Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Cuba as US ally in Drug War

 Cuba has become one of the U.S. government’s most reliable security partners in the Caribbean.

Since the 1990s, Cuban and U.S. armed forces have collaborated closely on counternarcotics operations and efforts to stop illegal migration, according to Klepak. Cuba’s strategy, Klepak argues, has been “to create a body of people in the U.S. government who see Cuba as a natural and effective ally in security issues.”

https://world-outlook.com/2026/01/13/cubas-role-in-venezuela/

All modern Marxists will salute this Asiatic mode of production

Monday, January 12, 2026

Assassins defense

 https://news.bitcoin.com/a16z-reveals-three-crypto-predictions-for-2026/

$45 Billion VC Giant Eyeing Developments in Prediction Markets, Media, and the Potential for a Completely New Crypto Primitive

In a blog post, A16z analysts released three crypto predictions, the first of which is that “ prediction markets will go bigger and broader, plus get smarter.”

Beauty is truth and truth beauty all ye need to know

Five thousand years ago

 Author describes an idea called the interpenetration of opposites derived from stark contrasts in the environment based on a long oasis.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Rise-Fall-Ancient-Egypt/dp/0553384902

For Marxists the lesson is clear base your theories on Asiatic despotism.

No Gramsci can ever turn this pyramid upsidedown.

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/desert-sandstone-mountains-left-bank-nile-river-opposite-city-luxor-egypt-panoramas-views-egyptian-203966758.jpg

A final solution to the commodity problem

 Soviet Archives Marxist philosophy The Law of the Negation of the Negation

Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . ."

Change in quantity leads to change in quality

 Why parliamentary cretinism will get workers all they want in America

IWMA 1872: La Liberte speech

You know that the institutions, mores, and traditions of various countries must be taken into consideration, and we do not deny that there are countries -- such as America, England, and if I were more familiar with your institutions, I would perhaps also add Holland -- where the workers can attain their goal by peaceful means. 

Malafictum maladorum

 Coincidentia oppositorum is a Latin phrase meaning coincidence of opposites. It is a neoplatonic term attributed to 15th century German polymath Nicholas of Cusa in his essay, De Docta Ignorantia (1440). Mircea Eliade, a 20th-century historian of religion, used the term extensively in his essays about myth and ritual, describing the coincidentia oppositorum as "the mythical pattern". 

Psychiatrist Carl Jung, the philosopher and Islamic Studies professor Henry Corbin as well as Jewish philosophers Gershom Scholem and Abraham Joshua Heschel also used the term. For example, Michael Maier stresses that in alchemy, coincidentia oppositorum, the union of opposites is the aim of the alchemical work. Or, according to Paracelsus' pupil, Gerhard Dorn, the highest grade of the alchemical coniunctio consisted in the union of the total man with the unus mundus ("one world").[citation needed]

The term is also used in describing a revelation of the oneness of things previously believed to be different. Such insight into the unity of things is a kind of immanence, and is found in various non-dualist and dualist traditions.

Political Indifferentism

Shrink from Hell

 The Only Cure by Mark Solms review – has modern neuroscience proved Freud right? | Books | The Guardian

Articles of faith such as the sexual basis of all pleasures, the death drive, penis envy and the id are discarded. He also deals sceptically with the carnival of characters – among them shrink from hell Jacques Lacan – who developed their own eccentric versions of psychoanalysis.

Cuba as US ally in Drug War

  Cuba has become one of the U.S. government’s most reliable security partners in the Caribbean. Since the 1990s, Cuban and U.S. armed force...