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title: The Secret to a New Paradigm: A LaRouche-Hamilton Credit Policy
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title: The Secret to a New Paradigm: A LaRouche-Hamilton Credit Policy
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329778
title: Hate speech laws “not on the immediate agenda”, says Taoiseach
author: ;Ben Scallan
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title: New data: serious adverse effects of abortion pill may be 22 times higher
author: ;Niamh Uí Bhriain
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title: CSO: Visitor numbers down 15% in March compared with year earlier
author: ;Jason Osborne
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>The highest proportion of visitors was from Britain.</p>
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title: Another IPAS centre application from furtive investors
author: ;Dr Matt Treacy
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title: Minister asked about possible replacement for Benefacts
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>Ben Scallan asks Jack Chambers if there are any plans to rectify this:</p>
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title: As contradições que levaram ao fracasso do Levante de 1935 e da ANL
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<p><strong><em>O levante de 1935 foi o último suspiro do tenentismo e das ideias revolucionárias (embora confusas) dentro do PCB. </em></strong></p>
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<p>O <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/16/anl-uma-primeira-tentativa-de-libertar-o-brasil-do-jugo-americano/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">método empregado pela ANL</a> refletia muito bem o conteúdo do seu programa e a correlação de forças dentro do movimento de libertação nacional. Por um lado, parte dos dirigentes pequeno-burgueses e da base burguesa da ANL abandonou a luta quando a insurreição foi proposta, inclusive o presidente da ANL, Hercolino Cascardo, que afirmou que “o comunismo da Terceira Internacional é contra a nossa Constituição”*, facilitando o fechamento da ANL pelo governo. Por outro, ela foi uma quartelada, uma tentativa de insurreição de dentro dos quarteis, liderada pelos tenentes e pelo baixo escalão das Forças Armadas.</p>
<p>Luiz Carlos Prestes, o grande líder tenentista e convertido em máxima figura do PCB, tinha uma concepção semi-anarquista da insurreição, instando seus antigos correligionários da Coluna a iniciar a revolução com ações armadas no campo, enquanto o PCB acreditava ainda que o exército brasileiro, em seu conjunto, era “nacional, popular e anti-imperialista” – depositando nele a confiança de que lideraria a revolução. O Secretariado Sul-Americano da Internacional Comunista informava à Comissão Executiva, em Moscou: “mesmo não havendo uma grande vaga [de] lutas operárias e camponesas, existe a perspectiva de vitória por insurreição militar apoiada imediatamente pelas massas. (…) Nossas forças militares dão a possibilidade de vitória.”</p>
<p>O movimento operário ficou em segundo plano. De qualquer forma, não havia como ser protagonista, uma vez que não havia sido preparado – a ANL agiu de maneira extremamente precipitada, sem a mínima organização de conselhos operários, camponeses e de soldados, o que requeriria tempo, paciência e muito trabalho. Revoluções semelhantes, como a de 1952 no Egito, foram vitoriosas porque o movimento operário e popular estava mais maduro e preparado para a derrocada do regime – assim como o regime egípcio estava preparado para a sua própria derrocada – e teve um papel preponderante, apesar da iniciativa dos militares.</p>
<p>No caso brasileiro, não havia um movimento popular organizado para a tomada do poder, não havia a liderança da classe operária e não havia uma direção política revolucionária para que o movimento fosse vitorioso. Um dos erros fundamentais para o fracasso da revolução foi o abandono da proposta do PCB de criação de conselhos de operários, camponeses, soldados e marinheiros, substituída pela de um “Governo Popular Nacional Revolucionário” por orientação da III Internacional, pois assim “a frente seria muito mais ampla”. O trabalho de formação desses conselhos, necessário para o sucesso da empreitada, portanto, não foi feito.</p>
<p>Em artigo de maio de 1935 no jornal do PCB, um delegado da Internacional designado para orientar os comunistas no Brasil, o alemão Arthur Ewert, evidenciou a posição capituladora, colaboradora, traidora e portanto fracassada que deveria ser adotada na revolução brasileira. Ao considerar que o caráter da revolução no Brasil era democrático-burguês, assim como na China, onde foi demonstrada “claramente a necessidade da existência dos sovietes de operários e camponeses na etapa democrático-burguesa da revolução”, ele, no entanto, fez uma ressalva:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Ao reconhecer isso, não podemos perder de vista o fato de que a revolução democrático-burguesa pode COMEÇAR sem a existência dos sovietes. Este será o caso em que as forças de classe e a consciência revolucionária do proletariado não estejam ainda suficientemente desenvolvidas</em>, faltando-lhes uma direção revolucionária firme. (grifo meu)</p></blockquote>
<p>Ao contrário: para a constituição de conselhos (sovietes) não é necessário o pleno desenvolvimento de uma consciência revolucionária do proletariado. Eles são o instrumento para que essa consciência se desenvolva. Essa consciência “suficientemente desenvolvida” é necessária, sim, para a revolução socialista, mas não para a formação dos sovietes. A formação dos sovietes é uma etapa necessária, inclusive, para a revolução democrático-burguesa sob a liderança do proletariado, que é a política correta do partido operário. A proposta de Ewert era a de desarmar o proletariado e as massas populares por ele arrastadas para a revolução, permitindo o controle pelas classes dominantes “revolucionárias” do governo provisório, entregando, assim, o poder a elas. Essa é a típica política da “revolução por etapas” propugnada pela burocracia soviética, que deturpa totalmente os ensinamentos de Lênin e diz que a burguesia deveria liderar a revolução burguesa, e não o proletariado.</p>
<p>O PCB considerava, assim, contraditoriamente, que o Brasil estava preparado para a revolução, mas o proletariado não. Por essa lógica, as camadas superiores que estivessem insatisfeitas com o atual regime estavam preparadas e deveriam liderar a revolução e tomar o poder. Quando era óbvio que elas nem estavam preparadas nem tinham a intenção de fazê-lo. Para fazer a revolução burguesa, seria necessário o predomínio político da classe operária, não só para aplicar as reformas democráticas (de ordem, portanto, burguesa e capitalista), mas também para continuar a revolução e transformá-la em socialista, a única forma de extirpar completamente a exploração do nosso povo pelo imperialismo.</p>
<p>Já era muito conhecida dos comunistas a tática correta a ser adotada. Lênin escreveu, analisando e orientando a revolução democrático-burguesa de 1905 na Rússia:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>O desenlace da revolução depende do papel que desempenhe nela a classe operária: de que se limite a ser um auxiliar da burguesia, ainda que seja um auxiliar poderoso pela intensidade de seu empurrão contra a autocracia, mas politicamente impotente, ou de que assuma o papel de dirigente da revolução popular.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Isso porque a burguesia, àquela mesma que o PCB entregava a direção do movimento, não é uma classe capaz de levar adiante nem mesmo uma revolução burguesa em um país como o Brasil e em uma época na qual o imperialismo já está disseminado pelo mundo.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>(…) à burguesia convém se apoiar em algumas das sobrevivências do passado contra o proletariado, por exemplo, na monarquia, no exército permanente, etc. À burguesia convém que a revolução burguesa não varra muito resolutamente todas as sobrevivências do passado, mas que deixe em pé algumas delas; ou seja, que esta revolução não seja de todo consequente, não se leve até o final, não seja decidida e implacável.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Mais adiante, Lênin deixa muito claro que:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>O marxismo não ensina o proletariado a ficar à margem da revolução burguesa, a não participar nela, a entregar a sua direção à burguesia, mas o ensina, pelo contrário, a participar dela do modo mais enérgico e lutar com a maior decisão pela democracia proletária consequente, por levar a revolução até o seu término.</em> **</p></blockquote>
<p>Prestes sabia que “só a ditadura revolucionária democrática dos conselhos de operários e camponeses é capaz de fazer a revolução democrático-burguesa, levando até o fim a execução de suas tarefas e, portanto, garantindo a sua ulterior transformação em revolução socialista”. Porém, continuava ele, “não temos ainda os elementos suficientes para a luta imediata para a instauração de um governo soviético de operários e camponeses”. Logo, o “Governo Popular Nacional Revolucionário” deveria refletir também os interesses “de todos os outros elementos que sofrem com a dominação imperialista e feudal”, sendo assim um “bloco de todos os antifascistas do Brasil”. É curioso que a ANL pretendesse que o próprio Prestes fosse o líder do novo governo, sendo ele o líder do partido operário que não queria entregar o poder à classe operária, mas sim à burguesia.</p>
<p>Recusou-se, portanto, a organizar o movimento operário e, atrás dele, trazer consigo os camponeses e outros setores populares organizados sob a sua direção. A liderança da revolução de libertação do Brasil foi entregue aos setores da burguesia e da pequena burguesia, pensando-se acertadamente que os trabalhadores não estavam preparados para liderar uma revolução <em>naquele momento</em>, mas que a revolução já estava em andamento (um equívoco).</p>
<p>Os bravos que entregaram suas vidas ou sua liberdade em nome da vitória da libertação nacional foram esmagados por um regime que se fechou, se fascistizou e ao mesmo tempo em que iniciou a industrialização do país permitiu uma penetração sem precedentes da influência estadunidense.</p>
<p>A Revolução de 30, fruto dos levantes tenentistas e da crise da República Velha, deu um impulso no movimento operário que já estava se organizando em sindicatos e partidos políticos, bem como em uma ala de tenentes radicalizados. Isso se deu, em um primeiro momento, na esteira da crise causada pela Guerra imperialista, e em um segundo momento pela crise econômica de 1929, e com as próprias limitações do governo revolucionário de Getúlio Vargas. A isso se deve o crescimento do PCB e da ANL, embora as condições não estivessem maduras para a revolução, ao contrário do que pensavam. O PCB deveria aproveitar as consequências da crise econômica e dos sucessos de 1930 para preparar as condições para a revolução, e não para se atirar em uma revolução despreparada.</p>
<p>O levante de 1935 foi o último suspiro do tenentismo e das ideias revolucionárias (embora confusas) dentro do PCB. Depois disso, os oficiais do alto escalão associados ao imperialismo impuseram seu completo domínio sobre as Forças Armadas e a política reformista e colaboradora com a burguesia se tornou marca do PCB devido ao seu controle pelo aparato soviético até 1991.</p>
<p>* Todas as citações entre aspas têm como fonte a obra “Luiz Carlos Prestes e a Aliança Nacional Libertadora” (PRESTES, Anita Leocádia, pp. 65, 78, 80, 84, 106, 109, 110, 135, 138).</p>
<p>** LÊNIN, V.I. “Dos tacticas de la socialdemocracia en la revolucion democratica”, Ediciones en Lenguas Estranjeras, s/d. Baseado na edição de 1907. Publicado pela primeira vez em julho de 1905.</p>
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title: IBM Stretch: Building the World's Fastest Computer!
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title: New Data Reveals Strong Economic Momentum
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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>It’s no surprise the leftovers of Biden’s economic disaster have been a drag on economic growth, but the underlying numbers tell the real story of the strong momentum President Trump is delivering. Robust core GDP, the highest gross domestic investment in four years, job growth, and trillions of dollars in new investments secured by President Trump are fueling an economic boom and setting the stage for unprecedented growth as President Trump ushers in the new Golden Age.”</em> — Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt</p>
<p><strong>Here are the facts:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>GDP is a backward-looking indicator.</strong> Today’s <em>headline</em> figure reflects the end of the Biden economic disaster, not the beginning of the economic boom that President Trump is delivering.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>January growth, especially in consumer spending — which has an outsized weight on the Q1 figure — was hampered by colder-than-usual weather and California wildfires, and mostly occurred before President Trump took office.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Core GDP grew at a robust 3.0%.</strong> This signals strong underlying economic momentum that occurred after President Trump’s inauguration.</li>
<li><strong>Gross domestic investment soared by 22%.</strong> This is the highest in four years and comes as businesses and consumers — bolstered by rising take-home pay — fuel an economic boom.</li>
<li><strong>Monthly indicators, which capture growth trends at a much higher frequency, all point to accelerating growth AFTER President Trump took office.</strong> Private employment gains, consumer spending, capital investment, and aggregate hours worked have all accelerated since January, while inflation has decelerated.</li>
<li><strong>An unprecedented surge in imports due to tariff frontrunning contributed to most of the decline.</strong></li>
<li><strong>The forward-looking indicators highlight the momentum that has occurred in anticipation of President Trump’s economic agenda.</strong> Exports still rose at a healthy 1.8% rate, implying no major disruption to flow of U.S. goods and services to our trading partners abroad.</li>
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title: Liberal MP who led caucus revolt against Trudeau feels vindicated – April 29, 2025
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title: ICYMI: President Trump’s Largest Tax Cut in History
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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/1917361054864269468">renewed his call</a> for Congress to pass the “one big, beautiful bill” and once again deliver the largest tax cuts in history to the American people.</p>

<p><strong>In addition to finally exempting tips, overtime, and seniors’ Social Security from taxes, here’s what else that</strong> <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Economic-Impact-of-Extending-TCJA-Provisions.pdf"><strong>means</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p>
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<p>[<a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/europe-is-actively-seeking-world?r=cpxww">Originally published at I-System TrendCompass</a>] Russia’s military victory over Ukraine has been a near-certainty for months now. Ukraine’s total defeat is only a matter of time, but as that time approaches, European powers have been increasingly determined not to let the war die and are now actively preparing to take it up where Ukraine stumbles. Our liberal democracies are as precious as they are fragile and every precaution must be taken to defend them from the Asiatic hordes gathering in the east.</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%2F399c46ed-7634-4407-ac44-a5256e06272d_1459x680.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%2F399c46ed-7634-4407-ac44-a5256e06272d_1459x680.png" width="1456" height="679" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/399c46ed-7634-4407-ac44-a5256e06272d_1459x680.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":679,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2042555,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://trendcompass.substack.com/i/162518553?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F399c46ed-7634-4407-ac44-a5256e06272d_1459x680.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><p>While our valiant bankers are arranging to allocate trillions of euros of our children’s and grandchildren’s wealth for defense spending, our militaries are diligently exercising and preparing for war, hidden from ordinary Europeans who aren’t exactly enthused about World War 3. But the Russians have noticed: presidential aide and former National Security Adviser <strong><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/616473-patrushev-nuclear-conflict-west/">Nikolai Patrushev</a></strong><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/616473-patrushev-nuclear-conflict-west/"> recently stated</a> that, for a second consecutive year, NATO has been</p><blockquote><p>“conducting exercises at our borders at a scale unseen in decades. … They are training for conducting a broad offensive from Vilnius to Odessa, seizing Kaliningrad region, imposing a naval blockade in the Baltic and the Black Seas and executing preventive strikes on the staging locations of Russian nuclear deterrence forces.”</p></blockquote><p>If Mr. Patrushev is correct, it would appear that London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels are actively preparing for war against Russia. But his statement that the exercises are “at a scale unseen in decades,” needs to be put in context.</p><h2>NATO’s provocations far predate Ukraine war</h2><p>NATO has been involved in increasingly aggressive military maneuvers at Russia’s doorstep for many years now, especially after the 2014 Euromaidan coup in Kiev. During that time, NATO forces have been conducting as many as 40 major military exercises <em>per year</em> along Russia’s borders.</p><p>Movement of their military assets evolved from purely reconnaissance hardware to battle ready ships and aircraft equipped with precision munitions and cruise missiles which would frequently approach Russian territory to as close as 15 km (9.3 miles). On these occasions, they often activated their missiles in repeated mock attacks on Russian targets. In September 2020, chief of operations of Russia’s high command, <strong>General Sergey Rudskoi</strong> stated that NATO was staging <a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2020/09/21/provocative-u-s-air-and-sea-maneuvers-at-russias-borders-shift-from-reconnaissance-to-mock-cruise-missile-attacks/">between 33 and 40 such flight approaches per week</a> using fighter jets from Sweden, Germany, Ukraine and Italy.</p><p>This suggests that the exercises Mr. Patrushev referred to aren’t Europe’s reaction to Russia’s aggressiveness but a continuation of policy that far predates the Ukraine war. In June 2021, still more than six months before Ukraine war, NATO’s then Secretary General <strong>Jens Stoltenberg</strong> <a href="https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/06/13/secretary-general-nato-wont-mirror-russia-will-exponentially-outspend-it-in-arms-surround-it-with-battle-groups/">boasted that</a>,</p><blockquote><p>“<em>Perhaps the most important thing we have done is that for the first time in NATO’s history, we have combat-ready troops in the eastern part of the Alliance. New battle groups are deployed to the Baltic countries and Poland, we have tripled the size of the NATO readiness force.”</em></p></blockquote><p>In a 2016 radio-interview with <strong>John Bachelor</strong>, late professor <strong>Stephen Cohen</strong> noted that,</p><blockquote><p>“<em>NATO has decided to quadruple its military forces on Russia’s borders or near Russia’s borders… The last time there was this kind of Western hostile military force on Russia’s borders was when Nazis invaded Russia in 1941. There has never been anything like this. During the 40-year Cold War there was this vast buffer zone that ran from the Soviet borders all the way to Berlin. There were no NATO or American troops there. This is a very radical departure on the part of the [<strong>Obama</strong>] administration. … Russia is not threatening any country on its border.</em>”</p></blockquote><h2>$75 trillion worth of democracy and freedom</h2><p>Professor Cohen was right. Russia really wasn’t threatening any of its neighbors, and no Russian leader has either explicitly or implicitly expressed any territorial pretentions against any European nation. The deranged claims that once they are done with Ukraine, the Russians will continue on to Poland, the Baltic states, Finland and then, who knows, perhaps Paris and London, are based on nothing but European leaders reckless fear mongering, aimed at justifying NATO’s continuing preparations for war.</p><p>The ultimate reason isn’t the belief that Russia will launch a medieval invasion of Europe and deprive us of our democracy and freedom, but the certain knowledge that Russia is sitting on an estimated $75 trillion of our freedom and democracy. Those precious resources are utterly wasted on the unworthy Russians. Here’s what the Iron Lady <strong>Margaret Thatcher</strong> once said (video at <a href="https://x.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1794111767590715642">this link</a>):</p><blockquote><p>“If you were to make a table of countries in proportion to the natural resources they have, the top one would almost certainly be Russia. She has everything. Oil, gas, diamonds, platinum, gold, silver, all the industrial metals, marvelous standing timber, a wonderfully rich soil. But countries are not rich in proportion to their natural resources. Countries are rich whose governments have policies which encourage essential creativity, initiative and enterprise of man and recognize his desire to do better for his family.”</p></blockquote><h2>We can’t allow for Russia’s wealth to be wasted on Russians</h2><p>Why would Ms. Thatcher even utter such a statement? What was the thinking that motivated her words which, in addition to a sense of superiority betrays a sense of envy over the riches that are being wasted on the Russians. In 1991, not long after she spoke those words, the Soviet Union collapsed, Western powers got their democratically elected puppet <strong>Boris Yeltsin</strong> into power and over the following nine years ran the greatest pirate raid ever orchestrated since the beginnings of time. As <strong>E. Wayne Merry</strong>, chief political analyst at the US Embassy in Moscow testified,</p><blockquote><p>“We created a virtual open shop for thievery at a national level and for capital flight in terms of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the raping of natural resources and industries on a scale which I doubt has ever taken place in human history.”</p></blockquote><p>Then, in 2000, <strong>Vladimir Putin</strong> came to power and that vampire ball came to an end. But whoever is in charge in London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin will never give up trying to take control of all that wealth from the unworthy, inferior Russians.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/europe-is-actively-seeking-world?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTM2NTc0NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTYyNTE4NTUzLCJpYXQiOjE3NDYwMzAxOTMsImV4cCI6MTc0ODYyMjE5MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTMxNTA5NjgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.ZQ1A1swiG638t2fnVVTGoeiHex6Q3eNxpxxG8q2ZLs4","text":"Share","action":null,"class":"button-wrapper"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/europe-is-actively-seeking-world?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTM2NTc0NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTYyNTE4NTUzLCJpYXQiOjE3NDYwMzAxOTMsImV4cCI6MTc0ODYyMjE5MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTMxNTA5NjgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.ZQ1A1swiG638t2fnVVTGoeiHex6Q3eNxpxxG8q2ZLs4" data-sanitized-class="button primary button-wrapper"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>That’s our resources, dammit!</h2><p>In their deranged minds, that wealth belongs to those “whose governments have policies which encourage essential creativity, initiative and enterprise,” of men. Ms. Thatcher must have meant the creativity, initiative and enterprise of such men as <strong>Edward Teach</strong>, <strong>Henry Avery</strong>, <strong>William Kidd</strong>, or <strong>Sir Francis Drake</strong>, or <strong>Sir Henry Morgan</strong> since the ruling establishment that she represented still upholds those real life pirates and assassins as national heroes to this day. Her establishment's hatred is only reserved for those who resist the looting, reject vassalage and defend against their colonization.</p><p>Today that establishment has faithful vassals in Europe and in NATO. The United States under <strong>Trump </strong>broke ranks for the time being, but this might only be a setback; they could get a war going anyway, forcing the US to come to their aid. After all, the Americans couldn't just stand by, leaving their faithful European allies at the mercy of the barbarous Asiatic hordes. Even if Trump resists the call of war, the war narratives could build up powerful political pressures at home. If you throw a well-timed false flag attack into that mix, it could work the same magic as it did during World War I and World War II. London may already be making the preparations, as I detailed in <a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event?r=cpxww">this report last November</a>.</p><p>In all, the Europeans are pushing hard to give this war the chance it deserves and to escalate it to World War III. Trillions of dollars in democracy and freedom for the bankers are at stake.</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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<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>Today, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a memorandum to heads of Federal agencies establishing an interagency Permitting Innovation Center. The creation of the Permitting Innovation Center delivers on President Trump’s Memorandum, <em><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/updating-permitting-technology-for-the-21st-century/">Updating Permitting Technology for the 21st Century</a></em>, which directs the Federal government to leverage modern technology to effectively and efficiently conduct environmental reviews and evaluate permits for infrastructure projects of all kinds.</p>
<p>Under President Trump’s leadership, the CEQ-led Permitting Innovation Center will consult with the National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC) and relevant permitting agencies to issue a Permitting Technology Action Plan that will provide technology guidance to agencies, while developing an initial National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) data and technology standard.</p>
<p>In addition, the Permitting Innovation Center will collaborate with the General Services Administration (GSA) to design and test prototype software systems for potential implementation by agencies pursuant to the Permitting Technology Action Plan.</p>
<p>“The Trump Administration is making unprecedented progress toward modernizing permitting,” said <strong>Katherine Scarlett, Chief of Staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality</strong>. “The establishment of the Permitting Innovation Center is a major milestone on the road to permitting reform and demonstrates this Administration’s commitment to expediting the environmental review and permitting process through emerging technologies, providing much needed efficiency and transparency for project sponsors.”</p>
<p>“GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) is committed to advancing the President’s agenda by supporting the accelerated development and building of the Permitting Innovation Center,” said <strong>Thomas Shedd, Technology Transformation Services Director at General Services Administration</strong>. “We look forward to working across the agencies involved in this process, and leveraging our Presidential Innovation Fellowship program to ensure that each agency’s technology requirements are understood and met. TTS remains a preferred shared service provider of software and services to advance critical White House initiatives such as this one.”</p>
<p>To read the Memorandum for Heads of Federal Departments and Agencies, “Establishment of Permitting Innovation Center,” <strong><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Memorandum-CEQ-Establishment-of-Permitting-Innovation-Center_4.30.2025.pdf">click here</a></strong>.</p>
<p><strong>ICYMI:</strong></p>

link:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/the-white-house-council-on-environmental-quality-establishes-permitting-innovation-center/


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329836
title: €4.3bn: Ireland’s Asylum Housing
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>The asylum seeker housing business laid bare. GRIPT’s Gary Kavanagh has mapped €4.3bn of State payments to private companies to provide accommodation, and related services, for asylum seekers and Ukrainians, firm by firm, name by name. https://www.youtube.com/live/eGLNYYcM6T8?si=OeHj7LZGG8jKxg3e</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://gript.ie/e4-3bn-irelands-asylum-housing/">€4.3bn: Ireland’s Asylum Housing</a> appeared first on <a href="https://gript.ie/">Gript</a>.</p>

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guid: 4480
author: ;⚡️Luc Trudel
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title:
'Russia &amp; US a great partnership' — Oliver Stone'I hope to God we mend our relationship'Boost us here @IntelRepublic

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author: ;⚡️Luc Trudel
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  <div dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="link_preview_title">The Trust Fall: Julian Assange | Trailer | Available Now</div>
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title: https://archive.org/details/louis_theroux_the_settlers_2025
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  <div dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="link_preview_title">The Settlers (2025) : Louis Theroux : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive</div>
  <div dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="link_preview_description">Louis Theroux is back with a compelling new documentary titled “Louis Theroux: The Settlers.” This much-anticipated episode will air on Sunday, April 27,...</div>
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title: https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1916970780673421788
author: ;⚡️Luc Trudel
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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698242
title: Les relations de l’Algérie et de la France dans l’histoire avant l’invasion: Devoir de vérité
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<p><i>« L’Algérie est d’abord fille de son histoire, qu’elle ait surmonté l’épreuve coloniale et même défié l’éclipse, atteste, s’il en est besoin, de cette volonté inextinguible de vivre sans laquelle les peuples sont menacés parfois de disparition. L’ornière qui nous </i>…</p>

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698236
title: La défaite, et surtout ne tirer aucun enseignement de ce désastre inutile
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<p>Comme c’est étrange de repenser aujourd’hui, alors que la guerre par procuration menée par Washington en Ukraine se solde par une défaite cuisante, à cette avalanche de propagande qui déferlait sur ce que j’avais qualifié, durant les premiers mois, de …</p>

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https://www.mondialisation.ca/la-defaite-et-surtout-ne-tirer-aucun-enseignement-de-ce-desastre-inutile/5698236


guid: 5qkx00J5sbxbIT0NbgRZdn
title: Daily Update April 29th – Netanyahu Regime Facing Moment of Truth
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>The number of Israelis moving into the streets to protest Netanyahu's war against the Palestinians is surging. Voices speaking out for peace now include prominent figures, as well as family members of hostages still held by Hamas. The security doctrine of Israel, the "Iron Wall", has proven to be a failure.  Will the U.S. join the Global Majority in demanding a two-state solution in SW Asia?  As Yitzhak Rabin understood when he co-signed the Oslo Accord with Arafat, peace requires an economic component, based on providing mutual benefits. The Oasis Plan of Lyndon LaRouche would do that.  Join our campaign for implementing a true plan for peace:  https://assets.nationbuilder.com/schi...<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: Daily Update April 30th – Eurocrats Hit a New Low
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Governments in Europe are unpopular because they act on behalf of corporate cartels, not the interests of their people. Breakdown of infrastructure, for example, the nationwide blackout in Spain and Portugal is blamed on Putin, before any investigation was launched! Meanwhile, European Union operatives are collaborating with City of London financial oligarchs and British intelligence to disrupt the efforts of Presidents Trump and Putin for normalization of relations between their two countries, which is a precondition for peace and prosperity.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: In Primetime Interview, President Trump Highlights America’s Comeback
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/opt-sh-1.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>In a commanding primetime <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/full-transcript-trumps-exclusive-100-days-broadcast-interview/story?id=121291672">interview</a> on ABC, President Donald J. Trump delivered a powerful recap of his first 100 days in office — showcasing his transformative achievements and confronting the mainstream media’s distortions head-on. From securing the border to slashing billions in waste, President Trump laid out why the nation is rallying behind the America First agenda.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s what you missed:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917371663508820063"><strong>highlighted</strong></a> <strong>the single biggest accomplishment of his first 100 days:</strong> “The border is the most significant because our country was really going bad … You had murderers coming in, you had everybody coming in … Now, it’s totally closed down … Nobody thought that could happen, and it happened quickly.”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917384901437055098"><strong>roasted</strong></a> <strong>the media for covering up Biden’s decline:</strong> “We had a President that couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs, couldn’t walk down a flight of stairs, couldn’t walk across the stage without falling. We had a President that was grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it, and everybody knew it, but you guys didn’t want to write it because you’re fake news — and, by the way, ABC is one of the worst.”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917385367872852387"><strong>distilled</strong></a> <strong>his first 100 days to a single statement:</strong> “I’m doing one thing: I’m Making America Great Again … Our country suffered greatly — and now, our country is coming back like nobody can believe.”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917374452305911917"><strong>noted</strong></a> <strong>prices are already moderating in his first 100 days:</strong> “Our country had inflation that was worse than they’ve ever had it before … Why don’t you mention that? … Now, grocery prices are coming down, the energy prices are coming down…”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917376156875251804"><strong>fact checked</strong></a> <strong>the interviewer on deported criminal illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia:</strong> “This is an MS-13 gang member … Beat the hell out of his wife … This is not an ‘innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland … He came into our country ILLEGALLY!”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917371894224900219"><strong>outlined</strong></a> <strong>the stakes of his trade policy:</strong> “This is what I campaigned on. I said that we’ve been abused by other countries at levels that nobody’s ever seen before … I could’ve left it that way — and at some point, there would’ve been an implosion … but I said, ‘No. We have to fix it.’”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917376053615509561"><strong>discussed</strong></a> <strong>his success in securing the homeland:</strong> “We’re doing something that has to be done … They’ve allowed 21 million people to pour into our country. Many of these people are criminals … We’re getting them out, and I was elected to get them out.”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917378646219554972"><strong>described</strong></a> <strong>meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the Vatican:</strong> “The moment was a moment of solace in a sense because tremendous numbers of people are dying … and I feel very badly about it. That’s a war that would’ve never happened if I were president.”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917381806048903615"><strong>praised</strong></a> <strong>DOGE:</strong> “We saved $150 billion — BILLION. That’s a lot of money … There are things that I’m considering right now putting back, but overall, we saved hundreds of billions of dollars … We also found tremendous waste, fraud, and abuse.”</li>
<li><strong>President Trump</strong> <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917381864806875145"><strong>addressed</strong></a> <strong>the measles vaccine:</strong> “I recommend it. Do I mandate it? No.”</li>
</ul>

link:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/in-primetime-interview-president-trump-highlights-americas-comeback/


guid: https://brixsweden.org/?p=5375
title: 80 Years After End of WWII: Replace Hegemony with Harmony!
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<div><img src="https://brixsweden.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Peace-earth.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Hussein Askary (Vice-Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden)</p>
<p>This article is published courtesy of China Daily. Original article is available <a href="https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/30/WS68116a87a310a04af22bcf49.html"><span>here!</span></a></p>
<p><strong>The law of the jungle must be replaced by the pursuit of harmony if humanity is to avoid another global conflict</strong></p>
<p>Looking at the rising tensions between the United States and China, and between the US and Russia in recent years, it becomes difficult for many to believe that the three nations stood shoulder to shoulder fighting a common enemy more than 80 years ago. During World War II, the three nations made unprecedented sacrifices in the fight against Nazism and Fascism and worked together to achieve their final defeat. That victory was crowned by the signing of the United Nations Charter, the founding document of the UN, in San Francisco in 1945. The sovereignty, independence and equality among nation states was a key pillar of the charter.</p>
<p>However, the legacy of colonialism and imperialism lingered in the world. Winston Churchill and Harry Truman together paved the way to the Cold War and the division of the world into “we and them” again. The US National Security Act of 1947 turned the enormous US military institutions into a unified tool under the whims of Anglo-American leaders. This was consolidated with a paranoid “red scare” of Russia and China and McCarthyism. The “military-industrial complex” is just one product of this process. “National security” became a selfish and destructive obsession.</p>
<p>Simultaneously, China and other Global South nations pursued their struggle for freedom and independence despite the massive headwinds of the Cold War, creating a different vision for the world. This culminated in the Asia-Africa Bandung Conference which celebrated its 70th anniversary in April. The Bandung Spirit combined the principles of the UN Charter and China-proposed Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.</p>
<p>The Bandung Spirit and the Anglo-American notion of unilateral hegemony are coming to loggerheads today. The enormous changes in the past four decades, with China’s peaceful economic rise as the best illustration, have ushered a new era of multilateralism where these two notions cannot co-exist on the same planet.</p>
<p>The West must come to grips with this reality to avoid a new global conflict. The philosophical grounds for the hegemonic thinking must be exposed and abandoned. One attempt to clarify such a philosophy is made by the so-called realist school of international relations. As US scholar John Mearsheimer asserts, great powers are “concerned mainly with figuring out how to survive in a world where there is no agency to protect them from each other” and “the anarchic international system creates powerful incentives for states to look for opportunities to gain power at the expense of rivals”. In such a cynical condition, “might makes right” and justice is whatever serves the strong. Realists claim that the law of the jungle in human relations is the natural state of things. They evoke examples from history to support their view as if it were as solid as natural science. Their idea is that there is no “right or wrong”, and the notions of charity, mercy and empathy are creations of the minds of weak people. The example often cited by these realists is derived from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. In this book, the Athenians tell the people of the island of Melos that they cannot be neutral in the war and that they either join the Athenian alliance or be destroyed. When the people of Melos refused, the Athenians killed all the males on the island, enslaved all the females, and resettled the island with their own supporters. In “the natural state of things”, the Athenian envoy said to the people of Melos, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”. This is called “realpolitik” today.</p>
<p>In modern Western philosophy, Thomas Hobbes’ notion of a state of “war of all against all” as natural state of affairs became dominant in imperialist thinking.</p>
<p>The way out of this pessimistic and ultimately destructive thinking is through wisdom and invoking what makes us truly human. It is important to remember that the reason the United Nations was created is to avoid repeating the horrendous suffering caused during World War II. Especially in today’s multipolar world, where one power cannot assert its hegemonic desires without risking the annihilation of the entire human race through a nuclear holocaust, some self-reflection is necessary.</p>
<p>The notion of hegemony must be replaced by the notion of harmony of one human family with a shared future. Asian wisdom can serve us well in these decisive moments, as it has managed to bring decades of peace and economics prosperity. China’s rise to be the world’s second-largest economy and the largest industrial power in just four decades, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty, without firing a single bullet against a neighbor over that period, is unprecedented in history.</p>
<p>In his news conference on the sidelines of the two sessions in Beijing on March 7, China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi responded to the notion of “America First “from a US journalist by saying that there are more than 190 countries in the world and should everyone stress “my country first “and obsess over a position of strength, the law of the jungle would reign in the world again. He emphasized that international norms and order “would take a body blow “and asked: “does right prevail over might, or does might make right?” He advised that history should move forward, not backward. He stressed that the supremacy of common interests over selfish and narrow-minded policies that endanger the world.</p>
<p>It is in this light that the Global Security Initiative in 2022 was launched to highlight the importance of thinking in terms of common and indivisible security of all nations, rather than what some powers deem as their own pure interest no matter what the consequences are. With the Belt and Road Initiative, the Global Development Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, China has laid out a roadmap for achieving global peace and prosperity through cooperation and harmonizing the interests of all nations in a community with a shared future for mankind. This is not mere rhetoric but a reality of what China has achieved both at home and in cooperation with its neighbors and the Global South nations.</p>

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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*LpTw97SecZkuWBjHsaapxQ.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMrproznjCk"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FLMrproznjCk%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLMrproznjCk&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FLMrproznjCk%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/d57efa7a40ffbd3a91b7e94e3eb3bd7d/href">https://medium.com/media/d57efa7a40ffbd3a91b7e94e3eb3bd7d/href</a></iframe><p>Amnesty International is now calling Israel’s mass atrocity in Gaza “<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/29/israel-carrying-out-live-streamed-genocide-in-gaza-amnesty-says">a live-streamed genocide</a>” due to the way this nightmare is unfolding right in front of us on the screens of our devices around the world, and public support for Israel <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/04/09/poll-majority-of-american-adults-have-unfavorable-view-of-israel/">is plummeting</a> in the United States.</p><p>Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.</p><p>During a <a href="https://www.jns.org/watch-jns-international-policy-summit-livestream-2/">speech at a summit</a> hosted by the Jewish News Syndicate earlier this week, former US senator Norm Coleman said that Jews are “the masters of the universe” and should use their power in Silicon Valley to control online information in order to win a “digital war”.</p><p>Coleman, who is Jewish, <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/28/masters-universe-jews-us-senator-israel/">made the following remarks</a> on Monday:</p><blockquote>“A majority of Gen Z have an unfavorable impression of Israel. And, my friends, I think the reason for that is that we’re losing the digital war. They’re getting their information from TikTok… and we’re losing that war.</blockquote><blockquote>“And when you think about it, the masters of the universe are Jews! We’ve got Altman at OpenAI, we’ve got [Facebook founder Mark] Zuckerberg, we’ve got [Google founder] Sergey Brin, we’ve got a group across the board. Jan Koum, y’know, founded WhatsApp. It’s us.</blockquote><blockquote>“And we have to figure out a way to win the digital battle. We’ve got to get our digital sneakers on, so that the truth can prevail over the lies. And when we do that, the future of Israel will be stronger because a majority of all Americans will support Israel. We’ll make that happen, we have to make it happen.”</blockquote><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1916717323194339487&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/4bbb203312ed57a3dc06becb1c6b4c10/href">https://medium.com/media/4bbb203312ed57a3dc06becb1c6b4c10/href</a></iframe><p>If any anti-Zionist with a public profile had said Jews control Silicon Valley and use it to influence public opinion for the benefit of Israel, they’d be forcefully denounced by the entire western political-media class as a rabid antisemite. But a Jewish politician saying Jews must use their control over Silicon Valley to influence public opinion about Israel receives no attention from that same political-media class.</p><p>Interestingly, at that same event, Meta’s “Jewish Diaspora” chief Jordana Cutler <a href="https://x.com/infolibnews/status/1917317617636761669">noted</a> that Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram “banned content claiming Zionists run the world or control the media.” Under Cutler’s own guidelines, the prior comments from her fellow attendee would have been banned if he had said them on Facebook instead of at the Jewish News Syndicate International Policy Summit.</p><p>Israel’s backers have been whining about losing control of the narrative for months.</p><p>In February, US Senator Lindsey Graham <a href="https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1917300303864684623">told the press</a> at <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/404075">an event in Tel Aviv</a> that in the Arab world “Israel has won the war on the ground, but they’ve lost it on television,” lamenting that “all they see is morning, noon and night attacks on the Palestinian people.”</p><p>The Arab world is seeing attacks on the Palestinian people morning noon and night because that is what’s happening. That is what the entire world is seeing.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1917300303864684623&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/54586f1fbe5ea76e47a2337d7752ea90/href">https://medium.com/media/54586f1fbe5ea76e47a2337d7752ea90/href</a></iframe><p>In a talk at the McCain Institute last year, then-Senator Mitt Romney <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-israel-tiktok">told</a> then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Congress supports banning TikTok because it shares information that turns people’s opinions against Israel, saying such information has a “very, very challenging effect on the narrative.”</p><p>After bemoaning Israel’s lack of success at “PR” regarding its Gaza assault, Romney just came right out and said that this was “why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature” — with “us” meaning himself and his fellow lawmakers on Capitol Hill.</p><p>“How this narrative has evolved, yeah, it’s a great question,” Blinken responded, saying that at the beginning of his career in Washington everyone was getting their information from television and physical newspapers like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.</p><p>“Now, of course, we are on an intravenous feed of information with new impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken continued. “And of course, the way this has played out on social media has dominated the narrative. And you have a social media ecosystem environment in which context, history, facts get lost, and the emotion, the impact of images dominates. And we can’t — we can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very, very, very challenging effect on the narrative.”</p><p>Notice how he said the word “narrative” three times? That’s how empire managers talk to each other, because that’s how they think about everything. Everything is about narrative control. It doesn’t matter what happens as long as you can control how people think about what happens.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/405a823beff967151ec9812655c13542/href">https://medium.com/media/405a823beff967151ec9812655c13542/href</a></iframe><p>During the university protests last year, Palantir CEO Alex Karp <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/05/08/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-its-dangerous-to-allow-discrimination-on-our-college-campuses.html">came right out and said</a> that if those on the side of the protesters win the debate on this issue, the west will lose the ability to wage wars.</p><p>“We kind of just think these things that are happening, across college campuses especially, are like a sideshow — no, they <strong><em>are</em></strong> the show,” Karp said during his rant. “Because if we lose the intellectual debate, you will not be able to deploy any army in the west, ever.”</p><p>In an audio recording <a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/491344/American-youth-break-free-from-Zionist-yokes">published by the Tehran Times</a> in 2023, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is heard saying “We really have a TikTok problem” and calling for more aggressive online narrative operations to control public opinion about Israel among young people.</p><p>In the audio recording, whose authenticity was <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/article/tiktok-ban-feared-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-follow">confirmed by the ADL</a>, Greenblatt says the following:</p><blockquote>“I also wanna point out that we have a major major major generational problem. All the polling that I’ve seen, ADL’s polling, ICC’s polling, independent polling suggests this is not a left or right gap, folks. The issue in United States’ support for Israel is not left and right: it is young and old. And the numbers of young people who think that Hamas’s you know massacre was justified is shockingly and terrifyingly high. And so we really have a Tik-Tok problem, a Gen-Z problem, that our community needs to put the same brains that gave us Taglit, the same brains that gave us all these other amazing innovations, need to put our energy toward this like, fast. Cause again like we’ve been chasing this left-right divide. It’s the wrong game. The real game is the next generation, and the Hamas and their accomplices, the useful idiots in the West, are falling in line in ways that are terrifying.”</blockquote><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/PalantirTech/status/1788316740847276358&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/8afaacfd4c373dfc29db72e086966691/href">https://medium.com/media/8afaacfd4c373dfc29db72e086966691/href</a></iframe><p>Israel’s backers are losing control of the narrative because there’s only so much that PR spin can do to convince people they’re not seeing what’s right in front of their eyes. If you’re strangling someone right in front of me there are no words you can say to me to convince me I’m not seeing someone being strangled, no matter how skillful you are at manipulation.</p><p>Actions speak louder than words. Talk is cheap. A picture is worth a thousand words. These aphorisms exist for a reason. Past a certain point there is only so much that mountains of verbiage can accomplish when people are seeing history’s first live-streamed genocide playing out right before their eyes.</p><p>Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The average human life is dominated by mental stories, so if you can control the stories they are telling about what’s going on, you can control the humans.</p><p>Losing narrative control is losing real power. That’s why Israel’s supporters are growing increasingly anxious.</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>. All my work is </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/reminder-all-my-work-may-be-freely"><em>free to bootleg and use</em></a><em> in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. 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title: Histoire: Le premier mai
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<p><em>Texte publié initialement dans L’aut’journal le Premier Mai 1994<br>
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Plus d’un siècle après le début de la lutte pour l’instauration de la journée de huit heures, mesure qui a sans doute sauvé plus de vies que le ministère de …</p>


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title: Que s’est-il réellement passé à Bandar Abbas?
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Le député iranien Mohammad Siraj affirme que l'explosion massive à Bandar Abbas était un acte de sabotage délibéré. Siraj a déclaré à l'agence de presse Rokna qu’“Israël est impliqué dans l'explosion. Ce n'était pas un accident. Des preuves évidentes indiquent l'implication d'Israël”.


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<p><strong><em>Dalle missioni lunari di Chang’e alla rivoluzione delle energie rinnovabili, fino agli algoritmi di DeepSeek, la Cina conferma il suo primato tecnologico globale. Un percorso di ricerca indipendente e cooperazione internazionale che risponde alle sfide climatiche, economico-digitali e sociali.</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>La Cina è emersa nel XXI secolo come la principale potenza tecnologica e innovativa del pianeta, capace di forgiare ambiziosi progetti spaziali, di guidare la transizione verso un’economia verde e di porsi all’avanguardia nell’intelligenza artificiale. Questo slancio non è frutto del caso, ma di una strategia di lungo periodo voluta dal Partito Comunista e dallo Stato sin dai primi anni Duemila: considerare la scienza e la tecnologia non soltanto leve di competitività economica, ma veri e propri pilastri per la rinascita nazionale e per un ruolo da protagonista nel sistema internazionale.</p>
<p>Il <strong>programma spaziale cinese</strong> rispecchia questa filosofia. Dopo il lancio del primo satellite, Dongfanghong-1, nel 1970, Pechino ha puntato con sempre maggiore determinazione allo spazio profondo. L’atterraggio sulla faccia nascosta della Luna da parte della sonda Chang’e-4, il successivo esame dei suoli lunari operato da Chang’e-5 e il ritorno di campioni extraterrestri hanno aperto un nuovo capitolo della corsa spaziale, uno in cui la Cina non si limita a inseguire i traguardi stabiliti da Stati Uniti e Russia, ma avanza su vie proprie. La missione Chang’e-5, in particolare, ha segnato un momento di svolta rispetto alla storica corsa allo spazio: i campioni lunari prelevati sono stati analizzati in Cina e posti a disposizione della comunità scientifica internazionale, segno della volontà di Pechino di promuovere la cooperazione oltre le barriere geopolitiche.</p>
<p>A rafforzare l’impronta cinese nello spazio vi è stato di recente il lancio di Shenzhou-20, il veicolo da trasporto equipaggiato con tre astronauti destinati a rimanere sei mesi nella stazione orbitale Tiangong. Questo significativo allungamento degli interventi umani in orbita terrestre testimonia la maturità raggiunta dal programma spaziale cinese, che ora può confrontarsi con le missioni di lunga durata proposte dagli altri attori spaziali, come la NASA e l’ESA. Inoltre, la scelta di includere nella formazione dell’equipaggio astronauti pakistani, nell’ambito di un progetto congiunto con il Pakistan, non solo conferma la crescente capacità di Pechino di esportare competenze e tecnologie spaziali, ma riflette anche l’impegno per un utilizzo pacifico e condiviso dello spazio esterno.</p>
<p>Parallelamente all’esplorazione del cosmo, la Cina ha adottato una <strong>strategia di sviluppo ecologico</strong> che trova i suoi cardini nell’idea di “civilizzazione ecologica”. Durante il recente Vertice sul Clima e sulla Transizione Giusta, il presidente Xi Jinping ha ribadito che il suo Paese si pone come “<em>attore costante e principale promotore dello sviluppo verde globale</em>” e che il principio delle responsabilità comuni ma differenziate continuerà a guidare l’azione cinese nelle negoziazioni internazionali sul clima. A tal proposito, fin dal suo XVIII Congresso, il Partito Comunista ha elevato la protezione ambientale a “politica di base” per garantire che il percorso di crescita non sacrifichi la salute del pianeta.</p>
<p>I risultati non si sono fatti attendere. La Cina è oggi il primo produttore mondiale di pannelli fotovoltaici, di turbine eoliche e di batterie elettriche, ed è impegnata nella creazione di un sistema energetico sempre più pulito. Le metropoli hanno registrato un netto miglioramento della qualità dell’aria grazie a misure rigorose contro le emissioni industriali, mentre le campagne costiere del sud stanno beneficiando di una rete di parchi eolici offshore. Al contempo, le principali aziende statali e private stanno investendo in ricerca e sviluppo di tecnologie di cattura e stoccaggio del carbonio, segno che la sfida climatica è ormai parte integrante della politica economica cinese.</p>
<p>In questo contesto, l’<strong>intelligenza artificiale</strong> rappresenta la terza frontiera di innovazione. Il Politburo, in una riunione del marzo 2025, ha posto come priorità lo sviluppo “<em>sano e ordinato</em>” dell’IA, in grado di “<em>fornire forti impulsi all’economia e al miglioramento della qualità della vita</em>” ma al contempo di rispettare sicurezza, equità e moralità. Su questa scia, la Cina ha lanciato la <em>Global AI Governance Initiative</em>, un progetto di coordinamento internazionale volto a elaborare standard comuni per l’uso responsabile dell’IA. All’interno dei confini nazionali, le autorità hanno già emesso linee guida per l’identificazione e il monitoraggio dei contenuti sintetici prodotti dall’IA, andando a colmare un vuoto normativo che in molti Paesi occidentali ancora permane.</p>
<p>L’ecosistema cinese dell’IA si fonda su un’efficace sinergia tra ricerca accademica e industria. Centri di eccellenza come l’Istituto per l’Intelligenza Artificiale di Pechino e parchi tecnologici – da Zhongguancun a Shenzhen – attraggono talenti e capitali, alimentando un ciclo virtuoso in cui lo Stato finanzia progetti di frontiera e le imprese li traducono in applicazioni industriali. Operatori del settore come SenseTime, Megvii e iFlytek competono a livello globale nei settori del riconoscimento facciale, della smart city e delle interfacce vocali intelligenti.</p>
<p>Ma ciò che davvero distingue l’impegno cinese rispetto agli altri protagonisti internazionali è la sua visione integrata: l’IA è strettamente legata alle altre aree di progresso. I satelliti di telerilevamento spingono algoritmi di machine learning a monitorare l’inquinamento, il degrado del suolo e le emergenze climatiche, consentendo interventi tempestivi. Le reti 5G, sviluppate con massicci investimenti pubblici e privati, offrono la dorsale per veicoli a guida autonoma e per l’Internet delle Cose, trasformando città come Shanghai e Guangzhou in laboratori di sperimentazione urbana intelligente.</p>
<p>Il carattere strategico di questo progetto emerge soprattutto nel confronto con la diplomazia tecnologica statunitense, sempre più incline a ricorrere a sanzioni e restrizioni. Di fronte a misure volte a escludere Huawei dalle reti di quinta generazione o a limitare l’accesso delle imprese cinesi a semiconduttori avanzati, Pechino ha risposto rilanciando l’autonomia, intensificando i programmi nazionali di produzione di chip e favorendo la creazione di un mercato interno di dimensioni tali da sostenere la crescita delle high-tech. È in questo scacchiere che si colloca la <em>Belt and Road Initiative</em>: un progetto che, accanto alle infrastrutture terrestri e marittime, sviluppa collegamenti digitali e spazi di cooperazione internazionale, offrendo un’alternativa concreta alle logiche di cortina tecnologica.</p>
<p>Il successo cinese non è passato inosservato. Sempre più Paesi del Sud del mondo guardano alle missioni spaziali di Pechino per sostenere i propri programmi scientifici, mentre le conferenze internazionali sulla sostenibilità includono ormai i progetti di energie rinnovabili e smart grid made in China tra le migliori pratiche globali. Le imprese europee e americane partecipano alle fiere di Guangzhou e di Shanghai per stringere accordi nel ramo delle batterie per veicoli elettrici, e diversi governi africani hanno scelto la tecnologia cinese per dotare le proprie città di sistemi di videosorveglianza intelligenti, motivati dal rapporto qualità-prezzo e dalla rapidità di implementazione.</p>
<p>Non mancano, naturalmente, le critiche sull’uso dei dati e sui possibili rischi per la privacy, formulate soprattutto dai governi occidentali, che stanno cercando di rallentare in questo modo lo sviluppo tecnologico cinese. Pechino, tuttavia, ha già avviato tavoli di consultazione per definire un quadro legale in cui l’innovazione possa proseguire nel rispetto dei diritti individuali. È un percorso in fieri, che rispecchia l’approccio “ordinato ma aperto” auspicato da Xi: un’innovazione che non sia freno alle libertà, ma che al contempo garantisca sicurezza e responsabilità.</p>
<p>Nel complesso, il settore aerospaziale, le tecnologie verdi e l’IA costituiscono i tre pilastri su cui si regge il primato tecnologico della Cina nel XXI secolo. La loro coesistenza rispecchia la volontà di Pechino di non limitarsi a essere un “maestro di capacità”, ma di offrire al mondo intero un modello di sviluppo in cui scienza, ambiente e società avanzino insieme. Di fronte alle difficoltà poste dalla guerra commerciale e dalle pressioni geo-tecnologiche, la Cina non ha abbassato la testa: al contrario, ha deciso di giocare la sua carta più forte, quella dell’innovazione condivisa, convinta che solo la cooperazione multilaterale e l’apertura reciproca possano garantire un progresso duraturo. In questa partita, la posta in gioco non riguarda soltanto i confini nazionali, ma il futuro stesso della nostra civiltà tecnologica.</p>
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<p>A widespread blackout hit southern Europe on Monday morning, affecting Portugal, Spain, and parts of south France. In the early hours, fake news about alleged cyberattacks proliferated, with the Russian Federation at the center of attention, <a href="https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/premie-espanhol-nao-descarta-ataque-cibernetico-como-causa-do-apagao/">as expected</a>. As I write this article, no one yet knows how the blackout happened, but some conclusions can already be drawn: the resilience and redundancy levels of the Iberian grid leave much to be desired, exposing the enormous fragility of a system critical to the national interest of the affected populations.</p>
<p>If Ukraine’s electrical system were as resilient as the one supplying the Iberian Peninsula, the Russian Federation would have long since cut off power to that country. Why hasn’t it succeeded? The USSR left behind an energy system that would be the envy of any “advanced” economy in the European Union. Power plants of all kinds form a war machine full of redundancies, extremely difficult to shut down. In the EU, such plants are shut down every day, notably in Portugal (thermoelectric plants in Sines and Pego were closed), and refineries were shut down, for what? To reopen coal plants in Germany and buy electricity from Spain. It was a fantastic deal, generating fabulous profits for EDP.</p>
<p>After massive investments paid for by the Portuguese people in renewable energy, we now discover that our energy is sold abroad while we buy foreign energy for domestic use. Why? So the people and businesses can buy cheaper energy? No! So EDP and REN, once public and now privatized, can close their quarters with fabulous profits. Minimum service, maximum profits. Though not an expert in this field, there are no great secrets about how private corporations operate: buy as cheaply as possible and sell as expensively as possible, even if it means subjecting an entire population to the whims of the “markets” and the vulnerability of “short-termism.” The deindustrialization of the U.S. is a clear example for anyone who doubts this.</p>
<p>Though brief, this episode laid bare a structural crisis rarely discussed: the consequences of privatizing and liberalizing national electricity systems under the umbrella of the European Union (EU). Under the pretext of EU “mandates,” Portugal segmented its system (separating production from distribution and commercialization) based on supposed competition that never materialized, privatized, and liberalized. For the privatized companies sold to foreign capital, it was a lottery; for the Portuguese people, who once had some of the cheapest energy in the EU, even if not the cheapest, prices have now risen to the 10th most expensive in the annual breakdown of domestic prices, <a href="https://www.erse.pt/media/rtonfayu/boletim-eletricidade-eurostat_2023s2.pdf">according to ERSE</a>. The fact is that since the European Commission, now led by the unyielding Ursula von der Leyen, began its propaganda about wanting cheap energy for Europeans, the price of that very energy has only increased.</p>
<p>We must ask ourselves: when we see these people baring their teeth against the Russian Federation, arming themselves to the teeth to “put Vladimir Putin in his place,” how long would it take for a military power like the one serving the Kremlin to leave us living in the Stone Age? A few minutes? Just some weapon causing an impulse? Interesting, isn’t it? For those so eager to see Ukrainians die defending “European values.”</p>
<p>The way the collapse occurred reveals deep systemic vulnerabilities. At a critical moment of grid load variation, the system failed to provide the necessary power to maintain stability (again, the lack of redundancy and resilience, everything operating at minimum capacity, on the tightrope of quarterly profits), resulting in a cascading shutdown. The initial analysis by Red Eléctrica de España (REE) indicates that the interconnection between the Iberian countries was a determining factor, specifically, Portugal’s dependence on supply from Spain at the time of the incident. Moreover, we are not safe from this <a href="https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/energia/detalhe/ren-avisa-que-portugal-nao-esta-a-salvo-de-um-novo-apagao-total">happening again</a>, as is the case in underdeveloped countries and those that treat liberalism as fanaticism, like the U.S., especially Texas. Market logic leads national operators to shut down domestic supply to buy cheaper energy abroad, exacerbating vulnerability in emergencies. At the time of the blackout, Portugal was importing electricity from Spain and couldn’t immediately <a href="https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2025-04-28-video-entenda-o-efeito-em-cadeia-que-pode-ter-provocado-o-apagao-em-portugal-32981aa3">restore the supply</a>).</p>
<p>The truth is that this is a profit-driven model, not one focused on security, let alone affordable energy for families and businesses. We’ve all heard the hardline right-wingers, the ideological liberals of the 17th century, attack taxes (there it is, promoting minimal state) and “labor costs.” Never, never, have we heard them speak about the criminal shame of privatizing strategic sectors, especially electricity, with severe damage to the national economy. It’s no coincidence that the U.S. and EU have some of the highest electricity prices. You don’t need to be a genius to understand why.</p>
<p>This scenario highlights an increasingly evident reality: liberalized systems tend to operate with minimal margins, eliminating redundancies deemed costly. In technical terms, this means less capacity to respond to crises—everything works fine when all is aligned, but when an accident occurs… This applies to electricity, as well as banking, aviation, postal services, telecommunications, and more. It’s no coincidence that the only mobile network that held up during the blackout was MEO, a remnant of the privatization of the former Portugal Telecom, from a time when these important things belonged to everyone and worked for everyone. Those from the era of “market liberalization” couldn’t even handle a sneeze. A simple blackout of a few hours left everyone without communication. For those who go around the world bullying and talking tough, they should worry more about their own house.</p>
<p>As argued by <a href="https://sigarra.up.pt/fep/pt/pub_geral.show_file?pi_doc_id=28023">many authors</a>, the liberalized and privatized model of the European electricity sector was “designed” to increase efficiency and lower costs, but in practice, it tends to operate with minimal redundancy margins, on the razor’s edge. This means less capacity for rapid response to serious failures, as private companies seek to maximize profits by reducing investments in reserves and redundant infrastructure. Since I prefer to move from facts to theory rather than the opposite, if the goal was to lower prices but they increased, if profits grew even more, if everything continued as usual despite the lessons learned from practice, I can only conclude that the intention was simply to hand over to private entities the profits that belonged to everyone. No matter how many theories and idealisms are constructed. When a phenomenon is observed repeatedly and becomes so predictable that it can be extrapolated to most situations, then the theories don’t align with practice. And liberal theory is one of them. It’s a fantasy from the childish days of economics.</p>
<p>This brings us to the essential question: What about our energy independence? Is it so easy to leave a country like Portugal without power? If mills and ovens aren’t electric, and water isn’t piped? Is it so easy for our European partners to leave the country in the dark? It seems so. Now we understand better why Viktor Orbán and Robert Fico didn’t want to be at the mercy of von der Leyen and preferred to keep buying gas from Russia. Had they done otherwise, they wouldn’t be in power today. This is the independent and sovereign Portugal we are! And who are the ones responsible for such betrayal? Who decided that, at some point, our Constitution would be traded for Brussels’ directives?</p>
<p>The fact is that the liberalization of the European energy market allows operators to buy energy abroad whenever it’s economically advantageous. However, this interdependence creates significant strategic risks, because when cross-border circuits fail, as recently happened, countries like Portugal are particularly exposed, given their low domestic production capacity in critical moments. As the REN (National Electrical Grid) official stated, domestic production is only activated when national energy is consumed or exported. Thus, it turns on and off sporadically, leaving us vulnerable to external appetites, from friends and enemies alike.</p>
<p>Among the main culprits of this “April Blackout” are the usual suspects. The April blackout isn’t just an electrical failure. After everything that happened before and during the 51st anniversary celebrations of the Portuguese Revolution that freed us from fascism (cancellation of official commemorations; far-right group infiltrates protesters and brutally attacks them unexpectedly; the Portuguese government censors the National Internal Security Report on the danger of adolescent radicalization by far-right groups), we can truly say that this blackout of “liberal” origin demonstrates that liberalism is not only turning off the lights but also the values of April. One of these, the most important for our collective freedom, is National Sovereignty.</p>
<p>Without energy sovereignty, our national sovereignty is severely threatened. When we hear Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, wanting to discuss the issue to its ultimate consequences, we can only ask one thing: how did it take so long to recognize the danger we live in?</p>
<p>Credit must be given to the only party in Portugal that <a href="https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/das-autarquias-aos-candidatos-as-reacoes-ao-apagao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> this situation, the PCP: “Subjugation to a context of external dependence and a liberalized market constitutes a factor of insecurity for the country. All this demands the reversal of the policy of national abdication of strategic sectors and the guarantee of an articulated, coherent, and effective functioning of the national electrical system.”.</p>
<p>There was another party that mentioned the need to discuss public ownership of sectors determining our energy sovereignty, the Left Bloc (BE), but it did so without ever attacking the root of the problem: the fact that today, Portugal’s energy sector is handed over to plunder, and the origin of this problem is called the European Union and its neoliberal agenda. When we talk about something, we must do so to its ultimate consequences and by addressing the underlying issues. Because this is one of those problems that can kill or save lives. Yesterday, it killed!</p>
<p>And with it should have died the illusions of those who see any salvation in these warlike, neoliberal, and irresponsible EU agendas. As experience shows, with people like Milei at the end of the line, liberalism ultimately leads to fascism, violence, and misery.</p>
<p>At this moment, a task even more important than energy security is imperative: the recovery of our national independence, our freedom as a people, and one of the oldest nations in Europe. This doesn’t mean living apart from others. Rather, it means living with them, chest out and head held high!</p>
<p>It’s time to say no to the April Blackout.</p>
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<p><strong><em>Il lavoro dei servizi segreti britannici e americani a Cipro e la loro cooperazione con Israele. </em></strong></p>
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<p>Documenti top secret fatti trapelare da Edward Snowden rivelano che le risorse di spionaggio sulla Cipro britannica sono integrate con “pianificazioni e operazioni militari” e che è probabile che informazioni di intelligence vengano trasmesse a Israele per aiutarlo a bombardare Gaza, implicando ulteriormente la Gran Bretagna in crimini di guerra. Le cosiddette Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) britanniche a Cipro, che costituiscono il 3% del territorio dell’isola, si trovano a soli 320 chilometri da Gaza. Si dice che le basi siano le più grandi strutture di intelligence britanniche al di fuori del Regno Unito, sebbene non siano mai state ufficialmente riconosciute.</p>
<p>Lo stesso avviene per Washington: la principale agenzia di spionaggio statunitense attiva sul territorio britannico a Cipro è la National Security Agency (NSA). Quest’ultima mantiene una “relazione tecnica e analitica di vasta portata” con l’Unità nazionale SIGINT israeliana (ISNU), “condividendo informazioni su accesso, intercettazione, targeting, linguaggio, analisi e reporting”.</p>
<p>È probabile che informazioni ottenute da Gaza dalle agenzie di spionaggio statunitensi sulla Cipro britannica vengano fornite agli israeliani, implicando ulteriormente entrambi i Paesi nei loro crimini di guerra a Gaza.</p>
<p>Per almeno 50 anni, gli Stati Uniti e la Gran Bretagna hanno tentato di mantenere segrete le dimensioni e le attività della presenza nordamericana nelle basi britanniche e nei “siti riservati” a Cipro ma i documenti recentemente declassificati hanno rivelato che 129 aviatori statunitensi sono dislocati in modo permanente presso la base aerea della RAF di Akrotiri, una base operativa per le campagne di bombardamento in tutto il Medio Oriente. Anche la forza di spionaggio statunitense, il 1° Squadrone di Ricognizione di Spedizione, è dislocata in modo permanente ad Akrotiri.</p>
<p>I documenti fatti trapelare da Snowden indicano quattro siti di spionaggio della NSA a Cipro.</p>
<p>Uno di questi è una struttura di intercettazione delle comunicazioni ad Ayios Nikolaos, nella SBA (Sovereign Base Area) orientale, Dhekelia, che si ritiene aspiri chiamate, messaggi di testo ed e-mail provenienti da tutto il Medio Oriente e dal Nord Africa.</p>
<p>La base di Ayios Nikolaos ospita anche una componente di intelligence di misurazione e firme, o MASINT. Questo campo altamente tecnico rileva e descrive le caratteristiche specifiche di oggetti e sorgenti bersaglio.</p>
<p>Il documento osserva che la NSA fornisce metà dei finanziamenti per il posto di ascolto del Regno Unito ad Ayios Nikolaos.</p>
<p>Nella base occidentale si trovano altre due postazioni MASINT che operano in collaborazione con gli Stati Uniti, tra cui una struttura senza equipaggio a Capo Gata, appena fuori dalla RAF Akrotiri.</p>
<p>A RAF Troodos, un “sito di riserva” britannico vicino al confine con Cipro Nord, gli Stati Uniti gestiscono un altro posto d’ascolto, che utilizza la raccolta segreta di intelligence elettronica. Il sito di Troodos, è da tempo considerato un “gioiello della corona” dalla NSA, in quanto offre un accesso unico al Levante, al Nord Africa e alla Turchia.</p>
<p>“La raccolta di dati sulle armi provenienti da Troodos viene utilizzata per supportare gli analisti tecnici [di intelligence dei segnali] negli Stati Uniti e nel Regno Unito”, si legge nel documento.</p>
<p>L’accordo top secret, che formalizza la condivisione di informazioni di intelligence tra Stati Uniti e Israele, prevede che una “linea di comunicazione dedicata tra NSA e ISNU supporti lo scambio di materiale grezzo, nonché la corrispondenza quotidiana analitica e tecnica”. Aggiunge che “la NSA invia sistematicamente all’ISNU dati grezzi, sia in forma ridotta che non ridotta, di tipo [intelligence]”.</p>
<p>Il rapporto aveva recentemente subito “un’espansione per includere altre organizzazioni di intelligence israeliane e statunitensi come la CIA [e] il Mossad”. Il documento proseguiva affermando che “questo rapporto SIGINT è diventato sempre più il catalizzatore di una più ampia relazione di intelligence tra Stati Uniti e Israele”: “La cooperazione tra Stati Uniti e Israele comprende lo sfruttamento delle comunicazioni interne governative, militari, civili e diplomatiche e … delle organizzazioni di intelligence”, si legge nel documento.</p>
<p>Nel frattempo, i documenti lasciano intendere che le informazioni raccolte su Cipro vengono condivise con altri Governi stranieri. Nella sezione “partnership” dei documenti si legge che esistono “iniziative sull’isola con altre agenzie governative che supportano obiettivi di lavoro congiunti”. Si continua affermando che queste relazioni intergovernative offrono “chiari vantaggi in termini di intelligence”.</p>
<p>È stato inoltre dimostrato che la condivisione di intelligence tra Stati Uniti e Israele si concentra sul Medio Oriente, la regione coperta dai siti della NSA a Cipro e il documento aggiunge che “la parte israeliana gode dei vantaggi di un accesso geografico ampliato” ai siti della NSA. Le spie statunitensi e israeliane “hanno esplorato e sfruttato opportunità uniche per accedere a obiettivi di alta priorità”. Tel Aviv non fa mistero di tenere da anni esercitazioni militari a Cipro con obiettivo il Libano.</p>
<p>Si ritiene che anche la CIA operi dalle basi britanniche a Cipro. Un cablogramma statunitense riporta la testimonianza di un funzionario britannico che afferma che gli aerei americani in volo dalla RAF di Akrotiri sono gestiti dal Dipartimento di Stato e dall’esercito statunitense. Ha però aggiunto che “probabilmente altre agenzie” stanno volando dalla base, il che si presume significhi la CIA.</p>
<p>Da alcuni mesi, i ministeri dell’energia di Israele e Cipro sono impegnati in discussioni su “questioni di reciproco interesse e possibile cooperazione”, a seguito di un rapporto che indica la loro prossimità alla firma di un contratto che consentirà a Israele di fornire gas naturale a Cipro tramite un gasdotto. Questa iniziativa rappresenterebbe la prima vendita di gas israeliano all’Europa.</p>
<p>Il contratto, del valore di 1,5 miliardi di dollari, dovrebbe durare dieci anni e il gas proverrà dalle piattaforme israeliane di Karish e Tanin. Energean, la società che gestisce il giacimento di gas di Karish al largo di Israele, ha presentato una richiesta di licenza di esportazione a Cipro, mentre aveva precedentemente proposto una soluzione tramite gasdotto.</p>
<p>La produzione di gas dal giacimento di Karish viene effettuata tramite l’unità galleggiante di produzione, stoccaggio e scarico (FPSO) Energean Power, con una capacità di 8 miliardi di metri cubi all’anno (Bcm/anno) per l’approvvigionamento del mercato interno israeliano. Il gas proveniente da Karish raggiunge la terraferma a nord, vicino al confine con il Libano.</p>
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<p><strong><em>In the spectral phantasmagoria of Artificial Intelligence, the “utopian” and the “cynical” have joined hands while we grapple with the consequences of ontological confusion, loss of trust and intensified exploitation.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Last February, I publicly questioned the existence of Jianwei Xun, an author who published a best-selling, critically acclaimed book titled <em>Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk and the New Architecture of Reality</em>. On his website and on academia.org — the original version of his profile can now be found only on Internet Archive — he claimed to be a Hong Kong-born media philosopher, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Critical Digital Studies in Berlin who had studied political philosophy and media at Dublin University.</p>
<p>Since I live in Hong Kong and used to teach cultural studies, I was surprised I had never heard his name before. Had I become so disconnected from this interdisciplinary field that his name didn’t even sound vaguely familiar? It certainly sounded odd: Chinese names follow a different order, the family name should have come first. That’s when I decided to dig deeper.</p>
<p>The Berlin institute he mentioned didn’t exist, “Dublin University” was an ambiguous reference and didn’t point to any specific university. Xun claimed he had spent years consulting on strategic narratives for global institutions before dedicating himself to writing. I found no trace of his alleged academic output or professional activity. The book excerpts I sampled didn’t strike me as particularly original, they read like a hotchpotch of 1960s and 1970s philosophy. But unlike other derivative texts I often come across, they possessed an uncanny quality, almost as if a medium had invoked the spirits of the dead philosophers during a séance. Since today’s impostors are more likely to use AI than table-turning, I quickly came to the conclusion that whoever was hiding behind the mysterious “Jianwei Xun” had employed generative AI tools to churn out this book.</p>
<p>Months after I denounced this fraud (1) and exchanged messages with several journalists, corporate media finally admitted Xun doesn’t exist. The Italian publisher who hid behind this fictitious identity now insists he was just conducting an experiment, “an exercise in ontological engineering,” as he put it. But if that was the case and he didn’t intend to deceive his readers, why did he remove the academic and professional references he had fabricated from the newly updated website of his fake persona?</p>
<p>The choice of a Chinese identity to enhance credibility and marketability reflects a disturbing pattern of cultural appropriation where Western writers capitalize on the perceived exoticism of an Asian name, while real Asian writers face significant barriers to the publication of their work.</p>
<p>If there is a lesson to be learnt from the Jianwei Xun saga, it is that the media buzz around “his” work and persona, amplified by reputable outlets, glowing reviews, and a slick online presence, created a feedback loop where the perception of reality outpaced any need to verify it. When the lines between real and not real get blurred, aggressive marketing made those lines feel irrelevant.</p>
<p>With AI churning out content that to the untrained eye appears indistinguishable from human output, and media outlets racing to publish it, people are increasingly wired to prioritize the hype and often have no time to even scratch the surface.</p>
<p>While the media system has always cashed in on hype and sensationalism, these days social media platforms are the main generator of hype.</p>
<p>As I was handling media enquiries about the fictional “Hong Kong-born media philosopher” and writing about this case on my Substack, I received a tip from a reader who alerted me to another instance of habitual AI-enabled plagiarism, this time involving someone who does live in Hong Kong and contributes to Russian and Chinese media outlets.</p>
<p>Did his opinion pieces slip through? Did editors turn a blind eye to AI-generated content in order to capitalize on his social media reach?</p>
<p>In any case, we should not focus on specific instances: anyone using an AI detector knows that this unethical practice is widespread. Instead, I invite the reader to consider the complex interplay of audience dynamics, economic and cultural factors that incentivizes both the rise of AI plagiarism and the social influencer industry.</p>
<p>By now it should be abundantly clear how social influencers operate. Self-promotion, exaggerated claims, and a well-crafted image can snowball into credibility before anyone checks credentials. They build parasocial relationships with their followers who feel like they know the influencer, even if they have never met. Influencers attempt to create an aura of individuality and authenticity through personal storytelling, share raw footage or sensational material, invite followers to “peek” into their lives encouraging voyeuristic engagement.</p>
<p>However, this aura is even more fragile than the artificial aura mentioned by Walter Benjamin when in the 1930s he described the Hollywood-driven phenomenon of elevating actors to celebrity status, creating cult-like personas that compensated for the loss of aura in in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Not only is the influencers’ derivative content easily replicable, they too are vulnerable to replacement by AI-generated personas.</p>
<p>Benjamin recognized in the spell of the star’s personality “the phony spell of a commodity.” But most importantly, he warned that a medium that has a dual capacity to abolish distance between the audience and the depicted world while simultaneously detaching the audience from the physical world and its material conditions, is ideally suited to the aims of fascism. Benjamin was primarily referring to film and photography, but in an era of algorithmic reproduction controlled by a handful of tech companies his observations have become more relevant than ever.</p>
<p>Influencers leverage the bandwagon effect, that mix of conformity and fear of missing out. Once a persona gains momentum, with the help of thousands of bots whose cost is now less than a cent for basic accounts, humans jump on. Social media’s smoke and mirrors work because we are wired for stories, not audits. But with billions of automated bots flooding social media platforms, there is a roughly 50% chance that any account you engage with, whether by liking a post, commenting, or following, is a bot. Bots have become so sophisticated that it has become increasingly harder to detect them. As to the remaining accounts that are still operated by humans, about half of them publish content that is generated by artificial intelligence.</p>
<p>Even those with limited expertise on a given topic can produce persuasive posts and articles, while readers would need an AI tool such as GPTZero to identify their artificial origin.</p>
<p>A simple prompt ensures that the AI-generated content they publish is aligned, and resonates, with their followers’ ideological leanings, interests and preferences. An article that appeared in a conservative news outlet can be automatically rewritten to please a liberal audience and vice versa. A paper published by an academic can be summarized and interspersed with jokes and colloquialism to appeal to a non-academic audience, three articles can be seamlessly meshed into one creating a cohesive piece that synthesizes their content, etc. You get the drift.</p>
<p>Shaped by a mix of human activity and AI-generated content, the Internet and social media now resemble a phantasmagoria, a make-believe optical show that projects ghostly images, fetishizes human desires and experiences, and intensifies narcissistic self-reference to create an illusion of authenticity. The manufactured presentation of the self (fabricated authenticity) is the ultimate neoliberal imperative: people are actively encouraged to become producers of themselves. The name of the game is “fake it till you make it.” Lack of qualifications or professional expertise is no barrier for aspiring influencers. Ambition, a background in marketing, a good knowledge of psychological manipulation techniques, the ability to leverage algorithms, and an initial investment in an army of bots to boost content are better guarantors of success.</p>
<p>Those who make the cut can rake in juicy contracts to promote products, services or a political agenda. The more engagement their hustle generates, the more data capital social media platforms accumulate.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, this state of affairs is undermining real engagement and driving an increasing number of frustrated and disillusioned users away from these platforms, leaving bots to interact with other bots, as advertisers already lament.</p>
<p>As generative AI dissolves barriers to productivity – one can easily churn out dozens of social media posts a day, dozens of articles a week and use them for videos, podcasts and interviews – concerns about machine plagiarism keep mounting. Initially the most combative critics were those directly affected such as authors, artists, journalists and academics, but, as I will explain, the alarm is now being raised by AI researchers too. It turns out that AI-generated texts which omit attribution, remix unconsented content and reduce it to an untraceable, unrecognizable blend, constitute a form of pollution that is degrading the same digital environment that feeds AI systems.</p>
<p>These systems, particularly large language models and generative tools, are trained on data scraped from the internet, including books, articles, websites, and social media. Theft on a global scale is presented as the future of humanity.</p>
<p>Not only are AI companies profiting from work they never paid for and never asked permission to use, those who rely on generative AI are profiting too, which drives the demand for ever more sophisticated and human-like chatbots.</p>
<p>Like most industries, traditional media are being transformed by AI. While AI analytical tools can certainly help journalists process a large volume of data, identify meaningful patterns, and AI transcription technology is saving them time on a rather mundane task, generative AI is a different story. It is jeopardizing journalistic integrity, jobs and readers’ trust. As usual, the big driver behind the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT is the pursuit of profit. The problem is, cuts in the newsroom are weakening the quality of journalism, which alienates the audience, which in turn puts further pressure on revenues, which again leads to further staff cuts, and so on.</p>
<p>The complexity of journalistic work rests upon a repertoire of embodied experiences and knowledge – building a network of trusted sources who are willing to share their secrets is not something AI will be able to achieve any time soon.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the moment the result of this painstaking work, which may combine interviews and extensive research, is published online, it is drowned out by hundreds of AI-generated variations of the same article that remixed and rewrote its content. The result is standardized, homogeneous texts stripped of the vibrant, dynamic essence of human voices and their diversity. Or mimicry that simulates diversity – the “text-in-drag.” But as the Internet is inundated with AI-generated clickbait articles competing for readers’ attention, investing in quality doesn’t guarantee any returns to media outlets and independent authors.</p>
<p>Moreover, AI’s overproduction of derivative content is overwhelming search engines and social feeds, and exacerbating the problem of information overload. Readers can hardly cope with a deluge of information and the constant digital stimulation that is impairing their memory, attention spans, critical thinking and ability to process information. Many are already tuning out, avoiding news altogether, or just scrolling headlines.</p>
<p>Although regurgitating information has never been easier, its impact is fast becoming inversely proportional to its quantity. Information requires no interpretation to exist and doesn’t necessarily turn into knowledge and understanding. It may, but only through a dynamic cognitive process of which acquisition is only the first step. As Artificial Intelligence is advancing its capabilities, there is no evidence that human beings are advancing theirs. Actually, they are already losing the ability to think clearly and effectively, let alone handle complexity.</p>
<p>Another consequence of the proliferation of AI systems is ontological confusion, a state of existential disorientation arising from ambiguity or indeterminacy in the categories of being, essence, and reality. AI creates a breach in the barrier between humans and objects, though it’s fair to say capitalism started wrecking it long time ago. If the barrier collapses, our conception of what it is to be human would be profoundly undermined. AI is already disrupting established frameworks of meaning, interaction and trust; failing to take stock of this disruption could have catastrophic effects on both individuals and societies.</p>
<p>If AI is to assist humans rather than deceive them, then we need a mandatory AI identification system: any autonomous AI agent must declare itself as such prior to interaction with a human and the media industry, including social media platforms, should clearly label AI-generated content. There is no shortage of AI detection tools, and they are pretty effective at identifying which portions of a text are likely to be human-written, AI-generated, or AI-refined.</p>
<p>Some also hope that sooner or later search engines will start offering users an effective AI filter. Until then, weeding out artificial content will continue to be a time consuming endeavour.</p>
<p>Although the optimist in me shares the belief that transparency over AI-generated content will likely increase due to a strong demand, my inner pessimist believes that chances of it happening soon are slim: the digital economy is underpinned by data capital, which has a symbiotic relationship with AI. And Big Tech won’t change the status quo until the quality of data becomes so seriously degraded that it erodes its colossal profits.</p>
<p>AI transforms data into capital and relies on data capital to train and operate. AI is both a driver and beneficiary of data capital. That’s why software is being embedded in more and more products: they are all generating data.</p>
<p>As a ‘Big Data strategist’ for Oracle, one of the largest software companies in the world, explained “<em>data is a new kind of capital on par with financial capital for creating new products and services. And it’s not just a metaphor; data fulfils the literal textbook definition of capital</em>.” (2)</p>
<p>I don’t know which textbook he had in mind, but in order to understand the economic and social dynamics that drive the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, I am going to consult the copy of Marx’s Capital that sits on my shelf. Admittedly, it needs some dusting.</p>
<p>Marx defines capital as value in motion, that is value of a peculiar type, namely self-expanding value, a social relation which appropriates surplus value created in a definite process of production, and continually reproduces both capital and capitalist relations.</p>
<p>In order to expand, capital must purchase a commodity, the consumption of which creates new value. This commodity is labour-power, an inconvenient truth that our “Big Data strategist” didn’t bother to mention.</p>
<p><em>“In order to be able to extract value from the consumption of a commodity, our friend, Moneybags, must be so lucky as to find, within the sphere of circulation, in the market, a commodity, whose use-value possesses the peculiar property of being a source of value, whose actual consumption, therefore, is itself an embodiment of labour, and, consequently, a creation of value. The possessor of money does find on the market such a special commodity in capacity for labour or labour-power.</em>” (Capital, Chapter 6)</p>
<p>The creation of value depends on the general intellect, that is the knowledge, skills, and intellectual capacities of society, but under capitalism it is subject to private appropriation and private control. Tech oligarchs like to frame this private appropriation for their AI models, as “democratizing access to knowledge.” If that is case, maybe we should start to democratize access to their bank accounts.</p>
<p>When data is treated as a form of capital, the imperative is to extract and collect as much data, from as many sources, by any means possible. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. Capitalism is inherently extractive and exploitative. In addition, it also generates a constant pressure or tendency towards universal commodification, it keeps colonising new territories, non-commodified and non-monetised parts of life, with the same disregard for collateral damage it exhibits when it exploits labour and natural resources to seek profit.</p>
<p>It is important to keep in mind that data is both commodity and capital. A commodity when traded, capital when used to extract value.</p>
<p>AI distils information into data by transforming any kind of input into abstract, numerical representations to enable computation.</p>
<p>The distinction between the consumer and the producer of information vanishes once their activity become data. To be online is to both consume and produce data, that is value. Users generate data through interactions which platforms monetize. This unpaid ‘labour’ is comparable to Marx’s labour power, as users produce value (data). AI algorithms, cloud infrastructure, and digital platforms are the new means of production, and they are concentrated in very few hands.</p>
<p>Data extraction and collection is driven by the dictates of capital accumulation, which in turn drives capital to construct and rely upon a universe where everything is reduced to data. Since the data which is fed into machines has undergone a preliminary abstraction process, there is nothing to stop this data from being outcomes of previous cycles of artificial production of information through data. Data generate data that generate data and so on. Like interest-bearing capital, <em>‘a mysterious and self-creating source of its own increase … self-valorising value, money-breeding money’</em>, as Marx describes the process of financialization that autonomizes capital from its own support.</p>
<p>Data accumulation and capital accumulation have led to the same outcome: growing inequality and the consolidation of monopoly corporate power.</p>
<p>But as the autonomization of capital that crowds out non-financial investments has a detrimental effect on productive sectors, so does the proliferation of AI content online. Several researchers have pointed out that generating data out of synthetic data leads to dangerous distortions. Training large language models on their own output doesn’t work and may lead to ‘model collapse’, a degenerative process whereby, over time, models forget the true underlying data distribution, start hallucinating and producing nonsense. (3)</p>
<p>Without a constant input of good quality data produced by humans, these language models cannot improve. The question is, who is going to feed well-written, factually correct, AI-free texts when an increasing number of people are offloading cognitive effort to artificial intelligence, and there is mounting evidence that human intelligence is declining?</p>
<p>When Ray Kurzweil, a promoter of transhumanism and AI pioneer, raves about machine learning systems that would soon begin improving themselves by designing ever more powerful neural networks that do not require human input “<em>Because computers operate much faster than humans, cutting humans out of the loop of AI development will unlock stunning rates of progress</em>,” he is just engaging in spin. When he was asked about the impact of AI on labour, Kurzweil explained that he envisages a society where the majority of people would receive Universal Basic Income by 2030. That is, they would survive by eating something like Soylent or insect protein. Presumably, their life would fit the definition of “bare life” proposed by Giorgio Agamben, an existence reduced to its most basic, biological form, stripped of political or social significance.</p>
<p>But as the quality of their lives decreases, so will the quality and value of the data they produce for free.</p>
<p>AI evangelists’claim that artificial intelligence will act as a transformative, almost divine force to solve humanity’s problems ushering in an era of prosperity and transcendence. In fact, if the current trajectory is any indication of future developments, AI is more likely to entrench a hyper-capitalist dystopia, rather than build a post-capitalist utopia.</p>
<p>The idea that machines could replace human labour, the capitalists’ wet dream, is neither new nor original. It has been with us since the beginning of the First Industrial Revolution. Its proponents forget that a greater use of robots and AI would result in a decline in the rate of profit at the level of the whole economy if the majority of the population lives hand to mouth. By focusing on individual capitalists who gain a competitive advantage by increasing productivity, they fail to see the whole picture. A typical example of missing the forest for the trees.</p>
<p>AI and digital platforms are controlled by a handful of tech companies, whose owners dominate the ranking of global billionaires. Obviously, we can’t trust those who have a vested interest in pushing AI down our throats to prioritize the public good. They spend millions to downplay the risks and thwart any attempt to introduce effective regulations.</p>
<p>In a world shaped by a powerful tech oligarchy, which gives off a strong dystopic vibe, the lines between corporate power, state influence, and cutting-edge technology blur into indistinction.</p>
<p>Throw in geopolitical competition and a bleak global economic picture, and governments are all too willing to join the AI race, which is now one with the arms race. AI’s military applications include Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance analytics, networked drones, autonomous weapons, cybersecurity, logistics, decision support, training, electronic warfare, and psychological operations.</p>
<p>It’s not an exaggeration to say that AI lies at the core of state power projection in the 21st century. And U.S. multinationals hold imperial control over a great portion of the global digital ecosystem.</p>
<p>If we look at data as a commodity, we have to remember that the cumulative ‘socially necessary labour time’—past and present labour— is embodied in it, that human labour-power has been expended in its production. Even if data-producing online activity may not necessarily and immediately appear as labour, the time you spend online is time subtracted from real life experiences, family and social interaction. Your screen time may even cut into sleep.</p>
<p>It may involve work in the traditional sense, like creating content, coding, or engaging in paid tasks, or be more akin to leisure or consumption.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the value of the commodity and by extension the collective human labour, is relative to what is regarded as necessary by current society, by current human wants and needs.</p>
<p>Invisible, under-valued and abstract labour (such as unpaid digital labour) does not mean labour has disappeared. Labour is still essential in valorisation processes.</p>
<p>The reason why the value-creating ability of labour is conveniently disregarded and concealed has everything to do with capitalist relations of production and the extraction of surplus value.</p>
<p>When you have sex you don’t produce data. You may conceive a child but unless you engage in that activity because someone wants to buy the baby, no one would consider sexual intercourse and gestation as ‘labour’ and the baby as a ‘commodity’. But if you watch porn, if you have sex while wearing an electronic gadget, or if in the vicinity there are devices with sensors, processing ability, software etc, you do produce data.</p>
<p>But let’s return to the commodity, since it embodies the logic of capitalism and is the basic unit of economic exchange in a capitalist system.</p>
<p>What fundamentally complicates and makes mysterious the concept of a commodity is the very notion that individual labour takes a social form. In its social form, what becomes most difficult is the quantification and assessment of that individual labour, the “expenditure of human brain, nerves, muscles, etc.”</p>
<p>Here the concept of commodity fetishism, although elaborated by Marx in a spatial, technological and organisational dimension of capitalism different from the contemporary one, remains one of its specific, constituent aspects.</p>
<p>Marx used this category to represent the specific form of sociality in an economy based on commodities and on market mediation. In this system, commodities obscure the relationships between individuals, and through a process of inversion, the commodity takes on an autonomous existence, detached from the human labour and interactions that produced it. A spectral objectivity.</p>
<p>Marx perceived and remarked the spectral objectivity of the commodity in the middle of the 19th century, at a time when the Industrial Revolution was ripping apart the social, economic, and cultural fabric of Victorian England, deepening inequality and intensifying exploitation and alienation. As people grappled with the sweeping changes and upheavals caused by the introduction of technologies that had mechanized and concentrated production, and technologies that seemed to abolish temporal and physical distance, such as photography, the telegraph and later the telephone and the radio, some turned to spiritualism. When all that is solid melted into air, all that is holy was profaned, beliefs in the paranormal, magical powers and the occult thrived. While workers’ lives were cut short in slums and factories, and labour-value was occulted in the commodity, communication with the dead through mediums and séances, became a fashionable pastime among the bourgeoisie.</p>
<p>Mediums would use a variety of tricks to levitate tables, which would convince people that a ghostly presence was among them.</p>
<p>Troubled by guilt and haunted by fear, Victorian England became obsessed with spirits.</p>
<p>Marx taps into the bourgeoisie’s fears when he conjures the “spectre” of communism. By framing communism as a “spectre,” and arguing that capitalism is inherently unstable and haunted by its own contradictions, he amplifies bourgeois anxiety.</p>
<p>When he addresses the apparently magical quality of the commodity, described as commodity fetishism, he exposes it as a form of deception by drawing a comparison with ‘table-turning.’</p>
<p><em>“It is as clear as noon-day, that man, by his industry, changes the forms of the materials furnished by Nature, in such a way as to make them useful to him. The form of wood, for instance, is altered, by making a table out of it. Yet, for all that, the table continues to be that common, every-day thing, wood. But, so soon as it steps forth as a commodity, it is changed into something transcendent. It not only stands with its feet on the ground, but, in relation to all other commodities, it stands on its head, and evolves out of its wooden brain grotesque ideas, far more wonderful than ‘table-turning’ ever was.”</em>(Capital, Chapter 1)</p>
<p>Today’s most sought-after and fetishized commodity, data, is doing an even better job at obscuring its origins under mathematical operations and statistical reasoning. And it is certainly spawning more grotesque and fanciful ideas than any commodity known to Marx.</p>
<p>In the spectral phantasmagoria of Artificial Intelligence<strong>, </strong>the “utopian” and the “cynical” have joined hands while we grapple with the consequences of ontological confusion, loss of trust and intensified exploitation. As commodity relations shape objectivity and subjectivity in capitalism, permeating every aspect of social life and moulding it in its own image, those who refuse to be de-skilled and reduced to “bare life” must organize and fight back.</p>
<p>(1) Judging by the chronological order of posts on Telegram and X/Twitter, I was the first person to question Jianwei Xun’s existence https://t.me/LauraRuHK/9759. https://x.com/LauraRu852/status/1894404864895234268. I shared the information in my possession with several journalists, only one acknowledged my contribution. https://decrypt.co/314480/philosopher-trump-musk-fabricated-ai<br>
(2) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951718820549#bibr63-2053951718820549<br>
(3) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y#Bib1</p>
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<p>As the leaders of the Catholic Church go into conclave to elect the next Pope, the Vatican’s secret service faces far higher hurdles than those portrayed in the recent Hollywood <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conclave_(film)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conclave blockbuster</a>, and many of their modern manifestations can be traced back to the reign of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pope John Paul II</a>, the charismatic Polish Pontiff, who ruled the Papal roost from October 1978 to April 2005.</p>
<p>Although Pope John Paul’s reign was notable for many things, chief of them was its <a href="https://publicorthodoxy.org/2022/07/25/foreign-diplomats-assess-the-vaticans-ostpolitik/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ostpolitik</a>, its suppression of liberation theology in Latin America and its rampant child sexual abuse. When the Vatican’s secret service directs the cardinals how to vote in their conclave, those three issues, which we will now peruse, should be paramount.</p>
<p>Although the Vatican has had a secret service since the time of King Henry VIII’s Anglican heresies, that secret service really had to step up its game during the reign of Pope John Paul II when, to cite the ex Polish Jesuit, diplomat and secret service double (or treble?) agent, <a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz_Turowski" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tomas Turowski</a>, “there were more spies in the Vatican than in James Bond films”.</p>
<p>When the Polish Pontiff returned to his homeland to <a href="https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/first-visit-to-poland-led-to-iron-curtains-fall-historians-say-45-years-after-st-john-paul-ii-landmark-trip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say Mass on 2 July 1979</a>, it was obvious that the writing was on the wall not only for the Polish Peoples Republic but for all of East and Central Europe’s buffer states as well. And, though the Polish Pope John Paul can take much of the credit for that change, it is one he must share with the British and American secret services, with whom he was in active cahoots, as well as with the Vatican’s own secret service who, incredible though it seems, had been <a href="https://www.thesun.ie/news/14588238/vatican-spy-service-priests-ussr-pole-pope-training/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">parachuting commando-type priests into Poland</a> for years before his historical return.</p>
<p>NATO’s primary role had been the dismantling of the Warsaw Pact and, because Poland and its Catholic faith had always been a major chess piece in achieving that objective, let’s just say that the Holy Spirit was not the only force guiding the Cardinals in their choice of Pontiff. The CIA and MI6, neither of which should be let anywhere near the Vatican, also lent a hand. Although POTUS Reagan and John Paul were on the same “Warsaw Pact delenda est” page, special credit must go to CIA Director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Casey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Casey</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Poggi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monsignor Luigi Poggi</a>, aka the ‘Pope’s Spy’, for the pivotal role they played in all this.</p>
<p>Fast forwarding to the recent passing of Pope Francis, we see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Lyubimova" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olga Lyubimova</a>, representing the Russian authorities, dressed appropriately and following due decorum, as she pays her respects and Presidents Trump and Zelensky, both ill-attired and both ignoring that decorum when they had a public mafia style sit down in the Vatican to discuss their ongoing war against Ukraine’s Orthodox Christians. Although their little tête-à-tête could be criticised on several grounds, the fact that it took place within the Vatican makes the Vatican complicit to their war plans. And that is not a good look either for the Vatican or for the wider Catholic Church.</p>
<p>Although <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/05/22/pope-francis-allies-with-that-zelensky-creep-to-wage-war-on-civilised-world/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I touched on all these topics in May 2023</a> when I wrote about how Zelensky had shredded Vatican protocol, just as he did by being allowed to sit in the front row at Pope Francis’ funeral, the fact is that the Vatican is much too close for its own good to the West’s secret service agencies. When Jesus said that <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:24&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">you cannot serve two masters</a>, no doubt He had nefarious imperialist enforcers like the CIA and MI6, as well as knuckle draggers like Zelensky’s Nazis, in mind.</p>
<p>The claims of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Frattini" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Frattini</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entity-Centuries-Secret-Vatican-Espionage/dp/1906217882/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WOZ96388P80&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oHQWi-M9aIVtTwaWFXoVENDnS_o9MjnDW4SHZg1ld9E.JpHpPAHXjeVLX1jGgPlpKsH-7GOdFr1N8CASIa4gtP4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+entity+frattini&amp;qid=1745842830&amp;sprefix=the+entity+frattini,aps,67&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Entity</a>, a pot boiler about the Vatican’s secret service, that “Napoleon likened the power of a single Pope to that of an army of 200,000 men”, sounds impressive when we consider that <a href="https://www.wellingtoncollection.co.uk/wellington-stories/wellington-and-napoleon/#:~:text=Napoleon's%20defeat%20at%20Waterloo%20brought,was%20worth%20forty%20thousand%20men%E2%80%9D." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wellington said</a> that Napoleon’s presence on the battlefield “was worth forty thousand men”. However, that was just Napoleon sounding off and the Pope’s 200,000 men would not be a match for 40,000 men under Napoleon or any modern leader and that is the crux of the Vatican’s modern problems.</p>
<p>Although the <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262883/worldwide-catholic-population-hits-14-billion#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9C2025%20Annuario%20Pontificio%E2%80%9D%20and,of%20the%20Catholic%20Church%20globally." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catholic Church claims 1.4 billion members</a>, just under one million of them are in holy orders and it is from that smaller number that the Pope must get his command, control and coordination officers to oversee not only diplomatic protocol but to put its finances and its attitude to children on an even keel. Although the Vatican’s museums and art galleries both pay their way, other white elephants, such as Vatican Radio, cost the Vatican a fortune it does not have and, although God might provide, Trump’s vulture funds would prefer to pocket the Vatican’s priceless assets, just like Napoleon did before them.</p>
<p>To counter these threats, the Vatican’s secret service (the Entity) and its counter intelligence unit (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodalitium_Pianum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sodalitium Pianum</a>) need to divorce the Church from the West’s secret service outfits, and take the matter of its own governance both to money and to children in hand.</p>
<p>Why, for example, does <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-04/azerbaijani-now-available-on-vatican-news.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vatican Radio broadcast in Azeri</a> and how, given that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan#Religion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over 97% of Azeris are Muslims</a>, do those broadcasts give value for money? Just which particular prelate is empire building on white elephants like that? And how many other talented paedophiles, besides <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_McCarrick" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Theodore McCarrick</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcial_Maciel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcial Maciel,</a> were able to wield immense influence in the Vatican because of their fundraising abilities? What CIA strings were their largesse gift wrapped in?</p>
<p>Although <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/28/pope-francis-leaves-mixed-legacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Karganovic’s recent article</a> makes a lot of worthy points, the top brass of the Church would listen to if they were not the narcissistic gerontocrats that they are, the core issue facing them is as fundamental as the <a href="https://www.godwardweb.org/builtonapun.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pun Jesus built His Church on</a>. An enduring church must be built on a solid rock, not on mercurial quicksand that changes from Pontiff to Pontiff, depending on how the baser interests of MI6 or the CIA change.</p>
<p>Although the always-excellent <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/analysis/the-vatican-conclave-pope-election-white-smoke-has-begun/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hélène de Lauzan gives a good account</a> of the various factions currently vying for the Vatican’s top spot, the real danger is that the new pope will not only inherit an empire in decay but he will hasten that decay, a state of affairs that will not be remedied by simply electing an African or Latin American (oh sorry, we already got one of those) Pope for a bit of empty DEI window dressing. And it certainly won’t be remedied by following the DEI example of Hollywood’s Conclave and electing a transexual Pope.</p>
<p>At day’s end, it does not matter who gets to fill <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shoes_of_the_Fisherman_(novel)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the shoes of the fisherman</a>. What is important is for the Church to relearn its core mission of <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:24&amp;version=NKJV">serving God, not Mammon</a>, the CIA or MI6 and try adhering to it in practice not only in the killing fields of Gaza, Syria, Sudan, Ukraine and the Congo but much closer to the eternal city of Rome and the hopefully more transient ones of Washington and London as well. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Lies_the_Crown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Heavy lies the crown</a>.</p>
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title: PERRINS: The ever-rising cost of being Irish
author: ;Laura Perrins
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#Comment Ireland #Featured #Highlights #carbon tax #Cost of Living #Economy #Environment #Green Party #inflation #Laura Perrins


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329803
title: The Sycamore Gap trial: Confronting Evil
author: ;John McGuirk
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<div><img src="https://150494900.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/36b7bc50-242b-11f0-b474-cfd8b4328741-e1746031820723.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>I had something of a theological discussion in a whatsapp group with some friends yesterday about the nature (or existence) of God, Good, and Evil. Unmentioned in that conversation, but relevant to it, is the fate of the Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland, England.</strong></p>
<p>You may remember the fate of that tree – cut down last year in an act of apparent vandalism. If you are Irish, you are probably unaware that two men are currently on trial for having committed the act.</p>
<p>Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, are on trial in Newcastle Crown Court as we speak, facing charges of causing criminal damage without lawful excuse to the tree, and having further caused £1,144stg in damage to Hadrian’s Wall, upon which the tree fell. They deny the charges.</p>
<p>The prosecution alleges – and has provided video evidence in court – that the two men cut down the tree, recorded themselves in the act, took a trophy home to mark the occasion, and then gloated to each other on social media about their achievement, allegedly taking particular pleasure in how upset many members of the public were. The prosecution further alleges that the two men travelled a long distance from their home in Cumbria for the specific purpose of cutting down the tree, which was a beloved landmark.</p>
<p>The prosecution’s case, in other words, is that these two men did something profoundly shocking and upsetting to most decent people…. And that they did it all for the cheap thrill of watching decent people be upset by what they had done.</p>
<p>What strikes me about this is the parallel with other crimes: The cutting down of a tree may not be on the same moral level as – for example – Axel Rudacubana entering a Southport dance class to murder young children, but it strikes me that the inherent instinct behind both crimes is the same. In both cases, causing hurt and pain to people the criminal doesn’t know is the point. It is an <em>anti-social</em> crime. An attack on society itself.</p>
<p>Societies across time and space have always wrestled with the question of what to do with such people, because the particular motive for their crimes is so hard to reconcile with the idea of society itself. A common criminal who robs an old lady’s purse might be motivated by greed or desperation, or a man who murders his wife or her lover might be motivated by jealousy. These are not attacks on society itself, profoundly shocking though such crimes may be. It is at least arguable that absent a particular set of personal circumstances – poverty, or deep relationship unhappiness – the crimes would not have been committed.</p>
<p>The cutting down of the tree, however, is of a different order: The message there is directed at society as a whole and it is very clear: The perpetrator does not like you and wishes for you to be hurt, to whatever degree, by their actions.</p>
<p>Such crimes, to my mind, must and should be treated differently to crimes of circumstance. That is because they are moral crimes. They are crimes that when committed reveal the person who commits them to have a deep aversion to the society in which they live, and the people amongst whom they abide. They are an attack on all of us as a collective, not one or two of us as individuals.</p>
<p>Which brings me back to the opening of this article, and the role of God and good and evil in societies.</p>
<p>The late Pope Benedict XVI’s most famous contribution to the lexicon of modern discourse was the idea of a “dictatorship of relativism” – that is to say that we in the west have largely abandoned the idea of absolute good and absolute evil, and instead embraced the idea that things are only <em>relatively</em> bad, or <em>relatively</em> good compared to other things. That we have a tendency to judge everything in comparison to something else: For example, that cutting down a beloved tree to upset others is relatively less bad than murdering a bunch of children to make a political point. And of course, there’s logic to this: The most heinous crimes deserve the most severe punishments. It would devalue the lives of the Southport Children to say that they are the equivalent of a tree.</p>
<p>Yet, at the same time, we shy away from absolutes of good and evil. There are too few of us willing to state plainly that something as simple as cutting down a beloved tree to take pleasure in the upset of others is an objectively evil act, and that the people who did it are objectively evil-doers.</p>
<p>We have talked a lot in the west in recent years about “aggravating factors” for criminal acts. For example, “hate crime” legislation posits that a crime committed against a minority person – so long as that crime is motivated by bigotry on grounds of race, sex, religion, or orientation – is worse than a similar crime committed against a person of a non-minority background and should be punished more harshly.</p>
<p>If this is the precedent that has been democratically agreed, then I think there is another category of hate that should be added: Hate for society itself and hatred of public morality. Those who have sought to inflict pain or suffering on society at large for anti-social reasons should receive an anti-social penalty on top of their sentence. An extra five years in prison wouldn’t be a bad start.</p>
<p>In general, though, we should move back towards the idea of absolute good and absolute evil. Because both exist. That’s the whole reason we have a system of public morals to begin with.</p>

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#Comment Ireland #Comment World #Featured #Featured Picks #Irish News #World News #Courts #Crime #evil #Good #Law and Order #morality #religion #Sycamore Gap #UK


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title: Woman “destroyed” Phibsborough coffee truck by arson
author: ;Fatima Gunning
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329866
title: Actually, majority of deportations are NOT taking place
author: ;Niamh Uí Bhriain
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#Comment Ireland #Featured #Premium #deportations #Minister Jim O Callaghan #no routine checks #not possible to quantify


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329817
title: ON THIS DAY: 1 MAY 1980: Derrynaflan Chalice discovered
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How Hungary’s withdrawal from the International Criminal Court affects the credibility of the European Union

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<p><strong><em>Peter van ELSUWEGE</em></strong></p>
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<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán launched another attack on the rules-based world order. He invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under an <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157286" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">arrest warrant</a> of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity, for a state visit to Budapest. On this occasion, Orbán announced Hungary’s <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c807lm2003zo" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">withdrawal</a> from the ICC, which he defined as “a politically biased” institution. With this move, Hungary undermines the EU’s long-standing and consolidated support for the ICC.</p>
<p><strong>The European Union and the International Criminal Court</strong></p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Rome Statute</a> of the ICC entered into force on 1 July 2002. The EU is not a contracting party since the Statute is only open to sovereign States (<a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Art. 125)</a>. From the outset, the EU actively promoted the further development of the ICC as a pillar of the international legal order. This resulted in the conclusion of a <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:22006A0428(01)" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">cooperation and assistance agreement</a> between the EU and the ICC in 2006 and the adoption of a <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/168/oj/eng" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">CFSP Decision</a> committing the EU and its Member States to support the ICC’s effective and efficient functioning. On the occasion of the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the EU <a href="https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11082-2023-INIT/en/pdf" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Council</a> reiterated “its unwavering support to the ICC for its central role in bringing justice to victims in all situations under its jurisdiction.”</p>
<p>The EU’s <a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/NR/rdonlyres/9A7562A4-9BB5-4ACA-92F2-FEB7BFE7FE3B/284038/ICCASP10POA2011EUENG.pdf" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">commitment</a> to achieve universality and full implementation of the Rome Statute is a central tenet of its external action. In practical terms, this resulted in countless diplomatic demarches and statements in support of the ICC as well as the systematic inclusion of ICC clauses in agreements with third countries. For instance, Article 6 of the EU-<a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A22014A0830%2801%29" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Moldova</a> Association Agreement provides that “the Parties agree to support the ICC by implementing the Rome Statute and its related instruments.” Moreover, full cooperation with the ICC is part of the EU’s pre-accession conditionality: “adherence to the values of the Rome Statute and its ratification are part of the <em>acquis communautaire </em>to be fulfilled prior to becoming a member of the EU.”  Compliance with this condition is included in the EU accession negotiations, more precisely in negotiating cluster 6 on ‘external relations’. For instance, the EU’s Common Position on negotiations with <a href="https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/AD-25-2024-INIT/en/pdf" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Albania</a> explicitly provides that this country’s bilateral immunity agreement with the United States is in contradiction with Council Decision 2011/168/CFSP and must be adapted at the latest by the date of its accession to the EU.</p>
<p><strong>Double standards</strong></p>
<p>Hungary’s withdrawal from the ICC undermines the credibility of the EU’s external action and leads to the exposure of double standards. How can third countries be expected to support the ICC, when an EU Member State fails to do so? There is also a certain <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/hungary-icc-israel/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">hypocrisy</a> in the EU’s reactions. After Russian President Putin visited <a href="https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/mongolia-statement-spokesperson-visit-russian-president_en" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Mongolia</a> in September 2024, there was an immediate reaction condemning Mongolia’s disrespect for its obligations under the Rome Statute. When <a href="https://www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/critical-thinking-did-vladimir-putin-really-fear-being-arrested-in-south-africa/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">South Africa</a> intended to invite Putin to a BRICS summit in 2023, the EU successfully exerted diplomatic pressure. After Netanyahu’s recent visit to Budapest it has been remarkably silent in Brussels. There has been no official reaction on behalf of the EU institutions. Some Member State representatives communicated that they ‘<a href="https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2025/april/harris-deeply-regrets-hungarys-icc-withdrawal/" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">deeply regret</a>’ Hungary’s withdrawal from the ICC and expressed their concern, whereas Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever described Orbán’s decision not to arrest Netanyahu as a matter of <a href="https://www.belganewsagency.eu/belgium-would-not-arrest-netanyahu-either-says-pm" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external"><em>realpolitik</em></a>. In the past, other Member States such as France and Germany also cast<a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/03/fact-check-where-do-eu-countries-stand-on-iccs-arrest-warrant-for-netanyahu" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external"> doubts</a> over the execution of the ICC arrest warrant.</p>
<p>The moderate reactions following Netanyahu’s visit to Budapest and Hungary’s withdrawal from the ICC are a sign of our times where politics trumps respect for international law. This is fundamentally problematic in view of the EU’s constitutional objective to ensure the strict observance and development of international law, as laid down in <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:2bf140bf-a3f8-4ab2-b506-fd71826e6da6.0023.02/DOC_1&amp;format=PDF" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Articles 3 (5) and 21 TEU</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Legal and political remedies</strong></p>
<p>Confronted with Hungary’s disrespect for the EU’s ambition to support the work of the ICC, the question returns whether there are any remedies available to address this situation. After all, the EU’s position on the ICC is part of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and it is well-known that this is a peculiar field of EU law, with special rules and procedures including a more limited jurisdiction for the Court of Justice (<a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/teu_2012/art_24/oj/eng" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Art. 24 TEU</a>). Does that mean that any legal action is, by definition, excluded and that Hungary can simply ignore its commitments under the CFSP? Not necessarily.</p>
<p>As argued by <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2388165" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Christophe Hillion</a>, a Member States’ systemic failure to comply with its CFSP obligations may well be regarded as a violation of the general principle of sincere cooperation, enshrined in Article 4 (3) TEU, in the sense that it undermines the attainment of the EU’s external action objectives as defined in Article 21 TEU. Moreover, as explained by <a href="https://www.dcu.ie/blog/2151/what-eu-can-do-about-hungarys-potential-withdrawal-international-criminal-court" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Niels Kirst</a>, Hungary’s intention to withdraw from the ICC cannot be disconnected from the broader commitment to respect the EU’s values as defined in Article 2 TEU. It can be derived from the first recital of <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/168/oj/eng" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">CFSP Decision 2011/168</a> that the EU’s position in support of the ICC is an expression of its own values in the external field. Hence, a unilateral withdrawal from the Rome State signals a retreat from those values.</p>
<p>As can be derived from the Court’s case law, compliance with the EU’s common values “cannot be reduced to an obligation which a candidate State must meet in order to accede to the European Union and which it may disregard after its accession.” (Case <a href="https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=8A637343B9AE2206DA165BB842E0B26D?text=&amp;docid=254061&amp;pageIndex=0&amp;doclang=EN&amp;mode=lst&amp;dir=&amp;occ=first&amp;part=1&amp;cid=1381480" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">C-156/21</a>, para. 126). Taking into account that the ratification of the Rome Statute is a condition for EU membership, as an expression of a commitment to a rules-based international legal order, Hungary’s decision to withdraw from the ICC cannot be taken lightly. At the very least, it can be added to the already long list of concerns that triggered the <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-8-2018-0340_EN.html" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">Article 7(1) TEU</a> procedure against Hungary.</p>
<p>In any event, simply ignoring this new frontal attack on one of the pillars of the EU’s commitment to a rules-based international legal order is not an option. The discrepancy between Hungary’s actions and its obligations under the EU <em>acquis</em> is becoming untenable. This is not a new or exceptional situation but a long-standing trend (see also <a href="https://verfassungsblog.de/how-viktor-orban-challenges-the-eus-common-foreign-and-security-policy/" data-wpel-link="internal">here</a>). With its unilateral actions, Viktor Orbán undermines the foundations of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and, more broadly, the credibility of the European Union on the international stage.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://verfassungsblog.de/how-hungarys-withdrawal-from-the-international-criminal-court-affects-the-credibility-of-the-european-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>verfassungsblog.de</strong></a></p>

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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/01/how-hungary-withdrawal-from-international-criminal-court-affects-credibility-of-european-union/

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#Editor's Choice #European Union #Hungary #International Criminal Court #Israel #Justice #Viktor Orbán


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title: [SPECIAL] COL Douglas Macgregor : US/Ukraine Mineral/Security Deal: Insane or Provocative?
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title: Weaponizing Anti-Semitism
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<p>Weaponizing Anti-Semitism</p>
<p><i>The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you.<br>
Polish proverb</i></p>
<p>British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn was removed by anti-semitism accusations.</p>
<p>Jewish journalist Simon Heffer announced on radio that Corbyn “wanted to re-open Auschwitz.”</p>
<p>British PM Starmer’s “first act as Labour leader was not to address the conditions of the working class, but to reassure “the Israel Lobby that they were back in the driver’s seat.”</p>
<p>Starmer invited an Israeli spy to head British surveillance of citizens on social media.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The anti-semitism cases brought against British citizens are now prepared by an Israeli. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Free speech originated in Britain, and it has died there. British citizens can no longer make any critical remark that pertains to Jews, Muslims, Arabs, blacks, or Asians unless they are Chinese, Japanese, or North Koreans.</p>
<p>President Trump is now applying the same standard to American universities and their students.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Leaders such as Starmer and Trump who do not respect free speech do not respect democracy. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.unz.com/article/trial-by-jewry-asa-winstanley-on-weaponizing-anti-semitism/">https://www.unz.com/article/trial-by-jewry-asa-winstanley-on-weaponizing-anti-semitism/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138835
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<p>Is the Purpose of the Peace Negotiations to Sequence the West’s Wars with Russia and China?</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>President Putin’s National Security Advisor Nikolay Patrushev recently stated that, Ukraine negotiations notwithstanding, the West is “deploying their military machine against Russia and becoming delirious with nuclear apocalypse scenarios.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>”For a second consecutive year, NATO is conducting exercises at our borders at a scale unseen in decades,” Patrushev said. “They are training for conducting a broad offensive from Vilnius to Odessa, seizing [the Russian exclave] Kaliningrad Region, imposing a naval blockade in the Baltic and the Black Seas, and executing preventive strikes on the staging locations of Russian nuclear deterrence forces.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/616473-patrushev-nuclear-conflict-west/">https://www.rt.com/russia/616473-patrushev-nuclear-conflict-west/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Reports are emerging from Russia that Putin wants a Ukrainian settlement so that Russia can prepare for a war that the West is bringing to Russia in three years when the British, French, Poles, and Germans are <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> prepared.  </span>Putin wants to disengage from Ukraine in order to prepare for the real thing.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span> <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>If Israel succeeds in getting Trump to attack Iran, the timetable will be thrown off. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Unless President Trump and the US Congress renounce US hegemony and declare America’s independence from Israel, no peace is possible.</p>
<p>I discuss with Nima on Dialogue Works whether the “peace negotiations” are a technique to move Russia aside while Washington takes on China:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/9DqDUqoVZI0">https://www.youtube.com/live/9DqDUqoVZI0</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138841
title: After 100 Days Where Are We?
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<p>After 100 Days Where Are We?</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>About a month or so ago on March 23 I posted on this website my memoir of my time in the Reagan administration which had just been published in <i>The Independent Review</i>, a readable quarterly.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I expected to hear more than I did in response to my memoir, because I spelled out how difficult it is for a presidential appointee to actually support the policy of the President.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/23/my-time-in-the-reagan-administration/">https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/23/my-time-in-the-reagan-administration/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Then it occurred to me that the Reagan administration was a long time ago, 1981-1988. President Reagan’s term ended 37 years ago.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>So an American 50 years old today was 13 years old when Reagan’s second term ended.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He was 5 years old when Reagan was elected president. A 50 year old American never experienced the Reagan administration. A 60 year old American was only 15 when Reagan took office. The vast majority of Americans alive today know nothing of the Reagan administration except the accounts of the presstitute media and historians grinding ideological axes.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Yet, somehow, Americans say they miss Reagan, the last American president. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>With Trump’s first 100 days behind us,  MAGA Americans are touting his successes and the Democrats are multiplying his “failures.” <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Let me tell you about a real successful president–Ronald Reagan–Perhaps the only successful president in the 20th century. Reagan had two major successes.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I know because I was part of them.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Reagan cured stagflation–the simultaneous rise of inflation and unemployment– with his supply-side policy, and he ended the Cold War with the Soviet Union.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Tell me, what American president has had such extraordinary successes?</p>
<p>Reagan’s success was covered up with media hype about “the teflon President,” with the neoconservatives’s Iran/Contra scandal, with “the Reagan deficits” that belong to David Stockman and Paul Volcker.</p>
<p>American historians, academics who guarantee their careers by justifying the various atrocities their governments commit, rank the top five US presidents as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower in that order. <a href="https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?page=overall">https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2021/?page=overall</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Lincoln destroyed the Constitutional framework based on states’ rights as designed by the Founding Fathers.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Lincoln introduced war against civilians as an essential part of war against the opposing army. Today the International Criminal Court would recognize Lincoln as a war criminal and issue arrest warrants.</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, ranks 7 after Harry S. Truman, who nuked two Japanese civilian cities while the Japanese government was pleading with Washington for peace.</p>
<p>John F. Kennedy comes in 8th, Ronald Reagan 9th, Barack Obama, who bombed 7 countries comes in 10th, and President Lyndon Johnson–“LBJ, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today”–comes in 11th.</p>
<p>What we see here are the liberals, not willing to dethrone the first American president, or a Founding Father who wrote the Declaration of Independence, or John F. Kennedy a martyr, or Reagan whose popularity remains high, shielding themselves from partisanship by including Jefferson, Kennedy, and Reagan in the second tier of successful presidents..</p>
<p>Lincoln destroyed the US Constitution which is based on states rights.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>He conducted a war of war crimes against an agricultural society that could not afford to pay the Morrill Tariff in order to industrialize the North at the expense of the South. No sooner than the South was destroyed, the Union launched a war of extermination against the native American Plains Indians, the same Union Generals–Sherman and Sheridan–the same Union soldiers that raped and pillaged the South repeated the application to the remaining Native Americans.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As Lincoln’s reward for genocide, he is voted by American historians as the best ever–the Number One-of all American presidents.</p>
<p>Franklin D. Roosevelt gets the third ranking, because he replaced the power of Congress with the power of regulatory agencies.</p>
<p>Theodore Roosevelt is bestowed the 4th ranking because he established the American policy of empire and hegemony.</p>
<p>One assumes Eisenhower’s fifth rank is because he is alleged to have won World War II for the US.</p>
<p>Truman is 6th because he nuked Japan, thus putting the Soviet Union on notice.</p>
<p>If you look at these achievements, Washington and Jefferson, aside, Ronald Reagan at number 9 on the list is the only one who rescued America from an economic catastrophe and a Cold War that could have turned hot.</p>
<p>Liberals and what passes for a left-wing say that Reagan was just another fake, another warmonger committed to the Soviet Union’s destruction.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>But a president who was a fake would never, ever, put me in charge of his<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>economic policy, nor would he appoint me to a secret presidential committee to verity or disprove the CIA’s argument against ending the Cold War. I am the last person on earth that a fake President wants to hand a Presidential Appointment or a decision on a critical foreign policy issue.</p>
<p>So, now that we have all of the congratulatory and denunciatory accounts of Trump’s 100 Days, what do they mean?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></p>
<p>Trump did a good thing in service to justice when he pardoned and released from prison the framed-up-by-the-Biden-anti-American-regime American citizens who used their Constitutional rights to protest a stolen presidential election.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>But the corrupt persons who framed up innocent Americans have not been arrested and indicted, as they should be.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Why is Trump focused on Ukraine rather than on those who framed innocent Americans as “insurrectionists”?</p>
<p>The Democrats have shown that they will strongly resist Trump’s rollback of the legal privileges Democrats created for DEI-designated-persons and for immigrant-invaders. Democrat district court judges, the lowest of the low, have claimed the right to decide the power of the President of the United States to govern. Trump’s reply is that he abides by judicial rulings. Trump is relying on the Supreme Court to overturn the district<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>courts, but if that doesn’t happen, will Trump fight?</p>
<p>Trump himself makes deals with Zelensky and claims they are deals Putin must accept. This is nonsensical. The conflict is between the US and Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The deal has to be made between Trump and Putin.</p>
<p>The real problem is the  neoconservative doctrine of American hegemony<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As long as American foreign policy is based on Paul Wolfwitz’s doctrine, there can be no peace.</p>
<p>Trump has not repudiated the doctrine of American hegemony.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Until he does, how can Putin trust him?</p>
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*SWrdY4UvbaopC3-5hSKg3Q.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVJ8Rd1AmF0"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FkVJ8Rd1AmF0%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DkVJ8Rd1AmF0&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FkVJ8Rd1AmF0%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/585551ecc055b6d474aa7d537f01c49c/href">https://medium.com/media/585551ecc055b6d474aa7d537f01c49c/href</a></iframe><p>Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism, you say? Sure, that makes sense. How someone prays and what religious beliefs they hold is exactly the same as supporting apartheid and genocide. You can’t even tell them apart; the last time I tried to pray the rosary I got confused and bombed a children’s hospital.</p><p>It’s true: there is absolutely no difference whatsoever between opposing a political ideology and opposing the existence of a small religious minority. That’s why it is universally considered racist to criticize an opposing political party. That’s why anyone who tries to engage in a political debate is immediately arrested for committing a hate crime.</p><p>Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. If you don’t support the idea of dropping a western settler-colonialist state on top of a pre-existing civilization and then defending its status quo of apartheid, theft and abuse by any amount of violence necessary, then obviously you support the idea of exterminating millions of Jews in gas chambers.</p><p>If you don’t want anyone to commit genocide against Palestinians, then that means you want to commit genocide against Jews. There is no third possibility.</p><p>Don’t think we should be sending billions of dollars worth of military explosives to be dropped on hospitals, residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Gaza? That means you harbor extremely negative emotions toward a small Abrahamic faith.</p><p>Think it’s bad to deliberately starve millions of people who are trapped in a giant death camp? Then that means you want to start loading Jews onto trains.</p><p>Think it’s wrong to wage a systematic extermination campaign against an entire people because they are a different ethnicity? Then you, sir, are no different from the Nazis.</p><p>Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. Cats are ducks. The Declaration of Independence is spaghetti sauce. The Bronze Age is a foot fetish. There are no differences between any two things. All things are exactly the same as all other things.</p><p>The human mind is incapable of making any distinctions of any kind. Turning left is the same as turning right. Drinking water is the same as drinking bleach. Going to the supermarket is the same as killing your dad. This is how we all live our lives. Everyone knows this.</p><p>Everything I just said makes perfect sense. Anyone who disagrees is Hitler.</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>. All my work is </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/reminder-all-my-work-may-be-freely"><em>free to bootleg and use</em></a><em> in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley.</em></p><p>Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forced_Displacement_of_Gaza_Strip_Residents_During_the_Gaza-Israel_War_23-25.jpg">Feature image by Jaber Jehad Badwan via Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&amp;referrerSource=full_rss&amp;postId=ecc99c955ea7" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/trump-foreign-policy-after-100-days
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/c7JFCx4-4tE" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><span>On 30 April 2025, I was on</span> <em>The Spectator’s</em> <span>popular TV show — “Americano” — hosted by Freddy Gray. We focused mainly on US policy in the Middle East, especially the matter of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. However, we covered a lot of other subjects in this long interview. Freddy was especially interested in how I viewed Trump’s performance during his first 100 days compared to how I assessed Biden’s foreign policy in his four years running the United States. Not a pretty picture in either case. We also talked about China and Ukraine.</span></p>
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title: Il quadro di Kellogg è un disastro per Trump
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<p><strong><em>Il risultato è che Kellogg non ha servito bene il suo padrone. Gli Stati Uniti hanno bisogno di relazioni di lavoro efficaci con la Russia. Il contingente di Kellogg ha contribuito alla grave errata interpretazione della Russia da parte di Trump. Putin è un attore serio, che dice ciò che pensa e pensa ciò che dice.</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>La guerra politica a Washington è endemica. Ma il numero delle vittime al Pentagono ha iniziato a salire vertiginosamente. Tre dei principali consiglieri del segretario alla Difesa Hegseth sono stati sospesi e poi <a href="https://apnews.com/article/caldwell-pentagon-investigation-leaks-hegseth-344d480e47cf4c04e0b2c510bd333b02">licenziati</a>. La guerra continua, con il segretario ora nel mirino.</p>
<p>Il motivo per cui questo è importante è che l’attrito di Hegseth arriva nel mezzo di accesi dibattiti interni all’amministrazione Trump sulla <em>politica iraniana</em>. I falchi vogliono l’eliminazione definitiva di tutte le capacità nucleari e militari dell’Iran, mentre molti “moderati” mettono in guardia contro un’escalation militare; secondo quanto riferito, Hegseth era tra coloro che mettevano in guardia contro un intervento in Iran.</p>
<p>I recenti licenziamenti al Pentagono sono stati tutti <a href="https://unherd.com/newsroom/hegseth-leaks-expose-deepening-iran-divide-in-trump-cabinet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identificati</a> come moderati. Uno di questi, Dan Caldwell, ex consigliere capo di Hegseth e veterano dell’esercito, ha scritto un post in cui criticava aspramente i “falchi iraniani” e successivamente è stato licenziato. In seguito è stato <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9rKJGlieM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intervistato</a> da Tucker Carlson. In particolare, Caldwell descrive in termini durissimi le guerre americane in Iraq e Siria (“<em>criminali</em>”). Questo sentimento negativo nei confronti delle precedenti guerre americane sembra essere un tema ricorrente tra i veterani statunitensi di oggi.</p>
<p>I tre membri dello staff del Pentagono sono stati licenziati non perché fossero “informatori”, ma perché avrebbero dissuaso Hegseth dal sostenere la guerra contro l’Iran, a quanto pare; gli israeliani, che non hanno rinunciato a <em>quella</em> guerra.</p>
<p>Le linee di frattura infiammate tra falchi e “repubblicani” tradizionalisti si riversano nella questione ucraina, anche se l’appartenenza alle fazioni può variare leggermente. Gli israeliani e i falchi statunitensi in generale sono dietro sia alla guerra contro la Russia che alle richieste massimaliste nei confronti dell’Iran.</p>
<p>Il commentatore conservatore Fred Bauer <a href="https://unherd.com/newsroom/hegseth-leaks-expose-deepening-iran-divide-in-trump-cabinet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">osserva</a> che quando si tratta degli impulsi bellici di Trump, questi sono contrastanti:</p>
<p><em>“Influenzato dalla guerra del Vietnam della sua giovinezza… Trump sembra profondamente contrario ai conflitti militari a lungo termine, ma allo stesso tempo ammira una politica di forza e spavalderia. Ciò significa eliminare i generali iraniani, lanciare attacchi aerei contro gli Houthi e aumentare il budget della difesa a 1.000 miliardi di dollari”.</em></p>
<p>La potenziale uscita di scena di Hegseth, qualora la campagna per la sua rimozione dovesse avere successo, potrebbe rendere la lotta ancora più feroce. La prima vittima è già evidente: la speranza di Trump di porre rapidamente fine al conflitto in Ucraina è finita.</p>
<p>Questa settimana, il team di Trump (comprese entrambe le fazioni in lotta, Rubio, Witkoff e il generale Kellogg) si è riunito a Parigi con vari rappresentanti europei e ucraini. Durante l’incontro, la delegazione statunitense ha avanzato una proposta di cessate il fuoco unilaterale russo-ucraino.</p>
<p>Dopo l’incontro, all’aeroporto, Rubio ha chiaramente affermato che il piano di cessate il fuoco era un’iniziativa statunitense “prendere o lasciare”. Le varie parti – Russia, Kiev e i membri europei della “coalizione dei volenterosi” – avevano solo <em>pochi giorni</em> per accettarlo, altrimenti gli Stati Uniti si sarebbero “tirati fuori” e si sarebbero lavati le mani del conflitto.</p>
<p>Il quadro presentato, secondo quanto riportato, è quasi (forse al 95%) identico a quello proposto in precedenza dal generale Kellogg: si tratta, cioè, del suo piano, reso noto per la prima volta nell’aprile 2024. Sembra che la “formula Kellogg” sia stata adottata allora come piattaforma di Trump (Trump era all’epoca nel pieno della campagna elettorale ed era improbabile che seguisse da vicino i complicati dettagli della guerra in Ucraina).</p>
<p>Il generale Kellogg è anche la probabile fonte dell’ottimismo di Trump secondo cui la fine della guerra in Ucraina potrebbe arrivare con un semplice schiocco di dita di Trump – attraverso l’applicazione limitata di pressioni asimmetriche e minacce su entrambe le parti belligeranti da parte di Trump – e con i tempi decisi a Washington.</p>
<p>In breve, il piano rappresentava un consenso della Beltway secondo cui gli Stati Uniti avrebbero potuto attuare una soluzione negoziata con condizioni in linea con gli interessi statunitensi e ucraini.</p>
<p>Le ipotesi implicite di Kellogg erano che la Russia fosse altamente vulnerabile alla minaccia di sanzioni (la sua economia era percepita come fragile), che avesse subito perdite insostenibili e che la guerra fosse in una fase di stallo.</p>
<p>Kellogg ha quindi convinto Trump che la Russia avrebbe accettato prontamente i termini del cessate il fuoco proposti, sebbene questi fossero costruiti su ipotesi palesemente errate sulla Russia e sulle sue presunte debolezze.</p>
<p>L’influenza e le false premesse di Kellogg sono state fin troppo <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/01/28/is-trump-positioning-for-no-deal-with-russia-or-not/">evidenti</a> quando Trump, a gennaio, dopo aver affermato che la Russia aveva perso un milione di uomini (in guerra), ha poi aggiunto che “Putin sta distruggendo la Russia non raggiungendo un accordo”, aggiungendo (apparentemente come un’osservazione a margine) che Putin potrebbe aver già deciso di “non raggiungere un accordo”. Ha inoltre affermato che l’economia russa è “in rovina” e, cosa ancora più significativa, ha detto che avrebbe preso in considerazione l’ipotesi di sanzionare o imporre dazi alla Russia. In un successivo <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> su Truth Social, Trump scrive: “<em>Farò un grande FAVORE alla Russia, la cui economia sta fallendo, e al presidente Putin</em>”.</p>
<p>Tutte le ipotesi di Kellogg erano prive di qualsiasi fondamento nella realtà. Eppure Trump sembrava crederci. E nonostante i tre lunghi incontri personali successivi di Steve Witkoff con il presidente Putin, in cui Putin ha ripetutamente affermato che non avrebbe accettato alcun cessate il fuoco fino a quando non fosse stato concordato un quadro politico, il contingente di Kellogg ha continuato a supporre con banalità che la Russia sarebbe stata costretta ad accettare la distensione di Kellogg a causa delle gravi “battute d’arresto” che avrebbe subito in Ucraina.</p>
<p>Data questa storia, non sorprende che i termini del quadro di cessate il fuoco delineati da Rubio questa settimana a Parigi riflettessero quelli più adatti a una parte sul punto di capitolare, piuttosto che a uno Stato che prevede di raggiungere i propri obiettivi con mezzi militari.</p>
<p>In sostanza, il piano Kellogg mirava a ottenere una “vittoria” degli Stati Uniti a condizioni in linea con il desiderio di mantenere aperta l’opzione di continuare la guerra di logoramento contro la Russia.</p>
<p>Ma cos’è il piano Kellogg? In sostanza, mira a stabilire un “conflitto congelato” lungo la “linea del conflitto”, senza un divieto definitivo di adesione alla NATO per l’Ucraina (ma piuttosto prevedendo un’adesione alla NATO rinviata a un futuro lontano); non pone limiti alle dimensioni di un futuro esercito ucraino né restrizioni al tipo o alla quantità di armamenti detenuti dalle forze ucraine. (Prevede, al contrario, che dopo il cessate il fuoco, gli Stati Uniti potrebbero riarmare, addestrare e sostenere militarmente una futura forza), ovvero tornare all’era post-Maidan del 2014.</p>
<p>Inoltre, l’Ucraina non cederebbe alcun territorio alla Russia, ad eccezione della Crimea, che sarebbe riconosciuta dagli Stati Uniti come russa (l’unica concessione a Witkoff?), e la Russia eserciterebbe il “controllo” solo sulle quattro regioni che attualmente rivendica, ma solo fino alla linea di conflitto; il territorio oltre questa linea rimarrebbe sotto il controllo ucraino (vedi qui per la “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheFrenchHistoryPodcast/posts/us-special-envoy-for-ukraine-and-russia-keith-kellogg-proposed-to-divide-ukraine/1205173144947092/">mappa Kellogg”</a>). La centrale nucleare di Zaporozhye sarebbe territorio neutrale, detenuto e gestito dagli Stati Uniti. Non viene fatto alcun riferimento alle città di Zaporozhye e Kherson, che sono state costituzionalmente incorporate nella Russia, ma si trovano oltre la linea di contatto.</p>
<p>A quanto pare, il piano non delineava alcuna soluzione politica e lasciava all’Ucraina la libertà di rivendicare tutti i suoi ex territori, ad eccezione della Crimea.</p>
<p>Il territorio ucraino a ovest del fiume Dnieper, tuttavia, sarebbe diviso in tre zone di responsabilità: britannica, francese e tedesca (cioè gestite dalle forze NATO). Infine, non sono state offerte garanzie di sicurezza da parte degli Stati Uniti.</p>
<p>Rubio ha successivamente trasmesso i dettagli del piano al ministro degli Esteri russo Lavrov, il quale ha affermato con calma che qualsiasi piano di cessate il fuoco dovrebbe risolvere le cause alla base del conflitto in Ucraina come primo obiettivo.</p>
<p>Witkoff vola a Mosca questa settimana per presentare questo piano “fallimentare” a Putin, cercando di ottenere il suo consenso. Gli europei e gli ucraini si riuniranno mercoledì prossimo a Londra per dare la loro risposta a Trump.</p>
<p>Cosa succederà ora? È ovvio che il piano Kellogg non “volerà”. La Russia non lo accetterà e probabilmente nemmeno Zelensky (anche se gli europei cercheranno di convincerlo, sperando di “mettere Mosca in difficoltà” presentando la Russia come il principale “guastafeste”). Secondo quanto riferito, Zelensky ha già respinto la clausola sulla Crimea.</p>
<p>Per gli europei, la mancanza di garanzie di sicurezza o di sostegno da parte degli Stati Uniti potrebbe rivelarsi fatale per la loro aspirazione a dispiegare truppe in Ucraina, nel contesto di un cessate il fuoco.</p>
<p>Trump si laverà davvero le mani dell’Ucraina? È dubbio, dato che la leadership istituzionale neoconservatrice degli Stati Uniti dirà a Trump che farlo indebolirebbe la narrativa americana della “pace attraverso la forza”. Trump potrebbe adottare una posizione di sostegno “a bassa intensità” all’Ucraina, dichiarando che “la guerra non è mai stata sua”, mentre cerca una “vittoria” sul fronte commerciale con la Russia.</p>
<p>Il risultato è che Kellogg non ha servito bene il suo padrone. Gli Stati Uniti hanno bisogno di relazioni di lavoro efficaci con la Russia. Il contingente di Kellogg ha contribuito alla grave errata interpretazione della Russia da parte di Trump. Putin è un attore serio, che dice ciò che pensa e pensa ciò che dice.</p>
<p>Il colonnello Macgregor <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEYOPVQnt0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riassume così</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Trump tende a vedere il mondo attraverso la lente degli accordi. [Porre fine alla guerra in Ucraina] non è una questione di accordi. Si tratta della vita e della morte di nazioni e popoli. Non c’è alcun interesse in una sorta di accordo a breve termine che elevi Trump o la sua amministrazione alla grandezza. Non ci sarà alcuna vittoria personale per Donald Trump in tutto questo. Non sarebbe mai stato così”.</em></p></blockquote>
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<p>We can feel the winds of warmongering blowing through Europe as the continent raises the specter of war with Russia. Recently, the European Commission unveiled a series of measures to strengthen the defense of EU member states, most notably through the ReArm Europe plan. The plan—which was endorsed by the Extraordinary European Council on March 6, 2025—aims to mobilize €800 billion for the EU’s defense capabilities. It includes a redirection of public funds, but not only: it also includes the use of public savings. As announced on March 17, 2025, this strategy aims to get hold of around €10,000 billion in European bank deposits and redirect them towards the arms industry and public defense policies.</p>
<p>Another European example: Valérie Hayer, a French MEP and leader of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, recently declared that the old continent is experiencing “a moment of gravity” probably not seen since the Second World War. The culprit? The war in Ukraine and the existential threat posed by Russia to democracy and the European order. To deal with this threat, she and other European politicians want to mobilize the savings of Europeans to finance this collective effort in the arms industry.</p>
<p><strong>In France and Germany</strong></p>
<p>In mid-March, a number of French political figures spoke out in favor of mobilizing private savings to rearm the country in the face of the Russian threat. On March 13, the French Minister of the Economy, Éric Lombard, spoke in favor of this measure before French senators. At the time, there was no question of creating a dedicated savings account, but rather of targeting all the capital saved by the population.</p>
<p>However, in the face of widespread criticism, Éric Lombard backtracked on Thursday, March 20, and announced the creation of a 450 million euro fund managed by Bpifrance and open to individual investors wishing to contribute to the national rearmament effort by becoming indirect shareholders. The minimum amount to be invested in this fund will be 500 euros, with a maximum initial investment that could be of “several thousand euros.” Once invested, these “safe” funds will be frozen for at least five years.</p>
<p>There is the same warmongering rhetoric in Germany. Before leaving office, Olaf Scholz spoke to the Bundestag about the “Zeitenwende,” the historical turning point that Germany is currently facing. He promised to face it by investing massively in the rearmament of the German army, the Bundeswehr. The most likely future German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, got a vote in the German parliament to spend 1,000 billion euros on rearming the country. An unprecedented expenditure in a country that has long delegated its own national defense to NATO and the United States.</p>
<p>All these European investments are presented as “safe and profitable investments” (according to Valérie Hayer). However, as history shows us, these investments are just the opposite.</p>
<p><strong>What History Teaches Us</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. (Mises, <em>Socialism</em>, p. 59)</p></blockquote>
<p>Historically, investing in war bonds and funds has always meant taking the risk of betting on the wrong horse. This bet could very well lead to the ruin of the creditors of the defeated state. This was the case in Germany with the impossible repayment of war bonds after 1918. These bonds had become worthless because the reparations demanded by the Treaty of Versailles and the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic made their repayment impossible.</p>
<p>Conversely, if the state was victorious, the repayment of these often massive loans could take years, ruining the creditor through monetary inflation and the financial repression that was put in place after the conflict to wipe out the state’s debts. This is what happened in the United States after 1945 when the Victory Bonds were repaid. The post-war policy of financial repression kept interest rates low and inflation of the dollar high, causing a gradual decline in the value of the currency. As loans were repaid, the purchasing power of creditors declined in the years following the end of the war.</p>
<p>More serious than the ruin of creditors is the ruin of society. These investments divert capital from genuinely productive alternatives that actually improve people’s living conditions; they retard progress by diverting capital (resources, labor, and money) to these defense industries. They don’t understand that the short-term prosperity offered by the “industry of destruction” is only an illusion and comes at the cost of long-term prosperity for society as a whole.</p>
<p>Any militarized, jingoistic, war-mongering society will only fall further behind on the road to progress and improved living conditions made possible by the best possible allocation of capital in the productive structure of society. As the economist Frédéric Bastiat wrote, war is an illusion of wealth: it creates visible economic activity (the arms industry), but always at the expense of the “invisible” (i.e., lost opportunities and deferred costs). War is never an exit out of a crisis, but the ultimate crisis a society can face.</p>
<p>In short, warmongers of all stripes—excited by the idea of profiting financially from a possible war—ultimately understand nothing about economics or history. Worse, they understand nothing about war.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://mises.org/mises-wire/world-seeks-peace-eu-looms-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>mises.org</strong></a></p>


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<p><strong><em>Carlos X. BLANCO</em></strong></p>
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<p>En diversas publicaciones ya he advertido del peligro que corre España (y con ella Europa entera) siguiendo con la política de sumisión y apaciguamiento ante Marruecos que hace tiempo estamos llevando a cabo. La llegada del R78 supuso, ante el sultanato magrebí, la exhibición española de numerosos signos de debilidad.</p>
<p>Como he mostrado, por ejemplo, en el artículo <a href="https://infoposta.com.ar/notas/13875/el-gran-marruecos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong><em>“El Gran Marruecos”</em></strong></a>, el régimen de este país norteafricano nunca ha dejado de mostrar ambiciones expansionistas. Estas ambiciones incluyen la apropiación del Sahara Occidental, antigua colonia (primero) y provincia (después, hasta la invasión marroquí, 1975) y el exterminio y asimilación del pueblo saharaui, un pueblo cuyos miembros –<em>de facto</em>– pasaron de ser ciudadanos españoles de pleno derecho hasta 1975 a ser súbditos forzosos del sultán marroquí, cuando no apátridas. Probablemente el caso del Sahara ex español sea único en la historia del “imperialismo”: <strong>un estado africano neofeudal <em>conquista territorio</em> de un estado europeo capitalista, y somete con ello a una parte de su población nativa.</strong></p>
<p><em>El pueblo saharaui no se rinde</em>, como sí lo hicieron los gobernantes españoles de entonces y de ahora; aunque los más lúcidos de los polisarios deberían revisar, como tantos hispanófobos de Iberoamérica, si la lucha por su independencia y sus atentados contra el Estado Español les han traído beneficios. <strong>Dentro de España se está mal, fuera, peor. </strong>Al contrario de lo que Clío nos enseña, de nuevo la gente se empecina y así se repite la historia: los independentistas (como ahora en Cataluña) se prestan a manejos de la Anglósfera, y consiguen victorias pírricas ante una España envilecida y decadente desde hace siglos. Al pretender defender a un pueblo, lo desligan de su matriz y lo arruinan, aunque en el caso saharaui, ni siquiera han logrado una independencia formal, como la lograda por los criollos (españoles traidores aunque muchos legítimamente descontentos en su día). No obstante, no será este mi centro de atención en el presente artículo.</p>
<p>En estas breves líneas prefiero llamar la atención sobre la <strong><em>colonización del relato</em>,</strong> que corre paralela con el hecho que <strong><em>Marruecos está empezando a colonizar demográficamente España</em>.</strong> Es lógico que una potencia expansionista e imperialista, como es el país magrebí, una vez consolidada su conquista (<em>territorial</em> en el caso del Sahara y <em>demográfica</em> en el caso de Canarias, Ceuta, Melilla, gran parte de Andalucía, el Mediterráneo, etc.) emprenda una conquista “narrativa”.</p>
<p><a href="https://rebelion.org/la-red-de-propaganda-marroqui-en-espana/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Como escribe Ahmed Baba</a>:</p>
<p>“Hace años que el régimen marroquí comprendió que la batalla del relato en España es fundamental para normalizar en la opinión pública española la ocupación que ejerce sobre el Sáhara Occidental, además de tapar la represión interna y vender una supuesta estabilidad y apertura política y económica.”</p>
<p>Hoy, con el gobierno de Pedro Sánchez, la política española ha dado un giro histórica y geopolíticamente inexplicable. <em>Históricamente</em>, porque el Reino de España ha cambiado de la noche a la mañana su postura contraria a la anexión del Sahara Occidental por parte del sultanato marroquí. De acuerdo con sus responsabilidades como antigua potencia colonialista, y detentadora de soberanía después (la provincia del Sahara fue creada en 1958), España no podía aceptar –como ahora acepta- esta anexión.</p>
<p>Dado que el ejército español <em>salió huyendo</em>, por orden del rey Juan Carlos, de una provincia bajo soberanía española, y sin disparar un solo tiro, lo mínimo exigible al gobierno español dada una anexión <em>de facto</em> sería acatar las resoluciones de la ONU y preocuparse <strong>por el derecho de autodeterminación del pueblo saharaui.</strong></p>
<p>España ha protagonizado un caso único, repito. Creo que es el único país europeo que ha permitido que un país africano (Marruecos) invada una provincia suya (pues el Sahara Occidental, en el momento de la invasión ya no era colonia, vuelvo a repetir, sino provincia española), y además permite que el sultanato marroquí controle las políticas, afectando a sus intereses en materia de seguridad, economía y geopolítica.</p>
<p><strong><em>Geopolíticamente</em>, </strong>la llave de dos mares (Atlántico y Mediterráneo) y de dos continentes-mundo <strong>(África islamizada y Europa ex cristiana)</strong> está en manos de Marruecos por decisión yanqui e israelí. En esta situación, los españoles nos quedamos como reses en el matadero. Solo cabe esperar la hora del sacrificio.</p>
<p>Primero invadieron el Sahara Español y ahora el poderoso lobby marroquí ha convertido a toda España en una colonia suya. Ahí está el caso del trato de favor que recibe Marruecos por parte de Bruselas y de Washington, en detrimento de los intereses españoles.</p>
<p>En la propia España, los marroquíes están creando sus órganos de propaganda, con la colaboración de políticos y periodistas españoles. El “síndrome de don Julián” se repite. Cuenta la leyenda que el gobernador ceutí, teóricamente a las órdenes del rey godo de Hispania, don Rodrigo, pactó el muy traidor con los musulmanes en 711 a los cuales les facilitó embarcaciones para pasar a la península y así consumar la invasión, en connivencia con la facción witiziana. La progresiva sumisión de España a Marruecos no sería posible sin estos personajes de la calaña de Pedro Sánchez, sucesores de don Julián, así como sus ministros y muchos miembros de la “élite” empresarial, periodística, etc. Como sigue relatando Ahmed Baba, la potencia invasora de Marruecos tiene permiso para expandir su “narrativa”:</p>
<p>“En 2013 [el régimen marroquí] abrió en España el diario <em>Atalayar</em>, sus fundadores y actuales subdirector y director adjunto, son Mohamed Auchan y Mustafá Amadjar, y de director pusieron a Javier Ribas, un rebotado de la COPE que utilizan como cara visible y así camuflar quienes realmente están detrás.</p>
<p>Antes de fundar Atalayar, Mohamed y Mustafá trabajaban como periodistas en la oficina en Madrid de la agencia MAP (agencia oficial de noticias marroquí), en 2009 fue señalada en una sentencia de la Audiencia Provincial de Madrid como una tapadera de la <strong>DGED (espionaje exterior marroquí)</strong> a raíz de una denuncia por un artículo en el diario <em>El Mundo</em> del periodista marroquí exiliado en España Alí Lmrabt, donde les señaló como “un nido de espías”, el tribunal dio la razón al periodista y dictaminó que MAP y sus supuestos periodistas, entre los cuales estaban los fundadores de Atalayar, eran <strong>«elementos del espionaje marroquí en España».</strong></p>
<p>El espionaje de los marroquís en España es el pan de cada día. El régimen despótico y abominable de Mohamed VI ha modernizado sus sistemas <strong>gracias a la ayuda de los sionistas, tanto estadounidenses como israelitas.</strong> Los políticos de todas las tendencias, derecha e izquierda, están siendo rastreados de continuo. Deben recordarse escándalos como el del móvil de Pedro Sánchez (software Pegasus), así como la nunca esclarecida relación de Pablo Iglesias con una señorita vinculada a Marruecos y a un partido político (el PAM, Partido Autenticidad y Modernidad) del país norteafricano, muy vinculado al sultán Mohamed VI. Ya de por sí es preocupante que los partidos políticos españoles contraten o recluten a asesores de origen marroquí y con vínculos con esa dictadura. Si encima hay escándalos de espionaje de por medio, podemos decir que don Julián, de nuevo, hace de las suyas.</p>
<p>La Dirección General de Estudios y Documentación <strong>(DGED, Los espías marroquís)</strong> están bajo sospecha desde que se descubrió que al menos 200 móviles de figuras principales de nuestro gobierno han sido atacados por el software Pegasus (de origen israelí): Sánchez, Grande-Marlaska, Margarita Robles…así como activistas saharauis y periodistas españoles que investigan las extrañas relaciones con el país magrebí así como el contencioso del Sahara. De manera inaudita, España no toma medidas contra el sultanato, a quien sigue llamando “aliado y amigo”. Seguramente el gobierno español y sus fuerzas armadas no dan ni un solo paso, en caso de que trataran de defender la soberanía española (caso dudoso) sin que su “aliado y amigo” se entere. El Reino de España vive bajo una continua presión y chantaje. Una vez que invadieron la provincia (ex colonia) del Sahara, la consigna de “lo volveremos a hacer” está presente en las autoridades marroquís. El 17 y 18 de mayo de 2021 varios miles de marroquís –se habla incluso de 12.000 o más- (y algunos subsaharianos también) protagonizaron una nueva “Marcha Verde” en Ceuta. Tenga en cuenta el lector que si se fueron, o “fueron devueltos”, ha sido porque quisieron. El jefe de toda esa tropa, que no es otro que Mohamed VI y su majzén, conseguiría lo suyo por medio de un repliegue. Pero a muchos de los españoles no nos cabe ninguna duda: <strong>“lo volverán a hacer”.</strong></p>
<p>Eso explica que se dé un trato de favor a gran parte del millón de marroquís que viven en España (un millón, según cifras oficiales<strong>, lo cual puede indicar que la cifra real es muy superior).</strong> Varias docenas de miles de jóvenes marroquís tienen estudios gratis desde primaria hasta universidad, a pesar de la escasa motivación y “fracaso” escolar de buena parte de ellos (cercano al 70% en muchas provincias, en la etapa de ESO). Las ayudas sociales a esta población succionan una parte importante de nuestros recursos. Los problemas de desórdenes públicos, delincuencia, gastos en manutención e internamiento en prisiones, tienen marcado sabor marroquí en buena medida.</p>
<p><strong>Los españoles no estamos comiendo este cuscús, nos guste o no.</strong><strong>Que se dejen de tonterías sobre “islamofobia” o “xenofobia”.</strong> Un país extranjero y con afanes expansionistas está perjudicando gravemente los intereses de España, poniéndolo en serio peligro. Este “vecino y aliado” que tan poco favorecedor nos resulta, pese a la retórica gubernamental, a la de Caritas y mil y una ONGs, y el discurso especialmente socialista y sumatorio-podemista, <strong><em>es un estado que ya nos ha invadido</em></strong> y, sin embargo, posee sus propios órganos de agitación y de narrativa imperialista magrebí, radicados en nuestra casa. Grandes caballos de Troya han penetrado nuestras murallas tiempo ha. De nuevo cito a Ahmed Baba:</p>
<p>“También cabe señalar la intensidad de los artículos (casi diarios) que publican entre otras El Huffpost y La Razón, por supuesto bien remunerados, son cortes y pegas de la prensa marroquí en francés que el régimen se empeña en exportar a España, en ellos los ataques al Polisario y el lavado de imagen del régimen es tan descarado como evidente.</p>
<p>Un ejemplo de este descaro y colaboracionismo es el diario que dirige Paco Marhuenda, conocido enemigo de la causa saharaui, y que llegó incluso a negar la existencia de este pueblo en una intervención en <em>La Sexta Noche</em>, un vídeo ampliamente difundido por marroquíes en redes sociales.”</p>
<p>No nos extrañe que nieguen la existencia misma de los saharauis como pueblo con identidad propia. Muchos maurófilos de las universidades españolas niegan la existencia de España y de los españoles. Apenas cuenta que vengamos de los celtas, iberos, romanos, godos, suevos, etc. <strong>Somos para ellos una especie de moriscos camuflados</strong>. Para combatir esto, el profesor Armando Besga ha tenido que escribir en los tiempos recientes toda una serie de volúmenes para demostrar que España existió y existe, frente a esta caterva de académicos pagados (como los imanes y las mezquitas) por Rabat, si bien hay otros pagadores de países mahometanos que compiten con Mohamed VI (Emiratos, Arabia Saudí, etc.). Dice el señor Baba:</p>
<p>“La Razón tiene como colaborador a Ahmed Charai, un periodista y empresario y colaborador de los servicios secretos marroquíes, en 2007 fue detenido en el aeropuerto JF Kennedy de Nuevo York por intentar sacar 50 mil dólares en una maleta, tres días después pudo salir del país tras la intervención del director de la DGED, Yassine El Mansouri.</p>
<p>En el diario de Marhuenda, Charai da rienda suelta a la propaganda alauí habitual sobre el conflicto del Sáhara Occidental, también destacan sus artículos de exaltación de la figura de Mohamed VI.”</p>
<p>Para (re)conquistar territorios de soberanía española la “narrativa” ideada desde Rabat no elude falsear la historia de España, pues nada mejor que intoxicar a un pueblo enseñándole una historia falsa y desvirtuada. Que España es una prolongación de Marruecos, y un terreno (re)conquistable para el Islam es un objetivo manifiesto para estos lobbies y “tanques de pensamiento”. Para ello, por ejemplo, la web pro-marroquí “Atalayar” recoge los tópicos de la pseudo historiografía maurófila: que la Batalla de Covadonga fue una “simple escaramuza”, que la convivencia de civilizaciones en Al-andalus era buena, que los musulmanes no estaban obsesionados con expandir su fe y que eran tolerantes, que los hispanos del tiempo de la conquista mora casi deseaban unos nuevos amos, a quienes acogieron con agrado. Por ejemplo, leemos:</p>
<p><strong>“Los habitantes de la península se adaptaron al gobierno musulmán de manera similar a los de otras regiones antiguamente cristianas, como Siria o Egipto</strong>. Las elites musulmanas no alentaban la conversión al islam, en gran medida porque los dhimmi-s (minorías protegidas) debían pagar tributos de los que los musulmanes estaban exentos (la idea de conquista con el fin de propagar la verdadera religión es esencialmente propaganda de la historiografía musulmana adoptada por aquellos que quieren ver el islam como intrínsecamente violento).</p>
<p><strong>Las comunidades mozárabes, cristiana y judía, gozaban de libertad de culto y se gobernaban por sus propias leyes</strong>, y los casos de persecución religiosa fueron relativamente raros, sobre todo en comparación con la Europa cristiana. Sin embargo, la mayoría de la población terminó convirtiéndose al islam, empezando por la nobleza, que deseaba mantener sus privilegios, y los esclavos, ansiosos de mejorar su situación. Y la lengua y cultura árabes eran comunes a todos los residentes en Al-Ándalus.</p>
<p><strong>Los mitos fundadores de lo que ahora denominaríamos el “bando cristiano” son en realidad creaciones posteriores que pretenden establecer una continuidad histórica entre la Hispania visigoda y la España que surgió en el siglo XV</strong>. La Batalla de Covadonga que supuestamente inició la Reconquista fue poco más que una escaramuza tras la cual los musulmanes decidieron retirarse de una región montañosa pobre y aislada, mientras que los descendientes de Don Pelayo <a href="https://www.atalayar.com/articulo/politica/desmitificando-andalus/20190916160142142390.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estaban</a> demasiado ocupados intrigando los unos contra los otros y combatiendo contra otros caudillos locales para interesarse por lo que pasaba más al sur.</p>
<p><strong>Falsear y reescribir la historia al gusto e interés de potencias extranjeras que nos son hostiles lo llaman “desmitificar”.</strong>Estos párrafos pseudocientíficos los escribe Ana Belén Soage en la web pro-marroquí “Atalayar”.</p>
<p>El pueblo español, infectado por este tipo de ideas falsas, que le desarraigan de su verdadera raíz (celtogermánica, ibérica, romana, etc.) y vendido por sus élites políticas (desde los borbones hasta Sánchez y el resto de la partitocracia) así como económicas (todos los inversionistas españoles que explotan a la gente en el Magreb y deslocalizan en España), es un pueblo tiene los días contados. Sus invasores, venidos desde África, serán recibidos como hermanos porque el terreno ya está preparado para ellos. Pero antes de consumarse la invasión, ya somos actualmente  <em>dhimmi</em>, y ya pagamos nuestro impuesto de “protegidos” cuando compramos productos marroquís en el súper, o <strong>cuando dejamos que nuestro agro y nuestra natalidad mueran.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Los genocidios de sangre empiezan con traiciones de papel, traiciones de despacho y circulación de maletas repletas de dinero.</strong></p>
<p><em>Publicado originalmente por </em><a href="https://infoposta.com.ar/notas/14066/la-colonizacion-marroqui-de-espana/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>infoposta.com.ar</strong></a></p>


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title: As mulheres da Inglaterra não têm mais pênis
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<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><strong><em>Nos EUA de Biden, responderíamos sem pestanejar que as mulheres tinham pênis, mas nunca se sabe.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span>Escreva para nós:</span> <a href="mailto:info@strategic-culture.su" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>info@strategic-culture.su</u></a></strong></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="PT-BR">Segundo todas as autoridades científicas da botânica, o tomate é, sem sombra de dúvida, uma fruta. Não obstante, em 1893, a Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos deu a decisão Nix v. Heden, segundo a qual o tomate, no contexto da lei tarifária, não é uma fruta, mas um legume. Não deixa de ser uma curiosa escolha de palavras, pois a Suprema Corte não decidiu que o tomate, embora seja uma fruta, deve ser considerado um legume num dado contexto; em vez disso, decidiu que o tomate <i>é</i> uma fruta na lei, porque a lei é feita segundo a linguagem ordinária, que é diferente da botânica. É muito esquisita essa ideia de que a Suprema Corte legisla sobre a realidade, mas é assim que funciona no país mais poderoso do mundo, um herdeiro da Common Law inglesa.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="PT-BR">O caso do tomate nos EUA é similar ao das mulheres na Grã-Bretanha. Em 16 de abril de 2025, diante da interpretação de uma lei relativa à igualdade de gênero, a Suprema Corte do Reino Unido <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/16/uk/uk-supreme-court-ruling-definition-woman-intl/index.html#:~:text=Britain's%20Supreme%20Court%20ruled%20unanimously,worrying"><span>decidiu</span></a> que mulheres são aquelas do sexo feminino, excluindo-se do conceito as “mulheres trans” que portassem documentos femininos. Desde então, feministas e conservadores britânicos comemoram a nova definição. Assim, as mulheres da Grã-Bretanha não têm mais pênis.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="PT-BR">Essa peculiar cosmovisão, que dá direito à Suprema Corte de decidir não sobre a lei, mas sobre a realidade, faz com que nos perguntemos onde mais as mulheres têm pênis. Nos EUA de Biden, responderíamos sem pestanejar que as mulheres tinham pênis, mas nunca se sabe. Durante a sabatina em 2022, a (agora) juíza associada da Suprema Corte Ketanji Brown disse que <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/blackburn-jackson-define-the-word-woman-00019543"><span>não sabia</span></a> definir o que é uma mulher. Trump, por outro lado, tão logo voltou à presidência, assinou uma <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/"><span>Ordem Executiva</span></a> definindo homem e mulher conforme a biologia e excluindo a ideologia de gênero, definida como a ideologia que usa a autoidentificação subjetiva como um meio legítimo de determinar quem é homem, mulher ou outra coisa. Como o governo Biden tomou suas medidas pró trans lastreando-se em decisões da Suprema Corte (que é o verdadeiro poder público dos EUA), a Ordem Executiva impôs tarefas à Advocacia Geral.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="PT-BR">Por isso, infelizmente, não é seguro determinar que as mulheres dos EUA não têm pênis. Afinal, <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/21/dei-1969-2025/"><span>como vimos no assunto racial do DEI</span></a>, a Suprema Corte deixou as ações afirmativas correrem soltas por décadas a fio, em meio a dubiedades legais, até decidir que são inconstitucionais. Trump pretende ser um presidente forte, mas suas medidas são derrubadas pelo judiciário. FDR de fato foi um presidente forte, mas, para isso, aumentou o número de ministros da Suprema Corte para poder indicar uma montanha e manter o poder público mais forte do país sob sua influência.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="PT-BR">Essa maneira esquisita de encarar o poder e a realidade é fruto da cultura protestante. Nos cristianismos tradicionais do ocidente e do oriente, a autoridade tem um rosto: o Papa, o Patriarca de Constantinopla. O cristianismo da Reforma, por outro lado, apresentou a ideia – bastante rabínica, diga-se – de que a autoridade está no texto, não numa pessoa. E assim, malandramente, a autoridade passa a ser <i>o intérprete</i> do texto, que, por se colocar como um leal ao texto, não se assume como autoridade responsável. É muito grande a hipocrisia desse sistema de governo, pois todos os que nele vivem fazem as contas de quantos juízes um presidente tem a seu favor na Suprema Corte. Se gente não eleita manda no país e ainda por cima impõe coisas muito impopulares, isso não deveria ser chamado de democracia.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="PT-BR">No Brasil, que infelizmente vive sob pesada influência dos EUA, as mulheres têm pênis desde 2023 (embora eu mesma não tenha). Por aqui o protestantismo encontrou um campo fértil de sincretismo, cheio de práticas similares à <i>santería</i> cubana e ao espiritismo kardecista. Assim, os ministros do Supremo vivem falando de um tal “espírito da Constituição” que eles interpretam. Após possuir o ministro, esse espírito não fuma charuto, não bebe cachaça, nem escreve as cartas dos mortos: em vez disso, sai legislando por aí. E <a href="https://portal.stf.jus.br/noticias/verNoticiaDetalhe.asp?idConteudo=512663&amp;ori=1"><span>desde 2023</span></a> o espírito da Constituição decidiu que as leis brasileiras contra racismo devem punir também a homofobia e a transfobia. <a href="https://portal.stf.jus.br/noticias/verNoticiaDetalhe.asp?idConteudo=371085"><span>Em 2018</span></a>, o espírito da Constituição havia decidido que ninguém precisa fazer cirurgias para mudar de “gênero”, pois basta a autodeclaração.</span></p>
<p data-sanitized-class="Standard"><span lang="PT-BR">Um dia isso há de passar. Enquanto isso, só o espírito da anarquia salva o Brasil, pois até hoje não há notícias de estupradores sendo transferidos para os presídios femininos.</span></p>
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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>Today, 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 the U.S. — the latest result of President Donald J. Trump’s relentless pursuit of American manufacturing dominance.</p>
<p>The automaker will produce the vehicle at its Tuscaloosa, Alabama, plant following <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/mercedes-benz-ceo-signals-potential-more-us-investment">signals</a> earlier this year that the company will make additional investment in its U.S.-based operations.</p>
<p><strong>Mercedes isn’t the only automaker onshoring production as President Trump incentivizes making things in America again:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>BMW is <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2025/04/10/bmw-production-boost-us-plant/83034910007/">considering </a>adding shifts to boost production at its South Carolina plant.</li>
<li>Honda <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-16/honda-to-shift-production-of-civic-from-japan-to-us-on-tariffs">plans</a> to shift production of the Civic from Japan to the U.S.</li>
<li>Hyundai <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/south-korea-hyundai-us-investment.html">announced</a> a $20 billion investment — including $5.8 billion for a <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1904240895488078062">new Louisiana steel plant</a> to support its U.S.-based vehicle production — amid their <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/hyundai-motor-q4-profit-falls-17-discounts-weigh-2025-01-23/">pledge</a> to “further localize production in the U.S.”</li>
<li>Kia <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/kia-produce-hybrid-cars-hyundais-georgia-factory-next-year-2025-03-28/">plans</a> to produce hybrid vehicles at its affiliate Hyundai’s Georgia factory.</li>
<li>Nissan is <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/top-automaker-could-move-some-production-out-mexico-amid-trump-tariff-talks-ceo-says">considering</a> moving production from Mexico to the U.S.</li>
<li>Stellantis <a href="https://apnews.com/article/stellantis-uaw-union-illinois-trump-c61f162889384fc7e1337dd5613692d6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> it will reopen its Belvidere, Illinois, plant to build a new midsize pickup truck.</li>
<li>Toyota <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/toyota-invests-88-million-in-w-virginia-plant-for-hybrid-output">announced</a> it will boost hybrid vehicle production at its West Virginia plant.</li>
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<p>Après des mois de controverse et de rumeurs, la présence de troupes nord-coréennes dans la zone de l’opération militaire spéciale a finalement été confirmée. En annonçant la libération complète de la région de Koursk, le <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-north-korean-friends-helped-russia-push-ukraine/story?id=121229750">gouvernement russe </a>a signalé que …</p>

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title: OTD: 1 MAY 1916: Pádraig MacPiarais writes to mother
author: ;Gript Column
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1May1916-PadriagMacPiarias.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>
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<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>
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<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>

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title: IPC at 100: To 'Bear Witness Unto the Truth' Means to Act to Stop the Genocide — IPC #100
author: ;Schiller Institute
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title: Un député conservateur laissera-t-il sa place à Poilievre? #polcan
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<p data-sanitized-class="ydp5360df9eMsoNormal"><i>« Je vais rendre l’électricité si bon marché que seuls les riches pourront se payer le luxe d’utiliser des bougies ». </i><strong>Thomas Edison</strong><i></i></p>
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https://www.mondialisation.ca/le-courant-ne-passe-plus-entre-leurope-de-louest-et-la-fee-electricite/5698270


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title: https://x.com/mario4thenorth/status/1917644241875898598
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title: https://x.com/IanCarrollShow/status/1917573984649912492
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title: What is unfolding in Canada is not politics
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<img src="https://cdn1.cdn-telegram.org/file/RJBXfOHTZI8zZCdwwfRKcc7cHbuNSncGAk9GYSooA81w-0yA8kx0CNPSS5GUdRIkNTTABb3klohNTiF8ehUdnw8ZUzJEo6mN_TUuGgEdi9aiCtLCEraxSQEV7xqRJIS93YYlBaP-pdvFngjDqzTWpikAp1iOZSyXj6mQyPgWJwEqPWh50JbYVy0yCvfU1hf177Fwdr-EllMaTi5R7aYnS_GfPkNa4QnKJ_yfqEI1uf7Rfy-GXL1ad5SBm06zVTaDS9i3RzXsdvTdnApZFs0dWmHVJ9NlpmjhfHm2HFg82i85LjWRSKgQ3RxnzVOulI5zT4ypZBa9wgdVrSDEhX4Kew.jpg"><br><br><div dir="auto" data-sanitized-class="tgme_widget_message_text js-message_text">What is unfolding in Canada is not politics. It is not reform. It is a hostile takeover by global forces using one of the most sophisticated and destructive plans ever devised to collapse a free society from within.<br><br>The plan is referred to as the Cloward Piven Strategy. The man they have chosen to complete this agenda is Mark Carney. ... [<a href="https://telegra.ph/The-Cloward-Piven-Strategy-Enter-Mark-carney-as-Executor-04-30" target="_blank" rel="noopener">keep reading</a>]<br><br><br><a href="https://telegra.ph/The-Cloward-Piven-Strategy-Enter-Mark-carney-as-Executor-04-30" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://telegra.ph/The-Cloward-Piven-Strategy-Enter-Mark-carney-as-Executor-04-30</a></div><br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67e85ccd68d9b987fd0b48f3" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>

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title: Entente Ukraine — États-Unis : « positive pour les ukrainiens » selon un expert — 1er mai 2025
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title: Helga LaRouche &amp; Diane Sare – The Secret to a New Paradigm A LaRouche-Hamilton Credit Policy
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Join Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, and Diane Sare, President of TLO to discuss the necessary LaRouche-Hamilton economic policy to build the New Paradigm.Send your questions to questions@schillerinstitute.org After her return from China, where she participated in an international conference in Qufu, the birthplace of Confucius, Helga Zepp-LaRouche summarized the global situation and the necessary mobilization of the International LaRouche Movement as follows: “If you look at the world as a totality, you have essentially two motions: you have the motion toward destruction, the oligarchical principle, war, austerity, degradation of people and their so-called cultural tastes. But it’s an entropic motion. But then you have on the other side, those forces in the world that are somehow, in whatever fashion comes from their cultural tradition are in a constructive mode: building, furthering the cause of humanity. And in a certain sense, I can see very clearly the potential, in that those forces in the world who are in line with the laws of the universe, are becoming stronger, and stronger, and stronger. And what we are seeing right now, is just an end-struggle, if you like, of a dying system which clearly is unable to reform, because its proponents are so absolutely determined to their own privilege, that they cannot even see the interest of their nation.And I think what we have to do, is, we have to give people that sense that humanity is, in one sense growing up, and it’s quite natural that they would turn at many places in the world to Lyn’s ideas, because from all the thinkers, from Confucius, Leibniz, Kepler, whoever else—I mean, Lyn has taken all of these tendencies a step forward, and he has, in his entire life’s work, given the world a way how to become coherent. And I think it’s very clear that all the forces who are striving toward this, eventually recognize that. And I think what it means is that what we have to do in the United States, and in Europe, is to make people conscious of that, and actually only the good-meaning people have to take a really relatively small step: and that is, to consciously reject the idea that you need an enemy, that confrontation is the way to go, to take the step instead to cooperation. And then, everything will fall into place.”Zepp-LaRouche also emphasized two tasks facing all friends of humanity: First, to stop the escalation of warfare. Second, to recognize the failure of the policy behind the warfare and to initiate a new, correct policy. The Schiller Institute's two upcoming international conferences - one in Europe and one from May 24-25 in the New York metropolitan area (online and in person) - have a special responsibility in this regard.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: TLO Battle Report Apr 30th – Think Globally, Intervene EVERYWHERE!
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Tonight’s report spans actions taken by the LaRouche movement this past week in the United States, China, the online domain, among other places.First we hear from Diane Sare, president of TLO, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, on the breaking, and very dangerous, strategic situation now breaking out between India and Pakistan.LaRouche organizers report from Texas and New York campuses, where they were out talking to students. We also have a report from last Sunday’s Schiller Institute NYC Concert, with an excerpt from the concert.A word from several participants of the upcoming Schiller Institute Memorial Day Conference should help to convince you that if you want to “make history,” and not just watch it from the sidelines, you need to be at this historic conference.We conclude with a very interesting report-back from Helga Zepp-LaRouche on her trip to China.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: Daily Update w. Diane Sare – Happy May Day! Ukraine FInally Signs the Deal. Will this End the War
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Your daily update for May 1, 2025 from Diane Sare.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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title: Commission des arts, de la culture, des lettres et du patrimoine du 30 avril 2025 - Partie 2 de 2
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title: Inscrivez-vous au registre des caméras de surveillance et faites équipe avec le SPVG!
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title: Fermetures partielles et complètes de rues à l'occasion du Défi CN pour le CHEO
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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698248
title: Changement de régime au Forum économique mondial (FEM / WEF) : pour le meilleur ou pour le pire ?
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<p><em>Le 20 avril 2025, dimanche de Pâques, le Conseil d’administration du Forum économique mondial (FEM / WEF) a appelé à une réunion extraordinaire à huis clos.</em></p>
<p>Le conseil d’administration comprend, entre autres, le PDG de BlackRock, <strong>Larry Fink</strong>, l’ancien …</p>

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698293
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<p><strong>Les coupures d’électricité, d’Internet et de téléphonie mobile qui ont touché l’Espagne, le Portugal et certaines parties du sud de la France seraient une simulation visant à tester la réaction de la population?</strong></p>
<p>Si personne ne l’empêche, nous nous dirigeons …</p>

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698300
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<p>Ca y est, c’est officiel : la Russie a fait élire Macron en 2017. Ouf, les Français n’y sont pour rien. Mais « en même temps », Macron était tellement populaire, qu’il a quand même été élu. Barrot l’affirme. Et …</p>

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Les États-Unis veulent éloigner l’Argentine de la Chine en lui promettant une aide financière pendant la crise

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Avec des demandes de plus en plus explicites de restreindre les relations entre l'Argentine et la Chine, la Trésorerie américaine a admis la possibilité de soutenir l'Argentine en cas de crise avec son Fonds de stabilisation des changes. Washington cherche à réimposer la doctrine Monroe en Amérique latine...

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title: Washington Today (5-1-25): National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to be nominated as U.S. Amb to UN
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885000
title: Ue. Difesa europea o cortina di fumo atlantica?
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<p><strong><em>Il grande bluff dell’autonomia strategica dell’Unione.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Giuseppe GAGLIANO</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>C’è una verità che nessuno osa dire, eppure è sotto gli occhi di tutti: l’Unione Europea non ha, e probabilmente non avrà mai, una vera politica di difesa comune. Perché il cuore del problema non sta nella mancanza di strumenti o risorse, ma nell’assenza di volontà politica, nella frammentazione strutturale e nella dipendenza strategica dagli Stati Uniti, ben incardinata nella NATO.</p>
<p>Quando si tratta di distribuire soldi, l’Unione riesce a trovare compattezza. L’11 marzo 2025 la Commissione ha annunciato un piano titanico: 800 miliardi di euro per rafforzare le industrie militari dei Ventisette. Una pioggia di denaro pubblico che, in nome della sicurezza, potrebbe persino scavalcare il dogma sacro del 3% di deficit/PIL. Sembra quasi che il vincolo di bilancio valga solo per ospedali e scuole, non per carri armati e munizioni. Ursula von der Leyen lo chiama “rafforzamento strategico”, ma appare piuttosto come un gigantesco incentivo all’industria bellica, senza una reale visione europea.</p>
<p>Dal 2003 a oggi l’UE ha creato un mosaico di strutture dedicate alla difesa: l’Agenzia per gli armamenti, la Cooperazione strutturata permanente, il Fondo per la difesa, e infine persino un paradossale “Fondo per la pace” utilizzato per esportare armi verso l’Ucraina. Ma a mancare è sempre la stessa cosa: una bussola politica, una volontà condivisa, un interesse strategico comune. L’idea di una diplomazia europea unificata resta un’utopia soffocata dalle rivalità storiche e dalle differenze geopolitiche tra i Paesi membri.</p>
<p>A dispetto dei proclami, l’UE resta incardinata nella NATO. Lo ha ribadito il Consiglio Europeo nel marzo 2025: la difesa europea non è alternativa ma “complementare” a quella atlantica. Di fatto però l’Alleanza ha diritto di prelazione su tutte le crisi, mentre la Politica di sicurezza e difesa comune (PSDC) europea interviene solo a posteriori, in ruoli ausiliari o addestrativi. L’UE manda missioni in Mozambico o in Bosnia, ma resta subordinata a Washington per ogni scenario strategicamente rilevante.</p>
<p>Mentre Bruxelles parla di integrazione, gli Stati membri si organizzano per conto loro. I Paesi del Mediterraneo si coordinano con l’EuroMed, quelli dell’Est con l’Iniziativa dei Nove. Atene e Parigi stringono accordi bilaterali contro Ankara, mentre l’asse tra Meloni e Trump segnala una deriva sempre più sovranista. L’Europa, insomma, si muove in ordine sparso, senza un vero centro di gravità permanente. I sottogruppi regionali proliferano come reazione alla paralisi del centro.</p>
<p>Nel marzo 2025, l’UE ha solennemente affermato che “la pace dovrà rispettare l’integrità territoriale dell’Ucraina”. Un principio apparentemente nobile, ma che si trasforma in dogma ideologico quando viene brandito come arma contro ogni voce critica. Chi invoca la diplomazia o sottolinea le colpe ucraine viene zittito come “putiniano”. La russofobia è diventata il collante ideologico di una Unione che, in assenza di un’identità geopolitica, si rifugia in una morale bellicista e manichea.</p>
<p>L’eventuale ritiro progressivo degli Stati Uniti dallo scenario europeo dovrebbe rappresentare una finestra storica per rafforzare l’autonomia dell’Unione. Invece, ciò che si profila è un vuoto politico. Come scrive il politologo Federico Santopinto, senza una cultura geopolitica comune, l’UE è destinata a restare una macchina tecnocratica senza motore, incapace di produrre sovranità. Le sue decisioni – sempre più centralizzate, sempre meno democratiche – rischiano di alimentare una burocrazia autoritaria in grado di decidere guerra e pace al riparo dai Parlamenti.</p>
<p>Nel paradosso storico l’Europa che doveva nascere dalla pace rischia ora di dissolversi nella guerra. Quella che fu costruita per dire “mai più” alla tragedia del continente, oggi si scopre incapace di dire “mai più” alla guerra. L’Unione non unisce, la difesa non difende, e la sovranità resta un termine esiliato nei discorsi ufficiali. Di fronte al caos globale, l’UE barcolla tra atlantismo automatico e illusioni federaliste. Ma il conto, prima o poi, arriva.</p>
<p><em>Articolo originale</em> <a href="https://www.notiziegeopolitiche.net/ue-difesa-europea-o-cortina-di-fumo-atlantica/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Notizie Geopolitiche</strong></a></p>


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title: L'Essentiel : Quelle place pour Montréal dans le nouveau cabinet Carney? – 1er mai 2025
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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8836
title: The Oxymoron that is a “Just War”
author: ;Ray McGovern
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">“The Berrigans Made Me Do It.” My mentor Dan Berrigan left us 9 yrs ago today. Watching Dan’s funeral, a reminder: apostles (Dan yes; but we also) stand for life, not death &amp; its analogies–scorn, floggings, jail. And “Just War” is an oxymoron. https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/08/price-for-witnessing-against-war/</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/01/the-oxymoron-that-is-a-just-war/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


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Larry C. Johnson &amp; Col. Larry Wilkerson: How Trump's Turbulent Moves Shook Iran, Russia &amp; China

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title: INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson &amp; McGovern : Weekly Wrap 2-May
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Mohammad Marandi &amp; Amb. Chas Freeman: Ticking Toward War? U.S. &amp; Iran at a Dangerous Crossroads

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guid: CCAL-119scal-2025-05-05
title: Senate Calendars, DAILY - Senate Calendars for May 5, 2025 - 119th Congress, 1st Session
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329938
title: The GAA Mgr with Banty association and IPAS contract
author: ;Dr Matt Treacy
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Davyburke.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>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=329926
title: US Dept review blasts trans ‘affirming’ care for kids
author: ;Niamh Uí Bhriain
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TransgenderGroundShoes.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p data-sanitized-class="speakable"><strong>A <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/gender-dysphoria-report-release.html">report</a> from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) examining ‘gender-affirming’ care has raised “serious concerns” about using medical treatments and surgeries to “transition children and adolescents away from their sex.”</strong></p>
<p>And it warned that “the risks of pediatric medical transition include infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.”</p>
<p>Launching the report prior to peer review, the DHSS said that its findings highlight “a growing body of evidence pointing to significant risks—including irreversible harms such as infertility—while finding very weak evidence of benefit” for medical transition for children.</p>
<p>They added that the weakness of evidence for benefit “has been a consistent finding of systematic reviews of evidence around the world”.</p>
<p>Dr Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, said: “Our duty is to protect our nation’s children – not expose them to unproven and irreversible medical interventions.</p>
<p>“We must follow the gold standard of science, not activist agendas.”</p>
<p>The review said that the “gender-affirming” model of care, as practiced in U.S. clinics, often minimized or omitted comprehensive mental health assessments in order to have a “child-led process” – and said that, in some leading pediatric gender clinics, “assessments are conducted in a single session lasting two hours.”</p>
<p>The DHSS said that the review was informed by an evidence-based medicine approach, reveals serious concerns about medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, that attempt to transition children and adolescents away from their sex.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="speakable">The report, titled ‘Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices,” was published by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Office of Population Affairs.</p>
<p>Addressing the use of puberty blockers and other treatments, the report  said that “despite increasing pressure to promote these drastic medical interventions for our nation’s youth, the review makes clear: the science and evidence do not support their use, and the risks cannot be ignored.”</p>
<p>A recent review by paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass in the UK, cautioned against the use of puberty blockers for children and adolescents, saying that “the reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.”</p>
<p>However, the DHSS report went further, and <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/01/nhs-puberty-blocker-trial-not-ethical-trump-backed-review/">was  highly critical</a> of the use of puberty blockers in that age cohort saying that even conducting a trial on same was unethical.</p>
<p>It said: “The likelihood of infertility when puberty blockers are provided at the early stage of puberty and followed by cross-sex hormones does not have to be demonstrated in a clinical trial. This is because the mechanism is well understood and conducting a trial would amount to an unethical ‘parachute test’.”</p>
<p>The report said that, “In many areas of medicine, treatments are first established as safe and effective in adults before being extended to pediatric populations. In this case, however, the opposite occurred: clinician-researchers developed the pediatric medical transition protocol in response to disappointing psychosocial outcomes in adults who underwent medical transition.”</p>
<p>“The protocols were adopted internationally before the publication of the first outcome studies. In recent years, in response to dramatic shifts in the number and clinical profiles of minor patients, as well as to multiple systematic reviews of evidence, health authorities in an increasing number of countries have restricted access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and, in the rare cases where they were offered, surgeries for minors. These authorities now recommend psychosocial approaches, rather than hormonal or surgical interventions, as the primary treatment.”</p>
<p>“There is currently no international consensus about best practices for the care of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria,” the report added.</p>
<p>“The risks of pediatric medical transition include infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret,” it also warned.</p>
<p>The report was scathing about the “most influential clinical guidelines for the treatment of pediatric gender dysphoria” which it said published by The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Endocrine Society.</p>
<p>“A recent systematic review of international guideline quality did not recommend either guideline for clinical use after determining they “lack developmental rigour and transparency”. Problems with the development of WPATH’s Standards of Care, Version 8 (SOC-8) extend beyond those identified in the systematic review of international guidelines. In the process of developing SOC-8, WPATH suppressed systematic reviews its leaders believed would undermine its favored treatment approach. SOC-8 developers also violated conflict of interest management requirements and eliminated nearly all recommended age minimums for medical and surgical interventions in response to political pressures,” the DHSS report claimed.</p>
<p>“Although SOC-8 relaxed the eligibility criteria for access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, there is compelling evidence that U.S. gender clinics are not adhering even to those more permissive criteria,” it added.</p>
<p>“The “gender-affirming” model of care, as practiced in U.S. clinics, is characterized by a child-led process in which comprehensive mental health assessments are often minimized or omitted, and the patient’s “embodiment goals” serve as the primary guide for treatment decisions. In some of the nation’s leading pediatric gender clinics, assessments are conducted in a single session lasting two hours,” the authors added.</p>
<p>“Over the past decade, the number of children and adolescents who question their sex and identify as transgender or nonbinary has grown significantly. Many have been diagnosed with a condition known as “gender dysphoria” and offered a treatment approach known as “gender-affirming care.” This approach emphasizes social affirmation of a child’s self-reported identity; puberty suppressing drugs to prevent the onset of puberty; cross-sex hormones to spur the secondary sex characteristics of the opposite sex; and surgeries including mastectomy and (in rare<br>cases) vaginoplasty. Thousands of American children and adolescents have received these interventions,” the report said.</p>
<p>“While sex-role nonconformity itself is not pathological and does not require treatment, the use of pharmacological and surgical interventions as treatments for pediatric gender dysphoria has been called “medically necessary” and even “lifesaving.” Motivated by a desire to ensure their children’s health and well-being, parents of transgender-identified children and adolescents often struggle with how best to support them. Many of these children and adolescents have co-occurring psychiatric or neurodevelopmental conditions, rendering them especially vulnerable.”</p>
<p>“When they seek professional help, they and their families should receive compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to their specific needs. Society has a special responsibility to safeguard the well-being of children. Given that the challenges faced by these patients intersect with deeply contested issues of moral and social significance—including social identity, sex and reproduction, bodily integrity, and sex-based norms of expression and behavior—the medical practices that have recently emerged to address their needs have become a focus of significant controversy.”</p>
<p>“This Review is published against the backdrop of growing international concern about pediatric medical transition. Having recognized the experimental nature of these medical interventions and their potential for harm, health authorities in a number of countries have imposed restrictions. For example, the UK has banned the routine use of puberty blockers as an intervention for pediatric gender dysphoria. Health authorities have also recognized the exceptional nature of this area of medicine. That exceptionalism is due to a convergence of factors. One is that the diagnosis of gender dysphoria is based entirely on subjective self-reports and behavioral observations, without any objective physical, imaging, or laboratory markers. The diagnosis centers on attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that are known to fluctuate during adolescence,” the report said.</p>
<p>“Additionally, the natural history of pediatric gender dysphoria is poorly understood, though existing research suggests it will remit without intervention in most cases. Medical professionals have no way to know which patients may continue to experience gender dysphoria and which will come to terms with their bodies.”</p>
<p>“Nevertheless, the “gender-affirming” model of care includes irreversible endocrine and surgical interventions on minors with no physical pathology. These interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.”</p>
<p>“Meanwhile, systematic reviews of the evidence have revealed deep uncertainty about the purported benefits of these interventions. The controversies surrounding the medical transition of minors extend beyond scientific debate; they are deeply cultural and political. Public discourse is dominated by intensely polarizing narratives. Some view the medical transition of minors as a pressing civil rights issue, while others regard it as a profound medical failure and a sobering reminder that even modern medicine is vulnerable to serious error.”</p>
<p>“In the midst of this highly charged debate, children and adolescents, and their families—who seek only to support their flourishing—have found themselves caught between competing perspectives. They require, and are entitled to, accurate, evidence-based information to guide their decisions.”</p>
<p><strong>WPATH STATEMENT </strong></p>
<p>In January, WPATH hit out at President Trump’s executive order on children with gender dysphoria, saying “policies that restrict or ban access to necessary medical care for transgender youth are harmful to patients and their families.”</p>
<p>“Transgender youth need comprehensive, individualized, family-based care from multidisciplinary teams. Healthcare decisions should be made by patients, families, and their healthcare professionals, guided by evidence-based practices, clinical guidelines, and individual needs rather than government mandates,” it said.</p>
<p>However, the DHSS report said that “U.S. medical associations played a key role in creating a perception that there is professional consensus in support of pediatric medical transition. This apparent consensus, however, is driven primarily by a small number of specialized committees, influenced by WPATH. It is not clear that the official views of these associations are shared by the wider medical community, or even by most of their members. There is evidence that some medical and mental health associations have suppressed dissent and stifled debate about this issue among their members.”</p>
<p>It added that “the voices of whistleblowers and detransitioners have played a critical role in drawing public attention to the risks and harms associated with pediatric medical transition. Their concerns have been discounted, dismissed, or ignored by prominent advocates and practitioners of pediatric medical transition.”</p>
<p>The DHSS said that the review “fills a gap in the medical literature and existing clinical practice reviews with regard to the ethical aspects of pediatric medical transition” and that DHHS sought to make  medical ethics central to the debate.</p>
<p>“Contributors to the review include medical doctors, medical ethicists, and a methodologist. Contributors represent a wide range of political viewpoints and were chosen for their commitment to scientific principles,” it said.</p>
<p>“Chapters of this review were subject to peer review prior to this publication, and a post-publication peer review will begin in the coming days involving stakeholders with different perspectives. Names of the contributors to the review are not initially being made public, in order to help maintain the integrity of this process,” it added.</p>
<p><strong>JUDICIAL REVIEW OF IRISH TREATMENT </strong></p>
<p>Last month, a legal action seeking a judicial review of the Irish State’s treatment of children with gender dysphoria issues was taken by Prof Donal O’Shea and psychiatrist Dr Paul Moran, who are leading experts working with the National Gender Service.</p>
<p>Both medics, who have been critical of gender affirming care, had made a prior formal complaint against the Health Service Executive (HSE) with Hiqa over the HSE’s referral of young people with such issues for assessment abroad, saying it posed a risk to these children.</p>

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<p><strong><em>La Rivoluzione cubana è entrata nel suo 66° anno con tutte le conquiste costruite in questi lunghi anni e al contempo con le tante fragilità del tempo presente.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Quanto realizzato da fratelli Castro e dai loro compagni di lotta, con la piena emancipazione dell’isola caraibica dal pesante fardello della dittatura di Batista e il suo portato di neocolonialismo statunitense è stato straordinario. Cuba ha vinto già negli anni ‘60 la fame e l’analfabetismo, ha promosso la cultura, ha offerto medici e professori all’America Latina e all’Africa, dall’Angola all’Etiopia, stabilendo eccellenze e primati in campo sanitario ed educativo.</p>
<p>Ha dimostrato negli anni di essere più forte di qualsiasi embargo, di essere in grado di superare la fine della collaborazione con il campo sovietico, di svolgere nel solco del marxismo un ruolo centrale nella promozione di una solidarietà concreta e fattiva nell’isola e nel mondo.</p>
<p>Tutto questo resta indiscutibile e parte indelebile della sua storia, oggi tuttavia quello slancio, quelle vittorie sembrano molto difficili da confermare nel presente. L’economia cubana, certo per una serie di cause interne e internazionali, versa in condizioni difficili, lo sviluppo delle forze produttive stenta a decollare, la collaborazione con investitori stranieri, pur promossa da alcuni anni, non riesce a trasformarsi nel volano del rilancio economico della nazione, sebbene inizialmente avrebbe dovuto promuovere e sostenere i consumi interni e poi le esportazioni, scontrandosi tuttavia con il timore di investire nell’isola a causa da un lato del sistema burocratico interno, dall’altro dei violenti vincoli contro il commercio internazionale cubano imposto dall’embargo statunitense.</p>
<p>Lo zucchero da decenni non è più la prima voce dell’economia cubana, mentre l’estrazione e l’esportazione di zinco, nichel, la produzione ed esportazione di rum e sigari, sono diventate le voci principali, per altro dirette per un terzo verso la Cina Popolare.</p>
<p>La stampa cubana non nasconde nella fase attuale una pesante autocritica, parlando apertamente delle grandi difficoltà quotidiane per i cittadini anche nell’approvvigionamento alimentare primario, di ripetute irresponsabilità degli amministratori locali, di burocrazia galoppante, di economia nazionale debilitata, arrivando addirittura a segnalare come per molti cittadini la vita si stia trasformando in voragine esistenziale.</p>
<p>A fronte delle difficoltà che non sono occultate o dissimulate, vi è la volontà, ribadita dal segretario del Partito Comunista di Cuba e presidente della Repubblica Miguel Díaz-Canel e dal primo ministro Manuel Marrero Cruz, di concretizzare maggiormente quanto si intende realizzare, con un appello appunto a superare un’azione politica spesso declamatoria ma poco operativa, anche se l’insieme dei lavoratori non appare così determinato a tradurre in atto le richieste e purtroppo appare sempre più disilluso dall’attuale classe dirigente.</p>
<p>Pare si stia altresì prendendo atto di aver col tempo risposto una eccessiva fiducia nel sistema turistico, così come il rilancio dell’economia dovrebbe ridurre la dipendenza dai trasferimenti verso i parenti nell’isola dei cubani espatriati, è ripetuta inoltre l’incombenza di avviare un vasto piano che risolva l’inveterata vetustà infrastrutturale, non solo elettrica, ma anche viaria e abitativa.</p>
<p>Sempre la stampa cubana, dopo così serrate e non scontate critiche, sottolinea due aspetti positivi, da un lato la cooperazione con la Cina che si sta realizzando in diversi settori, a partire da quello infrastrutturale, con il recupero della rete elettrica, fortemente danneggiata per passate trascuratezze e l’impetuosità delle recenti calamità naturali, quindi la partecipazione a pieno titolo da quest’anno di Cuba ai BRICS, ovviamente aspettandosi maggiori investimenti e solidarietà da parte delle economie più forti di questo gruppo, a partire da quella  sino – russe.</p>
<p>Di fronte a un constatato peggioramento delle condizioni di vita dei cittadini, le generazioni più mature restano consapevoli delle tante conquiste a fatica costruite, quelle più giovani invece risentono maggiormente e vengono attratte da modelli esterni, latori di valori e mentalità estranee al socialismo.</p>
<p>Tutto questo genera giustamente preoccupazione tra i dirigenti del Partito Comunista Cubano e tra i tanti amici che la Rivoluzione cubana ha nel mondo.</p>
<p>L’ancoraggio solido all’esperienza marxista resta una fondamentale dimensione della cubanità, tuttavia dentro il Partito Comunista Cubano è opinione diffusa e riportata dalla stampa che debba essere declinata con più forza e più determinazione attraverso un cambio di rotta che inverta un declino economico e culturale per molti aspetti preoccupante.</p>
<p>È ragionevole pensare che le tante energie e forze positive interne al sistema cubano possano concorrere in un comune sforzo per produrre le necessarie trasformazioni atte a rilanciare l’isola e garantire il maggiore e certamente ambito  e al momento lontano benessere dei suoi cittadini, che, vale la pena ripeterlo, è possibile solo dentro il ragionato e fattivo impegno di una solidarietà socialista e soprattutto di un considerevole salto di qualità delle forze produttive, non certo nel quadro di cambiamenti istituzionali o di regime che porterebbero al trionfo della più spietata ingiustizia sociale di matrice liberal – liberista.</p>
<p>Non è un mistero che dentro il corpo della società cubana si agitino anche spinte disgregative, volte a un cambio di regime, assecondando ad esempio una rivoluzione colorata eterodiretta, che trasformerebbe l’isola ripristinando un passato in cui la miseria e lo sfruttamento erano la regola, ristabilendo quella subalternità al potente vicino cui la Rivoluzione cubana aveva posto fine.</p>
<p>Rispondere alle necessità materiali e culturali del popolo cubano è la sola strada per una conferma e una rinnovata affermazione del potere popolare, ripristinando quello slancio necessario per guardare con maggiore serenità al futuro e permettere a Cuba di partecipare con il ruolo che le spetta alla costruzione di un nuovo ordine mondiale multipolare, capace di vincere definitivamente tanto l’anacronistico blocco economico imposto da Washington, quanto le sfide di una modernità che ha ancora molto bisogno di Cuba e dei suoi insegnamenti.</p>
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<p>The UK mainstream media has puffed up British military might and fortitude since the war in Ukraine began. Now it turns out that Britain would struggle to send 5000 troops to Ukraine in a so called ‘deterrence force’. Policy thinkers in Whitehall desperately need to engage their brains and reach for peace.</p>
<p>In a remarkable turn of events, the Times Newspaper of London published an article of 29 April in which it said Europe would struggle to put <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/europe-uk-peacekeeping-troops-ukraine-6tp2cfgg5">25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine</a>. This from the same newspaper that offered a <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/article/27dc780e-baf3-4a4c-963e-e40a511dbd23">bizarre eulogy</a> just eighteen days ago about Britain’s ‘crucial role’ in directing Ukraine’s failed counter-offensive in 2023.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Keir Starmer has actively sought a role for himself, bringing divergent US and European policies closer on the conduct of the war and on plans for peace. To much fanfare, at the March 2 Lancaster House Summit, he announced a ‘coalition of the willing’.</p>
<p>The idea emerged that such a coalition might deploy a peacekeeping force to Ukraine after a future ceasefire. Among other things, this force – comprising European and not American troops – would ‘defend a deal in Ukraine’ and ‘guarantee peace afterwards’. Many meetings were held since that time, in Paris and in London, to explore the details.</p>
<p>The coalition had four objectives. To keep military aid flowing into Ukraine and apply further pressure on Russia through sanctions, to maintain Ukraine’s sovereignty and participation in peace talks (an obvious point), to boost Ukraine’s defensive capabilities after a peace deal and to deploy the so called ‘coalition of the willing’ to maintain the peace.</p>
<p>No one, including Starmer, has articulated a clear strategy to guide these objectives. On the contrary, they seem to underpin a continuance of the war, not its cessation.</p>
<p>If we look at them in turn, keeping military aid flowing into Ukraine and applying more sanctions on Russia, will most likely prolong the war, not end it. No one has articulated what the incentive would be for Russia to sue for peace on the basis on the further militarisation of Ukraine, and in the face of additional sanctions. This objective has clearly been driven by the Ukrainian side. Economically, barely a day goes by without Zelensky, Yermak or someone else in the Ukrainian power vertical calling for <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukraine-russia-war-live-zelensky-aide-reveals-the-one-key-sanction-putin-hates-the-most/ar-AA1DNZBh?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=67782a1c24d54ea1b3b433bb55f82eac&amp;ei=13">more sanctions on Russia</a>, at a time when the US press for an end to the conflict. Indeed, Ukraine was calling for more sanctions on Russia in the days before the war’s commencement. On many occasions, I have presented analysis showing how Russia has constantly found ways to adapt to sanctions and illustrated how more sanctions would have no significant economic impact. Like giving Ukraine more weapons, sanctions would only disincentive efforts at peace, by emboldening Russia to continue fighting.</p>
<p>Even a casual observer might note that the plan to boost Ukraine’s defensive capabilities <em>after </em>a peace plan would amount to wholescale rearmament, running counter to any longer-term peace process. In any case, no one has explained why this rearmament would be needed. Surely, if peace is the way forward, then both sides would gradually and in small steps stand down their forces and reduce their alert state. I wouldn’t suggest that Ukraine dissolves its army on day one. However, with <a href="https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/zelenskyy-on-mobilization-hundreds-of-thousands-1745528590.html">800,000 personnel</a>, Ukraine already has a bigger army than any other European NATO ally except for Turkey.</p>
<p>Further, Ukraine has received over one hundred and twenty billion dollars of military aid in the three years since the war started, that’s not far short of Britain’s annual defence budget for two years. What additional defensive capabilities would they need? And, more importantly, who would pay for it? The USA categorically isn’t going to pay for this for at least the next four years under President Trump.</p>
<p>The European Union will almost certainly fail in its bid to boost its own defence spending by $800bn under <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-defense/">von der Leyen’s Rearm plan</a>. That would impose such massive spending increases on countries like France and Italy that it would be political suicide domestically for their governments to do so. <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-after-the-war/">Ukraine already cannot afford</a> to keep its military at its currently bloated size after war ends, without massive injections of European money that simply isn’t available. Where will the money come from to rearm Ukraine? Answer, nowhere.</p>
<p>Which brings us back to the peacekeeping, or deterrence force idea, and the shocking revelation that European nations including Britain don’t even have enough available troops to deliver upon that commitment at any scale. In March, in the afterglow of the Lancaster House Summit, even Conservative politicians hailed Starmer as a modern-day Winston Churchill, standing up against tyranny in Europe. A quick reminder here that Winston Churchill oversaw the mobilisation of almost six million British troops to fight in World War II. Starmer is struggling to muster five thousand for Ukraine.</p>
<p>The idea of a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine has always, in any case, been a non-starter given Russia’s long-standing and expressed rejection of the notion of NATO forces on the line of control. When Russia pointed this out, and following pressure from the US government on Britain, the peacekeeping proposal was watered down to a ‘deterrence force’. The idea here was that, rather than being close to the line of control, coalition of the willing troops might deploy to far away spots in the west of Ukraine, just in case they were needed, to deter a theoretical Russian breach of any peace deal. Today, if any European troops can be spared, then they would only deploy to deliver training to Ukraine’s army.</p>
<p>This state of affairs is beyond embarrassing. We have fallen all too frequently in Britain into the habit of serving up policy soundbites for a willing pro-war media establishment, before getting our policy thinking in order. We do this before discussing our plans with the Americans, who are in the driving seat in the west on plans for peace in Ukraine. At no time, do we appear to assess the risks associated with our ideas, or consider the likely and, in almost every case, entirely predictable Russian response. Nor, perhaps, even engage in dialogue with Russia to negotiate the art of the possible, exploring scope from both sides to reach compromise. A proposal that President Macron should act as Europe’s point person with President Putin has come to nothing. Instead, we stumble, with great self-importance, from one idiotic idea to another, announcing them at every stage as huge breakthroughs in our collective resolve to defeat Russia. Until the moment, finally, when, with not even an ounce of self-awareness, we admit that, upon reflection, it won’t work.</p>
<p>Surely, now, we must find someone in Whitehall to engage their brain, pull on their grown up trousers, engage with both sides to the conflict, and finally reach for peace?</p>
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<p><strong><em>The best course of action in this scenario would be for Russia, China, and Iran to intervene directly to calm tensions and stabilize the situation.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The fact that tensions between India and Pakistan are not de-escalating yet shows that the current phase of this decades-long conflict is, at the very least, significant enough to warrant a brief analysis.</p>
<p>The immediate cause of the current escalation between India and Pakistan (which has already seen the expulsion of citizens from both countries, the rupture of treaties and trade relations, troop mobilizations, and some skirmishes) was a terrorist attack carried out by a group called the “Resistance Front,” believed to be an offshoot of the Salafist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, based in Pakistan. The attack in question killed nearly 30 tourists traveling in Kashmir, most of whom were Indian.</p>
<p>However, this conflict is not new. In practice, to some extent, it seems to have been designed from the beginning by the British. During the preparations for the partition of British India, the question arose of dividing it into at least two parts. Since it was impossible to transform such a complex region of the world into two ethnically based nation-states, the British laid the groundwork for the closest possible alternative: two nation-states whose claim to “homogeneity” was based on religion.</p>
<p>Initially rooted in an interest in courting the Islamic elite of Bengal to instrumentalize them against Hindus, this decision planted the seeds of a long-term conflict that would prove inevitable, as historical reasons meant both countries contained populations belonging to the other’s majority religion. It is within the Westernizing Islamic elite, in fact, that the roots of “Islamic separatism” in India can be found—evident in the ideas of Sayyed Ahmad Khan, which were later surpassed by the more “traditionalist” ideas of Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.</p>
<p>Kashmir lay right in the middle of the Indian subcontinent’s fracture. Despite its predominantly Muslim population, its ruling elite was Hindu. Initially, therefore, Kashmir refused to integrate into either Pakistan or India, aspiring instead to establish itself as an independent state. The Pakistanis considered this decision absurd and, driven by irredentism, attempted to seize Kashmir by force. This led its government to request annexation by India in exchange for protection. India, in turn, was willing to absorb Kashmir, viewing it as the homeland of all Indians under a supra-religious imperial vision. Over Kashmir, India and Pakistan clashed three times—in 1947, 1956, and 1999.</p>
<p>Now, beyond the religious issues involved, the region holds its own geostrategic importance. Due to its geographical position (at the crossroads of India, Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan, and bordering the Himalayas), Kashmir is the pivot of the Indian subcontinent. Its rivers serve as excellent natural defensive barriers for both sides, and its lands are extremely fertile.</p>
<p>For Pakistan today, Kashmir holds even greater importance because of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), linking Xinjiang to the Pakistani port of Gwadar. However, the project passes through a section of Kashmir administered by Pakistan, meaning a widespread conflagration in the region could bury the project and potentially sever Pakistan’s connection to China. The Corridor is fundamentally necessary to reduce Pakistan’s dependence on the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>It is within this context of Pakistan’s interest in Kashmir that we must also interpret the country’s foreign policy on this issue since the 1980s. After being militarily defeated by India, the ISI (Pakistan’s intelligence service, which operates almost as a parallel state) began using Afghanistan to train insurgents to deploy in Kashmir, aiming to destabilize the region and, if possible, separate it from India. This has been the tenor of Pakistan’s power projection not only in Kashmir but also in Afghanistan and the broader region.</p>
<p>For India, beyond Kashmir’s intrinsic historical and geoeconomic importance, Prime Minister Modi seeks to restore India’s honor after the humiliating debacle in Bangladesh, where India simply stood by as its main regional ally was lost to a color revolution, without mounting any response (despite the persecution of Hindus in the neighboring country).</p>
<p>It is impossible to know whether these tensions will erupt into a significant conflict, but there are strong indications of military preparations on both sides. The crucial point here is that Pakistan has a doctrine of “first strike” with nuclear weapons if the existence of its state is threatened by military defeat. India, on the other hand, would only use nuclear weapons in response to a Pakistani nuclear attack.</p>
<p>It is important to note that both countries are key partners of Russia and play roles in Moscow’s southern strategy, which has compensated for the loss of its European and Western partnerships. A Kashmir conflict between the two, therefore, would only benefit the West.</p>
<p>In this case, considering that the real cui bono lies with the West, it is worth questioning the convenience of a terrorist attack by an obscure group with ties to Al-Qaeda. After all, speaking of “Al-Qaeda” is speaking of the CIA.</p>
<p>The best course of action in this scenario would be for Russia, China, and Iran to intervene directly to calm tensions and stabilize the situation, as these countries have much to lose from this conflict. And in practice, if the situation spirals out of control, the repercussions could affect the entire planet.</p>
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<p><strong>The bandwagon</strong></p>
<p>“When one pope dies, another is made,” says an ancient Roman proverb. Life has a beginning and an end for everyone, inexorably. And so it was that at the funeral of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, the usual bandwagon of political figures from all walks of life paraded by.</p>
<p>Everyone was there: the Anglicans of the British crown, the Presbyterians of the American government, the self-styled Catholics of the Italian government, the Jews of the European Parliament, the high finance bankers, the coup plotters in green robes from Eastern Europe, the white-collar workers of globalism. All happy, in the front row, paying homage to their brother. Judging by the parade of participants, Bergoglio must have been a really good person…</p>
<p>If this is the yardstick, Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s pontificate leaves behind mainly ruins, completing in the West a process of erosion of the faith and of the Christian proposal that has its roots in time, accelerated by the Second Vatican Council, which reduced the decadent Church of Rome to a rotting swamp. The most naive had opened their hearts, doors, and windows wide; Francis’ reign has meant a further collapse of religious vocations, of participation in rituals—increasingly emptied of spiritual meaning—and of Christianity’s incisiveness in society. It is a dramatic balance sheet, aggravated by practical mass atheism and the Islamization of Europe, phenomena in the face of which Catholicism appears to be a spectator, if not an accomplice.</p>
<p>The media orgy accompanying Bergoglio’s death — prepared long in advance — is an almost unanimous symphony of praise, waves of rhetoric, and thunderous applause in a media-cultural-political climate with almost no dissenting voices. Clearly, personal suffering deserves respect; but in the face of history and the Petrine mission, Bergoglio’s nearly twelve years of pontificate appear as a painful climb to Calvary. It is not surprising that the most enthusiastic among his eulogists are often non-believers, secularists, and anti-clericals. The impact has been felt more in the civil and political world than in the religious world. Curious? No, not really, because the “Bergoglio style” has contributed to further distorting Western Christianity, dealing it yet another blow.</p>
<p>There is nothing strange about this: “one of their own” has fallen, a figure aligned with the dominant thinking. A curious paradox, given that the Western mainstream is radically anti-Christian, materialistic, and atheistic. Pleasing the enemies of the faith should be cause for concern. He will certainly be remembered as the pope who offered protection, welcome, and support to LGBTQ+ movements, abortion, liberalism, mass vaccination, and globalism in its strongest and most extreme forms. When a pope dies, another is made, and the hope is always that his successor will be better than his predecessor.</p>
<p><strong>To each his own… or maybe not</strong></p>
<p>Beyond the theological and moral discussions, which many have already written about, it is interesting to note a not insignificant event: during the long hours of the funeral rites and worldwide celebrations for Bergoglio, U.S. President Donald Trump, who had traveled to Rome for the funeral, took advantage of the occasion to meet with his staff and no fewer than 42 cardinals, several politicians, and, most importantly, Zelensky.</p>
<p>The scene was as follows: Trump asked the monsignor accompanying him to arrange a dialogue with Zelensky, in the middle of St. Peter’s Basilica, in front of one of the side altars. Macron also arrived, right on time, and had a third chair added. The three politicians clashed verbally and Trump had Macron removed, taking away his chair. Trump and Zelensky then began their “confession” under the eyes of the international press and at the most inopportune moment in history.</p>
<p>An iconic image, no doubt about it.</p>
<p>An image that says a lot about how things stand.</p>
<p>The American arrives in Rome and acts as if he were at home. He doesn’t care much about the Pope, both because he has no moral ties to the Church of Rome and because Italy is still his colony, so he’s in charge and does what he wants. Now, the more attentive might object and point out that the Vatican is not Italy, it is a state unto itself. All true. In fact, we should say that it is the most ‘separate’ state of all, because it is thanks to the Vatican that admiralty law still prevails in half the world, it is thanks to the Vatican that London’s power is guaranteed, and it is still thanks to the Vatican that the Americans stayed in Italy in 1945 instead of going back to where they came from. But that is a topic for another article. What is clear is that America, it seems, has considerable freedom of maneuver even within the walls of the Sacred Palaces.</p>
<p>What has emerged clearly is that Trump does not care about protocols. His bravado, like a true American businessman, drives him to political pragmatism. Carpe diem, as the Latins would have said, and where Latin is still the official language, he seized the moment and applied the rule.</p>
<p>The American president held talks with the Ukrainian president, scribbling on the political geometry of recent months. Macron, as London’s emissary and guarantor of EU interests, was not well received. A truly effective snub. Ursula Von der Leyen, present with her husband at the ceremony, had embraced Zelensky shortly before, chatting with him for a few minutes. The CIA’s benzoylmethylcgonine enthusiast had even discarded his military green sweatshirt for the occasion, wearing a black jacket without too many stylistic pretensions.</p>
<p>Let’s just think about the media power of that image. World leaders have seen that Trump literally does what he wants, wherever he goes, even in the dreaded Vatican. It will come as no surprise if his influence in the run-up to the conclave, considering the meetings he has had with the cardinals, will be very strong. This is an atomic bomb in terms of <em>infowarfare</em>.</p>
<p>All this just a few days before his trip to Moscow for the May 9 parade, while the hysterical EU tries to run for cover from the price increases caused by tariffs, which are sinking the Rehinmetall plants.</p>
<p>No, what happened is not an ‘example of peace’, as some have written, trying to paint the Vatican as a kind of neutral space where miracles happen; we saw political violence in perfect Yankee style, of the ‘you shoot or I shoot’ variety.</p>
<p>The bully of the moment played his game and left before the funeral was over. Not even enough time to sing a requiem.</p>
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