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@theory I like cat ears but I prefer them to be on cats. Humans, I prefer stick with human ears. I'm not thrilled about the whole transgender thing, and going trans-species is about the only possible way things could devolve further.
Our Water Our Way is putting the conversation about the future management of water where it should be, in the hands of parliament and the public, explains Judy Seymour
It’s a key moment for the water industry.
ESA’s Hera mission has captured images of asteroids (1126) Otero and (18805) Kellyday. Though distant and faint, the early observations serve as both a successful instrument test and a demonstration of agile spacecraft operations that could prove use…
Vladimir Dzhabarov, First Deputy Chair of the Russian Federation Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee, joins RT to respond to the sentencing of Gagauzia's leader Yevgenia Gutsul to seven years in priso...
After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA. The Tennessee native earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University and a master’s degree in aviation systems from the University of Tennessee. Wilmore […]
NASA Lies about Most Everything! Earth is Flat, We live under a Pressurized Dome! The Sun and Moon are the same size! The Earth is Not a Globe! Earth does not Spin or Tilt! The Dome is 73 Miles High at the North Star Center! There is only One Pole, the North Pole! There is NO South Pole at all! Water is Flat, not Curved! Stars are physically Attached to the Dome, IN Water!
LMFAO....The sun moves in a circle overhead and goes out of our range of sight from morning to evening, while at the same time lighting up another part of flat earth in it's big circle. Flat Earthers are WELL Informed!
@Stacewizer I'm here to point in the right direction, not teach Globetards how to realize where they live. Do your own research like I did. I used to be a Globetard and then I did my research and learned the truth.
DERP! Foucalt's pendulum. si.edu/spotlight/foucault-pend… It doesn't take 3 days for a solar flare to travel 70 miles. This is too stupid to consider. There are so many disproofs for which only one is required. Flerffy nonsense for smooth brains.
@magnetron This is NOT an Education Channel my friend. We just point the way to truth and it is up to you to do your own research and learn properly next time.
Hey remember how that guy Will Duffy was offering flat earthers free trips to Antarctica to check for the 24-hour sun they all claimed doesn't exist for year...
I wondered that too until trying to talk to a few and have a reasonable conversation. They all freak out at facts and start name calling, so I can just tell they're not trolling. Marshal Jean deletes comments with evidence refuting flat earth.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Tuesday that supermarket giant Walmart has confirmed its continued investment in the country and expressed
outre la famine, la soif aussi frappe Gaza avec des nappes aquifères pollués et des canalisations cassées
La plupart de l’eau provient de puits qui ont été encore plus pollués par les eaux usées et les produits chimiques qui s’infiltrent à travers les décombres
Chapters in Resistance – Ahmad Mashlab, The Voice that Still Echoes
“He would have turned 21 in two months,” Fatima Mashlab tells Al-Akhbar, her voice filled with sorrow, yet an unwavering pride for her brother Ahmad.
Ahmad left his home in October 2024. He told his family it was for “training.” It was common – almost routine – for young men his age to answer the Resistance’s call, as Israel’s attacks on Lebanese territory were intensifying and the war was looming.
“We never knew his whereabouts, he never disclosed his location,” Fatima recalls. “But we assumed he was in a relatively safe place.”
And then, there was silence, a deafening silence. All communication abruptly ceased before the unilateral ceasefire took effect. No calls. No messages. Nothing.
Assuming communication channels were cut, Ahmad’s father began searching for his son. He later learned he had been stationed in Houla. At that time, anyone who stayed in Houla was either declared missing or martyred. “We were told by the only survivor that Ahmad was last spotted in a house with a group of fighters,” Fatima recounts. “My brother had left briefly with the group to retrieve supplies, when an Israeli airstrike targeted them.” Ahmad’s family, however, remained hopeful. “We thought he might have sought refuge in a nearby facility,” the sister says.
Ahmad left his home in October 2024. He told his family it was for “training.” It was common – almost routine – for young men his age to answer the Resistance’s call, as Israel’s attacks on Lebanese territory were intensifying and the war was looming.
Ninety-eight days passed and Houla was still besieged. “Israelis had set up a checkpoint,” Fatima bitterly recounts. “Anyone who tried to reach the town was shot. They killed an 18-year-old girl and did not even allow us to retrieve her body.” As days mercilessly dragged on, reality came crashing down just a day before Houla’s liberation: “We were told that there was no one in the facility.” No sign of life. Only dismembered limbs and unidentifiable remains were found. And, while Fatima recalls every second of the long days leading up to this moment, the series of events that followed seemed more blurry in her memory.
But, clinging to the last few threads of hope, she waited for the DNA results before announcing Ahmad’s martyrdom. What she still remembers vividly though, is going back to the site with her father, looking for more remains, for twenty slow days, and later her father’s voice over the phone when the results came out. A father having to tell his daughter that some of the limbs that were retrieved were in fact her brother’s.
Nearly 100 days of excruciating uncertainty ended, only to be replaced by grief and gratitude as the family received Ahmad’s remains piece by piece. “Still, I am grateful we could give him the burial he deserved. I would have even taken a strand of his hair. Anything. He is my only brother,” she whispers.
In Ahmad’s world, faith, community, and duty were inseparable. He was a cub master in the Scouts, mentoring children aged between 7 and 11, and a computer science student. He passed with distinction, he was about to graduate with his peers: “he was still missing at the time.”
Fatima stood tall in Ahmad’s funeral. “I cried, alone. I cried a lot,” she admits softly. “Of course I miss him. I miss him terribly, but I am extremely proud of him and his devotion.”
And on the eve of the 10th of Muharram, one of the most sacred nights, Ahmad’s head was returned – “a poignant echo of Imam Hussein’s (a.s.) martyrdom. I keep thinking to myself how lucky he is to rise on a night like this,” she adds with comfort.
In Ahmad’s world, faith, community, and duty were inseparable. He was a cub master in the Scouts, mentoring children aged between 7 and 11, and a computer science student. He passed with distinction, he was about to graduate with his peers: “he was still missing at the time.” Ahmad was a devoted reciter of Latmiyat, moving from one majlis to the next, then to scouts, then back to his studies. “That was his life,” Fatima confirms. Ahmad was a frequent visitor of holy sites in Syria, in Iraq, in Lebanon. He would selflessly recite there too, without expecting compensation. “He never cared about money, he just loved to recite and serve.” The proud sister smiles as she revisits the times he would ask her to film him reciting at home, a shared moment that now brings her solace. “I feel that, in small ways, I got to be part of his incredible work. It gives me relief.”
To Ahmad, the cubs were more than a responsibility, they were his companions – his untouchable sanctuary. He spent most of his time with them, teaching them Latmiyat and chanting together. The children adored him too. The same cubs he once guided stood in line during his funeral, with steady voices, reciting the Latmiyat he had taught them as a final farewell, as a pledge to continue his legacy.
Reflecting on one of the few phone calls they had with Ahmad, Fatima remembers her mother asking him if he was getting sick. “He told her he had the flu for some time and he was receiving treatment at the Islamic Health Organization, but that now he was fine.” At the time, this raised the sister’s suspicions: “Ahmad would never go to a healthcare clinic for the flu. And even if he had to, he would never mention it, especially to our mom.” It was not until much later that the family learned that Ahmad had been wounded and rushed to the clinic . “He did not want to lie to [our mom], but he could not bear to let her worry either. We later learned that he also refused to leave when he was given the choice following his injury. This would not be the first time he chose the Resistance, particularly since he was initially spared as an only child.
So, in many ways, Ahmad’s legacy is his selflessness – quietly bearing the weight of pain and duty so others could be spared. His voice reciting still echoes around Houla, as a reminder of all the sacrifices made daily.
“Chapters in Resistance” is a series of portraits dedicated to those being murdered every day by the Israeli killing machine, and a reminder of our collective responsibility to commemorate martyrs, and to tell their stories in the words of those who knew them.
The US west has been DANGEROUSLY dry of rain for the past several years. Lake Powell and Lake Mead (two of the largest reservoirs) have dropped to critical historic lows (close to the point where the dams can no longer function) over the past couple years and this patter is all over that entire area.
"“He would have turned 21 in two months,” Fatima Mashlab tells Al-Akhbar, her voice filled with sorrow, yet an unwavering pride for her brother Ahmad. Ahmad left his home in…"
#Trump‘s wide-ranging #tariffs went into effect at 12:01 AM ET on Thurs, just as the economic fallout of his months of threatening them is surfacing in visible damage to the #economy.
The import taxes will reach a level not seen in the #US in almost 100 years, with Americans expected to pay an average of 18.3% more for imported products. That’s the highest rate since 1934….
Companies are dealing with the #tariffs in various ways. For example many automakers appear to be swallowing the costs – for now. But most economists say the cost will ultimately be borne by #US #consumers & #businesses to some degree.
The White House said that starting just after midnight that goods from >60 countries & the #EuropeanUnion would face tariff rates of 10% or higher. Products from the #EU, #Japan & #SouthKorea will be taxed at 15%, while imports from #Taiwan, #Vietnam & #Bangladesh will be taxed at 20%. For places such as the EU, Japan & South Korea, #Trump also *expects* them to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the #US.
…But so far, there are signs of self-inflicted wounds to America as companies & #consumers alike brace for the impact of new taxes. What the data has shown is a #US #economy that changed in April with #Trump’s initial rollout of #tariffs, an event that led to market drama, a negotiating period & Trump’s ultimate decision to start his universal tariffs on Thursday.
After April, economic reports show that #hiring began to stall, inflationary pressures crept upward & #home values in key markets started to decline, said John Silvia, CEO of Dynamic Economic Strategy.
“A less productive #economy requires fewer #workers,” Silvia said in an analysis note. “But there is more, the higher tariff prices lower workers’ real #wages. The economy has become less productive, & firms cannot pay the same real wages as before. Actions have consequences.”
#Krasnov is using tariffs to shake down the government of US trading partners. As far as I know, this is an unique operation and alert the world economy. Today, EU tariffs is 15%. Waht about tomorrow ? If something happens Krasnov doesn't like, it could be 20 or 25% soon. You never know. He`s going to tear down the whole market.
“We Are all Palestinian Children”: EZLN Condemns Genocide in Gaza during Encounter of Resistances and Rebellions
Mexico City | Desinformémonos. “Today, in one of the small parts of this planet, the capitalist system is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget or set aside; therefore, our humble word to them is: we are all Palestinian girls; we are all Palestinian boys,” said Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés at the inauguration of the Encounter of Resistances and Rebellions “Some Parts of the Whole,” which began this Sunday at the Comandanta Ramona Caracol IV Seedbed in Morelia, Chiapas.
In front of hundreds of militiamen from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), who marched to the compound each carrying batons and Palestinian flags, Subcomandante Moisés condemned the genocide at the hands of Israel and silently extended the Palestinian flag in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
The ceremony opened the Encounter, in which thousands of people from 37 countries will participate until August 17th to share with Zapatista men, women, and children their experiences and proposals in their struggles against the destruction of nature, migration, racism, wars, the destruction of life, and the destruction of identities, peoples, and communities.
During the Encounter, the Zapatista communities will explain to the collectives, activists, and organizations the problems their communities face and the progress and setbacks they have observed.
The conference’s activities include roundtables and workshops addressing specific topics with practical proposals for territorial defense, women’s political participation, art as a form of resistance, forced migration, armed conflict, and community lifestyles.
According to previous announcements from El Capitán Marcos, representatives from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Galicia, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Kurdistan, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, the Balkans, the Basque Country, Panama, Peru, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and Uruguay will participate in the meeting.
“We Are all Palestinian Children”: EZLN Condemns Genocide in Gaza during Encounter of Resistances and Rebellions abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/207…
"Mexico City | Desinformémonos. “Today, in one of the small parts of this planet, the capitalist system is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget or set aside;…"
New Delhi, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) India and Russia today reaffirmed their strategic alliance with the signing of a protocol to deepen cooperation in aluminum, fertilizers, railways and mining technology.
Just spent an hour and a half puzzling over why this variable in my compose.yml wasn't working only to finally discover someone pointing out that it doesn't actually get set properly in its corresponding config file and you have to do it manually. Which meant finding the default volume and inadvisably editing it outside of the container because whoever put the Docker image together didn't see fit to include it with any text editor at all. And this was not a small project, this was fucking Collabora.
I respect #FOSS devs; I'm not much of a programmer myself, but sometimes, they baffle me for entirely different reasons.
I have to wonder why people don't comment anymore. Has it become vilified out of fear of disagreement? This is social media, and frankly, it's the only form of human connection most people have anymore; the least you can do is just a little more than the internet equivalent of nodding solemnly while your comrades shout into the void.
@🦊 OneFluffyBoi 🦊 It all does. Part of the reason I don't use Peertube is because I've literally never seen a comment on a share on a video from it that isn't from its creator.
@🦊 OneFluffyBoi 🦊 Yeah, Lemmy is the exception for sure. I don't like most of the people I see on there, but at least they're out there making themselves unlikable.
I've noticed that the microblogging portion of the Fediverse seems to have trouble generating engagement and I'm not really sure why.
Because... Not just anti-virality, but invisibility of users marginal to the Fediverse (all the people from the global south, black and brown users from the global north, all the people who do NOT share the ideology of liberal imperialism) is built into the very structure of the Fediverse. Such users get no followers, their posts receive no boosts, so no one ever becomes aware of their posts. Even if these users add hashtags to their posts, and even if someone else actively searches for those hashtags later, they do not find those posts.
This thread explains how this happens in practice, taking the global south user base as an example.
🧵 on how #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, invisiblize the #GlobalSouth.
I have argued a few times that for all practical purposes, the global south does not exist for Mastodon, and for the rest of the Fediverse.
In this context, remember that search on the Fediverse is strictly local, your search runs only on your server. If your server has not pulled a particular post from another server, your search will not find it, no matter what search sorcery you try.
And your server will only pull a post from another server if someone on your server is following that poster, or if someone on your server boosts that post. If that doesn't happen, you as a user will not become aware of that post, even if you search for precisely the topic of that post.
(There is a roundabout way in which you can become aware of the post: someone you follow on another server boosts that post, and then it appears in your "Home" stream. But in the case of users marginal to the Fediverse, the follower count is almost always too low, so this hardly ever happens in practice, to any statistically significant degree.)
@Feral Ferment This is, if anything, even more of an issue with social media that has algorithms, so that doesn't go far into explaining it. It does say we need to decentralize away from everyone using mastodon.social but not why fedi users themselves appear so introverted and reluctant to reply to one another much of the time, in contrast to users of corporate social media.
This is, if anything, even more of an issue with social media that has algorithms
I don't think that's true.
Look, it's quite simple.
One: the sheer size of the user base of commercial social media like Facebook, Twitter etc. is vast compared to the Fediverse. That alone increases the likelihood of someone interacting with one's post.
Two: The commercial social media have vast user bases in the global south, and among brown and black folks in the global north. Therefore, those people find a large number of people "like them" to interact with.
Three: The infamous algorithms ensure that at least some posts of one's interest land in the "home" stream without the user being aware in advance of the existence of those posts or posters.
In case of the Fediverse, the material conditions dictate that there won't be enough users in the global south setting up their own servers. So the users there are at the mercy of global north instances admins and their whims. This is also true of black and brown folks from the global north.
(And would the global north fedi instances be able to handle a truly large flow of users from the global south? I guess not. They will simply shutter new registrations. It will be justified from their point of view.)
What you see in the Fediverse today is obviously a reflection of power imbalances and lopsided resource distribution in real life.
@Feral Ferment I see a lot of complaining, and not a lot of action here. I also see some hyprocrisy: Here you are, as a person living in India, but follow few people, don't engage much on the platform; your primary engagements seem to be posting long form essays.
I follow a lot of folks in the global south here; it's easy to do so without even realizing you're doing it, because if you engage, people will engage back, regardless of where you live. Yes, your server is probably located overseas — and that's the case with basically the entire internet. Africa doesn't have a whole lot of major servers running in it.
The algorithm doesn't help people from the global south find engagement; if anything, it buries their voices. In the fediverse, your engagement is based entirely on whom you engage with.
It's certainly a fact that fewer people on these platforms — any of these platforms — will be following or posting using tags tailored specifically to the global south. That unfortunately goes without saying, and it's been that way since before even the advent of social media: There's a reason Marx wrote persistently about Europe and North America and didn't mention China or Vietnam once, and it isn't because there's some problem with the way that books work.
But that didn't prevent people in China and Vietnam from writing along the same lines as him. That didn't prevent them from engaging with his work, either. The difference is, now, someone in Vietnam can intentionally federate with mastodon.social (as you'll recall you recommended I do) and use the "communist" tag, and get as much engagement as anyone in North America would be expected to; whereas the algorithm would instead bury them simply for mentioning the word.
This really is a case of putting in what you want to get out of the platform. You've told me to do so, but yet, your argument is that people in the global south in specific shouldn't have to.
You made a lot of aggressive statements, let's call them passionate statements 😀
This isn't my first rodeo, I have opened Mastodon accounts in the past, done all the things you say I ought to be doing, and found no engagement. I know people from the global south who have had similar experiences. You cannot simply blame those people and say it's all their fault.
A large number of black folks from the global north (primarily American blacks) have documented how awful their experiences of the Fedi were, and how nothing they faced on Facebook or Twitter was remotely close to that. Again, you don't get to tell them they were doing the Fedi incorrectly.
Understand that there may be reasons why people can't stay on a computer/smartphone all the time. People may decide that the Fedi is simply not worth the time and the effort, and you need to learn to accept that their point of view could be valid.
Try being not so judgemental.
Also, what's with the derision for long-form essays? Are you saying nothing longer than a tweet deserves engagement?
you don't get to tell them they were doing the Fedi incorrectly
This is my actual issue here. If you were simply a rando that I found talking about the experience of someone in the global south with the fediverse, I'd absolutely be listening more actively. But you aren't; you're someone who has been advising me, sometimes rather intensely, about how to effectively use the fediverse, straight on through to our very first interaction which was your criticism of the platform I was on. I just find this all deeply ironic and hypocritical. And now, to call me judgmental for pointing this out?
Yes, some people don't want to "do the fedi properly". That is absolutely 100% valid and I understand people not being excited about every fedi platform gleefully advertising itself as "having no algorithm!" Some people like the algorithm. Some people don't want to put in a ton of work into making sure they're federating with everything and using the right hashtags and engaging with the right people. That's valid.
What isn't valid is what is happening here: I am noticing a social phenomenon in which the average fediverse user doesn't tend to like commenting. They're happily liking and sharing things, but there isn't a lot of human engagement because of what I perceive as as a fear of conflict. Your response, which I am criticizing, is to tell me aktyually, people in the global south have it way worse, because they don't want to do the fediverse properly, and shouldn't have to! — but you still should, because you're not in the global south; make sure you do all the fediverse things with mastodon.social!
You're hijacking this conversation and you're doing it in the most hypocritical fashion. That's my issue.
I am getting a bit lost here. I initially replied to a reply to you by @🦊 OneFluffyBoi 🦊, but I did not think in terms of hijacking your original post. I still don't think I did, but I understand your interpretation is different.
I agree that there are wild fluctuations in the intensity of my engagement with you, and with the Fediverse, on this channel. I do not wish to get into the reasons for that. Those reasons have nothing to do with the Fedi, and everything to do with my personal situation at the moment.
I do not know if you are making that point, but I agree that I am not some sort of representative global south user. I don't think you are a representative global north user either (whatever that may mean). Our actions need not necessarily be examples for others to follow.
I was pointing out that there is a larger social pattern being reflected in the absence of engagement on the Fediverse. Among other things, that's based on my observation of the mastodon.social explore section. That does not necessarily invalidate your guess that fear of conflict may be stopping people from engaging. I am skeptical of that (in a statistical sense), based on my own experiences, but it is not something one can prove or disprove.
To put this differently: I guess there is a deep contradiction in me expressing deep skepticism about the sociopolitical relevance of the Fediverse, especially for the global south; and yet being here, and urging you to start a hubzilla instance and increase engagement by all possible means, and engaging in intense discussion about those means.
I suppose it can/does appear hypocritical.
At this point, I offer no justification or analysis; that's just the way it is.
When we're offering criticism, we need to ensure it's done in the correct place, and also that we discuss not only what is failing, but how it can be done better.
23 au 30 août - APPEL À ACTION pendant la semaine de solidarité avec les prisonier.es anarchistes / 23rd to 30th August 2025 - CALL FOR ACTIONS during Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prison
CALL FOR ACTIONS during Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners 23rd - 30th August 2025!
Every year we call for solidarity and actions with anarchist prisoners during the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. Join with actions, letter writing, lectures, community events, banner drops, movie screenings, .... Get inspired by the last years: solidarity.international/index…
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Every letter is bringing light into the darkness of the isolation, every action will remember our comrades who are fighting alongside us inside of the prisons. Our solidarity brings strength and warmth into dark cells, into the heart of our comrades. Lets stay connected and fight together!
❤️🔥Until all are free no one is free! Against prison society, towards connection
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CALL FOR ACTIONS during Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners 23rd - 30th August 2025!
Every year we call for solidarity and actions with anarchist prisoners during the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisone…
Free all Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian Prisoners: Lebanon’s Captives in Zionist Jails
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network calls upon all international solidarity movements, human rights advocates and organizers for political prisoners to advocate for the liberation of all Arab and Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails, including the 16 Lebanese and at least four Syrian prisoners being held — with no official documentation as to their whereabouts, conditions or status.
In a new report on 5 August 2025, Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper reported the full known list of Lebanese political prisoners and detainees held captive by the Zionist occupation regime. Notably, the vast majority of these detainees have been abducted from Lebanon after the ceasefire on 27 November 2024 as part and parcel of the ongoing aggression against Lebanon.
The Lebanese prisoners include workers, fishers, shepherds, and freedom fighters. Many of the men were abducted as they returned with their families to their homes in the south of Lebanon from which they were evacuated at the height of the war. In fact, no one is certain if this list is fully complete, as the Zionist regime continues to violate the ceasefire on a daily basis, invading parts of southern Lebanon along the border with occupied Palestine, conducting drone attacks and assassinations, attacking fishermen in the Lebanese seas, and even seeking to erect military bases.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been denied access to the men and the Zionist regime has not provided the identities of detainees to Lebanese military, intelligence or security officials, nor, reportedly, to the United Nations or even the United States. Instead, these Lebanese men are explicitly being held as hostages in order to attempt to extract concessions from Hezbollah and the Lebanese Resistance, as “every piece of information ahs a price.” The only source of information about the detainees has been released prisoners from Lebanon, who spoke about the men with whom they were held, informing their families about their conditions and circumstances.
They are being held alongside Palestinian prisoners, in the same dangerous, unhealthy and often life-threatening conditions. Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails and military camps are routinely subjected to physical and sexual assault, psychological torture and abuse, sleep deprivation, starvation and denial of access to food, denial of medical care and medical mistreatment. Recent reports have highlighted the so-called “Rakevet” wing, an infamous sealed underground section in Ayalon Prison, opened especially for the confinement and torture of Palestinian resistance fighters. Zionist media reported that those held there under 24/7 surveillance, solitary confinement and constant conditions of physical and psychological torture are “high-risk prisoners from Hamas and Hezbollah’s Radwan force;” it is not clear if the six resistance detainees are held there or if there may be other, unknown and missing Lebanese being held hostage by the Zionist regime.
At the same time that “Israel” is engaged in daily, violent, illegal aggression against Lebanon, including extrajudicial assassinations, bombings, invasions, abductions and hostage-taking, the United States, other imperialist powers and even Arab and Lebanese reactionary forces are seeking to impose conditions on the resistance, confiscate the weapons of the resistance, “disarm Hezbollah,” impose normalization with Zionism and subjugate Lebanese defense to the same parties providing billions of dollars of weaponry and unlimited political, diplomatic and intelligence support to the Zionist regime, especially the U.S. These men are being held hostage in order to further those illegitimate demands and to attempt to impose Zionist-imperialist control over Lebanon, its people and its future.
Of course, this is the same tactic being used in occupied Palestine, where “Israeli” genocide has been ongoing for not only 22 months but 77 years, and the occupation is starving, bombing and killing the entire population in Gaza while imprisoning 10,800 Palestinians in torturous conditions — and the response of the U.S., France, Britain, Canada, Germany and the imperialist powers is to fund, arm and support the genocidaires while demanding the disarmament and subjugation of the Palestinian people and their resistance.
As Georges Abdallah said upon his liberation from French prisons after 41 years, “With resistance, the road home is never lost, for me or for my imprisoned fellow comrades. Their resilience inside depends on our steadfastness outside…The condition of freedom is to rally around the resistance.”
The struggle to free these Lebanese and Syrian prisoners in Zionist jails is inextricably linked with the struggle to free all Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails, and with the liberation of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. We call today for all supporters of Palestine, all who stand against genocide and occupation, to include these prisoners of freedom in our actions, mobilizations and solidarity. This is the moment — especially in the imperial core and states with complicit governments — to escalate and act, for Gaza, all of Palestine, the prisoners, and Lebanon. This also means openly confronting all attempts to impose subordination or defeat on the Palestinian and Lebanese people, particularly through demands for “disarmament” or confiscation of the weapons of the resistance. It is the resistance that is standing on the front lines against genocide, for self-determination, sovereignty and liberation.
We must demand instead the disarmament of the Zionist entity; a total two-way arms embargo; a full boycott in military, diplomatic, economic, academic, cultural, and sports arenas; prosecution of the genocidaires in international and Palestinian courts; the complete withdrawal of Zionist forces from Gaza, all of occupied Palestine, Lebanon and Syria; and the liberation of all of the Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian prisoners in Zionist, imperialist and reactionary prisons jailed for resisting genocide, occupation and colonialism. We do not have time to wait — this is the time for action.
Below is the list of detainees compiled by Al-Akhbar as well as posters for all of the prisoners for whom pictures are available:
List of civilian hostages:
Ali Younes (Hermel) Abducted from Wadi al-Hujeir on Dec 19, 2024
Fouad Qattaya (al-Qasr) Abducted from Wadi al-Hujeir on Dec 19, 2024 – Ali Younes and Fouad Qattaya are workers who install aluminum. Both were seized as they were traveling to a workshop in Shaqra.
Hussein Karaki (Khirbet Salem) Abducted from Markaba on Jan 26, 2025 – Hussein Karaki was shot by “Israeli” occupation forces multiple times while participating in the liberation of his mother’s town on 26 January; his mother, Tamara Shahimi, was martyred beside him. His current location is unknown.
Hassan Hammoud (Taybeh) Abducted from Taybeh on Jan 27, 2025
Ali Tarhini (Jibshit) Abducted from Odaisseh on Jan 28, 2025 – Ali Tarhini, 19, was abducted by occupation forces as the people of Odeisseh sought to liberate it and return home. He was shot in his back, stomach and feet.
Mohammad Jheir (Naqoura) Abducted at sea on Feb 2, 2025 – Mohammed Jheir is a Lebanese fisherman abducted from his boat in Lebanese waters.
Murtada Mhanna (Maroun al-Ras) Abducted on Feb 16, 2025
Ali Fneish (Maaroub) Abducted at sea on Jun 4, 2025 – Ali Fneishis a Lebanese fisherman abducted from his boat in Lebanese waters.
Maher Hamdan (Shebaa) Abducted from Shebaa on Jun 7, 2025 – Maher Hamdan, 28, is a shepherd who was abducted from Shebaa Farms as he was tending a herd of sheep. His family did not know what had happened to him until Ali Fneish’s family learned that both Ali and Maher were imprisoned together in late July.
Imad Amhaz (Hermel) Abducted in Batroun on Nov 1, 2024
List of Hezbollah captives:
Hassan Aqil Jawad (Aita al-Shaab) Captured in Aita al-Shaab, 2024
Mohammad Abdel-Karim Jawad (Aita al-Shaab) Captured in Aita al-Shaab, 2024
Ibrahim Munif al-Khalil (Aita al-Shaab) Captured in Aita al-Shaab , 2024
Yousef Abdullah (Babliyeh) Captured in Aita al-Shaab , 2024
Hussein Sharif (Yammouneh) Captured in Aita al-Shaab, 2024
Waddah Younes (Houla) Captured in Blida, 2024
Syrian captives accused of supporting the resistance in Palestine:
Ali Khaled Hamadeh (Quneitra) Captured in the Occupied Golan
Nael Mishaal (Quneitra) Captured in the Occupied Golan
Mohammad Ahmad Abu Sadeif (Quneitra) Captured in the Occupied Golan
Khalil Al-Aref Al-Ali (Daraa) Captured in the Occupied Golan
"Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network calls upon all international solidarity movements, human rights advocates and organizers for political prisoners to advocate for the liberation of all Arab and Palestinian prisoners…"
NPA Unit Successfully Fights Off Attack By AFP Troopers In Capiz Province
The New People’s Army (NPA)-Central Panay (Jose Percival Estocada Jr Command) repelled the 12th IB’s attack on one of its units at the boundary of Barangay Artuz and Barangay Apero in the town of Tapaz, Capiz Province, on July 19. The NPA actively defended against the military troops by swiftly preparing and launching a counterattack.
“Taken by surprise, the military reacted like rabid dogs by indiscriminately firing shots,” the NPA-Central Panay said. To conceal their defeat, the 12th IB supported by the 3rd ID, fabricated myths of their so-called victory against the NPA.
The unit refuted the military’s media claim of having recovered high-caliber firearms and other materiel from the battlefield. “None of our comrades left any equipment behind, contrary to the military’s bragged lies. The social media released photos are fabrications of the military,” it said.
The NPA also refuted the military’s statement about a clash that encircled an NPA camp on June 16 in Sitio Naatig, Barangay Lahug, Tapaz. Also contrary to their claims, the soldiers did not recovered any weapons, explosives, other materiel, subversive documents, or personal belongings on that day. Also false is the 82nd IB’s subsequent claim of having excavated NPA weapons and other items in Barangay Dalagsaan, Libacao, Aklan Province.
“These are desperate acts and seriously worrisome increasing expertise of the 3rd ID military units in weaving lies,” the NPA-Central Panay said. They clearly aim to report “victory” to deceive the public and claim bounty.
These 3rd ID fictions are accompanied by real multiple human rights violations soldiers perpetrate during focused military operations. The butchers out-rightly disregard human rights and international humanitarian law to achieve a declaration of Stable Internal Peace and Security (SIPS) status throughout the island of Panay.
These military operations disrupt the people’s peaceful life. They also sow terror and anxiety, especially as the military forbids or limits farmers from accessing their farms to tend to their animals and crops.
The New People’s Army (NPA)-Central Panay (Jose Percival Estocada Jr Command) repelled the 12th IB’s attack on one of its units at the boundary of Barangay Artuz and Barangay Apero in the town of Tapaz, Capiz, on July 19.
"The New People’s Army (NPA)-Central Panay (Jose Percival Estocada Jr Command) repelled the 12th IB’s attack on one of its units at the boundary of Barangay Artuz and Barangay Apero…"
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#Teacher Explains Why Inca #Human Sacrifice Was Okay Walsh: Needless to say, the claim that 8 year old kids “volunteered” to die of starvation and hypothermia is insane. These are the kinds of moral monsters that teach your kids in public school. Pre-Columbian societies like the Aztecs and Incas were terrifyingly evil, prominently featuring human sacrifice. In the Inca empire, the form of sacrifice called “capacocha” primarily involved children and young women selected for their physical perfection and purity. She is the sort that infests our schools has no problem with this: https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1952738682470895669 To sum up, human sacrifice is fine because everybody does it. Inca human sacrifice upheld social justice because it killed members of the elite. It was kind, because the victims were left to freeze to death instead of having their beating hearts ripped out of their chests the way the Aztecs did it. If you disapprove of Inca human sacrifice, you have received a white education; i.e., you are a racist.
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