For Palestinian-Uyghur solidarity
Bill Weinberg notes how divergent responses to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and mass internment of the Uyghurs reveal the West’s shifting definition of genocide. Tragically, elements of the Palestinian leadership merely reverse the double standard, causing elements of the exiled Uyghur leadership to balk at supporting the Palestinians. Yet another example of how a global divide-and-rule racket is the essence of the state system. Illustrating the irony, the same corporate nexus is involved in putting in place the surveillance state that monitors the Uyghurs for China and the Palestinians for Israel. Fortunately, principled voices of dissent among both the Palestinians and the Uyghurs are calling for Palestinian-Uyghur solidarity.
Episode 213: February 17, 2024
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Podcast: for Tibet-Palestine solidarity
Listen at https://www.patreon.com/posts/for-tibet-100315592
The 65th anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day immediately follows Tibetan protests against plans to flood ancestral lands for mega-hydro development to power the cities and industrial zones of China’s east—a clear parallel to the struggle of the Cree and Inuit indigenous peoples of the Canadian north to defend their territories from mega-hydro schemes to power the megalopoli of the US Northeast. The illegal Chinese occupation of Tibet since 1959 also has a clear parallel in the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories since 1967. Yet the Tibetan and Palestinian leadership have long been pitted against each other in the Great Power game. In a significant sign of hope, Students for a Free Tibet responded to the criminal bombardment of Gaza by issuing a statement in solidarity with the Palestinians, and some leading figures in the Tibetan exile community have drawn the connection between the two peoples’ struggles. Bill Weinberg explores in Episode 217 of the CounterVortex podcast.
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CounterVortex Weekly Report - January 12, 2024
In This Episode:
1. PALESTINE: Israeli youth refuses mobilization to Gaza
2. UKRAINE: Propaganda game in fight over Ukraine military aid
3. AFGHANISTAN: Taliban hydro scheme raises tension with Pakistan
4. SOUTH ASIA: India: army investigates civilian deaths in Kashmir
5. SOUTH ASIA: India in peace deal with (some) Assam rebels
6. ROBOT RULE: Demand international treaty to ban ‘killer robots’
7. PODCAST: for a meme moratorium
#Palestine #ukraine #Afghanistan #SouthAsia #pakistan #assam #facebook #memes #Gaza #taliban #israel #telaviv #youthagainstdictatorship #kyiv #kharkiv #odesa #dnipro #lviv #russia #capitolhill #belgorod #UNSecurityCouncil #kunarriver #hindukushmountains #hydroelectricdams #KabulRiver #Balochistan #kashmir #jammu #newdelhi
CounterVortex Weekly Report 1/4/24
In This Episode:
1. PALESTINE: Gaza: flashpoint for regional war? (redux)
2. UKRAINE: Ex-GRU officer to testify before ICC on Russian War Crimes
3. RUSSIA: Unprecedented number of treason cases in 2023
4. SOUTHEAST ASIA: China seeks ceasefire in Burma border zone
5. SOUTHERN CONE: Hezbollah operative indicted in Buenos Aires bombing
6. THE CARIBBEAN: Prison for Suriname's ex-president in 'December Murders'
7. SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Burmese struggle in the Great Game (podcast)
CounterVortex Weekly Report 12/30/23
In This Episode:
1. PALESTINE: Girding for a long war in Gaza
2. PALESTINE: West Bank tips deeper into crisis
3. RED SEA: Houthis vow to continue attacks on Red Sea shipping
4. YEMEN: Houthis 'weaponize water' in siege of Taizz
5. PLANET WATCH: COP28: landmark deal, or messy compromise?
6. COUNTERVORTEX: New Vlog and Email Newsletter
7. THE CARIBBEAN: Podcast: geopolitics of the Essequibo dispute
8. CANNABIS: Biden expands pardons for federal cannabis charges
CounterVortex Weekly Report 12/20/23
CounterVortex Weekly Report - 12/20/23
In this episode:
PALESTINE: Gaza approaches 'point of no return'
SAHEL: Burkina Faso's leading rights activist 'disappeared'
WEST AFRICA: Drone massacre in northwest Nigeria
EUROPE: Russia prolongs detention of Tatar-language journalist
EAST ASIA: Arrests at Hong Kong's 'patriots-only' election
and more!
CounterVortex Weekly Report - Week of 12/12/23
In This Episode:
PALESTINE: Egypt fears Israel pushing Palestinians to Sinai
PALESTINE: Israel uses AI to expand Gaza targeting: report
PLANET WATCH: COP 28 looks at climate-conflict overlap
AFRICA: Niger junta pivots from the EU to Russia
THE AMAZON: Ecuador: court orders return of Siekopai homeland
NORTH AMERICA: Alberta invokes Sovereignty Act over emission regs
SOUTHERN CONE: Argentina gets an anarchist president? Not!
#Amazon #anarchism #anarchy #anarchists #libertarians #libertarianism #neoliberalism #Egypt #SyriaConflict #cop28dubai #climatechange #Niger #conferenceofparties #africa #southerncone #northamerica #calgary #alberta #oilsands #tarsands #Palestine #AI #artificialintelligence #Israel #Sinai #Gaza #junta #russia #europe #EuropeanUnion,#ecuador #amazonrainforest #rainforests #SIEKOPAI #indigenousrights #LandBack #argentina #javiermilei #anarchocapitalism
CounterVortex Weekly Report - Week of 12/4/23
In This Episode:
- Palestine: UN experts call for Gaza war crimes investigation
- Syria: bombardment disrupts olive harvest
- West Africa: Burkina Faso junta pursues ‘total war’
- East Asia: China expands mosque closure campaign
- South Asia: Nepal: monarchist protest rocks Kathmandu
- Southeast Asia: Philippines: agreement with rebels to reset peace talks
- Podcast: Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism: parsing the difference II
In This Episode:
- PALESTINE: Suit charges Biden administration with genocide complicity
- PALESTINE: ICC receives Palestine referral from Rome Statute parties
- SYRIA: World Court censures Syria for torture
- SYRIA: Free Syria solidarity statement with Palestine
- HORN OF AFRICA: Why politicians shouldn't play weathermen
- PLANET WATCH: US report urges action amid extreme weather events
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Also be sure to check out THE NEW ZAPATISTA AUTONOMY:
Last week the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) released a declaration, setting out a new structure for the autonomous indigenous communities in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. Uri Gordon of the British anarchist journal Freedom spoke to Bill Weinberg, a longtime radical journalist in New York City, for insight into this change and its significance. Weinberg’s book about the Zapatistas, Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico, was published by Verso in 2000. He spent much time in Chiapas and elsewhere in Mexico during the 1990s, covering the indigenous movements there, prominently including the Zapatistas. In recent decades he has reported widely from South America and is now completing a book about indigenous struggles in the Andes, particularly Peru. He continues to follow the Zapatistas and Chiapas closely and covers world autonomy movements on his website CounterVortex. In this interview, he explores new pressures in the encroachment of narco-paramilitaries on their territories as a factor prompting the Zapatistas’ current re-organization, and how it actually represents a further localization and decentralization of the movement.
https://countervortex.org/the-new-zapatista-autonomy/
Find out about what Bill will be discussing in our 200th episode, Gaza and Yarmouk: forbidden symmetry!
CounterVortex Weekly Report - November 15, 2023
In this episode:
- UN human rights office ‘alarmed’ at West Bank violence
- Burma: rebels seize towns on Chinese border
- Zapatistas reorganize autonomous zone structure
- Is Sudan about to split in two?
- Palestine rights groups file ICC suit against Israel
- ‘ISIS-linked’ families repatriated to Iraq from Syria
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