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
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.
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.
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!
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”from thefreeonline on 19 Nov 2023 by Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams /
The estimated civilian death toll was 126-136, including 69 children.
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.
/desde thefreeonline el 19 nov, 2023 por Agencias/
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.
from thefreeonline on 19th Nov 2023 by Neapolitan / Tom & Jerry
Starship UNSCHEDULED TOTAL DISASSEMBLY illustration
BREAKING: In another spectacular double failure, both the first and second stages of the world’s largest rocket ever exploded after launch some minutes apart, raining millions of pieces of toxic debris over hundreds of square miles of the Gulf of Mexico.
Luckily on this occasion the ‘Masterpiece of US Ingenuity’ was flying empty, although any brave US astronauts could have reached as far as somewhere in the Bahamas or even Puerto Rico, if they could have ejected before the whole contraption burst into smithereens of fiery exploding toxic trash.
Saturday’s demo lasted eight or so minutes, about twice as long as the first test in April, which also unfortunately ended in an explosion. The latest flight came to an end as the ship’s engines were almost done firing to put it on an around-the-world path.
At nearly 400 feet (121 meters), Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, with the goal of ferrying people to the moon and Mars.
You can watch the historic moment Starship explodes again in UNSCHEDULED TOTAL DISASSEMBLY
The latest débacle follows the explosion of the Minuteman 111 US Nuclear Missile Test (without its bombs) on Nov 1st 2023. Anti nuclear heroes celebrated that perhaps the US Nuclear Arsenal will not work, saving the planet! Alas, with THOUSANDS of thermonuclear warheads under Biden’s thumb, if just 1% actually work they would murder us all.
Dear NASA. could you point out to your technical wizards that your landing gear looks only suitable for FLAT GROUND. The moon’s surface is reportably quite bumpy, looks like your rocket might just fall over, and anti-American traitors might laugh at you..
‘SpaceX‘s main goal for Saturday’s explosive launch was to achieve separation and prove “hot staging” works’. The Starship mega-rocket achieved another major milestone in both getting ‘VERY HOT‘ and successfully ‘SEPARATING‘ into myriad ‘multiple autonomous modules‘. 18/11/23
Starship-Super Heavy just moments before very hot separation, in a screengrab from SpaceX’s livestream of the launch on X. SpaceX
Within a few seconds, the booster exploded. “That was another billion $ wrinkle SpaceX will have to iron out since it wants to land its Super Heavy boosters in one rather than a million pieces for reuse”.
The Starship module , however, kept trucking toward space — until….. something tragic happened….
that’s all folks…
BREAKING: In an unprecedented and spectacular double failure, both the first and second stages of the world’s largest rocket ever exploded after launch some minutes apart this morning, raining millions of pieces of toxic debris over hundreds of square miles of the Gulf of Mexico.
SpaceX launch scheduled for Saturday, expected to draw many spectators
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NeapolitanRitaEvacuee 2 days ago
Cool story, bro.
Of course, microplastics are now endemic, and are existing by the billions in every living thing on the planet, with repercussions unknown. But Ms. Thunberg’s problem with Big Oil isn’t about plastics; it’s about the four million metric tons of excess CO2 the burning of those fossil fuels injects into the atmosphere every single hour of every single day.
Four. Millions. Tons. Every Hour.
SpaceX Starship: the Ford Pinto of the New Millennium™
from thefreeonline by MEMO | on November 18, 2023
Al-Qassam Brigades announced that the occupation’s claims that the bodies of Israeli captives were found in hospitals in the Gaza Strip were false and that they were undergoing treatment there.
The brigades conveyed in an official statement on its Telegram channel: “We transferred a number of prisoners to care centres to receive treatment due to the seriousness of their health condition and to preserve their lives. This happened recently with the detainee, Aryeh Zalman Zdmanovich, card number 0010185791, who received intensive care.”
Al-Qassam Brigades explained: “After he recovered, he was returned to his place of detention. He died due to panic attacks as a result of the repeated bombing around his place of detention, and we will publish material documenting this.”
The occupation forces on Thursday announced the discovery of two bodies: a female Israeli soldier, who Al-Qassam confirmed was killed as a result of the occupation bombing her detention site, in addition to another female detainee, whose body they claimed was found in a building next to Al-Shifa Hospital.
Al-Qassam Brigades stated that the occupation forces have so far caused the deaths of more than 60 of its captives in the Gaza Strip due to the continuous brutal bombing of all parts of the strip, especially Palestinian homes.
Horror: Indonesian Hospital, near Al.Shifa, is today finally completely out of service
Many hundreds of people are believed to have taken shelter at the two schools in northern Gaza.
Published On 18 Nov 202318 Nov 2023
Israeli air raids have killed dozens of people at the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp another a school in Tal Al-Zaatar, also in northern Gaza.
At least 50 people were killed in the bombing of al-Fakhoora School, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday. It added that the two attacks killed and injured hundreds of people.
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Reporting form Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said Israeli attacks on schools, hospitals and public facilities “seem to be a trend right now”.
He added that multiple airstrikes inflicted severe destruction on both schools.
“Almost 200 people have been killed in these attacks and the number is expected to increase as there are many under the rubble. People are using shovels and their bare hands to dig people out,” he explained.
Many hundreds of people are believed to have taken shelter at both schools, fleeing the non-stop Israeli attacks. The attack on al-Fakhoora is believed to have taken place in the early hours of the morning, while the attack on Tal Al-Zaatar took place later in the day.
“Dead bodies are everywhere and medial teams are trying to evacuate the wounded,” said Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abou Azzoum, reporting about al-Fakhoora school.
He said with the continuing fighting amid Israel’s ground offensive into northern Gaza, many Palestinians have been forced to flee to UN-run schools in the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital for protection.
“People taking shelter at al-Fakhoora School in Jabalia refugee camp, many with medical issues, thought they could find shelter from the violence there. But the Israeli army seems to be sending a message: Flee to the south of the Gaza Strip,” he said.
Qatar’s foreign ministry condemned Israel’s renewed bombardment of al-Fakhoora school, and called for “an urgent international investigation and independent investigators to probe Israel’s targeting of schools and hospitals in Gaza”.
Tamara Alrifai, a spokesperson for UNRWA, told Al Jazeera she has seen the “devastating” footage coming out of Jabalia in the aftermath of the bombing, but has not been able to directly contact her colleagues on the ground.
“I’m still waiting from reports directly from my colleagues in Gaza but what we’re seeing is another one of these horrific incidents, where civilians, people who sought shelter in a protected UN building, are paying the price,” she said.
Alrifai said more than half of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million population has been forced on an “exodus” south after an Israeli order to evacuate to make room for its ground operations in the north, something that is reminiscent of previous forced displacements.
“Many people who stayed in the north stayed in the UNRWA school because they thought that they would have a bit of safety there, but nowhere is safe in Gaza, not even our schools,” she said. “Unfortunately, people flee into our buildings with the blue flag looking for protection, but 70 of our buildings have been hit, so we, ourselves, are not protected.”
Alrifai said excluding the attack on Saturday, 66 people have been confirmed killed while taking shelter in UN-run facilities.
The Jabalia refugee camp has been a target of air raids for weeks, as Israel claims it houses Palestinian fighters.
The deadly bombing campaign has been continuing despite condemnations by the UN and regional governments.
The Israeli army has also repeatedly hit schools and UN-run facilities. Its war on Gaza has killed more than 12,000 Palestinians so far, many of them children.
The al-Fakhoora School had also been previously hit by the Israeli army several times before the war. The school was a target for air raids in 2009, 2014 and earlier this month.
Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara said the school is like the “al-Shifa of schools” in Gaza as it has been repeatedly targeted by Israeli forces like the al-Shifa Hospital, which has been a main target since the start of the war and under direct siege and raid for days.
“There is nothing discriminate about the fact that a school that shelters thousands of people has been bombed from the air; that is meant to create damage, human loss, suffering and death,” he said.
“When you attack a school with such a concentration of people taking refuge in the school, you are sending a message that is more than ‘I’m going after Hamas fighters here and there.’ What it’s saying is, ‘I want people to be driven out, I want people to pay a price, I want people to die.’”
Source: Al Jazeera
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