Thinkers You Should Know: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The English language is violence, I hotwired itI got a hold of the master’s tools and got dialed inbilly woods - Jumpscare (GOLLIWOG)
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Personal Finance for the Third World: Why Western Advice Will Get You Killed
Every personal finance book ever written assumes you live in a stable country with a stable currency, a reliable banking system, and a functioning legal system (hello America, this advice is not for you). If you are r...
Continue readingFetishization of Imperialism in Pandora
Avatar is a movie about how imperialism is bad, and then it became the highest-grossing film of all time. The irony is so thick you could build an oil pipeline through it. Michael Parenti once wrote about how Hollywoo...
Continue readingThinkers You Should Know: Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon was a Black psychiatrist from Martinique (a French colony, surprise) who went to Algeria during their war of independence and realized that treating the mental health of colonized people was a joke. A com...
Continue readingThe Art of the Coup: What Is a Coup?
A coup d’etat is French for “blow against the state.” It is not a revolution (revolutions involve people, coups involve uniforms). It is not a civil war (too slow, too messy). It is definitely not an election (those a...
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