Burn um they say

 

Burn um they say

Stomp um,

in Yidish,

שטופּן זיי, 

shoot the kids 

in the head.

Same for journalists.

 

Burn the olive trees

poison the water

kill the fishermen

tear up the gardens 

rob & steal,

bomb the homes,

along with the tents,

loaded with long-suffering

Palestinian people.

 

If the world allows

this to continue 

then it will be us 

who go down next.

 

Virtually all of us 

are the expendables,

the unwashed,

the unvarnished,

unworthy,

unneeded, 

superfluous populations,

the despised,

the unmanageable....

those unwilling to do the 

dirty work of empire.

 

We will all burn,

but it will be in hell,

along with those

maddening, hypocritical

racist, arrogant

greedy, violent

devilish thugs

from the western deep state,

agents of Mr. Big

in the City of London

and Wall Street.

 

For long they've 

tried to hide themselves

but now their

true face

is revealed.

A fed-up world 

is demanding that we each

fully reject Mr. Big,

it's our only chance for survival.

This frightening moment

will determine the 

next page 

of history.

 

Which direction

will we turn?

 

Bruce

 

Another Elbit Systems drone for Israel. Elbit operates in dozens of countries. Zionist control of the western war machine is key to ensuring the creation of Greater Israel. This is at the core of the dangers during these current times. Another way to name it is a global mafia. For me, I see it as global fascism defined by Mussolini as 'the wedding of corporations and government'.

Sunday song

 

 

Protest at General Dynamics in Saco, Maine

 

Three Muslim members of our group showing the cops photos of a little girl with both legs blown off. Reminding them why we do these protests.

 

Yesterday MB and I drove one hour south to Saco for a protest where General Dynamics (GD) is located. (GD also owns the Bath Iron Works Navy shipyard in our state.)

GD's factory in Saco makes guidance systems for Mark-82 bombs. The US has sent over 5,000 of these bombs to Israel which have been dropped in Gaza on the people.

On June 7 we did another action at Saco GD were many people risked arrest by blocking the entrance early in the morning before the workers arrived. Folks cemented themselves to tires and even to an old boat. These obstructions were used to block off the driveway entrance to the weapons factory. On that day we remained there for about five hours but the police surprisingly did not arrest anyone.

Yesterday I was the first to arrive at 2:00 pm. I unloaded my signs and a portable chair that I was going to sit on because of a bum foot. MB dropped me off just across the street from the plant and as soon as I got out of the car three cops began telling me that I could not go to the other side of the road - that I had to stay on the sidewalk across the street from GD or I would be arrested. 

They obviously thought we were going to block the entrance again as workers left the plant just after 3:00 pm. In fact this protest was organized at the last minute due to GD bombs being used to vaporize people in Gaza tents that left huge craters. Our intention was just to do a 'stand' and hold signs and banners.

Anyway, I told the cops that I understood the law and that the sidewalk on the other side of the street was public and I intended to cross the street and stand there. If they wanted to arrest me they could and the case would be thrown out of court and they'd get some bad press.

With that said I walked down to the crosswalk and made my way to the other side of the street where a couple different cops gave me the same song and dance. I repeated that I knew the law and they could arrest me if they wished. I told one of the cops they'd better get a couple of paddy wagons ready because once everyone else came they were all going to stand on the GD side of the road. And that is what everyone did. We had just over 25 folks show up.

Eventually the chief of police arrived and told us we could stand where we wanted as long as we did not interfere with traffic. We repeated that we didn't intend to do so.

When we got to GD the police had lined up their cars all along the street in front of GD making sure that if we stood on that sidewalk passing cars would not be able to easily see our signs and banners. The chief had all the cop cars moved to a long line on GD's property that is pictured at the top above.

In the end it was a good event as the road gets huge traffic for a two-lane town street. Three police departments had cops out there - the State Police, the County Police, and Saco PD. They didn't have much to do except listen to our chants and hear the many honks from the  cars driving by.

MB and I stayed for two hours and made it back to Brunswick just as our local PeaceWorks group was setting up the regular Friday vigil at 5:00 pm on the town green. This vigil began soon after 9-11-2001 and has been going on weekly ever since - no matter the weather.

One of the chants during our Saco protest reminded everyone that the destroyer warships built at Bath Iron Works here in the mid-coast of Maine have been regularly deployed in the Red Sea and used to repeatedly attack Yemen during this past year. 

We intend to hold a similar protest at BIW on Saturday, October 5 starting at 11:30 am as part of Keep Space for Peace Week. The Navy Aegis destroyers built at BIW use space satellites to direct their missile attacks on Yemen.

The Maine connections to the genocide in Palestine are deep. Just like in many other states across the country. The US has a war economy. We are a killing nation.

Bruce

History lesson: Vietnam's liberation & current challenges

 

uncivilized

Vietnam has fought and defeated countless Goliaths to achieve its liberation. 

While our people in Palestine are still fighting their own Goliath, we wanted to learn, how did the Vietnamese do it? And what happens once this Goliath is taken down? What does a national identity built on liberation and resistance look like when the country’s at peace? And is Vietnam really at peace? 

We traveled to Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in the South to explore Vietnam’s story of liberation, and the story it's writing now. 

Hosts: Salem Barahmeh and Khuyến Bùi 

Sending Ukraine long-range weapons: US-NATO crawling on thin ice

By Simplicius

First let’s clear up the nuances to this report. Some believe the decision has already been made and the media is merely trotting out its regular theater to warm up the public. But the other missed detail is two-fold:

First the US apparently wants Ukraine to demonstrate a tangible plan for how it would utilize these ‘deep strikes’ to actually achieve victory, rather than merely some vague psychological effect.

And for this precise reason, Zelensky is traveling to the US to present his plan, which some sources have claimed has three points, which I outlined last time, but as reminder:

    1. Zelensky wants the US to allow long-range strikes into Russia with foreign missiles to destroy all military bases, airfields, ammunition and fuel depots within the European part of Russia.

    2. The West (US/NATO) must protect Western Ukraine with Polish and Romanian air defense systems from Russian retaliation strikes so Ukraine could transfer own air defense systems closer to the battlefield.

    3. The West must guarantee to be prepared to get more involved by sending ground troops to certain parts of Ukraine to free up Ukraine's manpower which could be sent to the front lines. Zelensky believes after this campaign Russia would be forced to retreat, at some point Putin's leadership would be destabilized and replaced, with the new leadership signing a peace deal. 

    Putin: The FULL Statement on the "permission" by US and UK for long range Western missiles attacking the territory of the Russian Federation:

    "There is an attempt to substitute concepts. Because we are not talking about allowing or prohibiting the Kiev regime to strike at Russian territory. It is already striking with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles and other means. But when it comes to using high–precision long-range Western-made weapons, it's a completely different story. 

The fact is that, as I have already said, and any experts will confirm this (both here and in the West), the Ukrainian army is not able to strike with modern high-precision long-range systems of Western production. It can't do that. This is possible only with the use of satellite data, which Ukraine does not have — this is data only from satellites of either the European Union or the United States, in general, from NATO satellites. This is the first one. The second, and very important, perhaps key, is that flight missions to these missile systems can, in fact, only be carried out by military personnel of NATO countries. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this. 

And therefore, it is not a question of allowing the Ukrainian regime to strike Russia with these weapons or not to allow it. It's about deciding whether NATO countries are directly involved in a military conflict or not. If this decision is made, it will mean nothing more than the direct participation of NATO countries, the United States, and European countries in the war in Ukraine. This is their direct involvement. And this, of course, significantly changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. This will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are at war with Russia. And if this is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be created to us."  

~ See more on this story here and here

China & Africa long-time friendship

 

Reports on China

This week saw a massive gathering of African leaders in China for the three-yearly Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, with leaders from more than 50 African nations heading to Beijing for the three-day event. 

President Xi announced more than US$50 billion in support over the next three years, which might usually lead Western media to push the “debt trap diplomacy” myth, but guess what? 

CNN appears to have received the memo to stop using that fake news trope, for now. With the majority of African nations confirming “Chinese debt trap diplomacy” is just another Western coping mechanism, Western media can no longer afford to support such outright lies. 

Today, I’ll take a closer look. This is Reports on China, I’m Andy Boreham in Shanghai. Let's get reporting.

 

'It all began with colonization....'

 

The Africa News Network

Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian prime minister, spoke at the recent Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia.

Obviously referring to the US and Israel he asks, 'Where is the humanity, why do you preach to us about human rights and democracy?'

'We must oppose all forms of colonization. You take people's land [in Palestine], you kill them, you take their houses, you treat them as open air prison.'

'It's creating problems for us because people are saying why are you not doing anything more when people are being killed daily.' 

Harris & Trump debate 'maintenance of the status quo'

 

By Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

 The debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump featured a rehash of neo-liberal and imperialist talking points. Both are committed to disastrous policies domestically and internationally.

The United States' decline under oligarchic rule is brutally exposed every four years, as the duopoly parties differ on fewer issues and agree that the people’s needs stay far away from the political agenda. The 2024 election is no different, as the quality of candidates continues its downward trajectory with a former president who is hated by half the country but beloved by millions more running against a current vice president that no one voted for as a presidential candidate. Their September 10 debate was highly anticipated but not for very good reasons.

Kamala Harris entered the debate one day after finally putting cursory policy platform information on her website which had nothing but merchandise for sale and donation buttons for fifty days. It is hard to understand why she needed so much time to do what was an obvious copy and paste version of Joe Biden’s campaign website, but the odd decision-making is emblematic of this bizarre campaign season and her own lack of gravitas.

Just four days before the debate former vice president Dick Cheney endorsed Harris. Cheney was once a villain to liberals , the de facto president when he served under George W. Bush and the driving force behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Not only did he help to kill 1 million people, but it was a war from which he personally profited due to his connections to the Halliburton corporation, a major military contractor.

Cheney was loathed by liberals until January 6, 2021, when he and his congresswoman daughter Liz Cheney were quite vocal in their condemnations of Trump. True to form, liberals developed collective amnesia about their prior Cheney hatred and they suddenly elevated the right-wing family to revered status. Harris didn’t run from the endorsement, instead, she declared herself, “honored to have their endorsement” and praised the Cheneys for “putting the country before party.” Dick Cheney would not endorse someone who wasn’t pledged to continue the neo-liberal and imperialist project and clearly Harris sees the endorsement as being beneficial. Why shouldn’t she? KHive and Blue MAGA democrats continue being so completely indoctrinated that they don’t want to hear anything negative about her and corporate media are fully on her side.

Donald Trump sometimes rambles incoherently and gives the impression that he is experiencing cognitive decline like Joe Biden. Kamala Harris is younger and healthier, but she has also been promoted beyond her skill set and laughs nervously or has strange outbursts when she is unsure of herself. Trump often goes off script and Harris stumbles when speaking off the cuff. Debate anticipation was less about policy prescriptions than about who would make the better impression.

But ultimately good preparation was enough to win because the so-called moderators from ABC news had their thumbs firmly on the scale of orthodoxy when they posed questions about U.S. policy around the world. There was no effort to actually engage in debate. Instead, there were leading questions that asserted that the U.S. cannot be questioned in its actions. One example is this statement which was a clear expression of support for the idea that the U.S. should be the world's hegemonic and unipolar power. “Mr. President, it has been the position of the Biden administration that we must defend Ukraine from Russia, from Vladimir Putin, to defend their sovereignty, their democracy, that it's in America's best interest to do so, arguing that if Putin wins he may be emboldened to move even further into other countries.” Trump answered correctly when he said the war in Ukraine can and should end with negotiation. Harris of course revived Russiagate allegations by saying Trump would end the proxy war by just “giving up” Ukraine and that if Trump were president, “Putin would be sitting in Kyiv.”

It was Trump who brought up the fact that Biden’s actions regarding Ukraine could lead to World War III. Of course, he incorrectly said that “millions” of people have died in Ukraine but he also mentioned the very real threat of nuclear weapons. However, he did not mention that he, like every president of the last 20 years, unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from long-standing nuclear agreements with Russia and helped to create a very dangerous situation today.

While the moderators engaged in scaremongering about Vladimir Putin, Harris and Trump both went out of their way to express devotion to Israel. Harris claims she is working for a ceasefire in Gaza while simultaneously promising to continue weapons and money for Israel. She repeated calls for a two-state solution which Israel has repeatedly rejected and added threats against Iran for good measure. Trump dispenses with pretense and says he is and will remain Israel’s guy and claims that Harris “hates Israel.” He predicted that if Harris is elected, “...Israel will not exist within two years from now.” 

 

Putin was cast as the all-purpose villain and Chinese president Xi Jinping also came in for criticism. Both Harris and Biden pledged to make the U.S. number one in chip production and Harris even blamed Xi for the spread of covid.

The subterfuge of alleged differences was not confined to Israel, Russia or China. Harris went out of her way to say that she wouldn’t ban fracking. Of course, fracking ought to be banned because it produces fossil fuels, contaminates water supplies, and even produces earthquakes. Harris went on to claim that democrats are concerned about climate change while simultaneously pledging to continue oil production. The moderators did not call out the inconsistency.

Overall the debate was a very sad affair. Trump made immigration the centerpiece of his remarks, claiming that crime is up in the U.S., even though it isn’t, because criminal aliens are amongst us. He repeatedly debunked claims of immigrants eating dogs and cats and being drug dealers and terrorists who will all try to vote. It was vintage Trump, meaning embarrassing, and Harris could only say that she favored a bipartisan immigration bill that featured the worst aspects of Trump policy that has resulted in more deportations under Biden than under Trump.

Supporting Israel will be a high-priority goal of a Harris or Biden administration. Democratic presidents have failed to codify the Roe v. Wade decision when they controlled Congress and could have done so. Harris’s claim of passing federal legislation rings hollow while Trump ranted that democrats were executing babies.

Perhaps the Kamala Harris image makers are right. She need only talk about joy while Trump says that protesters burned down Minneapolis, a city that actually still exists, while mentally ill immigrants run amok. The donors who as Trump says, “Threw Biden out of the campaign like a dog,” may have been right. Enough money and good press might be enough to put Kamala Harris in the white house.

~ Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents . You can support her work on Patreon and also find it on the Twitter , Bluesky , and Telegram platforms. She can be reached via email at margaret dot kimberley at blackagendareport dot com

Latest GN video: US-NATO space & space week events

 

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We need your help more than ever

With Keep Space for Peace Week fast approaching (October 5-12) our Global Network board member Will Griffin has done another really fine job making his latest monthly space issue video for us.

It is entitled 'US/NATO Dangerous Alliances & Keep Space for Peace Week'.

With the current US-NATO expansion happening worldwide, seeking full spectrum dominance, we are viewing our Keep Space for Peace Week this year as the most important one since the Global Network was founded in 1992. The prospects for space-directed WW3 between the US-NATO (western colonialist bloc) and Russia, China and Iran are greater than ever.

Most of the global public has little to no understanding how space technology these days is in the driver’s seat of modern warfare. Thus we feel the enormous need to increase our efforts to help plant the seeds in the international public consciousness about keeping space for peace.

So we hope that you and others in your community will find ways to help us reach out to the people and sprout these crucial seeds during this extremely dangerous moment.

One thing you can immediately do is please share this video with your local contacts.

Thank you and best wishes to all.

Keep paddling,

Bruce 

GN Coordinator

 

PS At the end of space week (on October 13) we will hold a GN space issues webinar with speakers from around the world. More on that soon.

View all Global Network social media links at: https://linktr.ee/space4peace

 

US & British spy chiefs in defense of the Western-dominated world order

 

 
By Magyar Békekör (Hungary)

London, Sunday 8 September 2024

Bill Burns, the head of the CIA and Richard Moore, the head of the British intelligence service MI6, appeared together in public on Saturday and voiced their opinion that in order to protect the threatened global order, the West should lift all restrictive measures so that Ukraine can use all its weapons against Russia. The head of the CIA called Putin a bully, and Moore said that the West cannot be intimidated by the words of the Russian president, the correspondent of the Hungarian Community for Peace reported on Sunday.

Burns and Moore answered questions from the newspaper’s correspondent at the Financial Times Weekend Festival at London’s Kenwood House.

“There is no doubt that the international world order, the balanced system that has led to relative peace and stability and ensured rising standards of living, opportunities and prosperity, is in a state of danger that has not been seen since the Cold War,” says their joint statement, published in the columns of the Financial Times.

Neither in their written nor in their oral statements did they consider it important to address the question of why their governments deny Russia’s equal right to security and why the introduction of an order based on equal cooperation instead of the current confrontational world order would endanger Western civilization.

The two spy chiefs believed that in defeating Russia and bringing its allies under control, they could save the uni-polar world order dominated by the West from the threat from the East. “Putin cannot win, staying the course is more important than ever when it comes to supporting Ukraine,” was said.

They have expressed concern that China, Iran and North Korea are cooperating with Russia, with Iran supplying Russia with drones, China with parts for military equipment, and North Korea with artillery ammunition.

China has been described as the main intelligence and geopolitical challenge of the century.

The penetration of the Ukrainian forces into Russia was classified as a significant tactical achievement and a victory. Burns praised Kiev’s act of war because Putin thought it was only a matter of time before they would “grind down the Ukrainians and wear down their supporters” so he could dictate the terms. Moore admitted that it would be difficult to say how long the Ukrainians could stay on Russian territory.

The joint performance of Burns and Moore was also full of propaganda tricks. Among other things, they claimed that Putin is great in one thing: suppressing the Russians. Russian intelligence was also said to be carrying out acts of sabotage against European civilian objects because its desperation. (They did not elaborate on who blew up the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.) With fear-inducing and unsettling statements, they tried to tune public opinion to serve the power goals of the Western elite.

Not a single comment was made about recommending to their governments to seek a compromise with Moscow and Beijing on the basis of equal cooperation and mutual benefits.

The director of the CIA and the head of MI6 made it clear that their only goal is to save the power hegemony of the West in the 21st century, which is why they work closely together.

The Hidden Face of War

 

By Manlio Dinucci (Grandangolo on Byoblu TV, Italy)
 

The Forward Observations Group, a private military company based in the United States, published a photo of its war professionals in the Russian region of Kursk, a presence confirmed by a video showing the destruction by the Russian armed forces of Forward Observations Group armoured vehicles and commandos in Kursk. This US military company, whose role is described by the authoritative Military Watch magazine as ‘very obscure’ (evidently, it is linked to US intelligence services), has been engaged for more than two years with Ukrainian forces against Russia with the task of carrying out special operations, including preparing attacks with toxic chemicals.

There is documented evidence that Ukraine is involved in the preparation of attacks with chemical and biological weapons. This US military company is not the only one operating covertly in the theatre of war against Russia. Based on precise documentation Military Watch writes: ‘Numerous facts have emerged about the role of military personnel from NATO member states (including Royal Marines and British SAS commandos) in supporting Ukrainian war operations against Russia. Military advisers, both logisticians and combatants, and other personnel have been operating since 2022 in the theatre of war with a range of newly delivered complex weaponry.’ This confirms that the Ukrainian armed forces are not only armed and trained by the US and NATO, but that US-NATO military companies and special forces operate directly in the theatre of war in command and management roles of sophisticated weaponry, such as long-range missiles and drones, for the use of which military satellite networks are needed, which Ukraine does not have.

At the same time, the US is deploying nuclear weapons (bombs and missiles) at intermediate range in Europe, increasingly close to Russia. Even the missile defence systems, which they deploy in Europe on the official grounds of protecting European populations from the ‘Russian nuclear threat’, are in fact prepared for nuclear attack. The two US Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania and the US Navy destroyers operating in the Baltic and Black Sea are equipped with Lockheed Martin's MK-41 vertical launch systems, which, as the manufacturer itself documents, can be used for any warfare mission, including nuclear attack on land targets.

Italy actively contributes to the preparation of nuclear war. Violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it hosts US nuclear weapons (the new B61-12 bombs), which the Italian Air Force is trained to use, and through Leonardo it manufactures nuclear weapons. Now Italy has pledged to build - together with France, Germany and Poland - ground-launched cruise missiles with a range of more than 500 km, i.e. a more advanced version of the US intermediate-range nuclear missiles deployed at Comiso in the 1980s, which were eliminated by the 1987 INF Treaty, a treaty that the US tore up in 2019.

German Greens are warmongers - Brits have gone nuts

 

 

In a recent interview with German media outlet AcTVism Munich, Dimitri Lascaris argues that Germany's 'Green Party' violates every core value of the Global Green Movement (including free speech), and that the German Greens should change their name to the 'Party of War'.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is one of the worst warmongers in all of Europe. The woman appears to thrive on war - especially against Russia.

 

The corpse of Russia-gate has been disinterred. 

Escalating Ukrainian retreat. 

Zelensky’s cabinet meltdown. 

And Sleepy Joe, sixteenth day on a Delaware Beach. Not a pretty sight.

Macron ignores last election results

 

Source: Contre-Attaque, September 5, 2024

Translation from French: Alain Marshal

 France: After Two Months Without a Government, an Old Right-Winger is Appointed Prime Minister

In 2017, Macron was marketed by the media as a new product. He was elected without a program, solely on the argument that he represented the “new world,” breaking away from the old political class. Seven years later, Macron is resurrecting the worst aspects of the old world, amidst increasing fascization and overt authoritarianism, having shattered the last illusions of representative democracy.

Michel Barnier: A Political Dinosaur

After a prolonged indecision over several candidates for Prime Minister, Macron ultimately chose Michel Barnier, thereby sidelining Bernard Cazeneuve and Xavier Bertrand, other contenders for the role. Michel Barnier epitomizes the political dinosaur: an old-school figure who has been entrenched in the circles of power for 50 years.

Indeed, Michel Barnier has been in politics since the 1970s. At 73, he has been with the UDR, the RPR, the UMP, and finally Les Républicains. These acronyms might not mean much to you: they represent the names of French right-wing parties that have come and gone throughout the Fifth Republic. He has served as Minister for the Environment, European Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Food, and has twice been a European Commissioner. He has served under Pompidou, Chirac, and Sarkozy — times so distant that most of our readers weren’t even born, with the average age of the French being around 41. Michel Barnier was a professional politician before most of the population was born!

What’s even more amusing is that Barnier is a member of an endangered party, which garnered only 4.8% of the vote in the last presidential elections and came fourth in the legislative elections earlier this summer. His legitimacy is questionable at best.

Clarification

At least things are clear: Macron reiterated that Mélenchon’s Left-Wing Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP), with its 193 MPs, did not have an absolute majority and therefore could not form a government. Ultimately, he appointed the representative of an ultra-minority group with only 55 MPs, with the sole aim of continuing to govern with the right and far right, and pursuing his massively rejected policies. It’s a power grab.

A few days ago, the newspaper L’Opinion revealed that Macron “wants to appoint the ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Armed Forces. But he also intends to choose the occupants of the Interior and Bercy.” On August 30, L’Humanité reported that Macron had said: “If I appoint NFP’s Lucie Castets, she will repeal the pension reform and raise the minimum wage to 1,600 euros…” That’s the crux of the issue: the ruling clan will do anything to prevent even the slightest social advancement.

For its part, Le Parisien explained that Macron had been consulting with Sarkozy, the former right-wing president and convicted criminal, over the summer, seeking his advice on the choice of Prime Minister. On September 2, Le Monde reported that “the Élysée had already found a chief of staff for the next Prime Minister.” This is no longer cohabitation; it’s subletting. The real Prime Minister is Macron. The already tenuous separation of powers is officially abolished.

So Much for That

Recall that the President dissolved the Assembly in an emergency, gave it 15 days to vote, preventing a real campaign, only to wait 50 days and appoint a puppet Prime Minister. For over two months, the press has been complicit in the Macronist coup, never questioning the narrative. In mid-July, they announced: “Prime Minister after the Olympic truce.” On August 27, the headlines still read: “Macron will name a Prime Minister at the end of the week.” Today is September 5.

The Far Right in Power

Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) has made it clear that it will not censure this Prime Minister. Its spokesperson, Bardella, is even the first politician to respond to the power grab, soberly stating that he “takes note” of the appointment. Bardella announced that he would “judge by evidence,” meaning the far right will not oppose the new government.

In fact, a coalition ranging from the RN to the Macronists is being officially formed before our very eyes. It’s a union of the right and far right against the left, to disregard electoral results, and above all, to continue favoring the rich while wreaking havoc on the lives of the poorest.

In June, the Rassemblement National was the only party to call for dissolution, and Macron granted its wish. For months, Macronists had been holding secret dinners with the Le Pen clan. The current coup is thus a continuation of a process that began long ago.

Now, the last masks have fallen. This pathetic appointment may be the final breath of an old world coming to an end. It is up to the streets to put an end to this dismal spectacle.  

Truth report: Ukraine for sale!

 

 

Lindsey Graham ends the short interview saying 'Peace is coming'. Maybe he meant 'a piece of the action is coming'....

Assorted comments from Twitter and YouTube:

• Zelensky provided an army for the global predator capitalists, and now they are about to reap big from the ashes of the war. While the ordinary citizens are sold a utopian called freedom and democracy, the sharks are already devouring Ukraine most arable land and other resources.
• Bought and paid for. This is how locusts strip a nation of its assets.
• Pure evil on full display for the world to see. Yet the Pentagon stenographers in the media are still trying to fool Americans and Europeans that the deliberate US proxy war against Russia was 'unprovoked'.
• And of course, Ukrainians have no agency, they're just chess pieces.
•  It finally feels good to see so many people finally waking up to this. Some of us have known this since 2014.
• zelensky went to golden globes and publicly thanked jp morgan and black rock for their support. he sacrificed his whole nation for money.
• And the Ukrainians thought they were fighting for their country!! Tragic.
• This is why many politicians are saying Russia must not win because they have invested in the outcome.
• That's a deal with the devil. Ukraine's riches will be plundered by such "Investments" in the same way that African countries are.
• And US is fighting for these companies.
• That is why US is a staunch supporter of Ukraine.
• Zelensky, the 21st century's greatest con man and WEF marionette!
• Those companies are not just trying to cash in on a disaster. They caused the disaster so they could cash in on it.  

 

Save the date: Keep Space for Peace Week October 5-12

 

International week of events to stop the militarization of space

Each October the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space organizes Keep Space for Peace Week to bring attention to the need to stop the ever advancing militarization and nuclearization of space.
 
In 1989 Apollo astronaut (and moon walker) Edgar Mitchell spoke at one of our protests at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and said, 'One war in space will be the one and only. So much space debris would be created that we would not be able to get a rocket off the planet Earth. We'd be entombed to the planet forever. It would be like a mine field not allowing any rocket to get thru the debris field just over our heads'.
 
Today all war on Earth is directed from orbiting military satellites.
 
For many years China and Russia have gone to the United Nations seeking to create a new treaty to ban all weapons in space. (Close the door to the barn before the horse gets out.)

But the US and Israel have been blocking such treaty negotiations for more than 25 years. The US has long maintained, 'There is no problem, there are no weapons in space.' It was obvious that the US intended to develop 'control and domination' of space and didn't want any treaty limitations.
 
Help us during October 5-12 to illuminate this issue for the public who are now massively paying for the militarization of space - what the aerospace industry brags is the 'largest industrial project in human history'.
 
Check our web site for articles, videos, T-shirts and past events during Keep Space for Peace Week. Click this link

Thanks

Bruce 

PS Please let us know of any plans you develop during space week.

Ukrainian journalist speaks out

 

Neutrality Studies

The lie that Ukraine is defending democracy or standing up for "western values" has never been weaker. But now we are getting reports that not just journalistic publications critical of the Kiev-Regime are getting purged, ANYONE who dares to utter opinions not in line with the regime is getting persecuted, even for private conversations. Society is under total surveillance.

I’m talking to Vasyl Muravytskyi, a Ukrainian journalist who has been publishing highly critical reports about his government before and after the Euromaidan events back in 2014, for which he got in a lot of trouble. On 1 August 2017, he was arrested by Ukrainian law enforcement charged with high treason and spent 11 months in prison.

Vasyl now lives in Finland from where he is talking to us, assisted by a translator to help with the English.

Sunday song

 

 

Ending genocide, endling the US-NATO war, ending the war on workers

 

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

“Genocide is the moral imperative of our era,” declares Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in this episode of The Chris Hedges Reports as she continues her campaign for the U.S. presidency. Joined by running mate, Professor Butch Ware, the two make their case as to why they should earn the vote of every disenfranchised American, stuck in the woes of personal domestic struggles and the atrocities committed abroad on their behalf by a self-serving empire.

Uhuru 3 'Free Speech Trial' trial begins in Tampa

 

 

BAP

 

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the Federal Indictments of the Uhuru 3 and Denial of their Fundamental Human Rights to Speech, Association, Information and Political Dissent

 

Tampa, Florida — The process of jury selection on September 3rd, 2024, will mark the beginning of the federal trial of Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP); Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC); and Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM), together known as the Uhuru 3.

The Uhuru 3 were indicted by the U.S. government in April 2023 on the absurd charges of being “agents of a foreign government.” — charges very similar to the indictment of W.E.B. Dubois, the internationally known Black scholar and human rights defender. Dubois was eighty-one at the time of his indictment as a supposed agent of the Soviet Union for his anti-nuclear and pro-peace advocacy. Omali Yeshitela is similarly eighty-one with an international standing as a human rights and anti-imperialist fighter for more than 60 years. The African Peoples’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement that he helped to found have been organizing and advocating for African people and colonized peoples for over 50 years.

Ajamu Baraka, Chair of the Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Coordinating Committee who will be an official observer of the trial states that:

“It is only in the imagination of white supremacists that African people would need smart white people from Russia to guide our people and movement to oppose the U.S./EU/NATO proxy war against Russia and analyze and comment on all aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Internationalism has always been a core principle of our movement from the Garvey Movement and anti-fascist struggles of Africans in America and in Spain in the form of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades, as well as the International Friends of Ethiopia that opposed the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, to our support for the liberation movements in Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Central America, and Vietnam.

Omali Yeshitela is an outstanding product and an example of that tradition, which, among many other reasons, is why BAP gives its inexorable support to chairman Yeshitela, as well as to Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, who embody the highest example of revolutionary solidarity with African people. Hess and Nevel have stood with us, and we intend to stand with them against the criminal repression that the Uhuru 3 are targets of.”

BAP recognizes that the ridiculous charges leveled at the Uhuru 3 represent a shot across the bow of the radical Black movement. The U.S. understands that if it is successful in containing Black opposition to the increasingly aggressive militarism abroad and repression within the borders of the U.S., the broader movement in the U.S. will be more easily controlled.

BAP and our movement will not be intimated. We recognize that the complete abandonment of constitutional and human rights by the U.S. and other Western states represents an irreversible crisis of legitimacy. We will continue to stand in support of the right to resist as a core human right. 

~ You can follow the trial reports here

Sweden loses again in Poltava

 

The Battle of Poltava (1709) was the decisive victory of Peter I the Great of Russia over Charles XII of Sweden in the Great Northern War. The battle ended Sweden’s status as a major power. It was fought north and west of Poltava, west of the Vorskla River, in Ukraine, between 80,000 Russian troops under Peter the Great and the general Prince Aleksandr Menshikov and 17,000 Swedes under Charles XII. 

Poltava is currently one of the most important military installations of the Ukrainian forces in the Donbass region near the Russian border. Since 2014 the US-NATO has been helping Ukraine create various military strongholds throughout the Donbass. But these days the Russian military is pushing Ukraine out of this region. 

Inside Poltava were numbers of US-NATO advisers/mercenaries, along with Ukrainian forces, teaching various high-tech war fighting operations. On September 3 Russia hit this key training center & military barracks facility with two Iskander missiles. More than 500 were killed and hundreds more were wounded.

The strike on the 179th training center of the Signal Troops military institute in Poltava—officially called the Poltava Institute of Military Communications—was particularly grievous for Ukraine because it appeared to house not only a vital drone-technical program, but valuable Swedish instructors for the upcoming transfer of Swedish AWACS planes, billed as future ‘game changers’ that would work in coordination with the recently delivered nuclear capable F-16s to decimate targets in Russia from afar. 

The Swedish instructors, are at the center of the story. This was validated by a post from a woman who says her mate from Sweden’s Linkoping University perished in the Poltava attack:

Reports that Swedish 'instructors' among Ukrainian and other NATO soldiers killed in Russian strike, allegedly working to train Kiev cannon fodder pilots on Swedish-supplied AWACS aircraft.

Among the 'students' were several foreign instructors from Sweden - they were also killed. Britta Ellwanger, a foreign volunteer who was with them, writes about this. A few months ago, Sweden announced the transfer of two ASC 890 AWACS aircraft to Ukraine, and accordingly the Swedes trained future specialists on these planes.

On May 29th, 2024, the Swedish Ministry of Defense announced that two Airborne Surveillance and Control aircraft (ASC 890) will be sent to Ukraine, in the 16th military support package. 

 

 

Sweden has tried to take out Russia 14 times since 1475 with little success. Now here in 2024 Sweden has joined the US-UK-NATO attempt to break Russia into pieces. So far it's not working but many fear that the western war mongers could go nuclear in a desperate 'Hail Mary'. 

Swedish PM resigns

Now, only a day after the Poltava strikes reportedly wrecked the entire Swedish-Ukraine program, Sweden’s FM mysteriously resigns:

HELSINKI, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Wednesday he will step down next week after almost two years in office, during which his traditionally non-aligned country joined NATO.

"It is with a mixture of sadness and pride that I have today informed the prime minister that I will leave the post of foreign minister at the opening of parliament next week," Billstrom, a member of the conservative Moderate Party, said in a post on X.

Ukraine collapse near

Just yesterday it was announced that a huge shakeup in the Ukrainian government had also occurred.  Here is the list of those who were pushed out. This indicates growing instability inside the Kiev government that is now illegitimate due to the fact that Zelensky has refused to allow national elections even though his term in office has expired. The Ukrainian parliament has also passed their time in office without having to stand for reelection.

All the people who resigned in Ukraine in recent days:

➡️Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba;

➡️ Minister of Justice Denis Maliuska;

➡️ Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin;

➡️ Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets;

➡️ Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna;

➡️Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk;

➡️ Deputy head of Zelensky's office Rostislav Shurma. 

 

All in all things are looking badly for the western anti-Russian operation. They've wasted lots of taxpayer monies, harmed their own economies, lost access to relatively cheap Russian natural gas, ruined their image with most of the Global South nations, and most importantly lost their national sovereignty to Washington who has used NATO and the EU as minions to be thrown at Russia.

Have these western characters learned not to attempt to destroy Russia? Looking at Sweden's 14 wars (now make it 15) aimed at Moscow it would seem that the EU bloc are very slow learners....

Bruce 

Castro on who runs America

 

 

In 1960 Cuban President Fidel Castro was asked which candidate would he prefer… Kennedy or Nixon? 

Castro replied… 

“It’s impossible to compare two shoes worn by the same person. America is governed by one party… the Zionist Party and it has two wings… 

The Republican wing which represents the hard line Zionist power… and the Democratic wing which represents the soft Zionist power… 

There is no difference in the goals and strategies, it’s the means and tools that slightly differ”