Insurgent Thought
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Amilcar Cabral’s words are more relevant than ever: “Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.”
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Amilcar Cabral’s words are more relevant than ever: “Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.”
Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.
—Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State under the Reagan Administration.
—Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State under the Reagan Administration.
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.
—Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State under the Reagan Administration.
—Alexander Haig, US Secretary of State under the Reagan Administration.
Du Bois wrote this piece during the Nakba in 1948.
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THE ETHICS OF THE PROBLEM OF PALESTINE By W. E. B. Du Bois
Excerpts
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November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Du Bois wrote this piece during the Nakba in 1948.
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Hey I recognize that article 😉
ICYMI: Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, 'Decolonial and Ontological Challenges in Social and Anthropological Theory' - examines the conceptual and methodological points of convergence and divergence of the decolonial and ontological turns in social theory. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Hey I recognize that article 😉
George Jackson’s critique of liberalism’s counterinsurgency is more relevant than ever. “When any election is held it will fortify rather than destroy the credibility of the power brokers.”
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The Liberal Virus and the Illusion of Change
The analyses of some so-called Marxists and communists on social media show how quickly they betray internationalism by focusing solely on improving and reforming the conditions of the working class n...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
George Jackson’s critique of liberalism’s counterinsurgency is more relevant than ever. “When any election is held it will fortify rather than destroy the credibility of the power brokers.”
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...the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” Therefore, it is indispensable that an insurgency’s political cause aligns with the people’s demands...
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Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
Excerpts from book
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November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
...the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” Therefore, it is indispensable that an insurgency’s political cause aligns with the people’s demands...
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Call it simplistic I don’t give a fuck but keeping a staunch supporter of an ethnonationalist genocidal state as the Commissioner of the NYPD is extremely problematic, to put it mildly.
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Call it simplistic I don’t give a fuck but keeping a staunch supporter of an ethnonationalist genocidal state as the Commissioner of the NYPD is extremely problematic, to put it mildly.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The State certainly rules by wielding its sword but it solidifies its dominion with pen and paper, codified into laws that structure all spheres of social existence, including knowledge producing institutions.
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Counterinsurgency is Ideological/Psychological Warfare
Excerpts from Book
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November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The State certainly rules by wielding its sword but it solidifies its dominion with pen and paper, codified into laws that structure all spheres of social existence, including knowledge producing institutions.
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It’s cold and heavy rainfall flooded tent camps. Please donate what you can!
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November 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Israel has become a laboratory to test weapons, surveillance, and techniques for dispossession, genocide, and population control, all of which serve US imperialism greatly for these are then deployed within the US and in regions linked to its "national interests"…
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Why should we study counterinsurgency theory and practice?
Excerpts from Monograph
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November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Israel has become a laboratory to test weapons, surveillance, and techniques for dispossession, genocide, and population control, all of which serve US imperialism greatly for these are then deployed within the US and in regions linked to its "national interests"…
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“the left’s history includes a parade of rhetorically brave figures — Sanders, AOC, and other Squad members — whose supposed courage dissolved when tested, leaving only theatrical posturing and habitual compromise.”
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Gaza’s shadow over NYC: How a mayoral race turned into a moral referendum
TEHRAN – Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Ugandan-Indian son of a postcolonial scholar who was born in Uganda, has done something the pundit class assumed impossible: his campaign dragged the once-distant politics of Gaza into the center of a New York mayoral election and forced voters to decide whether American power remains accountable.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“the left’s history includes a parade of rhetorically brave figures — Sanders, AOC, and other Squad members — whose supposed courage dissolved when tested, leaving only theatrical posturing and habitual compromise.”
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Critics of decolonial thought say that decolonial scholarship essentializes western thought. These critics, however, never really give an honest answer why their favorite philosophers outright supported colonialism. It’s not surprising that philosophers today justify genocide.
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Critics of decolonial thought say that decolonial scholarship essentializes western thought. These critics, however, never really give an honest answer why their favorite philosophers outright supported colonialism. It’s not surprising that philosophers today justify genocide.
Historically, enslaved and colonized people refusing and resisting the liberal reforms legal frameworks constitutive of international law was used as evidence that they were not ready to rule themselves. It was taken as evidence of their non-Western backwardness.
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Historically, enslaved and colonized people refusing and resisting the liberal reforms legal frameworks constitutive of international law was used as evidence that they were not ready to rule themselves. It was taken as evidence of their non-Western backwardness.
Other ways to say conquest, domination, and exploitation since 1492.
Bringing Christianity and salvation to people
Bringing civilization to people
Bringing development to people
Bringing progress to people
Bringing freedom to people
Bringing democracy to people
Bringing Christianity and salvation to people
Bringing civilization to people
Bringing development to people
Bringing progress to people
Bringing freedom to people
Bringing democracy to people
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Other ways to say conquest, domination, and exploitation since 1492.
Bringing Christianity and salvation to people
Bringing civilization to people
Bringing development to people
Bringing progress to people
Bringing freedom to people
Bringing democracy to people
Bringing Christianity and salvation to people
Bringing civilization to people
Bringing development to people
Bringing progress to people
Bringing freedom to people
Bringing democracy to people
If you appease and befriend Nazis, you’re a Nazi. What makes you think it’s different when it comes down to Znsts?
October 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
If you appease and befriend Nazis, you’re a Nazi. What makes you think it’s different when it comes down to Znsts?
Zohran is not a Z…
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Zohran is not a Z…
Does Bluesky shadow ban also?
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Does Bluesky shadow ban also?
Tom Alter, a labor historian, was fired because of extramural speech. A court order reinstated him so that he could have a campus hearing. He was recently fired again. Please share and donate.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Tom Alter, a labor historian, was fired because of extramural speech. A court order reinstated him so that he could have a campus hearing. He was recently fired again. Please share and donate.
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Fuck every journalist, politician, and academic whose only concern is Israeli families, while willfully ignoring the real pain and suffering of those being genocided. Fuck all of you!
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Fuck every journalist, politician, and academic whose only concern is Israeli families, while willfully ignoring the real pain and suffering of those being genocided. Fuck all of you!
Pretty accurate.
October 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Pretty accurate.
Thanks to the Palestinian resistance Israel released the hostages it had been torturing in its dungeons.
October 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Thanks to the Palestinian resistance Israel released the hostages it had been torturing in its dungeons.
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day
October 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day
A reminder to submit your proposals to the Decolonial Conference by tomorrow.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A reminder to submit your proposals to the Decolonial Conference by tomorrow.
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Maria Machado represents the interests of the criollo/white ethnoclass that has dominated the region after our so-called independence and has always aligned itself with imperialism. It’s not surprising that Machado uses white nationalist rhetoric and defends western civilization.
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Maria Machado represents the interests of the criollo/white ethnoclass that has dominated the region after our so-called independence and has always aligned itself with imperialism. It’s not surprising that Machado uses white nationalist rhetoric and defends western civilization.