They’re just barreling past that Armageddon line like they barreled over the, red lines which led to the invasion of Ukraine, now adding in Nuclear N Korea
The New York Times reports that the Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russian and North Korean [?] military targets inside Russia — yet another dangerous escalation of nuclear brinkmanship in this horrific proxy war.
The Times correctly notes that authorizing Ukraine to use ATACMS, which have a range of about 190 miles, has long been a contentious issue in the Biden administration for fear of provoking military retaliations against the US from Russia.
This reckless escalation has been authorized despite an acknowledgement from the anonymous US officials who spoke to The New York Times that they “do not expect the shift to fundamentally alter the course of the war.”
As Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp notes, Vladimir Putin said back in September that if NATO allows Ukraine to use western-supplied weapons for long-range strikes inside Russian territory, it would mean NATO countries “are at war with Russia.” This is about as unambiguous a threat as you’ll ever see.
NYT reports that Biden’s policy shift “comes two months before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office, having vowed to limit further support for Ukraine.”
And it is here worth noting that last week it was reported by The Telegraph that British PM Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron had been scheming to thwart any attempt by Trump to scale back US support for Ukraine by pushing Biden to authorize long-range missile strikes in Russian territory.
His plan for disentangling the US from the conflict entails ramping up sanctions on Russia and “taking the handcuffs off the long-range weapons we provide Ukraine” in order to pressure Putin into eagerly accepting a peace deal.
AFP, citing a legal sources, has reported that a French court ordered the release of Lebanese and pro-Palestine activist George Abdallah, who had been jailed for 40 years since 1984.
The court ruled that Abdallah will be released on December 6 on the condition of leaving France, however, French “anti-terror” prosecutors told AFP, that they would appeal..
Abdallah was accused of assassinating US and Israeli diplomats.
Despite completing the minimum portion of his life sentence in 1999, French authorities denied his eight parole requests.
Now 73 years old, Abdallah was arrested in France in 1984 and after pretrial detention, convicted in 1987 for complicity in two murders. Colonel Charles Ray, US military attaché and CIA intelligence officer, was shot in Paris on January 18, 1982.
Second secretary of Israel’s embassy and Mossad intelligence officer, Yacov Barsimantov was shot in Paris on March 31, 1982.
The intelligence functions of the two victims are confirmed nowadays by Yves Bonnet, head between 1982 and 1985 of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire [Territorial Surveillance Directorate, French counter intelligence agency, DST].
The Fractions armées révolutionnaires libanaises [Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions, FARL] took credit for the two murders.
As a matter of course : Abdallah would have not been sentenced to life imprisonment without formal intervention of the US government.
The investigators found no evidence of its membership in the FARL or involvement in the murders.
That was rather a matter of intelligence. And according to several former French professionals, the intelligence was wrong.
The US joined a civil action to criminal proceedings and through diplomatic and intelligence channels, it demanded that the defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment. Hillary Clinton (AP)
Under French law, Abdallah could have been granted parole since 1999.
But obviously, like it also appeared in WikiLeaks here and here, the US authorities, including Hillary Clinton, were continuing to lobby their French lackeys against his parole.
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French court finally orders release of Lebanese political activist jailed for 40 years- but State will appeal..
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, France’s longest-held political prisoner, has been eligible for release for 25 years.
Lebanese political prisoner Georges Ibrahim Abdallah sits in court during his trial in Lyon, France, on 3 July 1986 (AFP)
Published date: 15 November 2024 16:11 GMT | Last update:19 hours 20 mins ago
A French court on Friday ordered the release of Lebanese pro-Palestine activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Europe’s longest-held political prisoner, after 40 years in prison.
Anarchism: A Path to Liberation and Harmony For many, the word “anarchism” conjures images of chaos, destruction, and disorder—a world where “anything goes” and society collapses into disarray.
For others, anarchism represents an idealistic, unattainable dream, a vision of perfection that could never survive the realities of human nature. Yet both perceptions miss the essence […]
Controlled exposure to the 5G radiation spectrum has resulted in changes to the brain tissue of laboratory rats, according to a team of scientists from Tomsk State University (TSU) in Russia.
Ever since the introduction of 5G cellphone infrastructure, there have been concerns about its potential health effects. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified the 5G radio frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) as a “possible” human carcinogen, but no conclusive research has emerged either way.
“We decided to find out what the effect of non-ionizing radiation is on rodents of different ages,” Natalia Krivova, lead researcher at the TSU’s Biology and Biophysics Research Institute, said in a statement this week.
TSU scientists experimented on male Wistar rats, preferred by scientists for having similar reactions to external stimuli as humans. They tested three different age groups: 5-6 week old rats (corresponding to human adolescents), 10-11 week old (human adults age 40 and up) and rats aged 17-18 weeks (humans 65 and older). All were exposed to RF-EMF frequencies for five weeks, which is equivalent to about four years of human lifespan.
The study showed no outward changes between the rats exposed to the radiation and the control group.
“However, a more detailed study of the rats’ brain tissue after exposure to the 5G antenna revealed a significant change in the ratio of antioxidants and oxidants,” Krivova said.
It is still unclear whether the changes will lead to positive or negative changes in the rats’ cognitive abilities, or whether their bodies will somehow compensate for the disruption, she added, calling for further research into the subject.
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‘We have been misled to in the past’ but..: Dr Karl on 5G fears Opponents of 5G have made all sorts of claims there are health risks from the 5G network. US pro 5G pundits like Dr Karl single out some Russian studies which have found problems, as part of the anti Russian Media campaign However Russian President Vladimir Putin is a very big promoter of the 5G network” .
The 5G rollout is a Big Capital bonanza, and history shows massive toxic health effects of new technology have been hidden in the past. However an extensive Research Study of hundreds of studies published in Nature. (here) has not shown clear dangers from 5G frequencies.
“Basically the higher the frequency the less it even penetrates our bodies”, which is why they need so many aerials. However various ‘unrepeated’ studies did show negative effects, also many studies are cerrtainly biased towards the corporations that fund them, and most of the worldwide studies were coordinated by ‘just five big groups’.
ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT have released the next two singles in the Crass Records’ reissue series with twelve-inch vinyl editions of MDC’s Multi-Death Corporations (originally issued in 1983) and Hit Parade’s Plastic Culture (originally a twelve-inch vinyl release in 1984 )
Both records are available in black vinyl from OLI, and in digital format through a variety of different online partner platforms, from 8 November.
MDC – Multi-Death Corporations
originally .. ‘Millions of Dead Cops’ !! MDC
1983’s ‘Multi-Death Corporations’ broke new ground by addressing, in the lengthy liner notes and artwork, the growth of corporations and the violent suppression of left-wing politics in Central America.
The Austin-based band released material through ex-Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, cited influences such as Black Flag and D.O.A, as well as working with Crass Records.One Little Independent
MDC. 2024. Multi-Death Corporations. One Little Independent. Available from One Little Independent from 8 November 2024
Hit Parade – Plastic Culture
Hit Parade was a one-man anarchist band, the brainchild of Dave Hyndman (aka P. Checkoff and Rik O’che) a member of the Anarchist Collective in Belfast.
Being a left-wing socialist, Checkoff’s songs were highly political by nature and concentrated on life in Northern Ireland.
Subject matter ranged from the evils of television to H Blocks; the RUC to housing problems, and of course unemployment.One Little Independent
This text comes just after the 107th anniversary of the October Revolution, with its self-demobilization of the Russian army, which led to Russia’s withdrawal from World War I.. Today Ukraine is repeating this path.
“The Ukrainian regime is still sponsored by western billions and endless armaments under ultra nationalist racist military rule. By now any man who can has fled the state or is in hiding. Opposition parties, media and elections are banned and the military is finally running out of conscripts with ‘half a million’ dead or injured. . The War is by now a pointless massacre as Russia slowly controls the disputed eastern oblasts, and whole brigades, many old, ill or totally untrained, are refusing if ordered to pointlessly fight on to the death without support.” November 2024
Demonstration at the Ukrainian consulate in Milan to celebrate Deserter’s Day. photo. anarchist blog Wild Fields,
Ukraine: From a Wave of Desertion to Spontaneous Self-Demobilization
“In the lead-up to the US elections, the flight of personnel from the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the middle of 2024 took on the character of an avalanche, threatened to leave the regime without an army in the near future.
According to Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General, from January 2022 to September 2024, almost 90 thousand criminal proceedings were opened because of such facts, and the majority were initiated since the beginning of the current year: 35,307 out of 59,606 cases of unauthorized leaving of a unit (Article 407 of the Criminal Code) and 18,196 out of 29,521 cases of desertion (Article 408 of the Criminal Code).
The largest number of desertions was registered in the regions of Zaporozhye (6,144), Kharkov (5,771) and Donetsk (5,318), while the regions of Donetsk (8,574), Dnepropetrovsk (3,308), Zhytomyr (2,433) and Lviv (2,170) are leading in terms of cases of unauthorized leaving of units (SZCh in Ukrainian). These are only the cases to which the authorities reacted.
However, even of these, only 4,698 cases of unauthorized leaving and 442 cases of desertion reached the court. 2,592 and 414 cases were closed, respectively (during the same period).
9,487 criminal proceedings were registered in Ukraine under the mentioned two articles in October 2024. For comparison, in January 2024, there were initiated only 3,448 criminal proceedings. And in total, from February 2022 to November 1, 2024, already 95,296 criminal cases were opened.
(The composition of one brigade in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is from 3 to 5 thousand persons.) Although both these articles may apply not only in the AFU, much less is heard about escapes from other Ukrainian armed structures, as, in particular, our interlocutor did, who deserted from the State Border Guard Service.
Since August, information has been leaking out from time to time about people who escaped their units before being sent to the Kursk operation. For example, the following was reported about the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade, which took part in last year’s southern counteroffensive and is considered an elite and one of the best equipped units.
A man reacts during the funeral ceremony of Roman Ratyshnyi, a Ukrainian public activist and service member, who was recently killed in a battle against Russian troops, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 18, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
“On August 10, I found out that my acquaintance is in SZCh (unauthorized leaving of units) . They had to go to the Kursk [region], he says that more than 40 people left everything and went home. He says: “they gave me some dispatch letter, I looked at it and realized that it’s a one-way ticket.”
He doesn’t live in the place [where he is officially registered], got a job, I don’t know exactly how he got out, he doesn’t really want to talk about it. He has a normal medical form, he was a sergeant in the army, by conscription. He was taken near the house, but he wouldn’t budge, and then I learned that he’s at home.
6 MONTHS OF IMPRISONMENT OF THE ANARCHIST COMRADE ABEL
🔴 DEMONSTRATION⚫️
📆 Saturday 30 November 🕢 19:30h 📍 Plaça Orfila, Barcelona
**DEMO CALLOUT**
This November 30th will mark 6 months since our anarchist comrade Abel was kidnapped by the State and imprisoned in the Brians 2 CP Prison (Barcelona) with a firm sentence of 3 years and 9 months for the assault on a JUSAPOL protester who was carrying fascist symbols in 2018.
All the judicial instances of the State, ratified the accusation of the crime of injuries with aggravating factors of hatred with the aim of thus shielding his henchmen and further criminalizing the militancy of the comrade. A punishment, which the state has doubled, since during all this time his classification in ‘third degree regime’ has been rejected on two occasions, alluding to the ideology of the comrade and his lack of empathy with the “victim”.
This is how the Power justifies the reintegration programs (an essential condition for obtaining prison permits) to which the prisoner must submit in order to annihilate his revolutionary conscience: like a carpenter who hammers in the crooked nails on a board.
In this way, they turn the sentence into torture and blackmail.
But for us, their penitentiary policy based on exercising a set of structural violence according to the social position of the prisoners is nothing new: pure labor exploitation, humiliation and aggression by the jailers and systematic mistreatment of families are just the tip of the iceberg.
We have never expected that their laws would serve as a tool for us, much less aspired to reform them to soften the abuse and suffering. Because we know that prison, like any other repressive institution, is an instrument at the service of the Power and the ruling class, whose objective is to annihilate any hint of dissent in society.
An institution that only deserves to be destroyed and abolished.
Therefore, the jail, that hole where time seems to stop and sometimes passes without us realizing it, is the place that Democracy has reserved for those who dare to question the established order. Throwing into it those who are forced to live in the blind spot and those who fight without ceasing.
We also go out to shout for all of them.
Because we do not forget the rest of the prisoners in struggle who resist inside and outside the State and those who could be yet to come. Because we are not satisfied with making the glass that separates us tremble with our fists, with hurrying our voices in a call against the visitors clock, with sending our affection by post.
We want to see those walls fall.
This November 30th we go out to defend what is ours and what they want to steal from us.
Because we are those who, loving the spaces we inhabit, resist in them, putting our bodies on the line for the trivial and simple fact that they are our trenches. We prefer the ashes of the metropolis to the yoke of Capital.
Because of the hatred of homelands, borders, wars and disasters, where we are in the front line, lovers of conflict and revolt, who sow mutual support and solidarity against all systems of domination.
Without offering to the dead, wounded and fallen, not a minute of silence, not a minute of kneeling, but a whole life of combat and revenge.
Because of the hatred of the bosses, bourgeois, parties, fascists and tyrants who with their mask of democrats wanted us by force as extras in the spectacle of misery.
Despite this, we decided to be protagonists because of our passion for freedom and hatred of their authority, because of our affection for our equals and our love for our brothers who want to take us away.
For all this, we take to the streets this November 30th. Because solidarity is the weapon that shortens the distance that separates us. For love of Anarchy and hatred of repression.
The activist entered Brians Prison on the same day that the amnesty law was passed, convicted of a crime of treasonous injury and aggravated hatred against a protester of the Jusapol Police March in 2018. The Supreme Court confirmed the sentence of three years and nine months in prison by considering him a co-author of an action he did not commit.
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