How on earth is this sort of thing legal? This is simply a slum. It's ironic because I believe houses such as this were used as such from the early 1800s to mid 20th century. This is just neo-colonialism. Creation of slums needs to be banned.

https://www.thejournal.ie/clare-street-dublin-bed-spaces-7007748-Apr2026

#Ireland #slumlords #landlordscum #neocolonialism

Thing is, COTUS is a compulsive liar and a narcisist. Nothing far from reality, start closing military bases of the country that's supporting Israel on its genocidal spree! #COTUS #fucktrump #neocolonialism #pedopotus #apartheid

Diplomatic cables show Iran war is damaging US on multiple fronts across the world

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/embassy-cables-detail-how-iran-war-is-hurting-the-us-abroad-00877205

#johnmastodon

"Following the US’s invasion of Venezuela on January 3 and abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, President Trump promised to “restore prosperity” to the country. His administration has now recognized the Delcy Rodríguez government and issued general licenses to ease sanctions on oil and mineral production, as well as licenses to disburse the proceeds from US-managed sales of Venezuelan oil. These measures have raised hopes that stability might be returning to an economy long stifled by Washington’s siege. But a key factor in any process of stabilization has so far been overlooked: the fortunes of the Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV).

In 2005, amid escalating tensions, the George W. Bush administration began to consider the use of sanctions against Venezuela, announcing an arms embargo the following year. A decade later, President Obama declared a “national emergency” with respect to Venezuela, deemed the country an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security, and imposed sanctions on various state officials, explicitly naming the BCV as a part of the government. In 2019, the Trump administration went further, refusing to recognize the Maduro administration, removing its Federal Reserve certification and sanctioning the BCV as a part of its “maximum pressure” campaign to foment regime change.

The central bank sanctions and decertification of the BCV affected Venezuela’s entire economy and caused widespread suffering among its population. BCV is not just a government bank. As in most countries, it is a bank of banks for the public and private sector alike, acting as the “clearinghouse of the financial system.” Sanctions against a central bank therefore not only target the incumbent administration; they incapacitate the country’s entire financial infrastructure. Lifting them will be essential for Venezuela to recover."

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/producing-scarcity/

#Venezuela #USA #Imperialism #Neocolonialism #BCV #Sanctions #BCV #Banking

buc to no future

#capitalism #mastoart #climatechange #lumberjack #lumberjill #capitalism #consumerism #neocolonialism #chainsaw #wonderbread #treestump #anthro #anthroart #anthroCharacter #furry #furryart #furryArtwork #beaver #anthrobeaver #cartoonbeaver #bucees

Yanis Varoufakis - Another Conventional Capitalism is possible, Netanyahu and Trump are preventing it ...

https://youtu.be/OYspXXQbPko

#syriza #neoliberalism #neocolonialism #Iran #Lebanon #Kuwait #Qatar #UAE #Saudi #Venezuela #Banking #Dollar
#China #Russia

MUST READ ARTICLE:

"Opinion remains divided on exactly what the second Trump administration represents. Its arbitrary resort to tariffs and flagrant disregard for international norms has prompted many to condemn the supposed sabotage of Pax Americana—what Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described as a decisive “rupture” with the post-war multilateral system. Others, citing the administration’s foreign policy on the Middle East and its obedience to financial speculators, see as much continuity as change. Yet regardless of their emphasis, most commentators invoke the standard of a “rules-based international order” against which to measure the current state of global instability and insecurity.

The reality, though, is that such “ruptures” have been a recurrent feature of global governance for decades. If we are to fully understand Trump, and imagine how we might replace the world he symbolizes with a more just and stable one, we must recognize the extent to which the previous period of supposed order has, contra Carney, been a succession of US-led experiments in hegemonic destruction and reinvention. Only then will the contours of a more equitable international settlement begin to reveal themselves."

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/rupture-what-rupture/

#USA #Imperialism #PoliticalEconomy #Hegemony #Neocolonialism #Geopolitics #InternationalLaw

"As President Trump prepared to welcome conservative Latin American leaders to a summit in Florida in early March, U.S. officials released a video of a massive explosion — capturing the destruction of what they said was a drug trafficker’s training camp in rural Ecuador.

The video was meant to show that the U.S. military, which for months has bombed boats it says are carrying drugs from South America, was “now bombing Narco Terrorists on land,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on social media.

The military strike appears to have destroyed a cattle and dairy farm, not a drug trafficking compound, according to interviews with the farm’s owner, four of its workers, human rights lawyers and residents and leaders in San Martín, the remote farming village in northern Ecuador where the strike took place.

And though the Pentagon said at the time that it had “executed targeted action” against the site at Ecuador’s request, U.S. troops had no direct involvement in the strike shown in the video, according to four people with knowledge of the operation, three of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.

In San Martín, which The Times visited over two days this month, residents told a different story about the bombardment and the actions by Ecuador’s military in the days leading up to the strike."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/world/americas/us-ecuador-drug-camp-bombing-dairy-farm.html

#USA #Ecuador #Militarism #LatinAmerica #Warmonger #Neocolonialism

"Cuban Vice Prime Minister Óscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga announced Monday a sweeping package of measures expanding the economic role of Cubans residing abroad that would allow them to own and invest in private business for the first time since the revolution, including the possibility of large-scale investments by foreign capital in key sectors of the economy, as well as the participation of Cubans residing abroad in the national financial system.

“We are not talking about specific businesses. The doors of our country are open to the participation of the Cuban community residing abroad,” Pérez told the Cuban news program Mesa Redonda in an interview.

Fernandez do Cossio said in his interview with Drop Site, that the scope of what is now being offered far exceeds what has been possible in the past. While it’s hard to imagine Costco or Starbucks on the island, he said that the freedom of political movement that would come from a lifting of the embargo would open up new possibilities in terms of economic and political reforms. Trump himself long ago registered the trademark for Trump Hotel Havana, according to Cuban government records, and a new agreement would pave the way for such a development.

Pérez, who also serves as minister of foreign trade and investment, said in his comments that Cuba was taking steps to reduce red tape for foreign investment and added that Cubans abroad would also be afforded the opportunity to invest in development projects and funds in Cuba.

The official said Cuba would welcome investment by U.S. firms but specified that it is U.S. law that does not permit this."

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cuba-prepared-offer-lump-sum-agreement-united-states-property-lost-revolution?triedRedirect=true

#Cuba #USA #Trump #Imperialism #NeoColonialism