Pride Jani

level-headed (I think) Finance and banking lawyer & football enthusiast. Proud Rhodent, Villager & recovering coffee addict.

[Akor’ebirungi @ErnestAkor]

At least here in Uganda we pretend to vote first.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Peter Michael Larsen, a Trump loving terrorist, stabbed brother Sohail more than 15 times in a Utah mall after asking him if he was Muslim. You probably won’t hear about this in mainstream media or from your politicians enabling this bigotry every day. Shoutout to the brothers who courageously subdued the terrorist, and shame on the media and politicians continuing to incite these freaks attacking mosques and innocent people regularly now.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The Trump regime has just bombed a children's hospital in the Iranian city of Ahvaz. It is being evacuated.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Domino’s supports Israel.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

Imagine this:

You’re sitting in your living room on land your ancestors have lived on for thousands of years.

Suddenly, an armed settler from Eastern Europe or Brooklyn knocks on your door and tells you to evacuate your home immediately.

His excuse is:

“My God promised me your land 3000 years ago.”

If you resist, the atheist liberals of the West call you a terrorist because his God promised him your home!

So you just sit with your family out in the open, watching the armed settlers demolish your home.

Video from today in the occupied West Bank.

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

They told us how they will come to the commission & prove Gen. Mkhwanazi wrong. But how the brave are being hospitalised when it is time to face Madlanga! They hope we will suspect that someone is working some magic to make sure they don’t come to expose their opponents. But long have they been healthy to abuse IDAC for nefarious reasons. Long have they been in good health to destabilise policing and the uprooting of crooked cops from its ranks!

Long have they shielded mafias and drug lords from justice. Providing cover for their murderous operations!

Blame us, but the illnesses that befall them are soo timely! So well occasioned to create conditions in which they can’t come and face the music! Somehow one is left to suspect it is all part of the plan: they know their stories do not hold!

We see them for who they are! And we shall not perish in their schemes! The truth will prevail!

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

may you and everyone of you be haunted for the rest of your miserable life for what you did to us. may you never have a moment of peace for the harm you have wrought on earth. foam at the mouth, demon. nothing will save you from your own evil.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.

In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.

And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.

To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.

That’s how panic starts.

And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”

Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.

They are supposed to de-escalate situations.

Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.

When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Utterly shocking but not a surprise. Impunity breeds hubris.

All states and people who care for Freedom must rise up in defense of the ICC and int'l justice now, before it's too late.

It's rule of law or barbarism.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Ambassador, we have always had a relationship of mutual respect despite political differences.

The IDF has now clarified it was not a restricted zone and Israeli papers have confirmed this. Deputy Chief of Mission David Brownstein in our embassy did a superb job in getting us out. We are safe because of him. Please thank him.

We obviously notified our Embassy and Israel's embassy about the trip given we were in constant touch with David.

I hope sir you will work on bringing the extreme settlers who blockaded Americans to justice.

Also, please visit Beit Sahour, a Christian majority town. They want to stage the Passion of Christ play but illegal settlers are blocking them from doing so even as they have American investors ready for the project.

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[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

This is Yisachar Holtzman.

He slashed the tires of the CNN car, smashed our windshield and threw a rock at our car. He is a "professional" settler, previously residing in a terror outpost near Hebron; now near Sinjil.

Make him famous.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

FIVE Kg

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

Can we just… drop the facade of morality here for a minute and speak candidly?

Iran is RIGHT for striking vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. I said it, I don’t care if you like it. You’re lying to yourself if you want to act like it’s wrong.

The United States launched a war of aggression against a sovereign country, and this is an obvious and long-identified defense maneuver meant to create asymmetric downside against an overwhelmingly more powerful military adversary.

“Ohhhh but it’s wronggg. What about international lawwwww”

Last I checked, slaughtering 120 schoolchildren in Minab is against international law. Last I checked, launching a war of aggression against a sovereign nation like we see here is against international law. Last I checked, bombing water storage and infrastructure facilities is against international law…

… last I checked, the United States killed three Indian sailors in the Strait of Hormuz by attacking a civilian vessel.

“Ohhhhh but maritime lawwww. UNCLOS”

Y’all check on Cuba lately? The last delivery of oil to Matanzas was the Anatoly Kolodkin in MARCH. The United States is the SOLE reason the Universal couldn’t deliver in May. They have blackouts for 22 hours a day. Their hospitals can’t function.

You can whine all you want about morals and ethics, but maybe take a second to realize how stupid you sound doing it.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ro Khanna: “The IDF is lying. What happened was unprecedented. They had violent settlers detain American citizens including an American government official. You had these settlers brandishing M4s, kicking the tires of our van, laughing at us, mocking at us, videotaping us. We were detained for about 20 minutes, fearful for our lives. How dare they mistreat people with an American passport that way”

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🚨🇮🇱 BREAKING: Israeli settlers hunt down CNN crew in an attempt to murder them

Nobody can convince me to support this.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Entire Palestinian family suffocated after zionist settler had beaten them and attacked them with poisonous gases south of the occupied West Bank city of Al Khaleel

[Tafi Mhaka @tafimhaka]

On 24 November 2001, six Zimbabwe National Army soldiers attacked 23-year-old University of Zimbabwe student Lameck Chemvura aboard a passenger train travelling from Harare to Mutare, accusing him of supporting the MDC.

They closed in around Chemvura, trapping him inside the crowded railway carriage before unleashing a relentless barrage of punches and booted kicks while petrified passengers looked on helplessly.

The assault continued through the coach until one of the soldiers seized Chemvura by the throat, forced him onto the floor and strangled him while pinning his body beneath his weight.

By the time the soldier loosened his grip, Chemvura was dead.

They then lifted his body, dragged it to the train door and threw it onto the railway tracks near Nyazura.

The 23-year-old had boarded as a promising university student.

He returned to his family in a coffin.

ZANU-PF's soldiers murdered Lameck Chemvura.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

If I had the money, I’d buy the NYT’s front page just to run this piece.

HOW IS EVERYONE NOT SCREAMING IN OUTRAGE?

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

An Israeli soldier filmed this clip using a drone camera while proudly boasting about the destruction of all homes in Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.