Rechercher : star wars

  • Mexico: To “Transform” Mexican Society Today — Class Struggle #116
    https://the-spark.net/csart1165.html

    – Spain’s North American Colonies
    – The First “Transformation”: The Wars of “Independence,” 1810–1821
    – The Second “Transformation”: “Reformation,” or the Reform Wars, 1857–1867
    – The Third “Transformation”: The Mexican “Revolution” and Its Aftermath, 1910–1940
    – Bourgeois Development in the Shadow of Imperialism
    – And in Imperialism’s Direct Glare
    – The Force Exists That Could “Transform” Mexico

  • Asteroid Will Cover Betelgeuse, May Reveal Its Visible Surface - Sky & Telescope - Sky & Telescope
    https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/asteroid-will-cover-betelgeuse-may-reveal-its-visible-surface

    Imagine your favorite constellation without one of its brightest stars. For a brief moment on December 12th, this may happen to Orion, at least for viewers in a narrow stretch from central Asia and southern Europe to Florida and Mexico. Around 1:17 UTC (8:17 p.m. EST December 11th), the main-belt asteroid 319 Leona will pass in front of Betelgeuse, the red star at Orion’s shoulder, and block its light for a few seconds.

    An occultation of a 1st-magnitude star is rare — such an event is visible from Earth only every few decades — but watching one can give astronomers valuable scientific information. By precisely timing the duration of the occultation from many sites simultaneously, they can refine their knowledge of the size and shape of the asteroid. They may even be able to map Betelgeuse’s strangely large convective cells, by which the star brightens and darkens for months at a time. Betelgeuse is the 10th brightest star in our skies (+0.5 magnitude), so observers need only modest equipment to participate.

  • A Bigger War Is on the Horizon — The Spark #1191
    https://the-spark.net/np_11911001.html

    What follows is the editorial that appeared on the front of all SPARK’s workplace newsletters, during the week of November 14, 2023.

    After a brief cease-fire, Israel has resumed the war in Gaza. Hamas terrorists had killed over 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians. Then the Israeli government unleashed their terror campaign, firing missiles and dropping bombs on hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings in Gaza, killing over 13,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. At the same time, Israel has exchanged fire with Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.

    The U.S. government is in this war. The U.S. has armed Israel to the teeth with military aid. The U.S. uses Israel as its policeman in the region, to ensure access to Middle East oil and profits for U.S. corporations. The U.S. sent two naval task forces and Marines to join all the other U.S. navy, air force and special forces in the region. Within days, the U.S. forces had engaged in fighting with militias in Syria and Iraq. The situation in the Middle East is a tinderbox that could explode into a wider war.

    Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine continues. That war is now almost two years old. More than one hundred thousand have died, soldiers and civilians, Ukrainians and Russians. The U.S. is also in this war, backing Ukraine to weaken Russia. The U.S. and its NATO allies supply the weapons to Ukraine. The Ukrainians supply the deaths.

    Other regional wars continue around the world. There is a war in Afghanistan, a legacy of the U.S. invasion in 2001. When U.S. forces left Afghanistan after 20 years, they left behind chaos and destruction and the seeds of another war. There is a war in Yemen that has gone on for a decade. Over a million people have died. Wars also continue today in Myanmar, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia. Behind the scenes of most of these wars are the major world powers, including the U.S.

    In the last 10 years, the number of wars around the world has gone up by 70%. According to the United Nations, today the number of wars worldwide is the highest since World War Two. The wars we see today are very much like the regional wars that led directly to World War Two and World War One. That is something we can’t ignore. We can’t put our heads in the sand. We have to see what is coming. The warning signs of another world war are there. Today, the U.S. government is steadily increasing its military budget. Many other governments are doing the same. What are they preparing for, if not for war, a bigger war than the ones being fought today, a world war. World War One killed about 22 million people, half of them civilians. World War Two killed 85 million people—3% of the entire world’s population. Much of Europe, Russia and Japan was destroyed.

    That is the future that we may be facing today. And if there is another world war, people here will not escape it. The U.S. is the world’s biggest economic and military power. The U.S. government is already directly or indirectly involved in most of the wars going on around the world today. If there is another world war, this country will be right in the middle of it. There will be no escape.

    But why do we even have wars in the first place? World wars come from the competition between capitalists for more profits. Capitalists from every country fight over the world’s resources and the profits produced by workers’ labor. They use their own governments to go against the capitalists of other countries. If they can’t settle things peacefully, then they are ready and willing to go to war to gain their advantage. The longer capitalism has gone on, the more deadly their wars have been. The wars of the 20th century were the most murderous in human history. A third world war would be even worse.

    But we do not have to accept this kind of future. The ordinary people, the working people of the world, have no reason to go to war. We have no reason to kill each other. Working people can live together in peace.

    To change our future, we will have to get rid of the system that produces war. The working class has every reason to do that. The working class has the power to do that. The working class of the world has the power to build a better society, free from those barbarians and war-mongers who are leading humanity to the brink of destruction.

  • IDF Reports 1,593 Wounded Since October 7, but Hospital Data Is Much Higher

    Ido Efrati and Yaniv Kubovich | Dec 10, 2023 10:03 pm IST
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-10/ty-article/.premium/idf-reports-1-593-wounded-since-october-7-but-hospital-data-is-much-higher/0000018c-552d-df4b-a78e-d52f47ac0000

    Unlike past conflicts and wars, the Israeli army withheld reports of wounded soldiers and their condition. The army released the information after Haaretz reported it is refusing to do so

  • Ce que la fraude révèle du système universitaire
    https://academia.hypotheses.org/51806

    Academia accueille la réflexion d’un chercheur en neurosciences computationnelles, qui revient sur l’affaire Gino-Ariely, du nom de cette professeure star du « Harvard Business School », convaincue de manquements à l’intégrité scientifique. Chercheuse, comme Ariely en “économisme comportemental”, elle assure … Continuer la lecture →

  • [La vie électrique] Nvrmr
    https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/la-vie-electrique/nvrmr

    Aujourd’hui, on parle de séries télévisées :

    The Fall of the house of Usher, de Mike Flanagan Ahsoka, de Dave Filoni

    Programmation musicale :

    Sauveur Mallia - Star Odyssey Alain Pierre - Nacht Shift Ryuichi Sakamoto - Paradise Lost Thandi Ntuli - Sunset (in California)

    https://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/la-vie-electrique/nvrmr_16686__1.mp3

  • Donald Trump Is Indicted in New York - The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/30/nyregion/trump-indictment-news

    Mr. Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case is focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign.

  • Isaac Deutscher
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Deutscher

    Regarding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Deutscher wrote the following allegory: “A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person’s legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies. The man who escaped from the blazing house, having recovered, would have tried to help and console the other sufferer; and the latter might have realized that he was the victim of circumstances over which neither of them had control. But look what happens when these people behave irrationally. The injured man blames the other for his misery and swears to make him pay for it. The other, afraid of the crippled man’s revenge, insults him, kicks him, and beats him up whenever they meet. The kicked man again swears revenge and is again punched and punished. The bitter enmity, so fortuitous at first, hardens and comes to overshadow the whole existence of both men and to poison their minds.”

    Deutscher wrote the following passages in “The Israeli Arab War, June 1967” (1967):

    “Still we must exercise our judgment and must not allow it to be clouded by emotions and memories, however deep or haunting. We should not allow even invocations of Auschwitz to blackmail us into supporting the wrong cause.” (Quoted in Prophets Outcast, p. 184, Nation Books, 2004.)

    “To justify or condone Israel’s wars against the Arabs is to render Israel a very bad service indeed and to harm its own long-term interest. Israel’s security, let me repeat, was not enhanced by the wars of 1956 and 1967; it was undermined and compromised by them. The ’friends of Israel’ have in fact abetted Israel in a ruinous course.” (Quoted in Prophets Outcast, p. 184, Nation Books, 2004.)

    #Israel #Palestine

  • A Strike Leader Rises : “Just Watched Fran Drescher Chew the #AMPTP’s Face Off” | Vanity Fair
    https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/07/a-labor-leader-rises-just-watched-fran-drescher-chew-the-amptps-face-off

    The president of SAG-AFTRA worried some members during negotiations with the studios, but the former Nanny star just proved her mettle.

    Pour accompagner cette image qu’on trouve sur les Internets...

  • Dunia🇵🇸 sur X :

    https://twitter.com/Dunian98/status/1720380152415150227

    The testimony of the Norwegian doctor, specializing in anesthesia and emergencies, about Al-Shifa Hospital.

    You all accuse us of lying. Anyone who condemns the bombing of hospitals and considers it a terrorist crime, you attack them under the pretext of Hamas presence there.

    Listen to what this man has to say, please.

    Israel is a big liar, Israel used to lie in all wars to hide the horrific nature of their crimes and still do

    By validating the false party, you are complicit in these crimes against humanity, which lead to erasing entire families from civil records, aside from killing more than 3,000 children since the beginning of the war.

    Your endorsement of falsehood is a crime through which you support the perpetrator.

    https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1720380025977913344/vid/avc1/720x1280/twL-XsetRPlrDxQB.mp4?tag=14

  • Imperialist Domination Produces War, Death, and Destruction — The Spark #1187
    https://the-spark.net/np1187101.html

    Another barbaric war broke out in the Middle East, this time engulfing Israel and Gaza. The U.S. government and news media blame the Palestinian group, Hamas, for setting off this war.

    Yes, Hamas fighters carried out a murderous rampage, killing over a thousand Israelis and wounding thousands more. This is blind violence, and it has to be condemned. But the U.S. is in no position to condemn this violence. Its hands are not clean.

    The Israeli military’s response to this rampage explains how we got here. For the Israeli military launched a war against the entire Gaza population of more than two million people, half of whom are children. The Israeli government cut off all water, electricity, gas, food, and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, condemning countless people to sickness, starvation, and death. Warplanes have been dropping thousands of bombs every day on Gaza, killing thousands and turning entire neighborhoods into rubble. And while the Israeli army masses a heavily equipped army of 300,000 troops along the border, it has ordered all Palestinians living in the north of Gaza to move to the south, provoking a mass panic, exodus and certainly more death.

    Gaza is a tiny territory, half the size of Chicago. It is one of the most densely populated areas of land on Earth. Most people are refugees, who fled other wars and conflicts. They are extremely poor. And they are already trapped, completely surrounded by troops, guards, fences, walls, and war ships. Gaza is an open-air prison that has been periodically bombed and invaded in war after war.

    The Israeli military now proposes to invade—this means urban warfare, soldiers fighting street to street, house to house, and much more death and destruction. And what will that produce? Ethnic cleansing? This will bring more wars, endless wars. What it will not bring is more protection or security for the various peoples—obviously not the Palestinians, but certainly not the Israelis either.

    Israel, the U.S., and the rest of the big powers denounce Hamas for terrorism. But what these big powers carry out against the Palestinian population is unspeakable terror and violence from one of the biggest, most advanced, and heavily equipped militaries in the world.

    Biden, the U.S. government, and the U.S. military say their support of Israel is the support of the Jewish people. That is a lie. The U.S. supports the state of Israel for one reason: the Israeli state is U.S. imperialism’s cop in the Middle East, a region rich in oil resources, which means tremendous profits and wealth for U.S. oil companies, financiers, military contractors, the capitalist class as a whole.

    In order to safeguard those profits and wealth, the U.S. and the other big powers have divided the different peoples and ethnic groups of the region against each other. Divide and rule is how the U.S. and the other imperialist powers have always imposed their domination. Those divisions have produced nationalist and religious fundamentalism, and many, many wars: Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and all the wars between Israel and the Palestinians. For the Israeli population, that means being on the front line, kill or be killed, over and over again.

    All the peoples of the Middle East could live together in peace, despite all their differences, ethnic or religious. That can only be brought about when the working class and poor of all the different countries in the Middle East rise up and overthrow their own rotten rulers, religious fanatics and parasites who oppress and divide them. This will allow them to get rid of the system that is causing the worsening cycle of wars and ethnic conflicts: capitalism and imperialism. And in so doing they will help the mighty working classes in the big imperialist countries to do the same.

    Peace is possible only when the working class takes power from that tiny capitalist minority that runs society today, in order to run society in the interests of the majority.

  • Imperialist Domination Produces War, Death, and Destruction
    https://the-spark.net

    Another barbaric war broke out in the #Middle_East, this time engulfing #Israel and #Gaza. The U.S. government and news media blame the Palestinian group, Hamas, for setting off this war.

    Yes, #Hamas fighters carried out a murderous rampage, killing over a thousand Israelis and wounding thousands more. This is blind violence, and it has to be condemned. But the U.S. is in no position to condemn this violence. Its hands are not clean.

    The Israeli military’s response to this rampage explains how we got here. For the Israeli military launched a war against the entire Gaza population of more than two million people, half of whom are children. The Israeli government cut off all water, electricity, gas, food, and medical supplies to the #Gaza_Strip, condemning countless people to sickness, starvation, and death. Warplanes have been dropping thousands of bombs every day on Gaza, killing thousands and turning entire neighborhoods into rubble. And while the Israeli army masses a heavily equipped army of 300,000 troops along the border, it has ordered all Palestinians living in the north of Gaza to move to the south, provoking a mass panic, exodus and certainly more death.

    Gaza is a tiny territory, half the size of Chicago. It is one of the most densely populated areas of land on Earth. Most people are refugees, who fled other wars and conflicts. They are extremely poor. And they are already trapped, completely surrounded by troops, guards, fences, walls, and war ships. Gaza is an open-air prison that has been periodically bombed and invaded in war after war.

    The Israeli military now proposes to invade—this means urban warfare, soldiers fighting street to street, house to house, and much more death and destruction. And what will that produce? Ethnic cleansing? This will bring more wars, endless wars. What it will not bring is more protection or security for the various peoples—obviously not the Palestinians, but certainly not the Israelis either.

    Israel, the U.S., and the rest of the big powers denounce Hamas for terrorism. But what these big powers carry out against the Palestinian population is unspeakable terror and violence from one of the biggest, most advanced, and heavily equipped militaries in the world.

    Biden, the U.S. government, and the U.S. military say their support of Israel is the support of the Jewish people. That is a lie. The U.S. supports the state of Israel for one reason: the Israeli state is U.S. imperialism’s cop in the Middle East, a region rich in oil resources, which means tremendous profits and wealth for U.S. oil companies, financiers, military contractors, the capitalist class as a whole.

    In order to safeguard those profits and wealth, the U.S. and the other big powers have divided the different peoples and ethnic groups of the region against each other. Divide and rule is how the U.S. and the other imperialist powers have always imposed their domination. Those divisions have produced nationalist and religious fundamentalism, and many, many wars: Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and all the wars between Israel and the #Palestinians. For the #Israeli_population, that means being on the front line, kill or be killed, over and over again.

    All the peoples of the Middle East could live together in peace, despite all their differences, ethnic or religious. That can only be brought about when the working class and poor of all the different countries in the Middle East rise up and overthrow their own rotten rulers, religious fanatics and parasites who oppress and divide them. This will allow them to get rid of the system that is causing the worsening cycle of wars and ethnic conflicts: capitalism and imperialism. And in so doing they will help the mighty working classes in the big imperialist countries to do the same.

    Peace is possible only when the working class takes power from that tiny capitalist minority that runs society today, in order to run society in the interests of the majority.

    #imperialism

  • [Djiboutik] Calypso #7 : les années 50 et les trois rois du Calypso
    https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/djiboutik/calypso-7-les-annees-50-et-les-trois-rois-du-calypso

    Tout au long des années 50, le calypso sera à son zénith, principalement à Londres avec Lord Kitchener et d’autres musiciens immigrés. A Trinidad, le calypso est dominé par Lord Melody et le limbo fait sensation. En Jamaïque, le calypso connaît un véritable plein essor grâce à Harry Belafonte, véritable star mondiale décédée ce 25 avril 2023.

    https://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/djiboutik/calypso-7-les-annees-50-et-les-trois-rois-du-calypso_15963__1.mp3

  • [La vie électrique] La galaxie vue du studio
    https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/la-vie-electrique/la-galaxie-vue-du-studio

    On était nombreux pour un sommaire bien rempli.

    Des livres :

    Katia Lanero Lamora, La machine (actuSF) Brian McLellan, Les poudremages (Leha) Becky Chambers, La galaxie vue du sol (L’Atalante)

    Une série télé qui vient de se terminer :

    Picard

    Un catalogue d’exposition :

    Les Portes du possible. Art & science-fiction (Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz)

    Programmation musicale :

    Sauveur Mallia - Star Odyssey Jake Blount feat. Demeanor - Give up the world Castus - Cut short crispy Omodaka - Kiso Bushi

    https://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/la-vie-electrique/la-galaxie-vue-du-studio_15762__1.mp3

  • The U.S. Is Dragging the World Closer to a New World War — The Spark #1189
    https://the-spark.net/np1189101.html

    As the latest Israel-Palestine War broke out last month, the U.S. military moved two aircraft carriers, along with several destroyers, cruisers, and missile launchers into the Middle East. They were joined by a nuclear submarine equipped with 147 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

    This wasn’t a “peace keeping” mission. It was war—supporting Israel in its war on Gaza and the West Bank; pushing its control over Iraq and Syria, where the U.S. itself had carried out long, brutal wars that killed millions and forced millions more to flee as refugees.

    Nobody knows what will happen next. But there is the very real likelihood that the unthinkable could become reality. The already smoldering fires of war in the Middle East could trigger a new world war. How close is the world now to being dragged into a new cataclysm? We will find out.

    The Middle East region is explosive today because the big imperial powers, first England and France, and now, the U.S., have dominated the region by playing the different countries and peoples off against each other. This tried-and-true imperialist strategy has allowed a few big oil companies, banks, military contractors, and other instruments of the capitalist class to extract the riches produced out of the Middle East for more than a century, leaving the vast majority of its people in a constant state of poverty and desperation.

    The horrible wars that have come out of this imperial domination go way beyond the countries themselves. For example, the ongoing war in Yemen that has already taken millions of lives is a proxy war between two big regional powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran. But behind Saudi Arabia and Iran stand none other than the U.S., Russia, and China. The same line-up of regional and big powers is involved in the current war that Israel is waging against the Palestinians.

    The Middle East carries in its womb a world war in embryo.

    The U.S. is deeply involved not only in wars in the Middle East. In Europe, with the war in Ukraine, a war that the U.S. has prepared and fueled for more than a decade, the U.S. is using the people of Ukraine as cannon fodder in order to weaken and bleed Russia, an old rival. In Asia, the U.S. has been escalating an economic war with China, the second largest economy in the world, while surrounding that huge country with increasingly more massive military forces.

    The world has become a bloody madhouse. An Israeli government cabinet minister casually raised the possibility of Israel dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza, like it is the most ordinary thing in the world. And he wasn’t even fired, only suspended!

    But not to worry, says President Biden. “I think we have an opportunity to… unite the world in ways that it never has been,” Biden said from the White House on October 20. “We were in a post-war period for 50 years where it worked pretty damn well, but that’s sort of run out of steam… It needs a new world order in a sense, like that was a world order.”

    Amazingly, this justification for a new barbaric world war comes from the President of the United States. According to Biden, World War II resulted in a new world order, a step in the right direction. Forget, infers Biden, the human toll, the 85 million people killed, the thousands of cities and towns destroyed. Eyes straight ahead, says Biden, the world needs a new world order. In casual fashion, he calls for a new global war, which will bring with it an even more terrible toll.

    “I’m optimistic,” said Biden. That’s what politicians said during World War I, which killed more than 20 million people, but was supposed to be “the war to end all wars.” It’s what the politicians said about World War II—even as the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on women, children and the elderly in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the very end of the war in order to demonstrate the explosive ascendency of the new U.S. superpower.

    Those world wars didn’t lead to Biden’s 50 years of peace, but only to bigger wars. The 20th century was the most murderous century in history, with two-thirds of the casualties being civilians. And the present century promises to be even worse.

    Who says it has to be this way? Working people can live together peacefully. But only if the cause of the wars is destroyed, the domination of the planet by a tiny minority of capitalists and other parasites, who are in constant competition with each other for wealth and power.

    Doing away with this domination and barbarism is the historic mission of the working class. Working people may not realize this, nor are most of them prepared to accept this mission today. But their class, the working class, has the power and every interest to do just that. And the world, hurtling toward war, will bring the working class face to face with this necessity. There is no other way out.

  • [La vie électrique] L’aimé t’amorphose
    https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/la-vie-electrique/laime-tamorphose

    On entame une 5e saison de la Vie électrique. Au sommaire, un roman, des bandes dessinées, un jeu vidéo :

    Sabrina Calvo, Melmoth Furieux (La Volte et en poche chez Folio SF) Nicole Claveloux, Pelléas et Mélisande et autres récits (éditions Cornélius) Métal Hurlant n°8 (Humanoïdes Associés) Disco Elysium

    Programmation musicale :

    Sauveur Mallia - Star Odyssey Bibio - Rosewoods Bene Gesserit - Mickey, please Loraine James - Saying goodbye ft. Contour Oneohtrix Point Never - A barely lit path

    https://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/la-vie-electrique/laime-tamorphose_16516__1.mp3

  • Le plastique ne se recycle pas
    https://lesjours.fr/obsessions/les-plastiqueurs/ep6-recyclage

    Les promesses n’engagent que ceux qui les croient. C’est le calcul qu’a fait l’industrie du plastique dès les années 1980, en décidant de promouvoir le recyclage de son matériau fétiche. À première vue, l’idée semble séduisante, brillante même. Qui ne voudrait pas croire au recyclage ? Un processus vertueux visant à faire disparaître les déchets plastiques que nous générons pour en faire de nouveaux emballages ou de nouveaux canards de bain. Avec cette alléchante promesse : la fin du plastique dans les océans et une boucle infinie qui permettrait de ne plus jamais produire de plastique vierge. Attendez… « Ne plus jamais produire de plastique vierge » ? À moins d’être suicidaire, comment l’industrie du plastique pourrait-elle soutenir un processus qui signerait sa mort ?

    La réponse se trouve dans l’excellent documentaire Plastic Wars, diffusé ce printemps et réalisé conjointement par NPR et PBS, la radio et la chaîne de télévision publiques américaines. Dans cette enquête de la journaliste Laura Sullivan, trois anciens responsables de l’industrie admettent pour la première fois à visage découvert que la promotion du recyclage ne faisait que répondre à une stratégie pour verdir l’image du plastique auprès des consommateurs et les déculpabiliser dans leurs achats.

  • [Ze Glaz and Prez Show] #125
    https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/ze-glaz-and-prez-show/125-1

    O Morto - Ali Baba Andrea Belfi - Setteottavi Thomas Stone - An Act Of Surrender Part 4 Arthur Russell - The Boy With a Smile Peter Zummo - Way Better Than I Expected Piotr Kurek - Bau Mehmet Aslan & Valentina Magaletti – Garden De Leon - Untitled 4 Sockethead - Other Side of Chaos (Guilt Mix) Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra - Dream Sleeper London Brew - Miles Chases New Voodoo In The Church Hprizm - GLP3 Pö – Klafouti Yannis Kyriakides - Side of the Mountain Richard Youngs - Benevolence I Raz Ohara - Where To Astroturf Noise - Brack Water Waltz

    https://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/ze-glaz-and-prez-show/125-1_15735__1.mp3