Politicians have come together across the aisle to decry the storming of the Capitol on January 6 as “lawless,” “anti-democratic,” and “extremist,” going so far as to misrepresent the result as “anarchy.”
But the problem with the invasion of the Capitol was not that it was unlawful, undemocratic, or extremist, per se, but that it was an effort to concentrate oppressive power in the hands of an autocrat—which is precisely the opposite of anarchy.
Direct action, militant tactics, and a critique of electoral politics will remain essential to movements against fascism and state violence. We must not let the far right associate them with tyranny, nor permit centrists to muddy the waters.
The way politicians and corporate media tell it, there was nearly an anarchist revolution in the United States on January 6 when Trump supporters invaded the Capitol.
Democratic Representative Elaine Luria labeled the protestors “the President’s anarchists,” condemning “those members of Congress who have supported this anarchy.”
Republican Senator and Trump loyalist Tom Cotton echoed, “Violence and anarchy are unacceptable,” while Marco Rubio couldn’t resist injecting a racist and nationalist note: “This is 3rd world style anti-American anarchy.”
For sheer Orwellian doublespeak, nothing could beat the Fox News headline: “Attack on Capitol by un-American anarchists is a terrorist act and disservice to Trump.”
The beneficiaries are six bullfighting associations, which will organize children’s activities such as bullfighting workshops, bullfighting painting contests, and literary contests, even magazine publications, colloquium talks, and even bullfights with death. Six bullfighting associations are going to receive 44,000 euros from the government of the Region of Murcia to develop dissemination activities and support for […]
Erdy already has one $500m pad but needs a new one by the lake for summer visits
Turkish taxpayers, who have already paid TL 125 million ($16 million) for the construction of a new presidential palace near Lake Van in eastern Turkey, will spend another TL 99 million ($13 million) for the complex, according to Turkish media reports.
The new palace in the Ahlat district of Bitlis province was inaugurated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his opposition ally Devlet Bahçeli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on Aug. 25, 2020.
The new expenditures for the palace appeared in the 2021 Investment Program signed by Erdoğan as a budget item of TL 99 million for the “Ahlat Mansion and Statesmen’s Guesthouse Project.” The funds will be used for the purchase of equipment, construction of a 5,000-square meter social facility and landscaping of a 52,000-square meter area.
The construction of the presidential complex in Ahlat moved forward despite the concerns of the environmentalists and a ruling by the Constitutional Court, which on July 25, 2020 annulled an article in an omnibus law that allowed the construction of the complex, saying that the shoreline should be under the guardianship of the state, that it cannot be the venue for a private residence and that it should be open to public use.
The US and EU countries refused to send observers to the latest Venezuelan elections won yet again by Maduro. Despite all out economic attacks the socialist policies in Venezuela still give housing, food and health care and have popular support, despite heavy repression by the police.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido in Caracas points to himself but now has minimal support inside Venezuela, even among the US led oligarchy.
Follow RT on The incoming Joe Biden administration will maintain Washington’s view that opposition figure Juan Guaido is the legitimate president of Venezuela, dashing hopes that the new president might rethink US policy towards Caracas.
Anthony Blinken, Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, told members of the US Senate on Tuesday that there were no plans to rescind the US recognition of Guaido as the leader of the South American nation, even though the country is still firmly under the control of the elected government of President Nicolas Maduro.
After 18 years of subversion, infiltration, coercion, bribery and a constant blitz of fake news the US is still starving and trying armed coups in order to take control of its oil. Venezuelan commune movements march in support of the Constituent Assembly (photo by AVN)
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s army has conducted another drill along the country’s southern coasts days after the United States flew nuclear-capable B-52 bombers over the Middle East.
In what is the fifth military show of force in two weeks, the army’s ground forces held land, air, and sea war games along the coast of Makran and the Sea of Oman.
State broadcaster aired dramatic footage of dozens of Iranian soldiers parachuting out of aeroplanes while images released by the army show attack helicopters, tanks and missiles in combat, and hundreds of personnel ready to be deployed.
The army also said it is deploying rapid response forces to test out “a variety of creative indigenous tactics” and is using divers to complete predefined scenarios.
“Today, army ground forces have achieved considerable operational capabilities in deploying drones and missiles,” said Brigadier General Mohammad Hossein Dadras, deputy chief of the Iranian army.
“The power and might of the army’s ground forces in responding to threats will be displayed in this exercise.”
The drill came days after the US once more flew B-52 bombers over the region, the fifth time in the past two months.
The outgoing Donald Trump administration, which has pursued a “maximum pressure” policy accompanied with harsh economic sanctions on Iran, first flew the bombers in the run-up to the January 3 anniversary of the assassination of Iran’s top general Qassem Soleimani.
Soleimani was killed in a Trump-ordered drone strike in Baghdad last year.
In response to the increased US military presence, Iran’s army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have organised several military shows of force in the new year.
The army conducted a drill for locally made drones and fired torpedoes from locally made submarines, while the IRGC unveiled a huge underground missile base and tested long-range missiles that it said could take out enemy vessels and aircraft carriers more than 1,800km (1,118 miles) away.
On Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned the B-52 mission, saying the US should spend its military billions “on your taxpayers’ health” if it meant to intimidate Iran.
“While we have not started a war in over 200 years, we don’t shy from crushing aggressors,” he said.
In a speech on Tuesday, IRGC commander-in-chief Hossein Salami said the war games bring “calm and confidence” for the Iranian people and signal that Iran will not falter in defending itself.
“Our hands are on the trigger in representation of the great Iranian nation,” he said.
US President-elect Joe Biden, who will replace Trump on Wednesday, has promised to ease tensions with Tehran by revitalising the 2015 nuclear deal from which Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018.
Biden has, however, signalled that Washington looks for broader negotiations over Iran’s missiles programme and its regional influence, something Iran has rejected.
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.
Lee Camp is the host of the hit comedy news show “Redacted Tonight.” His new book “Bullet Points and Punch Lines” is available at LeeCampBook.com and his stand-up comedy special can be streamed for free at LeeCampAmerican.com.
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