The existing health crisis and its management from governments until now, globally, has unmasked the real character of authority, which was hiding itself behind the democratic mask. This oppressive system imposed an ultimate control of life, forbidding everything. Now, all civil liberties have become senseless words. This extreme condition that we live in, reveals that the prison-model is the true capitalistic model of society.
Prison is the most extreme form of bio-politics and extermination. Prisoners are under constant surveillance and control, something that, nowadays is happening to the whole society.
In this period of time, prisoners in Greek prisons are dying, one after another, from minor causes such as rotten teeth etc. Selim Zerolari and Azizel Demiroglou were two prisoners whose deaths we were informed about this month. Mass media, of course, managed to conceal or distort these news. Furthermore, the state has grabbed the opportunity, due to the curfew, to move the most active prisoners, anarchists and others, into other prisons. Silence in the streets gives more power to the state to repress the voices of the imprisoned people.
Agribusinessbolivia
… They forced us to go the route to catastrophe at the hands of multinationals, the agribusiness elite in Bolivia and, also, a chain of smaller soybean producers; along with the existence of increasingly marginalized rural workers, and indigenous territories and badly affected peasant family agriculture ...
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Bolivia in the agroextractivist whirlpool. Transgenics and the new offensive of the state, multinationals and agribusiness.
In the midst of quarantine by COVID-19, on May 8, 2020, the transitional government of Añez, gave way to the evaluation of GMOs for soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton and sugar cane, implementing the state policy that in the last fifteen years benefited agroextractivism. The state-capital alliance is renewed and multinational companies such as Monsanto-Bayer, Bioceres come with it, with their genetically modified and agro-toxic seeds. The small peasant and indigenous production that uses and protects native seeds, collectives and organizations that oppose this new attack on comprehensive health and food sovereignty have stood up against this offensive. On March 18, 2019, the government of Evo Morales, along with private entrepreneurs and the Association of Oilseed and Wheat Producers (ANAPO), an affiliate of the powerful Eastern Agricultural Chamber, signed an agreement to allow the brief evaluation of two GMO soybean seeds (INTACTA and HB4) resistant to glyphosate and glufosinate ammonium, in order to produce the so-called “biodiesel”, according to the “new era of biofuels” in Bolivia and the “ethanolazo” decreed by MAS 2018. It was a second big step for the agribusiness sectors in Bolivia, after the first one that took place in July 2005, during the transitional presidency of Eduardo Rodriguez Veltzé, who approved the use of the transgenic soybean RR 40-3-2 [1] . Soybean Producers Conference, March 2019 (Photo: ANF) The representatives of ANAPO, the Agricultural Chamber of Small Producers of the East, (CAPPO), and the Single Federation of Peasant and Producer Workers of the Four Northern Provinces, who had signed a statement that March 2019, demanding the approval of the use of seeds transgenics, expressed their satisfaction at the new achievement of approval of transgenic evaluation for the production of “biodiesel”. However, they announced that they would also seek the go-ahead for new GMO events for corn, cotton, and sugar cane: The executive secretary of the producers of the northern Santa Cruz, Deisy Choque, [and candidate for deputy for the MAS] said that it is expected that in a short time the decree will be enacted allowing the use of these biotechnological events of the grain in the summer campaign […] For the president of the Small Producers Agricultural Chamber (CAPPO), Isidoro Barrientos, this measure is a fundamental advance for Bolivian agriculture, but work will continue to access genetically improved seeds for corn, cotton and sugar cane plantations of sugar. The events of October and November 2019, temporarily stopped the requests and negotiations that the producers were supporting, which resumed this 2020, when in March of this year the transitional regime of Añez authorized the National Biosafety Committee to continue the evaluation for seed HB4 and other transgenic seeds. Business is business and continues no matter what government it is.
On March 6, 2020, in a brief press release, the Vice Ministry of Environment, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Forest Management and Development, as National Competent Environmental Authority (AACN), announced that the National Biosafety Committee had accepted the evaluation of the HB4 transgenic event, based on Supreme Decree 3874 approved by MAS on April 17, 2019. MONSANTO and Bioceres: Business and state alliances for the health of the population The introduction of HB4 seed is directly linked to global mega-companies that set the pace and geopolitics of the capitalist “agri-food industry”. In February 2019, the Argentine company Bioceres and ANAPO had presented HB4 seed in Bolivia, resistant to drought and announced as a great alternative for soy producers in the country. Bioceres is the Argentine company that made a public-private alliance with experts from the UNL – National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), from Argentina, creating INDEAR, which is in charge of “providing R&D services to facilitate the development of new technologies and pro
Two years after the invasion of this canton of Rojava, Islamist factions under Turkish control continue to plunder the territory and clash with the civilian population, which nevertheless refuses to leave. Most of them have had to live in very poor conditions in the Shehba refugee camp, under military control of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
A refugee child of Afrin in the camp of Serdema Ferran Domènech
A fuel truck exploded in late April in the central market of the city of Afrin (in the canton of Rojava, in the northwestern part of the Syrian state), killing about 50 people. While the Turkish government in Ankara blamed the Kurdish forces for the attack, they denied any involvement. Meanwhile, several Syrian opposition parties and organizations, some loyal to Turkey, blamed Turkish authorities for the blast.
— Kongra Star Women's Movement Rojava (@starrcongress) January 20, 2020
This is another chapter in the instability in the canton of Afrin, in the northwestern tip of Syria, a region with a Mediterranean climate where olive trees, streams and small mountains give shape and character to its inhabitants. . There is not a single person in Afrin who is not in love with his land and speaks of it with devotion. Afrin is also one of the three historical cantons of Rojava where Democratic Confederalism – the ideology according to which the Kurdish movement is organized – had developed most successfully.
Paid by the Turkish State., the jihadi mercenaries are given free reign to loot,'confiscate' property and kill or expel residents.
But since 2018 it has been under Turkish occupation. Since then, Ankara has carried out a demographic shift by establishing Arab and Turkmen populations in the area, whether they are Islamist fighters under Turkish orders or displaced families from other parts of Syria.
Barin Kobane-Avesta Xabur and Anna Campbell-our-heroes-murdered by Turkish invasion in-Afrin
The same demographic engineering is taking place in Sere Kaniye and Tell Abyad, areas occupied in October 2019, according to various human rights organizations. However, hundreds of people are reluctant to leave these territories, especially the elderly, who face harsh reprisals from pro-Turkish factions: from rapes to kidnappings in exchange for money or disappearances.
Destroy the forests and erase history
Hasan Hasan ran an English academy in the city of Afrin, which he was forced to abandon due to the invasion. He is currently a member of the Afrin Human Rights Association and is dedicated to documenting violations of rights by the Turkish state. He explains that “Afrin was the richest area of Rojava, or even Syria.” For this reason, the occupation has not been limited to repression of the local population and theft of property, but has taken other forms, such as the plundering of natural resources.
“At least 200,000 olive trees and hundreds of thousands of pines, oaks and other varieties have been cut or uprooted,” says Hassan. Much of the olive trees would have been sold to other regions such as Idlib or Urfa, or processed into firewood and charcoal to cope with the high price of oil and diesel.
This plunder has also affected centuries-old trees in Sufi, Alevi and Yazidi religious shrines. Xudiret Betar, a member of the Yazidi minority, explains that the Proturant militias looted nineteen Yazidi sacred sites. “They steal what they can and destroy what is left.”
by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy Originally posted May 26, 2019 May 24, 2020 The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media. Score one for the internet.
The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media. Score one for the internet.
The Army asked: “How has serving impacted you?”
Here’s a tiny sample of the responses:
Karen@educatorsresist5h Replying to @USArmy I lost my virginity by being raped in front of my peers at 19. Got married to a nice guy who was part of my unit. He was in the invasion of Iraq. Came home a changed man who beat the shit out of me. He’s convinced y’all are stalking him and he’s homeless so great job there!
KrissyK@krissyk26258m Replying to @USArmy My sweet friend David can’t answer you. He committed suicide a few years ago after a couple tours of Afghanistan.
Daniel GBO@danny_m945h Replying to @USArmy The strain of my deployment was too much for my wife to bear. She committed suicide in our home when I had just one month left. When my mental state deteriorated, I was sent to counseling so my COC could check off a box and say “they did everything they could”. (1/2) I turned to alcohol and other vices. I begged to be sent to any other unit in a different state, just needing a change of scenery. Instead, I was demoted and discharged. Dumped like a bag of trash when I had at one time shown great promise as a leader and soldier. (2/2)
J-Fixx@Chromedominium5h Replying to @USArmy My wife walked in the garage and found me hanging from an extension cord. What’s worse she had to lift me up, cut the cord and resuscitate me all while screaming for help. My black ass is 6ft 245 pounds and she is 5’2 130 pounds. But hey at least I got to shoot some cool shit.
KnitWit@maraomaude5h Replying to @USArmy a friend’s father, 20 years after Vietnam, was still managing massive ptsd, and would have nightmares so big that he’d wake us up convinced we were under attack. he called us by names of his former unit soldiers and would cry when we told him about it.
Skitter@ghostedarmy4h Replying to @USArmy My grandfather served in Vietnam. When I was 6, he shot himself in the head because of his depression and PTSD. I never got to learn who he was because of you.
Molin@Molindawolf1h My mom served at ft. McClellan and is still suffering from being poisoned to this day.
Jeffrey Scott@Jscott9164h Replying to @USArmy I am a Navy vet, I was a happy person before I served, now I am broke apart, can’t even work a full 30 days due to anxiety and depression, I have Fibromyalgia and nobody understands because I am a guy. I am in constant pain everyday. And I think about killing myself daily……..
gay rat wedding minister@skydovva12h Replying to @USArmy My grandparents were used as pawns serving the US army in aiding them on the Ho Chi Minh trail. They served in The Secret War, and when the US lost the Vietnam war the Hmong were left to die in genocide. To this day Hmong veterans are not recognized by the US army. More than half of my people were wiped out through genocide. Only about a third of what once was the Hmong population are scattered in diaspora around the world. Many in the US who deal with PTSD through alcoholism, abuse, and addiction to opium. And the children are left to pick up the pieces and navigate a delicate past, present, and future for the years to come while inheriting intergenerational trauma.
How did the United States — the richest country in the world — become the worldwide epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, with one person dying of COVID-19 every 47 seconds? We spend the hour with Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author, discussing this unprecedented moment in history, and its political implications. Chomsky…
The difference is that in working-class neighbourhoods, rather than making noise with pots, people are building incredible networks of solidarity, mutual care and support.
With hard times coming ahead, only solidarity will save us from the ruins. Long queues in foodbanks and support networks indicate that people are beginning to starve in many areas of every city. Uncertainty appears enhanced as a material way of being for many precarious popular classes who lost their jobs and do not know if they will ever return to work. While neighbours are supporting neighbours, the political opportunism of the right is seeking to catalyse the social catastrophe.
After the right-wing’s performance in the midst of the COVID19 outbreak -with figures like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson or Jair Bolsonaro leading the way -one could reasonably think that popular support for the far-right would plunge after the crisis.
At the very least, that was my deluded hope in the Spanish context, in which particularly VOX[i]-but also the whole right-wing circus- has been accumulating one foolish and impertinent appearance after another. Just to give an example, the voices of the Spanish right -both the ‘old’ one (the conservative Partido Popular) and the ‘not-that-old’ one (VOX or Ciudadanos) – have repeatedly blamed the feminist demonstrations held on the 8th of March as responsible for the exponential outbreak of the virus.
The fact that this same day VOX organised a multitudinous antifeminist meeting –whereupon leaders like Santiago Abascal or Javier Ortega Smith, who shook hands with all the attendants, were diagnosed with coronavirus- never stopped the most rancid right from making such senseless accusations.
Overall, the actions of the far-right these days merit an entire analysis that I am not able to cover here. The reason that I am writing today refers to some recent events that have been taking place since last week. With almost 30.000 deaths in official statistics, and coinciding with the first government measures easing the quarantine, Spain is witnessing a sort of ‘upper-class revolt’ in which ladies and gentlemen from the wealthiest neighbourhoods of the country are taking over the streets in their Francoist flags, suits, ties and heels demanding freedom and the immediate dismissal of the government.
This image of the same fascists that blamed feminist demonstrations now rallying in the street- during their daily allowance outside the house for exercise- captures the incongruencies of a rancid extreme right that, far from being losing its support, is fully aware that it’s time for class struggle. The Madrilenian ‘Barrio de Salamanca’ -the neighbourhood with the highest GDP per capita- has become the spatial reference of these ‘revolts’, albeit the reality is that they have spread to other -mostly wealthy- areas across the country’s geography.
This discontent was capitalised on by the far-right party VOX, who promoted a national “caravan demonstration” which took place on Saturday in different cities of the state “in the name of Spain and freedom” and demanded the immediate resignation of the government, while obstructing the circulation of ambulances and insulting health workers standing in their way as a form of protest.
Thousands of more or less toxic chemicals are getting into our bodies, and every month dozens more, creating a Toxic Cocktail and all sorts of unforseeable health issues.
The problem is nowhere more extensive than in the US, which is notorious for allowing any kinds of toxicity, from carcinogenic herbicides, sweeteners, growth boosters etc. , as well as consuming huge quantities of meat and the largest range of semi tested products.
Money talks and corruption is total, lethal products are still legal because they are promoted by the corporate lobbyists
This raises the question, (and we’re NOT anti American).. Is the Toxic Chemical Cocktail Making Americans Stupid?
Explanations are needed, why oh why are millions of US citizens planning to vote again for a man whose unhinged idiocy is destroying the whole planet? Why oh why is it considered un-American to question a diet which is a cocktail of poisons?
Among the multitude of suspected side effects are damaged immune systems, autism, early senility, low sperm count and IQ deficiency. Few if any products have been adequately tested for their interaction with a multitude of others
ToxicCocktail How ChemicalPollution Is Poisoning Our Brains, by Barbara Demeneix. Written by an expert who works with international authorities on chemical testing; Provides an easily understandable explanation of the links between between brain development and thyroid hormone, and how chemical pollution is undoing a process honed by evolution ToxicCocktailprovides a clear view of how many environmental chemicals interfere with brain development. As a result, this book looks at how we define and test IQ, the evidence for IQ loss, and how chemical pollution and thyroid hormone disruption can be actors in this process, as well as increasing neurodevelopmental disease risk.
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