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'Free Palestine' Shouts US Soldier as He Immolates Himself

In December 2023, Rachel Corrie also blew herself up in protest against the genocide in Gaza.

On Sunday afternoon, an active-duty US soldier immolated himself in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest against the genocide in Palestine.

In a video posted on social media, 25-year-old soldier Aaron Bushnell is seen dousing himself with flammable liquid and setting himself on fire until engulfed in flames. While he performs this act that would lead to his death, the US soldier shouts "Free Palestine."

"I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonisers, it’s not extreme at all. Free Palestine!," he said in the video.

"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now," Bushnell posted on X hours before immolating himself.

The Metropolitan Police of Washington responded immediately to the incident. The U.S. Air Force confirmed that a member of its ranks had been involved in the incident but did not provide further details.

The fire department and emergency services indicated that Bushnell was rushed to the hospital with "critical" injuries. The U.S. soldier died a few hours later.

In recent weeks, opposition to the Israeli offensive in Gaza has spread across the United States, where human rights activists demand an immediate ceasefire.

"This isn't the first incident of self immolation in the U.S. over the ongoing Gaza war. In December, a protester set herself on fire outside Atlanta’s Israeli Consulate," the Industan Times recalled, referring to Rachel Corrie, a peace activist who also chose self-sacrifice as an extreme form of protest.

"Many in the United States are angry over Biden administration's ‘insensitive stand’ with the nation vetoing a ceasefire resolution at United Nations Security Council on several occasions," it added.

Palestinian Authority Government Submits Resignation to Abbas

The U.S. wants the PNA to assume executive functions in Gaza when the war ends. Israel, however, has been reluctant to that possibility.

On Monday, Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayeh and his cabinet presented their resignation to Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

"I put the government's resignation at the disposal of President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, February 20, and today I present it in writing," Shtayeh said at the beginning of a meeting with the PNA cabinet in Ramallah, in the West Bank.

Shtayeh explained that this decision comes "in light of the political, security and economic developments related to the aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip, and the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank, including the city of East Jerusalem."

"The resignation comes in light of what our people, our Palestinian cause and our political system face: a ferocious and unprecedented attack, genocide, attempted forced displacement, famine in Gaza, intensification of colonialism, settler terrorism and repeated invasions of fields and villages in Jerusalem and the West Bank," Shtayeh lamented.

"We will continue to be in confrontation with the occupation, and the Palestinian National Authority will continue to fight to establish the State on the lands of Palestine, against its will," said Shtayeh, who thanked President Abbas for "his wisdom and support" and his ministers "for his exceptional work in exceptional circumstances."

Shtayeh considered that the current government, which has served for five years, did a good job under difficult circumstances. However, he opted for "a new stage whose challenges require new governmental and political agreements that take into account the new reality in the Gaza Strip and dialogue for national unity."

"We have an urgent need for an inter-Palestinian consensus, with a national basis, broad participation, unity of ranks and the extension of the PNA throughout the land of Palestine," he stated, making tacit reference to the failed efforts at national reconciliation after several unsuccessful dialogue attempts between Fatah, a secular party that controls the ANP, and Hamas and other groups such as Islamic Jihad.

The PNA cabinet resignation comes at a time when Israel has presented a "post-war plan for the Gaza Strip." This proposal has sparked a discussion about who will assume civilian control of that Palestinian territory, where the Zionist state will not consent to the Islamist group Hamas regaining power.

Presented on Feb. 22, the Israeli Post-War Plan does not mention the existence of a civilian government. However, it does highlight that Zionist troops will control security in Gaza with freedom of movement, just as it is currently happening in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli soldiers regularly come in to arrest "terrorism suspects."

It seems that the United States wants the PNA, which currently governs small areas of the West Bank, to assume executive functions in Gaza when the war ends. Israel, however, has been reluctant to such a possibility.

Cubana de Aviacion Restarts Flights Between Havana and Caracas

There was no air traffic between Havana and Caracas for 4 years

The Cuban airline announced the restart of its flights between Havana and Caracas. From February 25, 2024, passengers will be able to travel between these two Latin American capital.

The schedules of these flights will be at 7:45 in the morning from Havana, Cuba time, to reach Caracas at 11 am, Venezuela time.

The return flight from Caracas is scheduled for 1 pm Venezuelan time and will arrive at 4:15 pm Cuban time.

Flights will run once a week. The airline will fly to Caracas every Sunday. There was no air traffic between Havana and Caracas for 4 years

According to Cubana de Aviación, the round-trip ticket, for the period from 10 to 17 March 2024, will be priced from US$ 865.20.

The ticket price between Havana and Caracas includes taxes, surcharges and supplements. Travel will be made on Tupolev 204 equipment.

Spy Hunt At Danish University: Secret Police Cracks Down On Foreigners

"Avoid becoming the Russian intelligence agency's employee of the year"

• Propaganda poster put up by the secret police at Denmark's University of Aarhus.

According to reports coming out of Denmark, the regime is getting increasingly paranoid about the risk of foreign infiltration of academia. A pilot project at the University of Aarhus has screened foreign applicants for research jobs in order to single out not only those suspected of being foreign spies but also those suspected of becoming spies in the future.

The screening project was initiated at the request of PET, the regime's secret police, who has been running a propaganda campaign to make academics look for suspicious activity. The project targets applicants of Russian, Chinese and Iranian origin. Applicants are being investigated for having co-authored articles with people the regime finds suspicious, it is investigated whether they have personal circumstances making them likely of being compromised by foreign spy agencies and the dean of the institute they are applying to is asked to assess whether the applicant will work with information deemed sensible if they get the job. Sensitive information can be found in fields such as energy infrastructure or arctic policy.

Just short of 200 applicants were screened by the university last year and 10% of applicants screened were rejected for being potential spies. Unsurprisingly government media reports that students and academics at the university are in favour of the screenings but the paranoia is likely to have consequences for academic freedom and will have chilling effects for academics and complicate international academic exchange.

Coup attempt in Chad?

There are reports of an attempted coup d'état underway in Chad, after a group of soldiers reportedly headed towards the presidential palace in N'Djamena in an attempt to take control of it. Violent clashes are underway in the capital of Chad, N'Djamena, between the armed forces loyal to the transition president Mahamat Deby and the dissidents led by the political opponent Yaya Say it. This was reported by sources quoted by the information site "Tchad One", according to which several deaths and injuries were recorded on both sides in the fighting.

the transnistria thing is real?

soviet re-union when

Amex cards sound like a fucking scam lol. Who tf would pay so much for a credit card.

KY Bill to roll back worker rights and protections

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How to Read Donald Duck

My favorite piece of theory

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Apparently Portuguese legislative elections are in a week. AFAIK Bloco de Esquerda is cool enough to participate in electoralism for. There’s a call for an arms embargo on Israel signed by parliamentarians from Israel supporting nations. Portugal has five signatures, which are the entirety of BE and no one else.

I’ve never gotten the chance to vote because I live in America and have only realized elections are coming up too late to get my documents in order (i.e. go to DC). Same thing happened this year.