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Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Iran, #Syria, #Kurdistan, #Afghanistan, #Tibet and #Guatemala....

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CounterVortex weekly headlines

Potential US ‘war crimes’ seen in Iran

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September 22, 2026 at 5:56 AM

Dave Mandl

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The latest episode of @billweinberg.bsky.social's CounterVortex podcast is very good, focusing on the NYC mayoral race and specifically the mostly hysterical charges of antisemitism being thrown around by right-wing Jewish groups and the Cuomo campaign. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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June 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The latest #CounterVortex headlines from #Syria, #Gaza, #Jordan, #Mali, #Senegal and #Angola
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CounterVortex weekly headlines

Syria: violent attack on pro-co-existence protesters

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July 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM

Bill Weinberg

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The latest #CounterVortex headlines from #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Kashmir, #Tunisia, #IvoryCoast, #Peru and #Russia ....

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Fighting breaks out along Durand Line

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October 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The latest #CounterVortex headlines from #Gaza, the #WestBank, #Kurdistan, #Balochistan, #India, #Burma and #Russia....

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Israel again expands West Bank settlements

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June 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM

Bill Weinberg

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Some draw analogy between #CharlieKirk & #HorstWessel, early martyr of the Nazi cause. The #CounterVortex podcast offers a more ominous analogy: to José Calvo Sotelo, the Spanish fascist leader whose assassination provided the expedience for Franco’s coup countervortex.org/blog/podcast...

Podcast: Charlie Kirk = Calvo Sotelo?

Some are drawing an ominous analogy between Charlie Kirk and Horst Wessel, the early martyr of the Nazi cause. In Episode 296 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg offers a more ominous analogy ...

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September 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The latest weekly CounterVortex headlines from #Syria, #Iran, #Yemen, #Oman, #China ( #SouthernMongolia ), #Korea, #Georgia, #Romania, #Slovakia, #Mozambique, #Guantanamo and #Alaska...

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Renaissance for Syrian Jews?

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January 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Syria, #Turkey, #Lebanon, #Yemen, #Russia, #Ukraine, #Thailand, #Burma, #Colombia and #NewYorkCity....

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CounterVortex weekly headlines

Israeli strike on Syria signals tension with Türkiye

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August 24, 2026 at 4:16 AM

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Episode 300: the CounterVortex meta-rant

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October 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The latest #CounterVortex weekly headlines from #Ukraine, #Russia, #Iraq, #Kurdistan, #Libya, #Chad, #Guatemala, #Nicaragua and #NewYorkCity... open.substack.com/pub/counterv...

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Russia calls up more reserves as Ukraine war stalls

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October 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The #CounterVortex podcast calls out the pseudo-left #Chinamaxxing, and urges @demsocialists.bsky.social to join with @sft-international.bsky.social in protesting #XiJinping in Washington this week... Listen (and follow us) on #Substack... countervortex.substack.com/p/chinamaxxi...

#Chinamaxxing & the betrayal of Tibet

As Trump prepares to meet with Xi Jinping at the …

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September 22, 2026 at 6:08 AM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

We now have less than 24 hours to pressure Congress to save democracy. And despite the fatalistic dogma, it is legally and constitutionally possible. Can we please rise to the occasion? The CounterVortex #podcast continues its campaign for #ElectoralNullification www.patreon.com/posts/nullif...

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January 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM

William Gillis 🏴

@rechelon.bsky.social

I'm still trying to find the documentary an Ambazonian comrade in TC indymedia made in 2007ish, but this is a good podcast episode by an anarchist to introduce leftists to the conflict.

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CounterVortex Episode 27: Independence for Ambazonia

In Episode 27 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg interviews Eben Egbe and Amy Dalton of the Global Initiative to end the Cameroons Colonial Conflict (Gi3C), who discuss the independence strug

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August 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The latest #CounterVortex headlines from #Morocco, #Madagascar, #Iran, #India, #China, #Colombia and #Chicago

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‘Gen Z’ uprisings in Morocco, Madagascar

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October 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM

Bill Weinberg

@billweinberg.bsky.social

The #CounterVortex interviews Frieda Afary of the blog Iranian Progressives in Translation on how is the situation of #Iran’s civil resistance has been complicated by the US-Israeli strikes on the country, and how progressives in the West should respond. countervortex.org/blog/podcast...