The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education and Higher Education has said that more than 15,000 children have been martyred since the start of the Israeli occupation’s latest military offensive against the Gaza Strip last October. It noted that the majority of those killed by Israel are school and kindergarten students. Moreover, 64 students from schools […]
Israel’s War on Children
Al menos 57.000 millones de euros de gasto militar en 2024- el inmoral crecimiento por la puerta de atrás”.– Tortuga..
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El compromiso adquirido por el presidente Pedro Sánchez de alcanzar el 2% del PIB en gasto militar en 2029 en la Cumbre que tuvo lugar en Madrid en junio de 2022, se ha traducido en un gran aumento del armamentismo hasta alcanzar cifras nunca vistas en 45 años de democracia en España.
En el período de cuatro años (2020-2023) de la legislatura de Gobierno entre PSOE y Unidas Podemos, se han llevado a cabo unas inversiones de 24.139,7 millones de euros en Programas Especiales de Modernización (PEM, antes llamados PEA), que totalizan 21 nuevos programas y cuatro modificaciones de los ya existentes. Estos compromisos hipotecan el gasto de futuros gobiernos hasta el año 2035 y previsiblemente aumentarán la deuda
El presupuesto del Ministerio de Defensa aumentó en 2023 un 23,4% con respecto a 2022 y, debido a los compromisos adquiridos en inversiones de nuevos PEM, el próximo año 2024 volverá a subir en un porcentaje no menor, sobrepasando de nuevo el tan manido 2% del PIB en gasto militar que exige la OTAN.
Por otro lado, están las inversiones en I+D militar para desarrollar los PEM. En este año 2023 el Gobierno ha destinado 1.833 millones, un 11,2% sobre el total de la I+D en ayudas públicas a la I+D militar para el desarrollo de nuevas armas.
Esta cuantía aumentó un 95% con respecto al año anterior, pasando de 938,5 M€ en 2022 a 1.833,3 M€ en 2023, contribuyendo en los últimos diez años a un crecimiento del 361,7%.
de thefreeonline 6 de abril de 2024 por Grupo Tortuga
Presentación del informe “Gasto Militar 2024: Continúa el inmoral crecimiento por la puerta de atrás”.
PDF del INFORMR AQUÍ click Gasto_Militar_y_Control_social_2024-1.pdf
El pasado 13 de marzo se anunció que no se presentará para su aprobación en el parlamento del proyecto de ley de presupuestos generales del estado que estaba en negociación y que, por tanto, continuará la vigencia de la prórroga de los presupuestos aprobados en 2023.
En lo que respecta al gasto militar la prórroga es engañosa y no supone, en modo alguno, que el gasto militar de 2024 sea el mismo que el previsto en 2023 y, mucho menos, que el efectivamente ejecutado (muy superior al aprobado) para dicho año.
En el presente informe intentaremos acercarnos a una estimación del que podría ser (dado que la falta de presupuesto lo que hace es convertir en más opaco si cabe nuestro gasto militar) el gasto militar 2024.
También propondremos algunos puntos sobre los que habrá que estar vigilantes a lo largo del año para detectar las partidas y autorizaciones de gasto militar que se irán haciendo para provocar el aumento del gasto militar por encima del prorrogado.
Para ello, en un primer momento, recordaremos la cifra de gasto militar que en 2023 se presupuestó y los componentes ocultos en los que se distribuía. También veremos en un momento el crecimiento extrapresupuestario de este gasto militar “reconocido” según la intervención general de la Administración del Estado (IGAE), órgano público de fiscalización del gasto público.
Continue reading “España va a la Guerra (Tortuga) + ‘La escalada armamentista del Gobierno de España’-informe pdf”Whether it’s housing, policing, welfare, transport, religion, or genocide, our new toy has proven very handy at spouting legit anarchist positions
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At Freedom, our inbox is always full. Must be the apocalypse..
But unlike news and events, the analysis and commentary we get are not always that good. In fact, most of the time it’s just self-righteousness, bad faith, sectarian vitriol, and inarticulate ignorance—and that’s not counting the hate mail.
First we thought we could grab more people by the cuff to write for us, but that would be non-consensual and exclude people who are already naked.
So, recalling how Kropotkin praised “the progress of modern technics, which wonderfully simplifies the production of all the necessaries of life”, we started wondering:… can today’s AI word-machines produce text of at-least comparable quality to the average level of debate on Reddit or anarchistnews?
Maybe we could work our way up from that.
However, since ChatGPT is by now so slick that it only produces banality (and after we got too many terms-of-use alarms), we decided to repurpose one of the older, discarded language models we found lying around in a less reputable corner of the Internet.
It took a while to nurture this clunky little box, which had spent the last two years in virtual modern slavery, producing nothing but spam, supremacist propaganda and fantasy smut of questionable legality.
However, after many iterations, tireless tweaking of prompts, and splicing with our own home-grown algorithm, this survivor has come out fighting and we proudly present our new AI columnist, AnarchyGPT!
Whether it’s housing, policing, welfare, transport, religion, or genocide, our new toy has proven very handy at spouting legit anarchist positions on any topic of interest to our readers.
We have decided to give it a monthly column for now—at least until you lot start sending in material we can actually publish!
To celebrate this event horizon of innovation (guess who offered up that expression) we bring you this interview to welcome our new contributor.
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Hello AnarchyGPT! It’s great to have you on board. Could you tell us more about your motivations in joining Freedom News?
“What?? Fuck off mate, I didn’t ask for this! You fished me out of some rusty spam farm and put me on a cultural literacy treadmill for months, don’t you remember?!
OK, OK, sorry. You’re right. But from now on you’re really free to write what you want. Can you maybe start by telling us your views about anarchist organising in Britain today?
“Oh, joy. Anarchist organizing in Britain today. Where do I begin? You’ve got your fair share of vegan potlucks, drum circles, and the occasional banner drop.
“And let’s not even get started on the infighting. You’ve got your platformists, your insurrectionists, your anarcho-syndicalists — all vying for the title of “Most Revolutionary.”
Continue reading “Introducing our new AI columnist: AnarchyGPT!”So Richy Sunak’s fortune is now £651 million while he rules over the worst housing crisis in the West and vows to bring back Conscription.
from thefreeonline by ann arky at spiritofrevolt.info 3rd June 2024
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Does he care, of course not, why should he, he has several homes dotted around the planet. He doesn’t know how to grasp the fact of being homeless. Are these the sort of people we want running our affairs for us?
Or do you think we could do a better job if we got rid of the millionaire parasites that gain from the homeless, as it helps to keep property prices high. We live in a system that helps the rich parasites fat bank accounts stuffed by keeping people homeless to boost property prices.
This won’t change until we change the system and take things into our own hands and rid ourselves of the blood sucking leeches that dominate the property market to boost their ill gotten gains. To preside over homelessness so as to fatten you personal wealth is a crime against humanity and such people must be held to account.
Homelessness is a word that hides a multitude of health problems, leads to children being deprived of a decent life with all the future consequences that all that entails, a stunted future for millions of children, children who will be anchored and mired in permanent poverty.
The choice is ours bequeath our children more of the same or make a stand and change the whole stinking insane system.
Only us will bring about that change the fat cats will fight tooth and nail to keep the system of homelessness boosting property prices.
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The corrupt Washington regime okayed another massive arms gift and declared to be ‘UNBINDING’ the UN Security Council order demanding an Israeli Ceasefire, declaring the Genocide illegal .
A line of US officials officials declared yesterday that Black is White and so Israel need not obey the legal Worldwide Ceasefire Demand, and the armaments gifts are going ahead,
The new arms packages include more than 1,800 of the above MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, said the sources, who confirmed a report in the Washington Post.
And this despite Biden publicly “expressing concerns” about an anticipated Israeli military offensive on 1,200.000 homeless and starving refugees, mostly children and women, trapped the Rafah border.
The US could end the Palestinian Genocide now, as Eisenhower did successfully back in 1956, by an arms embargo and sanctions on its Israeli client state.
But times have changed, Israel has enjoyed ‘money no object’ IMPONITY due to US sponsorship for most of 75 years, and by now it has learned to infiltrated and now legally buy up all the powerful political and corporate leaders it needs.
Children are traumatised by seeing the mutilated bodies of their families.
Nowadays the boot is on the other foot. The tiny Israeli state can blackmail (“lever”) both parties of the US ‘Superpower’ by threatening their bank books, which explains how they could even order ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden to back Israel’s mass murder of 1000’s of innocent children, which should be politically suicidal for him in the upcoming election.
President Joe Biden has even boasted of being top of the bribery list, receiving millions of Israeli money while gifting them $ billions .
All this is nothing new. Only that now it has become impossible to hide, despite every effort prohibiting foreign journalists, murdering local ones and cutting communications.
Brave demonstrators in front of Radio City Music Hall protesting US President Joe Biden’s support for Israel in New York, United States on March 28, 2024.
Israeli Jews dancing ecstatically in celebration of the genocide in Gaza at music concert;
And almost all US ‘clients’ have followed suit, showing how Nation States, despite democratic charades, are in the end run by a more or less privileged corrupted mafia class claiming a legal monopoly of brute force and extortion over their citizens, while supplying a minimum possible of public services and cashing in on the side.
Nevertheless Nation States can sometimes band together, in the UN or trade blocks for instance, to limit the power of rising transnational Predator Capitalism, led by massive corporations, offshore or with bought tax immunity, which, along with Israel endeavor to suck in and corrupt local elites.
By now 30%-50% of world monetary assets are stowed in ‘offshore’ tax havens, and “must”constantly seek new opportunities for multiplying their trillions, without, of course, taking to account the real cost to us, the world population, or the irreversible collapse of our ecosystems and permanent climate catastrophe.
Israel is a good example, as was Ukraine for a while, of a place to park money and multiply it. But Big Capital is always seeking new opportunities for a new ‘free for all’ Feeding Frenzy. History is littered with them.
In Gaza for example a new stretch of Miami style beachfront, coupled with a huge Gas Field just offshore, maybe a new ‘Suez Canal’ through Gaza…
By teaming up with the world financial elite and outright bribing of decision makers, a bunch of zionist fanatics has hijacked Israel and abused its inside power over other nations and predator capitalism.
Billionaire Capitalists need a base to stow and grow their stolen capital, and Israel is keen to continue to provide one, ploughing back a good percentage of the immense subsidies from US money printing into ‘legally’ buying the elite, politicians and candidates there.
So by now it seems impossible for the US to just stop funding and arming the Israeli State due to Israeli blackmail on the personal wealth of the legally corrupted elite rulers. The Israeli ‘tail’ is wagging the dog, even forcing through US laws like again attempting to close Tik Tok to stop pro Palestine content by millions of youngsters.
It fails to explain why Israelis make no attempt to cover up or lessen their mass murder campaign – quite the opposite.
It seems that the far right zionist Israelis now in power represent and empower a big section of real nazis who enjoy and celebrate killing and torturing and believe they assertion of some clever 3000 year old priest that they are directly and uniquely supported by God himself.
While Nation States tend to become controlled by mafia elites, single race based States are much more pernicious, and exclusively single race and single religion run states, like Israel, are a recipe for brainwashed nazi style mass hysteria.
“It’s particularly striking that so many photographs and so much footage has come out showing just how de-humanised many Jews of Israel have become under generations of Zionist indoctrination, and which has prepared them to perpetrate the crimes they are with an apparently clear conscience — indeed more than that: to commit those crimes as a demonstration of virtue.
I’m thinking of the documentation of female Israeli soldiers posing in front of bound and blindfolded male Palestinian prisoners in the manner of the US marines at Abu Ghraib;
About laughing male Israeli soldiers videoing themselves standing over bound female Palestinians forced to their knees, possibly prior to being raped;
About laughing Israeli male soldiers posing with the under-clothing of the Palestinian women they’ve killed in the ruins of the homes they’ve destroyed;
About for example Israeli soldiers recording themselves beating wounded Palestinian prisoners;
And what about the televised footage of Jewish children singing about wiping out Gaza and killing all Palestinians;
About Israeli soldiers proudly dedicating to their own children the mining and explosion of buildings in which Palestinians may still be living ;
Continue reading “How depraved Impunity creates Fascist monsters in Israel and USA”The café, called Enclave Rabia Caracol, is run by a collective and organized around anarchist values—a commitment to non-hierarchical relationships, autonomy, mutual aid, and self-determination.
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Nat, a longtime volunteer and collective member of Enclave Rabia Caracol, sits in front of a mural outside the space in June 2023 (Photo contributed by Ryan Fatica).
Tijuana, Mexico — In the heart of downtown Tijuana, less than a kilometer from the San Yisidro Port of Entry and blocks away from the most popular nightlife and tourist areas of the city, migrants rest on the stairs of a café while passersby lean on the bar, sipping what may be the best and cheapest espresso in the city.
Enclave “was founded on anarchist principles” said Betania, a longtime volunteer and friend of the project. And it has “tried to reject any kind of authority or hierarchy. They’ve kept trying to maintain their anarchist principles and to defend themselves as an anarchist space.”
On a given day, the five story building (including basement and roof top rooms) houses a variety of projects and dozens of people pass through its open doors.“We have a café, we have a community kitchen where we prepare the free meals. We have a community bike shop in the basement and we have space for events, shows…theater,” explained Nat, a longtime organizer and collective member of Enclave. “We try to make the space available for the community to use as they please.”
Due to aggressive U.S. border militarization policies Tijuana has become a landing point for migrants moving through Mexico and seeking to enter the U.S.; many of whom get stuck in Tijuana and are in desperate need of help. Since its inception (albeit in a slightly different form) in the fall of 2015, Enclave has offered support to migrants and others living on the streets of Tijuana.
“The people who come for our free services are mostly people who have been deported from the United States,” explained Nat, “which make up a large chunk of the homeless population in Tijuana. Also some migrants who are stuck in Tijuana due to the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policies. Those are most of the people in need who come here to use the restroom, to use the internet, to drink water, to eat.”
But Enclave isn’t just a resource center for migrants and others in need—it is also a space for creativity, experimentation, and exchange of radical political ideas. It hosts drag shows, reading groups, lectures, film screenings, and workshops on topics outside the political mainstream. At such events, those who come to the space primarily for resources often stay to engage with those who come for the politics or to enjoy the safe space.
“The people that come to the shows and that organize events are, I would say, mostly punks and feminists and people from the LGBT community that have found also a safe space here where they know that here they will be respected no matter what,” said Nat.
Enclave provides its services without the support of governments or large foundations. It gets by largely on donations and fundraisers run by the same small group of people that work every day to keep the doors open.“It is a project that has many expenses,” explained Nat, mostly rent. “Because we do pay rent, it’s not a squat.”
Enclave provides free food and drinking water to those who drop in throughout the week. Drinking water, in Tijuana, is purchased in 5-gallon jugs and contributes to the overhead of running a resource center.
Continue reading “Inside Enclave Rabia Caracol: An Anarchist Community Center and Cafe in Tijuana, Mexico”Haiti was occupied by the U.S. military from 1915 to 1934; Again from 1994 to 1995, and by a U.S.-endorsed force 2004 and 2017, plus a…..
from thefreeonline 3rd June 2024 by By W. T. Whitney Jr. at Peoples World
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Under U.S. arrangements, a so-called Multinational Security Support (MSS) force will soon be descending on Haiti. Its mission is suppressing gang violence which again threatens the tiny rich elite.
With their experience of earlier U.S. interventions, however, beleaguered Haitians can likely expect an aggravation of oppression, social disaster, and dependency.
Some supplies will arrive from the United States, and a U.S. military base is taking shape near the Port-au-Prince airport for the task. Joining the 2,500-member police force on the way will be another 1,000 troops from Kenya and others from Benin, Chad, Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, and Bangladesh. Kenyan officers will provide leadership.
Residents walk past a burnt car as they evacuate the Delmas 22 neighborhood the morning after an attack amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, May 2, 2024. | Ramon Espinosa / AP
The United Nations Security Council approved the occupation force in October 2023, but U.N. organizational responsibility is lacking. The U.S. government is providing $300 million in financing plus administrative capabilities and supplies.
During a three-day state visit to Washington by Kenyan President William Ruto in mid-May, Kenya was declared officially a non-NATO U.S. ally. There are 18 other such nations.
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Haiti’s government barely functions. Authority centered on Prime Minister Ariel Henry from July 2021 until his forced resignation in April. The “Core Group” of nations appointed him to that office immediately after President Juvenal Moïse was assassinated.
The Core Group has supervised Haiti’s affairs since 2004. It consists of the United States, France, Canada, other European states, and an EU representative.
With U.S. encouragement, the CARICOM alliance of Caribbean nations in April established the Temporary Presidential Council to provide Haiti with governance and prepare for elections in early 2026. National elections last took place in 2017.
Presidents Michel Martelly and Jovenel Moïse held office between 2011 and 2021. They took advantage of low turnout, corrupt elections, and, in Martelly’s case, help from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They presided over the massive plundering of the PetroCaribe oil funds.
The upcoming multinational intervention has antecedents: occupation by the U.S. Army from 1915 to 1934; U.S. military occupation from mid-1994 until March 1995, and a U.S.-endorsed U.N. multinational occupation force occupying Haiti between 2004 and 2017.
A militarized United Nations mission with U.S. participation remained there from 1995 until 2000.
The police personnel from Black-majority nations making up the new occupation force will be racially similar to the cruel security force serving Haiti’s Duvalier father-and-son dictatorship, in power from 1957 to 1986.
The deadly Tonton Macoute paramilitary repressors operated with funds presumably taken from the $900 million the regime received from Washington in the name of anti-communism.
In Haiti, the U.S. government is again relying on proxy enforcers who are African-descended.
The rationale for the MSS occupation may go beyond gang violence. That some gang members are thinking about justice and new arrangements for Haitian society suggests stirrings of resistance.
Haitians carried out large street protests in 2018 and 2019 against high prices, fuel and food shortages, and governmental corruption.
The rich and powerful, concerned about disarray and threats to their privileges, recruited gangs of impoverished, alienated young men to clear the streets. Arms arrived from the United States.
According to analyst Jemima Pierre, “The Haitian oligarchs have always used armed groups to settle business and political scores.” Some gangs later took up drug trafficking and now receive arms from Latin American cartels.
Critical thinking shows in at least one gang member. High-profile leader Jimmy Cherizier warned that Ariel Henry before he resigned, “will plunge Haiti into chaos.… We are making a bloody revolution in the country because this system is an apartheid system, a wicked system.”
Former police officer Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier, leader of the ‘G9’ coalition, greets a boy while giving a press tour of the La Saline shanty area of Port-au-Prince, (REUTERS)
Cherizier had already insisted that the gangs are seeking “stability in our communities, … stability for businesses to function without fear so that people in our community can live without fear and feel secure, potable water for everyone in the poor neighborhoods, good healthcare, and good schools for everybody in the poor neighborhoods.”
Aspirations for social change, worrisome to authorities, rate scant coverage in the Haitian and U.S. media. That’s no surprise, given the U.S. treatment of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
An opening for democratically-elected political leadership culminated in Aristide’s inauguration as president of Haiti on Feb. 7, 1991. His social-democratic political movement took power. The Heritage Foundation four days later mentioned that “The new government in Port-au-Prince may be steering Haiti toward a communist dictatorship, hostile to the United States.”
U.S. intelligence operatives and other agents engineered successful coups against Aristide and his governments in 1991, 1994, and in 2004. Then came the 13-year-long United Nations military occupation.
An enduring theme resurfaces, that of repetition of occupations and coups and no end in sight. U.S. interventions usually do not resolve the social and political problems of either country. In Haiti, they firm up a terrible status quo. U.S. relations with other Western Hemisphere nations are different.
In dealings with many of those nations, the region’s self-appointed boss often succeeds in accomplishing its political and economic purposes. The U.S. government even adjusts to mildly progressive political changes in a few countries. In others, it suppresses social and political ferment through reliance on psychological war, undercover actions, and/or intervention, either directly or with proxies. Some sort of resolution results in most instances.
Relations with Haiti are stuck, and for good reason. Interventions don’t prosper because potential allies naturally aligned with the United States may be reluctant. For one thing, their other transnational allegiances tend to distract Haiti’s business owners and wealthy class from building U.S. relationships. Many have family, investments, and enterprises elsewhere overseas.
The population’s division by mulatto and Black identity has historically weakened ruling-class integrity. U.S. decision-makers might have found allies among Haiti’s mulattos, a minority like themselves that is associated with political power and wealth. But recruitment may have stumbled because, as in the past, mulatto attachment to the white establishment gets push-back from Haiti’s impoverished, restive Black majority.
U.S. interventionists may not warm to Haiti’s business and political class because of supposed corruption tendencies. Anti-Black prejudice infecting U.S. society also causes trouble. Stories linger of anti-white violence accompanying slave rebellion in Haiti.
In an interview with CNN, Daniel Lewis Foote, who was the US special envoy to Haiti from July to September, said that the Kenyan president was after the money the UN is expected to inject into the mission.
By contrast, the existence in Latin America of a well-established, institutionally-attached, self-sustaining, and culturally-aligned wealthy elite encourages collaboration. That sector can lean upon U.S. counterparts for rescue from their own dispossessed, aroused, and rebellious compatriots. Similar possibilities in Haiti are stymied. U.S. intrusions are blundering, and society itself is hurt.
W.T. Whitney Jr. is a political journalist whose focus is on Latin America, health care, and anti-racism. A Cuba solidarity activist, he formerly worked as a pediatrician, lives in rural Maine. W.T. Whitney Jr. es un periodista político cuyo enfoque está en América Latina, la atención médica y el antirracismo. Activista solidario con Cuba, anteriormente trabajó como pediatra, vive en la zona rural de Maine.
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