As Hülegü's armies met the walls of Baghdad winter 1257-58, it was not just an encounter between the Mongols and Abbasid Caliphate, but of the human, financial, material, and technological resources of north China, central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus, and Iran against those of Iraq.
The U.K. twice suspended a Black politician because she said there's a hierarchy of racism with antisemitism at the top and anti-Blackness at the bottom. Today, the U.K. made antisemitism a distinct form of racism and came out with a 27-point plan!
@paulmurphy_TD If MM really thinks the international situation or even just the security council members have improved since the defence act 1960 I would love to know which, in his opinion
The Korean War often goes by the moniker "Forgotten War." I have always thought that requires a caveat. The US has forgotten its atrocities and its genocide of 3-5 million Koreans. It has never forgotten its hatred of the DPRK or the Korean people.
Sure, Anthropic may have stolen all the world's intellectual property, destroyed the education system, incited mass layoffs among the corporate class, devalued all art and destroyed social trust but somehow they also managed to lose $80 billion in the first half of 2026
@eoinmauricedaly They are the most powerful army on Earth with a crippled economy, that's why we Europeans need to buy as much oil and gas as possible from them, only through intermediaries though so its alright
@SeanMcCarthyCom Black people were "indentured servants" too, the last of which (Alfred Irving) were freed during ww2. If slavery was ever abolished in the US, it was in 1941. Anyone who argues against peonage being a form of slavery also must deny decades or more of slavery in the US
In new study, we show that SARS-CoV-2 has evolved decreased inherent antigenicity in humans, as quantified by a ~3-fold decrease in the number of naïve human B cells that can bind the spike RBD.
https://t.co/OabX5bSYwp
Hang on a minute – something ain't right.
Since only 32% of British Jewish schoolchildren go to non-Jewish schools, and 60% (3 in 5) are supposedly facing "antisemitism" at school, that means at least 28% of Jewish schoolchildren are facing "antisemitism" at Jewish schools! /1
What bothers Norman Finkelstein the most about Mamdani: the dashed hopes of young people
"Your stupid smile, you think that's gonna pass? We elected your for your stupid smile?"