u/lewkiamurfarther

▲ 50 r/ProgressivePolitics+2 crossposts

Israel moves to annex Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank

> The Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would place Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank under direct Israeli civil law, stripping them of their protected status under international law. Experts say it's annexation in all but name.

See also this article by Jasper Nathaniel in The Drift ("In Ruins​ | Archaeological Warfare in the West Bank").

mondoweiss.net
u/lewkiamurfarther — 22 hours ago

The Faces of AIPAC

In a tweet, Omar Shakir wrote:

>In December @DAWNmenaorg published the identities of 50 execs & board members who run AIPAC. But AIPAC isn’t just 50 people. We've mapped the professional ties & histories of 3,000+ current & ex AIPAC staffers. We publish our findings Wednesday. Stay tuned

The link features photos and names of people who sit on the AIPAC board, styled like playing cards (but organized into ranks, rather than a standard playing card deck).

Excerpt from the link:

>Network of Networks

>AIPAC's directors and officers function as a network of networks, simultaneously occupying leadership positions across virtually every major pro-Israel institution in America. For example, Betsy Berns Korn serves as AIPAC's Board Chair while also chairing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations since June 2025, the umbrella body coordinating over 50 Pro-Israel organizations. Her predecessor in that role, Harriet Schleifer, also sits on AIPAC's board alongside positions on the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy's and past leadership of the American Jewish Committee, another major pro-Israel lobbying and foreign-policy organization. Michael Kassen's wife, Shelly Kassen, is Chairman Emeritus of the Washington Institute's Board of Trustees, having served as its president from 2016–2020, while he serves on AIPAC's board and as a trustee of the Hudson Institute, a right-wing, neoconservative think tank with links to former Republican administrations, defense contractors, and hawkish foreign policy circles. Jamie Sprayregen, member of AIPAC's board, sits on the Boards of Governors of both the Middle East Forum, a right-wing think tank that spreads misinformation, creates "watchlists" targeting academics, and advocates for an anti-Muslim foreign policy and the American Jewish Committee. Alan Levow, an AIPAC Vice President, is also Vice President of the American Israel Education Foundation (IEF), which funds congressional trips to Israel. Howard Friedman, who served as President and Chairman of the Board of AIPAC (2006–2010) and is listed as a Vice-President, previously led the IEF as President (2010–2012). Robert Cohen, a former AIPAC President, formerly served as Acting President of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and Alan Franco, another AIPAC Vice President, served on the International Board of Trustees of Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv in 2016 and 2018.

dawnmena.org
u/lewkiamurfarther — 3 days ago

Evo Morales denuncia un plan de EE.UU. para matarlo o detenerlo [“Evo Morales Denounces U.S. Plot to Kill or Detain Him”]

Leaked documents appear to corroborate Morales's allegation of a US plot.

Reminders:

  • Morales was subject to several coup attempts led by the US. (Cf. Maduro, Chavez, etc.)
  • The coup attempt that succeeded in removing him furthermore involved speedy deployment of propaganda in major media outlets, including virtually all media in the US, alleging election fraud. Those claims were later debunked by a team in the US, whose results were then published by the Washington Post and others. However, by then, it was too late, and the (then illegitimate) right-wing Bolivian government massacred many people.
  • Following the election of the current right-wing Bolivian president last year, the usual playbook was enacted: undo social programs, fast-track massive amounts of privatization, and tether the state to the US financial system.
  • Morales has faced multiple assassination attempts in the interim.

As the article is in Spanish, here is a lazy Google translation of it into English:


> Evo Morales Denounces U.S. Plot to Kill or Detain Him — Morales warned of the Bolivian Armed Forces being under the control of "U.S. Marines and Paraguayan DEA agents, who have no qualms about massacring brothers and sisters residing in the Tropics." > > Former Bolivian President Evo Morales denounced this Friday that the United States—with the support of the Rodrigo Paz government—is planning his assassination or detention through a military operation involving the DEA and U.S. Southern Command. > > Morales stated on his social media channels that the United States "ordered the Rodrigo Paz government to execute a military operation—with the support of the DEA and U.S. Southern Command—to detain or kill me." > > The indigenous leader directly implicated Carlos Zorro Sánchez Berzaín in this plot, identifying him as the "former Minister of Government under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, who fled to Miami following the Black October Massacre (2003)," as well as Ernesto Justiniano, the Deputy Minister of Social Defense, who "is currently in Washington." > > > The U.S. ordered the Rodrigo Paz government to execute a military operation—with the support of the DEA and U.S. Southern Command—to detain or kill me. > > Among the instigators of this action are the former Minister of Government under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada—who fled to Miami following the… > > — Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) May 15, 2026 > > The former Bolivian head of state also detailed specific military elements allegedly involved in the scheme, such as the 9th Army Division, under the command of Colonel Franz Andrade Loza. Morales asserted that "the government promised to promote him to General and appoint him Commander of the Armed Forces if he eliminates Evo." He also cited the presence of the "F-10 unit—subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Víctor Hugo Balderrama—under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Giménez Ortuño, a former aide to Jeanine Áñez's Minister of Defense, Fernando López," alongside four other unspecified individuals. > > Morales also declared himself a victim of "smear campaigns, insults, and baseless accusations" promoted by "experts in dirty warfare and fake news"—such as the Argentine Fernando Cerimedo, sent to Bolivia by the right-winger Javier Milei—whose "dirty operations have already been exposed by honest Bolivian journalists." Furthermore, he issued a warning regarding the control of the Bolivian Armed Forces by "U.S. Marines and Paraguayan DEA agents, who have no qualms about massacring the brothers and sisters residing in the Tropic region." > > Twelve Days of Strikes > > The former president's denunciation comes at a moment of heightened political tension in Bolivia, as public sector workers, miners, and grassroots sectors affiliated with the Bolivian Workers' Central (COB) mark their twelfth day of an indefinite general strike and road blockades in defense of their economic and social rights. > > The mobilization—which began with a list of over 100 union demands—intensified following a proposal from the Aymara peasant bases of the Altiplano to demand the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz, whom the working class accuses of exacerbating the crisis and allowing serious acts of corruption to take place, such as the importation of contaminated gasoline.

> The labor force continues to keep major road access points paralyzed, creating difficulties for the supply and distribution of fuel and food in La Paz, thereby demonstrating the unions' capacity for coordinated action in the face of the Executive Branch's failure to provide answers. > > Adding to the tension generated by the protests and the social crisis is the openly interventionist activity of the countries that constitute the United States' "Coat of Arms." > > The first to act was Argentina's Javier Milei, who on Friday dispatched two Hercules aircraft "to transport food from producing regions to cities like La Paz, which are being affected by road blockades organized by peasant unions," as reported by the news agency Infobae. > > Subsequently, eight Latin American nations—Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, and Peru—all members of the U.S.-aligned bloc, signed a joint declaration regarding "the humanitarian situation" in Bolivia. In this declaration, they reject "any action aimed at destabilizing the democratic order and disrupting the institutional framework of the constitutional government." > > The final blow to this narrative—which attempts to frame the protests as an assault on democracy rather than a product of the economic crisis and supply shortages under the government of Rodrigo Paz—was delivered this Saturday by the purveyor of falsehoods, Agustín Antonetti. An Argentine influencer and well-known digital network operative linked to Fernando Cerimedo, Antonetti and his associates contributed last November to inflating the narrative that "Generation Z" was seeking to topple the government of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico. > > On that occasion, the Infodemia team detected 179 TikTok accounts and 359 Facebook communities that promoted this topic in a synchronized manner—many of which had been created ad hoc specifically during October and November of 2025. > > This Saturday, Antonetti published a post on his social media channels warning of a "coup d'état" being orchestrated by "terrorist groups answering to Evo Morales" in an attempt to prevent his arrest. > > > 🇧🇴‼️ — COUP D'ÉTAT UNDERWAY IN BOLIVIA > > > > Terrorist groups loyal to Evo Morales have just seized Chimoré International Airport to prevent his arrest for leading the country's largest child trafficking ring. > > > > Maximum alert over the coming hours. pic.twitter.com/1dY5PC9mIT > > — Agustín Antonetti (@agusantonetti) May 16, 2026


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u/lewkiamurfarther — 6 days ago
▲ 327 r/ProgressivePolitics+1 crossposts

Finally the NYT is reporting on the systemic r@pe or Palestinian prisoners by Israel, including the use of dogs to r@pe Palestinian prisoners. It should be a front-page expose like the fabricated "Screams Without Words." But no, it is relegated to the Opinions page.

nytimes.com
u/BalsamicBasil — 10 days ago
▲ 12 r/leftist

The tweet by More Perfect Union:

> A Michigan town board and its planning commission both rejected the largest data center in the state. Now it's being built anyway.

> In Saline Township, Michigan, a giant $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle data center was deeply unpopular, but that ultimately didn't matter.

> After the commission and board voted down the data center, the developer sued and the town settled. Then, construction began.


The article they referenced (“A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began.”)


Larry Ellison owns Oracle and various other assets (including the Hawaiian island of Lanai).

With Larry's help, his son David Ellison has purchased a lot of other businesses, particularly media properties (many of which have been openly transformed into Zionist mouthpieces, like CBS).


(Originally posted here, but unable to crosspost in this subreddit due to images.)

reddit.com
u/lewkiamurfarther — 16 days ago
▲ 828 r/Owosso+4 crossposts

Even if your whole community reaches a consensus against squashing the town with a datacenter, the Ellison family can swoop in and override you. The Ellisons are authoritarian Zionists, so stealing land, trampling rights, and destroying communities is just part of their worldview.

The tweet by More Perfect Union:

> A Michigan town board and its planning commission both rejected the largest data center in the state. Now it's being built anyway.

> In Saline Township, Michigan, a giant $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle data center was deeply unpopular, but that ultimately didn't matter.

> After the commission and board voted down the data center, the developer sued and the town settled. Then, construction began.


The article they referenced (“A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began.”)


Larry Ellison owns Oracle and various other assets (including the Hawaiian island of Lanai).

With Larry's help, his son David Ellison has purchased a lot of other businesses, particularly media properties (many of which have been openly transformed into Zionist mouthpieces, like CBS).

u/lewkiamurfarther — 16 days ago

Mark Ames: “UK elites are scary disciplined & effective when it comes to crushing popular democracy. They successfully smeared Corbyn, a passive saint, as Pol Pot meets Hitler. And now they're convincing Brits that an anti-fascist Jew is the new Oswald Mosley.”

Mark Ames's tweet.

Israel is at the center of the rise of the authoritarian far-right in every country in the West. Not because of Judaism, but because of the military-industrial complex.

Every accusation is a confession.

u/lewkiamurfarther — 17 days ago
▲ 84 r/ProgressivePolitics+3 crossposts

Adam Johnson: ‘if liberal zionists, and organizations like @jstreetdotorg in particular, are serious about a “two state solution,” loudly opposing illegal West Bank land sales in New York (the land they claim ought to be a future Palestinian state) should be basic 101 stuff, and yet they do not’

Adam's tweet, which is the first in a thread:

> if liberal zionists, and organizations like @jstreetdotorg in particular, are serious about a “two state solution,” loudly opposing illegal West Bank land sales in New York (the land they claim ought to be a future Palestinian state) should be basic 101 stuff, and yet they do not


tweet 2:

> “I support a Palestinian state but the processes, people, and religious and cultural institutions systemically making one impossible… those are good and fine”


tweet 3:

> Palestinians have to jump through endless PR hoops and optics concerns to protest their open ethnic cleansing and land theft AND they must seek to build a state peppered with permanent tract home settlements. Guys I think the professional 2SS crowd may not be in total good faith

u/lewkiamurfarther — 17 days ago