Anyone who wonders how and why the UK Labour Party disappeared, and who the imposters in 10 Downing Street are, should read this, from the justly celebrated "Normal Island News" substack https://t.co/b2CJ0BJGv3
— Nury Vittachi (@NuryVittachi) September 17, 2024
The wrankers that closed ranks on JC. pic.twitter.com/fRRTPABPyA
— Len Bera (@Lenthebastard) September 16, 2024
Chinese authorities and resolution experts have been managing down the real estate bubble for over four years. The IMF is frustrated that they can’t collapse China today as they collapsed Japan in 1990. Japan never recovered. China is avoiding that trap skilfully. Growth at 5% is… https://t.co/zHH03qwe7Z
— Kathleen Tyson (@Kathleen_Tyson_) August 3, 2024
This is apparently the aftermath. Racial slurs heard and the driver of the car is stabbed. Just vile all round. https://t.co/a72lCXBhtr
— Hamza Yusuf (@Hamza_a96) August 3, 2024
🇻🇪 Organizers rally in New York City to reject U.S. intervention in Venezuela!
— The People's Forum (@PeoplesForumNYC) August 3, 2024
The People’s Forum and the ANSWER Coalition rallied in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and to reject the move by the Biden administration to undermine Venezuelan sovereignty by declaring,… pic.twitter.com/Nqjc4STQSI
The "civilized" white Brits attacking British POC everywhere and shouting "kill them". https://t.co/SnqXvMmkdY
— 🇵🇸 Rafeef Garbi #FreePalestine (@RafeefGarbi) August 3, 2024
ICYMI: This was one of our most-viewed videos on Twitter this week 👇 pic.twitter.com/w4QP1EEO6v
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 29, 2020
Today, I’m positing articles/originals covering UK declassified files on UK policy towards massacres in Zimbabwe, Iraq propaganda campaign, selling components to Syria’s chemical weapons, complicity in Rwanda genocide and links to killings in Guatemala. https://t.co/j0krQkOAK4 pic.twitter.com/vysf4hXEnP
— Mark Curtis (@markcurtis30) July 13, 2019
There are times when one tragedy tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments often justify their actions with lies.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the British government of Harold Wilson expelled the population of the Chagos Islands, a British colony in the Indian Ocean, to make way for an American military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island. In high secrecy, the Americans offered the British payment for the islands in the form of a discount on the Polaris nuclear submarine system.
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The British media all but ignored it; the Washington Post called it a "mass kidnapping".
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The difference was that the Falkland Islanders were white and the Chagossians were black and, crucially, the United States wanted the Chagos Islands - especially Diego Garcia - as a major military base from which to command the Indian Ocean.
The Chagos was a natural paradise. The 1,500 islanders were self-sufficient with an abundance of natural produce, and there was no extreme weather. There were thriving villages, a school, a hospital, a church, a railway and an undisturbed way of life - until the secret 1961 Anglo-American survey of Diego Garcia led to the expulsion of the entire population.
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In 1973, hundreds of citizens were deported from their home. One woman tells her story
Judges advise Britain that separating archipelago from Mauritius in 1960s was wrong
Mauritius defence minister claims UK forced it to cede territory before independence
