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sábado, 11 de abril de 2026
A Internacional Reacionária - de olho nas legislativas da Hungria

quinta-feira, 9 de abril de 2026
Ilwad Elman - Foco e Filosofia
"O colapso ecológico e o colapso da governação estão intrinsecamente ligados. Eles reforçam-se mutuamente. E as consequências não são apenas locais. São globais." - Ilwad Elman
Ilwad Elman é uma das mais influentes ativistas somali-canadianas da atualidade, centrando a sua atuação na intersecção entre a paz, a segurança e os direitos humanos. Filha de pais também eles ativistas, Ilwad, nascida em 1989, na Somália, viveu parte da sua juventude no Canadá, mas decidiu regressar à Somália em 2010 para se juntar à sua mãe, Fartuun Adan, na gestão do Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre. Este centro foi fundado em memória do seu pai, Elman Ali Ahmed, um pacifista assassinado em 1996 pelo seu trabalho de reabilitação de jovens afetados pela guerra.
Em 2010, quando regressaram, o conflito ainda era intenso e a maioria das regiões de Mogadíscio e do Centro-Sul da Somália haviam sido perdidas para o controle do grupo terrorista Al-Shabaab, ligado à Al-Qaeda. Gradualmente, a organização Elman Peace foi pioneira em toda a Somália nas prioridades temáticas sobrepostas de paz e justiça, clima e segurança, direitos humanos e proteção, questões de género e igualdade, educação, meios de subsistência e criação de empregos.
Em 20 de novembro de 2019, as autoridades locais confirmaram que uma de suas irmãs, Almaas Elman, que também havia retornado à Somália como trabalhadora humanitária, foi morta a tiros num carro, perto do Aeroporto Internacional Aden Adde, em Mogadíscio
Em 20 de novembro de 2019, as autoridades locais confirmaram que uma de suas irmãs, Almaas Elman, que também havia retornado à Somália como trabalhadora humanitária, foi morta a tiros num carro, perto do Aeroporto Internacional Aden Adde, em Mogadíscio
Ao longo da sua carreira, Ilwad destacou-se pela implementação de programas inovadores de desarmamento e reintegração social, focando-se especialmente na recuperação de ex-crianças-soldado e na proteção de mulheres sobreviventes de violência sexual. O seu trabalho ganhou uma dimensão global através do seu envolvimento como conselheira das Nações Unidas, onde tem defendido que a estabilidade política não pode ser dissociada da justiça social e, cada vez mais, da sustentabilidade ambiental.
Como sugere a citação na imagem, Elman é uma das vozes líderes na sensibilização para a segurança climática. Ela argumenta que a degradação ambiental e a escassez de recursos provocada pelas alterações climáticas e desigualdade promovidas por políticas belicistas e de lavagem verde, exacerbam os conflitos armados, principalmente no Sul Global e alimentam a sua instabilidade política, tornando a justiça ecológica um pilar fundamental para uma paz duradoura.
Pelo seu impacto humanitário, foi já nomeada em várias ocasiões para o Prémio Nobel da Paz, consolidando-se como uma das vozes mais respeitadas na resolução de conflitos em contextos complexos.
Recentemente, o seu percurso académico e contributo para a paz foram reconhecidos com distinções honorárias, incluindo um Doutoramento Honoris Causa em Direito (LL.D.) pela Carleton University, em reconhecimento pelo seu trabalho humanitário e liderança global.
Labels:
Al Qaeda,
Assassinato,
Ban Ki-moon,
Biografia,
Canadá,
Caquistocracia,
Citação,
Economia Política,
Guerra Civil,
Ilwad Elman,
Justiça Ambiental,
Kofi Annan,
Pacifismo,
Policrise,
Poster,
Somália,
UNICEF
domingo, 5 de abril de 2026
As Team Trump wage unceasing war on Iran, evangelical nationalists are destroying any moral world order we once had
That combative old hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers, is not much heard these days, though it was once a favourite with church congregations and school assemblies. Written in 1865 by Sabine Baring-Gould, an English clergyman and religious scholar, its belligerent refrain urges the faithful on to battle, victory and conquest: “Onward, Christian soldiers / Marching as to war / With the cross of Jesus / Going on before!” Its martial tone suited the Victorian zeitgeist but it made succeeding generations uneasy (though it was still sung in my primary school in the early 1960s). Nowadays, this sort of triumphalism gives religion a bad name.
Pete Hegseth, US defence secretary, and a leading Christian soldier, would certainly disagree. He probably hums it on his way to work. At a recent Christian worship service in the Pentagon – an irregular event, given the constitution’s dislike of anything smacking of state religion – Hegseth, referencing Iran, prayed for “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy”. Hegseth’s creed is killing. He describes Iranians as “religious fanatics”. And he should know. His intolerant brand of evangelical Christian nationalism is extreme even by US standards – yet has Donald Trump’s backing. Trump was a Presbyterian until 2020, when he abruptly declared he wasn’t. God knows what he is now.
Exploitation of Christian belief for political and military ends is a long-established, shabby US practice. Yet there’s a darkly obnoxious underside. Implicit in the official demonisation and dehumanisation of the Iranian nation is fear and loathing of otherness, in this case Shia Muslims. In one of his first acts as president in 2017, Trump banned immigrants from several Muslim-majority countries, and has continued in that hateful vein.
For most practising Christians, the misappropriation, distortion and weaponisation of faith to justify death and destruction, sow divisions, excuse war crimes and bomb Iran “back to the stone ages” is deeply saddening. Christians – who celebrate Easter on Sunday – believe Jesus was crucified for the sake of all mankind, for the forgiveness of sins, not for vindictive vengeance, pride and domination. Pope Leo spoke for many beyond the Catholic church at a Palm Sunday mass in Rome in forcefully rejecting attempts by zealots such as Hegseth to conscript Christianity. “No one can use [Jesus] to justify war,” he said, quoting Isaiah. War-makers’ prayers would go unanswered. “Your hands are full of blood.”
Not all Christians oppose Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s war of choice in Iran. Yet Leo’s outrage is shared in Britain by, among others, Rowan Williams, a former archbishop of Canterbury, and is echoed across the Islamic world and by Jews around the world. It reflects a much bigger battle – over the way today’s authoritarian leaders ignore international law and encourage and exploit the disintegration of the post-1945 “global rules-based order”. The cost of this breakdown is usually counted in terms of geopolitical and economic disruption, fractured alliances and unilateral acts of impunity, such as the invasion of Ukraine and genocide in Gaza. But the brutalisation and demoralisation of the global order must be counted an ethical issue, too. Its collapse constitutes a fundamental, universal crisis of morality.
More than ever, perhaps, a conflicted world needs independent, apolitical voices willing, and sufficiently courageous, to speak truth to power, stand up to autocratic bullies, defend the weakest and most vulnerable, and call out injustice and state lawlessness. When temporal leadership fails, when trust and confidence in secular governments and politicians are lacking, when belief in democracy is fading and when people’s basic security, physical and financial, is threatened by forces beyond their control, who then will challenge tyranny? With growing desperation, nailed to a cross of their own making, broken societies cry out for spiritual rescue.
In this global struggle against chaos, all religions must play a role. Yet over Iran, its latest manifestation, the response has often seemed cautious and divided. In the UK, Sarah Mullally, installed last month as archbishop of Canterbury and head of the worldwide Anglican communion, sidestepped the war in her first sermon. In contrast, Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Iranian-born bishop of Chelmsford, denounced it as illegal, as neither moral nor just.
The assassination by Israel of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who was also a senior clerical authority for Shia Muslims everywhere, was exceptionally provocative (and illegal). Yet regional reactions have divided along sectarian lines. In Syria, some Sunni Muslims celebrated his death. The war is popular among Jewish Israelis but a majority of Jewish Americans is opposed, with 77% saying Trump has no plan – according to a J Street poll. Similar divides exist over Ukraine, where religious organisations linked to the slavishly pro-Putin, pro-war Russian Orthodox church are banned by Kyiv.
Such schisms and splits are nothing new. Yet facing global geopolitical meltdown, Christian leaders of every stripe have a clearcut moral responsibility to unite in championing a more militant, voluble, specifically anti-war, pro-justice ecumenicalism. In truth, all faith leaders, not just Christians, could and should act together. Mosque worshippers in Tehran, Beirut and Gaza, synagogue members in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and north London, churchgoers from Canterbury to Cincinnati and their children – children like those incinerated by a Tomahawk missile in Minab – all share a common interest in upholding the basic human freedom to live, work and follow the god of their conscience without being blown up, terrorised, persecuted and cynically misled by reckless politicians.
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terça-feira, 31 de março de 2026
O pior país do mundo
Labels:
Benjamin Netanyahu,
Caquistocracia,
Cleptocracia,
Cuba,
Donald Trump,
E-livro,
Hannah Arendt,
Holanda,
Irão,
Jeffrey Sachs,
Joseph Stiglitz,
Paul Krugman,
Reino Unido,
Robert Reich,
Sionismo,
Venezuela
segunda-feira, 2 de março de 2026
Actors - CTRL
Am I just getting better at acting?
I think you've got me figured out
With your tongue inside my mouth
I'm an asshole
Am I feeling better?
Am I just getting better at drinking?
And kissing every girl I meet
In hopes to build my self-esteem
I'm a taker
Well, it's not the right time
And it's not a good idea
Well, maybe I'm pretty biased
But that doesn't seem fair to me
But I lust after her and she's in love with me
Well, this is fucking out of control, man, seriously
Do you really think you'll be better off alone?
Yeah, you're the one to talk, never knowing what you want
And it just takes a toll on my heart, girl, honestly
For just this once, could you be straight up with me?
And if you knew me half as well as you think you do
I wouldn't waste all my time convincing you:
"I'm not who you think I am."
I probably don't give a damn about your band, man
I just hope you understand
That I'm rotten to the core
I'm a selfish attention whore
Don't expect optimism
I left it at the door
And there's a thousand nights like tonight
You look me in the eyes
It eats away at me
I'm running out of air to breathe
And you, you're pretty good for me
I'm all that you want and need
But I won't kiss you unless someone else is ignoring me
It's fucked up
Em "CTRL", a banda funde a agressividade rítmica com uma elegância eletrónica, criando o que muitos críticos chamam de "Nightdrive Music" — música ideal para conduzir à noite numa cidade iluminada por néons, com uma estética muito próxima do filme Drive.
A canção "CTRL" dos ACTORS explora temas de dominação, perda de agência e a natureza viciante de relações de poder, tudo isto envolto numa estética de ficção científica distópica.
1. A Luta pelo Controlo (Interpessoal e Tecnológico)
O título, uma abreviatura de "Control", funciona como um duplo sentido. Por um lado, refere-se ao controlo emocional que uma pessoa exerce sobre outra numa relação tóxica ou obsessiva. Por outro, alude ao controlo tecnológico (como a tecla "Ctrl" do teclado), sugerindo uma vida onde os nossos impulsos são programados ou manipulados por forças externas.
2. O Ciclo do Vício e da Submissão
A letra sugere uma dinâmica de "dar e tirar". Frases como "I give you what you want / I take it all away" evocam a ideia de um manipulador que mantém a outra pessoa dependente através de reforço intermitente. Há uma sensação de inevitabilidade: o narrador (ou o sujeito da canção) parece estar preso num ciclo onde o prazer e a dor são indistinguíveis.
3. Atmosfera "Cyberpunk" e Isolamento
O vocalista Jason Corbett utiliza uma entrega vocal fria e distante, o que reforça a ideia de alienação moderna. A canção descreve um estado de entorpecimento onde o indivíduo abdica da sua vontade própria em troca de uma segurança ilusória ou de uma "ligação" artificial. É a banda sonora de alguém que se sente como um passageiro na sua própria vida, sendo "conduzido" (daí a estética nightdrive) por desejos que já não controla.
4. Niilismo Dançável
Como é comum no Darkwave moderno, o significado profundo é muitas vezes um contraste: a música é vibrante e feita para a pista de dança, mas a mensagem é de aprisionamento. É como se a banda estivesse a dizer que, mesmo quando estamos a dançar e a sentir-nos "livres", estamos a ser controlados pelo ritmo e pelas expectativas sociais.
Resumo da mensagem: "CTRL" é um hino sobre a fragilidade da autonomia humana face à obsessão e à manipulação, seja ela vinda de um amante ou da própria estrutura da sociedade moderna.
Labels:
Canadá,
Caquistocracia,
Cleptocracia,
Cyberpunk,
Darkwave,
Electronicore,
Filme,
Militarismo,
Música,
Poesia,
Post-Punk,
Synthpop,
Synthwave,
Urbanidade,
Urbanismo
Donald Trump é o primeiro presidente norte-americano que, em apenas um ano, já bombardeou e autorizou ataques militares em 7 países

Reports from late 2025 and early 2026 [1] [2] [3] indicate that the second Trump administration has indeed authorized military strikes in seven countries during its first year. While the administration has often framed these actions as part of a "Peace through Strength" doctrine, conflict monitors have noted a significant surge in the frequency of operations compared to previous years.
Below is the breakdown of the countries involved and the nature of the strikes:
Countries Targeted in 2025–2026
| Country | Timing | Objective / Context |
| Yemen | Jan – May 2025 | Operation Rough Rider: Extensive strikes against Houthi rebels to secure Red Sea shipping lanes. |
| Somalia | Ongoing (since Feb 2025) | Significant escalation of counterterrorism strikes against al-Shabaab and ISIS-Somalia. |
| Iraq | March 2025 | Precision strikes targeting high-ranking ISIS leaders in the Anbar province. |
| Iran | June 2025 / Feb 2026 | Initial strikes on nuclear facilities in 2025, followed by Operation Epic Fury in early 2026 targeting leadership and military infrastructure. |
| Syria | Dec 2025 | Operation Hawkeye Strike: Retaliatory strikes against over 70 ISIS targets following the deaths of U.S. service members. |
| Nigeria | Dec 25, 2025 | Christmas Day strikes against ISIS-affiliated groups in the Sokoto state, coordinated with the Nigerian government. |
| Venezuela | Dec 2025 – Jan 2026 | Maritime strikes against alleged drug-smuggling vessels and a January 2026 operation resulting in the capture of Nicolás Maduro. |
- Scale of Activity: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) reported over 600 strikes in 2025 alone. Some analysts have noted that this volume in a single year exceeds the total number of strikes carried out during the entire preceding four-year term.
- Controversy over "Peace" Platform: Critics and conflict monitors often contrast this high level of military activity with the President's campaign promises to end "forever wars" and avoid new foreign entanglements.
- Legal & Humanitarian Concerns: Organizations like Airwars have raised concerns regarding civilian casualties, particularly during the intensive campaigns in Yemen and Somalia. Additionally, the strikes on Venezuelan vessels in international waters have been described by some legal experts as "legally dubious."
Sobre a capa de "democratizar" o Irão e fim dos "terroristas", só há 2 interesses: petróleo e o expansionismo demencial de Israel sionista.
Embora seja o 9º em produção, o Irão possui a 3ª maior reserva provada de petróleo do mundo (atrás apenas da Venezuela e Arábia Saudita).
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| Going to War, Again, for Israel |
"Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children.
Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition.
These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran?
Does anyone really believe that?" [Bernie Sanders]
Labels:
Benjamin Netanyahu,
Bernie Sanders,
Big Oil,
Caquistocracia,
Chris Hedges,
Donald Trump,
Guerra,
Hamas,
Hezbollah,
Irão,
Joe Biden,
Médio Oriente,
Militarismo,
Sionismo
domingo, 1 de março de 2026
Maruja - Kakistocracy (live in Gârden)
Labels:
Activismo,
Caquistocracia,
Cleptocracia,
Concerto,
Dark Folk,
Donald Trump,
Espanha,
Holanda,
Jair Bolsonaro,
Música,
No Wave,
Noise Rock,
Plutocracia,
Post-Rock,
Reino Unido,
Ronald Reagan,
Spoken Word,
Tatuagem
Europe: From the myth of denazification to suicidal Russophobia or The Triumph of the Kakistocracy
The European ruling class is in a terminal state. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, the Swiss psychiatrist who dedicated herself to treating terminal patients, identified five stages of grief that we go through when we lose someone. The first stage of grief described by Kübler-Ross is denial. Faced with the loss of its prestige, influence, and economic power, and above all with the rise of China and the other BRICS countries, the European ruling class reacts exactly as predicted in this first stage of grief: with denial.
Very angry, confused and astonished by the profound transformations of the world, the European ruling class vehemently denies its own inevitable decline, its growing impotence and the definitive end of the colonial period, its glorious past.
This class, which in 2022 reacted euphorically to Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, certain of a quick victory in which economic sanctions combined with NATO’s military might would lead to Russia’s defeat and the fall of Vladimir Putin, opening the door to the exploitation of Russia’s natural resources and its colonization by the West, now desperately denies that Ukraine and NATO’s entire arsenal have already been defeated, violently punishing those voices in Europe who dare to state the obvious, that this war is already lost. The mainstream European press, spokesperson for this dying class, without realizing its own ridiculousness, persists in spreading the most absurd lies about the Russian “threat,” about the “imminent collapse” of the Russian economy and its inevitable future, always future, defeat in Ukraine. Denying reality so emphatically does not change reality, it only makes the enormous and lamentable effort of denial even more pathetic. In its terminal state, the European ruling class has lost all shame and credibility, but it is still capable of causing a great deal of harm. To better combat it, then, it is important to remember a little of its history and denounce its most dangerous lies.
The European ruling class and the myth of denazification
The myth of denazification at the end of World War II is a fundamental pillar in the construction of the supposed “moral superiority” of the European ruling class, which is so important in legitimizing its control. This class presents itself as a proud defender of democracy and human rights, as a historical enemy of Nazism and all fascist movements.
The truth that this class tenaciously seeks to hide is that the reconstruction of European capitalism that allowed its own rise to power was carried out with the support and participation of Nazis and Nazi collaborators, especially in Germany.
At the end of World War II, Germany was divided into distinct occupation zones by the Allied armies—the US, the UK, France, and the USSR. However, as historian Mary Fulbrook wrote in her book A History of Germany 1918–2014, there was a huge difference in the treatment of Nazis and their collaborators between the Soviet occupation zone and the other zones:
“In the Soviet zone, given the primarily structural and socioeconomic interpretation of Nazism which prevailed, major efforts were devoted to the land reform which served to abolish the Junker class, the resources of certain Nazi industrialists were expropriated and there were reforms of industry and finance which had not merely reparations as their aim, The Soviets were concerned also to oust individual Nazis from important positions. They carried out purges not only in the political and administrative spheres, but also in the teaching profession and the judiciary.”
“Quite apart from their attempts to gain some sort of compensation for the enormous material and human losses imposed on them by German aggression, the Soviets implemented certain economic policies designed so to transform the socioeconomic structure of their zone that could never again, in the Soviet view, be the material basis for a Nazi capitalist militarism. They sought to eradicate the Junker class and the large capitalists in a stroke.”
Regarding the occupation by Western powers, Mary Fulbrook states:
“It is notable that, in contrast to the Soviet zone, there were no radical transformations in economic structure in the Western zones of occupation.”
“Denazification lurched along in curious ways in the Western zones. It was not quite clear whether the aim was to punish or to rehabilitate former Nazis; and whether the intention was to cleanse the political, administrative and economic spheres of their presence, or to cleanse former Nazis of the taint of Nazism in order to reinstate them in their former areas of expertise. In contrast to the Soviet zone, which effected a major restructuring of society, along with a replacement of the old elites by new personnel, as well as permitting individual rehabilitation, the Western zones tended towards rehabilitation rather than transformation.”
Also, according to Mary Fulbrook:
“Nevertheless, it can be argued that in more subtle, less immediately obvious ways, there was in fact a major socioeconomic reorientation taking place in the Western zones of Germany. In the immediate postwar period, many people thought the way was open for a socialist transformation of Germany. The Allies’ decision to suppress indigenous anti-fascist groups and support moderate and conservative political parties was paralleled in the sphere of economic policy. Indigenous demand, for example, for the socialization of mines, were peremptorily dealt with by the Americans. Socialization measures proposed by the Land governments of Hesse and North-Rhine-Westphalia were suppressed by the Americans and – under American pressure – the British respectively. Subtle pressures were exerted by the Americans to split communist and socialist trade unions, to isolate the former and moderate the latter.”
Finally:
“Former Nazis, both the committed and the conformists, were able to fit easily into Adenauer’s Germany. Although in the immediate postwar period about 53,000 civil servants had been dismissed for membership in the NSDAP, only 1,000 were excluded permanently from any future employment. Under the 1951 Reinstatement Act many were reemployed in the civil service and obtained full pension credits for their service in the Third Reich. By the early 1950s between 40 and 80 per cent of officials were former NSDAP members. Similarly, only a very few members of the judiciary were permanently disqualified. Former Nazis were even able to gain prominent positions in public life. Adenauer was quite prepared to include former Nazis in his cabinet, such as former SS-member Oberlaender as Minister for Refugees. Perhaps the most controversial of Adenauer’s appointments was that of Hans Globke, the author of the official commentary of the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935, as Adenauer’s chief aide in his Chancellery. “
Regarding the courts responsible for prosecuting Nazis, Mary Fulbrook comments:
“The tribunals soon came to be likened to laundries. One entered wearing a brown shirt and left with a clean starched white shirt instead. Denazification had finally become, not the cleansing of German economy, administration and society of Nazis, but rather the cleansing and rehabilitation of individuals.”
David de Jong, a Dutch journalist who has investigated some particular cases of Nazi industrialists and bankers in Germany, published in 2022 the book Nazi Billionaires – The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties, where he informs:
“By 1970, Friedrich Flick, August von Finck, Herbert Quandt and Rudolf-August Oetker made up West Germany’s top four wealthiest businessmen in descending order of fortune. All four were former members of the Nazi Party; one of them had been a volunteer Waffen-SS officer; they had all become billionaires.”
In his book, David de Jong devotes special attention to the use of forced labor of prisoners of war in factories in Germany and occupied countries. Mentioning Friedrich Flick, for example, the author writes:
“By 1943, those performing forced labor at Flick’s coal mines increasingly consisted of women and children deemed fit for work in the open-pit mines. Many were Russian teenagers from thirteen to fifteen. By the time Flick’s sixty-first birthday came around, his conglomerate had 120,000 to 140,000 workers. About half of them were forced or enslaved.”
And also:
“IG Farben, Siemens, Daimler-Benz, BMW, Krupp, and various companies controlled by Günther Quandt and Friedrich Flick were some of the largest private-industry users of forced and salve labor.”
“Slave labor collaborations between SS-run concentration camps and German companies included Auschwitz with I.G. Farben, Dachau with BMW, Sachsenhausen with Daimler-Benz, Ravensbrück with Siemens, and Neuengamme with Günther’s AFA, Porsche’s Volkswagen, and Dr. Oetker.”
Ferdinand Porsche, the famous designer and owner of the car factory that bears his name and also of Volkswagen, was a dedicated collaborator with the Nazi regime and a producer of weapons for the German army. Porsche used slave labor not only in Germany, but also at the Volkswagen factory in occupied France. According to de Jong, Porsche was acquitted by a court in Dijon, France, in 1948. And, according to de Jong, “not even mentioned in the trial” was the use of “thousands of French civilians and soldiers as forced laborers and slaves in the Volkswagen complex.”
In 1951, at the height of the Adenauer era, the Stille Hilfe (Silent Help) Association was founded in Germany. The German organization Zukunft braucht Erinnerung (The Future Needs Memory) (1) states on its website that Stille Hilfe is “an organization that was primarily dedicated to supporting Nazi murderers, but which, unfortunately, only became known to the public very late and in a rudimentary form. What was frightening about this aid organization, apart from its incomprehensible intentions, was the fact that certain people were involved in it or supported it. At least until 2011, the organization was still very active.”
Its founder, Princess Helene Elisabeth von Isenburg, devoted herself mainly to providing legal assistance to Nazi war criminals sentenced to death who were imprisoned in Landsberg Prison, under Allied control. She became known as the “Mother of the Landsbergers.” This association also provided financial assistance to Nazi criminals and their families.
It is also important to mention the Blue Division, a group formed by Spanish Francoist volunteers who joined the Nazi army in the fight against the Soviet Union. In 2015, several members of the Die Linke party in Germany questioned the German government (2) about the payment of around €100,000 per year in pensions that were still being made to these former Nazi combatants and their families by the German government, which the Die Linke party considered scandalous. (3)
The fact that an association with the objectives of Stille Hilfe could have been created in Germany in 1953 and that pensions to former Nazi combatants from a foreign country were still being paid in 2015 by the German government are two more striking pieces of evidence against the myth of denazification. Similar events occurred throughout Western Europe, where Nazis and their collaborators played an important role not only in the reconstruction of European capitalism but also in the repression of popular movements demanding revolutionary changes in social organization, such as the socialization of mines mentioned by historian Mary Fulbrook. It was this popular pressure that led to the creation of the welfare state in countries such as Germany, France, and England. It is important to remember that capitalism as an economic system emerged from the war completely discredited and had to be reimposed throughout Europe by the United States with the collaboration of the former European elites who had supported fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany. With the end of World War II, the fascists, Nazis, and their collaborators had another function of the utmost importance: the fight against the USSR.
The many faces of Russophobia
Russophobia in both Europe and the US have a long history, dating back to the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Cold War period accentuated Russophobia, which became firmly established even in popular culture, where Soviets were always portrayed as caricatured villains in a wide variety of films and books. Paradoxically, it was after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 that Russophobia took on new dimensions. The years of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency in Russia from 1991 to 1999 were a period of great euphoria in the West regarding its former adversary. The USSR had been defeated, and Russia’s immense natural resources were now available for privatization. According to IMF estimates, capital flight from Russia in the 1990s amounted to about $150 billion. The country was plunged into chaos and economic depression, and in the eyes of the West, Russia was very close to becoming a new Western colony. Upon succeeding Yeltsin in 1999, Vladimir Putin managed to reverse this process of political and economic decline, preventing the neo colonization of Russia, which the West has never forgiven. This is the origin of the demonization of Vladimir Putin, an important ingredient fueling current Russophobia. With the special military mission in Ukraine, Putin has once again thwarted the interests of the West. Through a proxy war in Ukraine, Western powers, with their economic blockades and NATO’s military might, hoped to destroy the Russian economy, overthrow Putin’s government, and put someone like Yeltsin in power in Russia.
Labels:
António Costa,
Banco Mundial,
Boris Yeltsin,
Caquistocracia,
CIA,
Comunismo,
Emmanuel Macron,
FMI,
Friedrich Merz,
FSB,
II Guerra Mundial,
Keir Starmer,
NATO,
PIB,
Rússia,
Sanções Económicas,
Ucrânia,
Ursula Leyen,
Vladimir Putin
Invasão do Irão
Esta guerra desencadeada contra o Irão não é um desvio táctico nem uma reacção nervosa a uma ameaça iminente, é a manifestação crua de um projecto de poder que perdeu qualquer pudor moral e que actua com a convicção de que a força substitui o direito. O governo de Israel não age como um actor sitiado que responde no limite da sobrevivência, age como uma potência militar convencida de que pode redesenhar o mapa humano da região à custa de quem estiver no seu caminho. O governo dos Estados Unidos, por sua vez, não é um aliado constrangido, é o garante estrutural dessa audácia, o fiador armado de uma política que já mostrou, na Palestina, até onde está disposto a ir.
Em Gaza não houve uma tragédia inevitável, houve um método. Não houve apenas o confronto com o Hamas, houve uma devastação sistemática de um território densamente povoado onde se sabia, com precisão estatística, que morreriam milhares de mulheres e crianças que nada tinham a ver com decisões militares. Quando hospitais são bombardeados, quando bairros inteiros são apagados do mapa, quando a fome e a ausência de cuidados médicos se tornam instrumentos de pressão, não se está perante um erro operacional, está-se perante uma escolha, e essa escolha foi repetida até se tornar uma rotina.
Genocídio é a palavra exacta. Não como um grito emocional, mas como uma descrição política de um processo que destrói deliberadamente as condições de existência de um povo enquanto tal. A morte massiva de civis deixou de ser uma consequência indesejada para se tornar uma variável integrada no cálculo estratégico.
A indignação internacional é gerida como um ruído de fundo, tolerável enquanto não comprometer as alianças nem os contratos militares.
A ofensiva contra o Irão amplia esta lógica.
A ameaça futura é convertida numa licença para a destruição presente. Invoca-se o perigo nuclear para justificar ataques, que se sabe de antemão, não ficarão confinados a instalações militares.
A mensagem é clara e brutal. Quem desafia a arquitectura de poder imposta por Israel e garantida pelos Estados Unidos torna-se um alvo legítimo, e as populações civis tornam-se simplesmente danos previsíveis.
Os Estados Unidos desempenham aqui o papel de motor geopolítico. Financiam, armam, vetam resoluções, moldam narrativas e apresentam como defesa da ordem internacional aquilo que é, na prática, a sua corrosão selectiva. A sua superioridade militar e diplomática funciona como um escudo de impunidade. Israel executa no terreno com a confiança de quem sabe que não será travado por sanções sérias nem por um isolamento efectivo.
Esta convergência transforma ambos numa força motriz de instabilidade que ameaça não apenas uma região, mas o próprio princípio de que a vida civil deve estar protegida em qualquer conflito. Quando dois Estados com tal poder normalizam a destruição de populações inteiras em nome da segurança, enviam ao mundo um sinal devastador: a lei é opcional para quem tem força suficiente para a ignorar.
Não se trata de uma retórica exaltada, trata-se de constatar que esta aliança tem agido como um catalisador de guerras sucessivas, ampliando conflitos e reduzindo o espaço para soluções políticas. Ao escolher reiteradamente a via militar, ao aceitar como custo assumido a morte de inocentes, ao expandir o teatro de operações para além da Palestina até ao Irão, assumem-se como agentes centrais de uma lógica que corrói a própria ideia de uma humanidade partilhada.
A História acabará por registar esta fase não como uma defesa heróica de valores, mas como um período em que duas potências decidiram que a sua segurança e a sua indisfarçável ganância justificava tudo.
E quando tudo é justificável, nada fica de pé.
Nem cidades, nem direitos, nem a confiança mínima que sustenta a coexistência entre povos.
Labels:
Benjamin Netanyahu,
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CIA,
Donald Trump,
Fundamentalismo Católico,
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Islamismo,
Médio Oriente,
Militarismo,
Mossad,
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Plutocracia,
Semiótica,
Sionismo
domingo, 1 de outubro de 2023
É só ignorantes nas nossas televisões
1. José Rodrigues dos Santos diz que Colombo era Português. Ora não é verdade. Há centenas de documentos da época a comprovar a naturalidade Genovesa de Colombo. Sem falar no desprezo implícito pelo trabalho académico. É ler o livro de Filipe Thomaz Cristovão Colombo, o Genvoês, meu Tio por afinidade
2. Joana Amaral Dias lança-se em achismo em relação à transexualidade, alinhada no discurso transfóbico do Chega. Vá ler Ciência Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic.
Além de que a força física nada diz sobre qualquer predisposição para a agressividade. O que explica a bastante a violência é o machismo/transfobia. E as mulheres trans, enquanto mulheres, são na sua maioria vítimas de agressões físicas por parte de homens.
Ambos não têm pudor nenhum em usar as plataformas a que têm acesso para passar mentiras e desinformação.
Labels:
Academia,
Artigo Científico,
Biologia,
Caquistocracia,
Ciência,
Desinformação,
E-livro,
Ecofeminismo,
Extrema-Direita,
Genética,
História,
Investigação,
LGBTQIA+,
Literacia,
Propaganda,
Redes Sociais,
Televisão
domingo, 18 de junho de 2017
Música do Bioterra- Valete: Poder
Foi o meu filho que me mostrou o tema, apaixonou-me logo o teledisco. O Valete está de Parabéns. E o Hip-Hop Nacional está a dar grandes passos. Contudo e do que vou ouvindo dos temas deste cantautor, garanto que Valete é o EMINEM Português!
quinta-feira, 13 de dezembro de 2012
A decadência

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Labels:
Caquistocracia,
Clube Roma,
Consumismo,
Eco-Natal,
Energia Nuclear,
Geografia,
Globalização,
História,
Livro,
Michel Onfray,
Ordenamento Território,
Permacultura,
Petróleo,
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