Maeve

Basically title, prompted by this post - search returns all from Western perspective, but one suggested they were ML? Thanks in advance!

And this weekend, the United States and Israel crossed a line that I believe will echo through history. In a coordinated strike on Tehran, they assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They killed him, members of his family and, according to initial reports, dozens of other civilians in the process. This is nothing less than a brazen act of state terrorism designed to decapitate a sovereign nation’s leadership and plunge the region into chaos. And now, as the smoke rises over Tehran, the Western media machine is whirring into action, performing its familiar, dutiful role. The narrative is already being crafted: that Iranians are celebrating, that the people are rising up to greet their ‘liberators’, that this assassination is the opening act of a long-awaited revolution. But it is a lie. A dangerous, manipulative, and deeply cynical lie.

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@ DisabledAceSocialist

I assume this source is largely, if not fully credible. Can I get more info on the Taliban activity and progress or lack of, in cleaning up corruption and disgusting practices in Afghanistan or other areas, please?

As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”: True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.” Not bad! Rest in peace!

In a joint operation last month, Istanbul police and Turkish intelligence arrested two individuals who had been reported missing for the past three weeks. Security sources said the cell had been working for Israeli intelligence since 2012, running several shell companies to collect intelligence on Palestinian citizens and targets, attempting to export drone parts, and planning to establish front companies to infiltrate supply chains. During a meeting with Israeli handlers abroad in January 2026, a Turkish citizen identified as MBD, who has since been apprehended, discussed plans to establish a series of shell companies outside Turkey. According to the plan, unnamed products sourced from countries designated by Israeli intelligence would be shipped to final destinations also determined by Israeli handlers...

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In a joint operation last month, Istanbul police and Turkish intelligence arrested two individuals who had been reported missing for the past three weeks. Security sources said the cell had been working for Israeli intelligence since 2012, running several shell companies to collect intelligence on Palestinian citizens and targets, attempting to export drone parts, and planning to establish front companies to infiltrate supply chains. During a meeting with Israeli handlers abroad in January 2026, a Turkish citizen identified as MBD, who has since been apprehended, discussed plans to establish a series of shell companies outside Turkey. According to the plan, unnamed products sourced from countries designated by Israeli intelligence would be shipped to final destinations also determined by Israeli handlers...

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But beneath the spectacle lies a question that mainstream commentary continues to avoid, despite its growing inevitability: Was Epstein operating as part of an intelligence-linked blackmail operation? And if so, for whom? This is not a conspiracy theory, but a legitimate question that the files themselves provoke.

Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/24757

The Kurdish People must decide their own destiny, the siege must end! The Kurdish forces, who for years have been fighting to stop the atrocities of ISIS in Syria, a key country in the Middle East, have been continuously and progressively cornered and strangled ever since the rise to power of the Al-Shaara regime which is a remnant of Al-Qaeda and ISIS. The agreement of March 10th, signed between the PYD (Democratic Union Party, active in the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria, also known as North-East Syria or Rojava) and the Al-Shaara regime, which was allowed to “mature” until the new year, has increasingly been used as a sword against the Kurds. Starting from the beginning of 2026, Syrian military forces, along with gangs from the civil-war era and Turkish-backed Syrian National Army forces (of the Al-Shaara regime), have begun attacking residential areas of Aleppo, expelling Kurds from two neighborhoods and, advancing from Raqqa, have encircled Rojava. The objective of these attacks are to destroy and drown in blood the Kurdish self administrative system formed in Rojava in 2012 and to crush the Kurdish resistance. The elimination of Rojava is one of the greatest ambition of the Erdoğan regime as well, which has launched the so-called “Turkey free from terrorism” campaign domestically. Turkey is now imposing its will on the Kurdish people in Syria (to “get rid of Rojava”) in order to further advance its strategy of becoming a regional power, while engaging in so-called shuttle diplomacy between the United States and the Al-Assad regime. The attacks on and siege of Rojava, which the state and capitalist controlled media are portraying as a victory for Erdoğan, demonstrate a recurring pattern of betrayal against the Kurds. Behind this lies a sell-out agreement, emerging as local and international powers gradually reshape the region through negotiations and force on the ground. ISIS forces, now aligned with the US to dismantle Rojava’s status; US imperialism, which continues to cooperate with ISIS by claiming to fight it; the Turkish government, which encourages armed gangs and declares Al-Shaara a brother; and reactionary Middle Eastern dictatorships are all descending upon Rojava together. And the appointed colonial governor, and American billionaire, Tom Barrack, is busy coordinating this united front. Rojava belongs to the people of Rojava, and the fate of the region must be determined by all the peoples who live there. Our party stands with the people of Rojava, whose homeland was established and protected at the cost of the lives of the Kurdish people. We must not remain silent in the face of the massacre of the Kurds in Rojava; the demands of the Kurdish people must be recognized, and the siege must end.

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