Jalal Afhim (he/him)

Healing and anti-oppression practice for BPOC through Chen Family Tai Chi, coaching and career counseling. Views are my own. Insta: Kahina_Resists

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to know what imperial conditioning looks like from the inside?

It looks like a person who knows that the United States has the largest prison population in the history of human civilization, and still describes other countries as "unfree."

It looks like a person who knows their healthcare system allows people to die from rationed insulin, and still describes other countries' economics as "failed."

It looks like a person who watched their government spend $2.3 trillion over twenty years building a state in Afghanistan that collapsed in just 10 days, and still trusts that same government's assessment of which other countries are "stable" or "democratic" or "ready for self-governance."

It is not stupidity.

It is something more structurally interesting than stupidity.

It is what happens when the story a person needs to believe about themselves is in direct conflict with the evidence their own eyes can see, and the story wins.

Not because the evidence is unclear.

But because the cost of following the evidence to its conclusion is too high.

Better a comfortable contradiction than an uncomfortable clarity.

The empire is built on that choice, made daily, by millions of people.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The most dangerous thing about antisemitic conspiracy theory in a conversation about genuine imperialism is not only that it's morally wrong.

It is that it is strategically catastrophic for the people it claims to be defending.

When the explanation for Palestinian suffering is "Jewish power" rather than American strategic interest, you have just told every Palestinian solidarity movement to organize against the wrong target.

You have turned a winnable political argument: end U.S. military aid, enforce international law, apply the same standards to Israeli conduct that are applied to other U.S. allies, into an unwinnable ethnic confrontation.

You have alienated every potential Jewish ally, of whom there are many, who oppose the occupation on their own moral and political grounds.

You have handed the Israeli regime exactly the framing it needs to convert a political critique into an accusation of bigotry, which it then uses to shut down every legitimate conversation.

The conspiracy theory does not help Palestinians.

It protects the system that harms them by making the system's critics look like bigots.

Whether that's the intent or not, that's the function.

The Palestinian movement has always known this.

Their most serious thinkers, Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, analyzed Israeli policy through colonialism, imperial power, and U.S. strategic backing.

Not as an ethnic conspiracy.

Because they were trying to win.

Not just to be angry.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW

A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves.

One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did.

An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY.

Link: https://t.co/TWKgXJ41NC

Direct Link: https://t.co/qWkrhx1FT7

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Nigeria’s ginger export collapsed from a staggering N26 billion($47.5 million) to absolute zero in a span of just three years, wiping out the livelihoods of thousands of families.

The official excuse is being branded as a mere "fungal" disease, which is ridiculously funny, insulting, and misleading.
A mere disease can kill a handful of crops, but it can never systematically wipe out an entire agricultural belt spanning hundreds of thousands of acres. When a disaster of this magnitude destroys crops across multiple communities in Kaduna and neighboring states, we can be rest assured that this is a man-made, policy-driven disaster without a single shred of doubt.

Indeed, the N26 billion export figure quoted was not from 2024. Nigeria’s export of ginger in 2024 had already plummeted to a pathetic N6.2 billion, roughly 4.7 million dollars, which forces us to ask what actually happened between 2023 and 2024 to pave the way for this historic, sudden decline.

Everything began in 2017, when the World Bank sent their economic hitmen to Nigeria to convince the federal government that our agricultural output was poor.
They claimed the issue was not because the predatory terms of the World Trade Organisation banned the government from subsidizing local farmers, providing modern tractors, building secure storage facilities, or protecting domestic markets from heavily subsidized Western imports.
Instead, they deceitfully concluded that Nigerian farmers were doing poorly simply because they lacked access to modern, high-yielding, corporate-patented seeds.

As usual, the incompetent Nigerian government under the Buhari administration rolled over, spread their laps, and eagerly accepted a 200 million dollar loan from the World Bank to kickstart the APPEALS project.
Nigeria historically grew two traditional, highly resilient, non-genetically modified varieties of ginger known as UG1, locally called "Tafin Giwa," and UG2, locally called "Yatsun Biri."
Under this APPEALS program championed by the World Bank, ginger farmers in Northern Nigeria were instructed to abandon their local, highly resilient seeds. Instead, they were forced to source new, delicate foundation seeds from the National Root Crops Research Institute in Umudike, Abia State.

The NRCRI does not operate in a vacuum: it functions within a complex global network of funding, corporate interests, and academic research heavily bankrolled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the agro-chemical giant Monsanto.

Under this collaborative framework, the Gates-funded institute provided the laboratory methodology and the modified parent seeds, while the World Bank’s APPEALS project supplied the logistics, the demonstration farms, and the training to force farmers into growing these highly dependent seeds. .

Traditionally, farming ginger is not rocket science. All a farmer had to do was make a small hole in the soil, drop the seed rhizome inside, cover it up, and let nature do the rest.
But because the farmers were forced to abandon their traditional seedlings and adopt the genetically fragile, volatile, lab-grown tissue cultures from the Gates-funded institute, they no longer had that luxury. The institute's labs simply lacked the capacity to mass-produce these delicate seeds at the industrial scale required for nationwide agriculture.

This is where the World Bank's economic traps clicked shut. Under the APPEALS program, farmers were trained to cut the healthy foundation rhizomes into tiny, microscopic pieces weighing a mere 4 to 5 grams. These tiny buds were then dipped in a specialized, highly expensive chemical fungicide wash, placed into artificial nursery trays, and kept under protective, climate-controlled shade nets. The farmers had to baby these nurseries, watering them with meticulous care just to get the single buds to sprout into disease-free green seedlings over a thirty-to-forty-day period.

Once these fragile green shoots reached a height of 10 to 15 centimeters and developed a weak, independent root system, the farmers had to carefully transplant them directly into pre-prepared ridges in the open fields.

At first, it looked like a miracle. The farmers saw a temporary 67% surge in their ginger yields, which was paraded by World Bank PR teams as a massive success. But the APPEALS program was only scheduled to last for six years. In 2023, the World Bank packed up their bags, collected their interest, and quietly left the country.

Naturally, the farmers attempted to continue farming on their own to maintain their profit margins, but they ran into a fatal wall. It is not enough to train farmers to use delicate, laboratory-engineered seeds: you must also fund the highly specific chemical inputs those seeds require to survive in the wild. As soon as the farmers tried to buy the specialized fungicides and chemical washes needed to protect these hyper-sensitive crops, they realized the prices had skyrocketed by over 300%, making them completely unaffordable for the average rural farmer.

Desperate, the farmers tried to source cheaper, local alternatives, but these fragile seeds are so biologically delicate that the slightest deviation in chemical treatment or soil temperature renders them sterile and highly vulnerable to pathogens. This is how Nigeria's ginger output collapsed from 47 million dollars in 2023, to a pathetic 4.7 million dollars in 2024, and finally to absolute zero by 2025.

There are many performative reforms currently ongoing to supposedly rescue the Nigerian ginger market. But the cold truth is that the World Bank and Bill Gates successfully destroyed a thriving, self-sufficient local industry that fed millions of homes, and this is not the first time this economic sabotage has occurred in Nigeria.

Look at what they did to our cocoa industry in the late 1980s. Under the brutal dictates of the World Bank's Structural Adjustment Program, the federal government was forced to dissolve the Nigerian Cocoa Board, which had historically guaranteed price stability, provided free high-quality seedlings, and subsidized essential pesticides for local farmers.
Once the market was liberalized, our local farmers were left completely defenseless against the volatile swings of the global commodities market and the predatory pricing of Western buying cartels like Cargill and Barry Callebaut, systematically crashing Nigeria's dominance in global cocoa and reducing our once-proud farmers to low-wage laborers for multinational corporations.

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Looks like this is going to get expensive for people like the Supreme Leader of Flag Shaggers Ryan Bridge. Shropshire County Council have dropped a £13k bill on his unnamed mate (John Cunningham) for the removal of flags in the Shrewsbury area. [pause for laughter].
It also looks like RTC are planning a re-flagging event in Shropshire 30/05/26. If you in that area and capture images of people/vehicles used pass to the council. Lets make them all pay for disrespecting our flag and intimidating communities! Please share to Shrewsbury friends. Respect our flag on properly maintained public buildings, but not on lampposts!

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Our sources within the Bolivian police have confirmed that they've received orders to use live ammunition against the indigenous long march that is arriving today in the capital.

Protesters are aware and heading down regardless, to defend the country and its natural resources.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link:

https://t.co/OZpVijLzMB

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Nearly 70,000 of us have said no to Palantir. Join us 👇
https://t.co/VcJYP1YlDW

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

With Keir Starmer in meltdown mode, this man is being presented as the saviour of the Labour Party.

But did you know that last time Andy Burnham stood for leader, he pledged that his FIRST foreign trip would be to Israel?

Here’s what else I’ve discovered:🧵

[John Rees @JohnWRees]

Must read thread. The @metpoliceuk are out of control…

[Franck Magennis 🍉 @FranckMagennis]

I’m instructed to sue a chain of coffee shops after they tried to force my client Aidan to remove his Palestine badge.

We will argue in court that the Zionist complaints on which Old Spike relied are not worthy of respect in a democratic society.

Please donate and share widely.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Dr Eastland Staveley who said he didn't kill enough Palestinian babies is back working for @DHUHealthCare @Leic_hospital | @doctor_rahmeh

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Let me get this straight. The rise in antisemitic attacks in Britain has NOTHING to do with Israel's (self proclaimed only Jewish state) litany of war crimes in recent years but IS connected to the protests and marches opposing those war crimes. Perfect. Got it.

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

BREAKING: Jonathan Hall KC, independent reviewer of counter-terror law, says counter terror powers are not meant to be used against activist groups.

He says serious property damage alone shouldn't be classed as terrorism, and the definition should change https://t.co/8OLO6RLFKn

[Real Media @RealMediaGB]

BREAKING NEWS from the 'Filton 6' trial

Five of the six defendants have sacked their lawyers and will now deliver their own closing statements.

Meanwhile, outside Woolwich Crown Court this morning, around a dozen people were arrested for holding signs referencing “jury equity.”

This follows the 2024 case of Trudi Warner, who was accused of contempt of court for holding a placard reminding jurors of their right to acquit based on their conscience. In that case, the judge ruled that jury equity is a well-established legal principle, meaning juries have the power to acquit regardless of judicial direction, and dismissed the government’s application.

Today’s arrests come as people again informed jurors of their right to acquit according to their conscience.

You can find Real Media’s coverage of the “Filton 6” trial here: https://t.co/MSqKWGgRPb

Please share to support our work.

[CAGE International @CAGEintl]

CAGE International Research Director @AsimCP breaks down the strategy behind Palestine Action and what’s really driving their actions.

Since 2020, Palestine Action has systematically targeted the infrastructure behind Israel’s military operations, with Elbit Systems facing billions in losses and damages.

The High Court already ruled the ban is unlawful, yet the government are continuing to waste taxpayers money and have appealed it. The appeal hearing is set for tomorrow at the Royal Courts of Justice from 11am.

[Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE @chichinwanoku]

Afrori, a Brighton bookshop and the UK’s largest supplier of books by Black authors, is facing closure. They need to sell 1,000 books by next week. Please support if you can: https://t.co/L96Kw5WW7T

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

Copied from a friend’s page:

A serious and deeply shocking UN report, jointly prepared by five prominent international organizations (intergovernmental organizations) in cooperation with three Israeli NGOs, is facing pressure, particularly from the US and the West, to prevent its release. Among the most prominent points in this "prisoner report" are:

1. 112 cases of rape were documented within Israeli prisons against female prisoners from Gaza. Three of these cases involved virgins, and the rapes were gang-raped. One of these women was transferred under international supervision to a secret location and is now pregnant.

2. Israeli forces executed 87 Gazan detainees inside their prisons by shooting them directly in the head with pistols and dumped their bodies in various areas of Gaza's streets.

3. Torture in the prisons is barbaric and insane, and what is happening is more horrific than what occurred in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the secret prisons.

4. (Israel) deliberately bombed, as part of a chain of command, families and children belonging to Palestinian organizations. The occupation army approved, from the second day, a plan to exterminate the families of activists, and the target bank includes 150,000 civilians.

5. (Israel) made excessive use of mercenaries and contracted with 22 military service companies. There is an American ship that is essentially a floating morgue containing 1,327 bodies of mercenaries whose families have not yet been notified of their deaths.

6. The amount of gold and money stolen, according to secret army estimates, is approximately $370 million.

7. (70%) of the bombs dropped on Gaza were filled with depleted uranium. The soil in the Gaza Strip is heavily contaminated with uranium elements, containing 60% of the radioactivity of natural uranium. Uranium consists of three isotopes: uranium-234, uranium-235, and uranium-238. The depleted uranium dropped on Gaza contains the same types of radiation as natural uranium, but in lower quantities. The radiation emitted by depleted uranium is 40% of that emitted by natural uranium. Uranium-238, which constitutes 99.8% of the depleted uranium, emits alpha particles. Its half-life in Gaza is approximately 450 years. The smoke from the depleted uranium explosions caused cancer in the lungs of everyone who inhaled it.

8. (90%) of women and children in Gaza suffer from severe psychological trauma, and medical centers in the Strip have recorded more than 5,000 cases of complete mental breakdown, mostly among women who lost their children.

9. Approximately 213 (Israeli) pilots refused to carry out airstrikes on targets containing dozens of people. One pilot testified before an Israeli organization that he refused to bomb a residential tower in Tel al-Hawa where 48 children were located, as detected by thermal imaging aircraft. However, another pilot carried out the bombing 17 minutes later, killing everyone in the building. The result was the deaths of 128 civilians.

10. The purpose of establishing a temporary port is to facilitate the mass transfer of Palestinians and their passage to Europe. Three European countries are fully complicit in an agreed-upon plan to depopulate the Gaza Strip.

11. The Zionist war cabinet approved the use of starvation as a weapon in late November.

12. Israeli intelligence agencies made over 3 million phone calls to Gaza residents, threatening to bomb homes and kill families if they did not obtain field information.

13. Two Arab countries offered South Africa very tempting financial incentives in exchange for withdrawing the case from the Supreme Court.

14. The airdropping of aid to Gaza by Western aircraft was carried out based on advice from legal advisors to avoid accusations of complicity in genocide, especially since the weapons supplied were delivered without restrictions on their use against civilians.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I don't always agree with Good Law Project -
like any free individual there is nobody and no organisation I always agree with -
this is very good work.

[Dilly Hussain @DillyHussain88]

Meet Izzy Lenga.

She is a @UKLabour councillor in Camden.

If you see her canvassing around Camden, ask her how many Palestinian women and children she and/or her IDF buddies killed in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.