"It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism."

-Michael Parenti (1933-2026)

The US backed Franco’s fascist regime in Spain, signing agreements for Spain to host US air and naval bases, proving that so-called ‘liberal democracies’ would ally with fascism if it meant protecting capitalism.

While Franco brutally repressed the working classes of Spain in the name of anti-communism, the US aided his regime by facilitating Western investment, rehabilitating the Franco regime diplomatically, and providing military aid.

This blueprint of supporting or even installing fascism to protect capitalist interests was then rolled out across Latin America, with the US supporting and installing fascist dictatorships to crush the working classes of the region, such as:

Augusto Pinochet🇨🇱
Jorge Rafael Videla🇦🇷
Humberto Castillo Branco🇧🇷
Juan Maria Bordaberry🇺🇾
Hugo Banzer🇧🇴
Manuel Odria🇵🇪
The Somoza Dynasty🇳🇮
Carlos Castillo Armas🇬🇹
José Napoleón Duarte🇸🇻
Roberto Suazo Córdova🇭🇳
Rafael Trujillo🇩🇴
Fulgencio Batista🇨🇺
Manuel Noriega🇵🇦

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: ‘I cannot recall worse political leadership in Europe🇪🇺 than now. There’s not one single figure in the major countries of the European Union or Britain that has any intellectual stature or honesty…

You had people like Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Mitterand. These were substantial people. Now there’s Kaja Kallas. Are you kidding?! Von Der Leyen, are you kidding?! Merz, oh my God.’

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On this day in 1944, the Nazi Siege of Leningrad was finally lifted by the defenders of the Red Army.

The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest, brutal & destructive sieges in history. It would last for 2 years, 4 months, 2 weeks & 5 days. The goal was not to occupy the city, but to starve it into extinction.

By early 1942, an estimated 100,000 people were dying in Leningrad a month, mostly from starvation. Due to the desperation, at the worst point of the siege, workers only received 250 grams of bread a day, their dependents only received 125 grams.

In total desperation, people boiled wallpaper paste for starch, chewed their leather belts, and even scraped glue from furniture to eat.

The harsh cold of the Russian winter was faced with no electricity, no heat, and no fuel, with Leningrad’s citizens freezing to death in -30 degrees Celsius.

Up to 1.5 million Red Army soldiers & civilians died in the siege in a heroic sacrifice to ensure that the city does not fall to the Nazis.

Adolf Hitler wanted to wipe out the city bearing Vladimir Lenin’s name, and exterminate the population who he viewed as sub-human. The resilience of the people of Leningrad defeated Hitler’s hatred.

‘But who ended the Holocaust?’

‘The Soviet Union, actually.’

As the world remembers the liberation of Auschwitz 80 years ago, a reminder of a classic case of historical fact vs the rewriting of history.

In US and European media, the US is presented as the liberator of Europe that ended the Holocaust and Nazi Germany’s crimes. In reality it was the Soviet Red Army that liberated the concentration camps, giving 27 million lives to defeat German fascism, with 3 in every 4 German soldiers that died in WW2 being killed on the Eastern Front.

A massive congratulations to the European Union for sanctioning itself and increasing its own energy prices.

Instead of importing cheap Russian gas which was the backbone of its industry, now they can increase their dependence on MORE EXPENSIVE US LNG!

US LNG made up approximately 27-29% of the EU’s total energy imports in 2025.

While the EU deindustrialises and industry moves to the US, the US profits by selling Europe the rope it economically hangs itself with.

A masterclass of geopolitics and economics once again by the European circus.

Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the grave of his older brother, Viktor, who died in the Nazi Siege of Leningrad.

Out of a pre-war population of 3.2 million people, 1 million civilians died during the Siege. That’s almost 1 in 3 people.

This doesn’t even count Red Army losses.

The scale of horror Germany committed against the Soviet Union is omitted from school textbooks in NATO nations.

Donald Trump: ‘Cuba🇨🇺 will be failing pretty soon.’

The US campaign to make Cuba’s economy scream has been ongoing for over 6 decades.

Naturally, as the US becomes even more of a lawless gangster state with Trump in charge, the US’ economic war on Cuba intensifies.

Why? They want a return to the old Cuba. A Cuba before Fidel Castro’s revolution, where US financial interests controlled:

90% of Cuba’s mines

80% of public utilities

50% of railways

40% of sugar production

25% of bank deposits

‘The enemy that threatens Cuba is the same enemy that threatens everybody else.’

-Fidel Castro, who passed away on this day in 2016.

His words were a warning. Now Venezuela🇻🇪, Colombia🇨🇴, Russia🇷🇺, China🇨🇳, Iran🇮🇷…and the entire global south face the guns of the US’ empire.

The Jerusalem Post reports that the Trump Administration is planning a naval blockade against Iran🇮🇷, to further strangle the Iranian economy, potentially as a prelude to regime change. The same model used in Venezuela🇻🇪.

The goal is to make the economy scream, and make the Iranian people so desperate, that Iran is destabilised from within.

Country by country, the US wants to break every country into submission, even if it involves imposing suffering on millions of people.

🚨🇺🇸Peter Schiff: ‘The dollar is going to collapse, the dollar is going to be replaced by Gold.

We are headed for an economic crisis that will make the 2008 financial crisis seem like a Sunday school picnic.’

🚨Peter Schiff: China🇨🇳 is silently dumping the dollar, a US🇺🇸 dollar crisis is coming soon!

‘China is gradually weaning themselves off of the dollar. That’s why, if you look at their holdings of US Treasuries, they’ve actually gone down a bit over the years. If you look at all the new Treasuries we’ve issued over the years, the fact that the Chinese haven’t bought any of them is a big deal because they used to be a main buyer of these assets.

Instead of buying more Treasuries, they’ve bought more gold. So if you look at US dollar debt as a percentage of all the reserves the Chinese own, Treasuries are a much smaller percentage of their total reserves than they once were, especially if you consider the appreciation of gold.

I would guess the reason they’re not moving more dramatically is because they probably don’t want to cause a crash, the dollar to implode, the Treasury market to implode, because they are trying to sell and want to get a decent price. So I think they’re happy to slowly bleed it off to try to get that good price.

They just have to worry about the impact on the dollar, because if they try to dump too many dollars at once, the dollar could go down, and especially if a lot of other countries see that and want to get out.

There could be a run on the dollar. If all the holders decide they want to get out, they don’t want to be the last one holding the dollar, and so it becomes a rush, and we could be in a US dollar crisis relatively soon anyway…

I think we’re heading for a real crisis in the US, and I think countries that are smart would be trying to get ahead of that by selling whatever they can, as quietly as they can, out of US dollars and any US dollar-denominated debt.’

-Peter Schiff on Going Underground

🚨💵Warren Buffett states his biggest fear:

‘We wouldn’t want to be owning anything in that was in a currency that we thought was really going to hell. That’s the big thing we worry about with the US dollar.’

The dollar fell to a 4-year low yesterday.

Fidel Castro on the media in the USA🇺🇸:

‘You reporters are not the owners, the newspapers belong to the monopoly here.’

7 companies (Disney, Comcast, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, News Corp/Fox, Sony, Amazon) control the overwhelming majority of what you watch and read.

Remember this as these companies sell you more wars for disaster capitalism and resource theft, the profits of which only the executives of these companies will see, while you pay for it in taxes and sending off your children to perish.

Donald Trump has threatened ‘a far worse attack’ on Iran🇮🇷 if they do not make a deal with the United States🇺🇸, Washington’s demands are tantamount to a surrender.

Another campaign of American carnage is about to begin.

US🇺🇸 WAR ON IRAN🇮🇷 WOULD EXPOSE AMERICA AS A PAPER TIGER

‘A US war on Iran would be catastrophic. It’s a war that would devastate both Iran and Israel as well as the larger region, the instability, the halting of commerce, et cetera.

The implications would be worldwide. And it also would expose the real American weakness that Donald Trump, famously a few weeks ago, called Russia a paper tiger. The Americans are a paper tiger.’

-Former Pentagon and State Department Official Matthew Hoh on Going Underground

🚨🇮🇷Michael Parenti (1933-2026) argued that the Iraq🇮🇶 War was a success…for the class that planted it.

While the American people paid for the illegal war with taxes and the lives of soldiers, those who planned it made enormous profits through US Army, reconstruction, and oil contracts.

The imperialist plundering never benefits the US population as a whole, and always a small elite who own large stakes in US corporations.

So as we’re in the run-up to yet another disastrous war in the Middle East, remember, they want YOU the American people to pay the costs while they reap the profits.

🚨RON PAUL: THE US DOLLAR IS BEING DEBASED

'There's all kinds of abuses, there's going to be more wars, there's going to be more speculation, there's going to be bigger government, and there's going to be a lot more bubbles to deal with...'

'The biggest problem we face with the debasement of our currency is the fact that it causes dissension...the middle class and the poor are the victims of the destruction of money because the very wealthy can compensate, but what they can't compensate for, it eventually leads to political upheaval and dissension, and we're starting to see that.'

-Ron Paul on Going Underground in 2025. The US dollar has now fallen to its lowest level in 4 years.

General Wesley Clark on how he was told the US🇺🇸 was planning to take out 7 countries in 5 years after 9/11. The US' progress on this:

-Iraq ✅
-Syria ✅
-Lebanon ✅
-Libya ✅
-Somalia ✅
-Sudan ✅
-Iran ⏳

The Presidents may change, but the neoconservative deep state plan continues in full-swing.

Anti-war rhetoric on the campaign trail, ruthless imperialism once in office; as demanded by the US’ oil corporations and military-industrial complex.