Friday, October 18, 2019

Vaga de agitação no planeta Terra

From Baghdad to Kyiv to Haiti, people everywhere are rising up. The U.S. is a big part of the problem, por Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer):

Heard about Baghdad? Heard about Haiti? Heard about Kyiv, Ukraine?

It’s life during a wartime, of sorts, against the 21st century rot of corrupt governance, inequality and injustice, and in accelerating fashion over the course of 2019 it’s been spreading across every time zone and every major continent, from the now-bloodied streets of Iraq to the faded capitals of South America to the vast central squares of Eastern Europe. (...)

The autumn of 2019 is fast becoming the most revolutionary season on Planet Earth since 1989 (with 2011 in the argument) when the Berlin Wall fell and it took a dictator’s tanks to subdue protesters at Tiananmen Square. This time, the fires burn differently from place to place, but the sparks are pretty much the same everywhere.

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