Bis heute werden in Ruanda Massengräber gefunden, drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Völkermord von 1994. Oft treten dabei direkte Verbindungen zur Gegenwart zutage – und zum anhaltenden Krieg im angrenzenden Kongo. https://www.woz.ch/!64G7KYM5NDKF

In Sci-fi when ships come out of hyperspace jumps they are usually orientated the same way as other/enemy ships, implying there is a rule for which way is up and down in the galaxy

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On this day, 9 April 1948, the Deir Yassin massacre took place when around 120 fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, in which most of the residents were stonecutters and quarry workers (content note: sexual violence). From 100 to 150 or more Palestinians, including many women and children, were killed, among them people who had been decapitated, disembowelled, mutilated, and raped. One Zionist militiaman, Yehuda Feder, described his part in the massacre: “I killed an armed Arab man and two Arab girls of 16 or 17 who were helping the Arab who was shooting. I stood them against a wall and blasted them with two rounds from the Tommy gun”.He also recounted looting from the Palestinians' homes: "a lot of money and silver and gold jewelry fell into our hands", and described the massacre as a "tremendous operation".Other Israelis later reported witnessing other atrocities like an elderly couple shot in the back, and one man tied to a tree and set on fire. Dozens of bodies were then piled up and burned. Mordechai Gichon, a Zionist intelligence officer described the aftermath as looking "like a pogrom… When the Cossacks burst into Jewish neighborhoods, then that should have looked something like this.” The incident led to many Palestinians fleeing in terror, and was a key event in the ethnic cleansing of the area, during which over 700,000 of the 900,000 Palestinian Arab residents of what became Israel were expelled or forced to flee from their homes.The Israeli army, which incorporated Irgun, today still refuses to release its photographs and documentation of the massacre.Learn more about Palestinian stone workers in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/stone-men-the-palestinians-who-built-israel-andrew-ross To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo Pictured: Orphans whose parents were massacred

TIL the sirens from Homers Odyssey were never said to be actually beautiful, or even mermaids. Instead, they were strange human-faced bird creatures who lured men to their deaths by promising them wisdom and knowledge of the future [source, comments]

Swiss Song of the Day 🇨🇭🌱: https://youtu.be/HJFd6q77G3s

This is a historic day for the Swiss “Senior Women for Climate Protection” 🌏

For the first time ever, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned a state for failing to take action against climate change, linking the safeguarding of human rights to the individual states’ responsibilities in climate action.

In today’s ruling, the ECHR has decided that Swiss authorities are responsible for the lack of implementation towards efficient climate change policies and violating the right to life of a group of elderly women in Switzerland.

After eight years of an intense legal battle against their country, the women of the Swiss Climate Senior Association are celebrating!

What exactly is Switzerland accused of and why could this case have repercussions worldwide? Find out here 👉 http://s.swissin.fo/JzmSpXe

tenth month in a row that is the warmest on record (for the respective month of the year)

https://x.com/copernicusecmwf/status/1777647250144952594?s=46&t=Sm6xkf61gGcuIbSLVUmCKA

Die Europawahlen bleiben solange eine Farce, wie Staatschefs nach belieben die EU-Kommissionspräsidentinnen auswählen können (wie damals Merkel, die von der Leyen installieren liess).
https://www.srf.ch/news/international/europawahlen-2024-ursula-von-der-leyen-fuehrt-einen-zweifelhaften-wahlkampf

Barbara Ehrenreich zeigte 2001 mit «Nickel and Dimed» am eigenen Körper die Schattenseiten des Kapitalismus in den USA auf – und prägt Aktivist:innen bis heute. https://www.woz.ch/!M303HDWNKQ5K