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Interview with an anti-militarist from Odessa

anarcomuk.uk/2025/ The following interview was carried out by comrades from the Československé anarchistické sdružení – CAS a Czech Internationalist Anarchist Group.

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1)Please introduce yourself briefly to the readers of our magazine. Are you from Ukraine, where you were born and spent your youth? Hi. My name is Vadym Yakovlev, I’m Ukrainian queer writer and journalist and […]
Interview with an anti-militarist from Odessa

The following interview was carried out by comrades from the Československé anarchistické sdružení – CAS a Czech Internationalist Anarchist Group.

1)Please introduce yourself briefly to the readers of our magazine. Are you from Ukraine, where you were born and spent your youth?

I was born in Odesa, the largest southern multicultural city in Ukraine, a few months before the collapse of the USSR.

My mother is Ukrainian and my father is Russian.

Their fathers were military. My father worked in a factory. With the collapse of the USSR, the factory was closed, and my father lost his job. It affected my family and my childhood.

Anarchismus v Česku – Wikipedie

Hi. My name is Vadym Yakovlev, I’m Ukrainian queer writer and journalist and I’m against the war and nationalism.

I grew up in Odesa, but one year before I escaped Ukraine I was living in Lviv, the biggest city of the Western part of Ukraine.

At home my relatives spoke Russian and Ukrainian, so I never focused on issues such as national identity. My family was an unhappy international family that lost a lot with the collapse of state communism in Ukraine.

I guess all of that influenced me a lot in my search of my true political views and my desire to do something that can have influence on society.

2)You left Ukraine, what led you to this decision?

On the one hand, I could no longer work in Ukraine because of my political beliefs.

The Ukrainian intelligentsia, journalists and artists as a community with the beginning of the war decided to become privileged elite propagandists in the service of the state.

I didn’t want to be a propagandist, so I lost the opportunity to publish my articles. And if you publicly express in Ukraine the views I have, authorities can put you in the jail.

We Live In A Nightmare – Caitlin Johnstone

A nightmarish authoritarian dystopia, now being updated, has already been here a long time, -but we can transcend it

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Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you’re frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed.

But unlike a conservative, you’re disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense.

Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy.

Exploitation. Consumerism. Many rightists warn urgently that our society is on the verge of plunging into a nightmarish authoritarian dystopia, but if you’re truly unplugged from the indoctrination of the empire you understand that the dystopia is already here, and has been for a long time.

20 Fotos y Textos muestran el Estado Ambiental de América Latina en 2024

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Durante el 2024, hubo varias imágenes que marcaron la cobertura de Mongabay Latam. Hay imágenes esperanzadoras, como las fotografías de especies reintroducidas a su hábitats, las de los colectivos que se forman para proteger los ecosistemas y las de las nuevas especies y aplicaciones de tecnología para monitorear la naturaleza.

Este material periodístico es de libre acceso y reproducción. No está financiado por Nestlé ni por Monsanto. Desinformémonos no depende de ellas

También, hay fotografías que muestran las amenazas a los bosques y a los pueblos indígenas, los crímenes en contra de los defensores de la naturaleza, los impactos de las industrias extractivas y del cambio climático, y las víctimas de la ola de incendios que afectó a varios países sudamericanos.

Este es nuestro resumen del año en 20 fotografías.

1. Jaguares regresan a casa

Jaguar que fue reintroducido a la vida silvestre. Foto: Andrea Reyes/Jaguares en la Selva

La imagen muestra a uno de los dos jaguares que la Fundación Jaguares en la Selva liberó exitosamente. En Oaxaca, en el sur de México, esta organización creó el Santuario del Jaguar Yaguar Xoo. Allí, un grupo multidisciplinario tiene en marcha un programa para que félidos que han sido rescatados puedan retornar a su hábitat.

Para enseñarles a comportarse como jaguares, el santuario cuenta con dos simuladores de vida silvestre: terrenos deliberadamente aislados de cualquier contacto humano que recrean lo mejor posible todas las condiciones del hábitat en que los felinos serán reintroducidos. El objetivo es que aprendan a cazar y a sobrevivir por ellos mismos. Ahora, los especialistas trabajan para reintroducir a su hábitat a otros dos jaguares y a tres pumas.

Lee la historia completa aquí.

Mongabay Latam 28 diciembre 2024

2. Narcopistas en medio de comunidades indígenas

Una de las quince pistas que se encuentran dentro y alrededor de dos comunidades indígenas entre Huánuco y Pasco. Los parches de deforestación para la hoja de coca son patrones comunes alrededor de estos tajos dentro de la Amazonía. Foto: Image ©️ Airbus DS 2024 / produced by Earth Genome.

Esta es una de las 67 pistas de aterrizaje clandestinas usadas para el transporte de droga en las regiones peruanas de Ucayali, Huánuco y Pasco. Mongabay Latam y Earth Genome las detectaron usando inteligencia artificial e información satelital de fuentes oficiales. La mayoría de los aeródromos ilegales están dentro y alrededor de comunidades indígenas, reservas para pueblos en aislamiento y concesiones forestales. 31 pistas se concentran en la provincia de Atalaya, convertida en una de las más violentas de la Amazonía. Además, el análisis indica que para abrir las 67 pistas, se deforestaron al menos 46 kilómetros de bosque.

Lee la historia completa aquí.

Erdogan’s bid for a 5th invasion to annex Northern Syria may be BLOCKED by General Rojava Mobilisation and a new US base in Kobani

With the fall of the Assad Regime, Turkiye let loose its jihadi SNA hordes on Shebha/Tal Rifaat ,f orcing 100,000 refugees to flee again, crucified Manbij and area, and advanced on towards the anti ISIS symbol of Kobani, just across the Euphrates River.

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Rojava defiant as artillery, drones strike Kobani -Turkish occupation large-scale attack on Tishreen Dam – FAILED

Convoys transporting concrete fortifications intended for the establishment of a US base arrived today (Thursday) in the northern Syrian citry of Kobani, a Kurdish militia stronghold located near the Turkish border. . Kobani has become a symbol of Kurdish resistance against the terrorist organization ISIS.

The Turkish dictator Erdogan financed, protected and trained the Al Qaeda HTS in Idlib and knew for months ahead of the planned breakout which ended up toppling the 50 year old Assad Regime.

Despite economic mayhem at home Turkey spent 2023 boosting HTS in Idlib, and especially arming the SNA, its large network of Islamic terrorist mercenary militias.

The SNA ‘head choppers’ are multiple militia left overs financed by Turkey, and originally by Arab states and the US in the Syrian civil war. These militias include ex Al Qaeda, ISIS and worse and have been settled in the Kurdish and multi ethnic homelands invaded, with western silence, and ethnically cleansed by Turkey in Afrin, Sabha, Serekineye strip, and Al Bab..

The SNA militias receive minimum wages from Turkiye and survive by looting, extortion, kidnappings and western aid.

To all young people: JOIN THE REVOLUTION!

The resistance against the Turkey’s backed mercenaries is continuing. A YPG veteran Karim Franceschi stated: «The deployment of SDF elite units has shifted the momentum. Turkey’s backed SNA forces are in full retreat. Heavy casualties, key axes collapsing. The liberation of Manbij is now imminent.».

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Turkiye has worked to train, arm and coordinate them and used them as attack dogs against the hated Rojava Revolution with its communal, horizontal organisation and women’s emancipation SNA ideology, the exact opposite of SNA ideology.

In December 2024, as the Assad regime finally fell apart. Erdogan took the opportunity to let loose his SNA mercenary terrorists to loot and destroy the Shebha enclave, which was just a giant isolated internal refugee camp of Kurdish families expelled from their homes and lands by the Turkish invasion of Afrin in 2019.

The Rojava forces defended Kurdish refuge areas in Aleppo as Turkey let its jihadis attack 10,000’s of civilian Kurdish refugee IDPs in Tel Rifaat/Shehba

A column of Rojava SDF defenders broke through Turkish controlled territory and rescued over 100,000 people from Shehba in convoys, attacked day and night on the way and welcomed into the AANES revolution, though thousands more were, murdered, abducted or enslaved.

4th Dec 2024-75k Kurdish refugee IDPs escape Shehba so far, with 1000s of kidnapped refugees still missing..Convoys flee as Turkish directed Jihadis rampage into Rojava, now besieging Manbij …

On 7th December, the same day that the Assad family fled Syria after 54 years in power, pro-Turkish puppets heavily attacked Manbij, symbol of the Rojava Revolution which was saved for the 3rd time from the rampaging Turkish backed SNA jihadis..

The revolutionary population of the 100k strong multicultural town were congratulated on their ongoing heroic resistance on three fronts, led by Manbij Council Defense Forces and the SDF

10th December 2024.The Rape of Manbij/Rojava- Horrific atrocities began by mercenaries with Turkish/NATO Air Support, US Complicity and Absolute Impunity . In the Manbij region, terrible murders are being recorded, and there are also looting, kidnappings and disappearances of people, executed in cold blood. Women raped and kidnapped. Injured defenders massacred in their hospital beds….

Executions of the wounded in Manbij hospital–

With the fall of the Assad Regime, Turkiye let loose its jihadi SNA hordes on Shebha/Tal Rifaat , crucified Manbij and area, and advanced on towards the anti ISIS symbol of Kobani, just across the Euphrates River. .

Street executions a SNA/ISIS/AlQaeda take Manbij city.

With Turkish/NATO drone and heavy artillery support the SNA militias began conducting heavy attacks against SDF positions near Tishreen Dam, but met strong resistance by the SDF, especially the women’s YPJ brigade and have so far failed to cross to nearby Kobani despite repeated ongoing battles and damage to the dam itself.

Meanwhile in Kobani defenders arrived from throughout Rojava following the general mobilisation call by the Democratic AANES administration, and the city again became a beehive of military and social preparation

2014- Kobani in ruins after epic battle and final victory against ISIS ANF | From a street in Kobanê to a military victory over ISIS

Critics label pro-Erdoğan groups’ Gaza rally a PR stunt due to Turkey’s ongoing trade with Israel

Critics accuse Turkish dictator Erdoğan of hypocrisy after he organized a high-profile Gaza solidarity rally due to proof of ongoing oil shipments etc to Israel despite an embargo.

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Nine pro-Palestinian activists, recently held in pretrial detention for several days for protesting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over Turkey’s alleged ongoing trade with Israel, face up to three years in prison, the İhlas News Agency (İHA) reported on Friday.

TURKEY-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-DEMO — Demonstrators hold Palestinian and Turkish flags as they attend an establishment rally in solidarity with massacred Palestinians, while organisers profit from secret Israeli support , on January 1, 2025, amid the continuing Israeli Genocide of the Gaza population.

On January 1, more than 400 civil society organizations joined the march to İstanbul’s Galata Bridge, organized by the pro-Erdoğan Turkish Youth Foundation (TÜGVA) and the National Will Platform, under the banner “Yesterday Hagia Sophia, Today Umayyad, Tomorrow Al-Aqsa.”

Former intel chief detained on Erdoğan insult charges due to criticism of Gaza policy \ByTurkish Minute January 2, 2025 Turkish police on Thursday detained Sabri Uzun, the former head of the National Security Directorate’s intelligence department in Ankara, on accusations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his criticism of Erdoğan’s Gaza policy, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

Uzun took to X to express his disbelief in Turkey’s solidarity with Gaza amid widespread allegations about the Turkish government’s ongoing trade with Israel despite an embargo announced in May.

“The father has sent fuel and steel to Israel, he has been applauded. The son has protested Israel; he has been applauded. Such a nation … deserves a sultan’s rule. This is what an uneducated society looks like,” Uzun tweeted, in reference to Erdoğan and his son Bilal.

Thousands of people in Turkey are investigated, prosecuted and convicted on charges of insulting the president on the basis of the controversial Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK). The crime carries up to four years in prison, a sentence that can be increased if the act was committed using the mass media.

Erdoğan’s 2024: Turks on bread line, hollow Gaza rhetoric and a conqueror’s pose in Syria

Critics accuse Erdoğan, one of the fiercest critics of Israeli actions in Gaza, of hypocrisy for allegedly facilitating crude oil shipments to Israel despite Turkey’s public stance against Israeli military action in Gaza.

Reports have revealed continued shipments of crude oil from Turkey’s Ceyhan port to Israel, despite the trade embargo.

Investigations by advocacy groups such as Stop Fueling Genocide have tracked oil tankers reportedly rerouting shipments to Israel through intermediary destinations.

Erdoğan’s vocal hypocritical criticism of Tel Aviv over its military campaign in Gaza.

Erdoğan condemned Israel’s military actions in Gaza as genocide and accused Western states of being complicit through their silence.

However, this rhetoric stood in stark contrast to Turkey’s actions.

Although Erdoğan imposed a trade ban with Israel in May, investigations revealed that this was effectively circumvented by increased exports to Palestine, while a significant proportion of Israeli crude oil imports continued to pass through Turkey via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.

Protesters who accused Erdoğan of hypocrisy were met with excessive force and some were arrested.

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NATO Hero Erdogan hosts Genocide in Syria – Over 70 murdered by Turkish drone strikes in 2023- – The Free

Erdogan burns alive 2 more Kurdish women deputies -then demands Sweden suppress Kurdish protests so it can join NATO’s terrorist club- – The Free

Women are disappearing in occupied Afrin. Abducted, Murdered, Raped, sold as slaves of Erdogan’s Militias – The Free

Trump betrays Rojava: allows Erdogan to Bomb, Invade and Genocide anti ISIS defenders – The Free.

Ridah is FREED/ Kidnapped by US terrorist regime and Jailed for 22 years! Without any charge or Sentence! / Others still held!

Innocent man held without charge at Guantanamo since 2002 released

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AFTER OVER 22 YEARS GOOGLE STILL HAD NO PHOTO OF RIDAH- JUST THIS EFFIGY—Ridah Bin Saleh al Yazidi- before his 22 year long illegal ordeal

A total of 26 people are still being held at the prison that the US promised to shut down in 2009

The Pentagon has announced the repatriation of a Tunisian detainee, who had been held at Guantanamo Bay prison since its opening in 2002.

Ridah Bin Saleh al Yazidi was among the first terrorist suspects brought to Guantanamo Bay on its first day on January 11, 2002. Despite spending 24 years at the facility, located within a US naval base in Cuba, he was never formally charged.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had notified Congress of his intention to support the release of al Yazidi in January this year, the Department of Defense said in a statement on Monday.

And now “in consultation with our partner in Tunisia, we completed the requirements for responsible transfer,” the statement read.

According to the Pentagon, al Yazidi was airlifted from Guantanamo Bay to Tunisia in a covert operation. No details of the security arrangements surrounding the 59-year-old’s return to his home country were released.

The Tunisian had been captured in Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, shortly after the 9/11 attacks as part of a group of 30 men, some of whom were believed to have been bodyguards of Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

A leaked 2007 prison assessment described al Yazidi as a potentially dangerous detainee, who exhibited hostility toward the guards. However, in 2010, a task force under the administration of then US President Barack Obama cleared the Tunisian for release to another country, stating that he could not be prosecuted for war crimes.

Ian Moss, a former State Department official involved in detainee transfers, told the New York Times that al Yazidi “could have been gone a while ago but for Tunisian foot-dragging.”

Detainee held without charge at Guantanamo since 2002 released

Tunisia had initially been deemed unsafe or unwilling to accept him, while the detainee refused to discuss his transfer with other countries, Moss explained.

Al Yazidi’s release comes as part of the push by the administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden to reduce the prison population at Guantanamo Bay. The latest case was the fourth detainee transfer from the facility in two weeks.

JUSTICE FOR RIDAH!.. DEMAND THAT HIS US JAILORS BE JAILED FOR 22 YEARS!

The Tunisian’s departure leaves 26 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, down from 40 when Biden took office. Among them, 14 are approved for transfer to other countries, while another nine are in pretrial proceedings or convicted of war crimes. This means that the Biden administration will likely also be unable to achieve the goal of closing the prison announced by Obama back in 2009.