Afrikan_Nationalist

A seer, Muraguri on the other hand was a prophet or shaman, who foretold the fortunes in the future by his ability to communicate with ancestors and God.

[Oday @HamzaOday775]

This is a scene unlike any other in the world:
A Yemeni fighter carries his wounded comrade on his back as Saudi soldiers rain bullets down on him.
This was in 2017.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

General Yahya Rahim Safavi: Launching a nuclear strike against Iran would be the most illogical decision.

🚫The area of Iran is approximately 1.6 million square kilometers. A significant portion of the country's territory is desert, and a tactical nuclear strike would undoubtedly inflict serious and tragic damage on Iran, resulting in numerous casualties.

🚫Despite this, a tactical nuclear strike would not destroy Iran, and the size of its territory would allow the country to survive.

🚫However, in response, we will launch direct strikes at the Dimona nuclear facility and other Israeli nuclear centers. For a country as small as Israel, this would result in a much more devastating collapse. The choice is up to the United States.

[Nderi, J @nderi_j]

@mitchellvii You are no better than a paedophile. Why the hell would you defend child murderers?!!

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

At this point, apartheid may be the least of Palestinians' worries. They face ethnic cleansing, mass killings, deliberate maiming, arbitrary detention, starvation, siege, and the list goes on and on.

Stopping short of "yes" is disgraceful.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

The fact the Iran still hasn't closed Bab el Mandeb tells us how in control and unbothered it is by US military action so far. There is no emergency, and they are not rushing. And, as I have been insisting on for the last couple of years: Iran's actual full military might if 50 times what we have seen so far. They are still using only a fraction of their capabilities. They could bring down every Western proxy in the region in one week, and still have a lot of reserve.

The stupid US and Arab slaves don't get it yet, but they are all on borrowed time. Iran lets their mental deficiencies be the guide of their doom

[David Ndii @DavidNdii]

Why infrastructure fund sets Kenya on the path to economic transformation https://t.co/1jr9YoO4VM

[Afrikan_Nationalist @rubbzah]

@nderi_j @petermwaurajohn Russia and China who’re currently carrying out their proxy war against the US, as the West did to Russia in Ukraine.

[Nderi, J @nderi_j]

...the last kicks of a dying horse are vicious. Iran might not survive this but if they do, the game will change!

[Decoded @Bygones_24]

Things don’t just happen. They are made to happen by the likes of Ruto, Ndii, and Chirchir.

It started with a bold masterclass in balance-sheet statecraft: committing Sh12 out of the Sh25 per litre Road Maintenance Levy (initially Sh7 in April 2025 to raise **Sh175 billion**, followed by an additional Sh5 in November 2025 to raise **Sh120 billion**) to clear pending bills and wake up 580+ stalled road projects.

But that was just Chapter One. Look closely and you’ll see the exact same financial blueprint rewiring the entire country with hard, cold numbers:

* **TALENT:** Issuing the **Sh44.79 billion** Linzi FinCo 003 asset-backed security (15.04% return over 15 years) to fund the construction of the 60,000-seater Talanta Sports City Stadium for AFCON 2027.
* **HOUSING:** Leveraging the 1.5% payroll levy into **Sh100 billion** in upfront syndicated loans to construct high-rises today instead of waiting decades for monthly pennies.
* **ROADS & SAVINGS:** Deploying **Sh9.59 billion** of NSSF capital for a 40% equity stake to construct the Rironi-Mau Summit toll road, matching local retirement savings with critical transit infrastructure.
* **THE NIF MIRACLE:** Rolling out the newly minted National Infrastructure Fund (NIF)—already seeded with **Sh347 billion** from the partial monetization of Safaricom and KPC—which has successfully mobilized **Sh350 billion** in just three months to finance dams, energy, and major bridges.
* **HEALTHCARE:** Transitioning to SHA/SHIF by pooling a mandatory 2.75% deduction into a ring-fenced, digitized national purchasing pool.

While the public debates the daily political noise, the kitchen cabinet is shifting the state from a passive service provider into an aggressive investment banker—collateralizing future streams to force a permanent structural shift today. 🇰🇪 #EconomicBlueprint

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

China is primarily most responsible for the manufacturing of the world green technologies.

China is saving the world.

Facts matter.

[The Oligarch @NytoP2PMwangi]

Imagine a non-motorized corridor or footpath from Westlands all the way to JKIA…
On top of that, a brand new drainage system to finally solve the perennial floods!!!
More and more people are now asking: What exactly was Uhuru doing with our money? 😅😅

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Wow

[✝️🇺🇸Chet Ozmun🇨🇳☭ @OzmunC]

GREAT NEWS! The epic historical drama I translated about the life of Xi Jinping's father is now once again STREAMING FREE on YouTube! Just search "Into the Great Northwest" to find every episode. Trailer below 👇

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Better hope you don't die before me because I will personally sample the organ performance from your funeral service and turn it into a TikTok meme sound.

And if I die before you, feel free to do the same. We don't have to pretend to like who we hate simply because they died.

[Travis McGavin @elianddad]

@cmkshama

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Senator Lindsey Graham was one of the most loathsome warmongering anti-worker bigots in the halls of the U.S. Congress.

Graham was as vicious a proponent of imperialist war as they come. For decades, he was a hardened supporter of Israel’s ethnic cleansing and its apartheid state. He effectively called for Israel to use nuclear weapons on the Palestinian people, likened Palestinians to Nazi Germany, and urged that Israel “flatten” Gaza and the West Bank. He called for “regime change” in Iran and was an undying advocate of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He described American funding for the bloody inter-imperialist proxy war in Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.”

Graham was virulently opposed to social democracy and socialism anywhere, and especially hated the planned economy in Cuba and social democratic reforms in Venezuela. He celebrated a possible return to capitalism in Cuba by saying “their days are numbered.” He called Venezuela, Cuba, and Colombia “the drug caliphate.”

As working and poor people lost the ground from under their feet in the Covid pandemic, Graham used his position to speak out repeatedly against the bare minimum stimulus. Graham claimed that the relief package would encourage working people to be “lazy” and unemployed. It apparently gnawed at his insides that the Covid relief bill would pay the equivalent of over $24/hour in South Carolina versus the state minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, as the world's richest people doubled their fortunes and the incomes of billions of working people plummeted and over 160 million more people were forced into poverty.

Graham strenuously opposed abortion rights, introduced numerous anti-abortion bills, and voted for every bill he could to cut social assistance for working-class and poor families.

He was a staunch opponent of trans and queer rights. He voted for the horrendous Defense of Marriage Act (scandalously voted for by a majority of Democrats and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton), and called himself a “proud defender of traditional marriage.” He voted against repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and co-sponsored the bill against trans women in sports.

So in summary, good fucking riddance to Lindsey Graham. Never forget the misery he helped create for hundreds of millions of people. Shame on Democratic Party politicians, including Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Joe Biden, who are eulogizing Lindsey Graham.

We need to build militant mass movements of the working class and build our own party to defeat the right wing, the billionaires, and both their parties.

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

Europe spent 400 years using slave labour in colonies to build its wealth, rebranded this extraction model in the 20th century and somehow its citizens still believe their social conditions are a result of some superior intellect rather than inhuman violence.

[Zhai Xiang @ZhaiXiang5]

In the early hours of a winter morning in 1970, at the Beijing Hotel, an American journalist was awakened by an urgent knock at the door. The staff members did not tell him who wanted to see him. They simply said: an old friend of several decades would like to invite you to breakfast. No need to dress, and come as you are.

The journalist immediately knew who was waiting for him. He had known that "old friend" since their first meeting since the oil lamps of a Yan'an cave.

To me, these four photographs vividly capture the friendship between Edgar Snow and Mao Zedong, a bond that lasted for more than three decades and stretched from the cave dwellings of Yan'an to Zhongnanhai.

The photographs at the upper left and upper right were taken in 1939, during Snow's visit to Yan'an. Although the visit lasted only about a week, Mao solemnly introduced Snow to those around him as his friend. Their easy expressions and unguarded gestures speak for themselves-there was little distance left between them.

Their friendship began in 1936.

That year, Snow made his first journey to northern Shaanxi. He wanted not only to learn about the Red Army and the Long March, but also to hear Mao Zedong's personal story. Mao, however, did not agree immediately. He felt that his own experiences were less important than those of the revolutionary movement as a whole, and suggested that Snow first visit the front lines and return to the subject afterward.

Snow went. When he returned, Mao kept his word.

At one point, Snow asked Mao how many times he had been married, only for the interpreter to turn the question into, "How many wives do you have?" The mistranslation drew laughter and eased the room. Over the course of several evenings, Mao went on to speak candidly about his childhood, his education, and the evolution of his political ideas. These recollections later became some of the most valuable and widely read passages in Red Star Over China.

Remarkably, some senior Communist leaders in Yan'an would learn of Mao's early life for the first time through Snow's account.

For example, as a teenager, Mao once ran away from home after a fierce argument with his father. He returned only after his father promised never to beat him again, while Mao, in turn, agreed to kneel on one knee as a gesture of compromise. He also told Snow about working as an assistant at the Peking University Library, where he earned just eight silver dollars a month. More important to him than the meager salary was the opportunity to meet and learn from some of China's most distinguished scholars and young intellectuals.

Yet that period also left him with complicated memories. Mao was already a gifted and intellectually ambitious young man, eager to engage with some of China’s finest minds. But as a little-known library assistant from Hunan, speaking with a pronounced regional accent, Mao was not warmly received in Beijing's intellectual circles.

He recalled to Snow that some people there "did not even treat me as a human being." The experience of being dismissed and overlooked may, to some extent, shaped his later attitudes toward intellectuals.

A man who rarely spoke openly about himself was nevertheless willing to share such private, and somehow painful, memories with Snow. That, in itself, was perhaps the clearest sign of the trust between them.

The photograph at the lower left was taken on December 22, 1960, and shows Mao Zedong signing an autograph for Snow at Zhongnanhai. During that visit, Snow also had dinner at Mao's residence, and the two talked for nine hours. Mao was then living in the Fengze Garden (丰泽园/Garden of Bountiful Grace) compound, not far from Jinggu (静谷/The Tranquil Valley), where Donald Trump visited and had lunch this May.

The photograph at the lower right was taken on January 9, 1965, when Mao met Snow at the Great Hall of the People.

Snow and Mao met for the last time on December 18, 1970.

This time, Snow had come at Mao's personal invitation-old friend to old friend. Even so, before leaving China, he insisted on paying his own hotel bill. He would not have it said that a journalist had accepted favors from the country he was there to report on.

I have read the transcript of that conversation, and I have spoken with someone who was in the room. But I have never found a photograph of it. My guess is that none was taken.

In the early hours of that day, Mao unexpectedly told his staff that he wanted to see Snow. Two members of his staff immediately made their way to the Beijing Hotel, on the eastern side of Tiananmen. Shortly before five in the morning, they knocked on Snow's door and woke him up. He had only just gone to bed after organizing his interview notes.

As instructed, the staff did not say who had sent them. They said only: an old friend would like him to come for breakfast. Pajamas would do.

Snow understood the message at once.

The two men talked for five hours at Mao's home in Zhongnanhai. During the conversation, Mao made it clear to Snow that President Richard Nixon would be welcome in Beijing. Not long afterward, relations between China and the United States began to undergo a historic transformation.

There was another small detail that spoke volumes about their relationship.

Snow quietly asked a staff member where he could find a restroom. Mao, who was reportedly reluctant to let others use his private bathroom, overheard him and said, "Just use mine. We're old friends, after all."

The words "friend" spanned the years from 1936 to 1970.

Snow gave the world its first close-up view of Yan'an, while also giving Mao his first opportunity to tell the outside world about his past in such a complete and deeply personal way.

Edgar Snow died in Switzerland on February 15, 1972. Six days later, Nixon's plane landed in Beijing.

It was a moment Snow had long hoped to witness, but one he did not live to see.

But Red Star Over China is still in print.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

If the rumors are true that Russia smoked Lindsey Graham I never want to hear a bad thing about Putin ever again