From Antiwar.com Home By Dave DeCamp

The US war state has no right to continue it’s military occupation in Iraq, against the wishes of the Iraqi people. It doesn’t even need the oil..

On Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the alliance is increasing its military presence in Iraq.

“The size of our mission will increase from 500 personnel to around 4,000 and training activities will now include more Iraqi security institutions and areas beyond Baghdad,” Stoltenberg said after a two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers.

NATO describes its presence in Iraq as a “security training mission.” Stoltenberg said the alliance’s presence “is conditions-based and increases in troop numbers will be incremental.”

 

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via Anarchist News from CrimethInc. shared with thanks

Anarchists and punks in Belo Horizonte in the 1990s: “Love doesn’t follow rules—Viva sexual liberty!—Punks against homophobia.”

In the following interview, two longtime anarcho-punks recount the reemergence of anarchism in Brazil after the end of the military dictatorship, trace the fortunes of social movements through the rise and fall of the left Workers Party government, and describe the situation for Indigenous peoples and Indigenous solidarity efforts under the far-right Bolsonaro regime today.

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Andreza and Josimas have been involved in anarchism and activism for several decades—playing in bands, organizing events, and releasing records and zines and books. Josimas was one of the people who founded Germinal (2000) and Andreza participated in founding Espaço Impróprio (2003), two important autonomous anarchist collectives in São Paulo.

Josimas has played in the bands Execradores, Metropolixo, Clangor, Diskontroll, and Amor, protesto e ódio. Andreza has played in Skirt, One Day Kills, Out of Season, and Retórica. In addition, they have played together in Você Tem que Desistir and TuNa.

Their current projects include Semente Negra (“Black Seed”), an ecological project in the Atlantic rainforest and the location of Cultive Resistência (“Cultivate Resistance”), a collective promoting do-it-yourself culture, permaculture, anarchism, punk, feminism, anti-racism, veganism, LGBTQIA+ issues, and Indigenous rights;

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By UNDP https://www.modernghana.com/news/1061278/empowering-women-in-climate-action-with-alternativ.html shared with thanks

Like many people in rural communities in Ghana, Mali Yakubu and her family in Tampion in the Northern Region are not able to farm during the dry season. This situation is deteriorating as agriculture is a climate-sensitive sector and the Northern zone of Ghana is more impacted by climate change.

Subsistence female farmers like Mali often bear much of the brunt of climate change impacts—drought, desertification, erosion and flooding, because they are mostly at the frontline, striving to feed their families. Due to limited access and control of resources such as irrigation facilities, land and technology, and limited income opportunities, women like Mali are struggling to adapt.

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Posted on February 18, 2021 by enough14 — Leave a comment

Originally published by Indymedia NL. shared with thanks

Thales profits from militarising and boosting the borders of Fortress Europe. Thales Netherlands exported arms to repressive regimes in Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia

see also.. Expanding the fortress | Transnational Institute

Amsterdam. Netherlands. February 17. Today, we replaced bus stop posters to shed light on the deadly practices of Thales, the company that has developed the OV-chip card system. Thales is currently replacing all the check-in gates for public transport in Amsterdam.

Thales exports arms all over the world. Last year, Thales Netherlands exported arms to repressive regimes in Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia. The order for radar systems for the Egyptian Navy of €114 million was highly profitable for Thales. Egypt has a military dictatorship, thousands of political prisoners, and politically supports the Saudi led coalition in the Yemen war.

At the same time, Thales profits from militarising and boosting the borders of Fortress Europe. The company sells border security systems, mobile thermal units, and radar equipment for patrol boats to the EU and countries surrounding Europe.

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Red and Black Newspapers Madrid Editorial of the issue N ° 353, February 2021.

On March 8, 2021, just a year ago was the last great demonstration that our country experienced,

just a year in which women returned to occupy the streets as a public space.

Just one year in which we show the whole society, the whole world, that the feminist and anarcho-feminist struggle is unstoppable because the values ​​it radiates of equality, solidarity, mutual support, justice, respect, anti-violence, dignity and freedom are universal.

We women want a social revolution, a social transformation with an anti-dogmatic, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist, anti-sectarian and libertarian direction, and these are values ​​of social inclusion, the values ​​of integral humanism as our Free Women (Mujeres Libres) of the last century rightly said.

We women fight for a new society in which all people fit, with the enormous, rich and varied diversity that we recognize ourselves and should recognize ourselves. A society of social justice, antiracial, anticolonial, without any type of discrimination based on sex, gender or personal identity.

Continue reading “8th March 2021: Free Women on the streets. Not one step back.. mujeres libres. Eng/Esp”

”Pablo .. Spain will burn every day till you’re freed”

#LibertadPabloHaselTranslated from Spanish by Granada, Madrid, Barcelona … Today we see again a violent police response against protesters. Many new demos are planned for the following days. The government is split with some supporting the protests.

Our solidarity with the woman who has lost an eye in what is already a long list of excessive actions. We demand that action be taken on the matter #LibertadPabloHasel

A new day of mobilizations in support of Pablo Hasel has ended with 45 detainees and authentic police terrorism

Cargas policiales en Madrid en la manifestación en apoyo a @PabloHasel @LlibertatHasel #LibertadPabloHasel @AntirrepreMad pic.twitter.com/y0yUPHsxBq

— La Haine (@LaHaineInfo) February 17, 2021

Police charges in Madrid

Dozens of callouts have been repeated throughout the Spanish State in response to the unjust imprisonment of Pablo Hasel. Yesterday we could see extreme police violence, there were 45 new detainees, in addition to the news that the protester injured on Tuesday in Barcelona by a foam bullet has lost her eye.

8,000 people gathered at Puerta del Sol in Madrid in a mobilization that ended in the police violence we are used to these days.

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from Anarchist Communism.org shared with thanksFebruary 14, 2021 ACG

Spycops Bill – the encroaching police state

On the 27th of January, MPs voted 363 to 267 to remove restrictions put on the Covert Human Intelligence (Criminal Conduct) Sources Bill.

The removal gives the police the legal right to commit serious crimes such as murder, torture and sexual offences and the disgusting use of vulnerable people and children as state operatives, ensuring that they are at grave risk.

The reversal of these restrictions means that the state (including the police, the National Crime Agency, MI5, the armed forces and Prison service) are now legally allowed to commit such crimes and abuses of human rights.

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