On this day 24 years ago, the world watched, helplessly, as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza for 40 minutes. Despite pleads, Israeli soldiers intentionally shot Muhammad in the stomach, whose final moments of fear and horror were caught on camera and streamed by France TV, and injured his father.
Muhammad became the defining and haunting image of the Second Intifada.
@ComradeStu Yup. It was before colonizing became a bad word. All the documents from that time were very, very clear on the purpose of the project. Only until the 50s did people realize it was bad PR and became hush hush about what they were up to.
Journalist @azaizamotaz9 just arrived to document the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza only to find out the victims are 15 of his family members.
Israel’s extermination campaign in action.
The myth of currency emerging out of bartering was assumed by Adam Smith and others but proven quite false for awhile. People keep believing it tho because it's a just-so story that's easy to believe.
“You’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution. A time where there’s got to be a change. People in power have misused it. And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built.” - Malcolm X
China gave the world hope that the history wouldn't end with Western hegemony, and helped the Global South find the courage to assert themselves.
In short China gave the world an alternative future.
STALIN (1951): "In the United States of America, in Britain, as also in France, there are aggressive forces thirsting for a new war. They need war to obtain super-profits, to plunder other countries. They are billionaires and millionaires who regard war as a lucrative item yielding colossal profits.
They, these aggressive forces, hold reactionary governments in their hands and direct them. But they are at the same time afraid of their peoples, who do not want a new war and stand for the preservation of peace.
Therefore they try to use reactionary governments in order to entangle their peoples with lies, to deceive them and to portray the new war as defensive and the peaceful policy of the peace-loving countries as aggressive. They are trying to deceive their peoples in order to impose their aggressive plans on them and to draw them into a new war...
Peace will be preserved and consolidated if the peoples take the cause of peace into their own hands and defend it to the end. War may become inevitable if the warmongers succeed in entangling the masses of the people in lies, in deceiving them and drawing them into a new world war."
Vietnamese revolutionary Võ Thị Thắng smiling after being sentenced to 20 years in a labour camp by the fascist South Vietnamese puppet regime in 1968. She replied to the judge: "Your government won’t last that long."
@waryetwheant @_bilaire And, technically, it's the tendency for the rate of profits to fall. So it doesn't always. You could have a decade or two of this not happening, for example. But in the long run, yes, profits get squeezed and force capitalism into brutality to keep itself alive.