#Famine

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kaiasgebrer

cries for help in the middle east have been ignored for too long but yemen is currently having one of the WORST humanitarian crises in the last 100 years and

🌲 Decivilization Peter 🧨

the_real_bigfat

Anti-civWhat it means: A critique of social relationships, technology, supply chains, deployment, industry and capital, even in 'socialist' countries, and offering or exploring alternativesWhat it doesn't mean: Unga bunga Anprim

⚡ZibensunSaule☀☯

UnZibens

"...and how he would sit at the campfire smoking and drinking tea right on the battle line without ever being touched by a bullet. At one fight seventy-four bullets entered

Jamie McSloy

JamieMcSloy

Inevitably, some "Why?" questions about this.Here's why you should have a cursory understanding of geopolitics. Thread...https://twitter.com/JamieMcSloy/status/1339185597919924224 1st: Because most domestic politics in any giv

Dr Robert Bohan Artist

RobertBohan

Thread: I’m not comfortable with bullies who decide who is excluded. For years many were told we weren’t ‘real’ Irish or were exiled or physically attacked.I’ve noticed this far right

Irish History Bitesize!

lorraineelizab6

Thread: The Great Famine/An Gorta Mór 1845-50 1-1.5 million died. 1-2 million emigrated. [estimates vary greatly, especially as whole families died so no one left to tell their story, &

Strategy Bin

StrategyBin

If you really want to look at maritime capability and force projection, look no further than the Royal Fleet Auxillary (RFA), second to only the Naval Fleet Auxillary Force (NFAF)./1

Peter Salisbury

peterjsalisbury

THREAD: As chatter around a U.S. designation of the Huthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation grows, I'm re-upping this @CrisisGroup commentary from October.https://www.crisisgroup.org/united-states/yemen-should-be-factor-us-yemen-poli

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

[1]“In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have whims & peculiarities; their seasons of excitement & recklessness when they care not what they do. We

Peter Salisbury

peterjsalisbury

We @CrisisGroup have been clear in explaining why we oppose the designation of the Huthis as a terrorist organization. Doing so risks collectively punishing all #Yemenis by precipitating a famine

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: July 31, 1905. The Maji-Maji Rebellion begins, when colonized people in modern Tanzania revolt against the Germans violently imposing a Jim Crow-style cotton regime upon

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krishnasdwar

Ashtavakra GitaIs one of the most important books on path of knowledgeAshtavakra Gita has Ashtavakra as the speaker& king Janaka as the listenerIn the Gita,3ways of enlightenment(action, knowledge &devotion) are

Joe Skeaping

JSkeaping

Going to tackle this one sentence at a time: truly bizarre analysis from a leading political scientist.https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1287678627144966147 "What unites Johnson's voters is not so much their economic experienc

History Under Your Feet

HistorifyNow

Today is the Jayanti of Tilka Manjhi, who led the first major tribal revolt against the British rule primarily in and around Bhagalpur. Another hero whose story deserves to be

😃 unspinthespin 😃

unspinthespin

(THREAD) China, Mao & GermanyThere's more to this than meets the eyehttps://www.dw.com/en/chinas-cultural-revolution-and-germany/a-19249889 1/ To gain power Mao conducted “guerrilla wars deep in the countryside.”"It was in

César

polaris_astro

The Great Conjunction and the rise and fall of kingdoms: a mini-thread on the Caliphate of Córdoba.In 929 AD, the Emir of Córdoba decided to declare himself Caliph. The Caliphate

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