mel sings

PhD-ing a project on coffee and colonialism. trustee @kineara.

[Camila Lourdes Galarza @sovietwithsazon]

Another activist found dead in her home, with marks on her neck, after leading a fight against mining companies and corrupt politicians amid the Ecuadorian state illegally expanding mining activity. Earlier this year, Ecuadorian water defender, Manuel Cabrera, was also murdered after refusing to give up the land he’s worked for years to mining corporations. Both activists received several death threats prior to passing and filed multiple complaints that went ignored because the state was hostile to their activism. Just last month, the vocal older sister of one of the four Black boys that the Ecuadorian state kidnapped, murdered and burned to ashes, was shot and killed. A few weeks later, family and neighbors from her community reported that military and government officials were stalking them and knocking on doors asking for the addresses of the 4 boys’ families in what appears to be an act of intimidation. All the while, Marxist organizers like Omar Campoverde are being starved and sexually tortured in Ecuador’s prisons. Whether it be by neglect, forced starvation, execution-style shoot outs, the U.S.-backed dictatorship that rules Ecuador by martial law and pentagon bombs is responsible and at fault.

[Tod🔻 @idertod]

This book is essential reading and deeply illuminating. In chapter 20, “Capitalism’s Big Jolt,” the author argues that without the caloric boost of sugar...reaching roughly 25 pounds per person per year in England by 1776...it would not have been metabolically possible for workers to sustain the intense demands of capitalist labor. Sugar also enabled the mass consumption of caffeinated beverages that had previously been too bitter to drink in large quantities. As a result, sugar helped usher in a “new era of alertness,” fueling the rise of coffeehouses, which in turn nurtured a new medium...the newspaper...and contributed to the intellectual ferment associated with the Enlightenment.

[Just Treatment 💊 @JustTreatment]

#Palantir in the #NHS: how many more warnings, scandals and leaks will it take for their contract to be cancelled? ❌

[enter shakira𓅮 @BARFJAMiN]

“why waste expensive teachers on povvy kids when we can just stick them in front of the machine that gets everything wrong, completely fuck their education up then force them into workfare for the rest of their lives”

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Powerful writing from Nasser Abourahme. Every sentence of this:

"Zionism, actually existing Zionism, is possibly the most concentrated distillation of colonial racism and state excess in the contemporary world. Bar none.

It’s not just that it’s the inheritor of Europe’s colonial project in its most self-righteous form. It’s also the contemporary vestige of state racism and power in the kind of unrestrained form that elsewhere had to be disavowed.

A proud holdover of what everyone else in the West had to pretend not to like anymore. A state racism and power that frees itself from any self-repressive mechanisms, does away with any pretense or even hypocrisy, and wades directly into the unbridled cruelty and sadism that the bourgeois Western political order had to at least pretend it had overcome.

Zionism shouts its genocidal intentions from the rooftops; its state ministers openly call for the elimination of everything that stands in their way; its supporters all but explicitly declare that the mass killing of children is necessary for the state’s survival and they will make no apologies.

This is the allure of Zionism today. The more it descends into its own suicidal spiral of nihilistic hysterical obliteration, the more it openly celebrates its sadism and will to obliterate, the more it offers a vision of the future for those not interested in co-habiting the planet with what they deem are its subhuman surplus populations.

In other words, the allure of Zionism to the fascist new right is that it offers a model of a historical corrective to what they feel has been a long surrender in which Western or white supremacy has been afraid to speak its name.

They want to be able to speak its name; they want to throw a “sieg hiel” at a political rally and not have to pretend it’s an autistic gesture of affection. It’s in this sense that Zionism is at once both the past and future of the European racial-colonial project."

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

First Thornberry. Now this one.

They know a reckoning is coming, and they're scrambling to save themselves. But the archives don't forget - and they don't lie.

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

BATUK: BRITAIN'S COLONIAL GRIP IN KENYA

BATUK: The White Man’s Burden in Kenya is not just a documentary about a British military base where soldiers roll around in the dirt for six months before returning home to the UK. It is a documentary about abuse of power, occupation of indigenous land and the unfinished business of colonialism.

For decades, ordinary Kenyans living around BATUK have raised allegations of abuse, sexual violence, ecological destruction and impunity, while one of the world’s most powerful former colonial powers continues to operate freely on Kenyan soil, handing out small amounts of compensation whenever evidence of alleged crimes reaches the media.

At the centre of the documentary is the story of Agnes Wanjiru, a 21-year-old Kenyan woman who was tortured, killed and dumped in a septic tank, while British soldiers mocked and ridiculed her death on social media. One soldier posed in front of the septic tank and posted, “If you know, you know.” Others joked about the five-month-old daughter she left behind, posting imagery of a baby beside a gravesite.

But the story goes beyond Agnes and her tragic killing and the shocking behaviour of British troops thereafter. The documentary asks deeper questions:

How did Britain maintain a military presence in Kenya, the very same year the country supposedly gained independence?

Why are foreign troops still training on stolen land while local communities continue to suffer?

And above all, why does the Kenyan government allow all of this?

Laikipia County, currently in the spotlight because of plans for an Ebola quarantine facility for US citizens, is the very same county where the BATUK military base is headquartered. This documentary helps connect the dots about why Kenya’s political elite remain so willing to cede sovereignty to foreign powers like Britain, and why they may be willing to do the same again with the United States.

This is Sovereign Media’s first-ever documentary. We are a small, independent team with a brand-new YouTube channel and no corporate backing. We need your support now more than ever.

Watch. Share. Comment. Spread it everywhere.

@AhmedKaballo @NaamMedia @VoxUmmah @venanalysis @qiaocollective @ProgIntl @KawsachunNews @OrinocoTribune @blkagendareport @SoberaniaPod

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Harriman told Novara Media: ‘We have reached the point where truth itself is being crushed by the very institutions that are supposed to uphold it’ 4 newspapers may have breached regulators code over hit-job on Southbank Centre head https://t.co/3GFvnuSqTG

[mel sings @nuriasinghji]

Sick to my stomach at the treachery

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago reserved positions on this statement — since not only have they called for US “democratic” interventions into Cuba, but they also shared this week that they boarded the US warship, USS Nimitz, and were praying for the US soldiers on board.

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

CARICOM will post this, noting Cuba poses no harm to any nation, that UN resolutions frequently condemn US blockade and sanctions aggression against Cuba — yet still, you have some CARICOM member states aiding US aggression + none sending oil to Cuba 😐

[mel sings @nuriasinghji]

Fortress Europe’s concentration camps

[David Yambio @DavidYambio]

Deliberate reduction of human beings into nothingness.

For years, this is what we have fought to make visible: EU-funded concentration camps in Libya where enslaved “migrants” and “refugees” are detained en masse, shoulder against shoulder, body against body, with barely enough room to turn or sit upright. Exhaustion, dehydration, disorientation, heat, suffocation, darkness, sheer collapse—you name it.

One does not need visible blood for violence to be present. Sometimes violence is architectural, administrative, and above all a decision to place hundreds of enslaved people in a room never meant to contain them and then call it “migration management.”

My outrage comes from the fact that such scenes have become normalised both in Libya, Europe and around the globe. The world has slowly learned to consume the dehumanisation of “migrants” as recurring theme instead of evidence of ongoing crimes against human beings that concerns all of humanity.

And while this reality is already unbearable, this morning a document leaked to @StatewatchEU confirmed that the EU has begun collaborating with Haftar’s forces in eastern Libya on “migration control.”

The result will be worse than what is happening in this footage.

This is a condition that no court, parliament, humanitarian institution, or democratic society should tolerate for a single hour, let alone for years that has passed.

[David Yambio @DavidYambio]

Deliberate reduction of human beings into nothingness.

For years, this is what we have fought to make visible: EU-funded concentration camps in Libya where enslaved “migrants” and “refugees” are detained en masse, shoulder against shoulder, body against body, with barely enough room to turn or sit upright. Exhaustion, dehydration, disorientation, heat, suffocation, darkness, sheer collapse—you name it.

One does not need visible blood for violence to be present. Sometimes violence is architectural, administrative, and above all a decision to place hundreds of enslaved people in a room never meant to contain them and then call it “migration management.”

My outrage comes from the fact that such scenes have become normalised both in Libya, Europe and around the globe. The world has slowly learned to consume the dehumanisation of “migrants” as recurring theme instead of evidence of ongoing crimes against human beings that concerns all of humanity.

And while this reality is already unbearable, this morning a document leaked to @StatewatchEU confirmed that the EU has begun collaborating with Haftar’s forces in eastern Libya on “migration control.”

The result will be worse than what is happening in this footage.

This is a condition that no court, parliament, humanitarian institution, or democratic society should tolerate for a single hour, let alone for years that has passed.

[IJ | mwen pa sòt online @aChildOf2Worlds]

UK people, BEWARE. I was talking to my mum and the conversation was very ordinary.

All of a sudden we hear: “THIS CALL IS BEING RECORDED”. Mind you neither of us are recording the phone call.

Big Massa is absolutely here.

[HilaryOmoni @HilarySpeaksOut]

It is with an extreme heavy heart that I have come to the decision to share this information. Yesterday, on the 25/05/2026, my 12‑year‑old son was stopped, handcuffed, and searched by a Kent Police officer in Sevenoaks after briefly touching and playing with a loose stop sign.

[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

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @hum_dunkin]

The USA has murdered about 200 Caribbean fisherman for no reason in the past 5 months

[SAHERE @sahere205]

Los indigenas, mineros y obreros de bolivia, están dando una batalla histórica contra el imperialismo!!!

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: NHS England has granted external staff from companies including Palantir “unlimited access” to identifiable patient data while working on a part of its flagship data platform. https://t.co/sxgWCuZua6

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Vigil held for Black man who died after being restrained by security guards in Ireland

Yves Sakila, 35, who was Congolese, was restrained outside the Arnotts department store in Dublin, Ireland.

#justiceforyvessalika

https://t.co/vG5sgXh5Pt

[mel sings @nuriasinghji]

*murder

[Calum @1895Calum]

can't wait for them to explain how death is an acceptable punishment for shoplifting.