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by anarchopac, Zoe Baker, shared with thanks

In 1925 the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta wrote that Anarchy is a form of living together in society; a society in which people live as brothers and sisters without being able to oppress or exploit others and in which everyone has at their disposal whatever means the civilisation of the time can supply in order for them to attain the greatest possible moral and material development.

And Anarchism is the method of reaching anarchy, through freedom, without government – that is, without those authoritarian institutions that impose their will on others by force . . . (Malatesta 1995, 52)

In this passage Malatesta distinguishes between anarchy as a goal and anarchism as a method of achieving this goal. One of the interesting features of Malatesta’s theory is that he views anarchy itself as both a goal and an on-going process.

He refers to anarchy as a “form of living together in society” which has to be continuously produced and reproduced over time, rather than a static unchanging utopia.

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Problems in sight in Spain and Portugal: gas crisis due to the conflict between Algeria and Morocco

By Pablo del Amo-on descifrandolaguerra (Decoding War).translation TheFreeOnline shared with thanks Oct 3, 2021.

The diplomatic crisis between Algeria and Morocco has led to the non-renewal of the Tarifa gas pipeline (GME), one of the main entry routes for Algerian gas into Spain.

The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, had to travel to Algeria to ensure the supply of gas to Spanish territory. The situation is difficult for Madrid, since everything presages a harsh winter in the country, while on the other hand it wishes not to further anger its Moroccan neighbor.

All wrapped up in a major global energy crisis that is affecting global markets.

insert: Algeria is dependent on dwindling gas and oil extraction to feed its large and very young population. The climate is changing with fierce heatwaves and the ecosystems are fragile and suffering. Perhaps a partial solution for Algeria would be to stop gas exports and contract massive solar panels with Chinese companies to sell cheap, relatively CO2-free and methane-free electricity to Europe.

World energy crisis

The price of energy and raw materials has suffered a sharp rise in recent times, specifically, gas has reached 76,1 euros per megawatt per hour, that is, it is an increase of 73 % compared to last August 15.

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De-Listed ‘Chinese ISIS’ Terror Group “Rises from the Dead”

By New Atlas – September 23, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO)

 Suspicions were raised when in late 2020 the US de-listed as a terrorist organization the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), sometimes referred to as the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) and accused China of Genocide for opposing them.

The US had claimed as its rationale that the ETIM/TIP had not been active for over a decade despite the US itself admitting to striking ETIM/TIP targets in Afghanistan as recently as 2018, just 2 years before the de-listing.

*(Turn this on its head to illustrate how bad it is: imagine it was China not the US who had invaded and bombed around the world in a War against Terror, causing the death of millions. Imagine it was China who then legalized and promoted homegrown ISIS groups in the US, and accused the US of Genocide in a worldwide campaign for resisting the horrific terrorist massacres in their own country).

In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and rules, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said he was revoking the designation of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a “terrorist organization.”

“ETIM was removed from the list because, for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist,” a state department spokesperson said.

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The US State Department spokesperson’s claim went unchallenged by The Guardian despite the paper itself having written a 2013 article as recently as 7 years ago from the US de-listing of ETIM/TIP titled, “Islamist group claims responsibility for attack on China’s Tiananmen Square,” which reported:

The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) is the first group to claim responsibility for the attack on 28 October, when a four-wheel drive vehicle ploughed through a group of pedestrians near the iconic square in central Beijing, crashed into a stone bridge and caught fire, killing five people and injuring dozens. Chinese authorities quickly identified the driver as Uighur, a Muslim ethnic minority hailing from Xinjiang, a sparsely populated, restive region in the country’s far north-west.

Not only does the article indicate the US State Department lied in its claim the terrorist organization has been inactive for over a decade, it also illustrates the very real terrorist threat China faces nationwide from Xinjiang-based terrorist organizations.

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