On the 2022 Philippine Elections Anarchist Strategies amid the Dying Liberal Status Quo On May 9, 2022, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. won the presidential election in the Philippines.
The return of the Marcos dynasty to power has spread considerable dismay among those who remember the dictatorial reign of the senior Marcos.
How could another Marcos come to power—and how does this relate to the electoral contests playing out in Colombia, France, the United States, and elsewhere around the world?
Does Marcos’s victory represent a threat to democracy itself, or is there some other way we should understand the situation?
Immediate freedom for Giannis Michailidis, a political prisoner in the prisons of Greece, on hunger strike for near 50 days
Since May 23, Giannis Michailidis has been on a hunger strike in Malandrinos prison. -“After 5 more months of pre-trial detention, I start a hunger strike for my release.”-
Giannis is a political prisoner, like the dozens of political prisoners in Greece, from the youth who rose up against the Troika that imposed the worst adjustment plans against the workers and the people.
Giannis fought for the Syrian refugees when they arrived on the Greek shores so that the borders were opened, the concentration camps ended and they were given all rights.
Moreover, from behind the bars where the Greek bourgeoisie and its state keep him imprisoned, he fought for the victory of the Syrian revolution.
Giannis is a political prisoner. They have sentenced him to long years in prison, fabricating all kinds of causes and maneuvers, making false trials to keep him in “pretrial detention” and taking advantage of this or that legal aspect to deny him parole over and over again.
They even revoke his right to study and to take exams, even though he has already been in prison for more than 8 years and has served 3/5 of his 20-year sentence and 2/5 of his sentence for escaping.
They have been merciless to Giannis to the point that after 48 days of hunger strike, having lost 21% of his weight and with his health in serious danger, they deny him the possibility of the medical attention he needs.
New disturbing pharmacovigilance signals from VAERS surrounding the use of the COVID vaccines on women of reproductive age prompted a group of doctors to call for a ban on the gene therapy COVID-19 vaccines.
Over the past two weeks, Dr. James Thorp, a maternal-fetal medicine expert, painstakingly analyzed and verified the most recent Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data related to COVID-19 vaccines and compared them to the influenza vaccines.
Abnormal uterine bleeding (menstrual irregularity) is 1000-fold greater
Miscarriages are 50-fold greater
Fetal chromosomal abnormalities are 100-fold greater
Fetal malformation is 50-fold greater
Fetal cystic hygroma (a major malformation) is 90-fold greater
Fetal cardiac disorders are 40-fold greater
Fetal arrhythmia is 50-fold greater
Fetal cardiac arrest is 200-fold greater
Fetal vascular mal-perfusion is a 100-fold greater
Fetal growth abnormalities are 40-fold greater
Fetal abnormal surveillance tests are 20-fold greater
Fetal placental thrombosis is 70-fold greater
Thorp said that he verified his analysis with a DOD (Department of Defense) statistical consultant that agreed to help him on the condition of anonymity.
La ONU declara su conmoción por la cantidad de niños palestinos asesinados por las fuerzas israelíes y advierte al régimen de Tel Aviv de estar incluido en su lista negra.
El secretario general de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), Antonio Guterres, anunció en el informe anual del organismo sobre “los niños y los conflictos armados”, publicado el lunes, que las tropas israelíes asesinaron a 78 niños palestinos, mutilaron a otros 982 y detuvieron a 637 durante el año 2021.
“Si la situación se repite en 2022, sin una mejora significativa, Israel debería estar en la lista”, advirtió Guterres en el informe, refiriéndose a la llamada “lista de la vergüenza” de la ONU, también conocida como “lista negra”, que incluye organizaciones y países que violan los derechos de los niños en zonas de conflicto de todo el mundo.
Saharawi boys and girls look forward to arriving in Spain as well as other European countries.
After the blockage by the current Spanish government’s political change of policy, (supporting the US and Israeli recognition of illegal Moroccan occupation) the program was finally authorized and published in the Official Govt Bulletin on July 1, with a substantial delay of at least 20 days, compared to previous years.
Finally the arrival of Saharawi children in our community was approved, as well as in the rest of the Spanish territory.
Saharawi families in the refugee camps are closely and with uncertainty following the delay in the arrival of their children, and are already counting the days, wishing it to be the sooner the better.
The Polisario Front, as the government of the Saharawi people, works together with the associative movement, and is responsible for hiring the flights that will bring the small ‘Saharawi ambassadors’, as well as preparing the collective passports that are sent from Algiers to the Spanish consulate.
They have also stated in a circular sent to the delegations of each community that the program will be developed, although they regret that it could not have been before, due to various bureaucratic problems.
We must not forget that the program began, after a 2-year hiatus, last February, without knowing yet how the Covid would evolve.
Later, the Spanish foreign policy turnaround was added, which has damaged relations with Algeria.
This has caused, for the Polisario Front and the Saharawi population, that has suffered refuge and violent occupation since 1975, one of the hardest summers in history.
Pedestrians in the Minhang district of Shanghai on Sunday. Authorities have told residents to prepare for unusually hot weather.Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
Dangerous heatwaves are engulfing parts of China,Europe, south-west and central US this week, as dozens of cities have found themselves dealing with soaring summer temperatures.
By Tuesday afternoon, at least 86 Chinese cities in eastern and southern parts of the country had issued heat alerts. Chinese meteorologists forecast temperatures in some cities would top 40C (104F) in the next 24 hours.
In Shanghai, China’s most populous city, the authorities have told its 25 million people to prepare for unusually hot weather. Since record-keeping began in 1873, Shanghai has…