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When Iran did this France called for regime change

I will be inviting French marxists who are organizing the massive protests against their regime today at 1pm ET to discuss what is going on in France and what are the next steps. Western liberal democracy is failing everywhere it has been tried

This is from an episode of Law & Order SVU 26 years ago where they casually claim that 75% of all murders in Gaza and the West Bank were honor killings. Just making up insane statistics about Palestinians and passing them off as facts on national television. Imagine how much of this bullshit Americans have been fed for decades.

The French trashed the McDonalds, looted the Apple Store and Luis Vuitton's hand bags. All run by global billionaires. But they left the French Chicken shop untouched.

Every night, Israeli soldiers fire bullets at the tents of displaced Palestinians for entertainment, and Palestinian civilians are killed day after day while sleeping inside their tents. Tonight, an innocent little girl Misk Al-Dalo was killed, becoming yet another victim of Israeli brutality in Gaza. Please share this video in every language so the world can see what is happening and this senseless killing of Palestinian lives can finally stop.

The latest hasbara has dropped

Times of Monsters and Empires My presentation (+ Q&A) from the Kyoto Symposium 2026 ("Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters") is now up on Neutrality Studies. Gramsci’s famous line, often paraphrased—“the old is dying and the new cannot be born”—is almost universally read today as a comforting prophecy of imperial collapse, followed by a new and more peaceful dawn. In my talk in Kyoto, I argued that we need to read the rest of the passage in Prison Notebooks § 34: Gramsci’s quote is embedded in questions and more; he was asking what happens when a ruling class loses consensus, turns to force to repeatedly obstruct the birth of the new, and forges a "new combination" of rule. We tend to misread the current intensification of violence as solely terminal decline because of an epistemic lag. In other words, we measure the present against the anomaly of the Cold War, when organized counterpower forced historical restraints onto capitalism. As historian Heide Gerstenberger showed, capitalism was never inherently peaceful; remove the counterpower, and the system returns to its violent baseline. Further, the loss of belief in the ruling class's old ideologies is not yet a loss of governability. In such an interregnum, instead of collapsing, the US-led transatlantic core is adapting toward a low-consent equilibrium in that which Gramsci calls the “new combination”: The Multilayered Cage: An interconnected financial, technological, logistical, elite socialization, knowledge, and military architecture designed to manage multipolarity by preventing dispersed capacities from consolidating into an autonomous project. The Bunker State: A qualitative transformation of the state in which civilian planning and public provision are subordinated to hybrid warfare and austerity, reclassifying citizens from subjects of rights into objects, assets, or vulnerabilities in security management. The second half of the video features a 25-minute Q&A with the panel and audience, where we talked about: - Why political desires to break from NATO run into the hard wall of software, technological, and command-structure lock-in and dependencies. - Whether European elites actually believe in the mirage of "military Keynesianism." - Why states cannot dismantle an empire’s house while adopting its militarized language—and why even reframing "Artificial Intelligence" as "Collective Intelligence" is part of reclaiming our extracted knowledge to build a shared political horizon and organized hope. 🎥 Watch the full talk and Q&A here: youtu.be/-6VIQpdcNsA (I will be publishing the polished written text of this lecture alongside my visual slide deck for paid subscribers later this week).