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KILL THE MESSENGER: Another Warrior Has Fallen, Andre Vltchek is Dead

from The Smoking Man Source https://www.unz.com… shared with thanks illustrations added

– “…Andre Vltchek’s purpose in life was to royally piss off the people who misrule the world. Based in Lebanon, he was a scourge of the Zionist genocide perpetrators. In places like Latin America, Indonesia, and Thailand, he documented the horrors of US imperial mass murder and destruction of culture, savaging complicit local elites”.. Andre Vltchek Dead—Murdered by NATO/Zionists? – By KEVIN BARRETT .

Andre Vltchek one of the most important voices of the 21st century. Dead already.

We just lost one of the world’s greatest journalists…and one of my radio show’s most eloquent and informative regular guests.

Andre Vltchek, globetrotting scourge of the Western power elite, mysteriously dropped dead while riding in a chauffeured car between Samsun and Istanbul. ABC Newsreports:

Turkish authorities are investigating the death of an American author and journalist who died while traveling overnight from the Turkish Black Sea coastal city of Samsun to Istanbul, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Tuesday.
Andre Vltchek, 57, and his wife were traveling inside a rented and chauffeured car and arrived in front of their Istanbul hotel at around 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday. His wife tried to wake him up to tell him they had arrived but could not do so, the Anadolu Agency reported.

According to Turkish media, police recorded the case as a “suspicious death.” That is actually quite an understatement. They should have just written “obvious assassination.”

116 Evictions Every Day!, Reality exposes ‘Progressive’ Spanish Govt

By Víctor Stanzyk Published on Mar 28, 2021 by Izquierda Diario translation thefreeonline

116 daily evictions, a reality that clashes with the progressive discourse of the Government
The scourge of evictions continues despite electoral promises and inter-party pacts.

Stop Desahucios Granada 15M demanda una solución al Sabadell para que dos familias no pierdan su vivienda

The “progressive” government, which boasted they would solve the housing problem, shows once again which side they are on: the banks and vulture funds that take away the right to decent housing. This week in Granada, 2 octogenarians with chronic diseases have been evicted.

The scourge of evictions continues despite electoral promises and inter-party pacts. The “progressive” government, which filled its mouth by saying that they would solve the housing problem, once again shows which side they are on: the banks and vulture funds that take away our right to decent housing. This same week in Granada, 2 octogenarians with chronic diseases have been evicted.

An activist for the right to housing made this reflection on Twitter about the unprecedented news of an eviction in Granada – more than hundreds a week- in which 2 elderly people over 80 years old were thrown out of their house.

“The year we had to stay home. The judges have made it clear for months that the Government Decree does not oblige them to stop evictions. And the worst thing is that the government knows it. Because they told them. “

116 desahucios como este cada día laborable de 2020. El año que nos teníamos que quedar en casa. Los jueces han dejado claro desde hace meses que el Decreto del Gobierno no les obliga a pararlos. Y lo peor es que en el Gobierno lo saben. Porque se lo dijimos. https://t.co/HqwiIJGV73
— Jaime Palomera Zaidel (@JaimePalomera) March 25, 2021

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Seeds Collective plants Life and Abundance in Communities Eng/Esp

from Kaosenlared, by Nicolás Esperante, translation thefreeonline, illustrations added

Argentina. Seed collectivization: life and abundance in the hands of the communities

# #FortaleciendolaAgroecología

| Despite having come with the impulse of the neoliberal governments -which thirty years ago settled in the region-, the industrial model implemented in the agroforestry zone of northeastern Argentina ran into a fundamental resistance factor: the Organic Agriculture Network of Missions. (la Red de Agricultura Orgánica de Misiones.)

A group of farmers, associations and NGOs that understand that production and sustainability are not contradictory terms. We review the history of RAOM and its activism in favor of agroecology in the province and in the region, through the testimony of Gerardo Segovia *.

The province of Misiones, located in the Mesopotamian region, received the impact of the 1990s with the same fate as the rest of the Southern Cone: the monoculture model and its consequent technological package arrived to install the practices that neoliberalism imposed as a plan of looting natural resources in the region.

In the province -one of the smallest in the country, but with enormous water resources and unique biodiversity-, the proposal focused on strengthening a forestry-industrial, tourism and energy plan based on large dams, and on the forestry model of monocultures, planting large areas of pine.

Faced with this growing scenario, in May 1993 the first Organic Agriculture Conference was organized at the Eldorado Agrotechnical School. In those four days of workshops and debates, says Gerardo, “the need arose to create a network that communicates, that articulates the number of farmers who were dispersed in the province and who were developing what historically they knew how to do, which was working with crops that are compatible with the forest and with natural cycles, and that fought for an agroecological development model ”.