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The Amazon region’s ability to restore itself is being exhausted and, if the current rate of deforestation continues, saving the “planet’s green lung” must begin before 2025, according to a report laying out global strategies to protect 80 percent of the […] […]
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« Letter to the Old World Genocide Indigenous Brazil
Violence is a long cycle. Ancient orders continue to echo and have now arrived in the world’s last virgin forests.
The order? Exterminate! »
« Letter to the Old World » is part of a visual narrative denouncing the horrors that Indigenous peoples suffered and are still suffering in Brazil and articulating the necessity for the decolonization of museums and other symbolic institutions and spaces.
On August 6 we celebrated 197 years of independence here in Bolivia. We listened intently to the speech by President Luis Arce delivered in Sucre, the capital city in Bolivia’s Chiquisaca department.
13 Sept 2022 — CovertAction Magazine By Camila Escalante from iuvmpress.news via thefreeonline
Among other issues, he spoke about the current military conflict in Ukraine and the need for peace in today’s world.
[The following is a slightly expanded version of a talk given by Camila Escalante to an online forum of the International Manifesto Group on August 7, 2022. The topic of the forum was ‘The conflict over Ukraine: Where should the left stand?.–Editors]
President Arce said there cannot be peace in the world so long as there is continued foreign military intervention and economic blockades and sanctions, so very painful to humanity.
He went on to say that Bolivians are placing much attention on the conflict taking place in Ukraine. He cautioned against the propaganda being generated in Western countries about all of the harm and violence that people are suffering as a consequence of this conflict.
First the colonialists and then the imperialists have imposed this doctrine for hundreds of years, long before the current conflict in Ukraine began in February of this year.
[You can view a brief excerpt of the August 6 speech by Luis Arce, here.]
Matters could not be clearer than they are today here in Latin America. One consequence of the conflict in Ukraine has been to reveal exactly who is on the side of a more just and equitable world, and who opposes that.
Sadly, in the Western countries, many left-wing and other progressive voices have been terribly confused about events. They are blaming Russia for the conflict, calling for its withdrawal from Ukraine, which at the present time amounts to a call for Russian surrender to NATO.
They are calling for ‘diplomacy’ instead of war, ignoring the fact that it is the U.S., NATO and Kyiv who have turned their backs on diplomacy.
They ignore the long history of the conflict in Donbas in which Russia has ultimately been obliged to intervene in order to defend the people of that region against Ukraine military attacks and in order to resist the military and economic encroachment upon Russia’s borders by the NATO powers.
Many alleged anti-imperialists in Western countries have dismissed the positions on Ukraine-Russia taken by anti-imperialist parties, social movements and revolutionary leaders here in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Continue reading “Latin Americans: Why we Reject Resource Plundering by NATO Countries Fueling War in Ukraine”
El diario derechista “El Mundo” asegura hoy que España lleva varias semanas preparando la llegada de contingentes militares ucranianos para ser entrenados en instalaciones castrenses españolas
Al igual que ya hace el Reino Unido en su territorio, el Ministerio de Defensa cumple así con uno de los compromisos adquiridos. Se desconoce si entre esas tropas ucranianas estarán incluidos o no batallones nazis que operan junto y dentro del ejército de Zelensky, como ha quedado ampliamente demostrado.
El gobierno español (PSOE/UP) viene volcándose con todo tipo de armamento con Ucrania. Un conflicto que a esta altura es un enfrentamiento OTAN/Rusia con peones ucranianos usados por la banda armada.
Los ucranianos serán entrenados con las mismas armas que luego usarán en…
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This is from Doug and Stacey. We’ve posted their videos just twice so far on the topic of living off grid.
Here we have a topic rearing its head again … one that is of concern to all of us world wide as the global plans tighten up further, global food supplies manipulated and controlled (see the Ice Age Farmer for more info on that) and the promise from the globalists we’ll ‘own nothing and be happy’. We had hints of future control in NZ back with the Food Bill, threatening we could not share or our produce over the back fence. Nice try! Watch Kiwis!. So here it’s pointed out that the registering of your community garden with government is a red flag and about more than meets the eye … watch and listen to the video.
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Politically, Australia, and all other exploiter nations will do anything necessary to keep the world divided between rich and poor nations. War, invasion, coups, IMF debt traps, trade wars, embargoes, and sanctions: these are all tools used by the imperialist countries.
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The following was presented on the panel, The Need for Anti-Imperialism in Australia, which took place on day one of Red Ant’s Peace and Liberation Conference in August 2022.
Australian foreign policy has always been determined by its membership within a small club of imperialist powers that dominate the world economy, as well as by its ‘junior’ status within this club.
While putting the interests of Australian capital at the forefront, it has had to do so from a position of relative weakness vis-a-vis the largest powers, especially the United States.
Although Australia is indeed a ‘junior partner’ of the larger imperialist powers, it remains a powerful and constant source of imperialist oppression over non-imperialist nations in Asia and the Pacific.
The Australian ruling class supported the New Order dictatorship in Indonesia (1965-1998) and the invasion and brutal occupation of Timor Leste; has been involved in many acts of imperialist aggression such as the invasion of Vietnam as well as interventions in the Middle East (including two invasions of Iraq) and Afghanistan; and plays an ongoing policing role and interference in the affairs of Pacific Ocean neighbours including Australia’s former colony Papua New Guinea.
These are all measures aimed at securing the stability of the imperialist system and the ability of the Australian ruling class to systematically extract super-profits from the mass-exploitation and misery of workers inside Global South countries.
A complicated world situation has now developed where both socialist and left-wing governments – mostly in Latin America – as well as capitalist governments outside the imperialist core – such as China and Russia – are facing increased hostility from the rich countries.
This policy of escalating hostility towards ‘rogue’ countries, particularly China, was put bluntly in President Obama’s 2011 address to the Australian parliament,
“After a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, in blood and treasure, the United States is turning our attention to the vast potential of the Asia Pacific region.”
Under Trump, Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” gained greater weight as the ‘war on terror’ was replaced with ‘great power conflict’ as official US policy.
The long-term interests of the Australian working class don’t lie in a few crumbs that might fall from the table of the imperialist bourgeois! …They lie in overthrowing this rotten imperialist system that keeps billions of working and oppressed people in chains!
Continue reading “Australia’s shameful racist pro-US Imperialist Foreign Policy”
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