Melenchon just announced that France will recognize Palestine asap which is better than nothing
The left coalition publicly reassuring the people they are committed to the coalition is important. No fucking around to leaving the floor open for 
The left coalition is leading in exit polls in today’s French elections. This would be a huge upset as almost no pollsters had the far-right in second, let alone third place
Evo Morales, if you’re reading this…
It’s the exact same reason why Russia has been so difficult to sanction/restrict for western nations since the invasion of Ukraine.
Financial sanctions work really well on countries who have no industry and are basically only in the business of ways to move money around. The west all sanctioned Russia and expected it to immediately collapse, except they forgot that they are only a small part of the world and that Russia is not only in the business of just moving money around and actually produces tangible goods.
No matter how much you say “you can’t sell that here!” regarding a tangible good, somebody somewhere will buy it. The same applies to China for many, many examples, but most recently is the electric vehicle debacle. “Oh I can’t sell these in Europe or America? Whatever, I’ll just outcompete you elsewhere. Goodbye global market share.”
Ok now this one is funny
A very common misconception, actually. You might be even more surprised that for a long time, not even the USSR’s mineral resources were all state owned, nor was the mineral refining process.
In fact, here’s a bit of very interesting socialist history: During the first ever 5 year plan, the USSR was unknowingly committing one of the most heinous acts in history, and nobody seems to know about it. The USSR sought foreign expertise in the oil refining sector, and signed a contract with none other than the Koch brothers’ father, Fred C. Koch, to build 15 oil refineries that ended up making him extremely wealthy.
Link to the book if you have one? Either way, I’ll request that my library pick up a copy
This man is NOT lucid even at midday and he is currently running for a presidential term that will not even end until 5 years from now
Tracking Milei’s Wins:
Huawei does a lot of business in Argentina. As a result of the recent Argentinian currency instability crisis, it has become impossible for Argentina to pay China in RMB or USD, and Huawei really doesn’t want to be stuck holding the hot potato (Argentinian Pesos) in its accounts.
Imagine you have two cows:
Huawei has immediately been taking any payment it receives in pesos, and immediately flipping it by purchasing Argentinian beef, which it then ships to sell back in China. China is the largest importer of beef in the world, and Huawei is now China’s largest importer of beef, which makes it quite possible that Huawei is currently the world’s largest beef importer.
It’s been very difficult to find any English media talking about this, so here is a link to the article
I can’t imagine why that would be the case, but if I were a previous client of Boeing I would strongly consider changing my name
White people will look you dead in the eyes and tell you that Palestinian children deserve to starve and then go drop a band on 3 different types of raw chicken feet and salmon fins to feed Bark Ruffalo, their goldendoodle with an uncannily human expression
Highlights include: having been well fed while Hamas fighters skipped meals and could not eat, seeing/hearing the struggle of the Palestinian people and their families and feeling deep sympathy, and being baked a birthday cake on their birthday which is now being reported as a “cynical gesture.” As we all know, it is very easy to acquire the ingredients to bake a cake in Gaza right now and there is plenty of time to spend baking it just so you can dunk on somebody. Israel’s barbarity knows no end. It will simply not allow Palestinians to be portrayed as human beings who have emotions, human connection, and empathy for even a moment.
The article has since be republished here with an entirely new narrative and pieces of testimony removed
Erm… bird flu?
Yeah buddy, they tend to do that.
Anyway, who is excited for some new unprecedented times?
Instead of gaining a parliamentary majority large enough to amend the Indian constitution, Modi’s BJP is now slated to lose its absolute majority, and Modi must face forming a coalition to keep his job. There are enough right wing/Hindu Nationalists aligned with Modi to form what should be a stable coalition, but it is still a massive electoral failure when most were expecting a landslide, especially given exit polling numbers. What appeared to be an unchallenged Hindu-Nationalist agenda just weeks ago has come crashing back to reality, hemorrhaging support across the board to a very different view of India’s future.
The NDA (Hindu Nationalist coalition) has faced immense, grassroots resistance to its mandate across the country from a rival coalition, I.N.D.I.A (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance). I.N.D.I.A is broad coalition ranging from Communists to SocDems to Regionalists and even right wing nationalists, all united by a common vision that Modi and his Hindu Nationalist agenda can not be the future of the country. In addition, this strong showing from I.N.D.I.A has been consistent across the board, and coalition members have performed well in both seat sharing and non-seat sharing arrangements. This is vital for long-term resistance to a party like BJP, which employs the strategy of being comparatively well organized, thus allowing it to field vast quantities of mid candidates and still win elections because the opposition to BJP was too divided or even more mid.
My personal thoughts, if you happen to be interested.
Though this is great news, Modi and his potential coalition still have won the election. So where do we go from here and what does the future look like? Personally, I believe we may be looking something close to the peak performance of what the I.N.D.I.A coalition is capable of as it is currently structured and in opposition to BJP. Though this election performance was a pleasant surprise given the circumstances, the main reason BJP was able to come to such a powerful position in the first place was its organization, promises regarding a future vision of India (though BJP has not actually accomplished much), and lack of serious inspiring competition. The fact of the matter is that in the long term, to challenge BJP with a leader like Modi, you need a widely popular vision that people believe in and a leader the people believe can guide the country towards this vision. The I.N.D.I.A coalition, as it is currently structured, is purely an anti-NDA alliance. This is not a vision that can result in a stable governing coalition long enough to be effective, and being anti-something is not an effective, inspiring long term unifier (coughcough USA coughcough Democratic Party). In my opinion there are three possible futures of India: One very terrible future would be seeing our present day India continue along its current path where it slides ever deeper into right wing politics and religious extremism while the people of India suffer under intensifying capitalist exploitation. Potentially even more dangerous than the first future would be the balkanization of India along the many ethnic, tribal, religious, and ideological divisions within the country, which could result in absolutely unprecedented human suffering and exploitation. Lastly, there remains the only prosperous potential future of India I can envision, which is one where it is united under a common vision of liberation via socialism.
This is not American “liberals” who would govern alongside the far right and call it healthy bipartisanship, a coalition of the French liberals and far right would be a dual political suicide