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Before the pandemic, when we talked about the conflicting group between freedom and security, we thought of terrorism, video surveillance, geolocators. Cover the camera of the laptop with a Band-Aid. Snowden. Showing off your micro-enemy bombs at the airport was unsettling when there was Abu Ghraib, killer drones, and inner lives that intertwined with more love in Manhattan than in Baghdad. We were aware of the cynicism of the alliances of civilizations while arms were being exported to Israel. Our masters of the universe had not read Conrad —Bush was sure not— and manipulated a philanthropic discourse —evangelization, elimination of weapons of mass destruction— to justify violence, whose sole objective is economic interests. Greed also motivates the poor black population of Flint (USA) to drink water with lead, while healthy aquifers are used to clean General Motors parts. Greed kills outside and inside, and claiming freedom means defending fundamental rights for everyone: health, education, work, housing, justice…

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