The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks

“Rape and arbitrary killings feature prominently in these results, along with kidnappings, extortion, and the destruction of property, illustrating a deeply concerning pattern of abuse inflicted upon civilian populations,”

#CongoGenocide #CongoIsBleeding #Africa #UnitedNations

Telecommunications, internet down in Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify

“We regret to announce the complete cessation of the communications and Internet services with the Gaza strip, as the main paths that were previously reconnected were disconnected again,”

#FreeGazaNow #GazaUnderSeige #FreePalestine

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies

The infamy of Nixon’s foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history’s worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him

#KissingerWarCriminal #KissingerIsDead #Kissinger

Néocolonialisme: France made ‘the largest marine cemetery in the world’ just to contain Russia and China

The Mahorais’ sentiments are a reflection of Frantz Fanon’s description of a colonized mind in which he argues that the colonized individual often internalizes the stereotypes imposed by the colonizer, resulting in a fractured self-identity. He wrote that, “Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.” Because decolonization of the mind is not yet complete, the result is a feeling of inferiority in the colonized, which is an “outcome of a double process: primarily, economic; subsequently, the internalization – or, better, the epidermalization – of this inferiority.”

#France #colonization #Fanon #Mayotte

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