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  1. We are sacrificing the third world to battle climate change and advance AI. I guess that is the ultimate form of San Francisco Big Tech NIMBYism.

    theinvadingsea.com/2026/05/10/

  2. ⬆️ @TinJar

    >> go nuts with #walk #bike #bus #train #solar #wind #EV… No more getting bullied by #authoritarians - also improves #airquality and mitigates #climatechange

    Anyone who understands the Indian psyche will immediately tell you this line of thinking does not work in #India.

    India WAS already heavily into trains & buses, and it was a #micromobility haven with bikes, motorcycles, rickshaws, and other low energy vehicles, but that was deemed #ThirdWorld until highways and cars took over

  3. ⬆️ @TinJar

    >> go nuts with #walk #bike #bus #train #solar #wind #EV… No more getting bullied by #authoritarians - also improves #airquality and mitigates #climatechange

    Anyone who understands the Indian psyche will immediately tell you this line of thinking does not work in #India.

    India WAS already heavily into trains & buses, and it was a #micromobility haven with bikes, motorcycles, rickshaws, and other low energy vehicles, but that was deemed #ThirdWorld until highways and cars took over

  4. ⬆️ @TinJar

    >> go nuts with #walk #bike #bus #train #solar #wind #EV… No more getting bullied by #authoritarians - also improves #airquality and mitigates #climatechange

    Anyone who understands the Indian psyche will immediately tell you this line of thinking does not work in #India.

    India WAS already heavily into trains & buses, and it was a #micromobility haven with bikes, motorcycles, rickshaws, and other low energy vehicles, but that was deemed #ThirdWorld until highways and cars took over

  5. Trump to third world: Tell you what, you pay me $5 million and I'll give you citizenship in the greatest country of the world

    Third world: Um, not so sure anymore...sure we're poorer but we still seem to have some human rights around here

    #trump #democracy #thirdworld #minnesota #venezuela #epstein

  6. Life expectancy at birth in Louisiana is 71.1 years.

    Life expectancy at birth in Mexico is 74.83 years.

    Louisiana is literally more of a third world country than Mexico. Except with slightly more flush toilets. 1.3% of Louisiana homes lack flush toilets, vs 3.6% in Mexico.

    How's that voting #maga going for you, Louisiana? #thirdworld #usa #gop

  7. Women in the Third World by Nelly P. Stromquist, 1998

    An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues

    "Provides timely information and insight into the complex issues facing women living in the economically, culturally, and politically diverse Third World. An excellent resource."

    "For quick, reliable, coverage of women's issues in developing countries, [this] is a concise reference work written by more than 80 international experts."

    #books
    #nonfiction
    #ThirdWorld
    #women

  8. @failedLyndonLaRouchite My Dad worked for the #ITU and then the #UNDP as an electrical engineer in the #thirdWorld. One of the highlights of his life was to establish enough engineering schools in Africa that an uninterrupted telephone call could be made from Egypt to SA and he could see that this would be an on-going facility. So much for the UN being a “tool of the USA”. #unitedNations

  9. We are not exactly at "Peak Stupidity," in regard to the US defunding #Science and #medical #Research, but I expect to achieve Peak Stupidity within a few years.

    #ThirdWorld

  10. "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World", by Vincent Bevins

    #Book presentation: "In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful."

    #Quote from book: “I fear that the truth of what happened contradicts so forcefully our idea of what the Cold War was, of what it means to be an American, or how globalization has taken place, that it has simply been easier to ignore it.”

    Recension: lareviewofbooks.org/article/en

    Interview: lareviewofbooks.org/article/th

    @histodons @bookstodon 🧶

    #VincentBevins #indonesia #ColdWar #USWars #anticommunism #history #ThirdWorld

  11. #TheDigRadio did an amazing interview with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana about Third Worldism.

    The whole lecture is brilliant, but around 1h20, they talk about the role of international law in the erosion of hegemonic powers, in order to create a #ThirdWorld alternative based on justice and dignity for all.

    Seeing the #ICC warrant through that lens opens arenas of struggle that many on the left have foreclosed (for often the right reasons).

    thedigradio.com/podcast/third-

    #Gaza #Palestine cc @friend

  12. #TheDigRadio did an amazing interview with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana about Third Worldism.

    The whole lecture is brilliant, but around 1h20, they talk about the role of international law in the erosion of hegemonic powers, in order to create a #ThirdWorld alternative based on justice and dignity for all.

    Seeing the #ICC warrant through that lens opens arenas of struggle that many on the left have foreclosed (for often the right reasons).

    thedigradio.com/podcast/third-

    #Gaza #Palestine cc @friend

  13. #TheDigRadio did an amazing interview with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana about Third Worldism.

    The whole lecture is brilliant, but around 1h20, they talk about the role of international law in the erosion of hegemonic powers, in order to create a #ThirdWorld alternative based on justice and dignity for all.

    Seeing the #ICC warrant through that lens opens arenas of struggle that many on the left have foreclosed (for often the right reasons).

    thedigradio.com/podcast/third-

    #Gaza #Palestine cc @friend

  14. #TheDigRadio did an amazing interview with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana about Third Worldism.

    The whole lecture is brilliant, but around 1h20, they talk about the role of international law in the erosion of hegemonic powers, in order to create a #ThirdWorld alternative based on justice and dignity for all.

    Seeing the #ICC warrant through that lens opens arenas of struggle that many on the left have foreclosed (for often the right reasons).

    thedigradio.com/podcast/third-

    #Gaza #Palestine cc @friend

  15. #TheDigRadio did an amazing interview with Aslı Bâli & Aziz Rana about Third Worldism.

    The whole lecture is brilliant, but around 1h20, they talk about the role of international law in the erosion of hegemonic powers, in order to create a #ThirdWorld alternative based on justice and dignity for all.

    Seeing the #ICC warrant through that lens opens arenas of struggle that many on the left have foreclosed (for often the right reasons).

    thedigradio.com/podcast/third-

    #Gaza #Palestine cc @friend

  16. Some #Americans say the #US will become a "#ThirdWorld country" under their next administration.
    But many "third world" countries will still have #vaccines and #health services come 2025 and beyond.
    Let's leave that ugly idiom for later, though.
    Please disobey the crazies.
    open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup

    #USPolitics #CurrentEvents #RFKjr #antivaxxers #ConspiracyTheories #RawMilk

  17. #Appalachia is the #thirdworld of the #unitedstates. We exploit and export its culture, vilify and marginalize its people, and keep it poor by extracting its #naturalresources at the expense of its residents and its #environment

    I'd like to think that #HurricaneHelene would prompt us as a nation to take a long hard look at ourselves, but I know it won't.

    washingtonexaminer.com/opinion

  18. > [A] gigantic wall is being constructed in the Third World, to hide the reality of the poor majorities. A wall between the rich and the poor is being built, so that poverty does not annoy the powerful and the poor are obliged to die in the silence of history... A wall of disinformation...is being built to casually pervert the reality of the Third World.
    thirdworldtraveler.com/Haiti/Q
    #UsesOfHaiti #PaulFarmer #NoamChomsky #GustavoGutierrez #ThirdWorld

  19. 🧵
    > This myth has remained unruffled even in the face of the accelerating “#Brazilianization” of the #ThirdWorld over the past several decades, very often under active U.S. sponsorship, with frequent displacement of democratic government and extensive and growing resort to repression, including physical torture, imprisonment, death squads, and mysterious “disappearances,” all within the U.S. sphere of influence.

    znetwork.org/zmagazine/the-was

    archive.org/stream/ThePolitica
    #PEHR #PEHR1 #PEHROnline

  20. 🧵
    > Since World War II there has been a steady deterioration of political and social conditions in Latin America and generally throughout Third World areas that are within the Free World. Liberal ideologists treat this as fortuitous and independent of U.S. choice and power, claiming that as a democracy we support democratic institutions abroad, while any contrary trends are based on exogenous forces over which the United States has no control...
    #WashingtonConnection #ThirdWorld #FreeWorld 🧵


  21. , wants to know if its citizens want to take that next step of going full Handmaids Tale by actively preventing citizens of the United States of America from helping other US citizens get the medical care they want and in many case the care they need.

    Living in Texas must be a fucking maddening thing ... And is quickly catching up with the shittiness of the Lone Star State.

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

  22. #Abortion #handmaids_tale #ThirdWorld #NeoLuddite
    #Amarillo, #Texas wants to know if its citizens want to take that next step of going full Handmaids Tale by actively preventing citizens of the United States of America from helping other US citizens get the medical care they want and in many case the care they need.

    Living in Texas must be a fucking maddening thing ... And #idaho is quickly catching up with the shittiness of the Lone Star State.

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

  23. I returned a jar of peanut butter to the #Walmart store on Grandview Highway in Vancouver.

    Reason being, it was compromised: someone opened it.

    10 minutes later, I find that same jar, restocked.

    Welcome to the #ThirdWorld .

  24. Heritage for whom? A critical view of #UNESCO and #cultural #imperialism
    #Human rights, enshrined in international law and championed by organisations like the United Nations #Educational, #Scientific and #Cultural #Organisation (UNESCO), a body responsible for #education #science and #culture are often perceived as universal principles #safeguarding the #dignity and #freedoms of individuals #worldwide. However, a critical examination reveals a complex interplay of power dynamics, #historical biases and #cultural #hegemony embedded within the #conceptualisation and #implementation of these #rights.

    This article asserts that Western notions of #heritage heavily influence the current approach and fail to reflect the true essence of heritage for local #communities. Rooted in the #colonial era, this #Western approach emphasises tangible elements like #buildings and #artefacts. Therefore, the role of UNESCO within #ThirdWorld countries possibly preserves another global heritage: the #legacy of #colonialism in the Global South.

    English modernghana.com/news/1297065/h

    French www-modernghana-com.translate.

    #africa #Afrika #afrique

    #Algeria #Egypt #Ethiopia #Guinea #Liberia #Morocco #Senegal #Togo #Tunisia #Zambia #Angola #Benin #Botswana #BurkinaFaso #Burundi #Cameroon #CaboVerde #CentralAfrican #Chad #Comoros #Coted’Ivoire #Congo #Djibouti #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #Eswatini #Gabon #Gambia #Ghana #Kenya #Lesotho #Libya #Madagascar #Malawi #Mali #Mauritania #Mauritius #Mozambique #Namibia #Niger #Nigeria #Congo #Rwanda #Sao #TomeandPrincipe #Seychelles #SierraLeone #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #Zimbabwe #africa

  25. Heritage for whom? A critical view of #UNESCO and #cultural #imperialism
    #Human rights, enshrined in international law and championed by organisations like the United Nations #Educational, #Scientific and #Cultural #Organisation (UNESCO), a body responsible for #education #science and #culture are often perceived as universal principles #safeguarding the #dignity and #freedoms of individuals #worldwide. However, a critical examination reveals a complex interplay of power dynamics, #historical biases and #cultural #hegemony embedded within the #conceptualisation and #implementation of these #rights.

    This article asserts that Western notions of #heritage heavily influence the current approach and fail to reflect the true essence of heritage for local #communities. Rooted in the #colonial era, this #Western approach emphasises tangible elements like #buildings and #artefacts. Therefore, the role of UNESCO within #ThirdWorld countries possibly preserves another global heritage: the #legacy of #colonialism in the Global South.

    English modernghana.com/news/1297065/h

    French www-modernghana-com.translate.

    #africa #Afrika #afrique

    #Algeria #Egypt #Ethiopia #Guinea #Liberia #Morocco #Senegal #Togo #Tunisia #Zambia #Angola #Benin #Botswana #BurkinaFaso #Burundi #Cameroon #CaboVerde #CentralAfrican #Chad #Comoros #Coted’Ivoire #Congo #Djibouti #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #Eswatini #Gabon #Gambia #Ghana #Kenya #Lesotho #Libya #Madagascar #Malawi #Mali #Mauritania #Mauritius #Mozambique #Namibia #Niger #Nigeria #Congo #Rwanda #Sao #TomeandPrincipe #Seychelles #SierraLeone #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #Zimbabwe #africa

  26. Heritage for whom? A critical view of #UNESCO and #cultural #imperialism
    #Human rights, enshrined in international law and championed by organisations like the United Nations #Educational, #Scientific and #Cultural #Organisation (UNESCO), a body responsible for #education #science and #culture are often perceived as universal principles #safeguarding the #dignity and #freedoms of individuals #worldwide. However, a critical examination reveals a complex interplay of power dynamics, #historical biases and #cultural #hegemony embedded within the #conceptualisation and #implementation of these #rights.

    This article asserts that Western notions of #heritage heavily influence the current approach and fail to reflect the true essence of heritage for local #communities. Rooted in the #colonial era, this #Western approach emphasises tangible elements like #buildings and #artefacts. Therefore, the role of UNESCO within #ThirdWorld countries possibly preserves another global heritage: the #legacy of #colonialism in the Global South.

    English modernghana.com/news/1297065/h

    French www-modernghana-com.translate.

    #Algeria #Egypt #Ethiopia #Guinea #Liberia #Morocco #Senegal #Togo #Tunisia #Zambia #Angola #Benin #Botswana #BurkinaFaso #Burundi #Cameroon #CaboVerde #CentralAfrican #Chad #Comoros #Coted’Ivoire #Congo #Djibouti #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #Eswatini #Gabon #Gambia #Ghana #Kenya #Lesotho #Libya #Madagascar #Malawi #Mali #Mauritania #Mauritius #Mozambique #Namibia #Niger #Nigeria #Congo #Rwanda #Sao #TomeandPrincipe #Seychelles #SierraLeone #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #Zimbabwe #africa

  27. Heritage for whom? A critical view of #UNESCO and #cultural #imperialism
    #Human rights, enshrined in international law and championed by organisations like the United Nations #Educational, #Scientific and #Cultural #Organisation (UNESCO), a body responsible for #education #science and #culture are often perceived as universal principles #safeguarding the #dignity and #freedoms of individuals #worldwide. However, a critical examination reveals a complex interplay of power dynamics, #historical biases and #cultural #hegemony embedded within the #conceptualisation and #implementation of these #rights.

    This article asserts that Western notions of #heritage heavily influence the current approach and fail to reflect the true essence of heritage for local #communities. Rooted in the #colonial era, this #Western approach emphasises tangible elements like #buildings and #artefacts. Therefore, the role of UNESCO within #ThirdWorld countries possibly preserves another global heritage: the #legacy of #colonialism in the Global South.

    English modernghana.com/news/1297065/h

    French www-modernghana-com.translate.

    #Algeria #Egypt #Ethiopia #Guinea #Liberia #Morocco #Senegal #Togo #Tunisia #Zambia #Angola #Benin #Botswana #BurkinaFaso #Burundi #Cameroon #CaboVerde #CentralAfrican #Chad #Comoros #Coted’Ivoire #Congo #Djibouti #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #Eswatini #Gabon #Gambia #Ghana #Kenya #Lesotho #Libya #Madagascar #Malawi #Mali #Mauritania #Mauritius #Mozambique #Namibia #Niger #Nigeria #Congo #Rwanda #Sao #TomeandPrincipe #Seychelles #SierraLeone #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #Zimbabwe #africa

  28. Heritage for whom? A critical view of #UNESCO and #cultural #imperialism
    #Human rights, enshrined in international law and championed by organisations like the United Nations #Educational, #Scientific and #Cultural #Organisation (UNESCO), a body responsible for #education #science and #culture are often perceived as universal principles #safeguarding the #dignity and #freedoms of individuals #worldwide. However, a critical examination reveals a complex interplay of power dynamics, #historical biases and #cultural #hegemony embedded within the #conceptualisation and #implementation of these #rights.

    This article asserts that Western notions of #heritage heavily influence the current approach and fail to reflect the true essence of heritage for local #communities. Rooted in the #colonial era, this #Western approach emphasises tangible elements like #buildings and #artefacts. Therefore, the role of UNESCO within #ThirdWorld countries possibly preserves another global heritage: the #legacy of #colonialism in the Global South.

    English modernghana.com/news/1297065/h

    French www-modernghana-com.translate.

    #africa #Afrika #afrique

    #Algeria #Egypt #Ethiopia #Guinea #Liberia #Morocco #Senegal #Togo #Tunisia #Zambia #Angola #Benin #Botswana #BurkinaFaso #Burundi #Cameroon #CaboVerde #CentralAfrican #Chad #Comoros #Coted’Ivoire #Congo #Djibouti #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #Eswatini #Gabon #Gambia #Ghana #Kenya #Lesotho #Libya #Madagascar #Malawi #Mali #Mauritania #Mauritius #Mozambique #Namibia #Niger #Nigeria #Congo #Rwanda #Sao #TomeandPrincipe #Seychelles #SierraLeone #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #Zimbabwe #africa