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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Groomed-e1746176661582.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
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title: Carbon tax is a punishment beating disguised as virtue
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/thumb_720.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>


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title: The shameful state of Ireland’s electoral roll
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Local-Election-Count-2024-8-scaled-e1746117127515.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>

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title: TikTok fined €530 million by Irish data watchdog
author: ;Ben Scallan
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TikTok-1.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>


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title: TikTok: ‘Irish €530m fine will hurt EU competitiveness’
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<p>Across the United States and much of the West, criticism of Israel and solidarity with Palestine are increasingly being criminalized—a project long championed by Israel’s government and its powerful lobbying networks.</p>
<p>In February 2020, Israeli leader and <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/historical-us-israel-abuse-icc-leads-netanyahu-indictment/287477/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internationally wanted</a> war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1227660066700042242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proudly declared</a> that Tel Aviv had “promoted laws in most U.S. states” to punish those who boycott Israel, offering a rare glimpse into the foreign forces eroding free speech in the American heartland.</p>
<p>Since then, anti-boycott laws have quietly spread to dozens of states, forcing public institutions, businesses, and even individual contractors to pledge loyalty to Israel—or risk losing jobs, contracts, and funding. What began as a niche effort to shield Tel Aviv from grassroots criticism has rapidly escalated into a sweeping assault on free speech across the Western world.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overwhelming majority</a> of states now boast laws making it illegal for local entities, including hospitals and schools, to work with individuals or companies that boycott Israel. For example, in 2016, Indiana’s Senate <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/indiana-house-unanimously-passes-anti-bds-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unanimously passed</a> a law calling for mandatory divestment by state agencies, commercial enterprises, and nonprofit organizations—including universities—from any firm involved in “the promotion of activities to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel.”</p>
<p>The legislation branded boycotts against Israel as “antithetical and deeply damaging to the cause of peace, justice, equality, democracy and human rights for all people in the Middle East.”</p>
<p>Several states have adopted <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anti-bds-legislation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comparable laws</a> via governors signing administrative and executive orders. In some cases, state contractors—be they individuals or organizations—are legally obligated to demonstrate their anti-BDS credentials by signing contractual affirmations of non-support for BDS, which critics argue is essentially a loyalty oath to Israel.</p>
<p>State employees, including teachers, have lost their jobs <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/18/she-lost-her-school-job-after-refusing-sign-pro-israel-pledge-now-shes-filing-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for refusing</a> to do so. In May 2021, a federal judge ruled <a href="https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-georgia-entertainment-government-and-politics-c6b19b93dc345941ec77cab8b00fbc85" target="_blank" rel="noopener">such legislation</a> in Georgia to be “unconstitutional compelled speech.” Undeterred, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp reintroduced the requirement just months later with <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/new-georgia-law-revives-israel-oath-for-large-state-contracts/L2W45RUHG5FARLQ66HGQZVKMDU/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slight amendments</a>.</p>
<p>Israel’s extraordinary and ever-growing influence over domestic U.S. laws in recent years, and the devastating consequences for Palestinian solidarity at home and abroad, have passed without much critical mainstream acknowledgement, let alone censure.</p>
<p>Since October 7, the push to criminalize pro-Palestinian sentiment Stateside and the media’s mass omertà (code of silence) on this disturbing crusade have both intensified significantly. However, such disquieting developments aren’t restricted to the U.S., but eagerly embraced by an ever-growing number of countries intimately complicit in the Gaza genocide.</p>
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<p>In a grave testament to the speed with which U.S.-based pro-Israel organizations, including several prominent Jewish advocacy groups, sought to capitalize on October 7 for their own purposes, two-and-a-half weeks after Palestinian fighters breached Gaza’s infamous apartheid walls, Republican lawmaker Mike Lawler proposed <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6090" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H.R. 6090</a>, also known as the Antisemitism Awareness Act.</p>
<p>Lawler is a major recipient of Israeli lobby funds, with the influential lobbying group <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/tag/aipac/">AIPAC</a> gifting him $392,669 in 2023 and 2024 alone, his largest donor by some margin. His bill would require the Department of Education to consider the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working definition</a> of antisemitism (which critics argue conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism) when determining if cases of harassment are motivated by antisemitism, raising concerns that it would violate the intent of <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/TitleVI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Title VI of the Civil Rights Act</a> of 1964.</p>
<p>This, its proponents argue, “prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance,” including colleges and universities. H.R. 6090 is <a href="https://cdn.fedweb.org/fed-14/2/Fly%2520In%2520Campus%2520Antisemitism%2520One%2520Pager.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">openly supported</a> by nearly all influential pro-Israel organizations, including <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/tag/adl/">the ADL</a>.</p>
<p>The IHRA definition has been condemned by many, including attorney <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/28/britain-definition-antisemitism-british-jews-jewish-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kenneth Stern</a>, who helped draft it, for falsely conflating legitimate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. The <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-condemns-house-passage-of-dangerous-bill-that-would-chill-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ACLU warns</a> that H.R. 6090 raises the clear risk that U.S. educational facilities will “restrict student and faculty speech critical of the Israeli government and its military operations,” for fear of “losing federal funding.”</p>
<p>Longstanding U.S. law already prohibits antisemitic discrimination and harassment by federally funded entities, making the proposed legislation <a href="https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-urges-congress-to-oppose-anti-semitism-awareness-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">completely unnecessary</a>.</p>
<p>Despite the obvious and dire threats to fundamental freedoms posed by the bill, and even <a href="https://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=43112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harsh criticisms</a> from major Jewish groups (such as J Street and Jewish Voice for Peace), it received barely any mention by major news outlets. Still, Congress supported it by an overwhelming majority, voting 320 to 91 in its favor.</p>
<p>Senators nonetheless failed to consider the legislation, prompting Congressman Josh Gottheimer, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/josh-gottheimer/summary?cid=N00036944" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who received</a> $797,189 from AIPAC in 2023 and 2024, <a href="https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-helps-lead-reintroduction-of-bipartisan-antisemitism-awareness-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to reintroduce</a> the bill in February. In the meantime, U.S. lawmakers again took a deeply worrying step in Israel’s clear favor.</p>
<p>On November 28, 2023, Congressman David Kustoff—another <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/david-kustoff/summary?cid=N00025445" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AIPAC beneficiary</a>—introduced a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/894/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Resolution</a> “strongly condemning and denouncing the drastic rise of antisemitism” in the U.S. and “around the world” following October 7. Citing the IHRA’s antisemitism definition, it declared that popular Palestine solidarity chants—protected by the First Amendment—“From the River to the Sea,” “Palestine Will Be Free,” and “Gaza Will Win” to be genocidal, and claimed that a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12755369/DNC-Israel-palestine-Washington-protest-clash-video-police.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candlelit vigil</a> at the Democratic National Committee that month had endangered lives.</p>
<p>It concluded by calling on Congress to “clearly and firmly [state] that anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” which they <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2023/roll697.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did inordinately</a>. In all, 311 lawmakers <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/177341/democrats-voted-anti-zionism-antisemitism-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted for</a> the Resolution, with just 14 against.</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/realnikohouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Niko House</a>, a media personality and activist specializing in civil rights and anti-imperialist issues, believes that these efforts are desperate attempts to justify legal measures that threaten civil liberties and would be unthinkable if any other country were in the crosshairs—including the U.S. itself.</p>
<p>“If enacted, these laws will give authorities broad license to persecute anyone and everyone who calls attention to the unprecedented levels of discrimination Palestinians experience today, and have done for over 75 years,” House tells MintPress. He reserves particular contempt for H.R. 6090:</p>
<blockquote><p>As a Black man, I find it deeply insulting [that] Congress would exploit the Civil Rights Act to silence, if not criminalize, pro-Palestine sentiment. Whether it be segregation, freedom to attend whatever educational institution or pursue whatever career you choose, or equal and indiscriminate access to facilities and basic sustenance like food and water, Palestinians have been suffering from the very forms of discrimination the Act was created to protect against ever since Israel’s creation. And the Gaza genocide has made all of this even worse.”</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>‘Targeting Critics’</strong></p>
<p>Such brazen pro-Israeli lawfare is a longstanding tradition in modern American politics. In 1977, <a href="http://www.natlawreview.com/article/boycotts-and-business-middle-east-reminder-us-anti-boycott-laws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two amendments</a> to the Export Administration Act and the U.S. Tax Code were passed. In theory, they prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from complying with foreign boycotts against any country considered “friendly” to Washington. In reality, it was specifically intended to counteract the long-running <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/1977-04-01/middle-east-arab-boycott-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embargo of Israel</a> by the Arab League. Most U.S. allies adopted the prohibition, in some cases <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/1977-04-01/middle-east-arab-boycott-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ironically damaging</a> their relations with Israel.</p>
<p>Then in 1987, Ronald Reagan <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110426160931/http://eufunding.org.uk/terror/FundingEvil.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designated</a> the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)—at the time recognized <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110606092743/http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/palestine/cache/offonce/pid/11550%3Bjsessionid%3DDB37131DB27A165B6398469FFE4DB1FC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">almost universally</a> as the Palestinian people’s legitimate representatives—a terrorist entity, but enacted a waiver the next year permitting “contact” between White House officials and the group.</p>
<p>This fudge meant the Organization was forced to shut down its D.C. office and cease most of its formal international diplomatic and fundraising initiatives, but allowed U.S. authorities to continue to engage with its leadership without legal repercussions.</p>
<p>There are sinister historical echoes, too, in yet another post-October 7 Congressional move in the U.S. On December 12, 2023, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a fervently pro-Israel lawmaker <a href="https://www.reversecanarymission.org/person/mariannette-miller-meeks-656bbd8770bc542ff9bde41a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who has</a> received vast sums from the Israeli lobby while cosponsoring and voting in favor of multiple pro-Israel measures that critics argue suppress Palestinian rights and run afoul of the First Amendment, proposed <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6578/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H.R. 6578</a>. It calls for the creation of an official “Commission to Study Acts of Antisemitism” in the U.S.</p>
<p>The legislation’s clauses <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/two-dangerous-bills-in-congress-take-aim-at-palestine-solidarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusively refer</a> to “antisemitism” in the context of criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza after October 7. Its accompanying <a href="https://millermeeks.house.gov/media/press-releases/miller-meeks-wasserman-schultz-salazar-gottheimer-miller-moskowitz-introduce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> clearly shows that Palestine solidarity activists are its intended targets, particularly college and university students. Under its auspices, a formal Congressional investigation into opposition to Israel among U.S. citizens and organizations would be instigated, and any witness subpoenaed to give evidence would be barred from invoking their constitutional right to remain silent under questioning.</p>
<p>Lara Friedman, <a href="https://fmep.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middle East Forum for Peace</a> President, slammed the proposal as a malign attempt to construct a modern equivalent to <a href="https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/house-un-american-activities-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the infamous</a> House Un-American Activities Committee (which investigated suspected supporters of communism during the Cold War). Established by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1938, the Committee probed the political leanings of private citizens, state employees, and public and government organizations. In the process, countless careers and lives were destroyed. <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1732112125714108700.html?s=03" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friedman charges</a> H. R. 6578 will, by design, do the same—“but this time targeting critics of Israel.”</p>
<p><strong>‘Disruptive Policies’</strong></p>
<p>It would be wrongheaded to view this wave of repressive laws as unique or isolated to the U.S., or exclusively a product of the Gaza genocide. In the wake of October 7, authorities in Germany, which quietly <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-828836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> Israel’s illicit nuclear weapons program for years, unleashed an <a href="https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1177103.middle-east-an-auslaender-s-perspective-on-berlins-ban-of-solidarity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unprecedented</a> crackdown against Palestine solidarity activists and groups. The repression came in the form of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/posts/681383190948757/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brutal assaults</a> on protest attendees of all ages and genders, city and state courts <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/06/german-court-due-to-rule-on-from-the-river-to-the-sea-case-in-test-of-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicting people</a> for leading pro-Palestinian chants, and restrictions on speaking <a href="https://www.theleftberlin.com/how-germany-tries-to-ban-the-slogan-from-the-river-to-the-sea/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">foreign languages</a> at public demonstrations.</p>
<p>German city and state governments <a href="https://eurojewcong.org/news/communities-news/germany/berlin-bans-red-triangle-symbol-used-by-hamas-to-mark-targets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have banned</a> or are <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-debates-banning-red-triangle-symbol-linked-to-hamas/a-69840776" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering banning</a> displays of red triangles (a symbol adopted by some Palestinian resistance fighters). As of <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240627-germany-imposes-israel-loyalty-test-with-new-citizenship-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 2024</a>, applicants for German citizenship are now tested on their knowledge of Judaism and Jewish life. They must declare their belief in Israel’s right to exist to prove their commitment to “German values.” Legal experts and rights advocates have widely questioned the constitutionality of requiring political support for a foreign state as a condition for citizenship.</p>
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<div data-sanitized-class="tc">This wave of legal repression is not confined to Germany. Across the English Channel, British authorities have similarly intensified their crackdown on dissent. In February 2024, three individuals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/three-guilty-of-terror-offence-over-paraglider-images-at-uk-palestine-march" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were convicted</a> of terror offenses in Britain after displaying images of paragliders at a Palestine solidarity protest on the controversial grounds that it amounted to “glorification of the actions” of Hamas. Since then, multiple British pro-Palestinian activists and journalists have been <a href="https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1862514119523377219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a>, <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/uk-police-raid-home-seize-devices-eis-asa-winstanley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raided</a>, and <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/02/hqwe-d02.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prosecuted</a> over allegations of “supporting” Hamas. In December 2024, the UN <a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AL-GBR-15-2024-Craig-Murray-et-al-UN-comm-to-UK-with-cover.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sounded an alarm</a> over London’s “vague and over-broad” counter-terror legislation.</div>
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<p>These laws do not define the term ‘support,’ which the UN believes raises the risk of dissenting individuals who cannot plausibly be accused of endorsing “violent terrorist acts” by proscribed groups, including their political wings, being caught up in the legislation’s sweeping dragnet. Undeterred, authorities have <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/03/01/un-uk-terror-law-abuse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only intensified</a> their harassment of Palestine solidarity voices since.</p>
<p><a href="https://nailaforthepeople.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Naila Kauser</a>, an activist currently wanted for questioning by counter-terror police in London for pro-Palestinian statements she purportedly made on social media, tells MintPress News:</p>
<blockquote><p>Attacks against activists and journalists who speak out against the genocide in Palestine can only be described as an abuse of law, in service of fascism. It is the British state that is violating multiple world laws, including the Genocide Convention, by continuing to support Israel through intelligence-sharing, arms trade, and diplomatic protection of Israeli war criminals, as we saw recently with the Israeli Foreign Minister’s not-so-secret visit to London. Britain proscribing those who fight occupation also undermines their internationally recognised legal right to resist.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Electronic Intifada editor Asa Winstanley, whose London home was raided and digital devices seized by counter-terror police at dawn in October 2024, suggests to MintPress News that the British government’s <a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-governments-adoption-of-the-ihra-definition-of-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 2016</a> adoption of the IHRA’s misdefinition of antisemitism may have played a role in the wave of repression targeting “legitimate dissent, protest, and political action” against crimes committed by the Israeli state. He says that the controversial definition, <a href="https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1654007" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly influenced</a> by Israeli intelligence, “does nothing to protect Jews or anyone else — its primary aim is to criminalize Palestinians and their supporters.”</p>
<p>Winstanley cites the striking example of a London council in 2019 using the IHRA’s definition of antisemitism <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/03/uk-council-refused-to-host-palestinian-event-over-antisemitism-fears" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to ban</a> a local pro-Palestinian bike ride seeking to raise money for sports equipment for Gazan children from traveling through its parks. “This wasn’t a direct action, it wasn’t anything to do with Jewish people, it wasn’t discrimination, it was pure solidarity of the fluffiest kind, and even this was officially found to fall foul of the IHRA definition,” Winstanley warned.</p>
<p><strong>‘Moral Authority’</strong></p>
<p>In June 2023, the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-public-bodies-banned-from-imposing-their-own-boycotts-against-foreign-countries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ponderously titled</a> Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill began making its way through British Parliament. Its purpose is to ban any public bodies <a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9822/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conducting</a> their investments and procurement “in a way that indicates political or moral disapproval of a foreign state.”</p>
<p>An accompanying press release made clear the legislation’s explicit purpose was protecting “businesses and organizations” affiliated with Israel. Michael Gove, the then-government minister who introduced the law, said of BDS efforts:</p>
<blockquote><p>These campaigns not only undermine the UK’s foreign policy but lead to appalling antisemitic rhetoric and abuse. That is why we have taken this decisive action to stop these disruptive policies once and for all.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The array of organizations affected is gargantuan, ranging from local councils to universities, and the implications are grave in every way. Institutions can be investigated solely at the personal discretion of government officials and face voluminous fines for breaches. During the 1980s, when the British government refused to sanction or condemn South Africa, the <a href="https://www.bond.org.uk/news/2023/08/why-we-should-all-be-worried-about-the-anti-boycott-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very entities</a> targeted by this legislation boycotted the Apartheid state. If the new law were in effect at the time, such activities would have been entirely illegal.</p>
<p>Exacerbating matters further, the anti-BDS Act violates multiple UN rulings and contradicts the British government’s own stated positions. London’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overseas-business-risk-palestinian-territories/overseas-business-risk-the-occupied-palestinian-territories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official stance</a> for decades has been that Israeli settlements “are illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” As such, Britain’s private sector is <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overseas-business-risk-israel/overseas-business-risk-israel--3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actively discouraged</a> by authorities from conducting business there. Yet, public bodies may now be legally prohibited from following this very precept.</p>
<p>Still, there remains one potential legal avenue of resistance. As MintPress News has <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/top-us-law-schools-present-israel-gaza-genocide-report/287642/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a>, multiple legal findings and precedents indicate countries party to the Genocide Convention, as Britain is, must “employ all means reasonably available” to prevent genocide. What’s more, failing to stop providing aid or assistance to a state engaged in genocide could violate Article I of the Convention. This could provide legal protection from London’s new anti-BDS law. As activist Naila Kauser, herself a target of London’s latest measures, concludes:</p>
<p>Laws that defend genocide have no legitimacy, and states enforcing them and enabling the genocide have no moral authority. They want us to shut up, but we must continue to resist these attacks, as well as the ongoing genocide, in any way we can until Palestine is liberated.”</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/legal-crackdown-criticism-israel-october-7/289468/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>mintpressnews.com</strong></a></p>

link:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/02/from-united-states-europe-criticizing-israel-becoming-crime/

tags:
#Editor's Choice #AIPAC #Human Rights #Israel #Justice #Lobby #Palestine #Police State #Propaganda #United States


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329970
title: Mutilated remains of journalist returned to family
author: ;Fatima Gunning
link: https://gript.ie/mutilated-remains-of-journalist-returned-to-family/
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/vic-e1746188094461.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p dir="ltr"><strong>The mutilated remains of 28-year-old Ukrainian conflict reporter, Victoriia Roshchyna, were returned to her family after she went missing in 2023 during a reporting trip to investigate allegations of the torture of civilians in detention centres. </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Forbidden Stories, a consortium of journalists who say their “mission is to pursue and publish the work of journalists threatened, imprisoned, or killed for their work” <a href="https://forbiddenstories.org/russia-detainees-investigation-viktoriia-roshchyna/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a lengthy report</a> on the story of the young woman who was held in a Russian camp from which reports of gruesome torture inflicted on inmates have emerged.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Despite the clear danger, Victoriia travelled to the occupied territories to investigate stories of ‘ghost detainees’ before becoming one herself.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The instance of detention that culminated in her death was not the first time the journalist had been deprived of her liberty by Russian authorities.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On March 5, 2022, Victoria reportedly came under fire from Russian artillery in the capital city of Zaporizhzhia. Only days later, she was arrested by FSB agents on her way from Enerhodar to Mariupol.</p>
<p dir="ltr">During a period of detention that lasted 10 days she was reportedly “forced” to record a video message in which she stated that the occupying forces who had taken her captive had in fact saved her life.</p>
<p dir="ltr">After her release colleagues begged her to relax her approach to conflict reporting, but to no avail,  as she vowed to keep doing her fearless style of on the ground reporting, compiling work without commission and sending the finished product out for willing news outlets to publish.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On a work expedition in August 2023 through the Zaporizhzhia region, her phone suddenly went out of range. Her whereabouts remained  unknown for months.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Inmates of Tararog prison camp where she was held said that Vika – as her friends and colleagues called her – had been feisty even in custody and had accused camp guards of being “murderers”.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In May 2024 Russian authorities acknowledged that Roshchyna was being held</p>
<p dir="ltr">Her release had been arranged through high level talks between authorities from the warring nations, although she was not present among a prisoner exchange when her family were expecting to be reunited with their daughter.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Her death was acknowledged in October 2024.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Late last February, when examining a delivery of bodies, forensic investigators at a morgue in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, discovered a bag containing human remains with the inscription “NM SPAS 757”: “Unnamed Male, Extensive Damage to the Coronary Arteries, [Body Number] 757.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">The remains of Vika appear to have been mislabeled due to their poor condition, however on closer inspection, investigators discovered a small tag with “Roshchyna, V.V.” inscribed on it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Although her family reportedly did not accept the results of an examination conducted in their home country, a DNA analysis matched the remains to Vika’s close relations with a certainty of 99.999%.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The remains showed signs of an autopsy having been performed before they were returned to Ukraine.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“The forensic examination revealed numerous signs of torture and ill-treatment on the victim’s body, including abrasions and haemorrhages on various parts of the body, a broken rib, neck injuries, and possible electric shock marks on her feet,” Yuriy Belousov, the head of the War Crimes Unit at the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s office, wrote.</p>
<p>Ukrainian authorities claim that Roshchyna was among <a href="https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/3938535-rosia-utrimue-v-poloni-ponad-16-tisac-civilnih-ukrainciv-lubinec.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">16,000 Ukrainian civilians</a> held captive by Russia.</p>


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title: Ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands – May 2, 2025
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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138853
title: Trump Can Tell the Truth In A Very Poignant Way. He can also tell fibs.
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<p>Trump Can Tell the Truth In A Very Poignant Way</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1917985594136822091">https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1917985594136822091</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p>And he can also tell fibs:</p>
<p>Trump Claims US Did ‘More Than Any Other Country’ to Win World War II</p>
<p><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250502/trump-claims-us-did-more-than-any-other-country-to-win-world-war-ii-1121965577.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250502/trump-claims-us-did-more-than-any-other-country-to-win-world-war-ii-1121965577.html</a></p>
<p>Trump’s claim is ridiculous.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He is making a fool of himself.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It was the Soviet Army that defeated Germany. All of the significant battles were in Russia. The enormous differences in battle deaths prove it.</p>
<p>Total US battle deaths (Germany and Japan):<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>291,557.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Total WW II US military deaths (all causes):<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>407,316.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The war with Japan accounted for 111,606 of the US military deaths.</p>
<p>Russian WW II dead:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>27,000,000.</p>
<p>Germany’s war dead (including civilians):<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>8,000,000.</p>
<p>Trump’s false claim does not create an image of a person whose veracity will be trusted by the Kremlin.</p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/02/trump-can-tell-the-truth-in-a-very-poignant-way-he-can-also-tell-fibs/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138855
title: A Russian Commentator Provides a More Accurate Picture of Trump than Does the Western Media
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<p>A Russian Commentator Provides a More Accurate Picture of Trump than Does the Western Media</p>
<p>“The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency have sparked a wave of commentary portraying him as a revolutionary. Indeed, the speed, pressure, and determination with which he has acted are striking. But this view is superficial. Trump is not dismantling the foundations of the American state or society. On the contrary, he seeks to restore the pre-globalist republic that the liberal elite long ago diverted onto a utopian internationalist path. In this sense, Trump is not a revolutionary, but a counterrevolutionary – an ideological revisionist determined to reverse the excesses of the liberal era.</p>
<p>“At home, Trump benefits from Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. Legal challenges to his policies – particularly on downsizing government and deporting illegal immigrants – have so far made little progress. Accustomed to media attacks, Trump continues to hit back hard. The recent story alleging that top officials debated strikes on Yemen over Signal has not gained political traction. If anything, it reinforces Trump’s image as a president who acts decisively and without fear of scandal.</p>
<p>“Trump’s economic course is clear: re-industrialization, tariff protectionism, and investment in cutting-edge technologies. He is reversing decades of globalist integration, pressing allies to pool financial and technological resources with the US to rebuild its industrial base. Tactically, Trump applies pressure early, then offers retreats and compromises to lure competitors into negotiations favorable to America. This approach has been effective, particularly with Washington’s allies. Even with China, Trump is betting that Beijing’s reliance on the US market, and America’s influence over EU and Japanese trade policy, will yield strategic concessions.”</p>
<p>Dmitry Trenin’s assessment can be read here:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/616578-trumps-foreign-policy-calculated/">https://www.rt.com/news/616578-trumps-foreign-policy-calculated/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><i>PCR comment:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i> Trenin, like so many Russians hopeful of being part of the West, overlooks the possibility that the purpose of the Ukrainian peace negotiations is to sequence the West’s wars against Russia and China.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I look forward to reading Dmitry Trenin’s assessment of West Mitchell’s recent article in Foreign Affairs.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/26/a-peace-deal-or-a-deception/">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/26/a-peace-deal-or-a-deception/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/02/a-russian-commentator-provides-a-more-accurate-picture-of-trump-than-does-the-western-media/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138849
title: Great Britain Has Degenerated Into a Police State
author: ;pcr3
link: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/02/great-britain-has-degenerated-into-a-police-state/
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<p>Great Britain Has Degenerated Into a Police State</p>
<p>There is no longer any doubt about it.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.unz.com/article/the-west-serves-as-israels-police-w-richard-medhurst/">https://www.unz.com/article/the-west-serves-as-israels-police-w-richard-medhurst/ </a></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138851
title: Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were spies who used underage sex to blackmail politicians
author: ;pcr3
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<p>Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were spies who used underage sex to blackmail politicians</p>
<p><a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/116819/ghislaine-maxwell-and-jeffrey-epstein-were-spies-who-used-underage-sex-to-blackmail-politicians-ex-handler-claims/">https://www.the-sun.com/news/116819/ghislaine-maxwell-and-jeffrey-epstein-were-spies-who-used-underage-sex-to-blackmail-politicians-ex-handler-claims/  </a></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/02/ghislaine-maxwell-and-jeffrey-epstein-were-spies-who-used-underage-sex-to-blackmail-politicians/


guid: https://www.whitehouse.gov/?p=11119
title: President Trump Finally Ends the Madness of NPR, PBS
author: ;The White House
link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/president-trump-finally-ends-the-madness-of-npr-pbs/
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Last night, President Donald J. Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918134250236461197" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">signed an executive order</a> ending the taxpayer subsidization of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) — entities that receive tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as “news.”</p>
<p><strong>Here are some <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918134384638513313" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">examples</a> of the trash that has passed for “news” at NPR and PBS:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/22/515668867/cannibalism-its-perfectly-natural-a-new-scientific-history-argues" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ran a story</a> titled “Cannibalism: It’s ‘Perfectly Natural,’” in which an author described eating another human’s placenta: “It was really the prep that made it taste good. Granted, the [husband] was a chef and so he knew how to prepare it osso bucco style and used a really nice wine I had brought. It smelled great. It didn’t taste bad.”</li>
<li>In 2021, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1011754245/an-npr-tradition-heres-the-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence">declared</a> the Declaration of Independence to be a document with “flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies.”
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>In 2022, NPR <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/4th-july-npr-scraps-declaration-reading-tradition-equality-discussion">scrapped</a> its decades-long Independence Day tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on air to instead <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/07/04/1109667557/on-this-july-4th-what-does-equality-mean?utm_campaign=storyshare&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_medium=social">discuss</a> “<a href="https://x.com/LeilaFadel/status/1543911485465923585">equality</a>.”</li>
<li>NPR subsequently <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/07/04/733431874/a-july-4-npr-tradition-a-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence#:~:text=Editor%27s%20note%20on%20July%208%2C%202022%3A%20This%20story%20quotes%20the%20U.S.%20Declaration%20of%20Independence%20%E2%80%94%20a%20document%20that%20contains%20offensive%20language%20about%20Native%20Americans%2C%20including%20a%20racial%20slur.">issued</a> an “editor’s note” warning the Declaration of Independence is “a document that contains offensive language.”</li>
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<li>NPR <a href="https://x.com/NPR/status/1144659017031135234">apologized</a> for calling illegal immigrants “<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/100759/npr-apologizes-for-calling-illegal-immigrants-illegal/">illegal</a>.”</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198916105/mens-health-masturbation-abstinence">sounded the alarm</a> about young men who <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2837806/npr-wants-you-to-be-addicted-to-pornography/">abstain</a> from masturbating to pornography.</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/14/1198909355/valentines-day-relationships-gay-animals-nature">featured</a> a Valentine’s Day story centered around “queer animals,” in which it suggested the make-believe clownfish in “Finding Nemo” would’ve been better off as a female, that “banana slugs are hermaphrodites,” and that “some deer are nonbinary.”</li>
<li>PBS <a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/stay-woke-bddifp/">devoted a panel</a> to what it “mean[s] to be woke” and “white privilege.”</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20/1157493433/florida-bans-gender-affirming-care-trans-kids">routinely</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1204545873/a-trans-teenager-and-her-mom-reflect-on-nebraska-restricting-gender-affirming-ca">promotes</a> the chemical and surgical mutilation of children as so-called “gender-affirming care” without mentioning the irreversible <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/gender-dysphoria-report-release.html">damage</a> caused by these procedures.</li>
<li>In 2021, a PBS station <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/pbs-station-defends-drag-queen-kids?msockid=39cef04a7cdd669717c4e5c87d6467b6">aired</a> a “children’s program” that featured a drag queen named “Lil’ Miss Hot Mess.”</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/01/14/fight-for-dinosaur-emoji#:~:text=Riley%3A%20Many%20people,Trans-ceratops.">educated</a> the nation on the “whole community of genderqueer dinosaur enthusiasts” and “trans-ceratops.”</li>
<li>Then-PBS White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/749558/pbs-reporter-mischaracterizes-mount-rushmore-speech-as-love-letter-to-white-resentment/">characterized</a> President Trump’s patriotic 2020 Mount Rushmore speech as a love letter to “<a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918134418092306560" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">white resentment</a>” that promoted the “myth of America.”</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/12/23/1067210075/what-if-the-best-diet-is-to-reject-diet-culture#:~:text=%22A%20cousin%20of,their%20weight%20itself.%22">reported</a> on the “cousin of diet culture” known as “healthism, which is the idea that we have to be healthy” — as if that was a bad thing.</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors">assigned</a> three reporters to investigate how the thumbs-up emoji is racist.</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1067210075?ft=nprml&amp;f=1067210075#:~:text=TAGLE%3A%20We%20might,through%20intuitive%20eating.">suggested</a> doorway sizes are based on “latent fatphobia.”</li>
<li>PBS <a href="https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/real-boy/">produced an entire movie</a> celebrating a transgender teenager’s so-called “changing gender identity.”</li>
<li>NPR absurdly <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/1830520/npr-makes-a-fool-of-itself-twice-to-defend-men-competing-in-womens-sports/">claimed</a> “limited scientific evidence of physical advantage” exists between male and female athletes.</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/04/03/984008349/opinion-animals-deserve-gender-pronouns-too">lamented</a> that “animals deserve pronouns, too.”</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/29/1101224759/what-queer-ducks-can-teach-teenagers-about-sexuality-in-the-animal-kingdom">ran a feature</a> titled “What ‘Queer Ducks’ can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom.”</li>
<li>In 2023, PBS’s <em>Washington Week</em> roundtable covered up Joe Biden’s clear mental decline, with far-left “journalist” Jeffrey Goldberg <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2023/09/07/pbss-washington-weeks-laugh-line-joe-biden-mentally-hes-quite-acute">claiming</a> Biden was actually “<a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918134443795202119" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">quite acute.</a>”</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2015/07/12/422311437/the-furries-have-landed-and-pittsburgh-is-giving-them-a-bear-hug">dedicated</a> an entire segment to the “population of anthropomorphic animal enthusiasts known as ‘furries.’”</li>
<li>PBS <a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/the-cost-of-inheritance-bdzmlq/">produced</a> a documentary making the case for reparations.</li>
<li>NPR disparagingly <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/798994515/president-trump-to-face-friendly-crowd-at-march-for-life">referred</a> to pro-life Americans at the March for Life as “anti-abortion rights activists.”</li>
<li>NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/893006538#:~:text=As%20Sabrina%20Strings%20explains%20in,still%20dealing%20with%20the%20consequences.">explored</a> “the racial origins of fat phobia.”</li>
<li>NPR management <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust">asked</a> its editors to avoid the term “biological sex” when discussing transgender issues.</li>
<li>PBS show Sesame Street <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/us/cnn-sesame-street-standing-up-to-racism/index.html">partnered</a> with CNN on a one-sided narrative to “address racism” amid the Black Lives Matter riots.</li>
</ul><p><strong>NPR and PBS have zero tolerance for non-leftist viewpoints:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>In 2020, NPR refused to cover the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/">explosive</a> Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the runup to the election, baselessly <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/radio/npr-explains-why-they-havent-covered-hunter-biden-laptop-story-red-flags-on-veracity-and-assertions-dont-amount-to-much/">claiming</a> its “assertions don’t amount to much” and <a href="https://x.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/1319281101223940096">writing</a> they “don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”</li>
<li>When a 25-year veteran NPR reporter and editor <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust">spoke out</a> about the network’s obsession with liberal causes, they <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay">suspended</a> him.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>The editor <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-editor-found-registered-democrats-outnumbered-republicans-87-zero-newsroom">found</a> that registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans 87 to zero in their newsroom.</li>
<li>NPR prolifically reported on the Russian collusion hoax, with the editor <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust">describing</a> “[Adam] Schiff talking points” as “the drumbeat of NPR news reports.”</li>
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<li>NPR CEO Katherine Maher once <a href="https://archive.is/9Egnx">called</a> President Trump “racist,” <a href="https://x.com/krmaher/status/1323094291732815872">shared</a> a photo of herself wearing a “Biden for President” campaign hat, <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/nprs-new-ceo/">serves</a> on the board of a Soros-funded activist group, and <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/17/new-npr-ceo-said-reverence-truth-distraction-resurfaced-ted-talk/">described</a> “reverence for the truth” as a “distraction.”</li>
<li>In 2023, a study <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2023/05/16/study-taxpayer-subsidized-pbs-whacks-gop-85-negative-news">found</a> that congressional Republicans saw 85% negative coverage while congressional Democrats saw 54% positive coverage on PBS’s flagship news program.</li>
<li>According to a <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2024/12/04/pbs-news-hours-extreme-makeover-27-times-more-likely-find-far-right">2024 study</a>, PBS news staff used 162 variations of the term “far-right,” but only six variations of “far-left.”</li>
<li>Media bias rating agency AllBias — which surveyed nearly 24,000 readers — <a href="https://www.allsides.com/news-source/npr-editorial">found</a> NPR’s bias aligns with “liberal, progressive or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas.”</li>
<li>NPR repeatedly dismissed the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab — a conclusion now deemed likely by the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab">FBI</a>, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cia-releases-new-analysis-covid-origins-favoring-lab-leak-theory">CIA</a>, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-intelligence/index.html">Department of Energy</a>.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/841925672/scientists-debunk-lab-accident-theory-of-pandemic-emergence">April 2020</a>: “Scientists Debunk Lab Accident Theory Of Pandemic Emergence”</li>
<li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/06/851043242/as-trump-pushes-theory-of-virus-origins-some-see-parallels-to-iraq">May 2020</a>: “As Trump Pushes Theory Of Virus Origins, Some See Parallels In Lead-Up To Iraq War”</li>
<li><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/28/1001319014/many-scientists-still-think-the-coronavirus-came-from-nature">May 2021</a>: “Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature”</li>
<li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1162120308/virologist-says-covid-origin-report-could-make-it-harder-to-study-dangerous-dise">March 2023</a>: “Virologist says COVID origin report could make it harder to study dangerous diseases”</li>
<li><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/g-s1-23605/covid-pandemic-origins-wet-market-wuhan-lab-leak-raccoon-dogs">September 2024</a>: “New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. It’s controversial”</li>
</ul></li>
<li>A 2024 Media Research Center <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2024/09/04/study-hating-republicans-hailing-democrats-pbss-very-biased-2024">study</a> found that PBS’s coverage of the Republican National Convention was 72% negative, while coverage of the Democratic National Convention was 88% positive.</li>
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<p><strong><em>By Dennis CRAWFORD</em></strong></p>
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<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="1a42" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Donald Trump has always been very popular in Nebraska outside of the urban areas in Omaha and Lincoln. (Approximately half of the state’s 2 million people reside in Nebraska’s urban areas. Harris carried Douglas and Lancaster counties by 5 to 6 points.) The last three presidential election statewide results were as follows:</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="2480" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">2016: Trump 59% Clinton 34%</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="ed64" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">2020: Trump 58% Biden 39%</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="9872" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">2024: Trump 59% Harris 39%</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="1304" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Trump has “rewarded” that support by punishing Nebraska during the early phases of his second term. The people that voted for Trump should have known better. The 34 time convicted felon repeatedly told us that he was going to impose tariffs or import taxes, and start a trade war. In addition, most of the people who drafted Project 2025 served in the first Trump administration and supported his 2024 presidential candidacy. We warned them but they did not listen.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="b22c" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Already, the economic chaos and slowdown caused by Trump’s tariffs has driven the state of Nebraska into bankruptcy and a possible recession. It was recently reported by the state’s economic forecasting board that Nebraska’s projected budget deficit for the next two years has grown by $190 million. That is in addition to the already projected $289 million deficit.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="2db0" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">In a remarkable development, Republican state senators are blaming Trump for the chaos and the budget deficit. Former Senator John Kuehn of Heartwell, a member of the forecast board, was among the nine forecasters who said federal uncertainty is impacting their local communities. “Chaos is the word of the day,” Kuehn said.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="c9ff" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">He said that is difficult for businesses and consumers to make long term plans. “Just keep your head on a swivel and see what the day’s news cycle is going to bring, and don’t open your accounts,” Kuehn said. “And if you do, be sitting down.”</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="d2da" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Other forecasters noted the off and on nature of the import taxes from Trump. Senator Rob Clements said it could take a little while to settle down from that feeling of “chaos.”</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="0956" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Senator Brad von Gillern, chair of the Revenue Committee, said the pessimistic prognostication reflected global uncertainty, which caused the forecast of more red ink. Things are so bad that the state forecasting board has projected $300 million less in tax revenues over the next two years.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="b6e1" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Incidentally, the cost of Trump’s tariffs that were announced on so-called “Liberation Day on April 2 will cost the average American household about $2,100. If Trump implements all of his import taxes, that figure increases to $3,800. This a real betrayal of the American people since Trump promised “rapid and fast price cuts beginning on day one.”</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="4391" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Trump’s tariffs are also damaging (again) the backbone of Nebraska’s economy: agriculture. Trump’s failed trade war during his first term cost Nebraska farmers $2 billion. By 2020, 40% of farm income came from a federal bailout. The cost of the 2020 farm bailout exceeded the cost of maintaining our nuclear arsenal. Now Trump is doing it again.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="7e7c" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Nebraska farmers are especially vulnerable to a trade war war since more than 90% of Nebraska’s corn exports go to Canada, Mexico and China, the countries being hit the hardest by these tariffs. In addition, China has historically been a big purchaser of Nebraska soy beans.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="0324" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Paul Krueger, a corn and soybean farmer from Bladen said it best: “Any time our country gets involved with any sort of tariffs that affect the agriculture industry, every farmer just kind of groans about that. We’re powerless to do anything except take what comes out in the wash.”</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="4fc0" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Nebraska Farm Bureau President Mark McHargue said that Nebraska farmers would rather have markets than federal subsidies. McHargue said Nebraska farmers are about to begin the growing season with the expectation of ending in the red. “As we get ready to plant our crops here in the next couple of weeks, we are literally putting seeds in the ground that we’re probably going to lose money on every acre,” he said.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="00d5" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Nebraska has also been the victim of Elon’s Musk corrupt and incompetent DOGE scheme. Nearly $100 million in funding already promised to Nebraska has been canceled. As the Flatwater Free Press reported: “It will mean less federal money for university research, childhood vaccinations and mental health and substance abuse treatment. It means fewer dollars for battling opioid addiction, addressing health disparities in underserved areas and responding to infectious diseases.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="00eb" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, multiple studies on alcohol’s connection with intimate partner violence were wounded by grant cancellations. UNMC lost awards to be used for strengthening infectious disease prevention. Nearly $19 million vanished that had been set aside to combat substance abuse and grapple with various mental health issues. More than $15 million for childhood immunization grants to the state got chopped as well.”</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="4f5f" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">The good people of Nebraska will take another big hit if the Republicans in Congress pass the $880 billion in Medicaid cuts contained in their budget outline. At the present time, Congressional committees are in the process of writing the legislation that will specify the budget cuts.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="13f2" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Medicaid insures thousands of Nebraskans and protects our vital rural hospitals. At least twelve Nebraska hospitals will shut their doors if the Republicans in Congress pass these draconian cuts to Medicaid.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="d884" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Nebraska health care providers are justifiably alarmed. Amy Behnke, CEO of the Health Center Association of Nebraska, said Medicaid expansion cuts alone could strip health coverage from 10,000 patients and cost Nebraska’s community health centers $33 million in lost revenue, leading to service reductions or facility closures.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="ee5d" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">“Hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts will terminate health insurance for millions of Americans and shutter hospitals, doctors’ offices and nursing homes,” Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the ranking members of the Senate Finance and Budget Committees, respectively, wrote in a recent editorial.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="7438" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Despite this looming catastrophe, Nebraska’s entire Congressional delegation has voted in favor of the GOP budget outline. Thus far, these five members of Congress have voted in lockstep with Trump and their party bosses, to the detriment of the people who elected them. Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) likes to occasionally criticize Trump but he continues to vote with him. He cannot be trusted to stand up to the former TV reality show star.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="5967" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">People wonder why so many Republicans vote against their self interest. I would attribute it to the fact that Nebraska Republicans run as phony moderates and use a huge advantage in campaign cash to push out that disingenuous message. Once they get to Washington, they vote with Trump and his billionaire buddies.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="c602" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Another factor is that many Republicans base their vote on their religious beliefs. They vote for Republicans who want to ban abortion and take away rights from the LGBTQ community. Many churches in Nebraska are an arm of the RNC and lean in heavily on politicized religious and cultural issues.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="b320" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Perhaps the most important factor of all is that the conservative media or the GOP state media is the mainstream media in the areas outside of Lincoln and Omaha. Right wing talk radio is omnipresent on your car’s radio dial and when you go into a business in a red area, the televisions are usually tuned into Fox.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="d9dd" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">The answer to this problem is that Democrats need to campaign in rural areas. I’m convinced that we can peel off some soft Republican support if we show up and tell people what we stand for. The Democratic Party last week announced that they are bringing back the 50 state strategy that led to blue waves in 2006 and 2008. We cannot afford to voluntarily concede large parts of the country to the GOP. Democrat need to fight them everywhere. No layups.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="64b6" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">We have a big opportunity in the 2026 elections. Trump and the Republican Party are sinking like a stone in the polls since they are wrecking the country. I expect numerous good candidates to run for office across Nebraska since there will be a huge backlash to the MAGA agenda. History shows that the party holding the White House gets blown out in the mid-term elections.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="7679" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Let us forever be remembered as the generation that saved America from fascism.</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="1b00" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Be confident going forward. Take nothing for granted. Keep working hard. If we do the work, we will win!</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="df8c" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj">Sources consulted:</p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph="" data-sanitized-id="7820" data-sanitized-class="pw-post-body-paragraph nb nc gw nd b ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny gp bj"><a href="https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/26/nebraskas-budget-deficit-grows-by-190-million-with-less-than-a-month-to-close-the-gap/" target="_blank" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" data-sanitized-class="ag nz">https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/26/nebraskas-budget-deficit-grows-by-190-million-with-less-than-a-month-to-close-the-gap/</a><br>
<a href="https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/19/tariffs-harming-farms-businesses-and-budgets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" data-sanitized-class="ag nz">https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/19/tariffs-harming-farms-businesses-and-budgets/</a><br>
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/medicaid-cuts-house-gop-energy-commerce-markup-00288914" target="_blank" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" data-sanitized-class="ag nz">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/medicaid-cuts-house-gop-energy-commerce-markup-00288914</a><br>
<a href="https://www.knlvradio.com/2025/03/18/proposed-medicaid-cuts-could-put-at-least-12-nebraska-hospitals-at-risk-of-closure-health-care-providers-warn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" data-sanitized-class="ag nz">https://www.knlvradio.com/2025/03/18/proposed-medicaid-cuts-could-put-at-least-12-nebraska-hospitals-at-risk-of-closure-health-care-providers-warn/</a></p>
<p data-selectable-paragraph=""><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://dennispcrawford.medium.com/trumps-war-on-nebraska-047dc8079bc5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>dennispcrawford.medium.com</strong></a></p>
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title: Marie Sklodowska Curie: The Woman Who Opened The Nuclear Age
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guid: https://www.whitehouse.gov/?p=11145
title: JOBS BOOM: More Americans Working for Higher Pay
author: ;The White House
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><em>“This is the second month in a row where the jobs report has beat expectations. Wages are continuing to rise and labor force participation is increasing. This is exactly what we want to see. More Americans working for higher wages. More winning is on the way!”</em> — Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt</p>
<p>President Donald J. Trump is revitalizing the American economy as the workforce grows and businesses onshore jobs — and today’s jobs report proves it.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s what you need to know:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>In April, the U.S. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-02/us-payroll-growth-top-forecasts-with-robust-177-000-addition?srnd=homepage-americas">added</a> 177,000 jobs — smashing expectations for <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/jobs-jobs-jobs-explosive-job-growth-in-march-as-trump-economy-booms/">another month</a> as the labor market responds to President Trump’s economic vision.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Private education and health services: +70,000</li>
<li>Transportation and warehousing: +29,000</li>
<li>Leisure and hospitality: +24,000</li>
<li>Professional and business services: +17,000</li>
<li>Financial activities: +14,000</li>
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<li>Labor force participation grew as more Americans enter the workforce during President Trump’s Golden Age.</li>
<li>Americans’ wages continue to rise, with real average hourly wages up by nearly 4% over the past year.</li>
<li>Construction employment increased for the third straight month, adding 11,000 new jobs — with no evidence of labor shortages in sight.</li>
<li>The federal government cut jobs for the third straight month as President Trump implements his bold vision to right-size the bureaucracy.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Here’s what they’re saying:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918289985943319032">Economist Steve Moore</a>: “This is an amazing report. The labor force participation rate rose — so this is a really strong number.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918289647979151628">Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne</a>: “Transportation and warehousing — those are the jobs that were supposed to be hit, right? Up 29,000 … Maybe some of this manufacturing, some of these deals that the White House has announced, maybe we’re starting to see that already play out.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918290644625199239">Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo</a>: “As President Trump would say, ‘It’s going to be the best economy anybody has ever seen.’ Look, we’ve got a market that is reflecting that.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918290079081996347">ERShares CEO Joel Shulman, Ph.D.</a>: “This is very encouraging because we’re already seeing many of the companies dependent upon foreign suppliers already reshoring some of their jobs.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1918290273538277633">Former Toys “R” Us CEO Gerald Storch</a>: “We’re going to be in great shape.”</li>
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Trump Administration Boosts Domestic Mineral Production—Adding 10 More Critical Mineral Production Projects to the Federal Permitting Dashboard

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<p>Today, the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (Permitting Council) announced the second installment of critical mineral production projects to be featured as FAST-41 transparency projects. This second batch of projects is part of an ongoing series of critical projects receiving the transparency of the Federal Permitting Dashboard in response to President Trump’s Executive Order, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production</em></a>.</p>
<p>“The Permitting Council is excited to grow our portfolio of critical mineral production projects with this latest tranche,” says <strong>Manisha Patel, Permitting Council Acting Executive Director</strong>. “The transparency that these projects will receive as a result of being featured on the Federal Permitting Dashboard will be transformative, allowing stakeholders across government and industry the ability to track the progress of these projects, ensuring a level of accountability in environmental review that is often missing from the traditional process.” </p>
<p>The chair of the National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC) submitted this second batch of critical minerals production projects to the Permitting Council Acting Executive Director in response to President Trump’s Executive Order, <em>Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production</em>. NEDC submitted the initial group of 10 projects on April 4, 2025, and they were added to the Federal Permitting Dashboard on <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/trump-administration-advances-first-wave-of-critical-mineral-production-projects/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">April 18, 2025</a>. This second batch is part of a continual process to provide these critical projects with the transparency afforded by FAST-41 and more projects are scheduled to be added in the coming weeks.</p>
<p>Inclusion on the Permitting Dashboard as a transparency project makes the environmental review and authorizations schedule for these vital mineral production projects publicly available and allows all of these projects to benefit from increased transparency. The public nature of the dashboard ensures that all stakeholders, from project sponsors and community members to federal agency leaders have up-to-date accounting of where each project stands in the review process. This transparency leads to greater accountability, ensuring a more efficient process. </p>
<p><strong>Additional selected projects include:      </strong></p>
<p>This list of projects is in addition to the initial list announced <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/trump-administration-advances-first-wave-of-critical-mineral-production-projects/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">April, 18, 2025</a>, with many more expected to be announced soon. The Permitting Council is committed to working closely with the National Energy Dominance Council and other Federal partners to advance President Trump’s bold agenda to make America energy dominant again, and use all necessary resources to build critical infrastructure.</p>
<p>For further information about these projects, please visit Federal Permitting Dashboard’s <a href="https://www.permits.performance.gov/projects/transparency-projects">Transparency Projects Tab</a>. Learn more about the Permitting Council at <a href="https://www.permitting.gov/">permitting.gov</a>.  </p>

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title: El fantasma en la máquina. la inteligencia artificial y la ontología espectral del valor
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<p><strong><em>El dilema para «Israel» es que, si Estados Unidos dice «no» a un ataque contra Irán (y lo dice en serio), «Israel» tiene que revolcarse en un cúmulo de derrotas en los seis frentes, además de perder la confianza de la opinión pública.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Laura RUGGERI</em></strong></p>
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<p>En medio de un remolino de imágenes desenganchadas de la realidad, que se tambalean por las pantallas occidentales, es necesario asir con firmeza algunos asideros de <strong><em>«lo real».</em></strong></p>
<p>En <strong><em>primer lugar</em></strong>, sean cuales sean las afirmaciones de triunfo de la defensa aérea montadas por los israelíes y sus amigos (es decir, el «derribo del 99%»), Israel y EEUU saben la verdad: <strong><em>los misiles iraníes pudieron penetrar directamente en las dos bases y emplazamientos aéreos más sensibles y mejor defendidos de Israel.</em></strong> Detrás de la retórica altisonante se esconde la <strong><em>conmoción israelí</em></strong>.</p>
<p>La propaganda exagerada se deriva del doble golpe izquierda-derecha que ha sufrido Occidente. Es de dominio público que los sistemas occidentales de defensa aérea en Ucrania han sido un fracaso. Si se admitiera que las capacidades de misiles de Irán pueden violar la mayor concentración de defensas aéreas que se encuentran en la base aérea de Nevatim, en el sur, las implicaciones para la postura defensiva occidental en todo el mundo son nefastas.</p>
<p>Shhh! … Enciende la cortina de humo del «<em>Espléndido Triunfo</em>«.</p>
<p>En <strong><em>segundo lugar</em></strong>, saben que el llamado «asalto» no fue tal, sino un mensaje para afirmar la nueva ecuación estratégica: <strong><em>Cualquier ataque israelí contra Irán o su personal dará lugar a represalias de Irán contra «Israel».</em></strong> Esto marca una transformación de la estrategia de los Frentes de Resistencia: Hasta ahora, consistía en movimientos que actuaban de forma concertada, y los Estados permanecían estrictamente en un segundo plano.</p>
<p>Ahora que la unidad de los actores no estatales sigue activada, ahora se complementan con Irán e «Israel» enfrentándose directamente.  <em>Es una nueva fase. </em>Y se ha abierto un Sexto Frente contra «Israel».</p>
<p>El <strong><em>tercer elemento</em></strong> es que Netanyahu lleva dos décadas intentando atraer a EEUU a una guerra con «Israel» contra Irán (aunque los sucesivos presidentes estadounidenses han rechazado la peligrosa perspectiva).</p>
<p>La <strong><em>cuarta realidad</em></strong> es que el programa nuclear iraní es intocable, está escondido en lo más profundo del interior de las montañas.  El ex primer ministro israelí Ehud Barak escribió explícitamente en julio de 2022 en la revista Time: <em>Irán es un Estado nuclear umbral, y no hay nada que «Israel» pueda hacer al respecto.</em></p>
<p><em> Acostúmbrate a ello, aconsejó Barak:</em></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Es hora de enfrentarse a la realidad.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Entonces, ¿no tiene sentido estratégico ninguna respuesta militar israelí en Irán? ¿Sólo una demostración de fuerza? Pues no exactamente.  Para Netanyahu, se trata de un <em>«equilibrio de poder».</em> Recordará la influencia y el poder de Irán durante la época del Sha: <em>Irán se ha ido convirtiendo silenciosamente de nuevo en la gran potencia regional.</em></p>
<p>A los israelíes les gustaría reducir ese poder a su mínima expresión.</p>
<p>Aquí radica la cuestión de <strong><em>gestionar los dilemas</em></strong>: <em>Los israelíes creen ampliamente que sin disuasión -sin que el mundo les tema- no pueden sobrevivir.</em> El 7 de octubre hizo arder este miedo existencial en la sociedad israelí. La presencia de Hezbollah no hace sino exacerbarlo, y ahora Irán ha lanzado una lluvia de misiles directamente sobre «Israel».</p>
<p>La apertura del frente iraní, en cierto modo inicialmente, puede haber beneficiado a Netanyahu: <em>la derrota de las fuerzas israelíes en la guerra de Gaza</em>; <em>el punto muerto de la liberación de los rehenes</em>; <em>el continuo desplazamiento de los colonos del norte</em>; e incluso <em>el asesinato de los cooperantes de </em><em>World Kitchen</em>… todo quedó temporalmente olvidado. Occidente volvió a agruparse al lado de Israel. Los Estados árabes volvieron a cooperar. Toda la atención se trasladó de Gaza a Irán.</p>
<p>Hasta aquí, todo bien (desde la perspectiva de Netanyahu, sin duda). Pero para reducir a Irán a su tamaño se necesitaría ayuda militar estadounidense. El lanzamiento del misil iraní lo puso de manifiesto. Los informes sugieren que EEUU hizo el trabajo pesado. Si <em>«Israel»</em> actuara en solitario en un ataque de represalia contra Irán, ¿le daría eso -en sí mismo- a «Israel» el dominio de la escalada en la región (y restablecería la disuasión)? ¿O provocaría una guerra regional más amplia que podría acabar con la <em>desaparición de «Israel» como Estado tal y como lo conocemos</em>?</p>
<p>¿Y aceptaría Biden una empresa tan arriesgada (durante un ciclo electoral estadounidense)? Aquí también radica el dilema: Biden se mantiene firme en su apoyo a «Israel»: «Apoyo férreo», afirma. <em>Pero el oxímoron surge cuando yuxtapone el apoyo férreo a la ausencia de una guerra regional más amplia. </em></p>
<p>El dilema para «Israel» es que, si Estados Unidos dice «no» a un ataque contra Irán (y lo dice en serio), «Israel» tiene que revolcarse en un cúmulo de derrotas en los seis frentes, además de perder la confianza de la opinión pública.</p>
<p>Pero ¿hablaría Biden en serio (al decir «no a la guerra»)?  Hmmm… ¿Sería políticamente viable para la Casa Blanca cortar el suministro de armas o dinero en efectivo tras el lanzamiento del misil iraní?</p>
<p>Biden tendría otro problema: EEUU se ha comprometido SÓLO a un apoyo «defensivo». Sin embargo, Irán dispone de sofisticados sistemas de defensa antiaérea (aunque su eficacia aún no está probada). Si los israelíes se metieran en problemas en Irán, que Biden pasara del apoyo defensivo al «ofensivo» a «Israel» le acarrearía otros problemas en casa, en EEUU.</p>
<p>Por último, si la apuesta de Netanyahu consiguiera asestar un golpe sustancial a Irán, Netanyahu -con la diadema de laurel del vencedor- estaría en condiciones (en términos de apoyo interno israelí) de matar de hambre y desplazar a los gazatíes de su tierra.</p>
<p>Un resultado así podría fracturar definitivamente al Partido Demócrata.</p>
<p>Por supuesto, un golpe decisivo contra Irán sigue siendo muy hipotético por ahora. Pero se sabe que los jugadores, tras una larga racha de pérdidas, apuestan todo a que la bola sale roja.</p>
<p><em>Publicado originalmente por <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/iran-s-new-deterrence-equation-with--israel--was-decades-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Mayadeen English</a></em><br>
<em>Traducción</em><em>: </em><a href="https://observatoriodetrabajad.com/2025/05/01/el-fantasma-en-la-maquina-la-inteligencia-artificial-y-la-ontologia-espectral-del-valor-laura-ruggeri/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u><em>Observatorio</em></u><u><em> </em></u><u><em>de</em></u><u><em> </em></u><u><em>trabajadores</em></u><u><em> </em></u><u><em>en</em></u><u><em> </em></u><u><em>lucha</em></u></a></p>

link:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/02/el-fantasma-maquina-inteligencia-artificial-ontologia-espectral-del-valor/


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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329984
title: Garda rammed by van this morning
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250219_143346-scaled.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
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title: Reform UK wins control of first County Councils
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_1798.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><span><strong>Nigel Farage’s party, Reform UK, has won control of its first county councils on what is a historic day for the party.</strong> Three county councils in England are now held by Reform – Staffordshire, Lincolnshire, and Durham as votes continue to be counted in the local elections.</span></p>
<p><span>Staffordshire County Council confirmed on Friday afternoon that Reform had won the 32 seats needed for a majority on its council. This was followed this afternoon by a confirmation that Reform had also won full control of Lincolnshire County Council. Both councils had previously been held by the Conservatives, and the results will likely fuel criticism of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch six months into her role.</span></p>
<p><span>In Lincolnshire, where the County Council had been led by a Tory since 2005, reform gained 30 seats, with the conservatives losing 26, with 36 out of 70 council seats so far declared this afternoon.</span></p>
<p><span>Reform UK won its third council this afternoon after taking control of Durham county council, winning 49 of the 71 seats. It’s a dramatic turnaround for the party, who previously had just four councillors in the Labour-controlled county.</span></p>
<p><span>One of those elected as a new Reform County Councillor is former Newcastle-born GB News presenter, Darren Grimes, who recently left the broadcaster. He won his council seat in County Durham after securing 49.7 per cent of the vote. He had encouraged voters to “send Westminster a message that they’ll never forget”.</span></p>
<p><span>A 2012 Olympic boxing champion Luke Campbell announced his decision to stand for the party in February. Campbell, who is a gold medalist for Britain, is Reform’s candidate in the mayoral election for Hull and East Yorkshire, where a mayoral result is projected to be a win for Reform.</span></p>
<p><span>It comes as the party won its first ever parliamentary by-election in North-West England. Farage’s party won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by just six votes overnight, wiping out a Labour majority after a dramatic recount. Former Conservative Councillor Sarah Pochin overturned a majority of 14,696 to take the Cheshire seat for reform in what was Sir Keir Starmer’s first major electoral test. Pochin becomes Reform’s fifth MP, with a massive 17.4 swing from Labour in what has long been considered one of the party’s most secure seats.</span></p>
<p><span>Nigel Farage is set to make an announcement at 3pm today, declaring earlier that victory in Runcorn and Helsby provided proof that Reform is now “the opposition party to this Labour government.”</span></p>
<p><span>“With this and other results tonight, it’s clear that if you vote Conservative, you will get Labour. But if you vote Reform, you get Reform,” Farage told his two million X followers.</span></p>
<p><span>In response, Labour leader Starmer said, “I get it,” while pledging to go “further and faster” on bringing about changes. In another success for reform, Dame Andrea Jenkyns also won the mayoral race in Greater Lincolnshire, succeeding her closest rival by almost 40,000 votes. Jenkyns received a staggering 42 per cent of the vote, with 103,133 votes, with the Conservatives trailing at 26.1 per cent.</span></p>
<p><span>Presently, county council results point to Reform being on its way to seize hundreds of seats overall in rural areas, largely at the expense of the Conservatives, while also inflicting damage on Labour. Yesterday, Starmer had urged UK voters to vote Labour, saying that “the choice is clear.”</span></p>
<p>He claimed that the choice was between “Labour councillors, Mayors and MPs working together to bring change to Britain. Or chaos and division with parties who have no plan for change.”</p>
<p><span>Speaking this afternoon, former Conservative Minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said the Conservatives must “work together” with Reform UK. The GB News host told BBC Radio World at One: </span><span>“We will inevitably do deals with Reform in those councils that are hung between Conservative and Reform.</span></p>
<p><span>“In terms of policy, there’s very little difference between the Conservative Party and Reform. It’s basically a matter of personality.”</span></p>
<p><span>He continued: “I think we need to work together. (…) Conservatism is having a fantastic 24 hours.”</span></p>


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title: The global war on farming gathers pace
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<p>[<a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/global-war-on-farming?r=cpxww">Originally published in I-System TrendCompass</a>] Over the last few years I'm noticing that the grocery stores where I buy my food are less and less supplied with certain foods, particularly organic meat and periodically milk and eggs. The difference is very obvious and my Carrefour supermarket even reduced the shelf space where these foods are displayed. Certain types of meat that used to be regularly available are no longer are (at all, ever), and I can only find them from specialty butcher shops which thankfully still exist in France (although they are noticeably fewer now than they used to be).</p><p>This is not an accident but, as the British farmer and activist <strong>Mark Byford</strong> (a.k.a. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPDBiVZHgBpYZL9ARqKc9OA">the Bowler Hat Farmer</a>) lays out in <a href="https://x.com/CryptoRichYT/status/1918045045468610891">this (highly recommended) interview</a>, it is part of the global war on farming, comprising a barrage of administrative and regulatory measures designed to make farming unprofitable, incentivizing farmers not to produce food and encouraging them to sell their farms: it's war on carbon, war on nitrogen, war on bird flu and other viruses, war on Russian fertilizers, inheritance taxes, rewilding schemes, "get out of farming" payouts and burgeoning compliance rules and bureaucracies to oversee it all.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0c94d04-3080-4414-bff3-02982c74c770_2101x1181.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0c94d04-3080-4414-bff3-02982c74c770_2101x1181.png" width="1456" height="818" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f0c94d04-3080-4414-bff3-02982c74c770_2101x1181.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":818,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2716500,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://trendcompass.substack.com/i/162682556?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0c94d04-3080-4414-bff3-02982c74c770_2101x1181.png","isProcessing":false,"align":null}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Raise weeds and grow rich!</h2><p>For example, Byford explained that if you grow wheat in Britain, you can earn about £160 per acre. It's hard work and it involves considerable expense. At the same time, the government is promoting the so-called "set-aside" or rewilding schemes and will pay farmers £300-£400 per acre to let weeds grow on their land. For farmers, it's more income, less expense and less work. Another line of attack has been directed at milk production: farmers are locked into exclusive supply contracts with corporate buyers who often fail to collect the milk.</p><p>As a consequence, tens of thousands of liters a day are being simply dumped, causing farmers massive financial losses. Apparently, given the nature of their supply contracts, they have no way of recovering these losses. As a result, milk shortages appear at the same time as the farmers are forced to dump about half of their production. Egg shortage has been orchestrated under "bird flu" emergencies, justifying the culling of millions of birds.</p><h2>72% less food</h2><p>Food production is also being suffocated through regulatory measures. Active farmers are buried under the burgeoning regulatory requirements, forcing them to spend long hours filing endless forms to be compliant with burgeoning rules and regulations. Many of the new rules, including the "get out of farming payments scheme," effectively punish or discourage food production while incentivizing the farmers to sell their farms. Farmland is then often bought by global investment behemoths like BlackRock and Vanguard. The result is that livestock is gradually disappearing and food production is shrinking, which is by now obvious to see in our supermarkets. Now there are reports that the UK government is planning a mass culling of livestock towards the end of 2025.</p><p>According to Byford, similar measures are being pursued in Ireland, the EU as well as in India and many African countries with the effect that today there is 72% less food moving through global distribution chains than in the pre-pandemic period. Most probably, this is all caused by climate change or perhaps Russia, Russia, Russia, or China, China, China. However, there's also a strange coincidence that all these measures appear to have been planned.</p><h2>It’s the “Absolute Zero” agenda</h2><p>A major policy paper, titled "<strong><a href="https://www.ukfires.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Absolute-Zero-online.pdf">Absolute Zero</a></strong>," was published on 29 November 2019 as a collaboration between the leading British universities including Cambridge, Oxford, Nottingham, Bath and the Imperial College of London. This was all funded by the UK's <a href="https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/">Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council</a> (EPSRC) and it laid out the strategy of reaching zero carbon emissions in accordance with the chillingly distopian UK <a href="https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/195">Climate Change Act of 2008</a>.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04dccca1-3c8f-4cce-9041-a5b9a087847c_1304x726.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04dccca1-3c8f-4cce-9041-a5b9a087847c_1304x726.png" width="1304" height="726" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/04dccca1-3c8f-4cce-9041-a5b9a087847c_1304x726.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":726,"width":1304,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":133735,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/i/162696902?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04dccca1-3c8f-4cce-9041-a5b9a087847c_1304x726.png","isProcessing":false,"align":null}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Monstrous.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The Absolute Zeros recommended that, "<em>In addition to reducing our energy demand, delivering zero emissions with today's technologies requires the phasing out of flying, shipping, lamb and beef, blast furnace steel and cement.</em>" It's interesting that <a href="https://x.com/EdConwaySky/status/1770533829494636927">the UK has now shut down its last blast furnace</a> making it the only G7 nation without a steel industry. Meanwhile, as far as the corporate media are concerned, this is a "China, China, China" story, and nobody's mentioning the "Absolute Zero" agenda.</p><p>Anyhow, back to farming: the agenda is that between 2020 and 2029, the consumption of beef and lamb must drop by 50% and by 2050 it must be "phased out." Also, all construction of new buildings must cease by 2050. "Absolute Zero" agenda (note, it was drafted well in advance of the Covid 19 pandemic), has full support and commitment of the British government, the same government that has incentivized billions of pounds to be invested in solar energy and is now planning to spray the skies to dim the sun.</p><h2>Free world: changing some behaviors, prohibiting others</h2><p>Of course, the genius behind Absolute Zero plans have anticipated resistance from proles and peasants of the nation, so they touched upon the behavioral measures that will be necessary: </p><blockquote><p>"<em>The changes in behaviour to achieve Absolute Zero are clearly substantial. In principle, these changes could be induced through changing prices and thus providing clear incentives for behaviour to change. The alternative is that the government prohibits certain types of behaviour and regulates production processes</em>."</p></blockquote><p>Evidently, those who set the agenda understand that they must achieve their objectives against the will of the people and that the changes must "be induced." Thankfully, the deplorable farmers and the proles have other ideas and pushback is building up along with alternative food systems, organized from the bottom up. We can expect the governments in the UK and elsewhere to try and suppress these alternatives, but having or not having food to eat is too important to capitulate to government intimidation. However, broader awareness and support for farmers will be needed in this struggle.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. 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title: Quando o liberalismo provocou o apagão de abril em Portugal
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<p><strong><em>Impõe-se a recuperação da nossa independência nacional, da nossa liberdade como povo e nação mais antiga da Europa.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Na manhã de segunda-feira, um apagão generalizado atingiu o sul da Europa, afectando Portugal, Espanha e partes do sul de França. Nas primeiras horas não cessaram de surgir fake-news sobre supostos ataques cibernéticos, com a Federação Russa no centro das atenções, como <a href="https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/premie-espanhol-nao-descarta-ataque-cibernetico-como-causa-do-apagao/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">não poderia</a> deixar de ser. À hora em que escrevo este artigo ninguém sabe como sucedeu tal apagão, mas existem conclusões que se podem retirar desde logo: os níveis de resiliência e redundância da rede ibérica deixam muito a desejar e colocam a nu a enorme fragilidade de um sistema estratégico para o interesse nacional das populações abrangidas.</p>
<p>Fosse o sistema eléctrico ucraniano tão resiliente como o que abastece a Península Ibérica e há muito que a Federação russa haveria desligado a luz aquele país. E não o conseguiu porquê? Porque a URSS lá deixou um sistema energético capaz de fazer a inveja a qualquer economia “avançada” da União Europeia. Centrais de todo o tipo formam uma máquina de guerra cheia de redundâncias, extremamente difícil de desligar. Na EU, centrais como essas desligam-se todos os dias, nomeadamente em Portugal (desligaram-se centrais termoeléctricas de Sines e do Pego), fecharam-se refinarias e para quê? Para abrir a carvão na Alemanha e comprar electricidade à Espanha. Foi um negócio fantástico, que permite lucros fabulosos à EDP.</p>
<p>Depois de um investimento brutal pago pelo povo português em energias renováveis, eis que descobrimos que a nossa energia é vendida para fora e compramos a de fora cá para dentro. Para quê? Para o povo e as empresas comprarem energia mais barata? Não! Para a EDP, a REN, antes públicas e agora privadas, fecharem os trimestres com lucros fabulosos. Serviços mínimos, lucros máximos. Não sendo especialista nesta área, não existem, contudo, grandes segredos sobre o funcionamento corporativo privado. Comprar o mais barato e vender o mais caro possível, mesmo que tal implique sujeitar toda uma população aos prazeres dos “mercados” e à vulnerabilidade do “curto-prazismo”. A desindustrializão dos EUA responde bem a quem o duvide.</p>
<p>Embora breve, o episódio escancarou uma crise estrutural pouco debatida: as consequências da privatização e liberalização dos sistemas eléctricos nacionais sob o guarda-chuva da União Europeia (UE). Sob o pretexto das “imposições” europeias, Portugal segmentou (separou a produção da distribuição e comercialização) com base numa suposta concorrência que nunca chegou, privatizou e liberalizou. Para as empresas privatizadas e vendidas ao capital estrangeiro foi uma lotaria, para o povo português, que antes tinha das energias mais baratas de toda a EU, mesmo não sendo dos que paga mais, passou a 10.º mais caro, na decomposição anual do preço doméstico, <a href="https://www.erse.pt/media/rtonfayu/boletim-eletricidade-eurostat_2023s2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">de acordo</a> com a ERSE. O facto é que desde que a Comissão Europeia, hoje chefiada pela incontronável Ursula von der Leyen, a sua propaganda de que quer energia barata para os europeus, foi acompanhada, em quantidade, pelo aumento do preço dessa mesma energia.</p>
<p>Devemos questionar-nos sobre o seguinte. Quando vemos esta gente de dentes arreganhados contra a Federação Russa, querendo armar-se até aos dentes, para “colocarem no lugar” Vladimir Putin, quanto será que demoraria a uma potência militar como a que está ao serviço do Kremlin em deixar-nos a viver na idade da pedra? Uns minutos? Bastaria uma qualquer arma que provocasse um impulso repentino? Interessante, não é? Para quem tanto quer que os ucranianos morram para defender “os valores europeus”.</p>
<p>A forma como o colapso ocorreu revela vulnerabilidades sistémicas profundas. Num momento crítico de variação na carga da rede, o sistema não conseguiu disponibilizar a potência necessária para manter a estabilidade (lá está, a falta de redundância e resiliência, tudo a trabalhar em mínimos, sob a corda bamba dos lucros do trimestre), resultando num desligamento em cascata. A análise inicial da Red Eléctrica de España (REE) indica que a interconexão entre os países ibéricos foi um factor determinante — especificamente, a dependência de Portugal em relação ao fornecimento proveniente da Espanha no momento do incidente. Mais se acrescenta que, não estamos a salvo de tal <a href="https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/energia/detalhe/ren-avisa-que-portugal-nao-esta-a-salvo-de-um-novo-apagao-total" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voltar a acontecer</a>, como sucede nos países subdesenvolvidos e nos que fazem do liberalismo um fanatismo, como os EUA, especialmente no Texas. A lógica do mercado leva as operadoras nacionais a desligarem fornecimentos internos para comprar energia mais barata no exterior, agravando a vulnerabilidade em situações de emergência. No momento do apagão, Portugal estava a importar eletricidade de Espanha e não conseguiu repor <a href="https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2025-04-28-video-entenda-o-efeito-em-cadeia-que-pode-ter-provocado-o-apagao-em-portugal-32981aa3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">o fornecimento de imediato</a>.</p>
<p>A verdade é que este se trata de um modelo orientado para o lucro, não para a segurança e, menos ainda para energia acessível para famílias e empresas. Todos ouvimos a direita empedernida, os liberais ideológicos do século XVII, atacarem os impostos (lá está, fomentando o estão mínimo) e os “custos do trabalho”. Nunca, mas mesmo nunca, os ouvimos falar da vergonha criminosa que foram as privatizações dos sectores estratégicos, em especial o da energia eléctrica, com gravíssimos danos para a economia nacional. Não é por acaso que EUA e EU têm dos preços mais caros de electricidade. Não é preciso ser génio para perceber porquê.</p>
<p>Este cenário traz luz a uma realidade cada vez mais evidente: ´que os sistemas liberalizados tendem a operar com margens mínimas, eliminando redundâncias consideradas dispendiosas. Em termos técnicos, isso significa menor capacidade de resposta em situações de crise, ou seja, tudo funciona bem, quando tudo está alinhado, mas quando surge um acidente… Isto vale para a energia eléctrica, como para a Banca, aviação, correios, telecomunicações, entre outras. Não será por acaso que a única rede móvel que se aguentou perante o apagão foi a da empresa (a MEO) que sobrou da privatização da antiga Portugal Telecom, ainda do tempo em que estas coisas importantes eram de todos e funcionavam para todos. As que já são do tempo da “liberalização mercantil”, nem um espirro aguentaram. Um simples apagão de umas horas e todos ficaram sem comunicar. Para quem anda pelo mundo a praticar bullying e a falar grosso, deveriam preocupar-se mais com a sua própria casa.</p>
<p>Como defendido por <a href="https://sigarra.up.pt/fep/pt/pub_geral.show_file?pi_doc_id=28023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">muitos autores</a> o modelo liberalizado e privatizado do sector eléctrico europeu foi “pensado” para aumentar a eficiência e baixar custos, mas, na prática, tende a operar com margens mínimas de redundância, no fio da navalha, portanto.</p>
<p>Isto significa menos capacidade de resposta rápida a falhas graves, uma vez que as empresas privadas procuram maximizar lucros reduzindo investimentos em reservas e infra-estruturas redundantes. Ora, como eu gosto mais de partir da matéria para a teoria e não o contrário, se o objectivo era baixar os preços, mas eles aumentaram, se os lucros aumentaram ainda mais, se tudo continuou a ser feito, apesar das lições que se iam tirando da prática, só me resta concluir que a intenção foi, apenas e tão só, a de entregar ao privado os lucros que eram de todos. Isto, por mais teorias e idealismos que se construam. Quando um fenómeno é observado de forma reiterada e se torna tão previsível que pode ser extrapolado para a generalidade das situações, então é porque as teorias não aderem à prática. E a teoria liberal é uma delas. É uma fantasia dos tempos pueris da economia.</p>
<p>Daí que nos venha à cabeça a questão essencial: e a nossa independência energética? É assim tão fácil deixar um país como Portugal a pão e água? Se os moinhos e fornos não forem eléctricos e a água canalizada? É assim tão fácil aos nossos parceiros europeus deixarem o país às escuras? Parece que sim. Agora percebemos melhor porque razão Victor Orban e Robert Fico não quiseram ficar nas mãos de Von Der Leyen e preferiram continuar a comprar gás à Rússia. Tivessem-no feito e já hoje não estariam no poder. Eis o independente e soberano que Portugal é! E quem são os responsáveis por tal traição? Quem é que decidiu que, a determinada altura, a nossa Constituição da República seria trocada pelas directivas de Bruxelas?</p>
<p>O facto é que a liberalização do mercado energético europeu permite às operadoras adquirirem energia no exterior sempre que economicamente vantajoso. No entanto, essa interdependência gera riscos estratégicos importantes, pois quando ocorre uma falha nos circuitos transfronteiriços, como aconteceu recentemente, países como Portugal ficam particularmente expostos, dada a baixa capacidade de produção nacional em momentos críticos, pois tendo em conta as palavras do responsável da REN (Rede Eléctrica Nacional), a produção nacional só é ligada quando se consome a energia nacional ou, quando esta é exportada. Assim, liga e desliga, aos soluços, deixando-nos vulneráveis aos apetites externos, de amigos e inimigos.</p>
<p>Entre os principais responsáveis por este “apagão de Abril” estão os de sempre. O apagão eléctrico de Abril, não é apenas um apagão eléctrico. Depois de tudo o que aconteceu antes e durante as comemorações do 51.º aniversário da Revolução Portuguesa que nos libertou do fascismo (anulação das comemorações oficiais; grupo de extrema-direita infiltra-se entre manifestantes e agride-os inesperada e brutalmente; o governo português censurou do Relatório Nacional de Segurança Interna o perigo da radicalização adolescente por grupos de extrema direita), podemos mesmo dizer que este apagão com origem “liberal” bem demonstra que o liberalismo está a apagar, não apenas a luz, mas também os valores de Abril. Sendo que um deles, o mais importante de todos, para a nossa liberdade colectiva, consiste na Soberania Nacional.</p>
<p>Sem soberania energética, a nossa soberania nacional está fortemente ameaçada. Quando ouvimos Pedro Sanchez, Primeiro Ministro de Espanha, querer discutir o assunto até às ultimas consequências, só podemos questionar uma qcoisa: comos erá que demorou tanto tempo a constatar o perigo em que vivemos?</p>
<p>Faça-se a justiça ao único partido que <a href="https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/das-autarquias-aos-candidatos-as-reacoes-ao-apagao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denunciou</a> esta situação em todo Portugal, o PCP: “A sujeição a um contexto de dependência externa e de mercado liberalizado constitui um fator de insegurança para o país. Tudo isto reclama a inversão da política de abdicação nacional sobre os setores estratégicos e a garantia de um funcionamento articulado, coerente e eficaz do sistema elétrico nacional.”.</p>
<p>Houve um outro que referiu a necessidade de se discutir o problema da propriedade pública dos sectores que determinam a nossa soberania energética, o BE, mas fê-lo sem nunca atacar o mal essencial: é que se hoje o sector energético português está entregue à rapina, a origem do problema chama-se União Europeia e a sua agenda neoliberal. Quando falarmos de algo, devemos fazê-lo até às últimas consequências e atacando os problemas de fundo. Porque este é daqueles problemas que pode matar ou salvar vidas. Ontem matou!</p>
<p>E com ele deveriam ter morrido as ilusões de quem vê alguma salvação nestas agendas belicistas, neoliberais e irresponsáveis da EU. Como demonstra a experiência, estando cá gente como Milei para o demonstrar, no fim da linha do liberalismo está o fascismo, a violência e a miséria.</p>
<p>Neste momento impõe-se uma tarefa ainda mais importante do que a da segurança energética. Impõe-se a recuperação da nossa independência nacional, da nossa liberdade como povo e nação mais antiga da Europa. O que não significa viver sem à parte dos outros. Antes, significa viver com eles, de peito cheio e cabeça erguida!</p>
<p>É hora de dizer não ao apagão de Abril.</p>
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title: La “terziarizzazione” dell’economia statunitense
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<p><strong><em>Gli Stati Uniti, prima società “post-industriale”, sono stati i primi a subire gli effetti della delocalizzazione. Una prospettiva venutasi a concretizzare per effetto diretto della sottoscrizione di accordi di libero scambio quali il Nafta e della rimozione progressiva di tutte le barriere a protezione del mercato interno.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Da avanguardia capitalistica, gli Usa tracciarono quindi il sentiero che avrebbero progressivamente percorso tutti gli altri Paesi industrializzati, facendo sì che nell’arco di trent’anni (1980-2010), gli investimenti esteri della Francia crescessero dal 3,6 al 57% del Pil, quelli della Germania dal 4,7 al 45,7%, quelli dell’Italia dal 6 al 28%. Secondo alcuni calcoli, se quella ricchezza fosse rimasta entro i rispettivi confini nazionali, la Francia avrebbe creato 5,9 milioni di posti di lavoro, la Germania 7,3 milioni e l’Italia 2,6 milioni – non è un caso che tutti i Paesi che hanno fatto massiccio ricorso alla delocalizzazione siano stati scavalcati nelle classifiche internazionali.</p>
<p>Per gli Usa, la situazione appare ancor più critica, poiché l’impatto della delocalizzazione degli impianti produttivi verso i Paesi che offrono serbatoi pressoché inesauribili di manodopera a basso costo è stato letteralmente devastante. Un’<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/business/company-town-relies-on-gm-long-after-plants-have-closed.html">inchiesta</a> del «New York Times» risalente al 2006 ha documentato l’impatto sul settore automobilistico della deindustrializzazione indotta dalla delocalizzazione. Secondo le rivelazioni dell’autorevole quotidiano newyorkese, il trasferimento di centinaia di migliaia di posti di lavoro all’estero ha fatto sì che nelle città assurte negli anni ’20 a capitali mondiali dell’automobile la disoccupazione dilagasse e i lavoratori pensionati superassero per numero quelli occupati nel settore stesso. Come conseguenza, metropoli come Detroit si sono trasformate in città fatiscenti in cui l’aumento degli individui ridotti sul lastrico a causa della perdita del lavoro ha favorito una vera e propria proliferazione incontrollata della criminalità.</p>
<p>Il calo dei posti di lavoro disponibili non è tuttavia imputabile unicamente alla delocalizzazione, ma anche alla progressiva introduzione di macchine che hanno gradualmente sostituito i colletti blu, i quali sono stati costretti a riciclarsi nei campi lavorativi comunemente rientranti nel settore terziario.</p>
<p>L’effetto diretto di questo processo è stato l’affermazione del comparto dei servizi a scapito di quello manifatturiero in tutte le economie mature che in epoche precedenti erano state investite da poderosi processi di industrializzazione. In Gran Bretagna, Paese da cui ebbe origine la Rivoluzione Industriale, l’occupazione manifatturiera era al 45% alla vigilia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, per poi scendere a poco più del 30% ed attestarsi su quel livello fino ai primi anni ’70, quando ha cominciato a crollare. Attualmente, il settore industriale impiega meno del 10% della forza lavoro complessiva del Paese. In Svezia, l’occupazione nel settore manifatturiero ha raggiunto un picco del 33% intorno alla metà degli anni ’60, per poi precipitare a valori di poco superiori al 10%. Anche in Germania, la più moderna potenza industriale del mondo, l’occupazione manifatturiera ha raggiunto il picco del 40% verso il 1970, e da allora ha cominciato a diminuire a ritmo costante. Negli Stati Uniti, ai primordi del XIX Secolo, il settore manifatturiero impiegava meno del 3% della forza lavoro, ma la sua vertiginosa espansione lo portò ad assorbire nel 1962 qualcosa come il 25-27% della massa lavoratrice. Da allora, è iniziata la deindustrializzazione che ha portato, negli ultimi anni, a una quota occupazionale inferiore al 10%.</p>
<p>Nello specifico, l’occupazione nell’industria manifatturiera divenne assoluto a partire dal 1980 e dieci anni dopo il numero degli impiegati nel settore era sceso a 17,7 milioni di unità mentre, nel corso dello stesso decennio, l’occupazione totale era aumentata da 90 a 108 milioni di persone. Cosa che ha favorito l’insorgere di due fenomeni di portata epocale, quali l’esplosione del deficit commerciale degli Usa, che non producendo quasi più nulla si videro costretti da importare quantità sempre crescenti di merci beneficiando dell’“esorbitante privilegio” assicurato dal dollaro, e l’abbassamento dei salari, come conseguenza diretta del calo vertiginoso di posti di lavoro di buon livello in favore di quelli assai meno garantiti nelle varie branche dei servizi. Gli impiegati nel terziario non godono infatti dei benefici conquistati nel corso dei decenni dai colletti blu, che già durante il boom economico del secondo dopoguerra erano riusciti ad ottenere buone condizioni per quanto riguarda le prestazioni mediche e le pensioni, incluse nei contratti di categoria e pagate della imprese. Durante gli anni ’70, i salari reali Usa, misurati a prezzi costanti 1982 e calcolati su base settimanale, erano calati dai 313 dollari del 1970 ai 299 del 1979, ma questa diminuzione era imputabile essenzialmente alla riduzione delle ore lavorate, connessa a sua volta all’esaurirsi della spinta propulsiva keynesiana rappresentata dalla Guerra del Vietnam. Nel decennio che va dal 1980 al 1990, calarono invece sia i salari orari che i guadagni settimanali, che scesero – sempre a prezzi costanti del 1982 – a 263 dollari. Sotto l’amministrazione Clinton, il calo occupazionale nel settore manifatturiero e la tendenza al ribasso dei salari subirono una battuta d’arresto dovuta alla crescita elefantiaca della bolla della New Economy, che implicava una notevole attività manifatturiera.</p>
<p>All’epoca, schiere di investitori, incoraggiate dai bassi tassi di interesse applicati dalla Federal Reserve, invasero il mercato delle telecomunicazioni facendo crescere l’indice Nasdaq dell’85% nel solo 1999. Nella primavera del 2000, la capitalizzazione di mercato delle aziende operanti nel comparto delle telecomunicazioni raggiunse le 2,7 migliaia di miliardi di dollari. Le aziende del settore, inebriate dalla frenesia generale, iniziarono a coprire il suolo statunitense e persino i fondali oceanici con interi reticolati di cavi in fibra ottica lunghi milioni di km; una quantità di gran lunga superiore a quella necessaria a soddisfare la domanda reale di linee di comunicazione. Alimentata dalla fiducia che il mercato dell’hi-tech si sarebbe espanso all’infinito, la crescita di questo settore si arrestò rapidamente a causa del drastico calo di profitti indotto dal bassissimo tasso di utilizzazione, prossimo al 3%, delle reti di telecomunicazione. L’effetto fu quello di invertire le tendenze speculative, con conseguente ondata di fallimenti che portò le compagnie operanti nel settore delle telecomunicazioni a trascinare nella loro caduta gran parte dei titoli tecnologici (telefonia mobile e fissa, <em>software</em>, informazione <em>on-line</em>, siti di <em>e-commerce</em>, <em>web-agency</em>, incubatori di <em>start-up</em>, ecc.) –  provocando la bancarotta di alcune aziende di grandi dimensioni (Worldcom, QWest, Global Crossing) – e a porre fine alla breve fase espansiva che, secondo il parere di svariati economisti statunitensi, si sarebbe dovuta propagare per molti anni. Dall’esplosione della bolla della New Economy, i salari reali statunitensi hanno ripreso a declinare assieme al tasso di occupazione manifatturiera.</p>
<p>La sconsiderata gestione dell’immigrazione, che ha di fatto posto in concorrenza i lavoratori autoctoni con quelli stranieri, disposti ad accontentarsi di paghe ridotte e di minori garanzia pur di trovare un’occupazione, ha inoltre contribuito non soltanto a consolidare la tendenza al ribasso dei salari, ma anche ad assestare un colpo micidiale alle conquiste sociali ottenute nel corso dei decenni dalle classi lavoratrici.</p>
<p>Si è così inaugurata l’era della flessibilità, che ha radicalizzato il processo di svalutazione e precarizzazione del lavoro. Come ha <a href="http://dailyreckoning.com/the-currency-chain-gang/">osserva</a>to l’analista di Merrill Lynch Jose Rasco: «<em>il lavoratore temporaneo è il lavoratore marginale, il primo ad essere licenziato […]. La crescita di lavoratori temporanei è il segno che i datori di lavoro stanno cominciando ad applicare i principi della contabilità alle risorse umane. Le imprese, cioè, stanno forse tramutando il lavoro da costi fisso a costo variabile. Invece di arruolare lavoratori e pagargli un salario integrale con i benefici sociali, le aziende li tengono come lavoratori temporanei e flessibili; la forza-lavoro può così essere adattata secondo i capricci della domanda. Aziende che non dispongono di pricing power, quando in più le materie prime rincarano, che cosa possono fare per aumentare i loro margini di profitto? La risposta è ovvia. Il modo più facile di accrescere la profittabilità è ridurre il maggior costo fisso: la manodopera</em>».</p>
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title: Hosepipe ban proves water system is failing, says TD
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Hosepipe.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Irish Water has been branded “utterly unfit for purpose” by Cork North-Central TD Ken O’Flynn following the announcement of the earliest-ever hosepipe bans across several parts of the country.</strong></p>
<p>Speaking after reports that record-high April temperatures had triggered the restrictions, the Independent Ireland TD described the move as “yet another sign of systemic failure.”</p>
<p>“It seems like we get three days of sunshine and there’s a hosepipe ban,” he said.</p>
<p>“It’s absurd. This is a first world country — or so we like to think — and yet we can’t manage a basic, natural resource without a panic.”</p>
<p>O’Flynn pointed to what he described as longstanding infrastructural neglect, particularly in his constituency. He accused the water system of being unable to withstand even moderate seasonal changes.</p>
<p>“People are looking around at burst pipes, sewage issues, streets being dug up again and again — and now this,” he said.</p>
<p>“Water retention in this country is a joke, and Cork is the poster child for the consequences.”</p>
<p>He further criticised the national water utility, formerly known as Irish Water and now operating as Uisce Éireann, over its governance and public accountability.</p>
<p>“This is supposed to be a community-serving utility, yet it operates like an entity that’s not accountable to anyone,” he said.</p>
<p>“Its priorities are skewed, its delivery record is poor, and its relationship with the public is practically nonexistent.”</p>
<p>He argued that the current situation demonstrates a failure to provide basic public services.</p>
<p>“At the most basic level, if a water utility cannot provide a naturally abundant resource to homes safely and without drama, then we have to start asking the hard questions,” he said.</p>
<p>“We can’t keep pretending this is working — because it isn’t.”</p>
<p>His comments follow a statement by Uisce Éireann confirming that legal restrictions on non-essential water use will come into effect from midnight on Tuesday in parts of Westmeath, Meath and Donegal. The so-called Water Conservation Order affects around 70,000 people and includes a ban on activities such as watering gardens, washing cars and filling pools.</p>
<p>According to the Irish Independent, this marks the first time in the State’s history that such restrictions have been implemented before the month of June.</p>
<p>Lough Owel, Lough Bane and Lough Colmcille — the respective sources for the Mullingar, Kells-Oldcastle and Milford water supplies — are all at historic lows for this time of year. Uisce Éireann has warned that without significant rainfall, the ban could be extended or expanded.</p>
<p>“The past 12 months have been drier than normal,” Uisce Éireann’s Margaret Attridge said.</p>
<p>“This means that some water sources which traditionally would have replenished over the winter period have not seen the same levels of recovery.”</p>
<p>The utility has stated that the primary objective is to preserve water for household, business, and essential service use.</p>
<p>In total, 11 additional water supplies around the country are currently being monitored, with tanker deliveries already underway in some locations to bolster struggling reservoirs.</p>
<p>Climate-related variability and population growth have both been cited by the utility as contributing factors to ongoing supply issues.</p>


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title: L’Ukraine doit faire des concessions – Président finlandais
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<p><em>De plus en plus, les dirigeants occidentaux reconnaissent la réalité indéniable de la défaite de l’Ukraine. Bien qu’ils puissent utiliser des mots différents, les politiciens occidentaux reconnaissent que Kiev ne sera pas en mesure d’atteindre ses objectifs dans la guerre </em>…</p>


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title: Un drone israélien bombarde la Flottille de la liberté pour Gaza près des côtes maltaises
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<p><em>“À 00 h 23, heure maltaise, un navire de la Flottille de la liberté a été victime d’une attaque de drone. L’avant du navire a été touché à deux reprises, provoquant un incendie et une brèche dans la coque”.</em></p>
<p>Un …</p>

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698316
title: Journée mondiale de la liberté de la presse.
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<p>Depuis 1993, le 3 mai a été déclaré par l’UNESCO, journée mondiale de la liberté de la presse.</p>
<p>Selon ses objectifs officiels, cette journée sert d’une part à rappeler aux gouvernements la nécessité de s’engager pour la liberté de la …</p>


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<p><strong><em>When the Western powers take responsibility for the criminal aggression against Russia, only then will a viable peace be achieved.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The Kursk border region in Western Russia has finally been cleared of the NATO-backed Ukrainian invaders.</p>
<p>Last weekend, on April 26, the Chief of Russia’s General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, announced that all enemy combatants had been defeated and the territory was now under the control of Russian forces.</p>
<p>Thus ends the Kursk gamble that the NATO-backed Kiev regime had foolishly played. It was a hopeless roll of the dice in the proverbial Last Chance Saloon. The incursion was supposed to give the NATO side bargaining leverage to trade for Russian-gained territories in former Eastern Ukraine. There is no trade-off. It’s an outright defeat for the NATO strategists.</p>
<p>The losses in military personnel on the Ukrainian side have been estimated at over 76,000 men over the past eight months in fighting in the Kursk direction alone. (Total Ukrainian military losses amount to over one million in the more than three-year proxy war.) In Kursk, thousands of NATO’s best weaponry pieces were destroyed by withering Russian firepower. Russia was also assisted by thousands of North Korean troops as per a bilateral security pact signed last year between the far-east neighboring countries. The West tried desperately to make a controversy out of what is a legal and legitimate military alliance between Moscow and Pyongyang. If NATO can deploy mercenaries from all over the world, why can’t Russia avail itself of a legal military partner?</p>
<p>In any case, what has transpired is not merely a debacle from military defeat. The scorched-earth tactics of the NATO-sponsored Kiev regime are fully exposed for their appalling war crimes.</p>
<p>Russian investigators have <a href="https://tass.com/politics/1951909">documented</a> hundreds of cases of war crimes. This is the same grotesque pattern found in the Donbass and other areas that have been liberated from Ukrainian occupiers and NATO mercenaries. The full horror in Kursk has yet to be assessed, given that it is the early stages of liberation from the occupiers. But already, there is extensive evidence and eyewitness testimonies from civilian survivors attesting to a campaign of terror and genocide.</p>
<p>The NATO-assisted incursion into Kursk was launched on August 6, 2024. There was much fanfare in the Western media about how the offensive was purportedly striking a blow against Russia and turning the tables in the Ukraine (proxy) war. There were even Western media news crews deployed to accompany Ukrainian forces as they entered Kursk, shooting up statues of V.I. Lenin and other Soviet symbols. American news channel CNN had its so-called war correspondent Nick Paton-Walsh riding on the invasion force’s vehicles like a giddy schoolboy. The euphoric mood in the reporting was like something out of a Hollywood movie, and indicative that the military maneuver was planned by NATO commanders in Washington, London, Berlin, Brussels, and Paris. How else were the news crews primed to “report” the “breaking news”? Laughably, CNN and Co. packed their bags when Moscow reminded them that they were in Russian territory illegally. Oh, for the good old days when the Western powers could treat perceived lesser nations with absolute contempt!</p>
<p>It was not so much a “masterstroke invasion”, as the Western governments and their media were hailing at the time, as a border infraction that bore the hallmarks of a terror campaign. The Ukrainian forces used their best units and NATO equipment to bomb civilian houses and infrastructure, followed by ground raids on homes to murder and torture innocent families.</p>
<p>No Western media have reported on these crimes. That’s because the reality would expose their propaganda lies about the Kiev regime and the proxy war instigated by the U.S. and its Western allies.</p>
<p>Captured POWs told how they were following orders to kill without mercy. Ukrainian soldiers wore Nazi insignia and used Nazi methods of barbarism to inflict wanton suffering on the Russian populace.</p>
<p>All these crimes are now being recorded as Russian investigators take account of the months of occupation. Russia is calling for an international tribunal to prosecute the Kiev regime and its NATO sponsors for the litany of crimes.</p>
<p>Militarily, the incursion was a fiasco. At its deepest penetration during the surprise blitzkrieg last August, the Ukrainian forces advanced about 20 kilometers from the border into Russia. The occupiers held about 1,000 square kilometers, only 3 per cent of Kursk’s total area.</p>
<p>Within a couple of months, by November, Russian forces had recovered half of that territory. The big prize captured by the Ukrainians was the border city of Sudzha. Ironically, that is the location of the main gas pipeline that, for decades since the late 1970s, has supplied Russian natural gas to Europe across Ukraine. The Kiev regime terminated the supply on January 1, 2025, in a move heralding “independence” for Europe from no longer having a supply of Russian energy. The more accurate word is “bankruptcy”.</p>
<p>The redundant Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline (also known as the “Brotherhood Pipeline”) was subsequently used by Russian forces to mount a daring raid to cut off Ukrainian defense lines. Up to 800 Russian soldiers crouched along 15 km of pipeline 1.4 m in diameter to spring a rearguard attack. That was in mid-March 2025. From then on, the Kursk invaders were doomed.</p>
<p>The victory in Kursk comes at a timely occasion for the Victory Day celebrations next week. On May 9, the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Soviet Red Army will be celebrated this year with greater poignancy and contemporary relevance.</p>
<p>Up to 27 million Soviet citizens gave their lives in the victory over Nazi fascism during the Second World War, or the Great Patriotic War as it is known more commonly in Russia.</p>
<p>There were two momentous turning points in the defeat of the Nazi Wehrmacht. In 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad was followed by the Battle of Kursk in July and August of that year. The casualties were in the millions. But after Kursk, the Nazi enemy was doomed for eventual vanquish when the Red Army captured Berlin on May 2, 1945, days after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker. The final unconditional surrender was officiated on May 9.</p>
<p>Absurdly, American President Donald Trump this week <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declares-may-8-victory-day-world-war-ii-going-start-celebrating-our-victories-again">claimed</a> with sublime ignorance that the United States “did more than anyone else” to win the Second World War.</p>
<p>The liberation of Kursk territory this week by Russia against Nato-backed NeoNazis is a bitter reminder of the sacrifices that the Russian people endured 80 years ago for the liberation of Europe from fascism. Today, Western powers more than ever deny that truth. They are so imbued with arrogant ignorance, Russophobia and in some cases nostalgia for Nazi fascism that they have distorted the greatest military victory in history. Partly because the West had covertly colluded with Nazi Germany in the 1930s to subjugate the Soviet Union. Some European states openly collaborated with Nazi genocide.</p>
<p>The Soviet Red Army and people defeated Nazism, but fascism survived in the West and today is manifest in the Ukraine proxy war.</p>
<p>The horrific crimes committed against Russian civilians by the NATO-weaponized and directed Kiev regime are, of course, numerically smaller than those committed during the Great Patriotic War by the Nazis.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, there is the same qualitative barbarity. Russian investigators are finding young and elderly victims with bullets in their heads, their bodies dumped in unmarked graves. The bombing of homes and the torture of civilians was inflicted with the same Russophobic hatred that Nazi forebears of the Kiev regime possessed.</p>
<p>Shockingly, the same crimes are committed 80 years on by forces armed with German and other NATO weapons.</p>
<p>Shockingly, too, the Western media are ignoring the crimes committed by the Kiev regime and its NATO government supporters. The Western propaganda narrative of “democratic” Ukraine supported by “democratic” NATO nations against “Russian aggression” is exposed as an edifice of lies.</p>
<p>The Trump administration has talked big about peace diplomacy to end the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia that erupted on February 24, 2022. He bragged during his election campaign last year that he would get a peace deal in one day. This week marks 100 days in the White House, and there is still no peace deal.</p>
<p>For all the big American talk, there seems to be very little substance in understanding the significance of the Kursk battles, both recently and on a much larger scale, more than eight decades ago.</p>
<p>When the Western powers take responsibility for the criminal aggression against Russia, and the crimes in Kursk in particular, only then will a viable peace be achieved.</p>
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/11df4e4321509aa5bc9f615119fbcb9d.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="RT News: Ukrainian Officials Talk of Targeting Moscow’s Iconic Victory Day Parade, ft. Matt Ehret"></p>May 1, 2025<br>Ukrainian Officials Talk of Targeting Moscow’s Iconic Victory Day Parade<br><br>**********************************************<br>Find RT News here:  https://www.rt.com/<br><br>************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Episodes 1 and 2 of The Dystopic Mission of Mark Carney can be watched for free here: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-dystopic-mission-of-mark-carney-a7a<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>And for other films Ive created over the past couple of years, they are here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/cp-videos/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>

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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>This week, President Donald J. Trump celebrated his 100th day in office — and set the course for the next 100 days of growth, prosperity, and success for the American people.</p><p><strong>Here is a non-comprehensive list of wins in week 15:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>The economy <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/jobs-boom-more-americans-working-for-higher-pay/">added</a> 177,000 new jobs in April, according to the latest jobs report — smashing expectations for another month as the workforce grows and businesses onshore jobs.</li>
<li>President Donald J. Trump’s relentless pursuit of manufacturing dominance spurred onshoring and additional U.S. investment.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Mercedes-Benz <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/01/mercedes-benz-alabama-plant-trump-tariffs.html">announced</a> it will move production of another vehicle to its Tuscaloosa, Alabama, manufacturing facility.</li>
<li>AstraZeneca <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/29/astrazeneca-production-us-trump-tariffs-uk-europe-pascal-soriot">announced</a> it will shift production of some medicines from Europe to the U.S.</li>
<li>Walmart <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917208431724765418">expanded</a> its support for American-made products.</li>
<li>IBM <a href="https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-04-28-ibm-unveils-150-billion-investment-in-america-to-accelerate-technology-opportunity" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced </a>a $150 billion investment over the next five years in its U.S.-based growth and manufacturing operations.</li>
<li>Pratt Industries <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917573559851049137">announced</a> a $5 billion investment that will result in 5,000 new manufacturing jobs across several key industrial states.</li>
<li>Kimberly-Clark <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/kimberly-clark-kleenex-investing-2-billion-manufacturing-us-503c4c7d">announced</a> a $2 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing sites, which will create 900 new jobs.</li>
<li>Corning <a href="https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/news-events/news-releases/2025/04/corning-expands-advanced-manufacturing-capacity-to-meet-increased-demand-for-US-made-solar-products.html">announced</a> it is expanding its Michigan manufacturing facility investment to $1.5 billion.</li>
<li>Merck &amp; Co. <a href="https://www.merck.com/news/merck-breaks-ground-on-new-1-billion-biologics-center-of-excellence-in-wilmington-delaware/">announced</a> a $1 billion investment to build a new state-of-the-art biologics manufacturing plant in Delaware, which will create at least 500 new jobs — part of the company’s <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917209821889130675">commitment</a> to invest more than $9 billion over the next four years.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“Since the advent of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Merck has allocated more than $12 billion to enhance our domestic manufacturing and research capabilities, with additional planned investments of more than $9 billion over the next four years.”</li>
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<li>Amgen <a href="https://www.amgen.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/04/amgen-announces-900-million-manufacturing-expansion-creation-of-350-new-jobs-in-ohio">announced</a> a $900 million investment in its Ohio-based manufacturing operation.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>“Pro-growth policies like the @POTUS @WhiteHouse 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act helped make investments like this possible. Since enactment, Amgen has invested ~$5B in capital expenditures. This amounts to an additional downstream output to the U.S. economy of approximately $12B.”</li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Bel Group <a href="https://belbrandsusa.com/news/bel-strengthens-its-industrial-footprint-with-more-than-350-million-investment-in-the-u-s/">announced</a> a $350 million investment to expand its U.S.-based production, including at its South Dakota, Idaho and Wisconsin facilities — which will create 250 new jobs.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>President Trump continued to secure our border and rid our communities of illegal immigrant criminals.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/30/us-news/illegal-border-crossings-remained-near-historic-lows-in-april-after-trumps-crackdown/"><em>New York Post</em></a>: Illegal border crossings remained near historic lows in April after President Trump’s crackdown</li>
<li>The Trump Administration <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/more-than-100-illegal-immigrants-arrested-colorado-springs-massive-underground-nightclub-raid">directed</a> an operation at an underground nightclub in Colorado “frequented by TdA and MS-13 terrorists” that resulted in 100 illegal immigrant arrests.</li>
<li>ICE <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/ice-arrest-immigration-florida.html">arrested</a> more than 1,000 illegal immigrants in Florida in just six days as part of Operation Tidal Wave.</li>
<li>Uzbekistan <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/immigrants-return-uzbekistan">agreed</a> to pay for and accept 131 illegal immigrants from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>President Trump continued to pursue peace through strength around the world.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-agreement-to-establish-united-states-ukraine-reconstruction-investment-fund/">secured</a> a historic agreement with Ukraine that gives the U.S. an economic stake in securing a free, peaceful, and sovereign future for Ukraine and allows for the long-term reconstruction and modernization of the country after Russia’s invasion.</li>
<li>President Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114433959082847679">announced</a> secondary sanctions on any country or person who purchases Iranian oil.</li>
<li>President Trump secured the release of a <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1917610906944499821">wrongfully detained</a> U.S. citizen in Belarus and a U.S. citizen <a href="https://x.com/SebGorka/status/1917752015624585688">imprisoned</a> in Kuwait — for a total of 47 detained citizens abroad <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1917610906944499821">freed</a> since President Trump took office.</li>
<li>The Trump Administration <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/rwanda-and-dr-congo-sign-joint-pledge-toward-peace-deal-by-may-2/3549559">brokered</a> a joint pledge for peace between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.</li>
<li>The Department of the Treasury <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0113">cracked down</a> on vessels delivering oil derivatives to Houthi terrorists in Yemen.</li>
<li>The Department of the Treasury <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0116">sanctioned</a> six Iranian and Chinese firms linked to procuring missile propellant ingredients for the Iranian regime.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>The Trump Administration forged ahead on its unprecedented effort to secure American energy dominance.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Woodside Energy Group <a href="https://www.woodside.com/media-centre/news-stories/story/woodside-approves-louisiana-lng-development">financially approved</a> a $17.5 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project.</li>
<li>The Environmental Protection Agency <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/epa-allowing-sale-cheaper-higher-ethanol-e15-gasoline-121251004">granted</a> an emergency waiver that allows Americans to buy cheaper, higher-ethanol gasoline through the summer, which will save Americans money.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>President Trump took a series of executive actions to improve Americans’ lives.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-strengthens-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/">strengthened</a> the ability of state and local law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent Americans.</li>
<li>President Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-communities-from-criminal-aliens/">executive order</a> to protect Americans in so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions from dangerous criminal illegal immigrants.</li>
<li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-the-religious-liberty-commission/">established</a> the Religious Liberty Commission to safeguard and promote America’s founding principle of religious freedom.</li>
<li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-incentivizes-domestic-automobile-production/">incentivized</a> American automobile production.</li>
<li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-enforces-commonsense-rules-of-the-road-for-americas-truck-drivers/">ordered</a> that commercial truck drivers must be properly qualified and proficient in English.</li>
<li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ends-the-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/">ended</a> the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS.</li>
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<li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-resources/budget/the-presidents-fy-2026-discretionary-budget-request/">unveiled</a> his proposed budget, which would save taxpayers $163 billion in wasteful spending, gut the weaponized deep state, and provide historic increases for defense and border security.</li>
<li>President Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114417332210818903">launched</a> the FEMA Review Council to help fix the broken disaster response system and return power to the states.</li>
<li>President Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917317061245591969">announced</a> Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan will soon be home to the new F-15EW Eagle II fighter jets.</li>
<li>President Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114435902192931017">renamed</a> May 8 as “Victory Day for World War II” and November 11 as “Victory Day for World War I” in recognition of America’s role in winning the two wars.</li>
<li>The Department of Health and Human services <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/gender-dysphoria-report-release.html">released</a> a comprehensive review of so-called “gender-affirming care,” <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/hhs-report-finds-no-strong-evidence-supporting-gender-affirming-care-effectiveness/">finding</a> no strong medical or scientific evidence exists to support the treatment’s irreversible effects.</li>
<li>The Trump Administration <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917572798857281790">ended</a> the Biden-era lawfare against South Dakota cattle ranchers who were wrongfully persecuted over a minor land dispute.</li>
<li>The Department of State <a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/terrorist-designations-of-viv-ansanm-and-gran-grif/">designated</a> Haitian gangs Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.</li>
<li>The Department of Education <a href="https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1915873761447841965">launched</a> a civil rights investigation into the New York Department of Education over its threat to withhold funding from the Massapequa School District if it does not eliminate its Native American mascot.</li>
<li>The Department of Education <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-finds-university-of-pennsylvania-has-violated-title-ix">announced</a> its finding that the University of Pennsylvania violated Title IX, notifying the institution that they have ten days to resolve the violations or risk a referral to the Department of Justice for enforcement proceedings.</li>
<li>The Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/ed-hhs-launch-title-vi-investigations-of-harvard-university-and-harvard-law-review-amid-allegations-of-discriminatory-practices">announced</a> investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review based on reports of race-based discrimination permeating the operations of the journal.</li>
<li>The Department of the Interior <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/department-interior-announces-expansion-hunting-and-fishing-opportunities">announced</a> 42 new proposed hunting opportunities across 87,000 acres within the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Fish Hatchery System, which would more than triple the number of opportunities and quintuple the number of stations opened or expanded compared to the previous administration.</li>
<li>The Department of Energy <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-lifts-regulations-miscellaneous-gas-products">announced</a> it will lift a range of unnecessary regulations on certain indoor and outdoor gas products — expanding choice and lowering costs for consumers.</li>
<li>The Department of Transportation <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-new-package-boost-air-traffic">unveiled</a> a new package of actions to further supercharge the air traffic controller workforce.</li>
<li>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard <a href="https://washingtonreporter.news/p/exclusive-tulsi-gabbard-adds-counter">added</a> counter narcotics to the National Counter Terrorism Center in order to “focus intelligence and vetting resources against these terrorists who traffic deadly narcotics into the country.”</li>
<li>The Department of Justice <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1917641945318580661">arrested</a> two individuals on charges of operating an international child exploitation enterprise.</li>
<li>The Department of Agriculture <a href="https://x.com/SecRollins/status/1916948485573603627">secured</a> an agreement with Mexico for an immediate transfer of water from international reservoirs to Texas farmers and ranchers.</li>
<li>The White House Council on Environmental Quality <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/the-white-house-council-on-environmental-quality-establishes-permitting-innovation-center/">established</a> the Permitting Innovation Center to cut red tape and accelerate the environmental review process.</li>
<li>The National Institutes of Health <a href="https://x.com/NIH/status/1917601482364403734">announced</a> it will publish studies it funds online for free to empower Americans’ own research and promote maximum transparency.</li>
<li>PepsiCo <a href="https://www.aol.com/pepsico-remove-artificial-ingredients-popular-174749466.html">announced</a> it will remove artificial ingredients from some popular food offerings by the end of the year following the Trump Administration’s push to end artificial food dyes.</li>
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title: Marie Sklodowska Curie: The Woman Who Opened The Nuclear Age
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1000/0*04WwQrpSj2-tygqN.jpg"></figure><p>I publish my work in print form every month in a collection called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new edition is now available to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1923372068">order in print</a> or download as a pay-what-you-want <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/l/kghwvv">e-book version</a>. This month’s issue features a painting of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil.</p><p>The empire’s war on free speech continues as a New Jersey judge <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/palestinian-activist-khalil-mahmoud-can-fight-wrongful-detention-case-rcna203654">rules</a> that Khalil may take to the federal courts to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him for criticizing the state of Israel. Khalil’s wife, a US citizen, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/mahmoud-khalil-ice-noor-abdalla-birth">gave birth to their son</a> last week without her husband by her side after the Department of Homeland Security denied the family’s request to let him attend the birth.</p><p>Mahmoud Khalil has become the face of the western empire’s frenetic attempts to silence all criticism of Israel throughout the western world. I have said it before and I will say it here again: there is no greater threat to free speech in our society today than Israel and its western backers.</p><p>You can get a paperback copy of this issue by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1923372068">clicking here</a>, or a pay-what-you-feel digital copy by <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/l/kghwvv">clicking here</a>.</p><p>Other paperback editions of JOHNSTONE can be purchased by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CF5YLBGD">clicking here</a>. Other digital editions can be downloaded by <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/">clicking here</a>.</p><p>You can also get a subscription to the digital versions which will be sent to your inbox every month by <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/l/mmjbro">clicking here</a>.</p><h4>INSIDE:</h4><p><em>They Tell You The Houthis Attack Ships, But They Never Tell You Why … 3</em></p><p><em>Opposing The Gaza Holocaust Is Just The Basic, Bare Minimum Requirement To Not Suck As A Person … 5</em></p><p><em>Truth Is Antisemitism. Protest Is Terrorism. Dissent Is Russian Propaganda. … 7</em></p><p><em>Trump Shares Collateral Murder-Style Snuff Film On 15th Anniversary Of Collateral Murder … 9</em></p><p><em>Hamas Succeeded In Exposing The True Face Of The Empire … 11</em></p><p><em>Israel’s Innocent Oopsie-Poopsie Medical Massacre Mistake … 13</em></p><p><em>The Backlash Against Israel’s Western-Backed Crimes Will Fuel The Far Right … 15</em></p><p><em>Expect Them To Lie About China Just Like They Lied About Gaza … 17</em></p><p><em>On AI And Consciousness … 19</em></p><p><em>It’s Crazy And Evil To Support Israel’s Atrocities Because You Think God Wants You To … 22</em></p><p><em>Every Day The Gaza Holocaust Continues, The Empire Tells The Truth About Itself … 24</em></p><p><em>Saying It’s Antisemitic To Oppose Genocide Is Like Saying It’s Anti-Catholic To Oppose Pedophilia … 26</em></p><p><em>“Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself” Is A Genocidal Slogan … 28</em></p><p><em>Candles … 30</em></p><p><em>The US Just Massacred Civilians In Yemen Without Even Claiming They’re Military Targets … 32</em></p><p><em>Trump Supporters Don’t Understand Free Speech … 34</em></p><p><em>“I Want A Death That The World Will Hear” — Journalist Assassinated By Israel For Telling The Truth … 36</em></p><p><em>The Pope Has Died, And The Palestinian People Have Lost An Important Advocate … 38</em></p><p><em>If October 7 Justifies The Gaza Genocide, What Acts Of Violence Will The Gaza Genocide Justify? … 40</em></p><p><em>Not Taking A Position On Gaza IS Taking A Position On Gaza … 42</em></p><p><em>The 21st Century Human Is Called Upon To Awaken Both Outwardly And Inwardly … 44</em></p><p><em>Zionism Is The Single Greatest Threat To Free Speech In The Western World Today … 46</em></p><p><em>Nobody Say “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine” … 48</em></p><p><em>All The Worst Evils Are Happening Right Out In The Open … 50</em></p><p><em>We Are Trapped In A Dystopia That Is Ruled By Lunatics … 52</em></p><p><em>It’s Always About The System … 55</em></p><p><em>Biden Never Pushed For A Ceasefire In Gaza … 57</em></p><p><em>Israel’s Backers Keep Whining That They’re Losing Control Of The Narrative … 59</em></p><p>Again, you can get a paperback copy of this issue by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1923372068">clicking here</a>, or <a href="https://caitoz.gumroad.com/l/kghwvv">click here</a> for a digital pay-what-you-feel copy.</p><p>________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/"><em>Click here for links for my mailing list, social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article</em></a><em>. 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title: Équilibrer la promotion des droits de l’homme et la lutte contre le terrorisme
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<p>Texte de l’intervention de René Naba au colloque organisé à Genève le 24 septembre 2024, par International Center Against Terrorism (ICALT), dont l’auteur en est le vice-président, et Inter-Cultural and Inter Religious Forum (FICIR).</p>
<p>«<em> La liberté d’information est un </em>…</p>

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<p><strong><em>Tra scambi di fuoco lungo la Linea di Controllo e l’attentato a Pahalgam, India e Pakistan rischiano l’escalation verso una nuova guerra. La Cina si pone ancora una volta come promotore del dialogo, chiedendo moderazione e soluzioni diplomatiche, mentre Iran e Arabia Saudita sostengono iniziative di mediazione per scongiurare un conflitto nucleare regionale.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Negli ultimi giorni la contesa tra India e Pakistan nella regione del Jammu e Kashmir ha registrato un pericoloso inasprimento, con il ripetersi di scambi di fuoco lungo la <em>Line of Control</em> (LoC) e la recrudescenza di attacchi terroristici che hanno provocato decine di vittime. Comprendere questa nuova fase di tensione richiede di fare i conti con la storia del conflitto kashmiro, le dinamiche politiche interne di Delhi e Islamabad, e l’intervento di attori regionali come la Cina, l’Iran e l’Arabia Saudita.</p>
<p>La scintilla più recente è scoppiata il 22 aprile, quando uomini armati hanno assalito un resort nei pressi della prateria di Baisaran, a pochi chilometri da Pahalgam, uccidendo almeno 28 persone, tra cui numerosi turisti. Il Fronte della Resistenza (<em>The Resistance Front</em>, TRF), legato a <em>Lashkar-e-Taiba</em> (“Esercito del Bene”), ha rivendicato l’attentato, riaccendendo le tensioni che, già dagli anni Sessanta, vedono Pakistan e India contendersi il controllo del Kashmir. Questi eventi si innestano in un contesto che ha recentemente visto la nascita di un governo locale guidato dalla <em>All Parties Hurriyat Conference</em> (APHC), vittoriosa alle elezioni del settembre-ottobre 2024, mentre i ribelli indipendentisti, sostenuti dalla maggioranza musulmana della valle di Srinagar, continuano a lottare per l’autonomia o l’annessione al Pakistan.</p>
<p>In risposta all’attentato, Delhi ha reagito con misure dure: revoca dei visti ai pakistani, sospensione del trattato sulle acque dell’Indo e chiusura del principale valico di frontiera. Dal canto suo, Islamabad ha replicato espellendo diplomatici indiani, negando visti ai cittadini di Nuova Delhi e chiudendo il proprio spazio aereo. Nel frattempo, per diverse notti entrambe le forze armate hanno aperto il fuoco oltre la LoC, sottolineando come la questione kashmira possa rapidamente sfuggire a qualsiasi controllo.</p>
<p>Di fronte a questa escalation, <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/la-cina-invita-india-e-pakistan-alla-de-escalation-delle-tensioni/">la Cina ha assunto un ruolo di mediatore attento e propositivo</a>. Il ministro degli Esteri Wang Yi, in una telefonata con il collega pakistano Ishaq Dar, ha espresso il pieno sostegno di Pechino all’avvio di un’inchiesta imparziale sull’attacco terroristico e ha esortato India e Pakistan ad “<em>esercitare moderazione, muoversi l’uno verso l’altro e lavorare per ridimensionare le tensioni</em>”. Inoltre, il portavoce del ministero degli Esteri Guo Jiakun ha ribadito che la Cina, in qualità di Paese confinante con entrambi, auspica una soluzione pacifica tramite dialogo e consultazioni e appoggia ogni iniziativa che contribuisca a raffreddare la situazione.</p>
<p>Questo approccio s’inserisce nella più ampia politica cinese di mantenere buoni rapporti con entrambe le potenze dell’Asia meridionale. Con il Pakistan, Pechino ha ormai una partnership strategica “per tutte le condizioni” che va dalla cooperazione spaziale — con programmi congiunti per addestrare astronauti pakistani e condurre ricerche sulla stazione Tiangong — al sostegno nei piani di sviluppo infrastrutturale e antiterrorismo. Con l’India, nonostante le innegabili divergenze esistenti, la Cina continua a negoziare intese commerciali e <a href="https://giuliochinappi.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/il-miglioramento-delle-relazioni-tra-cina-e-india-pilastri-del-multipolarismo-e-protagonisti-dei-brics/">a partecipare a forum multilaterali dove collaborare su temi come il cambiamento climatico e la stabilità economica</a>.</p>
<p>Al di là di Pechino, due altri importanti attori macroregionali stanno esercitando una certa influenza sulle dinamiche sud-asiatiche: l’Iran e l’Arabia Saudita. Il vice primo ministro pakistano Ishaq Dar ha informato in separati colloqui telefonici i ministri degli Esteri saudita Faisal bin Farhan e iraniano Seyed Abbas Araghchi sugli sviluppi recenti, apprezzando il loro contributo a iniziative volte a mitigare le tensioni. Riyadh, in particolare, ha interesse a evitare che il conflitto nella regione limiti l’export di energia e generi instabilità nei Paesi del Golfo; Teheran, dal canto suo, teme che un’escalation possa coinvolgere l’Afghanistan vicino al confine nord-occidentale pakistano, dove l’Iran ha proprie rilevanti minoranze sciite.</p>
<p>Va tuttavia sottolineato che il ruolo di questi mediatori regionali non sostituisce il lavoro diplomatico di altri organismi multilaterali, come le Nazioni Unite, che hanno condannato l’attacco definendolo “<em>criminogeno e ingiustificabile</em>” e hanno chiesto “<em>la massima moderazione</em>”. Tuttavia, la vicinanza politica e religiosa dell’Arabia Saudita e dell’Iran con il Pakistan e con le minoranze musulmane dell’India conferisce loro una capacità di interlocuzione sui rispettivi campi di influenza che può rivelarsi decisiva per agevolare canali di dialogo informale.</p>
<p>Ad alimentare la preoccupazione internazionale, come accennato, vi è inoltre il carattere nucleare di entrambi gli Stati confinanti: una guerra aperta nel Kashmir potrebbe innescare una crisi che travalichi il teatro regionale, con conseguenze incalcolabili per la sicurezza globale. Proprio per contenere tale rischio, la via diplomatica, unita alle pressioni moderate da attori terzi, rimane l’unica strada percorribile.</p>
<p>In questo complesso scenario, la Cina punta a proiettare un’immagine di partner affidabile e stabilizzatore. L’impegno di Pechino è doppio: da un lato, la salvaguardia della propria stabilità di lungo periodo, garantita dalla pace ai suoi confini; dall’altro, il consolidamento della sua influenza regionale mediante un approccio equidistante che confluisce nei grandi progetti infrastrutturali e nelle iniziative multilaterali. L’auspicio cinese è che India e Pakistan scelgano la via del dialogo, evitando che la contesa kashmira si trasformi in un conflitto ancora più insidioso. La cooperazione di tecnici, militari e diplomatici, assieme all’appoggio di potenze regionali come Arabia Saudita e Iran, potrà fare da argine alla spirale di violenza e restituire al Kashmir — da sempre terra di incontro tra religioni e culture — la speranza di un futuro di convivenza.</p>
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title: OTD: 3 May 1916: Thomas MacDonagh executed
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<p><strong>Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary in 1878 to schoolteacher parents. His parents were not supporters of nationalist politics and in fact the young Thomas was not interested in the burgeoning Irish language movements of the time.</strong></p>
<p>Like his parents he went into teaching. He also became involved in the cultural and literal movements of the late 19th century and shared his poetry with the Anglo-Irish literary set, who held a lively discourse in the upper echelons of Dublin at the time. In these circles he met many of the poets and writers of Ireland. His own poetry was praised by W.B Yeats who thought he had a “thoughtful and imaginative mind” but wasn’t fully formed.</p>
<p>His “thoughtful” mind was probably his greater gift to Irish literature; his review of Anglo-Irish literature is still the seminal work on the topic. His poetic translations of Irish poetry are also skilfully done and beautifully captures the essence and meter of the original Gaelic.</p>
<p>One of these, <em>An Droimfhionn Donn Dílis</em> is an Irish allegorical poem, which uses a historical cultural-anthropomorphic representation of the nation and the “tailte” (an old Irish word meaning the land of the people) to represent the disposed Irish. This poem laments the reduced state of the herder’s ‘Droimfhionn Donn,’ a native breed of cow which translates as white-ridged brown-backed.  It’s an unusual metaphor for a wandering people, leaderless and exiled from their homes; but it’s one that is emotionally weighted to be easily grasped by its intended audience of agrarian 18th Century Ireland.</p>
<p>The cow is driven from its pastures to the wilds and wastelands, while the usurper feasts in halls formally occupied by the cow’s herder.</p>
<p><strong>An Droimfhionn Donn Dílis -Translation by Thomas MacDonagh</strong></p>
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<p><em>O Droimfhionn Donn Dílis,</em></p>
<p><em>O Silk of the Kine!</em></p>
<p><em>Where goest thou for sleeping?</em></p>
<p><em>What pastures are thine?</em></p>
<p><em>In the woods with my gilly</em></p>
<p><em>Always I must keep,</em></p>
<p><em>And tis that now that leaves me</em></p>
<p><em>Forsaken to weep</em></p>

<p><em> “Land, homestead, wines, music</em></p>
<p><em>I am reft of them all!</em></p>
<p><em>Chief and bard that once wooed me</em></p>
<p><em>Are gone from my call!</em></p>
<p><em>And cold water to soothe me</em></p>
<p><em>I sup with my tears,</em></p>
<p><em>While the foe that pursues me</em></p>
<p><em>Has the drinking that cheers.”</em></p>

<p><em> “Through the mist of the glensides</em></p>
<p><em>And the hills I’ll return</em></p>
<p><em>Like a brogue beyond mending</em></p>
<p><em>The Sasanach I’ll spurn:</em></p>
<p><em>If in battle’s contention</em></p>
<p><em>I have sight of the crown,</em></p>
<p><em>I’ll befriend thee and defend thee</em></p>
<p><em>My young Droimeann Donn</em></p>

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<p>In his youth Thomas had little interest in the Irish language renewal and in fact attended a Conradh na Gaeilge event in Kilkenny in 1902, in a mood of bohemian scorn. He intended to make fun at the rustic attempts of culture but to the surprise of this self described “greatest West Briton in Ireland” he found himself impressed beyond comprehension by the vision and sincere activity of this movement. In his own words he had a “baptism in nationalism” and “a conversion to the Irish-Ireland creed”.</p>
<p>It was a rapid evolution. A year later he founded a branch of Conradh na Gaeilge in Fermoy where he was teaching. In 1908 he was one of the founders of Patrick Pearse’s experimental school for boys, St. Enda’s. He would teach here for the rest of his life.</p>
<p>One of Mac Donagh’s most gifted students was a young poet named Joseph Plunkett. Plunkett was seeking a teacher for private lessons in Irish and MacDonagh was recommended to him. As it turned out MacDonagh and Plunkett had much more interests in common and a fruitful friendship and literary partnership was formed between them.</p>
<p>Along with Edward Martyn they formed The Irish Theatre Company in 1914. This company staged a different style of play to the Abbey which they felt was too influenced by Yeats and Lady Gregory. They consciously selected modern European plays and new Irish plays, in both Irish and English, which were not the type of Irish peasant morality plays that the Abbey produced.</p>
<p>They also were founders, and eventually took over, a very influential publication named <em>The Irish Review</em>. This periodical included contributions from all factions of Irish cultural society and while it focussed on arts and literature mainly at the start, after the 1913 lockout it became increasingly political. It really was eclectic and in one issue it might include contributions on obscurantism in poetry, critical reviews of Ibsen’s latest work, a treatise on education, and an economist view of the taxation of land. It brought in contributions from across the spectrum of Irish society.</p>
<p>One of the poets that MacDonagh met and grew close to within the Irish literary circle was a young self-taught writer from rural Meath. A child of a widow and one of seven, he was a labourer from Slane who had infused a sincerity of the Irish rural heartland in his writing.</p>
<p>This writer, Francis Ledwidge, was away in the trenches of WWI when he found out about the execution of Thomas MacDonagh, and was grief stricken by it. Remembering Mac Donagh’s Droimfhionn Donn he turned the metaphor into a wonderful elegy for his friend, his lost vision, and his stolen life.</p>

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<p><strong>LAMENT FOR THOMAS MACDONAGH</strong></p>
<p><em>by Francis Ledwidge</em></p>
<p>He shall not hear the bittern cry<br>In the wild sky, where he is lain,<br>Nor voices of the sweeter birds<br>Above the wailing of the rain.<br>Nor shall he know when loud March blows<br>Thro’ slanting snows her fanfare shrill,<br>Blowing to flame the golden cup<br>Of many an upset daffodil.<br>But when the dark cow leaves the moor,<br>And pastures poor with greedy weeds,<br>Perhaps he’ll hear her low at morn<br>Lifting her horn in pleasant meads.</p>
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<p>After his court-martial, McDonagh wrote to his wife:</p>
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<p><em>“I made no appeal, no recantation, no apology for my acts. In what I said I merely claimed that I acted honorably and thoroughly in all that I set myself to do…In all my acts…I have been actuated by one motive only, the love of my country, the desire to make her a sovereign independent state. I am ready to die and I think God that I die in such a holy cause.”</em></p>
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<p>On May 3rd 1916, McDonagh was executed along at dawn along with two other signatories of the Proclamation, Pádraig Mac Piarais and Thomas Clarke.</p>

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<p><em>Listen to first hand accounts of those who remembered Thomas MacDonagh as a teacher, poet and colleague</em></p>


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<p><strong><em>If Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine succeeds, Brussels will have to rethink all its calculations from scratch.</em></strong></p>
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<p>In March 2025, the European Union (EU) launched a comprehensive defense package called “ReArm Europe” (later renamed “Readiness 2030”) to mobilize up to 800 billion euros of financial resources in the coming years.</p>
<p>This rearmament will be financed through both 650 billion euros in financial flexibility provided to member states and 150 billion euros in defense loans (SAFE).</p>
<p>Budget rules will be loosened, existing funds will be redirected toward defense, support for the European Investment Bank (EIB) will be increased, and private capital will be mobilized.<br>
That’s the plan…</p>
<p>This rearmament serves two main purposes for Brussels: to strengthen deterrence against the “Russian threat” and to seek military independence driven by concerns that a Trump-led U.S. may reduce its military support.</p>
<p><strong>How did ReArm Europe emerge?</strong></p>
<p>The plan was unveiled when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared on March 4, 2025, that Europe was at a critical juncture in the field of defense.<br>
The rearmament initiative is a five-stage strategic defense program designed to rapidly and collectively increase Europe’s defense spending.</p>
<p>Although the plan was initially called “ReArm Europe,” it was renamed “Readiness 2030” in April 2025 following objections from the leaders of Italy and Spain.</p>
<p>Italian leader Giorgia Meloni stated that “ReArm Europe” was “a misleading name,” saying, “We are being called upon to strengthen our defense capabilities, but this does not mean buying weapons indiscriminately.”</p>
<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez also expressed his dislike for the name “ReArm Europe,” saying, “Defense can be explained under a much broader umbrella, such as security.”</p>
<p><strong>What is the plan?</strong></p>
<p>ReArm Europe/Readiness 2030 consists of five main components:</p>
<ul>
<li>Applying exemptions for defense spending within the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), enabling an approximate total of 650 billion euros in additional spending over four years,</li>
<li>Financing joint projects such as air defense, missile systems, and drones with the “SAFE” program, which targets a 150 billion-euro budget and offers loan terms up to 45 years,</li>
<li>Redirecting a portion of existing EU funds, such as regional development and cohesion funds, toward defense investments,</li>
<li>Expanding the EIB’s credit and capital market support for the defense industry,</li>
<li>Channeling private sector resources into defense projects under the Savings and Investment Union framework.</li>
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<p>Through all these reallocations and adjustments, the EU plans to mobilize a total financial pool of 800 billion euros by combining public budgets and private sector investments.</p>
<p>However, this plan will place a significant economic burden on EU member states.</p>
<p><strong>So, how much burden might fall on each country?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Economic obligations</strong></p>
<p>Germany plans to increase its defense spending by 1.5% of its GDP, amounting to an additional annual burden of approximately 60 billion euros. Berlin aims to achieve this by seeking exemptions from EU financial rules.</p>
<p>Poland is projected to spend 5% of its GDP on defense in 2026; it has already reached 4.7%. This translates to about 40 billion euros more in the Polish economy.</p>
<p>Aside from Portugal, which has declared it will use the same exemption opportunity as Germany, Baltic and Eastern European countries are also expected to take similar steps.</p>
<p>Countries with higher debt levels or those geographically further from Russia—such as France, Italy, and Spain—are more hesitant about using these exemptions due to budget pressures.</p>
<p>The right to apply for SAFE loans will be open to all Member States and certain partner countries (such as Ukraine and candidate countries) until 2030, totaling 150 billion euros.</p>
<p>Overall, even when 650 billion euros of new national spending rights and 150 billion euros in joint loans are distributed among the 27 EU countries, it creates a significant economic responsibility.</p>
<p><strong>Can Europe handle this burden?</strong></p>
<p>In recent years, Europe has significantly increased its defense spending, but it still lags behind the U.S. in terms of defense industrial production capacity and R&amp;D investments.</p>
<p>Although measures such as financial flexibility and loans are designed to bypass budget rules, the combination of high public debt and weak economic growth raises new concerns.</p>
<p>In anticipation of the expected confusion, discussions have already begun about establishing a “central authority” responsible for managing and overseeing this budget.</p>
<p>If the EU proceeds with selecting such a “central authority,” the selection process itself could open the door to new disputes.</p>
<p>Another risk facing Europe’s 2030 preparations is the critical role assigned to private capital.</p>
<p>If the climate of fear created by the anticipated war with Russia causes “financial anxieties” among private investors, relying solely on public budgets is unlikely to yield optimistic results.</p>
<p>Although the EU has strengthened its financial instruments and updated its rearmament plans, ultimately the trajectory will be determined by member states’ economic resilience and industrial capacity.</p>
<p>Potential social unrest sparked by the economic burdens of military spending will be one of the greatest challenges for European politics.</p>
<p><strong>The Role of the Transatlantic Rift</strong></p>
<p>Another major motivation behind ReArm Europe is undoubtedly U.S. President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Trump’s views—and those of his team—on Europe, their eagerness to meddle in domestic politics (especially in Germany), and newly imposed 25% tariffs are forcing Europe to “fend for itself.”</p>
<p>While European leaders continuously cite the so-called “Russian threat” to justify rearmament to the public and overlook NATO’s expansion map, Brussels must also deal with the vacuum created by both Russia and Trump’s America.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the strategic autonomy Europe has begun building due to Trump could still collapse because of Trump himself.</p>
<p>If Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine succeeds, Brussels will have to rethink all its calculations from scratch.</p>
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<p><em>We shall obliterate Naziism and German Militarism. We shall overthrow the Nazi rule, dissolve the Nazi Party and abolish the cruel, oppressive and discriminatory laws and institutions which the Party has created. We shall eradicate that German Militarism which has so often disrupted the peace of the world. Military and Party leaders, the Gestapo and others suspected of crimes and atrocities will be tried and, if guilty, punished as they deserve.</em></p>
<p>So, famously, ran <a href="https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/dwight-d-eisenhower/proclamation-no-1/88286.aspx#:~:text=We%20shall%20overthrow%20the%20Nazi,which%20the%20Party%20has%20created.">Eisenhower’s Proclamation no 1</a>, which the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Headquarters_Allied_Expeditionary_Force" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Western Allies’ supreme commander</a> issued on September 28, 1944, just a little over a fortnight after his Anglo-American troops converged on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Line_campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Siefried line</a> as a prelude to entering and overthrowing once and for all Hitler’s Third Reich.</p>
<p>Although we could argue about whether all traces of the German, Croatian, Finnish and Italian juntas were obliterated or not, we cannot dispute that the Third Reich’s ideology has not only survived in Ukraine, but has thrived there as well. From there, we can conclude that Putin is on the same page today as Eisenhower was in 1944, when he issued Proclamation no 1 and that Putin’s troops can no more today pack up their bags and go home than Eisenhower’s 4 million troops could on September 28, 1944. Sadly, just like then, there is more fighting and killing to be done today to “abolish the cruel, oppressive and discriminatory laws and institutions” which Zelensky has perpetuated because no worthwhile deals can be done with Nazis.</p>
<p>Although Putin’s anti-Nazi Ukrainian policy has its Western critics, most of that criticism revolves around different definitions of what Western democracy and good Western governance is. Although Wikipedia gives us a nice definition here of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">what theoretical democracy is</a> (a bunch of enlightened slave owners in ancient Athens or George Washington’s America voting on some irrelevant trivia), Meadow Soprano, daughter of Mafia boss, Tony, gives us a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCDLz2Wabgg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">much more practical definition here</a>, where she explains that democracy “brings certain modes of conflict resolution from all the way back in the old country from the poverty of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Mezzogiorno" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Mezzogiorno</a> where all higher authority was corrupt.”</p>
<p>Using Meadow’s definition, NATO’s democracy is only Mafia-style business, where the masses subsist on their masters’ bread crumbs, watch their virtual circuses and cower before their <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/condottiere" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condottiere</a>. As long as we are prepared to play along with their charade, we will be fine, as long as we do not get in the way, like Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and Estonia do, or like the members of every conceivable minority group in Syria do. Because Syria’s Armenians, Assyrians, Alawites, Christians, Ismailis, Shias and moderate Sunnis are impediments to the grander Mafia plans of NATO, Turkey and Israel, they have to be gang raped and murdered, and there is not a thing the West’s mainstream media have to say on the matter. <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madame_Roland#:~:text=Quotes&amp;text=O%20Libert%C3%A9,%20que%20de%20crimes,Bartlett's%20Familiar%20Quotations,%2010th%20ed." target="_blank" rel="noopener">O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom</a>!</p>
<p>Much the same applies to Libya, Iraq, Ukraine and other swindles, when the forces of democracy can smash and grab their resources or force <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/05/01/trump-minerals-deal-ukraine-blames-russia-invasion-zelensky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quislings like Zelensky to gift them</a> to them on dimes to the dollar. If countries like Russia refuse to bend, that is not an imminent problem if their assets can be frozen and their mere existence used to keep NATO’s arms and related scams going.</p>
<p>Although countries like Russia, Vietnam and China seem to be doing well on the economic front, they are inferior to us because they don’t have our Meadow Soprano form of democracy, which allows unelected yob Ursula von der Leyen ink massive arms and vaccine contracts to keep the bribes flowing, which allows Irish government cronies make fortunes by the human warehousing of armies of undocumented economic male migrants, which allows the British “Labour” government to jail grandmothers for politically incorrect but totally understandable social media posts, for the “liberal” Canadian government to freeze random bank accounts, and for POTUS Trump to do whatever he wants to whomsoever does not kiss his 78 year old ass.</p>
<p>These agents, who are supposed to run our countries on our behalf, are not modern day versions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cincinnatus</a>, who is remembered for his selfless leadership, civic virtue, and service to the greater good. They either use the Irish step ladder model of former Irish President Robinson and Prime Minister Varadkar for greater overseas perks, or they use itsTony Blair variant, which is to instigate wars of extermination for personal gain, or the Canadian Mark Carney model of moving from central banking to the Prime Minister’s seat to keep the gravy train flowing. What they do not do is give their disenfranchised electorate much more than bread, circuses and some other cheap gimmicks to opiate them.</p>
<p>Although all those countries deserve their own articles, NATO’s overlying plan is to shoehorn the lot of us into the grand plans of the World Economic Forum, to which many of these leaders are umbilically linked, as well as companies like Black Rock, which have invested heavily in mugging Ukraine. And that rump Reich exemplifies the role NATO’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Goebbels</a> school of propaganda plays in telling us <a href="https://fortune.com/2025/03/09/defense-giants-rearm-europe-bae-thales-rheinmetall-leonardo-saab-airbus-safran-fincantieri-dassault/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/world/europe/europe-military-spending.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-its-time-reconsider-european-army" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> that arming the Nazis of Ukraine to murder Orthodox Christians will enrich the lot of us as well as amoral pirates like Black Rock and Vanguard.</p>
<p>Much like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, so also was Goebbels micro managing the production of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolberg_(film)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kolberg</a>, the most expensive movie the Third Reich ever produced, when Eisenhower penned his Proclamation no 1, when his 4 million troops were at the edge of Germany’s Western border and when the tens of thousands of German troops used as extras in the film were badly needed to fend them off. Although much of Goebbels’ previous propaganda had been effective, by the time Kolberg was released in January 1945, it was much too late for his expensive exhortations to fight to the end to change the tide but Goebbels was much too fixed in his ways to change track.</p>
<p>Much the same applies to NATO today where not only is Russia maligned as a blood thirsty beast and <a href="https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/post-withheld-by-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia Today is banned</a> but such actions are reinforced by a cacophony of parties screaming in our ears that the Russian bear is coming to rip us all to shreds. Consider the case of <a href="https://rsf.org/en/who-are-we" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reporters Without Borders</a>, which “defends the right of every human being to have access to free and reliable information” and whose mission is to “act for the freedom, pluralism and independence of journalism and defend those who embody these ideals” and so on and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>All very well until we read <a href="https://rsf.org/en/russia-serbia-how-rt-spreads-kremlin-s-propaganda-balkans-despite-eu-sanctions">these accounts of them attacking</a> Russia Today, Russia and Serbia, and <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-rsf-satellite-news/32849854.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this USAID/Radio Liberty account</a> of RSF setting up satellite news channels to broadcast into Russia showing, if we have to be shown, that such outfits are merely CIA and MI6 outreach programmes that have nothing but contempt for the Russian journalists murdered within Russia’s own borders.</p>
<p>And, though Russia Today has its own relatively straightforward spin on the news, its relevance, like that of The Sopranos, is it affords us a prism through which the entire NATO criminal charade from Eisenhower’s protocol right down to today can be refracted and the underlying lies about NATO’s barrel-of-a-gun democracy be exposed for the rainbows of self-serving lies and delusions that they are.</p>
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<p>In the prolonged theater of the Ukrainian crisis, a new chapter unfolds with the official revelation that troops from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) operated alongside Russian forces in the Kursk region. This fact—long speculated by the Western press—now emerges not as a “confirmation” of Washington and Brussels’ assumptions, but as another sign of the war’s evolution: the Moscow–Pyongyang axis is gaining strength and experience, not as a temporary alliance, but as a key element of the new multipolar balance.</p>
<p>For months, Western media conglomerates relied on conjecture to claim a Korean presence on the front lines. Low-quality videos, photos of Russian soldiers with Asian features—many of them from Russia’s Siberian and Far East or autonomous republics like Buryatia or Yakutia—were sensationalized to fuel the illusion that Pyongyang had already crossed a “red line.” However, none of this coverage was ever seriously verified. The obsession with preempting events only reflected the desperation of those who, deep down, fear the growing closeness between states that do not bow to Atlanticist dominance.</p>
<p>Now, with the operation completed and the Kursk region fully pacified, Moscow is taking ownership of the narrative with sovereignty: actually, there was North Korean participation, and their performance was marked by bravery and discipline. Rather than an “admission,” as European editorials try to portray it, this is a calculated move, made at the right moment—after the operation had achieved its objectives. The previous secrecy was not a “cover-up,” but a basic application of classic warfare principles: protect strategic information while fighting is still underway.</p>
<p>From a legal perspective, there is nothing illicit about the Korean presence. Military cooperation between the Russian Federation and the DPRK has been formalized through legitimate bilateral agreements under current international law. Those now shouting about the “internationalization of the conflict” prefer to forget that thousands of foreigners operate in Ukraine with NATO’s consent, disguised as “mercenaries,” “volunteers,” or “consultants.” When Americans and Europeans die in frontline combat, their governments remain silent. But when soldiers from a sovereign nation act in formal alliance with a strategic partner, it becomes a scandal for Western governments and mainstream media.</p>
<p>What truly unsettles Western capitals is not the presence of North Koreans—but their effectiveness. During the months they were on the front lines, there was no public record of casualties among DPRK ranks. No captures. No humiliations. No propaganda made at their expense. The previous lack of evidence, once used to deny their involvement, now highlights the true strength of those who operate far from media spotlights and close to the reality of combat.</p>
<p>More important, however, is the geopolitical significance of this moment. Pyongyang’s presence alongside Moscow sends a clear message: the world no longer revolves around decisions made in Washington. The alliance between two sovereign states—constantly demonized by the same media-financial apparatus—is an assertion of the right to resist and to build alternative paths to the unipolar order.</p>
<p>While the West imposes sanctions and pretends it still controls the world, other countries are quietly building bridges—ones that are becoming, day by day, real corridors of support, logistics, and political, economic, and military solidarity. The alliance between Russia and North Korea is not just a temporary collaboration, but the embryo of a new security architecture in Eurasia. And that, more than any tactical operation, is what truly frightens those who live off hegemony and the monopoly of force.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Come può la Russia usare la sua posizione territoriale vantaggiosa?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>I tre mari del mondo</strong></p>
<p>Russia, fine del XIX secolo: un pluridecorato geografo, esploratore e statistico di nome Pëtr Petrovič Semënov Tjan Šanskij, sancisce una delle definizioni più originali della nascente geopolitica russa. Per l’avventuroso ricercatore, la Russia doveva essere letta e compresa come “ciò che si trova da mare a mare”, andando a codificare una lettura interessante della geografia dell’allora grande impero russo.</p>
<p>In modo diretto e coerente fa appello alla geografia politica e all’ antropogeografia di Friedrich Ratzel, il grande etnologo e geografo tedesco, Semënov, il cui lavoro <em>Sul potere del possesso territoriale in relazione alla Russia</em> può essere considerato come una delle prime opere geopolitiche a pieno titolo in Russia, propose la propria ipotesi sulla struttura geopolitica del mondo, che possiamo brevemente riassumer come segue: le civiltà si formano intorno ai tre mari del mondo, il Mediterraneo (insieme con il Mar Nero), il Mare Cinese Orientale e Meridionale (insieme al Mare Giappone e il Mar Giallo), il bacino dei Caraibi (compreso il Golfo del Messico). Da queste zone, la cultura si diffonde in diverse direzioni, arrivando a tappezzare l’intero pianeta, in fasi diverse della storia ma concatenate ai tre mari.</p>
<p>Da qui nasce il tema del “potere”: le persone che riescono a stabilire il controllo politico su tutta la costa adiacente a uno dei tre mari del mondo conquistano poi il dominio su tutti i territori adiacenti.</p>
<p>Detto, fatto. Non un assist alla geopolitica talassocratica di Halford Mackinder, che non conosceva, ma una lettura potremmo dire provvidenzialmente speculare, che denota un interesse per il potere dei mari da parte della Russia, in una fase ed in un contesto che rendono questo argomento estremamente intriganti.</p>
<p>Nel corso della storia, il consolidamento del dominio sui mari ha dato origine a tre specifiche configurazioni del <em>potere di possesso</em>, ciascuna corrispondente a differenti morfologie costiere. Nel contesto del Mediterraneo europeo, si è affermato un modello di tipo anulare, fondato su un controllo costiero continuo. Un secondo paradigma emerse durante l’epoca coloniale dell’Europa occidentale, caratterizzato dall’instaurazione di forme di possesso frammentarie su arcipelaghi e porzioni disgiunte di territorio continentale, dislocate lungo le rotte oceaniche e interconnesse da una regolare circolazione navale, sia militare sia commerciale; tale configurazione è stata definita da Semënov come “a macchia di leopardo”. Il terzo modello, elaborato dallo stesso autore, è quello “da mare a mare”, riconducibile nella tradizione geopolitica classica al paradigma continentale o tellurico. Quest’ultimo concetto rappresentò un momento cruciale nell’elaborazione della teoria geopolitica russa e, qualora gli eventi rivoluzionari del 1917 e l’imposizione dell’ideologia marxista-totalitaria da parte del regime bolscevico non ne avessero interrotto lo sviluppo, dagli studi di Semënov avrebbe potuto originarsi una vera e propria scuola russa di geografia politica e geopolitica.</p>
<p>La Russia, in tutto questo, ha una posizione singolare: è geograficamente bagnata da più mari e, per la sua enorme estensione, ha la possibilità di controllare ed influenzare lo sviluppo di più mari e le potenze che vi si trovano. Questo cambio di prospettiva permette di leggere la Russia dal punto di vista talassocratico, non cioè definendola come una potenza primariamente talassocratica, bensì in senso secondario, come una sorta di “talassocrazia indiretta”, data dalla sua ampiezza tellurocratica.</p>
<p>Semënov concretizzò storicamente le basi culturali ed economiche di colonizzazione, allorché in Russia vi erano, a suo dire, varie basi di colonizzazione culturale ed economica. Questi fuochi, espandendo la loro luce in tutte le direzioni, mantengono davvero la forza del territorio statale e contribuiscono al suo insediamento in modo più uniforme così come al suo sviluppo culturale ed economico. Se guardiamo alla Russia europea, noteremo sul suo territorio quattro specifiche aree russe che sono sorte in tempi diversi: un primo nucleo era costituito nella zona della Galizia e di Kiev-Chernihiv; il secondo nella terra di Novgorod e Pietrogrado, il terzo a Mosca e il quarto nel Medio del Volga. I nuclei nella Galizia e Novgorod dovettero affrontare i nemici occidentali ed andarono per lungo tempo in completo declino, per poi nuovamente rinascere come una fenice dalle sue ceneri. Le terre di Mosca e del Medio Volga, che occupavano una posizione geografica interna, sono cresciute invece quasi ininterrottamente, senza incorrere in lunghi periodi di declino. Grazie a questi quattro nuclei culturali, i russi hanno potuto trincerarsi saldamente entro le coste dei quattro mari, riuscendo a diventare una potenza mondiale.</p>
<p>La sua teorizzazione risultò fondamentale per dettare la linea eurasiatista della Russia: avendo realizzato la sua natura continentale, avendo accettato la sua natura eurasiatica, la Russia avrebbe guardato al mondo e ai processi che si stavano sviluppando nella politica mondiale con uno sguardo completamente nuovo.</p>
<p>La Russia, dunque, come capace di gestire ben tre mari, o forse anche di più. Tutta un’altra prospettiva.</p>
<p><strong>Una lezione ancora valida</strong></p>
<p>In un certo senso, la lezione di Semënov è ancora attuale e più che una teoria, è risultata un fatto compiuto.</p>
<p>La Russia ha dimostrato di riuscire a gestire i tre mari, perlomeno tutelandosi dagli attacchi che potevano provenire attraverso di essi.</p>
<p>Il Mediterraneo è diventato “distante” negli ultimi anni a causa delle sanzioni e dell’allontanamento dell’Occidente, pur non potendovi rinunciare in quanto bacino acquifero che rappresenta una fonte di risorse importanti ed un accesso al Medio Oriente e all’Africa. Ma è anche il mare degli antichi commerci, della prima e seconda Roma, della storia millenaria dell’Europa da cui una parte del popolo russo proviene. Si tratta di un are etnosociologicamente irrinunciabile. Prima o poi, la Russia tornerà a stabilirvi un dominio, commerciale o militare.</p>
<p>Il Mar Cinese Orientale è divenuto zona di equilibrio con la Cina e in generale con le potenze del lontano Oriente. La Russia lì vi ha stabilito una buona parte del suo mercato portuale e della sua flotta, stabilendo collaborazioni importanti. La solida catena di alleati nella regione garantisce stabilità.</p>
<p>Per quanto riguarda i Caraibi, è chiaro che la Russia non abbia interessi meramente geografici. Lì si trovano partner come ad esempio Cuba, un vero e proprio avamposto per bilanciare lo strapotere talassocratico. È stato storicamente importantissimo, nel periodo della Guerra Fredda, un vero e proprio “inside job”. Il Golfo del Messico rappresenta uno spazio estremamente distante e non influente direttamente sul territorio russo, ma significa piuttosto una delle facce che assume il potere talassocratico anglo-americano e, di più, un canale fondamentale per i commerci, con Panama e dintorni ancora in una fase di cambiamenti importanti. D’altronde l’America, e il Regno Unito, sono le due potenze talassocratiche per eccellenza e sfruttano quel bacino come il “porto sicuro” fra i due grandi oceani.</p>
<p>Dunque, la Russia, per mantenere la propria stabilità e confermare la realizzazione della propria vocazione continentale, deve tenere a bada tutti gli attori che interagiscono nei tre mari e garantirsi un rafforzamento del Rimland, la fascia di sicurezza che la separa dall’influenza direttissima delle potenze di mare. E ciò pare proprio quanto la Russia stia portando avanti.</p>
<p>Nel mare orientale, la presenza militare è stabile e eccellenti rapporti con tutti i vicini. Per il Mediterraneo, è facile pensare che anche una situazione di non-ricattabilità e di non aggressione siano più acile da gestire rispetto ad un conflitto interno e, come si vede negli ultimi giorni, la provocazione sul Mar Nero prosegue con gli screzi sulla Crimea. Riguardo i Caraibi, il potenziamento della rete dei partner e il consolidamento delle relazioni già presenti sono la strada prediletta per impedire agli USA un controllo totale sul varco dei due oceani.</p>
<p>La Russia da mare a mare, non solo fra i suoi mari di confine geografico, ma soprattutto fra i mari del mondo. Perché solo una tellurocrazia che ha realizzato pienamente la sua vocazione continentale può veramente affrontare le onde dei mari.</p>
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“Trump et Zelensky se parlent, essais de paix à Saint Pierre”, titre l’Ansa (agence de presse nationale italienne, ndt) en publiant la “photo historique de la rencontre”, définie comme “un chef-d’oeuvre de la diplomatie vaticane”. Les représentants des États-Unis et de l’Ukraine sont ainsi montrés aux yeux du monde comme ceux qui veulent la paix, pendant que Poutine continue à faire la guerre...


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<p><strong><em>Sia l’India che il Pakistan stanno intensificando la guerra dei decibel. La Turchia offre armi al Pakistan. L’Iran ha offerto un ruolo di mediatore, ma nessuno ha accettato.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Due tabù assoluti regnano sull’Occidente collettivo, ormai in frantumi:</p>
<ol>
<li>Non si può definire nazista il regime ucraino.</li>
<li>Non si può condannare il genocidio psicopatologico israeliano a Gaza.</li>
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<p>I tabù sono indissolubilmente legati alle guerre infinite condotte senza sosta dall’Impero del Caos/asse sionista.</p>
<p>Le guerre ibride minori, invece, anche se comportano la prospettiva terrificante di una escalation nucleare, possono andare e venire. Soprattutto se fanno parte dell’attuale guerra contro i BRICS, una sottosezione della guerra delle fazioni occidentali contro la maggioranza globale.</p>
<p>Andiamo quindi in Kashmir, al suono dell’ipnotico riff di . Sia l’India che il Pakistan stanno intensificando la guerra dei decibel. La Turchia offre armi al Pakistan. L’Iran ha offerto un ruolo di mediatore, ma nessuno ha accettato.</p>
<p>Il motivo della guerra è quanto mai losco. <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pahalgam-attack-who-are-the-26-people-shot-dead-by-terrorists-full-list-101745397115435.html">Un autobus turistico</a> pieno di allegri turisti sta vagando per il Kashmir controllato dall’India. Tra i passeggeri c’è un tenente della Marina indiana di 26 anni appena sposato, ma senza sua moglie (che razza di luna di miele è questa?). Un altro passeggero è nepalese. L’autobus viene attaccato da loschi teppisti vagamente affiliati al gruppo salafita-jihadista Lashkar-e-Taiba.</p>
<p>L’Impero è stato ovunque sul fronte indiano. L’attuale direttore dell’intelligence nazionale (DNI) degli Stati Uniti, Tulsi Gabbard, era in precedenza finanziato interamente dalla cerchia del primo ministro Modi. Il vicepresidente J.D. Vance, con il suo eyeliner, ha recentemente visitato l’India, con tanto di foto di famiglia al Taj Mahal. Poi Modi è andato in visita in Arabia Saudita, invitato da MbS. Dopo l’attacco terroristico all’autobus in Kashmir, i fanatici dell’Hindutva hanno dato il via a una serie di attacchi informatici.</p>
<p>Le tattiche rozze sono un classico esempio di divide et impera. Doppio colpo: rinnovata militarizzazione dell’India e destabilizzazione di un fronte chiave della Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cinese: il Corridoio Economico Cina-Pakistan (CPEC). Una cosa bellissima: dividere i BRICS dall’interno.</p>
<p>Nulla di tutto ciò, ovviamente, legittima il terribile esercito pakistano, che ha incarcerato con accuse pretestuose l’uomo che stava cercando di riportare il Pakistan alla rispettabilità: Imran Khan.</p>
<p>Spetta ancora una volta agli adulti nella stanza, in qualsiasi stanza – la Russia – allentare la tensione. Ciò potrebbe avvenire idealmente all’interno della SCO, di cui sia l’India che il Pakistan sono membri, fianco a fianco con l’Iran. Mosca ha scelto di prendere l’iniziativa, da sola.</p>
<p>Il vice ministro degli Esteri Andrey Rudenko ha incontrato sia l’ambasciatore indiano in Russia, Vinay Kumar, sia l’ambasciatore pakistano in Russia, Muhammad Khalid Jamali.</p>
<p>La terminologia russa è essenziale: non solo è stato chiesto a entrambe le parti di “impegnarsi in un dialogo costruttivo”. Mosca ha sottolineato: “Siamo pronti a contrastare insieme la minaccia terroristica globale”. La parola chiave è “globale”. Delhi e Islamabad non sembrano aver colto il messaggio, almeno per ora.</p>
<p><strong>Il Kashmir come laboratorio di guerra instabile</strong></p>
<p>Come prevedibile, è in atto una macchina infernale. È come se l’asse anglo-sionista stesse usando il Kashmir come un laboratorio instabile per una serie di test dal vivo, <em>tra cui spingere le potenze nucleari sull’orlo del confronto. E tutto questo con disinvolta noncuranza, praticamente come uno spettacolo secondario.</em></p>
<p>Nulla di ciò che proviene dal sultano Erdogan e dal suo apparato di intelligence può essere considerato affidabile. In Siria, gli agenti del MIT – la Headchopper Inc. riuniti nel Grande Idlibistan – sono finiti per essere insediati al potere a Damasco con il loro capo banda filosionista che ora si atteggia a presidente.</p>
<p>La giunta compradora yankee a Islamabad, da parte sua, potrebbe trovarsi di fronte all’abisso, il che di per sé è una notizia di buon auspicio. Parallelamente, cresce la suspense sul fatto che Modi si presenterà alla parata del Giorno della Vittoria il 9 maggio a Mosca e su cosa dirà ai suoi ospiti russi.</p>
<p>I membri del BRICS Russia e Iran vogliono che il Corridoio Internazionale di Trasporto Nord-Sud (INSTC) funzioni senza intoppi e che arrivi in India il prima possibile. Il gioco si fa ancora più complesso quando vediamo che l’inchiesta iraniana sta finalmente iniziando a considerare che la terribile esplosione al porto di Shahid Rajaee potrebbe essere stata un atto di sabotaggio o un attacco FPV.</p>
<p>L’ulteriore pressione sulla Cina è un vero e proprio motivo per creare questo laboratorio di guerra. Ora Pechino non solo deve iniziare a preoccuparsi di un fronte India-Pakistan rinnovato in modo esplosivo, ma anche delle ulteriori manovre della CIA/MI6 che spingono il Pakistan verso i jihadisti salafiti uiguri.</p>
<p>Non c’è alcuna possibilità che Delhi comprenda davvero la difficile situazione geopolitica di Pechino. Uno scenario perfetto per la banda della guerra ibrida.</p>
<p>Nel frattempo, sul fronte BRICS, ci sono almeno alcuni segni di razionalità, provenienti, ancora una volta, dal <a href="https://karlof1.substack.com/p/foreign-minister-sergey-lavrovs-written">Gran Maestro Lavrov.</a></p>
<p>Ancor prima della riunione dei ministri degli Esteri del BRICS all’inizio di questa settimana a Rio, Lavrov è andato dritto al punto sul fronte finanziario e geoeconomico. Ha sottolineato che il BRICS sta lavorando alacremente all’iniziativa sui pagamenti transfrontalieri approvata al vertice di Kazan del 2024, a un’infrastruttura di pagamento e compensazione, a una compagnia di riassicurazione e a una nuova piattaforma di investimento.</p>
<p>Ha dovuto spiegare ancora una volta ai media occidentali, dagli Stati Uniti al Brasile, che “sarebbe prematuro discutere di una transizione verso una moneta unica per i BRICS. Stiamo lavorando insieme per creare un’infrastruttura di pagamento e regolamento per effettuare transazioni transfrontaliere tra i paesi BRICS. In particolare, come ho già detto, ciò include l’aumento della quota delle valute nazionali nelle nostre transazioni”.</p>
<p>Una moneta comune dei BRICS – uno spettro che aleggia su Trump 2.0 – tornerà sul tavolo solo “<strong>una volta che saranno create le condizioni finanziarie ed economiche necessarie”. Fino ad allora, la guerra ai BRICS, ibrida e non solo, sarà implacabile.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Trumpty Dumpty</strong></p>
<p>Passando dalla realtà alla fantasia, è stato davvero divertente trovare il collegamento tra il Kashmir e Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie… <a href="https://www.guancha.cn/yanmo/2025_04_29_774003.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in un saggio cinese.</a></p>
<p>Ci vuole una finezza cinese suprema – un po’ come sovvertire la saggezza taoista con un tocco di postmodernismo – per identificare il “sovrano del mondo” (termine da lui stesso coniato) che getta tutti, praticamente l’intero pianeta, nella tana del coniglio.</p>
<p>Quindi, in questo labirinto di specchi narrativi, Trump dovrebbe essere percepito come tutti i personaggi messi insieme: il Bianconiglio, Humpty Dumpty (“Quando uso una parola, significa quello che voglio che significhi, né più né meno”), il Cappellaio Matto, la Regina di Cuori (“Che siano decapitati!”).</p>
<p>Questo illustra certamente l’intersezione tra la guerra commerciale (lanciata dal “sovrano del mondo”) e la guerra genocida (pienamente legittimata dal “sovrano del mondo”). Con un ulteriore colpo di scena: la realtà ha un talento speciale per superare Carroll, persino Lewis Carroll stesso.</p>
<p>Entra in scena il curioso caso della USS Truman, una gigantesca portaerei, posseduta dallo spirito di Ayrton Senna e decisa a compiere una curva ultra-stretta come se fosse una Maserati Gran Turismo Stradale in mezzo al Mar Rosso – solo per far sì che un F-18E Super Hornet protestasse per la manovra tuffandosi a capofitto sul fondo dell’oceano.</p>
<p>Almeno questa è la versione che il CENTCOM ha venduto all’opinione pubblica mondiale. La colpa è di quei maledetti missili Houthi!</p>
<p>Beh, il CENTCOM è stato umiliato senza pietà dalle forze armate yemenite – 21 MQ9-Reaper distrutti, e il conto continua – non avendo raggiunto alcun obiettivo militare; il Pentagono non ha sottomesso gli Houthi e non ha garantito la “libertà di navigazione” nel Mar Rosso alle navi dirette in Israele. La loro vendetta: bombardare senza sosta obiettivi civili yemeniti.</p>
<p>Tutto questo perché il “sovrano del mondo” ha lanciato una guerra illegale – contro un popolo guidato da una chiarezza morale e spirituale – per proteggere il genocidio perpetrato dai suoi compagni di regime psicopatici. Benvenuti nel Paese delle Meraviglie del “Sovrano del Mondo”, al suono dell’ipnotico riff di “Kashmir”.</p>
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<p><strong><em>A choice that becomes financially impossible is no longer a real choice. It is coerced compliance.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Rob ROSS</em></strong></p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="has-drop-cap">Starting in 2027, the European Union will expand its emissions trading system (ETS) into new territory with the launch of ETS2. While the original ETS primarily targeted heavy industry and power plants, ETS2 directly impacts ordinary citizens — their homes, their cars, their daily lives. Under the guise of ’saving the climate,’ the EU will steadily make gasoline, diesel, and gas for heating more expensive. But let’s be honest: ETS2 has very little to do with protecting the environment. It is about economic control, wealth redistribution, and the consolidation of power among banks, large corporations, governments, and the European Commission.</p>
<p>Formally, everything remains ‘voluntary.’ You may continue driving a gasoline car. You may continue heating your home with natural gas. But every choice that deviates from the state’s ‘sustainability goals’ will become economically unbearable. This is not a direct expropriation of property, but it is economic subjugation through price pressure, regulation, and redistribution of the proceeds. Instead of free choices, citizens and companies are financially forced to adopt government-approved behavior.</p>
<p><strong>Who benefits? </strong></p>
<p>Banks, investment funds, multinational corporations, government treasuries, and the European Commission. Financial giants like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank are already making billions from trading CO2 certificates. Governments are raking in massive revenues from the auctioning of emission permits. Meanwhile, large corporations that receive free allowances or have surplus certificates can sell them for profit—all while greenwashing their public image.</p>
<p><strong>And who bears the cost? </strong></p>
<p>Ordinary citizens, small businesses, the transport sector, and independent entrepreneurs. They will face hundreds of euros in additional costs every year just to heat their homes and drive to work. The most vulnerable are promised compensation through a ’Social Climate Fund’—a government handout that makes them ever more dependent on state aid.</p>
<p>This brings us to the deeper question: What direction are we heading in? Is this communism, where the state owns the means of production? Or is it fascism, where the state controls production and merges with big business to dominate society? In truth, ETS2 signals a new hybrid system. Private ownership remains in name, but real control is exercised through regulations, price manipulation, and conditional subsidies. The market is not abolished; it is repurposed around ideological objectives. Economic freedom exists only for those who can afford to comply.</p>
<p>The Brussels technocratic pressure is sold as a ‘necessary transition,’ but in reality, it is dismantling the foundation of our economy, destroying the middle class, and eroding prosperity. Instead of fostering genuine innovation, ETS2 punishes those who lack the resources to “comply.”</p>
<p>While banks and corporations speculate and profit, the hardworking EU citizen is soon faced with a grim choice: freeze in the winter or take on debt for a heat pump they neither asked for nor needed.</p>
<p>The EU claims that prices will rise “gradually” and that safeguards are in place to prevent social unrest. But history teaches us that once new taxes and levies are introduced, they rarely disappear. Temporary exceptions inevitably become permanent rules.</p>
<p><strong>ETS2 will not be the end of it </strong></p>
<p>After homes and cars, aviation, agriculture, and consumer goods will follow. Every sector deemed ‘unsustainable’ will face similar price manipulation. Personal freedom will continue to shrink, not through open political force, but through economic coercion masked as environmental stewardship.</p>
<p>And for those still believing they will retain the freedom to choose: A choice that becomes financially impossible is no longer a real choice. It is coerced compliance. It is economic submission.</p>
<p>Remember the words of Margaret Thatcher<strong>: </strong>“Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism.”<em> </em>Climate change must never be used as an excuse for economic servitude. Say no to green tyranny. Say yes to freedom, prosperity, and choice.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/freedom-in-the-eu-only-if-you-can-afford-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>europeanconservative.com</strong></a></p>


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<p>If you had “State Department” on your DOGE bingo card as the next agency teed up, mark yourself a winner. But are tough times ahead for Foggy Bottom?</p>
<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio on April 22 unveiled the beginnings of a reorganization of the State Department, calling the diplomatic agency “bloated, bureaucratic” and “beholden to radical political ideology.” But to some critics, it looks like a good start but has much further to go to create lasting progress in line with the Trump administration’s view of the changing U.S. role in the world. Among other things, the reorganization does not address any cuts to embassies and consulates abroad, the meat and potatoes of the State Department. One Foreign Service officer <a href="https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/04/state-slash-15-domestic-staff-eliminate-132-offices/404735/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the plan moved a lot of pieces around, but outside of the sleepy democracy and human rights division being gutted, most of the changes were not significant. “I wouldn’t call these sweeping reforms… yet,” the employee said.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0">The most drastic but still ho-hum change is the elimination of the Office of the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights. Some elements of the office, including the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and one for refugees, would be folded into an office for foreign assistance and humanitarian aid, according to a reorganization <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/DOS-Reorg-4.21.2025.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chart</a> posted on the State Department website. Rubio <a href="https://statedept.substack.com/p/a-new-state-department-to-meet-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor became a “platform for left-wing activists to wage vendettas” against conservative leaders, including in Poland, Hungary, and Brazil, and to promote an arms embargo against Israel. Rubio also accused the Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration of sending millions of taxpayer dollars to non-government groups to promote mass migration, including “the invasion on our southern border.”</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0">Rubio’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/22/trump-rubio-state-department-reorganization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> calls for reducing the total number of domestic State Department offices from 734 to 602, a drop of 17 percent, some 700 positions, though a detailed list has not been published. Rubio also instructed senior officials to reduce the number of U.S.-based employees overall by 15 percent in other individual domestic offices by July. Some once high-profile offices, such as the Iraq war-era Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, which aimed unsuccessfully to anticipate and prevent global conflict, will be closed. A new Bureau of Emerging Threats will be created focusing on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0">Rubio said the State Department’s size and costs had “soared” over the past 15 years. So future unspecified plans are to combine overlapping offices and eliminate some programs not mandated by Congress. “Region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality, redundant offices will be removed, and non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America’s core national interests will cease to exist,” <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1914680613275161078" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Rubio, though he did not give any specifics. In an email to staff, Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau said implementation would be led by an internal working group that would come up with “thoughtful plans” aiming to adopt the changes by July 1.</p>
<p>Rubio’s plan is not much more than a good start. An earlier draft memo <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/trump-state-department-budget-cuts.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> (<a href="https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/04/rubio-denies-trump-will-politicize-foreign-service-and-slash-embassies/404703/?oref=govexec_news_alert_nl&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=GovExec%20Alert:%20April%2020%2C%202025&amp;utm_term=newsletter_ge_alert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> “fake news” by Rubio, likely written as a trial balloon by outgoing Pete Marocco, who left the State Department after having overseen the elimination of USAID) called for the Trump administration to cut some <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/14/state-department-budget-cuts-trump-rubio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">48</a> percent of the State Department’s funding next fiscal year, mostly from its external programs. The draft proposed eliminating almost all funding for international organizations like the United Nations and NATO, ending the budget for international peacekeeping operations, and curtailing all of the department’s educational and cultural exchanges, like the Fulbright Program. It would also have cut funding for humanitarian assistance and global health programs by more than 50 percent. Many of those changes would have been drastic and unlikely to survive Congressional scrutiny; going forward, Rubio still needs to show his hand on low bang-for-the-buck international organization funding and post-WWII soft power programs. No more efforts to promote LGBT rights abroad, or right the world’s ills by pouring taxpayer money over them (though to be fair, Rubio did already cut State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues and its Diversity and Inclusion Office.) This reorganization should be a new day for diplomacy, but — so far — it is not.</p>
<p>There has been some deeper progress, and thus cause for optimism. Even before the budget memo described above reached the White House, the State Department placed all full-time staff from its “<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3382470/state-department-announces-closure-censorship-hub/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censorship office</a>” on administrative leave as the agency moves to shut down the group altogether. Originally founded by Barack Obama and known formally then as the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub, the office within the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy supposedly monitors, flags, and counters content deemed “foreign disinformation.” R/FIMI was created out of the ruins of the closure of its Obama predecessor in December 2024 following a series of First Amendment lawsuits discovered the Center was demanding from social media the censorship of American conservative voices. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg <a href="https://tippinsights.com/so-long-r-fimi-thanks-for-protecting-us-from-the-truth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> instances when government officials would “scream” and “curse” at Meta employees, threatening repercussions if certain content wasn’t removed.</p>
<p>The Center was also used as a cut-out to fund The Global Disinformation Index, a British organization with two affiliated U.S. nonprofits, to feed blacklists to online ad companies with the intent of defunding and shutting down websites peddling “disinformation,” the <em>Washington Examiner</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finance/2773271/disinformation-inc-state-department-bankrolls-group-secretly-blacklisting-conservative-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. This same “disinformation” group received $330,000 from two State Department-backed entities tied to the Center.</p>
<p>With its State Department funding (the first State Department-backed group supporting GDI was the National Endowment for Democracy) GDI identified the 10 “riskiest” news outlets for disinformation to include <em>The </em><i>American Conservative.</i> You be the judge of the validity of that use of taxpayer money, and the direction United States diplomacy was headed.</p>
<p>There’s more to come at State (the layoffs planned for July 1 should be transitionary) and reason to call all this a good start — if Rubio follows through and if his domestic cuts are met with similar reshaping abroad.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://wemeantwell.com/blog/2025/04/29/tough-times-ahead-at-foggy-bottom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>wemeantwell.com</strong></a></p>


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<p>El gobierno del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, y muchos de sus más prominentes partidarios de la derecha, están directamente vinculados a algunas de las organizaciones más radicalmente probélicas e israelíes del país. Estas conexiones conforman una extensa red de grupos de presión, multimillonarios tecnológicos y figuras de los medios que constantemente promueven los intereses israelíes por encima de los del ciudadano común. ¿Por qué la derecha pro-Trump ha pasado repentinamente de autoproclamarse un bastión de la libertad de expresión a apoyar abiertamente la censura y la represión estatal? Esta investigación de MintPress News descubre una red de apoyo impulsada por donantes que impulsa este cambio ideológico.</p>
<p><strong>La conexión Horowitz</strong></p>
<p>Desde principios de la década de 2000, el escritor y activista David Horowitz ha estado en el centro de un movimiento que afirmaba defender la libertad de expresión al tiempo que retrataba a los musulmanes y a los izquierdistas como amenazas existenciales para la civilización occidental. Tras el 11-S, Horowitz <a href="https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-david-horowitz-freedom-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pidió</a> que se perfilara a las personas “palestinas” e “islámicas” y<a href="https://dailycollegian.com/2010/02/controversial-author-horowitz-lectures-umass-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaró infamemente</a> que “los palestinos son nazis”. A través del Centro de Libertad David Horowitz (DHFC), fundado en 1998, él y sus donantes construyeron una red de medios y políticas que moldeó las carreras de casi todas las figuras conservadoras importantes pro-Trump activas en la actualidad. El Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/david-horowitz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designó</a> al DHFC como un grupo de odio, y ha <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/12/10/the-dark-money-atm-of-the-right-is-funneling-money-to-hate-groups-while-hiding-donor-identities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recibido</a> dinero oscuro anónimo canalizado a través de Donors Trust, que también ha financiado causas nacionalistas blancas. Horowitz centró gran parte de su activismo en los campus universitarios, impulsando<a href="https://dailycollegian.com/2010/02/controversial-author-horowitz-lectures-umass-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">narrativas</a> incendiarias antiislámicas y proisraelíes destinadas a <a href="https://www.independent.com/2008/05/15/david-horowitz-provokes-extreme-response-anti-arab-remarks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provocar una reacción violenta</a> . Luego, presentó las protestas contra sus apariciones como prueba de que la izquierda y las comunidades musulmanas se oponen a la Primera Enmienda. Esta estrategia sentó las bases para figuras como Ben Shapiro, quien construyó su carrera temprana en visitas a campus universitarios, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A0y5o4xphM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defendiendo</a> incluso el discurso de odio como expresión protegida y popularizando lemas como “a los hechos no les importan tus sentimientos”. Shapiro comenzó como <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2019/10/18/ben-shapiro-to-speak-on-campus-after-stanford-admin-criticized-his-collaborators-visit-in-may/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">miembro</a> del DHFC, y su primer libro, “Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth”, se publicó en 2004. Shapiro más tarde se convertiría en editor en jefe de Truth Revolt, un sitio web financiado por el David Horowitz Freedom Center, donde su editor jefe era Jeremy Boreing. Ambos cofundarían lo que hoy es The Daily Wire. Ambos también trabajaron con organizaciones <a href="https://www.newarab.com/opinion/jordan-petersons-message-muslims-about-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vinculadas</a> a los círculos de inteligencia israelíes antes de contratar finalmente a Jordan Peterson. Aunque Peterson había dicho poco sobre Israel anteriormente, al unirse al Daily Wire adoptó una postura abiertamente proisraelí y más tarde se reunió con el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu. El DHFC también ha financiado o se ha aliado con numerosas figuras destacadas de la derecha, como el exjefe de estrategia de Trump, Steve Bannon; el exasesor de seguridad nacional, John Bolton; Pamela Geller; y el político holandés Geert Wilders. El actual secretario de Defensa de Trump, Pete Hegseth, <a href="https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/PAS+Index/BA2811A174F47D3385258C11005A053B/$FILE/Hegseth%2C%20Pete%20%20final278.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recibió</a> 30.000 dólares en honorarios por conferencias del Freedom Center entre 2023 y 2024. Candace Owens, ahora una destacada comentarista conservadora, fue <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/candace-owens-slammed-conservative-org-israel-david-horowitz-freedom-center-1845360" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reclutada inicialmente</a> por Horowitz, pero posteriormente fue atacada por activistas afiliados tras expresar públicamente su apoyo a los derechos palestinos. «Comencé mi carrera, mi carrera política, en YouTube haciendo vídeos humorísticos y satíricos, y recibí un correo electrónico de David Horowitz invitándome a esta conferencia. Les cuento lo importante que fue para mí. No tenía ningún tipo de conexión», recordó Owens. Tras el fallecimiento de Horowitz el 29 de abril de 2025, el fundador de Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1917368183268466847" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reconoció</a> su influencia: «Sin David Horowitz, no estoy seguro de que Turning Point USA existiera. Más del 90 % de nuestros primeros donantes importantes fueron presentados en un evento de David Horowitz, gracias a su cálido apoyo y generosas presentaciones. Su apoyo abrió puertas que, de otro modo, habrían permanecido cerradas». Lo que Kirk reveló es crucial: Horowitz operaba como un conector dentro de una élite de donantes que utilizaba sus presentaciones para financiar medios de comunicación e infraestructura política de derecha proisraelí.</p>
<p><strong>Los hermanos tecnológicos</strong></p>
<p>La creciente alineación de Elon Musk con la política israelí se hizo públicamente visible en 2024, cuando forjó una sorpresiva relación con el primer ministro Netanyahu. Pero sus vínculos con el ecosistema del Freedom Center comenzaron antes. Musk ha amplificado los argumentos del Freedom Center, incluyendo <a href="https://politicalemails.org/messages/1742533" target="_blank" rel="noopener">un estudio</a> que afirma falsamente que USAID ayudó a financiar a los talibanes, una narrativa que luego se utilizó para justificar los llamados a desfinanciar a la agencia. Más importante aún, cuando SpaceX buscó <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/02/spacex-raising-750-million-at-137-billion-valuation-a16z-investing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recaudar 750 millones de dólares</a> en enero de 2023, el principal inversor fue la firma de capital de riesgo Andreessen Horowitz, cofundada por Ben Horowitz, hijo de David Horowitz. Andreessen Horowitz tiene inversiones en varias empresas vinculadas a la inteligencia y vigilancia israelíes, incluyendo TOKA, fundada por el ex primer ministro israelí Ehud Barak. Ben Horowitz también participó en <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-08-30/silicon-valley-big-tech-profit-ai-elon-musk-reid-hoffman-peter-thiel-andreessen-horowitz-kamala-harris-donald-trump-election-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">los primeros esfuerzos</a> para organizar una alianza de la élite tecnológica pro-Trump antes de <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/business/dealbook/trump-harris-musk-horowitz.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retirarse</a> . SpaceX ha <a href="https://www.elbitsystems.com/blog/a-step-forward-in-capturing-images-from-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colaborado</a> con empresas de armas israelíes y compañías vinculadas al estado como Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) e ImageSat International (ISI), ayudando a lanzar satélites militares. Otro financista clave del Freedom Center es Robert Shillman, fundador de Cognex Corporation. Shillman y su fundación familiar han apoyado a figuras de derecha como <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/who-is-donating-to-laura-loomer-florida-alex-jones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Loomer</a> , Bridgette Gabriel y <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/project-veritas-received-17-million-last-year-from-koch-backed-charity/2017/12/01/143e13ca-d6d3-11e7-9461-ba77d604373d_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Veritas</a> . También realiza donaciones a la Fundación para la Defensa de las Democracias (FDD), un grupo de expertos neoconservador que ha desempeñado un papel central en impulsar guerras de cambio de régimen en Oriente Medio. De 2002 a 2013, Shillman <a href="https://powerbase.info/index.php/Shillman_Foundation#cite_note-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donó</a> más de 2,4 millones de dólares a los Amigos de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FIDF), una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Estados Unidos que ayuda al personal militar israelí. En 2018, The Guardian reveló que Shillman financió una beca de apoyo al provocador de extrema derecha Tommy Robinson, que <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/07/tommy-robinson-global-support-brexit-march" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recibía un salario</a> de unas 5.000 libras esterlinas al mes para trabajar en el medio canadiense Rebel Media.</p>
<p><strong>Propaganda y política</strong></p>
<p>El Instituto Gatestone, otro nodo clave de la red y donante de Tommy Robinson, fue fundado por Nina Rosenwald, apodada por los críticos como ” <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/sugar-mama-anti-muslim-hate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">la mamacita del odio a los musulmanes</a> ” por su papel en la financiación de iniciativas mediáticas antimusulmanas y proisraelíes. Gatestone ha apoyado a figuras como Douglas Murray, un comentarista británico que recientemente fue objeto de burlas por hacer una <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6kirkSwTg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extraña apelación</a> a la autoridad durante su aparición en “The Joe Rogan Experience”, donde pidió más tiempo en antena para los “expertos” probélicos para impulsar una narrativa proisraelí. Murray ha descrito al bloguero antimusulmán Robert Spencer como un “académico brillante”. Como era de esperar, el sitio web de Spencer, Jihad Watch, estuvo patrocinado durante mucho tiempo por el Centro para la Libertad David Horowitz. El multimillonario gestor de fondos de cobertura Bill Ackman también encaja en este ecosistema. En 2024, Ackman <a href="https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1917368183268466847" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impulsó</a> el Colectivo Shirion, una campaña que promovía la divulgación de información personal de estudiantes y profesores pro-palestinos, y ha sido <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/29/daniel-linden-shirion-collective-pro-israel-palestine-hate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acusada</a> de incitar a la violencia física y utilizar herramientas de vigilancia con inteligencia artificial para reprimir la disidencia. Ackman y Marc Andreessen fueron <a href="https://www.gibsondunn.com/doge-details-the-knowns-and-unknowns-of-trump-cost-cutting-board/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nombrados</a> asesores del Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental (DOGE) de la administración Trump, una iniciativa, ahora prácticamente extinta, destinada a la reforma federal. Otro elemento de la red de defensa más amplia resurgió con sorprendente agresividad a finales de 2023: el grupo militante <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/betar-the-far-right-hate-group-helping-trump-deport-israels-critics/289301/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Betar</a> .</p>
<p>Fundado hace casi un siglo por el líder sionista fascista Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Betar había caído en el olvido durante mucho tiempo. Pero tras la ofensiva israelí en Gaza, el grupo resurgió, imitando las tácticas de la Liga de Defensa Judía (LDJ), previamente designada como organización terrorista por las autoridades estadounidenses. Los activistas de Betar han retomado tácticas de intimidación callejera, incluyendo amenazas a destacados académicos y funcionarios de la ONU con “buscapersonas” simbólicos, en referencia a una notoria operación encubierta israelí de 2024 con artefactos explosivos que causó numerosas víctimas en el Líbano. Observadores de derechos humanos han revelado cómo el grupo está compilando listas de vigilancia de académicos, organizadores y figuras públicas propalestinas, que presenta a funcionarios afines a Trump como candidatos a futura deportación o enjuiciamiento. El grupo también ha elogiado abiertamente las operaciones militares que resultaron en la muerte de civiles, incluidos niños. El resurgimiento de Betar se ha atribuido ampliamente al ejecutivo de relaciones públicas israelí-estadounidense Ronn Torossian, <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/author/ronn-torossian/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colaborador</a> de FrontPage Magazine, un medio creado por el Centro de Libertad David Horowitz.</p>
<p><strong>De la libertad de expresión al autoritarismo</strong></p>
<p>Desde inversores de Silicon Valley y personas influyentes de derecha hasta contratistas de defensa y operadores políticos, una vasta e interconectada clase de donantes ha transformado la derecha estadounidense a imagen de una agenda proisraelí de línea dura. Su mensaje redefine a los musulmanes como enemigos de Occidente, deslegitima el activismo pacifista y propalestino, y presenta la disidencia como una amenaza a la seguridad nacional. Esta misma red, antaño obsesionada con defender la libertad de expresión, ahora adopta la censura, las listas negras y la vigilancia gubernamental, siempre y cuando se centre en sus oponentes ideológicos.</p>
<p><em>Publicado</em><em> </em><em>originalmente</em><em> </em><em>por</em><em> </em><a href="https://mintpressnews.es/pro-israel-influence-right-censorship/289480/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u><em>MinPress</em></u></a></p>

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title: Top countries relying on coal for their electricity
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link: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/03/top-countries-relying-on-coal-for-their-electricity/
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<p><strong><em>This infographic shows the countries reliant on coal for more than 40% of their electricity generation.</em></strong></p>
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885047
title: Índia, Paquistão &amp; Caxemira
author: ;A A
link: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/03/india-paquistao-caxemira/
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<p><strong><em>O melhor neste caso seria que Rússia, China e Irã atuassem diretamente para apaziguar os ânimos e pacificar a situação.</em></strong></p>
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<p>O fato de que as tensões entre Índia e Paquistão não estão desescalando demonstra que a fase atual desse conflito de décadas é, pelo menos, suficientemente relevante para merecer uma breve análise.</p>
<p>A causa imediata da atual escalada entre Índia e Paquistão (que já viu expulsão de cidadãos de ambos países, ruptura de tratados e relações comerciais e mobilização de tropas, além de algumas escaramuças) foi um atentado terrorista praticado por um grupo chamado “Frente de Resistência”, que seria um derivado do grupo salafista Lashkar-e-Taiba, baseado no Paquistão. O atentado em questão causou a morte de quase 30 turistas que passeavam na Caxemira, em sua maioria indianos.</p>
<p>O conflito não é coisa recente, porém. Na prática, em alguma medida, ele parece que foi projetado desde o início pelos britânicos. Quando da preparação da partição do domínio britânico indostânico, levantou-se a questão da sua fragmentação em pelo menos duas partes. Sendo impossível transformar uma região tão complexa do mundo em dois Estados-nações de base étnica, os britânicos prepararam o caminho para o que seria o mais próximo possível disso, dois Estados-nações cuja pretensão à “homogeneidade” se fundava na religião.</p>
<p>Inicialmente tendo como fundamento um interesse por cortejar a elite islâmica de Bengala para instrumentalizá-la contra os hindus, com isso estava plantada no longo prazo a semente de um conflito que se provaria inevitável, já que por razões históricas ambos países continham populações da religião majoritária do outro país. É na elite islâmica que buscava se ocidentalizar, aliás, que se encontra a raiz do “separatismo islâmico” na Índia, vide as ideias de Sayyed Ahmad Khan, as quais são posteriormente superadas pelas ideias de teor mais “tradicionalista” de Muhammad Iqbal e Muhammad Ali Jinnah.</p>
<p>A Caxemira ficava bem no meio da fratura indostânica, e apesar da população majoritariamente islâmica, sua elite governante era hindu. Inicialmente, portanto, a Caxemira se recusou a se integrar fosse no Paquistão ou na Índia, e teve a pretensão de se estabelecer como Estado independente. Os paquistaneses consideraram a decisão absurda, e em seu irredentismo tentaram assegurar a Caxemira pela força, o que levou o seu governo a pedir a anexação à Índia em troca de proteção. A Índia, por sua vez, estava disposta à absorção da Caxemira por considerar que ela era a pátria de todos os indianos, em uma visão imperial suprarreligiosa. Pela Caxemira, por conseguinte, Índia e Paquistão se enfrentaram 3 vezes, em 1947, em 1956 e em 1999.</p>
<p>Agora bem, para além das questões religiosas envolvidas, a região possui uma importância geoestratégica própria. Por sua posição geográfica (situada no entroncamento entre Índia, Paquistão, China e Afeganistão e à beira do Himalaia) a Caxemira é o eixo do Subcontinente Indiano. Os seus rios operam como excelentes fronteiras defensivas naturais para ambos lados, e suas terras são extremamente férteis.</p>
<p>Para o Paquistão, hoje, a Caxemira tem ainda mais importância por causa do projeto do Corredor Sino-Paquistanês ligando o Xinjiang ao porto paquistanês de Gwadar. O projeto, porém, passa por um trecho da Caxemira administrado pelo Paquistão, de modo que uma conflagração generalizada na região sepultaria o projeto e, possivelmente, cortaria o Paquistão da China. O Corredor é necessário, fundamentalmente, para reduzir a dependência paquistanesa em relação aos EUA e à Arábia Saudita.</p>
<p>Nesse contexto do interesse paquistanês pela Caxemira é que se deve ler, também, a política externa do país em relação a esse tópico desde os anos 80. Após ser derrotada militarmente pela Índia, o ISI (o serviço de inteligência paquistanês, que é quase um Estado paralelo) passou a usar o Afeganistão para treinar insurgentes a serem utilizados na Caxemira com o objetivo de desestabilizar a região e, com sorte, separá-la da Índia. Esse tem sido o tom da projeção de poder do Paquistão não apenas na Caxemira, mas no próprio Afeganistão e no resto da região.</p>
<p>Para a Índia, por sua vez, além da importância própria da Caxemira por razões históricas e geoeconômicas, existe a busca por Modi de lavar a honra da Índia após a debacle vergonhosa no Bangladesh, quando a Índia simplesmente testemunhou a perda de seu principal aliado regional para uma revolução colorida, sem esboçar reação (mesmo diante da perseguição a hindus no país vizinho).</p>
<p>É impossível saber se essas tensões eclodirão em um conflito significativo, mas há indícios fortes de preparação de recursos militares por ambos os lados. O ponto importante aí é que o Paquistão possui uma doutrina de “primeiro ataque” com armas nucleares caso a existência de seu Estado seja ameaçada por uma derrota militar. A Índia, por sua vez, só usaria armas nucleares em resposta ao uso de armas nucleares pelo Paquistão.</p>
<p>É importante aí apontar que ambos países são parceiros importantes da Rússia e ambos desempenham papéis na estratégia meridional por meio da qual a Rússia compensou a perda de suas parcerias europeias e ocidentais. Um conflito na Caxemira entre ambos, portanto, só interessaria ao Ocidente.</p>
<p>Nesse caso, considerando que o verdadeiro “cui bono” é ocidental, cumpre questionar a conveniência de um ataque terrorista por um obscuro grupo terrorista com vínculos com a Al-Qaeda. Afinal, falar em “Al-Qaeda” é falar em CIA.</p>
<p>O melhor neste caso seria que Rússia, China e Irã atuassem diretamente para apaziguar os ânimos e pacificar a situação, porque esses países têm muito a perder com esse conflito e, na prática, caso a situação saia do controle as repercussões podem acabar afetando o planeta inteiro.</p>
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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698338
title: L’arnaque de l’OTAN : l’Europe démunie sans la “cavalerie américaine”
author: ;Kit Klarenberg
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tags: #Francais @fr #Mobile
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<p>Le 23 avril, <em>Politico </em>a publié un <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/2572be17-ff6f-478f-901b-8b65cc8e584c?j=eyJ1IjoiaTFlc3AifQ._8qpI5U56Zqt9LZ9jNpDMzP45EDRjWe8lVaF2CrLl0c" rel="">article extraordinaire</a> intitulé <em>“La cavalerie américaine n’arrivera pas”</em> <em>[The US cavalry isn’t coming]</em>, qui documente de manière très détaillée à quel point la planification et les infrastructures de défense européennes ont été …</p>

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698341
title: Les armes chimiques utilisées par la France pendant la guerre d’Algérie : une histoire occultée
author: ;Kim Honey
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tags: #Francais @fr #Algérie
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<p><em>Le récent film documentaire de Claire Billet <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/03/15/guerre-d-algerie-le-report-d-un-documentaire-sur-le-recours-aux-armes-chimiques-par-l-armee-francaise-suscite-la-polemique_6581503_3212.html">Algérie, sections armes spéciales</a>, disponible sur la <a href="https://www.france.tv/france-5/la-case-du-si%C3%A8cle/7025014-algerie-sections-armes-speciales.html">plateforme France TV</a>, vient jeter une lumière crue sur l’utilisation massive de gaz asphyxiants par la France durant la guerre d’Algérie – des faits </em>…</p>

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title: No peace and no respect: Zelensky threatens the May 9 parade
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<p><strong><em>On May 9 in Moscow, a signal will be sent that will chart a course for the future. We will soon find out.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Volodymyr Zelensky, in his delusions as self-proclaimed president-without-end of Ukraine, continues to spout nonsense even during this festive period: referring to the May 9 celebrations, he rejected Vladimir Putin’s proposal for a truce, similar to what happened at Easter.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the rejection was widely predictable, as is the fact that he will try to provoke Russia at the height of the celebrations. Zelensky has called for a 30-day ceasefire, which Russia has no reason to accept given the situation on the battlefield, which is entirely in Russia’s favor. On the other hand, Putin has always said, since the beginning of the SMO, that he would only agree to stop the war permanently, i.e., through genuine and comprehensive peace negotiations, as is customary in diplomacy.</p>
<p>The arrogance of Washington’s puppet knows no bounds, remaining completely outside the bounds of diplomatic decorum. Not even in the worst war schools would they have gone this far. It is almost embarrassing how the Ukrainian president is seeking direct confrontation at all costs. It is no longer a simple repetition of provocation, it is much more: it is a strategy to exhaust the enemy’s patience. The most suicidal move one could attempt.</p>
<p>Zelensky has also stated that Ukraine cannot guarantee the safety of the leaders who will participate in the May 9 parade in Red Square. We are witnessing an explicit threat against heads of state who, in theory, could apply restrictive measures and sanctions against Ukraine if they wanted to. How can it come to this? It is a wicked statement. Clearly, no one is afraid of the threat posed by the ‘loneliest man in the world’, the leader ignored by all, who, like a parasite, has sucked money from European states and NATO members in the name of an impossible war, protecting only his own interests.</p>
<p>Imagine you have a crazy friend whom you would never give anything important to do because you are afraid he might ruin everything. That’s Zelensky. But now it’s time to stop playing games.</p>
<p><strong>In Moscow, they are ready to write history</strong></p>
<p>If Ukraine really attacks Moscow, the retaliation will be devastating. And so will the international response.</p>
<p>Numerous politicians from around the world are expected in Moscow on May 9. The invitation, as is well known, was also extended to US President Donald Trump, in continuation of the peace talks that have been ongoing since January, as well as to Chinese President Xi Jinping, at a time of particular tension between the US and China.</p>
<p>Once again, it is a lesson in life and diplomacy. Russia seeks mediation and puts it into practice with authority, being in an international position where it certainly does not have to ask anyone’s permission; on the contrary, it sets an example. An example that Kiev should keep in mind. The opportunity is of enormous value: symbolically, it is the repetition of a principle that has been engraved in history, that of anti-fascism and the historical truth of the defeat of Nazism in Europe thanks to Soviet Russia. It is also the repetition of an objective historical victory of socialism, in the Soviet model, over the other ideologies of a century ago (a victory that did not last uninterrupted, unfortunately suffering a severe blow from liberalism after 1989). And today, it is a sign of a clear desire: to reunite the peoples of Eurasia in a bloc that will serve as a guide for all peoples who do not want to submit to Western hegemony, under any name or flag. A desire to promote shared prosperity, successful cooperation, and peace, peace, and once again peace. All things that the West denies and responds to with war, oppression, violence, and brutality.</p>
<p>It is clear that neither Kiev, Brussels, nor London can accept this intention of pacification. The war in Ukraine has been fueled by Western countries because it suited some of them to subvert the existing order and change certain balances, fueling the arms market. At this point, they cannot give up on war because they have invested too much. The failure of their plans of destruction is not an option.</p>
<p>This is the level of madness of which Zelensky is merely a sinister mouthpiece. If Europe wants war, unfortunately it will get it. Russia has continued to maintain an exemplary balance during these three years of conflict, never giving in to provocations. But what would happen if Moscow decided to make the first move, regardless of Ukrainian violence? What would happen if it decided to honor the blood of those martyrs who, 80 years ago, liberated Europe by fighting against the political ideology that today animates the Ukrainian fighters? What would happen if it were decided to say “enough” to the violations of the laws of war and international law that Ukraine has been committing continuously for more than three years?</p>
<p>The truth is that these are Zelensky’s last gasps, probably pushed by his English-speaking masters to try everything.</p>
<p>On May 9 in Moscow, a signal will be sent that will chart a course for the future. We will soon find out.</p>
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<p><em><strong>Regime de Kiev mais uma vez deixa clara sua natureza de organização terrorista. </strong></em></p>
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<p>Por trás do discurso “democrático” e das constantes apelações ao apoio ocidental, o regime de Kiev continua demonstrando seu verdadeiro caráter: beligerante, provocador e cada vez mais envolvido com práticas terroristas. A mais recente demonstração disso é o plano ucraniano de sabotar as celebrações do Dia da Vitória em Moscou, marcadas para 9 de maio de 2025, data que simboliza a vitória da União Soviética sobre o nazismo e é, portanto, de profundo significado histórico e civilizacional para a Rússia e o mundo.</p>
<p>Mesmo com o cenário internacional tensionado, líderes de mais de 20 países já confirmaram presença no evento. Entre eles estão nomes de peso como os presidentes Lula da Silva (Brasil), Ibrahim Traoré (Burkina Faso), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), To Lam (Vietnã), Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba) e Aleksandar Vučić (Sérvia), além do presidente da China, Xi Jinping, e do primeiro-ministro da Eslováquia, Robert Fico. A diversidade dos convidados evidencia que o evento ultrapassa a esfera russa, representando um tributo global à vitória contra o fascismo e um momento de reafirmação da memória histórica comum da humanidade.</p>
<p>No entanto, do outro lado da fronteira, em Kiev, o governo de Vladimir Zelensky segue uma linha completamente oposta. Segundo fontes diplomáticas e de inteligência, autoridades ucranianas vêm abertamente discutindo a possibilidade de ações provocativas e atentados terroristas com o objetivo de sabotar o evento em Moscou. A presença de líderes estrangeiros não parece inibir esses planos, o que revela um desprezo absoluto pelas normas mínimas do direito internacional e da diplomacia.</p>
<p>O próprio Zelensky, em declarações recentes, desaconselhou a presença de líderes mundiais no desfile de 9 de maio, numa clara tentativa de intimidar e criar pânico. A insinuação de que o evento pode ser alvo de ataques ecoa sua fala anterior de que “o desfile da vitória em Moscou está sob risco, e com razão”, indicando conhecimento ou cumplicidade com possíveis planos de sabotagem.</p>
<p>Essas ameaças não são vagas. Figuras influentes do nacionalismo ucraniano, como Dmitry Korchinsky — líder do partido radical “Bratstvo” —, têm usado redes sociais para conclamar seus seguidores a preparar atentados em solo russo. Em mensagens públicas, Korchinsky chegou a sugerir o uso de drones com controle por fibra óptica e a instalação prévia de explosivos na Praça Vermelha.</p>
<p>As possibilidades de ataque são variadas e preocupantes: desde ações terroristas diretas em Moscou e outras cidades russas, até sabotagens de infraestrutura, atentados contra autoridades, disseminação de desinformação e operações psicológicas. Além disso, há indicativos de que mercenários estrangeiros e combatentes de formações nacionalistas como o “Legião Liberdade da Rússia” ou o “Batalhão Sheikh Mansur” podem ser usados para criar instabilidade nas regiões fronteiriças de Belgorod, Bryansk e Kursk. A própria entrada do Exército regular ucraniano nessas regiões para provocar terror e confusão não está descartada.</p>
<p>A Rússia, por sua vez, fez um apelo formal por uma trégua no período do Dia da Vitória, uma medida humanitária que deveria ser respeitada por qualquer Estado comprometido com os princípios básicos do direito humanitário. No entanto, tudo indica que Kiev não apenas ignorará esse pedido, como deve deliberadamente violá-lo, reforçando a percepção de que o regime ucraniano atua como um agente de desestabilização contínua, com apoio tácito ou explícito do Ocidente.</p>
<p>Ao se aliar a um governo que ameaça sabotar uma celebração histórica e internacionalmente reconhecida como símbolo do fim do nazismo, os países ocidentais se colocam, voluntária ou involuntariamente, ao lado do revisionismo histórico irresponsável e da desordem. Fica, assim, a pergunta: até que ponto os aliados da OTAN estão dispostos a tolerar os métodos cada vez mais extremistas do regime de Kiev?</p>
<p>Enquanto o mundo se prepara para homenagear os que deram a vida contra o fascismo, Kiev se prepara para atacar aqueles que no passado venceram os infames “heróis da Ucrânia”. O Ocidente e suas instituições absolverão a Junta do Maidan, mas a História a julgará diferentemente.</p>
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title: Ucrania amenaza a Xi, Lula y Maduro con atentados por acudir a Moscú el 9 de mayo
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<p><strong><em>Al no adherirse al alto el fuego en la fecha más importante del calendario del espacio postsoviético, Zelenski demuestra que no da ningún valor al 9 de mayo.</em></strong></p>
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<p>El “presidente” de Ucrania, Vladimír Zelenski, volvió a amenazar a los líderes del llamado “Sur Global” que visiten Moscú para presenciar el desfile militar del Día de la Victoria en la Plaza Roja, el 9 de mayo. Xi Jinping de China, Lula de Brasil, Nicolás Maduro de Venezuela, Díaz-Canel de Cuba, Lukashenko de Bielorrusia, Aleksandar Vučić de Serbia, To Lam de Vietnam, Traoré de Burkina Faso y Fico de Eslovaquia son algunos de los jefes de Estado que estarán presentes en las celebraciones.</p>
<p>En declaraciones a la prensa ucraniana el sábado (03), al ser preguntado sobre el viaje de Xi Jinping, presidente de la República Popular China, y de otros jefes de Estado a Rusia esta semana, Zelenski respondió que “no puede ser responsable” de lo que les ocurra en territorio ruso durante las celebraciones de la derrota del nazismo en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. “Ellos (los rusos) les ofrecen seguridad, por lo tanto nosotros no les daremos ninguna garantía”, añadió.</p>
<p>Zelenski —cuyo mandato expiró a mediados de 2024 y se ha beneficiado del aplazamiento indefinido de las elecciones— también dijo que líderes extranjeros (a los que no nombró) le habían preguntado sobre cuestiones de seguridad con respecto a sus viajes a Moscú esta semana. Dijo haberles respondido que Kiev no puede responsabilizarse por lo que pueda ocurrir. También anunció que su país no se hará responsable si hay incendios provocados o explosiones en Moscú el día del desfile militar.</p>
<p>Esta fue la segunda vez que el actor convertido en político hace insinuaciones amenazantes sobre la seguridad de Moscú durante las celebraciones del 80º aniversario de la victoria sobre la Alemania nazi. El martes pasado, comentó que Rusia está “preocupada porque su desfile está en peligro, y con razón”.</p>
<p>Si Zelenski lanza amenazas veladas, otros de su entorno lo hacen abiertamente. El miércoles, el diputado de la Rada Suprema Yuri Pavlenko dijo en una entrevista a un medio ucraniano: “Creo que llegará el momento en que atacaremos la Plaza Roja – ya sea este 9 de mayo o en algún otro momento, ese día llegará.” Justificó los posibles ataques alegando que la capital rusa está llena de “objetivos militares legítimos (…) que han traído mucho sufrimiento a suelo ucraniano”.</p>
<p>A finales de abril, el presidente de la Federación Rusa, Vladímir Putin, había anunciado un alto el fuego unilateral completo para los días 8, 9, 10 y 11 de mayo – festivos en Rusia para conmemorar la victoria del Ejército Rojo y del pueblo soviético sobre los nazis hitlerianos, simbolizada por la colocación de la bandera de la Unión Soviética en el Reichstag el 9 de mayo de 1945. Esta será la tercera tregua – la segunda a escala completa – en menos de dos meses. Primero, los rusos decretaron una moratoria en los ataques a instalaciones energéticas bajo control ucraniano, entre el 18 de marzo y el 18 de abril (suspensión que no fue respetada por Kiev). Luego, Moscú tomó la iniciativa de declarar un alto el fuego por la Pascua ortodoxa (que esta vez fue cumplido oficialmente por los ucranianos, a pesar de haber violado el acuerdo en numerosas ocasiones, según denuncias rusas).</p>
<p>Ahora el régimen ucraniano ha rechazado sumarse al alto el fuego anunciado por Rusia para las celebraciones del Día de la Victoria. “Nadie va a ayudar a Putin a interpretar esto para darle una atmósfera suave de escape del aislamiento el 9 de mayo, y hacer que todos se sientan cómodos y seguros – esos líderes, amigos o socios de Putin que vendrán a la Plaza del Kremlin (…) O estamos en guerra, o Putin demuestra que está listo para un alto el fuego”, afirmó Zelenski este sábado.</p>
<p>Al no adherirse al alto el fuego en la fecha más importante del calendario del espacio postsoviético, Zelenski demuestra que no da ningún valor al 9 de mayo. De hecho, desde el golpe del Euromaidán a finales de 2013, la dictadura instaurada en Kiev ha intentado borrar todo vestigio de la memoria del pueblo ucraniano sobre lo que él y los rusos siempre llamaron la “Gran Guerra Patria”.</p>
<p>Para el régimen, no fue el pueblo ucraniano, junto con el ruso, quien derrotó al nazismo. Fueron los Estados Unidos, con el apoyo del Reino Unido. El nazismo, de hecho, ni siquiera era el gran mal, según la nueva propaganda gubernamental. El verdadero mal era la Unión Soviética, que oprimía a los ucranianos. El nazismo alemán, por el contrario, ocupó Ucrania para liberarla del yugo comunista.</p>
<p>No es de extrañar que esta sea la versión sostenida por el régimen ucraniano actual. Después de todo, es heredero del gobierno títere que colaboró con los nazis en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Al frente del golpe del Euromaidán estuvieron los partidos, milicias y grupos neonazis (Batallón Azov, Pravy Sektor, Svoboda) inspirados en la Organización de Nacionalistas Ucranianos de Stepán Bandera y Andrey Melnyk. Los nuevos nazis ucranianos ocuparon puestos importantes en el nuevo régimen, convirtiéndose en ministros, diputados, gobernadores y alcaldes. También pasaron a controlar las fuerzas policiales y militares, que absorbieron a los grupos paramilitares – aunque las milicias siguen actuando en la represión política y exhibiendo libremente sus símbolos en las calles, mientras los partidos y organizaciones de izquierda han sido prohibidos.</p>
<p>El cumpleaños de Melnyk, Bandera y otros colaboradores de la ocupación nazi de Ucrania en los años 40 se celebra cada año por las autoridades ucranianas. Se han erigido estatuas, monumentos, plazas, calles y avenidas en su honor. Por supuesto, ellos hicieron exactamente lo que las actuales autoridades de Kiev intentan hacer desde hace casi 12 años: perseguir, encarcelar, asesinar en masa y aterrorizar a los rusos étnicos, a los judíos y a los polacos, a los comunistas y antifascistas que eran sus opositores políticos.</p>
<p>Adherirse al alto el fuego anunciado por Putin durante las celebraciones del 80º aniversario de la Victoria sería prácticamente reconocer que fueron los soviéticos, liderados por los rusos y por las guerrillas antifascistas, quienes liberaron a Ucrania de la ocupación nazi. Y que esa ocupación era apoyada por los ídolos que inspiran al régimen actual en Kiev. Sería legitimar unas celebraciones que muchos ucranianos actualmente tienen prohibido realizar, recordando el papel del Ejército Rojo. Celebrar el 9 de mayo junto al pueblo ruso podría poner en jaque al gobierno de Zelenski, ya extremadamente impopular y desmoralizado.</p>
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<p><strong><em>La Repubblica Ceca teme che l’afflusso di veterani di guerra ucraini rappresenti un rischio per la sicurezza interna.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Attualmente, in Repubblica Ceca sono registrati 325.742 rifugiati ucraini con protezione temporanea, per la maggior parte donne e bambini, il che la rende uno dei Paesi europei che ospita il maggior numero di rifugiati ucraini rispetto al numero di abitanti.</p>
<p>Le autorità ceche si stanno preparando all’arrivo dei veterani di guerra ucraini che cercano di ricongiungersi con le loro famiglie di rifugiati nel Paese, nel timore che i soldati smobilitati possano rappresentare una seria minaccia per la sicurezza nazionale.</p>
<p>Le autorità prevedono che un numero crescente di uomini con esperienza diretta di combattimento e in molti casi affetti da stress post traumatico raggiunga i propri famigliari dopo la fine della guerra o durante eventuali tregue.</p>
<p>Alla luce dell’esperienza delle guerre balcaniche, il Servizio di informazione per la sicurezza ceco ha avvertito che il dopoguerra potrebbe portare un afflusso di veterani con ferite mentali e, in alcuni casi, vulnerabili al reclutamento criminale.</p>
<p>“Proprio come dopo le guerre nell’ex Jugoslavia, dobbiamo aspettarci che molti veterani possano arrivare nella Repubblica Ceca per ricongiungersi alle loro famiglie. Alcuni di loro potrebbero trovare lavoro nella criminalità organizzata”, ha dichiarato a Euractiv Repubblica Ceca Ladislav Šticha, portavoce dei servizi segreti del Paese.</p>
<p>“Un altro effetto della fine di un conflitto armato di così vasta portata è il commercio illegale di armi, di cui grandi quantità appariranno sicuramente sul mercato nero dopo la guerra“, ha aggiunto.</p>
<p>I preparativi per l’afflusso in Cekia dei veterani di guerra ucraini sono già in corso, ha confermato il Ministero degli Interni ceco.</p>
<p>“Il Ministero degli Interni si sta occupando da tempo della questione delle persone con esperienza di combattimento provenienti dall’Ucraina, sia in termini di possibili impatti sulla sicurezza della Repubblica Ceca, sia delle esigenze di queste persone per un adattamento e un’integrazione di successo, che sono direttamente collegati”, ha affermato la portavoce del Ministero, Hana Malá.</p>
<p>Dal 2023, il Ministero collabora con l’Organizzazione Internazionale per le Migrazioni per studiare la questione e formulare raccomandazioni. Nel 2024 è stato firmato un accordo congiunto per sviluppare un concetto intitolato “Ecosistema di supporto per le persone esposte all’esperienza di combattimento in Ucraina”.</p>
<p>“Nell’ambito della ricerca, i dati vengono raccolti e valutati sul campo tra gli attori interessati”, ha spiegato Malá. “Si presta attenzione non solo alle persone con esperienza di combattimento, ma anche alle loro famiglie e ai parenti stretti, che sono anch’essi significativamente colpiti dal loro arrivo”, ha aggiunto.</p>
<p>Nel frattempo gli psicologi cechi sono in contatto con le loro controparti ucraine, cercando di fornire un supporto migliore ai soldati ucraini nel paese occupato.</p>
<p>Un team di ricerca ceco guidato da Jiří Horáček, direttore del Dipartimento di Psichiatria e Psicologia Medica presso l’Università Carlo di Praga, sta collaborando con istituzioni ucraine a un progetto per il trattamento dei traumi legati alla guerra, incluso il disturbo da stress post-traumatico (DPTS o PTSD in italiano).</p>
<p>La notizia che giunge da Praga rappresenta in campanello d’allarme per tutte le nazioni europee che hanno accolto un gran numero di profughi ucraini poiché alla conclusione del conflitto in pochi p0revedono un ritorno a casa in massa dei profughi ma, considerate le pessime condizioni economiche in cui versa l’Ucraina, è più probabile che gli uomini reduci dal fronte raggiungano e famiglie all’estero.</p>
<p><em>Articolo originale</em> <strong><a href="https://www.analisidifesa.it/2025/04/praga-teme-lafflusso-di-veterani-di-guerra-ucraini-una-minaccia-alla-sicurezza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Analisi Difesa</a></strong></p>

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title: Ucrânia ameaça Xi, Lula e Maduro com atentados por irem a Moscou no 9 de Maio
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<p><strong><em>Ao não aderir ao cessar-fogo na data mais importante do calendário do espaço pós-soviético, Zelensky demonstra que não dá o menor valor para o 9 de Maio.</em></strong></p>
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<p>O “presidente” da Ucrânia, Vladimir Zelensky, voltou a ameaçar os líderes do chamado “Sul Global” que visitarem Moscou para assistir ao desfile militar do Dia da Vitória na Praça Vermelha no dia 9 de maio. Xi Jinping da China, Lula do Brasil, Nicolás Maduro da Venezuela, Díaz Canel de Cuba, Lukashenko de Belarus, Aleksandar Vucic da Sérvia, To Lam do Vietnã, Traoré de Burkina Faso e Fico da Eslováquia são alguns dos chefes de Estado que estarão presentes nas celebrações.</p>
<p>Em declarações à imprensa ucraniana no sábado (03), após ser questionado sobre a viagem de Xi Jinping e outros chefes de Estado à Rússia nesta semana, Zelensky respondeu que “não pode se responsabilizar” pelo que ocorrer com eles em território russo durante as celebrações da derrota do nazismo na II Guerra Mundial. “Eles (os russos) lhes fornecem segurança, então nós não vamos lhes dar nenhuma garantia”, completou.</p>
<p>Zelensky – cujo mandato expirou em meados de 2024 e tem se beneficiado do adiamento das eleições por tempo indeterminado – também disse que líderes estrangeiros (que ele não nomeou) haviam lhe perguntado sobre questões de segurança ao se encaminharem a Moscou esta semana. Ele disse que respondeu a esses líderes que Kiev não pode se responsabilizar pelo que ocorrer. Anunciou, igualmente, que seu país não irá se responsabilizar caso ocorra algum incêndio criminoso ou explosões em Moscou no dia da parada militar.</p>
<p>Essa foi a segunda vez que o ator transformado em político faz insinuações ameaçadoras sobre a segurança de Moscou durante as comemorações dos 80 anos da vitória sobre a Alemanha nazista. Na última terça-feira, ele comentou que a Rússia está “preocupada que sua parada está em perigo, e com razão”.</p>
<p>Se Zelensky faz ameaças veladas, outros de seu bando as fazem abertamente. Na quarta-feira, o deputado da Rada Suprema Yuri Pavlenko disse, em entrevista a um veículo ucraniano: “Acho que chegará o momento em que atacaremos a Praça Vermelha — seja neste 9 de maio ou em algum momento depois, esse dia chegará.” Ele justificou os possíveis ataques dizendo que a capital russa é repleta de “alvos militares legítimos (…) que trouxeram muita dor ao solo ucraniano.”</p>
<p>No final de abril, o presidente da Federação Russa, Vladimir Putin, havia anunciado um cessar-fogo unilateral completo para os dias 8, 9, 10 e 11 de maio – feriados na Rússia para marcar a data da vitória do Exército Vermelho e do povo soviético sobre os nazistas hitlerianos, com a instalação da bandeira da União Soviética no Reichstag em 9 de maio de 1945. Esta será a terceira trégua – a segunda em escala integral – em menos de dois meses. Primeiro, os russos executaram uma moratória nos ataques a instalações de energia sob o controle da Ucrânia, entre 18 de março e 18 de abril (suspensão que não foi seguida por Kiev). Depois, Moscou tomou a iniciativa de realizar um cessar-fogo na Páscoa (que, desta vez, foi acatado oficialmente pelos ucranianos, apesar de terem violado o acordo inúmeras vezes, conforme denúncias russas).</p>
<p>Agora o regime ucraniano negou seguir o cessar-fogo anunciado pela Rússia para as celebrações do Dia da Vitória. “Ninguém vai ajudar Putin a encenar isso para lhe proporcionar uma atmosfera amena de fuga do isolamento no dia 9 de maio, e fazer com que todos se sintam confortáveis e seguros – aqueles líderes, amigos ou parceiros de Putin que virão à Praça do Kremlin (…) Ou estamos em guerra, ou Putin está mostrando que está pronto para um cessar-fogo,” afirmou Zelensky nesse sábado.</p>
<p>Ao não aderir ao cessar-fogo na data mais importante do calendário do espaço pós-soviético, Zelensky demonstra que não dá o menor valor para o 9 de Maio. De fato, desde o golpe do Euromaidan, no final de 2013, a ditadura erguida a partir de Kiev tem tratado de apagar qualquer vestígio da memória do povo ucraniano sobre o que ele e os russos sempre chamaram de “Grande Guerra Patriótica”.</p>
<p>Para o regime, não foi o povo ucraniano, em conjunto com o povo russo, que derrotou o nazismo. Foram os Estados Unidos, com o apoio da Grã Bretanha. O nazismo, aliás, sequer era o grande mal, de acordo com a nova propaganda governamental. O verdadeiro mal era a União Soviética, que oprimia os ucranianos. O nazismo alemão, pelo contrário, ocupou a Ucrânia para libertá-la do jugo comunista.</p>
<p>Não é de se espantar que essa seja a versão do regime ucraniano atual. Afinal, ele é um herdeiro do governo fantoche de colaboração com os nazistas na II Guerra. Quem esteve na linha de frente do golpe do Euromaidan foram os partidos, milícias e grupos neonazistas (Batalhão Azov, Pravy Sektor, Svoboda) inspirados na Organização dos Nacionalistas Ucranianos de Stepan Bandera e Andrey Melnyk. Os novos nazistas ucranianos ingressaram em postos importantes do novo regime, tornando-se ministros, deputados, governadores e prefeitos. Também passaram a ter controle das forças policiais e militares, que absorveram os grupos paramilitares – embora as milícias continuem atuando na repressão política e ostentando seus símbolos livremente nas ruas, enquanto os partidos e organizações de esquerda foram proibidos.</p>
<p>O aniversário de Melnyk, Bandera e outros colaboradores da ocupação nazista da Ucrânia na década de 1940 é celebrado todos os anos pelas autoridades ucranianas. Estátuas, monumentos, praças, ruas e avenidas foram batizados em sua homenagem. É claro, eles fizeram exatamente o que as atuais autoridades de Kiev vêm tentando fazer há quase 12 anos: perseguiram, prenderam, assassinaram em massa e aterrorizaram os russos étnicos, os judeus e os poloneses, os comunistas e antifascistas que eram seus opositores políticos.</p>
<p>Aderir ao cessar-fogo anunciado por Putin nas comemorações dos 80 anos da Vitória seria praticamente reconhecer que foram os soviéticos, liderados pelos russos e pelas guerrilhas antifascistas, que libertaram a Ucrânia da ocupação nazista. E que essa ocupação era apoiada pelos ídolos que inspiram o atual regime em Kiev. Seria legitimar as celebrações que muitos ucranianos são atualmente proibidos de fazer, recordando o papel do Exército Vermelho. Celebrar o 9 de Maio junto com o povo russo poderia colocar em xeque o governo de Zelensky, já extremamente impopular e desmoralizado.</p>
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<p><strong><em>By refusing to adhere to the ceasefire on the most important date of the post-Soviet calendar, Zelensky shows that he places no value on May 9.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The “president” of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, has once again threatened the leaders of the so-called “Global South” who plan to visit Moscow to attend the Victory Day military parade in Red Square on May 9. Xi Jinping of China, Lula of Brazil, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, Díaz-Canel of Cuba, Lukashenko of Belarus, Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia, To Lam of Vietnam, Traoré of Burkina Faso, and Fico of Slovakia are among the heads of state expected to be present at the celebrations.</p>
<p>In statements to the Ukrainian press on Saturday (03), after being asked about the visit of Xi Jinping and other heads of state to Russia this week, Zelensky responded that he “cannot be responsible” for what might happen to them on Russian territory during the celebrations of the defeat of Nazism in World War II. “They (Russians) provide you with safety and so we will not give you any guarantees,” he added.</p>
<p>Zelensky – whose term expired in mid-2024 and who has benefited from the indefinite postponement of elections – also stated that foreign leaders (whom he did not name) had asked him about security issues regarding their trip to Moscow this week. He said he told these leaders that Kiev cannot be held responsible for what might occur. He also announced that his country will not take responsibility if arson or explosions occur in Moscow on the day of the military parade.</p>
<p>This was the second time the actor-turned-politician has made threatening insinuations regarding Moscow’s security during the 80th anniversary commemorations of the victory over Nazi Germany. Last Tuesday, he commented that Russia is “worried that their parade is in jeopardy, and rightly so.”</p>
<p>While Zelensky makes veiled threats, others in his circle do so openly. On Wednesday, Supreme Rada deputy Yuri Pavlenko said in an interview with a Ukrainian outlet: “I think the time will come when we will strike Red Square – whether it happens this May 9 or sometime later, that time will come.” He justified possible attacks by saying that the Russian capital is full of “legitimate military targets (…) that have brought much grief to Ukrainian soil.”</p>
<p>At the end of April, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, had announced a complete unilateral ceasefire for May 8, 9, 10, and 11 – holidays in Russia to commemorate the victory of the Red Army and the Soviet people over Hitler’s Nazis, marked by the raising of the Soviet Union’s flag over the Reichstag on May 9, 1945. This will be the third truce – the second on a full scale – in less than two months. First, the Russians imposed a moratorium on attacks against energy infrastructure under Ukrainian control from March 18 to April 18 (a suspension that was not reciprocated by Kiev). Then, Moscow took the initiative to declare an Easter ceasefire (which, this time, was officially complied by the Ukrainians, despite them having violated the agreement numerous times, according to Russian reports).</p>
<p>Now, the Ukrainian regime has refused to follow the ceasefire announced by Russia for the Victory Day celebrations. “No one is going to help Putin play this in order to give him a soft atmosphere of escape from isolation on May 9, and to make everyone feel comfortable and safe – those leaders, friends, or partners of Putin who will come to Kremlin Square (…) We are either at war, or Putin is showing that he is ready for a ceasefire,” Zelensky said on Saturday.</p>
<p>By refusing to adhere to the ceasefire on the most important date of the post-Soviet calendar, Zelensky shows that he places no value on May 9. In fact, since the Euromaidan coup at the end of 2013, the dictatorship established in Kiev has sought to erase any trace of the Ukrainian people’s memory of what they and the Russians always called the “Great Patriotic War.”</p>
<p>According to the regime, it was not the Ukrainian people, together with the Russian people, who defeated Nazism. It was the United States, with the support of Great Britain. Nazism, in fact, was not even considered the great evil, according to the new government propaganda. The true evil was the Soviet Union, which oppressed Ukrainians. German Nazism, on the contrary, occupied Ukraine to liberate it from communist rule.</p>
<p>It is no surprise that this is the version upheld by the current Ukrainian regime. After all, it is a descendant of the puppet government that collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. At the forefront of the Euromaidan coup were the neo-Nazi parties, militias, and groups (Azov Battalion, Pravy Sektor, Svoboda) inspired by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists of Stepan Bandera and Andrey Melnyk. The new Ukrainian Nazis rose to prominent positions in the new regime, becoming ministers, deputies, governors, and mayors. They also took control of police and military forces, which absorbed the paramilitary groups – although the militias continue to operate in political repression and freely display their symbols in the streets, while leftist parties and organizations have been banned.</p>
<p>The birthdays of Melnyk, Bandera, and other collaborators of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine in the 1940s are celebrated annually by Ukrainian authorities. Statues, monuments, squares, streets, and avenues have been named in their honor. Naturally, they did exactly what the current authorities in Kiev have been trying to do for almost 12 years: persecute, imprison, mass murder, and terrorize ethnic Russians, Jews, and Poles, as well as communists and anti-fascists who were their political opponents.</p>
<p>Accepting the ceasefire announced by Putin during the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Victory would be virtually an acknowledgment that it was the Soviets, led by the Russians and the anti-fascist guerrillas, who liberated Ukraine from Nazi occupation. And that this occupation was supported by the idols who inspire the current regime in Kiev. It would legitimize celebrations that many Ukrainians are now forbidden from holding, recalling the role of the Red Army. Celebrating May 9 together with the Russian people could call into question the Zelensky government, already extremely unpopular and discredited.</p>
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<p>President Zelensky of Ukraine has threatened to attack the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9. This is disgraceful. And it is outrageous that western politicians have not said so.</p>
<p>Amidst an ongoing war in Ukraine, countries involved in the defeat of Nazi Germany are preparing to mark the end of World War II, or the Great Patriotic War, as it is known in Russia. His Majesty the King will lead commemorations in Britain on 8 May. Russia and other former Soviet Countries such as Kazakhstan mark the end of the war on 9 May. The history is complex but boils down to a disagreement on the formal timing of Germany’s signature of the Instrument of Surrender.</p>
<p>As this is the 80<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the end of the war, the celebrations will be bigger than normal. A host of foreign dignitaries will be in Britain and in Russia, including the President Xi Jinping of China who’ll travel to Moscow.</p>
<p>Given the ongoing tussle over agreeing an end to the war in Ukraine, President Putin has announced a seventy two hour ceasefire covering the Victory Day period. That is to be welcomed.</p>
<p>Ukraine has been pressing for a more immediate 30 day unconditional ceasefire. However, as no concrete agreement has been reached on key sticking points, and with two separate and very different U.S. and European peace proposals in circulation, Russia has yet to agree to this.</p>
<p>I continue to hope for an end to this senseless war which has claimed over one million irrecoverable casualties already.</p>
<p>However, rather than taking up direct negotiations with Russia, something that the U.S. side has recommended and the Russian government has appeared receptive to, Zelensky has chosen instead to threaten an attack on Moscow on Victory Day. He said specifically:</p>
<p>“We are choosing precisely those sore points in Russia that will most prompt Moscow to diplomacy. Now they are worried that their parade is in question, and they are right to be worried.”</p>
<p>This is beyond contemptible. Zelensky claims that this threat is about pressuring Russia to agree to a diplomatic solution, but that is absurd. As Zelensky will well know, an attack on Moscow on Victory Day would lead to a sharp escalation of the war from the Russian side. It would destroy any hope of diplomacy.</p>
<p>For Russia and for other countries of the former Soviet Union, the 9 May commemoration is hugely symbolic and sacred, just as the 8 May commemoration is in Britain. The Soviet Union is thought to have suffered up to twenty seven million deaths during the war.</p>
<p>That’s an order of magnitude far in excess of casualties suffered by Britain, at around half a million people. I don’t say that to diminish British losses.</p>
<p>We honour the sacrifice of every civilian and member of service personnel who died during the war on May 8. My great uncle William Marrs was captured by the Japanese in Hong Kong and later died when a ship transporting him and 1800 other prisoners to hard labour camps in Japan was sunk off the coat of Korea on 1 October 1942. I remember his service to my country with pride tinged with sadness.</p>
<p>Russian people remember their losses with the same depths of emotion. When I lived in Moscow, I witnessed the Victory Day events each May and the pride and celebration among ordinary Russian people was identical to that I see among British people.</p>
<p>I also recall the Immortal Regiment, in which tens of thousands of citizens parade through Moscow holding photographs of their relatives who died during the war. When Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, visited Moscow ten years ago for the seventieth anniversary of the end of the war, the British Embassy posted an image on social media of him holding a photograph of his grandfather, our iconic wartime Prime Minister. Ahead of travelling to Moscow, Soames said, ‘We share in this Victory Day, as Britain and Russia stood together with our allies against the Nazis.’</p>
<p>Victory Day is a time for remembrance.</p>
<p>Zelensky has done a great discredit to his position as President of Ukraine and to the people of Ukraine. Around half of the Soviet losses took place in Ukraine at the hands of Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>But what concerns me as greatly is that western leaders have not distanced themselves from Zelensky’s comments. I have seen no words of rebuke from leaders in London, Berlin, Paris or Washington DC. Why have they not condemned Zelensky’s threat to attack a peaceful parade to mark the end of the twentieth century’s most devastating war? Indeed, since Zelensky’s outburst, Britain has announced, instead, that Ukrainian troops will take part in military commemorative parades in this country.</p>
<p>Had President Putin threatened to launch attacks on London on May 8, the British Army would be mobilising, and we’d be gearing up for World War III. Instead, Zelensky’s petulant outburst is greeted with silence.</p>
<p>How have we become so morally reduced that we have imbued Zelensky with such impunity that he can wage a war at our expense and take every step imaginable to prolong the war, with increasingly desperate and disgusting press stunts?</p>
<p>I hope that Zelensky is bluffing with his latest inflammatory threat. But what would we do if Ukraine did launch attacks on Moscow, on Victory Day? Would we condemn it?</p>
<p>I hope in that situation we would withdraw all support from Ukraine, pressure Zelensky to step down, ushering in long-overdue elections, while talking to Russia to prevent a quick escalation to World War III. I worry, however, that we would suck our teeth, say Zelensky was taken out of context, and find some way to blame Russia.</p>
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<p>Behind its “democratic” rhetoric and constant appeals for Western support, the Kiev regime continues to display its true nature: belligerent, provocative, and increasingly engaged in terrorist practices. The most recent demonstration of this is Ukraine’s plan to sabotage the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, scheduled for May 9, 2025—a date that symbolizes the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazism and thus holds profound historical and civilizational significance for Russia and the world.</p>
<p>Despite ongoing international tensions, leaders from more than 20 countries have confirmed their attendance at the event. Among them are high-profile figures such as Presidents Lula da Silva (Brazil), Ibrahim Traoré (Burkina Faso), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), To Lam (Vietnam), Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba), and Aleksandar Vučić (Serbia), along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. The diversity of the guest list highlights that the event goes far beyond Russia’s national interest—it stands as a global tribute to the defeat of fascism and a reaffirmation of our shared historical memory.</p>
<p>However, on the other side of the border, in Kiev, President Vladimir Zelensky’s government is taking a radically different path. According to diplomatic and intelligence sources, Ukrainian authorities have openly discussed the possibility of launching provocations and terrorist attacks to disrupt the Moscow event. The presence of foreign dignitaries does not appear to deter such plans, revealing a flagrant disregard for basic norms of international law and diplomatic conduct.</p>
<p>Zelensky himself, in recent statements, advised world leaders not to attend the May 9 parade, a clear attempt to sow fear and discourage participation. His suggestion that the event may be targeted echoes earlier remarks in which he stated that “they are worried their parade is under threat—and they should be,” signaling awareness of or complicity in potential sabotage operations.</p>
<p>These threats are not vague or speculative. Influential figures within Ukrainian nationalist circles, such as Dmitry Korchinsky—the leader of the radical “Bratstvo” party—have used social media to call on followers to prepare terrorist attacks on Russian soil. In public messages, Korchinsky even recommended planting improvised explosive devices in Moscow’s Red Square ahead of the celebration and proposed using fiber-optically guided drones.</p>
<p>The range of potential attacks is wide and deeply concerning: from direct terrorist acts in Moscow and other Russian cities to infrastructure sabotage, targeted assassinations, disinformation campaigns, and psychological operations. There is also evidence suggesting the possible deployment of foreign mercenaries and nationalist militant groups such as the “Freedom of Russia Legion” or the “Sheikh Mansur Battalion” to destabilize Russian border regions like Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk. A full-scale incursion by the Ukrainian regular army into these regions to spread panic and terror cannot be ruled out.</p>
<p>In contrast, Russia has formally called for a ceasefire during the Victory Day period—a humanitarian gesture that any state truly committed to international law and human rights should respect. However, all indications suggest that Kiev will not only ignore this appeal but will deliberately violate it. This reinforces the growing perception that the Ukrainian regime acts as a perpetual agent of destabilization, supported—either tacitly or explicitly—by the West.</p>
<p>By aligning themselves with a government that threatens to sabotage a historic and internationally respected commemoration of the defeat of Nazism, Western countries are, whether knowingly or not, siding with reckless historical revisionism and disorder. This raises a serious question: how far are NATO allies willing to go in tolerating the increasingly extreme methods of the Kiev regime?</p>
<p>As the world prepares to honor those who gave their lives in the fight against fascism, Kiev prepares to attack those who once defeated Ukraine’s infamous so-called “heroes.” The West and its institutions may absolve the Maidan junta—but History will judge it differently.</p>
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title: Lectures in History Podcast: FEED DROP: BN+ Alexandra Richie, &quot;Warsaw 1944&quot;
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title: L’indirizzo strategico dell’Algeria
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<p><strong><em>Con la rielezione di Abdelmadjid Tebboune, nel settembre 2024, l’Algeria ha optato sia per la stabilità politica interna che per un maggiore attivismo diplomatico rivolto alla diversificazione commerciale e delle relazioni estere.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">Il secondo mandato di Tebboune, eletto la prima volta nel 2019 dopo il ventennio al potere di Abdelaziz Bouteflika, è stato da subito caratterizzato dalla ricerca di un approccio multidimensionale alla politica estera per il Paese nordafricano. Di fatto, in un contesto di crescente instabilità a livello globale, l’Algeria sta cercando di muoversi in modo pragmatico (presentandosi addirittura come mediatore credibile tra Russia e Ucraina) e con estrema cautela per garantire sia la continuità politica interna – evitando il ripetersi degli eventi sanguinosi degli anni ’90 (prodotto anche di quel “gihadismo di ritorno” dall’Afghanistan che ha destabilizzato l’intera regione del Nord Africa e del Vicino Oriente) – sia per costruire relazioni diplomatiche su più livelli e con attori diversi, spesso anche in contrasto tra loro. L’esempio più evidente, in questo caso, è rappresentato dalle relazioni di Algeri sia con Mosca che con l’Unione Europea.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">L’Algeria, infatti, è divenuta centrale per la politica energetica dell’UE a seguito dell’intervento diretto della Russia nel conflitto civile ucraino ed al seguente regime sanzionatorio imposto a Mosca. Questo evento ha rappresentato uno spartiacque nelle relazioni tra il Paese nordafricano ed il Moloch tecno-mercantilista di Bruxelles. Con l’UE, nello specifico, l’Algeria è arrivata ad intessere un volume di scambi che ha raggiunto il 50% delle relazioni commerciali con l’estero, di cui il 19% è rappresentato dalle esportazioni di gas (cresciute del 6% nel solo 2023). Gas e petrolio, come noto, rappresentano il 90% del valore delle esportazioni algerine ed il 60% delle entrate governative.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">Allo stesso tempo, Algeri ha scelto di puntare anche sul suo enorme potenziale in termini di energia rinnovabile (solare, eolica, ad idrogeno ed a biomassa), con la sua Strategia Nazionale per l’Idrogeno (inaugurata nel 2023) che mira a garantire all’Europa il 10% del suo fabbisogno di idrogeno entro il 2040.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">Ora, ad onor del vero, è bene sottolineare che Algeri ha storicamente (e continua a farlo) preferito rapportarsi direttamente con i singoli Paesi membri dell’UE piuttosto che con l’istituzione comunitaria in quanto tale. Anzi, i rapporti con la stessa rimangono piuttosto complessi per tutta una serie di motivi, tra cui: 1) la questione del Sahara occidentale, con Francia e Spagna che appoggiano il piano marocchino per la mera autonomia della regione; 2) il problema dell’immigrazione illegale verso l’Europa (con Algeri che ha rifiutato di aderire all’agenda UE sull’immigrazione); 3) diverse dispute sulle reciproche restrizioni al commercio ed al trasferimento di tecnologia; 4) le accuse algerine riguardo alle interferenze esterne nella sua politica interna (sostegno di alcuni Paesi europei alle rivolte berbere nella Qabilia, lamentele europee per la repressione delle opposizioni); 5) lo stretto legame con la Russia.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">Si cercherà di affrontare in dettaglio ognuno di questi punti. Tuttavia, in primo luogo, pare necessario mettere in evidenza il fatto che il tentativo europeo di diversificare le proprie forniture di idrocarburi ricorrendo alla produzione algerina (per fare in qualche modo pressione alla Russia) si è scontrato con la realtà di una cooperazione strategico-energetica tra Mosca e Algeri solida e di lunga data. L’Algeria, di fatto, non ha condannato in sede ONU l’intervento russo in Ucraina; non si è unita alla vulgata sanzionatoria ed ha pure aumentato la sua collaborazione con la Russia sul piano economico/estrattivo e militare (l’Algeria importa da sola la metà delle armi che Mosca vende in Africa, una percentuale che si aggira intorno al 73% degli acquisti militari totali del Paese nordafricano). Algeri, inoltre, si è mostrata scaltra nell’utilizzare la diplomazia del gas ed il contesto internazionale venutosi a creare a seguito dell’inasprimento del conflitto ucraino per il raggiungimento dei propri obiettivi geopolitici. In particolare, ha minacciato a più riprese l’interruzione delle forniture alla Spagna attraverso il gasdotto Megdaz che unisce Orano e Almeria (capacità 8 miliardi di metri cubi l’anno) a seguito dell’appoggio di Madrid (ex potenza coloniale regionale) al suddetto piano di autonomia marocchino per il Sahara occidentale (la Spagna è stata accusata di deviare parte delle forniture di gas algerine verso Rabat); ed ha aumentato il volume di esportazioni di idrocarburi verso l’Italia, attraverso il gasdotto TransMed, mettendo i due Paesi UE l’uno contro l’altro. La Spagna ambisce attualmente a divenire terminale e centro di smistamento del gas naturale liquefatto nordamericano in Europa; mentre Roma, in virtù del suo “Piano Mattei” (che mantiene notevoli elementi critici, come i dubbi sulla disponibilità dei fondi per la sua attuazione o la totale subordinazione geopolitica dell’Italia agli interessi atlantisti che fa sembrare il Paese come un cavallo di Troia per la penetrazione di volontà espansive altrui, Stati Uniti<i> in primis</i>), ha riconfermato il suo ruolo privilegiato nelle relazioni con l’Algeria, dalla quale arrivano il 44,3% delle sue importazioni di gas (l’Italia rimane il principale partner europeo dell’Algeria).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">Il rapporto con la Russia merita un breve approfondimento, visto che ad esso si ricollegano anche gli sforzi algerini a mantenere una postura del tutto autonoma all’interno del mondo arabo e, per certi versi, ancorata ad una visione “statalista” della politica interna (il governo algerino ha stanziato 16.7 trilioni di dinari per il 2025, pari 125 miliardi di euro, per incentivare lo sviluppo infrastrutturale, minerario e per un aumento della produzione di idrocarburi – che dovrebbe arrivare ai 200 miliardi di metri cubi entro i prossimi cinque anni – utile per sostenere la spesa sociale e gli incentivi all’imprenditoria). Il nuovo accordo di partenariato strategico tra Russia ed Algeria, siglato nel 2023, infatti, comprende una cooperazione in più ambiti (agricoltura, educazione, tecnologia spaziale, energia) e non solo limitata al lato militare (bisogna ricordare che il volume degli scambi bilaterali è aumentato del 70% nel solo 2022). Le relazioni tra Russia ed Algeria, inoltre, sono di lunga data e vanno indietro fino al XIX secolo, quando l’emiro Abd al-Qadir (considerato il “padre” della Nazione algerina ed il primo esponente della ribellione contro il colonialismo francese), cercò di stabilire contatti con diplomatici russi durante il suo esilio in Siria. Successivamente, l’Unione Sovietica sostenne la guerra di liberazione algerina nel corso degli anni ’50 del secolo scorso. Un sostegno che proseguì nel corso della cosiddetta “guerra delle sabbie” del settembre-ottobre 1963: primo confronto diretto tra Marocco e Algeria scoppiato a causa di un contenzioso territoriale e durante il quale Stati Uniti e Francia scelsero di sostenere Rabat; mentre l’Algeria poté usufruire di un ridotto ma significativo aiuto cubano e dell’invio di un contingente militare egiziano. Ancora, negli anni ’90, il dover affrontare entrambi quello che è stato definito nei termini di “gihadismo di ritorno” portò i due Paesi ad intensificare e stringere nuove e proficue relazioni, culminate con un accordo che, nel 2001, consentì alla Russia di rimettere piede nel Maghreb dopo il crollo dell’URSS e di ristabilire una presenza perduta nel Mediterraneo meridionale (va da sé che la possibilità di costruire una base navale russa in Libia fu uno dei motivi che portò all’aggressione NATO contro Tripoli del 2011).</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">Ad ogni modo, la cooperazione militare rimane la pietra angolare della relazione russo-algerina. L’Algeria, infatti, è il terzo compratore al mondo di tecnologia militare russa, dietro India e Cina. In questo contesto, anche il comune impegno allo sviluppo di un ordine globale multipolare (e non americanocentrico) contribuisce a tenere saldo il rapporto tra Mosca e Algeri. Tuttavia, permangono anche in questo caso alcune problematiche, legate soprattutto al ruolo che le compagnie militari private russe (si veda il Gruppo Wagner, considerato come fonte di instabilità da Algeri) stanno mantenendo nella regione del Sahel, dove hanno sostenuto quella che è stata definita come la “cintura dei colpi di Stato”: Mali nel 2020 e poi nel 2021, Ciad nel 2021, Burkina Faso nel 2022, Niger nel 2023. Se, da un lato, questi colpi di Stato militari hanno portato ad un progressivo abbandono della regione da parte di Francia e Stati Uniti e ad un impulso alla cooperazione che ha portato nel 2024 alla creazione dell’Alleanza degli Stati del Sahel tra Burkina Faso, Mali e Niger (vero e proprio progetto rivolto al contrasto alla presenza occidentale nella regione), dall’altro, come avviene quasi sempre in questi casi, è aumentata la presenza di milizie “ribelli” e/o gruppi gihadisti dagli obiettivi piuttosto oscuri che agiscono in modo transfrontaliero (commerciando in armi, risorse minerarie ed esseri umani), approfittando dell’impossibilità dei diversi Paesi di controllare appieno i rispettivi confini desertici, e favorendo la destabilizzazione regionale. E non mancano naturalmente le reciproche accuse. Il Mali, ad esempio, ha accusato Algeri di sostenere i ribelli Tuareg che agiscono lungo la linea di confine tra i due Paesi.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">Un discorso a parte è quello concernente la questione del Sahara occidentale che ha portato ad una vera e propria corsa al riarmo tra Marocco e Algeria. Qui, la situazione è decisamente deteriorata dopo il fallimento dei tentativi negoziali portati avanti dall’inviato ONU Horst <span>Köhler, già presidente della Repubblica Federale Tedesca, nel 2019. Dopo quella data, infatti, la prima amministrazione Trump ha ufficialmente riconosciuto la sovranità marocchina sul Sahara occidentale (l’ex colonia spagnola all’interno della quale il Fronte Polisario combatte una guerra per l’indipendenza contro il Marocco che, sebbene a fasi alternate, va avanti sin dal 1975) in cambio dell’adesione di Rabat ai cosiddetti “accordi di Abramo”. Fattore che ha portato proprio il Marocco a divenire recipiente di notevoli aiuti militari israeliani, anche alla luce del fatto che Rabat ha accusato a più riprese il suddetto Fronte Polisario (abbreviazione di Fronte Popolare di Liberazione di Sanguia el Hamra e del Rio de Oro) di ricevere aiuti militari e addestramento da parte di Iran ed Hezbollah. La tattica di ricercare/ottenere aiuti militari occidentali indicando infiltrazioni iraniane in movimenti ribelli è abbastanza comune in tutta l’area mediorientale, pur non corrispondendo sempre alla realtà. Ad esempio, non esistono prove reali di un sostegno iraniano agli Houthi dello Yemen prima del 2011. Eppure questi avevano già combattuto ben sei differenti “guerre” contro l’autorità centrale di Sana’a che adoperò a più riprese lo spauracchio dei <i>Pasdaran</i> per chiedere aiuti a monarchie del Golfo e Stati Uniti.</span></span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="IT">In ogni caso, l’Algeria è stata storicamente sostenitrice del Fronte Polisario e dell’autodeterminazione del popolo Saharawi e, nonostante l’attuale tendenza del mondo arabo, rimane amica della causa palestinese. Motivo per cui un’apertura verso una maggiore cooperazione con gli Stati Uniti in questo secondo mandato trumpista, pur essendo stata messa in evidenza e considerata come possibilità reale da alcuni analisti occidentali, sembra ancora lontana dal concretizzarsi.</span></p>
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title: OTD: 4 May 1916: Joseph Mary Plunkett executed
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<p><strong>In her biography of the 1916 proclamation signatory, Joseph Plunkett, Honor O Brolchain tells a fascinating story.</strong></p>
<p>A Dublin jeweller on the afternoon of May 3rd 1916 was attending to a young lady who was purchasing wedding bands. She bought two rings but seemed very upset. When he asked her what the matter was she confessed that she was about to get married but that her fiancé was condemned to execution before a firing squad at dawn.</p>
<p>The jeweller knew very well who the young woman was talking about and before Grace Gifford had married Joseph Plunkett in the chapel at Kilmainham at around 8pm that night their story had spread around the city. It was a sensational story which tugged at the heartstrings and was on the front page of the morning newspapers just hours after Plunkett had been shot by a firing squad.</p>
<p>As the story formed from the reports of witnesses over the weeks it took on mythical status. The essential facts of the story were that Grace Gifford was allowed attend the prison chapel at Kilmainham jail and Joseph Plunket was brought in in handcuffs. They were removed and the wedding ceremony was witnessed by two guards who held rifles to attention while the priest performed the sacrament. It took just ten minutes and Plunkett was returned to his cell immediately. Gifford was allowed visit him for ten minutes in his prison cell watched over by two guards with shouldered rifle and bayonet glinting in the light of a single candle.</p>
<p>Seven hours later Plunkett lay dead on the stones of the Stonebreaker’s yard of Kilmainham, his blood pooling beneath him.</p>
<p>In an atmosphere where sympathy was turning towards the revolutionaries, this tragic story no doubt created an empathic shift in the public sentiment towards the Rising.</p>
<p>That oft remarked upon attitude towards the Rising was a complex set of emotional reactions and loyalties. It’s understandable that some people felt betrayed that a revolution struck at home while attention was faced outwards to a common enemy in Europe. Many had relations fighting that war and many had received death notices from the trenches of France, Belgium, and Gallipoli. Many others had received the returned soldiers back to their homes broken in body and mind.</p>
<p>But there was also a strong sentiment that the empire was rotten to its core, and that the war effort was been paid for with the blood of the young. The poverty of the Dublin slums, and the legacy of the famine was known by all.</p>
<p>People could even contain both of these conflicting feelings at the same time. Pearse was correct in his assessment that England’s difficulty was Ireland’s opportunity. He was also correct in his assessment that Ireland would judge them (the Rising’s participants) differently in time. Perhaps the sentimental human tragedy of Joseph Plunkett’s marriage to Grace Gifford was the floodgate moment that changed the overwhelming colour of the public mood for good.</p>
<p>Joseph Plunkett was remarkable in many ways. Just days before the Rising he was told by his doctor that he would only live a matter of weeks. In a strange way he cheated his prognosis as it was not his ulcerous TB that killed him, but a firing squad.</p>
<p>He marched to the GPO on Easter Monday morning with a dandy scarf around his neck, hiding an ugly and terminal tubercular ulcer and, exhausted, lay down on a mattress in the Rising’s headquarters.</p>
<p>He had contracted TB as a young boy from infected milk and suffered for the rest of his life with recurring bouts of this terminal illness. He had a voracious appetite for learning, and when he was ill he frequently read a book a day. When he was able, he turned his learning into a prolific output of poetry, writing, and arts and cultural activity. Being disillusioned with the Abbey, he founded a theatre company along with Thomas MacDonagh which staged plays that probed more modern themes. He was familiar with the newer development in European theatre and had the likes of Ibsen performed in his theatre in Hardwicke Street.</p>
<p>Perhaps because of his severe and regular remissions of TB his poetry was informed by a spiritual outlook. He was known as a mystical poet, and his poetry frequently undertakes the search for the transcendent in elegantly visual imagery. ‘I see His Blood upon the Rose’ gives us the majestic and naturalist comprehension of the ever present creator</p>
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<p><em>“All pathways by his feet are worn,</em><br><em>His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea,</em><br><em>His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn,</em><br><em>His cross is every tree.”</em></p>
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<p>His poetry is very popular in India where it is examined for this spiritual outlook.</p>
<p>He spent some time in North Africa and was very interested in Egyptology. Egyptology at the time was the semi-structured scientific phase that bridged antiquarianism to modern archaeology, and it was in this time that we (in western society) started getting an evidence based understanding of the society and beliefs of ancient Egypt.</p>
<p>In this context the imaginative and mythical imagery of Plunkett’s epic poem ‘Lex in Tenebris’ makes a lot of sense, for it seems to draw heavily on the mythological imagery of The Egyptian Book of the Dead.</p>
<p>The Egyptian Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphical scroll which was ceremoniously buried with Egyptian of means. It contains a set of instructions for how to navigate the trials which the Egyptians believed preceded entry into the afterlife. It describes a journey where the dead soul must account for itself and is faced by many moments of truth. At each of the trials a deity stands in the way of the seeking soul and will only let it pass upon a satisfactory response or completion of the trial. The Book of the Dead contained spells and incantations that the soul would use at these moments.</p>
<p>Plunkett used this idea of a trial to achieve transcendence, to portray a euphoric triumph of love.</p>
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<p><em>I fought unknown inhuman foes</em><br><em>And left them in their battle-throes,</em><br><em>Hacked a way through them and advanced</em><br><em>To where the stars of morning danced</em><br><em>In your high honour, there I stood</em><br><em>To see you, till the morning-flood</em><br><em>Burst from the sky—but your sunrise</em><br><em>Striking my unaccustomed eyes</em></p>
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<p>It may be less spiritual than his Blood upon the Rose, but it has a brilliant portrayal of the swell of possibility that comes with daring action. A bit like his Easter rebellion.</p>
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<p><em>In heart and eyes a drunken flame</em><br><em>That sang and clamoured out your name,</em><br><em>And woke a madness in my head.</em><br><em>The enemies I had left for dead</em><br><em>Surrounded me with gibbering cries</em><br><em>And mocked me for my blinded eyes.</em><br><em>I curst them till they rose in rage</em><br><em>And flung me down a battle-gage</em></p>
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<p>Joseph Plunkett was executed on May 4th 1916,  with William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O’Hanrahan,  for their role in the Easter Rising.</p>
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<p><em>Lorcán Mac Mathúna</em></p>


