There were the lies of Christianity, which infected western culture with the lies of colonization, which infected naturalists' minds with the lies of intellectual superiority, which infected modern scientists with the lies of scientific colonialism, all of which hid the fact that all along, many, if not most, of the tribes of the Americas were far more rationalist and empirical than Europe.
My experience of Buddhism is the same. At its core, Buddhism values truth based on empirical evidence. These are not ideas that were invented in the west, and the western scientific method is only one such method among many.
What is hopeful here is that after millennia of trying using all their technological might, western colonialists have failed to completely stamp these cultures out.
Ideas are alive, and they do not die so easily.
This video report by independent journalist Richard Medhurst discusses the 2026 political transition in Iran following the assassination of Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali #Khamenei. Medhurst argues that the subsequent election of Mojtaba Khamenei as successor demonstrates the resilience of Iran's leadership structure and counters Western media narratives about the country's political stability
#Iran #Israel #us #usa #uspol #eupol #deprogramming #decolonization
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"As nations across the Global South seek technological autonomy, they confront not just the immense capital requirements of advanced manufacturing — measured in billions of dollars for a single semiconductor fabrication facility — but the persistent hierarchies first established under colonialism and maintained through continuously evolving mechanisms of economic control after independence. India’s experience reveals that successfully navigating global technology markets demands more than capital or skilled labor. It requires fundamentally different institutional arrangements and social relations than those that emerged from the postcolonial period — arrangements that have yet to be imagined, let alone implemented.
Yet the story need not end here. The moment of decolonization reminds us that other worlds were once possible — that technological development need not inevitably reproduce patterns of dependence. Any renewed struggle for technological sovereignty must begin by reclaiming the revolutionary promise of that first decolonial moment, while appreciating that genuine independence requires not just scientific expertise or state planning, but fundamental social and political transformation. Only by recognizing how the tragedy of failed decolonization gave way to the farce of contemporary technological nationalism can we begin to shape futures that break, at last, from this unrelenting cycle."
https://restofworld.org/2026/dwaipayan-banerjee-india-technology-book
#India #TechSovereignty #DigitalSovereignty #Decolonization #BigTech #Nationalism
In his new book, “Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution,” researcher Dwaipayan Banerjee argues that a focus on technical solutions has made the country dependent on big tech firms and failed to solve fundamental social problems.
Watches, passports, flags, gloves, artworks or big monuments: Objects shape our everyday lives. They play a role in history, and it's not always the one people thought they would. Objects also make the past visible in the present, they shape our memory of historical events. This is particularly true in the long history of interaction, domination and resistance between "the West" and "the Rest" and in the way we remember it today.
In our conference from 18-20 march, we want to look at the role all these different objects played and still play in the decolonization of Europe and its former colonies.
#decolonization #objecthistory #materialturn #Africa #colonialism #memorystudies
One of Northern #Canada’s most influential #Indigenous leaders has passed into the spirit world. RIP and Power. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/frank-t-seleie-historic-dene-leader-dead-at-80-9.7121554
DECOLONIZATION
"What the civilized social order requires to function before all else is mediocrity of the highest order—and we continue to submit to this degradation of life because our ancestors were slaves and our minds are still crowded with slavish superstitions and fictions. The primary “revolution”—to use an extremely loaded and suspect term—is to purge the slave from our consciousness and allow a new freedom to emerge through the layers of dead skin. Imagination is the emergency exit here and the more we reclaim our colonized imaginations and surrender to the fever of our authentic dreams, the more we awaken the volcanos of liberation that will one day set fire to this diseased system."
(Green Anarchy, "Uncivilized")
#decolonization #civilization #politics #slavery #freedom #consciousness #green #anarchy
#rewatch 📲 Laith Marouf tours the former #embassy of the #USA in #tehran, now a #museum open to the public, details the student take over of the embassy after the Islamic Revolution, the failed rescue mission conducted, and explains the #history of the embassy as a den of spies
Dr Sam Torabi joins the team to explain the significance of the historic moment we are living today - after a century of #decolonization
Video filmed on FEB-13 2026 / FPTV
Kwame Nkrumah: The Man Who Broke the Chains of the Gold Coast
#BaaghiTV #Opinions #KwameNkrumah #AfricanIndependence #GhanaHistory #PanAfricanism #ColdWarAfrica #Decolonization #AfricanHistory #Neocolonialism #ColdWarPolitics #AfricaRising
https://en.baaghitv.com/kwame-nkrumah-the-man-who-broke-the-chains-of-the-gold-coast
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