Oct 14
20230
Addressing delegates at the Dilemmas of Humanity Conference hosted by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the Minister of International Relations says the world can not look away while millions of Palestinians are suffering.
Palestinian activist Leila Khaled delivers the key note address at the third International Dilemmas of Humanity conference in Johannesburg. Hosted by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa.
Oct 13
20231
Africa black Colonialism elaine brown george jackson greg thomas history huey newton Imperialism Israel kathleen cleaver liberation Malcolm X middle east Palestine panther party plo politics settler Stokely Carmichael White Supremacy zionism
"The following article by Greg Thomas, the curator of “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine,” was published in Ittijah, a new Arabic-language publication by Palestinian youth issued by Nabd, the Palestinian Youth Forum."
"I do not rejoice over death. I rejoice over the possibility to live."
Oct 11
20232
Capitalism Climate Colonialism Dogma Ecology Militarism Science Social Enginnering Technoscience
"Science, in its many powerful institutional manifestations, is now essentialized as an a priori source of truth, existing above economic interests or social determinations and exempt from historical or ideological evaluation. It is the one remaining mirage of legitimacy behind which global capital continues its rampage of planetary looting and destruction."
"From France to Israel, South Africa to Brazil, the film was banned precisely because of its ethical endorsement of guerrilla war against occupying forces and repressive, Western-backed dictatorships. In profound ways, this has arguably been the central and enduring legacy of the film about what constitutes “terrorism” and legitimate resistance, conventional war and asymmetric guerrilla warfare."
Aug 24
20231
Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Angola Burkina Faso Colonialism Frantz Fanon Guinea-Bissau Imperialism Liberia Mozambique Pacifism as Patholgy Palestine Self Defense Tanzania ZIMBABWE
"Concerning Violence is a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Göran Olsson. It is based on Frantz Fanon's essay, Concerning Violence, from his 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth."
Aug 16
20232
"Net Zero" Bill Gates Breakthrough Energy Coalition Breakthrough Energy Ventures Climate First Nations KOBOLD Metals Nuclear TerraPower Uranium We Don't Have Time
"Behind the veneer of a global "green" energy transition that places solar and wind at the marketing forefront, a nuclear renaissance is quietly sweeping the globe."
"We now, on this loose left, trade in our critical faculties at the theatre of propaganda. In return, the propaganda pounds, batters, and sequesters our emotions so that we end up identifying with the narrative of power."
Beller speaks to how monetary media, by inscribing code on bodies, is a force of ongoing colonization under racial capitalism.