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Somalis are affronted by the abhorrent agenda of #Amhara agitators who are attempting to rewrite our ancestors’ #history. As an ardent #PanSomalist whose adamantly against any agenda of #Abyssinians I’d like to address revisionism of our history by Amharas with amble evidence-1/9
From 1529 to 1543 #Somali ruler from #Adal empire named Ahmed #Gurey aka Ahmed #Gran annihilated #Amhara army after many assaults. Ahmed also roamed freely across #Abyssinia for almost two decades and pillaged at will. Ashamedly #Amhara emperor Lebna Dengel run away as coward-2/9 
As anticipated emperor #Dengel asked military aid from his #Portuguese ally as he wasn’t able to face Somalis alone. This will become a familiar theme for #Amharas who are actually accustomed to begging military aid from foreign allies against Somalis for almost six centuries-3/9
1/29. 📜NEW BRIEF: Today we launch “PASSED THE POINT OF NO RETURN: A Non-Economic #LossAndDamage (#NELD) Explainer” covering what #NELD is, why and how it happens, where it happens, who is most affected, and importantly, how we can respond.
🔗Get it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/pa…
🔗Get it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/pa…
2/29. The brief begins with a foreword by @UNFCCC NELs Expert Group Member @IrfanUllahCDO, who highlights that Non-Economic #LossAndDamage has been largely overlooked in climate negotiations and that urgent action is needed to address #NELD happening now e.g. The #PakistanFloods.
3/29. Then @DLodry of @LossDamageYouth shares the powerful story of his lived experience of Non-Economic #LossAndDamage in #Cameroon called "The Tears Of A Village River And Its Population" which tells how climate-intensified #Drought can lead to a loss of #Culture and #Identity.
1/12: YOUR GREED, OUR #DEATH: #ClimateDebt is killing us!
📢“We as a country and as a region did not start this war against nature. We did not provoke it. The war has come to us.” #DebtForClimate
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📢“We as a country and as a region did not start this war against nature. We did not provoke it. The war has come to us.” #DebtForClimate
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2/12: The richest tenth is responsible for almost half of all carbon emissions…
… ‼️Whereas the poorest half are only responsible for a tenth of #emissions.
#DebtForClimate #DeudaXClima
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… ‼️Whereas the poorest half are only responsible for a tenth of #emissions.
#DebtForClimate #DeudaXClima
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3/12: The average #carbonfootprint of someone from the richest 1% of #humanity is 80 times the size of someone from the poorest half.
#DebtForClimate #DeudaXClima
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#DebtForClimate #DeudaXClima
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1/ #travel #TravelBlogger - Williamsburg, #Virginia is a national historical treasure founded 1632 whose Colonial #architecture has been copied across the #USA. If you go, also visit nearby Yorktown and so much more!
2/ #history #travel #tourism - Williamsburg, #Virginia was Virginia’s capital 1699 to 1780. It’s really an outdoor museum. Actors recreate life from three hundred years ago. IIRC, there are shops, nice tree-lined sidewalks, and beautiful vistas.
3/ #Colonial Williamsburg is really a beautiful outdoor museum. I love #architecture in general and enjoy the Williamsburg style. Yet somehow, I never learned its origins. Usually a combination of nature, available materials, etc., helps create styles.
reuters story about how #erdogan tamed #turkey's newsrooms. it boggles the mind why #kurdish #media are not even mentioned, despite them playing a big role in getting important stories out. #journalism reuters.com/investigates/s…
it's an institutionalized story from @reuters. example: if you check which papers don't get state advertising anymore as a financial punishment, you won't stumble upon #kurdish #media because they never got it in the first place - and would refuse it. #journalism
Coupism, totalitarianism and figurehead of #NATO
Thus can be synthesized the journey followed by #Ukraine, since that month of February 2014 when, supported by Western powers in the political, communicational and financial spheres,
Thus can be synthesized the journey followed by #Ukraine, since that month of February 2014 when, supported by Western powers in the political, communicational and financial spheres,
the pro-European and #NATO forces of this Eastern European country, overthrew President Viktor Yanukovych.!!
#NeverForget
#NeverForget
This, with an essential and distinguishable vector: an anti-Russian policy, which fits perfectly into the traditional #colonial & neo-colonial policies of this "divide and rule"-loving West practiced in Latin America, Asia and Africa and that today, in the Eastern part of Europe,
In 2021, #Brazilian scientists led an international collaboration which resulted in unexpected results presented as “A New Hypothesis for The Origin of #AmazonianDarkEarths” A brief thread
Those findings were misconstrued by some in the media as an attack on #indigenous peoples and their traditions in the #Amazon region. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
#AmazonianDarkEarths (ADE) are widely regarded as a model for sustainable agriculture. Their unusual fertility and elevated concentration of charcoal, has prompted industrial-scale biomass burning to make products for soil amendment.
19th CENTURY EUROCENTRISM SHAPES TODAY’S PUTIN APPEASEMENT
Thread – Part V – “How ‘Vladi the Provoked’ attracts clueless narcissists”
#Russia #Donbas #Ukraine @TimothyDSnyder @anneapplebaum #Merkel #NATO #SPD #Offenerbrief #colonial #Putin #Waffen #Zelensky #Melnyk
Thread – Part V – “How ‘Vladi the Provoked’ attracts clueless narcissists”
#Russia #Donbas #Ukraine @TimothyDSnyder @anneapplebaum #Merkel #NATO #SPD #Offenerbrief #colonial #Putin #Waffen #Zelensky #Melnyk
59/ INTRO: This is Part 5 of a series of threads.
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19th CENTURY EUROCENTRISM SHAPES TODAY’S PUTIN APPEASEMENT
Thread - Part IV – “How the Krauts quickly recycled another ‘end of history’ to blame Ukraine”
#Russia #Donbas #Germany @TimothyDSnyder @anneapplebaum @MelnykAndrij #Habermas #NATO #SPD #Offenerbrief #colonial #Putin
Thread - Part IV – “How the Krauts quickly recycled another ‘end of history’ to blame Ukraine”
#Russia #Donbas #Germany @TimothyDSnyder @anneapplebaum @MelnykAndrij #Habermas #NATO #SPD #Offenerbrief #colonial #Putin
19th CENTURY EUROCENTRISM SHAPES TODAY’S PUTIN APPEASEMEMT
Thread - Part 3 – “How Ukraine provoked the war”
#Russia #NATO #Mariupol #Azov #Donbass #Bucha #Putin #USA #SPD #Germany @TimothyDSnyder @anneapplebaum #dielinke #Panzer #Waffen #Scholz @MelnykAndrij #Klitschko #WEF
Thread - Part 3 – “How Ukraine provoked the war”
#Russia #NATO #Mariupol #Azov #Donbass #Bucha #Putin #USA #SPD #Germany @TimothyDSnyder @anneapplebaum #dielinke #Panzer #Waffen #Scholz @MelnykAndrij #Klitschko #WEF
HOW 19th CENTURY EUROCENTRISM SHAPES TODAY’S PUTIN APPEASEMENT
A long thread – part II. #ArmUkraineNow #Russia #NATO #Azov #Donbas #Putin #USA #SPD #Germany #Kissinger #Scholz #EU #France #Macron #colonial #imperial #paternalist #Putinknecht #Davos #Waffen
A long thread – part II. #ArmUkraineNow #Russia #NATO #Azov #Donbas #Putin #USA #SPD #Germany #Kissinger #Scholz #EU #France #Macron #colonial #imperial #paternalist #Putinknecht #Davos #Waffen
(24) RECAP (I / II): In part 1 of our SERIES OF THREADs we introduced a MATRIX reflecting Eurocentric (imperial, colonialist, paternalist…) thought patterns from the 19th century. …
#Ukraine #colonial #Russia #Germany #Kissinger #NATO #Lanz
#Ukraine #colonial #Russia #Germany #Kissinger #NATO #Lanz
(25) RECAP (II / II):
You should start with Part 1:
The MATRIX is reproduced in the attached pic (Fig. 9). We will continue with a funny case study (see attached Fig. 10, (26) – (31)), but you should read the attached disclaimer first (Fig. 11).
#NATO
You should start with Part 1:
The MATRIX is reproduced in the attached pic (Fig. 9). We will continue with a funny case study (see attached Fig. 10, (26) – (31)), but you should read the attached disclaimer first (Fig. 11).
#NATO
'ICSPR strongly condemns the international community’s continued silence and complicity, and condemns the Israeli malicious advantaging of the world’s preoccupation with the events of #Russia and #Ukraine to pass its racist policy...
...which contributes to the continuation and exacerbation of the suffering of the #Palestinian people and depriving them of their right to self political and economic determination.
ICSPR calls on the international community not to sacrifice the principles of international law and order, and to work hard to implement United Nations resolutions related to the Palestinian cause, and to impose sanctions on the #occupation state
African Internationalism discussing Russia/Ukraine struggle as part of negating #colonial #capitalist narrative being spread to paint Russia as aggressor while exposing the US & other European imperialist powers role as instigator/orchestrator of crisis:
"It is no secret that White Power is working overtime to shut down any form of communication from #Russia to parts of the world - which means that most of the #propaganda churned out by the colonial capitalists goes uncontested."
"The same US #imperialism that was built on #slavery, #genocide, & colonialism, is now posturing as the moral & political authority of the world. The US colonial capital state murders African people inside the US every single day... Floyd, Locke, Taylor, & millions of others."
1/9 #Colonial #Victorian tropes of #primitive and #civilised are never funny @BBCNews @BBCWorld. They were actively used to justify colonialism.
Small-scale societies are as complex as large states, and values and morals are #HumanUniversals. Also, #Neanderthals were smart!
Small-scale societies are as complex as large states, and values and morals are #HumanUniversals. Also, #Neanderthals were smart!
2/9 #Hunter-gatherers live in small groups but have large social networks. San societies in southern #Africa maintain these by exchanging ostrich eggshell beads across hundreds of kilometers. And they have been doing this for over 30,000 years.
pnas.org/content/117/12…
pnas.org/content/117/12…
3/9 #Aboriginal societies in #Australia have complex ways of transmitting knowledge across space and time. Their #OralHistories preserved information on the impact of #SeaLevelRise at the end of the last #IceAge over 10,000 years.
scientificamerican.com/article/ancien…
scientificamerican.com/article/ancien…
Finally got time to start reading "INDIA that is BHARAT!"
#DeColonise vis a vis #DeColonialise - great new additions to popular discourse @jsaideepak
#DeColonialisation - need of the hour. ✨👍
#DeColonise vis a vis #DeColonialise - great new additions to popular discourse @jsaideepak
#DeColonialisation - need of the hour. ✨👍
1/5 - Was reminded of a few lines I wrote in response to Faiz's "Bol ke lab azaad hai tere.." while reading Chapter 2 of #IndiaThatisBharat
Do chk it out @jsaideepak @meghkalyan @mmpandit @ksinamdar - U'll like it. 😇🙏
(verse in next tweet)
Do chk it out @jsaideepak @meghkalyan @mmpandit @ksinamdar - U'll like it. 😇🙏
(verse in next tweet)
2/5 #Faiz:
Bol ke lab azad hai tere
Bol zuban ab tak teri hai..
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I Changed it to a dialogue bwn the Colonizer & the Colonized.
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First the boast of the #Colonizer ..
Bol ke lab azad hai tere
Us mein zubaan par meri hai
Jism dil dimaag hai tera
rooh dhadkan soch meri hai!
Bol ke lab azad hai tere
Bol zuban ab tak teri hai..
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I Changed it to a dialogue bwn the Colonizer & the Colonized.
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First the boast of the #Colonizer ..
Bol ke lab azad hai tere
Us mein zubaan par meri hai
Jism dil dimaag hai tera
rooh dhadkan soch meri hai!
"Tuer l'Indien dans le cœur de l'enfant"*: comme au #Canada au XIXème siècle désormais considérée comme un "#génocide culturel", la #Chine pratique la politique d'assimilation des #enfants #Tibétains
* (information.tv5monde.com/info/tuer-l-in…)
source du rapport @tibetaction
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* (information.tv5monde.com/info/tuer-l-in…)
source du rapport @tibetaction
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2⃣ Séparés de leur Famille, cachés du monde
Le vaste système d'internats #colonial de la #Chine à l'intérieur du #Tibet
Rapport : tibetaction.net/campaigns/colo…
Le vaste système d'internats #colonial de la #Chine à l'intérieur du #Tibet
Rapport : tibetaction.net/campaigns/colo…
3⃣ Le gouvernement #chinois a mis en place un vaste réseau de #pensionnats #coloniaux au #Tibet où les étudiants vivent séparés de leurs familles et sont soumis à l'éducation, principalement en chinois.
#RSS is least of our concern when #India's #secularists are exploiting B'desh #riot to bestow legitimacy on a #fascist #colonial administration - by #Hasina.
Unlike #Kashmir, B'desh doesn't have a discourse - largely due to not having access/fluency in #English..
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@na_nznn
Unlike #Kashmir, B'desh doesn't have a discourse - largely due to not having access/fluency in #English..
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@na_nznn
With no B'deshis around to resist their hegemony, the #colonizers have a free stadium to kick the ball - protraying B'deshi #Muslims as '#extremists', '#violent', '#WarCriminal' and so on.
#Riot is a football match, again producing consent for #Hasina's... 2/n.
@na_nznn
#Riot is a football match, again producing consent for #Hasina's... 2/n.
@na_nznn
...government in #Delhi.
A lot of '#Kashmiri scholars' (who doesn't have to face the wrath of the state) & their silence around this #Hindu-#Secularist 'saviors' axis are equally complicit.
The #colonizers are sealing our fates. 3/n.
@na_nznn
A lot of '#Kashmiri scholars' (who doesn't have to face the wrath of the state) & their silence around this #Hindu-#Secularist 'saviors' axis are equally complicit.
The #colonizers are sealing our fates. 3/n.
@na_nznn
#Trudeau jets to Tofino for vacation on 1st "#TruthAndReconciliation" day.
Father of my children, #Indian, #sixtiesscoop survivor, worked all day to survive in #colonial system. He can no longer sit in a local coffee shop, let alone a plane. #NoJab
ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/…
Father of my children, #Indian, #sixtiesscoop survivor, worked all day to survive in #colonial system. He can no longer sit in a local coffee shop, let alone a plane. #NoJab
ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/…
#TruthAndReconciliation is marketing-as is #OrangeShirtDay2021 & holiday for white people on stolen land. Reconciliation would be giving land back. EuroAmerican destroys everything in path. #Indigenous peoples rep. less than 5% of pop. -yet support approx. 80% all #biodiversity.
#TruthBeforeReconciliation would be criminal charges against those responsible for res. schools & dead children. "However, as w/ any criminal case, the charges would be laid by the Crown—which would essentially amount to the govt putting itself on trial."
cbc.ca/news/politics/…
cbc.ca/news/politics/…
Four events that might be of interest to some of you. We'll discuss #SDGs #MMT #development #Law #PoliticalEconomy #Money #Debt #inflation #colonial #neocolonial #climate #reparations
RSVP links below. Join us!
RSVP links below. Join us!
RSVP links:
1. TBA follow @rethinkecon
2. ysi.ineteconomics.org/project/60772c…
3. greeninstitute.ng/mmt
4. bit.ly/ClimateDebtand…
1. TBA follow @rethinkecon
2. ysi.ineteconomics.org/project/60772c…
3. greeninstitute.ng/mmt
4. bit.ly/ClimateDebtand…
This cartoon from @thetoonguy today in @TheHinduMag today, which captures the reality of knowledge supremacy, triggered an old memory that had been buried deep inside for 13 years.
The Children's #Science Congress was taking place in Baramati, Maharashtra in 2008. I had travelled with an incredible bunch of geohydrologists from ACWADAM, Pune, to see how #science was being encouraged for school goers.
I landed up in a room where children from across the country were making presentations on #biological #sciences. One presenter was from #Nagaland & she made a fantastic presentation on local #rice varieties in her village.
1/ Joining some wonderful people from what I am seeing as a diverse group of researchers at the #EditorialBoard of @PLOSGPH; journal has given itself the tall order of “addresses inequities in public health and makes impactful research accessible to all… (1/n) #Threads
2/ In words of @paimadhu "the journal will amplify the voices of underrepresented and historically excluded communities and prioritize equity, diversity, and inclusion at all levels"; I am highly skeptical of this,
3/ yet I am thrilled that a #PublicHealth journal would give itself such a vision; #Knowledge #Science #Evidence all reproduce the same kind of social hierarchies that drive unfair accumulation of resources in our society
Becoming Leidah Reviews:
One-minute video (best with sound):
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Text version below.
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Text version below.
#becomingleidah #literaryfiction #historicalfiction #magicalrealism #colonial #trauma #ancestralmemory #revisionist #mythology
"A stunning debut that has left me reeling! This story was WILD. Weird, wonderful... magnificent."
Plethora_of_pages, goodreads
#debutnovel #scandinavian #celtic #norwegian #bookclub #litfest #marriage #familydrama #7yearitch #cultureclash #simonschuster
Plethora_of_pages, goodreads
#debutnovel #scandinavian #celtic #norwegian #bookclub #litfest #marriage #familydrama #7yearitch #cultureclash #simonschuster
Short THREAD on rising #racism & far-right extremism, based on very concerning updates from @IRR_News.
Please follow & support The Institute of Race Relations & the @RunnymedeTrust - organisations struggling for racial justice in very worrying times.
irr.org.uk/article/calend…
Please follow & support The Institute of Race Relations & the @RunnymedeTrust - organisations struggling for racial justice in very worrying times.
irr.org.uk/article/calend…
Not just in the UK, but in Spain, Portugal & France, governments & quangos are warning universities & institutions that re-evaluations of colonial history will bring dire consequences – at the exact same time presenting themselves as 'champions of free speech' & academic freedom.
The DoE's proposal for ‘free speech champions’ suggests ‘unacceptable silencing & censorship’ is now widespread on campuses.
It builds on the Govt’s attacks on critical race theory, the ‘dreadful’ (Priti Patel) #BLM protests, as well as the nebulous concept of a ‘woke agenda’.
It builds on the Govt’s attacks on critical race theory, the ‘dreadful’ (Priti Patel) #BLM protests, as well as the nebulous concept of a ‘woke agenda’.
After joining the wonderful conference #sfbmeetspublichistory yesterday and today in the morning, tonight we end the #IBLS International Blended Learning Seminar on #Europes #colonial #past. It is great to see all the teachers and students from Poland, France, Switzerland ...1/x
2/x Germany and the Netherlands on zoom once moreand looking on all the projects that were developed in the seminar. #InternationalPublicHistory #teachingpublichistory
See more on portal.uni-koeln.de/international/…, we will add more interviews and work examples in the next weeks...
