Is Bolsonaro Plotting a Self-Coup?

from counterpunch.org/by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia …shared with thanks. Illustrations added

The Bolsonaro government’s recent decision to stop releasing data on the COVID-19 pandemic as the death toll surges above 40,000 has caused an international uproar and deepened domestic discontent. A DataPoder360 survey, published on June 11 showed that the sum of those who see the administration of Jair Bolsonaro as “regular” (22%) or “bad or awful” (47%) have become the large majority.

Bolsonaro has isolated himself internationally and even his main ally, U.S. President Donald Trump, has criticized the way in which he has dealt with the pandemic – not without first sending two million doses of Hydroxychloroquine, a treatment that the global far right has promoted as a miracle cure for the disease despite the lack of a medical consensus. With approval ratings in free fall, but still maintaining a base of about 30% of Brazilians, the Brazilian president has increasingly moved to the far right.

Black lives and favelas matter

As his popularity wanes, Bolsonaro relies more and more on the support of ultraright groups and social media activists. Several of the most prominent among them are being investigated by Congress and the Supreme Court for spreading fake news and hate speech and attacking institutions. They advocate for violent repression of left-wing activists and count among their ranks growing fascist and neo-Nazi activists and groups. Some have openly called for a military coup d’état and a regimen of violent repression of Brazil’s black and indigenous populations.

“In these past two years we have seen a gradual erosion of Bolsonaro’s support base,” says David Magalhães, International Relations professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. “When he was elected in 2018 he had the support of various groups within the Brazilian right wing, the anti-middle class vote, the vote of those who seemed to have an allergy to politicians, but opted for Bolsonaro in the wake of the Lava Jato [Car Wash] operation, the ‘liberals,’ etc. The majority of this electorate moved away from Bolsonaro for a number of reasons, leaving a hard, ideological and increasingly fanatical core,” he says.

Continue reading “Bolsonaro Plots openly to be White Fascist Military Dictator of 212 million”

The five pandemics that plague the Ass of the World. By María Galindo at Mujeres Creando/ Bolivia. translation TheFreeOnline shared with thanks

original en castellano más abajo

In another provocative and essential text, the Bolivian activist María Galindo proposes to think and act on 5 emergencies that, she says, cannot be justified by the advance of the coronavirus: fascism, colonization, corruption and state neglect, male violence and hunger .

How each of these other “pandemics” plague the Latin American countries that she baptizes “Culo del Mundo (The essof the world)”, “in the ambiguous sense of a place of pleasure and contempt at the same time.”

Body Bags, wirh zip. On Sale Here in La Paz

Fear and hunger as a control formula; financial loans as a method of colonization; the ancestral views of health, closer to health care; the role of non-institutional popular ‘pots’ (communal funds) managed by women; the question of whether the exits are going to come from the broken and corrupt states; sexist violence, care crisis and the phrase of George Floyd translated by Galindo: «In the center of the pandemic the movement I CANNOT BREATHE is born, which in Andean code means.. I Can Take NO MORE ».

By María Galindo, life-long inhabitant of the abnormality. Women Creating / Bolivia.
Grateful for the critical reading of Claudia Acuña and the edition of Helen Álvarez.

La Paz, Bolivia.

In this part of the world from where I write, it is urgent to say that we are not facing one pandemic but five, and at the same time. Or, if you prefer, to a pandemic then multiple layers, attached to each other, where the visible and external layer is that of the coronavirus. That layer functions as the obvious surface behind which the five pandemics hide and legitimize themselves, namely:

1) The fascism pandemic that affects democratic structures and freedoms and that mobilizes all the prejudices around the disease, contagion and the “protection” of the population.

2) The colonial pandemic that affects the North / South relations, and the relations with the south of the world present in all societies, the relation with the knowledge and management of the disease and the over-indebtedness of the entire region for the intensification of a more severe global colonial debt contract.

3) The pandemic of corruption and state apathy.

4) The pandemic of sexist violence that directly affects the place of women and the care crisis.

5) The pandemic of pandemics, which is that of hunger.

continues below…

Continue reading “The five pandemics that plague the Ass of the World. by María Galindo, English/español”

Ever since the Indonesian mass killings 50 years ago the State has been ruled by far right authoritarian capitalists whose reign of corruption and colonialism continues to destroy native languages and cultures and literally bulldoze the environment.

In West Papua, Indonesia, we investigate allegations of fraud and human rights abuses in billion-dollar land deals.

25 Jun 2020 15:53 GMT Human Rights, Indigenous rights, Indonesia, Land grabs, South Korea

West Papua is home to Asia’s largest remaining rainforests, Indigenous communities and unique species.

But this exclusive 101 East investigation reveals how Korean-run companies are allegedly engaging in questionable deals as they buy up forests to develop palm oil plantations.

Featuring rare access to a restive Indonesian province usually off-limits to journalists, we meet tribesmen who allege that Posco International and Korindo are plundering their land for a pittance.

Both companies deny all allegations including fraud and human rights abuses.

Selling Out West Papua was produced in collaboration with Mongabay, The Gecko Project and the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism.

Join the conversation @AJ101East

Source: Al JazeeraTell us what you think

Continue reading “Selling Out West Papua: Stop Ethnicide and Ecocide of corrupt colonial Regime”

Turkish drones killed three women in Kobanê 

• Orsola Casagrande, Global Rights.info
• Web site view

On 23 June, three activists of the women’s movement in north-east Syria were killed as a result of a drone attack carried out by Turkey in the village of Helincê (Halinja) near Kobanê

The post Turkish drones killed three women in Kobanê  appeared first on Global Rights.

Kobane people console the three martyrs’ families

The people of Kobane went to the tent of condolence for the martyrs of Helinj massacre, and said that the enemy tries to break the will of women in Rojava Revolution, and stressed the necessity of solidarity among the peoples and the continuation of the struggle.

WOMAN 27 Jun 2020, Sat – 16:08 2020-06-27T16:08:00 KOBANE AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to FacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to WhatsAppWhatsAppShare to TelegramTelegram

The Martyrs’ Families Council of Kobane canton organized a funeral ceremony for the families of the three strugglers who were targeted by the Turkish reconnaissance plane a few days ago.

Hundreds of families and members of civil institutions in Kobane district participated in the ceremony held at the Martyr Dijlah Shrine, south of Kobane city.

Continue reading “Turkish drones killed three women in Kobanê”

Great Anarchists by Dog Section Press in London, UK

£1,148 raised of £2,900 target

supporters 39% 22 days left Support Us Flexible funding – this project will receive all pledges made by 20th July 2020 at 8:08am

We want to publish Great Anarchists and you can help us to cover the print costs by pre-ordering your copy!

• Overview
• Updates 2
• Comments 17
• Supporters 67
• Contact project

Great Anarchists by Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper started life as a pamphlet series. We’ve collected all ten essays and illustrations together to make this beautiful book. 

Dog Section Press is a workers’ cooperative and all of our books are printed with Calverts, a workers’ cooperative. Both the original series and the book are published in collaboration with Active Distro Publishing.

About the Authors

Ruth Kinna
is a professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University, working in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations where she specialises in political philosophy. Since 2007 she has been the editor of the journal Anarchist Studies. Her most recent book is The Government of No-one (Pelican).

Clifford Harper
is a worker, illustrator, and militant anarchist. He has worked for many radical and alternative publications, the international anarchist movement and almost all of the UK national newspapers.

Sample Page

Rewards

Protest Stencil pamphlet

Protest Stencil is London’s most prolific subvertiser, regularly making headlines with his subversive political interventions into the capital’s advertising spaces.

Make Rojava Green Again

Our best-selling book to date is an illustrated exposition of social ecology in the autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava, with a foreword by Debbie Bookchin.

NO! Against Adult Supremacy

A collection of Youth Liberation writing, originally published online by Stinney Distro. This anthology draws together all 20 issues of the NO! zine series into one print edition. It is jointly published with Active Distribution.

Let’s make ‘Great Anarchists’ happen

Donate

£10 £20 £30 £50

Rewards

This project offers rewards in return for your donation.

£10 or more

Great Anarchists

We’ll send you a copy of Great Anarchists in the post once it’s printed.

Estimated delivery: 31st Jul 2020 Select reward

£15 or more

Great Anarchists / Protest Stencil

We’ll send you a copy of Great Anarchists in the post once it’s printed, plus we’ll send you a copy of the Protest Stencil pamphlet.

Estimated delivery: 31st Jul 2020 Select reward

£20 or more

Great Anarchists / Protest Stencil / MRGA

We’ll send you a copy of Great Anarchists in the post once it’s printed, plus we’ll send you a copy of the Protest Stencil pamphlet and Make Rojava Green Again.

Estimated delivery: 31st Jul 2020 Select reward