#hegemony

...Even getting held incommunicado for a few hours and being released leaves that worker better off than dozens of other people from Quneitra, who have been captured and taken to an unidentified site colloquially known as Israeli Guantanamo, where they are asked about Iran and about Hezbollah, according to people who have been released from there after days or even weeks of detention. Some don’t come back at all. Some families have been agitating for the UN or human rights groups to get involved, because their relatives were detained for unknown reasons and were never seen again. Their fates are unknown. So, indeed, is the reason they were captured in the first place. The IDF has been remarkably opaque about its Syrian operations. Early 2025 raids centered on them bragging about all the weapons they seized from locals, but as operations grow to include seemingly arbitrary detention, the IDF almost never comments on anything they’re doing in Syria at all. The number of raids have only grown, but what Israel aims to accomplish is so far unclear and unspoken. Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/58821 forces were reported to have conducted multiple raids today into southwest Syria’s Quneitra and Daraa Governorates. The raids involved the establishment of a checkpoint near the village of Jamleh, and the interrogation of multiple shepherds in rural Daraa. In Daraa, a lot of the operations

Cuba’s blackouts are getting worse. Many are going days without any light at all and the public electric company is “fighting to provide even a few hours of power a day.” The gas stations are empty. There are “mosquitos everywhere.” People in high-rise apartments are cooking with charcoal, risking carbon monoxide poisoning and deadly fires. The suffering of Cubans has been inflicted upon them on purpose. It is the intention of U.S. policy to make the Cuban people suffer, and endanger their lives, in order to put pressure on their government. The Trump administration is waging a “pressure campaign aimed at forcing political and economic changes in Cuba.” The Trump administration, earlier this year, took “the almost unprecedented measure of blocking all oil shipments to a country with which it is not at war.” That means that food aid can’t be distributed on the island, because there’s no way to transport it. Once fully-stocked bodega shelves are now empty. (Not because “socialism” is causing shortages, since people had enough to eat before, but as a direct result of the blockade.) The UN reports that the U.S. policy is killing babies and children: “infant mortality has doubled to 9.9 per 1,000 births; childhood cancer survival rates have fallen from 85 to 65 per cent; and essential medicines are available at only around 30 per cent of normal supply levels.” The UN human rights chief’s verdict on the U.S. is scathing: “Such severe sanctions packages that target entire sectors of an economy and produce broad, indiscriminate and harsh effects on populations are incompatible with basic principles of international human rights law.” But even this condemnation is too mild. The U.S. pressure campaign amounts to nothing but terrorism: making people sick, making them poor, making them suck in carbon monoxide, starving them, denying children their cancer treatments, in order to try to force a change in their government’s policy. Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/55742

Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQeQ_tBpoQ&t=0s Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11856757