#OCCUPATION

With all the furore around that well paid upper class guardian columnist calling for the end of anonymity, here's a thread dedicated to numerous occasions throughout history where people with
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The election of 1876 was a contested election with no clear winner the next day. This election occurred during Reconstruction--the era after the Civil War which was marked by large-scale
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Thread: The same people who often refer to Arab citizens of Israel as Palestinians, claim Israel isn’t vaccinating Palestinians. They are wrong.Israel is vaccinating Arab citizens of Israel, which some
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We are not the first & hopefully will not be the last to say this. Using offensive terms like “banana republic” or referring to Iraq/Afghanistan to describe what happened in
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Okay, being both Korean AND German, here's my 2 cents on this whole Gfriend mess.First, there are NO excuses. Kids' history books in Korea talk about WW2 and the Holocaust,
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Quantitative data on military alliances in IR can be really bad. Just eyeballing the data finds major problems. A few fun examples from the Correlates of War Formal Alliances dataset
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If America weren’t so fundamentally organized around genocide, slavery & anti-Black & Indigenous racism, then it wouldn’t be seen as any kind of existential threat to the USA for Black
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Short thread re Identity. This happened 20 years ago - Drumcree 2nd July 2000. You can see me in the photo - I'm watching my cameraman's step ladder being hurled
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Palestine doesn’t belong to the Muslims. This mentality is the reason Muslims are where they are across the globe- a pathetic state of failure, being used left and right as
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Weekly French Covid thread. It is probable that France will be placed in a 3rd lockdown in a few days. With the mood of the country turning sour – only
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1/ On Friday, IDF forces arrived at a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills and confiscated a generator. Harun Abu Aram was shot in the neck by the soldiers—not
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Singapore History of Sentosa Blakang Mati Artillery BarracksLocated at Gunner Lane, off Artillery Road, of present-day Sentosa, Blakang Mati Artillery Barracks was built in 1904.The former British stronghold was named
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After 105 years the Cleveland Indians Finally decided to retire their racist name and caricature. Who’s next? @NHLBlackhawks I think it’s time #NotYourMascotWeArePeopleWhy the Blackhawks should change: a historical thread
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THREAD:I am shook and by Kenyan parents (and non-parents alike) claiming that those high school girls on strike because of manual labour at their school are wrong and entitled.Here's a
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Did you know that Kabul University was the result of Afghans, Turks and Indian Muslims efforts who wanted Kabul University to become center of knowledge in the region? Guess who
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Today I learned about something which I did not know about and we were never taught in our history lessons. The sysem of "Inboekselings". (Extract from Illustrated history of South
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