Kids speak for Palestine!

 

 

Special thanks to Eric Herter for his great efforts to make this event happen - twice. 

First in Brunswick and then in Portland, Maine.

Gaza students thank U.S. protesting students

 

 

Palestinian children sent a message of thanks and gratitude to US and European university students for their solidarity with the Gaza Strip during a press conference and event held in the garden of a school turned into a shelter center in Rafah city in the Gaza Strip, which is under Israeli blockade and attacks.

 

US professor cancels students’ final project in response to crackdown on pro-Palestine protests

An assistant professor from the University of Southern California (USC) has announced the cancellation of students’ final project in response to the crackdown on pro-Palestine protests at the university.

“Our university administration decided to bring riot police onto the campus instead of tolerating anti-war, anti-genocide protests of students, many of whom have gone into considerable debt to even attend USC,” Sarah Kessler posted on X addressing her students.

“How are you supposed to take exams with LAPD helicopters loudly circling overhead,” she asked.

“I went into this line of work because I actually care about education, but I’m finding USC’s business as usual inhospitable to critical thinking and action at the moment.”      ~ Aljazeera

 

"Don't Forget Gaza" march was organized in Üsküdar, Istanbul by the Human Rights and Freedoms (IHH) Humanitarian Relief Foundation and the International Freedom Flotilla Coalition. 

The group gathered at Fıstıkağacı Metro Station and protested against Israel's attacks on Gaza. 

The participants unfurled banners reading "Cease fire now", "Open the Rafah Border Gate" and carried Turkish and Palestinian flags.

Sunday song with bonus

 

 

Americans, you're being played

 

The video is excellent.

The subject line above says it all.

The U.S. against the new 'Axis of Evil'

 

By Manlio Dinucci (Pangea Grandangolo TV, Italy)

The US Congress has approved a $95 billion bill for "aid" to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The Act was voted by a large bipartisan majority of Democrats and Republicans and provided $60.8 billion for Ukraine, $26.4 billion for Israel, and $8.1 billion for Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific region. The chairman of the Senate Armed Services, Republican Mike Rogers, said: “China, Russia, and Iran are working together in a new Axis of Evil to damage our alliances and undermine our national security.” 

President Biden, who immediately signed the Act, declared: “It's a good day for America, it's a good day for Europe and it's a good day for world peace. It will make America safer. It will make the world safer and continue America's leadership." He then added concerning Israel: “My commitment to Israel, I want to make it clear once again, is ironclad. Israel's security is paramount. I will always ensure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself from Iran and the terrorists it supports.”

This Act fuels wars and war preparations from Europe to the Middle East and East Asia against Russia, Iran, Palestine, China, and other countries, and further strengthens the US military. Of the 60 billion in "aid" to Ukraine, 48 billion finance the US Armed Forces: 23.2 billion dollars are intended to replenish US stockpiles of weapons used to arm Ukraine; $11.3 billion is earmarked for current U.S. military operations in the region; 13.8 billion dollars are intended for the purchase of advanced weapon systems, materials, and defence services. 

At the same time, the Act requires that US allies, including Italy, pay their “fair share” of the costs of war against the “new Axis of Evil.”

Webinar: “MAY 2: REMEMBER THE ODESSA MASSACRE!”

 

 

“MAY 2: REMEMBER THE ODESSA MASSACRE!”

 A webinar sponsored by the Odessa Solidarity Campaign

Thursday, May 2, noon - 1:15 pm (EST)

 

Register in advance for this webinar:

 
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XcxaoXglQragoqh1Dc9oHg

 

 

The Odessa Solidarity Campaign invites you to attend an important webinar on May 2 that will explore the true nature of the government of Ukraine and expose the myth that it is a democracy unjustly targeted in an unprovoked war.

The webinar is timely for two reasons:

First, May 2 will mark 10 years since a fascist-led mob murdered at least 42 people when it set fire to the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. What has become known as the Odessa Massacre took place shortly after the U.S.-backed coup that overthrew the elected president of Ukraine and replaced him with a regime anxious to ally with the U.S. and its growing global military, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO.

And second, the U.S. House of Representatives has just approved $61 billion for the U.S. proxy war with Russia, along with $26 billion for Israel to support its genocide in Gaza and billions for Taiwan, a provocative move certain to increase tensions with China.

The May 2 webinar will have four presenters, all of whom have visited Ukraine since the Odessa Massacre:

• Bruce Gagnon - Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (Maine)
• Joe Lombardo - Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition (New York)
• John Parker - Leading Member, Socialist Unity Party; Coordinator, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice (California)
• Phil Wilayto - Coordinator, Odessa Solidarity Campaign; Editor, The Virginia Defender (Virginia)

The Moderator will be:

• Alison Bodine - Representative, Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice (Vancouver)

There will also be a special presentation by a member of the Uhuru 3, leaders and supporters of the African People’s Socialist Party who have come under severe political repression for speaking out against the U.S. role in Ukraine’s war with Russia. The Uhuru 3 are scheduled to go to trial Sept. 3 in Tampa, Florida.

The May 2 webinar is being sponsored by the Odessa Solidarity Campaign and has been endorsed by:

•       Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice (Vancouver)
•       Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space 
•       Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice (Los Angeles)
•       Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) - Vancouver
•       Socialist Unity Party.
•       United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
•       Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality

  

ODESSA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN

 PO Box 23202, Richmond, VA 23223 USA - https://odessasolidaritycampaign.wordpress.com

Ph: 1-804-644-5834 - Email: DefendersFJE@hotmail.com

The Odessa Solidarity Campaign, a project of the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality, was founded in 2016 after three U.S. antiwar activists answered a call from the Council of Mothers of May 2 for International Observers to attend the 2nd annual memorial of the Odessa Massacre, which several fascist paramilitary organizations were publicly threatening to attack. Every year since, the OSC has encouraged local actions to remember the massacre and support the Council of Mothers’ demand for a genuine international investigation into the killings, something the Ukrainian government has yet to allow.

German cops get rough in Berlin

 

 

Police in Berlin, Germany, arrest pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped outside German Parliament.

Economy watch: U.S. debt crisis alert!

 

U.S. even pissing off the IMF these days over incompetence of American economic decision making in Washington. Or was it all by design? Maybe Mr. Big's interests are not the same as the majority of the people?

Do something now about your debt the IMF says....the drive to increase spending should be resisted as most of it is going for warmongering. 

Cost of interest to banks on US debt is greater than 2024 spending on the Pentagon and Medicare combined. Next seven generations would be still paying that debt. Nice gift to our kids huh....

The banksters are doing well but rest of us are in the shitter. 

Let's get out while we still can.

Bruce 

Netanyahu worst lies ever exposed

 

#BenjaminNetanyahu dropped a two-minute video on X "condemning" college campus protests at #ColumbiaUniversity and other #Campus #Protest movements. 

Aaron hadn't caught wind of the statement before this interview but does a great job sharing the truth.

These are the worst lies by Netanyahu that I've ever seen.

Please share this short video so as many people as possible can see how the zionists are exposing themselves as the frauds that they are.

Bruce

Evidence of IOF's summary executions

 

Palestinian Civil Defence team says evidence from mass graves, in the grounds of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, shows the Israeli army carried out summary executions. 

392 bodies have been recovered in mass graves, but they have not been able to identify 267 of them. And at least 20 people may have been buried alive at the medical complex. 

Children were also among the bodies recovered. 

The team is accusing Israel of committing crimes against humanity. Meanwhile, international pressure is mounting on Israel after the discovery of the mass graves. 

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says Washington wants answers. The White House says reports of mass graves in Gaza are 'deeply disturbing'. 

The EU and the United Nations have already called for an independent investigation. 

Mass graves have been discovered in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City as well as Nasser Hospital in the south. 

Dr Mohammed al-Moghier is the Head of the Monitoring and Documenting Unit at the Civil Defence Department in Gaza. He shares the evidence they have found from the uncovering of the mass graves in Khan Younis. 

International lawyer Geoffrey Robertson says there must be an independent investigation following the discovery of hundreds of bodies buried in mass graves at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital.

Zionists worried about campus protests

 

Zionists in Israel are getting worried about the power of student protests across the US.

Yesterday Netanyahu called the student uprising 'antisemitic' which is a joke due to the fact that many of these are  being led by Jewish students. But zionists never let facts get in the way of their steady stream of lies.

"Diaspora Jews are currently suffering from a harsh wave of antisemitism in communities and on campuses in the US, Europe, and around the world," far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said, according to a report in Israeli media network Arutz Sheva on Wednesday.

Of course US- based zionists are similarly over reacting by ordering the cops to crash the non-violent protests and arrest students and some faculty members.

This of course will only spread the campus protests even farther. 

Imagine a student is paying for tuition, food and campus housing and gets kicked off campus for peaceful protest. What are they being taught about 'real democracy'? It's quite a civics lesson in real time!

 

 

Fascism (the wedding of corporations and government) is revealing its ugly face across the US-UK-EU as the western rulers are finding their regional military outpost in the Middle East being exposed daily as genocidal maniacs. One must work hard not to see the truth before our very eyes.

The map at the top is likely not complete. I know of at least one college campus here in Maine joining the protests for a free Gaza. I am certain there are countless more across the nation and beyond.

We need to keep the pressure building and continue calling out the zionist genocidal war crimes against Palestine. 

Bruce

Free from bondage: Another world is happening

 

 

China’s announced it’s writing off some loans owed by Zimbabwe which is struggling with heavy debt. The gesture was made during the African country’s independence celebrations marking 44 years of freedom from British colonial rule.

This is why the west hates China.

The western 'Rules Based Order' does not allow for this biblical mandate of forgiving debt. Capitalism does just the opposite. It takes everything of value the debtor has and keeps the debtor in bondage.

“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed."    ~ Deuteronomy 15:1-2

China lived under the yoke and the whip of western extractive capitalism for a long time. The Chinese understand what much of the Global South is going through these days.

The western 'way of life' resulted from more than 500 years of thievery from the Global South. The reason the US-UK-EU are now at war with the rest of the world is the colonial occupiers know the vise is turning and squeezing them. Thus they move to terrorism in the vain attempt to hold onto power and domination. 

But it is not working.

Thank you China.

Bruce