I don’t know…i see a lot of US “leftists” defend veterans…

Ah. Right. No, sorry, i can’t help there. Have you tried ProPublica?

Regardless, i don’t think anyone has any doubt that the NED is funded by the US government. You don’t need an IRS form to know that. And the fact that these US based “Iran Human Rights” orgs work with the NED is publicly documented on their sites:

Here is NED calling them a “partner”: https://www.ned.org/ned-partner-recognized-for-promotion-of-human-rights-and-democracy-in-iran/

And here is the group admitting to receiving NED funding: https://www.hra-iran.org/article/an-inner-view-to-the-human-rights-activists-in-iran-keyvan-rafiee-founder-and-director-of-human-rights-activists-in-iran/

Therefore, HRA expanded its network and decided to start receiving financial aid from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a non-governmental and non-profit organization based in the United States.

Someone posted this on Twitter:

I don’t know if that’s what you’re looking for or where to find the full document.

I hate to defend BE but in this case it is pretty clear what point he is trying to make: he is deliberately using the same arguments and the exact same phrasing that many leftists use when defending people who join the US military. BE has had a long standing beef with leftists who defend US veterans.

He has made it very clear that he doesn’t agree with making excuses for people who, for whatever reason, choose to become soldiers for the US empire, and he is drawing a parallel between them and ICE, pointing out that if you think working for ICE is indefensible you should also think being in the US military is just as irredeemable.

Whether he is right about that is debatable but clearly that is the point he is making here.

Thank you for posting this! I hope this will once and for all put an end to the confusion around why some Venezuelan “communists” are so anti-PSUV and literally parroting imperialist and far right propaganda.

The best was the Tiananmen square mention. Comparing an event that you don’t understand, where you are being lied to about the number of casualties, with another event you don’t understand, where you are also being lied to about the number of casualties. Prime lib shit.

Case in point. CBS is literally ran by a pro-genocide Zionist.

They are if the year is 1637

This excellent information! Should probably be its own post, especially the part about the “Which Path to Persia” think tank paper. Anyone following what is happening with Iran needs to read it, just like anyone following Russia-Ukraine needs to read RAND’s “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia”.

My father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate says it was 100,000!

The good news is that there is no space in the Netherlands for large vineyards. The useable land is already full with tulips and the rest is marsh.

Italy looks to be hit the hardest. Southern Romania also not looking well, but at least they can make up for it with gains in Transylvania.

Cyprus not working out for them? Or they just can’t get enough of taking over and settling other people’s land?

Preparing a plan B in case things go south in occupied Palestine?

Probably not. You can see women without any head covering even in the pro-government rallies that are currently happening. Especially in the big cities it is not uncommon to see that fairly regularly.

Now, rural areas, sure they tend to be more conservative and therefore it is more likely to encounter repression there around this issue, but it’s not the government doing it, it’s the families and local community.

Ideal? No. But far from what is claimed in western propaganda.

Comrade Cowbee has been doing truly wonderful work 🫡

Putting up the Great Firewall has been the best decision China made in the 21st century. It has been vindicated a thousand times over.

Maybe the user in question deleted their post themselves.

One of his better posts imo.

I highly recommend the book “This Soviet World” by Anna Louise Strong from 1936

Seconded. That is an excellent book.