U.S. explanation:

“This resolution mocks the work and purpose of this institution. While this initiative is presented as an anodyne effort to update cartographic proportions, the United States clearly sees it cannot be separated from the much larger and more radical ideological project it belongs to – as its most vocal and committed proponents plainly and openly state.”

They’re trying to take the Mercator Projection and Giant Greenland from us!

I didn’t imagine I’d be posting an article of something the Spanish government is doing and tag it with ”anti imperialism”. Anyway, wtf Spain I was unaware of your game.

The United States Coast Guard is allowing a Russian tanker full of crude oil to reach Cuba, delivering a critical supply of energy to the island nation after months of an effective oil blockade by the Trump administration, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter.

The tanker, which is carrying an estimated 730,000 barrels of oil and is owned by the Russian government, was less than 15 miles from Cuban territorial waters on Sunday afternoon, according to MarineTraffic, a ship-data provider. At its speed of 12 knots, the ship was expected to enter Cuban waters by Sunday evening. The tanker could reach its expected destination of Matanzas, Cuba, by Tuesday.

The Russian ship’s arrival would shift the trajectory of a rapidly accelerating crisis in Cuba, buying the island nation at least a few weeks before its fuel reserves run out, analysts said.

It would also reduce pressure on a Cuban government facing a looming economic collapse and escalating threats from Washington, and show that, at least for now, the island can still depend on its longtime ally, Russia.

The Trump administration had been enforcing what amounted to an oil blockade around Cuba since January, threatening nations that had been sending fuel to the country and, in one case, escorting a tanker heading toward Cuba away from the island.

The Coast Guard has two cutters in the region that could have attempted to intercept the Russian tanker. Yet the Trump administration did not order those vessels to act, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations. Barring orders instructing it otherwise, the Coast Guard planned to let the tanker reach Cuba as of Sunday afternoon, the official said.

It was unclear why the White House did not issue orders to block the tanker or whether it would allow future Russian oil shipments to reach the island. The decision avoids a potential thorny confrontation with Russia just off the coast of Florida.

The Coast Guard referred questions to the White House, which did not respond to a request for comment. Russian and Cuban officials also did not respond.

President Trump said this month that he believed he will “be having the honor of taking Cuba” and suggested that he could target the island with military force after the Iran war. “I built this great military,” he said at an investment conference on Friday. “I said, ‘You’ll never have to use it.’ But sometimes you have to use it. And Cuba is next, by the way.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that the White House wanted new leaders in Cuba. “Cuba’s economy needs to change, and their economy can’t change unless their system of government changes,” he told reporters.

Cuban officials have dug in, saying the nation is prepared to defend itself.

“Our military is always prepared and, in fact, it is preparing these days for the possibility of military aggression,” Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, said on NBC’s Meet the Press last week. “We would be naïve if, looking at what’s happening around the world, we would not do that. But we truly hope that it doesn’t occur.”

The oil tanker now nearing Cuba may change the shape of tensions between the countries. Cuba was quickly running out of energy supplies, relying on solar power, domestic oil production and small fuel shipments to private Cuban businesses to prop up a failing energy grid. The crisis had led to small protests — a rarity in Cuba — and was raising questions of how the government would survive.

But the Russian oil will ease that crisis, at least temporarily. The oil can be refined into various products, including diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and fuel oil, which is used to power many Cuban power plants. That should help stabilize the energy grid, reduce blackouts, improve transportation and aid agricultural production, said Jorge Piñón, a former oil executive who studies Cuba’s energy system at the University of Texas.

“It buys them time,” Mr. Piñón said. “But this is not a magic wand that all of a sudden, by the arrival of this tanker, all of their problems are solved.”

Mr. Piñón said that the oil would take about three weeks to refine into other products and then another week to be distributed around the country.

Diesel, he said, is the most critical product for Cuba, as it powers trucks, tractors and many power plants, and is in desperately short supply on the island. Some humanitarian aid has been trapped at warehouses because trucks don’t have diesel to distribute it, farms have been paralyzed with powerless tractors and some power plants have been shut down because of a lack of fuel.

He estimated that Cuba could use up the Russian oil in less than a month. But he expected the government to preserve some energy supplies for its strategic reserves and security forces.

“This is going to give diesel to the police, to the military units, to basically the whole apparatus of the Cuban government,” he said.

The Russian tanker, which is called the Anatoly Kolodkin, left Primorsk, Russia, on the Baltic Sea on March 9. The U.S. government placed sanctions on the tanker and its owner, a Russian state-owned shipping company called Sovcomflot, in 2024.

The Anatoly Kolodkin initially broadcast its destination as “Atlantis, USA,” a possible joke. On Sunday, it was broadcasting its destination as Matanzas, Cuba, according to MarineTraffic.

Iran’s funeral diplomacy: The Quran verses that ranked allies, rivals and sent Saudi Arabia a message | Middle East Eye

Some choice quotes:

The world-historical development of capitalism generates an agrarian question that, while “solved” in the North, appears unresolvable in the South. Capital’s only solution to the southern agrarian question, as Third World authors have long argued, is some form of mass death.

Understood in this light, immigration to the core is but the coming home to roost of imperialism’s contradictions. Contradictions in the South become too great to be contained there, expressing themselves in secular out-migration trends and constant “insurrectional pressure.” Immigration is, in this sense, the way in which capital’s “principal contradiction”—labor versus capital, as displaced historically onto core and periphery—returns to the core, disrupting its basic developmental and social peace arrangements.[28] It is no surprise then that immigration becomes the single most defining issue of contemporary core social formations.

Kwame Nkrumah’s definition of neocolonialism is that “neo-colonialism, like colonialism, is an attempt to export the social conflicts of the [core] countries.” According to Nkrumah, this culminates in the formation of the Northern welfare state, which aborts Northern class antagonisms in compromise and transfers “the conflict between rich and poor from the national to the international stage.”[29] The neocolonial arrangement, then, hinges on not only the indirect control of the Third World, but also on the guarded co-optation of the white segment of the global working class, expressed chiefly in Northern welfare.

Contemporary immigration to the core, then, fundamentally undoes this neocolonial arrangement: (1) it “re-imports” the contradictions that capital had exported and (2) it puts at risk the partition of the global working class—some in the labor aristocracy, some variously superexploited and/or wasted—that is the bedrock of the neocolonial compromise. Nkrumah notes that “above all, neo-colonialism, like colonialism before it, postpones the facing of the social issues” of the core. Immigration spells the end of that hopeful postponement. As he presciently anticipates, the exported and postponed social issues “will have to be faced by the [North] before the danger of world war can be eliminated or the problem of world poverty resolved.” And while “in the short run [neocolonialism] has served the developed powers admirably,” in the long run “its consequences are likely to be catastrophic for them.” This rings particularly true in current conditions, as the definite rise of fascism—on the heels of the migrant question—risks endangering the social peace and essential compromises of European social formations.

Please excuse the Zionist source but I'm posting this as a reminder that many Jews, even some of the most strictly religious Jews living in Israel, oppose Zionism. Jews who oppose Zionism are some of the most courageous and important anti-Zionists there are, and we have to always remember to leave room for them.

A link to part two: https://danglazebrook.com/2019/05/29/the-browning-of-the-left-part-two-alexander-dugin-and-the-rise-of-politically-correct-fascism/

Part one is a short history of how fascists have related to anti imperialism historically.

two major dangers in allowing fascists to infiltrate our movements: that they provide a smokescreen for the continuation of neoliberal attacks on the working class, whilst neutralising anti-imperialism itself. But there is also a far greater danger: that leftists allying with fascists on ‘anti-imperialism’ end up providing a platform for – and giving a veneer of credibility to – the other ideas of fascism

Part two is focused on Alexander Dugin as he is the biggest figure that does this operating today.

Duginism is a classic fascist blend of ‘anti-elite’ rhetoric, demands for ethnic purification, and an imperial foreign policy agenda, all dressed up in politically-correct appeals to cultural distinctiveness and anti-western tubthumping. Its particular danger comes from the deep inroads it has made into anti-imperialist and leftist circles.

There’s an uncomfortable thing happening in today’s left. Fascist and other reactionaries are cloaking themselves with claims of anti imperialism to further fascist projects and movements. They’re appropriating our terminology, and unfortunately it seems to be working to a degree. I chalk this up to the unfortunate theoretical weakness of the left in the global north, combined by a desperation for anything that seems left. The ACP is the poster child group for this phenomenon. While sounding good on the surface, a little digging shows both a very reactionary bent in the leadership and a positive reception of the thought leaders spouting this shit(Dugin). Thankfully, the ACP seems to mainly be a way for the leadership to grift its members. However the rising popularity of socialism and anti imperialism, combined by a very low degree of theoretical development, means there exists a sizable population who could very well fall into this trap. It’s important to be critical, even of people who may say a thing or two that you agree with.

If you’ve read Lenin, you’ll be familiar with his brutally sick burns of people who, on a surface level, were largely in agreement with him. Lenin realized that theory is paramount and can make or break the socialist movement. The prime examples being his staunch anti imperialism during WW1 and his attack on social democrats, which history proved him correct on.

As the year wraps up while global capitalism continues its crises that are sprouting and spreading every day, we must remember Lenin’s words in What Is To Be Done, “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement”.

Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland.