Por: Luis Britto García* Cruentas fueron las batallas de América Latina y el Caribe por su independencia y soberanía.
Estados Unidos, que dispone de unas 6.000 bases militares en su territorio y unas 800 en el resto del mundo, cuenta actualmente con unas 76 bases militares en territorio de Nuestra América: casi el doble del número de países de la región.
Según estimación del Libertador Simón Bolívar, costaron arriba de la tercera parte de la población. Durante el siglo XIX, el injusto orden oligárquico heredado de la Colonia propició numerosas guerras civiles.
Over a decade since he was last active Irish singer-songwriter Ciaran Murphy is back with an 11-track album of incendiary acoustic Folk with a Punk as hell attitude. London Celtic Punk Sean Creegan reviews the new release.
I must admit to being very happy on hearing that Ciaran Murphy or Pip as he’s known to many had decided to pick up the guitar again and pen some new material after a long period of time off in the musical world.
I was even happier to then be asked to review the new album for the London Celtic Punks website.
Since we had last heard from Ciaran he told us he had genuinely planned to never write or record again and focus instead on academia and to his credit he had since gained degrees, masters degrees, started a PHD (in his own words) realised it was “utterly fucking useless in the long run and stopped”.
Living as he does in the six counties Ciaran had seen the political situation become exactly what James Connolly had warned us about when he said “unless you set about the establishment of a Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain… England will still rule you”.
“Songs started coming back into my head because of pure frustration at seeing republicanism being drawn so far into that trap. And I just got the guitar out to scratch an itch tbh”.
The eleven track album which has haunting tin whistle, bodhran, guitar and if I’m not mistaken banjo throughout the songs tackles the kind of subject matter you would expect from Ciaran all sung with passion and heart.
Two tracks from Pips previous albums are reworked for this album namely ‘Death With Walls’ and ‘For God And Ulster’. They fit in well and sit alongside the new tracks admirably.
The clearest example of this ideological corruption is nationalism’s ongoing acceptance of ‘Internment By Remand’, the imprisonment of republican political activists using sham ‘evidence’ from Mi5 and the PSNI, which everyone knows will not be accepted at any upcoming trial but is used to take men and women off the streets and keep them on remand for 2 – 4 years at a time.
It’s believed that over 11,000 days have been lost by victims of this tactic with constitutional nationalism turning a blind.
The song was the first single from the album released on August 9th, the date of the original internment operations of 1971.
“Free Staters. I’m taking Ireland for myself. Never mind nobody else”
A version of Shane MacGowans ‘The Dunes’ is included and sounds great.
It’s definitely leaning more towards a ballad’s type album but my favourite track ‘Free Staters’ is a bit more up tempo.
All in all Pip has made another thought provoking record in his own inimitable style that indeed tells us of the land that Connolly warned us of.
Rev Archibald Warwick was hung in front of his congregation following the 1798 rebellion.
Today nothing exists to remember his sacrifice, either in his home parish of Kirkubbin or beyond except this wonderful tribute from Ciaran.
We welcome Ciaran back and hope to see him belt these tunes out in the near future at a London Celtic Punks gig.
Last word to Ciaran and why he’s back and whatever we imagined to be brave is no comparison to what he’s doing… and doing so well.
The so called ‘Rebel’ music scene here doesn’t want to touch on these issues (Maghaberry, PSNI oppression, Craigavon 2 etc) because singers are afraid of not being asked to play certain bars, festivals etc which made it all the more urgent to start writing again so these topics aren’t totally ignored.
As a US vassal Warsaw refuses to obey the International Arrest Warrant for Israel’s prime minister who continues to direct the massacre, torture, starvation and kidnap of thousands of men, women and kids
A protester holding a sign with an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Warsaw, Poland, January 10, 2025.
Hundreds of people marched in Warsaw on Friday to protest against the Polish government’s decision not to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
In November, The Hague-based court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, on charges of committing war crimes in Gaza. On Thursday, the office of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Warsaw would not arrest Netanyahu if the Israeli leader travels to Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp during World War II.
screenshot Protesters rallied outside the Presidential Chancellery building, waving Palestinian flags and posters with anti-Netanyahu slogans.
screenshot The crowd chanted “arrest Netanyahu,” as well as accusations that Tusk and Polish President Andrzej Duda are “defending genocide.”
Because the ICC lacks any police force or enforcement powers of its own, it relies on the countries that signed the Rome Statute to enforce its warrants. Poland signed the treaty, but Israel did not. Netanyahu has denied the accusations of war crimes and reaffirmed that the Jewish state does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction.
The Israeli prime minister is not currently planning to attend the ceremony commemorating the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz, the Times of Israel wrote on Thursday, citing an aide in the Netanyahu cabinet. Netanyahu may consider attending, but Poland would have to “solve the ICC issue” first, the aide said.
On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing the imposition of sanctions on the ICC if the court charges Americans or citizens of vassal nations.
The US does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction and has refused to back the outstanding warrant despite the ongoing daily mass murders directed by Netanyahu.
« No veo delegación de cuatro patas. No veo un asiento para las águilas. Nos olvidamos y nos consideramos superiores. Pero, después de todo, somos solo una parte de la creación. Y tenemos que considerar esto para entender dónde estamos. Y estamos parados en algún lugar entre la montaña y la hormiga. . ».
Jefe Oren Lyons, Nación Séneca, hablando ante las organizaciones no gubernamentales de las Naciones Unidas, Ginebra, Suiza, 1977.
«Los últimos 500 años han visto una ‘reorganización rápida, continua y radical de la vida en la Tierra sin precedentes geológicos’: la llegada del colonialismo europeo, el imperialismo y la expansión asociada de los sistemas económicos capitalistas que conducen a la transferencia de enfermedades, plantas, animales, formas de uso de la tierra y sistemas administrativos en todo el mundo.»
Según la ONU, estamos entrando en una « era de pandemia » causada por la deforestación, la pérdida de hábitat, la agricultura intensiva y el tráfico de vida silvestre.
El Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC) ha dicho que una de las formas más importantes de reducir las emisiones de carbono es cambiar a una dieta basada en plantas.
La industria de la carne es responsable de producir más contaminación climática que todos los automóviles, barcos, camiones y aviones del mundo juntos.
Esta presión de los consumidores ha provocado la destrucción de enormes áreas de bosque tropical, ricas en biodiversidad, capaces de capturar grandes cantidades de carbono.
Inhis first presidencyDonald Trump introduced us to the POST TRUTH ERA, telling 21 lies daily on average . His 2nd round promises POST MORALITY, Might is Right and STRANGULATION of his defenseless vassals (you and me), now in lockstep with the deep US War State with a Genocide under its belt..
GAZA 2024- sponsored by USA – (or Denmark, Panama or Canada after refusing US assimilation)
The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it, breathing new life into the American Global Empire.
In this context, it makes perfect sense for the US to increase pressure on its vassals. I am not using the term in a pejorative sense.
The US does not have “allies” in the traditional meaning of the word. It has vassals with different levels of feudal obligations and elite integration, and different tasks. Extracting more value from vassals — whether through tariffs, increased NATO budgets, meddling in local politics or potential territorial concessions – is an absolutely logical step in cementing and renewing America’s position as overlord of its sphere.
There are three ways America’s European vassals can react to this: look for protection outside of the sphere, try to make themselves more useful/necessary & advance integration, or take it on the face.
Were we in, I don’t know, the 19th century, Denmark would just ask Russia for military support in Greenland in exchange for mild economic concessions and never worry again.
As it is, the Royal Danish Army does not have any artillery anymore because they gave it all away for the purpose of firing cluster ammunition at Russian children in Donetsk.
They did not receive anything in return for that and it did not help any Danish purpose. They cannot defend themselves if push comes to shove and they can’t ask anybody to help because most of their fellow vassals have done the same.
El ejército argelino es uno de los más experimentados en la lucha contra el terrorismo Por Karim B. – La llegada de terroristas islamistas al poder en Siria, después de más de una década de devastadora guerra civil, es la copia exacta de un plan que las agencias occidentales intentaron implementar en Argelia, pero que […]
These five civilian supporters were murdered on 8th Jan by Turkish drones on the march of 10’s of thousands to the Tishreen Dam to block the entry of the Turkish jihadi mercenary gangs into what’s left of Rojava
These 5 people on the civil demonstration were murdered by Turkish drone fire. The demonstration and convoy continued and occupies the Dam which the mercenaries, including many ex ISIS and Al Qaeda, must cross to continue to destroy, massacre and loot. Many more people were injured.
THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE AT THE TISHREEN DAM WILL BE THE SPIRIT OF THE INTERNATIONALIST COMMUNITY!
➡️ Today thousands of cars from all North-East Syria gathered in a convoy to reach the Tishreen Dam and make a human shield action in support of the SDF.
💥 The convoy, composed by families, journalists, institutions, civilians and youth was deliberately attacked by the fascist Turkish State through genocidal airstrikes, causing deaths and injuries.
Turkey attacked the civilian demonstration.
Today, 8th of January, thousands of people from all over the region went to the Tishrin water dam to stand side by side with the SDF. Despite Turkey attacking civilians, the resistance remain unbroken.
The Autonomous Administration called on international institutions and forces to stop the attacks by the Turkish state. At the same time, it called on the population to take action to protect the dam and support the SDF fighters fighting against it.
The Free 