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PapyrusBrigade<p>No punches pulled! </p><p>"There is a legitimate Marxist critique of aspects of postcolonial theory as it is received and perceived on North American university campuses and made palatable to soft-spoken liberalism, where the bitter roots of this critical movement in colonial experiences are sweetened for bourgeois palatability. In this version, Cesaire, Fanon, Malcolm X, and even Edward Said are robbed of their experience as African, Caribbean, African American, or Palestinian and given a gentle and sociable aura not to frighten white people." </p><p>from Rosa Luxemburg: The unsung hero of PostColonial Theory</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/5/12/rosa-luxemburg-the-unsung-hero-of-postcolonial-theory" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/5/</span><span class="invisible">12/rosa-luxemburg-the-unsung-hero-of-postcolonial-theory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RosaLuxemburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RosaLuxemburg</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/MilitaryIndustrialComplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryIndustrialComplex</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/HamidDabashi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HamidDabashi</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>More crap from Gilead that we don't want and don't need but is being forced on us anyway. <br>Only if you were wilfully ignorant of Colonialism would you not recognise what is going on here, when is UKGOV going to stand up for this nation instead of kowtowing to foreign belligerents?</p><p><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/uks-f-35-fleet-can-only-perform-its-required-missions-one-third-of-the-time-report-reveals-13395228" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.sky.com/story/uks-f-35-fl</span><span class="invisible">eet-can-only-perform-its-required-missions-one-third-of-the-time-report-reveals-13395228</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/F35" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>F35</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
Gilgamesch<p>Na, der Anfang ist gemacht. Ich schreibe aktuell einen kleinen Aufsatz über den "Sühneprinzen" Chun (Tsai Feng) und seinen Aufenthalt in Deutschland für die <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Saargeschichten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saargeschichten</span></a>. So viel gibt es zu seiner Person gar nicht. Wie komme ich dazu? Er hat am 24.9.1901 Steinkohlebergwerke in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Saarbr%C3%BCcken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saarbrücken</span></a> besucht. In der spärlichen Literatur steht bislang, er habe dies im Ruhrgebiet getan. Da war er aber nur bei Krupp und hat sich Kanonen zeigen lassen.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p>
GRK 2571 - Empires<p>Mark your calendars! On 28 July 2025 (2–5 p.m., HS 1132), join our Colonial Photography Workshop with Dr. Kokou Azamede (Lomé) and Prof. Hans Peter Hahn (Frankfurt a. M.). Explore how colonial images served as propaganda, how we can re-read them today, and discuss their enduring relevance.</p><p>Workshop language: English. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/@unifreiburg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>unifreiburg</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@dfg_public" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dfg_public</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/empires" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>empires</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/politicalscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>politicalscience</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sociology</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@mehlera" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mehlera</span></a></span> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/decolonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decolonial</span></a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/kolonialismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kolonialismus</span></a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/politicalscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politicalscience</span></a> <a href="https://xn--baw-joa.social/tags/academicmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicmastodon</span></a></p>
IHC<p>📖 Tijl Vanneste and Rafael de Azevedo wrote an article about <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AliceKinloch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AliceKinloch</span></a>, a South African activist and one of the first people to openly criticise the violence perpetrated against black workers in the <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Kimberley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kimberley</span></a> mining system at the end of the 19th century.</p><p>🔓 Her history in <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085902400097X" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1017/S0020859024000</span><span class="invisible">97X</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SocialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PanAfricanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PanAfricanism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/BritishColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Minas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minas</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3riaSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistóriaSocial</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/%C3%81fricaDoSul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ÁfricaDoSul</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Colonialismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialismo</span></a></p>
Bernard<p>This is indeed quite a thingy: "What is being buried alongside the children of Gaza is not just Palestinian sovereignty but Arab dignity itself. And those doing the burial are not merely the Israelis, but the Arab collaborators who provide the shovels, offer the prayers, and then turn to shake hands with the executioner." Shame on European/French government for this demonstration of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a>, disregard for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalestinianHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestinianHumanRights</span></a> and support for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250710-courtiers-in-kufiyas-the-grotesque-spectacle-of-arab-scholars-subjugation-before-israeli-power/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">middleeastmonitor.com/20250710</span><span class="invisible">-courtiers-in-kufiyas-the-grotesque-spectacle-of-arab-scholars-subjugation-before-israeli-power/</span></a></p>
UniversityofGroningenLibrary<p>"Engaging the public is vital because the histories we study are often directly linked to current global debates and media narratives. The themes we explore - <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a>, <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a>, <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a>, <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/migrations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrations</span></a> - are relevant to current public debates, yet often misunderstood or oversimplified [...]."</p><p>In our <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> Blog, Karène Sanchez-Summerer, historian of the Modern Middle East, shares experiences and motivations behind her open science initiatives.</p><p><a href="https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/making-history-accessible-interview-with-karene-sanchez-summerer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rug.nl/library/open-access/blo</span><span class="invisible">g/making-history-accessible-interview-with-karene-sanchez-summerer</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Loving this! <br>Make the Colonials pay! </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/10/caribbean-leaders-back-jamaica-petition-to-king-for-slavery-reparations" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/jul</span><span class="invisible">/10/caribbean-leaders-back-jamaica-petition-to-king-for-slavery-reparations</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AbolishTheMonarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishTheMonarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jamaica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jamaica</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reparations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reparations</span></a></p>
Rowland Mosbergen<p>My daughter got me to watch this movie today and this is the theme I really picked up from it. </p><p>Fragile Families in Lilo and Stitch - Sociological Images<br><a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2019/10/28/fragile-families-in-lilo-and-stitch/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thesocietypages.org/socimages/</span><span class="invisible">2019/10/28/fragile-families-in-lilo-and-stitch/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Maori" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maori</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MaoriHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaoriHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> </p><p>Green/blue Maori facial tattoos are invisible to wet plate photography. As a result, photos of Maori from the 1800s are often misleading...</p><p>To modern eyes, this can create the false impression that some Māori photographed in the colonial era were unadorned when, in reality, they most likely carried extensive facial moko.</p><p>See full Alt-Text</p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/wet-plate-photography-ta-moko/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/wet-plate-phot</span><span class="invisible">ography-ta-moko/</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Will the Police investigate this? </p><p>This is not a culture, it's a colonial mistake. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/09/northern-ireland-politicians-condemn-migrants-effigy-loyalist-bonfire-moygashel" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">ul/09/northern-ireland-politicians-condemn-migrants-effigy-loyalist-bonfire-moygashel</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NorthernIreland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernIreland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Moygashel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moygashel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RefugeesWelcome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RefugeesWelcome</span></a></p>
Yogthos<p>love to see a Canadian mining company CEOs crying about their gold getting appropriated</p><p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-mali-barrick-mining-complex-funding/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theglobeandmail.com/business/a</span><span class="invisible">rticle-mali-barrick-mining-complex-funding/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>africa</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The urban terrain, the resilience of Hamas and the people of Gaza, the balance of forces in the region and new warfare technologies posed distinct challenges for the Israeli Defence Forces, who were now fighting on multiple fronts with more ambitious goals than just recovering the hostages: destroying Hamas and then Hezbollah, controlling Southern Lebanon—in addition to making life unbearable for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. It was the continuation of the Nakba—an uncivil war of land expropriation.</p><p>In those early days, watching with mounting anxiety the indiscriminate bombing of a defenceless population, I wondered why such an eruption of violence had not occurred in apartheid South Africa. Many had anticipated a similar Armageddon. The States of Emergency between 1984 and 1994 saw the militarization of townships, death squads, chemical warfare, assassinations, torture and detention without trial. During this period, an estimated 20,000 were killed in South Africa, the vast majority black; another 1.5 million died in South Africa’s ‘destabilization’ of neighbouring countries. How, after ten years of civil war, did this culminate in a negotiated settlement, the dismantling of the major planks of the apartheid order, and the first elections based on majority rule? Why does such an outcome—with all its problems—seem so remote when we turn to the plight of the Palestinians and the spiralling violence, internal and external, of the Israeli state? How was it that the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995 intensified confrontations rather than making progress towards a two-state solution? Why did Israel abandon the Abraham Accords, which outlined collaboration with Arab states, preferring the disproportionate massacre of Palestinians after Hamas’s incursion?"</p><p><a href="https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/michael-burawoy-palestine-through-a-south-african-lens" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newleftreview.org/issues/ii153</span><span class="invisible">/articles/michael-burawoy-palestine-through-a-south-african-lens</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LandTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandTheft</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SettlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Afrikaner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Afrikaner</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zionism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"History teaches us that economic interests have been key drivers and enablers of colonial enterprises and often of the genocides they perpetrated. The corporate sector has been intrinsic to colonialism since its inception, with corporations historically contributing to the violence against, the exploitation, and ultimately the dispossession, of Indigenous people and lands, a mode of domination known as racial colonial capitalism. Israel’s colonisation of the occupied Palestinian territories is no exception.</p><p>The recent report by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, constitutes a major contribution to understanding the political economy of Israel’s Apartheid state, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and, now, their genocide. As such, we believe, it must be studied and debated widely and freely.</p><p>In view of the virulently hostile and indeed intimidating letter from the US government to the UN Secretary General demanding the dismissal of Ms Albanese and the quashing of her excellent report, we felt the need to express our strong support for Ms Albanese and to encourage the UN to dismiss the shrill demands of the US and Israeli governments."</p><p><a href="https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-top-economists-back-francesca" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zeteo.com/p/exclusive-top-econ</span><span class="invisible">omists-back-francesca</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a></p>
Sailor Anarres<p>USA to Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War (1898, Colorized) </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p>
A. Rivera<p>(Spanish language news) The failure of PROMESA law [and the Fiscal Control Board] nine years later. </p><p>&gt; El fracaso de PROMESA nueve años después <a href="https://claridadpuertorico.com/el-fracaso-de-promesa-nueve-anos-despues/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">claridadpuertorico.com/el-frac</span><span class="invisible">aso-de-promesa-nueve-anos-despues/</span></a> via <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ClaridadPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClaridadPR</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BackInTheUSColony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BackInTheUSColony</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BadEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AmericanEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PuertoRico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PuertoRico</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastodonPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonPR</span></a></p>
JackTheRebelCat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦<p>America/Britain/Russia are pyramid schemes and you're at the bottom.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a></p>

"We should study the British Empire today because its history demonstrates human beings’ fantastic capacity for self-delusion. Noam Chomsky notes that John Stuart Mill, having written powerful tracts on both logic and liberty, was one of the most rational and freedom-loving intellectuals of his day. Yet even Mill, who had worked in the East India Company, was entirely hypocritical when it came to applying his libertarian principles to India, claiming that British rule was “angelic” and lamenting the “obloquy” heaped upon Britain by those who didn’t understand that it tyrannized over Indians for their own good. If even Mill, whose writings were elsewhere filled with humane and thoughtful paeans to human freedom, could justify something so horrendous as the empire, we should all be wary of the possibility that we may be unwittingly siding with an oppressive government or rationalizing indefensible acts.

The excuses for the British Empire, such as the claim that Britain built wonderful railroads and freed the enslaved, are feeble, and writers like Tharoor and Sanghera make short work of them. They are clung to in part because it is difficult to admit that one’s country was on the “wrong side of history” and that what was felt to be an act of charity and benevolence was in fact a terrible crime. I am struck, looking back on Zulu, by how easy it was for me as a child to accept without question the idea that my people must be the heroes of the situation simply because they were the heroes of the film. Was Michael Caine not dashing? Were the British not outnumbered?

The British Empire is dead. The sun finally set on it. Britain’s monarchy is decrepit, and it will never again “rule the waves.” (...) But a large percentage of the British population still believes that there was something good, rather than shameful, about tyrannizing over a huge percentage of the world’s population."

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www.currentaffairs.orgHow Empires ThinkThe imperial mentality sanctions some of the worst imaginable crimes in the name of progress, enlightenment, and civilization.

“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.

If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not. Surveillance Capitalism isn’t compatible with democracy.

The system we live in today can best be described as a corporatocracy; a feudalism of corporations.

Ours is a neo-colonial age of multinational monopolies.

A digital imperialism, if you will.”

– Me, The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age, 2016

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