"Rape followed by the murder of Vietnamese women was so common that US soldiers had a special term for it: double veteran."
Fuck July 4th and fuck America
My biggest criticism of African liberation leaders is their apparently genuine belief that they could integrate into the economic system of the people slaughtering and exploiting them as equals and that when it came to economics and competition, they could be taken at their word.
This is what happens when you have multiple generations in South Africa, born and purposely deradicalized by neoliberal and pro capitalist/ imperialist politics,if the genocide in Gaza didn't radicalize you to who the real enemies to global liberation are, then nothing will
"The Wretched of the earth" (1961, adapted to today's geopolitics)
"If the African elite goes into competition with the Europeans, the artisans and craftsmen start a fight against non-national Africans. In the Ivory Coast, the anti-Beninois and anti-Burkinabe troubles are in fact racial riots. Once independence is declared, the Beninois and Burkinabe peoples, who control the greater part of the petty trade, are the object of hostile demonstrations by the people of the Ivory Coast. From nationalism we have passed to ultra-nationalism, to chauvinism, and finally to racism. These foreigners are called on to leave; their shops are burned, their street stalls are wrecked, and in fact the government of the Ivory Coast commands them to go, thus giving their nationals satisfaction...for the mass of the people in the towns, competition is represented principally by Africans of another nation. In the Ivory Coast, these competitors are the Beninois; in Ghana they are the Nigerians; in Senegal, they are the Malians."
The modern world was and is made through genocide. It is one of the most salient features of modernity. Thus for many states the existence of the Genocide Convention is actually a nuisance interfering in normal state policy, bc genocide is normalised
The entire country of South Africa is being systematically framed by social media bots. I've never seen anything like this before.
I've seen astroturfing of online discourse by bot farms, but I've never seen someone attempt to use AI bots to outnumber and drown out an entire country of 60 million people.
These accounts spewing the same "go beck and fix ya kantri" talking points with "🇿🇦" in their username are not real people! Open each account that you see posting that stuff. Check the signup date, open the media tab and check the replies tab so see what they interact with. They're all bots!
Some crazy person somewhere with more money than God is trying to set up an entire country using Twitter bots!
The US Christian right pours millions into anti-LGBT initiatives in Africa every year. They use the continent as a testing ground for culture war issues that help them mobilize strategies in the United States as well. https://t.co/hGCcpuCOPi
US education on Blackface is deliberately awful. it explicitly avoids describing the reality that it was America's first major cultural production/export and the film industry/hollywood is fundamentally built off of it. they point to very specific examples to exceptionalize them.
I'm glad this dubiously amplified Anglo American employee is finally declaring his white billionaire-aligned political loyalties...
They're all coming out of the closet now that a prospect of cashing in (especially their egos) is near.
And now you also see the alliance between xenophobes (Dabula from Operation Dudula) and colonial mining legacies (Sole from Anglo American) emerging again. Like the Hersov link to Mashaba, Lux, McKenzie - remember the Hersov family got rich from Anglovaal.
This is Bolivia: Day 8 of the general strike, barricades across all the highways bringing all trade and economic activity to a halt, commercial trucks backed up for miles. This continues until the neoliberal govt resigns.
Workers of every country have their Strait of Hormuz.
Usains will drink the blood of your people and then put those same vampires on pedestals. Have heard the most heartbreaking stories from afghanies on what these freaks did there. May they never know peace till they reach jahannam
One of the most striking indictments of US news media made in the Kristof piece, unintentionally, is that we are given an incredible example of how the word of Israelis is taken without any shred of evidence while Palestinians must provide every detail imaginable of the violence inflicted against them, and even then their suffering is treated, at best, as secondary if even acknowledged.
Also worth noting that Screams without Words was an official investigation by the New York Times and this report is in the opinion section.
There is no evidence for Israeli claims that sexual violence against women took place on Oct 7. Not one single testimony but it’s presented by Kristof as a matter of fact. It’s not.