Today in Labor History June 1, 1914: 80 U.S. militia men refused to board a train as reinforcements for the U.S. invasion of Veracruz, Mexico. The U.S. ultimately occupied the region for six months because President Huerta refused to provide the U.S. with a 21-gun salute as an apology for arresting nine U.S. sailors. More significantly, Veracruz was an important oil port. Germany and Britain had been battling for its control. The occupation gave the U.S. greater influence on the still unfolding Mexican Revolution, as well as the growing tensions in Europe. 21 US troops died in the invasion and occupation, while slaughtering over 320 Mexicans.
This is not a limited operation but a two-division, multi-domain combined-arms offensive on Rafah.
There will be artillery, air and naval support. This is a multi-domain operation that will probably take months.
This is an image that should cover the front page of most magazines and news papers.
The amazing strength and bravery of women of Gaza who are showing the world how love and humanity looks like.
This is not going to be published, no one will dare humanizing the victims of the genocidal regime of Israel. Much less a Palestinian woman wearing Hijab.
The plight of women in #Gaza is underreported not only because many media even in liberal Western democracies still are based on male dominance but because liberal #feminism has a blind spot regarding its shortcomings in opposing the colonialist and imperialist i.e. patriarchal rule of their governments.
Those imperatives are baked in a feminism that restricts its activities on equal chances in their national market societies without criticising their extractivistic and capitalistic methods of accumulation in the Global south.
In the end women themselves want to benefit from this exploitative relation instead of liberating women and other genders all over the world in special solidarity with those who have nearly no agency left to resist war, famine and suppression.
The gigantic gap regarding rights, freedoms and wealth between Israel and #Palestine signifies this hierarchical patriarchal relation and manifests its violent structure in Gaza in the unbearable insight that this is about annihilation
Western countries, including the #UnitedStates, shouldn’t be entirely opposed to the idea of sending #troops to Ukraine if conditions there worsen, said Finnish Foreign Minister #ElinaValtonen.
@ralfmaximus my guess is this happens only after Russia attacks a NATO member. Finland only joined this year mainly because they share an expansive border with Russia & rightly are concerned by Putin’s insane warmongering.
Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thurs, 2yrs after #Russia's #invasion of Ukraine forced it to rethink its #NationalSecurity policy & conclude …the #alliance was the Scandinavian nation's best guarantee of #safety.
PM Ulf Kristersson handed over the final documentation to the #UnitedStates govt on Thurs, the last step… to secure the backing… to join the #military alliance.
"Good things come to those who wait," #UnitedStates Secretary of State Antony #Blinken said as he received #Sweden's accession docs from Kristersson.
"This is a historic moment for Sweden, for our alliance & for the transatlantic relationship," Blinken said.
For #NATO, the accessions of Sweden & #Finland - which shares a 1,340 km border w/ #Russia - are the most significant additions in decades. It is also a blow for #Putin who has sought to prevent any further strengthening of the #alliance.
Israel's foreign minister says 'we are very close' to 'changing the rules of the game' and that in a 'total war' Hezbollah will 'be destroyed' and Lebanon will 'be hit hard'
Dude, you can't destroy tiny #Hamas while having them surrounded from land air and sea, how the hell are you going to deal with #Hezbollah who is significantly stronger, better armed and already kicked your ass twice in the past?
Israel is up for a rude awakening of they are stupid enough to invade Lebanon. Unless US and UK come to their rescue, they face casualties and losses like never before.
Of course they can destroyed Lebanon, because the country is unable to buy air defense or having an airforce, but on the ground, war weary demoralized Israeli military can't win against a group who has been training for this since the last invasion and have already destroyed many of multi million dollar radar and air defense systems of Israel.
I don't want to see a war breaking out between these 2 and have no love for Hezbollah or their allies. But as a defence force, they have all the rights to stand up and fight back agains this out of control rogue nation of mad men.
Today in Labor History March 11, 1833: The U.S. invaded Nicaragua to “protect U.S. business interests.” The U.S. invaded again in 1853, 1854, 1867, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1899 and 1909. Then, in 1912, they invaded and occupied the country for 21 years.
Today in Labor History January 25, 2003: Fifty activists left London for Baghdad to serve as human shields. They intended to stop the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing civilians. Kenneth O'Keefe, an ex-U.S. marine and Persian Gulf War veteran led the action. They called it the TJP (Truth Justice Peace) Human Shield Action to Iraq. He believed that thousands of human shields would make the invasion politically impossible. However, Saddam Hussein deported him several days before the invasion. And they never came close to attracting thousands of volunteers. At best, no more than 500 human shields made it to Iraq before the March invasion. None of the human shields died in the war. And the coalition forces did not destroy any of the sites where they were staying.