Revolution

I left Egypt 40 years ago. They say you can take an Egyptian out of Egypt, but you can’t take Egypt out of an Egyptian. I still visit Egypt every now and then. I recently made my first visit since the January 25 Revolution of 2011.
It wasn’t easy after all these years. I was warned about the political climate in Egypt now under military rule. The martial law, the mistreatment of journalists and media. But I’ve missed lots of family funerals through the years, and my beloved brother just passed away. I needed to be there.

From the far distance sounded the muffled howling of a family of monkeys, monos gritones, passing the night in the crowns of the mighty trees. It echoed through the jungle like the roar of an angry mountain lion. Gruesome and terrifying, it seemed to tear the night apart, but it did not disturb the jungle. It sang and fiddled, chirped and whistled, whined and whimpered, rejoiced and lamented its ever-unchanging song with the constancy of the roaring sea.

I’ve been writing these Future Hope columns for 20 years, and several times I’ve quoted James Connolly, Irish labor, socialist and independence leader over a hundred years ago, on the importance of singing:

Since the 2010 Arab Autumn, it has become clear that leaderless revolts only have two inevitable outcomes. In the first, a game of musical chairs between right-wing imperialist forces will be played and only superficial change will be achieved, like in Quebec, Egypt, Tunis, and Sudan. The second possibility, a right-wing contra war will take hold of the country, as it did in Libya, Syria and Yemen. 

Dr Mark Skidmore had worked on state budgets where the biggest missing money item was $300. He saw Catherine Austin Fitts talking about billions of dollars missing from federal programs. He decided she must have meant millions of dollars missing so he and his graduate students did some research. He discovered from federal government sources that a total of $21 trillion had gone missing from HUD (Housing and Urban Development) and DOD (Department of Defense) from 1998 to 2015.

Building solidarity for social emancipation from the state, capitalism, patriarchy, and theological intolerance across the geographic and ethnic divisions of the MIddle East.

Source : QG TV, Youtube, 07-11-2019

Notre nouveau journaliste Adlène Mohammedi reçoit Stéphane Lacroix, chercheur en science politique, pour un grand entretien sur les insurrections dans le monde arabe.
Source : QG TV, Youtube, 07-11-2019
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Suppose people are talking about Medicare for All which some call Single Payer and you want a short but powerful counter argument. Try this:
If you take five annual flu shots, your chances of getting Early Onset Alzheimer’s just went up 1,000 %.
Let the Democrat candidates prove to us that Medicare for all or Single Payer or NHS will improve our health. Let them first pass a law letting students in grade schools and employees at hospitals opt out of required annual flu shots.

Source : Truthdig, Chris Hedges, 01-07-2019
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Par Chris Hedges
1er juillet 2019
Chris Hedges a prononcé ce discours vendredi au Left Forum [Forum de la Gauche, NdT] à New York.Lire la suite

Vision logic 1Each stage in the history of the civil rights movement has had a specific theme and focus. In the 19th century it was race and gender, in the 20th it was race, gender, gay, bi, trans, queer, in the 21st it is all of them +.