The world is more revolutionary today than at any time since 1989.

Did you notice? Probably not, because unlike 1989 it's the tyranny of the U.S.-backed regimes that the people want to overthrow.

A good example was what happened when Nancy Pelosi met some prominent Haitian Americans.



A meeting in Miami between U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and some of South Florida’s most prominent Haitian Americans ended Thursday with a message for the Democratic leader to take back to Washington: The U.S. needs to stop meddling in Haiti’s internal affairs — and Haiti President Jovenel Moïse needs to go.

... “The people of Haiti say, ‘No interference. No [Temporary Protected Status] deportations after Jan. 20, no more support of President Jovenel Moïse as president of Haiti.”

The poorest people in the hemisphere don't want our help to get rid of a corrupt leader, because we installed that corrupt leader.

“At my age, I’ve seen a lot of crises,” Gilles, fifty-nine, explained. “This is the worst I have ever seen. This is the first time I’ve seen a completely ungoverned country. All of the state institutions are sick.”

...“This is the first time I’ve seen a president successfully cling to power like this,” she said. “Even though people are dying, people are disappearing, people are suffering.” Like many Haitians, she blames the United States, which has been implicated in Haitian politics and in propping up or helping bring down governments in Port-au-Prince since the nineteen-year occupation by US Marines beginning in 1915.

Consider this picture.



This is a member of the Haitian parliament on the steps of the capital building.

Western democracy has been crumbling from within for a long time.

The people are fed up.



The people we’ve tasked with running the world have, for the most part, turned out to be corrupt. Did they really think that citizens wouldn’t notice?

33 weeks of protests and the streets of #Algeria are still caught every Friday by a tsunami of people, demanding freedom and democracy pic.twitter.com/jXzGu6z7dp — Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) October 4, 2019

Quito, Ecuador. The third day of mass protest and national strike. Watch how the people drive the police back here, as the police ask the people not to hit them. pic.twitter.com/zFVxRGyMcO — Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) October 6, 2019

Indonesia police arrested 1,489 people during student protests in Jakarta, to prosecute 380 with different charges: spreading false info, hurling rocks, possessing sharp weapons, vandalizing police stations and Molotov cocktails https://t.co/Ar1RbOQOaP — Andreas Harsono (@andreasharsono) October 4, 2019

Why is no international media covering this? More than 1 million people in Bolivia have taken to the streets to demand democracy & call upon President Morales to declare the #AmazonFires a national disaster and let international aid in.#sosbolivia pic.twitter.com/sH7PadUBWn — Minh Ngo (@minhtngo) October 5, 2019

These aren't even the really big protest movements.

That would be Iraq.

Then there were general strikes in Brazil and Argentina.

Our media gives plenty of air time to the protests in Moscow and Hong Kong, but largely overlooked by our media is that the protests have come home to America.

A total of 485,000 employees were involved in major work stoppages last year — the highest number since 1986.

It's currently being followed up by the largest private sector strike in a decade.



All this might help explain why a recent Gallup poll found that public approval for unions has climbed to 64 percent, up from 48 percent a decade ago and near its highest level in 50 years. An M.I.T. study last year found that nearly 50 percent of nonunion workers say they would vote to join a union if they could, up from 32 percent in 1995. From the moment the G.M. walkout started, union leaders said the strike was bigger than just G.M. “Today, we stand strong and say with one voice, we are standing up for our members and for the fundamental rights of working-class people in this nation,” Terry Dittes, a United Automobile Workers vice president, said. The autoworkers are taking a page from the teachers,

This is not a complete list of protest movements.

I just want to give you an idea of what is going on in the world that you may not be aware of.