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Anti-capitalist. Anti-imperialist. Anti-racist. Anti-colonialist.
Dreaming of the liberation of all Pasifika People
Demilitarize the Pacific
Dreaming of the liberation of all Pasifika People
Demilitarize the Pacific
Palau voted against a UN resolution that would combat "glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia ..." Many Pacific Island nations are just vassals of ameriKKKa😡
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Palau voted against a UN resolution that would combat "glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia ..." Many Pacific Island nations are just vassals of ameriKKKa😡
"Political democracy will die without economic equality."
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Political democracy will die without economic equality."
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Luke Kemp, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
"The establishment of a new colonial, capitalist world system was enabled by the sacrifice of the tens of millions made to work under the whip, or die alone drowned in the Atlantic, crushed in mines, or slowly perishing from the pitted skin and scarred lungs of smallpox."
-Luke Kemp
-Luke Kemp
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"The establishment of a new colonial, capitalist world system was enabled by the sacrifice of the tens of millions made to work under the whip, or die alone drowned in the Atlantic, crushed in mines, or slowly perishing from the pitted skin and scarred lungs of smallpox."
-Luke Kemp
-Luke Kemp
"Researchers in 2022 tallied up the costs and benefits of this unequal international trade. They found that over the period 1990–2015 $10 trillion was transferred every year from the global south to the global north."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
November 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Researchers in 2022 tallied up the costs and benefits of this unequal international trade. They found that over the period 1990–2015 $10 trillion was transferred every year from the global south to the global north."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
"The US has 750 military bases scattered across eighty countries around the world and spends $849 billion annually on defence: around 40 per cent of all government spending on defence globally, and more than the next nine countries combined."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"The US has 750 military bases scattered across eighty countries around the world and spends $849 billion annually on defence: around 40 per cent of all government spending on defence globally, and more than the next nine countries combined."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse
"As inequality rises, the society becomes more extractive. A wealth pump is established in which social arrangements increasingly benefit elites at the expense of the poor."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
October 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"As inequality rises, the society becomes more extractive. A wealth pump is established in which social arrangements increasingly benefit elites at the expense of the poor."
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
-Kemp, Luke. Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
"U.S. imperialism would rather that all Third-World people in their Empire remain totally blank and ignorant about themselves, their nations, their cultures, their pasts, about each other, about everything except going to work in the morning. But that day is over."
-J. Sakai
-J. Sakai
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"U.S. imperialism would rather that all Third-World people in their Empire remain totally blank and ignorant about themselves, their nations, their cultures, their pasts, about each other, about everything except going to work in the morning. But that day is over."
-J. Sakai
-J. Sakai
The definition of the "imperial boomerang"
October 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The definition of the "imperial boomerang"
"While migration to the US is an attractive option for many in Micronesia, it is far from easy. Not only are there the usual difficulties with relocating and navigating a new social milieu, but discrimination toward Micronesian migrants is rampant..."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
September 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"While migration to the US is an attractive option for many in Micronesia, it is far from easy. Not only are there the usual difficulties with relocating and navigating a new social milieu, but discrimination toward Micronesian migrants is rampant..."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"There may be support from some for the Americanization of Micronesian societies, and feelings of affinity and patriotism toward the US may be widespread, but there is plenty of animosity toward the US in the 2nd island chain as well."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
September 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"There may be support from some for the Americanization of Micronesian societies, and feelings of affinity and patriotism toward the US may be widespread, but there is plenty of animosity toward the US in the 2nd island chain as well."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
"...the US treated these islands (Micronesia) as areas of strategic denial, sites for military bases, and sacrifice zones for nuclear weapons testing. The US blocked attempts for formal sovereignty... by disallowing any foreign direct investment for 3 decades."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
September 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"...the US treated these islands (Micronesia) as areas of strategic denial, sites for military bases, and sacrifice zones for nuclear weapons testing. The US blocked attempts for formal sovereignty... by disallowing any foreign direct investment for 3 decades."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"It is inaccurate to state that there is an urgent need for a robust US military presence in the Western Pacific to counter an imminent, articulated Chinese threat, because that threat appears to emanate more from actors in Washington than it does from Beijing."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
September 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"It is inaccurate to state that there is an urgent need for a robust US military presence in the Western Pacific to counter an imminent, articulated Chinese threat, because that threat appears to emanate more from actors in Washington than it does from Beijing."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"...the Pacific continues to be treated by external states not so much as a home to Indigenous inhabitants but as a stage on which to compete with each other militarily, politically, and economically."
-Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change
-Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change
September 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"...the Pacific continues to be treated by external states not so much as a home to Indigenous inhabitants but as a stage on which to compete with each other militarily, politically, and economically."
-Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change
-Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change
"Whether we are talking about unincorporated territories such as Guåhan, commonwealths such as the Northern Marianas,... or incorporated/occupied archipelagos such as Hawaii, there is nothing post-colonial about the contemporary Pacific."
-Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans
September 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Whether we are talking about unincorporated territories such as Guåhan, commonwealths such as the Northern Marianas,... or incorporated/occupied archipelagos such as Hawaii, there is nothing post-colonial about the contemporary Pacific."
-Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans
"Anti-militarization social movements prioritize regulative principles that include environmental protection... an articulated desire for political self-determination/decolonization, concern for human health, and the ways militarization particularly affects women..."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
September 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Anti-militarization social movements prioritize regulative principles that include environmental protection... an articulated desire for political self-determination/decolonization, concern for human health, and the ways militarization particularly affects women..."
-Sasha Davis
-Sasha Davis
"On the left side of the political spectrum, indigenous groups, anti-imperialist social movements, and progressive anti-capitalists have looked to enhancing sovereignty as a way to resist the exploitation of transnational capitalism..."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
September 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"On the left side of the political spectrum, indigenous groups, anti-imperialist social movements, and progressive anti-capitalists have looked to enhancing sovereignty as a way to resist the exploitation of transnational capitalism..."
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
-Sasha Davis, Islands and Oceans
History repeats itself😔
August 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
History repeats itself😔
"As of 2022, there is no such thing as a clean supply chain of cobalt from the Congo. All cobalt sourced from the DRC is tainted by various degrees of abuse, including slavery, child labor, forced labor, debt bondage, human trafficking, hazardous working conditions..."
-S. Kara
-S. Kara
August 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"As of 2022, there is no such thing as a clean supply chain of cobalt from the Congo. All cobalt sourced from the DRC is tainted by various degrees of abuse, including slavery, child labor, forced labor, debt bondage, human trafficking, hazardous working conditions..."
-S. Kara
-S. Kara
"At no point in their history have the Congolese people benefited in any way from the monetization of their country’s resources. Rather, they have often served as a slave labor force for the extraction of those resources at minimum cost and maximum suffering."
-Siddharth Kara
-Siddharth Kara
August 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"At no point in their history have the Congolese people benefited in any way from the monetization of their country’s resources. Rather, they have often served as a slave labor force for the extraction of those resources at minimum cost and maximum suffering."
-Siddharth Kara
-Siddharth Kara
"...Across twenty-one years of research into slavery and child labor, I have never seen more extreme predation for profit than I witnessed at the bottom of global cobalt supply chains."
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
August 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"...Across twenty-one years of research into slavery and child labor, I have never seen more extreme predation for profit than I witnessed at the bottom of global cobalt supply chains."
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"The ongoing exploitation of the poorest people of the Congo by the rich and powerful invalidates the purported moral foundation of contemporary civilization and drags humanity back to a time when the people of Africa were valued only by their replacement cost."
-Siddharth Kara
-Siddharth Kara
August 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"The ongoing exploitation of the poorest people of the Congo by the rich and powerful invalidates the purported moral foundation of contemporary civilization and drags humanity back to a time when the people of Africa were valued only by their replacement cost."
-Siddharth Kara
-Siddharth Kara
"The scramble for cobalt is reminiscent of King Leopold II’s infamous plunder of the Congo’s ivory and rubber during his brutal reign as king sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908."
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
August 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"The scramble for cobalt is reminiscent of King Leopold II’s infamous plunder of the Congo’s ivory and rubber during his brutal reign as king sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908."
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Few nations are blessed with a more diverse abundance of resource riches than the Congo. No country in the world has been more severely exploited."
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
August 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"Few nations are blessed with a more diverse abundance of resource riches than the Congo. No country in the world has been more severely exploited."
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Kara, Siddharth. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Excerpt from "Revolutionary Suicide" by Huey P. Newton
August 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Excerpt from "Revolutionary Suicide" by Huey P. Newton