5 September 2020

On August 20, the pro-Western Russian politician Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow. After he was transferred to a hospital in Berlin, the German government announced categorically that he had been poisoned with a “Novichok” nerve agent.

Politicians and media outlets in Western countries, and above all in Germany, have declared that the Russian government is responsible for Navalny’s poisoning and have escalated their calls for a confrontation with Russia. A certain pattern is repeating itself. An incident takes place and immediately it is declared by media outlets that Putin or Assad is responsible, requiring an immediate response.

NATO Begins Provocative Military Exercises on Russian Border

Even the most routine homicide case involves a great deal of investigation before the alleged perpetrator is publicly named. But in this case, the entire Western media immediately and unanimously concluded who was to blame.

see also: Novichok and Nonsense: From a post-factual to a post-logic world

Assuming that Navalny was poisoned, one would think there would at least be a range of suspects. Is it not possible that an individual or individuals could have poisoned Navalny not because they support the Putin regime, but because they oppose it?

Continue reading “German Imperialism and Alexei Navalny: zero Proof.. zero Logic.. but ”Lets All Attack Russia””

La directa.cat shared with thanks translation thefreeonline

by Ramon Sala at La_Directa
Journalist, pedagogue and activist in the animalist association Ferus.

The hunting season open in mid-August, starlings, tudons and herons can be killed. But the “fearsome” wild boar can be hunted with one excuse or another all year round, for example in the Collserola mountains (a ‘Natural’ Park) of Barcelona.

A sow, a female boar, can be fertile after eight months of the year and give birth twice a year to 5 to 7 piglets, of which the 12 suckling can survive 50 to 70 percent. In good conditions the population can increase up to 200 percent annually.

According to European studies, in the last twenty years the population of wild boars has multiplied by four or five times throughout the continent. In regions where there are complete ecosystems, the trophic pyramid tends to balance itself. There is no one speciesleft or missing. With industrialization, all of Europe is urbanized and abandoned fields and pastures remain. From the 50s or 60s the renaturalization of all Europe is a fact. We now have more forests than two or three centuries ago.

We lack herbivores that keep the formidable plant mass at bay but when we have protected a single species such as the goats of the Ports de Beseit, they destroy everything and die by the hundreds of diseases that spread exponentially when there is overpopulation.

Wild animals are all the rage – with the permission of poor Cachou, the TV news star – and the most you tuber is the wild boar. In Catalonia, they eat corn, cause 1,200 accidents a year, transmit an African plague to farms and are a reservoir of diseases that can pass to humans.

In the midst of a jumble of interests, misinformation and alarmism, the miraculous solution appears. Shooting ends the problem. In Europe, 4,000,000 wild boars are killed every year. Dumping 21,000 tons of toxic lead on the forests, waters, marshes and fields. The hunting lobby can be happy.

Continue reading “Wild Boar ‘Plague’ and How to resolve conflicts by Integral Rewilding”

Students Aren’t Learning About Nuclear Weapons. That’s a Major Problem.   BY CAROLINE DELBERT, SEP 4, 2020  from popularmechanics.com/

• Not enough young people have access to even the option of studying nuclear weapons dynamics, an industry report says.
• Nuclear weapons development continues around the world.

• The current nuclear risk workforce is aging out, with few interested in replacing them.
• At the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, innovation advocate Sara Z. Kutchesfahani says the vast majority of U.S. students don’t learn about nuclear weapons in high school, or even in most relevant college coursework. Kutchesfahani says that low level of knowledge, combined with industry factors, means the nuclear workforce itself is about to hit a critical state.

Continue reading “Students unaware of nuclear weapons and the existential threat that they pose”

International Deskdaily-bangladesh.com

A serving British soldier was arrested by the Royal Military Police on Monday after protesting in uniform against Britain’s support for Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war. Yemen-born Lance Corporal Ahmed Al-Babati was filmed in Whitehall outside the Ministry of Defence before being taken away by three military police officers.

Al-Babati joined the British Army in 2017. He described the British government as having “blood on its hands” with lucrative arms sales to Saudi Arabia. According to a report in the Telegraph, he is a member of the Royal Signals and vowed to blow a whistle every ten minutes to represent how often a child is said to be killed in the conflict.

Published: 12:26 27 August 2020   Updated: 15:32 27 August 2020

British soldier Ahmed Al-Babati

Continue reading “British soldier arrested opposing UK infants killing in Yemen war (Videos)”

A migrant carries a blanket in Tijuana

Undocumented U.S. migrants

by Ilka Oliva Corado. on Crónicas de una Inquilina translation thefreeonline

I haven’t seen him at his job for a month, he’s in charge of placing carrots, mushrooms, okra, on that long shelf in the supermarket where there are always two workers placing vegetables on the shelves.

Has he gotten sick? Did he get the virus? I wonder while I look carefully at the other shelves to see if I can find him, but no, he’s not there, there are only young people doing the work.

The new litter, those coming from internet scams, those who have all the strength to work , the recently emigrated: their little faces say it all. The recently undocumented immigrants are as if they were carrying a large poster announcing that they have just arrived and that they do not have papers, the fear of the circumstances emerges twice over them.

Those looks, those ways of walking, the clothes, their accents, so from their places of origin that it is as if they are spotlighted.

All that fades over the years like a tempera painting that receives the sun every day and pales until its tones become haggard, that is what time does to undocumented migrants who go crazy in the frenzy of wanting to run away towards freedom and then enormous wall of exclusion they encounter, which is devouring them physically and emotionally.

Continue reading “Those who have gone… English/Spanish”

Journalists Have Paved Assange’s Path to a US Gulag

by Jonathan Cook first published on CounterPunch.org.

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair

Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms.

A journalist and publisher has been deprived of his liberty for 10 years. According to UN experts, he has been arbitrarily detained and tortured for much of that time through intense physical confinement and endless psychological pressure.

He has been bugged and spied on by the CIA during his time in political asylum, in Ecuador’s London embassy, in ways that violated his most fundamental legal rights.

The judge overseeing his hearings has a serious conflict of interest – with her family embedded in the UK security services – that she did not declare and which should have required her to recuse herself from the case.

Today one year ago we visited #Assange in prison.

He showed clear signs of prolonged psychological #Torture.

First I was shocked that mature democracies could produce such an accident.

Then I found out it was no accident.

Now, I am scared to find out about our democracies… pic.twitter.com/enElUmA1fK

— Nils Melzer (@NilsMelzer) May 9, 2020

All indications are that Assange will be extradited to the US to face a rigged grand jury trial meant to ensure he sees out his days in a maximum-security prison, serving a sentence of up to 175 years.

Continue reading “Journalists Have Paved Assange’s Path to a US Gulag”