Kim Mockingbird

Against west's hegemony over Africa.
Allergic to 'snowflakes'.

[Africa Rebirth @africa_rebirth]

Western textbooks treated human origins as a story that happened in Africa but was explained from somewhere else. An Ethiopian paleontologist who had been jailed under the Derg spent the next decades proving the fossils were not waiting for foreign permission to speak.

Berhane Asfaw co-founded the Middle Awash Research Group in 1981. The Afar Rift is one of the few places on Earth where volcanic ash layers date bones with precision, and the sediments there hold almost the entire last six million years of the human family. His teams recovered Australopithecus garhi in 1997, Homo erectus remains at Bouri, and at Herto Bouri the skulls later named Homo sapiens idaltu—early anatomically modern humans dated to about 160,000 years ago. Ethiopian students on those same surveys, including Yohannes Haile-Selassie, found the first pieces of Ardipithecus ramidus, the 4.4-million-year-old skeleton the world now calls Ardi.

The bones stayed in Addis Ababa. A new conservation laboratory was built so the next generation would not have to ship the evidence abroad to study it. Ethiopia is now the richest documented source of early hominin species on the planet.
Asfaw did not import a theory of where humans began. He excavated the ground Africa had already kept.

Asfaw did not import a theory of where humans began. He excavated the ground Africa had already kept.

[𝓛𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓓𝓻𝓮𝔂 👑 @lorddrey]

I fully support HAMAS, Hezbollah, and Ansar Allah, resistance groups in the Middle East.

There is absolutely no way I would have come from the Middle East and not be one of them.

That the United States choose who they designate as a terrorist group does not bother me at all. I'm not so ignorant as to accept the label.

You cannot occupy my land, steal my properties, displace my people, kill women and children, starve them, capture our youths and imprison them in a concentration camp, lay siege to my resources the way Israel does to these people and ask me not to fight back.

I will definitely fight back, because it's the natural response to aggression, repression, apartheid, occupation, enslavement, and colonialism.

I'm not an idiot; I will fight back and will never care if I'm labelled a terrorist for fighting for my freedom and rights.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Our sister makes a very good point there. African leaders are asking for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council to sell our vote. It's like what Kenya did with the BATUK base in Kenya. Once the word got out, politicians used the outrage to threaten end of the contract and negotiate the price of the occupation with the British. @AhmedKaballo

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇷🇺🇩🇪 German media across the board is upset that the Russian foreign minister made the German one look stupid.

Lavrov: “He could have called me instead of the meeting, I haven’t learned anything”

So the Russians literally said could have been an email to the Germans … who came to lecture and pose for the camera, offering nothing.

Wadephul also famously said “Russia will always be our enemy” then came and demanded consessions from Russia let’s because he showed up for a meeting, “lowering himself to the Russian level” for talks.

Now, we’ll see what Merz’s government will do, another debacle for them

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

First, Reza Pahlavi pushed for sanctions that put Iranians in despair. Then he demanded an uprising in which he put thousands at risk while sitting safely in a Washington suburb.

When that failed, he promoted the narrative that only US-Israeli bombardment could bring down the theocracy.

And now that has failed miserably; he promotes civil war in Iran by calling for the arming of various groups.

There are two common themes in all of his advocacy:

First, everything he calls for serves the interest of Israel - sanctions, war, and civil war.

Second, all of his demands put all of the risk on Iranians in Iran and none of the risk on him.

Whatever happens, regardless of how many people in Iran get killed, die from medicine shortages, or get crushed by the sanctions, Reza Pahlavi will remain safe and well funded.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The men who wrote "all men are created equal" owned slaves.

This is taught as hypocrisy.

It was also a promise they made in public that they could not fully control.

Because language, once public, belongs to everyone who can read it.

And the enslaved could read it.

And Frederick Douglass read it and turned it into the most devastating critique of American exceptionalism ever written, using the founders' own words to indict the founders' own country.

And Hồ Chí Minh read it and opened the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence with its words.

That is what American values actually do when taken seriously.

They don't protect empire. They condemn it.

The empire knows this.

That's why it replaced the values with exceptionalism.

Exceptionalism is American values with an asterisk.

The asterisk reads: "except when we decide otherwise."

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

This is not unique to Trump. Forcing Europe to purchase American energy is a long-term project spanning the entirety of the US political class.

Here's Condoleeza Rice ordering Germany in 2014: "You simply want to change the structure of energy dependence. You want to depend more upon the North American energy platform, the tremendous bounty of oil and gas that we're finding in North America."

"You want to have pipelines that don't go through Ukraine and Russia. For years, we've tried to get the Europeans to be interested in different pipeline routes. It's time to do that."

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @beyondB_DAG]

🔴🇧🇫History made in Burkina Faso, as Nation inaugurates it first ever Gold Refinery:

#MiningSovereignty Comrade Captain Ibrahim Traoré officially inaugurated Burkina Faso's first gold refinery, RAFFINOR-BF, in Ouagadougou on Monday, September 28, 2026.

Equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, this first facility has a refining capacity of 164 tons of gold per year. This capacity is expected to increase with the commissioning of a second facility, which will bring the refining capacity to 515 tons of gold per year. The investment cost for these infrastructures amounts to 11 billion CFA francs. https://t.co/TJ33yAnbv9

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Ukraine is fighting on behalf of NATO. It has become, for all intents and purposes, NATO’s raison d'etre. It is not only complicit by association. It is party to the broader NATO agenda of denying the right to development to nations in the Global South, dispatching its troops to fight in the war to recolonize Africa. That is one of a million reasons why lumping Ukraine and Palestine into the same category is ahistorical and incoherent; the two forces occupy opposing sides in the global struggle.

All thirty-two NATO member states with the exception of Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium provided weapons to support the destruction of Gaza, with some — including Britain and Germany — increasing their support during the genocide. 5,000 US aircraft took off from NATO airports to support the US-Zionist war against Iran, Palestine’s main ally.

NATO is not “bad on Palestine” but “good on Ukraine”. It is carrying out a strategic agenda that preoccupied Western imperial planners long before NATO even came into being: securing access to the Eurasian “heartland” through Ukraine, and to its “rimland” through Palestine and West Asia. The conflicts in Ukraine, Palestine and Iran are all consequences of this and only this policy.

These are three frontlines in a single, expanding war whose ultimate target is the People’s Republic of China. Although its architects are particularly fiendish, this war is not being carried out because of any individual malevolence. It is being waged because imperialism is facing a systemic challenge. New centers of sovereign development are emerging, which are constraining the structures of unequal exchange on which Western imperial prosperity is premised.

Imperialism is parasitic, so it cannot survive without the capacity to deflate wages and resource prices in the global periphery — in other words, to steal. The systemic challenge to its capacity for theft increasingly necessitates a shift from economic and political coercion to military violence — politics, as von Clausewitz taught us, “by other means”. Ukraine, like Israel, have been fully integrated into that agenda.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Vladimir Putin🇷🇺 to Tucker Carlson on Ukraine:

'We would have never considered to even lift a finger if it hadn't been for the Maidan coup. We had agreed to Russia's 1991 borders...but we never agreed to NATO's expansion and we never agreed that Ukraine would be in NATO.’

[Ozedikus Nwanne @Ozedikus]

Accepting these colonial religions means accepting that all our grandparents and accentors are in hell being tortured for eternity. Because 2 generations before us, none of them knew these things even existed

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

You cannot arm one side of a war, fund its military, publicly declare yourself its ally, and then call yourself a neutral mediator.

Lavrov just said this directly to Rubio's face. And Rubio had no answer.

That's why the "peace talks" keep going nowhere. Washington is not trying to mediate but trying to win while pretending to negotiate.

Lavrov raised this exact contradiction with Marco Rubio. When he asked whether the U.S. was prepared to stop being a partisan supporter of Ukraine and become an honest broker, Rubio had nothing to say.

And if diplomacy becomes another way to buy time while the fighting continues, then Russia would prefer to achieve its objectives at the negotiating table, but if that fails, it will pursue them on the battlefield.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @beyondB_DAG]

Ibrahim Traoré: From now on, if we catch a French spy among us, it's the death penalty. If we catch a proxy, it's the death penalty. If we catch one of their traitorous local agents, it's the death penalty.

Me: That is how it should be fellow Africans. I am not an advocate of the death penalty, but a nation gotta do what they have to do for their survival.

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

I am proud to present this conversation about the AES which we had with Aby Sene. I love this conversation because it expands the heroes of the AES as far back as Samory Toure, Oumar Tall, Modibo Keita and most of all, as broad as the great people of the Sahel!!!!

I am amazed that it is ordinary people who adamantly protect their leaders and who have demanded the exit of the French and the renegotiation of mining contracts for decades. I am so amazed at the level of political consciousness in the region, to the point that I am almost envious. In Kenya, we think that more court cases, closely run elections and better "implementation" of western policies are the fix to our problems. I long for the day we will have the level of consciousness that they have in the Sahel.

It was also an emotional reconnection with the region that I put so many years into studying but haven't been able to teach about. The Kenyan school system, and our githeri media, calls this knowledge irrelevant to the market, so I've had to share it here. It is probably a better classroom, if you ask me.

Enjoy!!!
#MaishaKazini
@daughterofsahel

https://t.co/77By8JYf6j

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

🇳🇪 Niger at the UN:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, as I speak to you, at our northeast borders stand the proxies led by France, backed by Ukraine and 2 other countries."

"And you know full well which countries I mean."

"These proxies are armed, guided, directed, about to attack our military positions and our oil installations. But they will get what they deserve, inshallah."

"Our Sahel is at war. A war of liberation against a conspiracy aimed at its recolonization."

"What some call terrorism in our region is a cynical scheme of recolonization dressed in extremist rags."

"Niger's uranium, the gold of Mali and Burkina, lithium, gas, oil and so many other riches keep the old powers salivating."

"This perfidious destabilization of the central Sahel, led by France with Ukraine's active complicity -- documented, very documented."

"Niger's uranium lit up Europe's cities while ours stayed in darkness. This injustice has now ended. It is over."

"A people that has decided to be free cannot be recolonized, not by fear, nor by cunning, nor even by savage violence."

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

Actually college stadia introduce an arms race in US college education, where colleges compete for better sports while defunding academic programs. It also makes colleges go broke.

We should be aiming for stadia for everybody, not just the schools. @JKenyua talked about this with us on #MaishaKazini.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @beyondB_DAG]

Burkina Faso 🇧🇫: Great news fellow Africans, Comrade Captain Ibrahim Traoré will inaugurate the first major gold refinery in Burkina Faso, RAFFINOR-BF, on Monday, September 28, 2026 in Ouagadougou!!

This inauguration marks an important step in the local transformation of gold and the strengthening of Burkina Faso's economic sovereignty. A new advancement that demonstrates the will to value national wealth for the benefit of the Burkinabe people.

Burkina Faso is growing from strength to Strengthen, and there is nothing that anyone can do about it.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Notice the asymmetry in how memory is assigned.

When a country that was bombed remembers being bombed, it is called "nursing grievances."

"Living in the past."

"Needing to move on."

When the country that did the bombing builds a memorial to its own soldiers, it is called "honoring sacrifice."

"Preserving history."

"Never forgetting."

The same event.

One memory is healing.

One memory is resentment.

Guess which is which.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They reserve the right to invade countries "preemptively" based on intelligence they fabricate.

They reserve the right to assassinate foreign nationals by drone, without criminal charge or trial.

They reserve the right to surveil the entire planet's communications.

They reserve the right to imprison people indefinitely without charge.

They reserve the right to fund and arm whoever serves their interests regardless of what those people do with the funding and the arms.

They reserve the right to sanction any country that challenges any of this.

They call this the "rules-based international order."

The rule is: they decide.

The order is: everyone else complies.

The rest is branding.