CITIZENS’ MEDIA

PEDRO ENCINA—The Mapuche mastered the horse in a masterly manner. Various chroniclers and authors refer to the techniques they used to dominate the horse: riding on the horse’s belly when fleeing into the forest, transporting the infant by the horse’s tail on slopes and in swamps, carrying a warrior on the apa in what was known as mounted infantry. Horse and warrior became one. The Araucanian could spend full days on horseback, as he carried his food and weapons on his horse.

Different methods of warfare were also implemented, such as: the attack by lines that included almost a hundred warriors, the use of archers, lancers and melee attack warriors. In the latter case, weapons such as pikes, arrows and clubs were used, according to the soldier and chronicler of the early 1600s, Alonso González de Nájera in the text “Desengaño y reparo de la guerra del reino de Chile” (Disappointments and clarifications about the war of the kingdom of Chile).

RUSSELL BENTLEY—That neo-nazi terrorists in the Prosecutor General’s Office are investigating me for “terrorism” because I have defended the citizens and civilians of Donbass from Kiev’s own genocide and ethnic cleansing programs is the the apex of hypocrisy and cynicism, a real life example of the comic book “Bizarro World” where everything is the exact opposite of what it is supposed to be.

Their petition circulation effort drew major support on social media in the days after the initial protests in Cuba, helping to stitch together a left-reinforcement to the edifice of the mainstream press, which described the event as an uprising by “political dissidents” against an “oppressive bureaucratic regime” in the pursuit of democracy and freedom of expression. The definition of “freedom” pursued and the political orientation of the protesters in question differed between the tales spun by the New York Times and those of the Socialist Worker, but the story was the same: Repressive government arbitrarily detains political dissidents.

Ben Norton tells it like it is about Cuba, and how the Empire is doubling down on its longstanding demonisation campaign against Cuba in the hope of promoting a regime downfall. Norton denounces the US fake news offensive against Cuba, an effort that has even used pro-government demonstrations as “evidence” of anti-communist protests. The clueless US population, of course,can;t tell which is which.

The 79-year-old Zuma is a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle that he joined when he was 17, serving a 10-year prison sentence on Robben Island in the 1960s alongside Nelson Mandela. Zuma was also a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) until 1990. He has played a major role in the ANC ever since. This, his professed support for the poor farmers and workers, and a significant degree of patronage, has enabled him to retain a measure of popular support, despite being mired for years in scandals and facing a long-postponed trial for fraud, corruption and racketeering.