Many posts have been written saying the awful Syrian war will end when the Idlib enclave finally falls to Assad’s Syrian army.
Wishful thinking perhaps. Turkey has set up 12 bases in Idlib and is busy recruiting the various militias, offering them 500 Turkish Lira a month when their wages from various foreign backers have largely been cut off. Those that refuse will be isolated, divided and broken down, at least that’s the plan.
Erdogan the Turkish leader has repeatedly vowed to conquer all the original Ottoman Empire, which includes all of Northern Syria and Iraq, and has already invaded Afrin with a bloodbath, as well as Jarablus, Azaz, Al Bab, etc (see map below) and now Idlib.
As Brazil’s presidential election reaches its second round, support for rabid, homophobic extremist Jair Bolsonaro is being whipped up by an unprecedented tide of ‘fake news’, distributed on social media, particularly WhatsApp, writes Sue Branford.
‘Fake news’ is reaching millions of Brazilians, particularly through WhatsApp, which is used by 44% of the population to obtain their political information, according to a recent survey.
Mulheres protestam contra candidatura do político de extrema-direita Jair Bolsonaro
So much ‘fake news’ is reaching voters that it must be affecting the outcome of the election.
The allegations they are making about Haddad and the PT may seem wild to many of us, but they have been especially honed to appeal to the deeply ingrained social prejudices of potential Bolsonaro supporters. They are being believed by millions of people.
meme by Madonna. …Greenwald:’And you can go through the whole list of shocking comments. He once said in an interview that he would rather hear that his son died in a car accident than hear that his son is gay’.
Here we translate one ofmany posts confronting ingrained patriarchy/ in Spanish society, published since the first ever hugely successful Women’s Work and Home General Strike in the Spanish State on 8th March 2018, and also relating to the outrage at the release of a group of gang rapists.. the ‘Manada’, and the various waves of feminist social revolution now sweeping the world.
‘In the law courts men are not usually framed in the profile of the abuser .. while women are often presumed to be liars. Women report abuse and lawsuits are filed, but without being investigated. The presumption of innocence is distorted and the legal guarantee is transformed into defenselessness.
Women have recently been conquering levels of equality and freedom (in Spain), but many men are watching us, skulking, full of resentment, and eager to put us back in the place they think is ours’.
So affirms Amelia Valcárcel: ‘ this contained anger usually exerts itself through subtle forms of violence, such as verbal, in the media, in relationships with us or when they are away from women in their professional, leisure or social environment’.
‘No More Patriarchal Violence’ .. ‘Abusing one of us they abuse us all’ .. ‘We cry out against our forced destiny’..
Although repressed, the patriarchal law is a hidden code that permeates every pore of our society. The threat of unleashed anger and exemplary punishment is always present.
When one of the members of the ‘herd’ commits a heinous crime the other members of the fraternity come out like vermin in their defense by invoking patriarchal norms.
In Castellón, Spain, a man killed his two daughters of 4 and 6 years old with a knife to take revenge on his ex-wife. The woman had asked for protection from the Law, but justice did not trust her.
She had requested protective measures in court, but the judge considered that the risk was low and dismissed the measures, noting that both parents were involved in a custody suit and that there were contradictions between the testimony of the man and the woman. .
Brazil faces Militarized Fascism: 3 ‘time bombs’ promote Far Right Coup
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos
October 15, 2018 “Information Clearing House“ – Brazilian democracy is on the brink of the abyss. The institutional coup that was set in motion with President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment and led to the unjust imprisonment of former President Lula da Silva is all but complete.
The consummation of the coup has acquired a meaning that is quite different from what was initially intended by many of the political and social forces that promoted it or just would not disagree with it. Some of these forces either acted or reacted in the honest belief that the coup was aimed at regenerating Brazilian democracy by fighting corruption, while others saw it was a way of neutralizing the elevation of the popular classes to a standard of living that sooner or later was to be a threat not only to the elites but also to the middle classes (among whom there were many who were the product of the redistributive policies against which they were now turning). Continue reading “Brazil In Danger: Three ‘Time Bombs’”
Verges Report: Only 65,000 at Franco’s Day of the Race in Barcelona .. /NOMÉS 65.000 AL DIA DE LA RAZA DE FRANCO
Ciutadans, PP, Vox parties and the rest of the extreme right call to ‘clean Catalonia of the yellow pestilence’ (ie. the Catalans)
Subsidised Buses from all over Spain fail to fill Barcelona for the Day of the Race, ignored by Catalans
Despite affluent ex fascist organisations subsidising fleets of buses at 10 euros return from Madrid to Barcelona (1,250 km) the ‘ historic unionist multitude’ rightwing demo was a bit of a flop, about half that of last year, though the organisers claimed ‘nearly a million took part’ the police estimated 65,000. Continue reading “Verges Report: Only 65,000 at Franco’s Day of the Race”
About to start .. the anti-colonial march in front of the Palau de la Virreina located on the Ramblas of Barcelona, where around 500 people gathered in the Platform call October 12, nothing to celebrate.
Indigenous iconography, music and the festive atmosphere are the protagonists. Before beginning, a manifesto was read where it was claimed “to be daughters of the mix. group of women have made a dance and an invocation of Mapuche and a Brazilian representative has denounced the cultural genocide in Brazil – “with 90 languages disappeared in 100 years” – and that Bolsonaro “does not want to leave a millimeter of land to originals “.
A march with many banners: against the sexist laws, for the abolition of the Aliens Act, one in representation of the various imprisoneded migrants (Barcelona, Badalona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and Blanes), one that asks #JusticiaparaBerta And the last one that says “they did not discover us, they invaded us”. 18.57 h. The anti-colonial march has reached the foot of the statue of Colón de Barcelona, where the demonstration ends. There, there was a theatrical representation in ironic form of the arrival in America.
During the event, songs like “Colón, Colón, asesino y violador (murderer and rapist)” or “With prisons, Internment, raids and borders .. That’s how Europe’s wealth is built. ” There have also been dances and manifestoes have been read, in which the Spanish monarchy and multinationals have been denounced and the right of self-determination of the peoples has been defended.
/ Freddy Davies
original in Catalan
16.45 h. A punt d’arrencar la marxa anticolonial davant del Palau de la Virreina situat a les Rambles de Barcelona, on s’hi han congregat al voltant de 500 persones en la convocatòria de la Plataforma 12 d’octubre, res a celebrar. La iconografia indigenista, la música i l’ambient festiu són les protagonistes. Abans de començar, s’ha llegit un manifest on s’ha reivindicat “ser filles de la mescla”. Un grup de dones han fet una dansa i una invocació maputxe i una representant brasilera ha denunciat el genocidi cultural al Brasil – “amb 90 llengües desaparegudes en 100 anys”- i que Bolsonaro “no vol deixar ni un mil·límetre de terra als originaris”. Una marxa amb moltes pancartes: contra les lleis masclistes, per l’abolició de la Llei d’estrangeria, una en representació de les diverses tancades de migrants (Barcelona, Badalona, l’Hospitalet de Llobregat i Blanes), una que demana #JusticiaparaBerta i l’última que diu “no nos descubrieron, nos invadieron“.
/ Freddy Davies”
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18.57 h. La marxa anticolonial ha arribat al peu de l’estàtua de Colón de Barcelona, on finalitza la convocatòria. Allà s’ha fet una representació teatral en clau irònica de l’arribada a Amèrica. Durant la manifestació s’han escoltat càntics com “Colón, Colón, asesino y violador” o “Carceles, CIEs, redadas y fronteras. Así se construye la riqueza europea”. També s’han realitzat danses i s’han llegit parlaments, on s’han denunciat la monarquia espanyola i les multinacionals i s’ha defensat el dret d’autodeterminació dels pobles.
Erdogan the Turkish leader has repeatedly vowed to conquer all the original Ottoman Empire, which includes all of Northern Syria and Iraq, and has already invaded Afrin with a bloodbath, as well as Jarablus, Azaz, Al Bab, etc (see map below) and now Idlib.
The Free 