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[shortbred]

they look like a young couple who just moved in together and they’re sitting at their table eating their first home cooked meal together and they’re just really happy together they both know they’re probably gonna get married

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CHINA. Beijing. Outside a MacDonald’s restaurant. 1999 Stuart Franklin

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やしゅう ‏@FakeYashu ツナちゃん持ち上げようと頑張ったけど、 長過ぎて無理だったｗ

#3歳児 VS #longcat

[fag]

[no-dickpix]

i have less than 20 photos of myself on both my cellphone and laptop, but #2k15, i guess.

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[jeou]

future me perfect vietnamese housewife

[lactonicangel]

ass like a banh bao

[no-dickpix]

lol i wish

[santangimonae]

New M.I.A photos so far

[thenordroom]

LA Loft via Old Brand New

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[queenlouisxxvi]

me on a date

[no-dickpix]

dix r plenty in chicago

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Old Palestinian man travelling from Amman to Europe, stands suddenly to look over his birthplace as the plane flew over Palestine, a place which he was never allowed to return to or visit. Aches my heart…

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Mervat Essa | Palestinian

Saffurya | 2000 | ceramic sacks, C-print: print, sacks

“These ceramic sacks memorialize the depopulation of Al Biram and other Palestinian villages in 1948. These villages were completely razed, its residents driven into exile, its buildings and natural resources left to waste.”-x

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Regina José Galindo | Guatemalan

Desierto | 2015 | performance piece @ galería Gabriela Mistral,  en Alameda 1381, Santiago de Chile.

The piece Desierto, was specially created for the Chilean context: speaking of the forms of oppression, abuse, racism and colonialism that lie behind the successful industrial exploitation of pine, which has invaded the Mapuche territory, besides causing serious damage to the ecosystem . “The problem of land and indigenous peoples being violated and looted by wealthy families and the state, which is similar to the Guatemalan problem,” explains the artist. “During the war in my country, the strategy of scorched earth was a constant. Thousands of Mayan Indians were entrenched in their communities, they were murdered and lands were expropriated, by people who are now business oligarchy type families, or foreigners or the State. In Guatemala there is pine but no other way to destroy the earth. African palm in Guatemala has been growing way exorbitant has caused havoc. Recently the Repsa factory (which produces palm oil brand Olmeca) polluted waters and rivers and thousands of fish have died in an ecocide unprecedented. ”

La obra Desierto, fue especialmente creada para el contexto chileno: habla de las formas de opresión, abuso, racismo y colonialismo que se ocultan tras la exitosa industria de la explotación del pino, que ha invadido el territorio mapuche, generando además graves daños al ecosistema. “El problema de la tierra y de los pueblos indígenas que han sido violentados y saqueados por las familias pudientes y el Estado, no es un problema ajeno a Guatemala”, explica la artista. “Durante la guerra en mi país, la estrategia de la tierra arrasada fue una constante. Miles de indígenas mayas fueron atrincherados en sus comunidades, los asesinaron y les expropiaron las tierras, que hoy son negocio de familias oligarcas, del Estado o de extranjeros. En Guatemala no hay pino pero hay otra forma de aniquilar la tierra. En Guatemala se da la palma africana que ha venido creciendo de manera desorbitante y ha causado estragos. Recientemente la fábrica Repsa (que elabora aceite de palma marca Olmeca) contaminó los ríos aguas y miles de peces y demás han muerto en un ecocidio sin precedentes”.

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Barbara Kruger

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Few in the United States know that the United States possesses some 1,000 military bases and installations outside the fifty states and Washington, DC, on the sovereign land of other nations. Let me repeat that number again because it’s hard to take in: 1,000 bases. On other people’s sovereign territory. 1,000 bases. More than half a century after the end of World War II and the Korean War, the United States retains 287 bases in Germany, 130 in Japan, and 106 in South Korea. There are some 89 in Italy, 57 in the British Isles, 21 in Portugal, and nineteen in Turkey. Other bases are scattered around the globe in places like Aruba and Australia, Djibouti, Egypt, and Israel, Singapore and Thailand, Kyrgyzstan and Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, Crete, Sicily, and Iceland, Romania and Bulgaria, Honduras, Colombia, and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba—just to name a few. Some can still be found in Saudi Arabia and others have re- cently returned to the Philippines and Uzbekistan, where locals previously forced the closure of U.S. bases. In total, the U.S. military has troops in some 150 foreign nations. Around the world the Defense Department re- ports having more than 577,519 separate buildings, structures, and utilities at its bases, conservatively valuing its facilities at more than $712 billion.

David Vine, Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia

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While occupying the islands, the American soldiers referred to the Filipinas as ‘little brown fucking machines powered by rice.’ A sex industry sprang up to cater the U.S. military men, offering ‘a girl for the price of a burger.’ It was the imperialistic conquest of the islands by the Americans that jump-started the sex entertainment industry in the Philippines. During the Vietnam War, five U.S. military bases stationed in Thailand sheltered 40,000 to 50,000 American GIs at any given time. Between 1966 and 1969, as many as 70,000 U.S. soldiers came to Thailand for ‘Rest and Recreation’ (R&R) and ignited a sex industry. R&R facilities have been, and continue to be, a vital component of the U.S. military policy. With pervasive disrgard for human rights, the military accepts access to indigenous women’s bodies as a ‘necessity’ for American GIs stationed overseas. After the Vietnam War ended, ‘there was a major campaign on tourism’ targeting White men to sustain Thailand’s sex industry. By the early 1990s, several million tourists from Europe and the United States visited Thailand annually, many of them specifically for its sex and entertainment industry. In 1995, for example, a study reported that sixty-five percent of tourists to Thailand 'were reported single men on vacation.’ The White conquest of Asia is 'far from being a thing of the past but is a lived experience of many.’

“White Sexual Imperialism: A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence,” by Sunny Woan, 2008.