Yes the budget cuts are massive, for context (for people not in the Netherlands) the cuts amounts to about the total budget of 1-1.5 big dutch universities (the country has in total 20 universities). The police of course waited for the last moment to not let any organizing party any leeway to plan something else. The unions are completely pathetic, immediately rolled over.
Comrade, as the others said, I have never been more certain that we will win. Be strong and be well! 
“if we burn” really dissected that period, such an excellent read.
How about the general secretary of NATO admitting that the war happened because of NATO expansion? The following is an article by Jeffrey Sacks talking about it: https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/nato-chief-admits-expansion-behind-russian-invasion
This is not exactly what you ask but the quote of Stoltenberg is pretty telling:
The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition to not invade Ukraine. Of course, we didn’t sign that.
The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second-class membership. We rejected that.
So, he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders. He has got the exact opposite.
No, you get it perfectly. It’s “American Dream: The movie”. Innocent white middle class man can pick himself up from his bootstraps even from the prison cell. I watched it years ago, and felt exactly what you describe.
The situation in the Netherlands is also pretty bad. 1 in 80 people tested positive. The waste water analysis shows that things are now worse than the 2021 autumn surge. :(
As far as I understand, the opposition has already said that they will have their own counting of votes and they will only recognize that as the result.
Hi, do you have any resources on Sudan, especially highlighting the involvement of western governments? I am trying to learn more about what’s going on there, but it’s hard to find resources.
Committed a genocide.
Lol, I have already been told about “Milei’s utopia” by a libertarian friend
Is this not satire? “I am just here to data harvest!”?
Yesterday, around noon, the students of the universities of Amsterdam started an encampment. Already last night the riot police emptied the encampment and arrested a number of the protestors. https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/05/police-clear-pro-palestine-protestors-from-amsterdam-university/
To be honest I haven’t really followed it, I check from time to time some of Greenwald’s articles and read about the shelter some years back.
Edit: Decided to google a bit, seems like Greenwald posted a video 5 months ago with an update, here if you are interested.
I think he with his late husband started a shelter for rescue dogs in Brazil, which employed homeless people: https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/glenn-greenwald-shelter-brazil
The US budget is much higher anyway: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/05/07/getting-the-defense-budget-right-a-real-grand-total-over-1-4-trillion/
Assange tried to coordinate with Clinton to make sure people’s lives won’t be put to risk. Source.
It’s because that’s the core of the message the western media is trying to propagate. The point of the original reports of babies, rapes, etc, are not that people will continue to believe them as such, but just that they believe them “in the abstract” (to say “I am not saying that this incidence happened, but something bad must have happened”). The same applies to reports about every official enemy of the US empire (and it’s most common for propaganda against china). These events and these places are not real for most people, so the media promotes fake reports that will later be proven wrong or retracted because what they offer is painting a picture of these events and places. The aim is to create a general feeling to the western audience that bad things happen on both sides.
“Hamas is bad” is the consequence of these stories, and that is the most important goal of the western media. For the western powers it is fine for people in the west to feel sad or bad or empathize with the ills and suffering of Palestinians. The important thing is that they do not support any political vehicle for the actual liberation of Palestinian people: in this case, armed struggle.
It’s also worth noting that the event that escalated the protests and led to the government fleeing was a massacre of civilians which was blamed on the police and the government. The evidence seems to indicate that this was a false-flag attack since the civilians were killed by snipers that were in a building that was occupied by the ultra right wing parties involved in the protesters. For an in-depth discussion on the matter I would recommend this article. The author is a Ukrainian political scientist.
An update on the dutch education protests (mentioned here by @Beetle@hexbear.net ): In the end student unions and the youth wings of the socialist party and the communist party said they would go anyway to the protest. The police (that yesterday said they couldn’t guarantee the safety) said today that they will facilitate the protest so there was no ban. The labor unions still asked people not to go. In the end around 3-4k people gathered (mostly students and some university employees), which I think was very good given the circumstances. Some universities decided to host local protest on campuses (but as far as I can tell those were small). The university staff and unions are calling for another protest on the 25th of November.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2544475-toch-studentenprotest-in-utrecht-ondanks-oproep-van-de-gemeente-om-weg-te-blijven