The State defends "its own" and it thinks, incredibly, that "its own" is the #police or the gendarmes, and not the victims, the citizens.
"The State constantly is putting itself in the position of making those who exercise their rights be perceived as problematic and illegal or scandalous actions be perceived as natural: seeing the body of the deceased or #demonstrating is natural but it becomes forbidden."
—Geoffroy de #Lagasnerie in 2017
The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.
The people shall and #RutoMustGo
The Spanish state terminates multimillion deal with israeli weapons maker ElbitSystems
Coalition authorities in Madrid have stressed their commitment to 'the Palestinian cause and peace in West Asia'
The Cradle: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/30313
The Kenyan government, under the orders of the dictator William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens. #RutoMustGo
In this case, and not for the first time, he's attacking children.
'Kenya police fire tear gas during school drama competition'
Good news: Francesca Albanese's mandate as Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories (on the United Nations Human Rights Council) was automatically renewed (tacitly as they say, for three years); there was no vote.
Her reaction (in French): https://www.off-investigation.fr/gaza-albanese-reconduite-par-onu-malgre-un-lobbying-des-pro-netanyahou/
Portrait: https://somethingtoaimat.com/people/francesca-albanese-and-a-job-like-no-other/
On Israel’s targeted smear campaign: https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/21060.html
Erasing History: How Fascism Works w/ #JasonStanley & #ChrisHedges
#Culture #History #Politics #Economics #antiIntellectualism #Racism #Fascism #Christofascism #Authoritarianism #StateViolence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw2Kgz_2cBk
Rearmament is an opportunity for capital to obtain reductions in welfare and public services, at the cost of lower profitability.
Chatham House: “Politicians will have to brace themselves to reclaim money through cuts to sickness benefits, pensions and healthcare.”
Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves, who has been steadily cutting spending on child credits, winter payments for the aged and disability benefits, announced that the remit of the Labour government’s new National Wealth Fund would be changed to let it invest in defence.
More military spending spurs growth but can damage the ‘health’ of the capitalist accumulation process: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/from-welfare-to-warfare-military-keynesianism/
On the Precipice of Darkness
Normalizing #genocide and the new world order
#ChrisHedges #Culture #Religion #Capitalism #Racism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #StateViolence #Politics #Economics
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chris-hedges-on-the-precipice-of?triedRedirect=true
"Even as queer and trans Iranian asylum seekers and Afghan refugees who left Iran for Turkey do not fall under the same category according to the UNHCR’s criteria, they have something in common: they are economic refugees. Yet the UNHCR does not recognize economic marginalization as grounds for granting asylum. If it did, a large number of people in the world (including in the United States) who are affected by global capitalism’s economic violence (such as lack of access to universal health care in the United States) would be eligible for asylum."
― Sima Shakhsari in her article "What counts at violence?" in https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cunning-of-gender-violence
h/t @danahilliot
The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.
The people shall and #RutoMustGo
The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.
The people shall and #RutoMustGo
"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
[…]
• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."
Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169
Developed by "Witches of Scotland" founders Claire Mitchell KC and Zoe Venditozzi, inspired by the V&A Dundee’s Tartan exhibition.
Scotland certifies official tartan to honor its ‘witches’
#UK #GB #SCT #History #SocialJustice #Misogyny #ReligiousViolence #StateViolence
https://wildhunt.org/2025/02/newly-approved-tartan-design-memorializes-those-persecuted-under-scotlands-witchcraft-act.html
#PassingPrivilege and #whiteness will not save you
Hunter Schafer speaks out about being issued a male US Passport
#TrumpRegime #Project2025 #StateViolence #Trans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eur7YYX_ug
The Kenyan government, under the orders of William Ruto, has been brutalizing, abducting and killing Kenyan citizens.
The people shall and #RutoMustGo
Eight Things You Can Do to Stop #ICE
2025-02-11, via #CrimethInc
"The #Trump administration is paving the way for #MassDeportations by building new #PrisonCamps and invoking the #AlienEnemiesAct, which was used to justify the internment of #JapaneseAmericans during World War II. Motivated by nativism and white nationalism, Steven Miller and other officials are attempting to ethnically cleanse the United States, while tech and prison companies profit on lucrative government contracts and corporations continue to exploit immigrant labor. Knowing that mass deportations will inflict devastating costs, Trump has chiefly been concentrating his efforts in cities like Chicago and Denver that are governed by his political adversaries.
"Nonetheless, people are getting organized. Communities across the US are mobilizing rapid response networks that can respond to raids and support those targeted by #StateViolence. Students across the US are staging #walkouts; people are holding mass #demonstrations and fighting back against deportations.
"If we fail to stand in solidarity with those targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today, the same infrastructure of repression will eventually be turned against others, as well. An injury to one is an injury to all!
"Do your part to melt the ICE."
Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/11/eight-things-you-can-do-to-stop-ice
#KnowYourRights #ResistICE #Mobilization #USPol #Resistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ee7q1VEe4&list=PLzGHKb8i9vTzhLTxeWULNGg-ZYPA8CHhN
4 days ago
WARNING: Descriptions of Dr AbuSafiya may trigger some people, esp survivors of #stateviolence. Please Take care.
#FreePalestine 
#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya NOW!!!
