"Il vecchio mondo sta morendo. Quello nuovo tarda a comparire. E in questo chiaroscuro nascono i mostri."
The old world is dying. The new one is slow to appear. And in this mix of light and darkness, monsters are born.
— Antonio Gramsci
@sanjukta I wish ppl wud stop calling him an 'uncut diamond.' He’s a diamond. Period. When you’re forged under a crushing weight that most here wudn’t survive & quite the law from the dust, it isn't raw potential. It's perfection. Polishing him wud belittle the agony that made him.
@1shankarsharma@harshmadhusudan And you believe that the equity markets is the barometer of the health of an economy? Your naivety is as specious as your theory.
Swiss neutrality bends fast near ethics. Infantino = Zurich’s 2009 cave in (opacity as self-preservation).
Messi:
Brilliant. But, Also a cheat. Elites & Genius rarely come clean, I guess
And that Egyptian coach? Pure gold. Take that, Israel
Take that you zionists!!
IYKYK
When Western carmakers win customers, it's called "the free market."
When Chinese carmakers win customers, it's called "a full-blown assault."
Bark at your daddy, not China.
On this day in 1925, Congo’s🇨🇩 independence leader and pan-African hero Patrice Lumumba was born. He gained prominence as a charismatic and vocal advocate for independence from Belgian colonial rule, which led to his involvement in the Congolese National Movement (MNC).
Upon Congo's independence in June 1960, Lumumba was appointed as the country’s first Prime Minister. He faced immediate crises, thanks to neocolonial meddling in the country, including a mutiny within the army and the secession of the mineral-rich province of Katanga, orchestrated and backed by Belgium, the country which tortured Congo under colonialism for many years.
His appeal for Soviet aid to quash the Belgium-backed secessionist movement led to Western leaders immediately beginning to plot against Lumumba.
His rule would end in tragedy, when he was captured in Lodi by the troops of coup leader Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. The coup was backed by the US and Belgium, with US President Eisenhower ordering the CIA to ‘eliminate’ Patrice Lumumba.
For daring to oppose Belgian colonialism and US domination of Congo’s natural resources, Lumumba was executed by firing squad on the 17th of January 1961 after being tortured. Before being killed, the colonial conspirators tried to force Lumumba to eat the paper on which his Independence Day speech was written on. After being executed, his body was dissolved in acid.
Lumumba still remains an icon of pan-Africanism to this day, with his image and memory being a rallying point for Africans across the continent against neocolonialism.
Patrice Lumumba’s last letter to his wife after the coup backed by the CIA and Belgium:
“Neither brutality, nor cruelty, nor torture will ever force me to ask for mercy…I prefer to die with my head held high, with unshakeable faith and profound trust in the destiny of my country, than to live in submission and contempt of sacred principles…
History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations. Africa will write its own history, and it will be a history of glory and dignity.”
I have written to Hamish Falconer after his shocking and disgraceful response to my question about Israel’s illegal settlement expansion.
Baseless smears won’t change the truth: this government is complicit in apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
This is what Gaza looks like and this actress is afraid of a T-shirt. Imagine thinking you are the victim when the ideology you support is committing genocide.
Next week people all over the world will join the funeral procession of Ayatollah Khamenei He died as he lived, a symbol of resistance, & he lives in the hearts & minds of everyone who believes in peace & justice. His martyrdom changed history. RIP
Next week people all over the world will join the funeral procession of Ayatollah Khamenei He died as he lived, a symbol of resistance, & he lives in the hearts & minds of everyone who believes in peace & justice. His martyrdom changed history. RIP
@parthpunter's takedown of the World Cup host lands well. But like most Indian commentators, he lazily parrots Western MSM talking points (CNN, BBC cosplay) to sound authoritative on global affairs. It's not insight; it's intellectual outsourcing. Do better or stay in your lane.
Hosting a Football World Cup is such a beautiful opportunity to bring people together.
For Americans, it's an opportunity to showcase how stupid and ignorant they are.
After Bosnia and Herzegovina qualified for the round of 32, a broadcaster "joked" that she could not point out where it was on the map.
Leave aside the obvious problems with that joke.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is the kind of story a broadcaster dreams to talk about.
Their participation in the World Cup goes beyond football.
The country came into existence in 1992 after declaring independence from Yugoslavia, and was immediately subjected to a genocide, turning football grounds into graveyards.
The serbian leadership within Yugoslavia wanted to create a greater Serbia. The independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina went against that idea, leading to an armed conflict.
The Bosnian Muslims and Croats were at the receiving end of it. More than 1 Lakh killed. Two million displaced.
The violence finally concluded in 1995. But the Dayton Accord, the peace agreement brokered by the US, left Bosnia and Herzegovina a fractured and polarised society.
It established Bosnia and Herzegovina as a single state containing two autonomous entities: The Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Serb-majority area.
For a country marred in daily political tug of war, their journey so far at the World Cup is nothing short of historic and full of hope.
It is potentially a cross-ethnic uniting force in a divided country.
To miss all of that and reduce them to a country you can't find on the map is simply pathetic.
Moroccan population in The Netherlands are not refugee population @Megatron_ron
The first batch of Moroccan immigrants were those fought the Germans in the European trenches
The second wave was in the 60s/70s as labour imports. As the years went by their families joined them.
Fatima, a beloved teacher in Luxembourg, was fired for speaking out against the kiIIing of children in Gaza.
Her students and their families organized a peaceful demonstration demanding justice and her immediate return to the classroom. ✊
A Scotland 🏴 fan at the World Cup sees an 🇮🇱 flag & shouts for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸:
‘I was a nurse in Gaza 🇵🇸’
‘I volunteered’
‘I saw it for myself’
‘It is a genocide’
Refusing to be silenced 👏
A Flower of Scotland 🏴 🇵🇸
@NMenonRao ignores that the US always puts its own interests first and actively destroys partners who threaten its dominance. Indian elites foolishly rely on a dying US hegemon as a counterweight to lifelong neighbor China, blinded by the lingering trauma of the 1962 war.
@NMenonRao Blaming China alone ignores India's own missteps: a British drawn border, Tibet policy for US interests, & elite rivalry with Beijing. Pak-China ties came after India's provocations.
There’s a need for a fresh start. Partnership & Competition, not adversarial rivalry.
One sentence in the Chinese readout of the Wang Yi–Ajit Doval meeting deserves particular attention:
The boundary question should be placed in an “appropriate position” and prevented from affecting the overall relationship.
That has been Beijing’s preferred formulation for years.
India’s position after Galwan has been different: peace and tranquillity on the border are the basis of the broader relationship.
The real story is not the talk of BRICS, multipolarity or the Global South. It is whether these two fundamentally different approaches can be reconciled.
For now, the objective appears to be stabilization, not settlement.