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What’s the Military For?
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By Raúl Romero* On Monday the 11th of May, a contract was published in the Official Journal of the Federation that makes the permanent Armed Forces available to carry out tasks of public security. The agreement, dated last May 8,…
Read MoreCategory: Megaprojects, militarization, Repression, Social Control Tags: Mexico
Neoliberalism epidemic
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By: Raúl Zibechi Centuries ago we were able to learn the importance of the social and natural environments where viruses take root and multiply, because we live with them and they don’t always threaten us. The black plague should have…
Read MoreCategory: Health, Neoliberalism, Raúl Zibechi, Social Control Tags: Coronavirus
Coronavirus: militarization of the crisis
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By: Raúl Zibechi You have to go back to the periods of Nazism and Stalinism, almost a century ago, to find examples of population control as extensive and intense as those happening these days in China with the excuse of…
Read MoreCategory: Capitalism, Health, Raúl Zibechi, Social Control Tags: Coronavirus
Latest Posts
- What’s the Military For? May 28, 2020
- Prison and the pandemic: freedom, according to Chiapas indigenous prisoners May 26, 2020
- Statement of Maya Organizations on the Yucatan Peninsula May 24, 2020
- The Maya Train and the rights to health and life May 21, 2020
- CNDH asks to suspend non-essential work on the Maya Train project May 19, 2020
- Displaced indigenous people, between aggressions from paramilitary groups and Covid-19 May 18, 2020
- Capitalism and the coronavirus May 13, 2020
- Indigenous people of Palenque win suspension of the Maya Train May 9, 2020
- Oscar Chávez, “big brother” to the Zapatistas May 7, 2020
- Statement of Solidarity with the Struggle against the Maya Train May 3, 2020
