The Ballad of Broken Bodies-From Zamzam Camp To Cecot

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The Ballad of Broken Bodies (April 15-22, 2025)

Viral AI video showcases Chinese Netizen's idea of what American factories would look like Map of Sudan Civil War so far. Guardian graphic. Source: AEI’s Critical Threats Project, 11 Apr 2025

The Ballad of Broken Bodies: Zamzam, Sudan To Cecot, El-Salvador

Tariff Wars & China’s Satirical Revenge

China’s viral AI videos—showing exhausted Americans assembling Nikes and iPhones under the slogan "Make America Strong Again" —aren’t only a mockery of Trump’s 145% tariffs. They’re a diagnosis of capitalism’s delusions. The clips expose the absurdity of "reshoring" factories to a nation where: According to Moody's there is a 60% recession risk looms from tariff-induced stagflation and consumer goods from eggs to electronics have been rising in price. If the declining economy weren't enough, the idea of Americans going back on to a factory line is almost as absurd as American children going back into the mines. Who knows, at this point, unprecidented happenings are popping up constantly.

Beijing’s finance ministry spelled it out: "The U.S. imposes abnormally high tariffs… unilateral bullying." .

"When the factory returns, the whip returns with it." — Anonymous Chinese AI video caption

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Sudan's New RSF Government Brings Peace Through Genocide

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—the rebranded Janjaweed militias of Darfur 2003—now declare a "Government of Peace" while repeating the same atrocities their predecessors perfected two decades ago:

Sudanese people in Zamzam Camp January, 2025.

• Starving 700,000 in Zamzam camp (UN confirms famine)

• "Decades of conflict in Sudan have displaced 12 million people nationwide as of 2024, with women and children accounting for approximately half of all displaced persons."

• Systematic rape campaigns: Arab women still accompany militias, singing racial slurs during assaults as they did in 2004

"The militiamen are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and tell us we're just slaves who they can do with as they wish." — Testimony from 37-year-old survivor, 2004 Amnesty report

This is Darfur 2003 reloaded with 21st century weapons:

Same tactics: Village burnings, mass rape, and racial dehumanization ("You are gorillas, you are black")

• New enablers: UAE drones and Russian Wagner mercenaries replace 2004's government-issued provisions

• Same media playbook: Called "tribal conflict" today, just as 2011 Libya slave markets were "migrant disputes"

By the Numbers:

Famine as Weapon

• UN confirms famine in 10 regions

• Survivors in Zamzam eat grass, just as 2004 refugees survived on roots

Gender-Based Violence

• 288% spike in reported assaults (UN Women) - echoing 2004's broken limbs tactic

• 80% of hospitals bombed

The RSF's "peace" is the Janjaweed's old war: anti-Black genocide wrapped in bureaucratic euphemisms, now with international financing.

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CECOT: America’s Plantation in a Concrete Shell

Trump’s praise for El Salvador’s CECOT prison isn’t an adoption of Soviet-style "gulags"—a term that obscures America’s older, crueler carceral traditions. While many journalists utilize the old soviet term as a synonym for prison and labor camps, enslaving prisoners is as American as a thing can be. In Angola Prison, Louisiana: Inmates still pick cotton under armed guards for $0.04/hr. - CECOT, El Salvador Detainees eat with hands, sleep on concrete, and are almost completely disconnected from their families and support networks.

"The American prison is the afterlife of slavery."

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Karmelo Anthony: Bail Reduced, Community Celebrates

April 2, 2025: Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old Black student, allegedly stabbed Austin Metcalf (white, 17) after Metcalf "touched him" following a verbal confrontation under a tent at a Frisco ISD track meet. Anthony remained at the scene, telling police he acted in self-defense

Arrest affidavit: Witnesses reported Anthony warned Metcalf, "Touch me and see what happens," before the physical altercation.

Prosecution & Backlash

Charged as an adult: Texas’ "direct file" laws allowed prosecutors to bypass juvenile court, seeking life in prison for first-degree murder. Black youth are 4x more likely to face adult charges for identical offenses.

$1 million bond: Set disproportionately high for a teen with no prior record. Frisco ISD expelled Anthony weeks before graduation, citing "zero tolerance" (Fox 4 Dallas, April 17, 2025).

Community Response

Fundraiser surge: A GiveSendGo campaign (not family-run) raised $450,000+, with donors comparing Anthony’s case to historical racial injustices.

Judge Angela Tucker’s ruling: On April 14, the judge reduced bail to $250,000, citing Anthony’s ties to the community. Supporters cheered as he was released to house arrest.

Backlash: Metcalf’s father attended Anthony’s press conference uninvited, prompting organizers to call his presence "a disrespect to the dignity of his son".

"We believe in the legal process, but those laws must apply to all of us, not just some." — Kayla Hayes (Anthony’s mother), April 17 press conference

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