International Relations as Depicted by Cats

fuck imperialism. trans rights!

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Fig. 1: The Military-Industrial Complex (MIC)

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Fig. 2: The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC), an “Iron Triangle”

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“there are many children in afghanistan, but little childhood.” 

please consider donating/sharing this list of trusted organizations to help those in need. please add to the list as well.

women for afghan women 

afghan aid

sanitary products for displaced afghan women

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Other links:

(National and international aid + direct aid)

Islamic relief

Rescue

children without borders and watan project

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Workers Are Still Launching Nationwide Strikes Against Myanmar’s Military Coup

Workers in Myanmar have been on strike for more than 100 days, bravely resisting the military junta. In an interview with Jacobin, three members of the anti-coup movement explain why they’re still fighting despite dire economic straits and widespread violence.

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that one ship in the suez canal

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"press ctrl+z to undo democracy” - myanmar’s military, probably

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Call it a fucking coup, you cowards

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prayers are great but here are organisations you can support and donate to after the explosion in beirut, lebanon. as of right now august 4th 2020, 54 bodies have been recovered and thousands are injured, and entire neighbourhoods including hospitals have been destroyed. we’re already in an economic crisis and famine on top of covid and our government, as usual, has done and is doing nothing to help us, much less the refugees. we still don’t know what or who set off the explosion. we have 1.5 million syrian refugees and 300k palestinian refugees who also need help.

- save the children lebanon

- muslim aid lebanon

- bassma: donations go to help families pay for health care, food boxes, clothing, education and tutoring

- anera: donate to syrian and palestinian refugee camps in lebanon

- lebanese food bank

- association najdeh for female palestinian refugees in lebanon

- lebanese red cross

- penny appeal lebanon, help buy food for children and families

- islamic relief usa / islamic relief canada

- basmeh and zeitooneh: learn about the social and economic crisis + donate here

- jusoor syria, refugee education program in lebanon

- help lebanon carrd with a few more ressources + overall petitions

if you know of any dependable and official charities/ngos in lebanon please reblog and i will add them onto this post as well.

edit: there is a post circulating saying that donating to lebanese charities is kind of useless atm bc the value of currency has dropped immensely so. idk i think its still important to donate to these ngos bc they provide long term direct help to ppl (food, shelter, education etc) and not through the government but the post did make valid points and i will try to find other funds as well!

edit 2: nvm lmao! donate your hearts out these are approved ngos who dont go through our shitty ass gov!

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thank you Wikipedia, I would certainly love to help

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WHO is going to have a subtextually homoerotic swordfight with me that stems from our major unresolved sexual tension

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The World Health Organization is going to do what?!

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the EU hands out more deadline extensions than my old college professors

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Brexit is like using up all your grace days on an overdue outline and now you have no extensions left on a final paper worth 90% of your grade that you definitely won't complete in time

Is this real life or is this a freshman seminar

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well fuck

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military aggression is bad, illegal acts of war against a country you’re not at war with is bad, doing so on the soil of another country you (were) nominally allies with but definitely invaded a couple times before is bad, if everything looks like a nail then maybe stop buying so many hammers, claiming an industry of death serves the protection of life is doublethink propaganda, a preventative (act of) war is a contradiction in terms, don’t assassinate a foreign leader unless you want to start a war, maybe don’t assasinate so many people full stop, who cares about brown people dying? definitely not trump, previous us admins were little to no better to fucking worse don’t lie to yourself, war is bad thanks for coming to my ted talk

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well fuck

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the “not you” meme ft. the badass anti-government protests of 2019, with the Áñez administration in Bolivia as the “not you”

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a mouse by any other name...

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birds of a feather stick together

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the EU hands out more deadline extensions than my old college professors

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‘I’m Worried That I Will Die:’ Hong Kong Protesters Write Final Goodbyes

As violence escalates between demonstrators and the police in Hong Kong, protesters have started writing “last letters” to their loved ones, in case they don’t return. These notes chronicle the mental and emotional state of frontliners coming to terms with risking death for their beliefs.

If you have time, please try to watch this video. Here is a youtube link in the event you can’t visit the NYT website for any reason. I don’t have the capacity to write why this is so important in an eloquent way, but it is changing to see the bravery and vulnerability in these people reciting their last words to their families. It speaks much louder on its own than I ever could trying to explain it, I simply want to share it with everyone that I can. Please try to watch it.