On June 5th Israel attacked the home of world famous Lebanese sea turtle conservationist Mona Khalil. Mona was hospitalized with burns and injuries to over 70% of her body.
Yesterday, June 19th, Mona died from her injuries.
This wasn’t an accident. They didn’t make a mistake. Mona’s home was also where she ran her sea turtle conservatory- which she aptly named the Orange House Project- because, after all, her house was painted top to bottom in a deep, bright orange, the color of a late summer sunset.
The Orange House Project has been in operation for almost 30 years. You can find it on Facebook and Google Maps, along with dozens of reviews from visitors over the years.
So no, it wasn’t an accident or a mistake. Israel knew exactly what it was doing when it bombed the Orange House Project on June 5th.
It’s exactly what they’ve been doing since the war with Iran started: ethnically cleansing all of Southern Lebanon so they can steal the land and occupy it for themselves.
Israel has violated the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip 3,338 times since it entered into force 251 days ago, killing 1,012 Palestinians and wounding 3,208, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.
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Apocalyptic scenes in Lebanon’s capital right now.
Israel is bombing residential buildings in densely populated neighborhoods of Beirut.
A ceasefire that still allows bombs to fall on civilians is not a ceasefire.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world - the ancient city of Tyre - designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its incredible historical sites. This is what it looks like today following multiple Israeli airstrikes.
The aftermath of LC-36 following New Glenn's explosion during its Static Fire test last night captured by D Wise (@dwisecinema).
Overview of the incident:
https://t.co/J1aWYWecfA
An Israeli strike captured on camera has killed three paramedics in Lebanon. Just 12 hours earlier, four other medics were killed.
Sky's @AlexCrawfordSky reports
https://t.co/MTDOQ3T0vB
WOW
A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves.
One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did.
An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY.
Link: https://t.co/TWKgXJ41NC
Direct Link: https://t.co/qWkrhx1FT7
Expedition 74, how was your @SpaceX Dragon delivery? This time-lapse video shows Dragon approaching the International Space Station above the Indian Ocean, crossing the Himalayas into China, and then docking over the Pacific Ocean as the sun sets on May 17, 2026.
Someone needs to do a study of this phenomenon of former Anglo-American diplomats settling in Kenya. Attwood first US ambassador bought land to settle in Kenya. Malcolm Macdonald, the last colonial governor, returned as British High Commissioner. Then Meg Whitman. Now this fellow. We are making these people too comfortable in Kenya.
"Israel killing over 850 Palestinians and injuring thousands since the ceasefire entered into force is not a footnote or a secondary matter.
If 800 Israelis had been killed, or, for that matter, if 80 had been killed, what would be the reactions?
Would anyone still consider that we were successful in upholding the ceasefire agreement?
Palestinian lives are not irrelevant. Such hypocrisy cannot be tolerated."
Africans need to understand what imperialism did to schooling from the 1990s. Imperialists changed tact. Instead of promoting European content, they promoted European anti-intellectualism, so whether you taught African or European content, the results would be the same. Youth would leave schooling knowing very little.
By the 1990s, content had Africanized more than the 60s. Africans language instruction had increased. So the West could not promote European curriculum. Instead, the World Bank told African governments to reduce secondary and tertiary education, and said that the problem of African education was relevance to "skills" and "problem solving." In the 1960s, at least in Kenya, students might not have been exposed to African content. From the 1990s, it was different. Students refused to learn their own history because it would not get them a job and it would not build sewers and fix taps. The Africans who could afford to escape the crumbling public school system did British curriculum instead. But that's for the rich.
In a sense, this was a brilliant move on the part of the West because the damage is more subtle than overtly telling Africans to teach kids about Queen Victoria. Now Africans were blocked from their own knowledge not through European knowledge, but through convincing them to be anti-knowledge. Through telling them that knowledge doesn't solve "practical" problems.
I don't get why this point is passing over people's heads. Or maybe I do. To this day, most educated Africans don't know what neoliberalism is or understand the damage it did to the African soul. As they say, the power of the devil resides in convincing people that he doesn't exist. And the evil brilliance of this lie is that now, many Africans believe that knowledge is a waste of time. You don't need to teach Africans to be pro-west in school any more. You just need to teach them nothing in school, and the internet and the media will do the work of filling empty minds with content they couldn't get in school.
So what Africans have to be convinced of is not to learn African history. It's to learn in the first place. They have to be convinced that Africans have minds, and that minds matter, but that building the mind takes the WORK of learning.
That's where we're stuck. Kenya's education ministry even said that children don't need knowledge. That's how low we've sunk.
And that's a philosophical problem that needs to be understood. Philosophy is the difference between Tchiani building affordable housing in Niger, and Ruto doing the same in Kenya and going to Azerbaijan to talk about it as Kenya is undergoing a nationwide strike over fuel prices.
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