The Spaniards who were with Bernal Díaz del Castillo thought they were dreaming because Tenochtitlan was so much nicer than the muddy, plague-ridden cities of Europe. But the filth in which they lived gave the conquistadors their secret weapon over the indigenous: human pathogens

“What is taking shape in Cuba is a demonstration, in the most concrete terms, of what South-South co-operation and socialist solidarity look like in practice: China is providing technology, financing, expertise, training and humanitarian assistance to a country under siege, with

RAPID MASS EXTINCTION: world-first study identifies >3,000 fish species caught in bottom trawls with researchers warning true figure could be nearly double

I haaaaaaaate so much when people push this idea that Indigenous connection to the land is "innate and spiritual" as opposed to scientific with a deeply materialist understanding of the ecosystem formed out of thousands of years of knowledge development and research.

Love the idea that there's some barista out there making minimum wage who somehow is powerful enough to use the government to control you.

From the relationship of estranged labor to private property it follows further that the emancipation of society from private property, etc., from servitude, is expressed in the political form of the emancipation of the workers;

And the “services” after these US pilots landed in Thailand resulted in some of the largest human trafficking and prostitution booms in the world From 20,000 women and children in the sex industry prior to the US aggression on Indochina to 500,000 women and children after

The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution.

The bourgeoisie fears memory because memory teaches resistance.

Gagarin’s ‘Vostok-1’ capsule was piloted automatically, as no one back then could have foreseen what human behavior might look like when subjected to extreme conditions. As a last resort, Gagarin was given an envelope with a code for switching to manual control. In order to

If you live in the US, get ready because next week you’re gonna get to experience 10% of what it’s been like for Iranians under decades of US sanctions - except with .01% of their resilience, determination, faith, social cohesion, impulse control and preparedness… Good luck!

Instead of a conscious and rational treatment of the land as a permanent communal property, as the inalienable condition for the existence and reproduction of the chain of human generations, we have the exploitation and the squandering of the powers of the earth.

I'm amazed I've never seen speculative fiction alternate history on what reality would look like if this lawsuit went the other way

how do people in the insurance industry actually live with themselves. getting a job at UnitedHealth should be treated socially like joining ISIS

i assume this is the plan, Trump has long wanted an "international coalition" to do Hormuz for him. of course, what if China just says "nah, we'll fly the crews home, we'll just go without oil"

the fire is spreading

1-day delivery coming up

Checked and this is real. There isn't a single city, town, or village with a label south of Beirut at any zoom level except for Tyre and Saida.

These people will cancel yacht loan debt before student loans if they can

Cuban President Diaz-Canel to NBC: if Cuba is so incapable, so closed-off, so uninnovative -- why has the US spent 60+ years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to crush it? "Why don't they let us fall on our own, if that's what they believe?"