Italy’s ‘good coloniser’ myth persists as it turns again to Africa

Italy’s government is eyeing Africa in pursuit of energy security, even as some officials defend Rome’s often-bloody colonial past on the continent — giving short shrift to historical accuracy.
— Read on www.thelocal.it/20231028/as-italy-turns-again-to-africa-good-coloniser-myth-persists

Palestine’s Martyrdom Upends the World of Law • Protean Magazine

Bassem Saad writes on the contradictions of human rights discourse and international legal structures and the meaning of martyrdom. Hypocrisy is all too clear in the “Palestine exception.”
— Read on proteanmag.com/2024/01/27/palestines-martyrdom-upends-the-world-of-law/

Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden | Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights filed suit against the President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense on behalf of two Palestinian organizations and eight Palestinians in the U.S. and Palestine to challenge the U.S. government’s aiding and abetting of genocide and demand that it work to prevent genocide and comply with its legal obligations under international law.
— Read on ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/defense-children-international-palestine-v-biden

Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It? – Craig Murray

Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It? – Craig Murray
— Read on www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/01/has-international-law-survived-or-has-the-western-political-class-killed-it/

Gaza’s oldest mosque, destroyed in an airstrike, was once a temple to Philistine and Roman gods, a Byzantine and Catholic church, and had engravings of Jewish ritual objects

Gaza’s Omari Mosque embodies the history of Gaza – as a site of frequent destruction, but also of renewal, writes a scholar of Islamic architecture and archaeology.
— Read on theconversation.com/gazas-oldest-mosque-destroyed-in-an-airstrike-was-once-a-temple-to-philistine-and-roman-gods-a-byzantine-and-catholic-church-and-had-engravings-of-jewish-ritual-objects-220203

bad shit

This is is the harm reduction candidate but people are still dying from bad shit. Bad shit, people are still dying 
from some bad shit. 

You know my dad OD’ed it was 2003.  
Mother’s Day Weekend. It was some bad shit killed him and he was Gone and it was Mother’s Day Weekend. 

You know I don’t talk about it much but 
I hear people say these people are the harm reduction candidates, and people are still dying from really bad shit.