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News 7/26/25 News Anon 3.0 26-07-25 23:52:24 No.2405024

Israeli 'thugs' board Gaza-bound aid ship Handala in international waters
The raid was broadcast live by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, showing soldiers confronting unarmed passengers as they sat on deck with their hands raised, singing the anti-fascist anthem “Bella Ciao”. The Handala, carrying 19 activists, including European MPs and two Al Jazeera journalists, was intercepted roughly 100 kilometres west of Gaza, and around 50 kilometres off Egypt’s coast. Activists say the boat was carrying humanitarian supplies and attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-thugs-board-gaza-bound-aid-ship-international-waters

Tunisians protest against President Saied, call country an ‘open-air prison’
The protesters said Tunisia under Saied has descended into authoritarianism, with mass arrests and politically motivated trials silencing dissent. "Our first aim is to battle against tyranny to restore the democracy and to demand the release of the political detainees," Monia Ibrahim, wife of imprisoned politician Abdelhamid Jelassi, told Reuters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisians-protest-against-kais-saieds-authoritarian-regime

Police station stormed in Egypt as outrage over Gaza blockade reaches boiling point
Hours before the channel went silent, it released an audio statement styled like Palestinian faction communiques, claiming responsibility for the “Iron 17” operation. The statement, attributed to Ahmed Abdel Wahab and Mohsen Mustafa, rejected any political affiliations, describing themselves as “heirs of Omar ibn al-Khattab and Amr ibn al-Aas” seeking to revive Egypt’s national spirit. The figures in question refers to invoking early Islamic military and political leaders that symbolised strength, justice, and national revival. Their message was clear: end the genocide in Gaza and stop repressing Egyptians. Addressing the Egyptian people, they decried the “severe blows” inflicted on the nation and vowed to rouse it from its “death.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/young-egyptians-storm-police-hq-over-gaza-blockade-rare-act-resistance-0

Desperate Zimbabweans get in debt to pay for lifesaving blood transfusions
With ongoing currency woes, rising costs of living and high levels of poverty, desperate Zimbabweans in need of care face life-threatening delays due to financial barriers. This includes blood shortages – despite supplies being free in public health facilities.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/25/desperate-zimbabweans-get-in-debt-to-pay-for-lifesaving-blood-transfusions
https://archive.ph/LvOmV

Electricity in SA is unaffordable for many: Dr. Ngwane
Scores of City Power officials accompanied by South African Police Service (SAPS) and Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers have removed illegal electricity connections in Tshepisong, west of Johannesburg. Residents have blocked roads with rocks and burning tyres in protest. Dr. Ngwane says struggling communities bear the brunt of the electricity challenges. “This is a structural problem it’s a question of energy is a basic necessity and its not a question of choice, people just need to have energy. But how do we provide energy to meet people’s needs. At the moment the approach by the government, Eskom, City Power and all the authorities is a wrong approach,” says Dr. Ngwane.
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/electricity-in-sa-is-unaffordable-to-many-dr-ngwane/

Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Greece’s capital Athens and residents are told to evacuate
On site, 145 firefighters and 44 fire engines, 10 firefighting planes and seven helicopters are attempting to put out the fire, whose origin is unknown. Four ambulances are treating at least five residents, most of them elderly with respiratory problems. Temperatures reaching, or exceeding, 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), dry conditions and high winds are fanning the flames. Under such conditions wildfires “expand very quickly and become dangerous. These conditions are expected to prevail over the coming days,” Vathrakoyannis said.
https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-greece-kryoneri-evacuation-firefighters-39eaf327432ed8b1f55b19170c7d372f

Schoolchildren to study ‘spiritual and moral culture’ of Russia
During the classes, students will engage in discussions on topics such as faith in God, family life, civic responsibility, national unity, and moral accountability, according to the ministry. The program also addresses themes like traditional marriage between a man and a woman, freedom, dignity, and human rights.
https://www.rt.com/russia/621911-schoolchildren-to-study-spiritual-and/
https://archive.ph/nBc6x

Maduro Confirms Sale of Venezuelan Fertilizer Firm Monómeros to Colombia, Ending Privatization Rumors
The deal reportedly established a base price for Monómeros to start negotiations. Palma said that Colombian state control of the firm would help stabilize prices and reduce the country’s dependence on agricultural imports. Petro government officials have not disclosed if Bogotá plans to buy the entirety of shares or just a majority stake, as was first proposed in March 2023.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/maduro-confirms-sale-of-venezuelan-fertilizer-firm-monomeros-to-colombia-ending-privatization-rumors/

Petro orders all Colombian coal exports to Israel halted
The South American leftwing leader also said he planned to bring this matter up in diplomatic dialogue with Switzerland regarding Glencore, a Swiss multinational that owns Cerrejón, Latin America's largest open-pit coal mine. Colombia's mining sector has faced five consecutive quarters of contraction, partly due to a global price crisis and the Petro administration's push for renewable energy.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/07/25/petro-orders-all-colombian-coal-exports-to-israel-halted

Thailand and Cambodia trade fresh attacks and accusations as allies call for a ceasefire
Thailand and Cambodia traded accusations of fresh attacks Saturday as deadly border clashes entered a third day and President Donald Trump joined a chorus of international voices calling for a ceasefire. The fighting has killed at least 33 people and displaced more than 168,000.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-cambodia-armed-clash-border-eda96eb133a4561fa192029466da8dcf

All 24 KMT lawmakers survive recall votes to maintain opposition control of Taiwan’s legislature
All 24 lawmakers of the main opposition Chinese Nationalists Party (KMT) on Saturday survived historical nationwide recall elections, ensuring that the KMT along with Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) lawmakers will maintain opposition control of the legislature. Recall votes against all 24 KMT lawmakers as well as Hsinchu Mayor Ann Kao (高虹安) and KMT legislative caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅崐萁) failed to pass, according to Central Election Commission (CEC) figures.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/07/26/2003840965
https://archive.ph/MQXbq

Australian Labor government to expand police-state ASIO interrogation powers
Unprecedented powers to forcibly interrogate people were first handed to ASIO in 2003 during the supposed “war on terrorism.” Under Labor’s amendments to the ASIO Act, these powers will be extended and broadened indefinitely. The first bill will overturn a “sunset” clause that set an expiry date for the powers on September 7. The second bill will scrap “sunset” clauses altogether, making the powers permanent, and broaden the powers to cover four new war-related fields.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/26/egxi-j26.html

News Anon 3.0 27-07-25 00:28:20 No.2405064

Activists protest outside US home of director of notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
The protesters moved in a circular motion to avoid stopping, citing their constitutional right to walk in the street, reports added. One of the protesters, identified as Mohammed from the Palestinian Youth Movement, told The New Arab’s Arabic language sister publication, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, that the GHF is a "hoax" and is "behind the famine in Gaza, causing the slaughter and killing of over 1,000 Palestinians". Addressing those in Gaza, he said: "We feel your pain and we will not stop confronting those who are causing this famine, slaughter and killing in Gaza."
https://www.newarab.com/news/activists-protest-outside-us-home-ghf-aid-group-chief

Americans don’t approve of Trump. But they don’t like Democrats either.
Health care and vaccine policy are the only two policy issues in which respondents favor Democrats to Republicans on. Both Trump and the Republican Party at large are also disliked by more Americans than liked, but by far lower margins than Democrats in this survey. The president has a -7 point net unfavorability, while the GOP is at -11 in the WSJ survey. The Journal poll has found Trump’s favorability rating to be relatively stable through the beginning of his second term. But other recent surveys have found far lower approval ratings for Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/26/democrats-approval-rating-poll-00478141
https://archive.ph/hlErJ

Landlord jailed for decades in hate-crime attack on Palestinian American family has died
Three months ago, Joseph Czuba was sentenced to 53 years behind bars for the attack. He was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder and hate-crime charges in the death of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of the boy’s mother, Hanan Shaheen. The 73-year-old Czuba targeted them in October 2023 because of their Islamic faith and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, which started days earlier.
https://apnews.com/article/palestinian-hate-crime-chicago-joseph-czuba-88344cd3643902ee2938366e7f190d81

Thousands strike at UCSF, saying mass layoffs show priorities 'divorced from reality'
The strike included service and patient care workers who believe UCSF Health has “wrong financial priorities” that will worsen an already severely understaffed frontline workforce, said the union that represents the workers, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, in a news release Friday. Thousands of employees across the network participated in the strike, according to Todd Stenhouse, a spokesperson for the union. There were about 100 people at the picket lines and 300 people at the Friday rally, Kristen Bole, a spokesperson for UCSF, told SFGATE.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/thousands-strike-ucsf-disheartening-mass-layoffs-20786900.php
https://archive.ph/jAJuS

NASA says 20% of workforce to depart space agency
About 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are set to depart the space agency, a NASA spokesperson said on Friday. Around 3,870 individuals are expected to depart, but that number may change in the coming days and weeks, the spokesperson said, adding that the remaining number of employees at the agency would be around 14,000.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/nasa-says-20-workforce-depart-space-agency-2025-07-26/

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 27-07-25 00:42:54 No.2405087

Episode 455: MAHAmaniacs (TrueAnon)
Originally posted May 1, 2025.
We talk about the life and death of Virginia Giuffre — and take a look at the nascent “Free Ghislaine” sentiment growing in the shadow of the MAHA Movement.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/mahamaniacs

The GENIUS Act Provides Profits for the Crypto Industry, Financial Risk for Everyone Else
The basic reporting is that the GENIUS Act provides a regulatory framework for stablecoins. But this angle misses the main point of the legislation. The reason the crypto industry spent over $130 million on the 2024 elections — and who knows how many million more in lobbying for the GENIUS Act — is because it will make them even more in profits. While the crypto industry has been making money off oforganized crime and investors who can tolerate high levels of risk, the GENIUS Act promises to give the industry access to everyone else — a vastly larger pool for potential profits. The GENIUS Act exists to mainstream the crypto industry. The GENIUS Act’s regulations are focused on a type of cryptocurrency called “stablecoins,” which are designed to have a constant value and avoid the volatility of other cryptocurrencies. For example, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, in theory, will always be worth a dollar. The Act sets rules for the establishment and auditing of stablecoins. The supposed benefits of stablecoins are that they will allow people to use digital stablecoin wallets like a debit card, and it will allow people to transfer money quickly with low fees. But, if one wants a debit card, it is very easy to have one without using stablecoins. If one wants to transfer money quickly and cheaply, even to foreign countries, it is possible to do these things without stablecoins. In other words, there is no added benefit to the general public from the expanded use of stablecoins. The only people who really benefit from the GENIUS Act are the people in the stablecoin industry.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/25/the-genius-act-provides-profits-for-the-crypto-industry-financial-risk-for-everyone-else/

The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin Chapter 15: The division of labour
Political Economy has always confined itself to stating facts occurring in society, and justifying them in the interest of the dominant class. Therefore, it pronounces itself in favour of the division of labour in industry. Having found it profitable to capitalists, it has set it up as a principle. Look at the village smith, said Adam Smith, the father of modern Political Economy. If he has never been accustomed to making nails he will only succeed by hard toil in forging two or three hundred a day, and even then they will be bad. But if this same smith has never made anything but nails, he will easily supply as many as two thousand three hundred in the course of a day. And Smith hastened to the conclusion – “Divide labour, specialize, go on specializing; let us have smiths who only know how to make heads or points of nails, and by this means we shall produce more. We shall grow rich.” That a smith condemned for life to make the heads of nails would lose all interest in his work, that he would be entirely at the mercy of his employer with his limited handicraft, that he would be out of work four months out of twelve, and that his wages would fall very low down, when it would be easy to replace him by an apprentice, Smith did not think of all this when he exclaimed – “Long live the division of labour. This is the real gold-mine that will enrich the nation!” And all joined him in this cry. And later on, when a Sismondi or a J. B. Say began to understand that the division of labour, instead of enriching the whole nation, only enriches the rich, and that the worker, who is doomed for life to making the eighteenth part of a pin, grows stupid and sinks into poverty – what did official economists propose? Nothing! They did not say to themselves that by a lifelong grind at one and the same mechanical toil the worker would lose his intelligence and his spirit of invention, and that, on the contrary, a variety of occupations would result in considerably augmenting the productivity of a nation. But this is the very issue we have now to consider. If, however, learned economists were the only ones to preach the permanent and often hereditary division of labour, we might allow them to preach it as much as they pleased. But the ideas taught by doctors of science filter into men’s minds and pervert them; and from repeatedly hearing the division of labour, profits, interest, credit, etc., spoken of as problems long since solved, all middle-class people, and workers too, end by arguing like economists; they venerate the same fetishes. Thus we see most socialists, even those who have not feared to point out the mistakes of economical science, justifying the division of labour. Talk to them about the organization of work during the Revolution, and they answer that the division of labour must be maintained; that if you sharpened pins before the Revolution you must go on sharpening them after. True, you will not have to work more than five hours a day, but you will have to sharpen pins all your life, while others will make designs for machines that will enable you to sharpen hundreds of millions of pins during your life-time; and others again will be specialists in the higher branches of literature, science, and art, etc. You were born to sharpen pins while Pasteur was born to invent the inoculation against anthrax, and the Revolution will leave you both to your respective employments. Well, it is this horrible principle, so noxious to society, so brutalizing to the individual, source of so much harm, that we propose to discuss in its divers manifestations.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1892/bread.htm#chapter15

Anonymous 27-07-25 00:54:04 No.2405104

>>2405024
>The Handala, carrying 19 activists, including European MPs and two Al Jazeera journalists, was intercepted roughly 100 kilometres west of Gaza, and around 50 kilometres off Egypt’s coast.

I'm not a maritime lawyer but how is that not just out and out piracy?

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