An outdated flag of Afghanistan, here’s the current one, which says : “I bear witness that there is no deity but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God.”

I’m naturally opposed to their sexual apartheid denying girls the right of education(, they can still read though, and don’t have to work), but they’ve been among the 20 poorest countries for decades, and i can only dream about their honesty towards God’s research/worship/enlightenment/direction/…
I’d need to live among them before ever hoping to understand/judge them adequately, and they can become many great things(, if worthy and که خدای کول evidently/rationally/logically/mystically/really/… ), it wouldn’t have been the same with a country as wealthy as Iraq.
But i don’t know the future, perhaps was it for the best, probably not, i’m an outsider and shouldn’t talk about what i don’t know, it feels like they were right. People dying while shouting/affirming God’s eternal Greatness/Glory/… makes me shiver, it’s perhaps even sadder than thinking about the millions/billions of non-humans currently mistreated, at an industrial scale larger than any human tragedy(, i would hate to have their life, but fortunately they’re only machines without the aptitude to suffer i guess, and they don’t know that they could expect more, we had a duty/power/responsability, we could do more and care for their well-being, invent new ways of making their lives as enjoyable as possible, instead of aiming for a lower selling price, &).
Let’s say that we’re gradually evolving towards less evil and that i’m misrepresenting the virtues of the past(, they did many mistakes but wars were less murderous, people were trying, nobles wrote better than nowadays, non-humans were less objectified, etc., the colonization&‘many genocides’ as well as the most awful form/scale of slavery came afterwards or at the end of this period, but i know it was far from being a blue sky, just that nowadays is so artificial/dishonest, i.d.k., i’m probably wrong,), if so then i hope we’ll continue to progress and soon stop with thefts, lies, …, and live united in diversity finally learning that hegemony isn’t a desirable goal, nor is it necessary. There’s so much to do and also quite a lot of paths to be afraid in front of us, stopping the possibility of wars/conflicts is probably less than 10% of the problems we’re facing.

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Palestinians could have killed the hostages before being killed, but didn’t. There’s still more than a hundred and they’re still being taken care of.
It’s my personal belief that unfair(, because they could have negociated a ceasefire, and i don’t see us supporting a killing of hundreds of israelis in order to liberate palestinian prisoners/hostages, which is arguably what happened the 7th of October since they asked for an exchange of prisoners as if it was their only goal,) massacres like this happened many times in the Middle-East(, Lybia, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Yemen, …,) but we’ve never heard of them, not sure why it’s different now. It’s certain that many massacres in south Asia were hidden, african and south-american dictators were also covered as long as they fought communists/utopians.
I’m not going to excuse myself for eternally regretting that they weren’t united, and being banned for that would be one of my proudest accomplishment, lies are fucking everywhere, i’ll never trust what we’re being told about designated enemies, people dying for God and calling for a more virtuous life can’t possibly be the opposite of what they’re preaching, they’re all dead now anyway(, 🇦🇫).

Which would usually mean almost 300.000 more injured(, minor and major). And 400.000 victims represents 20% of Gaza’s population(, a percentage which hasn’t been attained since Vietnam), so i hope that this analysis is wrong.
Apparently Israel’s throwing bombs of 2 tons each, and they destroyed a lot of buildings, so there’s still hope.

But the “polemic” last month when the UN revised the numbers down reminded us of the way that numbers are counted, some are identified, some are reported missing, and it’s unfortunately likely that there’s more deaths not taken into account, still buried under the rubbles without anyone to signal their disappearance.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/gaza-conflict-is-creating-a-generation-of-child-amputees

I only knew this one from him, prior to Lemmy(, even if i still haven’t seriously read any of his essays), worth a look[1] : https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html

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[1] : What sucks is that i’m certain we could live in peace, help each other, etc.
Is it simply that capitalists fear to disappear if they allow communism to survive ? Then they should strictly restrict communist ideologies if they don’t entertain the thought of fusing both ideologies to keep the best in each(, e.g., by only allowing capital’s revenues for enterprises in order to keep this organic distribution, which is obviously not the solution, just an idea, theses need antitheses to evolve).
So, if we agree to stop spreading capitalist ideals(, and even more our covert operations[2]), and other countries agree to never spread communist idea(l)s, as well as (c)overt operations ; and we’re adding that, e.g., citizens who want to change the ideology of their country will have to leave, they’re not allowed to be in politics ; then we’ll have found/searched ways to enforce a long-lasting diversity.
But even if we’ve found these rules we’d also need for them to be strictly followed, supra-national institutions would have to be able to protect (from )(non-)westerners, with national armies gradually evolving towards a world army(, e.g., for natural disasters), and a support for countries to help them prove that foreign powers are interfering, and obviously a thousand more things, with as many “stress tests” before being adopted, etc.
We’re not even trying to walk this path, yet cooperation/assistance is the path, we’re in it together.

It’s also important to note that the current world would need to have much more diversity than currently, we would indeed preserve and be proud of our diversity/uniqueness while not trying to convert the others, but we’d need at least 5-6 different ideologies, and even thousands if we’re hoping for local variations.
At most, we’ve currently got 3 of them(, free-market capitalism, communism, and theocracy/islamism), i suppose that royalism, republics, and direct democracy could be three more, and the kind of south-american indigenous movement that tries to revive its past a seventh one, but we’re still too homogeneous/‘close to hegemony’ on Earth, Africa has to carve its own path, and South America is too similar to the western world, Europe is also too similar to the u.s.a., and Australia&New-Zealand as well. And there’s obviously many more ideologies that have to exist, and also on other planes than socio-economy//‘political representation’//‘importance given to God/religion’.
In comparison to westerners, Russia is more different from China, itself different from India, but it could/should still go further, and i’m not going to cite every country you got the point.
If we reach a state where every “zone” has the same standard of living because we couldn’t fear anymore to help a future enemy, if we jealously preserve our own particularity, and once again can’t possibly fear to be attacked by anyone, then we would focus on something else than military expenses, (war )propaganda, … It’s not perfect but it gets closer, we simply need to get rid of every possibility of fearing something, from ideas to missiles. We’d first have to accept the possibility of definitely protecting ourselves&others, and then actively research how to do that.
Kinda out of topic with @dessalines(, but not with u.s. atrocities)

God(&gods)( in the material world, but also) in the world of Idea(l)s(, and probably other worlds inaccessible to humans as well) :

SABC News as well(, not western channels though) : https://youtube.com/@sabcdigitalnews?si=NJVpLshupTA-SkI-

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The u.s.a. was already condemned in the case of Nicaragua and nothing changed and nobody knows that, in the very improbable offchance that Israel was condemned, they would just act like Russia when the International Court of Justice ordered them to leave Ukraine.
Let’s say that our medias talk about this improbable success and, even more improbable, support the ICJ and condemn Israel, everyone would just forget a month later. Sure, there’s nothing to lose by trying, but not much to gain either, it’s not the beginning of an effective solution, it’ll be the exact same shit as before.
And the ICJ wouldn’t even need to be considered the bad guy, the contradiction wouldn’t raise an eyebrow, but let’s say i’m wrong, have an hope in this if you want.

edit : That’s an exaggeration, those who hate Israel won’t forget such judgment and would remind us when they got the chance, that’s the difference i’m seeing, so you’re right to say that it’s not nothing to be able to label them officially as genocidal, it’d add a new argument/insult of choice.

That’s ~two every three years :

Somalia needs some support with Somaliland, and https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Biden-Approves-Redeployment-of-US-Troops-to-Somalia-20220517-0003.html

Jamaica doesn’t give any certainty either : https://globalvoices.org/2023/10/30/jamaicans-express-disappointment-over-their-countrys-no-show-un-gaza-vote/

And i don’t think Brazil would want to expose themselves as much as South Africa did(, nor China for that matter), more to lose than to gain, that’s justice. Bolivia probably only supported the case because Luis Arce has forbidden Evo Morales from being reelected and is trying to show that ~‘he’s not a traitor to the movement’ despite that.
Let’s say that they have a chance if you want though, it doesn’t matter because that’s not what would make a change, do they only have the option of a full-scale war with unknown consequences to do what’s right ? We’re just supposed to watch and then it’ll be as if nothing ever happened, ok.

They were already finally accepted by Iraq, Iran, and everyone else more than 20 years ago, but instead of giving back the illegally occupied territories to the palestinians they considered that such proposal was dishonest and would come back to bite them, that finally being recognised for the first time since 1948 wasn’t worth it. If even such proposal is rejected then (pro-)palestinians aren’t left with any other choice than fighting them, they unequivocally refused the most reasonable peace offer, because they believe that they’re strong enough to give up on impartiality(, still a unilateral gain for them and a unilateral loss for palestinians/arabs). They could have been recognised but refused. Here.

https://twitter.com/SamaanAshrawi/status/1742644725469909284

If the evidence was fabricated or spun in order to try and smear them for being pro-Palestine, then that’s a different story.

Manipulations aren’t always easy to prove, but it’s not the case here.
This article cites that tweet as the first accusation, we’ll both agree that there’s nothing serious here.
The other news articles are written by journalists who don’t have time for a proper investigation, as is usual in our modern times, instead of losing a day or a week on a piece they gather the different existing claims and begin the next article(, quicker&cheaper&‘easier to read’).
And even if the examples were a hundred times more numerous she’s only borrowing turns of phrases, not acting as if the ideas originated from her, researchers are synthetizing much more than creating anyway, her thesis very likely added something new if it was accepted, but she probably also gave the state of the art of the subject she would end up teaching, borrowing turns of phrases should never be considered as shocking, even if she recognised herself that she should have used quotation marks here as she did in all the other cases(, and would have obtained the exact same consideration for her thesis(/theses), who already contain hundreds of citations anyway).
In my opinion, accusations of plagiarism should start when the original creator end up losing money, but she didn’t gain anything by forgetting some quotation marks(, even if it amount to one quotation mark unused for every ten used, which is far from being the case here), it’s politically motivated and kinda sad that nobody is surprised anymore.
B.t.w., her thesis defended the oppressed, not the powerful, it counts.

(edit : i’m glad that she modified her thesis/theses afterwards to cite the authors she took her turns of phrases from though because that’s what should be done, especially if she never cited these papers once(, unlikely))

I haven’t checked, but the accusations seems to have really started after the 5th of December, no ?

A majority of the links are from the u.n.(, o.c.h.a. included,) though(, but yep, some of them are from twitter or newspapers and could eventually ‘have been directly replaced by an archive link’/‘be deleted afterwards’).

Such accusations appeared after the hearings a.f.a.i.k., and i don’t much except this paragraph included in the article refuting the accusations :

Yeah, a buzzword with legal implications, Myanmar’s rebels are terrorists, good for them.

Ok(, and as a note the data stopped the 7th of November), sorry for my last comment and thanks for the chat.
And, personally, i could envision our governments and medias pressuring Israel to stop its senseless murders(, the israeli goal goes beyond vengeance), just that all of our medias are always aligned with the foreign policy of our government.

It’s not peaking, but even if it was you should obviously know better(, unless Israel switch sides in which case our hate will appear overnight).

Merry Christmas.

Non-western medias wouldn’t be taken into account anyway.

But yeah, this war seems to be a bit more criticised than the previous ones(, a.f.a.i.k., i’ve only began to look into our wars for the last years), perhaps because it’s a unilateral massacre, and our previous wars were also likely criticised in their time by some “prestigious” newspapers, but accepted because it doesn’t change anything anyway, 🤷‍♂️, there’s no “anti-system” journalist in the mainstream medias.
And let’s keep in mind that, beyond our tangible material support, our overall media coverage will continue to look like this :

Videos of his arrival, and official venezuelan statement.

Arrested in Cap Verde the 12th June 2020, he was held in Miami since 2021 under the pretense of money laundering, Interpol notifications or arrest warrants were issued retroactively and, of course, diplomatic immunity wasn’t respected. Here :

And usual accusations of mistreatments.

In order to obtain his liberation, they had to : release 10 americans, extradite fugitive Leonard Glenn Francis, and release around 20 political prisoners from jail. (source), it’s as asymmetric as usual.

What’s less known is that apparently Qatar played once again a role of mediation :

The wiki page lacks a lot of the above information, but this extract is ~interesting, they’re seriously claiming that hungry people are easier to control and less prone to revolts, so they’re sanctioning the c.l.a.p. which was feeding the poorest of them :

I still think that evilness is a myth formulated by people refusing to understand/explain, and i’ll continue to think so even if we(sterners) exist.
As an example, the murderous Israel would indeed be safer by destroying Palestine once and for all, at least as long as their estimation of a lack of retaliation from their neighbours proves to be correct.