On April 12, the Global Sumud Flotilla sails with 70+ vessels and 1000+ participants to break Israel’s ongoing blockade of aid to #Gaza.

Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is providing operational and technical support.

We stand firmly against war crimes, deliberate starvation, genocide, and ecocide.

https://act.gp/4scNrSd

#GlobalSumudFlotilla2026 #gsf #sumudflotilla #gaza #palestine #greenpeace #peace

En Contacto – Radio Habana Cuba

Programa diexista “En Contacto” emitido por Radio Habana Cuba todos los domingos, dedicado a los oyentes de las ondas cortas, Diexistas y Radioaficionados del mundo.

http://elradioescucha.net/2026/04/06/en-contacto-radio-habana-cuba-237/

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116356810759725972

Does Israel have a right to exist?

Yes, about as much as Nazi Germany or any other state guilty of settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Which is to say none whatsoever.

What we have, as human beings, is the right to hold Israel responsible for its crimes, bring it to justice, and extract reparations to ease the plight of the survivors (even though even that won’t undo the incalculable suffering and loss). But we’re not doing that. And by not doing that we are failing our own test of humanity.

More than 80,000 people have signed a petition on the official website of the UK Parliament calling on the government of the United Kingdom to pressure Israel to repeal a law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians.

According to the petition, the legislation constitutes a blatant violation of human rights and international law. It urges the British government to use its diplomatic influence to prevent the law from being implemented.

Under the parliamentary petitions system, if the number of signatures reaches 100,000, the issue can be considered for debate in the House of Commons. This would allow lawmakers to formally discuss the legislation and take an official position on the matter.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116346982407524391

“Glory be to GOD!”

Oh this? It’s just a guy sitting on a nuclear stockpile shouting Allahu Akbar in Yankee.

RT: @dlLambo On BBC news now the TOP 3 news stories are ALL about a SINGLE US pilot who was illegally bombing Iran.

They didn't give a fraction of this coverage to 185 KIDS murdered by the USA.

This isn't news, it is blatant and sickening propaganda for war and the USA.

“A people that oppresses another cannot itself be free” -Friedrich Engels.

Zionism is racism. I state this plainly, not as a slogan designed to provoke, but as a conclusion drawn from history, lived reality, and the political structure that has emerged in what is now called Israel. I am not interested in diluting this claim to make it more comfortable, nor in softening its edges to invite polite debate.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260404-no-apologies-naming-zionism-for-what-it-is/

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

History: Rediscovering Peking International Transmitting Station

According to sources like Shanghai’s "The Paper" and the China Telecom Museum, Peking International Transmitting Station, known in Chinese as 北京国际电台中央发信台 or under its operational "3rd Transmitting Station" or Station Number 3 (第三电台), went into operation in 1951, apparently on June 9th of that year. It is reportedly located in Chaoyang District, but I haven’t found its actual address. The old facility may serve as an inspirational site for "red tourism" –, or more particularly as "a vivid teaching material for strengthening patriotic education and inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of red communications".

EEWorld provides some background in English on what "red communications" is.

It seems that the Peking station’s shortwave transmitters were used both for telecommunications and broadcasting:

After 1952, Radio Station No. 3 served as the broadcaster for Xinhua News Agency’s domestic shortwave news broadcasts and the first program of the Central People’s Broadcasting Station. Its signal covered all provinces and municipalities in China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, playing an irreplaceable role in providing wireless broadcasting services to the entire nation, the Party, government, military, and overseas Chinese communities.

But regular and extraordinary telecommunications tasks, like international conferences, visits by then Chief State Councillor (or Premier) Zhou Enlai to foreign countries, China’s first nuclear test, and Deng Xiaoping’s visit to the United States are also ascribed to the station.

"Red communications" history manifests itself in a number of places, as shown on the China Telecom Museum’s website: in Hankou, with beginnings in 1884, i. e. from imperial China through the years of the Republic of China; in Nanking, starting in 1918; and in Sichuan Province’s Meishan City, beginning in 1965, as a bunkered facility.

Shortwave is considered a strategic resource in China, much more so than in Western countries. The way China’s shortwave radio services (China Radio International etc.) pick up frequencies abandoned by other countries and lay waste to frequencies they don’t actually need, as well as a generally secretive approach to shortwave operation facilities, are palpable examples.

That said, both red tourism and the size of the facilities (often several hectares) should provide a path into places like Peking International Transmitting Station. Whenever there’s nothing else to report, journos seem to dive into these historical (and patriotic) narratives. In Germany, you have to talk about "number stations" to raise some interest (if lucky). In China, just mention "shortwave".