But certainly it is clear that power does not relinquish itself willingly. And Shelton shows here that Himmler did not survive, that he was “accidentally” discovered by the west and destroyed. Where did his gold go, one wonders?

One wonders how much of the past has survived into the present, and with what plans for the future.

I went back and listened to the Joti Brar interview, and made some timestamps for us. I agree that it’s a wonderful interview, with a lot of clarity presented. So for what it’s worth:

It begins with the need for non-imperialist countries to emulate elements such as economic monopolies and large militaries, but created as a defense from and counter to the imperialist countries. The difference is subtle and elements have been conflated. Russia and China considered in this regard.

@7:00. How Ukraine has been used for 100 years as a spear-tip against Russia. And continues with the discussion of imperialism and sovereignty.

11:00 – 25:00. China considered in this light, and the nature of its economy (very important analysis, the first such I’ve encountered).

25:00 – 32:00. The nature of fascism. It was always there, and always used on the colonies, but its appearance in the domestic society indicates the need for greater control (because trickery is no longer working). The long-term use of propaganda control: how to manufacture the Nazis in Ukraine, how to manufacture the Zionists themselves and of course Israel itself [Israel is the same kind of weapon for the imperialist imperative (the plunder of resources) as Ukraine has been].

32:00 – 44:30. Fake liberals, the deluded “Left” – Trotsky as an anti-revolutionary force, and the revival of this force since Khrushchev. The existence and action of the Trotskyist delusion and deception, very dynamically in use today, pervasive and a great threat. The great co-opter of true revolution and worker success.

44:30. Russia. The revolution versus the counter-revolution, and the threat to Russia’s future (same as all the countries of the world, as already considered). How the war in Ukraine between RF and NATO is purely a slice of the war of the workers against the imperialist rulers [very simple to see once one understands this, as Joti makes it all clear].

54:00. How terrible things are in Britain, and why. Same Marxist analysis that so beautifully unveils the real dynamics at work with sovereignty, liberty and economic prosperity in every society. Money printing and inflation, etc. [And the story of Britain is important because the dynamics are no different from anywhere in the world, and the model is worth examining for the benchmarks to recognize.]

Finally, Joti ends with the duty of the revolutionary not to be afraid, and to speak up.

Amarynth, thank you. I shall study her work.

Here’s what I would like to know, what I would like the global mind to understand: what is the effect of the man-made tampering with the planet’s geophysical patterns, compared with the natural patterns being imposed on us continually by the sun and the galactic forces impinging on the space we find ourselves in?

In short, how big is our fabricated force, and how much bigger (or smaller) is the natural force? I think over the next 30 years (that long, if we’re lucky), the world is going to have to find answers to this line of questioning.

There are strong suggestions that we humans have had globally connected civilizations before now, which have suffered collapse, from the actions of geophysical forces. And today we have built a global electronic civilization that seems hugely vulnerable to solar activity. So I could easily see our collapse too.

What a noble feat it would be if we could attain the global consciousness of our potential plight in sufficient time, and with sufficient global cooperation, to shield against the perils that may be coming, and that may already be here.

It is just possible that we could be the first iteration of human civilization to grow into adult form adequate to live on this planet through all its shifts, enough to survive and endure as a planetary species for the many thousands of years to come that the planet would be willing to host us.

That’s my dream. That seems the true challenge, the true opportunity.

I second Mr P. AHH, I would never ask you to do work, but since you ask for feedback, I find Schryver extremely high-level information, and I devour every word reproduced here.

I also click through to all of the nitter threads you link, so you have options on how fully you reproduce. I’d say that if YOU find it important and want to republish it here, then please rest assured that we readers will value this immensely.

Carry on 🙂

Rania Khalek interviewed Ghadi Francis yesterday-ish. I found the talk delightful because the two women are good friends and have some lovely moments between them, and also incredibly moving as Francis gave us a passionate view of the Lebanese soul that is unmatched by anything I’ve encountered lately.

They are all children of war in Lebanon, she explains, but their deep humanity is the telling feature, as all factions put aside their differences to rally together after the pager attack. Everyone donated blood, at least one person offered one of their eyes to help a blinded victim.

And of blood, Francis quotes the mother of a son newly martyred in the attack, that the land calls for blood sometimes, to refresh its Lebanese-ness, and to wake up its inhabitants in case they drowse. And the blood is their strength.

Amazing, highly recommend:

In the USA, the younger generation continues to impress me, and here’s a 12-minute video I think friends of Palestine will take heart from watching. BreakThrough News interviews a professor and a student organizer from San Francisco State University, which just agreed to divest from Israel completely, as a result of activist action.

I didn’t know, but SFSU has a long record of political activism, radical in the sixties and ever since. The student speaks of the activism having only just begun, and how the movement must and will grow across the nation, joining even with Labor – “We can’t do it without labor,” he says – Joti Brar would love this video. I think this is a real thing, and it’s going to grow: