Admiral Heihachiro Togo, a renowned Japanese naval officer

Admiral Heihachiro Togo

Admiral Heihachiro Togo, a renowned Japanese naval officer, played a pivotal role in shaping Japan’s naval strategy and securing significant victories during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this blog post, we will explore Admiral Togo’s early life, his rise to prominence, his leadership during the Russo-Japanese War, and his lasting impact on naval warfare. Early Life and Rise to…

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Abbas Attar's photographs of Dhaka on December 16, 1971: when the Pakistani Armed Forces finally surrendered to Mukti Bahini, ending the nine-month Liberation War and 1971 Bangladesh genocide and marking the official secession of East Pakistan to become the new state of Bangladesh. Bangladesh commemorates this day as Victory Day (বিজয় দিবস) to honour the martyrs who laid their lives down in the war.

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DR. CORNEL WEST SLAMS US COWARDICE AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP ON GAZA IN FIREY SPEECH IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS UNDER SIEGE

"The least we can do with this moment of overwhelming vulgarity is have a ceasefire. And yet you got these cowards in #Washington DC talking about a humanitarian pause. Please, get off the crack pipe, wake up!"

Presidential candidate Cornel West gives a powerful speech during a protest at the UN plaza protest.

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This last week has definitely solidified me on anarchism and radical feminism.

Men love the state and the state loves men. Who else will fill the states' militaries? Who else will give men the tools and freedoms for mass rapes?

I only care about women. Women are are the victims of war. Every war. Every time.

Henry Kissinger finally kicked the bucket!

[Video description: a video of CGI crabs dancing to music, which is often used to celebrate the deaths of terrible people.]

Today, nearly 76 million people across the globe — more than ever before — are internally displaced due to conflicts, violence or disasters. Millions were forced from their homes in Sudan and Gaza due to conflicts in 2023.

The total number of internally displaced people increased by 51% over the past five years across 116 countries. Conflict and violence caused a sharp increase in the number of displaced people in 2022 and 2023, adding to the millions already displaced in Ukraine, Sudan and Palestine.

Napoleon at the Battle of Mount Tabor, 16 April 1799 (detail)

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Total fatalities of ongoing conflicts in Asia.

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Yin Anan Wong, War Wanarat

when the IRA set off bombs, England didn’t turn around and blow up Belfast under the notion that “there are terrorists hiding amongst the people”

when the colombine shooting happened, the American government didn’t order for the police and armed guards to go in and shoot everyone they saw

when the Boston Marathon bombing happened, the whole of Boston wasn’t bombed back

when the Christchurch mosque shooting happened in New Zealand, the government didn’t turn around and bomb all of the city under the guise of “taking out a terrorist”

so why is it different now?

why is it okay for Israel to bomb Rafah, kill thousands of innocent men, women and children, behead babies, crush prisoners under steamrollers, and let infants and children starve? Why is it okay for America to supply bombs hand signed?

I’ve seen more pictures and videos of dead children in the past few weeks than I ever have, or ever wanted to. I’ve seen a child holding two babies, now the sole carer for her little siblings. I’ve seen a man hold the limp corpse of his infant son, the baby so skinny that it looks more like some kind of crude doll than a real human. I’ve seen a father holding the headless body of a baby that hadn’t even seen its first birthday. A boy no older than 5 having to scrape the remains of his mother off of the concrete floor.

how can someone see these things and respond “October 7” or “they deserve it”?

nobody is saying Hamas is innocent. Nobody in their right mind has ever said Hamas is innocent. But if Russia or China invaded America, and ISIS came to defend you, you wouldn’t turn around and fight ISIS. You would eagerly accept any help that you got.

how hard is it to look at these people who are suffering and see humans? People? Has the world really fallen so far that empathy is just a word now? Everyone talks about how bad colonisation is, and how cruel our ancestors were, yet so many people stand here today and support the genocide of a group of people just trying to survive. How can you condemn the African slave trade, the holocaust, the Vietnam War, but support Israel? How can you see all those dead children and feel nothing? I’m terrified. I’m terrified that my own species can be so barbaric in this modern day and age. We aren’t our past, we are the most advanced we have ever been. We’ve sent people to space, we have miniature computers in the palms of our hands, but somehow we can look as headless babies and say “it’s what they deserve”

words cannot express how genuinely disgusted I am

Chasseurs Curtiss P-40 Warhawk des Tigres Volants (1st American Volunteer Group) en formation au-dessus de la rivière Salouen (Salween River) à la frontière sino-birmane – Campagne de Birmanie – Guerre du Pacifique – 28 mai 1942

Photographe : R. T. Smith

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REPORT: UNITED STATES OCCUPATION CONTINUES SUCKING WEALTH OUT OF EASTERN SYRIA

The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) is reporting that the American military occupation in eastern Syria continues to suck wealth and resources from the West Asian nation.

According to SANA News, the US occupation is stealing wealth from the areas it continues to illegally occupy in the Hasakah province of eastern Syria, using its forces to load tankers and trucks with Syrian resources including oil and grains.

Local sources in the Al-Yaarubiya countryside, near the Iraqi border, in the Al-Hasakah Governate, told SANA that a US-occupation convoy consisting of 69 vehicles, including 45 tankers loaded with Syrian oil, along with 24 trucks loaded with grains stolen from silos in the Hasakah province, left Syrian territory through the illegal Mahmoudiyah crossing headed for US bases in Iraqi territory.

The report was published by journalist Nisreen Othman on April 22nd, 2024.

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