So here we are. “But I’m not brazilian, should I be worried?”. Oh yes, you should. A lot.
It’s like an Operation Condor 2.0, a techbro version.
3 weeks to the final presidential round, but the parliament already gone to shit in almost full retarded fashion. Almost, because some amazing progressive candidates get elected, but they are far from majority on both houses.
So more than ever this election is important not only to Brazil, but to the planet - no exaggeration.
On this day, 25 September 2003, noted Palestinian American writer and intellectual Edward Said died in New York City, aged 67. One of the founders of postcolonial theory, Said wrote extensively on West Asia and Palestine, and specifically on Western views of “the Orient". In perhaps his most famous work, Orientalism, Said argued: “Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn’t trust the evidence of one’s eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.” More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9791/edward-said-dies Pictured: Said throwing stones at an Israeli watchtower on the Lebanon-Palestine border, 2000 Learn more about Palestinian history in his books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/palestine
A balanced and rhythmic contribution to the debate on the current state of affairs.
1. Hanging Techbros 2. Tecnofeudalismo 3. All AI Data Centers Are Legitimate Targets 4. Tony Has Turned Funny 5. War Lounge 6. Isnotreal 7. El Capitalismo 8. Fear and Greed 9. Neoguillotine 10. Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà 11. Qual é a sua classe?
September 11, 1973 - Salvador Allende’s last broadcast to the Chilean people. General Augusto Pinochet, backed by the CIA launched a coup against Chile’s democratically-elected socialist President Allende after a protracted US campaign to sabotage and impoverish the Chilean people.
President Nixon ordered the CIA to “make the economy scream” in Chile to “prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him.” Allende refused to surrender to Pinochet’s troops and died defending the Presidential Palace.
Pinochet’s fascist dictatorship would see the deaths, imprisonment, or disappearance of over 40,000 people. The CIA-backed coup in Chile was part of establishing Operation Condor, a plan to impose US-friendly fascist regimes on Latin America to crush socialist, communist and workers’ movements. Operation Condor is estimated to be responsible for 60,000-80,000 deaths in Latin America. [video]
Uma reflexão sobre a Tragédia de Mariana (MG) em 2015, quando rompeu-se uma barragem com 62 milhões de metros cúbicos de rejeitos de mineração. A barragem era controlada pela Samarco Mineração S.A., um empreendimento conjunto de duas empresas, a brasileira Vale S.A. e a anglo-australiana BHP Billiton. Não foi a primeira e provavelmente não será a última demonstração do que ocorre quando vidas e meio ambiente são apenas questões orçamentárias de menor importância para grandes empresas, muito abaixo dos dividendos para sócios anônimos e acionistas invisíveis.
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