A new colleague, Alaka Oluwatobi, shared his decolonial essay with me. I share this interest, so I read it and wrote a blog post. The essay is linked there as well as in the first comment if you'd like to read it without my opinions.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/07/the-masters-concepts-decolonising-the-house-without-keeping-the-furniture/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #politics #society #culture #humancondition #language #morality #colonialism #liberalism #imperialism #hegemony #sovereignty #agency #autonomy #assey #blog #podcast #metaethics #metaphysics #fanon #hegel #history #critique

#AfshinMatinAsgari and the Long History of #USIranRelations

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi speaks with the author of #AxisOfEmpire

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/afshin-matin-asgari-and-the-long-history-of-us-iran-relations

#Iran #USpol #warOnIran #MiddleEast #imperialism #USimperialism #books @bookstodon

RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/116393808098727911

The thing people don't tell you about living through the peak of an empire is the horror of watching it unravel around you.

Don't get me wrong, the #EpsteinEmpire must fall, so that the world may live.

It's just a constant hypernormalization mindfuck. So, go easy on yourself & have that extra treat.

Then let's get to building a better alternative future.

#TTJ #College #University #Empire #imperialism #capitalism

"Amodei is highly perturbed by the possibility of the Chinese Communist Party developing more advanced AI than the U.S., because China is “currently autocratic and operates a high-tech surveillance state.” This is part of why his company must help the U.S. government develop new weapons technology. But the argument is strange. Amodei concedes that “the Chinese people themselves” are the ones “most likely to suffer from the CCP’s AI-enabled repression.” That’s because being “authoritarian” is an internal characteristic of countries. It does not mean the country poses a threat to others.

If we were serious about assessing the threat posed by certain countries being the first to develop powerful new AI-enabled weaponry, the question we would ask is not whether the country is “autocratic,” but whether it is “aggressive,” meaning that it poses threats beyond its own borders. Yes, it will be disturbing if the Chinese government is able to use AI to further entrench its power over the population, but it’s not clear why the U.S. would fear this possibility, unless China was an aggressive country that posed a threat to us.

I think one reason Amodei discusses the world in terms of “authoritarian” versus “democratic” countries is that if he instead discussed aggressive countries versus defensive countries, he’d have to acknowledge that the U.S. poses far more of a threat to other countries in the world than China does."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-and-nationalism-are-a-deadly-combination

#AI #USA #Imperialism #Nationalism #China

While everyone is distracted by the scripted ICE theater the counter-reformation unification of Roman Church and state proceeds stealthily. Rome's agents are slowly converting America to the Imperial Roman religion. This is the true goal of so-called 'Christian Nationalism': the forcible conversion of America to Roman imperial Christianity, a la Constantine and Justinian.

From his bully pulpit the President is proclaiming Imperial Roman religion about their Roman moon goddess Mary, also known as Minerva, Venus, Easter, Astarte, Semiramis, and Isis.

Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

"In her honor, and on a day so special to our Catholic citizens, we remember the sacred words that have brought aid, comfort, and support to generations of American believers in times of need: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/

#President #Religion #Church #ICE #Reformation #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Imperialism #Christian #Jesus #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism

Christian Nationalism is Roman Constantinian Idolatry

This political idolatry of 'Christian Nationalism' is not new. Only the wide perception of it is new due to everyone now being plugged into the Internet via their ever-present phones and tablets.

In the 1600s through the 1800s we see the political idolatry was at fever pitch and full swing, giving a host of politically-oriented cults, such as Witch-burning Puritanism, Swedenborgianism, Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, etcetera. Even the Anglican church is an Imperialist political cult and has no warrant or sanction in the Holy Scriptures. It is a 'nationalist' tyranny over the mind. And then we see Islam, which Christians mistakenly believe to be a non-Christian religion. Islam is a Christian heresy, founded by heretical Catholics. Even the name, "Mohammed" is a corruption of the earlier Arabic, "Mahmed" meaning, "Messiah". Islam is an offshoot of medieval Christianity with its Saturn idolatry gone to seed. Islam is a daughter of Babylon, the Judeo-Roman prostitute.

Christianity has always been a politically idolatrous cult. For instance, The council of Nicea was convened by the Apollo-worshiping, Luciferian Emperor Constantine for nefarious and ungodly political purposes. Every bishop who was a political apparatchik showed up, ironing out a fascist version of Christianity that was forced on the empire by the sword for centuries.

The luciferians try to repeat this in every generation in which it looks like Christians will flee the Church plantation for the true body of Christ outside the Church.

Remember, the outer sea court of the temple was for the Gentiles (nations). The kingdom was removed from the inner court and given to them without. Christian authoritarians still have not recognized this.

If you want to advocate for a more biblical and faithful version of Christianity you need to leave behind the Imperial leadership model of the Church. The Apostles and the Reformers warned us about the man of sin sitting in the chair of the bishopric building his tower of Babel using the people (laity) as their bricks.

This thing commonly called, 'Christianity' is the backsliding idol worship of Israel in the Old Testament, brought to life in our current age. Jesus Christ is not a Christian. The Apostles of the Lamb are not Christians. Neither Jesus, nor the Apostles, nor the Prophets would recognize Christianity as legitimate. The sum of all their teachings mark Christianity as an impostor religion of idolatrous customs trading darkness for light.

There is no municipal kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of God cannot be brought about by the force of arms of mortal men. It comes by the Spirit of the Lord, not by the spirit of the world. Everyone pretending to build God's kingdom by inveigling, shaming, brow-beating, force, intimidation, fear-mongering, or authoritarianism, or civil government sanction, is an anti-christ, no matter how much they pretend to worship the Father and the Son and no matter how many zillions of times they claim their names.

In the Old Testament the Father prophesied to us the rise of the Christian world empire and its eventual destruction in the turning of the ages ahead. The Imperialist Christian cult likes to distract from its own wickedness by pretending Islam is the scapegoat, or by pretending Jews are the scapegoat. It might work for a time for their politics but God the Father is not fooled.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. ..... How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."

The 'she' is the Christian Church. She is the harlot Babylon with her many Church babies, a true mother of political prostitutes and abominations of the earth. The Christian church glorifies herself and her system of bishopric authority instead of glorifying the simple gospel of Jesus Christ. Christianity is a machine for perpetuating its own system instead of setting the spiritual captives free.

We can truthfully say to the Christian Church what Christ said to the Scribes and Pharisees of ancient Judea:

"But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

In this age the first Adam who fell is the Church, the continuation of temple idolatry on life support. The second Adam who rises is Christ, or Jacob, who will supplant the first Adam as Jacob supplanted Esau in the birthright, as Jacob crossed his arms to swap the birthrights of Ephraim and Manasseh, as Isaac supplanted Ishmael, even as Paul the Apostle told us plainly. God has repeatedly told us how this Christian empire will be supplanted by Jesus Christ in the last days, yet Christians do not see what is plain in the scripture because they want political and spiritual power over other men, rather than being like Christ and humbly desiring to be a servant of servants for the love of God rather than recognition of position.

We learn from the Bible that God doesn't value man's concept of the birthright of authority, and freely supplants the older with the younger, even as he will supplant the older religious and Christian empire of the world with the younger Jesus of Nazareth.

#Christianity #Religion #Cults #Idolatry #Church #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ChristoFascism #Gospel #Jesus

#^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

Maybe a good time to watch this movie again. The idea is quite similar: In a future world war between countries is replaced by deadly sports games between company/city/country teams. The movie also mentions a world ruling supercomputer, whose memory is corrupt. AI?

#uspol #worldpol #denpol #imperialism #fascism #Rollerball #JimmyKimmel

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#Trump says he may #punish countries with #tariffs if they don’t back the #US control of #Greenland

Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland, a message that came as a Congressional delegation met Danish & Greenlandic lawmakers in Copenhagen & sought to lower tensions.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #InternationalLaw
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-us-trump-tariffs-c8c17c89cbc4ca9819eb728102d0a2b3?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-01-16-US+and+Greenland

#Europe draws red line on #Greenland after a year of futilely trying to pacify #Trump

While many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, there have been forceful rebukes about the Trump admin’s greediness on Greenland.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #greed #InternationalLaw
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/07/trump-us-europe-greenland/

The precarious strategy of managing #Trump, rather than confronting him, looked more exposed when the president & his inner circle revived their talk of “getting” #Greenland & even floated the idea of #military action. To European ears, it sounded less like bluster than a retrograde worldview now backed by unvarnished American might: #power over process, #leverage over #law, #loyalty conditioned on utility.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

“It’s approaching a full-on existential crisis,” said Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for #Europe at political risk consultancy #Eurasia Group. “It could be far greater than #Russia invading #Ukraine because Russia is an adversary. Now, it’s the guarantor of European #security undermining European security.”

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #US #Greenland #Denmark #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Where many European leaders’ reactions to the #Venezuela raid were muted, caveated or outsourced to #legal abstractions about the #UNCharter, European leaders on Tuesday came out with uncommonly forceful rebukes about the #Trump admin’s greediness on #Greenland.



#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

The PM of #Denmark, a #NATO member, said a #US action on #Greenland, a territory of the kingdom of Denmark for >300 years, would be the end of the #alliance. Leaders of #France, #Germany, #Italy, #Poland, #Spain & #Britain closed ranks with Copenhagen, issuing a joint statement that Greenland’s future is a matter for “Denmark & Greenland, & them only.”

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

#Denmark & #Greenland have stated emphatically, & repeatedly, that the huge #Arctic territory — sparsely populated with 59,000 mostly #Indigenous residents & boasting potentially rich deposits of #RareEarth #minerals — is not for sale. Greenland is officially designated as an #autonomous region, & residents say they have no intention of living under the yoke of a new #colonial ruler.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #sovereignty #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

#Trump, posting on Truth Social on Wednesday, seemed to bristle at suggestions that he was endangering #NATO, boasting that he had pressured #allies to raise spending. “Most weren’t paying their bills, UNTIL I CAME ALONG,” Trump wrote. “I, respectfully, got them to 5% GDP, AND THEY PAY, immediately. Everyone said that couldn’t be done, but it could, because, beyond all else, they are all my friends.”

#delusional #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #InternationalLaw

“RUSSIA AND CHINA HAVE ZERO FEAR OF NATO WITHOUT THE UNITED STATES, AND I DOUBT NATO WOULD BE THERE FOR US IF WE REALLY NEEDED THEM,” #Trump continued. “EVERYONE IS LUCKY THAT I REBUILT OUR MILITARY IN MY FIRST TERM, AND CONTINUE TO DO SO. We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us. The only Nation that China and Russia fear and respect is the DJT REBUILT U.S.A.”

#delusional #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #US #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #NATO #InternationalLaw

A day later Speaker of the #House #MikeJohnson downplayed the likelihood of force.

“The #US always has #military options for everything,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday. “I think with #Greenland it’s very clear that we are working through diplomatic channels.”

#Europe had been riding out #Trump’s shocks, betting there would be limits. To many, those bets now look much riskier.

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #law #NaturalResources #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

Hurlburt cited a retired #US general who viewed the #Trump White House move in #Venezuela & its fixation on #Greenland as reminiscent of teenagers playing the geostrategic board game Risk.

“Once you start down the road of the #MonroeDoctrine or the #DonroeDoctrine, or whatever we’re saying now, you look at a map of the #WesternHemisphere, & there is Greenland,” she said.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

Whether its gaming or grasping, European leaders face unpalatable choices. One is to stick with the unified hard line that emerged in recent days, making clear that any move on #Greenland could trigger a response by European #allies — not against #Russia or #China but, unthinkably, against the #UnitedStates.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

#Military experts say #Denmark & #Greenland would stand no chance against American #military might. In reality that is nonstarter in every way; political analysts across the board agree with #StephenMiller that no one will go to #war over Greenland. #Europe is too dependent on the #US militarily & economically to risk a true break.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #WarPowers #sovereignty #InternationalLaw

But the mere prospect of such conflict only highlights how much more difficult it is now for #US #allies to toe the line with #Trump. That, too, could lead to a drastic deterioration of the transatlantic #alliance if not its end, analysts say.

“Many European countries are still seeking to ride both a European and an American horse,” Rahman said. “That may become impossible.”

#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Greenland #Denmark #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #InternationalLaw

Another option would be to make a deal on #Greenland — a sale or lease, with expanded access to #mineral rights, & #US role in #security. In the event of a crisis, “the rest of #Europe will lean on #Denmark to make some kind of arrangement with the #US,” Rahman said.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #NaturalResources #oil #minerals #sovereignty #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

A #LouisianaPurchase style transaction may be the least likely. Danish #law recognizes Greenlanders as a people with the right to decide their own future, meaning Copenhagen cannot barter the island away even if it wanted to. Any change in #sovereignty would first require #Greenland to choose #independence — a separate #legal, electoral process — before it could negotiate anything with Washington.

#Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Denmark #Europe #NATO #law #InternationalLaw

Some European ofcls are arguing quietly that the pushback coming from #Europe capitals may be counterproductive. A flat “no” never sits well with #Trump, they point out, & his most hard-line supporters delight in turning up the volume whenever the White House is challenged.

“This administration, when provoked, doubles down,” said a European diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity….

#MafiaState #imperialism #greed #geopolitics #Greenland #NATO #law #Congress #InternationalLaw

The first step to convincing someone that imperialism should end, is convincing them that they are living under in an empire in the first place.

Usually it takes the #Imperial boomerang hitting them in the face.

Psstt..it can and is happening here.

#CryptoEmpire #USA #Empire #Imperialism #History #USPol #TTJ

I don't want to sound like an airhead optimist

#Ethnofascist #imperialism has a death grip on Russian leadership. #Russia can weather a lot of misery

But if sustained and deepened, #Ukraine's relentless #drone strikes on #oil #infrastructure really fucks up Russia in spectacular ways

It *will* pay dividends militarily and politically

#SlavaUkraini!

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"Frontline report: Ukraine’s #refinery strikes trigger nationwide #fuel collapse across Russia"

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/30/frontline-report-ukraines-refinery-strikes-trigger-nationwide-fuel-collapse-across-russia/

#UkraineWar

Les roseaux sauvages (André Téchiné, 1994)

#movie #quote #classwar #fascism #oppression #repression #imperialism #statism #racism #colonialism #eattherich

#fyi #psa #nazis #neonazis #ausgov #politas #symbols #signs #rightwing #farright #bigots #hypocrites #fascism #capitalism #racism #statism #colonialism #imperialism

#usa #america #acab #AllCopsAreBastards #classwar #fascism #capitalism #imperialism #statism #colonialism #racism #oppression #repression

#usa #america #racism #fascism #trump #nazis #neonazis #neofascism #classwar #statism #imperialism #colonialism #oppression #repression

#classwar #poverty #homeless #ausgov #politas #eattherich #humanrights #animalrights #econotego #antinazi #antizionist #antifascist #capitalism #fascism #oppression #repression #statism #colonialism #imperialism #society #humans

Israel says that, as imperial Britain did not specify political rights for Palestinians, only Jews have a right to sovereignty over Palestine from the river to the sea.

That's the century-long argument stemming from the Balfour declaration of 1917.

And the EU's Josep Borrell agreed.

https://archive.is/x7aeR

#USPol #DisplacementReplacement #UKPol #Europol #Palestine #Balfour #Zionism #Imperialism #Racism #BDS @palestine .

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Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917. Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet ‘His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country" 1 should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Ws Zag A Af

"President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela. “We just … shot out a drug-carrying boat, lot of drugs in that boat,” he said. “These came out of Venezuela.”

A senior U.S. defense official offered a more coherent statement, confirming to The Intercept that “the U.S. military conducted a precision strike against a drug vessel operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.”

The Tuesday attack is the first acknowledged attack in Trump’s recent ramp-up of U.S. military force in Central and South America. The belligerent foreign relations harken back to early 20th-century military interventions, when the “big stick” approach to the Monroe Doctrine led the U.S. to invade or militarily support favored regimes in the majority of nations in the Western Hemisphere. This gunboat diplomacy risks embroiling the U.S. in additional foreign wars and undermining Trump’s anti-immigration efforts.

The White House and State Department did not reply to request for additional information on the attack.

Last week, the United States dispatched three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as part of Trump’s supposed war on Latin American drug cartels."

https://theintercept.com/2025/09/02/trump-military-venezuela-drug-boat/

#USA #Trump #Venezuela #Imperialism #Militarism