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News 7/25/25 News Anon 3.0 25-07-25 23:48:15 No.2403913

Chiquita’s former bosses in Colombia sentenced to 11 years in prison
A judge convicted seven former executives of Chiquita Brands in Colombia for sponsoring terrorism and sentenced them to 11 months in prison. The former executives were responsible for Chiquita’s contributions totaling $1.7 million to paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 2004, said the Prosecutor General’s Office in a press statement.
https://colombiareports.com/chiquitas-former-bosses-in-colombia-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison/

Pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed from France welcomed home in Beirut
French authorities released Abdallah early on Friday on the condition that he never return to France. Family members welcomed him at the airport’s VIP lounge, while dozens of supporters gathered nearby, waving Palestinian and Lebanese Communist Party flags. Chants and cheers erupted as Abdallah appeared, with many hailing him as a symbol of resistance, AFP news agency reported. Abdallah’s return marks the end of one of France’s longest detentions involving a political prisoner.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25/pro-palestinian-lebanese-fighter-released-from-french-prison-after-40-years
https://archive.ph/240sK

Israel will let foreign countries drop aid into Gaza, Israel army radio says
Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza starting on Friday, Israeli army radio quoted a military official as saying. An Israeli military spokesperson did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the report. The Gaza health ministry says more than 100 people have died from starvation in the Palestinian enclave since Israel cut off supplies to the territory in March.
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/07/israel-will-let-foreign-countries-drop-aid-gaza-israel-army-radio-says

USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid
An internal U.S. government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation. … The analysis found that at least 44 of the 156 incidents where aid supplies were reported stolen or lost were “either directly or indirectly” due to Israeli military actions, according to the briefing slides.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/usaid-analysis-found-no-evidence-massive-hamas-theft-gaza-aid-2025-07-25/

India and Israel meet to deepen military ties in sign of solidarity amid Gaza atrocities
In the statement released by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) on Wednesday, Delhi said its defence secretary "reiterated India’s zero tolerance approach to terrorism and condemned the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel and called for the release of all hostages." It also narrated Israel's "support for India's fight against terrorism". The statement said the visit by the Israeli deputy chief of staff "marks a pivotal step in India-Israel defence relations and reinforces both sides’ commitment to enhance their strategic partnership," the statement added.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/india-and-israel-deepen-military-ties-gaza-starves

Indian Citizens, Mostly Muslims, Are Bearing Brunt of Its Citizenship Screening Drive
Upping the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal government for harassing Bengali-speaking Indians in the name of identifying illegal Bangladeshi migrants, the West Bengal chief minister led a massive rally in the state capital of Kolkata, the largest city in eastern India, on July 16. “Is West Bengal not a part of India? Speakers of a language can also live in other countries. Punjabi-speaking people live in other countries (Pakistan), too. Does it mean you would jail them?” Banerjee thundered.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/indian-citizens-mostly-muslims-are-bearing-brunt-of-its-citizenship-screening-drive/

Unions and civil society protest against proposed labor rights dilution in South Africa
By allowing employers to fire workers during the first three months of probation “for no reason, with no conversation, let alone a hearing”, the amendments allow employers to escape from the law deeming workers as permanent after three months of employment, explained the statement. This will “create a massive new additional layer of unlawfully casualized workers who are hired permanently, then fired while on probation and replaced with new workers.” Exempting businesses employing less than 50 workers from “the wages and conditions established by the Bargaining Councils” after sector-wise negotiations, it incentivizes companies to “downsize and outsource to get their staff complement below 50 so that they can pay low wages,” it added.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/25/unions-and-civil-society-protest-against-proposed-labor-rights-dilution-in-south-africa/

Wildfire kills at least 10 forest workers and rescuers battling blaze in Turkey
A wildfire killed at least 10 forest workers and rescuers on Wednesday who were battling to douse the flames near Eskişehir in western Turkey, authorities said. The agriculture minister, İbrahim Yumakli, said the fire killed five forest workers and five rescuers. Local lawmaker Nebi Hatipoğlu and news website BirGün had earlier said 11 had died.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/wildfire-kills-forest-workers-and-rescuers-battling-blaze-in-turkey

Cambodia calls for ceasefire with Thailand after deadly clashes
“Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire – unconditionally – and we also call for the peaceful solution of the dispute,” said Phnom Penh’s UN ambassador, Mr Chhea Keo, following a closed meeting of the Council attended by Cambodia and Thailand. A steady thump of artillery strikes could be heard from the Cambodian side of the border on July 25, where the province of Oddar Meanchey reported one civilian – a 70-year-old man – had been killed and five more wounded.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-calls-for-ceasefire-with-thailand-envoy-to-un
https://archive.ph/3Qmkk

Supreme Court: Impeachment complaint vs Sara Duterte unconstitutional
The ruling, penned by Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, differentiated the first three complaints—filed by citizens under Article XI, Section 3(2)—from the fourth complaint, which was filed under Section 3(4) via a verified resolution signed by at least one-third of House members. The court ruled that the first three complaints were “archived and therefore deemed terminated or dismissed” on February 5, 2025, meaning no new complaint can be initiated until after February 6, 2026.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2087079/supreme-court-impeachment-complaint-vs-sara-duterte-unconstitutional
https://archive.ph/kGQei

Alarming levels of poverty and hardship reported in New Zealand
Four welfare agencies said they regularly hear of families sleeping in one room and turning off power as they try to stay warm and pay bills. Charities are running special appeals to support families facing hardship. Presbyterian Support manager Grenville Hendricks said his organisation has been forced to help 800 fewer families after its government funding was slashed by $1.5 million as part of the National Party-led ruling coalition’s vicious cost-cutting program.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/25/colj-j25.html

Welsh government condemned for awarding public funds to Israeli arms manufacturer
Following a freedom of information (FOI) request by Amnesty International UK, the Welsh government admitted this week that it had given £500,000 in grant funding to Senior, a company that exports military components directly to Israel, including parts for F-35 fighter jets and Apache gunships. In December 2024, Ms Morgan told the Senedd: “No Welsh government financial support has been provided to companies in Wales who export arms to Israel since the 7 October attacks.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/welsh-government-condemned-awarding-public-funds-israeli-arms-manufacturer

News Anon 3.0 26-07-25 00:23:12 No.2403936

ADL-Backed Bipartisan Bill Threatens to Censor Israel Criticism on Social Media
The bill would mandate that social media companies work with the federal government to implement moderation policies that curb the speech of groups the government designates as "terrorists." They'd be required to provide regular reports to the U.S. attorney general. Those that don't comply would be fined $5 million each day they refuse.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/adl-bill-censors-israel-criticism

New FEMA grant program gives states $600M to build migrant detention centers
The new FEMA grant program comes as the Trump administration has increasingly slashed FEMA’s ability to assist disaster response, and as the president has mulled closing the agency altogether. CNN reported Friday that FEMA has proposed cutting nearly $1 billion in grant funding to help local first responders better prepare for disasters and to help bolster cybersecurity.
https://thehill.com/policy/5421400-new-fema-grant-program-gives-states-600m-to-build-migrant-detention-centers/
https://archive.ph/RqrqP

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
Video footage of the incident captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, appears to show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men*, two of whom are undocumented. They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest

Democrats and advocates criticize Trump’s executive order on homelessness
Trump’s executive order tasks Attorney General Pam Bondi and the secretaries for health, housing and transportation to prioritize grants to states and local governments that enforce bans on open drug use and street camping. Devon Kurtz, the public safety policy director at the Cicero Institute, a conservative policy group that has advocated for several of the provisions of the executive order, said the organization is “delighted” by the order.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-order-homelessness-san-francisco-de0beeb87672c8884ab56319c82da055

A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report
The figures, which come from the data tracker BatchData and were analyzed by the Orange County Register, show that California’s overall percentage of investor home ownership sits at 19%. The rate is higher in the state’s mountain regions such as Sierra county, which has an 83% share of its homes owned by investors, compared with coastal Ventura county, at just 14%. In seven California counties – Sierra, Trinity, Mono, Alpine, Plumas, Modoc and Calaveras – investors owned more than 50% of homes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/24/california-investor-owned-homes

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 26-07-25 01:01:55 No.2403966

Building Trades Unions Are Split in Their Response to Trump
One of the last nationwide bastions of union jobs is getting jackhammered by the Trump administration. Members are languishing in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prisons without trial. Programs that protect members from racism and sexism are getting the axe. In response, building trades officers are split: some are pleading, some are protesting, and others are surrendering without a fight. Out of nine million construction workers in the United States, one million had a union last year. Since the 1970s, when about 40 percent of US hard hats wore union stickers, anti-union developers have kicked unions out from most residential and private building sites. The building trades took refuge in publicly funded construction projects and specialized industrial jobs. An old federal law that favors union hires for interstates and military outposts helps small locals of pile drivers and insulators straggle on even in rural Alabama or Wyoming, where unions are otherwise scarce.
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/building-trades-unions-trump-immigrants

Mega pickets and mass defiance are overcoming decades of anti-union laws
THE mega picket backing the Birmingham bin workers was a welcome revival of a tactic to defeat the anti-union law “reforms” which Thatcher imposed, and successive governments maintained, in order to weaken unions and render unlawful industrial and solidarity action. The mega picket tapped into a strengthening seam of opinion which is crystallising into an understanding that while it seems increasingly unlikely that this present parliament will do very much to widen workers’ rights — even to fully implement the much watered-down proposals which Labour paraded during the election — workers themselves can take the initiative. Strike Map’s valuable initiative in showcasing industrial action and popularising both the various historical antecedents for workers’ challenges to state and employer power, and co-ordinating this initiative, signifies a welcome change of mood and tempo with more than a hint of audacity.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mega-pickets-and-mass-defiance-are-overcoming-decades-anti-union-laws

Boris Kagarlitsky Winter 2000: The lessons of Prague
The events of September 2000 in Prague marked a turning point. When the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund planned their annual meeting for the Czech Republic, they hoped for a peaceful gathering in the only Eastern European country where hatred of neo-liberalism has not yet become a mass phenomenon. The outcome was that the international bankers were obliged to flee from a city whose streets had become the scene of battles between police and thousands of demonstrators from all parts of Europe. The bankers did not even manage to hold a concluding press conference. By no means all the participants in the movement against capitalist globalisation, however, interpreted what had happened as a victory. Many were shocked by the violence on the streets, and still more were dismayed by the united attack mounted on the movement by the press. It is thus essential to draw up a balance sheet of the events, and to form conclusions. After Prague the movement is clearly shifting into a new phase. It is not simply that disagreements have begun appearing among the protesters. The international financial organisations are not standing still either. For them, Prague was a severe defeat, in a certain sense even more serious than the ‘uprising in Seattle’. For this very reason, the ‘executive committee of the ruling class’ will inevitably draw conclusions from what has happened, and will adjust its course. So what did Prague mean for the left? The most important development was that in Prague the movement against corporate globalisation became truly international – that is, global. Seattle was above all a manifestation of protest by a new generation of American youth, to a significant degree retracing the route of the 1960s radicalisation, though in new historical circumstances. Now, thanks to Prague, the movement has taken root in Europe. For the first time since the International Brigades in Spain in the 1930s, people from different countries joined in resisting a common enemy, resisting it physically. Solidarity, from being a slogan and a symbol, was transformed into practical action. In Prague, Turks and Kurds, Turks and Greeks, Germans and Poles, Spaniards and Basques marched together. They were forced to stand up not only to the police, but also to neo-Nazis. The anti-globalisation movement is at the same time both internationalist and anti-nationalist. Meanwhile the ‘defenders of globalisation’, in order to stop the movement, resorted to the power of the national state. They not only used the Czech police against demonstrators, but also set out illegally to stop people on the borders of the republic, deported people from the country, and so on. After the IMF and World Bank had fled, the police took out their frustrations on the Czech protesters, who were subjected to widespread repression. It was made clear that globalisation does not mean ‘the impotence of the state’, but the rejection by the state of its social functions in favour of repressive ones, irresponsibility on the part of governments, and the ending of democratic freedoms.
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/2000/isj2-089/kagarlitsky.htm

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