Article posted 11 days ago.

"Pastoral colonialism" is being utilized to expel Palestinians.

Deliberately using sheep to expel Palestinians from the West Bank in order to create easier settlement for the colonialists.

"Israeli sheep farms have taken over huge swathes of land: an estimated 20% of the West Bank. Some 200 sheep farms have popped up in recent years. Settlers even push sheep into Palestinian homes." Having animal farms makes it easier to control large swaths of land in the West Bank for the zionists.

Other news mentioned in the article from Nov. 27, 2025 also mentions a case where two Palestinians were executed after they surrendered to the Israeli colonialists. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-soldiers-execute-palestinian-men-surrender-west-bank-jenin-video-btselem/

As much as US Democratic Socialism is focused on the fucked domestic situation, it seems like the problem of international imperialism is the corpse under the floorboards of US leftism, and I've been online enough listening to more revolutionary strains to know we ignore the terrible beating of its tell-tale heart; and to our peril,

I'm not just talking about Palestine, I'm talking about the larger issues that keep getting brought up about the supply chain and the various Horrors therein and how the US encourages the horrors to keep cheap materials flowing to capital.

In particular, the argument that domestic improvements without revolution would just lead to more abuse of the global south by megacorps because Line Must Go Up, and then the imperial boomerang comes back and starts this all over, haunts me.

Ditto to the idea that I've seen that folks like Zohran and AOC will inevitably be corrupted by the system no matter what they, or what even the activists in the DSA, do to push back, which I hear haunting me every time they get super loud over a (Usually urging us to ditch any ideas of electoral power for only external structures) and my memory of the history of how activist movements in my lifetime (I was born in 1992) have constantly been crushed and failed to change anything beyond cultural issues for the better at-scale and how the Dems fucking us and subverting people who go against them has been a huge part of that.

And, while I'm critical of large portions of folks with revolutionary tendencies (But not all) for not caring for/actively negating those who need help now in favor of a generational hail-mary of a project*, I don't think the problems they bring up are easily dismissable, because I'm someone with a working conscience who doesn't want to e one of those assholes who anonymize the people of the Global South, and I know enough about post World War II history to see where they're coming from.

So I want to know, what's the specifically DemSoc solutions to the problems that keep getting brought up, both in larger theory and in practical policies to fight for and structures of power to build, that don't say full violent overthrow is the only way?

Or at least show how utilizing state power to; say; unfuck SSI or give medicare for all doesn't necessarily lead to the further destruction of the Global South as corpos try to find a way to make up the "lost" profits?

*And also for them treating people with scrupulosity issues like myself online like Democrats treat small donors, but that's its own ramble.

The One Democratic State Initiative is a Palestinian political organization working to revive the historical Palestinian vision for liberation —a single Palestinian state, for all of its citizens— and to mobilize individuals, entities and political parties, in Palestine and abroad, behind it.

Hasnieh Al-Natsheh and Alain Alameddine, two of its coordinators, are ready to answer your questions up until midnight, Occupied Palestine time. They'll make sure to answer any remaining questions tomorrow. Check out our website and ask away!

I'm so glad the Dems decided not to run any candidate in Nebraska & let instead a Left-Populist Independent with a spine like Dan Osborn kick Pete Ricketts' ass 😭😭

What a shameful Presidency really. From rising organized crime, the continued cutting down the Amazon rainforest, the rise of the Conservative Evangelical church and a cost of living crisis it feels like this term was NO different from the Bolsonaro Presidency. Personally I hope Lula loses hard so that the Workers Party realises that "Lulism" is dead and that no one wants this anymore.

America’s wealthy have benefited enormously from the slashing of the corporate tax rate, from a peak of 52.8 percent in the 1960s to 21 percent under the 2017 Republican tax law. Windfalls from lower corporate taxes flow primarily to the rich because they own a disproportionate share of corporate stock.

Corporate tax rate-cutting, combined with rampant use of offshore tax havens and other avoidance schemes, puts a strain on public budgets. The percentage of total federal revenue from corporate tax receipts dropped from 32.1 percent in 1952 to 11.4 percent in 2023, according to Office of Management and Budget data.