Author: M Barbu

Not long ago a Jacobin article (re-posted on ZNet) argued that we need more Marxism. To my eyes the tone was if we aren’t Marxist we aren’t materialist, if we aren’t materialist we don’t believe in reality, and if we pay inadequate attention to reality we will chase rainbows and succumb to mis-leadership. Conclusion, we need to be Marxist materialists. As steadily more people become deeply disenchanted, then horrendously horrified, then outstandingly outraged at today’s world, and in response want to do something about it, there will be offers of helpful guidance. Smart people, confident people who have scads of answers, will offer tools to utilize and concepts to employ to make sense of what is happening and of means to make things better. Follow our lead. Sign on with us. Their offer will be helpful if the offered tools and concepts are well suited to the world we face and the tasks we undertake.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s messy breakup could have long-term ramifications for the Republican Party’s congressional primaries — as well as the Trump administration’s ties to Musk’s companies and his allies.

Still, senior Republicans are confident it won’t disrupt the Republican Party’s central focus this summer: Trump’s tax and spending megabill.

A criminal network smuggling mainly Syrian migrants from Türkiye to Western Europe has been taken down following a coordinated action led by the Bulgarian authorities and supported by Europol.

On 3 June, law enforcement carried out raids in five major cities across Bulgaria under the supervision of the Burgas Prosecutor’s Office. Officers from Greece, Romania and Moldova joined Bulgarian investigators on the ground, with Europol also deployed to support the action. In total, 18 people were arrested, including a high-value target.

Lorsque l’Histoire se fait illusion, l’illusion devient Histoire. Dans ce théâtre mondial où les géants de l’Occident, drapés dans l’armure de la démocratie et du progrès, orchestrent des jeux de pouvoir et d’influence, il semble que l’unique vérité réside dans la manipulation. Derrière les discours enflammés et les gestes grandiloquents des États-Unis, de l’OTAN comme de l’ONU, se cache une structure insidieuse, un empire non pas d’épées et de soldats, mais de promesses non tenues et de visages masqués. Cet «Empire du Bluff» n’est pas fait de fer et de ferveur, mais d’une construction spectrale, où l’apparence et la forme prennent le pas sur la substance. Un empire où, sous l’ombre des grandes puissances, se joue la danse macabre de l’illusion de sécurité et de prospérité. Le monde n’est pas dirigé par des démocraties aux mains tremblantes, mais par des entités financières, froides, cyniques et organisées autour d’intérêts qui se moquent éperdument des peuples, des frontières ou des morts. Car les guerres ne naissent pas d’un coup de folie ou d’un excès de passion nationaliste mais elles sont financées, planifiées, allumées volontairement par des acteurs qui, eux, ne meurent jamais dans les tranchées.

For the first time, a march labelled specifically as “anti-immigration” took place in Poland on Saturday, even if the message has often been heard before on the streets of Polish cities, particularly during the annual Independence Day parades held on November 11.

Since the Islamic State crashed onto the scene in 2014, the U.S. has led efforts to combat the group’s influence, acting as one of the largest donors to the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State and leading its forces through Operation Inherent Resolve. These efforts resulted in the successful territorial defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019. With the fall of the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate, however, the threat changed—demanding a new approach. Accordingly, in 2022, U.S. Central Command Commanding General Michael Kurilla divided the Islamic State threat into three parts: “[Islamic State] at large” (the leaders and operatives fighting the U.S. and its partners Irweaq and Syria); “[Islamic State] in detention” (the thousands of Islamic State-affiliated men and boys, as well as some women and girls, held in detention facilities and youth “rehabilitation” centers in Iraq and Syria); and the “potential next generation of [Islamic State]” (the tens of thousands of primarily women and minors held in northeast Syrian Al-Hol and Roj detention camps).