In a recent talk, he presented an economic model to explain the empirical fact that countries with comparatively low fertility in the 1950s still experienced economic growth for the next decades. I wanted to congratulate him on the discovery of the demographic dividend. But given he never mentioned this term, I thought it was a bad idea after all.
Figure internationale de la gauche et de la lutte contre la faim, pourfendeur des injustices et du «capitalisme prédateur», l’avocat, sociologue, professeur et homme politique Jean Ziegler s’est éteint mercredi à l’âge... https://t.co/P0ckoYJR5O
@Ryhg42@MayorExperience Post 1960..73 was independent Camer ( west Cameroon w KNDP/ Foncha govt ) The Brits had left but the influence was still evident. If the history of that era is inaccessible to you, maybe ask your uncles n aunties that are over 50 yrs...
Always amazes me how the US can start an unprovoked war of aggression on the other side of the planet and then claim it is "launching self-defense strikes" there.
These military forces are nowhere near the United States. The Iranian government says the Apache helicopter that was shot down "was not flying over international waters," but even if it was, it's absurd to claim "self-defense" against a country that has been defending itself in a war you started.
These freaks really do operate from the premise that the entire planet is their property, and that any failure to respect its property rights shall therefore be viewed as an act of aggression.
I mean, just look at who's making this statement. US "Central Command" is the unified combatant command responsible for military operations in the middle east. The US military has separate unified combatant commands for every part of the globe:
• Central Command (CENTCOM) for the middle east.
• Africa Command (AFRICOM) for Africa.
• Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) for Asia, the Pacific islands, Australia and Antarctica.
• European Command (EUCOM) for Europe.
• Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) for South America.
• Northern Command (NORTHCOM) for North America.
No other country on earth does this. No other military power is segmented into areas of responsibility spanning every continent on earth. This is because normal military forces are used to defend the actual, official country they belong to, whereas the US military is used to dominate the entire planet.
And in that sense it's actually entirely reasonable that the US "Department of Defense" changed its name to the Department of War. The US military is never used to defend the actual, official country of the United States of America; it is only ever used to prop up the globe-spanning imperial power structure it commands.
This is not normal. It is a freakish aberration without historical precedent. The world cannot know peace until the US empire is dismantled.
@NigeriaStories It's safe to assume as with so many politically performative gestures that the cart will be placed in-front of the horse. No coherent plan or industry infrastructure of supply chains are in the works to address shortages that come with these import bans..
@MayorExperience Seems like in some cases, unfortunately, independence meant throwing away the dirty water-and the baby. Until abt 1972 Parcels dispatched frm London or Time mag etc from USA used to arrive in Bamenda PO intact and on time. Thefts were frowned on n punished including imprisonment
@Smith_JeffreyT Sure befuddling to grasp for an ahistorical, condescending neo/western bubblegum view of Africa...it may be difficult to grasp the lessons that the Irans/ Vietnams/Russian/Nkorean resistance to implacable western aggression hold for other abused peoples seeking existential space
@SixthTone ..."notice is part of a broader push that also prohibits universities and high schools from promoting “top scorers,” “high-scoring candidates,” or college admission rates in any form"...sounds like a needed bid to curb absurd mimicry of the US academic marketing cacophony