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Sandeep Pandey
Jan 15, 2026, 2:22:27 AMJan 15
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6 defiant words: Maduro sends message from New York, vows resistance after U.S. kidnapping, January 11 2026
In the brief but powerful statement, Maduro urged supporters not to succumb to despair. “We are well, we are fighters,”
he declared — a phrase that has already become a rallying cry across
Venezuela and solidarity movements worldwide .. The message from Maduro,
brief and personal, has taken on symbolic weight among supporters. By
stating “we are fighters,” he framed the moment as one of resistance
rather than defeat
Resistance sends messages of solidarity with Venezuela, with Jon Elmer, The Electronic Intifada, 10 Jan 2026
Jon
Elmer reports on messages to Venezuela from the Palestinian resistance
and he also looks at how resistance groups in Gaza salute fallen
commanders of the Battle of al-Aqsa Flood.
Burkina Faso: coup attempt against Traoré defeated as people mobilize to defend the revolution, Colby Byrd, January 7 2026
On Jan. 3, while the fascist pigs in Washington brutalized the Venezuelan people, Burkina Faso was shaken by an attempted coup backed by the fascist pigs in Paris.
This marks a new addition to the long list of attempts by the West,
notably France, to crush the revolutionary government of Captain Ibrahim
Traoré and return the Land of Upright People to an existence of bondage
and slavery ..
https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/01/07/burkina-faso-coup-attempt-against-traore-defeated-as-people-mobilize-to-defend-the-revolution/
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Poisoning Generations: Vietnam's Struggle Against Agent Orange, 9 Jan 2026
For
five decades, Vietnam has been struggling with the aftermath of Agent
Orange. This was one of the worst war crimes ever committed by the USA,
causing harm to generations of innocent Vietnamese as well as
descendants of american war veterans. This video details the cost of
this horrible toxin as well as efforts made by Vietnamese communists to
care for victims.
(Never ever forget, never ever forgive)
Agent
Orange exposure is linked to increased rates of birth defects,
malignancies, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. The impact of Agent
Orange in Vietnam includes health and ecological effects. The government
of Vietnam says that up to four million people in Vietnam were
exposed to the defoliant, and as many as three million people have
suffered illness because of Agent Orange. The government of Vietnam
defined victims of Agent Orange by looking at where they live, their
family history, and if the health problems have been linked to Agent
Orange. The U.S. government has described these figures as unreliable.
Agent Orange has also caused enormous environmental damage in Vietnam.
This has been described by numerous lawyers, historians and other
academics as ecocide. Over 7,700,000 acres or 31,000 km2 of tropical
forest were defoliated. Defoliants eroded tree cover and seedling forest
stock, making reforestation difficult in numerous areas. Animal species
diversity is sharply reduced in contrast with unsprayed areas ..
Agent Blue is one of the "rainbow herbicides" that is known for use by the U.S during the Vietnam War.Largely inspired by the British use of herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan Emergency,
killing rice was a military strategy from the very start of U.S.
military involvement in Vietnam. At first, U.S. soldiers attempted to
blow up rice paddies and rice stocks, using mortars and hand grenades.
But grains of rice were far more durable than they understood, and were
not easily destroyed. Every grain that survived was a seed to be
collected and planted again. A 1967 report to the International War
Crimes Tribunal stated that "The soldiers discovered that rice is one of
the most maddeningly difficult substances to destroy; using thermite
metal grenades it is almost impossible to make it burn and, even if one
succeeds in scattering the rice, this does not stop it being harvested
by patient men." The purpose of Agent Blue was to kill narrow-leafed
plants and trees (grass, rice, bamboo, banana, etc.) "Operation Ranch
Hand" was military code for spraying of herbicides from U.S. Air Force
aircraft in Southeast Asia from 1962 through 1971. Between 1962 and
1971, the U.S. used an estimated 76,000,000 L (76 million
litres) of herbicides as chemical weapons for "defoliation and crop
destruction" which fell mostly on the forest of South Vietnam, but was
eventually used in Laos as well to kill crops in order to deprive the
communist Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops of food. It was sprayed
on rice paddies and other crops in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong
of the valuable crops the plants provided
Agent Purple
is a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in
their herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War. Largely
inspired by the British use of herbicides and defoliants during the
Malayan Emergency, it was one of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides" that
included the more infamous Agent Orange. About 1,900,000 L were sprayed
in Vietnam in total
Agent Pink
is a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its
herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War .. the spraying of
50,312 L of Agent Pink is documented, but an additional 413,852 L appear
on procurement records, probably depositing a larger percentage of the
total dioxin
Agent Green
is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the
U.S. military in its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War.
Largely inspired by the British use of herbicides and defoliants during
the Malayan Emergency, it was one of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides"
.. Agent Green was mixed with Agent Pink and used for crop destruction. A
total of 20,000 gallons of Agent Green were procured
Agent White
is a herbicide used by the U.S. military in its herbicidal warfare
program during the Vietnam War .. Largely inspired by the British use of
herbicides and defoliants during the Malayan Emergency, it was one of
the so-called "rainbow herbicides" About 20,000,000 L of Agent White
were used in Vietnam between 1966 and 1971
Trần Đức Thảo, “On Indochina”
..
The French could only maintain their domination by continuing to grant
themselves privileges on the basis of being French. The two nations
remained in a standoff, each keeping its particular existence and
envisaging their relations only in terms of power. After eighty years of
living together, the situation had remained at the same point as at the
moment of conquest. No class of Annamite* society was able to
integrate itself into the French society. France only maintained its
position by the superiority of its weapons. The administration’s
despotism exceeded all measure. Because they were constantly in a state
of emergency, the conquerors did not grant any liberty to the conquered.
The conquered only saw in their defeat an inferiority of material
means. The police infiltrated everything, employing the worst means of
espionage and torture. The country lived in an atmosphere of latent war.
The state mostly appeared as an organization of armed men tasked with
repression. In such an atmosphere, no Annamite could lose his or her
national consciousness. The few lapses of commitment that occurred were
judged harshly. The social unity, which had always been strong in
this country, was further consolidated in the defeat: no sincere
“collaboration” was possible under the colonial regime ..
*
Translator’s note: In colonial French Indochina, Annam was the
protectorate encompassing modern-day central Vietnam. More generally,
the term was used in the West to designate Vietnam as a whole, and the
demonym “Annamite” was used to designate a Vietnamese person. Thao uses
the terms in this sense.
(It is best to start with the text on page 8.)
The tragedy of Trần Đức Thảo, Rory O’Sullivan
It
took five ill-fated conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre before the
Vietnamese philosopher Trần Đức Thảo finally broke with French
philosophy .. the two men’s exchange of views collapsed before
completion, under a series of recriminations. Thảo remained bitter about
this, later referring to an ‘insidious campaign’ among Sartre’s
‘disciples’ .. By the end of the Second World War, he was a key
spokesperson in France for Vietnamese independence. As he became
increasingly involved with the Viet Minh, his philosophical outlook
changed. Only orthodox Marxism’s materialist understanding of history,
he claimed, could provide a full and demystified account of where
people’s ideas about themselves and the world come from. Thảo came to
believe that his French philosophical counterparts had chosen their own
comfort and role in the Western bourgeois imperialist regime over the
morally superior path of supporting revolutionary communism .. Thảo’s
refusal to distinguish between the philosophical, the political
and the personal led him to become one of the first theorists of the
divide between colonised and coloniser .. From the mid-19th century, the
French had been colonial rulers of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. During
the Second World War, the Japanese invaded and occupied the region. When
they left in 1945, the Viet Minh, led
by Ho Chi Minh, seized the opportunity to declare independence. By the
end of the Second World War, Thảo was a leading spokesperson for the
anticolonial Vietnamese independence movement in France. Towards the end
of 1945, at the same time as French forces under General Leclerc landed
in Saigon, Thảo was arrested and imprisoned in Paris. From prison, Thảo
wrote the first and most important of several articles on the conflict.
Thảo would later describe the article ‘On Indochina’ as
‘existentialist’, and it would prove a key influence on Frantz Fanon.
‘On Indochina’ anticipated one of Fanon’s most important ideas: that
universal ideals are improper in discussions between coloniser and
colonised, because to be colonised is precisely to be relegated outside the Western reach of the universal. Thảo does not merely argue for colonial independence, but tries to explain how the gap between the perspectives of coloniser and colonised makes it impossible to have debates .. Thảo is arguably the first theorist of how the language and culture of Western imperialism is based on an erasure of the peoples colonised by Europe ..
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A completely manufactured reputation:
The CIA Has Been FUNDING The Academic Left (w/ Gabriel Rockhill), 13 Jan 2026
Founding
director of the Critical Theory Workshop and professor at Villanova
University Gabriel Rockhill is out with a new book that calls out many
of the intellectual fathers of the academic left as insufficiently
(anti- ?)imperialist and often funded by the CIA. How have we been
mislead by the "compatible left" -- a cohort of leftists that support
marxism only in theory while inveighing against actually existing
socialism? Where do Slavoj Zizek & Noam Chomsky fall in this
analysis? How do we identify the contemporary "compatible left" in our
media and political environment, and if the deep state is so effective
at coopting left movements, what can we possibly do to evade them and
achieve revolutionary change? This is a big, three hour episode you wont
want to miss.
After 20 Years, This Scientist Changed How We Understand Bird Language, 15 Jan 2026
For
over 20 years, Professor Toshitaka Suzuki dedicated his life to show
that birds don't just make noise, but rather, combine sounds in
structured ways that resemble complex language. Through years of careful
observation and creative experiments, he discovered something
incredible: these birds have specific words for objects much like we do
and can combine these words to form sentences. We explore this in detail
in Part 1: After 20 Years, This Scientist Proved Bird... Where we
look at how he proves that birds can in fact talk and use grammar in
detail. In this video, we go beyond grammar and into communication
itself. Looking at how early birds seem to learn language in their life,
whether different species can understand one another, and even whether
birds can lie. Together, these findings challenge the idea that language
is uniquely human and suggest that communication, meaning and
understanding may have evolved far earlier than we once believed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doj_wt9ER_Q
Why Only Us, Language and Evolution by Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky
Berwick
and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer
an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable,
species-specific ability to acquire it.
Madan Lal Hind
Jan 17, 2026, 12:21:22 PMJan 17
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