El Gobierno de Estados Unidos ha enviado a más de 100 migrantes, todos ellos de nacionalidad venezolana, a la base naval de Guantánamo, en Cuba, según informaron medios estadounidenses.
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The Afrin canton and city was once a peaceful area and, during the horrors of the Syrian Civil War, it was saved from the destruction of other areas by Kurdish self-defense groups which eventually coalesced around the YPG or People’s Defense Units. Afrin became a major quiet refuge for internal refugees (IDPs).
Afrin almost became part of Turkey in 1939 when the neighbouring Hatay province was separated from Syria although it had a demographic Arab majority, and given to Turkey in a dirty and still disputed deal by the French, and has been aggressively Turkified ever since.
Afrin was sold out. The same day that the invasion began President Erdogan agreed to build a Russian Nuclear plant and allow a 2nd Turkstream pipeline, in exchange for key invasion support and for airspace permission for its air force to bomb Afrin (Efrin).
During the fighting, the Kurds of Afrin were forcibly expelled from their homes, lands and businesses and forced to flee. Minority groups, such as Yazidis, were declared infidels and murdered.
Since March 2018, human rights violations against the indigenous population have been constant, kidnappings, rapes, murders, demographic replacement, thefts, environmental destruction including 280,000 century-old olive trees of the Kurdish region.
The areas around Afrin were occupied by a plethora of divided Syrian jihadist groups from around Syria which had formed when Qatar, Saudi, Turkey and the US had directed their funds and arms to religious extremists in the first phase of the civil war and many who fled north to Idlib and Afrin due to the Russian backed Assad victories,
The Afrin areas were often contested between elements of the Syrian regime and over 50 Syrian rebel and jihadist groups, many claiming divine rights. Turkey controls all border supplies and over time co-opted the Syrian rebel groups and turned them into proxies. Turkey endlessly accused the YPG Kurdish defense in Afrin of being “terrorists” even though there was never any proof of a single “terror” attack on Turkey.
Supervised by Turkey the religious jihadist infested the area, looting, kidnapping women for slaves and ransom and murdering civilians to take their property. In many ways, they behave like ISIS, targeting minorities and each other in a depraved manner.
Events again accelerate, as geopolitical inevitabilities come to a head on the stage.
We’ll get to the ostensibly biggest storylines revolving around the crescendoing Ukrainian peace talks, but the biggest story slipping under the surface revolves around the escalating threats from the Baltics and their masters toward Russia as a new vector of provocation from the West.
In light of Ukraine’s proceeding collapse, the Empire badly needs to find a way to ‘self-fulfill’ the prophecy of Russia attacking Europe, in order to sell its own fraudulent historiography of the war, which underpins all the malice carried out against Russia to this point.
Thus lies the need to ramp up provocations to force Russia into making some militarily aggressive action or attack on another neighboring country, to sell the whole narrative. This would serve two purposes: if the war in Ukraine ends, the West needs some way to keep Russia busy and pressured to slow its development, particularly now that its economy is rapidly distancing itself from decaying Europe.
But the second purpose lies in—even if the Ukraine war goes on—forcing Russia to respond aggressively to a neighboring country to galvanize European, and even global, solidarity, allowing the fulfillment of all the military rearmament dreams NATO’s magpies have been twittering about.
Now that Ukraine teeters on the edge, the plan is ramping up. Several major concerted ‘events’ occurred this week, by no coincidence of their own:
Firstly, Russian Rostelecom’s underwater Baltika cable in the Gulf of Finland was “damaged”, i.e. severed, clearly not by ‘accidental action’:
In the Gulf of Finland, the Rostelecom cable connecting Kingisepp with Kaliningrad was damaged again. What other incidents with underwater communication infrastructure occurred in the Baltic Sea-in the RBC
On February 8, Rostelecom reported damage to its underwater telecommunications cable Baltika. It connects the Leningrad Region with Kaliningrad and partly passes through the economic zones of Finland and Sweden. The previous accident on the Baltika occurred on October 7, 2023.
The length of the underwater cable, which was apparently damaged, is 1,115 km. It connects Kaliningrad and Kingisepp in the Leningrad region.
The severing of this cable potentially cuts Kaliningrad’s communications from the Russian mainland.
Zerohedge details the pile-up of Baltic sea cable incidents of late:
Around the same time a Russian oil tanker suffered an ‘explosion’ in its port of Ust-Luga, which sits on the Gulf of Finland mere miles from the Estonian border:
Enemy saboteurs probably worked in Ust-Luga. The recent explosion in the engine room of the Koala tanker (164,500 tons), according to sources of Ambrey Analytics (a company in the field of marine risk management), was associated with the installation of underwater mines on the outer part of the hull. Three explosions resulted in three holes: one 100 cm by 80 cm, and two large 4 by 2 meters.
Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service warned about upcoming terrorist attacks and incidents that Ukrainian intelligence plans to carry out in order to ban Russian cargo and ships from passing through the Baltic Sea. We are seeing the first such incident.
And as the above alludes to, Russian SVR suddenly announced that Ukraine is in the process of finalizing major provocations in the Baltic Sea area. The plan specifically includes blowing up a foreign ship to blame Russia, presumably as a putative Russian “response” to the Russian assets now being targeted in the region:
The SVR says that the special services of Ukraine, with the support of the West, are planning a series of high-profile anti-Russian provocations. The main task is to close Russia’s access to the Baltic Sea under the pretext of Moscow’s aggressive actions. The first terrorist attack may be the detonation of Russian/Soviet-made mines on a foreign ship in the Baltic waters. They are looking for people from Asia and the Middle East to carry out the terrorist attack, the salary is 20 thousand dollars, there are no contract details. The attacks will begin as soon as possible in order to weaken the Kremlin’s negotiating position as soon as possible.
Lo and behold, on the heels of the above, major press outlets like Politico announce a renewed initiative to target and “seize” Russia’s shadow fleet:
EU Pirates of the 21st Century: Baltic States Seek New Opportunities to Capture Russia’s Shadow Fleet — Politico
▪️Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are looking for loopholes in international law to seize Russian ships.
▪️The European Union is holding “behind-the-scenes talks” on a large-scale seizure of Russian oil export tankers, Politico writes.
▪️European countries bordering the Baltic Sea are developing new legislation to make it possible to seize ships on “environmental or piracy grounds.”
▪️The new proposals come amid widespread frustration that Western sanctions against Russia are not working, as Moscow continues to ship its oil and evade sanctions.
Menos de 2 horas después de que esta película palestina fuera nominada a los Oscars como Mejor Documental, el ejército sionista invadió el pueblo del protagonista del documental, Massafer Yatta (Cisjordania), y asaltó su propia casa.
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Israeli officials have admitted to The New York Times that Hamas’s claims about Israel violating the Gaza ceasefire and killing 92 are accurate..
Gaza’s Health Ministry said that Israeli forces have killed 92 Palestinians since the ceasefire went into effect
by Dave DeCamp via thefreeonline February 13, 2025 at 12:35 pm
The report, which cited three Israeli officials and two officials from mediating countries who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Israel agreed to let in hundreds of thousands of tents as part of the ceasefire deal, which hasn’t happened.
A few days before Hamas announced it was postponing the next hostage release scheduled for February 15, an official from Gaza’s Media Office said only 10% of the required tents had arrived.
Israel has also not allowed mobile homes and heavy equipment to clear the rubble in Gaza.
Besides the blocking of promised aid, Israeli forces have also continued to kill Palestinians in Gaza.
The Health Ministry said on Tuesday that since the ceasefire went into effect on January 19, Israeli forces have killed 92 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 822.
Dr. Munir al-Barash, the director of the Health Ministry, also said that since January 19, 24 Palestinians have died of previously sustained wounds, meaning the total number of Palestinians that have died in Gaza due to Israeli aggression is at least 118.
He said in the same time period, 641 bodies have been recovered from the rubble, and 197 remain unidentified.
Hamas had stayed relatively quiet about the Israeli ceasefire violations until after repeated calls by President Trump for all of the Palestinians in Gaza, which he says is about 1.9 million people (pre-war population was about 2.3 million), to be removed from the territory permanently as part of his plan for the US to take it over.
In response to Hamas announcing it will postpone the next hostage release, Trump said if all the Israelis held in Gaza aren’t released by this Saturday, the ceasefire should be “canceled,” signaling he’s ready to back Israel if it restarts the genocidal war.
Haaretz reported on Sunday that Netanyahu intends to sabotage the truce and not enter the second phase.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said that Israeli forces have killed 92 Palestinians since the ceasefire went into effect
Víctor M. Toledo jornada.com.mx/ 11.02.25 Can what radical leftist thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries dreamed of become a concrete and verifiable reality? The answer is yes and it has a name: Acapatzingo, a project carried out by the Francisco Villa Popular Organization of Independent Left in the heart of Iztapalapa, the most violent and dangerous area of Mexico City. Cooperation, mutual aid and communality led a group of 600 families of social outcasts to take over nine hectares of vacant land by force in 1996, to build, maintain and reproduce an extraordinary collective project.
The first thing this group of poor families did was to delimit and control the entrance and exit of their territory. Today there are only two entrances under strict surveillance and everyone, including the municipal, state and federal governments, respect this decision of self-defense
Invited as part of a group of academics and leaders of organizations to visit the experience, for six hours I learned about what is undoubtedly the most important urban project of self-government, self-management and self-defense in the country. Acapatzingo forms an oasis of resistance and dignity with enormous political and civilizing repercussions that announce the path to follow for all humanity.
These are families of workers who work in various places in Mexico City, and who also carry out tasks in the cooperative they have created. Three entities maintain communal order: the general assembly, the brigades and commissions and the families. Each family abides by a regulation approved by the assembly and its respective sanctions, and carries out various tasks for the community.
Each family has a 130 square meter home: three bedrooms on the upper floor and a kitchen, living room and dining room on the ground floor. Each house is painted pink, lilac, green, tangerine, blue or yellow, as well as pots with plants and flowers in the front gardens (https://desinformemonos.org/acapatzingo-el-otro-mundo-en-medio-de-la-ciudad/). This collective, which has been in existence for 29 years, has the following benefits: surveillance and security. A clinic that has been offering low-cost medicines since 2005, and addresses problems of all ages, including mental health.
For this reason, Covid-19 only infected 34 cooperative members out of almost 3,000 inhabitants, who were cared for and attended to by the collective. An education and culture commission started in 2001 organizes workshops for children, events that reinforce collective awareness and has a library. Another commission dedicated to sports that promotes a non-competitive awareness and organizes workshops and various activities. Of great importance is the communication commission that began with the use of loudspeakers and now has a Facebook page, as well as a press office in charge of propaganda and a community radio station called La Voz de Villa at 91.7 FM (https://opfvii.org/radio/).
Bad Bunny’s new album, I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN MORE PHOTOS/ Debi Tirar Mas Fotos, became the number-one streamed album worldwide. It mixes different Puerto Rican music genres and touches on themes of gentrification and a loss of cultural identity. How is the album bringing the Puerto Rican fight for survival to the world?
‘Debi Tirar Mas Fotos’ takes on gentrification, colonialism and tourism in a changing Puerto Rico.
559,856 views Premiered Jan 16, 2025 RIO PIEDRAS no English subtitles.. Nos fuimos a Río Piedras donde Bad Bunny canta en vivo su nuevo disco DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS 2025, espero les guste.– We went to Río Piedras where Bad Bunny sings his new album live. I SHOULD HAVE TAKEN MORE PHOTOS 2025, I hope you like it.
This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolome with Hanah Shokeir, Hagir Saleh, Melanie Marich and our guest host, Natasha Del Toro. It was edited by Noor Wazwaz
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