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*Following is a lengthy overview of my recent re-visit to the Donbass, on a two day media delegation, with a brief critique ofsome ofthe media’s slanted reporting. It is also a follow up frommy 2019 visit to hard hit areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic.It is now 8 years of Ukraine’s war on the people of the Donetsk & Lugansk Republics.
Point of impact of March 14 Ukrainian missile attack on Donetsk. Photo: Eva Bartlett, March 24, 2022.
In the last week of March, I stood on a central Donetsk main street next to two of the impact points of a Ukrainian missile attack that had killed 21 civilians and injured nearly 40 more on March 14. The…
We republish on theFreeonline the first in a series of André Vletchek’s brilliant work up to his highly suspicious death. – His devastating first-hand takedown of capitalist genocide and Ecocide in Indonesia.
A great article by Andre Vltchek about the US led genocide in Indonesia and how afterwards the puppet ruling class airbrushed it all out of history.nesia were very rich and owned loads of land.
Andre explauins the worst genocide this century with three million people killed, including teachers, trade unionists, and anyone who stood up against the ruling class and its rotten regime, many of them murdered with bare hands, strangled, or clubbed to death while they cried for mercy.
By now Indonesia’s beautiful landscape and irreplaceable biodiversity are all but destroyed by Western corporations and an embedded local predator class, digging up the land for minerals, clear cutting the tropical forests, with zero social services or amenities…. . The Fat Cats are raking it in, and Indonesia has been opened up to free markets, capitalism, and democracy – Western style.
Excerpt:
On September 30th, 1965, the Indonesian military obeying orders from foreign powers (mainly the US and the UK), overthrew the progressive and anti-imperialist government of President Sukarno, murdering between 1 and 3 million men, women and children (including almost all members of the Communist Party of Indonesia – PKI).
This was done with the direct help of almost all the major religious organizations (Muslim, Protestant, Catholic and Hindu).
The bloodshed continued well into 1966, and the “Rivers were choked with corpses and ran red from blood,” as I was told by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, the greatest Indonesian novelist.
All the hopes for a socialist, just and egalitarian motherland were wasted.Before the coup, Indonesia used to be a true internationalist nation, and was one of the proud founders of the Non-Aligned Movement (the West Javanese city of Bandung hosted its establishing conference in 1955). President Sukarno and his progressive and patriotic government used to hold in their hands almost all the natural resources, trying to build a proud, artistic and productive nation.
Sukarno once even humiliated the US Ambassador, in front of a huge crowd, at a packed stadium: “To hell with your aid!” He did not need any Western aid. He was presiding over potentially one of the richest nations on Earth.The Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), the third largest in the world after those of the Soviet Union and China, was going to win the elections, comfortably and democratically, in 1966, while being fully supported by President Sukarno.
Their manifesto was clear: anti-imperialism, social justice and land reforms.
But who were some of the largest landowners in Indonesia during that period? Religious leaders! And they, together with the military and corrupt elites, decided: “No!” This has to be stopped! No justice. No internationalism. No socialism.”
They betrayed the nation and its people; they committed treason and on September 30, 1965, overthrew socialist democracy.
The results were horrifying. Perhaps the worst massacres of the 20th Century took place. Mass slaughter, mass rape, and cutting off of female breasts, torture, and shortly after the initial horrors, overflowing prisons and concentration camps.
Around 40% of all the teachers of Java were slaughtered and the military was substituted into the school classrooms. Film studios and traditional theatres were shut down, and writers were sent to Buru concentration camp.
For my post today I have two important topics, so let us get to it.
Tochka-Who?
In case anybody still believing any B.S. that comes from the Ukrainian government, Russia has the receipts showing that the rocket launched from a mobile Tochka-U complex last week, which killed and wounded so many civilians at the Kramatorsk railroad station, was launched by a unit of the Ukrainian army. Recall that the entire purpose of a Tochka-U rocket is to be an anti-personnel device. It is not meant to, and not capable of, damaging heavy equipment, like railroads. The pellets in the cluster bombs are intended to kill and injure people. Such as soldiers. Or civilians, as in this case.
You can see part of the words “За детей” scrawled in white paint on the side of the rocket tail.
Por Marcha y Acción por la Biodiversidad Ilustración: Ximena Astudillo 7 abril 2022https://viacampesina.org/
DEFENSORAS: LA VIDA EN EL CENTRO
Lucineia Miranda De Freitas:
Lucineia Miranda De Freitas es activista feminista del sector de géneros del Movimiento Dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras Rurais Sem Terra (MST) de Mato Grosso, uno de los estados más violentos del Brasil.
Amable y atenta a las preguntas y las respuestas que transitaban el portugués y el español, señaló durante la entrevista dos puntos fundamentales de su tarea cotidiana como Defensora: trabajar sensibilizando a las poblaciones urbanas sobre los problemas del «campo» y luchar por la unidad política de los pueblos originarios y movimientos sociales para la defensa de las tierras, las aguas y el bosque.
En el país del Amazonas, el pulmón de la humanidad, luchar contra las violencias del modelo establecido por la agroindustria en detrimento de los saberes de las comunidades y el bienestar del ambiente es urgente. Pero también histórico. El MST surgió en el período 1970- 1985; precisamente, tras el proceso de concentración de grandes extensiones de la tierra en manos de pequeños grupos de la sociedad, situación que provocó el empobrecimiento de las y los pequeños campesinos y propietarios.
In opposition to PL191, a government bill in Congress that would allow mining and extractive industries on their reservations, 8,000 people representing more than 200 Indigenous nations from many regions of the country are gathered in Brasília for the Free Land Camp mobilization and 10 days of action in support of the Indigenous rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
The Free Land Camp (ATL) will take place from April 4-14, 2022, in Brasília.
Sônia Guajajara
Lawmakers in the lower house of Congress allied to the government are pushing through Bill 191 by using the argument that it is urgently needed to extract potash for fertilizer for Brazil’s grain crops that previously depended on imports from Ukraine, now disrupted by the war. However, Brazil’s potash reserves are located outside of Indigenous territories and the Bolsonaro government’s real intention is to allow gold mining and other extractive industries in Indigenous lands.
NATO is going to beef up its military forces on the eastern flank as part of a fundamental reset of the alliance, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with The Telegraph, APA reports citing Sputnik.
NATO is preparing plans for full-scale deployment of troops on its eastern borders in response to Russia’s growing military activity.
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According to The Telegraph, NATO military commanders are developing options for the reset, and the alliance’s military presence in countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland is expected to be transformed into a “major force”….
Stoltenberg noted that about 40,000 troops are already stationed on the eastern flank of the alliance, which is about ten times more than a few months ago. The head of the alliance said that their number will increase.
