Just here to write: support/donate to @msf.ca & @nacla (reporting on the Americas since 1967).

+ the reductive economic agenda of "alternatives"(?) is a sham, just to seduce voters & install casteist/classists dictators on top...

+ Without the diagnosis of exploitative class/caste/gender relations of production (eg, Hindu Caste system? Parliament dominated by the crony capitalists & other ruling classes? Private ownership of the means of production?) even in Nepal, +

Folks need to question this national medium income (one of many issues) propaganda often presented as the pinnacle of development & here as something to be achieved along with the idea of social justice. Even if d crude irony isn't visible, d aim will further entrench class/caste/gender inequities.+

Please check the link to read & download this new book (by my Prof. Samuel Shearer [Rwanda]). www.ucpress.edu/books/kigali...

Prof. Strauss' (UC Berkeley) sharing on Sudan Genocide; also hinting at the external role of UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, & Turkey. #genocidetheory #impunity

Nepal...

With a modest proposal...

"This is the twenty-third year of my imprisonment for a crime I did not commit."

Nepal's lefts...

Free lands, critical education & health services for low working classes (caste & gender) should be some of the fundamentals that should shape Nepal's new futures...

+ Prof. Samuel Shearer (Rwanda) & most importantly Bentsang- & Bharbhong-Dolpo community members, securing this achievement would have been impossible. Thank you all again for being part of this empowering journey. Horchey!!!

🙏🏾✊🏾🤗🤟🏾

+ my partner Manisha Lamsal & our child Tsering Divya, beautiful sisters སྤེན་པ་ དབྱངས་འཛོམས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ & Sonam Paldon Ghale, & my committee members Prof. Choe-Khor Tshang Rinpoche (Dolpo), Prof. Bret Gustafson (Bolivia), Prof. Shanti Parikh (Uganda), & +

#phddiary
Finally I defended my PhD thesis "Brahmanical Infrastructure: States, Roads and Lands in Dolpo, Nepal." Without the continuous support of my advisor, Prof. Geoff Childs, my family including my parents Norbhu Ghale (Dolpo, Dolpa) & Tsering Palzom (Lho, Mustang), +

The MAGA-Democrat warmonger clique promoted the silliest lie of Iranian WMDs/nukes, a lie that has persisted for decades. Why? It’s not to stop Iran. It’s to prevent Iran from slowing down their bloody genocide against Palestinians.

The U.S. has attacked Iran’s nuclear sites because Donald Trump chose to side with Israel and their genocide instead of choosing peace and negotiation.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Hafsa Kanjwal: "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation" on November 8, 2023 YouTube video by UCSC Center for South Asian Studies

+ "Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation."

Here's the youtube link to her talk on the important book. youtu.be/KOtDO9yN_Ng?...

Hafsa Kanjwal: "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation" on November 8, 2023 YouTube video by UCSC Center for South Asian Studies

+ Curious minds need to read more about the history of Kashmir & how the Indian government supported by the imperial British has controlled the region. Maybe start with Prof. Hafsa Kanjwal's (2023) +

Hafsa Kanjwal: "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation" on November 8, 2023 YouTube video by UCSC Center for South Asian Studies

+ & will act as an angry neighbour with no shame to cover its domestic failures in Kashmir. Not surprising for folks aware of their big brother attitudes in South Asia. +

Hafsa Kanjwal: "Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation" on November 8, 2023 YouTube video by UCSC Center for South Asian Studies

#antiwar
Considering consequences on both sides of India & Pakistan, none would deny the importance of the immediate ceasefire agreement. On the other hand, the Indian government has now clearly shown that they know nothing about diplomacy, nation-state territorial sovereignty, +

जंग तो ख़ुद ही एक मसअला है
जंग क्या मसअलों का हल देगी

आग और ख़ून आज बख़्शेगी
भूक और एहतियाज कल देगी

इस लिए ऐ शरीफ़ इंसानो
जंग टलती रहे तो बेहतर है

आप और हम सभी के आँगन में
शम' जलती रहे तो बेहतर है!

--साहिर लुधियानवी

Listening to Dr. Ruha Benjamin's speech at Spelman College, Atlanta (April 11, 2024; Georgia). 🧐

Crazy Horse and Joseph Marshall III A tribute to a Lakota writer

A tribute to Lakota writer Joseph Marshall III and a follow-up on my previous essay on Crazy Horse and anti-colonial resistance. open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

(Settler) Colonial Logics Beyond Europe | Contending Modernities Values that are seen as having a “positive” valence, such as state-building, democracy, development, and secularism are often weapons of colonial occupation.

In her response to CM's forum on her book _Colonizing Kashmir_ Hafsa Kanjwal reflects on the questions raised by the contributors related to sovereignty, the politics of life, and settler colonialism. @stanfordpress.bsky.social
contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Reading isn't hard...

Ignore some typo

तुम काला कमाल लिखो ।
हम लाल गुलाब लिखेंगे ।

तुम जमिंनपे जुल्म लिख दो ।
आसमानपे इन्कलाब लिखा जाएगा ।

सब याद रखा जाएगा ।
सब कुछ याद रखा जाएगा ।

आमिर अजिज ।

सब याद रखा जाएगा

तुम रात लिखो, हम चाँद लिखेंगे ।
तुम जेलमैं डालो, हम दिवार फँड लिखेंगे ।

तुम फिर लिखो हम हैं तैयार लिखेंगे ।
तुम हमें कत्ल कर दो हम बनके भूत लिखेंगे ।
तुमहारे कत्लके सारे सबुत लिखेंगे ।

तुम अदालतोंसे बैठकर चुटकिले लिखो ।
हम सडकों दिवारों पे इन्साफ लिखेंगे ।

बेहरेभि सुन मैं इतनि जोरसे बोलेगें ।
अन्धभीं पढ्लें इतना साफ लिखेंगें ।

+

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Many people in immigration detention are far from home, separated from loved ones, and in the dark about how long they'll be detained.

For over a decade, Jeannie Parent and her volunteer group have been visiting immigrants in detention and supporting immigrants in their community.