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Anti-capitalist. Anti-imperialist. Anti-racist. Anti-colonialist. Dreaming of the liberation of all Pasifika People Demilitarize the Pacific

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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Neoliberal ideology supports migration and open borders in the name of personal liberty and human rights, knowing that it provides employers in the receiving countries with an unlimited labor supply, thereby destabilizing protective labor regimes." -Wolfgang Streeck
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Almost a billion dollars for weapons, but nothing for the people of Guam🙄 www.guampdn.com/news/dods-1-...
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DOD's $1.45T budget includes $937M for Guam Defense System, more missiles and interceptors
The Department of Defense’s landmark $1.45 trillion budget request for fiscal year 2027 includes $938 million in support to the Guam Defense System and its Joint Program Office.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The neoliberal state began as an interventionist experiment to shield the market from mass democracy." -Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization without Political Consequences
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"For our island, the economy is increasingly reliant on the military. This dependency is not a truly sustainable economy as our lands are being slowly destroyed. The very lands that a sustainably economy should be built upon." t.co/oom2c1wFu8
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https://www.guampdn.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-lotz-the-military-industrial-complex-on-guam/article_f3d8c33a-be80-445e-ac4a-d62e3fcfc2d0.html
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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US Nuclear Testing Continues to Haunt the Marshall Islands | Vice News
YouTube video by VICE News
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"In the early 50s... the US commandeered Bikini and Eniwetok atolls for nuclear testing. Now, after years of exile and litigation, some of those islands are being resettled, others were obliterated. A third group of islands won't be safe for thousands of years." -PF Kluge
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Destruction of East India Company Gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for Confronting Big Tech: Historian www.commondreams.org/news/break-u...
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Destruction of East India Company Gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for Confronting Big Tech: Historian | Common Dreams
Historian warns of unchecked power in Big Tech firms, drawing parallels to British East India Company. US lawmakers urged to rein in tech giants.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"In 2022, the world’s five hundred richest individuals collectively owned as much wealth as the combined poorest half of humanity, or four billion people." -Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The IMF and World Bank keep pretending they’re “helping,” but their austerity traps and debt chains look a lot like colonialism with a modern logo. Power flows upward, suffering downward.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Remarkably, the height of the neoliberal moment was the 1990s, when Democratic president Bill Clinton, Labour prime minister Tony Blair, and Social Democratic chancellor Gerhard Schröder steered some of the world’s largest economies into neoliberal waters." -Sven Beckert
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"...[F]or Egyptian economist Samir Amin, neoliberalism ended the project of “emergence” in the Global South, bringing about what he called its “re-compradorization,” by which he meant that local elites once again became just intermediaries for foreign capital." -Sven Beckert
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The AmeriKKKan military does all of these exercises, but if shit hits the fan with China, the US will run away🙄 USFK air defense unit participates in recent U.S. missile defense exercise in Palau en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...
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USFK air defense unit participates in recent U.S. missile defense exercise in Palau | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Yonhap) -- An air defense artillery brigade under the U.S. Forces Korea (US...
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"No single twentieth-century development recast global capitalism in more consequential ways than decolonization." -Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“Europe is literally the creation of the Third World.” -Frantz Fanon
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Imperialism provided capitalism [with] the aid of strong state power to grow into the formidable force that it has become today.” -Werner Sombart
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"The number of people pressed into forced labor in King Leopold’s Congo was staggering, and scholars have estimated that between five and ten million Congolese people died as a result." -Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"The Belgian Congo was ground zero for turn-of-the-century forced labor, with one author justifiably calling it “one of the most horrifying chapters in the history of the meeting of white and dark-skinned people.” -Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Labor under capitalism was siloed, often along racial lines, walled in by legal tropes, international boundaries, and state-enforced categorical hierarchies, enabling a radically uneven treatment of labor across the capitalist world." -Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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The Pacific nation caught between two superpowers
On a remote Pacific island chain, a new era of rivalry is testing an old way of life.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The American militarization of Palau is not only putting a huge target on the small island nation but is also destructive environmentally. #DemilitarizePalau islandtimes.org/military-bui...
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Military buildup in Palau faces growing dissatisfaction, report says - Island Times News
KOROR, 13 APRIL 2026 (PACIFIC ISLAND TIMES) ---The guardrails built into agreements between the United States and Palau to protect the Pacific nation's
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"The transatlantic slave trade with Brazil was the most intense in the entire history of slavery, with 1.2 million enslaved Africans arriving in Brazil during the first half of the nineteenth century, almost all to work on coffee plantations." -Sven Beckert
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Indigenous peoples lost control of more land in the wake of the Industrial Revolution than in the three centuries before 1800 combined—perhaps nowhere more radically than in the United States." -Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It can be argued that the Industrial Revolution was made by children. In coal mines, workers started at a young age, characteristically at six or eight. -Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Regardless of what form industrialization took, it created global hierarchies far more radical than anything seen in prior human history, opening a deep divide between those few parts of the world that had undergone industrial revolution and the rest of the planet. -Sven Beckert
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Pacific Civil Society Calls for a Genuine Ocean of Peace: The Pacific is NOT a battleground – Pacific Network on Globalisation
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down www.hamptonthink.org/read/the-cap...
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The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down — Hampton Institute
By Colin Jenkins Rich people have always had class consciousness because... they want to stay rich. This collective consciousness led the "founding fathers" of the United States to set up systems ...
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"In 1688, about twenty thousand slaves needed to be imported to the Caribbean just to keep the labor force level, testifying to what can only be described as genocide for profit." -Sven Beckert. Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Perhaps capitalism could have developed differently, but, as economist Barbara Solow pointed out long ago, the reality is that it developed based on slavery." -Sven Beckert. Capitalism: A Global History
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ameriKKKa is starting to send deportees to Palau😡 US deports first migrant to Pacific nation Palau msn.com/en-us/news/w...
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Capitalism’s forward march then becomes a story of satanic mills, the transport of millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas, the vast theft of land and raw materials during colonialism, and a rapacious system’s unprecedented assault on our natural environment. -Sven Beckert
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"The other story of capitalism... highlights desperate factory workers, brutalized plantation slaves, starving farmers in once self-sufficient countrysides, expropriated Native peoples, and all the victims of colonialism, war, and displacement." Sven Beckert, Capitalism
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Some book recommendations about worker exploitation in the Pacific:
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"The Technocrats have chosen technology over politics (the will of the people), and they are busy building an antimajoritarian society that will give them the independence to pursue their kind of monopoly capitalism, free of the constraints of democracy." -Jonathan Taplin
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"The military-industrial complex took up to 60 percent of our (American) discretionary spending, and so, unlike most advanced democracies, we could not afford health care for all citizens or free college for anyone who couldn’t afford it." -Jonathan Taplin
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"...Sending a manned mission to Mars, as you will see, is a pointless ego trip for a man like Musk and a $10 trillion burden on the American taxpayers when there are so many other pressing issues to address, like renewable energy." -Jonathan Taplin
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"Someone once said libertarians are like house cats: they believe they are fiercely independent but are completely oblivious of the fact that their entire existence is dependent on a support system they do not perceive or understand." -Jonathan Taplin
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"United States economic development of Micronesia was a dismal failure." -Micronesia: Trust Betrayed by Donald F. McHenry
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Some great books you should read:
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"...The trust territory of the Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa are caught in a no man's land between independence and statehood. The problems raised by territories are perplexing in an anti-colonialist world." -Micronesia: Trust Betrayed
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.guampdn.com/opinion/colu...
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OPINION Lotz: Keeping up with the military's environmental reviews
For those who are tracking the military buildup of the Mariana Islands, the following is a listing of primarily the environmental reviews to date:
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Chinese medical team supports post-disaster efforts in Federated States of Micronesia
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"Partially because its economy & land are dominated by the military and persons not of Chamorro descent, Guam is frequently cited by Micronesians as an example of what they wish to avoid." -Micronesia: Trust Betrayed
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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'It sucks': Guam's indigenous Chamorro people and their complex relationship with the US
Cultural historian and Guam museum curator Dr Michael Bevacqua says after liberation in July 1944, there was the strong desire amongst indigenous Chamorros to Americanise.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Military buildup in Palau faces growing dissatisfaction, report says
Palauans initially welcomed military traffic, but the accelerated influx of troops quickly stretched domestic resources and degraded roads, causing anxiety among residents.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"Capitalism is an international regime of waste that systematically destroys human life and nature for the profit of a very small coterie of people." -Ali Kadri
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"According to David Michael Smith’s calculations, the expansion of capitalism in North America and the imperial endeavors of the United States have led to the death of some 300 million people in an unending U.S.-American Holocaust."
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Harvard-led study traces Palau ancestry back nearly 3,000 years
According to the study, ancient individuals from Palau had about 60 percent ancestry linked to East Asian populations and about 40 percent linked to Papuan populations.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Labelled, judged and far from home: Marshallese deported by ICE 'having the hardest time'
People deported to the Marshall Islands from the United States face a tough road to survival.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
www.pacificislandtimes.com/post/when-pa...
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When Palau and Marshall Islands are judged by standards Washington won't apply to itself
When the U.S. State Department sanctioned Palau Senate President Hokkons Baules and former Marshall Islands mayor Anderson Jibas, the language was unequivocal.
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islandsocialist.bsky.social @islandsocialist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"The bourgeois state and bourgeois culture are products of a particular socioeconomic system: capitalism. This is what is driving the contradiction between democratic appearance and authoritarian reality." -Rockhill, Gabriel. Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
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