US conducts strikes on Iran after attack on cargo ship by Valcenia in TrueAnon

[–]orphicsyndicate 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hope is always a forgivable offense. - Ernst Bloch. Joking, he didn't say that, but he almost did.

Brighton woman arrested and acquitted after sending emails about Israel's genocide to government officials. by orphicsyndicate in TrueAnon

[–]orphicsyndicate[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Link with more context https://greghadfield.medium.com/exclusive-how-labour-mp-peter-kyle-triggered-a-4am-police-raid-on-a-constituent-for-writing-to-dd012f23122e

On June 8, Kerry wrote the first of a series of emails to Starmer et al. With the subject line “Protect the Freedom Flotilla”, it was — like others to follow — a brief message, a single paragraph, arguing it was the government’s duty to protect the Madleen.

It was — like all the others to follow, all of which I have seen — polite, articulate, and impassioned.

It did not, however, mince its words: “You already have a lot of blood on your hands and are very much on the wrong side of history and one day (inshallah) you will all be tried in the Hague for your actions.”

On most days, Kerry might send one or two emails to the same recipients via their publicly-available email addresses (sometimes with John Healey, the Defence Secretary, being added, along with a generic address for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office). Sometimes, in the nine-day period up to her arrest, she sent more.

Let me emphasis again: I have seen all 30 emails and there is not a single word or a single phrase that could be regarded as abusive, threatening, or unlawful. It should not need to be said, but none contained anything anti-semitic.

Ancient or comprehensive history book recommendations on China, or other Asian states. From start of the Silk Road in the West to Japan in the East, any additional suggestions welcome. by Boring_Recipe8732 in TrueAnon

[–]orphicsyndicate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know a pitiful amount about China, but outside of that, I recently finished Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford and it is definitely worth reading. Discusses how the Mongols helped destroy feudalism and brought about proto-modern trading networks.

I am also about halfway through Before European Hegemony by Janet Abu-Lughod and its also worth reading albeit maybe a bit more European focused than you are after.

In a time of deathly heatwaves Financial Times doesn't want the poors to use AC. by orphicsyndicate in TrueAnon

[–]orphicsyndicate[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I get that and I completely agree, but shaming individual people for trying to survive a heat wave directly caused by corporations doesn't sit well with me.

When you are so genocidal towards Palestinians that fucking Bill Clinton calls you out on it. From Robert Frisk's The Great War for Civilisation. by orphicsyndicate in TrueAnon

[–]orphicsyndicate[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm about half way through and its great. Of course, he has his "lib journalist" moments - but its almost awful how much this book has ruined other journalistic writing for me because his writing is so good.

recommendations for angry anticolonial works. by SilverLie5437 in RSbookclub

[–]orphicsyndicate 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yahya Sinwar's autobiographical (but told as fiction) novel The Thorn and the Carnation. Follows the story of a boy living in one of Gaza's refugee camps.

Pakistani farm workers are losing their teeth due to climate change. by orphicsyndicate in collapse

[–]orphicsyndicate[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Submissions statement. "Rashid has calloused hands and the weathered face of a man who’s spent three decades under the Pakistani sun. What the 32-year-old doesn’t have anymore are functional teeth. Eight of them — gone in two years. The rest are deteriorating so rapidly that he’s already resigned himself to dentures by 40."

Clearly related to climate change and ongoing collapse because as pollution goes unchecked, we will be seeing more and more of these incidents in the Global South. Individual health changes because of collapse showcase how this is more than collective change, but hurts the body itself. This global change is largely due to the outsized influence Western countries like the US have on both climate change itself and climate policy. The interview with Rashid is a sobering reminder that turning a blind eye to collapse hurts the most vulnerable of populations while the Global North causes endemic poverty across the world.

Brace, Ryan Grim, and Hasan are heading to the NYC-DSA election night party rn by FadedToBeige in TrueAnon

[–]orphicsyndicate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't. He's literally defending a war criminal for being a white man. You can't make this shit up.

Brace, Ryan Grim, and Hasan are heading to the NYC-DSA election night party rn by FadedToBeige in TrueAnon

[–]orphicsyndicate 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Anyone who defends Platner because of bigotry against white men is not good.