A Russian military aircraft used to transport senior officials and military personnel landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday evening in an “unusual” flight, Israeli publi…

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In La Pirenaica, journalist Albert Santin interviewed Stefan Natke, a citizen of West Germany (FRG), a carpenter by trade, and a communist activist. He was arrested for his activism while serving in the army of capitalist Germany; after being released from military prison, he crossed the border into the German Democratic Republic.

He participated as an international brigadista in the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua.

He is currently a member of the International Commission of the German Communist Party (DKP).

Stefan explained what led him to communist ideas from his youth, the actions he took against the U.S. deployment of cruise missiles and Pershing II missiles on FRG territory, his experiences in military prison, his move to the GDR, capitalist propaganda regarding socialist Germany, his participation as an international brigadier in the Nicaraguan Revolution, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, among other interesting topics.

The "Chinese spy" narrative surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is falling apart. When you look past the mainstream media headlines, a massive $7.5 billion shadow pipeline, a D.C. political ambush, and a trove of leaked WeChat photos tell a completely different story.

Just days before the high-stakes APEC Summit in Shenzhen, an explosive leak wiped $15 billion off Jensen Huang's net worth and knocked Nvidia from its throne. The story? A classic Cold War honey trap involving an alleged Chinese operative named Alice Huang. But why would an elite intelligence asset post selfies and whiskey shots with her billionaire target on WeChat for the world to see?

In this video, we dig into the receipts to uncover what really happened. We explore the $7.5 billion chip smuggling ring moving hardware through Southeast Asia, the U.S. Commerce Department raid that Nvidia allegedly intervened in, and the true motive of the Washington D.C. hawks who leaked this story to torpedo semiconductor negotiations just before Donald Trump meets with Xi Jinping.

Even more ironically: as Washington attempts to destroy its greatest tech crown jewel, 600,000 Nvidia H200 chips sit stranded in Hong Kong warehouses, while China's domestic chip exports surge 111% and Huawei rolls out a million-chip super-brain.

Did Jensen Huang play Washington to keep feeding the Chinese market, or did the U.S. intelligence apparatus just give him the "Oppenheimer" treatment?

Africa is undergoing significant geopolitical changes. From the revolutionary governments of the Sahel to shifting regional alliances in Central and North Africa, the continent’s relationship with Western powers is evolving. Are we witnessing the beginnings of a broader African political transformation?

In this episode of The Simardone Show, Aidan Simardone is joined by journalist David Hundeyin, founder of West Africa Weekly and The Spearhead, for a discussion about African sovereignty, political revolutions and the changing balance of power across the continent.

We begin in Burkina Faso, examining Ibrahim Traoré’s rise to power, the circumstances surrounding the 2022 coup and his government's record after four years in office. We also discuss the challenges facing governments seeking greater political and economic independence from Western influence.

The conversation then turns to major regional developments. Why is Algeria deploying its military to Niger, and what does this mean for security and cooperation in the Sahel? We also examine the US decision to impose sanctions on Rwanda over its involvement in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and what may explain the changing relationship between Washington and Kigali.

Finally, we turn to Sudan’s devastating civil war, the military balance between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and allegations raised by the Sudanese government that Ukraine has been involved in training RSF fighters.

Topics discussed:

• Africa's changing geopolitical landscape
• African sovereignty and political independence
• Ibrahim Traoré and Burkina Faso's revolution
• Four years of Ibrahim Traoré's leadership
• Western influence and intervention in Africa
• Algeria's military deployment to Niger
• Algeria-Niger relations and Sahel security
• US sanctions against Rwanda
• Rwanda and the conflict in eastern Congo
• US-Rwanda relations and changing regional alliances
• Sudan's civil war
• The Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF
• Ukrainian involvement in training RSF fighters
• The future of African independence and Pan-Africanism

David Hundeyin is a journalist and founder of West Africa Weekly and The Spearhead, independent media projects focused on African politics, geopolitics and international affairs.

So I looked into these allegations that Jensen had a romantic relationship with a Chinese spy and, ironically, the only actual proof we have that someone is [prostituting] themselves out to spies in this story is the media - all the rest is unsubstantiated, just journalists repeating what anonymous US intelligence officials told them.

I'm not exaggerating, I actually read all the key articles on this:

1. New York Times on Oct 29, the initial "scoop": https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-jensen-huang-trump.html

Claim: Alice Huang is a Chinese intelligence asset funneling information to Beijing.

"Proof": they were told so by "people briefed on the surveillance, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the findings are drawn from classified intelligence..." That’s it. The Times even admits it couldn’t determine which agency monitored her, what she passed along, or its value to China. In other words, they didn't verify the spy claim whatsoever.

2. Wall Street Journal on Oct 30: https://www.wsj.com/tech/chinese-executive-close-to-nvidia-ceo-suspected-of-giving-china-information-798eb6a1

Claim: The US, Singapore and Taiwan suspect Alice Huang is a Chinese intelligence source, with Singapore and Taiwan even putting physical surveillance teams on her.

"Proof": "people familiar with the matter said." That’s it. And the story actually fell apart within a day since Singapore’s Home Affairs ministry went on the record with a public rebuke of the WSJ article (https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/newsroom/clarification-statement-on-wall-street-journals-article/) stating that "neither the Singapore Government nor its officials said this," and that "there were no such investigations conducted in respect of Alice Huang." Taiwan declined to comment. In other words, the only government they invoked that went on the record denied the claim publicly.

3. New York Times again on Nov 6, the "MSS recruit" story: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/politics/chinese-spy-agency-nvidia-jensen-huang.html

Claim: Alice Huang was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) specifically to collect intelligence on Jensen.

"Proof": "according to people briefed on U.S. surveillance." That’s it. No new evidence, no document, no on-record source for the claim. Yet the headline states it as plain fact, without even an "allegedly."

4. The Financial Times, quoted below, on Nov 7 with the romance claim: https://www.ft.com/content/a55a2a22-4479-4f93-a445-6147a5c6d790

Claim: A US government memo says Jensen had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang.

"Proof": "said people familiar with the memo." That’s it: anonymous people describing a memo the FT never saw, which itself describes intelligence nobody can check.

It's properly extraordinary when you think about it and you couldn't make it up: she’s accused of being an intelligence asset, yet the only people we can actually watch behaving as intelligence assets - and admitting so in writing (since they openly cite spies as their only source) - are Western journalists.

Things are so bad that we've forgotten what actual journalism is: real journalists - when anonymous intelligence officials tell them something - would treat it as a lead to investigate, not as a fact. They'd ask: why are they leaking this, why now, and who benefits? And, most importantly, they’d try to verify the claims independently before printing them - which is supposed to be journalism 101 and wasn't done here.

You'd think something would have been learned from the Iraq WMD story and the countless other examples of the press laundering intelligence claims into front-page "facts." Apparently not - and it’s even the same newspaper, the New York Times, leading the charge.

In this walk and talk video through the bustling, neon-lit streets of Chongqing (exploring the vibrant Guanyinqiao district), I sit down with Guy Christensen—a Gen-Z political voice who built a massive platform of 3.6 million followers on TikTok before his account was abruptly deleted following the app's U.S. ownership takeover.

As we navigate through Chongqing's crowd-filled nightlife, Guy breaks down his radical political evolution: growing up in a sheltered Mormon household, falling into the alt-right pipeline as a young teenager, and his eventual awakening to anti-abuse advocacy, Palestinian solidarity, and Marxist anti-imperialist theory. We dive deep into the illusion of Western free speech, the mechanics of corporate media censorship, and the structural pressures placed on young creators who challenge dominant political narratives.

🚨 THE AFTERMATH: Just hours after wrapping this interview and flying back to the United States, Guy was detained and interrogated by U.S. border guards. The very censorship and state surveillance discussed throughout this walk turned into reality the moment he landed on American soil.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/13211293

When you expose the truth about China, the propaganda machine comes for you.

Recently, a network of Western "China Experts" and anti-China propagandists, led by Bill Bishop (Sinocism), tried to launch a coordinated smear campaign against my friend Arnaud Bertrand and me. Their claim? That our family RV road trips through Xinjiang this summer were actually covert, all-expenses-paid operations sponsored by the Chinese government.

There’s just one massive problem: They made the whole thing up.

In this video, I’m bringing the receipts. We’re doing a forensic deep dive into exactly how these Beltway insiders manufacture consent and build their hit pieces. I will show you the exact logical fallacies, the fabricated timelines, the heavily doctored back-translations, and the categorical lies they use to smear anyone who challenges their narrative.

From paying out of my own pocket for 13,000 kilometers of diesel, to arguing with state-owned canyon managers over cable car refunds in the rain, to the ultimate irony of who is actually getting paid to sell a geopolitical "product"—this is what happens when you pull back the curtain on the anti-China grift.

If you want to know what Xinjiang is actually like—and why the people selling you the "open-air prison" narrative are terrified of you finding out—hit play.

Despite the strong winds and imperial tides that are affecting us, the real fact is that Venezuela is moving day by day in the construction of the communal State, to call it in some way what we glimpse in a future within reach. This is one of the great strategic tasks that give meaning to the Bolivarian Revolution. We are moving towards it as if towards a red dot on the horizon.

In truth, Chávez did not emphasize this name of communal State as a precise concept, probably because it was not contemplated in the Constitution. He sometimes drew it, I think, in what could be interpreted as a generic idea, as a summary of the possible, in his interventions referring to the great task of the people to organize themselves in Communes.

See for example what he says in a call from Havana to the television program "Dando e Dando", on May 7, 2012. "Continue training yourselves in the fight, kicking the hills, the streets, the towns; organizing yourselves, and so that you can join in the construction of the communes. To the communes! All of you, all of you, must become communal fighters, in the construction of communal spaces, the communal State, the social State of law and justice."

But the idea of ​​popular power organized in Communes had been in the works for some time. All that effort of thought and implementation with legal backing was reflected in a set of laws known as the Laws of Popular Power. The first was the Law of Communal Councils, in 2006, and by the end of 2010 there were already, among others, the Organic Law of Popular Power, the Organic Law of Communes, the Organic Law of Public and Popular Planning, the Organic Law of the Communal Economic System. Their names themselves indicate where the shots were going.

Already in 2007, in his proposal for the Constitutional Reform, he had well defined the commune: "The primary political unit of the national territorial organization will be the city, understood as any population settlement within the municipality and integrated by areas or geographical extensions called communes. The communes will be the social cells of the territory and will be made up of the communities, each of which will constitute the basic and indivisible territorial nucleus of the Venezuelan Socialist State, where citizens will have the power to build their own geography and their own history, respecting and promoting the preservation, conservation and sustainability in the use of resources and other environmental legal assets."

In 2009, he created the Ministry of Popular Power for the Communes. So when Chávez, in his Council of Ministers of October 20, 2012, known as the 'Temón Coup', spoke in detail about the communes and uttered the famous phrase: "Nicolás: commune or nothing", no one could have been surprised.

Active Chavismo

I considered it necessary to briefly explain these things so that it is understood that this mandate of the Commander is an unwavering commitment of the Venezuelan people, which is expressed particularly through active Chavismo in any of its expressions.

The Commander passed away in 2013, what followed is known up to the current situation.

Thus, within the immense aggressions that we have suffered and their consequences, the real fact is that the idea of ​​communes, established and practiced, has remained the soul of socialist construction.

Delcy Rodríguez herself, a few days ago, on the anniversary of the Temón Coup, expressed that "14 years after the Temón Coup by Commander Hugo Chávez, we maintain a conviction intact: power resides in the organized people". "With the strength of our communities, the communes advance and Venezuela is transformed".

President Maduro, a prisoner in a New York prison, also considered it important to publicly remember that date: "We remember October 20, 2012, when President Hugo Chávez carried out the so-called 'Temón Coup', drawing lines of progress towards a participatory society, with the people as the protagonist of power in all its dimensions."

So that regardless of the different responsibilities that each of the major organic actors corresponds specifically to and in which they concentrate their efforts, let's say the Government, the working people, the armed forces, and Bolivarian parties (PSUV and the others of the Patriotic Pole), the fact is that the great task that summons and unifies all of them, in addition to the preservation of peace, is the intense, constant and progressive construction of communal society, with a view to reaching that horizon that we have discussed.

Regarding Venezuela's DOTP project, please check this post that I translated from Pueblos.gob.ve -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9072469

Hello. I will be running two reading groups, one for Cowbee's Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Basic Course, and another for Soviet Democracy, and am looking for participants. If you would like to join make a comment stating which you would like to join and I will add you to the list.

We will start reading each book on monday, see the programs down below for what we will read each week.

Thanks to Wilding Gyres for bringing this site to my attention! https://x.com/wilding_gyres/status/2118231924040962198

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it seems there's an independent candidate called dan sullivan, but there's a republican called the same way. trump asked his buddy elon to fix that, and elon proceed to delete the profile of that dastardly "woke" politician...

but in a movement typical of our nazi genius, he deleted the wrong profile

I want to ask some opinions about Counter Hegemony and the so called positional war by Gramsci. How in modern times can positional war and counter hegemony be pursued, Gramsci formulated his theory in times were newspaper were the main form of information and people needed to actually be out there to get informed they would need to frequent public spaces my doubt is how can his theory fully apply to the current state of things? We live in an era were communication and information travels and gets read nearly totally on-line were the algorithms makes everyone live in their echo chamber and get the information of their echo chamber and do not get alternative information if not in times of crisis were they are actively searching for responses, how can counter hegemony of the organic intellectuals be organized if the main and nearly total form of information is managed by the same men who seek to destroy that ideas and get that ideas themselves become another echo chamber were you reach always the same restricted number people or get straight up censored. Is counter hegemony in a world were nearly no one gets informed through paper or by actually searching sources possible or is it possible only during times of crisis were people start to actively search for responses out of the system and so the positional war of slowly getting the revolutionary ideas into common sense for preparing for revolution no longer possible and we should search other paths in the west. What alternatives I have missed?, What am I not considering?, Is Gramsci theory just surpassed? What are the alternatives if there are?

This article is from earlier this year, in march, but I felt it was worth posting in coordination with my last post.

Note: The audio is messed up for headphones, only coming out of one ear.

On 25 October 2026, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Wenhua Zongheng jointly convened in Beijing to discuss 'China's Socialist Modernisation and Perspectives from the Global South'.

The event marked the launch of two major publications: Volume 4, Issue 1 of the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng, Building a New Development Theory from the Global South, and the Tricontinental dossier, Walking on Two Legs: The Socialism of Chinese Modernisation.

The discussion explored how China's path of socialist modernisation resonates with the developmental aspirations of the Global South.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/13151282

CodePink's co-founder Medea Benjamin is in China for the first time in over three decades. Back then she came to investigate China's sweatshops and the terrible conditions workers faced as the country embarked on its massive journey which ultimately saw 800 million lifted from extreme poverty.

Today, the China she sees is worlds apart. Modern, clean, safe, and not at all concerned with war with the United States. Or anyone else, for that matter.

Medea joined me in the Reports on China studio for a one-on-one chat about being arrested multiple times on Capitol Hill, Western media lies, racism in America, trying to teach ordinary Americans that China is not an enemy, and so much more.