Alienating your most important natural gas provider (in Spain’s case: Algeria) is a bad idea even at the best of times. And right now, with the world facing its biggest energy crisis in at least half a century, these are not the best of times.
Yet this is exactly what Pedro Sánchez government has done by calling an abrupt end to Spain’s decades-long position of neutrality over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, which was a Spanish colony until 1975.
Until ten days ago, Spain, in line with the United Nations, had called for the Saharawi people to determine their own future through a referendum.
But all that changed when the King of Morocco Mohammed VI read out on live TV a letter from Sánchez describing Rabat’s plan for sovereignty over Western Sahara as offering “the most serious, realistic and credible” way of resolving the conflict.
As I warned at the time, this subtle but significant policy change risks torpedoing Spain’s commercial relations with its biggest provider of natural gas, Algeria, a staunch defender of the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.
On February 24, 2022 the Russian army invaded Ukraine. Already in the first following days many people started to leave Ukraine.
Most of them were women and children, since almost all men and transgender people are not allowed to leave the country. Right at the beginning, aid structures were set up at various border crossings. We also immediately sat down with some people and thought about how we could organize support.
As some of us have already worked in other war zones, we decided not to go to the border but rather into Ukraine.
For this reason, immediately after the war began, we started to organize ourselves in a network with local aid structures.
On the ground, we will engage in supporting self-organized groups in the purchase and distribution of essential goods, as well as distributing medicine and first aid packages and other things that are concretely needed there.
In the west of Ukraine it is still possible to buy these things. Since many small stores are in trouble because of the war, we will buy the supplies in local small stores.
A building damaged by shelling in Lisichansk by Ukrainian army and fascist militias.
Again and again there were reports that it is much more difficult for many non-white people to leave the country. During our mission we will also be looking at how we can support these people.
For this reason, our first convoy will set off in the last week of April, because until then we need time to prepare this mission in detail.
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Reflections on the First Phase of the Russian Anti-War Movement
The first phase of the anti-war movement in Russia is drawing to a close, suppressed chiefly by brute force.
In the following collection, we discuss the stakes of these protests, share reflections from Russian anarchists about why the demonstrations hit a wall, and present translations of four articles by Russian anarchist and feminist groups exploring why they oppose the war, what challenges they have encountered, and how they intend to move forward.
Why the Russian Anti-War Movement Remains Our Brightest Hope
The invasion of Ukraine would never have been possible if Putin’s regime had not spent the past decade crushing every social movement in Russia—using torture to extract false confessions from arrestees and poisoning and imprisoning rival politicians.
Likewise, Putin’s military interventions in Belarus and Kazakhstan—not to mention Syria—have helped autocrats to maintain control of those countries;
Cases of humans exploiting and abusing animals have only risen with time. However, a country in South America has taken a step in the right direction and made sure that wild animals get the rights they deserve and live freely without being exploited.
Ecuador, a South American country has become the first country in the world to give legal rights to wildanimals.The highest court in the country has ruled in favour of the case that focused on a woolly monkey who was taken from her home to a…
More aggressive.. and , why not, more STUPID. 20% of the Covid vaxxed complain, if ever asked, of BRAIN FOG. Despite denials by the “Billion-Lies MSM” it’s long accepted that the spike protein created by vaccines escapes to all our organs and breaks the barrier into our BRAINS.
Stupider, more insecure perhaps, and more likely to follow the herd, even if it implies vaccinating our kids,even if it implies World War Three and the incineration of our children.
If the multi-vaxxed are angrier and stupider we must demand that ALL people in Authority comply with basic emotional and intellectual Intelligence tests before continuing to entrust our lives and futures to them. Our world is falling into multiple avoidable crises, perhaps partly caused by old aggressive leaders with Brain Fog.
These are 2 more devastating and often permanent symptoms of Covid-19 vaccines that the criminal, now billionaire, vaccine scammers should be made to pay for.
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A poll in Canada confirms that those injections have made people more belligerent, which could have catastrophic consequences for us all
They’ve been trying from the start of this long global nightmare to equate compliance with benevolence.
Throughout 2020, they told us, inescapably, that putting on a mask (or two, or three) made you a Good Person (“Wearing is caring”); and then, throughout 2021, they told us, inescapably, that “vaccination” was (to quote the horrible Bergoglio) “an act of love.”
So that the kindliest and most considerate of us were those who’d had as many jabs as possible.
Conversely, they portrayed the “anti-maskers” as a danger to us all, not just because they’d surely kill us (or at least “kill Grandma”) with their fatal exhalations, but, on top of that, because of their combustible “far-right” hostility to anyone—bus drivers, security guards—who dared to tell them what to do.
The propaganda fostering that canard then took to casting “anti-vaxxers” as hideously selfish animals, utterly indifferent to the huge (imaginary) risk they pose to those who did get jabbed—a claim as obviously false as it was (and is) scientifically absurd.
I call it “obviously false” because, outside the fever-dream “reported” daily by the media, it’s always been the other way around.
All along, it’s been the maskers who have readily abused the “anti-maskers,” and then it was the “vaccinated” who chastised (or worse) those choosing, for whatever reason, not to get injected.
And, of course, it was the latter, not the former, who, while getting pelted with such sanctimonious denunciation, have also been excluded, isolated, silenced, censored, fired, de-licensed, fined and even jailed, or involuntarily committed, either for refusing to get jabbed, or for merely questioning the wisdom, or the consequences, of the “vaccination” program.
And then we’ve also heard, and some of us have seen, a certain darkening of personality among the “vaccinated,” or some of them—a marked new nastiness, intolerance, explosiveness, as if those “vaccines” were laced with choler, or its nanotechnological equivalent. I for one have been attacked insanely, out of nowhere, by the recently injected; and others have reported the same thing.
That history of nastiness against the non-compliant is the context in which we should now check out, and share, these poll results from Canada:
The US media today warned about the continued escalation of armed violence occurring in the country . This Monday, a shooting in Mobile, Alabama, interrupted a vigil that was being held in honor of two people who were killed with firearms in the territory last Friday near a shopping center…
According to reports, Friday’s incident occurred around the same time as another violent altercation that occurred on a busy Mobile avenue, in which one person was killed…Separately, one man was killed and at least 27 others were injured in a shooting at a car show in Dumas, Arkansas, on Saturday night.
Among the injured are at least six children – the youngest is just 19 months old – who were taken to Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock…
‘Biden labels Putin a war criminal in the midst of a new media hysteria. Never referring to the actions of the United States, never pausing for breath, the media pumps out the fuel for an ever-expanding war. Hubris and hypocrisy stamp every statement from Washington with an audacity perhaps unique in world history. Its hands bathed in blood up to the elbows, US empire gestures at its enemies and cries war crimes.”
From Goldman Sachs bankers to United Nations bureaucrats, delegates have descended on Davos, Switzerland, for the 2020 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The Free 