Favelinho

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Comparto este video que lanzaron ayer Silvio Rodríguez y Chico Buarque; los fondos que se recaben serán donados a la Sala de Pediatría del Instituto de Oncología de Cuba, así que si queréis verlo, darle like y compartirlo con otras personas, es un pequeño grano de arena para aliviar la difícil situación en que se encuentran.
El vídeo es precioso y presenta esa Habana tan digna como empobrecida.
https://t.co/AVk6LbJAI7

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

when Michael Moore took abandoned 9/11 first responders to Cuba to get free healthcare, revealing just how sick and depraved the US system that discarded them is. In return the US regime imposed a starvation blockade on the Cuban nation and people and is threatening to bomb them

[Rathbone @_rathbone]

Bezos relies on your ignorance. The 40% statistic he refers to is just the Adjusted Gross Income (AGI). It conspicuously leaves out the vast “passive” fortune of ~$8 trillion held by the billionaire class in the U.S. that is not taxed.

It’s misleading because billionaires don’t earn an income or a salary. That’s for goyim peasants. They use a strategy called “buy, borrow, die”. Trillions of dollars in capital gains, not taxed (because they lobbied the tax code to be that way).

They call it “unrealized capital gains” although when they need to “realize” it, they leverage that wealth to borrow huge sums of money which cannot be taxed (because it’s technically a loan).

And that’s how they live and cavort around the world in megayachts, etc. They all do this. Elon Musk did this to buy Twitter, for example. And that’s how they skirt paying taxes and pretend they’re pious because they “don’t take a cash salary”. They don’t play the same game as us.

When you look at the big picture, the true tax rate Jeff Bezos pays on his vast fortune is less than one percentage point (.9%), less than the nurse in Queens he uses as a political prop to advance his agenda.

https://t.co/IB1VFi5NYX

[moonbee @BMoon_bee]

« Un juge israélien confirme qu’un adolescent a bien été affamé jusqu’à la mort dans une prison 🇮🇱 mais clos l’affaire sans poursuites. »

La même déshumanisation des palestiniens que celle que les les n@zis avaient envers les juifs.

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

Day 1: two-three days
Day 2: two to three weeks
Day 3: four weeks or less
Day 4: four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three
Day 5: prepare for another 100 days
Day 6: we practically already won
Day 7: wars could be fought forever
Day 8: we are only getting started
Day 9: we’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough
Day 10: call Putin for consultations
Day 11: US Navy refuses to escort civilian ships through the Strait of Hormuz, calls for civilian sailors to stop being cowards and transit it
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You're here...

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This is how a world on the cusp of revolution looks.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

Remember, capitalism is not defined by “markets and businesses and trade”. It is a system where production is controlled overwhelmingly by capital: the big banks, large corporations, and the 1% who own the majority of investable assets.

And for capital, the purpose of production is not to meet human needs, or to achieve social progress, but to maximize and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective.

To maintain the process of perpetual accumulation requires massive quantities of cheap labour and cheap nature. You have to deny people control over their land, and deny workers access to the yields of their production.

This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded economy. If you intensify the exploitation of your domestic working class and resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a revolution.

To avoid this outcome, you need some kind of “outside”, an external frontier, where you can exploit labour and nature with impunity, where you can externalize social and ecological costs, and where any rebellions can be destroyed with brute force.

This is where imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, capitalism requires “an imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap labour and cheap nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

Imperialism is not a side-gig, not an over-reach committed by greedy individuals, it is a structural feature of the capitalist world economy.

Beginning in the long 16th century, the regions of what today we call the global South were forcibly integrated into the Europe-centered capitalist world economy as providers of cheapened labour, resources and goods. This was an extraordinarily violent process, involving colonization, dispossession, mass enslavement, and genocide.

How could anyone possibly justify these horrors? Race. Discourses of white supremacy and racial hierarchy were fabricated by the European ruling classes to dehumanize the majority world, hiving them off from the realm of rights, to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify apocalyptic levels of exploitation and bloodshed in the periphery.

And of course these very same discourses were deployed within the core itself, to justify paying lower wages to racialised people, and to deny them equal access to resources.

They used racial ideology to construct a global division of labour, a massively inequitable global division of wages, and a global hierarchy of rights. Racial ideology was promoted so aggressively that it developed its own momentum of hatred and violence.

Racism, like imperialism itself, is not a side-show to capitalism but a structurally necessary feature of it. It is not a standalone problem that can be addressed with a few liberal reforms here and there. It has always been central to capitalism and it remains that way today.

Overcoming capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a democratic socialist economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural racism and imperialist violence.

The struggle against racism must be anti-capitalist, and the struggle against capitalism must be anti-racist.

These arguments have been established by a long tradition of scholarship -- WEB du Bois, CLR James, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Claudia Jones, Utsa Patnaik, Ali Kadri, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin and more -- and they remain as relevant today as ever.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's antisemitic blood libel to say Israel would bomb a hospital, unless there's proof Israel did bomb the hospital in which case the hospital was Hamas, unless nobody's believing that the hospital was Hamas in which case it was a tragic accident and Israel is looking into it.

[Rania @umyaznemo]

And that's the bottomline!

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Headline of Israeli daily newspaper, Ma'ariv, April 5th, 1984: "Khomeini's Atomic Bomb Enters Final Production Phase with German Assistance"

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Gaza is being annihilated.
Thousands upon thousands of children are dead. Entire bloodlines erased. And the United States is the supplier, sponsor, and shield of the killing.

Netanyahu is not a defender.
He’s a butcher.
A fascist running from jail who’s building his legacy on mass graves.

Trump is insane .
Biden enabled it all .
Harris went with him.

This isn’t “complicated.”
It’s calculated.
You don’t “accidentally” flatten hospitals, starve cities, bomb refugees in tents or bomb convoys labeled UN. You do that when you know you’ll get away with it. And the U.S. ensures these crimes continue.
Every liberal who says “I don’t support Netanyahu but…” Every progressive who “wishes for peace” but won’t say the word occupation— You’re complicit. You are lubricating the machine of murder with your cowardice.

And don’t dare hide behind antisemitism to justify silence.
Antisemitism is real.
But using it to silence truth while bombs fall on children is a grotesque betrayal of every moral code.

Criticizing a government that carries out war crimes is not hate.
It’s obligation.

And if your politics can’t confront genocide, then your politics are trash:

No more money.
No more bombs.
No more fake neutrality.
No more bipartisan War Inc gorging on profits wrapping themselves in flags .

You are either against genocide. Or you are part of it.

Now pick a side.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

If there was anything more left to say. Here it is. All ten letters of it. In all its Germanic settler colonial glory.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

During their brutal assault on Vietnam, the U.S. military dumped 76 million litres of toxic chemicals across Vietnam, destroying the environment and lives alike

The US killed over two million civilians in Vietnam

No US Politician or General faced justice for these crimes

[Philippa Greer @philippa_bear]

Today entering Gaza City. The ruins of life. A donkey laying dead attached to a cart with someone’s possessions. Clusters of people crossing to the South, with too much to walk with under the sun and given the length of the journey. A man carrying a white flag in front of his family. Women about to collapse, dragging bags over the ground, walking backwards, stopping and closing their eyes. A man on the ground in underwear, with soldiers near the checkpoint. A woman presumably crossing with him, stalled, distraught, in desperation. They passed by these ruins. #Gaza #CeasefireNOW

[Favelinho @Favelinhog]

@wallstwolverine

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"Our well-meaning sanctions". 🇻🇪

[Adam @AdameMedia]

This photo is 16 years old…