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This is a picture of my grandfather with his parents and siblings, taken in Jerusalem in 1934. My Christian family lived in Jerusalem continuously since the time of Jesus, and our family tree that we have today can trace our roots back to around 1400 in Palestine, though it goes much further than we can track. Until 1948, when Zionist terrorists ethnically cleansed them from their city, stole their home, personal belongings, clothes, documents, books, money, and properties… and turned them into refugees overnight. Today, NONE of my family lives in Jerusalem. ZERO. Not a single one. And that is because of Israel, not Muslims.

🇨🇴🚨 BIG NEWS: Colombia just paid off its ENTIRE debt to the IMF — nearly $5.3 billion. No more IMF conditions. No more austerity strings attached. President Petro delivered what most said was impossible. This is what financial sovereignty looks like. Other nations should be paying attention.

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue. She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.

Syria Israeli invaders demolish farms. There is no Hezbollah or Hamas in Syria, still Israel spreads like cancer. This is the result of the “Syrian revolution” which got rid of Syria’s natural allies iran and Hezbollah . Let her be a lesson to all.

HOLY SHIT. Israeli settlers just seized homes in Syria, planted their first outpost, and the IDF is backing them all the way. They openly declared the start of their expansion into Syrian land.

E aos poucos vamos adquirindo a consciência de algumas questões. A filosofia nasceu na Grécia Antiga? O direito internacional nasceu na Europa com a Paz de Vestfália em 1648? O pai da medicina seria o médico grego Hipócrates? O mundo não nasceu na Europa. O conceito de Europa, sim. Na nossa educação formal há um apagamento das contribuições históricas dos chineses, dos iranianos (persas), dos árabes, dos turquos, dos indianos, dos povos africanos antes da Europa, dos nossos povos originários.

🚨🇨🇺 BREAKING — Havana Lit Up Russian Oil is Saving Lives in Hospitals

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In 15th Century AD, while most of Europe educated only the sons of the wealthy and the church, the Aztec Empire had already built something that no other civilization on earth had yet attempted: a system of mandatory schooling for every child, regardless of sex, social rank, or the circumstances of birth. The child of a noble and the child of a farmer were both enrolled. Girls attended alongside boys. Even the children of slaves received an education. The Aztec state did not consider this generosity. It considered it a basic obligation of governance. Education began before school ever did. From birth, Aztec parents understood themselves to be teachers first. The first years of a child's life were gentle — children were indulged and pampered until around age three. Then the tone shifted sharply. Parents began instructing their children in the huehuetlatolli, a vast body of oral wisdom translated as "the words of the elders" or "ancient speech." These were not simple proverbs. They were full rhetorical orations — speeches on how to greet a newborn, how to mourn the dead, how to address a ruler, how to conduct yourself in the marketplace, how to speak to the gods. A child raised on the huehuetlatolli was being shaped into a person who understood their exact place in the world and had the precise language to inhabit it. Every few years, children were brought to the temple and tested on how much of this inherited knowledge they had absorbed. At around fifteen, boys entered one of two formal institutions. The sons of nobles attended the calmecac, attached to temples and governed by priests, where the curriculum included astronomy, the sacred calendar, law, medicine, architecture, rhetoric, and the reading and painting of codices. Life there was deliberately brutal: cold baths before dawn, midnight prayer vigils, manual labor, and ritual penance involving cactus spines. The sons of commoners attended the telpochcalli, the House of Youth, present in every neighborhood, where military training formed the backbone of daily life. Boys learned weapons, tactics, and the physical endurance that warfare demanded. But neither school was purely vocational. Both taught religion, history, and the ceremonial knowledge required to participate fully in Aztec civic life. Girls entered their own parallel institutions. Noble daughters trained at the calmecac as priestesses-in-training, learning the same rigorous ritual knowledge as their male counterparts. Other girls attended schools where they learned weaving, the preparation of ritual foods, and the ceremonial practices that structured household and community life. What every child — boy or girl, noble or common — shared was the cuicacalli: the House of Song. After regular school hours each day, all children were required to attend. There they memorized the sacred hymns associated with each deity and festival, learned the dances that accompanied them, and studied the flower-songs, xochicuicatl, a Nahuatl poetic tradition built on elaborate metaphors linking beauty, impermanence, and the divine. The House of Song was also, in the evenings, a social space where young people gathered to sing, play instruments, and perform for one another. The communal drums were kept there, along with flutes and rattles. Music was not an extracurricular activity. It was a civic duty. What the Spanish encountered when they arrived in 1521 AD, was a population of extraordinary cultural literacy. The 16th Century Jesuit José de Acosta was so impressed by the Aztec education system that he formally recommended it be adopted by Spanish colonial administration as the framework for introducing Catholicism to the conquered population. #archaeohistories

🚨BREAKING🚨Israeli forces are now issuing direct death threats to Lebanese journalists on WhatsApp as well as besieging them. Al-Akhbar correspondent @AmalKhalil83, who has been documenting the devastation across southern Lebanon, received these messages from an Israeli number (+972 54-869-5113): “We know where you are… we will reach you… leave if you want to keep your head on your shoulders.” First message: “Alright, my lady, you are moving from one village to another, but you still haven’t gone to enough funerals or hospitals. There is a lot of grief & sorrow behind that smile you try to show on Twitter. Let’s see what your answer will be… Is your house still standing, Anisa (Miss)? I hope so?” Second message: “We know where you are & we will reach you when the time comes. Even though you are not important to us, in the end we will take everything into account. I suggest you flee to Qatar or somewhere else if you want to keep your head connected to your shoulders :)” This is not intimidation. This is the IDF issuing an explicit death threat to a journalist for covering their crimes. At the same time, Israeli forces besieged Amal al-Khalil & journalist Zeinab Faraj in al-Tayri, blocking the Red Cross & Lebanese Army from reaching them. They were in a delegate vehicle when a drone strike hit a vehicle behind them, killing two people. Both journalists were trapped at the scene. Amal contacted the Red Cross before her phone died. Her last message confirmed she was still safe. Rescue teams still cannot reach the two besieged journalists, Amal al-Khalil & Zeinab Faraj. They are just 500 meters away, but the road has been cut off by an Israeli strike, according to Red Cross paramedics. This is targeting journalists in real time. This is a crime. Pure state terrorism against the press.

"AL- QUDS" القدس - Arab Jerusalem Extraodinary short film made by Vladimir Tamari following the first anniversary of the occupation of Arab Jerusalem by the Israeli army at the start of the Arab Israeli War on June 5, 1967. Using footage from UNRWA cinema archives where he worked as a technician. Tamari edited this film and organized its narration and addition of music by his friends, all volunteers and amateurs as he was, in order to express the feelings of the Palestinians at the loss of their capital city and center of their spiritual, commercial and intellectual life. Produced by the Fifth of June Society. Written by Rosemary Sayegh. Narrated by Peter Shebaya. Music by Ibrahim Suz. UNRWA photographers Brian Langley and Halvor Naess. 16mm Black and White 17 minutes. Editing and film production was made at Baalbeck Studios, Beirut Lebanon. All Rights Reserved V. Tamari on behalf of the producers as the Society no longer exists.

Mexican President Sheinbaum confirms CIA agents operated on Mexican soil without federal authorization.

Douglas MacGregor just laid out the tragic history of US-Iran relations. After 9/11, one million Iranians poured into the streets in Tehran and elsewhere with candlelight vigils to mourn the American dead. There was real hope for an improved relationship. We spit in their faces. General Soleimani helped us in Iraq, persuading Shiite militias to stop fighting us. He helped us against ISIS. Those Shiite militias liberated Christians, Sunnis, Yazidis, Druze. They fought with us, not against us. All of this was swept away in favor of Israel's agenda

This new automatic translate feature is amazing, because now I get to see Chinese Maoist posting😭😭

Shiran Mlamdovsky Somech is an Israeli founder & CEO of a company called "Generative AI for Good." By "good" they actually mean "evil." Since they've been caught creating fake AI victims of fake sexual assaults to pin on Iran to convince US Americans its ok to murder hundreds of Iranian school girls. x.com/infolibnews/st… Of course, it's in Israel, not Iran, where the largest network of rape dungeons in the world operates with full knowledge and support of the Israeli Jewish public.

Yesterday, Israelis killed Odai Shaʽban (24) and his fiancée Suwar Abbas (21), only a week after their engagement. The attackers blocked their car on a road near Akka, opened fire, and shot Odai dead in the driver's seat. Suwar tried to flee toward a nearby field but was also shot at and killed. Her body was later found about 200 meters away from the vehicle. Both Odai and Suwar were Palestinian citizens of Israel.

LENIN Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him. Lenin walks around the world. Black, brown, and white receive him. Language is no barrier. The strangest tongues believe him. Lenin walks around the world. The sun sets like a scar. Between the darkness and the dawn There rises a red star. LANGSTON HUGHES

Democrats are never going to give you single-payer health care. Never. Because Democrats are a corporation funded by corporations to represent corporations. Vote third-party.

natasha cloud, one of the best players in the WNBA, is being blackballed by the league for her vocal pro-palestine activism. this is unacceptable and not enough people are talking about what’s happening to her.