Raza Ali Sayeed

A humanist trying to live in a conformist society. Journalist, @RoyalHolloway alumni.

[Raza Ali Sayeed @razmat]

#BestThingAboutThe70s

Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, AC/DC ... 😎

[Variety @Variety]

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s most celebrated actors who led Masaki Kobayashi's "Harakiri" and starred in Akira Kurosawa's “Ran,” "Yojimbo" and “High and Low,” has died. He was 92.

Read more: https://t.co/NhqrYnvWep

[History of Khorâsân and the Persianate World @BiruniKhorasan]

20 years in our country and Americans still believe we in Afghanistan are Arabs.

What an hilariously unintelligent and uneducated country.

[John McEvoy @jmcevoy_2]

The Times has published an article urging war on Iran which is co-authored by someone who is wanted by the ICC for war crimes.

A new low for the British media.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“But it is within the power of writers and artists...to defeat the lie! For in the struggle with lies art has always triumphed and shall always triumph!”

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Happy 381st Birthday to Sir Isaac Newton!

An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author whose mind unlocked the laws of motion and universal gravitation, and is recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time.

Sir Isaac Newton worked 7 days a week, 18 hours a day. He had given up his personal life, he probably never had any intention of getting married or raising a family. He wanted to devote all his life to the works of science and the pursuit of mathematics and so he did.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in."

-Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)

[Everest Today @EverestToday]

Breaking News: Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine's remains possibly uncovered on Everest. A century after the climber disappeared alongside George Mallory, a National Geographic team has made a discovery that may shed light on one of the greatest adventure mysteries in history. More: https://t.co/egdXlTc6Cb

[Following Hadrian @carolemadge]

Remembering Khaled al-Asaad, the heroic Syrian archaeologist who was murdered by ISIS on 18 August 2015 for refusing to give up the hidden treasures of Palmyra. 🙏 #OnThisDay
https://t.co/m8mXQ89Whj

[Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 @RottenTomatoes]

Gena Rowlands, iconic Hollywood actress best known for her roles in A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria, and The Notebook has sadly passed away at the age of 94.

Rest in peace.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

RIP Gena Rowlands (1930-2024)

Gena Rowlands' performance in John Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974) is one of the greatest of all time.

Long live her fame!

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Gena Rowlands (1930–2024)

[The Olympic Games™ @Olympics]

Believe it, Nadeem.
You just became Pakistan's first ever athletics Olympic champion. 🇵🇰🥹

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I rarely praise mainstream media but this is truly journalism at its very best by WaPo, revealing the economic warfare that the US wages against much of the world, and especially against poor countries, with 60% of them today under US sanctions!

Here is what their analysis reveals:

1. ~1/3 of all nations on Earth now are sanctioned by the US. This disproportionately affects poor countries with over *60%* of *all poor countries* (countries classified as low-income countries by the World Bank) under US sanctions of some kind.

2. Sanctions have become an immensely corrupt multi-billion-dollar lobbying & influence industry, enriching former US officials who are hired by foreign countries & oligarchs.

3. Biden is the president who - by an order of magnitude - had the highest rate of sanctions with at some point in his administration a volley of +6K sanctions in just 2 years.

4. Sanctions have had devastating effects on innocent civilians, directly causing immense suffering and possibly deaths in the hundreds of thousands. In Cuba, they've made critical medical supplies impossible to import. In Venezuela, they contributed to a financial collapse 3X greater than the US Great Depression. Syria faces its greatest humanitarian crisis this year after a decade of sanctions.

5. Worse of all, besides causing immense suffering of civilians in mostly poor countries and enriching a corrupt system, there is very little evidence that sanctions actually work at all. This is an incredible quote in the article by Bill Reinsch, a former US Commerce Department official: “nobody in government is sure this whole strategy [of sanctions] is even working.”

Link to the story: https://t.co/4lorOPlOw0

[Karl Marx @marxhaunting]

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
https://t.co/iGe7xBhDl8

[Guardian Science @guardianscience]

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94 https://t.co/MaPrvUin3B

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Palestinians are being killed because of famine in Gaza, and they are also being killed trying to reach the aid dropped into the sea. This is a genocide. This is evil.

[George Orwell | 1984 & Beyond @George_Orwellll]

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

[Antonio Linares ( PRIVATE ) @alc2037]

There's an old joke about two Jews sitting on a park bench in Berlin in 1930. One's reading Die Rote Fahne, the newspaper of the Communist Party. He turns in horror to see his friend reading Der Sturmer, the Nazi paper: "why are you reading that filth?!" he asks...

[Roger Waters ✊ @rogerwaters]

#ImranKhan #Pakistan