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Beirut explosion and the bombing of Lumad com- munities (On the morning of 05 August 2020, (PST), an explosion in Beirut eft a hun- red people dead (upto this writing) and 4,000 injured. Hassan Diab, Lebanon's rime minister, cited tons of ammonium nitrate stoned in a warehouse which had been the aubjetof warnings in 2024, But President Donald Trump delivered the ‘usual hawish statements describing the explosion with the aim ofadvaneing the ailtaryindustr complex That it "Took ikea tervble attack” and thatthe US generals “sem to feel thal twas" ton cit imperialist aggression reminiscent of ‘he second “preemptive” Persian Gulf ‘Modern war and modern polite aren't faolated fom the economic expansion. Imperialist war isn only amexationist but also predatory ~ war of plunder. I's inthis content tha tof netizens miss ‘hough showing sympathy to Lebanese ‘itm af the explosion but fain recog ‘sling the Lamad vets of aval bomb ing inthe indigenous people's ancestral domain. The British scholar David distinguished professor of City University of New York who's been cited bby255,000 researchers encapsulated ‘this capitalist catastrophe in his theory “Ascumulation 3By Disposesson”. The Freneh politcal theorist Louis Althusser maintains the relevance of the made of production ot the economic ativity with the socalled repressive state apparatuses. Unbridled capitalism, then iseausing oppression, exploitation, and marginalization with the ae offre. Transnational compa nies in accumulating wealth throwgh surplus capital dispossess the Lumad, ‘Tosetit straight through the lens of Har ‘ey, the expanding economy in global capitalism gains wealth through theft tothe with legality in the name of obal competitiveness, ease of doing business, and “development”. The dee ing ideology of today’s capitalism, neoib- ‘cals, explodes in the Global South in ‘th form ofits package policies ef ib> ‘razation, deregulation, privatization,

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