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"content": "Building Resistance and Winning the Hour<br /><br />Yesterday, across more than 2,000 cities in the United States, people flooded the streets under the banner of “No Kings.” From Portland to Philadelphia, Denver to D.C., the protests marked a massive collective rejection of rising authoritarianism, particularly aimed at Trump’s militarized birthday celebration/Flag Day spectacle. The messaging was clear: this is not a monarchy, and we will not be subjects. The scale was stunning—millions turned out in what should have been a moment of democratic assertion.<br /><br />And yet, the tanks still rolled.<br /><br />The executive orders will still be signed. The surveillance apparatus will remain untouched. The pipelines will still be built. And the billionaires will still sleep soundly.<br /><br />Because in the United States, as comedian and commentator Bassem Youssef said in a video I saw this week, “You can say whatever you want... but the government will still do whatever it wants.” We all feel it: the increasing futility of protest, the emptiness of “raising awareness,” the exhaustion of being perpetually outraged yet politically impotent. Watch this short exchange with Youssef below.<br /><br />As you will see… I think there is something else to do besides dissent. We’ll get to that in a moment. A Substack friend of mine, Margi Prideaux, PhD—the voice behind Radically Local—shared Jo Lorenz blistering essay, “Is Your Book Club More Revolutionary Than Your Protest?” Lorenz maps the terrain of digital disempowerment with terrifying clarity: we are caught in a feedback loop of outrage and distraction, mistaking visibility for power and virality for impact. We scroll, we share, we scream—but nothing shifts.<br /><br />This is the terminal logic of neoliberalism: freedom of speech without power over outcomes. What we’re facing is not censorship—it’s irrelevance. The system has evolved to digest dissent, metabolize protest, and convert rebellion into brand engagement.<br /><br />Which is why we need a new frame—not one of expression, but one of execution. Not just resistance, but operations. Not just movements, but missions. Because if the protest didn’t work yesterday, it’s time to try something else.<br /><br />1. The Collapse of Protest Politics<br />The protests didn’t fail because people didn’t care. They failed because the system isn’t designed to respond to protest—it’s designed to absorb it.<br /><br />We’ve marched for climate action, shouted for Black lives, rallied for reproductive freedom, and now for Palestine. The result? Police budgets expanded. Fossil fuel extraction escalated. Roe fell. Gaza burns. Awareness has never been higher. Impact has rarely been lower.<br /><br />This is not accidental—it’s engineered. Neoliberal governance has perfected the art of managing dissent. Dissent is not crushed; it’s commodified, converted into metrics of engagement, and sold back to us in campaign ads and NGO reports. The permitted rituals of liberal protest—march, chant, disperse—have become tools of pacification, not liberation.<br /><br />And while we rally, the real decisions are being made in rooms we’ll never enter. Billionaires and bureaucrats don’t fear the signs we wave; they fear logistics, sabotage, strategic disruption. They fear what General Giáp understood in Vietnam: that power lies not in noise, but in sustained, coordinated resistance. People’s war wasn’t just a military campaign—it was a total mobilization of everyday life. Families became cells. Villages became supply lines. The war was everywhere because the people carried it in their breath.<br /><br />What we need now is not another viral protest—it’s a cultural shift toward operational mentality.<br /><br />That’s the terrain I want to navigate. Not how to get more people to protest, but how to think and act like insurgents, even in daily life. That means moving beyond symbolic gestures and into structured action: routines, protocols, intelligence, feedback loops.<br /><br />In my life, this has taken the form of a command console—a set of tools that keeps my goals, missions, tactics, and intelligence in front of me. It’s not productivity for productivity’s sake. It’s infrastructure. Because the revolution, if it comes, will not be a single moment. It will be hour by hour, in kitchens and forests, server rooms and shelters, carried by those willing to fight the long war—not for awareness, but for autonomy.<br /><br />2. The Shift to Operational Mentality<br />Revolutions aren’t won by slogans. They’re won by logistics.<br /><br />That’s the truth at the heart of every serious resistance movement—from Giáp’s Vietnam to the underground networks of the French Resistance, or the IRA’s cell-based operations. These movements didn’t rely on the momentum of protest; they operated like living organisms—adaptable, coordinated, built for endurance.<br /><br />Do we track our progress, not toward some vague “better world,” but toward tangible shifts—tasks completed, habits maintained, relationships deepened, networks fortified?<br /><br />At the center of it is a simple doctrine: Win the Hour.<br /><br />“Win the Hour” is how I stay out of despair, how I move when the bigger picture feels immovable. I don’t need to win the day, or the week, or the culture war. I just need to win the next sixty minutes. Sometimes I even lower the bar to winning the next five when movement feels overtaxing.<br /><br />Personally that might mean preparing food. For resistance, preparing food for mutual aid. Or unplugging from the doom scroll to finish a chapter of strategy. Or getting sleep because exhaustion is counter-revolutionary. Or sending a text to check in on someone whose well-being is part of your front line. If every hour becomes an act of resistance, every day becomes a weapon.<br /><br />And when the hour’s lost? We learn. We debrief. We adapt.<br /><br />Part of this is tracking what worked, what failed, what we missed. It’s our feedback loop—our operational doctrine in motion. Over time, it becomes a record of resistance, not just ideas but actions. It reminds me that discipline is freedom. That autonomy isn’t a feeling—it’s a result.<br /><br />And most importantly, it reminds me that I am not passive in the face of this collapsing empire. I am building something. Even if no one sees it. Even if it fails. I am training for the future that neoliberalism cannot imagine.<br /><br />Because the revolution doesn’t begin when we march—it begins when we organize. When we build systems that are robust, repeatable, and rooted in reality. The old world is crumbling. The new one is being built one hour at a time.<br /><br />3. Systems Thinking vs. System Reform<br />We are trained—culturally, educationally, emotionally—to believe in reform. We are told that if we just raise awareness, vote harder, or appeal to reason, the system will correct itself. That justice is an eventuality. That power will listen. That change is linear, incremental, and benevolent.<br /><br />But this is mythology, not material analysis.<br /><br />As David Harvey laid out in A Brief History of Neoliberalism, the rise of neoliberal governance wasn’t a bug in the postwar order—it was a counterinsurgency against social democracy and any notion of shared power. It was a class war waged from above, reconfiguring the state as the enforcement wing of capital. Privatization, deregulation, the destruction of organized labor, financialization of everything—none of this was accidental.<br /><br />It was engineered to make reform structurally impossible.<br />It will not voluntarily transform. It is not broken. It is working exactly as designed—to concentrate power, extract value, and devour the living planet.<br /><br />To ask this system to reform is like asking a virus to heal its host.<br />And so we arrive at a grim but liberating conclusion: the old system will not be fixed. It will fall. The question is not whether we can save it, but whether we can survive its collapse—and whether we can build something better in its shadow.<br /><br />That’s why strategic operation matters. That’s why “Win the Hour” matters. Because we are not just resisting—we are constructing parallel systems. Autonomous supply chains. Decentralized communications. Local defense networks. Mutual aid that’s not just charity, but prefiguration. These are not hobbies. They are the skeletal beginnings of the post-neoliberal, decentralized world.<br /><br />We aren’t here to petition the system. We’re here to outlive it.<br /><br />And that work doesn’t begin at the ballot box or the barricade. It begins at home, in your notebooks, in your routines, in your hour. Because every system we will need later must be tested now. Every doctrine must be lived. Every strategy must be practiced. There is no rehearsal. There is only the long war ahead.<br /><br />4. Application: Tools of Everyday Resistance<br />Revolutions are not abstract. They are made of minutes and meals, conversations and coordination, rest and rigor. If we’re going to shift from symbolic protest to operational resistance, we need to build our lives like insurgents build campaigns: deliberately, iteratively, tactically.<br /><br />This is where “Win the Hour” becomes more than a mantra. It becomes method.<br /><br />For me, that method is anchored in some sort of strategic planning system—a personal resistance interface that functions as both strategic planner and situational report. Here’s what mine includes:<br /><br />Mission Logs: What am I trying to achieve—today, this week, this season? Not in vague terms like “resist capitalism,” but actionable, measurable goals: start a local food-share, recruit three people into a reading group, complete first draft of chapter, repair the rainwater system.<br /><br />SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures): What routines keep me grounded and effective? Morning check-ins, security hygiene, media vetting protocols, fallback plans for power outages or for burnout. These are your daily drills. Discipline is freedom.<br /><br />Intelligence & Situational Reports: What’s the terrain? Local politics, mutual aid signals, surveillance shifts, resource needs. Document everything. Track patterns. You’re building a map of the conflict zone you live in.<br /><br />After-Action Reviews: What worked, what failed, what was learned? Every hour is an experiment. Debrief with yourself. Refine your approach. Evolution is strategy.<br /><br />Mission Map: A visual representation of your resistance terrain. Tracks active campaigns, key locations (community kitchens, organizing hubs), allies and risk zones, and helps prioritize engagements. Think of it as your field intel grid.<br /><br />Supply Manifests: Inventories of what you have and what you need—food, water, communications gear, medical kits, literature, fuel. You can’t run an operation without knowing your logistical status. Your pantry is a base of operations.<br /><br />Operations Calendar: A strategic timeline of recurring actions, upcoming threats, key seasonal shifts, and planned mobilizations. Resistance without rhythm is chaos. Track time like it’s a weapon.<br /><br />Threat Assessments: Ongoing analysis of emerging risks—local repression, disinformation trends, law enforcement behavior, burnout indicators. Update regularly. Mitigate proactively.<br /><br />Mobilization Protocols: Who do you call when things go sideways? What’s your fallback plan if the grid goes down or a friend is arrested? Every resistance cell needs a simple, clear, actionable protocol for rapid response.<br /><br />Doctrine Codex: A living document of foundational principles—what you and your group believe, how you operate, and where you draw the line. These aren’t vague values; they’re distilled truths learned through struggle. Examples: “Dispersed power survives,” “Mutual aid over martyrdom,” “Culture is a vector,” “Collapse is already here.” Your codex evolves with experience, aligning practice with purpose and keeping your resistance anchored during chaos.<br /><br />And none of this happens in isolation. Whether it’s a digital interface or a physical board on your wall, your planning system isn’t just for lone wolves—it’s a template that scales. Small groups can mirror the framework: shared missions, rotating intelligence roles, decentralized but coordinated objectives.<br /><br />There’s no “right” format. What matters is that it’s yours—and that it helps you win the hour. I’ve used everything from Google Docs, Trello… and am currently loving Notion. I’ve designed my own personal command console there that allows me to see all of my tools in one place.<br /><br />Just be smart: Don’t store passwords, sensitive financial/personal data, or confidential intelligence unless you're using an encrypted vault or platform.<br /><br />For sensitive material, combine Notion (for structure and visibility) with a secure, zero‑knowledge vault (like Cryptee or Proton) for storage.<br /><br />What matters most is that people start treating their lives like sites of resistance, not just reflection. Because the enemy has already done this. Capital has SOPs for psychological warfare. Empire has doctrines for neutralizing dissent. The question is: Do you?<br /><br />Start small. One hour. One habit. One mission. Support a neighbor. Fix a tool. Study a supply chain. Build redundancy. Protect a vulnerable friend. It could be as simple as starting your own personal fitness program, or organizing your gear. Say no when it costs. Say yes when it counts. The hour is the unit of revolution.<br /><br />And when you lose it—when you sleep in, fall apart, or freeze—that’s not failure. That’s data. That’s reconnaissance. You’re not a martyr. You’re a strategist. Debrief. Adjust. Win the next one.<br /><br />The war isn’t someday. The war is now. And it’s being fought minute by minute, life by life.<br /><br />Start where you are. Build what you need. Win the hour.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/collapsecurriculum/p/speech-and-protest-wont-work-heres?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">https://open.substack.com/pub/collapsecurriculum/p/speech-and-protest-wont-work-heres?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email</a>",
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"content": "Building Resistance and Winning the Hour\n\nYesterday, across more than 2,000 cities in the United States, people flooded the streets under the banner of “No Kings.” From Portland to Philadelphia, Denver to D.C., the protests marked a massive collective rejection of rising authoritarianism, particularly aimed at Trump’s militarized birthday celebration/Flag Day spectacle. The messaging was clear: this is not a monarchy, and we will not be subjects. The scale was stunning—millions turned out in what should have been a moment of democratic assertion.\n\nAnd yet, the tanks still rolled.\n\nThe executive orders will still be signed. The surveillance apparatus will remain untouched. The pipelines will still be built. And the billionaires will still sleep soundly.\n\nBecause in the United States, as comedian and commentator Bassem Youssef said in a video I saw this week, “You can say whatever you want... but the government will still do whatever it wants.” We all feel it: the increasing futility of protest, the emptiness of “raising awareness,” the exhaustion of being perpetually outraged yet politically impotent. Watch this short exchange with Youssef below.\n\nAs you will see… I think there is something else to do besides dissent. We’ll get to that in a moment. A Substack friend of mine, Margi Prideaux, PhD—the voice behind Radically Local—shared Jo Lorenz blistering essay, “Is Your Book Club More Revolutionary Than Your Protest?” Lorenz maps the terrain of digital disempowerment with terrifying clarity: we are caught in a feedback loop of outrage and distraction, mistaking visibility for power and virality for impact. We scroll, we share, we scream—but nothing shifts.\n\nThis is the terminal logic of neoliberalism: freedom of speech without power over outcomes. What we’re facing is not censorship—it’s irrelevance. The system has evolved to digest dissent, metabolize protest, and convert rebellion into brand engagement.\n\nWhich is why we need a new frame—not one of expression, but one of execution. Not just resistance, but operations. Not just movements, but missions. Because if the protest didn’t work yesterday, it’s time to try something else.\n\n1. The Collapse of Protest Politics\nThe protests didn’t fail because people didn’t care. They failed because the system isn’t designed to respond to protest—it’s designed to absorb it.\n\nWe’ve marched for climate action, shouted for Black lives, rallied for reproductive freedom, and now for Palestine. The result? Police budgets expanded. Fossil fuel extraction escalated. Roe fell. Gaza burns. Awareness has never been higher. Impact has rarely been lower.\n\nThis is not accidental—it’s engineered. Neoliberal governance has perfected the art of managing dissent. Dissent is not crushed; it’s commodified, converted into metrics of engagement, and sold back to us in campaign ads and NGO reports. The permitted rituals of liberal protest—march, chant, disperse—have become tools of pacification, not liberation.\n\nAnd while we rally, the real decisions are being made in rooms we’ll never enter. Billionaires and bureaucrats don’t fear the signs we wave; they fear logistics, sabotage, strategic disruption. They fear what General Giáp understood in Vietnam: that power lies not in noise, but in sustained, coordinated resistance. People’s war wasn’t just a military campaign—it was a total mobilization of everyday life. Families became cells. Villages became supply lines. The war was everywhere because the people carried it in their breath.\n\nWhat we need now is not another viral protest—it’s a cultural shift toward operational mentality.\n\nThat’s the terrain I want to navigate. Not how to get more people to protest, but how to think and act like insurgents, even in daily life. That means moving beyond symbolic gestures and into structured action: routines, protocols, intelligence, feedback loops.\n\nIn my life, this has taken the form of a command console—a set of tools that keeps my goals, missions, tactics, and intelligence in front of me. It’s not productivity for productivity’s sake. It’s infrastructure. Because the revolution, if it comes, will not be a single moment. It will be hour by hour, in kitchens and forests, server rooms and shelters, carried by those willing to fight the long war—not for awareness, but for autonomy.\n\n2. The Shift to Operational Mentality\nRevolutions aren’t won by slogans. They’re won by logistics.\n\nThat’s the truth at the heart of every serious resistance movement—from Giáp’s Vietnam to the underground networks of the French Resistance, or the IRA’s cell-based operations. These movements didn’t rely on the momentum of protest; they operated like living organisms—adaptable, coordinated, built for endurance.\n\nDo we track our progress, not toward some vague “better world,” but toward tangible shifts—tasks completed, habits maintained, relationships deepened, networks fortified?\n\nAt the center of it is a simple doctrine: Win the Hour.\n\n“Win the Hour” is how I stay out of despair, how I move when the bigger picture feels immovable. I don’t need to win the day, or the week, or the culture war. I just need to win the next sixty minutes. Sometimes I even lower the bar to winning the next five when movement feels overtaxing.\n\nPersonally that might mean preparing food. For resistance, preparing food for mutual aid. Or unplugging from the doom scroll to finish a chapter of strategy. Or getting sleep because exhaustion is counter-revolutionary. Or sending a text to check in on someone whose well-being is part of your front line. If every hour becomes an act of resistance, every day becomes a weapon.\n\nAnd when the hour’s lost? We learn. We debrief. We adapt.\n\nPart of this is tracking what worked, what failed, what we missed. It’s our feedback loop—our operational doctrine in motion. Over time, it becomes a record of resistance, not just ideas but actions. It reminds me that discipline is freedom. That autonomy isn’t a feeling—it’s a result.\n\nAnd most importantly, it reminds me that I am not passive in the face of this collapsing empire. I am building something. Even if no one sees it. Even if it fails. I am training for the future that neoliberalism cannot imagine.\n\nBecause the revolution doesn’t begin when we march—it begins when we organize. When we build systems that are robust, repeatable, and rooted in reality. The old world is crumbling. The new one is being built one hour at a time.\n\n3. Systems Thinking vs. System Reform\nWe are trained—culturally, educationally, emotionally—to believe in reform. We are told that if we just raise awareness, vote harder, or appeal to reason, the system will correct itself. That justice is an eventuality. That power will listen. That change is linear, incremental, and benevolent.\n\nBut this is mythology, not material analysis.\n\nAs David Harvey laid out in A Brief History of Neoliberalism, the rise of neoliberal governance wasn’t a bug in the postwar order—it was a counterinsurgency against social democracy and any notion of shared power. It was a class war waged from above, reconfiguring the state as the enforcement wing of capital. Privatization, deregulation, the destruction of organized labor, financialization of everything—none of this was accidental.\n\nIt was engineered to make reform structurally impossible.\nIt will not voluntarily transform. It is not broken. It is working exactly as designed—to concentrate power, extract value, and devour the living planet.\n\nTo ask this system to reform is like asking a virus to heal its host.\nAnd so we arrive at a grim but liberating conclusion: the old system will not be fixed. It will fall. The question is not whether we can save it, but whether we can survive its collapse—and whether we can build something better in its shadow.\n\nThat’s why strategic operation matters. That’s why “Win the Hour” matters. Because we are not just resisting—we are constructing parallel systems. Autonomous supply chains. Decentralized communications. Local defense networks. Mutual aid that’s not just charity, but prefiguration. These are not hobbies. They are the skeletal beginnings of the post-neoliberal, decentralized world.\n\nWe aren’t here to petition the system. We’re here to outlive it.\n\nAnd that work doesn’t begin at the ballot box or the barricade. It begins at home, in your notebooks, in your routines, in your hour. Because every system we will need later must be tested now. Every doctrine must be lived. Every strategy must be practiced. There is no rehearsal. There is only the long war ahead.\n\n4. Application: Tools of Everyday Resistance\nRevolutions are not abstract. They are made of minutes and meals, conversations and coordination, rest and rigor. If we’re going to shift from symbolic protest to operational resistance, we need to build our lives like insurgents build campaigns: deliberately, iteratively, tactically.\n\nThis is where “Win the Hour” becomes more than a mantra. It becomes method.\n\nFor me, that method is anchored in some sort of strategic planning system—a personal resistance interface that functions as both strategic planner and situational report. Here’s what mine includes:\n\nMission Logs: What am I trying to achieve—today, this week, this season? Not in vague terms like “resist capitalism,” but actionable, measurable goals: start a local food-share, recruit three people into a reading group, complete first draft of chapter, repair the rainwater system.\n\nSOPs (Standard Operating Procedures): What routines keep me grounded and effective? Morning check-ins, security hygiene, media vetting protocols, fallback plans for power outages or for burnout. These are your daily drills. Discipline is freedom.\n\nIntelligence & Situational Reports: What’s the terrain? Local politics, mutual aid signals, surveillance shifts, resource needs. Document everything. Track patterns. You’re building a map of the conflict zone you live in.\n\nAfter-Action Reviews: What worked, what failed, what was learned? Every hour is an experiment. Debrief with yourself. Refine your approach. Evolution is strategy.\n\nMission Map: A visual representation of your resistance terrain. Tracks active campaigns, key locations (community kitchens, organizing hubs), allies and risk zones, and helps prioritize engagements. Think of it as your field intel grid.\n\nSupply Manifests: Inventories of what you have and what you need—food, water, communications gear, medical kits, literature, fuel. You can’t run an operation without knowing your logistical status. Your pantry is a base of operations.\n\nOperations Calendar: A strategic timeline of recurring actions, upcoming threats, key seasonal shifts, and planned mobilizations. Resistance without rhythm is chaos. Track time like it’s a weapon.\n\nThreat Assessments: Ongoing analysis of emerging risks—local repression, disinformation trends, law enforcement behavior, burnout indicators. Update regularly. Mitigate proactively.\n\nMobilization Protocols: Who do you call when things go sideways? What’s your fallback plan if the grid goes down or a friend is arrested? Every resistance cell needs a simple, clear, actionable protocol for rapid response.\n\nDoctrine Codex: A living document of foundational principles—what you and your group believe, how you operate, and where you draw the line. These aren’t vague values; they’re distilled truths learned through struggle. Examples: “Dispersed power survives,” “Mutual aid over martyrdom,” “Culture is a vector,” “Collapse is already here.” Your codex evolves with experience, aligning practice with purpose and keeping your resistance anchored during chaos.\n\nAnd none of this happens in isolation. Whether it’s a digital interface or a physical board on your wall, your planning system isn’t just for lone wolves—it’s a template that scales. Small groups can mirror the framework: shared missions, rotating intelligence roles, decentralized but coordinated objectives.\n\nThere’s no “right” format. What matters is that it’s yours—and that it helps you win the hour. I’ve used everything from Google Docs, Trello… and am currently loving Notion. I’ve designed my own personal command console there that allows me to see all of my tools in one place.\n\nJust be smart: Don’t store passwords, sensitive financial/personal data, or confidential intelligence unless you're using an encrypted vault or platform.\n\nFor sensitive material, combine Notion (for structure and visibility) with a secure, zero‑knowledge vault (like Cryptee or Proton) for storage.\n\nWhat matters most is that people start treating their lives like sites of resistance, not just reflection. Because the enemy has already done this. Capital has SOPs for psychological warfare. Empire has doctrines for neutralizing dissent. The question is: Do you?\n\nStart small. One hour. One habit. One mission. Support a neighbor. Fix a tool. Study a supply chain. Build redundancy. Protect a vulnerable friend. It could be as simple as starting your own personal fitness program, or organizing your gear. Say no when it costs. Say yes when it counts. The hour is the unit of revolution.\n\nAnd when you lose it—when you sleep in, fall apart, or freeze—that’s not failure. That’s data. That’s reconnaissance. You’re not a martyr. You’re a strategist. Debrief. Adjust. Win the next one.\n\nThe war isn’t someday. The war is now. And it’s being fought minute by minute, life by life.\n\nStart where you are. Build what you need. Win the hour.\n\nhttps://open.substack.com/pub/collapsecurriculum/p/speech-and-protest-wont-work-heres?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email",
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"content": "These are some sources to follow the Iran-'Israel' War. These are my sources, I'm not saying they're the best ones, but you can use them as a starting point to assemble your own. As you must have noticed from the genocide, all mainstream news sources are corrupt or complicit and cannot be relied upon. Even Al-Jazeera (in Qatar) is right next to a US military base, both metaphorically and literally. You have to roll your own.<br /><br />Before we get started, however, note that if you live or want to travel within the White Empire (America, Europe, collaborators, what's the difference) this is dangerous information. Simply having this information makes you look like a terrorists to terrorists, who are scared of the truth above all. They can simply steal and copy your phone and no amount of ‘security’ can protect you, they just force you to unlock it. Also note that France did this with the entire Telegram platform, when they abducted its founder Pavel Durov. So don't do this if you're risk-averse, and do not travel with the phone or devices you do it on.<br /><br />With that in mind, here's how I follow the Iran-'Israeli' war, which is the same as I've been following the general Palestinian Liberation War for, sadly, years now.<br /><br />Telegram<br />Telegram is a messaging platform. It's not encrypted, it's not ‘built for security’, which is a meaningless concept when you're under arrest in an airport (you're always under arrest in an airport, they just let most people out). For whatever reason the Resistance and all sorts of non-imperial people (and assorted unsavory types) use Telegram. It's a good news resource, but you have to mute everything because it's a lot.<br /><br />You can download Telegram as an app, or use the web version. What you can follow on the apps is censored based on where you are, but the web is relatively not. Accounts to follow are:<br /><br />Resistance News Network (RNN): <a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://www.minds.com/PalestineResist\" target=\"_blank\">@PalestineResist</a>/@RNN_Backup<br />RNN is the best overall source, effectively CNN except not evil. They cover it Iran War coincidentally, as they've been covering the Palestinian War all along.<br /><br />Fotros Resistance (AryJeay): <a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://www.minds.com/FotrosResistancee\" target=\"_blank\">@FotrosResistancee</a><br />Fotros is a source (literally a person) in Iran. They sometimes take breaks for exams, or because their screen time is too high. Fotros might get a bit ahead of the news sometimes (they report that three F-35s have been downed, for example), but they give you a sense (and sources) from inside Iran. This is actually my first source for this particular war. Ary is on Twitter as well.<br /><br />Middle East Spectator: <a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://www.minds.com/Middle_East_Spectato\" target=\"_blank\">@Middle_East_Spectato</a>r<br />I actually don't follow MES, though I forget why not. They're actually the biggest out of all of these. They cover Middle East news in general, but not from a western perspective. For the Iran War they share a lot of video and sources from within 'Israel' itself.<br /><br />These accounts are all, to some degree, meta accounts, they themselves have a lot of (most Telegram) sources that they select from and share. I spent a lot of time and energy years ago collecting and winnowing down these sources but they're not exhaustive, you can use them as a starting point to roll your own.<br /><br />Also, again, please consider Telegram compromised and compromising, especially if you're using it on your phone. Basically, if you're going through White Empire, travel with a (blank) white phone. If your risk tolerance is low then basically just don't follow these people, or me really.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://indi.ca/how-to-follow-the-iran-israel-war/\" target=\"_blank\">https://indi.ca/how-to-follow-the-iran-israel-war/</a>",
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"content": "These are some sources to follow the Iran-'Israel' War. These are my sources, I'm not saying they're the best ones, but you can use them as a starting point to assemble your own. As you must have noticed from the genocide, all mainstream news sources are corrupt or complicit and cannot be relied upon. Even Al-Jazeera (in Qatar) is right next to a US military base, both metaphorically and literally. You have to roll your own.\n\nBefore we get started, however, note that if you live or want to travel within the White Empire (America, Europe, collaborators, what's the difference) this is dangerous information. Simply having this information makes you look like a terrorists to terrorists, who are scared of the truth above all. They can simply steal and copy your phone and no amount of ‘security’ can protect you, they just force you to unlock it. Also note that France did this with the entire Telegram platform, when they abducted its founder Pavel Durov. So don't do this if you're risk-averse, and do not travel with the phone or devices you do it on.\n\nWith that in mind, here's how I follow the Iran-'Israeli' war, which is the same as I've been following the general Palestinian Liberation War for, sadly, years now.\n\nTelegram\nTelegram is a messaging platform. It's not encrypted, it's not ‘built for security’, which is a meaningless concept when you're under arrest in an airport (you're always under arrest in an airport, they just let most people out). For whatever reason the Resistance and all sorts of non-imperial people (and assorted unsavory types) use Telegram. It's a good news resource, but you have to mute everything because it's a lot.\n\nYou can download Telegram as an app, or use the web version. What you can follow on the apps is censored based on where you are, but the web is relatively not. Accounts to follow are:\n\nResistance News Network (RNN): @PalestineResist/@RNN_Backup\nRNN is the best overall source, effectively CNN except not evil. They cover it Iran War coincidentally, as they've been covering the Palestinian War all along.\n\nFotros Resistance (AryJeay): @FotrosResistancee\nFotros is a source (literally a person) in Iran. They sometimes take breaks for exams, or because their screen time is too high. Fotros might get a bit ahead of the news sometimes (they report that three F-35s have been downed, for example), but they give you a sense (and sources) from inside Iran. This is actually my first source for this particular war. Ary is on Twitter as well.\n\nMiddle East Spectator: @Middle_East_Spectator\nI actually don't follow MES, though I forget why not. They're actually the biggest out of all of these. They cover Middle East news in general, but not from a western perspective. For the Iran War they share a lot of video and sources from within 'Israel' itself.\n\nThese accounts are all, to some degree, meta accounts, they themselves have a lot of (most Telegram) sources that they select from and share. I spent a lot of time and energy years ago collecting and winnowing down these sources but they're not exhaustive, you can use them as a starting point to roll your own.\n\nAlso, again, please consider Telegram compromised and compromising, especially if you're using it on your phone. Basically, if you're going through White Empire, travel with a (blank) white phone. If your risk tolerance is low then basically just don't follow these people, or me really.\n\nhttps://indi.ca/how-to-follow-the-iran-israel-war/",
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"content": "The plan all along was obviously to goad Iran into an overwhelming response that would somehow incite the US to enter the war on behalf of Israel, in order to finish off Iran. The nuclear program was likely a false target, the real objective being the total overthrow of Iran’s leadership and the fomenting of civilian uprisings throughout the country to bring Iran to heel under a Western puppet-led government.<br /><br />Yanis Varoufakis writes:<br /><br />This is Trump's Waterloo. He posed as the Leviathan who would bring a stealthy Peace, a smart Deal that averts a war with Iran. Then, with one more gross violation of international law, Netanyahu puts him in a little box: For either Trump knew of the attack, in which case he is no more than Netanyahu's stooge. Or he didn't know, which begs the question why he didn't know and how will he react to being treated like a fool by Netanyahu. Either way, Trump's strongman, dealmaking image is now toast. Either way, he goes down in history as yet another US President that Netanyahu bent to his genocidal will.<br /><br />The entire non-Western world is now watching this pivotal turning point moment with bated breath: Trump can either make a move to redeem at least some lost hope for America’s global leadership, or instead pound the final nail in its coffin, forever edifying the rising Global South as to the true nature of the immoral, barbarous, and unprincipled West. It is a metaphysical crossroads: Trump will either stay true to his quasi-spiritual mission of world betterment, or he will drown the US in the blood of neocon imperialism.<br /><br />I had posited on X that, for those white hat ‘believers’, there may be a tiny chance that Trump played us for fools in a game of 5D chess. We learned last time that he had reportedly deceived Iran, lulling them into a false sense of security simply to allow Israel to launch its cowardly sneak attack.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/true-promise-3-iran-responds-with?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/true-promise-3-iran-responds-with?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email</a>",
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"content": "The plan all along was obviously to goad Iran into an overwhelming response that would somehow incite the US to enter the war on behalf of Israel, in order to finish off Iran. The nuclear program was likely a false target, the real objective being the total overthrow of Iran’s leadership and the fomenting of civilian uprisings throughout the country to bring Iran to heel under a Western puppet-led government.\n\nYanis Varoufakis writes:\n\nThis is Trump's Waterloo. He posed as the Leviathan who would bring a stealthy Peace, a smart Deal that averts a war with Iran. Then, with one more gross violation of international law, Netanyahu puts him in a little box: For either Trump knew of the attack, in which case he is no more than Netanyahu's stooge. Or he didn't know, which begs the question why he didn't know and how will he react to being treated like a fool by Netanyahu. Either way, Trump's strongman, dealmaking image is now toast. Either way, he goes down in history as yet another US President that Netanyahu bent to his genocidal will.\n\nThe entire non-Western world is now watching this pivotal turning point moment with bated breath: Trump can either make a move to redeem at least some lost hope for America’s global leadership, or instead pound the final nail in its coffin, forever edifying the rising Global South as to the true nature of the immoral, barbarous, and unprincipled West. It is a metaphysical crossroads: Trump will either stay true to his quasi-spiritual mission of world betterment, or he will drown the US in the blood of neocon imperialism.\n\nI had posited on X that, for those white hat ‘believers’, there may be a tiny chance that Trump played us for fools in a game of 5D chess. We learned last time that he had reportedly deceived Iran, lulling them into a false sense of security simply to allow Israel to launch its cowardly sneak attack.\n\nhttps://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/true-promise-3-iran-responds-with?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email",
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"content": "The collapse of the Euro-Atlantic system into fascism and beyond<br /><br />There is a lot to unpack here, so let’s start with the basics by stating that politics is a function of available surplus energy and resources. No surplus, no accumulation of wealth, no power struggles or trampling on freedoms. The more surplus a society can muster, the more intricate and complicated politics becomes. This is why you won’t find political parties and parliamentary elections among hunter gatherers. Similarly, you could find no despots and autocrats there either: foragers are famously independent and prize their freedom more than their own lives. This is what anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow called in their book, The Dawn of Everything, the three primordial freedoms: the freedom to move, the freedom to disobey, and the freedom to create or transform social relationships. Needless to say, none of this is given in our present day societies. (Why, imagine yourself moving into another country without being stopped, disobey your boss whenever the task is not to your liking, or start a radically new form of governance in your home town. Good luck with any of that.)<br /><br />As soon as wealth became accumulable — in the form of grain, land, gold etc. — despots were quick to claim ownership of it all, and were even quicker to get rid of those who dared to disagree. In ancient and medieval societies, where the availability of human labor put a hard cap on the amount of resources which could be accumulated, social hierarchies were rather flat and more rigid than nowadays. One big boss, a few lesser bosses with soldiers, and a million peasants. Kingdoms and empires were in essence large protection rackets, where the big boss and his lackeys generously refrained from killing you and defended your village from attacks by the neighboring big boss; as long as you payed your dues.<br /><br />Fast forward a millennia into modernity, and we see extreme amounts of surplus being accumulated by the wealthy few, with still plenty left for the average citizen. Even the poorest among us in western societies enjoy more comforts than the noble class did two centuries ago. However, this surplus did not only allowed for a broad middle class to appear, but nation states with parliamentary democracies, large multinational companies and international organizations with their huge apparatuses. With such an immense amount of wealth sloshing around, and with so little human labor needed to feed the entire population, a historically unprecedented number of interest groups, governmental and non-governmental organizations, agencies etc. are now vying for power, making politics more complex than ever in human history. It is safe to say that we are at an absolute pinnacle of human social complexity thanks to the industrial revolution fueled by fossil hydrocarbons.<br /><br />With growth came growing inequality, though. As fossil energy got increasingly harder to get after peak US conventional oil in the 1970’s, almost all economic growth was channeled to big corporations and their shareholders, resulting in decades of stagnation for the 90% of the population. Thanks to the immense wealth generated by financialization of the economy for the top 10% and an unprecedented rise in corporate profits, social complexity kept rising — but only at the upper echelons. The system became dangerously top heavy, hallmarked by an overproduction of elites. As wealth and power kept accumulating at the top, the middle class got slowly eviscerated and the bottom 90% of society began to lose its political power. (Remember, power is always relative: it doesn’t matter if you live a more convenient life than a lord did centuries ago, if your elected officials tend to listen to those who funded their campaigns. Nothing buys you more power than money.) Large parties have thus long stopped catering for the needs of their constituents, except for campaign seasons when everything is promised, only to be forgotten a few months later. And while there were temporary reversals in this trend for short periods of time, the direction of travel was clear: an ever growing wealth inequality eventually resulting in the rule of the rich, aka oligarchy.<br /><br />Is it any wonder then that the disempowered started to look elsewhere for support? The very appearance of the word “populist” should ring an alarm bell or two here. According to Cas Mudde, author of Populism: A Very Short Introduction, populism is the idea that society is separated into two groups at odds with one another — “the pure people” and “the corrupt elite.” Note the great deal of contempt in this definition: how measurable, objective social phenomena (growing wealth inequality, a rise in the number of corruption scandals, the rise of political dynasties and falling satisfaction with the work of our leaders) are treated as an “idea” — presumably living in one’s head as opposed to being an accurate description of reality. The problem here is not “populism” itself, but the repeated betrayal of voters, and the supposed outsiders to the political scene who are taking advantage of the misery of the disempowered… Only to forget everything they said a few month later, and represent nothing but a continuation of the agenda; further widening the gap between rich and poor, while blaming the latter for their misfortune.<br /><br />>>>>>>>>>>><br /><br /><a href=\"https://open.substack.com/pub/thehonestsorcerer/p/what-if-the-ruling-class-finally?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">https://open.substack.com/pub/thehonestsorcerer/p/what-if-the-ruling-class-finally?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email</a>",
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"content": "The collapse of the Euro-Atlantic system into fascism and beyond\n\nThere is a lot to unpack here, so let’s start with the basics by stating that politics is a function of available surplus energy and resources. No surplus, no accumulation of wealth, no power struggles or trampling on freedoms. The more surplus a society can muster, the more intricate and complicated politics becomes. This is why you won’t find political parties and parliamentary elections among hunter gatherers. Similarly, you could find no despots and autocrats there either: foragers are famously independent and prize their freedom more than their own lives. This is what anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow called in their book, The Dawn of Everything, the three primordial freedoms: the freedom to move, the freedom to disobey, and the freedom to create or transform social relationships. Needless to say, none of this is given in our present day societies. (Why, imagine yourself moving into another country without being stopped, disobey your boss whenever the task is not to your liking, or start a radically new form of governance in your home town. Good luck with any of that.)\n\nAs soon as wealth became accumulable — in the form of grain, land, gold etc. — despots were quick to claim ownership of it all, and were even quicker to get rid of those who dared to disagree. In ancient and medieval societies, where the availability of human labor put a hard cap on the amount of resources which could be accumulated, social hierarchies were rather flat and more rigid than nowadays. One big boss, a few lesser bosses with soldiers, and a million peasants. Kingdoms and empires were in essence large protection rackets, where the big boss and his lackeys generously refrained from killing you and defended your village from attacks by the neighboring big boss; as long as you payed your dues.\n\nFast forward a millennia into modernity, and we see extreme amounts of surplus being accumulated by the wealthy few, with still plenty left for the average citizen. Even the poorest among us in western societies enjoy more comforts than the noble class did two centuries ago. However, this surplus did not only allowed for a broad middle class to appear, but nation states with parliamentary democracies, large multinational companies and international organizations with their huge apparatuses. With such an immense amount of wealth sloshing around, and with so little human labor needed to feed the entire population, a historically unprecedented number of interest groups, governmental and non-governmental organizations, agencies etc. are now vying for power, making politics more complex than ever in human history. It is safe to say that we are at an absolute pinnacle of human social complexity thanks to the industrial revolution fueled by fossil hydrocarbons.\n\nWith growth came growing inequality, though. As fossil energy got increasingly harder to get after peak US conventional oil in the 1970’s, almost all economic growth was channeled to big corporations and their shareholders, resulting in decades of stagnation for the 90% of the population. Thanks to the immense wealth generated by financialization of the economy for the top 10% and an unprecedented rise in corporate profits, social complexity kept rising — but only at the upper echelons. The system became dangerously top heavy, hallmarked by an overproduction of elites. As wealth and power kept accumulating at the top, the middle class got slowly eviscerated and the bottom 90% of society began to lose its political power. (Remember, power is always relative: it doesn’t matter if you live a more convenient life than a lord did centuries ago, if your elected officials tend to listen to those who funded their campaigns. Nothing buys you more power than money.) Large parties have thus long stopped catering for the needs of their constituents, except for campaign seasons when everything is promised, only to be forgotten a few months later. And while there were temporary reversals in this trend for short periods of time, the direction of travel was clear: an ever growing wealth inequality eventually resulting in the rule of the rich, aka oligarchy.\n\nIs it any wonder then that the disempowered started to look elsewhere for support? The very appearance of the word “populist” should ring an alarm bell or two here. According to Cas Mudde, author of Populism: A Very Short Introduction, populism is the idea that society is separated into two groups at odds with one another — “the pure people” and “the corrupt elite.” Note the great deal of contempt in this definition: how measurable, objective social phenomena (growing wealth inequality, a rise in the number of corruption scandals, the rise of political dynasties and falling satisfaction with the work of our leaders) are treated as an “idea” — presumably living in one’s head as opposed to being an accurate description of reality. The problem here is not “populism” itself, but the repeated betrayal of voters, and the supposed outsiders to the political scene who are taking advantage of the misery of the disempowered… Only to forget everything they said a few month later, and represent nothing but a continuation of the agenda; further widening the gap between rich and poor, while blaming the latter for their misfortune.\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>\n\nhttps://open.substack.com/pub/thehonestsorcerer/p/what-if-the-ruling-class-finally?r=6b7xg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email",
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