The SDF calls for dialogue and cooperation to secure peace and stability while affirming it’s ready to defend the rights and safety of local populations
The hugely successful conference of “Unity of Communities” held in the city of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, on Aug. 8, 2025 – North Press
In a dramatic turn on August 9, 2025, Damascus announced it would withdraw from planned talks in Paris with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), citing their recent “Unity of Position” conference in Hasakah as a violation of the crucial March 10 integration agreement.
HTS led Government sources denounced the gathering as an attempt to “internationalize” Syrian affairs and accused it of undermining centralised national unity .
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) https://npasyria.com/en/128136/– The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) issued on Saturday 9th August 25 a statement calling on the Syrian government, its allied factions, and Turkey-backed groups to immediately cease all violations of the ceasefire agreement signed in April 2024.The SDF detailed that the hostile factions have launched more than 22 attacks on northern and eastern Syrian territories, employing heavy weapons alongside ground offensives
What’s at the heart of the dispute? The March 10 deal—involving interim President Ahmad al-Shara a and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi—was crafted to fuse SDF forces into state institutions, secure minority rights, and establish a cease-fire
“When the originally ‘State Socialist Secular’ Assad regime began to finally win the Syrian civil war with Russian help they allowed the militants of dozens of Jihadi factions, (which had grown up on cash and arms from the Sunni Gulf dictatorships, Turkiye and the US), to take refuge in the Idlib area on the Turkish border.
Idlib is next to Afrin, Aziz and Al Bab which were occupied in the first two Turkish invasions and which were also settled with jihadi factions, becoming Turkish mercenaries used to attack, occupy and ethnically cleanse Kurdish areas.. And now partly integrated into the ‘New Arab Army’
Idlib was soon ruled by Al Qaeda, renamed HTS, protected by Turkish bases and supplied across the border. Meanwhile the US and Israel continued to strangle the Syrian State which was further impoverishing under strict sanctions. With Russia distracted by the Ukraine war and Israel again blitzing their Lebanese allies, the entrenched regime collapsed in December 2024 in the face of a HTS breakout offensive and a demoralized military.
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Anarchist Occupied Social Centre *CSOA -The Black Carob Tree
5th LIBERTARIAN CAMP [Against the Criminalization of Social and Self-Managed Spaces]
This year’s CSOA La Algarroba Negra camp is coming up. A space to share, get to know each other, deepen our understanding, and continue networking…
After the experience of the previous camps, we want to continue supporting this action, which has shown us, and we have shown ourselves, that it contributes greatly.
In these turbulent times, we can’t imagine a better way to come together and continue resisting the criminalization of social spaces and fighting from below.
Self-management in daily life, collective construction, shared learning, reflection among like-minded people, and taking action as a method, with the intention of continuing to create the world we want to live in.
How does the campaign work?
In these six days together, the La Algarroba Assembly will propose some activities, and whoever comes can also propose their own. From talks, workshops, video forums, actions… This is how we’ll fill out the calendar.
The common issues of care and maintenance (cleaning, meals, time management, social support, recycling, water…) that make all this possible will be shared and assumed by the participants… it is part of the self-management of our lives.
For any other questions, please email algarrobanegra@protonmail.com
Let’s organize the resistance in an experiential way!
*We will soon update information based on our registrations.
The Black Carob
The Black Carob is a squatted and collectivized space that emerged from the need for autonomous and independent spaces and as an active way of denouncing the current unsustainable situation of the welfare state, faced with problems of access to housing and social gathering spaces self-managed by and for the individuals and groups that comprise it, as well as employment issues and access to decent work.
This is an alternative to associations disconnected from institutions or any type of political, religious, or union organization.
Active participation in the Black Carob is open and horizontal, a space for the union and participation of groups and individuals with similar social and political ties, as well as a site for experimentation and the creation of networks and projects for local self-management among local people.
Our unifying motivations are experimentation and peer-to-peer practices as a means toward a transformation of more collective, cooperative, and supportive social relations, from a perspective critical of the economic system and the ecological crisis.
Tras la vivencia de los anteriores campamentos, queremos seguir apostando por esta acción que nos ha demostrado y nos hemos demostrado, que aporta y mucho.
En este tiempo tan convulso, no imaginamos mejor propuesta que juntarnos y seguir resistiendo ante la criminalización de los espacios sociales y la lucha desde abajo.
La autogestión en el día a día, la construcción colectiva, el aprendizaje compartido, la reflexión entre afines y el actuar como método, con la intención de seguir creando el mundo que queremos vivir.
Como funciona el campa?
En estos 6 días juntas, la asamblea de La Algarroba propondremos algunas actividades y quien venga, puede también proponer las suyas. Desde charlas, talleres, vídeo forum, acciones….. Así iremos completando el calendario.
Las cuestiones comunes, de cuidado y mantenimiento (limpieza, comidas, cuidados del tiempo, apoyos sociales, recicle, agua…) que hacen que todo esto sea posible de desarrollar, será repartida y autoasumidas por lxs participantes… forma parte de la autogestión de nuestras vidas.
La Algarroba, es un espacio okupado y colectivizado, que surge de la necesidad de espacios autónomos e independientes y como forma activa de denuncia de la situación insostenible que se encuentra actualmente el «estado» del bienestar ante las problemáticas de acceso a vivienda y espacios de encuentros sociales autogestionados por y para las personas y grupos integrantes, así como la problemática ocupacional y el acceso al trabajo digno, como una alternativa al asociacionismo desvinculado de instituciones o de cualquier tipo de organismo político, religioso o sindical.
La participación activa en la algarroba es abierta y horizontal, un espacio para la unión y participación de colectivos y personas con carácter social y políticamente afines así como también es un sitio para experimentación y la creación de redes y proyectos para la autogestión local de las personas del entorno.
Las motivaciones que nos unen son la experimentación y prácticas entre iguales, como medio hacia una transformación de relaciones sociales mas colectivas, cooperativas y solidarias, desde un perspectiva critica al sistema económico y la crisis ecológica.
While the Doha agreement offers hope for DR Congo devastated by conflict, it is impossible the ‘ceasefire’ will hold.
FILE PHOTO. Lynsey Addario.. shared with thanks
Peace-mining: this US-mediated deal focuses on resources, not stability
On July 19 in Doha, under the watchful eyes of US and Qatari diplomats, representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group signed a ‘Declaration of Principles’ on a peace agreement.
The document, vague in substance but rich in optics, was immediately hailed by US President Donald Trump’s camp as a diplomatic victory. Trump’s Africa adviser, Massad Boulos, said the “the most important article of the agreement is the affirmation of state control in rebel-held territories.” That of course is still to be worked out in the coming weeks.
For Trump, the moment was one of those testaments to his deal-making prowess, echoing the grandstanding that accompanied his earlier, more theatrical moves in the Middle East.
But behind the celebratory headlines lies a far murkier reality. DR Congo remains a country engulfed in complex, overlapping conflicts, with M23 being only one of over 120 armed groups operating in the eastern provinces. The idea that a ceasefire agreement – mediated thousands of miles away in a Qatari hotel – could magically resolve the decades-long insecurity in this mineral-rich region is at best naive, and at worst, deliberately misleading.
The involvement of the US – particularly under transactional Trump – raises troubling questions. While any effort to mediate a ceasefire in one of the world’s most neglected war zones merits scrutiny, the Trump administration’s sudden engagement in the DR Congo appears driven less by concern for human suffering or regional stability and more by economic opportunity.
Trump as president has never visited Africa, including his first term. What’s more, his attitude toward the continent has been widely criticized as dismissive: In 2018 he referred to several African nations as “s**thole countries” during a White House meeting, drawing broad condemnation.
Last month, during a luncheon with the presidents of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal at the White House, Trump grew visibly impatient as the leaders spoke. When it was Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo’s turn, Trump interrupted with: “Maybe we’re gonna have to go a little bit quicker than this because we have a whole schedule,” and added, “if I could just ask your name and country, that would be great.”
Though delivered in the guise of a schedule constraint, the remark was widely characterized as humiliating. It reduced these heads of state to nameless, interchangeable participants – highlighting a deeply transactional approach and a lack of respect for African leaders and their agendas.
DR Congo is one of the most resource-rich countries on the planet. Its eastern region, the focal point of the latest ceasefire, holds vast reserves of cobalt, coltan, gold, and lithium – minerals essential to electric vehicles, smartphones, and advanced military systems.
As global demand for these resources soars, Washington has grown increasingly uneasy over China’s dominance in the DR Congo’s mining sector. Trump’s sudden push for the US involvement in Congolese ‘peacebuilding’ is better understood as a strategic bid to secure Western access to these critical minerals.
Just two weeks earlier, he hosted a separate signing ceremony at the White House for what was billed as a broader agreement between Rwanda – allegedly the main backer of M23 – and the DR Congo.
04 Ago 2025 Luis González Reyes & Miriam GarcíaTorres, origen El Salto.
Apagones, danas, genocidios, pandemias, grandes incendios… los sucesos excepcionales se atropellan uno detrás de otro sin saber cuál será el siguiente.
En un contexto de colapso ecosocial, nuestros colectivos deben […]
US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians
Israel’s genocide is big business – and the face of the future
The Financial Times revealed this month that a cabal of Israeli investors, one of the world’s top business consulting groups and a think-tank headed by former British prime minister Tony Blair had been secretly working on plans to exploit the ruins of Gaza as prime real estate.
The secret consortium appears to have been seeking practical ways to realise US President Donlad Trump’s “vision” of Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East”: transforming the small coastal enclave into a playground for the rich and an enticing investment opportunity, once it can be ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian population.
A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited version)
Meanwhile, the UK government has declared Palestine Action a terrorist organisation – the first time in British history that a direct-action campaign group has been banned under Britain’s already draconian terrorism legislation.
Notably, the government of Keir Starmer took the decision to proscribe Palestine Action after lobbying from Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons maker whose factories in the UK have been targeted by Palestine Action for disruption. Elbit supplies Israel with killer drones and other weapons central to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
These revelations came to light as the United Nation’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, published a report – titled “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” – exposing Big Business’ extensive involvement in, and profits from, Israel’s crimes in Gaza.
In an interview with US journalist Chris Hedges, Albanese, an expert in international law, concluded: “The genocide in Gaza has not stopped, because it is lucrative. It’s profitable for far too many.”
Albanese lists dozens of major western companies that are deeply invested in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people.
This is not a new development, as she notes. These firms have exploited business opportunities associated with Israel’s violent occupation of the Palestinian people’s lands for years, and in some cases decades.
The switch from Israel’s occupation of Gaza to its current genocide hasn’t threatened profits; it has enhanced them. Or as Albanese puts it: “The profits have increased as the economy of the occupation transformed into an economy of genocide.”
The special rapporteur has been a growing thorn in the side of Israel and its western sponsors over the past 21 months of slaughter in Gaza..
Read Report here Advance edited version English:Word-Francesca Albanese
That explains why Marco Rubio, Trump’s secretary of state, announced soon after her report was issued that he was imposing sanctions on Albanese for her efforts to shed light on the crimes of Israeli and US officials.
Revealingly, he called her statements – rooted in international law – “economic warfare against the United States and Israel”. Albanese and the UN system of universal human rights that stands behind her, it seems, represent a threat to western profiteering.
Window on the future
Israel effectively serves as the world’s largest business incubator – though, in its case, not just by nurturing start-up companies.
Rather, it offers global corporations the chance to test and refine new weapons, machinery, technologies, data collection and automation processes in the occupied territories. These developments are associated with mass oppression, control, surveillance, incarceration, ethnic cleansing – and now genocide.
In a world of shrinking resources and growing climate chaos, such innovative technologies of subjugation are likely to have domestic, in addition to overseas, applications. Gaza is the corporate world’s laboratory, and a window into our own future.
In her 60-page report, Albanese writes that her research “reveals how the forever-occupation has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech… while investors and private and public institutions profit freely”.
Her point was underscored by the Israeli arms firm Rafael, which issued a promotional video of its Spike FireFly drone that showed it locating, chasing and killing a Palestinian in what it called “urban warfare” in Gaza.
As the UN special rapporteur points out, quite aside from the issue of genocide in Gaza, western companies have been under a legal and moral obligation to sever ties with Israel’s system of occupation since last summer.
That was when the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, ruled Israel’s decades-old occupation was a criminal enterprise based on apartheid and forcible transfer – or what Albanese refers to as policies of “displacement and replacement”.
Instead, the corporate sector – and western governments – continue to deepen their involvement in Israel’s crimes.
It is not just arms manufacturers profiting from the genocidal levelling of Gaza and the occupations of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Big Tech, construction and materials firms, agribusiness, the tourism industry, the goods and services sector, and supply chains have also got in on the act.
And enabling it all is a finance sector – which includes banks, pension funds, universities, insurers and charities – keen to continue investing in this architecture of oppression.
Albanese describes the mosaic of companies partnering with Israel as “an eco-system sustaining this illegality”.
For these corporations and their enablers, international law – the legal system Albanese and her fellow UN rapporteurs are there to uphold – serves as an impediment to the pursuit of profit.
Albanese notes that the business sector can escape scrutiny by shielding behind other actors.
Israel and its senior officials are on notice for committing genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
When she wrote to 48 companies to warn them that they were colluding in this criminality, they either responded that this was Israel’s responsibility, not theirs, or that it was for states, not international law, to regulate their business activities.
Ukrainian Lines Shatter in Pokrovsk as Russian Special Force finally Smashes into Streets of the City, joining up with Infiltrators and Saboteurs – The final anti-nazi victory in Pokrovsk was on 8 Sept 1943 when 13K defenders /civilians died.– Pokrovsk could be liberated again by the anniversary! -Wiki
The thunder of Russian artillery echoes through the streets of Pokrovsk as the city teeters on the brink of collapse. Stormtroopers of the Russian Armed Forces, advancing with precision and overwhelming firepower, have infiltrated the urban center, shattering part of Ukrainian defenses and sending shockwaves through Kyiv’s crumbling frontlines.
After Pokrovsk.. The Race to complete ‘liberation of Donetsk’ – in April 2026?
If we calculate the rate of Russian conquest from Avdivka to Pokrovsk it could take a year or more to ‘liberate’ the rest of ethnic Russian Donetsk Oblast. However if we calculate including the acceleration of capture, the exhaustion of Ukrainian soldiers and the increase of Russian resources, etc, then Donetsk could be fully occupied in 6 months and reconstruction could begin. Along with already Luhansk, and a large part of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson occupied, that could be enough basis for a realistic compromise Peace Deal – in April 2026, earliest, excluding massive NATO reinforcements.
What was once another fortified Ukrainian fortress is now a battleground where Russian troops are advancing in a key district, while desperate Ukrainian commanders scramble to plug the widening gaps in their lines.
Pokrovsk stands on the brink. With Russian forces infiltrating the city center, cutting supply lines, and encircling Ukrainian troops. The fall of this key fortress now appears inevitable, although normal Russian tactics are to slowly isolate and throttle resistance, avoiding mass casualties..
The broader implications are undeniable, the loss of Pokrovsk will pave the way to Mirnograd (Dimitrov) and further unravel Ukraine’s defensive efforts across Donbass. Victory in Donbass is a key necessity in Russia’s minimum demands for a ceasefire.
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East after 9 yr war and famine by Saudis/US/UAE and now ongoing bombing by Israel/USA. In solidarity with Gaza ‘Palestine2’ hypersonic missiles are developed in underground bunkers..
The Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist group in Yemen has released footage of their attacks against as well as the sinking of the Liberian-flagged and Greek-owned cargo vessel, M/V Eternity C, earlier today in the Southern Red Sea. Significant damage to the ship can be seen prior to… pic.twitter.com/yC8Erot8EU
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed to attack all commercial vessels connected to Israeli ports, regardless of their country of origin, despite blitz bombing by the US and Israel killing thousands of civilians.
The Houthis, who occupy the capital Sanaa and all Yemen except for the Aden area and Eastern desert, have been targeting ships in the Bab el Mandeb Strait, a vital maritime route linking the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
The Houthis act in popular solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, having themselves suffered a nearly 10 year blockade, invasion, bombing and famine.
Military spokesman Ameen Hayyan announced the latest escalation in a televised address, describing it as a new phase of the group’s campaign.
The Free 
