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17/11/2023

Colombia: President Petro, it is time to break relations with the genocidal Israeli regime!
Join the first 126 signatories to the petition

Translated by Fausto Giudice, Tlaxcala

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Urgent appeal to the President of the Republic of Colombia Gustavo Petro Urrego

“So leave our country
Our land, our sea
Our wheat, our salt, our wounds
Everything, and leave
The memories of memory
O those who pass between fleeting words!”

Mahmud Darwish,
Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words, 1988

17.11.2023



State of Palestine Street, Bogotá (inaugurated in September 2023)

 
Mr. President Gustavo Petro, friends and other recipients of this communication,

With alarm and anguish we are witnessing the vile genocide perpetrated by the Zionist State of Israel against the Palestinian people. In turn, the United States is complicit in such horror, has deployed its war apparatus to the ar zone and supports Netanyahu's government with weapons.

For decades, it has spent a fortune in arming Israel. This drama is not new, it is 75 years of ignominy since the very creation of this state. It is the aberrant disproportion of two powers raging against a small territory and its people.

Pain and indignation have seized us, the images reveal all the impiety exercised, they have even bombed hospitals and refugee centers causing to date more than ten thousand fatalities without counting the missing, most defenceless girls, boys and women, civilian population. We are seeing the destruction and the bleeding of a people in all its dimension.

Inevitably, repudiation of such ignominy has been expressed from different parts of the world. Massive demonstrations have been held in many cities. As of today, several countries have spoken out. In our case, we are encouraged by your courageous declarations, qualifying this barbarism of the State of Israel as what it is: a genocide, as well as a “cleansing” or continuous ethnic elimination for 75 years. You have pointed out that the Zionist regime has violated human rights, that it has ignored all UN resolutions. You have also condemned their inhumane actions, and this deserves great recognition from us. Colombia, as well as several other countries, has recalled its ambassadors for consultation. The Plurinational State of our sister country Bolivia has broken diplomatic and economic relations with the Israeli State.

Although there is a forceful pronouncement on your part, it is of greater scope, to ratify it, to take one more step; that step that advances among the smoke of bombs to say No more, from our country Colombia we do not condone it. For this reason and in the face of such a misfortune, President Gustavo Petro, we raise our petition, which arises from the heart of the feeling of popular sectors that voted for the Government of Change that you preside together with Francia Márquez. We also call on Colombians who read this communiqué to adhere to this clamor by signing the following petition:

We would like to request President Gustavo Petro, the immediate severance of diplomatic, economic and political relations with the State of Israel with the consequent expulsion from our territory of the diplomatic corps of said country and the cancellation and/or embargo on all contracts concerning military security systems and armaments.

It is imperative to cancel the agreement that absurdly and regrettably grants us the condition of “strategic partner” of NATO, given that our country has no geographical or political reason to belong to that organization. Both the existence of U.S. military bases in our territory and our membership in this military organization, which goes against world peace, not only threatens our sovereignty, but also places us as an ally of the U.S. military forces in the scenario of a possible war between foreign powers. Likewise, Colombia considers itself as a “non-aligned” country, which unfortunately is only possible in words, because in practice we are not, since we are a signatory country of those agreements with NATO and accept the existence of U.S. military bases in our territory, a situation that you fought against and denounced in other days. Asserting Colombia's sovereignty before the world and positioning our country as a territory of peace would constitute the ratification of your policy of total peace, not only for our territory but also for the planet, in accordance with your positioning as a world leader for global peace.

With sincere appreciation and consideration, the following Colombian persons, residing in Colombia and abroad, sign this petition:

Gloria Gaitán, social fighter and writer, daughter of the great leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
 Hernando Calvo Ospina, writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, Paris, France.
 Renán Vega Cantor, writer, researcher, university professor. Bogotá, Colombia.
Reinaldo Spitaletta, journalist, writer, columnist for El Espectador, Medellín, Colombia.
 
Daniel Libreros, research professor, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
Victor de Currea-Lugo, physician, journalist, university professor, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Juan Manuel Arango, journalist, Noticiero Clarín, Colombia.
Blanca Merz, social leader, Hamburg, Germany.
Mauricio Vidales, poet and columnist, Hamburg, Germany.
Eleazar Plaza, writer, editor, director of Rosa Blindada Ediciones, Cali, Colombia.
 
Alberto Aguilera, historian, researcher specializing in Simón Bolívar, Cali, Colombia.
 
Juan Diego García, writer, Colombia.
 Matilde E. Trujillo U. freethinker, popular educator, Cali, Colombia.
 Luis Alfonso Mena, journalist, lawyer, historian, director of Periodismo Libre de Cali.
Ildebrando Arévalo, historian, international analyst, professor ESAP, Cali, Colombia.
 Luis Carlos Domínguez Prada, lawyer, writer, human rights defender, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Manuel Caicedo Paz, freethinker, socio-political activist, Cali, Colombia.
 José Urbano, documentary filmmaker, Cali, Colombia.
 Carlos Fuentes Delgado, metallurgical engineer, university professor, Cali, Colombia.
 Iván Enrique Chaves, health worker, pensioner, Cali, Colombia.
Harold Adolfo Ortíz Calero, magister in political science, doctor in philosophy, Cali, Colombia.
 Henry Montesdeoca, singer-songwriter, Cali, Colombia.
María Piedad Ossaba, independent journalist, director of La PLuma, Paris, France.
Mario Ossaba, painter, sculptor, Paris, France.
 Lilian Eugenia Gómez Álvarez, agronomist, PHD Biological Sciences, Medellín, Colombia.
 David López, jurist, director AIDHES, Switzerland.
 Álvaro Lopera, journalist and engineer, Colombia.
 Eliécer Jiménez Julio, journalist exiled in Geneva, Switzerland.
 Evelio Loayza, physician, human rights defender, CPDH, Cali, Colombia.
Alcides Lesmes, trade unionist, human rights defender, exiled from the UP, Valencia, Spain.
 José Manuel Gómez, UP political exile, Geneva, Switzerland.
Zoilo Angulo Ríos, agricultural engineer, PHD candidate, Valencia, Spain.
Nelson Restrepo Arango, lawyer, human rights defender, exiled, Madrid, Spain.
 
Jaime Jiménez García, historian, lawyer, Medellín, Colombia.
 Carlos Arturo Velandia, peace promoter, Medellín, Colombia.
Patricia Quintero, teacher exiled in Belgium.
André Veraart, pensioner, Belgium.
Cecilia Saavedra Ruiz, journalist, director of Zuma Qamana Cooperative, Bogotá, Colombia.
Rodrigo Vargas, human rights defender, CPDH, Cali, Colombia.
Heidy Rojas, project technologist, human rights defender, CPDH, Cali, Colombia.
Jovanny Rojas, human rights defender, demobilized FARC-EP peace signatory, Cali, Colombia.
Milton Luna, teacher, graduate in Chemistry, Cali, Colombia.
Elías Díaz, writer, Cali, Colombia.
 Diego Gil, writer, Cali, Colombia.
 Ana Ruth Mejía, architect, Cali, Colombia.
 Yamil Gutiérrez, philosopher, Cali, Colombia.
 Stella Jane Potes Cortés, artist, Cali, Colombia.
Jairo Ramírez Benjumea, social psychologist UNAD, Cali, Colombia.
 Pablo Angarita, actor, playwright, stage director, Cali, Colombia.
 Margarita María Aristizábal Ariza, anthropologist, Cali, Colombia.
 Hugo Sánchez, cultural manager, director of Café Cinema, Bogotá, Colombia.
Luna Vera, actress, cultural manager, artivist, Bogota, Colombia.
 Aleida Tabares Montes, actress, playwright, stage director, poet. Bogota, Colombia.
 María Catalina Hurtado, graduate in Social Sciences, Cali, Colombia.
 Clemencia Gálvez, literature teacher, poet. Cali, Colombia.
 José Figueroa Fernández, exiled in Brussels, Belgium.
 
María Fernanda Quintero, geographer, researcher Territorio y Población, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Miguel Hernández Chavarro, industrial engineer, Bogotá, Colombia.
Javier Meza Lagrancurth, petroleum engineer, Santa Marta, Colombia.
 Marco Alfredo Forero Parra, lawyer, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Luis Eduardo Agudelo Caro, pensioner, Bogotá, Colombia.
Eduardo Duplat Sanjuan, demobilized M19, Cúcuta, Colombia.
 Iván Bocanegra, mechanical engineer, Corinto, Colombia.
 Adolfo León Arciniegas Martínez, beekeeper, Palmira, Colombia.
 Mauricio Domínguez Caicedo, university professor, Cali, Colombia.
 Alfredo Martínez Vásquez, veterinarian and zootechnician, Cali, Colombia.
 
Francia Elena Prado Cedano, lawyer, Cali, Colombia.
Jorge Kujar, plastic artist, Cali, Colombia.
Jesús Alberto Gómez, architect, Cali, Colombia.
José Ramírez, M19 exile in Spain.
 Walter Tello, plastic artist, Cali, Cali, Colombia.
 Beatriz Eugenia Hurtado, plastic artist, Cali, Colombia.
 Marta Inés Hurtado, poet, Cali, Colombia.
Harrinson Riascos Torres, systems engineer, Hamburg, Germany.
Victor Edgar Vélez Giraldo, peasant artist, Palmira, Colombia.
 Edgar Aníbal Roa Zamora, social leader, Cali, Colombia.
Ángela María Quintero, psychologist, PhD University of Valencia, Spain.
Emely Marín, human rights lawyer, Valencia, Spain.
Willie Milton Hostos Álvarez, visual artist, Valencia, Spain.
 María Cristina Palacio, sociologist, public policy specialist, Manizales, Colombia.
 Gladys Giraldo, psychologist, Medellín, Colombia.
 Alba Nora Aristizábal, human rights lawyer, Manizales, Colombia.
 Amparo Mejía Arbeláez, sociologist, Manizales, Colombia.
David Marcelo Idarraga, publicist, Barcelona, Spain.
Pietro Alfonso Schiavo, soccer coach, Köln, Germany.
Sara García, economist, Valencia, Spain.
 Rafael Escobar, publicist, Cali, Colombia.
Anilsa Caicedo Salazar, lawyer, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
Jairo Restrepo, freelance journalist, USA.
Juan Carlos García Rivera, anthropologist, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
Miryam Christel, sociologist, Stuttgart, Germany.
 Gloria Mesa, graduate in English philology, pensioner, Manizales, Colombia.
María Carolina Estepa Becerra, lawyer, Bogotá, Colombia.
Juan Pablo Estupinan, lawyer, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Blanca Lucía Mera, attorney, Procuraduría, Bogotá, Colombia.
 Francia Elena Correa, psychologist, Manizales, Colombia.
 Luz Marina Cruz Pérez Cruz, psychologist, Pereira, Colombia.
María Emma Rodriguez Mosquera, social activist, Cali, Colombia.
 Johanna María López, head nurse, Medellín, Colombia.
 Beatriz del Socorro Escobar, lawyer, Medellín, Colombia.
 Silverio Mejía, artist, Manizales, Colombia.
 María Teresa Puerta Marín, social activist, Toronto, Canada.
 Oswaldo Quintero, lawyer, Pereira, Colombia.
 Claudia Patricia Gómez, social worker, Bogotá, Colombia.
Silvia Zuleta, social activist, Barcelona, Spain.
 Martha Isabel Povea de Caicedo, retired teacher, Armenia, Colombia.
Laura Vargas, administrative, Valencia, Spain.
 
Stella García, business administrator, Cali, Colombia.
 Patricia Duque, therapist in Traditional Oriental Medicine, Cali, Colombia.
 César A. Duque Córdoba, lawyer, public official, Cali, Colombia.
Yira Bolaños Arturo, reincorporation and reconciliation project coordinator, Cali Mayor's Office
Patricia González, business administrator, Cali, Colombia.
 Daniela Córdoba, professional in international business, Cali, Colombia.
 Silvia María Salazar Giraldo, lawyer, human rights defender, Cali, Colombia.
 Rosalba Hernández, independent trader, Cali, Colombia.
 Esperanza Cerón, physician, Cali, Colombia.
 Elizabeth Cubaque, popular leader, Ciudad Bolivar, Bogota, Colombia.
 Santiago Duque, worker, Cali, Colombia.
Ángela Liliana Mazuera León, psychologist, philosophy graduate, human rights defender, Cali, Colombia.
Pilar Orozco, psychologist, Cali, Colombia.
Lisandro Duque Naranjo, cineasta, columnista y escritor

 

27/02/2023

CARSTEN HANKE
Uprising for peace in Germany

Carsten Hanke, 26-2-2023

Translated by Fausto Giudice, Tlaxcala

Rostock-Berlin - The increasing rejecting by the German population of the war course of the Federal Government and the reporting of the bourgeois media, is reflected in street actions in many cities. It became particularly clear on the 1st anniversary of Russia's military intervention in the killing  by the Kiev government of its own population in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions practiced since 2014. According to U.N. observers, at least 14,000 people have been killed in the attacks there since then, and schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and other essential facilities for maintaining supplies to the population have been destroyed.

I would like to give two examples to show that more and more citizens of the Federal Republic of Germany are publicly expressing their opposition to the war course of the Federal Government through various peace actions. These peace-loving people are no longer deterred by defamation in the media, as happened repeatedly in the run-up to the Manifesto for Peace by Alice Schwarzer and Sahra Wagenknecht. This Manifesto for Peace was not only supported by well-known public figures as initial signatories, but also by more than 600,000 people in a very short time.



The first such peace celebration took place on Friday, 24 February at 17 o'clock on the Pariser Platz, directly before the Brandenburger gate and the USA embassy in Berlin. The Berlin Peace Coordination (FRIKO), which has been working for peace worldwide for many years with various peace activities, has been calling for this peace action for weeks. In this alliance different organizations act together, so among others the members of the Society for peace and international solidarity (GeFiS) in the Berlin area are there actively supporting.

On February 24, 2023, about 1,000 demonstrators followed the call of the Berlin Peace Coordination under the motto “Stop the killing in Ukraine - for ceasefire and negotiations!”, which was jointly written by 18 peace groups. Besides well-known speakers, e.g. the initiators of the “Darmstädter Signa”", where active and former German army officers and soldiers always stand up for peaceful conflict resolution, there was a call for protests against war and for peace, with cultural inserts like singing by Diether Dehm, to become active.


At the edge of this meeting some passers-by had tried again and again to disturb loudly and provocatively this peace demonstration. During various de-escalating measures practiced by us, such as calm conversation, it was repeatedly found that these so-called supporters of further arms deliveries to Ukraine not only had historical deficits but were also only one-sidedly informed. Despite some vicious insults our de-escalating efforts led to success and prevented possible physical clashes.


"Whoever wants peace, should talk about war" (Walter Benjamin)
Cease-fire, disarmament, peace now!

On February 25 at 2:00 pm the large gathering announced by its initiators Alice Schwarzer and Sahra Wagenknecht as well as retired Brigadier General Erich Vad took place on the west side of the Brandenburg gate in Berlin.

In the announcement of the demonstration, it was expressly pointed out that no party symbols such as flags etc. would be displayed and that party members of the right-wing party AfD and other right-wing extremist groups were not welcome. The organizers themselves had expected a number of participants of about 10,000 people. Due to the fact that nationwide the participants had traveled specially (further members of the GeFiS arrived organized with buses from Rostock and and surrounding area) the beginning of the demonstration had to be shifted around approx. 10 - 15 minutes.

I myself tried to walk the whole demonstration area to take pictures and had to stop my project because the participants were standing so close that it was not possible to get through. According to testimonies of other participants, participants still came to the rally even with a 40-minute delay. The number of participants of 13,000, which was repeatedly reported by the police and the media, did not correspond to the facts by far and gives further evidence that those people do not report truthfully if it is not in their interest.

The numerous spontaneous conversations with the participants of the demonstration were characterized by the great concern that more and more arms deliveries will only bring armament profits, but no peace. Refusing to negotiate does not show the will for peace, but endangers life. The participants are aware that the sanctions and the economic war are damaging Germany and that every citizen is already feeling the effects. They denounce the German government as responsible for inflation and economic decline with their war rhetoric.

Many visitors of the demonstration are aware of NATO commander Stoltenberg's words “rather a nuclear war than a Russian victory in Ukraine”. They have become active in order to make clear that they are against the atomic madness, against [the Installation of US hypersonic missiles] Dark Eagle, against the clearly more extensive atomic equipment with US atomic weapons in Europe and particularly in Germany,. They want to set a public sign against this madness, to rouse at the same time those citizens, who are still passive, to become finally also active.

The divisive smear campaign by politicians in unison with the bourgeois media that the event was “open to the right wing” was made absurd not only in the run-up to the manifestation but also during the entire event.

It was a powerful demonstration for peace and against the federal government and its practiced war course with the constant delivery of weapons to Ukraine. This became clear among other things also by the repeatedly loud demand of the demonstration participants, who chanted “Barebock muss weg!” [“Baerbock* must go!”].

*Annalena Baerbock: Green warmongering Minister of Foreign Affairs 

 
Carsten Hanke: Self-portrait

I was born in 1960 in Rostock, GDR. I graduated from a 10-class secondary school and then learned to be a lathe operator, driller, and miller, i.e. a metal worker. Then I joined the Volkspolizei (People's Police) and went through all ranks from the beginning, studied there and became an officer. After the so-called turnaround in 1990, the West did not recognize our degrees and since I did not want to serve in the capitalist system with the security organs anyway, where I possibly would have to protect Nazi demos, I left the service in the police. I went to the city public order department and studied again for 2 years for the higher civil service. But since I was too left-wing, they found an “unofficial” way to get rid of me. Then I went to work in the corporate world and was sent into early retirement in 1997 because of my bone disease. For the recognition of my illness I had to fight 4 years with a lawyer in court for my rights and won. Since then, I have always been politically active and in 2020 I founded with friends the “Society for Peace and International Solidarity” (GeFiS), where we support the progressive forces of Latin America and started the solidarity action "”Drugs for Venezuela”. I was invited by the Electoral Council in 2019 as the only German as an election observer to the parliamentary elections in Venezuela and again in 2021 with 3 other representatives as an election observer in the municipal elections. I was selected as a representative of the NGOs.

CARSTEN HANKE
Sommossa per la pace in Germania

Carsten Hanke, 26.2.2023
Tradotto da Fausto Giudice, Tlaxcala

Rostock-Berlino - Il rifiuto del corso bellico del governo tedesco e della copertura dei media borghesi da parte della popolazione tedesca si esprime sempre più spesso in azioni di piazza in molte città. È diventato particolarmente chiaro nel primo anniversario dell'intervento militare della Russia nella strage della propria popolazione nelle regioni di Donetsk e Lugansk, praticato dal governo di Kiev dal 2014. Secondo gli osservatori delle Nazioni Unite, da allora almeno 14.000 persone sono state uccise negli attacchi e sono state distrutte scuole, asili, ospedali e altre strutture importanti per il mantenimento dei rifornimenti della popolazione.

Vorrei usare solo due esempi per chiarire che sempre più cittadini della Repubblica Federale Tedesca stanno esprimendo pubblicamente il loro rifiuto della linea di guerra del governo federale con varie azioni di pace. Queste persone amanti della pace non sono più scoraggiate dalle diffamazioni dei media, come è accaduto ripetutamente nel periodo precedente al Manifesto per la Pace di Alice Schwarzer e Sahra Wagenknecht. Questo Manifesto per la pace non è stato sostenuto solo da noti personaggi pubblici come primi firmatari, ma anche da oltre 600.000 persone in pochissimo tempo.

La prima manifestazione per la pace si è svolta venerdì 24 febbraio alle ore 17.00 sulla Pariser Platz, proprio di fronte alla Porta di Brandeburgo e all'Ambasciata Usa a Berlino. Questa azione di pace è stata indetta da settimane dal Coordinamento per la pace di Berlino (FRIKO), che da molti anni lavora per la pace in tutto il mondo con varie attività di pace. In questa alleanza collaborano diverse organizzazioni, tra cui i nostri membri nell'area di Berlino della Società per la pace e la solidarietà internazionale (GeFiS).

Il 24 febbraio 2023, circa 1.000 manifestanti hanno seguito l'appello del Coordinamento con il motto “Stop alle uccisioni in Ucraina - per il cessate il fuoco e i negoziati!”, scritto congiuntamente da 18 gruppi pacifisti. Oltre a noti oratori, ad esempio i promotori del “Darmstädter Signal”, in cui ufficiali e soldati della Bundeswehr ancora o non più attivi si schierano sempre a favore di una risoluzione pacifica dei conflitti, è stato lanciato un appello a manifestare contro la guerra e per la pace, tra l'altro con la partecipazione del cantante Diether Dehm.


Ai margini di questo evento, alcuni passanti hanno ripetutamente cercato di disturbare con grida e provocazioni verbali questa manifestazione per la pace. Durante le varie misure di de-escalation da noi praticate, come la conversazione pacata, è stato ripetutamente notato che questi cosiddetti sostenitori di ulteriori forniture di armi all'Ucraina non solo avevano deficit storici, ma erano anche informati solo in modo unilaterale. Nonostante alcuni insulti feroci, i nostri sforzi di distensione hanno avuto successo e hanno evitato possibili scontri fisici.


"Chi vuole la pace, parli della guerra" (Walter Benjamin)
Cessate il fuoco, disarmo, pace subito!

Il 25 febbraio 2023 alle 14.00, sul lato ovest della Porta di Brandeburgo a Berlino, si è svolta la grande manifestazione annunciata dalle promotrici Alice Schwarzer e Sahra Wagenknecht e dal generale di brigata in pensione Erich Vad.

Nell'annuncio della manifestazione è stato esplicitamente dichiarato che non sarebbero stati esposti simboli di partito come bandiere ecc. e che i membri del partito AfD e di altri gruppi estremisti di destra non erano i benvenuti. Secondo gli organizzatori, si aspettavano circa 10.000 partecipanti. A causa del fatto che i partecipanti provenienti da tutta la Germania avevano viaggiato appositamente (altri membri del GeFiS avevano viaggiato in modo organizzato in autobus da Rostock e dintorni), l'inizio della manifestazione ha dovuto essere posticipato di circa 10-15 minuti.

Io stesso ho cercato di percorrere l'intera area della manifestazione per scattare delle foto e ho dovuto interrompere il mio tentativo perché i partecipanti erano così stretti da non potere passare. Secondo altri partecipanti, anche con un ritardo di 40 minuti, le persone continuavano ad arrivare. Il numero di 13.000 partecipanti, ripetutamente riportato dalla polizia e dai media, era lontano dai fatti e dimostra ulteriormente che questi non riportano la verità quando non è nel loro interesse.

Le numerose conversazioni spontanee con i visitatori della manifestazione sono state caratterizzate dalla grande preoccupazione che un numero sempre maggiore di forniture di armi porti solo profitti, ma non pace. Il rifiuto di negoziare non dimostra la volontà di pace, ma mette in pericolo delle vite. I partecipanti sono consapevoli che le sanzioni e la guerra economica stanno danneggiando la Germania e che ogni cittadino lo sta già sentendo. Denunciano il governo tedesco di essere responsabile dell'inflazione e del declino economico con la sua retorica di guerra.

Molti visitatori della manifestazione sono a conoscenza delle parole del comandante della NATO Stoltenberg “piuttosto una guerra nucleare che una vittoria russa in Ucraina”. Si sono attivati per chiarire che sono contro la follia nucleare, contro [l’istallazione di missili ipersonici usamericani] Dark Eagle, contro l'equipaggiamento molto più esteso con armi nucleari statunitensi in Europa e soprattutto in Germania. Vogliono fare una dichiarazione pubblica contro questa follia e allo stesso tempo invitare i cittadini che sono ancora passivi a diventare finalmente attivi.

La campagna diffamatoria e divisiva dei politici, all'unisono con i media borghesi, secondo cui l'evento sarebbe “aperto alla destra”, si è rivelata assurda non solo nel periodo precedente la manifestazione, ma anche durante l'intero evento.

Si è trattato di una forte dimostrazione per la pace e contro il governo tedesco e la sua pratica di guerra con la costante consegna di armi all'Ucraina. Ciò è stato reso evidente, tra l'altro, dalle numerose richieste a gran voce dei partecipanti alla manifestazione, che hanno scandito “Baerbock muss weg!” ( “Baerbock* vattene!”).

*Annalena Baerbock: Ministra guerrafondaia verde degli Affari Esteri

 

Carsten Hanke: autoritratto

Sono nato a Rostock, nella RDT, nel 1960. Ho completato la scuola secondaria di secondo grado e poi ho seguito una formazione de tornitore, perforatore e fresatore, cioè di costruttore metallico. Poi mi sono arruolato nella Volkspolizei (Polizia Popolare) e ho percorso tutti i gradi da zero, ho studiato lì e sono diventato ufficiale. Dopo la cosiddetta Svolta, nel 1990, l’Ovest non ha riconosciuto i nostri titoli di studio e poiché non volevo comunque prestare servizio negli organi di sicurezza del sistema capitalista dove magari avrei dovuto proteggere manifestazioni naziste, ho lasciato il servizio di polizia. Andai al dipartimento municipale dell'ordine pubblico e studiai per altri due anni per diventare un funzionario di grado superiore. Ma poiché ero troppo di sinistra, trovarono un modo “non ufficiale” per sbarazzarsi di me. Poi mi sono andato a lavorare in impresa e nel 1997 sono stato mandato in pensione anticipata a causa della mia malattia ossea. Ho dovuto lottare per 4 anni in tribunale con un avvocato per far riconoscere la mia malattia e ho vinto. Da allora sono sempre stato attivo politicamente e nel 2020 ho fondato con alcuni amici la "Società per la Pace e la Solidarietà Internazionale" (GeFiS), dove sosteniamo le forze progressiste dell'America Latina e abbiamo avviato la campagna di solidarietà “Farmaci per il Venezuela”. Sono stato invitato dal Consiglio elettorale nel 2019 come unico osservatore elettorale tedesco alle elezioni parlamentari in Venezuela e di nuovo nel 2021 con altri 3 rappresentanti come osservatore elettorale per le elezioni comunali. Sono stato selezionato come rappresentante delle ONG.@HankeCarsten

06/10/2022

SERGIO RODRIGUEZ GELFENSTEIN
The conflict in Ukraine as an expression of the change of epoch

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein, 6/10/2022
Translated by
Fausto Giudice, Tlaxcala  

During my recent visit to Argentina and Uruguay, the sponsoring institutions of my trip organized a tour in which there were 14 presentations of the book "NATO vs. the world" that we wrote together with Jorge Elbaum. Likewise, 7 talks and conferences were held on the subject. In not a few of them, attendees reiterated the query about why the book has the subtitle that I now use for this article: "The conflict in Ukraine as an expression of the change of era", and asked for more on the subject.

 

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Precisely, for Jorge and for me, it was a priority to make known in the book some remarks that explained why we had come to the conclusion that beyond the results obtained from the war development of the conflict, in reality the most important thing was that the main consequence of this was the confirmation of the beginning of that change of era the former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa was talking about a few years ago.

In the same way, we assumed that this consequence was what gave global character to the confrontation, since its aftermath was going to impact the entire planet. Thus, the clash was much more than a confrontation of Ukraine against Russia and even of the United States and NATO against Russia.

In this sense, unlike the Second World War when the United States waited until the end for a debacle of the Soviet Union in front of the Nazi army before bursting in mid-1944 when the final result of the conflict after the Soviet victory in Stalingrad in February 1943 was indisputable and categorical, now the “new Normandy Landing” expressed in support of the coup d 'état in Ukraine in 2014, was the detonator of a war of expansion that already lasted 8 years.

In the course of the process, the United States not only supported the extermination of the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine, but also cooperated in the dismantling of the armed forces of that country to transform it into an executing body under the mandate of the Nazi organizations that, with the support of the government of that country, began the “otanization” of that armed component to turn it into a ram of the expansion of NATO, a terrorist military structure that threatens all of humanity.

The obligatory Russian response to safeguard the physical integrity of the inhabitants of the oppressed territories also added as objectives the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, thus emulating the objectives agreed by the triumphant powers in the Second World War with regard to Germany, when they met in the German city of Potsdam between 17 July and 2 August 1945.

At the end of the meeting, the president of the United States rushed back to Washington to - just a few days later - order the launch of atomic bombs on the harmless cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when Japan had already surrendered. In this way, it subordinated - through the most horrible event in the history of mankind - the surrendered and disarmed Japanese empire, which until today has remained attached to the military and political device of the United States.

With Europe, the United States was more subtle: it resorted to buying the wills of the European elites by creating the so-called Marshall Plan, an instrument more susceptible than the atomic bomb to be disclosed by Hollywood as an expression of USAmerican "cooperative values". But the purpose was the same, so Europe became a useful tool of Washington's eagerness to dominate the world.

30/08/2022

ODED YARON
Rivelato il cliente segreto NATO per gli aerei spia israeliani: è l’Italia

Oded Yaron, Haaretz, 28/8/2022
Tradotto da
Fausto Giudice

Documenti disponibili al pubblico rivelano ciò che Israel Aerospace Industries ha cercato di nascondere: l'Italia ha acquistato altri due aerei per l'allerta precoce e la raccolta di informazioni e servizi per 550 milioni di dollari.

Aereo di allerta precoce dell'Aeronautica Militare Italiana, acquistato dall'IAI. Foto: Aeronautica Militare Italiana

Israel Aerospace Industries ha firmato con l'Italia contratti per un valore di circa 550 milioni di dollari per la vendita di altri due aerei spia per l'allerta precoce e per servizi di supporto e logistica a terra per l'Aeronautica militare italiana. Gli accordi, riportati in documenti pubblici del Ministero della Difesa italiano e del Parlamento del paese, portano a quattro il numero di velivoli da missione speciale che IAI fornirà agli italiani.

A luglio di quest'anno IAI aveva annunciato di essersi aggiudicata un contratto di oltre 200 milioni di dollari per quella che descriveva come la fornitura di aerei da missione speciale a un paese europeo membro della NATO, senza però rivelare quale paese. IAI continua a rifiutarsi di “discutere l'identità dei suoi clienti”, ma un'indagine di Haaretz ha rivelato che si tratta dell'Italia - e che l'aeronautica italiana è anche il cliente di un altro enorme accordo annunciato da IAI nel 2020.

La filiale ELTA di IAI sviluppa diversi tipi di aerei per missioni speciali, per lo più basati su executive jet modificati su cui installa sistemi militari. Si tratta di velivoli per la sorveglianza terrestre in volo (AGS) dotati di radar per la scansione e la localizzazione di obiettivi a terra e per la gestione del campo di battaglia; velivoli per il pattugliamento marittimo per la localizzazione di navi e sottomarini; velivoli SIGINT per la raccolta di informazioni elettroniche e di comunicazione e per la guerra elettronica - per disturbare i radar e i sistemi di comunicazione del nemico; e velivoli CAEW che forniscono un allarme e un controllo anticipato in volo, oltre a capacità di intelligence elettronica.

Nel 2021 il Ministero della Difesa italiano ha reso nota l'intenzione di acquistare due nuovi aerei spia CAEW dalla ELTA. Si tratta di un aereo basato sul jet d'affari Gulfstream G550, che viene poi modificato per le missioni di preallarme e controllo aereo. È simile all'aereo Nachshon Eitam che serve l'aeronautica militare israeliana. Secondo quanto riportato in passato, Israele ha fornito quattro aerei simili anche alle forze aeree di Singapore.

Il Nachshon Shavit (a sinistra) e l'Eitam (a destra) dell'aeronautica israeliana Foto: Oren Rozen, Wikipedia

Aerei spia dell'Aeronautica militare israeliana

- Eitam: Allarme e controllo precoce via aerea

- Shavit: Raccolta di segnali di intelligence e guerra elettronica

- Oron: capacità di intelligence, sorveglianza e ricognizione (ISR) ad ampio raggio.

Questi aerei sono dotati di radar, sensori avanzati e sistemi di raccolta di informazioni, fornendo all'operatore una piena consapevolezza della situazione, una “difesa aerea e una gestione delle battaglie aeree, con una sorveglianza continua a 360 gradi di tutte le minacce aeree e marittime”, secondo quanto descritto da IAI.

L'accordo, per un totale di 209 milioni di euro (230 milioni di dollari), è stato firmato nel marzo 2022 e pubblicato nel registro dei provvedimenti esecutivi del Ministero della Difesa (ordine di acquisto 2639). IAI ha aspettato l'apertura del Farnborough Airshow in Gran Bretagna, a luglio, per annunciare l'accordo, senza menzionare l'Italia.

17/07/2022

RENÁN VEGA CANTOR
NATO exploits Picasso’s anti-war ‘Guernica’

Renán Vega Cantor, El Colectivo, 7/7/2022
Translated by John Catalinotto

The author is a Colombian historian

Now it turns out that NATO, a criminal organization par excellence, is using ‘Guernica’ as a symbol of its wars of aggression against the world, where the blood and pain generated by the fascist forces in the small town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, is multiplied.

This group posed in front of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ painting included Queen Letizia of Spain, Jill Biden of the U.S. and 14 other ‘First Ladies’ of ‘world leaders’ attending the 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid, June 29.

The photo is outrageous, although at first glance it appears harmless: A group of women are posing, and in the background is “Guernica,” Pablo Picasso’s iconic anti-war painting. What is behind this seemingly innocent and banal photo?

To understand, it is necessary to discuss who the women in the photo are and what was happening when it was taken. Because let’s remember there is no text — in this case it’s all visual, just a photo — without a context that might allow us to understand it.

In the photo are women linked to European or North American power. They are the “First Ladies,” who met in Madrid on the occasion of the NATO Summit in early July. They were summoned there by Spanish Queen Letizia Ortiz.

That is to say, they are women who accompany the presidents and prime ministers of the member countries of that military alliance that serves U.S. imperialism. The NATO meeting spoke precisely not about peace, but about war.

In this context, the photograph is an apology for war on the part of the women linked to NATO power. Considering the circumstances, the image of Guernica has been dragged through the muck.

Guernica is a universal icon that denounces the barbarities of war in general and the fascist aggression suffered by Spain in the 1930s in particular.

07/04/2022

JORGE MAJFUD
Russia and NATO: the world's most dangerous game

Jorge Majfud, 5/4/2022

Translated by Lena Bloch

 While with one hand, the world's major media are constantly reproducing the horrifying images of hundreds of corpses scattered in Bucha, Ukraine - with the other hand they are stoking the fires of an escalation of war that could lead us to a nuclear holocaust in a course of months.
 

Tasos Anastasiou, Greece

Whoever committed the massacre (it seems most likely to have been Russian soldiers), it will go down in the annals of history as an unforgivable crime. But I think the smoke is obscuring the horizon. We can't see where we come from and worse, we can't see where we are going. Although I have repeated it in different media since long before the war, wrong or not, I will focus on these two sides of the road that the fire does not let you see.

Let's start with a simple and more immediate question: instead of continuing the endless, dangerous, and notoriously useless game of arbitral sanctions, why not impose the obligation to negotiate a resolution to the conflict between Russia and NATO once and for all and before innocent people continue to die?

A reasonable solution would be the dissolution of NATO in exchange for Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine, but that would be labeled radical. The owners of the business do not negotiate.

There are many other options, such as the most obvious and pragmatic one, i.e. Ukraine's neutral status (with provincial autonomy of the Donbas), which is where it should start instead of provoking Russia by integrating Ukraine into NATO and deploying missiles four minutes away from Moscow.

The neutrality or non-membership of NATO has always been the case of Austria, Finland, Sweden and other neighboring countries, some of which have just expressed the possibility of joining NATO, showing where the business of the old war merchants is going and demonstrating, once again, that the fight against communism - and not only in Latin America - has been nothing more than the perfect excuse to maintain geopolitical dominance and protect corporate, class and capital interests.

What do they intend, apart from expanding militarization more and more in a world, now that they have run out of the excuse of communism and, more recently, of Islamic terrorism, which in Afghanistan alone left eight trillion dollars in profits to the big companies specialized in "security"?

Do they think that having Russia surrounded by that anachronistic and mafia-like NATO organization would make Europe and the world a safer place?

You have to be under the influence of alcohol to forget that we are talking about one of the two atomic superpowers and imagine such stupidity. Or such wickedness of organized crime. If it were really about "security", if they were really sincere about "the right to defend themselves" that countries have, they would never have tried to break this order which, judging by the ongoing war, has not made the world, much less Ukraine. safer, but quite the opposite.

Of course, those who have that bargaining power are not being splashed with the blood of Russians and Ukrainians but, on the contrary, are doing their business, so it may take a few weeks, if not months, for them to stop shedding crocodile tears over the whiskey and get down to serious negotiations.

26/02/2022

LUIS CASADO
Ukraine: Was ist das (verdammte) Problem?

Luis Casado, Politika 25.02.22
Original: Ucrania: ¿Cuál es el (jodido) problema?
Übersetzt von Anamaria Diaz-Rodrigo

Laut Hélène Carrère d'Encausse - Sekretärin auf Lebenszeit der Académie Française, „unsterblich“ (wie die Mitglieder der Académie genannt werden), selbst gebürtige Russin und Kennerin der russischen Geschichte - lebten nach dem Zusammenbruch der UdSSR 1991 Millionen von Russen und Angehörigen anderer Nationalitäten im falschen Land (Hélène Carrère d'Encausse - La Gloire des Nations ou la Fin de l’Empire Soviétique, Paris, 1990). Dies war eine der schwerwiegenden Folgen der Nationalitätenpolitik, die die Bolschewiki zu Beginn der russischen Revolution beschlossen hatten.

Die spätere UdSSR bestand aus fünfzehn Sowjetrepubliken, in denen es 20 Autonome Sozialistische Sowjetrepubliken (ASSR) gab, darunter sechzehn in der Russischen Föderation, zwei in Georgien, eine in Aserbaidschan und eine in Usbekistan, sowie acht Autonome Regionen und zehn Autonome Bezirke.

Wladimir Putin täte gut daran, die Werke von Carrère d'Encausse zu lesen, um nicht über Lenin zu lästern, den er beschuldigt, der Schöpfer künstlicher Republiken - wie der Ukraine - zu sein, die heute zum Spielball imperialer Interessen geworden sind.

Im Jahr 1917 besaßen die Großmächte Kolonien in der ganzen Welt. Die Sowjetmacht konnte nur um den Preis entstehen, dass in der Verfassung das Recht jedes Einzelnen auf Unabhängigkeit und Selbstbestimmung anerkannt wurde. Ihre Integration in die UdSSR war freiwillig. Eine Frage des Prinzips. Prinzipien, ein Thema, über das sich heute die meisten der nullachtfünfzehn, die uns regieren, kaputt lachen.

Der Aufsatz, der die Nationalitätenpolitik der Bolschewiki definierte, wurde nicht von Lenin verfasst, wie Putin in einer seiner Erklärungen behauptete, sondern von Iosif Wisarionowitsch Schugaschwili, damals bekannt als Koba, der später als Stalin berühmt wurde. In der Zwischenzeit hat Putin seinen Fehler korrigiert, aber seine apokalyptische Vision einer revolutionären Macht ist immer noch vorhanden. Das ist eine seiner Schwächen.

Putin sollte die Gunst der Stunde nutzen und Carrère d'Encausses Lenin-Biografie lesen. Nicht, weil es das vollständigste oder gelehrteste ist - weit gefehlt -, sondern weil die Autorin zeigt, dass die Zeitspanne, in der Lenin seine Autorität unter den Bolschewiki ausüben konnte, die sehr anfällig für Debatten, für Fragen und für die Suche nach fünf Beinen für die Katze waren, sehr kurz war: vom Oktober 1917 bis zum 30. August 1918 (dem Tag, an dem ein Attentat auf ihn verübt und ihm eine Kugel in den Kopf gejagt wurde): nicht einmal ein Jahr!

Fast ein Jahrhundert lang haben die Kolonialmächte - die USA, das Vereinigte Königreich, Frankreich, Deutschland, Spanien, Portugal, die Niederlande, Belgien, Japan usw. - blutige Befreiungskriege mit Millionen von Toten und schrecklichen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit unterdrückt, die Geschichte bequemerweise ausgelöscht, um sich als Verteidiger der Freiheit und der Demokratie zu profilieren, die sie jetzt verkaufen wollen. Zurück bleiben die Morde an Mehdi Ben Barka, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Ruben Um Nyobè, Félix Moumié, Barthélémy Boganda und vielen anderen.

Es ist eine Tatsache, dass die Ukraine schon immer mit Russland verbunden war: Russland, Weißrussland und die Ukraine haben alle ihre Wurzeln in Kiew. Es waren die Russen, die all diese Gebiete von der Mongolenherrschaft befreit haben (1480), weshalb die heutigen Ukrainer keine schrägen Augen haben. Die unwissenden Journalisten, die behaupten, die Ukraine habe nichts mit Russland zu tun, sollte man fragen, woher Nikita Chruschtschow und Leonid Breschnew kamen, jene grausamen Kommunisten, die der „Westen“ seinerzeit so vehement bekämpft hat.

Aus der Zeit der Korenisazija ("Indigenisierung, Einwurzelung"), die zum Ziel hatte, nichtrussische Völker in den neuen Staat einzubinden, indem Minderheiten explizit gefördert wurden, um diese in den KPdSU-Kader und damit in die Sowjetunion zu integrieren. Russen wurden dazu ermutigt, teilweise auch dazu verpflichtet, in Gebieten, in denen sie eine Minderheit darstellten, die jeweilige Sprache zu lernen. Insbesondere in der Ukrainischen SSR führte die Korenisazija-Politik zu einer regelrechten (Re-)Ukrainisierung. Sowjetukrainisches Propagandaplakat 1921 mit ukrainischer Aufschrift: „Sohn! Tritt in die Schule der Roten Kommandanten ein und die Verteidigung der Sowjetukraine wird gesichert sein.“ Die Blumenranken und das kosakische Outfit des Vaters (Wyschywanka-Hemd, rasierte Glatze mit Tschub, langer Schnurrbart, in der Sowjetunion oft „kosakisches/ ukrainisches Hufeisen“ genannt) wurden gerade in dieser Zeit als spezifisch ukrainisch herausgestellt.

22/02/2022

MANUEL RAPOSO
Who gains from a war in Europe? U.S. targets supply of Russian gas to UErope


Manuel Raposo, Jornal Mudar de Vida, 20-2-2022
Translated by John Catalinotto
Original: A quem interessa a guerra na Europa?

At this moment, the events in Ukraine are shrouded in the cloud of smoke that characterizes war propaganda. Official positions, rather than clarifying facts and reporting the progress of negotiations, aim to crush their opponents’ arguments and convince public opinion to back one side of the dispute. 

                An invigorating kick for the Pindostan (USA) 

To understand the role of each of the adversaries, what each of them wants, and how far they can go, we must explore the origins of what is now an extreme conflict. 

Background

Most recently, it all started with two goals shared by the European Union and the United States. One is the economic expansion of the EU (led by its major powers, particularly Germany) to the east. The so-called Eastern Partnership aimed to draw into the European orbit countries as diverse as Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine – all on Russia’s southern and western borders. 

A second purpose is military expansion of the Western bloc, using NATO to complete the encirclement of Russia’s borders. And it is especially here that the interest of the U.S. as the hegemonic power, in this case, has led to a marriage with the economic ambitions of the EU. 

A setback

When it comes to Ukraine, the Eastern Partnership suffered a setback when Russia offered economic advantages to the then-Kiev government which thwarted European advances. The EU and U.S. response was the 2014 coup d’état, backed by Ukrainian fascist militias, which brought a “collaborating” president to power, followed by a bloody persecution of the Russian-origin population.