🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🌍 Before ‘Democracy,’ After ‘Democracy’

Here’s the legacy of the West’s “humanitarian” crusade for democracy, cities turned into graveyards of sovereignty and hope. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yugoslavia, Yemen - nations with rich histories and thriving cultures, now shadows of their former selves, reduced to rubble and chaos.

This isn’t liberation. This is the business model of endless wars: destabilization, regime change, and a blueprint of destruction disguised as freedom. Beneath every crumbled building lies a pipeline plan, a looted treasury, and an empire’s economic hitmen smiling in their boardrooms.

The irony? These very nations were thriving before their “democratization.” Iraq with its grand mosques, Libya with its unparalleled social welfare, Syria, a cradle of civilization; Yugoslavia with its cosmopolitan harmony, and Yemen, the ancestral homeland of resilience. Each one offered their people stability, infrastructure, and a future before they became targets of the Hegemon's appetite for control.

But let’s be clear: this isn’t just about bombs and sanctions. It’s about a moral facade-farce “Rules-Based Order” - where sovereign nations must bow to the financial and military supremacy of Western oligarchs. And when they resist? They’re erased, one missile at a time, under a media blackout designed to gaslight the world into complicity.

The corporate Mockingbird media? Silent accomplices, laundering public opinion with talk of “nation-building” while showing none of the before-and-after devastation you see here. The only democracy on display was the one where missiles cast the votes, and Big Oil, Big Tech, and Big War counted the profits.

Let’s not kid ourselves. The true democracy these nations experienced was the “democracy” of resource pillaging: oil for Iraq and Libya, pipelines for Syria, and control of critical trade routes in Yemen. What better way to secure “freedom” than by erasing entire cities off the map and leaving smoldering ruins for puppet regimes to reign over?

But the West can’t win this game forever. A new order is emerging from the ashes they’ve sown. The Global Majority remembers, and it refuses to forget.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci

- Gerry Nolan

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❌ White House Warns Trump: Iran Could Build Nuclear Weapon

Biden’s national security advisor said he had briefed the incoming president on the “risk” of Tehran obtaining the weapons.

White House observers fear that the loss of Iran’s key allies may prompt Tehran to accelerate its nuclear program as a means of defense.

“It’s a risk we are trying to be vigilant about now. It’s a risk that I’m personally briefing the incoming team on,” Jake Sullivan said, adding that he had also consulted with Israel.

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🇩🇪 Germany’s SPD Calls for Antitrust Act in Attempt to Curb Musk

A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats has railed against Elon Musk’s “interference” in German politics - and called for a new antitrust act to “constrain his influence” in the corporate world.

“Elon Musk’s renewed provocations are more than irritating,” said Dirk Wiese. Adding: “It’s high time to push ahead with a modern version of the Sherman Antitrust Act.”

A modern-day version would essentially lead to a break-up of Musk’s increasingly “monopolistic” conglomerate of companies, Wiese told Bloomberg News.

Musk’s AfD backing has clearly ruffled some feathers.

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😳 ICYMI: Trump claims it’s an “absolute necessity” for the US to annex Greenland for “national security”

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😳 Church Leaders Urge Priests to Give Context of Christmas Carols so ‘Diverse Communities Feel Welcome’

UK church leaders have been accused of “losing the plot” after asking clergy to use language to celebrate Christmas which won’t add “further tension.” (Mail on Sunday)

An email sent to clergy in the Birmingham Diocese, reportedly said: Lo He Comes With Clouds Descending contained “problematic words” for stating Jesus is the “true Messiah.”

The hymn O come, O Come, Emmanuel, was also singled out for the phrase “captive Israel” - which is sung in its first verse.

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🔴 NEW: Cargo Ship Keels Over at Istanbul Port

A container ship called Amnah has turned sideways at Istanbul’s Beylikdüzü Ambarlı Mardaş port Monday.

Rescue teams have been dispatched to the scene but the cause of the incident has yet to be determined.

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🇱🇾🇸🇾❌ Mystic Gaddafi: Prophetic Warning on Western Chaos in Syria

Years before NATO’s handpicked militants executed him, Muammar Gaddafi issued a chilling prophecy to Middle Eastern leaders: “After me, it’s you.” The former Libyan leader understood that the West’s appetite for destabilization would extend far beyond Libya, using chaos as a weapon to dismantle sovereign states like Syria.

And here we are. The Middle East is awash in blood and instability, with Syria standing as a tragic testament to his foresight. Western-backed factions, economic strangulation, and geopolitical meddling have unraveled a once-stable region into endless conflict.

❗️Gaddafi’s haunting foresight lays bare the West’s imperial playbook: topple, fracture, and profit. His words echo louder today as NATO’s tactics remain unchanged, with Syria’s suffering serving as a bitter reminder. Yet, even in chaos, resistance grows, from Lebanon to Tehran, from Moscow to Beijing. The real question: How long can the empire sustain its endless wars before its own cracks fracture and swallow it whole?

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⛔️ ICYMI: US State Dept Urges Citizens to Leave Belarus “Immediately”

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⚠️ Putin confirms readiness to continue supplying gas to Europe - Slovak PM Fico

Fico stated that his visit to Moscow was a response to Zelensky’s remarks opposing any gas transit through Ukraine.

"In a lengthy conversation with Putin, we exchanged views on the situation in Ukraine, the military developments, the possibility of a swift peaceful resolution to the war, and the mutual relations between Slovakia and Russia," Fico added.

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🚫 IDF Implements Mass Detention Campaign in al-Fawwar Refugee Camp - south of the occupied West Bank

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🤔 Questions remain over why German attack suspect was not stopped despite threats

German authorities are under pressure to explain why a doctor ­accused of murdering a child and four women with a car at a Christmas market was not stopped despite being well known to police.

Taleb al-Abdulmohsen’s criminal record, including a 2013 conviction for threatening acts of violence, recent ­online threats and an outburst in court, have prompted calls for an inquiry.

Elon Musk’s X suspended Taleb’s account - only to restore it again but with a heavily deleted history - eliminating posts where he supported the Tesla chief, Netanyahu, Israel and attacked Islam.

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🤔 Report ties Romanian liberals to TikTok campaign that fueled
Georgescu election win

Romania’s ruling National Liberal Party (PNL) paid for a campaign on TikTok that ended up favoring right-wing independent candidate Călin Georgescu, a new report from investigative outlet snoop.ro indicates.

According to the investigation, the campaign - that Romania’s intel services claimed was "identical to Russian operations in Ukraine" - was in fact organized by a marketing firm called Kensington Communication, hired by PNL… the party that supported cancelling the election.

Kensington Communication then used a platform called FameUp to coordinate 130 influencers with specific scripts and messaging guidelines.

So, what Romania’s courts presented as evidence of “foreign interference” - was actually a campaign paid for by the ruling party.

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😳 NEW: Biden commutes death sentences of child killers and mass murderers - just 2 days before Christmas

Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row Monday - a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murders.

Biden, who opposes the death penalty, lowered each of the 37 sentences to life in prison without parole.

He did not say why specifically he considered the original penalties unjust.

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⚠️ Oxfam Calls Out Israel’s “Mass Ethnic Cleansing Campaign” - Dubs Northern Gaza Situation “Apocalyptic”

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🩸UK economy flatlines in Q3 of 2024, as business leaders warn of 'worst of all worlds'

GDP failed to grow at all between July and September in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics - revised down from 0.1% growth.

A chief economist for the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said: "There is little festive cheer in our latest surveys, which suggest that the economy is headed for the worst of all worlds - firms expect to reduce both output and hiring, and price growth expectations are getting firmer.”

Recession incoming?

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🚫 US troops shouldn’t be in Syria - Trump’s future National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

“President Trump is absolutely right. His mandate overwhelmingly was not to drag us into Middle Eastern wars.

We do not need American boots running around Syria in any way shape or form.

But we're keeping an eye on those things. ISIS, Israel's border and kind of the broader dynamic with our Gulf allies.”

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