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[ad_1] Kit Klarenberg Substack Independent journalist David Hundeyin has exposed the Pentagon’s new psychological operations unit targeting Africa, “Drongo Company”. Tasked with “expanding the military’s ability to influence foreign audiences” across the continent, its heavily hyped launch occurs against a backdrop of dramatically and irreversibly waning Western influence and power in every sphere across the continent. As Africans steadily rid themselves of unwelcome foreign occupiers and oppressors, the US is forced to rely on strategies of manipulation to stem the tide, which have already failed spectacularly. They will surely misfire yet again. Based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina – home to AFRICOM – Drongo Company’s…

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[ad_1] Everybody who preps spends their first dollars in the wrong place. Water filters, food buckets, a generator, maybe a gun and a few boxes of ammo. All good. All necessary. But almost nobody preps for the thing that’s actually going to try to hurt them, and it isn’t the hurricane, the blackout, the earthquake, or the empty grocery store. It’s people. People who didn’t prep, people who prepped for all the wrong things, and people who were always a little rotten and just needed the lights to go out to finally show you who they really were. The disaster…

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[ad_1] By Victoria Valenzuela This article was originally published by Truthout Formerly incarcerated immigrants, solidarity activists, and scholars discuss the underreported resistance in ICE jails. When Dilmer “Loba” Lovos Mendez learned about the protests inside the Dilley Detention Center in Texas, they were not surprised. While being held for two years in California immigration jails from 2024 to 2026, Lovos Mendez had seen firsthand how common such organized acts of resistance actually are, and was themself directly involved with three protest actions during that time. During two hunger strikes, one of which had up to 100 participants, as well…

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[ad_1] Art history now teaches that ‘putting things in categories’ is bad-which is how galleries end up feeling like a garage sale, writes Caitlin Flanagan. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Popular energy can fill streets and win elections. Social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age. From the Bengal famine of 1943 to the election of the Left Front government in 1977, the communist movement in West Bengal, India, patiently built its strength among workers, peasants, refugees, students, and cultural workers. Through campaigns for food and land, the building of trade-union power, refugee mobilisation, and resistance to state repression, the left did more than win immediate demands:…

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[ad_1] Friday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, RCP reporter Susan Crabtree joins Carl Cannon and Andrew Walworth to break down reports that Tucker Carlson is considering launching a third party, and how the Democratic Party is reacting to Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Michigan Senate primary. J. Peder Zane joins the show to talk about his new piece on the timing of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s preemptive pardon, and then the group discusses a new bill giving worshippers more federal protections and shares their picks for the weekly “You Can Not Be Serious?!” roundup of funny headlines. Listen live weekdays at 11:00…

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