The Russian Ministry of Defence has revealed the names of more of the individuals involved in the operation of the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. Among them is a former Pentagon researcher tasked with studying the USSR’s nuclear arsenal. According to the Russian military, Pentagon plans included infecting the entire region with typhus and hepatitis.
Typhoid Rivers and Experiments on Human Beings
“Earlier, we presented a chart explaining the coordination of work at the biological laboratories and research institutes in Ukraine by the United States. One of its components was the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) – an institution which appears, at first glance, to be a privately-owned organization that has nothing to do with the Pentagon,” Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops,saidin a briefing on Thursday.
In fact, the Russian military revealed, this institution…
The United States Department of State has created the Office of Cyber and Digital Policy, a unit dedicated to monitoring and controlling the flows of information that circulate through digital channels.
The Office will address issues related to national security, economic opportunity, and the impact of cyberspace, digital technologies, and policies on America’s values.
The place of this unit in the organization chart of the Department of State has not been definitively specified. There was talk of putting this office directly under the authority of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman rather than the Department of Homeland Security due to the broad, horizontal nature of the Office.
But the choice does not appear to be unanimous within the State Department, although it has the support of members of Congress and lobbyists representing private interests.
The Cyberspace Office consists of three departments. The first is International Communications and Information Policy, under the direction of Steven Anderson, who led the Office of Business and Economic Affairs, focusing on internet governance and digital privacy negotiations.
The second is International Cybersecurity, led by Michelle Markof, a veteran of UN cybersecurity negotiations.
The third is Digital Freedom, directed by the coordinator Blake Peterson, a specialist in human rights and digital management.
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.
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