COMBAT_OBAMUNISM [they/them, comrade/them]

The situation in Lebanon continues to escalate. Earlier today, Hezbollah successfully directed a significant drone attack against an occupation outpost, destroying a settler military unit.

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There are now reports on telegram and twitter that aggression from the occupier has ratcheted up, including what seem to be indiscriminate missile attacks / air strikes against south Lebanon, mostly near the city of Tyre. As always CW for possible reactionary content, and wait for confirmation from more reliable sources

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As somebody who is pretty ignorant of the region and theory as regards multinationalism vs national self-determination, the Spanish system (within the Iberian landmass, saying nothing of the obvious historical exploitation relations with regard to overseas occupations) of "autonomous communities" superficially appears relatively progressive. Now, when we factor in that the side seeking further autonomy or independence is often left-aligned and struggling against a bourgeois dictatorship deeply ensconced in EU institutions, the case for support is clear. But on the other hand vulgar support for "national self-determination" is an imperial instrument of the liberal order that is selectively used to empower ultranationalists against multinational or pluralistic systems, as seen in Xinjiang, Yugoslavia, the USSR cases.

So I guess I'm asking, outside the scope of exploitation of one people by another and the superstructure (e.g., racialisation of an underclass) that emerges from this, what are the cases for supporting independence movements? And is there any recommended theory on this? I'm not talking about the obvious cases here (like "New Caledonia"), but for instance Scotland--critical support for the breakup of one of history's most brutal metropoles, but potentially at the cost of strengthening a modern institution of the hard right, the EU.

The president of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, has recently signed into law major restrictions on imperial NGOs (ratified last month). Some here might recall similar events in Georgia around a year ago sparking an attempted colour revolution. Hopefully Kyrgyzstan's better economic integration with China and Eurasia (and the absence of any delusions about ) will lead to a cleaner expulsion of imperial influences.

Relatedly, Georgia's government has not given up on their efforts to ratify an anti-NGO bill. (Although the western-sponsored riots in Tbilisi around a year ago successfully intimidated the plurality Georgian Dream party into withdrawing the bill, it failed to remove the government.) Now a resurrected bill is back in the news after the parliament voted on and passed a first reading. The president has declared intentions to veto, while the plurality party continues to back it with the potential of recruiting supermajority support.

Major protests in solidarity with the resistance have renewed in Amman, Jordan during the past several days. The focus of the protests is the embassy of the occupier, with which the Hashemite puppet regime retains numerous agreements and close ties. The police enforcers of the Hashemite regime have continued their months-long crackdown against the overwhelmingly pro-Palestine population and responded with the usual state violence.

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To be clear, most of the reports were from the night before