"Waambie utajenga barabara itoke Morocco, ikuje Cairo, ipite Ouagadougou, ikuje Goma, ikuje Harare, ikuje hapa Kigali, ipitie Lesotho, Ikuje Johannesburg, ipitie hapa cape town, iende mbinguni"

Hamas fails to correctly identify one body. Israel dumps 100s of unidentified bodies in bags onto the street. Western media treats Palestinians like animals.

Notice the difference? 🇵🇸 Children: Found dead, no emotions 🇮🇱 Children: Emphasis on small bodies, the fact that they’re children, emotive language

W. E. B. Du Bois was born on this day in 1868. “Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.”

In 1970, the UK and Norway both discovered oil in the North Sea. The UK sold their reserves to private markets while Norway kept state ownership. This ONE decision created the biggest wealth gap in European history. Here's the full story: 🧵

It's becoming clearer that the West actually wants global inequality. I say this because Western countries are now doing everything in their power to maintain their dominant position in the world economy.

This is actually an extraordinary admission to make for a US Vice President Vance explains that "the idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things." But he laments

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Pope Francis, the reform-minded Roman Catholic leader whose papacy marked a number of firsts, has died at 88 ti.me/4jjgxeR

File this under “things you don’t see in Western media”

To Senator Richard Onyonka: Please stop using my name as a fig leaf to glorify your criminal sponsor, Fred Okeng’o Matiang’i. My illegal abductions, arbitrary incommunicado detentions, TORTURE, forced exile, SEDATION with noxious substances, defiance of multiple valid court orders,

lsraeIis blow up a building in Gaza for gender reveal. Listen to their laughs. This is not a redeemable culture. Sanction, boycott, exclude.

The silence and complicity of Arab regimes stun me. Nothing to even save a tiny bit of dignity

It's becoming clear to me that a growing number of people in wealthy countries are *against* eliminating poverty. Why do I say this? Those who don't want developing countries to develop advanced technologies or become lead players in some global industries are, in effect,

BREAKING 1AM UK time. Israeli speedboat reached Madleen. "At the time the boat was intercepted no one is wounded" the captain asked me to record. I heard the soldiers speaking while the captain was on the phone with me. I lost connection with the captain as he was telling me that

I'm normally not a fan of Piketty (what kind of person calls their book 'The Capital' but simultaneously badmouths Marx and says he "never managed really to read" the original "Das Kapital"?) But, credit when credit is due, this is a genuinely fascinating study. It is in fact

Petry & Nölke's have an interesting new ed book on State, Capitalism & Finance in Emerging Markets: Between Subordination + Statecraft. In the afterword I discuss the theoretical & political stakes involved in attempts to merge these literatures.🧵 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/state-capitali…

The CCP is devious. They undertook a monumental poverty alleviation campaign and massively improved Chinese people's standard of living just to trick the Chinese people into believing that the CCP actually cares about their wellbeing.

Palestinians aren’t stateless because they failed to negotiate. They’re stateless because colonialism doesn’t negotiate with the people it plans to erase.

Question! Which machine do you think has the biggest demand targeting small commercial farmers in East Africa?