#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #uspeaceplan / #board / #externalcontrol

„In Gaza, it will legitimize Israeli #landgrabs and #ethniccleansing.“

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/27/trump-board-peace-strong-countries-dominate-weak-israel-gaza/

No surprise - #China, alone, is calling for the removal of #minerals from the Just Transition Work Program at #COP30 #climate talks

Well, no surprise to me. The press release from civil society makes the absurd claim that China is "uniquely positioned to champion a just and equitable approach to transition minerals."

Do they really think a authoritarian country, whose #cleantech industry uses #forcedlabor and #landgrabs of #Tibetan and #Uyghur land/bodies will really "champion" justice?

IDF extremely upset with Superman movie for unfairly depicting Israel's genocide

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/zionists-extremely-upset-with-superman

It's really bad when people misrepresent your war crimes…

#IDF #Superman #Unfair #Parallels #Genocide #KillingCivilians #LandGrabs #Colonialism #PlayingVictims #CryBullys

Sunday, June 1, 2025

UK identifies Russia as an ‘immediate and pressing’ threat in new defense review — Ukraine’s enduring cyber defense: Assessing resilience and impact of shifting international support — European leaders shift focus to defending Ukraine without US support — Pompeo urges Trump not to legitimize Russia’s land grabs in Ukraine … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/sunday-june-1-2025/

#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD

"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.

"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."

Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE

#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars

20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend #Democracy from #Authoritarianism, According to Yale #Historian #TimothySnyder

in History | January 20th, 2017

"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of #totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '#Bloodlands: Europe between #Hitler and #Stalin' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The #Holocaust as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that #Nazism wasn’t only a #German #nationalist movement but had global #colonialist origins—in #Russia, #Africa, and in the #UnitedStates, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, #racist #dehumanization, and ideologically-justified #LandGrabs.

"The hyper-#capitalism portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance."

https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html
#History #Histodon #Hitler #Fascism #Authoritarianism #HyperCapitalism #CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism

OnlineFirst - "Compounded extraction: An examination of early agro-extractivism in the US Heartland" by @ProfSecchi

#agroextractivism #settlercolonialism #landgrabs #environmentalhistory

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486251319673

#Trump’s Nightmare Plan for #Gaza

Trump’s recent executive orders show unwavering support of #Israel and the further dehumanization of #Palestinians.

The Intercept, January 31 2025

"After 15 months of Israeli bombardment, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are returning to northern Gaza as part of the first phase of the long-awaited #ceasefire agreement between Israel and #Hamas.

"During his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump pledged to be a peacemaker and claimed credit for securing the deal.

"But mere hours after promising peace and unity, Trump’s actions and rhetoric pivoted. After his inauguration, he signed an executive order lifting Biden-era sanctions against #IsraeliSettlers in the West Bank meant to curb violence against Palestinians.

"'In the #WestBank, Israeli settlers were regularly attacking Palestinian civilians, forcing them off their land, doing things like burning farms, #OliveGroves, oftentimes injuring or killing Palestinians,' says Intercept reporter Jonah Valdez.

"'With Trump lifting those sanctions, Israel is getting pretty much another pass to continue its violent land grabs from Palestinians.'"
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/31/briefing-podcast-trump-israel-gaza-palestine/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/HqqgK
#USPol #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #Colonialism #SettlerColonialism #LandGrabs

#Fires, #Fascism and the Loss of #IndigenousKnowledge

On returning from filming a #wildfire documentary, #PeterKnapp explains how fascism and #racism are connected to #wildfires. LA is just the latest example.

"Replacing the #IndigenousPeople and the fire-resistant natural forests with flammable buildings, fences, bushes, leaf piles, and other colonist infrastructure has made the area much more prone to catastrophic wildfires. This needs to be recognised and the natural balance achieved by the Native Californians needs to be realised and rapidly scaled up to avoid similar catastrophes."

Peter Knapp, January 21, 2025

"Firstly, let’s summarise the scale of the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles to the time of writing (16th Jan). Over an area roughly three times the size of Manhattan, over 12,000 homes have been reduced to ashes, forcing the evacuation of 150,000 people and leaving entire neighbourhoods in ruins. The fires have claimed 25 lives, with 24 individuals still missing. Economic losses and damages are estimated to reach $250 billion, potentially making this the most expensive wildfire in U.S. history, largely due to its destruction of some of the nation’s most valuable real estate.

"Not just celebrities’ homes were destroyed, of course. The Palisades Bowl trailer park, home to nearly 200 mobile units, was largely engulfed in flames. The diverse Altadena community saw over 14,000 acres burnt, including homes, schools, churches, and businesses. Yet, crowdfunding has supported wealthier neighbourhoods much more. This catastrophe, like so many others yet to come, disproportionately affects the poorest and most vulnerable.

"Throughout June-September 2024, I filmed an independent documentary looking at wildfires, their causes and impact. I interviewed 48 people in 6 different countries about their experiences with wildfires or their expertise in tackling them. This took me into a number of interesting side alleys, including the links with organised crime and political corruption. I looked at mental health, biodiversity loss, community-building, and wildfire resilience. But one theme kept returning again and again: the Far Right and fascism. Modern day fascism capitalises on any crisis and, in the case of wildfires, make them more likely.

"I was — and remain — deep in the editing phase of my film when the LA fires, including the Palisades fire, raged. And so I saw these links playing out again, in real time. Here are some reasons for how the LA fires have become so bad, how they are linked to the loss of Indigenous Knowledge — and fascism.

Fire suppression and controlled burning

"For more than 13,000 years before European #colonisation, most #Indigenous Californians practiced controlled burning for a steady supply of food and medicinal plants while maintaining #ecosystem balance.

"This practice preserved old growth while burning the flammable shrub, grasses, and bushes to stop them building up, thereby reducing the chances of catastrophic fires.

"But the #LandGrabs, genocides, and removal of Indigenous Californians led to a loss of this vital sustainable practice. Soon after Western occupation, more than 37,000 Indigenous Californians died at the early Christian missions, and between 1850–1870 around 80% of their population were wiped out. Racist and #colonial attitudes embodied in the '#IndianProblem' gave Europeans the right to enslave native people and take custody of their children.

"In 1830, the Removal Act aimed to displace #NativeAmericans from their tribal lands, whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Native Americans that agreed to give up their homelands.

"In 1850, the US government passed the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, which outlawed intentional burning in California. In 1851, California’s first governor, Peter Burnett, declared that a 'war of extermination' needed to be waged upon Indigenous peoples. A series of unratified treaties of ‘peace and friendship’ forced them out of the coastal areas, including the LA region.

"In 1910, a string of disastrous wildfires, famously dubbed the '#BigBlowup,' ravaged Idaho and Montana and claimed the lives of over 100 firefighters. These were pivotal in persuading Congress, under the advocacy of forest reserve supporters, to create an agency dedicated primarily to suppressing wildfires.

"As the destruction of the natural beauty of the forests was realised by politicians, a ‘zero burn’ strategy to preserve the forests was created, in part to protect the economy and the natural beauty. The Weeks Act of 1911, aimed at protecting nature in the east of the USA, made the indigenous practices of ‘cultural uses of fire’ illegal."

Read more:
https://medium.com/the-new-climate/fires-fascism-and-the-loss-of-indigenous-knowledge-f8609c630231

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VX9GF
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #IndigenousKnowledge #Colonialism #StolenChildren #BoardingSchools #StolenLand #OverDevelopment