Reading through Vijay Prashad’s Washington Bullets, and his brief but informative section on NGOs really highlights why the US and EU were so apoplectic about Georgia’s law that didn’t even ban NGOs, it just required that they disclose their funding. Because the NGO space really is a third spoke along with the IMF and World Bank in imposing US hegemony on the ground in the Global South. They have to contain anything that would highlight US imperial involvement in NGOs at any cost.
Two data points to consider:
The coup leader was demanding that Evo not be allowed to run (kind of a weird request, if you’re going all the way with a coup I would think you would want both Arce and Evo both to be prevented from running).
Both Camacho and Añez immediately condemned the coup. That’s… odd.
I’m not gonna completely disregard what Evo is saying here.
Jane Fonda had tears in her eyes
It’s a shame that the woman who did probably the coolest thing any Hollywood actor has ever done (pose with PAVN AA guns and soldiers in the Vietnam War) has been reduced to being such a lib.
Young folks in Japan ain’t doing so hot right now, either.
I genuinely feel like the DPRK could hasten reunification by trying to show folks in the South just how normal and well-adjusted folks in their society are. Like, hey, we work 8 hours a day and have enough to eat and a home, and we spend a lot of quality time with family and friends.
(Yes I know it’s illegal to access anything related to the DPRK in the south. And even when it’s not illegal, YouTube for example quickly shut down that one DPRK channel where it was just a little girl talking about her day).
It’s worse, they think Bloomberg entered the race to stop her and not Bernie.
And you can’t even blame the Soviets for that one! They had an entire generation wiped out by WW2 that would have been at the age leaders typically rise to that level by the 70s and 80s. The US doesn’t even have an excuse.
While I think the issue of Gaza and Biden supporting genocide goes beyond poll numbers, the reality is that polls show Gaza is way down the list of voter concerns, even for young voters.
Death to America.
Respectfully, comrade, nowhere near half of hexbear was advocating for Biden as the harm reduction candidate. There were some posters here and there who might have said that but the overwhelming majority of the site, like 97%, was saying “fuck these guys I’m not voting for either”.
BetOnline is currently showing Biden at +300 to win, and Newsom at +700. That seems like an awfully small spread when one person is the presumptive democratic nominee and the other is not
Do they actually think we are not voting for Biden only because he’s old?
I highly recommend watching the Fault Lines documentary The Night Won’t End on YouTube (though cw you will see the suffering of the people of Gaza up close) I was listening to the journalist who runs Fault Lines (who I believe is Palestinian-American or Arab-American) on Electonic Intifada and you can tell she really put her heart and soul into this one.