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"I think some of them [ICE] don't even know what they're doing or where they're at," Little Crow Belcourt said.
"They're just pulling people over at random, if you're Brown.
"Some of our Native people get mistaken for our relatives south of the border."
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This image is so powerful. Four men of colour, and a femme white man, watching the winners of a white, patriarchal* hegemony immolate itself in front of them by their own greed and avarice.
Stede says, ‘These are my people.’ Stede might be from them, but he is not ‘of’ them. He cannot know the racial aspects of ‘othering’ experienced by the four men who flank him, but he understands his own experience of othering, his femmeness, his queerness, at the hands of these people. Stede now reassesses who ‘his people’ are.
‘These are my people’: they’re standing right next to him. This is found family.
*I recognise there are females in this group, and they will have their own othering to contend with within the system, but this scene lumps them in with the males.
I’m a Pan-Africanist because I understand that White supremacy is global and has always drawn on a worldwide network of power and theft. If you’re only concerned with the American situation, you’re fighting with one hand behind your back.
@negrosubversive
The only true difference between Hitler's "Lebensraum" and America's "Manifest Destiny" is that Lebensraum failed.
It was gripping, stunning testimony. Before congress, a 15 year old volunteer nurse, Nayirah, struggled to compose her trembling voice, barely holding back tears, as she testified that marauding soldiers had thrown babies out of incubators in a hospital, leaving them to die on the floor. Later, Amnesty International confirmed authoritatively that 312 babies had been More
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“It was gripping, stunning testimony. Before congress, a 15 year old volunteer nurse, Nayirah, struggled to compose her trembling voice, barely holding back tears, as she testified that marauding soldiers had thrown babies out of incubators in a hospital, leaving them to die on the floor. Later, Amnesty International confirmed authoritatively that 312 babies had been killed this way[1]. All the news agencies ran with the story, and the country and congress were in a total uproar.
There was only problem: it was completely, utterly, totally fraudulent. It was engineered, perjured, coached testimony concocted by PR experts, designed to manufacture consent for a US war on Iraq.
At the time, it was also crystal clear that the claims were absurd—Kuwait had a population of less than 1.5 million at the time, and given its birthrate, would have had a few hundred premature babies a year. It’s inconceivable that over 300 of them could have been clustered in a single hospital on a single day.
Nevertheless, this was the story that was sold to the US people. Representative John Porter stated,
“We have never heard…[such] a record of inhumanity and brutality and sadism…I don’t know how the people of the civilized countries of this world can fail to do everything within their power to remove this scourge from the face of the earth”.
Not long afterward, the US went to war with Iraq. It would wage war again, 12 years later, doubling down with even more monstrous lies.
Today, we are facing a similar situation: the US is escalating rapidly towards a shooting war with China, and similar absurd, astonishing, and monstrous lies are being spread. In fact, the US is already engaged in “multi-domain” “hybrid warfare” with China. This is warfare just below the threshold of direct military engagement. On the ground this involves:
Economic Warfare: trade sanctions and tariff war, as well as technological warfare: attempted seizure of Chinese companies (TikTok); attacks on China’s international 5G contracts; sanctions on the primary & secondary supply chains of key sectors of Chinese industry (e.g. Huawei’s semiconductor supply chain); attacks on Ant Finance’s IPO.
Legal Warfare, or “lawfare”, including over 380 anti-China bills in Congress, and 14 individual and state lawsuits against China for over $30 Trillion in “Covid damages”; the long arm “legal” kidnapping of Huawei’s executive
Diplomatic Warfare, including consulate shutdowns, harassment of diplomats, breaching of diplomatic pouches and compounds, and calls for regime change.
Military Brinksmanship and posturing in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Taiwan straits; complete encirclement of China with strategic weapons, surveillance, and 400 offensive bases (“The Pacific Pivot”), the use of airbases in Taiwan for military actions, and plans to station intermediate range nuclear missiles all along China’s periphery[2].
Civil Subversion: color revolution, urban terror, destabilization & delegitimation operations in Hong Kong (and other places where China has interests), including millions of dollars of funneled for organization & training, and encrypted communications infrastructure built to coordinate anti-government activities.
Academic Warfare: through the FBI’s China Initiative, every 10 hours a case is opened against a Chinese student or researcher in the US (currently 2700 cases) and all Chinese students are considered potential “non-traditional” “collectors, spies” involved in a “thousand grains of sand” collection strategy.
Information Warfare: last but not least, we are seeing total Information warfare. The stories about so-called “massive human rights abuses”, “Chinese concentration camps”, “Chinese-made-and-released Covid”, “China has harmed us economically”, “China has stolen its way to the top”, “China is oppressing independent Hong Kong”, are part of this information warfare.
This is mass propaganda to incite people to hate China irrationally and unconditionally, to manufacture consent for war. The US military calls this information warfare, “the firehose of falsehoods” and we are all being drenched with these lies. This is necessary to justify war against an enemy and to curtail any rational discussion or questioning.
Some of the questions that the public are kept from asking are:
Are these allegations supported by any facts?
Has China threatened us? Is the US at risk from China?
Is this war justifiable by any means? Is it legal?
Do the citizens of the US want to go to war? Could the US even fight, let alone win a war with China?
A careful, reasoned approach to these questions, would lead one to say, No.
Before we try to play whack-a-mole with the blatant war propaganda, a more useful and clarifying approach is to ask, why is the US telling these lies to go to war?
For this, we have to look at history.”
Read the rest of the article. I fucking beg you! Put to a stop to this Red-scare generated by a vast propaganda network created by the Western (White Imperialists') Hegemony to crush an opposing economic power that they deem to be a threat. This happened with South East Asia, Middle East, and Africa. This is nothing new. It’s the same story, but different packaging. Do your part!
Joe Biden didn’t just vote to invade Iraq — he worked hard alongside George W. Bush to persuade the public to back it. Biden holds significant responsibility for the bloodshed that has engulfed Iraq and the surrounding region since the invasion.
One Third of Biden's Pentagon Transition Team Hails From Organizations Financed by the Weapons Industry
The president-elect is drawing from hawkish think tanks funded by arms companies. (Source)
'Vicious cycle of militarism': Biden's defence team criticised for ties to arms industry
Democrats and anti-war groups denounce Biden's list of Pentagon advisers which includes many with connections to weapons manufacturers (Source)
Biden’s Pentagon Pick Has Deep Defense Industry Ties. Now It Could Complicate His Nomination.
Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin sits on the board of Raytheon. (Source)
Is this the Democrats’ (neoliberals’) “hero”?
Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.
A show on YouTube called the Big Debate, takes place in post apartheid South Africa where activists, politicians, artists and the people hold town hall discussing issues impacting South Africans in 2016.
A short clip of season 7 episode 2: Whiteness
South African activist, Wanelisa Xaba is asked, “Why the obsession with whiteness?”
To which she gives a powerful explanation, “I’m not obsessed with whiteness. I am obsessed with Black liberation!”
