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