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News 7/30/25 News Anon 3.0 30-07-25 15:43:53 No.2409076

Noboa dismisses 5,000 public employees
Another controversial measure is the fusion of several vital ministries with others to reduce the size of the state. The executive branch will go from 20 to 14 ministries. The Ministry of Education will absorb the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, the Ministry of Sports, and the Ministry of Higher Education. On the other hand, the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works will now fulfill the functions of the Ministry of Housing, the Ministry of Public-Private Investments, and the Ministry of Prevention of Irregular Settlements.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/29/noboa-dismisses-5000-public-employees/

Fridays for Future Plans Global Climate Strike During COP30 in Brazil
The Fridays for Future movement announced this week that it is planning the next Global Climate Strike for November 14, the first Friday during the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil. The movement began in 2018, with then-teenage Greta Thunberg's solo protest at the Swedish parliament, which inspired millions of people to hold similar school strikes for climate action around the world.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cop30

Mass escape | Civilians flee “Peace Spring” areas via SDF-controlled zones
local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates. local sources told SOHR that Internal Security Forces (Asayish) arrested 25 people in the countryside of Kobani as they attempted to cross from Tel Abyad in northern Al-Raqqah toward areas west of the Euphrates.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366840/

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
“When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals,” the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced Tuesday morning. “They choked him and kicked him in the legs, leaving visible signs of violence on his neck and back. When his lawyer met with him, Chris was surrounded by six members of Israel’s special police unit.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198550/israel-detains-beats-amazon-union-leader-chris-smalls-flotilla-gaza
https://archive.ph/lf5at

Two men forcibly disappeared in Egypt after storming police station over Gaza blockade
Twenty-seven-year-old Mohsen Mustafa and his 23-year-old cousin Ahmed Sherif Ahmed Abdel Wahab have not been heard from since Mustafa posted on Facebook claiming responsibility for the raid, shortly before his profile was removed. The men were reportedly involved in the storming of the police station on 25 July, where a group who identified themselves as “Iron 17” raided the facility and detained several security personnel for hours.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-two-men-forcibly-disappeared-after-storming-egyptian-police-station-over-gaza-blockade

At least four killed during fuel protests in Angola
The protests erupted on Monday following the government’s decision earlier this month to raise the price of diesel by more than 30 per cent, which resulted in steep fare increases for minibus taxis that are the preferred method of transport for many Angolans. A police statement said hundreds of arrests had been made in connection with rioting, vandalism and looting of shops. Cars and buses were damaged and roads were blocked.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/least-four-killed-during-fuel-protests-angola

Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian activist out on house arrest
Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, one of the co-directors of No Other Land, said that while Yinon was released on house arrest, Hathaleen’s family were arrested. “After killing Odeh, Yinon pointed at his family and instructed soldiers to arrest 4 of them,” Abraham said in a post on X.“They are still jailed while he was just released for house arrest. A system which punishes the victims (who are under military law) and rewards the shooter (who is under civilian law),” Abraham added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/29/israeli-settler-kills-west-bank-activist-who-worked-on-oscar-winning-film
https://archive.ph/Mnby3

Palestine Action co-founder wins permission to challenge ban
Lawyers for Huda Ammori argued at a hearing in London last week that the proscription of Palestine Action, placing it on a par with groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. They warned that it was already having a chilling effect on freedom of speech and protest, highlighting dozens of arrests – the number is believed to have risen above 200 – of people for demonstrating since the ban came into force on 5 July.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/30/palestine-action-co-founder-wins-permission-to-challenge-ban

Anglian Water to pay £62.8m over wastewater failures
Ofwat has proposed a number of improvements Anglian Water must make to its wastewater treatment works and network after discovering "excessive spills from storm overflows". The firm could have been fined £57.1m but Ofwat said Anglian Water had acknowledged its failures and agreed to fund investments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2vyl22rjvo

CPI (M) holds sit-in protest in Tezpur against evictions, scams, and NRC Delay
A sit-in protest was organized on Tuesday in front of the Tezpur Court Chariali by members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), under the initiative of the Sonitpur district committee and in response to a state-wide call by the CPI (M) Assam state committee. The protest highlighted several pressing issues. The party demanded an immediate halt to all eviction drives being carried out without providing proper alternative rehabilitation for the displaced. They also called for a thorough investigation into the various scams allegedly involving BJP ministers and legislators, including the widely reported Geer-Gai scam.
https://www.sentinelassam.com/north-east-india-news/assam-news/cpi-m-holds-sit-in-protest-in-tezpur-against-evictions-scams-and-nrc-delay
https://archive.ph/fi7yT

Indonesian military’s foray into medicine-making triggers ‘authoritarian past’ fears
Production would begin in October, with the medicines to be sold in villages at half their retail prices, Sjafrie said. “We are thinking of ways to lower the price even more so we could provide free medicines,” he told reporters. Taruna Ikrar, head of BPOM, said the military’s participation could help stem the distribution of illegal or counterfeit drugs, particularly in underserved areas. However, rights groups argue the move is legally questionable, as Indonesia’s military law prohibits active-duty soldiers from holding civilian business roles. Critics also see the deal as part of a wider effort to involve the armed forces again in local governance under President Prabowo Subianto, who was formerly a general and the country’s defence minister.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3320174/indonesian-militarys-foray-medicine-making-triggers-authoritarian-past-fears

Labor seeks to ban pro-Palestinian march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Labor government in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has declared that it will ban a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge this Sunday, opposing Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. Labor Premier Chris Minns has couched the edict in terms of the disruption to the public and threats to safety that the rally could cause. That is cynical and threadbare. In reality, the ban is the latest action of a government that has throughout its tenure attacked the right to protest in general, and public demonstrations of support for the Palestinians in particular.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/30/mwku-j30.html

News Anon 3.0 30-07-25 16:04:19 No.2409108

Over 200 meat processing workers in Iowa face immediate deportation following revocation of work visas
In comments to KCCI 8 out of Des Moines, United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1149 union President Roger Kail confirmed that between 210 and 220 workers at the plant were informed that their visas had been revoked and that JBS had fired them. Kail said it was the largest termination of worker visas during his 23 years in the union bureaucracy. In addition to the layoffs at JBS, another UFCW official confirmed to KCCI that the Hormel Turkey and Eggs plant (HTE) in Algona, Iowa, is firing 12 workers following the termination of the CHNV and TPS (Temporary Protected Status) programs.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/30/oyfo-j30.html

Rail Labor Leaders Raise Alarm Over Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Megamerger
SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD), America's largest railroad operating union, said that "our labor organization has every intention to oppose this merger when it comes before the Surface Transportation Board for approval." The union specified multiple concerns about the deal, including what it described as Union Pacific's "troubling safety record" under its current management.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/union-pacific-norfolk-southern-merger

AOC's former campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, launches challenge against Democrats' Nancy Pelosi
At a launch event in San Francisco Tuesday evening, on the heels of progressive upsets in mayoral races in New York and Minneapolis, hundreds gathered to meet Chakrabarti, former campaign manager for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who thinks it’s time for another political shake-up.
https://www.newarab.com/news/progressive-saikat-chakrabarti-challenges-democrats-pelosi

Zohran Mamdani's support for Palestinian rights sealed mayoral primary win, poll shows
On all three questions, the largest segment of voters who agreed with Mamdani were those who did not vote in the last mayoral election in 2021 - suggesting they were either too young to vote or that Mamdani's campaign is the one that moved them to the ballot box. When respondents were asked what issues affected their decision to vote for him, the top responses cited were his plans to lower the cost of living at 89 percent, and his plans to tax the wealthy and stand up to corporations, at 86 percent. But the third reason they cited was his support for Palestinian rights, at 62 percent. Among the new voters in 2025, that number rises to 83 percent, at a time when some states and international scholars, including Israeli experts and NGOs, have called Israel's war on Gaza a genocide.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/zohran-mamdanis-support-palestinian-rights-sealed-his-mayoral-candidacy-win-polling-shows

Republicans Introduce Nearly 20 Bills Based on Debunked Conspiracy
Republican lawmakers in nearly 20 states have introduced legislation to prevent weather modification. Some of the laws allude to “chemtrails,” a conspiracy theory that planes aren’t leaving “contrails” of condensation in the atmosphere but are spreading chemicals on an unsuspecting public. In two states, Florida and Tennessee, those bills have passed and been signed into law. In July, right-wing concerns about weather modification reached a new fever pitch. Earlier this month, Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin announced an effort to “compile everything we know about contrails and geoengineering” and release it to the public.
https://newrepublic.com/post/198565/republicans-introduce-bills-weather-modification-conspiracy-theory

Missouri governor signs law enabling landlords to reject renters on public assistance
In a direct assault on the working class and the most vulnerable sections of society, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed legislation earlier this month nullifying local ordinances that protected tenants from discrimination based on their source of income. The bill, House Bill 595, gives landlords across the state the explicit right to refuse tenants who pay rent using Section 8 housing vouchers, Social Security, child support, disability payments or tipped income, which will lead to an increase in homelessness and housing instability across the state.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/30/xdih-j30.html

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 30-07-25 16:34:03 No.2409151

Indonesia is NOT in Darkness
It Was Never Bright to Begin With: The Military Dual Function and Our Historical Amnesia
Since early 2025, the hashtag #IndonesiaGelap (“Indonesia in Darkness”) has become the rallying cry of student activists, leftist groups, pro-democracy advocates, NGOs, and even large parts of the anarchist circle. The slogan expresses public frustration and disappointment with the political system—particularly with Prabowo’s rise to the presidency, which some leftist figures and political analysts claim signals a shift toward dictatorship. But these opposition-style outcries don’t always align with reality. In fact, both under the previous administration and the current one, several well-known militant leftist activists now hold positions within the government. So what exactly is behind the new hysteria of “Indonesia in Darkness”? Why are so many on the left jumping on this narrative—one that is often shallow, factually questionable, and seems to invite the public into a collective act of forgetting?
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/07/28/indonesia-is-not-in-darkness-international/

We Have Always Lived in the Casino
“Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise,” John Maynard Keynes wrote in the twelfth chapter of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, the best thing ever written on speculative markets. “But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.” He wrote this in the 1930s, amid the economic wreckage of the Great Depression. The protracted slump was easily read as payback for the excesses of the previous decade, the great speculative mania of the 1920s. For a humane liberal like Keynes, the point of policy is to prevent manias and, failing that, to mitigate the inevitable fallout. That became the dominant view in mainstream economic and political circles for about four decades after the publication of his General Theory. Even at the time, there were, of course, dissenters. Andrew Mellon, the US Treasury secretary who served under three Republican presidents from 1921 to 1932, famously advised Herbert Hoover to let the crash unfold in all its therapeutic splendor. “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. Purge the rottenness out of the system,” he implored. “High costs of living and high living will come down. . . . Enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.” His words echoed those of Herbert Spencer, the brutal prophet of social Darwinism: “Cure can come only through affliction.” Or, as German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble put it during the eurozone crisis, “Benevolence comes before dissoluteness.” When economic calamity hits, let it run its course, regardless of the human cost. Mellon’s inclusion of “high living” in his prescription brings in some classically Protestant moralizing, as does Schäuble’s mention of “dissoluteness”: hard times are good for the soul. Speculation is sinful, for which penance must be done. The necessity of a purge after a speculative binge is a cornerstone of Austrian economics, the school associated with thinkers like Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. Bubbly times brought about by easy credit lead to “malinvestment,” a misallocation of resources that can only be corrected through mass bankruptcy and unemployment. Even more critical left-leaning sorts took some pleasure in the purge that followed the 1929 crash. “One couldn’t help being exhilarated at the sudden unexpected collapse of that stupid gigantic fraud,” Edmund Wilson said. But all this assumes good investment can easily be distinguished from bad speculation. Can it?
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/we-have-always-lived-in-the-casino

Fighting against state repression
ON JULY 11, Unite the Union’s national policy conference threw the weight of its 1.2 million members behind an international campaign for the release of political prisoners in Gilgit-Baltistan, unjustly detained under torturous conditions by order of the Pakistani state. Gilgit-Baltistan is an administrative territory that constitutes the northern part of occupied Kashmir, to which Pakistan has no legal claim, but nevertheless treats as a de facto colony. The local assembly is widely regarded as a puppet body, firmly in the grip of the generals and bureaucrats in Islamabad. Years of corruption and theft have left Gilgit-Baltistan in an extreme state of poverty and underdevelopment, despite its abundance of natural resources. Its stunning and unique ecology has also been wrecked by aggressive capitalist exploitation. In 2014, Ehsan Ali of the Inqalabi Communist Party set up an Awami Action Committee (a form of community defence organisation) in Gilgit-Baltistan. For over a decade, the AAC-GB has campaigned peacefully for democratic rights, the maintenance of subsidies on basic goods like wheat flour and for the provision of health and education facilities to the people of the region. It has mobilised thousands of locals and forced significant concessions. The regime retaliated by placing Ali on the infamous “Fourth Schedule,” an anti-terrorism measure that put him under constant surveillance. The AAC-GB had planned a new mass protest for May 25, to oppose a new Minerals Bill that will open up the territory for further environmentally destructive mining operations. But on May 15, a wave of arrests was launched targeting leaders of the AAC-GB, including Ehsan Ali. The arrests provoked significant protests in Gilgit-Baltistan and across Pakistan, many of them led by women. These have been met with vicious repression by state forces.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fighting-against-state-repression

Anonymous 30-07-25 16:49:16 No.2409165

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