Rome built stadiums to stop its own people from rising up. Two thousand years later, we're still walking into the same trap — only we pay for it now.
Al Jazeera's Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down.
“He once reminded us: ‘We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.’
He was not making a geopolitical argument. He was making a moral one.
Today Gaza confronts this Assembly with the same question that apartheid once posed to the world. Does international law apply equally to everyone?
If the answer depends on geography...
If it depends on alliances...
If it depends on military strength…
If it depends of race…
If it depends on religion…
Then it is no longer law. It is power. And its opposite is oppression.
Mandela knew war. He understood violence. But he also understood that the systematic erosion of human dignity can never become the price of political expediency”- @RediTlhabi
Donations are not meant to buy obedience to the donor's worldview. That is blackmail and control. Anyway
..if those donors are businesses, do South Africans have a right to know who they are so they too can make a decision about where to take their money?
“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.”
— Sir David Attenborough
“I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’
And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”
— Sir David Attenborough
The more you study African history, the more you realize that the story is not just one of oppression it's also a story of kingdoms, scholars, traders, inventors, warriors, resistance, and survival.
Most people from other African countries are not here because they want to be, but because their countries have been ruined by corrupt elites. Turning our anger on them instead of those elites is the most inhumane and cowardly thing to do. https://t.co/q1Yax19iNS
So let me get this straight:
When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.
When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.
Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?