In 25 extreme cases, protesters’ eye or eyes completely burst. And in nine cases, protesters lost an eye completely; it was removed from their head. “As the National Institute of Human Rights we are concerned,” the body said, “that we continue receiving complaints and observing the existence of eye injuries, regarding people who were exercising their right to peacefully protest.”
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PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—The real sin here is that this is all part of a concerted effort to bring us back to a Neo Feudalistic state. Along with the abundance of Part Time, No Union, No Benefits Employment (the fabled “new gig economy” capitalists and their media shills never tire of celebrating), as the rents go up on where working stiffs have to live, many of us are but a few paychecks from the street… if not there already!
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ARTURO ALEJANDRO MUNOZ—The neoliberal system achieved a resounding success by leaving Chileans in the most absolute defenselessness. In our country you have to scratch with your weak nails. No one is going to help you if you have health, education, pension or retirement problems. Do you have heart, liver or gastric problems? Pay! Do you want your children to be well educated? Pay! Don’t have enough money for that? Go into debt and get your people into debt until the third generation, even if that reduces your income by 60% and makes you poorer and more defenseless than you were before you applied for bank help!
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Eric Zuesse—When a nation’s billionaires control not only its mega-corporations but its government, that small group — who do business with one-another — constitute a national dictatorship which is just as bad as in feudal times when a tiny aristocracy (who also did business with one-another) controlled the government and were a collective dictatorship over the entire nation’s population.
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LUCINA BOHNE—Has the Garbage-Stream Media informed you that momentous things are happening in France? That French workers have been on general strikes, occupation strikes, on nationwide strikes since 5 December, now shouting REVOLUTION? That millions of people have joined them in the street? That lately even firefighters have gone on strike? That Macron’s police are beating even firefighters? NO? Well, isn’t that typical?
