Indigenous Official and British Journalist Murdered in Brazilian Amazon https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/indigenous-official-and-british-journalist-murdered-in-brazilian-amazon/ #Eco #Global #Amazon #Brazil #bruno_pereira #dom_phillips #The_Guardian #Union_of_Indigenous_Peoples_of_the_Javari_Valley #UNIVAJA #UNIVAJA

#The_Guardian #Poverty #UK

Spot on comment about the harm done to UK by #Tory & #NuLabour policies over last decades. With Tories the most culpable for the most evil policies designed to actually inflict misery rather than just neglect to relieve suffering as was their wont in past.

I despise these soulless cynical politicians more than words can say. Nye Bevan was correct 'lower than vermin'. But now we must include NuLabour.

All the direct logical consequence of uncontrolled capitalism.

#The_Guardian #Zoe_Williams #Human_Rights #Trans_Rights

Excellent article by Zoe Williams. #Labour should pay attention. I wrote pretty much the same thing here on Mastodon a few toots back - check them both out.

#The_Guardian #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #Peace

I agree with #Kier_Giles, #Chatham_House, Putin must feel defeated by #Ukraine or he will just regroup and attack West again.

Must feel defeated but somehow avoid adding this to his list of 'humiliations' which West has inflicted on Russia. Actually, self-inflicted wounds Putin has brought onto Russia.

But hoping he can realise this is like hoping for a miracle.

Maybe #Laylat_al-Qadr will be a turning point? 19/04 - 29/04 to bring good news?

#The_Guardian misses the point, as usual.

#Erdogan has long list of grievances against #US re 2016 coup, inaction on #Khashoggi, #Syria, #Iraq, #Kurds etc

Grievances against #Egypt, #Greece, #Israel over dominance of east Med. Ambivalence towards #EU & #NATO.

A desire to restore #Ottoman glory days, make #Türkiye a major power like #India, #Brazil.

Being honest broker over #Ukraine is a step towards these ambitions. Erdogan plays #Franco or #Mussolini to Putin's #Hitler or Xi's #Hirohito.

#The_Guardian #Nicola_Jennings #Cartoon #Biden #US #Sanctions #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #War #Fossil_Fuels

Brilliant cartoon that conflates Putin's investment in open violence to further imperialism and Biden's risk-aversion and liberal-capitalist faith in the indirect violence of sanctions.

I predict this image will be used in future histories and textbooks.

Myself? I think Putin is the face of an evil system and Biden is another face of the same system. Neither exists without the other.

#Sunak #Chancellor #Budget #Poverty #UK

Read the article in #The_Guardian.

#Joseph_Rowntree_Foundation is not a #Leftwing organisation and even it despises the policies of Johnson, Sunak and the #Tory Party exercising #tyranny over UK's poorest people.

#The_Guardian #Steve_Bell

I sincerely loathe the #English now. #Brexit was bad enough. #Johnson was the final straw.

#Putin #Xi #Kim etc are evil, seriously evil. They embody the evil inherent in evil political systems which created them & trap them in the system. Powerful inside their system but powerless outside it. Trapped like insects in amber. They evoke fear.

Johnson is evil & a product of an evil system too. But he expresses the vanity & banality of evil. He evokes contempt not fear.

#China took control of #Darwin port in #Australia via state-owned business, compromising Oz security. Reported in #The_Guardian.

#Sunak ignored this history when he created 'free ports' in #UK and allowed Chinese ally #UAE to control them through state-owned #DP_World.

Sunak's actions were reckless in 2021. They look criminal post-#Ukraine invasion.

#British public opinion & MPs still ignoring security issues of 'free ports'. Only focused on DP World's #P&O_Ferries job losses.

Stupid!

#Eleanor_Shakespeare #Art #The_Guardian

Beautiful image from #Shakespeare for #Guardian article!

#The_Guardian #Aditya_Chakrabortty

Good article from Chakrabortty. I have said same since Ukraine War began.

Will experience of war change direction of Western publics? Away or towards the chaos capitalism that created Putin in the first place?

Too early to tell.

My dream? That the people reject current leaders and assert their own power in renewed demands for genuine democracy and the empowerment of the people so that those who must live under the law, make the law that binds them.

Amen!

#UK #Tories #NetZero #Green #energy

Good article in #The_Guardian about many, many failures of Tory energy policy which has not only helped kill the planet, force up domestic fuel bills, but made UK dependent on fuel from scum like #Putin which undermines efforts to defend #Ukraine. Read it!

#human_rights #Economic_Migrants #Gulf #Exploitation #racism

Foreign workers are often denied basic human rights in Gulf states which are dependent on their labour for maintaining citizens' comfortable lifestyles. The driver for abuse is partly racism, classism and other chauvinisms. But fundamentally it is Capitalism at its worst which runs Gulf states - states which pretend to honour #Islam. As if!

Good article from #The_Guardian on this. Follow the links. Find out more!

#The_Guardian #Police #uk

Article from Guardian re policing crisis. Deplores mess. Offers no answers.

I suggested radical changes such as a community-led social enterprise which provides professional policing services. To replace the current model of a state-funded police force (force not service) which exists to control the population & protect the elite.

Policing as I see it, should be led from bottom-up. In contrast to current model where it is top-down, reactionary, covert tyranny.

#The_Guardian #Jack_Monroe #UK #Poverty #Food_Insecurity #hunger

Good article from Jack - but I doubt anyone in #Westminster_Bubble gives a damn.

She shows more anger and passion and hunger for fundamental change and an end to inequality in UK in one brief article than #Labour and #Starmer have shown about anything for decades.

I am sick of Labour. I think millions of English voters are. We need a radical Leftwing political party to spearhead our drive to transform UK.

Where are you?

As usual, I disagree with #The_Guardian editorial. As usual, Guardian writes as if #Anglophone zones were the whole planet. As usual, I remind Guardian it is not.

World pushes back N. American corporations no longer tolerated (#MacDonalds, #Starbucks, #Facebook/Meta, #Google etc) But this is not #deglobalisation. What has happened is the rise of #Chinese brands and a Chinese-led globalisation (#TikTok, #Huawei, #Alibaba etc)

I fear Chinese globalisation will be even worse.

#Ed_Miliband #Labour #UK #greennewdeal

Article in #The_Guardian by Miliband - Ed tries to #greenwash NuLabour2.0 but who does he think he is fooling?

If NuLabour2.0 wanted a Green New Deal they should have campaigned for it instead of plotting against Corbyn and his green-left supporters at the last General Election.

Vote for Starmer? There is no reason to. I remember NuLabour1.0 and have no desire to relive that shambles with NuLabour2.0.

You are LibDems not Labour. When will you know?

#The_Guardian #msm
#mastodon #opinion #censorship

#British media is rubbish. Nothing but propaganda & celebrity gossip.

I tried reading#The_Guardian for a while but was irritated by its #London bias and complacency. It never reports news from my region. When I left comments on articles I would be randomly blocked, censored, treated like shit.

I moved to #mastodon and now I find my own news, comment as I like, am never censored. Why would I ever return to #MSM?

#The_Guardian #Julian_Borger #Putin #Russia #Chaos_Capitalism #War #Ukraine #us

Read the notes on the screenshot!

#First_Dog #cartoon #The_Guardian

Excellent cartoon from First Dog!