Before the Belgians came to loot from the Congolese – roughly speaking, the Kongo, the Mai Miombi, the Mongo, the Bangala, the Lulua, the Baluba, the Snilotique, and the Soudani peoples – around the end of the 19th …
Slaves cutting the sugar cane on the Island of Antigua, 1823. Photo: British Library/Unsplash.
The Caribbean Islands are a closely linked chain of islands between the tail of modern-day Florida and the shores of modern-day Venezuela. Like the continental Americas, the Caribbean has an ancient history, with records of …
Missile strike demolishes residential area, Gaza (October 20). The Transparency Report on Telegram.
The Economist published an article on November 10 reflecting its views on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war (or the Gaza massacre, to label it precisely). The article, consisting of roughly 800 words, doesn’t have an author but …
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies,” Noam Chomsky.
On November 13, 2023, I received several questions and comments from my colleagues regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. I will be responding to several of them in this post. I shall try to “speak the …
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies,” Noam Chomsky.
On November 13, 2023, I received several questions and comments from my colleagues regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. I will be responding to several of them in this post. I shall try to “speak the …
Do you own a Tesla Model X? or Model 3? Are you planning to buy one? Then you must read this article. I want to show you how each Tesla car uses 15 kg of clean and green child slavery.
Metal resources are unequally distributed on the Earth’s crust …
It is hard to tell the tale of the more than 200,000 children, girls, boys, women and men of the Democratic Republic of Congo who, as “artisan” miners, are exploited every day to mine minerals that are used in the consumer electronic devices we love and depend upon. It …