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Odyssey (Kingsburg, California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 20 August 2016![ODYSSEY | by akahawkeyefan]()
Odyssey (Kingsburg, California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 20 August 2016
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The Last Supper. Going down the 99.(California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 22 August 2016
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The Last Supper. Going down the 99 (California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 22 August 2016
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Pay Per View. Cattle hauler en route from factory farm to slaughterhouse, Highway 99 (California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 22 August 2016
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Pay Per View. Cattle hauler en route from factory farm to slaughterhouse, Highway 99 (California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 22 August 2016![* | by E.Yelsel]()
[Untitled] (Old Town, Edinburgh. Scotland): photo by Lesley Ann Ercolano, 16 April 2011
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Ghosts, south LA: photo by Andrew Murr, 29 March 2016
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AC (alleyway, Tokyo): photo by efo, August 2016
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[Untitled] (Austin, Texas): photo by gumanow, 10 August 2016
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[Untitled] (Austin, Texas): photo by gumanow, 10 August 2016
![Laziz, an 8-year-old tiger, part of group of 15 animals from Gaza, the last survivors of the "worst zoo in the world", where dozens of animals died of starvation, is checked at the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Rishon LeZion in Israel]()
Laziz, an 8-year-old tiger, part of group of 15 animals from Gaza, the last survivors of the “worst zoo in the world”, where dozens of animals died of starvation, is checked at the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Rishon LeZion in Israel: photo by Nir Elias/Reuters, 24 August 2016
![Laziz, an 8-year-old tiger, part of group of 15 animals from Gaza, the last survivors of the "worst zoo in the world", where dozens of animals died of starvation, is checked at the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Rishon LeZion in Israel]()
Laziz, an 8-year-old tiger, part of group of 15 animals from Gaza, the last survivors of the “worst zoo in the world”, where dozens of animals died of starvation, is checked at the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Rishon LeZion in Israel: photo by Nir Elias/Reuters, 24 August 2016
![Undated handout artist's impression issued by the European Southern Observatory showing the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The rocky planet, that may harbour life, has been discovered in another solar system just four light years from Earth, close enough to be reached by future space missions. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday August 24, 2016. See PA story SCIENCE Planet. Photo credit should read: ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]()
An artist’s impression issued by the European Southern Observatory showing the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The rocky planet, that may harbour life, has been discovered in another solar system just four light years from Earth, close enough to be reached by future space missions.: photo by ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA, 24 August 2016
![Undated handout artist's impression issued by the European Southern Observatory showing the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The rocky planet, that may harbour life, has been discovered in another solar system just four light years from Earth, close enough to be reached by future space missions. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday August 24, 2016. See PA story SCIENCE Planet. Photo credit should read: ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.]()
An artist’s impression issued by the European Southern Observatory showing the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The rocky planet, that may harbour life, has been discovered in another solar system just four light years from Earth, close enough to be reached by future space missions.: photo by ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA, 24 August 2016
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A North Korean woman walks past by a donkey pen at the newly opened Pyongyang Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea: photo by Dita Alangkara/AP, 24 August 2016
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A North Korean woman walks past by a donkey pen at the newly opened Pyongyang Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea: photo by Dita Alangkara/AP, 24 August 2016
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Ukrainian Soldiers rehearse before a military parade held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence in Kiev, Ukraine: photo by Brendan Hoffman, 24 August 2016
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Ukrainian Soldiers rehearse before a military parade held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence in Kiev, Ukraine: photo by Brendan Hoffman, 24 August 2016
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a group of men humiliate a woman by forcing her to strip in public, and it's legal#BurkiniBan: image via lizzie @LizzbaWest, 24 August 2016
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This is what the Burkini Ban looks like. These policemen demanding she undress while onlookers call out "Go Home!": image via Ben Phillips @benphillips76, 24 August 2016
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Let's stop pretending France is the land of "liberté" and "egalité" - when it allows something like this #WTFFrance: image via Elena Rossini @_elena, 24 August 2016
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Let's stop pretending France is the land of "liberté" and "egalité" - when it allows something like this #WTFFrance: image via Elena Rossini @_elena, 24 August 2016
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Let's stop pretending France is the land of "liberté" and "egalité" - when it allows something like this #WTFFrance: image via Elena Rossini @_elena, 24 August 2016
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According to the UN, extreme weather fluctuations and erosion that causes flooding and landslides have led to a drop in agricultural productivity in the area: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
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From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
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From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
![A Thai teen talks on a mobile phone as she walks past figures of characters from US film series Star Wars (R) and fictional superhero Iron Man (L) at a shopping center in Bangkok, Thailand, 25 August 2016. Thailand's economy is forecast to grow between 3.3 to 3.5 percent in 2016 following its gross domestic product growth expanded by 3.5 percent in the second quarter showing positive signs, which mainly boosted by public spending, an increase of activity in the tourism industry and accelerated investment into big infrastructure projects by the government due to political stability after a peaceful referendum. EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT]()
A Thai teen talks on a mobile phone as she walks past figures of characters from US film series Star Wars and fictional superhero Iron Man at a shopping centre in Bangkok: photo by Runggroj Yongrit/EPA 25 August 2016
![A Thai teen talks on a mobile phone as she walks past figures of characters from US film series Star Wars (R) and fictional superhero Iron Man (L) at a shopping center in Bangkok, Thailand, 25 August 2016. Thailand's economy is forecast to grow between 3.3 to 3.5 percent in 2016 following its gross domestic product growth expanded by 3.5 percent in the second quarter showing positive signs, which mainly boosted by public spending, an increase of activity in the tourism industry and accelerated investment into big infrastructure projects by the government due to political stability after a peaceful referendum. EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT]()
A Thai teen talks on a mobile phone as she walks past figures of characters from US film series Star Wars and fictional superhero Iron Man at a shopping centre in Bangkok: photo by Runggroj Yongrit/EPA 25 August 2016
![This picture taken around 5 kilometres west from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on August 25, 2016 shows a boy looking on as Turkish Army tanks drive to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus. Turkey's army backed by international coalition air strikes launched an operation involving fighter jets and elite ground troops to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town. The air and ground operation, the most ambitious launched by Turkey in the Syria conflict, is aimed at clearing jihadists from the town of Jarabulus, which lies directly opposite the Turkish town of Karkamis. / AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images]()
This picture taken around 5 kilometres west from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep shows a boy looking on as Turkish Army tanks drive to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus: photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP, 25 August 2016
![This picture taken around 5 kilometres west from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on August 25, 2016 shows a boy looking on as Turkish Army tanks drive to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus. Turkey's army backed by international coalition air strikes launched an operation involving fighter jets and elite ground troops to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town. The air and ground operation, the most ambitious launched by Turkey in the Syria conflict, is aimed at clearing jihadists from the town of Jarabulus, which lies directly opposite the Turkish town of Karkamis. / AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILICBULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images]()
This picture taken around 5 kilometres west from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep shows a boy looking on as Turkish Army tanks drive to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus: photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP, 25 August 2016
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Odyssey (Kingsburg, California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 20 August 2016
Odyssey (Kingsburg, California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 20 August 2016
No one can deny that the people of Babylonia are highly devoted to logic, even to symmetry. It struck them as incoherent that the fortunate numbers should be computed in round figures of money while the unfortunate should be figured in terms of days and nights in jail. Some moralists argued that the possession of money does not determine happiness and even that other forms of fortune are perhaps more immediate.
Jorge Luis Borges, The Babylon Lottery, 1941 (except), translated by Anthony Kerrigan
Hubris: photo by akahawkeyefan, 1 August 2016
The Last Supper. Going down the 99.(California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 22 August 2016
The Last Supper. Going down the 99 (California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 22 August 2016
Pay Per View. Cattle hauler en route from factory farm to slaughterhouse, Highway 99 (California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 22 August 2016
Pay Per View. Cattle hauler en route from factory farm to slaughterhouse, Highway 99 (California): photo by akahawkeyefan, 22 August 2016
[Untitled] (Old Town, Edinburgh. Scotland): photo by Lesley Ann Ercolano, 16 April 2011
Ghosts, south LA: photo by Andrew Murr, 29 March 2016
AC (alleyway, Tokyo): photo by efo, August 2016
AC (alleyway, Tokyo): photo by efo, August 2016
AC (alleyway, Tokyo): photo by efo, August 2016
[Untitled] (Austin, Texas): photo by gumanow, 10 August 2016
[Untitled] (Austin, Texas): photo by gumanow, 10 August 2016
[Untitled] (Austin, Texas): photo by gumanow, 10 August 2016
Laziz, an 8-year-old tiger, part of group of 15 animals from Gaza, the last survivors of the “worst zoo in the world”, where dozens of animals died of starvation, is checked at the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Rishon LeZion in Israel: photo by Nir Elias/Reuters, 24 August 2016
Laziz, an 8-year-old tiger, part of group of 15 animals from Gaza, the last survivors of the “worst zoo in the world”, where dozens of animals died of starvation, is checked at the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Rishon LeZion in Israel: photo by Nir Elias/Reuters, 24 August 2016
An artist’s impression issued by the European Southern Observatory showing the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The rocky planet, that may harbour life, has been discovered in another solar system just four light years from Earth, close enough to be reached by future space missions.: photo by ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA, 24 August 2016
An artist’s impression issued by the European Southern Observatory showing the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. The rocky planet, that may harbour life, has been discovered in another solar system just four light years from Earth, close enough to be reached by future space missions.: photo by ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA, 24 August 2016
A North Korean woman walks past by a donkey pen at the newly opened Pyongyang Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea: photo by Dita Alangkara/AP, 24 August 2016
A North Korean woman walks past by a donkey pen at the newly opened Pyongyang Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea: photo by Dita Alangkara/AP, 24 August 2016
Ukrainian Soldiers rehearse before a military parade held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence in Kiev, Ukraine: photo by Brendan Hoffman, 24 August 2016
Ukrainian Soldiers rehearse before a military parade held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence in Kiev, Ukraine: photo by Brendan Hoffman, 24 August 2016
Children cheer as they celebrate Janmashtami festival, marking the birth anniversary of Hindu Lord Krishna, at a school in Ahmedabad, India: photo by Amit Dave/Reuters, 24 August 2016
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Children cheer as they celebrate Janmashtami festival, marking the birth anniversary of Hindu Lord Krishna, at a school in Ahmedabad, India: photo by Amit Dave/Reuters, 24 August 2016
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A Kashmiri Muslim woman paddles a boat loaded with alge grass on Dal Lake in Srinagar: photo by Sajjad Hussain / AFP, 25 August 2016
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Indian forces have been enforcing a "Cage and Crush Policy" to counter this uprising.#Kashmir: image via Syed Ali Geelani @sageelani, 25 August 2016
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A generation under curfew: A mother’s story of bringing up children in #Kashmir: image via Hindustan Times verified account @htTweets, 24 August 2016
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A boy gestures at a member of the security forces in Srinagar as the city remains under curfew following weeks of violence in Kashmir: photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters, 19 August 2016
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#Kashmir conflict on verge of merging with ISIS war, says former JandK deputy CM Baig: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 24 August 2016
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#Kashmir conflict on verge of merging with ISIS war, says former JandK deputy CM Baig: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 24 August 2016
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#Kashmir conflict on verge of merging with ISIS war, says former JandK deputy CM Baig: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 24 August 2016
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#Kashmir conflict on verge of merging with ISIS war, says former JandK deputy CM Baig: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 24 August 2016
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Indian Army soldiers display their martial skills during a two-day "Know Your Army" exhibition in Ahmedabad, India: photo by Amit Dave/Reuters, 19 August 2016
... The contradiction between the global economic aspirations our ruling govt harbours and the Brahmanical Hindu nationalism it espouses at the same time, is, I believe, not an anomaly but a contradiction fundamental to the present techno-capitalist structure of things. There is an uncanny strangeness to the present neoliberal integration of the globe. For example, on the one hand, over the past fifty or so years, finance and techno-capitalism has been incessantly forcing the Third World to open its markets. But at the same time, never before had the unconscious, as it were, of this drive of imperial-globalisation emerged as forcefully and violently as the present refugee crisis in Europe. The failure to seize this contradiction, which is immanent to capital's continual self-surpassing, is what manifests as the present paranoia of Fascism, a paranoia from which, if one does not suffer and thereby bash-n-trash Modi, Sarkozy, Trump, and so on, then one is likely to be branded as a "fascist" stooge! Or, if you are in America, then one certainly runs the danger of being labelled a "fascist" patriarch who refuses to accept the fact that finally, with Hillary Clinton (that arch-imperialist of a patriarch!) woman-power is where it truly belongs. And where is that, if one may ask? In the un(wo)manned cockpits of those drones bombing our Palestinian and Syrian brothers? Or in the boardrooms of Wall Street gutting the rest of whatever welfare there still remains in circulation?
In our own country, this contradiction has manifested in various forms -- a gimmick promise of national self-sufficiency which is sustained by the programmed state-diktats of "Made in India" (which always remind me of the neon gloat-signs Subway has been flashing, for some time now, in our markets -- "we bake our own bread"-- as if they grew their own wheat, used their own seeds, and grew it on a planet which was all their own, and as if their "we" was our "we" too, which is to say, following Marx, who is making the bread after all?); and secondly this contradiction has manifested in a brutal crackdown on the proletarian sections of our society -- industrial belts in the NCR region, several universities across India, Kashmiris, Dalits, and so on. . .
Before the insurrection could emerge in the Indian Occupied Kashmir, at the turn of the year isolated protests emerged in JNU and other universities after sedition charges were slapped on student leaders for organising a meeting against the Indian Occupation of Kashmir. Later, the protest, instead of emerging as a determinate movement against the Indian occupation of India itself, co-opted the question of Dalit identity, subsumed the suicide of Dalit militant activist Rohit Vemula, effaced the very question of Kashmir's freedom, and sought to consolidate a certain nationalist consciousness, the sole objective now being to save from the Right-wing populism a university which has always been a cesspool of reified Indian-Left politics breeding Brahmanical intellectual elites by the plenty.
Aditya Bahl, comment on What Kashmir Says, 24 August 2016
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A father comforts his son whom he said was injured by pellets shot by security forces in Srinagar following weeks of violence in Kashmir: photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters 18 August 2016
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In pictures: Little Krishna: image via Reuters India Photos @IndiaPhotos, 23 August 2016
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Israeli soldier shoots dead Palestinian driver in West Bank: army: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 24 August 2016
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#HongKong Men take selfies sit on the ledge of a high-rise building in an activity called "rooftopping" @AFPphoto: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 August 2016
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INDIA - Indian National Cadet Corps (NCC) students take part in a 'Tiranga Yatra' rally in Hyderabad. By @noahseelam: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 24 August 2016
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HONDURAS - A clown is seen in front of a minibus set on fire by gang members in Comayaguela. By Orlando Sierra #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 24 August 2016
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AFGHANISTAN - Militants storm American University in Kabul. By @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 August 2016
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Gunmen attack American university in Kabul, students flee: image via Reuters UK @ReutersUK, 24 August 2016
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WEST BANK - A Palestinian home is destroyed by Israeli bulldozers in Umm al-Kheir. By @hazemjbader #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 August 2016
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Afghan forces kill two gunmen to end American University attack: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 24 August 2016
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#Israel's Chilly Reception for African Asylum Seekers #RefugeesBy @malinfezehai: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
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#Israel's Chilly Reception for African Asylum Seekers #RefugeesBy @malinfezehai: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
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#Israel's Chilly Reception for African Asylum Seekers #RefugeesBy @malinfezehai: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
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#Philippines Alleged drug pushers die by the hundreds at the hands of police By Ezra Akayan: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
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#Philippines Alleged drug pushers die by the hundreds at the hands of police By Ezra Akayan: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
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PHILIPPINES - Protest condemning killings related to Pres. Duterte's campaign against drugs in Manila. By @herime23: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 24 August 2016
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Burkini = illegal & offensive Man thong = A-OK Welcome to France 2016! #BurkiniBan: image via Mohamed Taha Verified account @Mo_Taha1, 24 August 2016 Sydney, New South Wales
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Arundhati Roy was spot on with this - and it applies again to France and the #BurkiniBan: image via Samira Sawiani @samirasawiani, 24 August 2016
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During their occupation of Algeria, the French forced women to strip off their hijabs in their war camps #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
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During their occupation of Algeria, the French forced women to strip off their hijabs in their war camps #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
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During their occupation of Algeria, the French forced women to strip off their hijabs in their war camps #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
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During their occupation of Algeria, the French forced women to strip off their hijabs in their war camps #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
The issue of "veiling" isn't black or white: Yes, in some societies are coerced, and yes, many choose to veil themselves. Not hard to get.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
Removing that freedom away just further marginalizes and alienates French Muslims.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
Banning burkinis is also a poor integration strategy. Burkinis are viewed as progressive since it modernizes the Muslim lifestyle.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
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During their 132 years occupation, the French made Algerian Amazigh Berber women to strip naked to "civilize" them.: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
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During their 132 years occupation, the French made Algerian Amazigh Berber women to strip naked to "civilize" them.: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
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During their 132 years occupation, the French made Algerian Amazigh Berber women to strip naked to "civilize" them.: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
I also encourage people to learn more about how French colonialism and the Arabization of North Africa affected the Amazigh Berber people.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
They actually suffered through acts of genocide while the world stayed silent and praised King Hassan II.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
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I feel a bit vindicated criticizing France's brutal occupation of the Maghreb w/ a Moroccan flag by my side..: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
There's no valid argument in defense of the #burkiniban when institutionalized laïcité mirrors theocracy itself.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
LOL at people claiming that burqas are a national security threat because you can hide knives, but are supporters of concealed carry.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
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here is today's lesson: A government ruled with a majority of men suck[s]. #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
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France is the place where secularism ironically becomes theocracy.: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
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There is no difference between ultra-conservatives and ultra-liberals when they dictate people's clothing #BurkiniBan: image via Salim Kassam @msalimkassam, 24 August 2016
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There is no difference between ultra-conservatives and ultra-liberals when they dictate people's clothing #BurkiniBan: image via Salim Kassam @msalimkassam, 24 August 2016
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94 years later and women are still being policed on what they wear to the beach#BurkiniBan: image via Shafeeq Younus @Y2SHAF, 24 August 2016
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94 years later and women are still being policed on what they wear to the beach #BurkiniBan: image via Shafeeq Younus @Y2SHAF, 24 August 2016
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A Kashmiri Muslim woman paddles a boat loaded with alge grass on Dal Lake in Srinagar: photo by Sajjad Hussain / AFP, 25 August 2016
Indian forces have been enforcing a "Cage and Crush Policy" to counter this uprising.#Kashmir: image via Syed Ali Geelani @sageelani, 25 August 2016
A generation under curfew: A mother’s story of bringing up children in #Kashmir: image via Hindustan Times verified account @htTweets, 24 August 2016
A boy gestures at a member of the security forces in Srinagar as the city remains under curfew following weeks of violence in Kashmir: photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters, 19 August 2016
#Kashmir conflict on verge of merging with ISIS war, says former JandK deputy CM Baig: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 24 August 2016
#Kashmir conflict on verge of merging with ISIS war, says former JandK deputy CM Baig: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 24 August 2016
#Kashmir conflict on verge of merging with ISIS war, says former JandK deputy CM Baig: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 24 August 2016
#Kashmir conflict on verge of merging with ISIS war, says former JandK deputy CM Baig: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 24 August 2016
Indian Army soldiers display their martial skills during a two-day "Know Your Army" exhibition in Ahmedabad, India: photo by Amit Dave/Reuters, 19 August 2016
A brilliant young poet friend from Himachal Pradesh, Aditya Bahl, has offered useful context on the current freedom struggle in Kashmir, from the perspective of a concerned soul at a university in India. This from a conversation that continued yesterday on last week's post What Kashmir Says:
... The contradiction between the global economic aspirations our ruling govt harbours and the Brahmanical Hindu nationalism it espouses at the same time, is, I believe, not an anomaly but a contradiction fundamental to the present techno-capitalist structure of things. There is an uncanny strangeness to the present neoliberal integration of the globe. For example, on the one hand, over the past fifty or so years, finance and techno-capitalism has been incessantly forcing the Third World to open its markets. But at the same time, never before had the unconscious, as it were, of this drive of imperial-globalisation emerged as forcefully and violently as the present refugee crisis in Europe. The failure to seize this contradiction, which is immanent to capital's continual self-surpassing, is what manifests as the present paranoia of Fascism, a paranoia from which, if one does not suffer and thereby bash-n-trash Modi, Sarkozy, Trump, and so on, then one is likely to be branded as a "fascist" stooge! Or, if you are in America, then one certainly runs the danger of being labelled a "fascist" patriarch who refuses to accept the fact that finally, with Hillary Clinton (that arch-imperialist of a patriarch!) woman-power is where it truly belongs. And where is that, if one may ask? In the un(wo)manned cockpits of those drones bombing our Palestinian and Syrian brothers? Or in the boardrooms of Wall Street gutting the rest of whatever welfare there still remains in circulation?
In our own country, this contradiction has manifested in various forms -- a gimmick promise of national self-sufficiency which is sustained by the programmed state-diktats of "Made in India" (which always remind me of the neon gloat-signs Subway has been flashing, for some time now, in our markets -- "we bake our own bread"-- as if they grew their own wheat, used their own seeds, and grew it on a planet which was all their own, and as if their "we" was our "we" too, which is to say, following Marx, who is making the bread after all?); and secondly this contradiction has manifested in a brutal crackdown on the proletarian sections of our society -- industrial belts in the NCR region, several universities across India, Kashmiris, Dalits, and so on. . .
Before the insurrection could emerge in the Indian Occupied Kashmir, at the turn of the year isolated protests emerged in JNU and other universities after sedition charges were slapped on student leaders for organising a meeting against the Indian Occupation of Kashmir. Later, the protest, instead of emerging as a determinate movement against the Indian occupation of India itself, co-opted the question of Dalit identity, subsumed the suicide of Dalit militant activist Rohit Vemula, effaced the very question of Kashmir's freedom, and sought to consolidate a certain nationalist consciousness, the sole objective now being to save from the Right-wing populism a university which has always been a cesspool of reified Indian-Left politics breeding Brahmanical intellectual elites by the plenty.
Aditya Bahl, comment on What Kashmir Says, 24 August 2016
A father comforts his son whom he said was injured by pellets shot by security forces in Srinagar following weeks of violence in Kashmir: photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters 18 August 2016
In pictures: Little Krishna: image via Reuters India Photos @IndiaPhotos, 23 August 2016
#HongKong Men take selfies sit on the ledge of a high-rise building in an activity called "rooftopping" @AFPphoto: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 24 August 2016
INDIA - Indian National Cadet Corps (NCC) students take part in a 'Tiranga Yatra' rally in Hyderabad. By @noahseelam: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 24 August 2016
HONDURAS - A clown is seen in front of a minibus set on fire by gang members in Comayaguela. By Orlando Sierra #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 24 August 2016
AFGHANISTAN - Militants storm American University in Kabul. By @kohsar #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 August 2016
Gunmen attack American university in Kabul, students flee: image via Reuters UK @ReutersUK, 24 August 2016
WEST BANK - A Palestinian home is destroyed by Israeli bulldozers in Umm al-Kheir. By @hazemjbader #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 August 2016
Afghan forces kill two gunmen to end American University attack: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 24 August 2016
#Israel's Chilly Reception for African Asylum Seekers #RefugeesBy @malinfezehai: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
#Israel's Chilly Reception for African Asylum Seekers #RefugeesBy @malinfezehai: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
#Israel's Chilly Reception for African Asylum Seekers #RefugeesBy @malinfezehai: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
#Philippines Alleged drug pushers die by the hundreds at the hands of police By Ezra Akayan: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
#Philippines Alleged drug pushers die by the hundreds at the hands of police By Ezra Akayan: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 August 2016
PHILIPPINES - Protest condemning killings related to Pres. Duterte's campaign against drugs in Manila. By @herime23: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 24 August 2016
laïcité
Burkini = illegal & offensive Man thong = A-OK Welcome to France 2016! #BurkiniBan: image via Mohamed Taha Verified account @Mo_Taha1, 24 August 2016 Sydney, New South Wales
She's not wearing a #burkini. France's 'moral' police targeted her for her skin colour not her clothes. #BurkiniBan: image via Kishani Widyaratna @KishWidyaratna, 24 August 2016
Arundhati Roy was spot on with this - and it applies again to France and the #BurkiniBan: image via Samira Sawiani @samirasawiani, 24 August 2016
During their occupation of Algeria, the French forced women to strip off their hijabs in their war camps #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
During their occupation of Algeria, the French forced women to strip off their hijabs in their war camps #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
During their occupation of Algeria, the French forced women to strip off their hijabs in their war camps #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
During their occupation of Algeria, the French forced women to strip off their hijabs in their war camps #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
The issue of "veiling" isn't black or white: Yes, in some societies are coerced, and yes, many choose to veil themselves. Not hard to get.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016
Removing that freedom away just further marginalizes and alienates French Muslims.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
Banning burkinis is also a poor integration strategy. Burkinis are viewed as progressive since it modernizes the Muslim lifestyle.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
During their 132 years occupation, the French made Algerian Amazigh Berber women to strip naked to "civilize" them.: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
During their 132 years occupation, the French made Algerian Amazigh Berber women to strip naked to "civilize" them.: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
During their 132 years occupation, the French made Algerian Amazigh Berber women to strip naked to "civilize" them.: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
I also encourage people to learn more about how French colonialism and the Arabization of North Africa affected the Amazigh Berber people.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
They actually suffered through acts of genocide while the world stayed silent and praised King Hassan II.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
I feel a bit vindicated criticizing France's brutal occupation of the Maghreb w/ a Moroccan flag by my side..: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
There's no valid argument in defense of the #burkiniban when institutionalized laïcité mirrors theocracy itself.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
LOL at people claiming that burqas are a national security threat because you can hide knives, but are supporters of concealed carry.: tweet via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
here is today's lesson: A government ruled with a majority of men suck[s]. #burkiniban: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
France is the place where secularism ironically becomes theocracy.: image via Sarah Harvard @amyharvard, 24 August 2016 Manhattan, NY
There is no difference between ultra-conservatives and ultra-liberals when they dictate people's clothing #BurkiniBan: image via Salim Kassam @msalimkassam, 24 August 2016
There is no difference between ultra-conservatives and ultra-liberals when they dictate people's clothing #BurkiniBan: image via Salim Kassam @msalimkassam, 24 August 2016
94 years later and women are still being policed on what they wear to the beach#BurkiniBan: image via Shafeeq Younus @Y2SHAF, 24 August 2016
94 years later and women are still being policed on what they wear to the beach #BurkiniBan: image via Shafeeq Younus @Y2SHAF, 24 August 2016
a group of men humiliate a woman by forcing her to strip in public, and it's legal#BurkiniBan: image via lizzie @LizzbaWest, 24 August 2016
This is what the Burkini Ban looks like. These policemen demanding she undress while onlookers call out "Go Home!": image via Ben Phillips @benphillips76, 24 August 2016
Let's stop pretending France is the land of "liberté" and "egalité" - when it allows something like this #WTFFrance: image via Elena Rossini @_elena, 24 August 2016
Let's stop pretending France is the land of "liberté" and "egalité" - when it allows something like this #WTFFrance: image via Elena Rossini @_elena, 24 August 2016
Let's stop pretending France is the land of "liberté" and "egalité" - when it allows something like this #WTFFrance: image via Elena Rossini @_elena, 24 August 2016
Repugnant image of French police making a Muslim woman undress on a beach is worst cognitive disconnect from laicite: image via Muriel Gray @ArtyBagger, 23 August 2016
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Berber men walk through the valley of Ait Sghir of the Agoudal region in the High Atlas region of Morocco. There are 16 houses built into the mountain at a height of 1,780 metres: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
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A woman mourns for her donkey after discovering it had died of ill health: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
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Men return home after transporting food and goods on mules between villages: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
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Women hold their babies as they keep warm by the fireside: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
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A boy warms his feet by a fire: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
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Children watch TV in their house in Tilmi village: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
Au Hasard
Berber men walk through the valley of Ait Sghir of the Agoudal region in the High Atlas region of Morocco. There are 16 houses built into the mountain at a height of 1,780 metres: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
Children have to walk for five hours to get to the nearest school in Tilmi: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
Ali and his mother in their front room. They have no electricity or running water: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
Bari Moumouch, a 20-year-old Berber mother, carries her newborn child on her back: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
Women weave traditional carpets. Inhabitants also make their living by farming, baking bread, herding cattle: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters 25 February 2015
Women wash a child. It takes almost four hours for villagers to bring in water on mules: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
A mother waits as her son searches for a mobile phone network signal: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters 25 February 2015
A family warm themselves around a fire in their home in Tilmi village: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
A woman mourns for her donkey after discovering it had died of ill health: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
Men return home after transporting food and goods on mules between villages: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
Women hold their babies as they keep warm by the fireside: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
A boy warms his feet by a fire: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
According to the UN, extreme weather fluctuations and erosion that causes flooding and landslides have led to a drop in agricultural productivity in the area: photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters, 25 February 2015
A Lost War: scenes from the AfterWorld
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
From BLACK-WATER. “[War] is a huge undertaking, and it benefits private industry more than it benefits the military itself.”: photo copyright Jason Koxvold via pdn, 17 August 2016
A Thai teen talks on a mobile phone as she walks past figures of characters from US film series Star Wars and fictional superhero Iron Man at a shopping centre in Bangkok: photo by Runggroj Yongrit/EPA 25 August 2016
This picture taken around 5 kilometres west from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep shows a boy looking on as Turkish Army tanks drive to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus: photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP, 25 August 2016
This picture taken around 5 kilometres west from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep shows a boy looking on as Turkish Army tanks drive to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus: photo by Bulent Kilic/AFP, 25 August 2016
No one can deny that the people of Babylonia are highly devoted to logic, even to symmetry
#sweden Aurora Borealis illuminates the night sky in Erikslund, #NorthernLights By @jnackstrand #AFPphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffard, 24 August 2016