By Gerardo Villagrán del Corral |Sources: Rebelion.org / CLAE
More than nine thousand migrants who travel on foot from Honduras to the United States traveled through Guatemala, on their way to Mexico, which will be the next obstacle to overcome in search of better living conditions, which they hope to receive from the future government of Democrat Joe Biden .
Despite the fact that a decree empowered the Guatemalan police to use force to contain the advance, the decision to open the passage through the border line in El Florido was made after verifying that there were many families with children in the group, said a police chief. The crossing was done orderly and without resistance, without the requirement to present documents and a negative test for Covid-19..
Most rational Americans have correctly criticized and denounced the violent insurrection in the Capitol last week. Those moments of attack by a racist, disgusting mob have not lacked for condemnation and denunciation. They were violent. They were reprehensible. They called for the killing of lawmakers, demanded the hanging of Congress members. The liberal media and even most of Fox News have not held their tongues when it comes to excoriating the morally bankrupt people who took part. And I agree with those thoughts.
BUT – why don’t we see an equal amount of disgust and condemnation for the violence done by our ruling class, the courtesans of corporate destruction?
Is allowing people to die or fall ill due to lead pipes in Flint, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and hundreds of other citiesnot violence?
Is allowing citizens to lose their lives to cancer from Teflon™ chemicals dumped in their water or preventable oil spills not violence?
Is allowing tens of thousands to die of preventable illnesses from our garbage healthcare system not violence?
It’s violence on a breathtaking scale, far greater than what was done at the Capitol and far greater than any of us will witness in person. And yet large scale corporate-endorsed violence, death and destruction is not only allowable, it’s celebrated, it’s furthered, and promoted.
Oil company documents show that they tell cities that oil spills are good for the economy. Other documents show that fossil fuel companies have known about the harm climate change would do since the 1970’s, but they simply saw it as the price of doing business.
Corporate sacrifice zones like “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana are well known to be deadly to those who live there, yet it doesn’t matter to the corporations because their money will be green nonetheless. It doesn’t matter to the politicians because the poor who live in these sacrifice zones have no political power. The 40% of food that’s thrown out is not a secret.
The subsidies paid to factory farms encourage them to produce heaping mountains of food and dairy and meat even if they can’t sell it all in our market economy. So they throw it out or bury it. Giving it to those in need would take too much time and effort.
Should the racist violent insurrectionists at the Capitol be punished? Absolutely. But so too should the bought-off politicians who do the bidding of our morally bankrupt corporate America.
These politicians and the CEOs they serve are purveyors of violence. They trade in, produce, and reap violence. They sit on hordes of money—the obscene profit from feeding American lives into the death cult of unfettered capitalism.
Our mainstream media are blanketing the airwaves with talk of how the violent insurrectionists must be punished, and while they are not wrong, the criminal behavior those same talking heads and “reporters” ignore speaks volumes. All violence is not equal. Some of it is profitable and protected. Some of it is the American way.
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…”..They smashed the anarchists and anti-fascists, capable of direct action and forceful protest. They smashed the “peaceful, unarmed” opposition. Who’s next?”…’Russia now ruled by disempowerment and rightlessness’..
Moscow State University graduate student Azat Miftakhov has been sentenced by the Golovinsky District Court in Moscow to six years in prison in the case of [attempted] arson at a United Russia party field office in the Khovrino [district of Moscow].
He was convicted based on testimony given by two secret witnesses, including one who died a year ago. The real arsonists, who pleaded guilty and testified that Miftakhov was innocent, were sentenced only to probation of two and four years respectively.
Miftakhov is a political activist and scholar. [In rendering its verdict,] the court just copied the indictment filed by the prosecutors, who had requested exactly six years in prison for Miftakhov.
2021 has begun with trials attesting to the final destruction of any credibility in the Russian courts. This is the real “constitutional reform.” The destruction of the courts as an independent authority eliminates the possibility of protecting human rights and freedoms.
A state dominated by disempowerment and rightlessness has been molded. And this will eventuate its complete political collapse.
Hasaka, SANA– With the aim of investing in terrorist groups and using them to implement Washington’s schemes in the region, the US occupation forces have transported tens of Daesh “ISIS” terrorists from the prisons which are under the control of QSD militia in Hasaka Province to the basis of the occupation forces in al-Tanf area on the Syrian-Jordanian borders.
Local sources told SANA’s reporter that the US occupation has transported 70 terrorists from Daesh “ISIS” terrorist organization who had been detained at the Industrial Secondary School at the southern entrance of Hasaka City to its illegitimate basis in al-Tanf area.
The sources noted that the US occupation forces in al-Tanf provide a sanctuary for the terrorists in the region and they supply them with weapons and provide the protection for them through transferring them from one place to another to implement their hostile schemes against Syria.
An alleged cache of email exchanges between EU officials and the European Medicines Agency show that the drug regulator was uncomfortable about fast-tracking approval for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid jabs, Le Monde has reported.
….“There are still problems with both,” the unnamed EMA official noted in the leaked correspondence.
According to Le Monde, the hacked documents primarily detail issues that the EMA had with the Pfizer/BioNTech drug. The regulator apparently had three “major issues” with the vaccine: certain manufacturing sites used for its production had not yet been inspected, data on batches produced for commercial use were still missing, and, most importantly, available data revealed qualitative differences between the commercial batches and those used during clinical trials….
Anyone with even a passing interest in the global environment knows all is not well. But just how bad is the situation? Our new paper shows the outlook for life on Earth is more dire than is generally understood.
Sky blackened by smoke from fires in Vieira de Leiria, Portugal, stoked by unseasonal heat. (UN photo via Twitter)
The research published this week reviews more than 150 studies to produce a stark summary of the state of the natural world. We outline the likely future trends in biodiversity decline, mass extinction, climate disruption and planetary toxification. We clarify the gravity of the human predicament and provide a timely snapshot of the crises that must be addressed now.
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The problems, all tied to human consumption and population growth, will almost certainly worsen over coming decades. The damage will be felt for centuries and threatens the survival of all species, including our own.
Rojda knew patriarchy at a young age. She married when she was still a child. Her life was marked by violence, repression and abuse. She realized the clear contradiction between patriarchal oppression and the story of Hawraman, where women were considered sacred. As her contradictions grew, she joined the PKK. The guerrilla spoke with ANF about her experiences in the guerrilla and in Hawraman.
“As if people woke up from their dream”
«In the guerrilla you can find an undiscovered human power. Self-knowledge is deeply rooted in the philosophy of the Apoista movement, ”says Rojda Apoci. “It is as if people woke up from their dream.
This shows what kind of system we are dealing with. Hevaltî [friendship, camaraderie] is a concept that has a deep philosophical meaning in the movement.
In fact, it is a rebirth of all the values that humanity has lost. For example, sharing, being together, collective life is revived. The movement is maintained through this concept.
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