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The British - Chinese Opium wars - Foreign mud Part 1
(Note: the British "elite" made their fortunes with opium and still do 😉)
https://t.co/eeUUJU1hnG


Aaron Hardoon (1851-1931): Business, Opium, Politics and Philanthropy in Republican Shanghai, 1911-1931
Hardoon and Trade Diaspora of Baghdadi Jews
https://t.co/pzOsXyoXKZ

You are looking at a handful of Scottish Opium Traders.

Keswick Family :

An old firm:
https://t.co/XURQUI11nH. Check Governance. 1600's. HBC is still going.

Common founders to HSBC

The Governors is where it's at.

House of #Windsor, #uk "Elite" 🤔
"In the early 1800s, the Brits controlled 90 percent of the #Chinese opium trade".
#British East Indian Company in 1715 till today, mass scale drug addiction was a policy against targeted

The British - Chinese Opium wars - Harrying the Chinese coast Part 2
(Note: the British "elite" made their fortunes with opium and still do 😉)
https://t.co/sZzx2dz4mG
Shared this on the gram but a friend's comments made me think I should share this here.

Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence in his 20s. By the time of his murder 10+ years later, his viewpoints had evolved. He had begun to explicitly link white supremacy to capitalism.

https://t.co/qzRARQ2Zw4


Remember: he was in Memphis when he was killed supporting the sanitation workers strike over wages and working conditions. This is a man who said, "what good is the right to sit at a lunch counter if you cant afford to buy a hamburger?"

King also spoke out strongly against the war in Vietnam. I've copied an excerpt from his 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam Below but you should listen to the whole thing


I also want to note, the NYT's and WaPos reaction to King's speech at the time (and the NAACPs)