U.S. Peace Council Statement

 

A Manufactured Crisis in Ukraine 
is Victimizing the World's Peoples

With the conflict in Ukraine entering its third month, the likelihood of a successfully negotiated peace — an immediate necessity — is becoming ever more remote. This proxy war by the United States is designed to use the Ukrainian people to mortally disable Russia. Those who profit from war benefit, while those most vulnerable suffer: Ukrainian civilians, but more broadly working people internationally and especially in the Global South.

It was expected that the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 would put an end to the first Cold War and the threat of world nuclear annihilation. Instead, the world’s remaining superpower continued its imperialist quest of global “full spectrum dominance” to prevent the emergence of “any potential future global competitor.”

Domestically, instead of a “peace dividend” in 1991, the bi-partisan consensus of Democrats and Republicans has been a policy of relentless military expansion. The U.S. military now consumes over half of the federal discretionary budget, which is 12 times the size of Russia’s defense spending. The Ukraine war has been used to justify Congress’s most recent obscene additional $29 billion in war appropriations over what the Pentagon itself had requested, $800 billions of which will go directly to Ukraine in the form of hi-tech military weapons. 

Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine is providing convenient cover for the current administration to renege on promised social programs such as COVID protections, full student loan debt relief, free community college, or the public option for Medicare, and the promised seven days guaranteed paid sick leave for the workers. The war has been used to encourage fossil fuel production and blocking fracking on federal land has been forsaken. 

 

A U.S.-Manufactured Conflict

Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine could have been avoided if the U.S. had not relentlessly provoked it. The U.S. provided weapons and military training to the fascist-infiltrated Ukrainian army that has targeted ethnic Russians in Ukraine since the U.S.-orchestrated coup in 2014. Some 14,000 people had died in the conflict before Russia directly intervened. 

Russia repeatedly called for respecting the ceasefire outlined in the Minsk Accords. The 2015 Minsk II Agreement called for autonomy for the separatist Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, where the majority are Russian-speaking, along with release of prisoners of war and withdrawal of heavy weapons.

Instead, the Ukrainian army increased its attacks on its own citizens, although the peace agreement had been signed by representatives of Ukraine along with Russia, the separatist provinces, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) for western Europe. Then in late February, a planned full-scale assault by the Ukraine army on the separatist region immediately precipitated the Russian invasion.

The conflict could not have continued without weapons and intelligence openly provided by the U.S. In a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported that the U.S. and NATO had supplied 60,000 anti-tank and 25,000 anti-aircraft weapons to the Ukrainian army. In recent weeks, the Biden administration ordered another $1.6 billion of “lethal aid” to Ukraine further escalating the conflict.

NATO — the U.S.-Dominated Global War Machine

Contrary to its claims, NATO is not a defensive organization. Its purpose from the start has been to act as an instrument for U.S. world domination and to prevent all challenges to the U.S. hegemony. That is why it was not dissolved in 1991 after the dissolution of the Socialist Camp’s Warsaw Pact. On the contrary, despite the promises made by high U.S. officials to Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would expand “not one inch east,” it was expanded into fifteen new countries. This relentless eastward expansion of NATO during the past decades has been an existential threat to a nuclear-armed Russia and the main cause of the present military conflict in Ukraine. Now, driven by the war in Ukraine, NATO may be able to add Sweden and Finland in western Europe and Ukraine and Georgia in eastern Europe to its list of members.

NATO is not a true alliance. It is in fact an integrated imperialist army under direct U.S. command. Its constituent states are bound to dedicate significant portions of their national budgets to maintaining this war machine and to offer up their youth as soldiers.

Nor is it serving the interests of Europe, where U.S. nuclear weapons are stationed — in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey — making them immediate targets if the cold war turns hot; likewise for Poland and Romania, which now host the U.S. “missile defense” facilities for NATO aimed at Russia. 

Severing Russia from Europe Through Weaponizing Ukraine

Not only has the Ukraine conflict been used to oblige NATO members to buy more weapons from U.S. military contractors, but the larger U.S. objective of economically severing Russia from Europe is being advanced. Precluded is an integrated Europe with peaceful commerce between Russia and its neighbors. Instead, Germany, for instance, is being compelled against its economic self-interest to buy U.S. liquified natural gas rather than getting supplied from Russia via the Nord Stream II pipeline at a fraction of the cost.

The eventual peaceful integration of Russia with the rest of Europe has now been forestalled for the foreseeable future. Such a potential integration could have served in the long-term as a counterbalance to U.S. hegemony. Thus, severance of Russia from Europe has been a paramount strategic geopolitical objective for the U.S. And forget about pledges to restore engagement with Cuba, rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, or negotiate with North Korea for a denuclearized zone.

Weaponizing Ukraine as a part of NATO is the key to, in the words of the semi-governmental Rand Corporation, “overextending and unbalancing Russia.” Early on, U.S. strategic planners, such as President Carter’s national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, put into play the elements that would eventually precipitate Russia’s military response on February 24^th.

For all the reasons stated above, the U.S. government has pursued trapping Russia in the Ukraine conflict and has every incentive to prolong the conflict. Ukraine’s hands are tied, as it cannot negotiate a settlement without permission from the U.S., which is unlikely to be forthcoming.

 

Global Consequences

The reverberating consequences of the conflict and the associated sanctions by the U.S. and its allies on Russia have been devastating, causing food and fuel shortages globally and an ensuing inflation in the cost of living most impacting those who can least afford it.

Climate chaos, the ongoing pandemic, and inflation are all exacerbated by the conflict. Instead of international solidarity and cooperation to combat these threats, the opposite is occurring with global fragmentation. The U.S. is threatening to sanction countries such as China and India, home to 35% of the world population if they do not cut economic ties with Russia. Pakistan recently experienced a U.S.-backed coup, in part for continuing to have a friendly relationship with Russia.

Call for Peace

With the U.S. imperialist thrust to prolong the proxy war to weaken Russia, the voices for peace are regrettably few. Liberals in the U.S. supporting the Democratic Party are reluctant to take a principled stand for peace. Rather, they fully call for the overthrow of Putin and punishing the Russians for their transgressions.

Although liberals were quick to invoke the specter of fascism when it could be associated with President Trump, they exhibit little concern about aligning with real self-avowed fascist elements in Ukraine. Yet the resurgence of a radical right is directly tied to the capitulation of liberals to a failed neoliberal agenda (along with an embrace of a neoconservative outlook on foreign relations), which has alienated and victimized many workers who previously supported liberal and social democratic alternatives.

The Republicans, viewing the upcoming midterm congressional elections, have taken the tactic of advocating for an even more adventurous jingoism. Meanwhile, many alternative views to the imperialist narrative have been de-platformed from social media leaving the U.S. public with a steady diet of Russophobia.

Even the left is not entirely unified on a peace platform. Some view the conflict as simply an inter-imperialist rivalry between a capitalist U.S. and a capitalist Russia primarily over natural resources in which the working class has no stake. While there are elements of truth in such a view, it ignores larger and far overriding issues, especially the destructive impact of NATO’s success in Ukraine on the lives of the working people throughout the world. 

On the basis of this assessment of the present situation in Ukraine, the U.S. Peace Council reiterates its statement of March 24 calling for rapidly de-escalating the violence and negotiating a peaceful resolution. Analysts across the political spectrum agree that never has the world been so close to nuclear holocaust.

We call upon the Biden Administration to stop fueling the fire and prolonging the war by sending billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Ukraine. It is time for these funds to be spent on critically-ignored human needs instead of waging imperialist wars against other nations.

U.S. Peace Council 
May 10, 2022  

More and more BS & conflict of interests

 

More and more - tanks, weapons, armor, anti-aircraft, Stingers, anti-ship, air-defense, UAV's, go on offense, ammunition, weapons, send the very best, weapons, missiles, keep spigot open, flow the weapons, long-war, war measured in years, likely go on, stay focused, howitzers, Patriot, THAAD, shopping list, supplies, do more, more direct involvement of some kind will be inevitable, armed drones, lots of ammo, arm the Ukrainians.....

Very, very interesting

 

Solzhenitsyn died in 2008, but I thought it was interesting that in many ways he predicted this conflict could happen, already in 1968, many years before the break up of the Soviet Union. 

Then other texts from later years show a good analysis of Russian-Ukrainian relations and where were they could be going. Unfortunately, they ended in the war he most feared. 

Texts are from The Gulag Archipelago vol. 5 (1968), a letter from 1981, Rebuilding Russia (1990) and one of his last interviews, for German magazine Spiegel (2007). 

All interspersed with footage from several documentaries including “Roses have thorns" (2014) about the Odessa massacre, “The Trap” (2007) about shock therapy in Russia in the 1990s, "The Children of Leningradsky" (2005) about street children in Moscow in the 1990s, "Donbass" (2016) by Anne-Laure Bonnel, plus footage from the current war from different news sources. 

Tom

Demonstration for Peace at US embassy in Hungary

 

 
“We came here in front of the US Embassy so they could hear clearly what we were saying! We do not want war for the sake of either America or NATO! We want to live in peace and good relations with Russia! ”

Joint demonstration of peace-loving people in Budapest, organized by non-governmental organizations.

Speech by Endre Simó, President of the Hungarian Community for Peace
 

Greetings on behalf of the Hungarian Community for Peace! It is important that we are together people of many worldviews, creeds and temperaments for our common cause, for the protection of the peace of our country against those who would be willing to sacrifice our peace if we left, as they did with Ukraine. Fate has given us, peace-loving Hungarians, the task of not letting ourselves be deceived and shedding our blood for foreign interests. Let us learn from history and not believe the sound of the siren of those who profess to be our allies, even though our country is only a map for them.

We came here in front of the US Embassy so they could hear clearly what we were saying! We do not want a war for the sake of either America or NATO, as you Americans are commanding! We want to live in peace and good relations with Russia! Here in Central Europe, we want to live in peace with both East and West! We are not enemies of you Americans, we want to be your partners in East-West cooperation, in implementing a security system in which all parties involved recognize the right of others to security and guarantee it in law. We wanted to express this to you several times in person, but we knocked on your door in vain! If we got to the reception of your fortress at all through the tank traps. Have you ever been to the Russian embassy? Have you seen similar obstacles and obstructions there? And it is not the Russians who are our allies, but you! Or not? What are they afraid of? Whether we want to live in peace and good relations with others? We also did not receive a reply to our letter to President Biden drawing his attention to our national interests stemming from the geographical location of our country. They act as if there were no national interest other than their own! And even if it were, it would have to be subordinate to the American interests.

This war could have been avoided if you also wanted to. But neither your government nor the Deep State behind it wanted to. You wanted a war in our neighborhood. You urged the Kiev group, which came to power with your help in a coup in 2014, not to implement the Minsk agreements, not to give autonomy to the Donbass. You have denied Russia what you are demanding for yourself: security. Russia has called for NATO to end its eastward expansion, for Ukraine not to be a member of a military bloc but to be neutral. Your government has declined the request. Russia has asked not to install offensive weapons in Ukraine, but you have deployed and even sent experts there who have trained the Ukrainian army to use nuclear weapons. Moscow has also called for NATO forces and armaments to be withdrawn from countries that became members of the Atlantic bloc after 1997. This was also rejected. And meanwhile, Russia was provoked non-stop on land, sea and air.

Anyone who breaks his neighbor’s window at night must reckon that the victim will not seek justice from a court, especially if the court is under the influence of the perpetrator, but will assert his right to live free from harassment. He gives him enough physical treatment so he doesn’t even think about breaking his window again. We are now living the moments of this treatment. At the same time, the one who entrusted the perpetrator also gets a slap. The perpetrator and his instigator now plead in the victim’s pose. They declare agressor the victim of their agressivity who wanted to put an end to it. They knew what was going to happen! Moscow has predicted what it will do if the nice word doesn’t work. The bully and his instigator now invoke their human rights and violated physical integrity and want to convince the world that they have acted aggressively in defense of the free world and democracy.

 

     Mr. President Biden, in the name of what kind of freedom can others be threatened and harassed?

In the name of what kind of free world can the right of countries and peoples to live safely, to develop normally, to prosper be challenged?

What makes a world whose leading state is interested in arms sales and warfare free?

What would make the Ukrainian system democratic, which denies the linguistic, cultural, ethnic and religious identity of the peoples and nationalities that make up Ukraine and proclaims itself to be a unified nation-state?

What kind of freedom and democracy is there where people are divided into indigenous and second-class citizens, ethnicities, and are racially discriminated?

What is freedom and democracy like in a country where Hungarian, Ruthenian, Russian, and others can only speak their native language when the law allows it?

What kind of free world is it that tolerates the army of a “democratic Ukraine” killing 13,000 Russians who refused to submit to the US-backed regime in Kiev?

What kind of idea of ​​freedom drives one who sees himself as the custodian of freedom and democracy, demands that others conform to his model, and if they do not want to, he uses violence against them?

This is the freedom of arbitrariness! Freedom to abuse democracy!

America is sick and has infected our neighbor, Ukraine too.

I myself have found in recent years that parallely with the decline of the American Empire, there has been a growing view amongst the global financial circles that the United States has made a mistake that in World War II it did not enter into an alliance with Hitler against the Soviet Union, but entered into a coalition with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany. They believe that Russia can be conquered, fragmented and divided among themselves. Russians considered an inferior race would be deported beyond the Urals or simply exterminated. Pure Nazi race theory! Their plan is supported by the hundreds of biological laboratories set up around Russia and China, dozens of which have been revealed in Ukraine. Biological weapons research was conducted in these laboratories. Experiments have been performed with microorganisms, insects, and mammals and poultry capable of spreading pathogenic substances. Biological weapon components were produced. Documents have also been reported on spraying with drones and experimenting on humans. The laboratories are operated by the Pentagon, the U.S. Department of Defense. Written evidence has emerged of President Biden’s son Hunter’s interest in bioweapon research.

Canadian General Trevor John Cadieu, head of the No. 1 biological laboratory at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, who tried to escape the catacomb, was arrested and taken to Moscow to be brought to justice.

The Western media keep silent about all this. Because it is obliged to keep silent. A journalist who wants to inform objectively, even in his own editorial office, encounters censorship, and if he tries to insist, he flies a short way. Large Western news agencies and the press, once proud of their objectivity, are forced to provide false information about the conflict in Ukraine. Not only do they keep silent about its causes, they also have to lie if they don’t want to be disconnected from the net. Only what the power considers to be true can be true. Thus, it could happen that the Russians were accused of war crimes committed by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis. See the explosion of the theater in Mariupol and the massacre in Bucha. It is now well known from video recordings and testimonies that it was a play held in Bucha: corpses transported from elsewhere were spread on the roadway to make an impression. The performance was mainly staged by the British with the corpses of civilians who were used as living shields by the glorious Ukrainian army in residential buildings, schools, and hospitals. They finalize a panel report that, based on concrete data and eyewitness testimony, could prove that the Mariupol theater was not blown up by the Russians, killing 600 civilians, but by the infamous Azovist neo-Nazis, who are now defending to the last drop the Azovstal steel plant and NATO officers trapped in the PIT-404 sector of the underground system and those of the secret bioweapons laboratory.

Do you see what the free world is warping into when the profit interests of a handful of groups run counter to the idea of ​​freedom? They dust, deceive, lie in our eyes. All this in the colors of the defenders of democracy.

Although the Hungarian Peace Community is aware of what happened why, and why Russia was forced to resort to military means, we did not come here to justify the war that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, 2,500 civilians, including 225 children, but to show a way out of it.

 

The name of peace is compromise. America and NATO must recognize Russia and China’s right to security! They must acknowledge that they can no longer dictate to the peoples, least of all the Russians and the Chinese, but must treat them with respect. They must negotiate with them as an equal partner. And they must build the future together with them on peaceful cooperation based on mutual benefits, rather than on unilateral benefits. It must be acknowledged that our security is one and indivisible! No one has the right to claim their own safety to the detriment of others! The Western powers are not yet willing to acknowledge this. But they will be forced to! Unfortunately, the facts continue to show that groups accustomed to deciding the fate of countries and peoples from the offices of skyscrapers in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago will not relinquish their privileges on their own if they are not forced to do so!

Ukraine is the scene of this global struggle. Station on the road to a world order of peaceful coexistence and cooperation. If Ukraine is demilitarized, denazified, and forced to neutral, if the equality and independence of the peoples living there, including the Hungarians, is guaranteed within a federation, the West will be forced to acknowledge that the future of humanity is no longer shaped by those who speak of freedom, democracy and human rights, while doing the opposite, but those who want to put it into practice. Fortunately, there are more and more people who understand this in the West, even though their voices are still stifled.

We Hungarians can best serve the cause of peace if we do not give in to any temptation and incitement to war, but remain our own lords! We expect Viktor Orbán to be coherent and not let Hungary sink into a war! We find the Prime Minister’s courageous stance against those of our allies who view the sovereign policy of the Hungarian national interest with a bad eye! We would find it even more courageous if the government banned not only the direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine, but also the indirect transfer to other NATO states via Hungary! The government should pursue a neutral policy despite the fact that Hungary is a member of NATO! We call on the Hungarian government to veto the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, just as it has vetoed Ukraine’s accession. This would help both the Finnish and Swedish people to remain neutral and not be dragged into the conflict by the same people that Hungary must beware of. The Hungarian Community for Peace agrees and assures the government, and Viktor Orbán personally its support against  the European Union’s plan to ban Russian oil imports, and criticizing the Western sanctions policy against Russia, because he is aware that it will hit us back, and all those who commit it.

We would like our foreign policy to grow up to the requirements of our time, to draw on the experience of Hungarian diplomacy in the 1970s, when Budapest brought the parties in the Cold War to a negotiating table and launched the co-operation process of Helsinki. We have to do it again now! We need to build a bridge instead of digging a ditch! An international conference should be set in motion to lay the foundations for a European and international system of collective security and cooperation. Let’s dare to be big again! To show what kind of world our people are capable of! The government can count on our Peace Community in the bridge building up.

The humane, helpful attitude towards the refugees in Ukraine is worthy of the reputation of our nation! The Peace Community is still raising donations to help refugees from Ukraine.

We stand ready to assist the government in enforcing a neutral policy for peace and security for Hungary. We want the public service media to give space to the opinion and voice of the peace-loving Hungarian, because peace is not only a matter for the government, but for our people and nation! For all of us!

May 9, 2022

Truth be told....

 

Always wise words from America's great author and humorist.

And America's most famous anti-imperialist.

Inhuman treatment of civilians by Ukraine army

 

By Vladimir Kozin

Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues to accumulate facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). It has been reliably established that Ukrainian army units and nationalist battalions are setting up powerful fortifications in large enterprises, including the chemical industry, at the orders of their US and UK handlers.

For example, the militants have placed heavy weapons on the territory of the Azot company in Severodonetsk, Lugansk People's Republic, and are holding more than a 1,000 factory workers and local residents in underground facilities as "human shield". At the same time, the nationalists have been systematically firing MLRSs in Pervomaisk, Stakhanov and Kalinovo, thus provoking the Russian Armed Forces to retaliate in order to further accuse the Russian military of killing civilians and causing a man-made disaster in the republic. The neo-Nazis also booby-trapped tanks containing chemicals (ammonia, ammonium nitrate, nitric acid) for immediate detonation in case they were forced to abandon their positions.

The implementation of this cynical crime will lead to the chemical contamination of air, terrain and water sources. At the same time, there is a particular danger of highly toxic substances entering the Seversky Donets River, which is the main waterway and source of drinking water for eastern Ukraine and the Donbass republics.

The commission of similar inhuman provocations by nationalist battalions, according to testimonies of captured AFU soldiers, is also planned at other facilities within the boundaries of the so-called "triangle of chemical industry" (Severodonetsk, Lisichansk and Rubezhnoe; total area - 338 sq km, population - about 300,000 people), where more than 30 chemical companies are concentrated, the largest being Ukrkhimenergo, Severodonetsk-based ORGHIM, Energohimmash, Zarya, LLC, Severodonetsk Chemical and Metallurgical Plant, Severodonetsk Novofert Liquid Chemical Fertiliser Plant, Yuzhny Chemical Plant, and Benzol Chemical Company.

In addition, according to reliable information, the Ukrainian Security Service is planning provocations using chemical weapons in the settlements of Vysokopolie, Ivanovka, Knyazevka and Topolnoe in Kherson region, as well as in Apostolovo in Dnepropetrovsk region by 24:00 on May 6, 2022 to further accuse the Russian Armed Forces. Moreover, while previously in preparation for such provocations the civilian population was withdrawn from the area of planned contamination, now, in order to maximise the resonance, no warning was given to the population.

Russia warned the "civilized West" as well as the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in advance that the above and other similar provocations about alleged "Russian atrocities" are soon to be widely spread by the Ukrainian authorities through the Western media and in various Internet resources.

On May 7, 2022 in Kharkiv Region, nationalists in Tsirkuny gathered local residents under the threat of physical violence and transported them to the southern outskirts of Borshchevaya, where the militants, shielding themselves with "human shield", were moving towards the frontline towards the Russian military units, provoking them to open fire on civilians. As a result of the spot fire, the Ukrainian nationalists were defeated: some of the personnel were eliminated and the rest scattered. However, no civilians were harmed.

Such actions by militants completely replicate Nazi tactics during the Great Patriotic War [WW II] and once again demonstrate the inhumane attitude of the Kiev regime towards its own people and its complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.

 ~ Dr. Vladimir Kozin is Member, Russian Academy of Military Sciences, Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and Vice President, Russian National Institute for Global Security Research

May 9: Nazis in Ukraine?

 

 Just in case you doubt it - he even has Hitler tattooed to his arm.

 

 

SouthFront

 

Today, 9 May, Ukraine’s cities, which went under Russian control, held celebrations to commemorate the anniversary of the USSR’s victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Thousands of people attended the celebrations, carrying Soviet and Russian flags as well as pictures of their relatives who fought against Nazism in 1941-1945.

The nationalist regime in Kiev has been trying for decades to burn out of the Ukrainians’ memory of the heroic deeds of their ancestors – the soldiers and officers of the Red Army.

The modern pro-NATO Ukrainian leadership has officially proclaimed Nazis who served in the SS as heroes. As resulted from the Nuremberg Tribunal of 1945-1949, the SS was ruled to be a criminal organization responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the mass murder of civilians, medical experiments on people, the genocide of Jews, Slavs and other peoples.

Today, Western and Ukrainian media are actively purged of information about SS and crimes of other organizations of the Nazi party . Information on the crimes is provided with significant reservations and doubts about the legitimacy of the Nuremberg Tribunal decision. For example, check Wikipedia or try using a Google search to find it.

However, people whose families were touched by the crimes of the Nazis remember the facts. In Kherson and other regions of Ukraine, Nazi criminals burned in locked barns, hanged and shot tens of thousands of civilians. These people also remember that the German Nazis were actively assisted by nationalists from the western regions of Ukraine, who surpassed their masters in cruelty.

It has been deadly dangerous to speak out against Nazism in Ukraine over the last eight years. People who dared to do so simply disappeared or were maimed and killed with impunity by neo-Nazis.

Today, for the first time for a long period, the fear of telling the truth receded. Look at these images from various cities in eastern and southern Ukraine that are now under the control of the L/DPR or the Russian MoD.

 

 

May 9, 2019 March of the Immortal Regiment in St. Petersburg

 

On this day in 2019 our Global Network Russia Study Tour (Moscow, Crimea and St. Petersburg) found us in the parade that drew 1.2 million people in St. Petersburg. During WW II 26 million citizens from the Soviet Union were killed at the hands of the German Nazi army.

 

 

 

Like others in the march I carried a photo of my mother's two brothers who were in the Navy during WW II. Both of their ships were sunk by the Nazi's and miraculously they survived but both died at a relatively young age from heart attacks. The family always believed the trauma of that experience led to their unexpected early passing.

 

Bruce

 

 

May 9, 2019 in St. Petersburg

'Global NATO' To Have Disastrous Effect On World Security

 

By Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst

In late April, when the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called for the creation of a “Global NATO” as part of “a shift in world order”, few seem to have noticed the magnitude of such an announcement. The statement followed calls by US President Joe Biden for a ‘New World Order to be established’ just four weeks prior during his Warsaw speech. The UK Foreign Secretary claimed that the world order established after the Second World War was failing and that the formation of “a global NATO” was necessary to “restore Western and allied ascent” in global affairs.

    “My vision is a world where free nations are assertive and in the ascendant. Where freedom and democracy are strengthened through a network of economic and security partnerships.”

She stressed that the UN Security Council and other post-WWII security structures “have been bent out of shape so far, they have enabled rather than contained aggression.” The bending (or outright ignoring) of UN rules to enable aggression on various countries is most certainly true, just not in the way Liz Truss thinks.

The statement comes amid repeated expressions of frustration among many Western leaders that of the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council, the only two non-Western members (China and Russia) blocked resolutions targeting other non-Western countries such as Syria, Zimbabwe, Iran, Sudan, and most recently Russia itself. It follows longstanding calls for a new global governance superstructure, most likely based on NATO, which would allow the West and Western-aligned countries to “assert and coordinate greater power” in global affairs. In other words, a more “optimized” use of the dwindling power of the political West and its vassals while attempting to take control of other countries’ resources.

Truss stressed that under this new form of globalization, access to international security and trade should be made conditional on countries’ political positions. The UK Foreign Secretary stated that “economic access is no longer a given” and that it “has to be earned.” She added that countries who wish to earn it “must play by the rules” and that “this also includes China.” These statements come as Western powers openly threatened they would target Russian shipping in international waters, a move similar to targeting Iran and North Korea. The possibility of targeting Chinese shipping was notably also raised in a US Naval Institute paper two years prior. This effectively amounts to piracy, ever so euphemistically called “enforcement of freedom of navigation”.

In regards to the “Global NATO” and the future targeting of China, Truss emphasized plans to further arm the government in Taipei, in what would be yet another direct move against the People’s Republic of China. Taiwan is universally recognized as a part of China by the United Nations, all UN member states, as well as the constitution of the island itself. However, maintaining state-like institutions and Western-aligned administration there has increasingly been raised as a priority for Western security architecture.

Combined with attempts of a crawling reformation of the UN, the creation of a “Global NATO”, whatever it may be called, would spell a disaster for the security of the world. The North Atlantic Alliance has a dubious security track record, to say the least. Despite being formed as a supposedly “defensive” security pact, the alliance is anything but. It has so far attacked numerous countries, starting with the destruction of former Yugoslavia to invasions and bombings all across the Middle East, stretching from Libya to Afghanistan.

Concurrently, the belligerent alliance is continuing its expansion in Europe, getting ever closer to Russian borders. Despite decades of Russia’s repeated pleas and warnings, NATO refuses to honor the promise given to Mikhail Gorbachev that it would not be expanding “an inch to the east”. The result of such a policy are the tragic events now taking place in Ukraine. Worse yet, the US, as NATO’s leading member, has withdrawn from all arms control agreements, with the exception of the New START, which is set to expire in less than 4 years.

NATO’s aggressive posturing in Europe and the Middle East has pushed the world into another arms race, with Russia being forced to develop a plethora of new types of weapons, most notably hypersonic weapons and new advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles to restore the delicate strategic balance of power. Middle Eastern powers, such as Iran, are forced to spend a large portion of their GDP on the military since the US (and by extension NATO) has been threatening the country for decades. Conflicts in both Ukraine and Syria primarily stem from NATO policies toward Russia and Iran.

This new “Global NATO” is set to spill over this instability into the Asia-Pacific region, which has so far enjoyed a decades-long period of unprecedented peace and prosperity. The crucial part of this growth has been the blistering economic development of China. In order to curb China’s growth, the US first engaged in a massive trade war with the Asian giant. However, with the realization this would only have a very limited effect on China’s growing power, the US and NATO are determined to challenge China militarily, forcing it to spend more on defense, while also fragmenting the Asia-Pacific region along geopolitical lines. Western planners believe this would inevitably lead to economic decoupling, which would negatively affect China’s export-oriented economy and long-term development.

It’s a certainty that countries such as Japan and Australia would be involved in these efforts. However, getting other powers in the region to come on board will be much more problematic. South Korea is too focused on Pyongyang and China’s influence there is still appreciated in Seoul, in addition to extensive economic cooperation. India, for its part, is deemed as “too independent” for the taste of the political West, which now effectively operates under a “you’re either with us or against us” foreign policy framework.

Always good reports

 

 

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Graham Phillips

Sunday song

 

 

How media shapes 'reality'

 

 

In recent years the western media has worked overtime to change perceptions about Russia's key role in defeating the German Nazi army during WW II.

It's even gotten to the point that Russia is no longer invited to attend the regular V-Day remembrance events in France.  

War cemetery in Nijmegen, Netherlands sprayed with anti-Russian texts

 

See more on this here 

French: Civilians leave steelworks in Mariupol

 

 

Le 6 mai 2022, 50 civils ont enfin pu être évacués de l'usine d'Azovstal, à Marioupol. Nous étions sur place pour assister au processus d'évacuation organisé par l'armée russe, la Croix Rouge et l'ONU. 

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Corporate western media says Russia is losing....

 

 

LPR and Russian army capture Ukrainian soldiers every day by dozens. By official and unofficial data Ukrainian daily losses are 300-700 soldiers and hundreds get wounded and (or) captured. 

The situation hasn't changed for several weeks. Kiev regime seems to keep burning out its army.  Plus the US-NATO puppet regime in Ukraine is now forcing their 'Reserves' (18-60 years of age) into battle. Cannon fodder and nothing more. It is despicable.

Of course you can deny this and believe the same western corporate media that sold us the lies in 2003 about WMD in Iraq......

Or try reading the Pentagon Papers created by the Rand Corporation and released to the public in 1971 by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.

I joined the Air Force that same year. 

Once while browsing the book rack at the base exchange, during lunch at the chow hall at Wheeler AFB in Hawaii, I discovered the controversial papers had been published as a book. I bought the book because it revealed the secret story detailing how the US government lied to the public, the Congress and the media about Vietnam.

I sat at my desk in my office and read some passages out loud (with emphasis when appropriate) to my office mates. I was written up by my Master Sergeant boss but didn't care at that point. 

It was a great lesson for me. I'd grown up in an Air Force family and was mostly educated in military-run schools. I was a near total 'patriot' when I joined the service.

I believe in service very much. But not one that props up an international mafia cartel that runs the west and wishes to take Russia down.

The Pentagon Papers helped me quickly recover from my 'USA is the greatest' illusions. It was in the military that I became a peace and justice activist.

It was also then that I became clear that I should never buy the the lies that emanate from Washington. If you doubt that point, just check in with the Native Americans. 

Over the years I've refined my sense of smell for the BS wafting from our capital city. The joint is run by Wall Street and the war machine.  They go hand-in-hand.

So I don't believe a mumbling word coming out of the mouths of the 'selected officials' who carry water for Mr. Big. Right now they are trying to ram a war with Russia and China down our throats. 

I just spit it out. 

Bruce

Can Washington handle a two-front war?

 

I'm concerned... that the US is pushing hard against China's red lines on Taiwan, just as it pushed Russia's red lines on Ukraine.  Taiwan is different in that unlike Ukraine, Taiwan is officially recognized as part of China, essentially a breakaway province left over from China's civil war 73 years ago.  If such a war happens, it will more likely involve American vs Chinese forces directly, and be potentially much more disastrous and dangerous in terms of quick escalation. We'll hear the same arguments about Chinese aggression against a sovereign nation, even though Taiwan is officially acknowledged as part of China by the US, UN, Taiwan's official name (the Republic of China) and constitution, and of course Beijing. 

When Nixon went to China fifty years ago and the two nations opened relations again starting with the Shanghai Communique (https://peacepivot.org/affirming-the-us-china-joint-shanghai-communique-peace-cooperation-now/ ), one of the critical agreements made was that there is only "one China and that Taiwan is a part of China."  The US agreed to end official contact with Taiwan and to only have unofficial contact.  But lately the US has not only surrounded China with bases and moved 60% of our naval power there, we have been sailing entire carrier battle groups through the Taiwan Straits, flying US military planes to land in Taiwan and then take off from Taiwan to conduct patrols along China's coast (effectively using Taiwan as a US military base), and sending congressional delegations there.
 
Mike Pompeo recently visited there, and some in Congress are openly advocating for a recognition of Taiwan as an independent sovereign nation, which would absolutely cross China's red lines.  How would the US react if China were to declare Hawaii an independent sovereign nation?  My fear right now is that the US seems to be pushing for a second war front in Asia just as in Europe.  To me, this makes no logical sense, but based simply on American actions, this seems to be what the US is doing.  If Taiwan and/or the US declares independence for Taiwan, China has said that this is unacceptable and will be a justification for China to use force.

With a hot war already going in Ukraine, would the US be crazy enough to start a second front in Asia? 

It doesn't seem logical, but it is what American actions appear to be driving towards. If such a war does break out, China is fully capable of sinking American ships, including aircraft carrier battle groups, and possibly US subs as well.  If that were to happen, how far and how fast will the US escalate?  And where will it end?  How will those of us who are Chinese Americans be treated?  Like the Japanese were in WW2?  Worse, will the war go nuclear?
 
I know these things seem unthinkable, but given the current trajectory of the United States, it appears to be time to start thinking about them.  I don't have answers, but I have serious concerns and questions.
 
Mike Wong (VFP)
San Francisco

What Goes Around Comes Around: Whipping Progressive Warmongering 2.0

President Obama, VP Biden, & Hunter Biden in 2014, the year Ukraine’s elected government was toppled by a CIA-sponsored coup and Hunter got a lucrative job in the Ukranian energy sector. Image source: Getty Images via DK.com

 

There are many roots apparent in weaponizing Ukraine as a cat’s paw to fight Russia.

By Lisa Savage

The most significant but least visible is the goal of weakening China’s ally before proceeding to attack them. One of the more visible roots is that our current president was VP during the Obama years when wars became ok with liberals because they were promoted by a handsome, articulate Black man. 

 

Image source:  Shutterstock via Institute for Policy Studies

 

The culture wars we have are meant to replace the revolution we need. 

We are led to believe there is a fundamental difference between wars waged by Democrats vs. wars waged by Republicans. There isn’t, because their corporate sponsors in the weapons industry are the exactly the same and because many in Congress own stock in those corporations. So while Ukranians die, they profit.

My good friend Bruce Gagnon stumbled on an old report back from a “progressive” phone call designed to whip up support for Obama’s surge in Afghanistan. It is of interest primarily because the mechanisms of manufacturing consent are so visible. I’m reposting it here so we have it handy as we reflect on why the U.S. government is galloping toward WW3 and possible nuclear confrontation while suspending women’s reproductive rights, presiding over crushing inflation and runaway climate change, failing to deliver healthcare, and literally looking away as the pandemic death toll reached 1,000,000. Daily assaults on independent voices attempt to silence dissent: Abby Martin, Lee Camp, Chris Hedges, Alice Walker, Consortium News, MintPress News — a long list, and growing. The Department of Homeland Security, which was created — like the war in Afghanistan — after the unfortunate events of 9/11, now has a Disinformation Governance Board. 

When you’ve lost the consent of the governed, narrative management is largely futile. Cue the next disaster!

 

First posted Dec 2, 2009 at Organizing Notes

DECEPTIVE PROGRESSIVES CALL FOR SUPPORT OF OBAMA’S WAR

This morning I got an email from a friend who tipped me off to a conference call for “progressives” to discuss Obama’s Afghanistan speech last night.

The call announcement included this: “The narrative so far is that the left is against sending more troops and the right is for it,” said Jim Arkedis, Director of the National Security Project at the Progressive Policy Institute. “But that’s not the reality of the situation. There are reasons for progressives to take heart from much of the President’s new strategy, as well as reasons to tread carefully. We want to make sure all those voices are heard.”

This made me quite interested so I dialed in. The call began with everyone in the audience on mute as the following people make opening statements.

* Rachel Kleinfeld, CEO, Truman National Security Project
* Jim Arkedis, Director of the National Security Project, Progressive Policy Institute
* Gen. Paul Eaton (Ret.), Senior Adviser, National Security Network
* Andy Johnson, Director, Third Way National Security Program
* Lorelei Kelly, Director, New Strategic Security Initiative
* Brian Katulis, Center for American Progress
* Frankie Sturm, Communications Director, Truman National Security Project (Moderator)

Frankly I had never heard of any of these people before and I’ve been working in the “progressive movement” for the past 30 years. A couple of the organizations they work for I had heard a bit about – they are DC-based “think tanks” that usually are heavily funded by corporations to project their message.

Here is a bit of what some of them said in the opening:

Rachel Kleinfeld: “Thrilled by last night’s speech….it’s a realistic goal we have been given…dismayed that progressives don’t see that this will reduce the violence of this war.”

Jim Arkedis: Described himself as a former counter-terrorism analyst at the Pentagon…..”Think of the US like an NFL defense….by adopting this counter-insurgency strategy it essentially takes the other sides offense off the field…..this is about peace and stability.” He slammed Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) who was on the news this morning criticizing the plan as being from the “far left.”

Lorelei Kelly: “Progressives need to abandon the old talking points from Iraq and Vietnam….progressives need to get inside this debate, President Obama is trying to create a new way….these policies need support….The American military is probably the most progressive agency we have today.”

One of them brought up CodePink’s recent visit to Afghanistan and subsequent statements made by Media[sic] Benjamin to say that some peace groups understand that we need to stay there and stabilize the country. Another called Obama’s plan the “full spectrum approach” that progressives must support – we “need the military” to get to a positive conclusion.

Finally they unmuted the listeners and then opened it up for “questions”. I didn’t ask a question but instead read a quote from the Robert Scheer article which came from former Marine captain Matthew Hoh where he said, “In the course of my five months of service in Afghanistan … I have lost understanding and confidence in the strategic purpose of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan. … I have observed that the bulk of the insurgency fights not for the white banner of the Taliban, but rather against the presence of foreign soldiers and taxes imposed by an unrepresentative government in Kabul.”

A woman listener from West Virginia (CodePink) said she had family killed in these wars and they need to stop. A woman from Georgia said we need to end the wars. A man from upstate New York said they were organizing protests and that Obama had betrayed us.

Next they put us on mute again and told us that we could only ask questions and that we’d better be good. When they unmuted I accused them of trying to silence the voices of the people as it was clear that they only wanted us on the call to listen to the talking points put out by the White House.

I know this is true because last spring I did a couple blogs about the Obama administration daily sending out talking points to groups like these that today hosted this “conference call”. One such story about this was by Jermey[sic] Scahill.

One of the groups mentioned by Scahill in his article is the Center for American Progress which was represented on the call today as one of the “expert” speakers.

While on the call I quickly did an Internet search on the Truman National Security Project just to see what I could learn about them. Their advisory board stands out like a sore thumb:

Advisory Board
Madeleine K. Albright
Principal, The Albright Group LLC

Leslie H. Gelb
President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

William Marshall
President, Progressive Policy Institute

William J. Perry (former Clinton Secretary of Defense)
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute

John D. Podesta (former Clinton operative)
President and CEO, Center for American Progress

Wendy R. Sherman
Principal, The Albright Group LLC

First chance I got I read the list off and commented that it was now abundantly clear to me that this call was intended to deliver Obama team talking points to us and that they were not in the least interested in what we had to say…..these folks organizing this call came from the right-wing of the Democratic Party I said…… earlier I had strongly challenged one of them who stated that the peace movement should stop protesting and support Obama’s plan!

They couldn’t wait to finish the call and I am happy to say that it did not go as well as they had hoped. I thank Mark Roman for tipping me off and I want to warn everyone to be on the lookout for these “pseudo progressives” who will now be coming out of the woodwork to tell the public and the media that only the far-left is against Obama’s war in Afghanistan. Good “progressives” they will say are going to support Obama’s war surge.

In the old days they used to call these folks “Scoop Jackson Democrats” after the senator from Washington state who was a pro-war leader. They have wised up and now call themselves progressives and will steal the rug out from under our feet if we are not watching closely.

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

You no longer need to look for such pro-war progressives. They are shouting at you from every corner that Ukraine must be defended, and that your dissent is not only unwelcome but downright seditious. Trained to hate the Russian Federation’s president and assign blame for Ukranian suffering solely to him, their diatribes have a signature: use of the same nasty and insulting terms for that person. 

 

 

Trained to love Ukraine’s president, whose background as an entertainer has proved almost as convenient as his Jewish heritage, used constantly to deny the truth that it is actual Nazis we are arming. 

Some in Congress would even have us declare war and send troops (rather than just trainers and mercenaries) to fight by their side. How much would your congressperson and senators stand to profit if the U.S. openly declares war on Russia?

How much more dangerous would it be than bullying an impoverished country like Afghanistan?

 

 

What use will money be if humans and their works are reduced to ashes and radioactive rubble by nuclear war?

 ~ ~ Lisa Savage is a retired teacher, grandmother, activist, blogger and citizen journalist. She ran for the US Senate seat, as an Independent, currently held by Susan Collins (R-ME) in 2020.

Claire Daly: 'US does not want peace'

 

 

#European #Parliament Member Clare Daly was interviewed on the sidelines of its plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday. 

Daly said the U.S. benefits the most from the #Ukraine crisis, for which Europe will pay a heavy price, and that the main reason the conflict is still ongoing is because "the U.S. does not want peace. They want the war to continue in order to weaken Russia."

A new twist: Pope speaks some truth

 

 

NATO may have caused?

Well, let's just say NATO's unrelenting expansion and constant war games on Russia's doorstep indeed are the cause of this war.

Plus US-NATO's absolute refusal to even seriously negotiate 'security guarantees' for Russia that Putin has been pleading for since at least 2008!

Finally though a bit of truth sneaks through all of the western bloviation. 

Don't forget too the US-NATO war games called 'Cold Response' that began at the same time as this war right along the Norway and Russia border in the Arctic region.

Can you say multiple provocations?

Let's get real about all of this -  14,000 dead and 34,000 wounded in the Donbass by the eight years of non-stop shelling by the Nazi-led Ukrainian army. Of course those numbers are rarely if ever acknowledged by the media throughout the west. Why not?

How many peace groups, so-called 'progressive' political leaders, or corrupt media ever expressed their 'deep concern or outrage' since this all began in 2014 - just after the US orchestrated coup d'etat in Kiev?

I am sick and tired of the western mock outrage over Ukrainian lives lost. How about the Russian-ethnic Ukrainian citizens killed at the hands of their own Kiev government? How about all the lives lost on both sides due to Washington's iollegal and immoral coup in Kiev in 2014?

And who armed, trained and directed these Nazi-led Ukie troops killing the innocent civilians in the Donbass? Another subject never reported in the western media during the past eight years.

Bruce

Documentary: Voices from the people

An RT Documentary camera crew has just returned from Mariupol and collected residents’ stories for a film. More than 400,000 lived underground – and the Armed Forces of Ukraine didn’t allow them out of the city. 

In the Donbass: I’m Alive film, there are stories of people who had to survive Ukrainian shelling and even endure torture. They all went through hell. Now Mariupol residents are happy that they are alive and hope for the best. 

Declaration of war

 

 

You might know that Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) are part of this delegation to Ukraine and Poland. Both are considered 'peaceniks' but after this united display of Democratic party bullshit it is clear that 'party trumps logic and good reasoning - and peace'.

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says 'We are there for the fight!' 

Those are indeed war mongering words. 

Putin must 'surrender'. And if he does not - then what?

The US is going all in on this one. Here is the plan spelled out.

The Democratic party has signed up as the official supporters of the Nazi-led Ukie army.

It's going to crash the US-EU-UK economies for sure.

Watch out for a chemical or nuclear false flag event that will justify wider US-NATO intervention. Likely troops from Poland and Romania will be sent into Ukraine next.

WW III is on the way against Russia and China. How could it not go nuclear at some point?

Those Ukie flag wavers out there - you are promoting the CIA and military industrial complex war agenda. Wake up before it is too late.

Bruce

 

News Flash

Canadian General Trevor Kadier was detained while trying to leave the AzovStal plant.

Canadian General Trevor Kadier, who was in Mariupol, was detained while trying to leave the territory of the surrounded AzovStal metallurgical plant. Earlier, civilians who left the enterprise confirmed the information that a certain general from the mercenaries was on the territory of the plant, however, evidence of the capture of the general appeared only now.

According to the 360 ​​TV channel, the general, while in Ukraine, appeared to manage one of the biological laboratories.

“Canadian General Trevor Kadier was arrested while trying to escape from the territory of Azovstal in Mariupol. Messages about this appeared in the media and social networks. According to widespread reports, the general was in charge of bio-laboratory No. 1, where 18 people worked with deadly viruses. Kadia was taken to Moscow, where he will stand trial."

At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the country's authorities have not yet made any official statements about the detention of Canadian General Trevor Kadier.

Land of the free?

 

 

Joe Biden has announced a [DHS] Department of Homeland Security 'Disinformation Governance Board' to control what 'information' the American people can have access to.

This is fascism - 1984 - except this time 2022-style where you get a call phone. But you'll have to check with Mr. Big to see what the oligarchs will allow you to see, hear and know on your device.

 

Biden’s new Head Of Disinformation & Censorship is Nina Jankowicz, who worked for the National Democratic Institute which is heavily funded by the NED (National Endowment for Democracy) that was signed into law by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to overtly do what the C.I.A covertly does - interfering in foreign elections- utilizing a U.S. 100% Government-Funded-'Non-Governmental Organization' [NGO] facade. 

 

Said Carl Gershman in 1986 while president of the NED: 

 

'We should not have to do this kind of work covertly…It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the C.I.A. We saw that in the 1960’s, and that’s why it has been discontinued…We have not had the capability of doing this. And that’s why the National Endowment for Democracy [NED] was created.'

 

This USA is sinking into oblivion more each day. Speak out while you can people - they might make the wearing of masks mandatory for the rest of our lives just to keep us from speaking our truths.

Best report yet: Azov Nazis used apartments as bases

 

 

Best report I've seen yet that explains how the Azov Nazis took over the apartments in Mariupol, threw the residents out, and used them as bases to fire on the Russians when the came into the city. 

Then when the Nazis ran from the apartments they set them on fire. That is a war crime for sure.

Report by Italian journalist Vittorio Rangeloni - with English subtitles.

Rising prices, rising concern for peace in Hungary

 
 

 Declaration of the Hungarian Community for Peace

 

The escape of the Prices, especially of food prices, the depreciation of real wages and pensions, declining purchasing power, saving consuming inflation, stalled supply of raw materials, more and more borrowing show that it was a mistake to identify ourselves with the Western powers' sanctions policy against Russia. 

More and more people living on wages, salaries and pensions are facing livelihood problems. Living standards are declining. The price of sanctions policy is paid by peoples across Europe, including the Hungarian people. The deteriorating material situation threatens social destabilization, despite the fact that the energy supply of the population in Hungary seems to be secured for the time being. The almost uncritical service of Western interests not only afflicts our people economically, but also threatens its security. 

The deployment of NATO troops in Hungary and the fulfillment of Western demands on Ukraine weaken the nation's immune system, rocking it in the belief that it can hope to defend its independence and sovereignty by its allies, not in a European collective security system. It is not wise to forget about Hungarian history: about our sacrifice so that the West can live in prosperity! We know what the blood of the peoples of the East is worth to the West. Ukraine is a living example. 

The Community for Peace finds it serious that the government does not recognize the danger posed by the unrest of our own allies, nor does it seek the necessary counterweight to it! Where did the policy of opening up to the East go?

Is only gas interesting? Isn't peace anymore? There is no room for unilateral politicking here in the Carpathian Basin! It is in our national interest to have good relations with both East and West! A balance can only be struck in a pan-European system of security and cooperation. Instead of digging a trench, we have an interest in such a system! 

We need to reach an agreement with Russia to have peace! We have no interest in enlarging NATO with Finland and Sweden. You have to veto! As we did in the case of Ukraine. Weapons in our neighborhood would not have crumbled if, together with our allies, we had recognized the legitimate security guarantees that Russia is demanding. They must be recognized in the name of reciprocity! 

We must act for a peaceful solution, not give our waist to those who get rich from wars! A government responsible for a nation cannot subordinate the country to foreign interests! You have to be sovereign! The government has been authorized to do so. You must pursue a neutral policy! 

The Hungarian Community for Peace is ready to help and strengthen the voice of the peace-loving Hungarian. But the government-controlled media will not allow it. We expect you to change your one-sided outreach practices and give a microphone to all social factors who want peace and help achieve it. We want to avoid sacrificing the interest of Hungarian society in peace on the altar of ill-considered power interests! 

This is our creed, for the sake of our country.

Budapest, 1 May 2022 

Remember Odessa, Ukraine Nazi massacre May 2, 2014

 

 A Call for an May 2, 2022 International Day of Solidarity with the People of Odessa!

February 2014 saw the overthrow of the elected president of Ukraine in a violent, right-wing coup directed by the U.S. government (Victoria Nuland and V-P Joe Biden in charge). Just three months later, on May 2, Odessa experienced one of Europe’s worst civil disorders in many decades, when more than 50 mostly young progressives were brutally murdered by a fascist-led mob at Odessa’s Kulikovo Square Trades Union Hall.

Ever since that day, relatives, friends and supporters of those who were killed have been demanding an international investigation into the massacre, a demand that has been blocked by the Kiev government working hand-in-hand with the fascist organizations responsible for the deaths. This obstruction by the Ukrainian government has been noted by the United Nations, the Council of Europe and other international bodies, as well as the U.S. State Department.

It should be said that, despite many videos/photos taken of the fascists participating in the massacre, not one of those responsible for the murders has ever been brought to trial, while many anti-fascists arrested that day are still in prison, many never having been charged with a crime. 

Since the massacre, Odessans have gathered in Kulikovo Square to remember their dead and press the demand for an investigation. And regularly, neo-Nazi organizations like the notorious Right Sector and Azov death squads harass and sometimes physically attack them. The police occasionally intervene, but the fascists are never arrested.

 

After all these years there are still 'missing' activists from the May 2, 2014 massacre. No one knows if they are dead or alive - maybe inside one of Kiev's jails. Families get no information about their missing children.

Since the coup of 2014, the right of the Ukrainian people to free speech has been steadily restricted. The continuing demand of Odessans for an international investigation into the massacre at Kulikovo Square has been a particular irritant to the Kiev government. If the voices of these brave people are allowed to be silenced, Ukraine can never pretend to be a true democracy as the west now attempts to portray the Kiev puppet regime that seriously colludes with murderous fascist groups.

The Odessa Solidarity Campaign in the US was founded in May 2016 following the second anniversary memorial of the massacre of May 2, 2014.  A delegation of UNAC members from the United States (Phil Wilayto, Regis Tremblay and Bruce Gagnon) attended the memorial, which was held at Odessa’s Kulikovo square. 

See more on the 2016 Odessa events here. 

https://odessasolidaritycampaign.org/

 

 

Sunday song

 

 

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (Cancel culture special)