Did you know that Chiang Kai-Shek, who shaped today’s Taiwan, was responsible for the massacre of over 30,000 people on the island? Read on. 🧵 The February 28 (228) Massacre is considered to be one of the most significant events in Taiwan’s modern history. It marked the beginning of decades of White Terror, leaving a lasting impact on the island.

Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has called on his organization to disband and lay down arms—but the final decision rests with the PKK’s upcoming congress. For 43 years, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party has fought a national liberation war.

Here’s how it all began. 🧵 The PKK is one of the largest armed non-state actors worldwide. Öcalan led its foundation in 1978 in the southeast of Türkiye with the zeal to fight for an independent Kurdistan. The early PKK was heavily inspired by the socialist and anti-colonial movement that defined the 1970s.

On this day in 1869, Bolshevik revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya was born. Many historians, however, overlook her tireless efforts and invaluable contributions to the Marxist-Leninist movement and Soviet society, reducing her to the role of “Lenin’s wife.” Read on to learn more about one of the Soviet Union’s most influential women. 🧵 Nadezhda Krupskaya was born on February 26, 1869. As a leading Bolshevik revolutionary and wife of Lenin, she made significant yet often overlooked contributions to the Marxist-Leninist movement.

DPR Korean doctors are “violating” UN sanctions by providing medical services in DR Congo, according to US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA). What the RFA report omits is that ongoing conflicts have left millions in DR Congo without much-needed medical services. With one of the world’s lowest healthcare coverage rates, DR Congo’s hospitals and clinics lack personnel, equipment, and critical medicine. Decades of conflict—especially in the country’s east—have further restricted access to essential care.

On this day in 1958, Cuban guerillas led by Fidel Castro kidnapped then Formula One reigning world champion Juan Manuel Fangio. They aimed to bring international attention to their cause and embarrass the US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista’s government. 🧵 The summer of 1958 saw the second anniversary of the “Monaco Grand Prix of the Caribbean” in Havana, Cuba. Although the race was not part of the world championship, plenty of prominent drivers participated - partly because the US-backed dictator Batista dug deep into his pockets to provide a spectacle for the national bourgeoisie and tourists.

Here are some little-known facts about the former head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, that you probably didn’t know. From his meeting with Chomsky to his admiration for Maradona’s playing style, read on to learn more. 🧵 Hassan Nasrallah spent the first 15 years of his life in an impoverished and diverse neighborhood in the eastern suburbs of Beirut. He came from a working class family and his father was a vegetable vendor. Hassan was originally from the village of Bassouriyeh in South Lebanon, from which his family was displaced during the Lebanese Civil War.

On this day in 1942, then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, forcibly relocating virtually all Japanese Americans to concentration camps for the simple crime of being of Japanese ancestry. Read on. 83 years ago, the US forcibly relocated over 127,000 Japanese Americans to concentration camps, leading to 1,862 deaths. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry.

The EU secretly funneled €132.8 million to media outlets just ahead of the 2024 elections, according to a bombshell report by Italy’s Il Fatto Quotidiano. All the while, they censored red. media and other alternative voices, accusing us of waging an “information war.” 🧵
The EU’s funds were channeled through a third company to bypass transparency protocols, hiding which media outlets were paid and why. The EU leadership used a PR company called Havas Media France to act as a middleman to spread the funds.

Hamas released a report on February 11 documenting Israel's violations of the ceasefire agreement during the first phase. Confirmed by Israeli officials and mediators, these violations resulted in Hamas postponing the release of captives until Israel complies with the agreement.🧵 Israel committed 269 field violations, including bombings, gunfire, and attacks that resulted in civilian deaths and injuries. Despite the ceasefire, Israel has continued to target and kill civilians.

Morgan Ortagus, Trump’s deputy special envoy to the Middle East, faced backlash in Beirut for her pro-Zionist stance, setting a “red line” on Hezbollah in Lebanon’s government and backing Israel’s alleged victory. Who is the new face of US imperialism in the region? 🧵 In January, Morgan Ortagus was appointed to replace Amos Hochstein, former US President Joe Biden’s senior advisor and key negotiator of several deals between Lebanon and Israel. She currently serves as Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for Middle East Peace, working under real estate executive Steven Witkoff.

In an unprecedented move, 500 Japanese and 200 Mexican farm laborers joined forces on this day in 1903. Together, they challenged their bosses who had long capitalized on the workers’ racial differences. � On February 11, the sugar beet workers formed the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association (JMLA) in the Californian sugar boom town of Oxnard, bringing the entire sugar industry to a halt.

For decades, CIA-backed operations fueled drug networks worldwide. Meanwhile, US officials continue to blame foreign governments. By enabling traffickers to fund anti-communist militias, the agency helped entrench a drug trade that still destabilizes entire regions today. During the 1950s, the anti-communist Kuomintang (KMT) forces had fled to Myanmar after losing the Chinese Civil War. To fund their fight against Mao’s China, the CIA facilitated their entry into opium trafficking. This helped to turn Myanmar into a major player in the global heroin trade.

As the US accused red. media of state propaganda, it was quietly channeling funds into foreign media through USAID.

Reporters Without Borders acknowledged the funding but didn’t question its implications. So who is really using media as a tool to manufacture consent? Since Trump announced his plan to freeze US foreign aid, USAID, the US government’s international development agency, has been in chaos.

Its website and social media have been suspended, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was appointed as its acting director.

Bob Marley was born on this day in 1945, but did you know that in 1976, Marley, his wife Rita, and his manager were shot and nearly killed in an assassination attempt widely believed to have been orchestrated by the CIA? 🧵 The shooting at his home on Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica, occurred just two days before his Smile Jamaica concert, which Marley hoped would ease tensions in the run-up to elections contested by the CIA-backed Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) and the progressive People’s National Party (PNP).

On this day in 1899, the US started what became known as the “first Vietnam” when it began colonizing the Philippines. During the “Philippine-American War,” up to 1.4 million Filipinos were massacred. 🧵 30,000 brave Filipino guerrillas organized by the revolutionary society called the Katipunan had only just gotten rid of Spanish colonizers in 1896, after 300 years of colonial rule.

Zakaria Zubeidi, a symbol of the Second Intifada, was released today. He survived attempts on his life and arrests by both the Palestinian Authority and Israel. In 2021, he escaped a max-security prison by digging a tunnel with a spoon. Read on to learn about his story. 🧵 Zakaria is a former leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and a symbol of the Palestinian armed struggle during the Second Intifada.

He grew up under military occupation, witnessed the demolition of his refugee camp, survived multiple assassination attempts, and endured imprisonment by both the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel.

On this day in 1972, British troops committed the Bloody Sunday Massacre of 14 unarmed civilians in Derry, Northern Ireland. Read on. 🧵 In the run-up to the march that ended in bloodshed, tensions had reached a tipping point thanks to British troops being deployed to Northern Ireland in 1971 to “restore law and order” following years of protest by the Nationalist population for basic civil rights.

Over 70% of Yemenis rely on humanitarian aid. Trump's terrorist designation of the Ansarallah could end up blocking their vital access to life-saving supplies.

Here’s how this political move could worsen one of the world's worst humanitarian crises: 🧵 Trump has initiated the process to designate Ansarallah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, mirroring his actions in the final month of his first term.

The Biden administration later reversed this designation in 2021 amid rising concerns from major humanitarian NGOs.

Today, in 1905, Russian Tsar Nicholas II’s troops perpetrated the Bloody Sunday Massacre, gunning down at least 1,000 protesters. The bloodshed sparked the 1905 Revolution, which Vladimir Lenin dubbed “the great dress rehearsal” for the 1917 October Revolution.🧵 By 1905, Russia was crumbling under Tsar Nicholas’ catastrophic and repressive rule as he was on the brink of losing his unpopular imperialist war against Japan in Manchuria. As he was coming under increasing public pressure to reform, socialist revolutionaries, including exiled Vladimir Lenin, were organizing to topple him.

Trump’s Greenland obsession made headlines, but did you know the US once accidentally “nuked” Greenland? On this day 57 years ago, a crash nearly triggered a global environmental catastrophe.

This is the story of the 1968 Thule Nuclear Scandal. 🧵 On January 21, 1968, a US B-52 bomber with four hydrogen bombs crashed near Thule Air Base, Greenland. Though safety mechanisms prevented a nuclear chain reaction, the crash caused extensive nuclear contamination.

Did you know that the CIA once orchestrated the execution of today’s DR Congo’s first Prime Minister by a firing squad? On this day in 1961, Patrice Lumumba was executed by a firing squad following assassination plots concocted by the US and Belgian governments. Read on. 🧵 After Belgian-occupied Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960, Lumumba became the country’s first prime minister. 75 years of Belgian rule in the Congo was filled with terror and genocide, leaving up to 15 million people dead and the country’s wealth plundered