Gaza - A Children's Graveyard -- 3 Arrested!

 

Why must we tell our government that murdering children and conducting a genocide is wrong, against the law and a crime against humanity? 

Our Resistance Solidarity included Veterans For Peace, Up-State Drone Action, Peace Action, Jewish Voice For Peace, Pax Christi NYS, Downtown Berrigan Collective - Ithaca, and Students For Justice in Palestine. 

Concerned citizens of NYS dug a grave for the children of Gaza at the Federal Building in Syracuse, NY on December 9, 2024. 

On December 9, 1948 the UN adopted he Conventions against genocide unanimously.

Is this what Sweden wants?

 

Sweden invaded Russia around 12 times in the last several hundred years. They most often lost. 

They appear to be preparing to try again in another US-NATO folly. 

Are the young men of Sweden really ready to sign up for this so-called 'mission'?

Are the leaders in Sweden nuts?

What are the Swedish people doing to stop this insanity from happening?

Bruce

Remembering the 1979 South Korea coup

 

12.12: The Day" is a 2023 Korean Netflix blockbuster film based on a real-life incident that reshaped Asia's course. 

Following the assassination of President Park in 1979, martial law was declared. On December 12th, Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-kwang led a coup, sparking a power struggle with Capital Defense Commander Lee Tae-shin amidst military chaos. 

As the conflict between the two men grows, the military leaders postpone their decisions, and the Minister of Defense disappears. 

In this chaos, The Seoul Spring, the democratization movement which everyone longs for, heads in an unexpected direction.

~ See the full film here

Sunday song

 

David Mallet R.I.P.

Palestine solidarity event amidst holiday shoppers at L.L. Bean

 

Forty of us gathered in Freeport, Maine today (a holiday shopping mecca in our state) right in front of the famous L.L. Bean store. This was our monthly statewide coalition protest that we've been doing for a couple of years in different busy traffic areas across the state.

It was 28 degrees out and a bit windy but we braved the cold for 90 minutes due to the huge crowds on the main road thru town and the busy foot traffic on the sidewalks.

We lined up along both sides of the street in the center of the shopping district for about forty minutes and then walked slowly, single-file, down both sides of the street for several blocks and then each side of us crossed to the opposite sidewalk and walked back to the starting point. 

Along the way we handed out hundreds of BDS flyers asking the public to boycott major corporations in the US that have shown big support for the zionist wars in the Middle East aimed at Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and more recently Syria.

Is Iran the next Israel-US target for 'regime change'? The zionists must be careful because Iran can actually fight back.

When we passed by the Starbucks coffee shop we chanted 'Boycott Starbucks' repeatedly as people paused at the door and didn't enter until we passed by. I wonder how their drink tasted after that?

We closed the protest with strong words from Palestinian human rights activist Faisal Khan. (See some of his recent writings that I will put on this blog the day after Christmas.)

Our next monthly statewide protest will be in Camden, Maine (along the coast on Hwy 1) sometime in January. We don't have a date yet but will send out info soon.

Thanks to all for helping to make this a great action. We must keep coming together to call for an end to these insane genocidal zionist war$.

Bruce

Another big Ukrainian offensive coming before Trump?

 

Sputnik

Kiev will not “rush” into any agreements with Russia, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said. In an interview with French news outlet Le Parisien published on Wednesday, Zelensky declared his reluctance to make concessions, either territorial or in relation to Kiev's NATO and EU ambitions, to achieve peace.

Zelensky has previously insisted that the only viable path to peace with Russia was his ten-point ‘peace formula’, which includes a complete withdrawal of Russian forces from former Ukrainian territories and the restoration of the country’s 1991 borders. Widely touted by the West, the proposal was never taken seriously in Moscow.

However, Zelensky has signaled in recent weeks that he would be willing to relinquish territorial claims if Kiev becomes a NATO member. Recent media reports have also suggested that US President-elect Donald Trump, who met Zelensky in Paris earlier this month, could persuade the Ukrainian leader to ‘freeze’ the conflict along the current line of contact and enforce negotiations between Kiev and Moscow. Trump previously pledged to end the conflict within 24 hours upon returning to the White House in January next year.

British media gloating betrays masterminds behind Kirillov’s killing

By Finian Cunningham (Strategic Culture Foundation)

The reveling by the British news media over the assassination of a top Russian general in Moscow is revealing in several ways.

First of all, it is a sickening display of wretched so-called journalism. The celebratory tone in British media outlets at the sight of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov’s bloodied corpse lying in the snow speaks volumes of a despicable lack of respect. It says something about the depraved depth of British culture.

By comparison, the reporting of the assassination by American media outlets was relatively mundane and matter-of-fact.

Not so in Britain. The British media were almost euphoric in their reaction.

The Pentagon’s response was significant. Spokesman Patrick Ryder denied any U.S. involvement in the killing. He said the Americans were not forewarned about the assassination and he added that the United States did not support such action.

Of course, such denials should always be treated with skepticism.

However, while the Americans had the decency to remain reserved, the British were giddy in their ghoulishness.

The London Times editorial board declared that Lt Gen. Kirillov was a “legitimate target” for assassination.

The Daily Telegraph ran an oped piece by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon with the headline: “Putin’s chemical weapons henchman Kirillov was a truly evil man. He deserved to die.”

Meanwhile, the BBC blithely used the Foreign Office’s description of Kirillov as a “notorious mouthpiece for Kremlin disinformation” to convey an implicit justification for murder.

Over at the Guardian, their Russophobic reporter, Luke Harding, abandoned all pretense of journalistic standards by glorifying Ukraine’s military intelligence service (SBU) for its “success,” adding: “The agency has cemented its reputation as an outfit that administers its own form of brutal extrajudicial justice. It is an abrupt and swift form of vengeance, delivered as if from the heavens.”

The Ukrainian secret services were no doubt involved. The SBU is claiming responsibility and distributing a video to Western outlets of the bombing outside the Moscow apartment block, which killed Kirillov and his assistant as they walked out of the building on Tuesday morning.

Russian security services (FSB) have reportedly arrested a 29-year-old Uzbek national who says Ukrainian agents recruited him to plant the explosive-laden scooter at the street-side doorway of Kirillov’s apartment block. The suspect says he was promised payment of $100,000 and a European passport.

That all points to the higher involvement of NATO military intelligence services in the assassination. The American CIA and Britain’s MI6 are the two principal players behind Ukraine’s military intelligence.

But the circumstances indicate that the British are the primary culprits.

In October, Britain put sanctions on Kirillov after London accused him of overseeing the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, a charge that Moscow vehemently denied. The British provided no credible evidence – only hackneyed claims – and, besides, the allegation does not make sense, given that Russia is decisively winning the conflict. Why would it need to resort to using chemical weapons?

Lt Gen. Kirillov was chief of the Russian army’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces. His investigators had uncovered what they claimed to be a secret and illegal network of Pentagon-run biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. The investigations provided substantive evidence that the bioweapons labs were authorized at U.S. presidential level and involved major American pharmaceutical companies. Typically, the West rubbished the claims as “Kremlin disinformation” without considering the information.

In other words, Kirillov’s work was mainly focused on interdicting NATO-run weapons of mass destruction, not on overseeing their use, as the British claimed.

Kirillov was the most senior Russian military commander to have been killed since the conflict in Ukraine erupted three years ago.

The British objective was to demonize Kirillov as a “chemical weapons henchman” and “an evil man.” That move was then followed by the Ukrainian secret services accusing the Russian general of being a “war criminal”. This week, on the day before his assassination, the Ukrainian published a death notice.

One could argue that the Americans had more motive to eliminate Kirillov than the British, given his potentially incriminating investigations into the bioweapons and the way it implicated President Biden.

But, arguably, that was not the motive behind his assassination. He was merely a high-profile target for a psychological operation.

Ukrainian opposition political figure Viktor Medvedchuk makes the important observation that Britain has taken over from the United States as the main intelligence player behind the Kiev regime. He says that the British are using the Ukrainian puppet president Vladimir Zelensky and his cronies to launder much of the U.S. and European money sent to Ukraine to end up in London’s banks.

With the incoming U.S. President Donald Trump expressing concern about winding down the Ukraine conflict and cutting off the financing of the Kiev junta, Britain wants to sabotage any such initiative. It wants to prolong the conflict and the money racket.

Assassinating a senior Russian commander in Moscow is aimed at humiliating the Kremlin and provoking an escalation of the conflict in a way that scuppers any possible peace negotiations with Trump, who takes up office in four weeks.

The British media’s gloating about the murder of Igor Kirillov and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov reveals Britain’s nefarious hand.

Not only was the victim vilified and condemned, the killing was glorified. The BBC, in particular, showed a keen interest in reporting on the “deep shock” felt by Muscovites in the immediate aftermath of the deadly explosion.

The state-owned outlet opined: “People living in the area told the BBC of their deep sense of shock. Even after nearly three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, for many Muscovites, the war is something that is happening a long way away – something they only see on TV or on their phones. The killing of a Russian general in Moscow is a sign that this war is very real and very close to home.”

Russia has vowed to retaliate for the murder of Igor Kirillov. Zelensky and his cronies in Kiev are no doubt bracing themselves. The British werewolves of London might want to re-check their security arrangements, too.

Questions have to be asked about Russian security services. How could they be so easily penetrated only a few kilometers from the Kremlin – and not for the first time? Only last week, a senior missile scientist, Mikhail Shatsky, was shot dead in Moscow in an attack ascribed to Ukrainian secret services.

But also it should be questioned if Russia is being too soft in exacting revenge. Should the masterminds of terrorist operations beyond the puppets in Kiev not also be “legitimate targets,” as the British are so fond of saying?