On this day in 1960, Patrice Lumumba forms a government and becomes the first Prime Minister of independent Congo.

He had gained prominence as a charismatic and vocal advocate for independence from Belgian colonial rule, which led to his involvement in the Congolese National Movement (MNC).

Upon Congo's independence in June 1960, Lumumba was appointed as the country’s first Prime Minister. He faced immediate crises, thanks to neocolonial meddling in the country, including a mutiny within the army and the secession of the mineral-rich province of Katanga, backed by Belgium, the country which tortured Congo under colonialism for many years. His appeal for Soviet aid to quash the secessionist movement led to Western leaders immediately beginning to plot against Lumumba.

His rule would end in tragedy, when he was captured in Lodi by the troops of coup leader Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. The coup was backed by the US and Belgium, with US President Eisenhower ordering the CIA to ‘eliminate’ Patrice Lumumba.

For daring to oppose Belgian colonialism and US domination of Congo’s natural resources, Lumumba was executed by firing squad on the 17th of January 1961 after being tortured. Before being killed, the colonial conspirators tried to force Lumumba to eat the paper on which his Independence Day speech was written on. After being executed, his body was dissolved in acid.

Lumumba still remains an icon of pan-Africanism to this day, with his image and memory being a rallying point for Africans across the continent against neocolonialism.

An excerpt from Patrice Lumumba’s letter to his wife, his last words before execution:

‘I prefer to die with my head held high, unshakable faith, and the greatest confidence in the destiny of my country rather than live in slavery and contempt for sacred principles.’

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange reaching a deal with the United States to be finally freed from prison in London, and allowed to return to Australia🇦🇺.

Here he is speaking on Gaza: ‘Artificial intelligence is being used for mass assassinations in Gaza’.

“The majority of targets in Gaza are bombed as a result of artificial intelligence targeting.”

BREAKING: Donald Trump orders Israel not to ‘drop those bombs’ Iran🇮🇷 and bring their pilots back to their bases

Iran denied violating the ceasefire agreement.

The US President finally realises he can order around a Prime Minister of Israel?

Surprise surprise, Zelensky begins his speech at the 2025 NATO Summit by begging for more money to be poured into the failed proxy war against Russia.

There are three certainties in life:

1. Death

2. Taxes

3. Zelensky begging for more of NATO nation taxpayers’ money

Trump comes out AGAINST regime change in Iran🇮🇷:

'I'd like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change makes chaos.’

'The Iranians are very good traders, very good business people. And they got a lot of oil. They should be fine.’

🚨The UAE🇦🇪welcomed the announcement of the ceasefire between Israel & Iran🇮🇷

NATO Summit: The gathering of one of the most violent organisations in modern history. A reminder of Vladimir Putin’s old question:

‘Who gave NATO the right to kill Gaddafi?’

🚨🇬🇧🇷🇺LORD SKIDELSKY: YUGOSLAVIA EXPOSED THE LIE THAT NATO IS A PURELY DEFENSIVE ORGANISATION

'The bombing of Yugoslavia in 1997 wasn't authorised by the United Nations, it was a NATO operation, and it gives the lie to the idea that NATO is a purely defensive organisation. I think if you're also trying to work out what the Russian attitude has been, ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there's been a consistent opposition to the eastward expansion of NATO. That's running consistently from Gorbachev, Yeltsin, to Putin.'

'That's always been met by the argument that NATO is a purely defensive organisation, that there's nothing to fear. And this idea that NATO is a sort of encircling beast is something conjured up by the Russians...so you have that narrative. The other case you can raise is the operation in Iraq.'

-Lord Skidelsky, one of the 20th Century's greatest economic historians and award-winning biographer of John Maynard Keynes

CNN reports that the US’ bombing of Iran’s🇮🇷 nuclear facilities FAILED to destroy the sites

The enriched uranium stockpile still remains

Centrifuges remain intact

Damage has been to mostly above-ground structures

Secret nuclear facilities weren’t even hit

Another failed military venture of the United States, to add to the long list of failed misadventures

Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic Mayoral primary in New York City, after unequivocally calling Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza a genocide

Despite all of AIPAC’s efforts, Zohran Mamdani won the primary. The Israel lobby’s suffocating grip on US politics is being broken

Zohran Mamdani in 2021: ‘The struggle for Palestine is the struggle for dignity.’

He supports the BDS movement against Israel, and has now one the Democratic Party’s Mayoral primary in New York

All of the Israel lobby’s power could not stop his convincing victory

NATO Chief Mark Rutte praises Donald Trump for his bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities (illegal under the UN Charter):

‘You’re a man of strength, but you are also a man of peace.’

The satrap licks the boot of the head of the empire

French🇫🇷 President Emmanuel Macron casually admits that Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran’s🇮🇷 nuclear facilities were illegal under international law

This is the essence of the ‘rules-based order’; rules for thee, but not for me.

International law is only supposed to contain the global south, while letting neocolonial Europe and Washington run rampant doing whatever they like.

NATO Chief Mark Rutte🤡 referred to Donald Trump as ‘daddy’

Well, at least the European NATO satrapies are honest and open about the fact that they are merely servants of their master in Washington

Sir Keir Starmer’s government says Russia🇷🇺, Iran🇮🇷, and North Korea🇰🇵 are threatening to harm the British people…

This is the same government that cut the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners to freeze in the cold, which he now claims to have reversed.

The only one that seems to be plotting harm to the British people is the British government.

‘Iran has got oil. Smart people. They can come back. Israel got hit hard specially in last couple of days. They really got hit hard. Oh boy those ballistic missiles took lot of buildings [in Israel].’

-Donald Trump admits Iran🇮🇷 devastated Israel with its barrages of missiles

On this day in 1908, Salvador Allende was born. He would become a democratically-elected socialist President of Chile🇨🇱, which would make him a target of the United States.

The CIA launched a coup against Allende in 1973 using their ally General Augusto Pinochet after a protracted US campaign to sabotage and impoverish the Chilean people.

President Nixon ordered the CIA to “make the economy scream” in Chile to “prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him.” Allende refused to surrender to Pinochet’s troops and died defending the Presidential Palace.

Pinochet’s fascist dictatorship would see the deaths, imprisonment, or disappearance of over 40,000 people. The CIA-backed coup in Chile was part of establishing Operation Condor, a plan to impose de-facto continent-wide fascism in Latin America to crush socialist, communist and workers’ movements. Operation Condor is estimated to be responsible for 60,000-80,000 deaths in Latin America.

Here he is addressing the Chilean people for the last time, before he died defending the country from Pinochet’s fascism.

The late, great John Pilger interviewing Duane Clarridge, the former head of the CIA’s Latin America division.

Claridge openly says Pinochet’s crimes in Chile🇨🇱 following the CIA-backed coup were worth it, showing the ruthlessness of US imperialism.

John Pilger (1939-2023): What right do you have to do what you do in other countries?

Former CIA Latin America Chief Duane Clarridge: National security interests

Pilger: The people you do it to have no say

Clarridge: Well that’s just tough

This is how Washington views you, not as citizens of sovereign countries with the right to determine your country's future, but as subjects under Washington's imperial boot...to be stamped on if you step out of line.

🚨REPORT: Israel was planning a FALSE FLAG attack in the US🇺🇸 to drag Trump into a war against Iran🇮🇷

The Tehran Times reported that Israel planned a destructive event within the U.S. and fabricating evidence to implicate Iran, thereby manipulating American public opinion and prompting military action.

Iran uncovered the Israeli plot through information shared by a friendly nation. Upon learning of the potential attack, Iran sent messages to US officials, and prevented the planned explosion from occurring.