Historically informed socio-political commentary. Documenting the shifting global order. Geopolitics/History/Multipolarity/Economics/Culture
1/🇨🇩 DRC Congo, 1960–61
1/ 🇮🇷 Iran, 1953 
(2/8) “The evidence reveals a deplorable increase in sexual and gender-based violence,” states Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission. UN experts document forced public stripping, sexual harassment, threats of rape, and sexual assault by Israeli forces.
2/ DeepSeek released two significant AI models recently:
2/ In our first 🧵 discussing the shift from traditional media into online and social media, we focused on why this shift was happening, how the legacy media lost our trust, how the mainstream media got hijacked by corporate interests, and repeatedly lied or misled the public
2/ The world is divided along various lines. Ideological (conservative, liberal), geographic (East, West. Global North, Global South), economic (Communist, Capitalist). Governance systems, democracy, monarchy, autocracy, theocracy, nationalist, monarchist, imperialist etc
2/ Early Political Career
(1/20) Frantz Fanon’s name rarely appears in mainstream discussions of #decolonisation, overshadowed by figures like Nelson #Mandela and Mahatma #Gandhi. Fanon, however, presented a unique and crucial argument: violent struggle was essential for true liberation from colonialism
(1/20) The assassination of #Congo's first #democratically #elected PM, Patrice #Lumumba, has long been shrouded in mystery. Evidence points to #US and #Belgian involvement, revealing a mix of #ColdWar #politics and #exploitation 
(2/6) "In terms of inventory, yes, because many #Western countries have long preferred to supply #Pakistan and not #India. But that has changed in the past ten or fifteen years with the #USA, for example, and our new purchases have diversified with the USA, #Russia, #France and #Israel as the main suppliers," he said.
(1/8) Evidence suggests that #Ukrainian forces are present in #Sudan's civil war, potentially widening the conflict beyond #Ukraine's borders.
(1/15) #BRICS expands, adding #Egypt, #Ethiopia, #SaudiArabia, #UAE, & #Iran, solidifying its influence as the voice of the #GlobalSouth.
(2/21)The transition to the post-colonial era saw #India as a staunch supporter of #Palestine. India was acutely sensitive to the issue of partition & as a fellow British colony, Indian independence movement leaders were against the establishment of a #Jewish state
(2/19) Many were quiet about issues #globally while the status quo worked in their favour. Think of these people the same as the bulk of the #Western middle class in the colonial #era.
(2/11)Though social media has provided suppressed voices with a platform & has accelerated information sharing exponentially–this evolution has its own unique #threats. We have been experiencing the impact of these threats more acutely the past few years & especially the 5 weeks 
(2/4) We condemn any loss of innocent life at any time. We also recognise than when the #occupation kills #native #civilians they do so by dehumanising the other as “animals” or “barbarians” or “uncivilised” as we have seen through out the history of conquest