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The #Trump admin has also placed other #ICC officials under #sanctions, including the chief #prosecutor, Karim Khan.

Officials under sanction have faced asset freezes, travel bans & restrictions on services from #US companies.

The new lawsuit argues that the sanctions exceeded Trump’s authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act [ #IEEPA ] because they were not based on a national emergency & they conflict with international & federal #law.

#InternationalLaw #imperialism


The suit also argues that the #State & #Treasury Depts violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which prohibits decisions that are “arbitrary & capricious.” These #sanctions fall into that category, according to the lawsuit, which argues that the State Dept has not even shown that the #judges fall within the category of people against whom sanctions have been authorized.

#law #InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny


Ms. Prost & Ms. Bossa also claim that blocking their US-based bank accounts violated the #FifthAmendment, which requires #DueProcess under #US #law.

“Targeting international judges for carrying out their judicial duties is an unprecedented attack on judicial independence & the rule of law,” said James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, a rights-focused legal organization that is representing Ms. Prost in the case.

#InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism



If successful, the lawsuit could curb the #US government’s ability to use #sanctions to punish #judges for making rulings it disagrees with.

Ms. Prost is joined in the suit by Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou from Benin & Judge Solomy Balungi Bossa from Uganda. A copy of the newly filed complaint was provided to The New York Times by one of the judge's lawyers.

#law #InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny



Ms. Prost was at home, standing in her kitchen, when the call came informing she was being sanctioned. It wasn’t a complete surprise, given that many of her colleagues had already been sanctioned, she said during an interview….

Within hours, she said, she had received a message from Amazon canceling her accounts. Before long, Google & her banks got in touch. Over the following days, credit cards ceased to work.

#law #InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny


The #Trump admin imposed #sanctions last year against Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the #InternationalCriminalCourt. Now, she & 2 other judges are suing Trump & his admin, claiming the penalties exceeded his authority.

The case, filed in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, is the latest effort to challenge what many experts have described as the Trump admin’s efforts to undermine #InternationalLaw.

#law #ICC #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny
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The #TrumpArch in #WashingtonDC is obscene. Vulgar, oversized, ornate, expensive, swaggering.

So it fits well. #DC is "classical" architecture, in the style of ancient Rome, a vast empire of conquest & slavery.

Rome is a great model for the USA, also a vast empire of conquest & slavery.

Objections to the arch are about context, not principle. The USA's narrow #OvertonWindow allows no criticism of the #imperialism fetish. So #Trump will get the imperial monument to his fragile ego.

#uspol


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This is the 3rd time in 105 years that #loyalist #terrorists have mounted a #pogrom in #Belfast. They burnt #Catholic homes in 1921–23, and in 1969. In 2026, the loyalist target is #migrants.

This is not a #NorthernIreland problem. Similar violence happens in Scotland too.

This is a #British problem. It's the legacy of hundreds of years of violent #imperialism and imperial ideology, stoked by #Musk et al.

But Brit #MSM won't even name the loyalism, let alone the imperialism.

#ukpol #nipol



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Just finished this podcast series by Crimethinc: No wall they can build. So well done and also available as a book. An interweaving of stories from desert aid workers in their time with migrants struggling across the desert southwest with analysis of what is going on with the migration from Mexico and south of Mexico with specific looks at Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador. And, of course, constant and direct US interventions have been critical for the duration. It will come as no surprise that decades of US foreign policy in these countries was on behalf of US-based capitalists, for example, United Fruit Company. It always is.

We live in and under a brutally violent system of state and capital though we don't usually see the direct brutality ourselves nor do we acknowledge it when we should.

If we're not actively organizing to abolish this system we should own our role in allowing it to exist.

#Capitalism #US #Politics #Violence #Colonialism #Imperialism

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#KemiBadenoch says that the #UK was built on #FossilFuels.

But #Ecotricity founder #DaleVince dismisses Bad Enoch's fantasy. He says that the UK was "built on slavery, on racism, on colonialism, on Empire. We abused the rest of the world to be a rich country"

Dale Vince is of course entirely right. So his comments should be commonplace and unworthy of sharing.

But the UK has never de-imperialised. So Dale is on his own. 😡

#ukpol #BritishEmpire #colonialism #slavery #racism #imperialism


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«Today the people of #Cuba are better prepared, more convinced and more united to defend #socialism and to conquer another victory against the aggressions of #imperialism

- #MarielaCastro_Espín


What West doesn’t understand about Russia - a Lithuanian who knows

#Lithuania's parliamentary speaker Juozas Olekas said #peace with #Russia can be secured only from position of strength warning unless #Moscow is stopped in #Ukraine, it will continue aggression deeper in #Europe

Lithuania’s #security approach shaped by its history of #Soviet #occupation & by belief Russia’s #imperial attitudes extend beyond #Kremlin

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#RussianAggression #RussianImperialism #imperialism



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In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) by William Booth, from The Review of Reviews.

Source: Cornell University Library

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#poverty #scenes #religion #progress #imperialism #christianity #colonialism #africa #art #publicdomain


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Unbelievable! Guess this means the #Chavez- era #mural depicting #CIA clutches on #Venezuela has literally come to pass
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My take with #photo here
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Super-odd to see this kinda language used between two mostly white Christian wealthy educated parts of the world that share a long history of the people themselves - #US and #EU - #colonialism #imperialism aggression rules-based order etc. etc.

The European empires were literally ravaging #Asia #Africa #Americas for centuries until barely a few decades ago. This is all surreal.


The US has no right to make extraterritorial laws, or claim extraterritorial jurisdiction. For it to do so is blatant #imperialism, & is totally unacceptable.


It is hard to overstate the consequences of a sitting U.S. president announcing the possible invasion of a NATO partner. …

[Ambassador Rufus Gifford] called Trump’s approach 'reckless,' 'clueless,' and based on a 'complete misunderstanding of history' and how NATO functions."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #narcissism #MadKing #imperialism
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"What Trump is threatening is not a small diplomatic dispute. It is a direct assault on NATO, on the rule of law, and on the bedrock alliances that have kept global stability intact for decades. It is a threat of war. Of invasion. Denmark and Greenland are not shrugging this off. Europe is furious. And they should be."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #narcissism #MadKing #imperialism
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"[Trump's statement that international law does not constrain him] is an honest account by Trump of how he sees himself: not so much a national president as a global emperor. Now those who oppose him have to be just as honest. Trump may be right that the US arsenal is such that no country can stand up to him, and certainly not alone. But the major European powers, and others, do have leverage, especially if they act in concert."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #narcissism #MadKing #imperialism
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"What these assaults, domestic and foreign, have in common is the drive for power, free of challenge or restraint. South American countries are to submit, as are Democrat-run cities and states. Whether it’s sending special forces to Caracas or ordering the National Guard into Los Angeles and Washington DC, the goal is control."

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #narcissism #MadKing #imperialism #psychopath
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"Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth. It should galvanise all those who oppose him. ...

Trump’s desire for Greenland was once dismissed as a punchline, but after Venezuela no one is laughing. Now we know that Trump’s words are the best guide to his future actions: if he says he wants something, he may well take it."

~ Jonathan Freedland

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #narcissism #imperialism
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"By now, it is clear that Donald Trump is determined to either buy or take Greenland by force. The question is, what can be done to stop him. The answer is that NATO is the sole bulwark against this insane project."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #Greenland #NATO #narcissism #MadKing #imperialism #psychopath
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"Trump said the U.S. will take action to secure control of Greenland 'whether they like it or not,' citing national security concerns and warning that Russia or China could otherwise gain influence, despite firm opposition from Greenland, Denmark, and bipartisan U.S. lawmakers."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Greenland #imperialism #SpheresofInfluence #hemisphere #imperialism #narcissism #MadKing #psychopath #Russia #China
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The two novels of Orwell I haven't read are "A Clergyman's Daughter" and "Coming Up for Air".

The former incorporates Orwell's supposedly unsuccessful stab at modernist literary technique; I'm curious to see if it really is a failure.

I know little about the latter, but both the completist and the cultural historian within me want to polish it off anyway.

"Burmese Days" is excellent, and should be pressed into the hands of Neil Ferguson fans and other right wingers inclined to wax lyrical about the British empire.

At some point in the future, I'll post my thoughts on "1984'".

Image: 1943 National Union of Journalists card photo -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain.

#GeorgeOrwell #Books #Literature #BritishLiterature #Fiction #AClergymansDaughter #ComingUpForAir #BurmeseDays #1984 #BritishEmpire #Imperialism #RightWing #LiteraryHistory



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Complication for #imperialism to launch this offensive on a world scale: The hegemonic challenge posed by #China state controlled,capitalist enterprises

At the same time as profitability sinks, the organic composition of #capital is rising, accelerated by AI-driven automation.
Ever fewer workers are needed to operate ever larger, more complex means of production. Capital must extract more surplus from a shrinking base of labor power, which exerts more pressure on profit rates.


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34 years ago today, the #SovietUnion officially ceased to exist. December 26, 1991

Apologies to #tankies (not really) but it was a very good thing

Not liking the #Soviet Union has nothing to do with loving #capitalism or loving the #West, it's about despising #imperialism

Anyone who has a problem with my sentiment:

Talk to someone who lived in #EasternEurope or under the Soviet umbrella

We must defeat #plutocracy in the West

The Soviet way is not the way

Happy #SovietUnionCollapseDay


#Denmark & #Greenland on Monday reacted with anger to Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland, as he intensifies his efforts to take over the semiautonomous Danish territory.

#Trump announced Sunday he was appointing Louisiana Gov #JeffLandry, a political ally, to the position. Denmark’s foreign minister quickly criticized the move as “totally unacceptable” & said he would summon the #US ambassador in Copenhagen for an explanation.

#geopolitics #imperialism
nytimes.com/2025/12/22/world/e…

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