freely across the border and who argue that the land should belong to neither country . “ Who knows ? ” Harsson told NRK . “ It may really happen . ”
From July 2015 to July 2016 , Manila has seen a 38 percent drop in total crime — but there 's a twist in the numbers : drug offenses may be down , yet the data also says there 's been a 57 percent rise in premeditated murder , and a staggering 125 percent increase in homicides . " We 're getting tired of embalming the dead , because there are so many " Drug dealers and users are surrendering to the police by the hundreds of thousands , hoping to avoid death at the hands of gun - toting vigilantes left to roammovement.transportperson.nafree by the cops . After all , it 's the president himself who gave people license to mete out justice on their own . " Please feel free to call us , the police , or do it yourself if you have the gun — you have my support , " Duterte said on national TV last month .
To neoliberals , everyone and everything are disposable . The failed states that have risen up across the Middle East , Africa , the Caucasus and Asia in the wake of the Cold War herald a neoliberal world driven by violence , corruption , greed and desperation . The drug traffickers , smugglers , pirates , kidnappers , jihadists , criminal gangs and militias that roammovement.transportperson.nahuge swaths of territory where central authority has vanished are the real faces of globalization . These nihilists define Islamic State just as they define the corporate state . Corruption may be more naked and cruder in Afghanistan or Iraq , but it has its parallel in the for - sale politicians and political parties that dominate the United States and Europe .