Jen Izaakson and Tae Kyung Kim report on the growing radical feminist movement inspiring women across South Korea. June 15, 2020

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Last fall, Jen Izaakson travelled to South Korea to document the rise of the radical feminist movement as part of a Cambridge University working group, after winning a research grant, interviewing over 40 female activists. She co-authored this piece with Tae Kyung Kim, a Korean radical feminist from Seoul, currently living and studying in Berlin.

News of the growing feminist movement in South Korea has reached Western media, but the roots of this radical uprising are undercovered. Mainstream media reporting in the West often covers the aspects of South Korean feminism that mirror our own achievements back to us, leaving the particular achievements of Korean women and the most radical aspects of the movement less visible.

In September, over 40 women from the South Korean radical feminist movement were interviewed as part of academic research. The results of those findings are summarized in this article.

Due to the brevity of this piece, lots of information cannot be covered, but we have tried to include the material that will best demonstrate how the movement emerged; its historical context; and what tactics, strategies, and political formations constitute radical feminism in South Korea.

Male violence politicizes and radicalizes

In 2016, the infamous “Gangnam murder” instigated outcry among women. A 34-year-old man named Kim Sung-min stabbed a 23-year-old woman (whose name remains under a publication ban) to death inside a gender-neutral washroom at a karaoke bar. Kim Sung-min waited inside the washroom, allowing several men to enter and exit before a woman came in.

In court, he explained, “I did it because women have always ignored me.” This is a similar explanation to those offered by other “incels” (involuntary celibates) who have perpetrated violent murders, but in South Korea, government authorities explicitly denied the misogynistic motive, despite Kim Sung-min’s own testimony.

Continue reading “Sth Korean Women’s Movement: ‘We are not Flowers, we are a Fire’”

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Another political fault line has been opened up by the rapidly spiralling events of 2020.

As we wrote yesterday, the Covid scare has found us sharing the anti-authoritarian analysis of people beyond the usual anarchic spheres, while many supposed comrades are bizarrely supportive of the official state narrative.

However, the current street uprisings across the USA, sparked by the murder of George Floyd, have revealed a peculiar limit to some people’s opposition to the nascent global police state.

Unlike us, they have not found hope in the sight of thousands upon thousands of people of all races reclaiming the streets of dozens of cities, overturning police cars, setting on fire the buildings used to oppress them.

They apparently don’t think that it is reasonable, or helpful, to come together and physically resist the state and its hired thugs!

In taking this stance, they reveal that they have understood nothing about the system which has controlled and exploited us for so long, and which is now dropping its liberal mask to reveal its true totalitarian nature.

They have not grasped that its so-called “democracy” is fake, that the “reforms” it sometimes offers us are illusory, that the avenues it provides for us to try and change things are all time-wasting dead-ends.

Continue reading “We are many, they are Few.. We will be victorious!”

US Fracking companies are going bust like Party Balloons. Good news for the planet! But…

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But how the hell did they get permission and investment to drill MILLIONS of toxic wells in their own back yards? Well for one thing a whole lot of state and media sponsored nationalistic HYPE to make the US self sufficient in gas and oil. Plus almost free loans backed by the US superpower privilege to ”just print money’.

And always the BIG WIN around the corner, sure to come, just by investing one more time.

There is a huge global spike in methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases driving climate change over the last decade, according Harvard University Studies. The U.S. is the biggest culprit, mostly from oil and gas fracking wells, there are over a million of them active.

Then there was the ‘wizard wheeze’ to compress the glut of gas into LNG and ship it to the US vassal states worldwide, investing lucratively in not one but many conversion and port facilities..

Destroying the environment doesn’t count it seems ‘‘The Earth is put there by God to be used up by me”.. . Does it say that somewhere in the Bible?

So.. Export as Liquid Natural Gas.. A sure fire winner? You bet your bottom dollar ! But US frack gas LNG, even at rock bottom prices, will always be much dearer due to transport costs than Qatari, Russian or Australian gas. And despite US strongarm threats to force vassal states to buy it the giant LNG facilities in construction are already looking like ‘stranded assets’.

Continue reading “Fracking Gas and Oil to Supply Giant US Chemical Belt and Lock-in cheap Plastics Monopoly”

above photo: in case of 12-year-old Fatma Elarslan, killed with 9 other Kurdish youths by Turkish ‘Peace Police’ in Şırnak. …report below..

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Turkey’s military operations are part of an extermination policy against the Kurdish populations.

Veysi Dag 17 July 2020

While the world is busy with COVID-19, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime is actively engaged with its pan-Islamic and nationalistic ambitions in eliminating the most “disloyal” segments of the Kurdish population.

The Turkish military has launched military operations called “Claw-Tiger” and “Claw Eagle” in June 2020 against the Kurdish militant forces in Northern Iraq, following its military operation, named “Operation Peace Spring” in October 2019 and “Operation Olive Branch” against the Kurds in Northern Syria in January 2018 as well as uninterrupted crackdown against the Kurds Turkey.

”PKK Terrorists” celebrating International Women Workers Day.. 8th March, before their city was wiped off the map

Using drone strikes, the Turkish air force has recently killed at least two Kurdish refugee women in the Maxmur Refugee Camp, left a number of civilian casualties in Kuna-Massi, a tourist resort, killed five civilians in Sheladize and a number of Yezidi activists in the Sinjar region of Iraq.

Moreover, the Turkish drone strike killed three civilian women in Kobane, and the Turkish military killed hundreds of civilians and displaced hundreds of thousand of civilians in Afrin in Northern Syria.

These Turkish military operations are part of an extermination policy against the Kurdish population which includes the purging of Kurdish politicians, journalists and activists in Turkey.

Unprecedented destruction′ of Kurdish city of Cizre (Diyarbakir) capital of Kurdish Turkey

Continue reading “The ongoing genocide against the Kurds: history must not be repeated”

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

Don’t just trust my word. Look into these issues for yourself., and better yet, find your own information.

Testing will soon begin in poverty-stricken parts of Africa for a biometric ID which will also be your payment system and vaccine record. 

The biometric digital identity platform that “evolves just as you evolve” is backed by none other than the Bill Gates-backed GAVI vaccine alliance, Mastercard, and the AI-powered “identity authentication” company, Trust Stamp.

The GAVI Alliance, which is largely funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as allied governments and the vaccine industry, is principally concerned with improving “the health of markets for vaccines and other immunization products,” rather than the health of individuals.

According to its own website Mastercard’s GAVI partnership is directly linked to its “World Beyond Cash” effort, which mainly bolsters its business model that has long depended on a reduction in the use of physical cash.

Reducing the use of cash is needed (by them!). Cash is impossible to track, but if you use centralized digital currency, the ruling class has complete control over what you can spend.

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