Depiction of Native Americans in Wonder Woman movie masks ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians

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This is Eugene Brave Rock, a Native American actor from Canada who plays Chief, & Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress who plays Wonder Woman. Brave Rock was interviewed by Movie Pilot, an online movie industry magazine, discussing the authenticity of how Native Americans are portrayed in the film. The article cites praise for the film from Indian Country Today, an online newsletter about American Indians which claims over one million readers a month.

It isn’t necessarily some kind of Zionist campaign to plant stories countering the barrage of criticism because Gadot is a Zionist extremist who cheered on the carnage in Gaza. Indian Country Today is not the same journal that was founded in 1981 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Today it is operated out of NYC with an almost entirely white staff, some of them formerly prominent with Playboy magazine. It could be that the patriarchal, near-pornographic representation of Wonder Woman appeals to this journal who, if it has no Indian staff, probably doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the representation of Indians in the film.

Odds are the writers know exactly what the political issues are about this film. The primary political issue, other than the obtuse claim that this patriarchal Wonder Woman is a feminist icon, is that the actress supports the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Palestine. If Brave Rock doesn’t know the relationship of Native American struggles to the Palestinian struggle, at least there are American Indians who do & have extended political solidarity with their struggle.

Brave Rock is of course right that there is a dearth of acting roles for Indians that are not shamefully racist & stereotyped. It’s still regrettable that his career will, even unwittingly, be built on the backs of Palestinians. Not to mention women.

Boycott the film to build BDS. Picket the film to educate others about Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Buy nothing with barcode beginning 729. And if you have Twitter visit Eugene Brave Rock & begin his education about the relationship between ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples in the Americas & in the Middle East.

(Photo from Twitter of Eugene Brave Rock)

What happened to Oliver Stone to reduce him to putty before corrupt power?

What happened that Oliver Stone has completely lost his marbles over Putin? Stone has the resources to investigate the political character of Putin & the political conditions in Russia which are massively repressive. That makes his sycophancy entirely willful & from the point of view of Russian working people, utterly detestable.

His kid Sean is no better as a moderator on RT & ardent Assadist who interviews paid Assad propagandists like Eva Bartlett & know-nothing honoraria hounds like Rania Khalek for insight into Syria.

Their problem is not a lack of critical judgement but that in their political minds it is strong leaders who matter & make social change, regardless of their brutality, & not working people. The Stalinist & Maoist, the pro-Cuba & Venezuela movements are based on such groveling to power, an unseemly phenomenon which requires analysis. Exactly what is the appeal of kissing ass? The answers may lie more in class psychology than politics.

Haven’t watched the Putin interviews by Oliver Stone but this is an article I wrote on Sean Stone’s interview with Khalek on RT:

https://www.maryscullyreports.com/sean-stone-interviews-rania-khalek-a-confederacy-of-assadist-dunces/

Redecorating Buckingham Palace versus safety maintenance on Grenfell Towers

Grenfell missing posters (Paul Hackett:Reuters) June 16 2017
Buckingham Palace is scheduled for a £369 million (US $472 million) refurbishment. The maintenance is bankrolled by taxpayers rather than the indolent Windsor clan. There is a backlog of necessary repairs like outdated wiring & leaks in the roof & the state rooms have not been redecorated since 1952.

Bankrolling the moochocracy is one reason there was no fire alarm or sprinkler system in Grenfell Towers. Neoliberal austerity economics are the double whammy for working people.

That’s why they don’t know the death toll, can’t identify all the bodies, & people are still looking for their loved ones.
When such a catastrophe happened to the Twin Towers in NYC nearly 16 years ago, the US started bombing Afghanistan in retaliation. What do the Windsor clan & British government suggest should be done now?

(Photo by Paul Hackett/Reuters)

It’s very clear that a large number of Assad supporters have no idea what fetid political forces they have aligned with, that in fact they are marching with fascists & white supremacists. If they knew, they would be horrified because that isn’t how they see themselves.

But in human life there is the subjective & the objective: what one believes about reality & what is. When you equivocate or support Syrian & Russian bombing of civilians or US bombing of civilians, you objectively stand on the side of autocracy & fascism even if in your mind you believe you stand for peace & justice. In the end, if you facilitate the victory of fascism in Syria, who in the hell cares what is in your head?

Many Assad supporters have no idea what fetid waters they are playing in

Maarat al-Numaan, Idlib: March 2016

In my ongoing campaign to show the association of Assadists with the fascist right–not to mention the lunatic obscurantism of David Icke–it is of interest that Vanessa Beeley, Assad’s own Leni Riefenstahl, posted video lectures of Kris Roman, founder & chair of Euro-Rus, about the importance of Syria.

Founded in 2003 as a rabid, nationalist Russian friendship society (not unlike what Stalinists used to have), Euro-Rus is an association of white supremacist Europeans opposed to immigration because they want a white Europe. Their stated goal is to build international collaboration between extremist rightwing European, Russian, & American nationalists & racists. Thus its first congress in 2006 brought together the French nationalist Land & People Movement, the British Nationalist Party, the Flemish Vlaams Blok, & KKK guy David Duke. Roman maintains associations with France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Any questions about Beeley’s politics? Any questions about her support for Assad?

(Photo is mobilization of Syrian revolutionists in Maarat al-Numaan, Idlib, March 2016)

Campaign to introduce anti-caste politics to Americans

A friend & Indian anti-caste activist would like to introduce the reality of Indian politics (caste-communalism) to political groups in the US. This is a long-overdue political imperative. Other than the speaking tour of Dalit women activists in 2015, I don’t recall a single forum, panel, debate, even an article, or a rally educating about the monumental issue of caste in India & South Asia. Maybe there have been smaller events on some campuses but none in my memory.

This would be absolutely shocking if Americans weren’t also fairly ignorant about the history of Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans in this country. With the attacks on public education, that is not going to improve & yet understanding racism, discrimination, inequality, persecution–especially as violent as that against oppressed castes–is one of the most important matters in politics. There can be no social change without grasping their importance & championing the demands of the oppressed.

So it is up to activists to find a way to make that education possible. It is not just a matter of solidarity in the struggle to end caste but of educating ourselves about the importance racism plays in society & broadening the struggle to end that scourge of humanity.

Does anyone have suggestions for people to contact, including academics, activists, campus groups, community organizations, church groups? A good place to begin is with contacting those who organized the tour of Dalit women. Anyone recall who they were? Put on your thinking caps & make answering my friend’s question a mission.

Assadist reimaging of Omran Daqneesh without shame

Assadist journalist Kinana Alloush with Omran

Eva Bartlett & Vanessa Beeley are in Syria again doing “independent” journalism while hanging with Assad officials & the Syrian army. Lots of gift exchanges, lots of felicitations.

They want us to know that everything the MSM tells us is lies because that’s what their handlers in the palace tell them. While we’re over here trying to get news & posting reports from MSM about the US use of white phosphorous in Raqqa, our intrepid truth-seeker Bartlett is working tirelessly to discredit the story of little Omran Daqneesh & even went to interview his father. But why are the White Helmets & Omran so often the victims of Bartlett & Beeley’s vituperations? Aren’t there bigger fish to fry? Like US bombing of civilians? Don’t they think the war is more important? That’s what concerns Syrian revolutionists & citizen journalists reporting from the war zones.

What we’d like to know is how Mr. Daqneesh & his family fell into the hands of the Assad regime after the fall of Aleppo & what kind of muscle & terrorizing the regime is using to make him lie about what happened to his family when Russian airstrikes destroyed his home, killed his 10-year-old son & traumatized his 5-year-old. We don’t fault Mr. Daqneesh for lying. He has a family to protect from the gulag.

This is a video of a revolutionist & journalist documenting Russian airstrikes in Syria. There is nothing in the entire opus of Bartlett & Beeley that comes close since they can’t get away from the palace or the army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QB6AzGGARg

(Photo is Assadist journalist Kinana Alloush posing with Omran. She became notorious last year for taking jubilant selfies with the corpses of rebel fighters which is a war crime.)