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Month: Nov 2023
Bioconstrucción: casa ecológica
Levantar una vivienda con materiales y técnicas naturales es una actividad que está ganando terreno. Hablamos de la bioconstrucción: crear un espacio saludable y sostenible que busca la eficiencia energética como respuesta a las cuestiones medioambientales. En este reportaje, expertos y arquitectos uruguayos explican los beneficios y la puesta en práctica de «volver a la […]
Bioconstrucción: casa ecológica
El «libertario» Javier Milei será el próximo presidente argentino
Por Rubén Armendáriz | 20/11/2023 | Argentina Argentina abrazó a la ultraderecha. Javier Milei, de 53 años, se adjudicó la segunda vuelta de las elecciones en Argentina al lograr el 56% de los votos frente al actual ministro de Economía Sergio Massa, que logró el 44% de los sufragios. Massa, ministro de Economía en un país con el 142% de inflación interanual, […]
El «libertario» Javier Milei será el próximo presidente argentino
Thoughts from Berlin on breaking out of the largest prison in the world
from thefreeonline on 19 Nov 2023 by Rigaer94 via Dark Nights at anarchistnews.org
…’we have shown in Sonnenallee, Potsdamer Platz, O-Platz… that we stand with Palestine’.
Read in Deutsch and Español (castellano) HERE
Original title: Berlin, Germany: Some thoughts on the breaking out of the largest prison in the world by Rigaer94 EN/DE/ES
Since a couple of weeks, we have heard from many about the necessity of expressing themselves regarding what is “happening now in Gaza”. Arguments that seem to almost suggest that a new war has started are common even in radical or anarchist circles.
Since the break out from Gaza took place, the Palestinian struggle for liberation has been suffering in Germany from being reduced to Hamas’ actions. The German State, political parties, and even sometimes our comrades, are very concerned about how far or close one can be towards Hamas’ ideas.
But very little about the historical roots of an asymmetric war that has lasted more than 70 years is brought into discussion by these positions.
An ongoing massacre of Palestinian people has been happening since the days of British colonialism, assisted by the establishment of an apartheid regime in an artificially created settler society.
Today, the need to condemn constructed horror stories, even when they have been already denied in the hegemonic media, still prevails in Germany.
Instead of listening to voices from Palestine or their exiled communities, there is little resilience to the orientalist discourse that the state and the media are pushing, constructing the image of “the Arab” as the ultimate evil. This dynamic has been present in all so called “Wars on Terror” since 9/11, but it originated long before.
Individuals and collectives, who have never been sympathizers of Hamas, today find themselves backed up against a wall, expected to follow the directives of a white German movement.
First they must publicly declare their distance from Islamist ideas before being given the space to speak about their own political ideas about liberation from the colonial and fascist oppression of Israel.
The level of violence displayed in Berlin in the last few weeks cannot be explained merely as a reaction to the break out of Gaza. Students can be slapped by a teacher in school, people are facing brutal police violence in the streets, and demonstrations are systematically banned.
Although anti-Semitism finds its greatest expressions in this territory, and we see it as our responsibility to fight the multiple expressions of white christian supremacy – be it Aiwagner, AFD, Reichsbürger or others – the German state deflects attention from this by accusing others.
The idea of imported anti-Semitism is and remains a way for Germany to find a new demon of history and to push anti-Semitism from itself to Palestine in a historically revisionist way. The results are evident today.
With the usual racist agitation, by constructing the idea that Palestinians are anti-Semitic by nature, the German state is trying to divide our class along ethnic and religious lines, as a smokescreen for the division between us and the gun-grabbers who are currently earning a lot of money from Rheinmetall shares.
In order to silence any resistance to the complicity between the german state and the Israel military and its Zionist authorities, the well-known narrative of guilt is utilized, unfolding it like a transparent mantle over the people socialized in the territory controlled by the german state.
Only now, after over 100 years?!
The sea of contradictions in which war is immersed weighs heavily upon us. Since over 100 years, we see images of Palestinian people being murdered by colonial forces.
Since over 100 years, we see images of Palestinian people being displaced from their own territories. Since the II Oslo Accord in 1995, we have witnessed how the narrative artillery of peacemaking attacks all forms of self-defense and self-determination, characterizing them as barbaric, zeal-driven, or uncivilized.
We are sick and tired of seeing tons of rubble in Gaza, after decades of bombardments by the Israeli forces. And it is with this feeling that we observe the fences of the biggest prison in the world being torn down.
People in Gaza have been subjected to constant violence, violence which we cannot even imagine being inflicted upon our own bodies but have normalized for others.
After all, normalizing the oppression of certain people is a necessity of the colonial capitalist world we still live in. This beast needs the colonized to remain silent, to passively obey. The german “left” also loves victims to “care for” to redeem their guilt.
What disturbs some people in Germany today, is not the violence in and of itself, and not all deaths are equally disturbing.
We internalize the valuation of the deaths we can put faces to, while we do not care about the faceless ones. We accept the fact that some can mourn for their beloved ones, and bury them, and at the same time we simply accept the disappearance of thousands and thousands.
What disturbs some people, mostly the ones in power, is the fact that those expected to remain passive are taking action on a path to liberation, and this is when the system finally shakes. Through their actions, people in Gaza are forcing us in central Europe, to stop navel-gazing and to take a position on their reality.
Today, people who should be pursuing the Western developmental ideal, throw in our faces a reality that is at times difficult for us to understand. This gets us out of our heads, forcing us to leave the place of those who dictate discourse, who say what is of interest and what is not, and demands that we draw attention to a reality that we all profit from.
Or do we still think that our well-being and economic stability in this country is independent of the slaughter of others in the Global South?
For many here, it is a blow to their ego, to be confronted by this reality, to be exposed as not having a clear stance. Because until today they could have been indifferent, like some of us were, but no longer.
Taking a stance in this genocide should be easy for anyone. For us it is painful, contradictory, and exhausting, but necessary. War puts us in the position of not having any ready-made option to choose, but requires us to build positions of our own, or get sidelined…
Maybe this can be a chance for many to begin to understand what colonialism means also for people here, for our daily life and praxis, and therefore to walk on the path of anti-colonial fights.
Facing contradictions while remaining in solidarity.
Despite the contradictions mentioned above, we do not distance ourselves from our anti-militarist and anti-war convictions. It is clear to us that the war machinery and the market of death are never the path to liberation.
We learned that the idea of white supremacist peace, in which only the military of UN-recognized nation states fights in occupied territories, is not peaceful.
It is simply an ignorant idea, which is intended to take away the space for self-defense by monopolizing violence on a global scale.
All deaths that have happened so far are awful, as are those happening today. That is why we want a struggle that ensures that no one else dies, or is marked for death because of their identity, and becomes just another number in a global statistic.
And we know for a fact that the regime’s politics, which are shaped by the Israeli military and supported by the Palestinian Authority that ruled this land from the 90s on, did not provide any fertile ground to a life in freedom, and wouldn’t do so in any possible future.
In recent days, the news repeats the position that Germany stands with Israel.
Well the German state might, but we have shown in Sonnenallee, Potsdamer Platz, O-Platz… that we stand with Palestine.
From West Sahara to the mountains in Chiapas, from Wallmapu to the Kashmir Valley.
From our hearts to Gaza, 48, and the West Bank, that is to say, to Palestine as a whole, we embrace self-organization and the self-determination of peoples.
We greet those who are oppressed and rise up for other worlds, and who engage in dialogue through actions.
We stand side by side with the people facing repression. Let’s join Sonnenallee, and be in the streets in any way one chooses.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Yemeni naval forces seize Israeli-linked vessel
from thefreeonline on 19th Nov 2023 by Aletho News
The Cradle | November 19, 2023
Fifty-two crew members on an Israeli-linked ship in the Red Sea were detained by Yemeni naval forces who intercepted and seized the vessel on 19 October, sources told Al-Mayadeen.
An official Yemeni source confirmed to the outlet that the news is true.
Saudi media also reported that Yemeni forces seized the Israeli-linked Galaxy Leader vessel. According to Hebrew media reports, the ship is owned by a British company owned by Israeli businessman Abraham Unger, who goes by the name ‘Rami.’
Yemen’s Ansarallah to boycott US, Israeli goods … Experts estimate that some $80 million worth of Israeli products reach Yemen via the UAE each year
In an official statement, the Israeli army described the incident as “very serious” and clarified that the ship was not Israeli:
“The ship departed from Turkiye on its way to India, staffed by civilians of various nationalities, not including Israelis.”
Continue reading “Yemeni naval forces seize Israeli-linked vessel”Probe shows 126 civilians were killed by an Israeli airstrike on Jabalia Refugees that targeted one individual + Max Blumenthal on Oct 7 -video
from thefreeonline on 19 Nov 2023 by Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams /
The estimated civilian death toll was 126-136, including 69 children.
Airwars noted that this is “the most named victims we have ever monitored in a single event.”
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians, including over 100 civilian victims of a single Israeli bombing in the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp on October 31 who were publicly identified on Thursday by the U.K.-based watchdog Airwars.
The group identified 116 names of civilians killed in the strike—including 10 cases with the death of multiple family members, three of which reportedly involved entire families being wiped out. The estimated civilian death toll is 126-136, including 69 children.
“Persistent impunity has created the conditions for the consolidation of the Israeli apartheid regime,
Airwars noted on social media that this is “the most named victims we have ever monitored in a single event,” and “almost every named victim we found died along with at least one other family member.”
The analysis is just for the Israeli attack on October 31, but the group is separately reviewing a strike from the following day. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed both bombings and claimed to be targeting “a very senior Hamas commander.”
As Guardianreporting cited by Airwars detailed:
A spokesperson for the Israeli military said the attack had been authorized to assassinate a senior Hamas commander and destroy his base. IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari named the target as Ibrahim Biari, commander of Central Jabaliya Battalion, who he said had been leading fighting in northern Gaza from a network of tunnels under the camp.
Milei se declara en favor de la Matanza de niños de Israel! Hoy puede ser presidente de Argentina
/desde thefreeonline el 19 nov, 2023 por Agencias/
El candidato presidencial revela planes de conversión al judaísmo
Sobre la guerra en curso de Israel con el grupo palestino Hamas: que ha “expresado enfáticamente” solidaridad por el “legítimo derecho a la defensa” del país.
Milei, un hombre de 53 años que se describe a sí mismo como “anarcocapitalista” y lidera el partido Avances de la Libertad, se enfrenta al ministro de economía del país sudamericano, Sergio Massa, de la coalición gobernante Patria, en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones del domingo.
La contienda, que sigue a una elección en octubre que no logró establecer un ganador claro, ha estado dominada por las terribles perspectivas fiscales de Argentina. La inflación del país está llegando a los tres dígitos, mientras que su tasa de pobreza se sitúa en el 40%.
Han muerto destrozados ya 5000 niños por los bombardeos indiscriminados de Israel” ¿Qué hicieron para merecer esto?” bbc.com/mundo
Sin embargo, si bien la crisis económica de Argentina probablemente será el tema más apremiante para los votantes, Milei también ha dejado claro que verá a Estados Unidos, y en particular a Israel, como aliados clave en la construcción de sus políticas exteriores.
“Lo que más admiro de Israel es su cultura, su gente”, dijo Milei al Times of Israel en una entrevista publicada a primera hora del domingo. Añadió sobre la guerra en curso de Israel con el grupo palestino Hamas que ha “expresado enfáticamente” solidaridad por el “legítimo derecho a la defensa” del país.
Además, Milei, que asistió a una escuela católica en su juventud, habló de su interés duradero en la fe judía, pero dijo que cualquier decisión de convertirse al judaísmo tendría que esperar hasta que sus ambiciones políticas se hayan completado.
“Es muy difícil porque no podría cumplir todos los preceptos por las exigencias que tendría como presidente”, dijo Milei. “Sabes, si eres un converso, tienes que cumplir con todos los preceptos religiosos judíos”.
Y añadió: “La cuestión es que posiblemente planee convertirme una vez que termine mi carrera política”.
La personalidad a veces descarada y excéntrica de Milei ha generado comparaciones internacionales con el expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump, así como con el exlíder brasileño Jair Bolsonaro. Y, al igual que Trump, Milei ha expresado su deseo de trasladar la embajada de Argentina en Israel de Tel Aviv a Jerusalén.
Gaza es el mayor cementerio de niños, dice la ONU
Trump anunció la decisión en 2017 en una medida que cambió décadas de política exterior estadounidense sobre el tema, aunque algunos países musulmanes expresaron que esencialmente anulaba el estatus de Estados Unidos como mediador en las conversaciones de paz regionales.
“Sí, por supuesto”, dijo Milei cuando el Times of Israel le preguntó sobre sus planes para la embajada. “No me importa si los líderes mundiales me critican. Realmente creo que eso es lo correcto”.
Tanto israelíes como palestinos reclaman a Jerusalén como sus capitales nacionales.
La partición de Israel de 1948 nombró a Jerusalén “ciudad internacional” y la mayoría de los estados se han negado a garantizar que aceptarán una nueva capital israelí incluso como parte de una solución negociada.
Los encuestadores sugieran que el populista Milei puede triunfar en las elecciones. Quien resulte elegido asumirá el cargo el 10 de diciembre por un período de cuatro años.
The Free 