Month: Apr 2021

by Global Campaign on Military Spending via Rojo Y Negro vocero de la Confederación General del Trabajo CGT

The world spent $ 1.92 trillion on the military in 2019, a 3.6% increase from the previous year and the highest figure since the end of the Cold War.

The increasing military capabilities of our governments, in the name of national security, have proven to be completely useless in defending the population against the COVID-19 pandemic, and cannot keep us safe from other global emergencies such as the climate change.

Continue reading “Let’s reduce military spending. Let’s defend the people and the planet Eng/Esp”

from Human Wrongs Watch By Peyvand Khorsandi*

International Council of Voluntary Agencies rallies Oxfam, Save the Children and 258 other organizations after World Food Programme’s warning on increasing levels of hunger.

Only $5.5bn ??

At least $5.5bn (£3.95bn) is needed in food and agricultural assistance to avert famine, while millions more is needed to provide healthcare, clean water and other essential services. Only $5.5bn Compare that to the 3 TRILLION being handed out in the USA, much of it to the Arms industry

20 April 2021 (WFP)* — Humanitarian agencies around the world have joined forces to warn that rising hunger levels are going to lead to famines unless urgent action is taken. 

Oxfam, Save the Children and the International Red Cross are among 260 signatories to an open letter on famine prevention led by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA).

Continue reading “‘People Aren’t Starving, They Are Being Starved’: Joint Call for Funds to Avert Famine”

By Jeremy Kuzmarov – April 9, 2021 from (CovertAction Magazine) via The Free Thought Project April 18, 2021 Spread the love.

Hale’s case reflects the twisted morality and corruption of the legal system in an imperialist nation.

(CovertAction Magazine) In our upside-down world, good guys often go to jail, and bad guys get promoted and live luxuriously.

Ex-President Barack Obama, a key architect of modern drone warfare, today lives in an $11.75 million, 6,892 square-foot waterfront mansion on a 30-acre property on Martha’s Vineyard, and is regarded by many people as a great moral leader.

The Obama mansion. [Source: mansionglobal.com]

Donald Trump, who expanded the drone war even further than Obama, is also enjoying life these days at his $160 million Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

Continue reading “Drone King Obama Enjoys $11 Million Mansion.. Drone Whistleblower Stuck in Jail for Exposing War Crimes”

By Turkish Minute – April 10, 2021 302

Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in March included 182 deaths and 371 incidents of torture and maltreatment, with 233 of them taking place in prisons, a report drafted by Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), revealed on Saturday.

The report by Tanrıkulu, a prominent human rights activist and deputy chair of a parliamentary committee on human rights, said 142 workers, 28 women, five inmates and three refugees were among those whose right to life was violated last month.

The MP’s report further showed that the right to freedom of speech of 173 people was violated in March, with investigations launched into five members of the press; eight journalists, authors or publishers convicted; six members of the press detained; and a journalist attacked.

Femicide! “Since the night one man annulled [Turkey’s ratification of] the Istanbul Convention to this night, in four weeks, 27 women have lost their lives and many others were subjected to violence,” the DEVA party said in a tweet on Saturday, referring to the overnight decree issued by Erdoğan on March 2021. …In 2020, 300 women were murdered and the rate shows no sign of slowing with 79 women killed in the first three months of 2021, according to the women’s rights group ‘We Will Stop Femicide’ Platform. Turkish Minute

Continue reading “Turkish State kills 182 people in March 2021.. 371 tortured.. 27 femicides..”

by Enough14 shared with thanks

“We the multitude who have no position in life and everywhere face discrimination and lack equal rights lose nothing by marching into battle. The most we have to lose is the life of slavery that we have presently fallen into. We who are the true owners of the world will succeed in taking back the whole world”. -“The Ogre” -Thakin Po Hla Gyi, Burmese revolutionary anti-imperialist oil field worker, 1938

To the revolutionaries of Myanmar,

We wish you a revolutionary Thingyan and a Ramadan of liberation to our Muslim comrades who have fought and died side by side with their Buddhist, Christian and Hindu neighbors.

We stand in solidarity with the popular revolution taking place against the fascist Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) regime. We watch in awe as the levels of creativity and militant resistance seem to grow daily.

738 killed since coup in Myanmar: Rights group

Our hearts break at the videos of the parents and siblings grieving over the blood drenched bodies of their fallen family members, murdered by heavily armed soldiers.

We know that the Tatmadaw has the capacity for much, much worse; we also know that you, the revolutionaries, will never stop fighting, until the end of the world!

Continue reading “Solidarity with multi-ethnic revolutionary struggle in Myanmar against military dictatorship.”