Jan 2024 – Page 2

Stupid Macho U.S. Electioneering Will Push Biden Into Doomed War

from thefreeonline on 31st Jan 24 by Finian Cunningham at Strategic-Culture

The stupid American politicians are digging a hole for themselves and have no awareness of how to reverse it, Finian Cunningham writes.

Predictably, Joe Biden is being flayed by the Republicans over the killing of three U.S. troops in Jordan by Iraqi militants.

The Democrat president is slammed for being weak and a coward by his political opponents.

The United States and Israel are Blowing Up the Mideast to Conceal Their Disastrous Defeat in Gaza The longer this horror goes on, the worse it will get for Washington and its Israeli client state.

Donald Trump, his main Republican rival, mocked Biden as a “loser” and said the attacks on U.S. troops were because of the president’s “weakness and surrender”.

Nikki Haley, the other Republican vying for the presidential election this year, also taunted Biden for showing spinelessness toward Iran. She called for direct retaliation on the Islamic Republic “with the full force of American strength”. Logically, that could imply the use of nuclear weapons.

Unanimously across the mainstream U.S. political spectrum, it was assumed that Iran was ultimately responsible for the deadly attack on the U.S. military base on Sunday in Jordan where three military servicemen were killed and 34 were reportedly wounded, according to early reports.

Red Sea Crisis Is Opportunity for U.S. to Weaken Europe & China No wonder the Americans ultimately treat their European vassals with contempt. Because they are utterly spineless and clueless.

The attack was claimed by Iraqi militants, the Kata’ib Hezbollah, as part of an umbrella group known as the Islamic Resistance. The militants are believed to be an alliance of militias based in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen. The latter two include Hezbollah and the Ansar Allah movement also known as the Houthis. All are allied with Iran. But each is understood to have its own agency in directing and executing operations.

These groups have carried out hundreds of attacks on U.S. and Israeli bases since October 7 when Israel launched its offensive on Gaza following the deadly raid on Israel by Hamas. The Yemenis bring a maritime dimension to the region-wide resistance with the ongoing targeting of U.S. and other ships in the Red Sea area.

Iran has denied that it was involved in the latest attack on the U.S. base in Jordan. Tehran also denies it is behind the Yemeni operations in the Red Sea.

Iran and the resistance groups say they are an anti-imperialist alliance that is united by opposition to the U.S.-backed Zionist genocide in Gaza.

The Death of Slavery, The First Dawn of Freedom

from thefreeonline on 30 Jan 2024 by Colin M at MASSolidarity.org

An organized clandestine underground network to resist the slave state was not inevitable. The path of fatalism and despair, a pale specter that still haunts many would-be rebels today, was just as likely.

In those days, given the seemingly low odds of success, an overwhelming feeling of helplessness doubtless consumed many hearts.

Courageous people, most of who’s names we will never know, stared away from that specter and did the highly delicate and risky work of organizing an insurgent network in the Saint-Domingue colony (Haiti).

The epic saga of the abolition of colonial slavery, and its modern relevance, as told through two overlapping historical narratives

Written by Colin M., originally published on Medium with The Shadow under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Social movements for freedom and equality are undergoing a resurgence throughout the world. Past movements can be a source of inspiration as well as concrete lessons for present struggles. One of the earliest international movements for a more free and equal society was the movement to abolish slavery.

Readers from the US may be familiar with the abolitionist movement there, but abolitionism began earlier and in other places. The victory of abolishing colonial slavery was a tremendous achievement in its time and the legacy of slave emancipation is still with us now, whether we know it or not.

How was this original victory won? This subject is thoroughly explored in The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James and Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild. These two books, although written about 80 years apart, compliment one another very well and weave together an image of the past that gives the reader a vivid picture of how this epic struggle played out.