This day 1974-Dublin & Monaghan were bombed with assistance of British security services-In 1999 as Staff Officer in DFHQ -I was informed by Senior Ordnance Officer he had found British Army Time Powered Unit at scene of Dublin Bombing -Dublin Monaghan & Omagh Families owed Truth
Tried watching a BBC doc on Russia.
Already in the first mins: "Russia arrests journalists and threatens them with decades in prison!"
As opposed to what? Me being threatened w/ 14 years in the UK, or 10 years in Austria for my reporting?
Hypocrisy at its peak.
Marx published "The Poverty of Philosophy" - his first book on political economy - in 1847, when he was 29. The notes on his own copy demonstrate his self-critical spirit & how he continued to develop his ideas. He wrote it in French, so that his adversary Proudhon could read it.
He wrote: "Economists say that feudalism is artificial while capitalism is natural. They resemble the theologians who think that every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own is an emanation from god. There has been history but there is no longer any".
Columbus sold native children aged 9 or younger into sex slavery. Columbus "gifted" native slave women to his crew to be subjugated. Columbus mutilated natives who were found to have done "crimes". Columbus was so brutal his own fucking monarchy investigated his crimes. Fuck.
64 residents in favour. 3 residents against. Unionist Councillors refused, denied and delayed this dual language street sign for almost 4 years.
A Grandmother from Port an Dúnáin fought them in court. Now, a dual-language sign for Cnoc Cois Coille has been confirmed. Equality!
Hollywood portrayed Frida Kahlo as a Trotskyist through Salma Hayek’s role, but her own words in The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (1953) tell a different story:
“Today like never before I am not alone. It has been 25 years that I have been a communist. I know the central origins. I know the ancient roots. I’ve read the history of my country and almost all the villages there. I know its conflicts of economics and class. I understand clearly the materialist dialectics of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao Zedong. I love them as the pillars of the new communist world. I realized the error of Trotsky since he arrived in Mexico. I was never a trotskyite. But in that time, 1940, I was only an ally of Diego (personally) (political mistake). But you have to take into account that I’ve been sick since I was six years old and really very little of my life I’ve enjoyed health and I was useless to the Party. Now in 1953 after 22 surgeries I feel better and I can from time to time help my Communist Party. Since I’m not a worker, I am an artisan - and allied unconditionally to the communist revolutionary movement.”
Practicing for the military guy dream scenario: hearing a general say “The war’s over. We lost. We only have five minutes to crucify a child, and he’s half a mile east of our location.”