gypsyveganSpot-on analysis for this and many other recent moments, from @tlecaque via Bsky.
#authoritarianSlide #authoritarianism #autocracyInAction #ImperialBoomerang #WarCrimes #Iran
MathiasTCK.bsky.social#ImperialBoomerang ain't beating the allegations
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...
Imperial boomerang - Wikipedia
Imperial boomerang - Wikipedia
Caro S.Another example why letting go of our ideas about fascism and anti-facism based on WWII is so important, and have a very hard look at state institutions in Western democracies:
"The spycops scandal involves 139 undercover officers who spied on tens of thousands of predominantly leftwing campaigners in secret operations ....
So far the inquiry has heard evidence that ... undercover officers concealed their real identities in at least 13 trials of activists who were supporting causes such as anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and animal rights. The trials mainly concerned public order offences."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/15/spycops-senior-police-praised-undercover-officer-lied-to-court
https://archive.ph/Lt0ok
#spyCops #democracy #RuleOfLaw #CapitalistDemocracy #fascism #AntiFascism #ImperialBoomerang
Claire McNabRE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115991820801205754
This is a mostly great thread by Paul Cantrell @inthehands, about #Trump's #ICE #OperationMetroSurge. Paul is very good about the new intensity of persecution in #Minneapolis, while noting precedents in other parts of the USA.
But American Empire has global reach, and Paul's telling omits the #ImperialBoomerang part of the story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
See e.g. the #NYT op-ed by David Wallace-Wells https://archive.is/UGNfs .
The Minneapolis surge began in Iraq, Somalia etc
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115990542575635617
"Dutch police also use controversial AI intelligence software by American Palantir
The Dutch police have secretly used controversial AI intelligence software by the American company Palantir since 2012, the Volkskrant reported, based on documents obtained through the Open Government Act after years of trying. 99 percent of the documents have been blacked out, but it is clear that caretaker Prime Minister Dick Schoof was involved in purchasing the software in 2011 as Director General of the Dutch police."
#ItWillHappenHere #ImperialBoomerang #rechtsstaat #democratie #politie #Palantir #SurveillanceStaat
AudunTeaser post for the blog
#ImperialBoomerang #Trump #imperialism
https://buttondown.com/audunmb/archive/trump-and-the-imperial-boomerang/
#ImperialBoomerang #Trump #imperialism
https://buttondown.com/audunmb/archive/trump-and-the-imperial-boomerang/
P Gurgel-Segrillocolonial repression abroad becomes state violence at home
"From Palestine to Minneapolis, the same playbook is being used. Human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber breaks down how colonial repression abroad becomes state violence at home."
#FuckMAGA #FuckTrump #FuckICE #StateViolence #colonialism #ImperialBoomerang
'Imperial Boomerang': How US War Tactics Abroad Are Now Used at Home
@geonz Yes, we know only fragments, and may never know why #AlexPretti made those choices.
I'm suggesting that it is better to just regard him as the victim of a cruel murder, rather than than as saint or hero. But in the current frenzied American context of #imperialBoomerang, there is a hunger for saints and heros. It has been interesting to read some angry replies here, furiously denouncing me for trying to contextualise the man and his murder.
Ms. Que BanhThe #ImperialBoomerang theory is basically a longer form of natural #CauseAndConsequences.
THOUGHT 7/ #AlexPretti must have treated many people who had been deployed overseas with similar tactics, training and missions to those of #ICE and #CBP in #Minneapolis: to snatch suspects, kill resisters or objectors, and terrorise communities. He was a part of the machine of violence and the ideology of violence which killed him, in what #ChrisHedges calls the #ImperialBoomerang.
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