Liban Takar

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

العقدة السماوية في هذه الأرض أن الله سبحانه وتعالى لم يخلق الإنسان إلا حيوانا ملطفا تلطيفا إنسانيا، ثم أراه الخير والشر وقال له: اجعل نفسك بنفسك إنسانا وجئني!
(وحي القلم 3\95)

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

News: #Ethiopia's Abiy could consolidate power as 'executive president'

Addis Abeba — Ethiopia’s Prime Minister #Abiy_Ahmed could consolidate power under a proposed new presidential system that would merge the offices of prime minister and the largely ceremonial presidency into an “executive presidency,” AFP reported.

The proposal emerged from a weeks-long national dialogue that concluded on 22 August, with around 4,000 delegates overwhelmingly backing constitutional changes. The recommendations could be presented to parliament when it reconvenes in October.

Abiy, who has governed Ethiopia since 2018, was absent from the dialogue. However, critics and analysts cited by AFP said he would be the likely beneficiary of the proposed system, given that the president would be selected by a parliament dominated by his #Prosperity_Party following its landslide victory in June elections.

Supporters argue that an executive presidency would provide a more unifying national leadership structure, with the president representing all ethnic groups rather than being elected as a member of parliament from a specific region.

The dialogue also recommended reducing state funding for ethnic-based political parties and promoting parties with a broader national orientation.

Critics, however, warned that the proposed changes could concentrate political power in Abiy’s hands. Political analyst Befekadu Hailu told AFP that the proposal could allow the prime minister to assume the executive presidency while “effectively concentrating power in a single individual.”

The recommendations come as Ethiopia continues to face armed conflicts in #Oromia and #Amhara regions, while concerns persist over a possible resurgence of conflict in #Tigray following the 2020–2022 war.

Opposition groups and armed organisations were excluded from the dialogue, while several major opposition parties boycotted the process. Critics said the dialogue therefore failed to adequately address the country’s need for durable peace and democratic governance. Participants nonetheless described the process as a rare opportunity for debate over Ethiopia’s political future.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@TheInsiderPaper F🍆ck this pedo.

[DavidSaysStuff_ @davidsaysstuff_]

I AM RECEIVING NUMEROUS THREATS.
🔳 I AM NOT SUICIDAL.
🔳 I AM HEALTHY.
🔳 I AM OF SOUND MIND.

Watch 👇🏼 part 3

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to know what actual free speech looks like in the American context?

Edward Snowden told the truth about what the government was doing to its own citizens.

He is in exile.

Chelsea Manning told the truth about what the military was doing in Iraq, including footage of a helicopter crew killing journalists and laughing.

She was imprisoned.

Julian Assange published documents showing the gap between what Western governments said and what they did.

He spent years in an embassy and then a prison, and the country that lectures the world about press freedom led the effort to destroy him.

Meanwhile the people who lied about weapons of mass destruction and launched a war that killed hundreds of thousands:

They are on the speaking circuit.

They are on television as analysts.

They have libraries named after them.

This is not a paradox. This is the system working correctly.

Free speech, in the empire's operating definition, means you can say anything that doesn't threaten the machine.

The moment the speech has real consequences for real power:

You discover exactly how free it is.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

@RepShriThanedar You just lost your seat for supporting the rogue Israeli apartheid state.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@MiddleEastEye What a disgu$ting creature!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

If you murder one man and shout "God is great," they call you a terrorist.

If you murder a million and say "God bless America," they call you a superpower.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@Kenyans "I am smart" says the guy with the donkey smile.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@NAlahdb شكلها علاقة حب من طرف واحد.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@clashreport كائن منحوس

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A study from Brown University found that the Bush administration's wars have killed at least 4.5 million people and displaced 38 million more.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@HQNewsNow She then changes his diapers when she finishes typing his posts.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@kokxtero @Kenyans 🤣

[Alexander Dugin @AGDugin]

Who still remembers the guy called Jeffry Epstein and his files?

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The Marxist Case For The Technofeudal Hypothesis - out now in TRANSFORM REVIEW https://t.co/28fFBlgj31

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@Kenyans Bacteria and viruses are brainless, and they still give people sleepless nights.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@AJEnglish Says the guy who was accused by his own sister of rape.

[Liban Takar @LebanTakar]

@kunaniwakoli @TheDailySomalia I did.
Do you have any problem with that Mr. Bongo?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will sanction your country for human rights abuses while selling weapons to the government committing them next door.

They will fund "democracy promotion" NGOs in your capital while supporting the coup that removes your elected government when it nationalizes its own oil.

They will express outrage at your election irregularities while their own electoral system contains mechanisms like gerrymandering, voter suppression, and an Electoral College where losing the popular vote can still win you the presidency, all of which would be condemned as anti-democratic in any country they were monitoring.

They will lecture you about the rule of law while refusing the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and any other body with the theoretical power to hold them accountable.

The "rules-based international order."

They write the rules.

They enforce the rules.

They are exempt from the rules.

And they would like you to know that this arrangement is the foundation of global stability, and that any country that questions it is a threat to peace.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The United States has military bases in approximately 80 countries.

Not 8. Not 18. Eighty.

There is no other nation on earth with more than a handful of foreign military installations.

The United States has entire base ecosystems: multiple facilities, tens of thousands of personnel, prepositioning of weapons and vehicles and aircraft on every inhabited continent.

And the word used to describe this, in American political discourse, is not "occupation."

It is not "empire."

It is not even "presence."

It is called "security commitments."

The language is doing everything.

The language is the whole operation.

Because a "security commitment" sounds like something you offer to a friend. It sounds bilateral. It sounds consensual. It sounds like a favor.

It does not sound like what it is: the physical infrastructure of dominance.

The material fact of a single nation that has decided, and enforced the decision for eighty years, that it will have a military footprint on every strategically significant piece of land on earth.

And that any nation that objects to this will discover what the footprint feels like when it comes down on them.

Security commitments.

Eighty countries.

The most militarized nation in human history is the one that sets the global agenda on peace.

And somehow that sentence is not the first line of every newspaper every morning.