Savanthika Pillay

Thich Nhat Hanh we listen to help others suffer less.

[Katy Katopodis @KatyKatopodis]

IN THE DOCK: What a devastating image for South Africa!

Yet another two senior police generals in the dock, accused of criminal conduct.

The very people meant to uphold the law are increasingly the ones accused of breaking it.

Oh, and if you forgot their (top) ranks, let me remind you…

Major-General Feroz Khan: Head of Counter-Intelligence in SAPS Crime Intelligence.

Major-General Ebrahim Ahmed Kadwa: Gauteng Provincial Head of the Hawks.

Makes this even more of a travesty!

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Banksy has unveiled a new sculpture of a man stepping off a stone base with his face obscured by a flag.

The overnight installation in Waterloo Place, London, was revealed in a video shared by the artist, and has drawn fans of his politically charged works.

[Tau e Tshehadi @D_Molatoli]

Commissioner Khumalo: Why did you not stop Adhoc services that were costing the City millions?

Director Malatjie: "Commissioners I I did not, as I did not right, I found it, not difficult per se..." 😭

I found this video of Ongie from Malatji's previous appearance. Hilarious as always. 🤣🤣😂
#MadlangaCommission

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Platoon and The Deer Hunter are films that American culture needed to make and needed to see.

They are not films that Vietnamese culture needed Americans to make.

Vietnam did not need Oliver Stone to process its trauma.

Vietnam processed its own trauma, in its own language, in its own films, with its own filmmakers, without requiring the perpetrator of the war to narrate the experience of it.

The fact that American films about Vietnam are considered the definitive cultural texts on the subject, globally, in film school syllabi, in critical discourse, is itself a form of the same power that prosecuted the war.

America fought Vietnam militarily and lost.

Then it fought Vietnam narratively and largely won, because it had the industry, the distribution networks, the cultural reach to flood the global conversation with its own version of events.

Platoon is a good film.

But it is not a Vietnamese film about the American War.

It is an American film about Vietnam.

And until people can feel the difference between those two sentences without being told what the difference is, the narrative war is still ongoing.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The projection here is extraordinary.

You accuse my argument of being propaganda, professionally produced, foreign-funded, designed to seem credible while serving hidden interests.

Let's describe something else:

A media ecosystem that has spent eighty years describing every American military intervention as a response to aggression rather than an act of it.

A film industry that has produced hundreds of movies in which American soldiers are the protagonists and the people they're fighting are the backdrop.

An education system that teaches American history as a story of imperfect but genuine progress.

A political culture in which "support the troops" is mandatory and questioning what the troops were sent to do is unpatriotic.

That is the propaganda.

It has no single author.

It requires no foreign paymaster.

It is produced domestically, at massive scale, by a culture that has found the story it needs to tell about itself and tells it through every available channel, every single day.

You swim in it, Robert.

You cannot see it.

You can see a small, accurate, documented argument and call it "propaganda."

You cannot see the ocean you've been swimming in your entire life.

That's what a really good propaganda operation looks like.

Not a paid social media account.

A whole culture.

And you are its product.

[Idrees Ahmad @im_PULSE]

J.M. Coetzee is a magnificent writer. And, naturally, his rejection of an invitation to a literary festival in Israel is also magnificent. Brief and unsparing.

[Aom Ucing @taosophie]

Anak2 Palestina disiksa, termasuk yg dewasa, kaki diamputasi dan mata dibutakan pake besi. Kek gini yg dibela siwo2. Ikut dosa lu. Jahanam.

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

Says the guy who burned Libya to the ground.

[Pieter Kriel @pieterkrielorg]

Today is Freedom Day. This freedom includes a 31% unemployment rate (top 3 in the world), 55% of our people live in poverty, 80%+ of our Grade 4 learners can’t read to understand, and this after 30 years of democratic fruits? South Africa is the most unequal country on earth.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Vance was “rescued” first, before Trump. What does that mean?

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THE RECAP‼️ #WHCD

[#PutSouthAfricansfirst @Patriot_S_A]

The municipality's fleet manager, linked to ANC, was detained by PKTT in relation to his colleague, Martha Mani (39). Martha was shot while waiting for her vehicle to be serviced at a tyre fitment centre two weeks ago. It is suspected she may have uncovered corruption within the municipality.

[Ali Cevahir @38divan]

Son Dakika:

🔴 ABD Başkanı Trump, İspanya'ya: Sizi NATO'dan çıkaracağız ve tüm ticaret anlaşmalarını askıya alacağız.

- İspanya Cumhurbaşkanı Sánchez: Ne isterseniz yapın, yeter ki bizi rahat bırakın.

ABD 🇺🇸: İran'a saldırmak için hava üslerinizi bize verin

İspanya 🇪🇸: "Vermeyeceğiz" 🔥

ABD 🇺🇸: Ticaret anlaşmasını askıya alacağız

İspanya 🇪🇸: "Askıya alın" 🔥

ABD 🇺🇸: İspanya'yı NATO'dan çıkaracağız

İspanya 🇪🇸: "Ne isterseniz yapın" 🔥

İspanya Başbakanı Pedro Sánchez ile tanışın 🔥

Ne lider, ne insan 🫡

O kadar güçlü bir omurgası var ki, boyun eğmeyi reddediyor 🔥

[Rania @umyaznemo]

More Jews are finally waking up to the fact that 1srael is a terr0rist state!

[Judaeda Blanco @Judaeda3]

Municipality officials caught by a councillor stealing water to make their own profit. 🤔

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

This hairdo was literally the worst thing that happened at the WHCD last night

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Wow this gave me goosebumps 😵🤯😟

via ValinorGro73423

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans: "Political violence has no place in America."

Also Americans:

[Jean Jacques Dessalines 🇭🇹🇵🇸🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫🇨🇺 @JeanJacquesDes7]

🤣

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Please take a moment to listen to UNICEF Spox @1james_elder, speaking after Israel’s latest strikes on Lebanon.

“The killing of children, attacks on hospitals, erasure of entire families is now met with justification or selective outrage or just silence…Children are not collateral…Challenge language and challenge people who normalized attacks on civilians.”