All of Us With Wings

28. Australia.

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Détail de « L'Impératrice Théodora », par Benjamin Constant, 1887.

Detail of “Empress Theodora”, by Benjamin Constant, 1887.

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Graveyard relic…..met this character on my wanders today

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Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, late 19th century or early 20th century

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Detail from the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria

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a kurdish woman pictured riding a horse, adorned in various wedding decorations, kermanshah, kurdistan, 1997 by babak sedighi

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 6 August 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite many military and government officials believing it was unnecessary. Numerous senior US military officers confirmed that the bombing was not needed to defeat Japan, however at the end of World War II the US wanted to issue a warning to its eastern bloc “allies”. General Dwight D. Eisenhower explained: “Japan was at the moment seeking some way to surrender with minimum loss of ‘face’. It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.” Admiral William D. Leahy, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff stated “that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was taught not to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” And the US Strategic Bombing Survey determined that “Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” More US responses here: https://libcom.org/history/1945-us-responses-atomic-bombing-hiroshima-nagasaki https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1493747134143765/?type=3

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[lionofchaeronea]

Queen Isabella, Pablo Picasso, 1908

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Gyeongbokgung, Seoul, South Korea

[azad-jan]

Huge flag of the Kurdish women’s armed forces hoisted in the mountains of Saxon Switzerland (East Germany). 

The red star on a green background is the symbol of the fighting women within the women’s liberation forces YPJ.

[azad-jan]

Turkey has begun the invasion against the Kurds in northern Syria (Rojava) after Trump gave greenlight to Turkey.

The Kurds who gave over 11 000 lives in the fight against ISIS.

ISIS, who was both supported and enabled by Turkey.

We the Kurds were abandoned in 1919 at Versailles and denied the right to a state. But we have survive in Turkey, in Syria, Iraq and Iran. We will survive this too, because we exist. Kurds exist.

[oglaighnaheireann]

Derry, 1970s

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The older I get the more I don’t see the point in talking

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

living with mental illness is like,, everyone is going forward.. and I’ve made… the smallest of progress over two damn years… and sometimes, I’m even going backwards

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Strange plant life on Socotra Island, Yemen | Photography by ©Kelly Beckta