Por Tony López R*, Resumen Latinoamericano, 17 de abril de 2022.
Ayer 16 de abril se conmemoran 61 años del histórico pronunciamiento del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, al declarar el carácter Socialista de la Revolución Cubana. La esquina de la calle 12 y 23 fue el escenario de dicho pronunciamiento, cuando miles de cubanos acompañaban las honras fúnebres de las victimas de la cobarde agresión militar de Estados Unidos, contra tres aeropuertos militares cubanos y preludio de la invasión mercenaria.
It may not have totally passed you by that we live, at least here in the affluent and powerful West, now also called the Global North, in a time of sex and gender turmoil.
There is argument, and sometimes political and legal action, taking place over how people refer to themselves and perform their lives in the context of sex and gender activity and expression.
This is not a trivial matter for, in fact, [besides the many lives it harms or otherwise affects] it cuts to the very heart of the organisation and understanding of civilization — if by the term “civilization” we mean the organisation of people who live in close proximity to one another in variously connected communities and societies.
In recent centuries in this context diverse sexualities and gender expressions [homosexuality and transgenderism are obvious examples here] have been exposed to the light [but not to reality for it is my firm belief that they have always quite naturally existed — across numerous cultures — as expressions of a nature that exists in whatever way it is possible to do so] in ways not always, or even usually, emancipatory.
Diverse sexualities and gender expressions are, more often than not, either criminalised, pathologized as “deviant” or issues of mental ill health, or both.
Both sex and gender, as intellectual historians such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have demonstrated, have been subject to, and, in some senses, formulated by, authoritarian epistemologies of control which seek to dictate terms in order to politically coerce what is and is not allowed to exist or take place.
This has the obvious corollary of sex and gender-based oppressions stemming from patriarchal power operating according to a dynamic of domination and subordination along heteronormative and dimorphic lines.
An anarchist must respond to this.
An anarchist, I would argue, must in fact enter the fray and seek to define what an anarchist and emancipatory ethic of sex and gender might be [by living it out!]
This is what is going on below in what I have decided to term an expression of “anarchasexuality”.
This text, however, is not a dogma and will inevitably be subject both to change and to being surpassed as imagined new and better formulations emerge in interaction with others.
What this text is, then, is an always preliminary attempt to bring understanding, clarity and proposed anarchist virtues and values to a contested area of life whilst utilising an avowedly anarchist hermeneutic to do so.
All that said, therefore:
What is ANARCHASEXUALITY? I offer 13 suggestions:
The belief that sexuality and gender:
a. need not be fixed or stable;
b. manifests with more or less fixity and stability in differing people;
c. can, in some cases, be perceived as a choice;
d. is performatively reinforced and so is neither merely “genetic” or “biological”nor entirely “voluntary” or “environmental” and so is a coalition of biology and environmentally-conditioned behaviour, proclivity and disposition, choice and not choice;
f. is in all cases subject to social, cultural and epistemological coercion and constraint.
2. The anarchasexual is one who “sees through” the fictions of imposed sexualities and genders and regards such things as impositions of power/knowledge – especially in the case of its most obvious example, a heterosexual understanding of sex based on a sex binary imposed as a controlling and patriarchally-policed normativity.
This is to say that sex, gender and sexuality types are all regarded by the anarchasexual as FICTIVELY REAL and so as voluntary human categories of thought rather than as nature’s own blueprints.
For the anarchasexual, nature has no blueprints; it is a what can happen that will happen, a diversity engine, and therefore does not invite either moral or normative judgments as such, politics and culture notwithstanding.
3. Anarchasexuality recognises the reality of physical bodies of diverse kinds, each with their own physical possibilities and impossibilities [including especially intersex bodies].
e. is something that people can accept or reject as a matter of agency and affirmation;
Despite US Empire’s stranglehold on information, most of the world has little trouble spotting the villain.
Biden is a killer. Here’s why..
Joe Biden’s vitriol against Vladimir Putin is so shocking to the ear that it calls your sanity into question when you listen. Did I hear this right? Is this true? He’s calling Putin a ‘thug’ and a ‘war criminal’? Genocide?
Not only is Biden directly implicated in bringing this war to fruition–this great plan of the CIA for years: to bait and bleed, to goad Russia into war with Ukraine. His administration fostered the coup that led to this.
His administration funded the Nazis knowingly–openly paid for the destruction of Ukrainians in the south and east by other Ukrainians. Led by Nazis—yes, Nazis–don’t be afraid to say the word.
Led by Nazis Aidar, Azov, Pravii Sektor, Svoboda, C14–adherents of Nazi ideology. Okay?
So not only are these Joe’s Nazis in a very real sense but this thug, this lifelong lover of murder has never condemned the policies of his own country that have led to massacre after massacre in the country after country around the globe. Never met a massacre he didn’t like, never did not support any of these wars and partial wars and sanction wars and infiltrations and invasions and domination of countless countries from A to Z.
Jury throws out government’s case—finds FBI agents fabricated a kidnapping threat against Michigan governor so they could pretend to be heroes by foiling a “crime” of their own creation.
FBI director’s use of entrapment is part of a strategy designed to sow public fear and render support for draconian anti-terrorist legislation.
For 95 years—from J Edgar Hoover to Christopher Wray—the FBI has lied, cheated, threatened, and even murdered Americans. Is it beyond reform?
Should we replace it with a national police force that protects instead of persecutes those it is supposed to serve?
The Michigan bombing case is just the latest, but it is surely not the first example, of the FBI overstepping legal and ethical boundaries to burnish its public image by creating Bad Guys to scare the public and blackmail Congress into passing ever larger budgets to fight domestic terrorism.
Like the Pentagon and the CIA, the FBI needs Bad Guys to justify its existence—and it’s trampling on civil rights. So if villains do not exist, they will be created. In the case of the Governors bombing plot, the FBI cynically created “dangerous terrorists” out of “credulous weekend warriors, often stoned on marijuana and prone to big, wild talk.”
Eric King is an anarchist prisoner who was arrested in September 2014 after he carried out a solidarity action to support the Ferguson Uprising.
We speak again today with his lawyer, Lauren Regan, about the harsh violence and repression he has faced in prison, culminating in trumped-up charges of assaulting a guard, charges which he just defeated in court.
In further retaliation for his court victory, he is now being moved to a maximum-security facility with only two years left on his sentence.
This week, Regan describes the recent incident of abuse King suffered at the hands of guards. She tells the story of the trial itself, highlighting the pattern of guards closing ranks in moments like this.
Regan points to the broader picture of what motivates guards to lie, and what makes people often want to believe authority figures instead of their peers.
His supporters are requesting that people call the Mid-Atlantic Bureau of Prisons Regional Office and request answers about why he is being punitively transferred.
Eric King is an anarchist prisoner who was arrested in September 2014 after he carried out a solidarity action to support the Ferguson Uprising. We speak again today with his lawyer, Lauren Regan, about the harsh violence and repression he has faced in prison, culminating in trumped-up charges of assaulting a guard, charges which he just defeated in court. In further retaliation for his court victory, he is now being moved to a maximum-security facility with only two years left on his sentence. This week, Regan describes the recent incident of abuse King suffered at the hands of guards. She tells the story of the trial itself, highlighting the pattern of guards closing ranks in moments like this. Regan points to the broader picture of what motivates guards to lie, and what makes people often want to believe authority figures instead of their peers.
His supporters are requesting that people call the Mid-Atlantic Bureau of Prisons Regional Office and request answers about why he is being punitively transferred. Check out his support page for more information.
Posted on April 13, 2022 info from wikipedia and ELCOMUNISTA.NET
The civilian victims of the hostilities in Ukraine since last February 24 reached the figures of 1,932 dead and 2,589 wounded, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on Wednesday.
This is a shocking disaster. All deaths statistics show 675,000 a year die of a;; causes in Ukraine (2015 figures https://voxukraine.org/en/mortality-in-ukraine-en/) which is about 112,500 deaths for a similar 2 month period, so the normal death rate would be about 58 times more.
In that context the disaster does not seem to merit 5 million people fleeing the country, especially since the ethnically Ukrainian West of the country is hardly touched by the war.
The capital city of Kiev, with 3,000,000 people reported less than 100 deaths attributable to the war, despite wild media reports of carpet bombing and hundreds of thousands sleeping underground for weeks. We don’t know if the UN statistica include the 400 people who died in the highly disputed Bucha attacks.
The United Nations civilian death and injuries stats may well be an underestimation, but the US has admitted that the torrent of 24/7 anti Russian ‘narrative’ is greatly exaggerated or invented, ‘for our own good’ a surprising admission which casts doubt on everything they claim or do, especially the Cpvid and vaccine ‘narratives’.US Officials Admit They’re Literally Just Lying To The Public About Russia
Three U.S. officials tell NBC News that U.S. claims based on “intelligence” on Russia were made up simply to “preempt the Russians”
One U.S. official: “It doesn’t have to be solid intelligence when we talk about it..” pic.twitter.com/Yv9udq05ex
Military deaths reports are even more politicized. Russia admits just a few hundred deaths and nearly 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed, and the Ukrainians claim the opposite, vice-versa.
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The details of UN civilian death estimates
“From 04:00 local time (GMT+2) on February 24, 2022 (…) until midnight on April 12, Oacnudh registered 4,521 civilian victims in the country: 1,932 dead and 2,589 injured,” the statement said.
Among the deceased are 485 men, 313 women, 54 boys and 31 girls (85 in total), as well as another 977 adults and 72 minors whose sex is still unknown.
Regarding the wounded, 297 men, 222 women, 52 boys and 52 girls (104 in total) are reported, as well as 1,820 adults and 146 minors, whose gender is also unknown.
In Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, 698 people were killed and 1,296 others were injured. The note specifies that in the territory controlled by Kyiv, 621 deaths and 1,010 wounded were registered, while in the areas under the control of the Donbas republics, 77 dead and 286 wounded.
In the territories that were under the control of the Ukrainian government when the casualties occurred – the Ukrainian capital and the Kyiv, Cherkasi, Chernigov, Kharkiv, Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumi, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Zhytomyr regions – 1,234 civilians and other 1,293 people were injured.
According to the OHCHR, most of the recorded casualties “were due to the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including heavy artillery shelling and multiple launch rocket systems, air strikes and missile strikes.”
ONU reporta 1.932 civiles muertos y otros 2.589 heridos en Ucrania desde el 24 de febrero
Las víctimas civiles de las hostilidades en Ucrania desde el pasado 24 de febrero alcanzaron las cifras de 1.932 muertos y 2.589 heridos, informó este miércoles la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Derechos Humanos (Oacnudh).
Este es un desastre impactante. En Ucrania las estadísticasmuestran 675.000 muertes al año por todas las causas (cifras de 2015 https://voxukraine.org/en/mortality-in-ukraine-en/) que son alrededor de 112 500 muertes naturales durante un período similar de 2 meses, por lo que la tasa de mortalidad normal sería unas 58 veces más que los 1.932 muertos causados por la guerra.
En ese contexto, el desastre no parece merecer que 5 millones de personas huyan del país, especialmente porque la guerra apenas afecta la parte étnicamente Ukraniana occidental del país
La capital, Kiev, con 3.000.000 habitantes, nos informó de menos de 100 muertes atribuibles a la guerra, a pesar de los informes continuos de los medios de comunicación sobre bombardeos y las cientos de miles de personas durmiendo bajo tierra durante semanas.
Las estadísticas de muertos y heridos civiles de las Naciones Unidas bien pueden ser una subestimación, pero también EE. UU. ha admitido que el torrente de ‘narrativa’ antirrusa 24 horas al día, 7 días a la semana, es muy exagerado o inventado, ‘por nuestro propio bien’, una admisión sorprendente que arroja dudas sobre todo lo que afirman o hacen, especialmente las ‘narrativas’ de Cpvid y vacunas.
Los informes de muertes militares están aún más politizados. Rusia admite solo unos pocos cientos de muertos y casi 30.000 soldados ucranianos asesinados, y los ucranianos afirman lo contrario, y viceversa.
«Desde las 04.00 hora local (GMT+2) del 24 de febrero de 2022 (…) hasta la medianoche del 12 de abril, Oacnudh registró 4.521 víctimas civiles en el país: 1.932 muertos y 2.589 heridos», dice el comunicado.
Entre los fallecidos figuran 485 hombres, 313 mujeres, 54 niños y 31 niñas (85 en total), así como otros 977 adultos y 72 menores cuyo sexo aún se desconoce.
En lo refrente a los heridos, se informa de 297 hombres, 222 mujeres, 52 niños y 52 niñas (104 en total), así como de 1.820 adultos y 146 menores, cuyo género tampoco se conoce.
En las provincias de Donetsk y Lugansk 698 personas perdieron la vida y otras 1.296 resultaron heridas. La nota precisa que en el territorio controlado por Kiev fueron registrados 621 muertos y 1.010 heridos, mientras que en las zonas bajo el control de las repúblicas de Donbás, 77 muertos y 286 heridos.
En los territorios que estaban bajo el control del Gobierno ucraniano cuando se produjeron víctimas –la capital ucraniana y las regiones de Kiev, Cherkasi, Chernígov, Járkov, Jersón, Nikoláev, Odesa, Sumi, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipró y Zhitómir– fallecieron 1.234 civiles y otras 1.293 personas resultaron heridas.
Según la Oacnudh, la mayoría de las víctimas registradas «se debieron al uso de armas explosivas con una amplia zona de impacto, incluidos los bombardeos de artillería pesada y sistemas de lanzamiento múltiple de cohetes, ataques aéreos y con misiles».
