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I really don't understand how the French system works. Why is macron still president?

a more substantial article on nakedcapitalism on european militarization, austerity, and the shift from fever dream balkanization of russia via shipment of arms to their ukrainian proxy towards domestic crackdown with the same military assets.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/is-europe-preparing-for-war-against-russia-or-against-own-populations.html

The money graph:

[Protests in western European capitals] might look like child’s play once the current European leadership is finished decimating national economies with endless self-destructive decisions all stemming from a ruling class dream to balkanize Russia. In the name of that goal, they have replaced cheap and affordable energy with the expensive kind, killed industry, engaged in economic warfare with much of the rest of the world in a failed bid to isolate Moscow, and become completely beholden to American vultures.

I think that connecting the dots between proxy dreams, militarization, austerity, and domestic crackdowns is very important for the actual left.

In Burkina faso/west Africa news, here's a short piece from a mining trade magazine on traore's nationalization of gold mines. There isn't any deep geopolitical analysis here but there is some specific mines/ companies and values if people are interested.

What is more notable to me is the tenor of comments. The article is typical neocolonial investor centric press, but 80% or so of the comments are broadly in favour of resource nationalism and Burkina faso's general approach.

https://archive.is/tcXSx

With gold at $3k/oz+, these are valuable assets.

Thank you very much comrade, I appreciate the links and effort

Rethink your attitude please.

Could you please put some of these big articles behind spoilers? Leave the money graphs/your summary out. Thank you comrade

Previously, internationally constructed ferries have been built in Germany, south Korea and China. These aren't third world countries.

This is a minor story in the grand scheme of things, but it illustrates the loss of industrial capacity of the west, and the contradiction between that material reality and how politicians/the public perceive local industrial capacity.

The west coast of Canada has a bunch of ferries run by the government, and they periodically need replacing. The province hasn't built ferries in Canada for decades, and every time contracts are awarded overseas, its a big scandal because people think they ought to be building boats at the Canadian sparks and racism factory. In this article, the ceo of the ferry organization lays out some hard truths about how there is no option to build these boats in Canada.

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/vaughn-palmer-ferries-ceo-explains-what-take-build-major-ferries-bc

WH press secretary: “The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government of Venezuela,” Leavitt said when asked by reporters late last month about the possibility of sending US troops to Venezuela. “It is a narco-terror cartel, and Maduro, it is the view of this administration, is not a legitimate president. He is a fugitive head of this cartel who has been indicted in the United States for trafficking drugs into the country.”

The war on terror and the war on drugs, together at last. Obviously there was a "war on drugs" element to Afghanistan but this is nevertheless a landmark rhetorical escalation where drugs and terror are the same thing.

Thank you for your posts, comrade, take care and feel better soon. The news will be here waiting for you

the back of it looks awful, like it's unfinished. check the animation, 3 of 23 in the link below

https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/death-star-75419

This kind of "omg a feeeemale, better hornypost" crap actually sucks and isn't funny