aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/3/…

It is now increasingly clear that Western countries, led by the EU and the US, are using migrants as scapegoats to justify militarised border control. The EU’s collaboration with Israel in developing advanced surveillance and AI technology is central to this strategy. The very systems used to track and control migrants today – drones, biometric databases and predictive policing – were tested in occupied Palestine before being deployed at European borders. Asylum seekers, Palestinians, and those in solidarity with them are the first targets, but they will not be the last.

If we fail to challenge these policies, this machinery of control will continue expanding, ensnaring more and more people in its grip. The only way forward is to build transnational solidarity networks that resist these injustices and hold those in power accountable while exposing the flawed political and economic systems that allow for the global dehumanisation of disadvantaged communities. The alternative is to remain silent and allow a future where no one is safe.

It’s not just Trump, the EU is also waging an anti-migration crusade

The European Union’s border control policies may not be as visible as Trump’s but they are just as brutal.

^{Nidžara Ahmetašević (Al Jazeera)}

🚨"We don’t have to immediately contract the flu when someone in America coughs."

"A brief reminder: When the Europeans conquered the American continent in the early 16th century, at a time when coyotes and grizzlies were still bidding each other good night where New York and Los Angeles would later appear – Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo were feverishly drawing, painting and building the Medici’s Florence, the spiritual center of the world. And this High Renaissance was itself just a "rebirth" of the venerated advanced civilizations of Greek and Roman antiquity a couple thousand years ago."

#Fascism #Coup

zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/europe-…

Europe and the US: Thanks America, That’ll Be All

Andy Warhol, Big Mac, iPhone: It was a grand American epoch. But it’s over. Europe must finally emancipate itself – just not as awkwardly as Jürgen Habermas might like.

^{Florian Illies (ZEIT ONLINE)}

Attack on Hungarian Ambassador’s Vehicle (Athens, Greece)

Claim of responsibility for the attack on the Hungarian ambassador’s vehicle outside the Hungarian embassy

The trial of Maja T., a non-binary activist, begins in Budapest on March 6. It is a trial that takes place in the shadow of the
fascism-antifascism conflict in Hungary going on for over a century.

The waves of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which swept through almost all of Europe, manifested themselves in Hungary with the creation of the socialist council democracy that overthrew the bourgeois regime in 1919.

It took the intervention of foreign powers to suppress the revolution and hand over power to the reactionary General Horthy, who established an authoritarian regime. World War II found Hungary siding with the fascist axis powers.

The looming defeat of fascism led the Horthy regime to secret negotiations with the Western Allies. Germany anticipated this development by occupying Hungary in 1944 and establishing a purely Nazi regime of the Crossed Arrows party.

The Red Army’s lightning advance in January 1945 encircled Budapest, trapping thousands of German SS and Hungarian Crossed Arrows men. When they attempted to escape in February, they were surrounded and annihilated, in a Hungarian Meligalas 2 like incident.

The fall of “established socialism” allowed the reconstituted Nazis to claim the “Day of Honor”, on the anniversary of the mass extermination of German and Hungarian Nazis, with their presence on the streets and fascist fanfare.

At the 2023 Nazi fiesta, in a coordinated action that appears to be the work of a multinational anti-fascist strike force, many Nazis were attacked in various parts of Budapest, with nine of them being seriously injured and the far-right Orban government launching repressive operations against anti-fascists. An operation that reflects the blatantly anti-immigrant, misogynistic and homophobic policies of the Hungarian state.

Hungary is just one of the examples of modern states in a world that is constantly changing. It is not an exception, but a prefiguration of the direction in which global domination is heading. After the end of the short fairy tale of globalization, of the “global village” that would constitute a capital “that has no borders”, the world seems to be entering, through a series of successive crises, a new phase of restoring closed up national borders – fortresses, of hyper-intensive armaments, militarism, intolerance, racism. This process presupposes and favors the shift of the political spectrum ever more “to the right”.

Almost all of the major powers today are either ruled by authoritarian regimes or by governments suffocating under the weight of the rising far right, implementing neoliberal, racist, anti-immigration policies. The image of one of the most economically and politically powerful people in the world greeting the crowds with a Hitler salute horribly encapsulates an aspect of the current era.

But like every era, this one has more than one face. The global anti-fascist, anti-state, anti-capitalist resistances are still present. Authority does not act alone and is shielding up by their fear of the internal enemy. Our own action, as a contribution to the international mosaic of resistances, is also an internationalist signal of struggle towards all the forces of radical anti-fascism. The huge mobilizations for the state crime of Tempi, where all sorts of fascists either did not dare to appear or were beaten where they made the mistake of showing their faces, are another hopeful message that nothing is fated to happen, that history can be written by the world of struggle.

To these pages of history belong the anti-fascists from Germany, Italy, Albania, and Syria who were targeted by Orban’s far-right government and remain hostages in Germany, Italy, and France.

Maja T. was extradited from Germany in a fast-track procedure. In a preliminary hearing in a Hungarian court in February, it defended its anti-fascist campaign and non-binary identity.

On the morning of March 4, anti-fascists awaited the arrival of the Hungarian ambassador’s black Mercedes outside the Hungarian embassy, at the intersection of Vas. Konstantinou and Amyntas street. Our hammers that shattered the windows of the embassy vehicle send a message of solidarity to Maja T. and all persecuted anti-fascists.

FOR MILITARY ANTIFASCISM

FREEDOM TO MAJA T.

SOLIDARITY TO THE 2 ANTIFASCISTS WHO ARE PROSECUTED FOR THE ATTACKS ON THE OFFICES OF GOLDEN DAWN

HONOR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST ARMED REVOLUTIONARY KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS

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athens.indymedia.org/post/1634…
Translated by Act for freedom now1

Note: photo not associated with action.

abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…

#anarchist #antifascism #DirectAction #europe #greece #hungary #Maja

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3915
TO PROHIBIT THE INTENTIONAL EMISSION OF ANY AIR CONTAMINANT WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO AFFECT TEMPERATURE, WEATHER, OR SUNLIGHT INTENSITY;

scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-…

🚨🇬🇧 “Even now we don’t know what we were supposed to have done, that resulted in 6 Police Officers arresting us at our home”
Interview with Man arrested for criticising his daughter’s school in a private WhatsApp Group.

The UK is the New North Korea ‼️

@billgatesisapsycho
minds.com/newsfeed/17526777937…

🚨🇬🇧 “Even now we don’t know what we were supposed to have done, that resulted in 6 Police Officers arresting us at our home” | Minds

...ave done, that resulted in 6 Police Officers arresting us at our home”. Subscribe to @InformationLife on Minds

^Minds

Radical Judge Boasberg Is Fighting to Give Tren de Aragua Killers, Criminals, and Rapists Individual Rights that He Stripped from J6 Defendants in the Courtroom

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/r…

Radical Judge Boasberg Is Fighting to Give Tren de Aragua Killers, Criminals, and Rapists Individual Rights that He Stripped from J6 Defendants in the Courtroom | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Judge James Boasberg's controversial rulings raise serious questions about due process as he seeks to extend individual rights to violent criminals while denying them to January 6 defendants. ve into the implications of his decisions.

^{Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)}

looks like my shars "precision" """keyless""" drill chuck is finally giving up the ghost.

yea it is actually precise, as far as runout goes, but it doesn't grip very well and i think the design just sucks cause it lets go at the slightest reverse inertia such as stopping the spindle

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