German Communist Party's Bank Account Terminated

The DKP's party bank accounts have been terminated, the bank said it was due to "outside pressure". This is part of a wave of un-personings and sanctionings of individuals by the German state who are anti-imperialist including prominent pro-Palestinian activists as well as anti-Ukraine, pro-Russia-rapprochement far right parties.

In February of 2024, then-Interior Minister Nancy Faeser unveiled a 13-point plan aimed at tackling right-wing extremism. Among other points, it included provisions that would make it easier for German authorities to freeze extremists’ bank accounts, as well as to track donations to such entities.

What a shock that legislation purportedly targeting the right is used against the left. Morgenthau continues to be right.

Online tip. With respect anyone could have done this.

Filled in the fields with public info like the date of birth, perhaps a correct cell phone number, perhaps a wrong one, email account, residential address, etc. Unless there's some follow-up there's no proof his actual brother actually did this. If his brother wanted to do it I feel he could have done it over the phone or in-person as opposed to this, it wouldn't leave any less of a paper trail. This was 3 years after Epstein's death too so plenty of time for someone to fabricate this for 4chan style lols, as some other prank or for other reasons such as political ones (seething liberals, Bill Clinton trying to throw off his own trail). I find it less plausible his brother would come forward after 3 years and do it via this particular means. I mean if he had solid info he could have come to the FBI or some other law enforcement and given a statement. If he feels he'd be killed for it then why submit this tip at all without any information that might lead to anything further.

It gives both Russia (never signed a formal peace treaty with Japan, still technically at war, has land disputes with Japan currently settled in its favor but which Japan refuses to give up on) and China the legal rights to nuke Japan off the face of the earth, claim it was the only way and walk off scott-free. Fascists never learn.

The thing about Japan too is its' a US vassal. But the US thinks they're clever so could have them develop nukes, orchestrate a situation where they end up using them on China, get hit back hard in the face and China is left reeling and limping while Japan is finished and a martyred cause celebre for the west while never again risking being a competitor. So there is a very real risk and problem with them having nukes that doesn't exist in nations that are independent, no matter how deranged their leadership may be their ultimate goals tend to involve survival of their nation.

And the calculus of the US is: when they don't get it back and when they do it again Chinese buyers will stop buying Venezuelan oil as too risky at which point the money to Venezuela dries up, that leads to cuts to services, leading to unrest, leading to opportunity for coups, fomenting images of unrest to use as a pretext to invasion in western media, or at the very least securing control of global oil resources even further in the hands of the US via its gulf proxies.

China doesn't have a deep water navy to stop them and probably is disinclined against picking a fight with the US at this point and that far away from home anyways. Russia isn't going to stop them and probably couldn't afford to divert its resources right now with a push for Ukraine around the corner even if they were so inclined.

BRI is in no way defused

At the US's pleasure. Never make a move until you're ready or you give your enemies time to adapt. They have absolute operational freedom to shut it down at a snap of their fingers. The overland routes anyways and US/NATO navy was always stronger so they planned on some sort of seaborne interdiction regime. Attacker always has an advantage in that situation as you as defender have to either group your cargo ships up into huge, unprofitable, logistically complex conveys escorted by at least one navy ship or you have to play chasing around the attacker and trying to drive them off over vast stretches of ocean. Costs for attacker and defender are also in advantage of the attacker. They can be anywhere so you're forced to spend money and resources anticipating and defending everywhere whereas they may only pop up one or two places in actuality. China's navy even now is still mostly structured for defense in the SCS region, not for going out and projecting power deep into the Indian and Pacific oceans off the coast of Africa.

As to how. Yes the US probably can't cut off their route to say India (who wants to take China's industry and replace it as a producer for western consumers so not a great situation to be in) without terrorism but their middle and southern routes are both running through countries that are US vassals in ways that matter and will heel when the US calls them to cut it off. There are several key points I think around Azerbaijan and that general region where China's rail/road network can be easily cut off without even resorting to special forces placing explosives which the US is absolutely also prepared to do and will bring down bridges and so on without a second thought once the moment arrives. Anyways several key transit countries are in the US pocket and mean the B&R to Africa and the middle east are cut off. Routes through CIS/Russia are not particularly helpful as Europe is an obedient dog and if US tells them to sanction Russia further by not buying any Chinese cargo that transits they'll do it and for their own reasons of liberal delusions will want to decouple from China once US instigates against it (provoking a response in Taiwan that lets them sob about 'democracy' and make it into a Ukraine type cause celebre even if it falls right away) as well as whipping up the old Tibet and Xin'jiang saw-horses of atrocity propaganda.

I suppose India could surprise me and decide to side with China and help it export its cargo to get around such a blockade and that would indeed be game over for US plans but I'm not convinced that will happen given who runs India and its own interests. One can hope the US is foolish enough to blow things with India even worse than they have but good plans rely on worst and plausible case scenarios not best case scenarios as those hardly need plans at all if everything goes your way.

US still has a lot of cards to play. A lot of pawns to forcibly throw on the fire as kindling to increase their own advantage, a lot of loyal lapdogs sitting at their feet or admiring them from a distance, a lot of dirty tricks and a lot of experience in doing them. They will still be a threat to China and the world for decades to come sadly. Right now US is regrouping, re-consolidating power, licking some wounds and planning to leap out furiously in the next 2-10 years to seize the world again. Lot of color revolutions, lot of palace coups, lot of "moderate rebel" and ISIS types they can cause to occur in that time to change the landscape. I'm not saying it'll go all well for them, I certainly hope not but there are a lot of challenges and it looks to me like rough seas ahead.

Sadly west is already two moves ahead on the chess-board and continuing to make plays and set up pieces for their advantage. Even many of the planners of keeping China down use phrases like "10 years behind" because they don't think they can stop Chinese development, they just desire to keep it behind them enough to allow them freedom of movement and supremacy.

By controlling global oil (Venezuela being next), commanding control of global maritime shipping passageways, having successfully defused the belt and road by gaining key control along it at several points to block China's use of it in the event of sanctions/blockade/war, and by doing what Trump is doing with tariffs to reshape debt, consumption, geopolitical alliances and loyalties, monetary supplies, they are still placing China in a precarious position which chip independence on its own cannot break. That and their moving ahead with getting their euro-vassals to tariff and decouple from China being not far in the future in my opinion and they can exert a lot of pressure on China that isn't simply denying them the latest chips for AI slop and such.

It's hilarious because he has a point. A really good point. That Nobel's will has some stuff about using the prize and foundation to promote peace, this choice and her rhetoric and what is happening in the world clearly and undeniably are at odds with that goal except through tortured (peace is war) type neo-con reasoning of needing war and violence and suffering to bring about some sort of envisioned better state that leads to peace and there isn't a war in history that didn't have dishonest people justifying it that way so it's pretty bad. Thus they are in violation of some sort of contractual establishing stuff and should be forced to disband or take the award back or something. Of course nothing will happen because words, laws, contracts only serve the interests of the ruling class.

Say it with me now:

Hunger strikes only work when the government cares about you or is at risk of being held account and suffering grave geopolitical consequences by not pretending to care about you.

There is no one to hold them to grave geopolitical consequences by successfully painting the UK as a human rights infringing, oppressive shit-hole and hammering it home to an audience that is receptive and would matter to UK interests. And obviously they don't care about the suffering of these people. Hence the only merit this has is if it drums up more support domestically among people who get their news through non-sanctioned means and even then who knows. They can definitely get away with force-feeding these people and it'll be shrugged off by the same people shrugging off the genocide in Palestine. Of course the people in question are quite brave to have even gotten into this position but I want to point out how because these people aren't in China or Russia hunger striking against "bad thing government" it doesn't matter.

Zionist entity sought to kill Khamenei according to a TV interview in the entity Source: Russia Today

Apparently they weren't able to because he went into serious hiding. He didn't contact or accept contact with any of the new people who replaced the assassinated IRGC generals. There was a report a day or so ago about there being problems reaching him for negotiations because he didn't have any comms where he was and it was difficult to get to him so I believe this and this also shows the lengths the entity will go to decapitate its enemies. If he'd been a little less serious about protecting himself and remained in operational command they'd have dropped a bunker buster on his head just like Nasrallah IMO. This also I think is a serious threat in the near future if Bibi gets another indictment dropped on his head or whatever and would likely lead to the war they desperately crave which would force a US intervention. They said they'd do it without US approval too. Iran needs air defense.

Trump: Prepares for war of aggression, talks aggressively of containing China, inherits island chain forward operations encirclement from decades of American policy of encircling and hemming in China with bases and partnerships including missile deployments and forward bombers and radar. Arms separatists on Taiwan, violates the basis of diplomatic relations, is president of incredibly war-mongering empire with long history of aggression including wars against three neighbors (Vietnam, Laos, Korea) in the past 75 years. Has think tanks openly plan wars of aggression against China and talk of how long they'll have military supremacy against them in a war.

Xi: Sees this stuff happening and prepares for purely DEFENSIVE war against this incredible and long-telegraphed aggression which he and previous administrations have done everything in their power to delay including taking economic hits and keeping their heads bowed to keep trade up between the powers. Talk is very diplomatic in tone, attempts to resolve tensions diplomatically, encourages trade and interconnectedness and globalization to decrease chances of conflict, talks of win-win cooperation, has exactly one foreign military base and its a tiny one in Africa next to a much larger US one.

Bourgeois propagandists: These are exactly the same, this is all coming down to aggression from BOTH sides (but really those sneaky Chinese who are forcing us to do this).

Very interesting they're letting him actually do this. I would think the bourgeoisie would not like this kind of hit. He still has time to do "incredible deals" whereby these countries agree to buy $100 of US goods and he drops the tarrifs while tooting his horn but things do kind of look like the bourgeoisie (those near levers of power anyways) are serious about forcibly decoupling and reshoring pronto to be able to fully enact the plan of isolating, blockading, sanctioning, and trying to turn up the pressure on and destroy China or at least prevent their rise and displacement of US power.

I mean it's either fail children running the show which I still can't buy because they'd love their enemies to think them more foolish and incapable than they are and we don't have that luxury OR the whole plan for drawing back, child labor, small yard, high fence, using the sword of empire to attempt to force the world to buy more US stuff to displace competitors OR they're on some sort of dark enlightenment trip and think capitalism is over and the only way to avoid socialism is turning the barbarism machine way up and trying to create some sort of techno-feudalism or something else at home.

Why does it matter? Well if they're just incompetent then indeed the fall of the US is in order in the near future but options 2 and 3 spell very, very, very dire times for those in the imperial core as it's a very orderly managed decline that's liable to be able to potentially draw it out many more decades into the future and inflict incredible amounts of suffering on those of us stuck here in the mean-time (beyond just treats being more expensive).

Just imagining it now: "I spent over a year as a guest of Hamas and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

No, they're going to coach at least a few of them into making up stories about horrors and atrocities and put those obviously staged and coerced "stories" on blast in the western news media. And if they can't coach any into that they'll just make it up like theremoveds and the western media will keep repeating it and using it to bash pro-Palestinians over the head.

On a related note. Bets on whether this ceasefire results in the ICC/ICJ washing their hands of the whole thing or the US managing to lean on South Africa enough to drop the case? Because I just can't see the west not pulling out all the stops to brush this whole thing under a rug and say it's in the past.