
I am a #Ugandan primarily interested in #social and #political issues relevant to Uganda. I have been providing #sociopolitical #commentary since 2004
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Drew Ddembe retweeted
Word is “Ugandans are snapping up real estate in Nairobi like it’s going out of fashion”. Property managers are delighted to be making big money, but some are wondering why the big rush. Hmmm. They’ll find out soon.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
When Saudis killed a journalist from US, our media was justifiably enraged. Israel murdered Shireen Abu Akleh, American citizen. Now, they’ve attacked reporters from CNN, NBC and Washington Post, breaking bones and mangling them. And the media is largely silent. Israel above all.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
"Do you think Israel has a right to exist?"
@ZackPolanski is spot on. No state has a right to exist. Did Rhodesia? Does the UK?
And this was🎯"The status quo right now is a one state apartheid state where Palestinians do not have the same freedom as Israelis, & that's racist"
That particular moment when Victoria Nuland, in 2016, was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup.
She spelled it all out without shame:
🔴US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries.
🔴American-trained cops patrolling 18 cities.
🔴The US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet.
🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military.
Let's cut all the crap,this wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid.
"Unprovoked"
😂😂😂😂
Israeli Defense Minister Katz on Lebanon:
'60 villages destroyed. 23,000 houses demolished. 200,000 residents gone. This is the Gaza model, and this is the model we are implementing.'
Just a Minister of Defense proudly listing the villages he erased and the 200,000 people he displaced
They've stopped hiding it
Drew Ddembe retweeted
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them. That would be zero. Not one war in 40 years.”
While the US spends its trillions bombing poor people in the global south, China invests its trillions on improving the lives of its citizens, and building economic partnerships with the rest of the world.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
While Somalia sinks under floods, starves from famine, and gets butchered by terrorists, the men in its parliament are busy arguing to keep mutilating little girls genitals. 😳🇸🇴
Drew Ddembe retweeted
The absolute peak of Western entitlement: Ban a country from international aerospace cooperation, force it to develop its own advanced space program independently, then complain that it didn't write the instructions in English—pure hypocrisy. 🤡🚀
#Tiangong #WolfAmendment #NASA
Drew Ddembe retweeted
Ich hab mir gestern #NAZA angesehen.
Ich habe noch nie erlebt, dass der komplette Kinosaal während des Abspanns bis zum Ende vor Betroffenheit mucksmäuschenstill war.
Es wurde bereits viel über den Film berichtet, ich will das nicht wiederholen.
Ein paar Dinge haben mich aber doch überrascht und getroffen.
Wir haben ein Monster erschaffen. #Israel ist ein Monster
Ich hätte nicht gedacht wie ähnlich sich Nazi-Deutschland und Israel in Ihrer Perfektion der Vernichtung sind.
Nazis tätowiertenNummern auf Menschen die sie töten wollten, Israel nummeriert Häuser, die es zerstören will.
Diese ganze Tötungsmaschinerie entstand nicht mit dem 7. Oktober. Sie war lange vorher bereits vorbereitet. Der Film berichtet, dass jedes Handy in Gaza genau zugeordnet, lokalisiert, abgehört werden konnte. Dass jeder Sensor verwendet werden konnte.
Wie kann es dann sein, dass die IDF nichts vom 7. Oktober wusste? Wie kann es sein, dass sie auf einmal genau wissen, wer ein Hamas-Offizier ist, weil er seine Kumpels mit „Hamas Ahmed“ im Handy gespeichert hat - was Ahmed zum nächsten Ziel macht - aber vorher nichts mitbekommen haben?
Die IDF sah sich Familienfotos an um herauszufinden, von welcher Seite man ein Wohnhaus am einfachsten vernichten konnte, sie hörten live ihre Opfer ab, während ihre Raketen sie töteten.
Sie warteten gezielt, bis Daddy zu Hause ist, um die ganze Familie auszulöschen - es war einfacher. Das System hieß „Where‘s Daddy“. Wer meine Timeline liest, findet den Bericht dazu schon 2024.
Im Film berichtet ein IDF Soldat, wie er in Polen ein Konzentrationslager besucht hat und nicht verstehen konnte, wie Deutsche mit dieser Schuld leben können. Jetzt versteht er es und es geht ganz gut, sagt er. Auf die Frage, ob es ein Genozid sei, zögert er keine Sekunde: „Ja!“
Jeder Interviewte sagte 2 Dinge: er hätte nur Befehle ausgeführt, das wäre seine Rolle gewesen, hinterfragen wäre nicht angebracht gewesen und er wäre ja nur ein kleines Rädchen gewesen.
So bringt man Menschen dazu, bei den furchtbarsten Verbrechen mitzumachen. 1940 wie 2024.
Dass sie unverhohlen zugeben, Spaß am töten gehabt zu haben, geht dabei fast unter.
Eine meiner Sichtweisen muss ich revidieren. Ich hatte bisher angenommen - auch nach den Aussagen der israelischen Politiker und Militärs nach dem 7. Oktober - die Reaktion wäre irrational im Affekt gewesen. Vernichten aus Wut und Rachegelüsten.
Das stimmt nicht. Israel wusste von Tag Eins was es tat, tötete gezielt und gewollt. Zerstörte gezielt und geplant, Mensch um Mensch, Haus um Haus.
Israel wusste von Tag Eins um die zivilen Opfer. Es nahm sie in Kauf.
Sie waren #NAZA - Kollateralschäden.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
GOVERNANCE BY TANTRUM IS NOT HEALTH POLICY
U.M.A condemns the unlawful summary suspension of Dr. Robert Candia by Hon. Min. of State for Health, Hon. Anifa Kawooya. We demand:
✅ Immediate rescission of the suspension
✅ An end to political theatrics in our health facilities
Drew Ddembe retweeted
Je suis allé voir NAZA en Belgique. Il passe dans les cinémas comme n’importe quel documentaire. C’est glaçant. Ces soldats parlent de leur boulot comme l’auraient fait des SS. Pour atteindre un membre du Hamas, qui n’est même pas un chef, ils tuent froidement 500 victimes collatérales, des femmes et des enfants principalement. C’est l’IA qui décide qui doit mourir. À la question «C’est bien un genocide ? » la réponse est oui. Qui est mieux placé qu’eux pour le dire ? @Enthoven_R ? @CarolineFourest ? @quatremer ? Ils ne se posent aucune question éthique, rien à voir avec la morale. On obéit aux ordres. Parfois cela prend même l’allure d’un jeu de rôles. Ça les amuse de tuer. Je me suis rappelé « la banalité du Mal » dont parlait Hannah Arendt à propos d’Eichmann. Ces israéliens sont pareils. Israël est déshumanisé. Les élections prochaines nous apprendront jusqu’à quel point.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
I can’t think of any other place in the world where people can regularly attack American citizens, American journalists, like this and our US political and media elites say nothing. No scandal, no outrage, no calls for action or accountability.
BREAKING: Heidi Levine, a photojournalist working in the occupied West Bank with The Washington Post, has sustained injuries along with several others after being attacked by settlers during a pogrom in the village of Abu Falah.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/teweeb
Drew Ddembe retweeted
A Harvard professor came home from a trip to China and found his front door jammed.
He forced it open. A neighbour called the police.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested on his own porch, in his own house, holding his own ID.
He is one of the most famous historians in America.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 16 July 2009. Gates, 58, had just flown back from China. His front door would not open. He and his driver shouldered it.
A passer-by called it in as a possible break-in.
Sergeant James Crowley arrived. Gates was inside his own house by then. He produced his Harvard ID and his driver's licence with that address on it.
What happened next is disputed by both men and always will be. Crowley said Gates was uncooperative and loud. Gates said he was asked to step outside, understood exactly what was happening, and said so — including asking the officer for his name and badge number, repeatedly, and not getting it.
He was arrested for disorderly conduct. On his own property. A fifty-eight-year-old man walking with a cane.
The charge was dropped within days. Cambridge later acknowledged the arrest was regrettable.
Barack Obama was asked about it at a press conference and said the police had "acted stupidly," which caused a political firestorm large enough that he convened the famous "beer summit" at the White House with Gates and Crowley to defuse it.
And that is where the story usually stops, with three men and some beer on a lawn.
Here is what it is actually about.
Henry Louis Gates has a MacArthur fellowship, dozens of honorary degrees and a chair at Harvard. He has made television series about tracing Black ancestry. He is about as protected as a Black man in America can be.
And none of it worked on his own porch.
Every Black professional who has ever been told that respectability is the shield watched that arrest and understood what it meant.
Gates said afterwards that the experience changed what he thought he knew about his own country, and he has spent some of the time since working on criminal justice.
If it does not work for him, it does not work.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
CBS News foreign editor Shayndi Raice threatened to fire reporters who didn't portray Israel in a more positive light. What's different now is that normally they don't have to bother saying it.
But these days, reporters are slightly bothered by the fact they're covering up all of Israel's war crimes. So, they're being microscopically critical of Israel, enough to trigger their Zionist bosses (that's literal).
So, now those editors and executives have to spell it out - the whole point of this "news" operation is to do propaganda for Israel - and if you don't do it, we'll fire you.
But people have been fired in American media for criticizing Israel for time immemorial. It's the cardinal rule of American "journalism" - if you'd like a job, you better not say one bad word about Israel. That's why there hasn't been a single cable news anchor who's called their actions in Gaza a genocide.
The way the rest of the media is ignoring the elephant in the room is also hilarious. Larry Ellison is the largest donor to the IDF in history. He didn't buy CBS for them to criticize Israel, he bought it specifically so they wouldn't be able to.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
Let me put this Zionist talking point to rest once and for all.
“Israelis must be the worst genociders ever. Hasn't the population in the Gaza strip increased”
I’m no genocide scholar, but I’ve read enough international law to know genocide isn’t measured by whether a population graph goes up or down. It’s about the intent to destroy a group, in whole or in part. Population growth doesn’t erase mass killing, starvation, or the deliberate destruction of the conditions needed to survive.
Holocaust deniers used similar demographic arguments to cast doubt on the genocide of Jews, manipulating population figures to distract from the historical evidence of mass murder and Nazi policy.
Now Zionists are recycling the same logic for Gaza.
Birth rates don’t cancel out mass death. A growing population figure doesn’t mean people are safe, fed, housed, or able to survive. And it certainly doesn’t erase the destruction of homes, hospitals, and the infrastructure sustaining life.
Genocide isn’t a math problem u can debunk w a spreadsheet. Don’t let Zionists use demographics to whitewash their mass atrocities.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
The question the West cannot answer honestly is this:
At what point does a settler colonial project become legitimate?
One hundred years? Two hundred? When the people displaced are sufficiently dead, assimilated, or defeated that their prior claim can be treated as historical rather than present?
America solved this question by making it unaskable within its own borders.
The dispossession of Indigenous peoples is curriculum. A chapter. Something that happened, past tense, before the "real story" began.
Palestine is the question returning in real time, with cameras.
And the cameras are the problem.
Because the question was supposed to be settled.
Drew Ddembe retweeted
A few months ago, a one Namere harrased Dr Ssenyondo a senior and most respected colleague at Masaka regional referral.
Today another female minister Mrs Kawooya is harrassing another colleague because he pocketed.
And when women are in dare need at the hospitals, its these colleague they turn to, NOT these power drunk, and uncouth ministers 🚮




























