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I don't like walking around this old and empty houseSo hold my hand, I'll walk with you my dearThe stairs creak as you sleepIt's keeping me awake
A ascensão da extrema direita no mundo é filha das redes sociais —eis uma verdade que, se ainda não foi provada cientificamente, acredito que logo será.
Quando explodiu de vez, perto da virada do século, a internet vinha embalada em fumos humanistas de biblioteca universal e plataforma democrática de informação e voz para todos. Quem se lembra?
Era um progressismo vago que não negava a origem pós-hippie do Vale do Silício. Seu teor de ingenuidade era elevado. A internet permitia fazer coisas antes impensáveis, mas aquele otimismo inicial padecia de um grave viés do bem.
O sonho era que, tendo subitamente acesso imediato a toda a informação disponível na Terra, cada pessoa teria a chance de desenvolver ao máximo seu potencial humano e comunitário.
Os seres humanos se tornariam mais sábios e, devido ao debate permanente de suas sabedorias na ágora imaterial —sempre com a vitória do melhor argumento—, infinitamente ponderados na média.
Corta para o presidente dos EUA anunciando em rede social: "Uma civilização inteira morrerá esta noite". Opa, parece que alguma coisa deu errado, não? Convém voltar algumas casas.
Sim, é óbvio que a internet nunca foi um empreendimento humanitário —aquela era só uma das histórias que ela contava sobre si mesma. Nova fronteira de negócios basicamente privados, logo começava a bombar.
Ao lado da biblioteca e da sala de aula que os idealistas trataram de transferir para o mundo digital, transferiram-se também partes menos nobres e mais rentáveis do empreendimento humano.
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
+ Markfortwayne Mullin describing, with evident pleasure, his daughter pleading with him not to spank (ie, abuse) her…“She’s like, ‘No, Daddy. No, Daddy, No, Daddy, No. I’m sorry, Daddy. I’m sorry, Daddy.’ … She just couldn’t bring herself to even bend over for me to be able to bust her butt.”
Does Markfortwayne wear his white hat when he beats his daughter?
+ Prerequisites to prove you’ve got what it takes to run DHS under Trump: 1. Shoot your own puppy in the head for being disobedient and toss its body in a gravel pit; 2. Abuse your own daughter for being disobedient.
If you can publicly brag about beating your own child for political points, you probably won’t have much of a problem ripping children, some of them born in the US, from the arms of their parents, keeping them locked up in concentration camp-like prisons hundreds of miles away from their moms and dads, making them act as their own lawyers in immigration court or forcing them to make an impossible choice between being wrongfully deported with a parent or being left in the US as one or both of their parents are shipped off to El Salvador or Haiti.
+ 11,000: the minimum number of children who have had a parent detained by ICE/CBP since Trump retook office.
ZETEO>
Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization” unless its leaders agreed to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
By Tuesday evening – instead of trying to kill the 90 million people living in Iran, or bombing Iran’s power plants and bridges as he had promised – Trump announced “a double sided CEASEFIRE!” for two weeks. In doing so, Trump all but admitted the reality that his illegal war is going terribly – and Iran is winning.
“We received a 10-point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate,” the president announced on Truth Social – apparently referring to the 10-point plan that Iran had presented to the US before he threatened to murder its entire population.
Using this 10-point plan as a framework for a deal, rather than the previous American 15-point plan, is obviously a major win for Iran – which is, indeed, declaring victory. Experts and commentators see it that way, too.
“If Iran did in fact secure guarantees based on the ‘10 principles’ Trump referenced, that is not a marginal outcome, it is a strategic win for Tehran, reinforcing its narrative and positioning,” wrote Danny Citrinowicz, a former top Israeli intelligence officer who focused on Iran. As former US State Department official and veteran Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller put it, “Iran has won another round.”
Political scientist Robert A. Pape writes: “Huge strategic defeat for the US, biggest loss since Vietnam.”
The 10-point plan would allow Iran to continue its control over the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial waterway that Iran has closed since the start of the war, stopping the flow of oil and throttling the global economy.
Just a day earlier, Trump was fantasizing about the US “charging tolls” for ships to transit the strait. Now, it looks much more likely that Iran will keep doing this instead, and that it will get to charge “a $2M fee per ship.” In another win for Iran, the plan would involve lifting “all US sanctions on Iran.”
Under Iran’s proposed framework, the US would allow Iran to continue its uranium enrichment program – which would mean folding on the entire supposed basis for Trump’s illegal war. This point was included in the Farsi version of the plan, but reportedly omitted from English versions shared by Iranian diplomats.
Some liberals will invariably revel in memes about how Trump always chickens out. But, as we reported at Zeteo on Tuesday, none of this is over. The ceasefire, as of now, is only temporary. As Trump advisers and others in the upper tiers of Trumplandia warned us, there’s still a decent chance that he escalates the war again soon.
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Since the appalling ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week on Oak Flats, where the US judicial system (so-called) has given the green light for a multinational mining company to annihilate one of the most sacred Native American sites in the Southwest, I’ve been thinking about the many Native Rights campaigns I’ve covered and/or been involved in over the last 35 years: Black Mesa, San Francisco Peaks, Mount Graham, Enola Hill, Rainbow Bridge, Navajo Generating Station, Lyle salmon fishing site, mining and logging in the Black Hills, Zuni Salt Lake, Oak Flats, ANWR, Klamath River dams, Chaco Canyon uranium mine, Bolsa Chica and Ballona wetlands in LA, Nevada Test Site, Willamette Falls lamprey and salmon fishing site, Jemez/Los Alamos, Standing Rock, the Thacker Pass lithium mine.
These were/are often bitter, lonely, and dangerous campaigns, especially for Native activists. Not long after moving to Oregon, I received a three-day tour of many of the most intense battle zones in the Four Corners region by the Navajo environmental and tribal activist Leroy Jackson, who took this photo of me outside of Kayenta in the shadow of Black Mesa. Leroy was a very intense person and he was fighting extremely powerful interests, like Peabody Coal, Duke City Lumber and corrupt members of the tribal government of the Big Rez.
I flipped through my journals of that week and was struck by a conversation we had about the relations between tribal activists and Gang Green and how unreliable the professional environmental groups are as coalition partners with Native people because of their unfailing tendency to compromise for political reasons on issues, such as sacred sites, where there can be no compromise. I jotted down that’d I’d relayed to Leroy one of my favorite admonitions from Dave Brower: “When we win, it’s merely a stay of execution. When they win, it’s forever.”
Leroy responded by saying, “For so many of you guys (white male activists), this is like a game. You’re here for a while, then back to school or onto some other issues. You can’t be counted on. But we live here. We have to play for keeps.” (I didn’t take offense at this, knowing firsthand the truth of what he was saying.) Leroy did play for keeps. A few months after our road trip, he was found dead in his car in northern New Mexico. The cops called it a suicide/drug overdose. But Leroy wasn’t a drug user. He wasn’t depressed or suicidal. He was almost certainly murdered. Yet, like so many killings of Native Americans, especially activists, the cops didn’t care enough to even investigate his death. They were glad he was dead.
The “Indian” wars have never ended.
COUNTERPUNCH
I am a rambling Irishman
In Ulster I was born in
And many the pleasant days I spent
Round the shores of sweet Lough Erne
But to be poor I could not endure
Like others of my station
To Americay I sailed away
And left this Irish nation
"Ele também compartilhou algumas anedotas sobre sua vida pessoal. Ele fala sobre colorir com seus filhos, levá-los para brincar no parque, comprar balões para eles. Ele escreve sobre encontrar um amigo para uma longa caminhada no parque e sua determinação de se exercitar para manter sua resistência mental.
Uma vez, disse ele, recebeu uma mensagem misteriosa direcionando-o a comparecer a um endereço. Ele entrou em pânico, suspeitando de uma armadilha israelense. Depois de verificar com a segurança, disse ele, percebeu que era apenas um convite de iftar de amigos para quebrar o jejum do Ramadã com eles."
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Dina Esfandiary and
Iran didn’t want this war, but now it has reasons to prolong it. That’s a problem for President Trump, who appears unable to reopen the Strait of Hormuz despite his threats. It’s a problem for the global economy, which is buckling under a surge in energy costs. It’s a problem for Gulf leaders hemorrhaging oil revenue. And it’ll haunt future American presidents: Hormuz has been closed once; it can be closed again.
Despite the climbing death toll and destroyed infrastructure, surging oil prices are cushioning Iran’s economy against the war’s costs. Iran has met virtually every strike with a counterstrike, every threat with a matching threat. Its leaders’ logic is cold but calculated: make this war so costly for everyone that no one wants to start another. For Tehran, the goals are simple. The Islamic Republic must survive this moment and ensure it is not attacked by the United States and Israel again. To achieve this, Iran believes it must impose a cost — to the United States and Israel, to the Gulf states’ image of stability and to the global economy. So far, it’s succeeding: Iran has learned how easy and comparatively cheap it is to hold the global economy hostage.
For Tehran, the moment is existential. It faced years of economic hardship as sanctions and mismanagement resulted in high inflation and a weaker currency. It also faced political and legitimacy crises — both worsened by the brutal repression of protests, as well as social and environmental pressures so severe that dire water shortages prompted the country’s president to warn Tehran might have to be evacuated. Then came the American and Israeli onslaught in which officials from both countries talked openly about regime change in Tehran.
That situation led to Iran’s response: ruthless, step-by-step escalation. Unlike the short war in June, the escalation wasn’t symbolic. Iran continues to hit the Arab Gulf states where it hurts, from energy to tourism. Tehran now holds the global economy hostage by choking off the Strait of Hormuz — a move it long threatened but never before executed.
Some saw these moves as unjustified; Tehran saw them as carefully calibrated. At the beginning of the war, the Iranian military hit regional energy infrastructure to sabotage production, taking some of the region’s production temporarily offline. But it was only when Israel conducted an attack against Iran’s South Pars gas field on March 18 that Iran went for the jugular. After the Israeli attack, Iran targeted energy infrastructure in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, seemingly aiming to cause longer-lasting damage. The hit on the world’s largest liquefied natural gas export facility was so significant that it is likely to cause an estimated $20 billion of lost revenue and five years of repair. Iran demonstrated it was willing and able to retaliate in kind.
Iran is doing all this on the cheap. It uses a mix of relatively low-cost drones and missiles to overwhelm its adversaries’ defenses. Those defenses are more expensive: Iran is deploying drones worth $20,000 to $50,000 against interceptors worth more than $4 million. It’s also using mines, drones and explosive-rigged boats to scare off shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Put simply, Tehran is on the right side of the cost curve. And while Iranian munitions aren’t unlimited, the country’s military is getting better at striking targets as the war goes on. They might be shooting less, but they’re shooting better.
This dynamic has created two advantages for Iran. First, high oil prices are hurting the United States but strengthening Iran’s hand. This led to the Trump administration’s paradoxical policy of relaxing sanctions on Iranian oil. Second, the closure of the strait is less damaging to Iran than to its neighbors. Iranian oil exports have fallen only modestly since the war began, while its neighbors’ exports have tumbled. With the jump in crude prices, Iran is probably earning more from its oil today than it did before the war. Even the country’s long-troubled currency has gained ground.
All this comes at a cost. Iran continues to sustain heavy bombardment, affecting residential areas and its energy grid. Tehran has antagonized its neighbors, several of whom are now calling for Trump to finish the job. While Iran’s strategy initially surprised its adversaries, over time, everyone will adjust. The Gulf may find alternatives to the strait, investing in diversion routes and pipelines. The United States and regional powers will most likely prepare plans to prevent future closures of the strait. None of this will help Iran’s new rulers stay in power. Once the war is over, they will still have to contend with their internal economic, political, social and environmental crises — as well as the deaths of many of their fellow leaders.
Iran didn’t want this war, but it has learned how to use it. The Strait of Hormuz is a major vulnerability to the global economy. Tehran will remember the value of being able to close it. That leverage won’t fix its deep domestic problems. But it will anchor the United States more firmly in the Middle East, despite years of talk about pivoting away from the region.
"Donald Trump is a fucking sociopath—full stop—and I am done pretending there’s a more polite, more “balanced,” more media-friendly way to describe a man who woke up on Easter Sunday and decided the appropriate use of presidential power was to talk about ninety million human beings like they’re something you hose off the planet, like they’re animals—and then woke up this morning and started talking about an entire civilization dying like it’s some throwaway line he can tease and move on from—while a pack of suit-wearing, spine-missing media mannequins keep polishing this fascist fuckstain into something vaguely presentable and the MAGA foam-flecked faithful clap along like it’s strength instead of the deranged, bloodthirsty bullshit it is.
Because he didn’t misspeak. He didn’t get tangled up. He didn’t wander into bad wording and then scramble back toward humanity. He planted both clown shoes at the edge of the abyss and started tap-dancing, making it unmistakably clear that he thinks mass violence becomes perfectly acceptable once he’s stripped the victims of their humanity and slapped together some dogshit justification about how their own government mistreats them, therefore we can do whatever we want—which is the kind of logic you get from a consequence-dodging, draft-ducking, leather-skinned layabout sadist who has never had to sit with the aftermath of a single goddamn thing he’s ever done and therefore treats human life like it’s just more scenery he can blow past at full speed."
read stack by JoJo from Jerz
vai ter ciranda a noite em jaguaribe
as meninas badernando no terreiro
me de a mão e dança essa cirfanda
de um sorriso alegre para o cirandeiro
AGUALUSA
Donald Trump anuncia o completo esmagamento do Irã. Logo a seguir surpreende-se com a resistência. Admite ter proposto um cessar-fogo. Diz que foram os iranianos a iniciar as conversações. Reivindica a vitória total. Na frase seguinte proclama, com a ingenuidade de um anjo recém-saído das mãos de Deus, que ninguém poderia prever o encerramento do Estreito de Ormuz. Escreve que o Irã tem 48 horas para reabrir a passagem, caso contrário, aniquilará várias usinas de energia. Anuncia que suspende por cinco dias os ataques às infraestruturas energéticas. Diz-se disposto a abandonar o cenário de guerra. Os europeus que resolvam o problema. Irrita-se com o alheamento dos europeus. Implora ajuda aos europeus. Grita que não precisa dos europeus. Confessa que os israelenses o forçaram a iniciar o conflito. Volta, ainda na mesma frase, a proclamar vitória. Diz que não se importa que os aiatolás se mantenham no poder desde que lhe entreguem o petróleo. Noticia o levantamento do embargo petrolífero ao inimigo mortal. Acrescenta que nunca os americanos foram tão vitoriosos. É uma vitória a seguir à outra. Tantas vitórias já cansam.
Analistas conservadores se esforçam por dar um véu de coerência aos desencontrados discursos do presidente norte-americano. Suam. Balbuciam. É um esforço formidável, inglório, como tentar dar consistência a uma efêmera nuvem num esplendoroso céu de verão.
“O problema é que Trump partiu para a guerra sem um Plano B”, reconhece um deles.
“Talvez não tivesse nem sequer um Plano A”, arrisca outro, num fio de voz.
Um terceiro elogia a intuição de Donald Trump. O presidente americano, segundo este especialista, e outros da mesma escola, seria uma espécie de poeta da estratégia política e militar. Eu diria mais — um profeta! O próprio Donald confessou ter tomado a decisão de atacar o Irã após escutar os seus ossos. Não disse quais. Podemos imaginá-lo a dialogar, por exemplo, com a tíbia direita. É mais fácil imaginá-lo debruçado sobre a tíbia do que a falar com o estribo, desde logo porque Trump nem deve conhecer a palavra, quanto mais o osso.
Acredito na intuição. Tenho para mim que a intuição é uma manifestação sutil de inteligência. O pensamento se organizando, num súbito clarão, antes da linguagem. Qualquer pedra tem mais intuição do que Donald Trump.
O atual presidente americano pode ser um inimigo temível, sim, não por causa da sua intuição, mas por causa da sua estupidez. A estupidez é imprevisível.
Canalhas, tiranos, pessoas perversas, todos eles traçam estratégias. Obedecem a estratégias. Podemos combatê-los. É muito mais difícil enfrentar um homem tolo, sobretudo um homem tolo com grande poder, porque, como acontece com as baratas americanas, nunca sabemos que rumo irá tomar.
Donald Trump é uma barata americana com uma bomba nuclear atada às costas. Uma barata americana esvoaçando, a toda velocidade, numa sala fechada.
Eu estou encolhido, imóvel, num canto da sala.
Medo. Muito medo.
O GLOBO
"Não é todo o mundo que se interessa em discutir corrupção, financeira ou de costumes. Há um fosso entre a obsessão moral de partes da elite social e as preocupações mais pedestres da maioria da população."
leia analise de ANGELA ALONSO
"A eleição não será decidida por quem grita mais alto. Vencerá quem entender melhor o Brasil emergente. Um país que rejeita respostas fáceis e exige, antes de tudo, ser levado a sério. Antes de disputar o futuro, é preciso encarar o espelho."
leia coluna de PRETO ZEZÉ
Democracia Política e novo Reformismo: O Brasil que desafia a política, por Preto Zezé
Se você quiser, eu
Eu posso tentar, mas
Eu não sei dançar tão devagar
Pra te acompanhar
This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
Erbarme dich, mein Gott
Um meiner Zähren willen!
DORRIT HARAZIM
A ideia era fazer uma pausa neste domingo de Páscoa — arquivar por um mísero dia qualquer noticiário de guerra e deixar falar a poesia. A intenção brotou do acaso, em meio à inescapável leitura sobre a insanidade do confronto no Irã. Um dos analistas da atualidade citava um poeta persa do século XII, Attar de Nishapur, e sua obra mais célebre, “A conferência dos pássaros”. Nela, o poeta narra a história de todos os pássaros do mundo que, por não terem rei, partem em revoada à procura de um soberano. Cada alado representa uma das falhas humanas que impedem o mundo de encontrar sua luz. Em conjunto, escolhem por guia uma poupa de grande sabedoria, que lhes informa qual será o teste de determinação: atravessar sete vales místicos. São eles os vales da Busca, do Amor, do Conhecimento, do Desapego, da União, do Maravilhamento, da Pobreza e Aniquilação.
Muitos pássaros se recusam até a levantar voo, outros desistem a meio caminho, e tantos mais morrem ao longo do percurso. Restam apenas 30 para vislumbrar o monte sagrado que procuravam. Ao chegarem a seu destino, contudo, descobrem não um rei a sua espera, e sim um espelho. Moral da história: o que os pássaros buscavam jamais esteve distante deles. Procuravam encontrar a si mesmos, juntos. No poema de Attar, a certeza de quem somos no coletivo define nossa humanidade. Sozinhos, nos agarramos a algo que torna a jornada impossível, seja por amor, apego, medo, aniquilação, ódio. Ou cinismo.
Enquanto o mundo só se revela por meio do nosso engajamento com ele (é nessa adesão que repousa a experiência humana plena), o cinismo age como sua mais perfeita negação. Talvez seja o sentimento mais corrosivo em um ser humano — de aparência passiva, o cinismo esconde uma capacidade perversa de alimentar as vilezas do viver em sociedade. Dentre os poetas mais refinados da música, o australiano Nick Cave dedica parte de seu tempo refletindo sobre a coragem de ter esperança como anteparo a essa praga. Continuou a fazer música enquanto convivia com a perda de um filho adolescente — o garoto de 15 anos havia ingerido LSD e caíra de um precipício em Brighton, na Inglaterra — e, sete anos mais tarde, com a morte de outro, mais velho, que acabara de sair de uma prisão em Melbourne.
— De certa forma, meu trabalho se tornou uma rejeição explícita ao cinismo e à negatividade — diz o músico em seus escritos. — Não tenho tempo para isso, nem para censura ou condenação implacável. Não tenho estômago para todo o ciclo de culpa perpétua. A vida é curta demais para não nos maravilharmos. Permaneço cautelosamente otimista.
Cave ainda acredita numa “espécie de corrente subterrânea de preocupação e conectividade, movimento radical e coletivo em direção a uma existência mais empática e aprimorada”. Em homenagem à Páscoa e a ele, a coluna estava inclinada a prosseguir explorando diferentes noções de otimismo e esperança — esse anseio sincero por melhoria do mundo — que cada um de nós nomeia de acordo com referenciais próprios. Não mais.
Um homem corpulento em júbilo, quipá na cabeça, garrafa de champanhe nas mãos e pin dourado em forma de forca na lapela celebrava uma conquista que perseguia havia anos. Era Itamar Ben-Gvir, ministro de Segurança Nacional de Israel, feroz defensor do extremismo de direita, comemorando a aprovação da pena de morte para palestinos condenados por atos terroristas letais contra israelenses. Julgada por tribunais militares, a execução se dará por enforcamento.
— Em breve vamos contá-los um por um — garante o ministro em vídeo que circula nas redes sociais.
O inverso não foi sequer cogitado: pena semelhante não se aplica a israelenses responsáveis pela morte de palestinos. Dessa forma, para além da eliminação de mais de 70 mil civis em Gaza e a caçada às terras e vidas palestinas ainda remanescentes na Cisjordânia ocupada, Israel agora se aproxima da barbárie fundamentalista do arqui-inimigo Irã.
O editorial do diário Haaretz que tratou do assunto fala em ascensão do terrorismo judaico e precipício dos fundamentos democráticos e morais do Estado. Mas o texto não foi escrito no convencional estilo do jornal. Intitulado “A canção do carrasco”, está em verso de seis estrofes e rimas internas. A linguagem é bíblica, sombria, lírica. Começa assim: Céus — tende piedade de mim/Não há Deus em vós, nem decreto guia/Escolheram-me, gélido e cru/No escuro sangrento do serviço prisional.
Talvez só mesmo a poesia nos salve, enquanto os homens-pássaros em revoada não encontrarem seu caminho interior.
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