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Rasmus Fleischer
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Forskare i ekonomisk historia (Stockholms universitet).
Kulturskribent i Flamman, GP och Aftonbladet.
Musiker i Vox Vulgaris, etc.
https://linktr.ee/rasmusfleischer
https://copyriot.se
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/
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I didn't have a chance to develop this thought yesterday, but how you react to this story depends on which level you come in on.

And on every level besides the US, there's room for a lot of ambivalence.

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There are really four levels to what happened last night: US, regional, global and Venezuela.

I'll go through them in that order, as it moves from easiest to hardest in terms of making sense of them.

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January 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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“By illuminating the internal relations of Iran and its relation to the imperialist system globally, we can better see how “anti-imperialism” functions as the ideological form of the very social relations that it obscures and therefore reproduces.”

www.heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Iran | Heatwave
The moment Israel began bombing Iran, US left-wing organizations “wheeled out one regime apologist after another.” In “The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club,” Arya Zahedi argues that this “form of ant...
www.heatwavemag.info
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The 39th Chaos Communication Congress is giving us The Vibe for 2026!

cybernews.com/security/inv...
Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users
An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.
cybernews.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Making nazis fall in robots is AI for good in 2026.
It's juvenile, it's fun, it's girly, it's delightful. Full Ccc recording here:
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-h...
The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber
WhiteDate ist eine Plattform weißer Suprematist:innen, die sich an Rassist:innen und Antisemit:innen richtet – und auf veralteter Infrast...
media.ccc.de
January 4, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Inte jurist men...
Många konstaterar nu att "den internationella rätten är död". Men då tror jag de syftar på en av dess delar, folkrätten. Den internationella privaträtten, däremot, tycks påfallande odöd.

Såvitt jag kan se fortsätter t.ex. företag att åtnjuta internationellt respekterade patent.
Internationell rätt är död. Nu gäller enbart den starkes rätt. Trump skryter om hur han kränkt ett annat lands nationella suveränitet och Kristersson jublar. Israel begår folkmord i Gaza och världen rycker på axlarna. Putin angriper Europa och vi finansierar. Parisavtalet? Haha, gick ni på den
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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In Isfahan, Iran's third-largest city by population, IRGC forces opened intense fire toward demonstrators—according to preliminary information, dozens of protesters have been wounded.
January 3, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Svenska fotbollförbundet (SvFF) är svensk sektion av FIFA och har 3000 svenska fotbollsklubbar som medlemmar.
Men har en enda svensk fotbollsklubb tagit avstånd från det helt bisarra "fredspriset" till Donald Trump? Eller uttalat sig för terrorstämpling av FIFA?

inside.fifa.com/campaigns/fo...
President Donald J. Trump awarded “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World”
The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, was presented with the inaugural “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” by FIFA President Gianni Infantino during the Final Draw for the FI...
inside.fifa.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.

We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
January 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Trump just announced “we are going to run the country” until they can guarantee a just transition because they “can’t run the risk of someone else taking over” Venezuela.

“We are going to run it, essentially.”
January 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Eftersom USA inte förklarat Venezuela krig, får man väl anta att detta är ännu en "militär specialoperation".
Fast det skulle i så fall betyda att USA:s nyligen omdöpta "krigsdepartement" misslyckats med sitt uttalade mål, nämligen "att föra krig, och vinna dem".
January 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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This garbage can masquerading as technology should never have had a public release. That it hasn't been recalled and CEOs charged with a dozen crimes is a symptom of incompetence, greed, and awfulness among elected reps and civil servants.
January 3, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Fresh year

Fresh hell

Fresh Danish Marxism
Just published…

Tobias Dias, @routhier.bsky.social, and I have edited a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics on ‘Marxist Aesthetics’ with a suite of excellent contributions by Hannah Black, Mikkel Bolt, Tobias Dias, Tobias Ertl, E.C. Feiss, Jackqueline Frost, Seb B. Grossmann …
Vol. 34 No. 70 (2025): Special issue: Marxist Aesthetics | The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
tidsskrift.dk
December 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Let's be clear. Ukraine has every right to attack putin and decision making centres. So even if they did attack, it is utterly irrelevant to anything, and should not even merit any comment.
December 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Private equity is eating itself
Private equity struggles to value assets, sells assets to itself to pay investors.

Sold £79.2bn of assets to itself, to new entities under its control with money from new investors to pay earlier investors.

A ponzi scheme full of conflict of interests.
PE firms sell assets to themselves at a record rate in 2025
Private equity firms sold companies to themselves at a record rate this year, using a controversial tactic
www.cityam.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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i always find incredible how swedish media ignores all the swedish cultural politics & movements even tho their influence outside here is super strong, specially now from current discourse about music and platforms to back to hard copies, despotify, etc.. all tracks back here for more than a decade
Andreas Tilliander var ju en av de artister som under 2025 plockade bort sin musik från Spotify i protest.

Vilket såvitt jag kan se inte alls noterats av svensk kulturjournalistik. Trots att Tilliander/Kajfeš album "In Cmin" i samtidigt hyllats av kritiker i bl.a. DN, Lira och Orkester-Journalen.
December 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Passar på att även återposta den musikårskrönika som @nathanhamelberg.bsky.social lade upp på sin öppna insta. Finns vissa beröringspunkter med min text och jag vill instämma i Nathans hyllning av årets album "In Cmin" av Andreas Tillander & Goran Kajfes!
(Obs: albumet finns inte på Spotify.)
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Äntligen någon i Sverige som skriver om musik på ett intressant sätt. Fleischer puts everyone else in the ”musikkritik-debatten” to shame. Och som han gör det! (Självklart med tillhörande Soundcloud-mixtape)
Sätter troligen rekord i antal Bandcamplänkar i en text på en svensk kultursida.

Tipsar om bl.a. DJ Babatr, Nick León, CRRDR, WOST, Hassan Abou Alam, Assyouti, 3Phaz, Abadir, Guedra Guedra, Authentically Plastic, Ndagga Rhythm Force & Mark Ernestus, Barker, Polygonia och JakoJako.
December 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Russia intends to recognize the Telegram channel 75zlo “Trans-Baikal Left Association” a terrorist organization even though it has only 72 subscribers. the leaders are jailed anarchists Aleksandr Snezhkov & Lyubov Lizunova & no posts have been published since they’ve been detained.
December 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Biljettstrejk 2026
biljettstrejk.se
December 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Soundtrack där mycket av det nämnda dyker upp, tillsammans med en hel del fransk och brittisk musik från 2025:
soundcloud.com/rasmusfleisc...
MMXXV (excellent music released in 2025, compiled in four mixes)
Listen to MMXXV (excellent music released in 2025, compiled in four mixes) by Flajšer #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Min version (svarar lite på din text!) open.substack.com/pub/raderara...
#11 Musikåret 2025
Popsångerna, hörlurarna, live-spelningarna och de femtio bästa nya och de femtio bästa gamla låtarna 2025
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Suverän text. En referens fick mig åminnas tekknival tältet som var utanför arvika festivalen något år på 00-talet. Sju resor bättre beats än inne på området.
Här har ni sista ordet i 2025 års musikkritikdebatt! Jag förklarar varför alla andra har fel! Samt tipsar om massor av ny dansmusik från den elektroniska underjorden, framför allt i Afrika och Latinamerika. Sånt som varken poptimister eller rockister bryr sig om.
www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/wrP...
Dansmusiken har aldrig varit så vital som i dag
Kultursidorna måste sluta behandla musik som litteratur
www.aftonbladet.se
December 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Här har ni sista ordet i 2025 års musikkritikdebatt! Jag förklarar varför alla andra har fel! Samt tipsar om massor av ny dansmusik från den elektroniska underjorden, framför allt i Afrika och Latinamerika. Sånt som varken poptimister eller rockister bryr sig om.
www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/wrP...
Dansmusiken har aldrig varit så vital som i dag
Kultursidorna måste sluta behandla musik som litteratur
www.aftonbladet.se
December 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM