International Volunteers for Peace, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Independent and Peaceful Australia Network are to be congratulated and thanked for organising the Raising Peace Conference held at the end of September. My speech on Australia’s support for authoritarian governments is below. Here is a link to some of the other conference proceedings.
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land from where I join this event – the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. I pay tribute to all First Nations people and acknowledge their history, their culture and their ongoing struggles for justice of which tragically there are many.
First off I would like to pay tribute to our forebears, who built the global peace movement during the Cold War years. The attacks they endured are hard to credit today. A couple of examples – a Brooklyn judge in the US sentenced five people to…
I have had confirmation of my report that Norway has terminated all Covid restrictions. Norway’s equivalent to the CDC has downgraded Covid-19 to a strong flu. There will be no Covid passport.
In Sweden Covid restrictions are scheduled to end this Wednesday September 29. The Danish government decided two weeks ago to end Covid restrictions. The President of Croatia has also declared: “We will not be vaccinated anymore.”
Have you heard any of this on CNN, NPR, MSNBC or read it in The NY Times?
How do we explain Scandinavia and Croatia going the opposite direction to the EU?
Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of The Empire Files are producing a new feature-length documentary that exposes the US military as “Earth’s Greatest Enemy.”
See the trailer
Left out of the conversation about the climate crisis is the fact that:
Even if every person, vehicle and factory stopped emitting carbon, as long as the US military continues on as it is, the earth will still be headed for disaster.
‘Clearing the FOG’ speaks with war and climate journalist Dahr Jamail and Mike Prysner about the state of the climate crisis, the extent of environmental destruction caused by the military both in the United States and abroad and the new film project. You can learn more at https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/
Abby Martin On Her Project, ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy,’ Which Recently Started Production
Dahr Jamail – In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself, where he has spent more than one
year in Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively on veterans’ resistance against US foreign policy, and is now focussing on anthropogenic climate disruption and the environment.
Dahr’s stories have been published with Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, Al Jazeera, and The New York Times, among others. Dahr is currently and has been a feature writer for Truthout.org for five years, and his climate feature page there is titled ‘Climate Disruption Dispatches‘.
Mike Prysner is the producer of The Empire Files and an activist veteran who spent time in Iraq. He has organized against the US war machine and for independent politics.
He and Abby Martin produced the film, “Gaza Fights for Freedom.” Prysner had a podcast with Spencer Rapone, “Eyes Left,” and co-founded the antiwar group, March Forward.
Now we find that the same thing has happened in the Gulf of Mexico where the billionaire capitalists have for 50 years illegally abandoned hundreds of undersea oil pipelines and badly sealed wells, bribing the authorities to turn a blind eye and adding to the environmental apocalypse in the biggest marine ‘Dead Zone’.
The US media highlighted heroic efforts to control an oil slick visible from the Port Fourchon shore, while ignoring the other 349 spills. (The massive onshore petrochemical disaster is another ignored story).
More than a week after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana so violently that it reversed the course of the Mississippi River, it’s become clear that the storm had also made a shambles of one of the nation’s largest chemical, petroleum and natural gas hubs.
Poster shown as evidence the “terrorists” planned to attack the far-right judge Pablo Llarena who ordered the arrest of the Catalan President and deputies.
The judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón affirms that they were part of a “clandestine” and “radicalized” cell that wanted to assault the Parliament of Catalonia.
Poster seized in search of homes of the “Terrorists” displayed by police as evidence
“Assault” the Parliament! Really? Or were they just thinking about a Sit-In to protest the jailing of the President and half the Ministers for obeying their electorate who overwhelmingly demanded a peaceful Referendum on Independence.
A referendum which was violently attacked by imported paramilitary Spanish police , and which was the result of generations of political, cultural and financial repression, and long negotiated agreements blatantly broken.
Young activists facing decades in prison for a terrorist thought crime, who were representing hundreds of local CDR groups… Committees for the Defense of the Republic, which in turn are the youth wing of civic organizations representing millions of people, with a left wing majority.The CDRs are open community groups run by assembly consensus on libertarian lines.
Juicio en Bristol Crown Court a partir del 6 de octubre de 2021.
En noviembre del 2020, fueron ejecutadas una serie de redadas coordinadas contra el sitio web 325.nostate.net por la policía antiterrorista del Reino Unido como parte de la «Operación Adream».
Se realizaron cateos en varios domicilios y locales en el suroeste de Inglaterra y una persona fue detenida, acusada en virtud de la Ley de Terrorismo.
Los cargos que se le imputan son la administración de la web 325.nostate.net, financiación del terrorismo a través del sitio, difusión y recogida de material de utilidad para grupos terroristas.
El compañero, Toby Shone, estuvo en libertad bajo fianza desde noviembre de 2020 hasta febrero de 2021 cuando fue nuevamente detenido y encarcelado en HMP Wandsworth en Londres, donde aún se encuentra detenido. (ahora se han añadido varios cargas más de tenencia de drogas)
Toby probablemente sea trasladado de HMP Wandsworth a HMP Bristol hasta que se celebre el juicio en próximas semanas.
El ataque al sitio 325.nostate.net es un intento histórico del Estado por silenciar toda disidencia y el pensamiento crítico radical.
Esta agresión puede considerarse parte de la represión general en el Reino Unido contra la protesta, la contrainformación, el pensamiento y estilos de vida alternativos, tal y como se ha puesto de manifiesto en la Ley de Policía, Delincuencia y Tribunales de 2021 (que dio lugar a las protestas Kill the Bill), la Ley de Fuentes de Inteligencia Humana Encubiertas (Conducta Criminal) de 2021 que amplía los poderes del espionaje policial y las reformas al procedimiento de revisión judicial.
Para escribir al compañero Toby:
Toby Shone Número de preso: A7645EP HMP Wandsworth Heathfield Road Wandsworth Londres SW18 3HS – Reino Unido
Por favor, recuerda poner el nombre y la dirección del remitente en el sobre.
¡Solidaridad con Toby!
Compañerxs anarquista
‘Se puede asistir al juicio en Bristol Crown Court a partir del 6 de octubre de 2021’.
The House of Representatives voted 420-9 in favor of a fast-tracked bill (H.R. 5323) to give Israel an additional $1 billion dollars. The bill is now in the Senate (S.2839), where it is expected to be passed with little or no dissent.
In other words, once again, the vast majority of U.S. politicians from both parties obeyed Israel’s demand that American taxpayers give Israel their hard-earned tax dollars.
Keep in mind that this $1 billion is over and above the $3.8 billion – $10.5 million per day – in military aid Israel currently receives from the U.S. Plus, our reps plan to expend an additional $3 billion on behalf of Israel.
