China’s EVs dominate the world — why not in the US and Canada?
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Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake got me to reflect on what parts of the original Dragon Quest I I found special, and it manages to elevate Dragon Quest II and turn it into one of my new favorite games in the series.

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PFLP Praises the Heroic “Gush Etzion” Operation


The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praises the heroic operation that targeted the “Gush Etzion” settlement established on occupied land south of Bethlehem, which resulted in the killing of a settler and the injury of eight others, including one serious injury, and confirms that this operation represents a natural response to the escalation of settler crimes in the occupied West Bank.

This operation proves that the will of our Palestinian people is stronger than the terrorism of settlers and occupation plans, and also confirms that resistance will not remain idle in the face of crimes committed by occupation soldiers and settlers in the West Bank.

The Front emphasizes that threats by occupation leaders to resolve the conflict in the occupied West Bank, or any plans they prepare under various pretexts to implement displacement, uprooting, and escalation of aggression in the West Bank, will be met with valiant resistance from our heroic people, and all will be shattered against the rock of our people’s steadfastness and determination to defend their rights, land, and sanctities.

The Front extends its proud greetings to the two heroic martyrs who carried out the heroic operation, and confirms that the choice they drew with their blood is the choice of comprehensive resistance, which is the only way for our people to respond to occupation crimes, and this path will not be abandoned until our people’s goals are achieved in liberation and return.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Information Department

November 18, 2025


Al-Shahid Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades: “The will to fight will not be defeated in us”

The Al-Shahid Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, praises the heroic martyrdom operation at the intersection of “Gush Etzion” settlement, south of Bethlehem, which resulted in the killing of a settler and the injury of others.

We express our deepest condolences to the families of the martyrs and our pride and honor for the souls and arms of the strugglers who carried out this heroic operation, who knocked on the walls of the tank to make the whole world hear our cry saying: “The will to fight will not be defeated in us” as long as this occupation is sitting on our land, affirming that the blood of the martyrs will not go in vain, and that resistance will continue and will not stand idly by in the face of these escalating crimes.

This operation comes as a slap in the face to what the occupation called “the defense plan for Gush Etzion”, which did not withstand the determination and will of our great people’s strugglers and resistors in the occupied West Bank.

This operation is a natural and rightful response from our great people to the systematic escalation and expansion of settler gangs’ attacks, supported by the occupation army, against humans, stones, and trees in the occupied West Bank, accompanied by shameful complicity from the international community, within a policy aimed at turning the West Bank into scorched earth, besieged and chained with settlements and barriers, creating a new colonial reality, implementing a comprehensive plan to annex all of it and impose forced displacement and uprooting.

The brigades renew their call to our people’s masses in various cities and villages of the occupied West Bank to escalate resistance and open confrontation against occupation and settlers, and to confront their crimes.

Our pledge is eternal revenge that does not fade
Glory to martyrs, freedom for prisoners, recovery for wounded
Tomorrow, fog will clear from hills
And we are certainly victorious
Al-Shahid Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades
Military wing of Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine
November 18th 2025

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Palestinian resistance rejects UNSC approval of US ‘occupation plan’ for Gaza


Palestinian resistance factions condemned the passing of the UN resolution approving US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza, saying Washington’s initiative amounts to a “new form” of occupation.

“Assigning the international force with tasks and roles inside the Gaza Strip, including disarming the resistance, strips it of its neutrality, and turns it into a party to the conflict in favor of the occupation,” Hamas said in a statement. “The resolution imposes an international guardianship mechanism on the Gaza Strip, which our people and their factions reject. It also imposes a mechanism to achieve the occupation’s objectives, which it failed to accomplish through its brutal genocide.”

It also reaffirmed its legal right to resist occupation by “all means.”

“This resolution seeks to achieve objectives the occupation failed to realize through its repeated wars. Even more dangerous is that it separates the strip from the rest of the Palestinian territories and imposes new realities that contradict the constants of our people and confiscate their right to self-determination, foremost among them the right to resist the occupation – a right guaranteed by all norms, laws, and international conventions,” said the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) affirmed “absolute rejection of the UN Security Council’s decision on the Gaza Strip, considering it an attempt to impose guardianship through the so-called ‘Board of Peace,’ which has been granted transitional and sovereign authorities that reproduce the occupation in a new form, sideline the Palestinian role, and strip the UN of its mandate.”

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin praised the resolution as a necessary “first step” on a “long road towards peace.”

US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the resolution “charts a possible pathway for Palestinian self-determination … where rockets will give way to olive branches and there is a chance to agree on a political horizon,” adding that “it dismantles Hamas’s grip, it ensures Gaza rises free from terror’s shadow, prosperous and secure.”

The UN Security Council (UNSC) approved Washington’s 20-point plan for Gaza early on 18 November, effectively placing the besieged strip under the control of US President Donald Trump.

UN Resolution 2803 passed by a vote of 13-0. Both Russia and China abstained. Algeria voted in favor of the resolution despite statements by Hamas and other resistance factions calling on the North African country to reject it.

The passing of the resolution has approved the formation of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) and the establishment of an interim technocratic government, which will be under the authority of a “Board of Peace” led by Trump.

The board will “be chaired by me, and include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World,” the president said on social media.

This Board of Peace, according to the resolution, will act as an internationally recognized administrative body with legal international personality, tasked with governing, financing, and restructuring Gaza.

It will be in place for two years, with the possibility of further extension. The board will oversee the ISF, a Palestinian technocratic committee, and a local police force, and will be in charge of aid entry and reconstruction.

The ISF has been given powers to use “all necessary measures” to disarm all resistance factions and enforce the dismantling of all resistance infrastructure as a condition for eventual full Israeli withdrawal.

Until then, the occupation regime will be allowed to maintain a “perimeter” presence inside Gaza.

The resolution grants broad privileges and immunities to foreign personnel, including civilian and military actors operating under the Board of Peace and ISF – which will receive legal protections and operational freedom inside Gaza.

It also says that if the PA reforms itself “faithfully” and Gaza’s reconstruction advances, the “conditions may be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”

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Un truco para LibreOffice que os vengo prometiendo desde hace más de un año.

Cómo conectar LibreOffice directamente al cloud de Educamadrid, o a cualquier otro cliente OwnCloud/NextCloud.

(Es decir, evitando instalar un cliente de sincronización, y guardando un registro de cambios como el que hace Word en la nube de Microsoft).

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Palestinian Political Prisoner in Italy Anan Yaeesh Returns to Court on 21 November

On Friday, 21 November, Anan Yaeesh, Palestinian political prisoner in Zionist jails, along with Ali Irar and Mansour Doghmosh, will face his next court hearing in L’Aquila, Italy. The Free Anan campaign is calling for the widest participation in rallying outside the court and supporting them inside on Friday, 21 November, at 9:30 am, Via XX Settembre 68, outside the Tribunale de L’Aquila.

The prosecution will be presenting their closing arguments on 21 November, and reports indicate that the Zionist ambassador to Italy will be present in the court — making it more important than ever to show a strong presence to hold war criminals accountable and free Anan and his comrades.

Anan has been held recently in the high security Melfi prison, after he was transferred from the Terni prison, seemingly in retaliation for the popular demonstrations outside the prison in support of his release. This means he is further from both the L’Aquila court and from Rome, where his lawyers are based, deliberately hindering his defense.

While the imperialist Italian government under right-wing Georgia Meloni has repeatedly proclaimed its dedication to the Zionist colonial project in occupied Palestine, the Italian people have demonstrated their outrage against Zionist-imperialist war crimes, including demanding the release of Anan and dropping all charges against him and his co-defendants, Ali Arar and Mansour Doghmosh.

If you are outside Italy, you can still participate in supporting Anan Yaeesh alongside Ali and Mansour.

Anan is a 37-year-old Palestinian activist and a former prisoner in Zionist jails from Tulkarem in the West Bank of occupied Palestine. Active in the liberation movement during the Second, or Al-Aqsa, Intifada, he was imprisoned for 4 years in Zionist prisons and seriously injured after an ambush by colonial special forces in 2006. In 2013, he left Palestine for Norway before settling in Italy in 2017 and obtaining a residence permit there in 2019. At the end of January 2024, he was arrested by the Italian police in the city of L’Aquila, where he resides, then transferred to detention in the high-security prison of Terni — and now to Melfi — for alleged collaboration with the Tulkarem Brigades, an organization linked to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (one of the armed groups of Fateh, that continue to uphold Palestinian liberation rather than “security coordination” with the occupier.)

While the L’Aquila court rejected the initial attempt to extradite him to the Zionist regime in occupied Palestine on 12 March 2024, noting that he would be subjected to torture, Italian prosecutors arrested two more Palestinians one day before, on 11 March 2024 — Ali Irar and Mansour Doghmosh — accusing all of them of supporting the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Tulkarem. In September 2024, the court ordered Ali and Mansour’s provisional release, while the charges remained in place, but Anan has been continually imprisoned in a high-security facility.

On Wednesday, 26 February, Anan Yaeesh addressed the court, emphasizing the legitimacy of Palestinian resistance under international law and the necessity of confronting genocide. (Read his full statement here.) He noted:

“You want me to defend myself against the accusations against me, but I am ashamed to seek acquittal on charges that, for me, represent a source of honor. I do not want to defend myself against the accusation of having rights and having claimed them, or of having tried to liberate my people and my country from colonial oppression. I swear that I have no intention of being acquitted of the legitimate resistance against the Zionist occupation. The Palestinian resistance is one of the noblest phenomena known to history. On the contrary, I am ashamed to find myself in a warm room, even in prison, while children in Gaza die of cold, hunger, and thirst. I am ashamed of the humane treatment received from the prison authorities here, while my fellow prisoners in Israeli jails suffer the worst torture, oppression, and abuse.”

Anan’s trial has been repeatedly delayed, especially as the movement in solidarity with Palestine has grown; his supporters believe that these delays are a deliberate attempt to forestall a verdict due to the potential for popular outrage and action if Anan is convicted or, even worse, extradited to Palestine. The final hearings in the case were scheduled initially on 19 and 26 September, but due to the transfer of the associate judge, they have been rescheduled without applying the mandatory procedures to avoid interruption of the proceedings and the constitutional right to a trial without undue delays. The conclusion of the preliminary investigation is now scheduled for 31 October, with the prosecution’s closing arguments on 21 November and final closing arguments, including for the defense, on 28 November.

During the trial, the Free Anan campaign writes, “the prosecution failed to prove any involvement of the three in violent actions against either civilians or Israeli settlers. No breach of the limits imposed by international law regarding the right to resistance was shown. In fact, the prosecution failed to even prove that such events ever occurred. This confirms the political nature of a trial that increasingly appears an attempt to criminalize Palestinian solidarity and resistance.”

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international activists and organizations for Palestinian liberation to stand with Anan Yaeesh, Ali Arar, Mansour Doghmosh and all Palestinian prisoners in exile and diaspora, and the international prisoners of the Palestinian cause in imperialist jails. Support Anan’s legal defense, protest or deliver letters to Italian embassies to demand that the trial of the three Palestinians ends with all charges dropped, and publicize his struggle for liberation as part and parcel of the struggle to liberate Palestine, from the river to the sea.

We have a sample poster in solidarity with Anan Yaeesh that you can download and use:

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Imprisoned Palestinian Leader Abdullah Barghouti Subjected to Torture in Occupation Prisons


Imprisoned Palestinian leader Abdullah Barghouti — one of the leadership prisoners that the Zionist occupation regime has repeatedly refused to release — is being subjected to severe torture and abuse inside the occupation prisons. As Zionist politicians, including the infamous fascist Minister of Internal Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, in charge of the occupation prisons, further their draft “law” for the execution of Palestinian prisoners, they continue to seek to legitimize the existing practice of slow assassination and extrajudicial killing inside the occupation jails.

Palestinian prisoners, especially the over 1468 Palestinians abducted from Gaza by invading genocidal forces currently held in the occupation military camps and prisons, in addition to the thousands of Palestinians from Gaza who have been liberated by the Resistance, are routinely subjected to physical and psychological torture, sexual assault and rape, starvation, denial of medical care, medical neglect, beatings, denial of access to hygiene and sanitation needs, denial of family and legal visits. Those being held in the underground Rakevet prison, including Palestinians from Gaza and Lebanese prisoners abducted from Lebanon, as well as those held in the notorious military camps like Sde Teiman, have been subjected to the worst abuses in a system constructed on torture. Over 83 names of Palestinians martyred in the occupation prisons in the past two years have been released, while a new report revealed that at least 98 Palestinians have been martyred in the prisons; however, hundreds of Palestinians’ bodies returned to Gaza show clear signs of being imprisoned and restrained, killed through torture or extrajudicial execution.

The imprisoned leadership prisoners are also singled out for severe abuse, particularly as they represent widely admired and respected figures within the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and within society as a whole, are representatives of the Palestinian resistance, and exemplify the commitment of the Palestinian people to achieve their liberation by any means necessary. The occupation seeks to humiliate and break the will of those whose unbroken will has become a symbol of the Palestinian people’s dedication to their land and liberation. They include Abdullah Barghouti, Ibrahim Hamed, Hassan Salameh, Abbas al-Sayyed, Ahmad Sa’adat, Marwan Barghouti, Jamal Abu al-Haija, Anas Jaradat, Muammar Shahrour, Mohammed Jamal Natsheh, Muhannad Shreim, Mohammed Arman, and many others, among the nearly 10,000 Palestinians imprisoned by the occupation.

Abdullah Ghaleb Barghouti, 53, and sentenced to 67 life sentences for his role as a leader and engineer in the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has been imprisoned since 5 March 2003. During that time, he has been repeatedly held in isolation and solitary confinement alongside other leadership prisoners. Most recently, he is being subjected to extreme physical torture and abuse in Gilboa Prison; in a statement, the Asra Media Office emphasized that the Zionist treatment of Barghouti is an “attempted slow execution against one of the most prominent leaders of the prisoners’ movement, and a crime that could lead to his martyrdom at any moment.”

Barghouti and his fellow leadership prisoners were immediately isolated after 7 October 2023 and the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, and further held in isolation throughout the US-imperialist-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. He is currently held in Gilboa prison, where he has been subjected to systematic beatings for over 25 months. Occupation jailers have invaded his room at all hours of the day and night, accompanied by dogs, and beat him until he is bloody. His fellow prisoners in the isolation section have nothing to treat the wounds except for torn clothing and dubious water from the prison basin. For three months, he has suffered with untreated fractures and breaks in his elbow and palm, his fingers, two broken ribs, and a tear in the tendons of his hand. He has lost 35 kilograms (over 70 pounds) of weight as a result of the starvation policy imposed on the prisoners.

The Asra Media Office said that the jailers in Gilboa prison deliberately poured water on his body and then exposed him to electricity, in order to torture him through electrocution; he was also placed in a room with prisoners suffering from scabies without treatment, which led to him developing boils and sores on his body. He has severe difficulty moving his hands as a result, and is denied even basic painkillers, when, in the past, any Palestinian prisoner’s health issues were treated with paracetamol/acetaminophen.

Barghouti was beaten by the guards on 1 November 2025, 11 October 2025, 10 October 2025, and 30 September 2025, according to the most recent reports. On 30 August 2025, his severe beating at the hand of the Zionist prison guards led to the breaking of his elbow and palm, with visible deformation of the bones due to lack of treatment.

Abdullah Barghouti is a Jordanian-Palestinian citizen who was the leading engineer of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, following the assassination of Yahya Ayyash.

His release, along with that of other imprisoned resistance leaders, like Ibrahim Hamed, Hassan Salameh, Abbas al-Sayyed, Ahmad Sa’adat and Marwan Barghouti, is one of the top priorities of the Palestinian resistance in a prisoner exchange. Inside the prisons, he wrote the novel/memoir, “Prince of the Shadow: Engineer on the Road” in 2012, presenting a fictionalized work based on his life story in prison, his resistance to the occupation, and his emergence within the resistance. He spent 10 continuous years in solitary confinement in the occupation prisons and has been repeatedly held in isolation; he has had less than 10 family visits during his 23 years of imprisonment.

These most recent reports follow the alarm raised by Barghouti’s daugher Tala, in April, when she reported that Barghouti has bruises and open wounds all over his body; his fellow prisoners in the occupation jails help him to disinfect his wounds with dishwashing liquid, as they are denied sanitary products and he is actively being denied access to healthcare.

“The lawyer left the visit with tears in her eyes, unable to convey the shock and anguish she witnessed. It encapsulated the daily torment of a prisoner whose dignity is being crushed without mercy,” Tala reported. He struggles to stand or to sleep due to his multiple injuries, including boils and bone fractures. He reported that occupation soldiers threatened Barghouti: “We will kill you as we killed Sinwar, all of you, one by one!” Multiple liberated prisoners have reported specific demands to curse the martyred Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other major national figures under torture inside the Zionist jails.

Abdullah Barghouti is a Jordanian-Palestinian citizen who was the leading engineer of the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, following the assassination of Yahya Ayyash.

Inside the prisons, he wrote the novel/memoir, “Prince of the Shadow: Engineer on the Road” in 2012, presenting a fictionalized work based on his life story in prison, his resistance to the occupation, and his emergence within the resistance. He spent 10 continuous years in solitary confinement in the occupation prisons and has been repeatedly held in isolation; he has had less than 10 family visits during his 23 years of imprisonment.

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We urge all supporters of Palestine and the Palestinian cause to speak out actively and take action through demonstrations, mass actions and direct actions to confront the abuse of Palestinian prisoners, including Abdullah Barghouti and fellow Palestinian leaders. The imperialist powers, like the US, Canada, Britain, Germany, France and the Netherlands, that continue to arm, support and provide cover for the Zionist genocidal regime in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, are fully implicated in these inhuman actions. This moment is no less urgent than that prior to the “ceasefire”, violated daily by the occupation.

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Today, the Zionist regime is attempting to legitimize its policy of systematic rape, torture and abuse by passing the law of the execution of Palestinian prisoners. It is daily confiscating land and taking the lives of martyrs in the West Bank. It is conspiring with the United States and given free rein by the illegitimate and unjust Security Council resolution passed on 17 November to impose joint imperialist/Zionist occupation on Gaza. It is up to the international movement to not leave the prisoners, the resistance, and the Palestinian people alone to confront this vicious enemy.

Indeed, repressive acts by imperialist powers — such as the US’ and Canada’s sanctions on Samidoun on 15 October 2024— are meant to deprive the Palestinian prisoners’ movement of external support and solidarity, to hide the crimes being committed against them and prevent the perpetrators from being held accountable, and to limit, chill and suppress the growing movement for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners as part and parcel of the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. They especially seek to repress this movement as the Palestinian resistance has made clear that it insists upon and is committed to a proper prisoner exchange with dignity to release Palestinian leaders and all Palestinian prisoners in the Zionist jails. The repression in the imperial core is also meant as a mechanism of pressure against the Palestinian people, their prisoners and their Resistance.

Our entire movement must respond collectively to such repression by organizing even more loudly, clearly and effectively to shut down the imperialist-Zionist war machine, to support the Palestinian resistance and all forces of resistance in the region, and to ensure that the Palestinian prisoners are not now and will never be isolated from the Palestinian people, the Arab, Islamic and regional liberation causes, and the international movement for justice.

Freedom for all Palestinian prisoners in occupation jails! Victory to the Resistance!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

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I would be tempted to say "Let Mamdani run things as he likes and watch everything fall apart." But that would imply that New York City has a completely closed system that would never get bailed out by the state or federal government. Since it is not, leftists can never truly be allowed to live with the consequences of their retarded choices, so Mamdani running wild would not give us the proper experiment if he were to have his way 100%.

tout juste incroyable, vraiment une très bonne surprise ce matin. je crois aussi que c’est la première fois depuis 1974 que le festival n’a pas lieu.

“Face à la pression des auteurs et des éditeurs, le festival d'Angoulême 2026 est annulé”

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Detente? Trump says Mamdani will visit White House on Friday
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Calling plant-based food veggie “burgers” or “sausages” may be banned in the UK under the new trade agreement with the EU

The labelling ban has been supported by the French meat industry, and a similar proposal has been discussed by the Italian government. The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has said: “A sausage is a sausage. Sausage is not vegan.”

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