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@justinpodur

7 months

What really happened on October 7?

What really happened on October 7th?

Assembling the sources, assembling the facts

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In Italy theyre beating children, for protesting against the murder of children.

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Italian police beating of pro-Palestine schoolchildren sparks outrage 🔹A viral footage of pro-Palestinian schoolchildren being beaten by police has drawn condemnations in Italy, with the opposition calling for the interior minister to address the issue in the parliament.

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Nothing has captured what the US and Israel are, better than this single picture.

PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸

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A picture showing aid drops and Israeli airstrikes targeting civilian areas in northern Gaza at the same time.

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OK a massive thread with some stuff about Afghanistan and imperialism that you may not have heard despite all that you have heard. It's going to be long, I'll just say that in advance.

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Trapping 2 million people inside a fence and bombing them is one of the craziest and most depraved things a group of people has ever done to another in human history.

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When Chomsky tried and failed to shock Harvard by showing them how racist Harvard profs were against Arabs.

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@MaitreyaBhakal FOUND IT in Perilous Power.

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Every colonized people without exception used violence in the process of liberation.

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I have never experienced this level of parallel universe. Russia telegram showing Ukrainian units surrendering & Ukrainian trophy videos of Ukrainian authorities torturing Ukrainian civilians; Western media showing Ukraine going from victory to victory, Russia near collapse.

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Congrats Lula! Don't occupy Haiti this time ok?

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Imperialists don't need you to love the empire. Hating all their enemies, on their schedule, is just as good.

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You: "I'm giving up on writing, no one reads books anyway." The CIA: “books differ from all other propaganda media primarily because one single book can significantly change the reader’s attitude and action to an extent unmatched by the impact of any other single medium.”

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How to Write About Afghanistan: A Style Guide for Western Journalists (An homage to Binyavanga Wainaina.)

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England said they stole Venezuela's gold because they couldn't figure out whether Maduro or Guaido were the real president. So now that Guaido's gone, are they giving the gold back?

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I have an idea to house the homeless. It is called a 'house'

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A German city is testing a prototype sleeping pod for the homeless, which its makers call a ‘nest’

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Not even Hitler demanded payment in rubles

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"PREOCCUPATION WITH WAR", CBC? Really?

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Unemployment exists to keep wages low. Homelessness exists to keep rents high.

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They're doing Abu Ghraibs in twenty different sites, My Lai and Haditha massacres several times a day, while repeating the siege of Leningrad and dancing about it on TikTok

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They... purged their Arab journalists?

Lama Al-Arian

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It feels dumb to write about this during ongoing death in Gaza but I got laid off from @VICENews today. Along with all of my Arab colleagues— & a lot of other amazing journos. Sad to see such an important platform dissolve. Especially now when representation in media rly matters

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US warship seizes Iranian medicine from China. Utter monstrosity.

Fars: US Navy seizes ship carrying medical supplies from China to Iran

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People in Ukraine are suffering and dying for America's right to put missiles some kilometers closer to Russia than the missiles America already has in Poland and elsewhere.

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You are impressed by China creating a wealthy class and a middle class of hundreds of millions while lifting 800M out of poverty? Have you considered that India managed to create a wealthy class and huge middle class without lifting the majority out of poverty?

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Winston Churchill was in a British army that invaded Afghanistan in 1897 and said: “After today we begin to burn villages. Every one. And all who resist will be killed without quarter. The Mohmands need a lesson, and there is no doubt we are a very cruel people.”

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If the (Russo, Sino, Islamo) phobia can be turned on like a tap (not turned off so easily) depending on the imperial adventure of the moment, these aren't separate phobias or separate phenomena.

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The logical conclusion of anti-communism is Nazism.

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Between 1911-1930, Italy killed 2/3 of all Libyans while colonizing the country, 500-600 thousand people.

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In Libya, an army of 500,000 illegal immigrants men are ready to invade Italy. A real apocalypse. Stop the invasion, save Europe!

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@MaitreyaBhakal FOUND IT in Perilous Power.

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Sometimes I think about the hand-chopping the Belgians did in Congo, the genocides Germany did against the Herero and Nama, the slaughters the British did at Ulundi and Omdurman and reflect that US media believes China's going to sneak colonialism into a contract clause.

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I used to hold the anarchist belief in leaderless movements. What convinced me that leaders are important is the Western obsession with assassinating leaders.

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Saudi Arabia has made 151 shipments of oil to Israel since Oct 2023.

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It is important that China be presented as genocidal so that if you say "it's possible to eliminate poverty" or "it's possible to contain COVID in 2 months" the reply can be "lol Xinjiang" and the conversation is over.

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Quds News Network

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Reuters reports that South Africa's government expects the ICJ to issue its judgement on the Israel genocide case this Friday.

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And it is crap. The idea, repeated over and over, is to portray those being invaded, occupied, massacred, raped, and stolen from as uniquely savage, frightening, implacable, and deadly. So it's not about the crimes the British committed, but about how scary the victims were.

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Anti imperialism makes you less misanthropic. Because you understand the environmental problem and the war problem are not because of "humanity" but because of empire and "humanity" can easily solve them once imperialism is dumped.

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When Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia, there were huge rallies in New York and Boston supporting fascist imperialism. In Boston they hanged effigies of Ethiopia's leader Haile Selassie. American women gave up their wedding rings and received steel replacements from Mussolini.

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The despair of going to bed knowing that Israel is going to kill 500 or more people tomorrow, who are alive right now.

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SHOCKING MAP OF HOW CHINA HAS TAKEN OVER AFRICA'S INFRASTRUCTURE.

Africa Facts Zone

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The 16 ports being controlled by French Billionaire, Vincent Bollore.

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This thread begins with a quintessential imperialist regime change operation. In 1839. Yes, the same year Britain was committing the atrocities of the Opium War in China, it also invaded Afghanistan. (Opium War history is covered in the podcast here: )

Civilizations 27: Opium War 1, 1839-40

The first opium war We reach back in time a little bit to start the Civilizations Series on 19th century China - now known as the century of humiliation. The Opium War was one of the moments that...

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Where is the gold England stole from Venezuela?

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Imperialists squeezed a lot of self-victimization propaganda out of this retreat, then and since. It is from this war, in which the British committed horrific atrocities invading and occupying Afghanistan, that the British coined this "Graveyard of Empires" crap.

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Chinese people retire at 54, but at what cost?

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Why US establishment has so much fear and loathing towards China. Imagine if Americans say, “Whoa, whoa! Wait a minute! The Chinese retire at 54???” “What’s going on here in the capitalist paradise where 70-year-olds are forced to work at Walmart????” #poverty

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My whole adult life I have thought about how China made better strategic choices than India - mass over elite education, manufacturing instead of call centres etc. But the 1980s China made way better economic choices than Russia too.

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The US treated Afghanistan as a video gameworld for practicing drone warfare, protected the opium trade, and committed continuous atrocities, including hunting Afghans for sport, while making it a playground for private contractors and NGOs.

Civilians killed in air strikes in Afghanistan soars by more than 300%

In 2019 alone, more than two civilians each day were killed in airstrikes by the US or its allies.

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The story of US manipulation in 1964-1973 is in the US PLUSD cables that we wouldn’t have if it weren’t for Julian Assange – who is imprisoned by these same empires at the moment so take a moment to do whatever you can to #FreeAssange .

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Terrible timing for the Palestinians, Israel was just about to offer them 70 more years of siege, hunger, imprisonment and death.

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We hear you, we see you, and we're firing you.

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The LA Times is now firing journalists that signed the “protect journalists” letter

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When the British occupied Kabul, they raised taxes on the locals – unleashing an army of collectors on Afghans, who had to borrow the money to pay the taxes, and then lost their houses and other assets. Standard colonial move.

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PS one way to summarize it is: 1839-1919: 80yr of imperialist de development. 1919-1929: 10yr of nationalist modernizing. 1929-1933: imperialism again 1933-1992: 60yr nationalism 1992-2021: 30yr imperialist de development again. So, what will post-2021 be?

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British destroy: "Our way of destroying the country is very simple, merely cutting a ring through the bark of every tree. This ruins the country completely as the trees die directly and the inhabitants live principally on dried fruit and flour made from the dried mulberry.”

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Basically it went like this: the British brought their own candidate, Shah Shuja, to take over the throne in Kabul. They invaded from India and used mostly Indian troops (who were given lower rations and treated according to strict racist hierarchy).

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Anyway, the British regrouped and created an "Army of Revenge" to get "revenge" against the Afghans for driving them out (even though they were the massacring, raping, looting invaders).

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Get ready for statements of moral principles and solemn condemnation of violence from, e.g., parliamentarians who gave a standing ovation to a Nazi last week.

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The regime change operation in Afghanistan in 1839 was written up nicely in the Afghan patriot Farukh Husain's book, Afghanistan in the Age of Empires.

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The US Empire is based on the mastery of storytelling. Making reality through propaganda. China isn't as good at it, but seems better at physically making and changing things - poverty elimination, high speed rail, the world's biggest reforestation.

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Imagine a Chinese warship seizing medical supplies leaving New York bound for Colombia.

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What was the 1839 British war on Afghanistan about? Basically the British Empire, whose primary goal was squeezing what would eventually be $45 trillion out of India, destroyed Afghanistan to make it a “buffer zone” against any kind of incursion.

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In the process of imposing Shuja they committed rapes, looting, massacres. They kidnapped women including from families of their allies. They blew Afghans out of cannons (a move they made more famous in 1857 India).

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At the end of apartheid, the South African National Intelligence Agency destroyed 44 tonnes of documents.

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One British agent believed they purposely destroyed the economy of some cities to better exert control: “I heard both the men and the women saying that the English enriched the grain and grass sellers...while they reduced the Chiefs to poverty, and killed the poor by starvation.”

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Sure didn't take long to reach the "nerve gas is ok" stage.

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Exclusive: Israel will flood Hamas tunnels with nerve gas under US navy supervision

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Neville Chamberlain reports of a village where all males over puberty were bayoneted, the women were raped and their goods plundered: “This is one of the most beautiful valleys in Affghanistan, but we left it a scene of desolation”

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The original and best, from 2005:

How to Write About Africa | Binyavanga Wainaina | Granta

‘Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.’

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To avenge this incident where most of those killed were probably Afghans shot and killed by US forces, US forces drone-killed some more Afghans who they tell us were responsible.

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That is the biggest demonstration in history of the contrast between socialist inefficiency and capitalist efficiency. Capitalist India didn't need to go to all that extra trouble of lifting 800M people out of absolute poverty!

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The British destroy Ghazni. One writer says: “The British army left Ghazni as a heap of ruins as the sun set on the city of the Shah of Shahs, Ghazni was lost in the darkness of the night to be forgotten by history.”

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The British started surveying the country for mineral wealth in this 1839-1843 occupation.

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The destruction is the point: “‘every house was destroyed, every tree barked or cut down; after which the detachment having collected a considerable spoil of bullocks, sheep, and goats, marched back to camp’”

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But the British lost control of Kabul and were driven into retreat. On the retreat they committed even worse atrocities, including against their Indian troops, and massacre their own camp followers. They do a long march to Jalalabad where many of them die.

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Chomsky says he opened a lecture with mainstream statements about Palestinians, but substituted "Jews". His audience was getting enraged. He told them what he had done, and they were... relieved.

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It's uncanny really how this works almost exactly; if you just replace "China" with "Jews" in these statements. "Jews pose an existential threat...We should all ask ourselves whether freedom is going to be worth some additional cost to deal with the Jewish problem."

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Luckily, Vietnam isn't the wealthiest country in human history, because then they wouldn't be able to manage this.

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The British debate whether to destroy Kabul or not, and also whether or not to kidnap the king’s child and bring him up as a Christian in London (which they did to Prince Duleep Singh after the Anglo-Sikh wars).

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The West wasted so much wealth that you could deindustrialize all of it, strip all assets, and still not pay back what was drained from China and India alone. You could take the whole asset portfolio and still not pay back for Indigenous land and African slavery.

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The psychology of instantly grasping the analogy and violently attacking the messenger

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Comedian Walter Masterson gets almost instantly attacked by Zionist protestors for talking about Star Wars… the media won’t show you this because they’re too busy trying to portray the pro-Palestinian protestors as violent.

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They take Kabul and commit another mass atrocity, rape, murder, indiscriminate killing, enslaving and trading of women, burning of wounded people alive. “Many a hiding mother hen and newborn infant died. But such things like these you know must be at every famous victorie.”

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The imperialist fantasy of breaking up russia is what was actually done in South America

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They said they were worried about Russia but that’s nonsense – they were more worried about Iran and other Asian powers allying with those they were still working on completely dispossessing on the subcontinent itself.

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One British MP says: “We might relinquish all hope of advantages from opening the Indus to our trade; we had destroyed every town which could afford us a market, and centuries would elapse before Affghanistan recovered from the misery and desolation in which it had been plunged.”

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I never imagined that hospitals would become the primary targets of an aerial bombing campaign, one after another.

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Reverend Allen: “One woman was the only live thing in the fort. She was sitting, the picture of despair, with her father, brother, husband and children lying dead around her.”

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When the British leave Afghanistan, one officer writes in 1843: “The work of retribution was now deemed accomplished, and, indeed, it was severe...nor will years repair the damage and evils inflicted”.

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Imperialists didn't take over the world by saying "we are your racial superiors". They took over the world by telling their eventual victims "we can help you defeat your local enemies." Most of anti-imperialism is not accepting their help.

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Julian Assange is punished for interfering with US bombing of people. Steve Donziger, for interfering with US poisoning people. Alex Saab for interfering with US starving people.

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Dispossessing the whole of India was a job they completed in 1857, at the cost of 10 million lives in India (covered in episodes 20a and 20b of Civilizations).

Civilizations 20a: 1857 - India's War of Independence, pt1

India's War of Independence - how and why it started Are we really doing this? One podcaster with Indian roots and another with British roots, trying to do the history of 1857 India? This is the...

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The king they put on the throne, Shah Shuja, was assassinated in 1842.

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But to others who were concerned about the money it cost to destroy Afghanistan in 1843, they were assured - with the opium war won, the increased demand for opium after the Opium War in China would pay for the Afghan war!

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Who told you monsters to extract occupied Afghans' biometric data in the first place???

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The global footprint of Chinese police stations is terrifying. Sorry I meant the NYPD.

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The US began to organize the landlords straight away, in exile, in a familiar pattern if you know Central America, Cuba, Haiti, in these decades. You can read about it in Steve Coll, and the like.

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to...

Author Steve Coll, managing editor of The Washington Post, discusses the findings of his latest book on the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave...

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Afghanistan has been repeatedly destroyed by the British and US empires, but your readers are much more interested in the soldiers from those empires who died there. You will therefore use the 19thC British imperialist term "Graveyard of Empires" or variations.

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Palestinians want their prisoners back because Israel keeps killing them. Israelis want the hostages back because Israel keeps killing them.

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Who's going to tell her

Anatoly Karlin 🧬⏩

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Elena Bunina, CEO/HR-director within the Russia division of Yandex, resigns and leaves for Israel. "I will not return. I cannot work in a country that wages war against its neighbors."

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Decades ago, when India and China were at the same developmental level, before China eliminated poverty, both countries invested what little they had in education. India invested in elite education. China invested in mass education.

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"I refuse to believe that a little fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point." -Kissinger, 1969

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In occupied Haiti in 2005 a Canadian official told me the occupation of Haiti was a good opportunity for the international community to learn lessons for the future Cuban transition. If you want to know what the plan is for Cuba, look at Haiti today.

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maybe maduro should declare himself king, rename the country after his family, and behead his opponents. then #Venezuela could get Western weapons and diplomatic support like #SaudiArabia gets.

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First, the opening. All good articles about Afghanistan start with a few lines from a poem by British imperialist poet Rudyard Kipling. You know the one, "the women come out to cut up what remains, blow out your brains, blah blah blah".

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When referring to any evil or atrocity committed by the US (or British or Canadians, etc.) against Afghans, you will use words like failure, mistake, blunder, error, or (a new and good one) debacle.

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Obviously use, or refer, to the National Geogrpahic photo. But not the exploitative story of the image.

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More on Kabul: “All day the sack went on, and great booty did the captors get, rich dresses, shawls, carpets, silks, horse trappings, arms, emblazoned Korans, etc”

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(we cover all this in Civilizations episode 36a - which uses Farukh Husain's book)

Civilizations 36a: Islam & Imperialism pt3 - The First Anglo Afghan War aka the Invasion of...

The First Anglo-Afghan War and background The British imperialists made much of the bad experiences they had invading and pillaging Afghanistan beginning in 1839, coining terms like the "Graveyard of...

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The British then install a 12-year old on the throne in Kabul.

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