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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 13h

While Trump kidnaps, dehumanizes, & deports Venezuelan immigrants, Maria Corina Machado dedicates the Nobel Peace Prize to him to give license to an invasion. This just gives you a glimpse of whose interests Machado is defending, and they’re not those of the people of Venezuela.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 13h

The Nobel Peace Prize should put Zohran Mamdani’s statement on Venezuela into perspective for those who were unwilling to listen to the critiques we made. But I’m convinced that far too many won’t ever give up their imperial worldview, way of being, and indifference.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 13h

The Nobel Peace Prize is a license to wage war

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Jodie @missymoo2.bsky.social · 15h

www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 14h

“They’re not going to give in unless there is a real, credible threat—a severe, imminent threat. And the only threat that makes them yield is the threat of the use of international force.”

The Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado referring to the Venezuelan government.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 15h

Over 40 million people around the world have died because of US and European sanctions since 1970. Anyone who calls for sanctions on their country is calling for the death of their people.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 17h

Please submit your proposals to the Decolonial Conference by October 12!!!

Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 19h

A reminder that the deadline for submissions is 2 days away! Make sure to submit and share with your networks!

#decolonialconference

Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 7d

Deadline extended!!!

The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!

#decolonialconference

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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 19h

A reminder that the deadline for submissions is 2 days away! Make sure to submit and share with your networks!

#decolonialconference

Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 7d

Deadline extended!!!

The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!

#decolonialconference

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 19h

The Sameer Project’s donations are down 45%. Please donate whatever you can.
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We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,

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Phil Kapitan - Marx Appreciator 🏴🍉 @phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 1d

Lotta people jumping to celebrate this award without actually checking some things 👇

Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

A supporter of genocide and genocidal ethnonationalist state won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Image of Maria Corina Machado:
"for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that US sanctions against Venezuela resulted in 40,000 deaths from 2017 to 2018 alone (@jasonhickel). That’s what Maria Corina Machado supports and that’s why she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

If you support US sanctions against Venezuela, you also support sanctioned death.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, she’s a supporter of sanctioned death and a staunch supporter of Israel.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

A supporter of genocide and genocidal ethnonationalist state won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

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Thank you for your consideration.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Zohran Mamdani has the Palestinian protest movement to thank for his win | Heba Gowayed

The Democratic socialist’s victory in the New York City primary elections shows support for Palestine is not a liability

www.theguardian.com

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2d

To write with urgency, to write poetically, to write with affect that moves the reader to action requires giving up the careerist and opportunist game academia loves to play as the world burns around its ivory towers.
www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/a-counteri...

A (Counter)Insurgent Craft

In his article, Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide, Fargo Tbahki asks in his “What does Palestine require of us, as writers writing in English from within the imperial core, in this momen...

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 3d

The fact of the matter is that Zohran Mamdani gained momentum from the movement he is distancing himself from and thus alienating, particularly at a moment when it has become relatively easy to win the mayoral election.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 3d

Never forget that mainstream media, the Democratic Party, and academia all repeated the false claims about the 40 beheaded babies.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll never condemn a people who resist an occupying power.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 3d

Colonial powers have always portrayed anti-colonial resistance as savagery, barbarism, and terrorism.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 4d

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection…

—Mao Tse-tung

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 4d

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood resulted in a paradigmatic shift. It resurrected the Manichean world in the minds of people who naively thought it had ceased to exist. It brought raw conceptual clarity in a world full of liberal deceptions, illusions, and distortions.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 5d

Never forget about October 6 and the decades of occupation.

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The Sex Work Historian ☂️ @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 7d

The deadline has been extended!!!

#decolonialconference

Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 7d

Deadline extended!!!

The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!

#decolonialconference

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