i look at one clip, any clip, of the american invasion of Iraq, and all this discourse turns into a dull buzzing. there is no point in arguing with people who humanize the U.S military. all of them will face the same fate in hell as that terrorist organization inshallah
@dreamsandprose yeah given the explicit call to boycott, mentioning israel requires an explicit condemnation through the text otherwise it still falls into normalization
If you believe now is the time to talk about the internal issues within the Islamic republic, then you have sided with Zionism and US Imperalism. And if you have spent the last few months doing so, you prepared the intellectual ground for today’s attacks.
o wow you condemn the guy that got kidnapped AND the guy that kidnapped him? should we tell the atlantic monthly? should we throw a party and invite barack obama
Every video I see of Saleh I can tell he was a kind soul. Whether it was a baby or an animal, he was gentle with them. He survived 2 years of genocide with a smile on his face the entire time.
What lesson do they think they are teaching Greta or the world by dragging her across the floor and making her kiss the Israeli flag? Who is this persuading?
tonight is the evening of yom kippur in the hebrew calendar where the faithful are to fast from dusk until tomorrow at dusk & all work activity (including transport) in areas of palestine colonized by zionists is suspended ...
In 1977, while Assata was still incarcerated, the Black Liberation Army—the movement she belonged to and whose members later helped free her—issued a letter that directly addressed feminism and them using her trial for their own aim, and they stated their position unequivocally.
"I wasn’t against communism, but i can’t say i was for it either. At first, i viewed it suspiciously, as some kind of white man’s concoction, until i read works by African revolutionaries and studied the African liberation movements. Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism.
The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.
I got into heated arguments with sisters or brothers who claimed that the oppression of Black people was only a question of race. I argued that there were Black oppressors as well as white ones. That’s why you’ve got Blacks who support Nixon or Reagan or other conservatives. Black folks with money have always tended to support candidates who they believed would protect their financial interests. As far as i was concerned, it didn’t take too much brains to figure out that Black people are oppressed because of class as well as race, because we are poor and because we are Black. …
[Earlier in my life] When someone asked me what communism was, i opened my mouth to answer, then realized i didn’t have the faintest idea. My image of a communist came from a cartoon. It was a spy with a black trench coat and a black hat pulled down over his face, slinking around corners …
I never forgot that day. We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is… It’s got to be one of the most basic principles of living: always decide who your enemies are for yourself, and never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."
Please avoid jumping to conclusions about the detainees shot at the ICE detention facility in Dallas until the FBI has had time to investigate the crime scene and construct a hypothetical text chain between the shooter and his roommate