Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. —Edward Said

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land—the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity. —Frantz Fanon

BREAKING 🚨We are delighted that the Supreme Court has found that Rwanda is not a safe country for people seeking asylum and that no-one should be sent there! 🥳 1/3

📣 Resistance is power! 📣⁣ Tens of thousands of you took a stand against the Government's harmful and cruel Rwanda Plan. ⁣And it worked! The Supreme Court has ruled that no-one seeking safety in the UK can be forcibly deported to Rwanda.⁣ 1/🧵

“The lesson is brutal and short: human rights are not universal and international law is arbitrarily applied.” - ⁦Nesrine Malik⁩ on Gaza theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The verdict in the #Iddat case is an assault on women’s privacy, bodily autonomy and the inviolability of dignity as protected by Art.14 of the Constitution. The judgement has no legal basis and should be condemned by all as a punitive measure aimed at humiliation & intimidation.

Every two hours, a child dies at the Zamzam camp for displaced people in Darfur. Mortality is double the emergency threshold; 25% of children are acutely malnourished. “It is an absolutely catastrophic situation,” says Claire Nicolet, head of MSF’s emergency response in Sudan.

This is why we need to Stop the Inhumanity at Europe's Borders.

Exactly. msn.com/en-gb/news/wor…

William Zinsser on nonfiction writing: “One of the underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.” Book: “Writing to Learn” #writing

Referring to Indigenous peoples everywhere (including Palestinians), Winston Churchill said, “I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, a more worldly wise race…has come in and taken their place”

Please read this twice.

These people haven't hurt anyone or stolen anything. Many have been imprisoned/tortured before arriving in the UK. Most would be granted refugee status if their claims were assessed. They are being detained to win votes for a widely despised government. irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/…

Remember this photo? Up to 750 migrants were believed to be on that boat before it capsized off the coast of #Greece . 104 survived & 9 of them have since been arrested and charged with illegal entry to 🇬🇷 , causing the shipwreck & setting up and running a criminal org. 🧵

Asylum is a “loophole” to the immigration system? Okay then: Miranda rights are a loophole to police powers, right to an attorney is a loophole to court procedures, all rights are “loopholes” incl. the 1st Am. right to free speech and freedom of the press that the NYT relies on.

Iftikhar Ahmed getting ready to destroy Pakistan cricket again.

UK horrors in summary: 1. A teenager in England committed an unspeakable crime 2. Far-right media spread falsehood that he was Muslim immigrant 3. Crazies rioted 4. Turns out he was Welsh and Christian 5. Crazies rioting even harder, this time because Welsh kid wasn’t white

Arshad Nadeem is Pakistan in a nutshell. Individual Pakistani's passion: without the support of state, resources and expertise. But sheer domination of will driving success.

If the world's richest 10% lowered their emissions to EU average, overall global emissions would fall by 1/3rd! This is why we must start to target the wealthiest in society instead of pushing everyone (including the poorest in society) to do their part.

“It makes sense that we find this kind of television in the children’s category, because that’s where we leave most irrational things.” Isabelle Rea on children’s television. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/08/3…