#dirty war

[agentfascinateur]

A reminder about Palestine:

Firstly, the existence of the country of Palestine was never in question. And secondly, as per the UK's own words in the oft-referred to "foundational" "Balfour Declaration":

"NOTHING SHALL BE DONE WHICH MAY PREJUDICE THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS RIGHTS OF EXISTING NON-JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN PALESTINE."

Plain as day.

#palestine #palestinians #israeli apartheid #israeli occupation #gaza #al aqsa mosque #free palestine #free gaza #illegal occupation #dirty war #illegal annexation #war crimes #genocide #justice #icj #icc #israel #balfour declaration #state of palestine #icj hearing #south africa #tunisia #uk #united nations #unrwa #us weapons #usa #bernie sanders #free palestinians #west bank

[beautiful-basque-country]

Drugs as part of Spain's dirty war against Euskadi

In 1982, the proliferation of syringes on the streets, young people wandering around with withdrawal symptoms, and small-scale robberies in stores or homes were evidencing a problem that would leave a trail of deaths in that decade that was impossible to calculate anymore. Heroin was going to mark an entire generation at a very politically turbulent time.

Citizens' perception of the impending catastrophe would become official in some way with the Basque Government's Plan against Drug Dependence was introduced on February 9, 1982. It included some figures for the first time: there were already between 6,000 and 10,000 heroin addicts aged 14-25 in Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa. Something else was pointed out: "Police action in this matter has been weak" and "public authorities have neglected it." The plan warned especially about Gipuzkoa, where drugs flowed with absolute freedom, to the point of being the place in the Spanish State where the most heroin was consumed after Barcelona.

Man doing heroine on the street in Bizkaia.

Why Gipuzkoa? To the purely geographical elements (possibility of entering by sea, proximity of the border to another state) were obviously added the political ones: it was the region in which there was the most political agitation - which the youth was most involved in - and in which ETA had the most strength. It was also the epicenter of police action against the insurgents, with the Intxaurrondo Guardia Civil barracks as the main reference.

Heroin coincidentally punished the areas very close to Intxaurrondo: the neighborhoods of Altza and Herrera, Pasaia, Errenteria, Hernani… But also Arrasate, Elgoibar, Bermeo or the capitals: Iruñea, Gasteiz, and Bilbo (some estimates put the death toll at 400 in Otxarkoaga [a neighborhood of Bilbo] alone).

People protesting before the Intxaurrondo barracks.

The widespread conviction that it was actually the police using drugs to politically demobilize Basque youth increased with two relevant press reports: after the seizure of large consignments of cocaine in Irun and hashish in Hondarribia, it turned out that a large part of the shipments had "disappeared" and/or returned to the market. The second one, the publishing of a report where the chief prosecutor of the Court of Gipuzkoa pointed to connections between the Spanish Security Forces and the spread of heroin in the Basque Country.

Report that was never seen again after being transferred to Madrid.

The issue today still constitutes a file to be opened. It has not been possible to put the exact dimension of the human drama that entailed and we have no actual number of deaths. The effects were not just deaths and illnesses, in a Russian roulette game that would worsen with the almost parallel emergence of AIDS. They also caused an economic drain on many families. The situation also left its mark on the artistic world in many of the songs of the so-called Basque Radical Rock, also shaken by the scourge.

Drug addiction was also associated to the increase in unemployment among youth, completing a picture of punishment and an eventual -and much wanted - political demobilization.

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#euskal herria #basque country #pays basque #pais vasco #euskadi #spain #politics #tw drugs #tw drug use #history #dirty war #we lost a generation

[leftistfeminista]

How the Junta faked the death of a Leftist Woman Leader

One of the cruelest, dirty tricks of Junta psychological warfare was faking the death of a high ranking Montoneros woman leader Esther Norma Arrostito. It was reported in all the newspapers that she had died a heroic martyrdom in a shootout with the Junta.

As part of their misogynist treatment of women leaders, as human trophies, they actually kept her alive and used her as a tool to break the spirit of her comrades who admired her as a heroic martyr. As part of their patriarchal machismo ideology they believed that being lead by women was a weakness of the egalitarian Left. The Junta attempted to exploit this "weakness" for singling out women leaders for intense humiliation in front of their comrades. Faking her death in a heroic battle so she would be worshipped as a martyr first, was a way of intensifying this contrast. Comrades with absolute faith in her incorruptibility would be demoralized when their dead martyr was dragged out in chains and skimpy underwear.

"They kept her in the ESMA chained and in sight of other kidnapped people to make a dent in their morale."

The military faked her death in order to keep Montoneros in the belief that a lot of compromising information had been lost with her. Arrostito, however, endured more than a year of torture and humiliation without betraying her comrades. 

#argentina #political prisoners #Esther Norma Arrostito #dirty war #Montoneros #Instagram

[captain-price-unofficially]

Argentine Federal Police Motorized Corps IKA-Renault Torino during Operation Independence, 1975

#improvised armor #technical #Cold War #Dirty War

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/the-killing-zone

#henry kissinger #augusto pinochet #dirty war #latin american history

[mexicanistnet]

Mexico's Dirty War in Guerrero saw army abuses reign supreme: disappearances, torture, rape. Brave voices, like Pompeya Muñoz Rentería, dared to break silence, exposing atrocities despite fear and government impunity. Their stories, unearthed from archives.

#Mexico's Dirty War #Dirty War #Mexico Dirty War #Guerrero #army abuses #Pompeya Muñoz Rentería #exposing atrocities

[immaculatasknight]

The fruits of Catholic collaboration with fascism

#Argentina #dictatorship #abductions #executions #terrorism #military #dirty war #rationalization #Catholic #fascism #ideology

[darthvaders]

Darth Vader + entrance

#swedit #starwarsedit #star wars #kenobiedit #tvedit #scifiedit #filmedit #starwarsblr #swnews #darthvaderedit #darth vader #dailyflicks #junkfooddaily #userstream #filmgifs #moviegifs #userjen #tusermelissa #help they did him so dirty in the seventh gif #he looks like a tiny kid cosplaying Vader i can't #mine #gif

[biblioklept]

Farce, then tragedy | A few thoughts on Osvaldo Soriano's novel A Funny Dirty Little War

Farce, then tragedy | A few thoughts on Osvaldo Soriano’s novel A Funny Dirty Little War

I had never heard of the Argentinian author Osvaldo Soriano, but I plucked his novel A Funny Dirty Little War from the bookstore shelf because of its title. The goofy, menacingly violent cover, featuring an illustration by Oscar Zarate, intrigued me, and the Italo Calvino blurb on the back sold me on the book before I’d even opened it. Calvino’s blurb offers a succinct summary of the novel: A…

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#A Funny Dirty Little War #Blog about #DIrty War #Literature in translation #Nick Caistor #Oscar Zarate #Osvaldo Soriano #Reviews #riffs

[starwarjotta]

“Not that I’m complaining (quite on the contrary, actually), but you couldn’t have waited for two more minutes until the end of the battle to do that, sir.”

“How could I, with you giving me a smile like that, my dear?”

“...fine. I’ll allow it, this once. Sir.”

“:)”

my second @codywanfirstkissbingo work, for “battleground kiss”

#codywan #cwfkb2023 #commander cody #obi wan kenobi #star wars #battleground kisses #Cody is pleasantly surprised #even if he doesn't really approve of the timing of the kiss #but they have almost won the battle anyway so it's fine #he gets to kiss obi-wan #ngl I really liked doing this piece haha I had a lot of fun with it #also I feel like so many of my codywan arts is with them all dirty and battleworn??? but maybe not maybe it just feels so pffft #also cody where is your helmet #cody stop losing your helmet in battle pls #THEM #codywan every day all the time #my beloveds

[agentfascinateur]

Told you so, this was going to turn into Vietnam...

Arrest Netanyahu. End genocide now.

#palestine #palestinians #gaza invasion #israeli apartheid #israeli war crimes #genocide #ethnic cleansing #collective punishment #child murder #civilian lives #butchery #free palestine #free palestinians #free gaza #usa #vietnam #dirty war #the hague #idf terrorists #iof terrorism #end genocide #end the occupation #united nations #justice #international law #israeli occupation #illegal settlements #right wing extremism #dictatorship #war crimes

[beautiful-basque-country]

Hi! I'm doing a presentation for uni about Spain's dirty war with the ETA. I don't want to ask you to do my homework for me, but I am having trouble finding English-language sources from the Basque perspetive (a lot of the sources I found seem biased against Basques) and I wanted to know you had any reading recommendations. Thank you so much for running this blog; please don't feel pressured to do any work if you don't want to.

Kaixo!

There are lots of books on this topic in Spanish, but given they exist, I can't recommend any in English 😭.

I'd try translating Spanish and Basque wiki articles online to your language on topics like GAL, Far-right terrorism in Spain, Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey, Batallón Vasco-Español, Triple A, Grupos Armados Españoles, Acción Nacional Española, the link between Guardia Civil and heroin, and all that happened at the Intxaurrondo Guardia Civil headquarters in Donostia (Lasa and Zabala & Mikel Zabalza cases)

It should give you some hours of reading and quite a general idea. Hope this helps!

#euskal herria #basque country #pays basque #pais vasco #euskadi #politics #history #dirty war #eta #terrorism

[charlietheepicwriter7]

"Mr. Bubbles, Mr. Bubbles-"

A little boy's voice--the first little boy that Tim had discovered in the labyrinth city below Gotham--echoed through the cavernous halls. Tim crept over the rubble of a broken stalagmite that had fallen through the ceiling, destroying the white and gold decor and dripping water inside. The room up ahead was lit only from glowing green tubes of liquid that lined every wall of Amity, the ectoplasm that powered the entire city.

"Are you there? Are you there?"

He peeked out from behind a crumbled wall. On his own, the little boy was crouched over corpse, fresh enough that it's blood was still wet on the floor. The boy's giant needle, the go-to weapon of all the Little Sisters that Tim had seen so far, was jabbed into the corpse's stomach and, slowly, ectoplasm and blood filled the glass jar on the end.

"Bring me a lolli-"

There was no sign of a Big Daddy, but Tim knew there was one nearby. These children were never without their protectors after all.

"Bring me a toffee-"

And at this point, Tim had killed enough of them to know for certain that one was around.

His left arm, marked all over with the needle marks of constant Plasm and ecto-dejecto injections, tingled, like there were ants under his skin. Or more accurate, he mused grimly, electricity-

Don't Think About It.

"Teddy bear, teddy bear."

He kicked his bare feet excitedly as he finished harvesting ectoplasm. Screwing off the jar, the child lifted it up to his lips like a cup and drank the viscus liquid down in huge, chest-heaving gulps like his life depended on it. Unlike Little Sisters who wore gore-covered dresses, the Little Brother was dressed in a white medical gown, relatively clean considering his filthy surroundings. His arms and face were free from dirt or blood, and even his hair looked suspiciously washed and combed.

Tim tightened his grip on his gun.

The Little Brother sighed, wiping his mouth on his sleeve. Brushing off his skirt, he yanked the needle out of the corpse. Then, like he could sense him, the boy looked straight at Tim. He froze.

Blank eyes covered in a green flim stared at him... and the Little Brother smiled at him, his teeth stained brown from the muck. "Mr. Helper! There you are, I've been waiting soooo long! Big Sister thought you'd never catch up!"

#bioshock au #dc x dp #dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #little brother danny #c: tim drake #c: danny fenton #danny is just a creepy little baby #tim's having a mental crisis about becoming what is basically a meta on a bender #tim: this little brother looks strangely well taken care of compared to the little sisters what does this mean!? #Big Sister Jazz: take care of little brother. little brother should no get dirty... little brother keeps getting dirty #Amity in it's prime would look super futuristic. modernist and white #after the civil war though cave ins and water erosion is slowly destroying everything #there's an entire garden filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms that tim is going to have to deal with and he's NOT going to like what he see

[ominouspuff]

No Man Left Behind / Something Worth Dying For

REQUESTS / BLOG EVENT

Request from @razzbberry - Palette #1 - Alpha-17, Cody - Death of the Cynic in Me

Notes and close-ups beneath the cut!

Notes: I think Seventeen would, both subconsciously and consciously, keep his cynicism as long as possible. It’s how he thinks the world works, but it’s also a survival tool. It’d be a very, very slow death.

It’s put to the test with Cody — not because Cody is special among his fellow clones, but because he’s one of the first that bothers to fight Seventeen on his own terms. The argument is always the same. Cody wants to talk about what he hopes to be, someday, after he is a soldier. Seventeen thinks he’s stupid to think that’s possible, or that he’d be capable. Cody knows it, and he, might not be. Seventeen thinks it’s even more stupid, in that case; what a waste of energy.

It develops. When they’re older, and in the thick of war, one day Cody risks his life for the chance to save a brother that was going to die anyway. Seventeen yells at him for fifteen minutes once he’s conscious about luck and stupidity and the trouble it’s causing Seventeen and the false hope it’s engendering in others. Cody says he can disagree all he likes, but he doesn’t give a fig, respectfully. Seventeen thinks Cody can go try to get blown up again, if he thinks so.

There’s no point fighting for a better tomorrow; they’re bought and paid for to fight for something else, FOR someone else. Seventeen is prepared for being fodder, as a result. He’s prepared for unfairness and the bleak life that they’re living. Instead he watches as Cody defeats odds time and time again, somehow managing to balance being an exceptional military leader with a secondary war to live for something more, running himself ragged and — inexplicably — gaining ground. Each of those little victories are a little death for Seventeen’s cynicism; a chipping away. A little seed of Cody’s brand of hope takes root, awkward and begrudging, fond and tentative.

Then Order 66 happens. Cody’s efforts for a better life are in vain, and Cody himself-

Cody may never know that Seventeen was right abut just how helpless they were. Now he only knows that Seventeen is a traitor, apparently, because Seventeen — for once in his life — was the lucky one and his chip malfunctioned.

And Seventeen could say ‘I told you so’. He could rest, vindicated and resigned, in the fact that every dream Cody built up and everything he thought was worth dying for is pointless, now — as he always suspected it would be.

But it isn’t fair, even by Seventeen’s standards.

“What are you doing,” Rex will rasp, caught in a strange role reversal as Seventeen paints an armor set with Cody’s golden colors. “He’s not coming back, Seventeen. He can’t. It’s pointless to keep going after him, you need to stop.”

“No,” Seventeen will answer, unbothered, “I don’t think I will.”

“We can’t — we can’t keep hoping,” Rex says, because he means he will probably have a breakdown if he imagines there is even a pitiful possibility he could save his brothers and then have to turn away from that scrappy chance for the greater good and Rebellion, and all that. “We’ve got to move on.”

“Go on.” Seventeen will invite sincerely, one brow raised because he knows Rex better than that.

“Do you want him to shoot you?” Rex will finally yell, all knotted up at the thought of losing Seventeen too, even though it’s funny because Seventeen was never kind to Rex.

“He can try,” Seventeen will say, touching up the last of the paint. He will stand, wiping his fingers, and pick up his pack. “See you when we get back, then.”

Alt version:

#artists on tumblr #fan art #star wars fanart #star wars: the clone wars #commander cody #alpha 17 #Interactive Art Week March 2024 #Palette Challenge #Alpha-17: Life sucks and it always does you dirty #Alpha-17 @ Order-66: …Well that was just UNNECCESSARY #Kinda offended kinda inspired to pitch in and maybe die just like normal but this time with Personal Investment #Normal people: I came for you [relieving/sounds like a promise of loyalty and dedication] #Alpha-17: I came for you [Grim Reaper Vibes] #It’s just his attitude but he means it well

[brw]

"but hamas is getting funded by extremist islamic hate groups!" do you think the U.S. government and military giving funding for israeli's war efforts against palestinians is a morally neutral and inherently righteous body that had no influence in the politics of southwest asia as a global colonial superpower. do you really think anything you can say about the people resisting oppression can't be said about the oppressors.

#brieuc.txt #palestine #this isnt me justifying it but it is me pointing out the double standard how hamas' funding is antithetical to the freedom movement #but the u.s.' influence and financial support is completely fine and doesnt need to be brought up at all #''hamas doesnt have the best interests of palestinian people'' may be true but the alternative is not allowing an apartheid state to exist #also its a ridiculous thing to say because thats a common thing in most countries #neo-nazi groups r a major problem in the Ukraine military but nobody questions ukraine's right for freedom. #the double standards keep on piling up #im not saying you cant criticise these groups but is it criticism or is it propaganda #are you talking abt how war radicalises and changes n traumatises people or are you implying every palestinian is a dirty terrorist #etc #and do you understand that in an active war zone n worlds largest open air prison violence is guaranteed and is brutal. #or do you think that if the people with no electricity and water just Werent So Stubborn And Talked everything would be okay? #and do you consider white people fighting for freedom martyrs but brown people doing the same terrorists

[myceliumelium]

It’s jedi june, lads! I’m so excited to see what other people are gonna do, but I’m kicking off with Barriss’s knighting, bc I think she deserves to graduate jedi highschool, actually.

#they did her so dirty #Turns out I like to combine prompts to make a mega prompt #so this is kinda knighting and guidance #barriss offee #Luminara Unduli #Jedi june #jedi appreciation #star wars #starwars the clone wars #art