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“Unprovoked Agression” in ‘NATO-Speak’ is a Laughable Lie to base a World War on / Proof from the OSCE

Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine

from thefreeonline Feb 9, 2023 by Mike Whitney at The Ron Paul Institute for Peace from Unz Review.

On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. 

-‘In fact they had been shelling and bombing civilians in the breakaway ethnic Russian area for 8 years, killing 14,000 people and ignoring the Minsk peace process guaranteed by France and Germany.. But this 2022 intense bombardment and huge troop buildup was new. Both Merkel and Mitterand have recently confessed that the Minsk autonomy process was a fraud to gain time while NATO armed Ulraine to the teeth, now was the time, it seemed, to destroy Donbass’-.

Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were located in the vicinity at the time and kept a record of the shelling as it took place.

What the OSCE discovered was that the bombardment dramatically intensified as the week went on until it reached a peak on February 19, when a total of 2,026 artillery strikes were recorded.

 Keep in mind, the Ukrainian Army was, in fact, shelling civilian areas along the Line of Contact that were occupied by other Ukrainians.

We want to emphasize that the officials from the OSCE were operating in their professional capacity gathering first-hand evidence of shelling in the area. 

What their data shows is that Ukrainian Forces were bombing and killing their own people. This has all been documented and has not been challenged.

So, the question we must all ask ourselves is this: Is the bombardment and slaughter of one’s own people an ‘act of war’? Or an “Unprovoked Agression“?

“Black Days of Ukraine”. The war in Donbas in photos by Valery Melnikov ” E-Newe-news.su

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NYT Cuts News of US terrorist Sanctioning of Earthquake aid as 1000’s Die Abandoned in Syria

Key New York Times media makes U-turn after saying Syria can’t receive aid due to sanctions. US’ Caesar Sanctions Act on Syria and Lebanon

from thefreeonline 9 Feb, 2023 Source: /UPROOTED PALESTINIANS/Al Mayadeen English

The New York Times goes in reverse and censors information about how sanctions on Syria blocking efforts to help people after the disastrous earthquake that hit it.

Screenshot showing the previous summary of the New York Times news article discussing the aid effort to Syria, February 7, 2023 (Social Media)

The New York Times quickly censored itself after saying in the summary of one of its new articles on the devastating earthquake that took place in Syria that the disaster-stricken state could not receive aid because of the sanctions imposed on it.

STOP Erdogan ‘Weaponizing’ Earthquake Aid against the Kurds in Syria and Turkey!

Two hours after it was published, the article said: “As the Syrian government tightly controls what aid it allows into opposition-held areas, border crossings with Turkey have been a lifeline.”

It previously said: “Syria is not able to receive direct aid from many countries because of sanctions, so the border crossing has been a lifeline.”

While aid is pouring into Turkey only a tricle has reached Syria by defying sacctions . After Syria requested provision of search and rescue teams on Wednesday some international agencies sent aid to the country, including shelter and medical support from the European Union, EU member states, and the United Nations, as well as an initial €3.5 million in emergency humanitarian assistance.

Earthquake Devastation—Unilateral Sanctions Against Syria Must End ...

The Syrian opposition of Turkish controlled mercenaries rejected all aid offered by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (SDF- AANES), North Press Agency reported.

An aid convoy consisting of six trucks will hopefullyt reach northwest Syria on Thursday, Reuters reported. This will be the first humanitarian aid that has reached the region which is under the control of Turkey and the Syrian opposition. The Turkish occupied Kurdish regions of Afrin and Azaz are close to the epicentre in Turkey, but receive little or no aid.

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Spanish Spycops Unmasked, Victims in UK Respond// Espías policias españoles desenmascarados, víctimas británicas responden/ Eng/Cat/Esp

As another deep-cover police infiltrator is exposed in political groups in Barcelona, those targeted by operations by British secret police have issued this statement of solidarity

from thefreeonline on 8th February 2023 by Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance

Spanish and Catalan translations are below the English.

We read with horror the stories of the discovery of another police officer infiltrated in political movements in the Spanish state. Our hearts go out to the many who will be affected by this, especially the women tricked into being intimate with him.

A moment of the demonstration in the streets of the center of Barcelona by social entities against the infiltration of a policeman in the anarchist social movement 4th feb 2023

We note that this infiltrator was not the first and probably will not be the last to come to light, and there will undoubtedly be more tales of abuses of power to come. We would like to extend our solidarity to all those affected, in what we know is not, nor will it ever be, an easy moment.

Cover of issue 562 of Directa, 30 Jan-12 Feb 2023, which exposed the spycop

We wish we could say we’re surprised, but sadly we’re not. British police treated us with the same contempt for over 50 years of undercover policing, and we are only now learning the full scale of what they did. Such activities are never acceptable or justified, be it in the UK, Spain or anywhere in the world. We denounce all political surveillance as deeply undemocratic and an abuse of human rights.

We have been where you are now. We know the feelings of anger and sadness generated by the intrusion into your lives, and the sense of disempowerment and abuse to which it leads.

We also know that through solidarity among us we have managed to fight over the years. Nothing will undo the damage, but by standing our ground against the state, we’ve forced it back down, winning apologies, court rulings and compensation and, most importantly, credible information about its nefarious activities.

The police saw us as weak, they abused us without consequences, they invaded and damaged our lives and our political work for their ideological reasons. Instead, our politics, the reason we were attacked, brought us together and helped us emerge stronger as a collective, even when everything seemed darkest and when all our work seemed to have been for nothing.

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Statement from the Internationalist Commune of Rojava on the earthquake in Kurdistan, Syria and Turkey

A natural disaster, inseparable from its political implications

From the Internationalist Commune of Rojava we are extremely touched by the tragedy of this earthquake. Our thoughts are with all the families who have been hit hard, whatever their origin.

from thefreeonline on 08/02/23 by Internationalist Commune .. ++

Where we are, we have felt the earth shake, but without the dramatic consequences that other regions are experiencing. If borders mark lines that are sometimes unbridgeable, the connection between people is not.

Here, in the north-east of Syria/Western Kurdistan (Rojava), there are thousands of people who have a strong relationship with others elsewhere in the country, but also especially with the people of southern Turkey/Northern Kurdistan (Bakûr).

We believe that emotions should not make us forget to take a political look at the situation. What is happening today is not a natural event disconnected from the way society is organised, with nationalist and racist fault lines dividing peoples, with a capitalist economy that favours profit over well-being, with nation-state policies guided by short-termism and electoralism.

Many voices are being raised at the moment to appeal to feelings of solidarity, to universalist values. We support these appeals, but we do not accept to put aside the socio-political context in which these events are taking place. Past, present and future responsibilities cannot be erased under the guise of a humanist vision that has never existed in the eyes of political regimes in the nation-states of the region and the rest of the world.

The mainstream media is rightly moved by the situation, but the same media was silent not long ago about the suffering of these same people and will probably be silent again in a few weeks.

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David Swanson and Lee Camp: Can The March To WW3 Be Stopped?

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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Feb. 7, 2023
February 8, 2023

“It’s incredible the extent to which people still fantasize about a nuclear war in one part of the globe as if the scientists haven’t told us it impacts the entire Earth and the cloud of dust renders agriculture impossible and everybody starves and the living envy the dead.” — David Swanson.

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Massive mobilisations keep growing in France

In the last weeks, the European working class has been on an accelerating political offensive. There have been mass health strikes in Belgium and Spain, tech strikes over wages in Finland, anti-war protests in Denmark, and a massive mobilization of a half-million workers in Britain. But in France……..

from thefreeonline on by Anarchist Communist Group ..

Millions of workers in France join third mass protest against pension cuts

President Emmanuel Macron is planning to raise the pension age in France by two years to 64. In response there have been two huge mobilisations against these plans, the first on January 19th, the second on January 31st.

The first mobilisation saw 2 million out on the streets. This was exceeded on the second mobilisation. There were 250 demonstrations throughout France.

In Paris 280,000 came out on the streets. There were a lot of creative placards, including ones like“Metro-Boulot-Tombeau”(Undergound-Work- Grave) and “Metro-Boulot-Caveau” (Underground-Work- Burial Chamber) adaptations of the old May 1968 slogan Metro-Boulot- Dodo  (Underground- Work- Sleep). There was a large turnout by high school and college students.

Bitter clashes broke out as police assaulted demonstrators in Nantes, Rennes, and Paris, where police repeatedly charged and beat peaceful protesters. Riot police units even attacked the security detail of the trade unions at the head of the march in Paris, after which riot police faced off against the protesters, including units of striking firemen who put on their gear to withstand tear gas.

 

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Were we hypnotised by Desmet? Part I: Where does his argument fall apart?

from thefreeonline on 8th Feb 2023 by Rusere Shoniwa at Holding The Line: Journalists Against Censorship

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The highly persuasive Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet burst onto the covid resistance scene in the late summer of 2021 with his explanation of the terrifying global march of the Covidian Cult. I was completely seduced by his theory of mass formation hypnosis, expounded in a series of interviews between August 2021 and March 2022. With each interview he did, his star seemed to burn brighter.

But then he published his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism in June 2022. And that’s when his seemingly wonderful exposition, hitherto hung on a series of brilliant one-hour interviews, started to fall apart. If ever there was an argument for forgoing a disquisition in favour of keeping things simple on YouTube, the curious incident of the hypnotic psychologist seems to be it.   

Desmet was attacked by the likes of Peter Breggin, a US psychiatrist no less, who accused him of blaming the victims of totalitarianism instead of the perpetrators and, far more sensationally, of having “protected a mass murderer in his therapy practice.” Robert Malone soon discovered that Breggin’s wrath knew no bounds as Malone himself was maligned for being an alleged promoter of Desmet’s theory.

Malone, having none of it, is now suing Breggin for a cool $25 million and, reading between the lines, Breggin seems worried. C J Hopkins, with his trademark devil-may-care insouciance, has delighted in attracting the ire of Desmet’s fan club by trashing the mass hypnosis theory in less than diplomatic tones.    

Et moi? For starters, I have checked the above paragraph to ensure it is libel-proof, such is the febrile atmosphere surrounding the mass formation brouhaha. I must also disclose that I have gone from being a fully paid-up acolyte of the mass hypnosis theory to being less convinced. I have gone from exhorting friends to listen to Desmet interviews to co-authoring a two-part critique of the hypnosis part of the theory – one questioning whether hypnosis is really at play in mass formation and another suggesting that a hard core of Covidians are not under a hypnotic spell but rather may simply be crisis addicts. I always emphasise that the second piece is not offered up as a neat, self-contained single explanation of the cause of the violent lurch towards totalitarianism but rather as a rejection of one simple theory and a discussion of one (among many) potential psychological catalysts in a complex political crime.

So, the ‘we’ in the title to this piece clearly does not refer to the Breggins and Hopkins of the world who poured petrol and lit a match on Desmet’s theory at the first opportunity. It refers to the likes of me, who started out ‘hypnotised’ by mass hypnosis theory and then became sceptical after reading the book and hearing other critiques. 

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