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carbone14 · 1 year

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Recrue militaire allemande au rapport devant un sergent – Berlin – Allemagne – 19 octobre 1936

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#avant-guerre #pre-war #armée allemande #german army #wehrmacht #militarisation de l'Allemagne #militarization of germany #recrutement militaire #military recruitment #berlin #allemagne #germany #19/10/1936 #10/1936 #1936

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marxism-absurdism · 7 months

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🇩🇪Deutsches Militär🇩🇪: A German military lookbook

The uniforms of the German army have undergone significant changes from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-1871 to the present day:

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871): During this conflict, German soldiers wore distinctive Prussian-style uniforms, characterized by the iconic Pickelhaube (spiked helmet) made of leather or metal, and blue coats for infantry.

Imperial Germany (1871-1918): In the era of the German Empire, uniforms evolved to include the iconic "feldgrau" (field gray) color for tunics and trousers. The Pickelhaube was gradually replaced by the Stahlhelm (steel helmet) in the later stages of World War I.

Nazi Germany (1933-1945): Nazi Germany continued with the field gray uniforms and introduced various changes, including the black SS uniform and the distinctive brown uniforms for the SA (Sturmabteilung).

Contemporary German Uniforms: Present-day German military uniforms are functional, practical, and designed for various combat scenarios. They include the Flecktarn camouflage for woodland environments and Tropentarn for desert regions. The standard combat uniform also includes body armor and a Kevlar helmet.

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immaculatasknight · 1 month

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NATO's whipping boy

#Germany #economy #NATO #Ukraine #proxy war #deindustrialization #militarization #green agenda #austerity #collapse

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ernestdescalsartwok · 3 months

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OTTO VON BISMARCK-ARTE-PINTURA-RETRATOS-CANCILLER-II REICH-PRUSIA-UNIFICACION-ALEMANIA-PERSONAJES-HISTORIA-ARTISTA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS por Ernest Descals Por Flickr: OTTO VON BISMARCK-ARTE-PINTURA-RETRATOS-CANCILLER-II REICH-PRUSIA-UNIFICACION-ALEMANIA-PERSONAJES-HISTORIA-ARTISTA-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS Historia de Alemania, el Canciller OTTO VON BISMARCK, el reunificador de los distintos estados alemanes en el II Reich, pintura de retratos de personajes Prusianos, hombres con uniforme y casco militar. Cuadros del artista pintor Ernest Descals con las principales figuras históricas de Europa en tiempos muy concretos. Obra sobre papel de 50 x 70 centímetros, las expresiones humanas en el Arte de la Plástica.

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punished-bravado · 10 months

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Apparrently Germans have an old custom of photographing their shortest and tallest soldiers together.

#short king #germany #militar

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panicinthestudio · 11 months

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The world’s most dangerous arms dealer, June 29, 2023

He’s a key figure in the clandestine wranglings of two superpowers: the United States and China. The FBI announced a five-million-dollar bounty for information leading to his arrest. Intelligence agencies and investigators have been trying for decades to stop him in his tracks: the arms dealer Karl Lee. The Chinese businessman has helped Iran develop its huge missiles arsenal. Missiles that kill in the Middle East, that are supplied to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine and have the potential to carry nuclear warheads. The documentary is the first to tell the story of the hunt for the phantom-like Karl Lee, alias Li Fangwei, probably the world’s most dangerous weapons dealer. He’s been indicted in absentia in the US and American presidents have even personally asked Beijing to take action against him. But his network continues to be active; and he’s still high up on the FBI’s most-wanted list. And this, at a time when missiles and nuclear warheads are becoming a tangible threat to humanity. The documentary follows Karl Lee’s trail across four continents, from Washington and New York to Tel Aviv, from Europe to Teheran, Beijing and Karl Lee’s factory in northeastern China. The prize-winning investigative journalists Philipp Grüll, Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer provide unique insights into the world of spy agencies and diplomacy. At the same time, the film is a lesson in the powerlessness of the West and the rise of China - as well as an unflinching appraisal of the new world order. Deutsche Welle

#Karl Lee #Li fangwei #nuclear weapons #militarism #China #Iran #Israel #economics #USA #Germany #corporations #profiteering #supply chain #middle east #Deutsche Welle #documentary #journalism #investigative journalism #nuclear proliferation

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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“WILL THE EX-KAISER RE-ASCEND GERMAN THRONE?” Owen Sound Sun Times. March 13, 1933. --- News from Germany is quite disturbing at the present time. The Republican flag has been replaced by the flag of the Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, by order of President Von Hindenburg, with the Hitler flag having equality with it. Europe is much concerned over recent events in Germany and there are hints of another war.

From left to right: EX-KAISER WILHELM, CHANCELLOR HITLER PRESIDENT VON HINDENBURG

[AL: A key lesson from reading Canadian coverage of the Nazi seizure of power is that even the most anodyne newspaper coverage was rightly concerned about what this meant, and had Hitler pegged as a dangerous militarist. It was only later, at high levels of press and politician, that a pervasive effort was made to make his government seem reasonable and normal.]

#nazi seizure of power #german militarism #german monarchy #hohenzollern #kaiser wilhelm ii #hin #gravediggers of german democracy #german rearmament #nsdap #imperial germany #third reich

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kneedeepincynade · 1 year

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A new axis? Wouldn't be a surprise in these times. The west seeks confrontation with China and it will have if they continue on this road.

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⚠️ GERMANIA E GIAPPONE SI UNISCONO CONTRO LA CINA, ASSE 2.0? ⚠️

🇨🇳 Nel mentre il Governo Cinese, guidato da Xi Jinping, lavora per la Pace, per la costruzione di un Mondo Multipolare e di un Vero Multilateralismo (真正的多边主义), la Germania e il Giappone Neo-Militarista si riavvicinano, per rafforzare gli scambi sia in ambito economico che in ambito militare in funzione anti-Cinese ⚔️

🤔 Germania e Giappone, nuovamente unite contro una potenza socialista. Cosa vi ricorda? 🤔

Scholz e Kishida, invece di indugiare nell'avventurismo anti-Cinese e anti-Comunista, dovrebbero ricordarsi cosa è successo l'ultima volta che i loro due Paesi si sono "uniti nel settore della Difesa" - più passa il tempo, e più sembra che la Germania si stia ritrasformando nella Germania nazista e che il giappone si stia attrezzando per tornare all'impero giapponese|

🤮 Il Governo Tedesco e il Governo Giapponese sono accomunati dall'aver avuto sul loro territorio i due peggiori regimi nella storia dell'umanità, dal Nazismo Hitleriano delle camere a gas al Militarismo Giapponese dell'Unità-731 e del Massacro di Nanchino 🤢

🔍 Per chi volesse approfondire, può rifarsi a questi post del Collettivo Shaoshan:

🔺Mao Ning: "Il Giappone deve riflettere sulla sua lunga storia di aggressioni e rispettare le preoccupazioni per la sicurezza dei suoi vicini asiatici" 🇨🇳

🔺La Repubblica Popolare Cinese commemora le vittime del Massacro di Nanchino ad opera dei militaristi giapponesi

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

⚠️ GERMANY AND JAPAN UNITE AGAINST CHINA, AXIS 2.0? ⚠️

🇨🇳 While the Chinese Government, led by Xi Jinping, works for Peace, for the construction of a Multipolar World and True Multilateralism (真正的多边主义), Germany and Neo-Militarist Japan are getting closer again, to strengthen exchanges both in the economic and military fields in an anti-Chinese function ⚔️

🤔 Germany and Japan, united again against a socialist power. What does it remind you of? 🤔

Scholz and Kishida, instead of indulging in anti-Chinese and anti-Communist adventurism, should remember what happened the last time their two countries "joined in the defense sector" - the more time passes, the more it seems that Germany is transforming back into nazi Germany and that Japan is gearing up to return to the Japanese empire.

🤮 The German Government and the Japanese Government are united by having had the two worst regimes in the history of humanity on their territory, from the Hitlerian Nazism of the gas chambers to the Japanese Militarism of Unity-731 and the Nanjing Massacre 🤢

🔍 For those who want to learn more, you can refer to these posts from the Shaoshan Collective:

🔺Mao Ning: "Japan must reflect on its long history of aggression and respect the security concerns of its Asian neighbors" 🇨🇳

🔺The People's Republic of China commemorates the victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese militarists

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

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niveditaabaidya · 1 year

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Wagner Group Claims Soledar Taken Up. #wagner #soledar #bakhmut #ukraine...

#youtube #Wagner Group Claims Soledar Taken Up. wagner soledar bakhmut ukraine kherson kyiv army news eu europe germany belarus poland Wagner Militar

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aaronjhill · 2 years

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QUESTIONING THE STORY OF GERMAN MILITARISM IRON AND BLOOD: A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE GERMAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES SINCE 1500 That is a big book. Hefty. “Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided, but by iron and blood.” — Bismarck in 1862 “Because of a focus on the two world wars, with perhaps a glance back to the Franco-Prussian war of 1871, a myth has evolved of a specifically German way of war.” Another myth is “of a unique German genius for war based on superior technology, skill and martial spirit. Even today, Hitler’s Wehrmacht is admired by many military types, especially in America.” The equivalent to the modern “shock and awe” of America is the blitzkrieg of World War II. (I disagree with this point.) “Conflicts within or involving that strange entity, the Holy Roman Empire, the collection of mostly German-speaking states dominated by Habsburg Austria, made the German way of war quite different from those of unitary states such as England or France. The quasi-autonomy of the component parts, which nearly all maintained their own armies, required a decentralised and collaborative approach—the antithesis of the authoritarian model that emerged later.” “Iron and Blood delves into politics, economics, technology and social developments. Its long view of Germany’s military history, magisterial detail and acute analysis provide a new understanding of what was once Europe’s warring heart.”

#Germany #military #Deutschland #books #Bismarck #blitzkrieg #Holy Roman Empire #Habsburg Austria #war #German militarism

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immaculatasknight · 6 months

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Childhood denied

#Germany #Nazi Youth #boys #girls #pederasty #abuse #trauma #history #war #militarization #dehumanization #pregnancy #exploitation #alienation

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ernestdescalsartwok · 3 months

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ERICH LUDENDORFF-ARTE-PINTURA-RETRATOS-GENERAL-EJERCITO-ALEMANIA-PERSONAJES-MILITARES-PRIMERA GUERRA MUNDIAL-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS por Ernest Descals Por Flickr: ERICH LUDENDORFF-ARTE-PINTURA-RETRATOS-GENERAL-EJERCITO-ALEMANIA-PERSONAJES-MILITARES-PRIMERA GUERRA MUNDIAL-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS- El gran general ERICH LUDENDORFF del ejército de Alemania en la Primera Guerra Mundial, figura militar que se hizo célebre en la victoria de Tannenberg que logró la victoria ante los soldados del Imperio Ruso, mas tarde estuvo involucrado en el Putsch de Múnich junto al líder nacionalsocialista Adolf . Pintura de retratos de los personajes militares y políticos alemanes, cuadro del artista pintor Ernest Descals sobre papel de 50x 70 centímetros.

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newsfrom-theworld · 6 months

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BRANDS TO BOYCOTT

1 Consumer boycott goals:

Let's start by boycotting these brands that are directly involved in Israeli apartheid

'' BIG THREE''

Mc Donald: gives free meals to Israeli soldiers

Disney ( sadly, Disney was my childhood): declared support for Israel by pledging $2 million

Starbucks: sued his union over its pro-Palestine positions

Siemens

Siemens (Germany) is the prime contractor of the Euro-Asia Interconnector, an Israel-EU undersea power cable that is expected to connect illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories to Europe. Siemens brand appliances are sold all over the world.

PUMA

PUMA (Germany) sponsors the Israel Football Federation, which governs teams in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Carrefour

Carrefour (France) is a facilitator of genocide. Carrefour-Israel supported Israeli soldiers who took part in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza with gifts of personal parcels. In 2022 it entered into a partnership with the Israeli company Electra Consumer Products and its subsidiary Yenot Bitan, both of which were involved in serious violations against the Palestinian people.

AXA

When Russia invaded Ukraine, the insurance giant AXA (France) took targeted measures against it. Yet as Israel, a 75-year-old regime of colonialism and apartheid, wages a genocidal war on Gaza, AXA continues to invest in Israeli banks that finance war crimes and the theft of Palestinian land and natural resources.

Hewlett Packard Inc (HP Inc)

HP Inc (USA) provides services to the offices of the genocide leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Finance Minister Smotrich.

SodaStream

SodaStream is actively complicit in Israel's policy of displacing Israel's indigenous Bedouin-Palestinian citizens in the Naqab (Negev) and has a long history of racial discrimination against Palestinian workers.

Ahava cosmetics

Ahava have their production site, visitor center and main store in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories.

D/MAX

RE/MAX (USA) markets and sells property in illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land, thus enabling Israeli colonization of the occupied West Bank.

2 Divestment objectives:

Elbit Systems

Elbit Systems is the largest apartheid Israeli arms company. It “field tests” its weapons against the Palestinians, including in Israel's ongoing genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza. In addition to building killer drones, Elbit produces surveillance technology for the apartheid wall, checkpoints and fence in Gaza, enabling apartheid. The US and EU use Elbit technology to militarize their borders, violating the rights of refugees and indigenous peoples.

HD Hyundai/Volvo/CAT/JCB machinery

by HD Hyundai (South Korea), Volvo (Sweden/China), CAT (United States) and JCB (United Kingdom) have been used by Israel in the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of Palestinians through the destruction of their homes, farms and commercial activities, as well as the construction of illegal settlements on stolen land, a war crime under international law.

Barclays

Barclays Bank (UK) holds more than £1 billion in shares and provides more than £3 billion in loans and subscriptions to nine companies whose weapons, components and military technology have been used in Israel's armed violence against Palestinians.

CAF

The Basque transport company CAF builds and provides maintenance services to the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR), a tram line serving illegal Israeli settlements in Jerusalem. The CAF benefits from Israel's war crimes on stolen Palestinian lands.

Chevron

The US fossil fuel multinational Chevron is the main international company extracting gas claimed by Israeli apartheid in the eastern Mediterranean. Chevron generates billions in revenue, bolstering Israel's war chest and apartheid system and exacerbating the climate crisis.

HikVision

Amnesty International has documented high-resolution CCTV cameras made by Chinese company Hikvision installed in residential areas and mounted on Israeli military infrastructure for surveillance of Palestinians. Some of these models, according to Hikvision marketing, can connect to external facial recognition software.

TKH Security

Amnesty International has identified cameras from the Dutch company TKH Security used by Israel for surveillance of Palestinians. TKH supplies the Israeli police with surveillance technology used to enforce apartheid.

Other brands:

Zara

Zara's latest marketing campaign uses corpses in plastic wrapping, and warzone aesthetics, mocking the genocide by israel in Gaza. In a previous incident Joey Schwebel, a Canadian-Israeli dual national and chairman of israel's Zara franchisee Trimera, hosted the convicted terrorist Itamar Ben-Gvir at his home in the lead-up to the Israeli elections. Zara did not made a statement distancing themselves from this association and allowed this ad campaign to run.

Adidas

Adidas uses isr@eli manufacturer, Delta Galil, to manufacture its underwear range.

Prada:

Prada Beauty is a partnership with L'Oreal, which is a 'warm friend of Isr@el'.

Louis Vuitton:

The owner of Louis Vuitton's parent company, LVMH, Bernard Arnault invests hundreds of millions in Isr@eli companies

Dior:

The owner of Dior's parent company, LVMH, Bernard Arnault invests hundreds of millions in Isr@eli companies

Caterpillar:

Caterpillar bulldozers have been used in the demolition of Palestinian homes. The D9 bulldozer was specifically designed for the IOF.

American Eagle:

American Eagle posted an image of the Isr@eli Flag on their flagship billboard in Times Square showing their support for the apartheid state.

Fenty Beauty by Rihanna:

The owner of Fenty's parent company, LVMH, Bernard Arnault invests hundreds of millions in Isr@eli companies

Eurovision:

Eurovision is allowing israel to compete this year despite the genocide theyre comitting and they will use this opportunity to spread propaganda

Donna Italia

Sources:

BDS

this site

this specifical post on Twitter ( X )

if i discover news brands i will edit the post

And Always

Free Palestine, now and always.

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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“A GERMAN TIP TO VON SCHLEICHER,” St. John Telegraph-Journal. January 20, 1933. Page 4. ---- ‘Watch your step, General, England and France have guns, too.” - Der Wahre Jakob (Berlin).

#kurt von scheicher #reichskanzler #weimarer republik #weimar republic #german rearmament #german nationalism #german militarism #crisis of the weimar republic #weimar germany #interwar period #german history

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criptochecca · 2 months

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i know it's a dumb and strange thing to ask, but could you explain the non aggression pact like in what it entailed etc.? Because so many people have been using it (on twitter especially) for the "fascist/Communist horseshoe theory" stick

Can't really say much more than what you'll find online or on any history book (I'm guessing you're talking about Molotov-Ribbentrop pact). The USSR signed the pact because of the tension on the border with Nazi Germany, to momentarely put aside the threat of a German invasion and prepare itself militarely. If anyone has any good reading on it, comment

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opencommunion · 3 months

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"What is this force, these human beings, referred to in this word – resistance?

First, literally, we refer to the achievement of the poorest and most strategically disadvantaged people on the planet. Within the encircled and immiserated Gaza Strip, many of the Al-Qassam fighters are orphans. Amidst closure and de-development, the popular resistance has been able to consolidate an arsenal and bring 1.5% of its population into a guerrilla force of 30,000-40,000 men that can – man for man – outmatch nearly any in the world.

The resistance, secondly, has alloyed ideological commitment, willingness to sacrifice for their people, and technological ingenuity into armed capacity capable of going head-to-head with a nuclear power from underground tunnels, the ‘rear base’ and physical strategic depth needed for guerilla insurgency. The concrete is their mountains. From there they have imperiled an enemy with orders of magnitude higher GDP per capita – Israeli GDP is at $52,000 a year, with arsenals worth billions.

Third, the resistance, in launching its October 7 operation, is an example to the world that post-Soviet asphyxiation and extermination procedures, sanctions and terror lists and aid-based countermeasures, could not prevent the rise of a disciplined and new national movement from raising its head to the sky.

Fourth, the popular cradle brings the word resistance beyond armed men to doctors going to their deaths in lieu of abandoning their patients and women and men in the Gaza Strip’s North – facing white phosphorus rather than abandoning their homes. It is precisely the strength of the civilian commitment to the national project that provokes US-Israeli extermination: ‘the 'civilian' officials, including hospital administrators and school administrators, and also the entire Gaza population’ are, as a result, the targets – not out of cruelty but to break Hamas by breaking its cradle.

Fifth, through these achievements, the Palestinian resistance has been able to present an acute threat to the settler-capitalist property structures called Israel, to militarized accumulation, to the world’s workshop for counterinsurgency technology, and to the entire architecture of regional repression with its associated petrodollar flows, treasury and security purchases, and arms merchandising. For capitalism is not just the smooth clockwork of accumulation through generalized commodity exchange and labor exploitation, it is the machinery of violence – its technology – which ensures the smooth running of the clock, the thingification of its human elements, the political decisions to maintain and rework the machinery of monopoly accumulation, and the waste of human lives which is increasingly the core Arab input into global capitalism.

More worryingly from the perspective of monopoly power, the Palestinian resistance is not alone. It is part of a regional populist resistance enfolding the poorest people on Earth. ... It is unimaginable that the neocolonial authoritarian states nor their US benefactor would remotely tolerate massive working-class militia which speak a language of justice and republicanism and raise arms against those states’ sponsors. In turn, it is as natural as the sun rising in the East that the US, the UK, Germany, France, and their Gulf and Arab satraps would converge on support for Israel as the spear’s tip of the assault on the surrounding Arab popular militia.

And because Israel is the keystone of the regional imperialist order – maintained not by hegemonic consensus but the brutality of Apaches and Merkavas – it is as natural as water falling from clouds that what has developed in the Gaza Strip, as soon as it mobilized politically and militarily, would incite the Western reaction to wipe it from the face of the Earth and impose unimaginable horror to terrify the Palestinian, Arab, and Third World people to never again raise their heads.

The October 7 operation has perhaps overcome the central role of the Israeli state in accumulation on a world scale: ingraining a state of defeat amongst the Arab working classes, as part-and-parcel of the post-Soviet ideological defeat imposed by capital upon labor globally. Deterrence is the form that defeat takes when pushed to the military plane, and Israel openly admits that its deterrence has been shattered.

Seen from this perspective, the risks run by the western capitalist states – their imposition of fascist regulation against freedoms of speech and assembly, their backing for genocide, their desperation to see the Palestinian armed militia wiped from the face of the Earth – is logical, reasonable, and rational in its sociopathy. It is the logic of monopoly attempting to defend itself and the consciousness which bodyguards it with fire from the sky. It is a logic which fills graveyards, and a logic which makes orphans, and it is a logic which might yet meet its end in that crossroads of continents – that salient, and city and their camps and their people."

#palestine #resistance #imperialism

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