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Unrest erupted in Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, as 20,000 protesters mobilized to prevent what they perceived as a “takeover” of the Chief Prosecutor’s office. President Gustavo Petro and trade unions rallied for the protests amidst escalating tensions. Earlier, Petro had issued a warning regarding a plan by the attorney general’s office to remove him from power.
The protesters surrounded the courthouse, calling for the judges to elect a new general prosecutor. This demand came after the high court announced a “failure” to select a successor for the outgoing Prosecutor. Power was handed to Deputy Prosecutor General Martha Mancera, despite allegations of protecting suspected drug traffickers.
Colombia’s current Attorney General is a close friend of former far-right President Iván Duque and has launched constant lawfare against Petro ever since he took office. The President accused the prosecution earlier of illegally raiding labor unions that had contributed funds to Petro’s party.
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"We never expected to sleep in a chicken farm," are the words of a child in Gaza who is forced to sleep in chicken cages with her family due to the brutal Israeli bombardments.
Israel's relentless bombardment has destroyed nearly all residential buildings or made them uninhabitable for people. Gazans have had to leave their homes in fear of being bombed to the ground and seek refuge in places like this chicken farm, sleeping under extremely unhealthy conditions among chickens and other animals.
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🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 27,840, with more than 67,317 people injured.
🟡 70% of the Gaza Strip’s population is drinking contaminated water. According to the UN, displaced people from all over the enclave struggle to find clean water for drinking, cooking or washing.
🟡 At least 13 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes while fetching water for their families in Gaza City.
🟡 There is a severe shortage of surgical supplies and sutures, the UN announced. They added that an estimated four days are left of the fuel needed to power hospital generators.
🟡 Several Palestinian organizations demanded an inquiry into the UN’s Office on Genocide Prevention’s “inexcusable failure to address Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
🟡 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally ordered the attack on Rafah city. Meanwhile, the UN’s Secretary-General warned that any Israeli military action in Rafah would exacerbate the “humanitarian nightmare” in the Gaza Strip.
🟡 Israeli forces killed journalist Nafez Abdel Jawad and his son in a bombing in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The total death toll of journalists killed by Israeli forces since October 7 stands at 129 journalists.
🟡 Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Nour Shams refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank during an hour-long raid. Since October 7, Israeli forces have killed 387 Palestinians in the West Bank.
🟡 US forces assassinated a senior commander of Iraqi resistance, targeting his car with an airstrike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
🟡 Hezbollah targeted the Israeli Pranit barracks in the north of occupied Palestine with missiles as Israeli forces continued to bomb Lebanese border villages.
🟡 A delegation from Hamas arrived in Egypt to continue negotiating the ceasefire plan.
Clashes have erupted between farmers and police in the southern Spanish city of Antequera. The farmers and field workers blockaded major logistics centers of various companies. Among them Mercadona, one of Spain’s leading physical supermarket and online shopping companies. Police are reported to have used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesters.
Without the help of the country’s major agricultural associations, farmers from all corners of the province of Málaga have mobilized to blockade Málaga’s port and Antequera’s industrial estate. They erected barricades along major roads, impacting traffic across the entire province.
Earlier this week, Spain’s Agriculture Ministry announced about €270 million in aid to 140,000 farmers to compensate for the country’s drought and problems caused by the war in Ukraine. However, protests continue as authorities fail to meet the farmers’ demands.
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Repression, rubber bullets, and tear gas. The legacy of Chile's neo-liberal President Sebastian Piñera. We take a look at the violence and inequality he presided over, an antidote to the fawning media coverage.
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One of the most influential figures during the Fujimori dictatorship in Peru has now admitted to involvement in several massacres, yet he will likely be free again in two years. How is that possible? Swipe through the post for the whole story.
Vladimiro Montesinos was the head of the secret service under Fujimori, leading a brutal counterinsurgency against communist guerrillas. Montesinos was cultivated years earlier by the CIA to install an anti-communist ally in the highest levels of the Peruvian government.
Declassified Pentagon documents even drew parallels between Montesinos and Rasputin or Darth Vader. Montesinos wielded power over the country’s leading media outlets, plotted genocide against the Indigenous rural population, and led fascist paramilitaries himself, all under CIA supervision.
🟡 For more information on the guerrilla war in Peru and the largest and most significant Maoist movement in the Americas, read our article “The Andean People’s War: A Short History of Shining Path” here.
🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup
🟡 The death toll from Israel's relentless war on Gaza has reached 27,708, with more than 67,147 people injured.
🟡 Hamas proposed a 4.5-month ceasefire to end the war, including a 3-stage plan for full prisoner exchanges, troop withdrawal, and repatriating displaced people, following mediators' suggestions last week.
🟡 Israeli forces bombed Rafah city south of the Gaza Strip, where more than one million displaced people are crammed, killing at least 107 people.
🟡 90% of fuel delivery missions in the Gaza Strip were not allowed by Israeli occupation forces. None of the 22 requests to open checkpoints earlier for aid delivery were allowed, according to the UN.
🟡 11,000 wounded and sick people are in urgent need of leaving the Gaza Strip for treatment to save their lives, said the Gaza health ministry.
🟡 Israeli forces have intensified their siege of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, endangering 300 medical staff, 450 patients, and some 10,000 displaced people.
🟡Dozens of Israelis blocked humanitarian aid at Kerem Shalom crossing, trapping 132 aid trucks from entering Gaza.
🟡 Israeli occupation forces raided the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin, Tulkarm, and Qalqilya. Clashes between resistance fighters and invading forces erupted.
🟡 Yemen's Ansarallah attacked US and UK ships with missiles, pledging to support Palestinians and resist aggression against Yemen.
🟡 Israel launched air raids on the city of Homs in Syria, killing at least six civilians, including a woman and a child.
🟡 Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry has issued a statement stating there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel without a Palestinian state.
🟡 Argentina's newly-elected far-right President Javier Milei announced he will move Argentina's Embassy to Jerusalem during his visit in Jerusalem.
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Protesters in Haiti returned to the streets to demand the resignation of Ariel Henry's US-backed government. The mobilizations began on Monday and are set to last three days, aiming to compel Henry's resignation by Wednesday, February 7th.
February 7th holds significance in Haiti as it marks the anniversary of the fall of the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986 and the swearing-in of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected President. On Monday, these mobilizations shut down Haiti's major cities, including erecting roadblocks on critical highways. They are expected to intensify as February 7th approaches.
Previous foreign interventions have thoroughly destabilized Haitian society, exacerbating the issue of gang violence seen today. The problem has become so severe that approximately 80% of Port-au-Prince is now under gang control, with approximately 4,000 people killed due to gang/paramilitary violence.
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LGBTQ+, climate change and social justice activists are "left-wing extremists" in disguise, UK politician Liz Truss has claimed. Truss, who in 2022 became the most unpopular Prime Minister in UK history, made the comments at the launch event of the "Popular Conservativism" movement.
Dubbed "PopCons" by the media, this new faction within the Conservative Party champions far-right racist, sexist and transphobic talking points while ignoring that Britain's poorest are grappling with a crippling cost of living crisis as well as crumbling public services and infrastructure.
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Hundreds of Greek students took to Athens’ streets and rallied outside the police headquarters in Komotini, successfully demanding the release of 18 detained students. Police had previously violently stormed the law school of the northeastern border city after students occupied it in protest of government plans to introduce private universities.
Students in Komotini have vowed to continue their occupation of the law school after a general assembly of students decided by a majority. Meanwhile, in Athens, another major rally is set to take place on Thursday as the government prepares the draft legislation.
Starting in January, a wave of protests has erupted across Greece’s campuses. Students fear the move will only further the commercialization of the country’s education after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ government has already implemented a series of educational reforms despite fierce opposition from students and staff.
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At least 95 members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police have fled across the border to Bangladesh as fighting between the junta and the Arakan Army (AA) rages on in Myanmar’s neighboring Rakhine State. This marks the first time that Myanmar forces have been known to have fled into Bangladesh since the Three Brotherhood Alliance (3BHA) launched its offensive against the military government in October.
In recent weeks, the AA has made significant advancements in its home state of Rakhine as local forces say the AA has now taken control over the entire Myanmar-Bangladesh border, with fighting spilling over into Bangladesh.
Myanmar’s military, long infamous for its brutal persecution and expulsion of the Rohingya population from Rakhine State, is now experiencing a significant shift in circumstances, seeking refuge across borders. It is reported that Myanmar’s military personnel have sought asylum in every neighboring country except Laos.
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The right-wing everywhere will point to Nayib Bukele's massive election victory in El Salvador as proof of their ideas.
But what's the truth behind Bukele's "success"?
He's turned the country into a prison camp where even having a tattoo is seen as evidence of gang affiliation. Nor has Bukele done anything to address the poverty and inequality that lies at the root of most criminal activity in Latin America.
The number of Salvadoreans intercepted at the US border has increased, so perhaps not all is well in the conservatives' paradise.
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Are you an agent of China? Probably not, but if the US sees you as a threat, there's a growing chance you will be accused of being one. Lady Izdihar takes a look at what's happening.
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“Damn you, State of Israel!” – Watch this iconic rant by Venezuelan revolutionary leader Hugo Chávez, echoing the sentiments of many today in response to Israel's ongoing extermination war against Gaza.
Chávez cut all ties with Israel during the 2008-2009 Gaza war, denouncing it as a "state terrorist" entity. In 2009, Venezuela formally recognized the State of Palestine, affirming its support for Palestinian sovereignty.
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On this day 41 years ago, the Israeli-run Christian right-wing organization Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners (FLLF) carried out a car bombing outside the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) office in Beirut, Lebanon, killing more than 115 people. The bombing marked just one of a series of deadly car bombings by the FLLF throughout Lebanon during the 1980s.
In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, intending to evict the PLO from Lebanon. However, when the Israeli occupation failed to do so, they set up the FLLF to do their dirty work, killing hundreds of civilians along the way. Read on to learn more about Israel’s secret anti-Palestinian car bombing campaign.
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Why is the President of Argentina bursting into tears of joy upon visiting Israel?
We take a look at the factors behind his strange obsession with Zionism. From the business interests of his inner circle, to his “spiritual” connection.
Moving their embassy to Jerusalem is just the tip of the iceberg. Latin America’s military dictatorships all counted Israel as a strategic ally, but now Milei is taking it to new levels of cooperation, or rather, servility.
17-year-old anti-Nazi partisan Lepa Svetozara Radić from modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia) got executed by the Nazis on this day in 1943. This photograph (AI-upscaled and colorized) was later found on the body of the German soldier who took it.
Amid a fierce battle, she used up all her ammunition. Undeterred, she called on her comrades to fight with their bare hands until overpowered by blows from German rifle butts.
Alongside her sister Dara, she fought in the 7th Partisan Company of the 2nd Krajina Detachment. On February 8, they were helping refugees, primarily women and children, escape the Nazi 369th and 7th SS Division.
Scheduled for hanging, as the rope was tightened around her neck, her captors offered her a chance at life if she revealed the names of her comrades. Her response was resolute; she was no traitor, and her comrades would reveal themselves when avenging her death.
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Mass protests rocked Haiti yesterday, igniting clashes with the police and, in some cases, street shootings. In Port-au-Prince, thousands of people have flooded the streets for days, demanding the removal of the US-backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry as the country grapples with escalating gang violence.
Amid this past Wednesday’s unrest, a tense standoff unfolded between the police and Haiti’s governmental armed environmental agency (BSAP). The police reported that a group of BSAP agents demanded the surrender of police officers at gunpoint, resulting in a shootout, leaving five dead.
The BSAP has evolved into a paramilitary consisting of soldiers who formerly worked alongside the US-backed coup leader Guy Philippe, who made a surprise return to Haiti and has now begun mobilizing for a new “revolution.”
Haiti is suffering from the aftermath of multiple devastating foreign interventions that have significantly destabilized society and exacerbated the issue of gang violence.
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Irish MEP Clare Daly was cut off in the European Parliament for exposing the EU and US response to Israel’s war of extermination.
Daly's mic was turned off as she was slamming how the West uses “every cliché imaginable” to divert attention from Israel’s crimes in Gaza, using all "bogeymen" at their disposal, from Venezuela and Iran to Russia.
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On this day in 1962, the US imposed a total blockade on Cuba, designed to sabotage the country's socialist revolution. The blockade has caused an estimated $1 trillion in damage and has been condemned by the majority of the world for 30 consecutive years. Despite the blockade's devastating humanitarian effects, the Cuban revolution continues and the country boasts a higher average life expectancy, literacy rate, and lower infant mortality rate than the US.
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Today, 59 years ago, the US began its air war on the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, commonly referred to as North Vietnam), effectively stepping up its involvement in the Vietnam War, the bloody war the US would go on to wage for another decade. On February 7, 1965, US President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a series of retaliatory air raids on the DRV after the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF, commonly referred to as Viet Cong) attacked the US base Camp Holloway in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, commonly referred to as South Vietnam). Undeterred by Operation Flaming Dart and the following US bombing campaigns, the NLF would go on to continue its liberation struggle until the last US aircraft left the Southeast Asian country in 1975.
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Unrest in Senegal continues to escalate as huge crowds and clashes with the police dominate the capital, Dakar, in reaction to the West African country's first-ever postponement of presidential elections since independence from France in 1960. President Macky Sall initiated the last-minute delay of the elections from February 25 to December 15, 2024.
Over 1,000 people from the opposition, media, and civil society have been arrested since January. HRW warns of a "pre-election crackdown."
Mass protests have erupted in Senegal over the past year amid fears that President Sall would run for a third term, which he has denied. However, the election postponement ultimately gives the President almost a year of unelected power extension.
The government temporarily shut down the internet to curb mobilization, drawing harsh criticism from the International Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Today is popular Black singer Bob Marley’s 79th birthday. Despite Marley’s popularity, the CIA’s alleged attempt on his life remains largely unknown. The shooting at his home in Kingston in 1976 happened against a backdrop of CIA sponsored destabilization of Jamaica following the election of the social democratic Michael Manley, who talked tough against the IMF and was close to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Read on to find out more about the shooting of the legendary singer who once sang “Rasta don't work for no CIA”.
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🟡 Latest war on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 27,585, with more than 66,978 people injured.
🟡 Nicaragua is taking Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Canada to the ICJ for their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people.
🟡 Israeli settlers attempted to block the passage of much-needed humanitarian aid trucks heading into the blockaded Gaza Strip.
🟡 Around 8,000 displaced people were evacuated from Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, amid days of terror and panic due to the Israeli forces shelling and gunfire.
🟡 Israeli forces announced a return to “cleared” areas of Gaza City, which had previously been declared “cleared” of major Palestinian fighting forces in December.
🟡 Yemen’s Ansarallah targeted a British Cargo ship in the Red Sea following US-UK aggression that targeted Saada, northern Yemen. During the past 24 hours, 40 people were killed by US-UK strikes in Yemen.
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“We’re talking about several massacres that the world media cannot even cover.” - Listen to our colleague Hassan R. Esdodi speak about the alarming consequences of an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in the south of Gaza.
After weeks of instructing Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate once more, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has announced Israel’s next target: Rafah, previously designated a “safe zone” and the last place left in Gaza where Israeli troops have not yet set foot in.
With over 1.5 million Gazans displaced by Israel’s brutal ground offensive residing in Rafah, a humanitarian crisis is underway as Palestinians are lacking even the most basic necessities.
The systematic forced displacement of almost the entire Gaza population towards the Egyptian border to the south has raised concerns about Israel’s plans to expel millions of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. At the same time, Israeli ministers openly state their plans to colonize the enclave permanently.
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One year ago, a series of some of the most devastating earthquakes struck an area of 120,000 square kilometers across southern Turkey and northern Syria, with magnitudes of up to 7.8, killing nearly 60,000 people, including thousands of refugees.
However, the number is likely much higher. At least 107,000 people were injured, and in total, 14 million people were and continue to be affected by the earthquake disaster, and three million people have been displaced.
In Turkey, it took over a week for the government to react, while foreign aid provided by humanitarian organizations was reportedly blocked from entering the affected area. When government aid finally arrived, government agencies such as the Disaster And Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) allegedly put tents on sale instead of distributing them; thousands weren't given tents, being left to rely on friends or relatives as the country continues to grapple with a major economic crisis.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged to rebuild the homes that were destroyed within a year. However, work has since slowed, leaving many people on ice as hundreds of thousands remain in container houses or tents in harrowing conditions.
However, while governments worldwide were quick to respond to Turkey's requests for international aid, Syria, already devastated by years of war, was largely denied international aid as sanctions by the EU and US, among others, persisted. Syria's ongoing humanitarian crisis is among the largest in the world, and the earthquake has only further exacerbated the situation
Chile’s out-of-control forest fires have already killed over 112 in the country’s center, while 200 people have been reported missing. Dramatic video footage captures the chaos as people flee from the advancing flames, and buses navigate through the inferno in what looks like a trip through hell.
Authorities have confirmed that the fires have already ravaged 400,000 hectares of land, an area roughly three times the size of Los Angeles, California.
The fires began in hard-to-reach mountainous and forested areas but moved into densely populated neighborhoods. The flames have already devoured entire neighborhoods in Viña del Mar, near a popular beach resort, a city of 300,000.
”The emergency is not over at all, it has not gone down. We are in the first stage of emergency preparedness,” warned Macarena Ripamonti, Mayor of Viña del Mar. This season’s wildfires are far more deadly than usual, a trend that matches the escalating global environmental disasters fueled by climate change.
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🟡 Latest War on Gaza news roundup:
🟡 The death toll from Israel’s relentless war on Gaza has reached 27,478, with more than 66,835 people injured.
🟡️ New emergency funding bill released by US senators for Israel with $14.1bn in military aid, including $4bn for Israel’s Iron Dome.
🟡️ Israel occupation navy, hit aid convoy waiting to move into northern Gaza strip. Said UNRWA’s Gaza chief Thomas White.
🟡️ Israeli occupation forces bombed a kindergarten in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, killing two children and injuring dozens more.
🟡️ Health workers, patients, and displaced people trapped inside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City are “completely terrified,” as Israeli snipers continue targeting people in the area, killing at least seven Palestinians.
🟡️ Around 30 people were killed in the airstrike in the Deir el-Balah city with tens of injuries reported. Many wounded could not be attended to immediately as a result of a critical shortage in medical staff and supplies.
🟡️ Israeli occupation forces raided overnight several Palestinian cities and towns across the occupied West Bank. In the town of Yabad, south of Jenin, Palestinian resistance groups have targeted Israeli forces with explosive devices.
🟡️ EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warns that defunding UNRWA is “disproportionate and dangerous,” saying that it amounts to collective punishment.
🟡️ US and UK warships and fighter jets bombed Yemen, US officials claim, hitting 36 targets. The Yemen Ansarallah spokesperson rejected the US’s dismissal of a link between the Gaza war and Red Sea attacks.
🟡️ H3zbo!lah announced Saturday that it targeted an Israeli military site and base near the southern Lebanese border, while Israeli airstrikes continued in areas in the south of Lebanon.
🟡️ The Israeli Knesset has approved a one-year extension of a citizenship law which blocks Palestinians from receiving resident status in occupied Palestine if they marry Israeli residents.
Hundreds of fascists marched through Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, over the weekend. They were seen doing the fascist salute while marching through the city center carrying torches.
The march was organized by the fascist group “1143,” a group known for having ties to the Hammerskins, Portugal’s most violent skinhead group in recent decades. The group’s leader is Mario Machado, one of Portugal’s most notorious fascists and a former member of the now-disbanded Hammerskins.
Machado has previously been involved in several armed attacks targeting migrants and has been sentenced to prison on multiple occasions for the possession of weapons and crimes related to kidnapping, robbery, and coercion.
Similar fascist marches have occurred in France and Italy in recent weeks. Simultaneously, far-right parties across Europe are making record numbers in opinion polls, with Portugal’s Chega party jumping to 21% last week.
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Burning barricades, tear gas, and mass protests dominated the streets of Dakar, Senegal, as unrest broke out after imminent elections were canceled. Concerns about a "constitutional coup" rise as President Macky Sall also arrests opposition politicians.
The former French colony is part of the regional political-military and western-allied ECOWAS bloc. Sall vowed Senegal's troops would join any ECOWAS military invasion against Niger following the 2023 coup. In 2015, Sall sent 2,100 Senegalese troops to join the Saudi Arabian-led war against Yemen.
Last June, Sall launched a deadly crackdown against protests, resulting in at least 23 killed and 390 injured. Since then, all opposition party protests in the capital have been banned.
President Macky Sall announced that he would not run for a third term. Opposition leader Thierno Alassane Sall, also a liberal, denounced the short notice election delay as "high treason towards the Republic."
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