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El Ministerio de Defensa de Rusia informó que el Ejército ucraniano realizó un fallido intento de ofensiva a gran escala en cinco sectores del frente en dirección a Yuzhnodonetsk. «El objetivo de las Fuerzas Armadas de Ucrania era romper nuestras defensas en lo que Kiev considera como el sector más vulnerable del frente», señalaron las […]
The Kaapori capuchin is on a knife-edge of survival – they are critically endangered. In 2017 their population had been decimated by 80% due to deforestation for agriculture including soy, cattle grazing and palm oil. They are forgotten animals with no formal protections in place. Fight for them every time you shop and be #vegan […]
Lucio, The Good Bandit: Reflections of an Anarchist
Anarchism has historically been essentially comprised of those who sought to live a world without authority and exploitation. The forms that this desire took, and continue to take, have varied greatly ideologically, organisationally, practically. The desire though has remained constant; it is a desire that has defined an ethics, a way of being in the world.
We share a modest part of an example of such an ethics, in the life of Lucio Utubia …
Outspoken and charismatic, Lucio speaks like a true anarchist. When asked what it means to be an anarchist, Lucio refutes the misperception of the terrorist, “The anarchist is a person who is good at heart, responsible.” Yet he makes no apologies for the need to destroy the current social order, “it’s good to destroy certain things, because you build things to replace them.”
Lucio has old friends in the Southern Cone. Funds from the forgery operatives helped hundreds from revolutionary organizations exile and finance clandestine actions against the bloody dictatorships which disappeared ten thousands of activists, students and workers during the 1970’s throughout Latin America.
In Uruguay, funds from falsified Citibank travelers’ checks funded the guerilla group Tupamaros, in the US the Black Panthers and other revolutionary groups throughout Europe.
During his recent visit to South America, Lucio stayed at the worker run BAUEN Hotel in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires. He was astounded by the accomplishments of the workers without bosses. At the BAUEN hotel, workers are putting into practice workers autogestíon or self-management.
Self-management has been a mainstay of anarchist thought since the birth of capitalism. Rather than authority – obey relationship between capitalists and workers, self-management implies that workers put into practice an egalitarian system in which people collectively decide, produce and control their own destinies for the benefit of the community.
There is a hidden war being waged against Yemen, a multinational assault against the country’svitalnatural resources. For years, foreign states and companies have engaged in the illicit plundering of Yemen’s oil and gas – war profiteering inthepoorest nation in West Asia.
The US-backed and Saudi-led war in Yemen has not only created a severe countrywide humanitarian crisis, but has also spawned external competition over the looting of Yemen’s natural resources, particularly oil and gas. Yemen’s strategic location and its many ports make it an ideal hub for transporting stolen resources quickly and efficiently.
While the eight-year conflict has somewhat subsided due toongoing direct peace talksbetween Riyadh and Sanaa, the exploitation of these resources continues unabated, with different Yemeni authorities and external states vying for control.
Three active oil and gas fields are currently under the authority of foreign aggressors who lead the war coalition in Yemen. Marib, a…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz leads Europe in ‘exponential armed escalation’ of Ukraine dispute
German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, received an icy welcome at a ‘European Festival’ organized by his own Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Friday. Scholz was booed and whistled at as he sought to address a festival held in the town of Falkensee, in the German state of Brandenburg, near Berlin.
Footage published by the Ruptly video agency shows event attendees criticizing Scholz for being a “people’s traitor” and a “warmonger.” Few supporters are seen cheering for the chancellor. A group was also heard shouting “liar” and “bandit” while demanding “peace without weapons” and urging Scholz to “go away.”
According to the German tabloid Bild, some of the chancellor’s critics are associated with the country’s right-wing scene and were wearing clothes bearing symbols of Russia and the anti-vaccination movement.
Scholz defended his government’s policies amid the chilly reception, insisting that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a “warmonger” for ordering the military operation in Ukraine. He also dismissed his critics as “loudmouths,” adding that had they had “any sense in [their] brains” they would criticize the Russian leadership instead of him.
The chancellor was supported by Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke, who remarked that the demonstration “belongs on the Red Square.” Woidke, an SPD member, told the demonstrators that it was thanks to “democracy” and “freedom” that they were allowed to “quarrel” at the rally.
A YouGov survey published in May suggested that most Germans favored peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. As many as 54% of the respondents also opposed Ukraine’s potential NATO membership.
The German public also appeared to be wary of the massive military support Berlin provided to Kiev throughout the conflict. In a February survey, almost two-thirds of Germans polled opposed providing Kiev with fighter jets. In December 2022, a YouGov poll indicated that 45% were against sending German Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.
A number of German celebrities and public figures have also sent two open letters to Scholz, in which they urged Berlin to stop supplying Ukrainian forces with arms and focus instead on reaching a ceasefire through peaceful means instead.
“The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked like he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say ‘When’.” P.G. Wodehouse, “Carry on Jeeves” Dear Readers: I saw this opinion piece by reporter Maxim Sokolov, the headline reads: Ukrainian Intelligence – The Most Open Intelligence In The World Sounds like a […]
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