you’ll be shocked to learn Flock’s biggest investor is Andreessen Horowitz who is also an early seed investor in Free Press (both in 2021) which is oddly not disclosed in this segment
holy shit, the BBC just edited the passage from their anonymous "Iranian source" and removed the begging for being left without electricity, water and being nuked to death. So they admitted to fabricating the quote without any formal correction. This is utterly insane
In the final years of South African Apartheid, the white government decided it must 1) overthrow the government of Angola 2) install a puppet regime in Namibia 3) attack Zimbabwe 4) attack Botswana 5) attack Zambia in order to survive. This did not work
GWOT/Global war on terror really is a perfect example of ideology: particular interests (Zionist settler colonialism) are framed as universal (humanity must save civilization itself from the global barbarians!)
I tweeted this in 2014 btw. Al-Shifa hospital is now in ruins thanks to Israeli bombings. We can only pray this girl who would now be 14 is still alive. All she has known is the occupation.
“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”—Aimé Césaire, 1950