the Critical Lemur

[Clare Hinchcliffe @Subversivite]

I'm reluctantly posting on X again because the world needs to read this.

My daughter Zoe Rogers gave her own closing speech at the Filton trial, as did 4 other defendants, while their barristers looked on.

This is what she said 🧵 1/

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

This was Hind Rajab on her 5th birthday.

Today would have been her 8th birthday.

📷 Wesam Hamada

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"The Industrial Revolution began before formal colonization. India wasn't formally colonized until the 1850s. The Scramble for Africa was a 19th century development."

This is the kind of sentence that sounds like a fact and functions as a misdirection.

The British East India Company was chartered in 1600.

It was extracting wealth from the Indian subcontinent for 250 years before "formal colonization" in the 1850s.

The argument that India wasn't colonized until it was formally colonized is a definitional trick. It defines colonization as the moment the British government took over from the British corporation that had been running a colonial extraction operation for two and a half centuries.

The extraction didn't begin in 1858.

The extraction began when the ships arrived.

The label changed. The direction of the money did not.

And the Scramble for Africa arrived at societies that had already been losing people for four centuries.

The slave trade removed an estimated 12 to 15 million people from the African continent at the peak of productive working age, the demographic that builds institutions, accumulates knowledge, and compounds capital.

That began in the 15th century.

The four centuries are the missing variable.

The Scramble found what four centuries of demographic extraction had produced, called it evidence of African underdevelopment, and used it as justification for colonial rule.

This is what the curriculum erases.

Ask any secondary school student in Britain, in the United States, in France, in any formerly colonized country with a Western-format education system, to explain why some countries are rich and others are poor.

The answers will be: they worked harder. They innovated more. They had better institutions. They had better governance. They had better culture. They made better choices.

Ask them who built the wealth of the British Empire.

British ingenuity. The Industrial Revolution. The entrepreneurial spirit of the Victorian age.

Ask them about the slave trade's contribution to British capital formation.

Silence.

Ask them about the drain from India.

Silence.

Ask them about the deliberate deindustrialization of Bengal's textile industry.

Silence.

That silence is the evidence.

The curriculum is what produces the silence.

And the silence is what Lee is defending when he asks where the proof is.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Music has replaced the sounds of bombs and missiles as Iranian musicians again perform on city streets and venture to sites devastated in US-Israeli attacks.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

he makes it sound benign and altruistic, but what they have in store for us if this is implemented is utterly terrifying

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

During their Coachella set, The Strokes concluded their performance with a large-screen visual montage that drew attention for its political tone. The display included imagery referencing historical instances of US foreign intervention, including war crimes in Iran and Gaza.

[Abdullah Omar🇵🇸 @Abdullah_Om3r03]

They were found after two months, beneath the rubble of their home. 💔

[the Critical Lemur @CriticalLemur]

The nurse lady desperately picking up babies won my heart. God bless her.

On another note, I imagine myself sitting in the waiting room for a stupid sprained ankle. What justifies attacking a hospital????

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

FIRST FOOTAGE OF U.S/ISRAEL ATTACK ON AN IRANIAN HOSPITAL

38s in, you can see a nurse trying to save as many children as she can.

[the Critical Lemur @CriticalLemur]

@a_past24460 Exploited because of their strength, ridiculed n put down as inferior instead.... Mirrors much of human nature to each other. I find the abuse of the animal kingdom so similar to what we do to classes, races and each other in general. Objectification, Dehumanization.. same game.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

A Palestine graffiti seen in Palermo, Italy.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every country that tried to build its own statue was told:

That is not how development works.

Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal. A coup followed.

Iran nationalized its oil. A coup followed.

Guatemala reformed its land. A coup followed.

Chile elected a socialist government. A coup followed.

Congo moved toward resource sovereignty. Its leader was assassinated.

Libya moved toward African monetary independence. You know what followed.

The pattern is not ambiguous.

Every time a step decided to quarry its own stone, to chisel its own form, to build something that served its own vision rather than the mountaintop's, the mountaintop sent someone to break the chisel.

And then wrote a paper about why some countries fail to develop.

[MICHELE(Socialist Mom) @Bliv_24]

Once again, never forget that the demons that did this👇are what the axis of resistance is fighting. 👇

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

23 years ago today in Gaza, British photographer Tom Hurndall was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper while trying to protect Palestinian children.

Humanity will never forget him

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

an elder being arrested on terrorism charges for holding up a placard says, "the real terrorists are in Downing St and Israel"

there are infinite ways for ordinary people to speak truth to power every day.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Spain recognises Palestine as a State.

[Páddafi 🟩 @paddafi]

U.S air force plane being hammered in @ShannonAirport this lunchtime.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

It is incredible that Israel literally bombed a synagogue in Tehran and the vast majority of western media just completely ignored it.

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧🇮🇷 BREAKING — JD Vance:

"Israelis restraining themselves in Lebanon."

"I think that's Israel trying to set up us up for success"