Nov 2023 – Page 21

Anarcha-Feminists resist Violent Attacks in Mexico City

Communique from a group of anarcha-feminists in Mexico City after they were violently attacked, and their space ransacked and destroyed.

./from thefreeonline on 3rd Nov 2023 by La Revuelta Collective via anarchistnews.org and It’s Going Down

Yesterday, those of us who maintain an organizing space in Building T of the CCH Vallejo (UNAM College of Science and Humanities – Campus Vallejo), had organized a feminist market of women producers, an activity we carry out twice a month to combat economic violence, and to open up secure spaces where we can meet each other, share, create, and organize together, among women.

Mural Del CCH Vallejo Work of CCH Vallejo students assembly tell the story of how Naomi protected Joel, the boy who almost lost a kidney after an earlier attack on by ‘Porros’ (hired macho goon squads)

At the same time, those of us who organize in the Revuelta space, had just finished our participation as independent editorial projects in the International Book Fair in the Zócalo of the city, where around six other independent women’s projects were able to present and exhibit their creations, books, art, etc.

At approximately 4pm, students from the school approached us to tell us that the porro group 3 de Marzo (a shock group) was planning an attack (this rumor had been circulating for a few days amongst student groups at the CCH).

Protests against porros started on Sept. 5 on the UNAM campus.Porros”: The Criminal Shock Groups Disrupting Student Protests in Mexico – Latin America News Dispatch

With this news, some compañeras approached the authorities of the school to tell them of the impending attack. The school authorities approached the violent group, who were clearly beneath the influence of hard drugs, questioning them about the threats.

Findings cast doubt on the Roots of the current Ukraine War – Maidan massacre False Flag presaged 100’s of 1000’s of deaths –

from thefreeonline on November 3, 2023 by Lou at Tales from the Conspiratum

Earlier this month, a district court in Kiev announced its findings in a case that had dragged on since 2015, handing down sentences to five former officers of the long-dissolved ‘Berkut’ police unit.

The ex-police grouping became internationally known during the 2013/14 protests which culminated with the violent ‘Maidan.’

Charged with involvement in the shooting of anti-government protesters by snipers in the center of the Ukrainian capital on February 20, 2014, four of the accused – three of them in absentia – were found guilty and sentenced to terms between five years and life. One was acquitted.

https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1717738123893817350/

Politically, this was, or should have been, Ukraine’s single most important trial since independence in 1991.

The judges closed – at least for now as appeals have already been announced – the country’s attempt to come to terms judicially with the darkest moment of what has been called a “revolution,” as well as a “coup”: the fall of the government of former President Viktor Yanukovich under pressure from initially peaceful – then violent – street protests and Western meddling.

The events producing regime change and geopolitical re-orientation unfolded over three months, but the killing of almost 50 protesters that February was a crucial tipping point.

The case quickly became known as the “Maidan massacre.”

The shootings were squarely blamed on Yanukovich and his administration and seemed to rule out domestic compromise and confirm Western and Ukrainian pro-insurgent narratives, casting the crisis as a national and democratic freedom struggle against a corrupt and oppressive regime beholden to Moscow.

Neither the disproportionate role of an aggressive and manipulative Ukrainian far right nor the ruthless geopolitics of the West had a place in this framing.

Within days after the killings, a last attempt to stop the spiral of escalation by an internationally mediated agreement failed, Yanukovych fled to Russia, and Moscow’s troops were on the move in Crimea.

Then things got worse. Clashes between Kiev’s new government and rebels in Donbass evolved into an initially intense, then mostly slow-burn, regional civil war, including limited Russian interventions.

The best chance for peace, the 2015 Minsk 2 Agreement, was sabotaged systematically by Kiev and its Western supporters, and, after February 2022, Ukraine became the theater of a proxy war of the collective West against Russia.

The West and Ukraine are now likely to lose this conflict at immense cost in lives and wealth, mostly to Ukraine. International tension is extremely high, trust has evaporated, and meaningful communication is almost impossible.

Ukraine and the world could be in a much better place if the last days of February 2014 had played out differently, allowing for the compromise already negotiated between Ukraine’s government and the insurgents to take hold.

The Maidan Massacre was not the only but the single most important shove toward an ever-widening conflict, especially as the dominant Western narrative about the killings has remained the same, blaming only the old regime and rejecting any challenge to the narrative as a pro-Russian “information war.”

Here was the perfect story, in short, to emotionally legitimize not only support but uncritical backing for Kiev, the rejection and sabotage of any concessions to Ukraine’s domestic rebels in the East, and vilifying any effective cooperation with Moscow.

Maidan massacre trial verdict now confirms: My video appendix visually shows that Zherebnyi was killed from Maidan-controlled Hotel Ukraina & that bullet holes in Paris Match photo of his wooden shield were from this hotel located in his back (3:29, 4:19). https://t.co/Fhyes0S9xD… pic.twitter.com/xWIc706YuU
— Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) October 27, 2023

But what if we were not told the truth about the killings? That is the key claim advanced by Canadian-Ukrainian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski. Katchanovski (who also recently exposed the scandal around the honoring of a Waffen-SS veteran by the Canadian parliament) has long argued that “the Maidan massacre was a false-flag mass killing of … protestors and … police in order to seize power in Ukraine.

It was conducted with the involvement of oligarchic and far-right elements of the Maidan opposition using concealed groups of Maidan snipers in Maidan-controlled buildings.”

The rich detail of Katchanovski’s findings cannot be reproduced here, but three points should be noted: Snipers belonging to the insurgents’ side started shooting at the police on the morning of February 20; key positions, such as in the Hotel Ukraina and a conservatory, from which these policemen were attacked and later Maidan protesters as well, were and remained under the control of insurgent units (not the police); and after 9.00 am, protesters, too, were shot by insurgent snipers (again: not by the police).