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ahonra retweeted
4 segundos que dicen tantísimas cosas de lo que está ocurriendo en nuestro país cuando se manifiestan unos y otros.
A unos les dejan lanzar piedras y a otros les tiran sin ninguna razón 👇
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The UK’s🇬🇧 Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg on potential war against Russia🇷🇺:
"Over the next few years we may have to go to war, some of you may die? but this is about doing your duty.”
Some of YOU may die, but none of his children will sign up and sent to war. Neither will any of the children of the elite classes of Britain.
The ‘commoners’ of Britain will be sent to the frontlines in a suicidal war against Russia, which will almost certainly become nuclear.
The likes of Rees-Mogg and the elite classes will hide out in private bunkers and estates while beating the drums of war.
ahonra retweeted
Hace mucho tiempo que pienso en qué le aconsejaría yo a quienes están pensando en embarcarse en una tesis doctoral para intentar una carrera en el mundo de la docencia y la investigación universitarias. Esto es un poco lo que me viene a la cabeza, más desde lo visceral-personal y obviando otros retos que están sobre la mesa.
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Kids, you don't see it much in the world today, just so you know, this is what integrity looks like.
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Italy: please dont accept to become a vacation site for possible war criminals.
#Toscana #Tuscany
Israelis who stand against Apartheid should feel welcome everywhere. Those who took part in the genocide should be brought to justice everywhere.
🚨🇮🇹 The #HindRajabFoundation has filed a criminal complaint in Italy against Israeli Soldier Yonatan Chalich over over his involvement in the attack on Al-Shifa Hospital, the burning of the Haj Hamdi Harzallah mosque, and the destruction of Palestine Square in Gaza City. Chalich is currently on vacation in Tuscany.
➡️ More → bit.ly/4h27OiC
ahonra retweeted
There is a specific grammar that empires use when they are losing the argument.
They stop making the argument.
They start issuing consequences.
Watch the shift.
When the United States could genuinely lead, when its model was attractive, when its institutions carried moral weight, when its word meant something beyond the threat behind it, it persuaded.
It exported the idea.
The city on the hill.
The model.
Come, look, want this.
Now watch what replaced it.
Tariffs. Sanctions. Secondary sanctions, punishing countries that trade with the countries already being punished.
Threats to "allies."
Demands for loyalty presented as requests for "partnership."
The vocabulary changed because the underlying reality changed.
You persuade from strength.
You compel from fear of your own weakness.
The compulsion is not a strategy.
It is a symptom.
And the countries paying attention are reading the symptom correctly.
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The most revealing thing about a declining hegemon is not the decline itself.
It is the refusal to accept the reflection.
Every empire in history has had a moment where the evidence of its own diminishment became undeniable: where the economic data, the military outcomes, the diplomatic isolation, the domestic fractures all pointed in the same direction.
The question is what a civilization does with that moment.
Does it adapt? Renegotiate its role? Find new terms for engaging a world that has moved?
Or does it double down? Reach for more coercion? Treat every sign of multipolarity as an act of aggression?
Mistake the world's refusal to organize itself around your preferences for an attack on civilization itself?
History has a clear record on what the second choice produces.
The compulsion escalates. The resistance hardens. The center spends more and more energy maintaining a position that requires more energy than it generates.
Until it doesn't.
The reflection was always there.
The refusal to look at it is a choice with consequences.
ahonra retweeted
Contexto: Ayuso ha pagado a Quirón +3.204 millones por encima del presupuesto desde 2021
Algunos ciudadanos queremos saber de qué partidas presupuestarias originarias quitan el dinero: pedimos acceso a los expedientes
Y ellos... lo que cuenta @naroh 👇👇
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There is a lesson the Global South has been quietly absorbing for decades, and it does not come from textbooks or speeches or think tanks.
It comes from watching.
Watching which countries got targeted.
Watching what happened to them.
Watching whether they survived it.
And the lesson is not the one Washington intended to teach.
The intended lesson was:
Comply or be destroyed.
The actual lesson, repeated often enough that it is now simply geopolitical common sense, is something more unsettling:
Destruction is not always within their power to deliver.
They can impose it. They can threaten it. They can make a country suffer enormously.
But they cannot always finish it.
And a threat that cannot be finished is not omnipotence.
It is a ceiling.
Every country that has found that ceiling has taught the others where it is.
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Alastair Crooke (@AWCrooke): Saudi Arabia is a pillar for one family. If it is no longer oil wealth for Wall Street and the petrodollar, there is nothing there. MBS had Trump as his security. That is gone. The reserves went into NEOM. He cannot deal with Ansar Allah because Washington runs the state.
“Saudi is a pillar that rests on one person, one family—one family that gerrymandered the succession so that they can become king. Don’t forget Salman changed the succession. It’s supposed to go from brother to brother to brother, and he changed all of that. He has alienated most of the family. It rests on a very fragile pillar. Unless they are seen as the source of oil wealth for Wall Street, for the petrodollar, for Washington—if that cannot be sustained—then what is there to Saudi Arabia? Nothing. There’s nothing there beyond that.
This is a huge humiliation in terms of Saudi culture. MBS had Trump on his side. This was his security. This was his basis for going ahead. And suddenly it’s clear to all the rivals, all those people in his own family. You recall the Ritz-Carlton episode, where he literally imprisoned them in a hotel and hung them upside down until all the money came out of their pockets. They were just literally humiliated. Some of them have disappeared. Some of them have been humiliated. And there are the tribes that have been largely dispossessed of their income. So what’s going to happen?
Well, there’s no money. The reserves that were built up. No one’s getting paid at the moment. Contracts, building sites—nothing is being paid. There is no money to pay anything. There’s no money to buy people out. There was a big reserve built up of cash, but most of that has gone on these big projects like the NEOM hotel and these other projects, and there’s none of that left.
So bin Salman is on his own there, with everyone looking and wondering. This is the end of a colonial structure. The colonial structure is collapsing in the Gulf, and the Saudis are the lynchpin of that. Why doesn’t he just do a deal with the Yemenis? The answer is he’s just too embedded in the United States structures. He can’t do it. He’s always been wholly embedded with US presidents, with the US military structures, down to the last element. They run the state for him, and he just cannot do it. He cannot make a deal with the Houthis.
The consequences are huge. Saudi Arabia is not selling oil. It doesn’t have money. It’s not allowed to sell its treasuries. It’s been trying to sell shares, but even its allies in the Gulf don’t want to buy them except at a huge discount, because they’re not sure that Saudi will be there as we know it tomorrow or the next day, or next month. There’s a great reluctance, even from Gulf allies, to come and help him out.
We’re seeing a huge shift. All of these post-colonial states are hanging by a thread, because Saudi Arabia and its connections with Israel—and its use by Israel as an Israeli platform over many, many years—have been the pivot for the whole Gulf region. Everyone is watching that.
At the same time, Iran is mobilizing a million people into these self-sacrifice battalions of a thousand people each. A million! This isn’t to defend against some expeditionary force from the United States coming and landing on the other side of the Hormuz. I don’t think that’s even possible. I don’t think it’s likely to happen. I don’t think they can go; where would they launch from? How would they arrive? What would be the transport? Who would supply them? How would they fight? What would be the purpose of it? I think in Washington and the Pentagon, everyone came to the conclusion to pursue this, to go on with war against the Houthis, who have effectively won against Saudi Arabia. It seems pointless and would end badly, end much worse, because it might widen and become a much wider regional war involving Iraq. If I were Bahrain or Kuwait seeing the Iranians mobilizing a million men, I would be very frightened indeed. I’m sure they are.
This was the bedrock of Israeli policy, the big gamble: to isolate, defame and undermine Iran and to base everything on the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia as the means to assimilate itself into the Middle East—into the region. Now that is visibly shaking before their eyes.
Inflation is everywhere. It has gone global. The crisis that was coming has come. It’s arrived. Inflation everywhere is going up because everything moves by diesel in Europe and in America. That’s the delivery system. The trains, often the boats, survive on diesel. So everything is going up. Prices are going up everywhere. Airfares are going up.”
The City built the Gulf on oil, garrisons, and a dollar ledger. The physical economy is sending the bill.
ahonra retweeted
American identity requires an enemy.
Not always the same enemy.
The enemy changes.
"Soviet communism." "Islamic terrorism." "Chinese authoritarianism." "Russian aggression." "Cuban socialism." "Iranian theocracy."
The specific content is almost secondary.
What matters is that there is always a "them" against whom the "we" is defined.
Because without the threat, without the enemy who must be contained, without the dark force against which American power is exercised:
The question becomes: what is all of this for?
The military budget.
The 800 bases across eighty countries.
The carrier groups.
The intelligence apparatus.
The weapons sales.
The sanctions regimes.
If there is no existential enemy, these things require justification on their own terms.
And on their own terms, they are very difficult to justify to a domestic population that might prefer hospitals and housing.
The enemy is not just a foreign policy question.
The enemy is a domestic psychological necessity.
It is the reason the story makes sense.
Without it, the citizens might start asking what the story is actually about.
ahonra retweeted
Here's the domestic function the foreign enemy serves that doesn't get discussed enough:
It explains why you don't have what you should have.
Why does the United States, the wealthiest nation in human history, rank poorly among developed nations in healthcare outcomes, life expectancy, child poverty, and infrastructure?
The enemy explains it.
We cannot afford universal healthcare because we must fund the military against the Soviet threat, the terrorist threat, the Chinese threat.
We cannot invest in housing because the carrier groups must be maintained.
We cannot rebuild cities because the empire must be administered.
The foreign threat converts a domestic political choice, to direct public money toward weapons rather than welfare, into a necessity.
Not a choice. A necessity.
And a population that understands its poverty as a sacrifice for survival rather than a consequence of political decisions is a population that directs its anger outward rather than upward.
The enemy is not just a foreign policy tool.
It is the explanation that makes domestic inequality feel like patriotism rather than policy.
ahonra retweeted
The mechanism is not conspiracy.
That's the part that makes it hard to argue against.
It doesn't require a room full of people deciding to manufacture threats.
It just requires a system where the people who benefit from the threat assessment are the people who conduct the threat assessment.
Where defense contractors fund think tanks that produce threat analyses.
Where those analyses shape Pentagon budget requests.
Where Pentagon budget requests go to Congressional committees whose members represent districts with defense manufacturing jobs.
Where those members fund campaigns supported by the same contractors.
Where the revolving door spins: generals retiring to defense boards, defense executives appointed to oversight positions, and no one in the loop has a financial interest in finding peace.
You don't need to conspire to produce a result the structure already incentivizes.
You just need to show up to work.
The enemy is not manufactured in a single deliberate meeting.
It is the natural output of a system where the enemy is worth a trillion dollars a year.
ahonra retweeted
Today the Pedro Sánchez government imprisons Fergie Chambers to please Trump. In 2019, Trump somehow flipped Sánchez into giving Nicolas Maduro a 8-day ultimatum and to recognition of Trump-appointed Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s president. Spain sucks, and has always sucked.
Update: The Spanish Council of Ministers allowed the extradition request of Fergie Chambers to proceed to court. However, this step is purely procedural, not a judgement on the US allegations.
After litigation, the court's decision will return to the Council of Ministers for final approval or veto, and even after that, there are numerous avenues for appeal by Fergie's defense.
Nevertheless, Spain should have stopped this political persecution today and allowed Fergie to reunite with his wife and children, rather than continuing months of imprisonment and forced separation at the behest of Trump.
ahonra retweeted
Proyectos Horizon activos o programados (2026++)
La complicidad Hispano-Israelí en proyectos Horizon continúa. Gráfica interactiva de los proyectos con inicio y/o finalización posterior a Agosto de 2026:
tribunaldelospueblos.org/doc…
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Cuba.
A country with eleven million people.
Ninety miles from Florida.
No meaningful military capacity to threaten the United States.
Under economic embargo for over 64 years.
Sixty-four years.
The stated reason has evolved. Communism. "Democracy promotion." "Human rights." "The Castro regime." Then "the post-Castro regime."
The actual reason is simpler and more enduring:
Cuba refused.
Cuba nationalized American-owned property.
Cuba told Washington it would not be managed.
Cuba survived everything Washington threw at it: the Bay of Pigs, hundreds of assassination attempts, decades of economic strangulation.
And it remained, visibly, stubbornly, infuriatingly itself.
Cuba is not an enemy because it is dangerous.
Cuba is an enemy because it is defiant.
Because an island of eleven million people that successfully refuses American authority is more threatening to the logic of empire than any military power.
Because the empire cannot afford for refusal to be survivable.
Cuba has survived.
For sixty-four years.
The embargo continues.
Not to change Cuba.
To punish the existence of the example.
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El jefe de Información de los Mossos desautoriza a la consellera de Interior y respalda el espionaje a una asamblea de profesores
eldiario.es/catalunya/jefe-i… Por @urisole
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The moment the spell breaks is not a comfortable moment.
Ask anyone who has lived through it.
There is a specific disorientation that comes when you have spent your life inside a story and the story stops working.
When you watch your government tell you one thing and the footage shows another.
When you read the declassified document that confirms what you were told was a "conspiracy theory."
When you talk to someone from a country your government spent decades describing as an "enemy" and discover that they are simply a person with a comprehensible life and a completely different version of the shared history.
That moment is not righteous. It is not clean.
It is grief, partly. It is anger, partly.
It is the specific shame of realizing you were used and consented to the use.
But it is also the only beginning available.
The spell does not break from outside.
It breaks when enough people on the inside decide that the discomfort of truth is more bearable than the comfort of the story.
That decision is personal. It is political. It is, in the fullest sense of the word, moral.
And no elite, however sophisticated their architecture, can make it for you.
ahonra retweeted
I have a feeling that the European mobilization isn’t to fight Russia but rather their own people when the riots start.
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The spell's greatest protection is exhaustion.
Not belief, exactly. Many citizens have stopped fully believing.
They know the Iraq War was not about weapons of mass destruction. They know. It's not a secret. It's in the official post-mortems. It's acknowledged in the memoirs.
But the knowing exists at one layer and the living exists at another.
You know the war was built on false pretenses and then you drop your kid at school and go to work and watch the game and the knowing just... sits there.
Not integrated. Not acted upon. Not allowed to reach the layer where it would require something of you.
This is not cowardice, exactly.
It is the manufactured exhaustion of a population kept financially precarious, chronically distracted, culturally overstimulated, and politically alienate, not by accident but by the cumulative effect of systems that benefit from a population too tired to translate knowing into doing.
The spell doesn't only protect itself through belief.
It protects itself through the gap between knowing and acting.
Keeping that gap open, keeping people in it, exhausted, distracted, overwhelmed:
That is the maintenance work of empire.
And it never stops.