cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74452198

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

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Think tanks, influencers and ultra-conservative pro-israel politicians have been promoting narratives about the Spanish occupation of Ceuta and Melilla outposts in the recent months to attack Spanish government for their stance against USA and Israel .

“Morocco should launch a new Green March on Ceuta and Melilla,” read the headline of an analysis published by the U.S. think tank Middle East Forum. It was March 16, four and a half months before the Ceuta crisis.

“Now that Spain’s Socialist President, Pedro Sánchez, has adopted the rhetoric of decolonization, Mohammed VI should revive the spirit of the Green March to carry out the definitive expulsion of Spanish settlers from Moroccan territory [...] Sánchez should do the right thing: live up to his anti-colonial rhetoric and put an end to the Spanish occupation in Africa,” wrote the author, Michael Rubin.

In recent months, and especially after the Ceuta crisis, pro-Israel conservative analysts, think tanks, and influencers have used Ceuta and Melilla to attack the Spanish government, which has been critical of the Israeli occupation and the genocide in Gaza and opposed to Donald Trump’s policies. This network seeks to promote the narrative that Ceuta and Melilla are also occupied territories and goes beyond the general criticism of Spain by the global far right regarding its immigration policy—including criticism leveled by Trump himself and his vice president, JD Vance, in the wake of the Ceuta crisis. The fact that some of these posts predated the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants in the autonomous city has served to fuel, without evidence, a conspiracy theory claiming that Israel and the U.S. are behind what happened in the autonomous city.

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We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

'Think tanks', influencers y políticos ultraconservadores y proisraelíes llevan meses tratando de promover narrativas sobre la “ocupación” española de Ceuta y Melilla para atacar al Gobierno español por sus críticas a EEUU e Israel

Los estudios sobre los mosquitos portadores del virus del Nilo han dado unos resultados inesperados. Han permitido identificar cuatro nuevas especies de moscas hematófagas, es decir, chupasangres. El hallazgo amplía el conocimiento sobre el género Leptoconops, de interés para la salud pública y la sanidad animal, y demuestra que incluso en regiones ampliamente estudiadas todavía existen especies desconocidas para la ciencia.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/51564514

DAMASCUS/ANKARA, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Israel bombed an airbase in Syria ​on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, drawing condemnation from Turkey and criticism from a U.S. envoy who called it an "unnecessary escalation".

Syria's state-run Ekhbariya television, citing a ‌military source, said Israel carried out eight airstrikes on the runway and storage facilities at the Abu al-Duhur base near Aleppo in northwest Syria. A separate military source and a civilian who lives near the base said there were no casualties.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said late Tuesday that Syria ​was on the "verge" of violating a "status quo agreed with Israel in security matters" by allowing Turkish troops to deploy at the airbase.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73459172

Ilan Pappe, professor of history at the University of Exeter and director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, joins the program for a conversation about Israel’s Zionist project.

Ilan Pappe, professor of history at the University of Exeter and director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, joins the program for a conversation about Israel’s Zionist project.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73350952

Für die CDU Deutschlands ganz klar: Es gibt keinen Völkermord in Gaza, wir stehen an der Seite Israels und der Ukraine im Kampf gegen den Terror und Aggression.

Wir stehen für Freiheit und wollen uns verteidigen können, damit wir es nicht müssen. Daran wird sich nichts ändern

Wir stehen zur Meinungs- und Kunstfreiheit, doch auch hier gibt es Grenzen - mindestens aber muss die Kunst mit deutlichem Widerspruch leben

For Germany’s CDU, it is crystal clear: There is no genocide in Gaza; we stand with Israel and Ukraine in the fight against terror and aggression.

We stand for freedom and want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don’t have to. That will not change.

We stand for freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but there are limits here as well—at the very least, art must be able to coexist with clear dissent.

Für die CDU Deutschlands ganz klar: Es gibt keinen Völkermord in Gaza, wir stehen an der Seite Israels und der Ukraine im Kampf gegen den Terror und Aggression.

Wir stehen für Freiheit und wollen uns verteidigen können, damit wir es nicht müssen. Daran wird sich nichts ändern

Wir stehen zur Meinungs- und Kunstfreiheit, doch auch hier gibt es Grenzen - mindestens aber muss die Kunst mit deutlichem Widerspruch leben

For Germany’s CDU, it is crystal clear: There is no genocide in Gaza; we stand with Israel and Ukraine in the fight against terror and aggression.

We stand for freedom and want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don’t have to. That will not change.

We stand for freedom of expression and artistic freedom, but there are limits here as well—at the very least, art must be able to coexist with clear dissent.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73077734

NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their targets. The troops held their fire.

These were not Syrian militants attempting to breach Israel’s border but religious Jews who had slipped into Syria and were on their way back.

The episode, first reported last week by Israel’s public broadcaster and confirmed to The Associated Press by the Israeli military, has helped raise the profile of a fringe group of Israeli settlers that has staged numerous incursions into Syria, where they hope to establish Jewish settlements.

Israel’s military has occupied the area in southern Syria for more than a year, but the forays by civilian settler groups into the region only became a regular occurrence recently.

The groups, with members numbering in the dozens, have attempted to cross from Israel to Syria every few days in recent weeks. The military is tasked with reining them in and, while most Israelis regard them as fringe, the wider settlement movement in Israel has strong backers in the country’s far-right government.

NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their targets. The troops held their fire.

These were not Syrian militants attempting to breach Israel’s border but religious Jews who had slipped into Syria and were on their way back.

The episode, first reported last week by Israel’s public broadcaster and confirmed to The Associated Press by the Israeli military, has helped raise the profile of a fringe group of Israeli settlers that has staged numerous incursions into Syria, where they hope to establish Jewish settlements.

Israel’s military has occupied the area in southern Syria for more than a year, but the forays by civilian settler groups into the region only became a regular occurrence recently.

The groups, with members numbering in the dozens, have attempted to cross from Israel to Syria every few days in recent weeks. The military is tasked with reining them in and, while most Israelis regard them as fringe, the wider settlement movement in Israel has strong backers in the country’s far-right government.

“A human rights crisis is unfolding in Puerto Rico — one that disproportionately affects LGBT+ people, particularly transgender and nonbinary Puerto Ricans,” said True Self Foundation Executive Director Miguel Vázquez-Rivera.

The True Self Foundation and LatinoJustice PRLDEF participated in the briefing that took place on July 15.

Vázquez-Rivera during the briefing highlighted several anti-LGBTQ laws and policies that have been implemented since Gov. Jenniffer González took office in January 2025. These include Law 63-2025, which prohibits gender-affirming healthcare for anyone under 21, and Law 26-2026, which prohibits the University of Puerto Rico and other “government facilities” from installing “mixed or gender-neutral multi-occupancy restrooms.”

With 30,627 trans participants from the EU27 (plus Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia), it is the largest survey of trans people in the EU to date. The survey results provide a crucial socio-demographic resource on the EU trans population, detailing their experiences in areas such as openness, healthcare, legal issues, discrimination, violence, and wellbeing.

The European Commission is currently finalising negotiations with the Trump administration to conclude an “Enhanced Border Security Partnership” (EBSP) Framework Agreement allowing border control authorities to screen travellers against biometric databases and profile them for security concerns. The leaked draft text suggests that the Commission significantly caved in to US’s excessive demands for unfettered information access, exacerbating travel surveillance and putting our fundamental rights at risk.

There is no clarity if this only applies for those applying for a visa to visit the USA or if it means USA will have unregulated access to EU-citizens databases.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72447013

• A former agent of the DGST, Morocco’s domestic intelligence agency, provides unprecedented insight into mass surveillance targeting journalists and opponents of the regime.
• Forbidden Stories and its partners have gained access to previously unpublished internal documents, describing pre-hacked phones, closely monitored journalists and infiltrated internet cafes.
• The investigation reveals details of the use of the Pegasus software, along with screenshots of its interface.

• A former agent of the DGST, Morocco’s domestic intelligence agency, provides unprecedented insight into mass surveillance targeting journalists and opponents of the regime.
• Forbidden Stories and its partners have gained access to previously unpublished internal documents, describing pre-hacked phones, closely monitored journalists and infiltrated internet cafes.
• The investigation reveals details of the use of the Pegasus software, along with screenshots of its interface.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72254670

A new investigation has uncovered how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) supports a secret network of military training camps for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that enables them to continue their deadly war in Sudan.

"This war, which is often categorized in international media as a civil war, is really a proxy war," says award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Steers. "We're talking about a really extensive network of logistics and training and financial backing from the UAE."

The investigation is a collaboration between Lighthouse Reports, Evident and Sudan War Monitor.

Meanwhile, as the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warns another humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding the North Kordofan state capital of El Obeid, where the RSF and the Sudanese army are fighting for control, "there's no question that the RSF would not be able to have gotten as far as they have, to have claimed nearly as much territory as they have, without the really robust support of the UAE," says Steers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72254670

A new investigation has uncovered how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) supports a secret network of military training camps for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that enables them to continue their deadly war in Sudan.

"This war, which is often categorized in international media as a civil war, is really a proxy war," says award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Steers. "We're talking about a really extensive network of logistics and training and financial backing from the UAE."

The investigation is a collaboration between Lighthouse Reports, Evident and Sudan War Monitor.

Meanwhile, as the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warns another humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding the North Kordofan state capital of El Obeid, where the RSF and the Sudanese army are fighting for control, "there's no question that the RSF would not be able to have gotten as far as they have, to have claimed nearly as much territory as they have, without the really robust support of the UAE," says Steers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72254670

A new investigation has uncovered how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) supports a secret network of military training camps for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that enables them to continue their deadly war in Sudan.

"This war, which is often categorized in international media as a civil war, is really a proxy war," says award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Steers. "We're talking about a really extensive network of logistics and training and financial backing from the UAE."

The investigation is a collaboration between Lighthouse Reports, Evident and Sudan War Monitor.

Meanwhile, as the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warns another humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding the North Kordofan state capital of El Obeid, where the RSF and the Sudanese army are fighting for control, "there's no question that the RSF would not be able to have gotten as far as they have, to have claimed nearly as much territory as they have, without the really robust support of the UAE," says Steers.