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Category Archives: Colonialism
Indigeneity As The World Is Burning: We Can Either Watch The Fire, Or We Can Put Out The Centuries-Old Flames Together
On International Indigenous People’s Day, let’s not romanticise nor dismiss the struggle that will, in the end, liberate us all.
Invest in Decolonising Narratives
Something incredible is happening in Panama – in that how anticolonial it is. I’m inviting you to support it.
On One of The Gravest Crimes against Humanity That Not Every Country Chose to Condemn at The UN
The UN just voted to describe the transatlantic slave trade as ‘the gravest crime against humanity’. Yet not every country, according to its vote, agrees. My commentary is on what the abstentions show.
On Julian Assange, Palestine, and The Empire
What a sentence to write: Julian Assange is free! Let’s allow ourselves to celebrate and to continue seeing how different systems of oppressions are connected (in this case, under imperialism coming from the same source).
Reflections on The False World-Wide Scare of Having Lost Noam Chomsky
The best news this week is that Noam Chomsky is still alive! After experiencing the world-wide scare of (falsely) having lost Noam Chomsky, I’ve recorded this quick episode for you. So that we don’t fall into despair and continue honouring Chomsky’s work.
Bombs Don’t Liberate
Both mainstream media and state-owned media have their agendas. Can we educate ourselves to notice them or do we continue attributing concepts like “propaganda” to “the other” and words like “liberation” to what our governments are doing?
How Do You Construct Your Own Political Education?
When it comes to your political education, how do you decide what sources to trust?
What are your criteria to choose what you consume and what source to give more importance to?
In my episode, I present my own criteria but, more importantly, encourage you to define your own.
Gaza: New Killings, Old Narratives
What is there to say after Israel’s most recent bombing of Gaza?
No matter how heart-breaking this devastation was, it didn’t reveal anything new about how Israel operates – nor how the world reacts when Palestinians under siege are being killed.
President Biden Doesn’t Have a Problem with Apartheid, Nor With Human Rights Violations
Joe Biden is on a trip to the Middle East: he’s visiting Israel and Saudi Arabia. What this shows is how little respect – if at all – his presidency has for human rights. Apartheid, military occupation, killings of civilians, murdering of journalists – everything goes. And there is definitely no room for Palestinian human rights.