The big, big force that is asserting itself now via Israel and the U.S. and some other Western countries, like the U.K., Germany, is the continuation and the rejuvenation and the digital reconfiguration of Western colonial, imperialistic militarism. This has been going on since the 15th century. The Europeans have gone out and carried out conquests and holocausts and genocide all over the world, killing millions and millions of people. And this is the latest configuration in the digital age. And Israel is spearheading this with the U.S. in the Middle East.
And the people in the region, the ordinary people, have protested this steadily for the last century and are unable to do anything about it, because none of the countries in the Arab region, not a single one in the Arab region, has practiced true sovereignty, credible sovereignty. In other words, they can make decisions for their own well-being on their own. They have to get permission from Israel or the U.S. or Turkey or Iran or Saudi Arabia, or somebody outside their country has to approve what they want to do. And therefore, they’re powerless, and the people are powerless. And the combination of powerless people and powerless governments has given rise to these nonstate armed movements, like Hezbollah, Hamas, Ansar Allah and many others, and has led to massive immigration, outmigration of the finest young minds across the region. And so, this is the terrible situation that the populations of these countries face, and they just can’t do anything about it.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/3/rami_khouri_palestinian_american_journalist_iran
#war #iran #usa #israel #imperialism #colonialism #conquests #genocide #peoplespower
Rami Khouri, Palestinian American journalist and distinguished public policy fellow at the American University of Beirut, speaks with Democracy Now! about the historical context of Western colonialism in the Middle East amid the war against Iran. Khouri says the U.S.-Israeli attack is the latest act “causing people across the world to look at the idea of … Western liberal democratic tradition as a hoax.”
Ben Radford reviews Oscar Olivera’s new book on the 1999–2000 Water Wars in Bolivia, which is remembered as an emblematic grassroots struggle that successfully defeated neoliberal attempts to privatise control of Cochabamba’s water.
Part 01 of the Covenant puts sovereignty where it belongs—in the People of Earth—and gives communities the tools to build prosperity, real democracy, and a future our kids can be proud of.
The revolutionary part? You don't need permission to start.
https://novuspublius.substack.com/p/real-power-for-the-people
Mass mobilisations in Turkey have seen tens of thousands on the streets for almost a week, an uprising inflamed by the arrest of the opposition-party Mayor of Istanbul. There have been 1,100 arrests amid scenes of police brutality. Large protests are also taking place in Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Greece, Albania, Slovakia, and Hungary.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/25/wave-of-peoples-power-in-the-balkans/
In Turkey, Serbia and their neighbours, mass mobilisations are rising to challenge corrupt regimes ~ Rob Latchford ~ Mass mobilisations in Turkey have seen tens of thousands on the streets for almost a week, an uprising inflamed by the arrest of the opposition-party Mayor of Istanbul. There have been 1,100 arrests amid scenes of police
WUNDERBAR: 💚 Tausende Menschen in Indien 💚 stoppen ✊ #Kohle-Zug durch #Gleisbesetzung 🕯️🕯️🕯️ !!!
Watch few seconds GREAT Video 
RT @fridays_india
Thousands of citizens came to Chandor in #Goa tonight, took over the railway tracks & managed to stop a coal train
@savemollemgoa
https://mstdn.social/web/statuses/105140438152906268
#GoyantKollsoNaka
#SayNoToCoal
#ActNow #ClimateAction #EndCoal #FridaysForFuture #ExtinctionRebellion #PeoplesPower
@fff @ende_gelaende @xrfrance @xrgermany @xritaly @xrswitzerland @xrtaiwan
Attached: 1 video RT @[email protected] Thousands of citizens came to Chandor in #Goa tonight, took over the railway tracks & managed to stop a coal train; @[email protected] #GoyantKollsoNaka #SayNoToCoal @[email protected] 🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fridays_india/status/1323047832123703296