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A map of countries where the United States has militarily intervened (Source: Congressional Research Service)
The US military launched 469 foreign interventions since 1798, including 251 since the end of the first cold war in 1991, according to official Congressional Research Service data.
This Tuesday, October 4, marks six days since fractions of the armed group that formed in Santa Martha, Chenalhó
This Tuesday marks six days since fractions of the armed group that formed in Santa Martha, Chenalhó, in the Chiapas Highlands, have confronted each other. No authority of the three levels of government has entered the place, those who have managed to flee are at least 32 families (127 people), who explained that there is an undetermined number of people killed and dozens of houses burned.
The state and federal governments have maintained their silence on this situation. Unofficially, an official source explained that they broke off all negotiations with this group that had promised to “stop shooting” in order to defuse the armed attacks that at the time were directed against their neighbors in Aldama, but that are now experienced inside Santa Martha, due to differences among the same armed group.
Juan Ruíz was murdered on September 29, the next day his wife and all his children were killed, one of them was saved and was one of the people who managed to warn that in Santa Martha and the communities that make up that ejido, positions over actions that the armed group should or should not carry out have divided them. There are those who never agreed to its articulation, and have been left in the middle of two fires. [1]…..
Chiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic increase in violence II
The Agua Azul Cascades, Chiapas, Mexico.
By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez | Part 2 of 2
Part 1of this article began to expose factors that contribute to the dramatic increase in violence in Chiapas: 1) counterinsurgency (the government’s “low-intensity war” against the Zapatistas) and 2) two national organized crime groups battling each other for control of the state and local organized crime working with one or the other of the national criminal organizations. Part 2 addresses other sources of violence: 1) the Mesoamerica Project; 2) Municipal Elections and 3) Migration.
The Mesoamerica Project and the San Cristóbal-Palenque Highway
There is a neoliberal effort underway, promoted by the World Bank, to bring indigenous peoples in southeast Mexico into the capitalist marketplace. The vehicle for bringing this about is a massive infrastructure development plan, originally named the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) and then re-named the Mesoamerica Project.” The name change took place because the PPP was so unpopular and generated so much national and international resistance that it went underground for several years to seek financing and also to make people think it had gone away, but it had not gone away or been forgotten. The PPP simply changed its name and the government stopped referring to projects as part of the unpopular mega-plan.
Our friend Nagihan Akarsel, Jineolojî Academy member and Jineolojî Journal Editorial Board member was martyred as a result of an armed attack in Sulaymaniyah at 9.30 this morning.
With anger and rage, we condemn this assassination, which is one of the recent political murders carried out by fascist and hegemonic powers against all women in resistance around the world.
— Kongra Star Women's Movement Rojava (@starrcongress) October 4, 2022
We call on the Kurdistan Regional Government to find the perpetrators of this murder as soon as possible. This attack is a continuation of the brutal murders against Yasin Bulut, Mehmet Zeki Çelebi and Suhel Xorşid.
K Star call women to join women’s uprising in Rojhilat and Iran Kongra Star called on all women in the world, organizations and personalities calling for freedom and democracy to join and support the uprising of women in Rojhilat and Iran, and strongly condemned the murder of Gina Amini by the Iranian authorities.
If this murder case is not investigated, the collaboration of the Kurdistan Regional Government will face the rage of the rising wave of our women’s revolution.
Nagihan has been active in the university youth movement, in the press and in Jineolojî efforts. She spent a long time in the Kurdistan Women’s Freedom struggle, and resisted in prison for years for this cause.
Today in Iran, schoolgirls remove their compulsory hejab and chant “death to the dictator” while stomping on the photos of their rulers pic.twitter.com/ipQPSZhsvC
During the most difficult years of the Rojava women’s revolution, she built efforts to develop the women’s colors of the revolution and advanced revolutionary women’s enlightenment works through Jineolojî.
WHAT: Discussion and PresentationWHEN: 1:00pm, Saturday, October 8thWHERE: The People’s Forum–320 West 37th Street New York, New York 10018COST: FREE With Dan Battaglia, International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Secretary Kevin Sharp, Leonard Peltier’s Attorney Lenny Foster, former Director of the Navajo Nation Corrections Project,Leonard’s Spiritual Advisor Other Speakers and Cultural Warriors To Be Announced Watch […]
The Ukrainian Border Guard has stopped the departure abroad of students and men of draft age, due to massive falsification of documents, the 5 канал television channel reported on Thursday.
According to data from that medium, on September 5, the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior explained what documentation those who study in foreign educational centers must present in order to cross the border, adding that only those who entered those centers before February 2022 could do so. .
“But that provision does not work, the students who entered during previous years are not able to leave the country either,” the television channel revealed.
The Verkhovna Rada extended on August 15, for 90 days, until November 21, the mobilization campaign and the validity of martial law, a period in which men aged 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving Ukraine. (Sputnik), converting the proxy state into a military prison. In Russia, youngsters drafted (for 1 year) are not sent to the front, according to Putin, and Russians can leave the country, when russophobic states allow entry visas.
The border guards explain that a massive falsification of the student documents necessary to leave began, which is why the decision was made to prohibit all students from leaving, to prevent evasion of military service.
Over 5 million Ukrainian refugees have fled abroad and most have applied for residency, although the war is now confined to ethnic Russian border areas and Kherson
According to the spokesman of the Ukrainian Border Guard, Andrei Demchenko, going abroad is currently restricted for men aged 18 to 60 years. The departure of the students will be allowed when the Government amends its provision No. 57 on border crossing, but the Cabinet is procrastinating on this matter, he said.
Greenpeace protesters disrupt Truss speech for ‘U-turns’ on fracking and climate Activists taken away by security after holding up banner reading ‘Who voted for this?’ Guardian article link: Greenpeace protesters disrupt Truss speech for ‘U-turns’ on fracking and climate | Conservative conference 2022 | The Guardian Environmental activists disrupted Liz Truss’s Conservative party conference speech, […]
An aerial view of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
When discussing the increased violence in Chiapas, it’s helpful to remember that there is a neoliberal effort underway, promoted by the World Bank, to bring indigenous peoples in southeast Mexico into the capitalist marketplace. The vehicle for bringing this about is a massive infrastructure development plan, originally named the Plan Puebla-Panama and then re-named the Mesoamerica Project.
It’s also helpful to remember that Chiapas is Mexico’s southernmost state and has an extensive border with Guatemala, one of the Northern Triangle countries in Central America, which expel both migrants and contraband into Mexico, thus contributing to the violence that takes place.
Media reports and analysis, Zapatista communiqués and anecdotal stories from Chiapas residents indicate increased violence due to the following sources: counterinsurgency (low-intensity war against the Zapatistas), the presence of national organized crime cartels, the San Cristóbal to Palenque superhighway, municipal elections and migration.
Counterinsurgency – “Low-Intensity War against the Zapatistas”
After the 1994 Zapatista Uprising, the Mexican Army was in charge of counterinsurgency actions to capture, contain and repress the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). A February 1995 Army offensive against the Zapatistas brought about massive civil society demonstrations throughout Mexico in support of the Zapatistas and a negotiated peace in Chiapas.
