"Once at the cutting edge of a revolutionary movement, India has capitulated itself in striving to become a regional economic power-house."
Sara Radha Pelham, a Bengali Jew, reports: https://vashtimedia.com/india-israel-normalisation/ @india @israel
My latest #ScienceFiction #novel is available in #eBook format!! 
It's about two women undercover agents who find themselves in need of a new pilot in order to complete their mission.
It is set in universe of empire and #colonialism and the dispossessing of indigenous people.
Wilderness wildfires
"Beyond introducing foreign species to the landscape, the settler population sought to rid the land of any trace of what had existed before. Prior to the Nakba, the area of the Jerusalem Hills that last week’s fires tore through was heavily populated, with many villages spread across the landscape. Indeed, the expansive "Ayalon-Canada" forest, planted by the KKL in 1972 and now nearly entirely burnt to the ground, had already suffered two waves of devastation, albeit of another kind, in both 1948 and 1967.
"Beneath the remains of its trees may be found the ruins of four Palestinian villages: approximately 6,000 people once lived, farmed, and played there. With olive groves, fruit orchards, fields of grain, terraced farms and vegetable plots aplenty, the Jerusalem Hills were quite productive."
https://vashtimedia.com/land-tells-truth-jerusalem-wildfires/ @palestine @israel
Malm noted: “1840 was a pivotal year in history, for both the Middle East and the climate system. It marked the first time the British Empire deployed steamboats in a major war. Steam power was the technology through which dependence on fossil fuels came into being: Steam engines ran on coal, and it was their diffusion through the industries of Britain that turned this into the first fossil economy.
“Only by exporting it to the rest of the world and drawing humanity into the spiral of large-scale fossil fuel combustion,” Malm writes, “did Britain change the fate of this planet: The globalization of steam was a necessary ignition. The key to this ignition, in turn, was the deployment of steamboats in war. It was through the projection of violence that Britain integrated other countries into the strange kind of economy it had created — by turning fossil capital, we might say, into fossil empire.”
Alexander Etkind: Russian #Colonialism, Russian Racism: What is Special About it, and What isn’t? #russia
Until 30 May, organisers are accepting proposals for the workshop ‘Contested Imperial Endings’, which aims to encourage a comparative discussion on dissolution of several European empires, with a greater emphasis on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization.
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/contested-imperial-endings/
This may piss off a lot of non-United States citizens.
Good.
Then maybe a serious conversation about how global #racism is can begin.
Because racism just isn't "An American problem."
https://medium.com/@fazer4541/white-people-are-white-people-the-global-lie-about-racism-06a354863163
…#Trump’s support of #Afrikaners dates back to his first term. But this year he came to their side after [#ElonMusk posted about] #SouthAfrica’s president enacted a #law allowing the govt to seize land from private owners w/o providing compensation in rare instances.
Supporters of such measures say they are necessary to undo the vestiges of #colonialism & #apartheid, when the #white-minority govt brutally repressed #Black South Africans & drove them off their land.
Learning that George Washington couldn't dress himself without a human slave helping him says a lot about how that country is run, doesn't it?
A nation built on stolen land with stolen labour, these are the values the US and UK share, not some crap about 'freedom'
MALAISE dans le MATÉRIALISME: réponses aux marxistes blancs anti-psychanalyse & anti-affect (Wissam)
#fanon #france #marxism #psychology #psychiatry #colonialism #africa #indigenous #blackmastodon #haiti #algerie #mayotte #kanaky #martinique #burkinafaso #democracy #francafrique #whitesupremacy #racism @blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow
@blackvoices
#montreal #quebec #cdnpoli #tiktok #socialism #communism #anarchism #panafricanism
NIGERIA BANS BURKINA RALLY
It appears that the 2 years Burkina Faso has spent under revolutionary leadership has sent jitters down the spines of Nigeria's leadership. Pan-Africanism is apparently now banned in Nigeria.
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1920321879698498018
#nigeria 
#proxy #comprador
#panafricanism #africa #burkinafaso #geopolitics
#Colonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok
#usa #yemen
@blackmastodon @BLKNewsNow
@blackvoices
"Could the Soviet Union have been that bad? In fact, it was worse"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/05/baltic-countries-russia-us-nato/682719/
Sotheby's postpones Buddhist gems auction that India called 'colonial exploitation'
A set of Buddhist gems that were once mixed with the cremated remains of the Buddha will not be auctioned off to the highest bidder this week as planned.
#auction #buddhism #india #colonialism #Radio #AsItHappens
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/piprahwa-gems-auction-1.7528055?cmp=rss
"#Putin Blames #Romania and #Bulgaria for War in #Ukraine...
'They have forces on our state borders... So-called light forward American bases... we have every right to ask openly: against whom is this expansion directed?'"
https://fakti.bg/en/world/969244-putin-blames-bulgaria-for-war-in-ukraine
Against you, you slimy fuck
Your government is #imperialism, #colonialism, #ethnofascism, #mafia
What kind of moron buys this "oh the victim is defending themselves from me, the bully, this is aggressive, I feel attacked"?
"I was in the BBC documentary ‘The Settlers.’ This is the part of my story they didn’t tell"
'I met Josh and Louis and shared my personal story as a Palestinian from Masafer Yatta, a community under constant threat of displacement. I also spoke about the deeper history that Western audiences almost never hear: how my grandparents were violently uprooted from their homes in 1948 by Zionist militias during the Nakba. I spoke of our long journey as refugees, of how we ended up in the South Hebron Hills, of how the Nakba never ended; it simply changed. Bulldozers have replaced rifles, and legal orders have replaced expulsion notices, but the goal remains the same: to erase us from our land.
But that part of my story, the part about 1948, about the original sin that provided the foundation for what was being shown in the film, was left on the cutting room floor.
Instead, the documentary chose to use a small clip of me talking about recent events in my village. It’s as if they wanted to show the surface of the crisis, without digging into its roots; as if they feared that exposing the full truth about settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and the enduring legacy of the Nakba would make viewers uncomfortable.
Well, it should make them uncomfortable.'
Naming a school after someone is not about preserving history, which is permanent and unchangeable, it is a mark of honour.
Of the billions of people who have lived in the world, a tiny tiny fraction have things named after them. It is, when yiu really think of it, a gigantic honour.
But honour is always subjective and current, so if it no longer seems the person is honourable based on newly discovered or understood history then the proper thing to do is remove the honour.
That becomes part of the history which must be preserved and told.
Racist, violent, colonialists do not deserve to be honoured.
#honouring #namechange #colonialism #canada #indigenous #racism
https://journa.host/@winnipegfreepress/114464087769166637
What? Can’t apply for a Visa on the merits of your case now? It’s going to depend on geography and the colour of your skin. It’s a very short step from this to refusing people on basis of their gender…. Oh, wait…
This is surely a straight up Reform Ltd policy? Or something taken from the old Nazi handbooks?
#Racism #Colonialism #UKPol #LabourInNameOnly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0wd75ne82o
"Israel protect itself from Hamas"....
https://t.me/QudsNen/162811
"Israeli occupation forces embarked on the demolition of 106 buildings in the Palestinian refugee camps of Tulkarm and Nour Shams in the occupied West Bank, aiming to construct roads to secure the movement of Israeli vehicles.
Over the last two years, the Israeli army has escalated its ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank, intensifying settlers' assaults, killing more than 960 Palestinians, injuring 7,000 others, and detaining 16,400 civilians."
We were told that colonialism by the US, Russia, France, UK and others was history but we never stopped to think how it could be history with those countries still existing. Silly kids. #colonialism #slavery #empire
