So sorry to see Pierce Brosnan in the movie “No Escape” which portrayed an unspecified South Asian people as complete savages. As an Irishmen, one would think he would be sensitive to & eschew colonial & supremacist depictions. His little anti-capitalist sermon did not redeem the film at all but made the racism more odious. There was a period after the Civil Rights Movement when anti-racism was a theme in many films but racism of the worst kind is now back with a vengeance. The same is true for misogyny.

It isn’t too much to say that the EU is committing genocide against African refugees in the Mediterranean.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/05/09/firefighters-protest-colleague-arrested-rescuing-drowning-refugees-9473317/amp/?

Those erstwhile progressives who aligned with fascists against the Syrian Arab Spring uprising & in defense of “self-determination” for the Assad dictatorship have to live with culpability for those Syrians murdered.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html?fbclid=IwAR27BQPz2Xpldx-yzGzlkVHR-IHRECQnwPt4lFVxXyETfdVw_9lInd6g6L4

The way so many progressives lost their way after Syria is thinking support for repressive regimes was the same as support for the struggles of working people against those regimes. Now they don’t know which end is up & are busy running interference for regimes, not just leaving out working people altogether but rendering solidarity to the wrong side. That’s one reason why there are no antiwar protests with several major wars going on. It’s why a few are occupying the Venezuelan embassy instead of organizing massive antiwar protests.

(Posted May 11th, 2019)