In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent
// Marwan Makhoul
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Joined May 2012
- There is a military-entertaimemt complex that regulates and dictates how America is depicted through Hollywood. The Pentagon has directly supervised 400+ Hollywood movies and worked behind the scenes, approving scripts in some capacity in 800 major films and 1000 TV shows.Colbert freaks out and changes the subject immediately after Claire Danes admits that the CIA “allys itself” with legacy media and mainstream journalists
- I'll never forget how easily they raised $1 billion within two days for the Notre Dame Cathedral fire but for Syria now the same countries are saying how challenging everything is with getting aid/ funds there. You can't even send donations directly because of the sanctions.
- All violence under capitalism is inherently interconnected and interdependent. We are all fighting the same beast in a different form. Confronting imperialist and colonial violence is part of confronting climate catastrophe.
Greta Thunberg is a hero. She could have made a very comfortable life making Macronic & Obamic platitudes sharing a stage with the likes of von der Leyen, but she went the opposite difficult path speaking truth to power and showing up the liberal establishment for what it is - Again, if this world cup has done anything it's reaffirmed how deeply imbedded the idea of Palestinian liberation and love for Palestine is in the hearts of Muslims everywhere. Just look at this. The biggest moment in their sporting history and they hold up the Palestinian flag.
- Obama dropped a bomb every 8 minutes for 8 years straight. He dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone on 6 different countries. He droned hospitals, weddings, and the funerals for those killed in the weddings. He has no moral conscience to be commentating on war crimes. Obama not“Those who carried out October 7 had something in their mind that said these families, these women and children that were are going to slaughter in cold blood are less than us.” - Former President Barack Obama, after being repeatedly interrupted and shouted at to address the
00:00 - From a journalist in Gaza— the missiles raining down are American made, by arms manufacturer Woodward, located in Fort Collins, Colorado. A reminder of how all settler colonial violence is interdependent.
- No pressure Morocco, just the weight of the entire Global South now solely resting on your shoulders. Bismillah.
- During the Nakba and ever since, when Palestinians were forced out of their homes and into exile, many kept the keys to their homes. The belief is that strong; that they WILL return. That it's promised because they were wronged so horrendously and justice would prevail.We promise you we will return.
- Stop humanizing billionaires. Elon Musk isn't just some average guy. Do you have any idea how much money $253 billion really is? If someone were to earn $200,000 every single day since Jesus was born, they still wouldn't have as much money as he does right now. That's not normal.
- These are photos of Obama at a Palestinian community dinner in Chicago seated at a table with Edward Said, Ali Abunimah and Rashid Khalidi. The latter have both attested to his betrayal and how Obama used to always attend events in their community. In 1999, Abunimah introduced
Obama knew every historical detail of the Zionist takeover of Palestine, could quote you chapter and verse on the history of that settler colonial catastrophe, and then he sold out to AIPAC and the war machine like every other white supremacist to hold that office. Disgusting. - She was kept in total isolation— her cell had no windows. There was no air or fan. She recently told her lawyer that in order to breathe even a little, she'd lay down on the floor and try to get a bit of air from the crack under the cell door.
00:15Khalida Jarrar is free & appears to be in a bad condition.... - “You walk to the beach at sunset, and you see all these teenagers on the shore chatting and wondering what the world looks like across the sea. What life looks like. It's breaking. And should break everybody. I want them free.” — Yahya Sinwar, 2018 Liberation becomes
- "I wish children didn't die. I wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends. Then they would return home safe, and when their parents would ask them “Where were you?” They would say “We were “playing in the clouds” — Ghassan KanafaniDetails of my new painting “Landless”
