"Life is simple, we just insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
A Libyan rebel fighter fires his machine gun toward loyalist positions in Sirte, Libya, on October 19, 2011
Malcolm X with early leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964. Malcolm was a staunch critic of Zionism as a political philosophy.
The Canaanites, from which the Palestinian Arabs descend, are the earliest known inhabitants of the land.
(Source: thepeacefulterrorist)
One of the most haunting pictures to me from Abu Ghraib prison. This is what United States Americans proudly did to innocent people.
Utterly dehumanized them.
Leptis Magna was built around a natural harbor, which welcomed Roman ships from across the Mediterranean empire. A more recent lifeline—a 323-mile gas pipeline to Sicily completed in 2004—is helping Libya reestablish links with its European neighbors.
The privatization of conflict is no longer a trend. It’s the norm.
The United States relied so heavily on contractors during the recent Iraq war that no one knows with certainty how many were on the ground. In late 2010, the United Arab Emirates, fearful that the Arab uprisings might spread to the Gulf, paid Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, $529m to create an elite force to safeguard the emirate. And today, Russia is openly considering forming a cadre of private military contractors to further its interests abroad.
In the town of Fallujah, which was hit hard by American troops in 2004, I watched two toddlers sitting silently in their playpen, scarcely moving. They, like a disturbingly high number of children in the town, suffered from birth defects. Not being a weapons expert, I cannot say if these were the result of some particular weapon used by the Americans. But I wish I could forget the picture of those twins, helpless, deformed and brain-damaged.
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The BBC and war propaganda: learning nothing from the Iraq lies; according to a recent report, horrific birth abnormalities are more than fourteen times higher than in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
(via thepeacefulterrorist)
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
