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The Disputed Territories of Al-Aqsa Flood

Godless munky wrote:might as well add this too since i just saw it
How Israel Merked its Own Civilians on October 7
https://youtu.be/fCjTki-OgKQ

Eye-opening video.

This war has been eye-opening for the world. People are awakening to see how the imperialist colonialist powers have abused the Palestinian people.

The Council Republic of Zulanka in NK

I apologize for not posting much here in recent months comrades! I've focused more on our fellow NSLeft communities' off-site spaces in recent years and our region has languished. This year I'd like to build up our activity again, cultivate high-quality discussion, and clear some of the cobwebs from the region in terms of organization. I welcome other comrades' suggestions on direction for the region.

The Council Republic of Zulanka in NK

UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unrwa-report-says-israel-coerced-some-agency-employees-falsely-admit-hamas-links-2024-03-08/

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Monument to Ukrainian soldiers who served under Nazis removed from Canadian cemetery

Controversy over the marker resurfaced in the aftermath of veteran honored by Parliament

https://forward.com/fast-forward/590768/ukrainian-soldiers-nazi-monument-canada/

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Where Do Haitian Gangs Come From & What Do They Want? Al Jazeera Interviews Kim Ives on Mar 11, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdfbjFHhG8

The People's Republic of Diamatiya

I would also like to apologize for my lack of activity as of late. I made a grandiose post last year about really committing myself to this region, but I haven't followed through because I've had some unexpected personal commitments (namely a bereavement). I also used to greatly enjoy providing news from West Asia, but with the recent events I just feel emotionally exhausted.

The People's Republic of Diamatiya

I highly recommend this report from The Tricontinental Institute called "Hyper-Imperialism". I have my pedantic disagreements with certain aspects, but overall it expresses many of the same thoughts I've been having over the last several years (and then some). It contains a lot of information on multipolarity/polycentrism/whatever you want to call it in one place while elaborating on its opportunities and limitations.

https://thetricontinental.org/studies-on-contemporary-dilemmas-4-hyper-imperialism/

The Council Republic of Zulanka in NK

UK Conservatives say their biggest donor made racist comments, but they’re not giving back his money

https://apnews.com/article/uk-conservative-party-donor-racism-936fd1bb71e0bc58c3992299cb9deabf

Exclusive: Trump launched CIA covert influence operation against China

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-launched-cia-covert-influence-operation-against-china-2024-03-14/

Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/niger-revokes-military-accord-with-us-junta-spokesperson-says-2024-03-16/

The Council Republic of Zulanka in NK

Not the most original thesis, but this is well-written piece focusing on heavy dependency on fossil fuels and chemical fertilizers as the primary drivers of food shortages in the DPRK in the 90s. I think the author's ecological emphasis loses sight of the bigger picture here though:

"If a society plans to phase out fossil fuels and intense chemical applications, it implies we have to keep a considerable level of human physical labor in farming and other activities and a robust and populous countryside."

I'm certainly critical of the notion we can just stick a solar panel and battery on farm equipment and call it a day but this presents existing technological constraints as indefinite. Worse, it abandons previous Marxists' work outlining the conditions that bring "an end to both the division of material and mental labor and the separation of town and country", elucidated well by Stalin in Economic Problems of the USSR (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1951/economic-problems/ch13.htm). Maybe I'm misinterpreting the author, they don't detail their prescriptions much, but the presentation of an ecological socialism potentially requiring longer working hours and more people exclusively in agriculture implies it would reinforce the division of labor. The author notes how the heavy mechanization of the DPRK's agriculture benefited it at times, so I'm surprised they don't consider deeper reasons behind why twentieth-century socialists focused on it beyond meeting their immediate needs.

Industrial Agriculture: Lessons from North Korea

https://monthlyreview.org/2024/03/01/industrial-agriculture-lessons-from-north-korea/

The Council Republic of Zulanka in NK

Building off my last post, note that this new greenhouse is meant to save land and labor, to increase productivity.

Kim Jong Un and Daughter Attend Commissioning Ceremony of Kangdong Greenhouse Complex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMyI7kgJ3Y4

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KCNA Detailed Report on Construction of Kangdong Greenhouse Complex

Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency Saturday released a detailed report on the successful construction of the Kangdong Greenhouse Complex as the world's leading vegetable producer.

The detailed report said that the soldier-builders, involved in the construction of the greenhouse complex, successfully completed the world's leading vegetable production base, whose building scale and production capacity is nearly twice as big as those of the Ryonpho Greenhouse Farm, and whose intensive, optimum and intelligent levels have been remarkably enhanced, in just one year after the start of the construction, thus bringing about the significant moment of commissioning.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un, a direct initiator and builder of the complex, clearly indicated the strategy and ways for completing the project as soon as possible, including site selection, formation of building forces and supply of materials, and personally guided the building project, the report said, and went on:

The loyalty, patriotic enthusiasm and sky-high spirit peculiar to the People's Army brought about miracles and feats from the beginning of construction.

Socialist emulation intensified amid the brisk frontline-style information and motivation work. New methods were invented and introduced to speed up the project by several times and the ranks of skilled workers increased. As a result, the framework and infrastructure construction of greenhouse blocks were successfully completed and the construction of management, production and public buildings was rapidly carried out.

Holding aloft such slogans of faith as "Let's report the motherly Party Central Committee on the successful completion of the large-scale greenhouse farm and present it to the beloved people" and "Forward for our great people's wellbeing!", the soldier-builders dedicated their gem-like conscience, blood and sweat to every structure and ensured the speed and quality of construction in the face of ordeals and difficulties.

The miracles and feats performed by the soldier-builders are associated with the warm sincerity of the service team made up of hundreds of service personnel's wives.

Officials and workers across the country made a positive contribution to the building project in concert with the hard-working soldiers in Kangdong.

The service personnel of the People's Army successfully wrapped up the large-scale greenhouse complex construction, which was said to take several years by existing formulas, in a matter of one year and perfected the preparations for its commissioning, and reported to the Party Central Committee on their loyalty and victory.

The modern, advanced, convenient and unique Kangdong Greenhouse Complex, where various kinds of vegetables including tasty and nutritious green, fruit-bearing and functional vegetables are mass-produced, is a grand monumental edifice in the great era of Kim Jong Un that subordinates and orients everything to promoting the people's well-being and dynamically ushers in a period of comprehensive socialist development with the Korean-style creative spirit.

As long as there are the extraordinary leadership of the great Party Central Committee, the reliable and proud service personnel of the People's Army with absolute loyalty as the original nature of their life and the great people who support the Party with their single-minded efforts, the world-startling miracles and epochal changes in the DPRK will continue to happen and comprehensive rejuvenation of the country will gain fresh momentum.

http://www.kcna.kp/en/article/q/5a4125c8e983da2d61f5a2de756cbf63.kcmsf

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