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Capitalist G20 ‘okays’ Modi’s growing Fascism against 200m Moslems – Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy: ‘Biden, Macron know what’s going on in India but won’t talk’

from thefreeonline on 9th Aug ’23 by By Oliver Jarvis at Al Jazeera Live

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Arundhati Roy Upfront — Author and activist Arundhati Roy [File photo]

From her New Delhi home, the acclaimed Indian writer and activist talks about the G20 summit and the state of India’s minorities.

India is preparing hosting world leaders at a Group of 20 (G20) summit this weekend in what is being described as a crucial moment for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cement his place as a global leader.

New Delhi has gone under a massive – and controversial – “beautification drive” for the event, with many slums bulldozed and their occupants displaced.

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At least 25 shantytowns and multiple night shelters for the homeless were razed and turned into parks

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Newly-painted lotus flower murals – the election symbol of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – have appeared and billboards with Modi’s face line the reworked roads.

“You’d be forgiven for thinking it was the BJP that was hosting this event, not the government of India,” acclaimed author and activist Arundhati Roy told Al Jazeera.

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Roy, 61, is a vocal critic of the Indian government’s treatment of minorities – mainly its 200 million Muslims – and other rights violations since Modi came to power in 2014.

From her home in New Delhi, she spoke to Al Jazeera about the G20 event and the state of India’s minorities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are not attending.

Al Jazeera: What is your opinion of India, in the context of its treatment of minorities, hosting the G20 summit?

Arundhati Roy: Look, I don’t think anybody really cares about that because… the G20 is here, everybody is looking for an opportunity, a trade deal or a military equipment deal or a geopolitical strategic understanding. So it’s not as if any single one of the people who are coming here, the heads of state or anyone else doesn’t know exactly what’s going on in India.

In countries like the US and the UK and France, the mainstream media has been so critical of what’s happening in India, but the governments have a different agenda altogether. So I don’t think one needs to be naive enough to believe that that is an issue at all for the people coming here.

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Al Jazeera: Do you see the G20 being held in India as an opportunity for leaders ..?

“I can see the homeless on the streets, … and now the homeless are not allowed to live on the streets either,” says Rekha Devi, whose home was demolished as part of the makeover. She said authorities refused to consider documents she showed as proof that her family had lived in the same house for nearly 100 years.

Roy: It won’t. None of them will. I have no such expectation. But I think what’s interesting is that if you were in Delhi, as I am now, if you look at the publicity, if you look at the banners, if you look at all the preparations that are being made for the G20, you would be forgiven for imagining that it wasn’t the government of India that is hosting the G20, but the BJP. Every single banner has a huge lotus on it, which is the symbol of a political party. Modi’s BJP.

Refusals to Fight on both Sides of the Front: entering the second Autumn of War

The cruel Ukraine slaughter looks like stalemate. Now would be a good time for mutual mass mutiny and revolution

from thefreeonline on 8th Sept 23 Submitted to Libcom by Thunderbird by assembly.org.ua

Caricature by unknown author “On the offensive” (circa 1917) is becoming more and more relevant before our eyes…

Just a modest local view from the Kharkiv region on the increase in fatigue among the Russian and Ukrainian frontline troops during summer 2023.

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The bloody counter-offensive dragged on for months, which turned into a new meat grinder on the Somme after the new Verdun battle near Bakhmut, is being noticeably reflected in the social atmosphere. The interlocutor of Assembly, driving trains in the Kharkov subway, anonymously told back on June 25:

“My brother is fighting near Bakhmut, the 31st assault brigade. Last week they went on the offensive – got such fight back that retreated further than they were before the offensive. The next day, the colonels arrived with threats. And where to attack, there are cannons, mortars, aircrafts. The day before yesterday, two battalions refused to fight at all. They didn’t feed the guys, they threatened to imprison them.

Three battalions laid down their arms, because they were driven to the slaughter without support. 30 people were immediately laid on the ground. They gave a new commander, but it’s all the same. They barely took some village. There are no tanks, there is no Bradley, they are taking care of it, in order not to upset the West. But they are not taking care of the infantry – they gave two Polish sniper rifles and took them away. There is no food, only one dry ration. Were threatened to imprison, they answer: imprison, and who will come to our positions? Now they continue to fight somehow, but on the spot, without mood. Such things.”

The same informant confirms the June article by Der Spiegel about tankers in the Armed Forces of Ukraine who imitate tank damage to avoid their going on the southern counteroffensive.

“They stand still. They gave them a combat vehicle with a plastic hood. Once they went somewhere, it stalled, they barely dug it out. These vehicles are standing, no one wants to drive them, a death capsule,” said that driver on August 5.

Also in the first half of August, a video interview of political blogger Yury Romanenko, close to Zelensky’s Office, with sniper Konstantin Proshinsky, who is fighting near Bakhmut, appeared. It received a resonance, including in the Western media, with the words that the army would not be against the “Korean scenario”, as well as criticism of “tough mobilization” and a ban on leaving Ukraine for men, because “we will never win a war against Russia by numbers.” But besides this, Proshinsky confirmed the Assembly’s information about saving Western heavy equipment by infantry attacks in the style of Russian “meat assaults” and about refusers in the Ukrainian army.

According to the military, among the recruits recently sent to Bakhmut, the youngest was 52 years old. Among the rest were men with tuberculosis, hepatitis and diabetes. They were mobilized, allowed to spend the night in the enlistment office, and the next morning were sent to the front.

Many of such fighters after the first battle write a refusal to participate in hostilities. This is not desertion, therefore it does not entail criminal liability – the applicant should be transferred to a supply company, and soon such companies “will number thousands of people,” the guest of the program said.

Meanwhile, the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the territory from Kupyansk to Kremenna, apparently, is even less successful than the Ukrainian attempts of breaking through to Azov Coast and Bakhmut. The fighting spirit of the occupiers is so-so too.

Our colleagues from ASTRA published on August 9 and 11 new evidence about a clandestine basement for Russian refusers in Zaytsevo, northeast of the Lugansk region. Mobilized of the “Storm” detachment (military unit 31134) complained to their families how they were being forced to go to certain death.

Relatives of several servicemen told ASTRA about this, submitting their complaints to the Investigative Committee, as well as an audio recording of a conversation with one of the mobilized.

On the recording, the fighter says that they will have a fourth assault in a row, they are thrown into attacks without weapons and rest:

“We are only 20 out of 100 left from “Storm”. That’s almost 20 minutes of combat. <…> We are being forced to go into the minefields. Why are we so driven there? Because the authorities have already reported that they have already taken everything. <…> For those who went into denial, the commander personally shot through the legs.”

All 24 survivors were sent to the basement in Zaytsevo, contact with them disappeared. As the editor of the channel, Anastasia Chumakova, added to us, the inmates there are constantly different.

The Siberian opposition resource “People of Baikal” posted on July 25 about a mobilized resident of Irkutsk named Alexander, who served in the “Storm” unit of the 90th tank division. In early March 2023, he, along with three mates, left the position and went to Alexandrovsk, where they rented an apartment and drank alcohol.

There they were detained and sent to the commandant’s office. After that, Alexander was found dead near Chervonopopovka (also on the Lugansk-Kharkov borderland) with traces of a noose around his neck.

“I realized that this is not the war that I imagined. This is extermination, we were prepared as a bait. Let them put me in prison, I won’t die for this,”

his brother Sergey retells the words of the deceased. He is trying to clarify the circumstances of death through the military prosecutor’s office and Investigative Committee.

And the timing for both states is running out. More or less warm September, and that’s all – again cold, mud and positional clashes. Judging by the sharp tightening of the Russian conscription legislation, a new wave of open mobilization is coming there.

However, until the presidential elections in 2024, their authorities are trying to limit themselves by forcing the signing of contracts of the most bonded social strata – convicts, conscripts and Central Asian migrants.

Along with those who refuse to fight, both on the Ukrainian and Russian side it is already easy to meet a front-line soldier who vaguely suspects that he is being used as expendable material, but is afraid to admit it to himself.

They like to ask random civilians why they are not in the trenches and are not going to go there, but somehow they do not ask the owners of life anything about doing business with representatives of the enemy and corruption in army purchases. How many of them will come to anti-war positions is still a question. It is only certain that if everything continues as it is now, then someday both states simply will not have the strength for new offensives.

The front line may not even change much compared to the current one, but it may also move to the Ukraine borders of 1991.

The defeats of one army from another are not capable of ending the war on their own – they only force the losing regime to more actively pour new tons of human chips into the funeral pyre…

Recently, we have already told about the growing disappointment of Ukrainians in the prospects of overcoming poverty and corruption that feeds the desire to leave Ukraine at once after the war or even before

In addition to this, you are welcome to take a look how at the enterprises in our Kharkov male workers are being replaced by women and pensioners like in Europe 1916 due to mobilisation.

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MSM blames Russia for False Flag Slaughter of Civilians / Cinquini

Killings in ethnic Russian town came from Ukrainian side and eclipsed US radioactive ammunition announcement

from thefreeonline on 8th Aug 2023 by Cinquini

Ukraine falsely accuses Russia, while Antony Blinken is visiting Kiev

On September 6, 2023, at 2:04 pm, an explosion ravages the market place in Konstantinovka, in the deep of the still Ukraine-occupied part of Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), 25 km to the southwest of Bakhmut and the front line. Logically and according to the Ukrainian authorities too, the provisional toll is high, at least 16 victims are already dead less than two hours later. A tragedy.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russia and publish on social networks a video which is showing the explosion. The CCTV camera is well located and the footage is high quality

As usual, most Western media, stooges of the Atlanticist narrative, are regarding the Ukrainian statement as reliable and quickly blame Russia, without the least checking.

But the video is good enough to show us that when the sound of the engine is heard, people look in the direction where the missile comes from, more or less toward the camera. And that direction is northwest, even deeper in the Ukraine-controlled part of DNR. With no doubt, the missile is an Atlanticist one

Russia would have been clumsy, to say the least, to target civilians while Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Kiev

His Ukraininian counterpart Dmitro Kuleba and Secretary of State Antony Blinken visit a cemetery on September 6, 2023. The *counter-offensive* is a failure and the whole proxy war is a carnage for the Ukrainian cannon fodder (official)

In contrast, I have already assessed that in such occasion, Ukraine is able to commit false flag war crimes. A Ukrainian ballistic missile hit Kramatorsk railway station on April 8, 2022, when the guest in Kiev was the president of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Both cities are in Donbass, where the inhabitants are Russian-speaking and widely pro-Russia. The Ukrainian nationalists are feeling enough hatred to slaughter them for PR purpose, all the more when the Atlanticist counter-offensive is a bloody failure and Ukraine needs more support than ever from NATO.

In the case of Kramatork, all Western politicians parroted the Ukrainian propaganda, but today, Blinken does not even comment the civilian casualties in Konstantinovka. Annalena Baerbock, the pathetic German foreign affairs minister, is alone when she blames Russia in the evening

Julian Röpcke is a Russophobic editor for German tabloid Bild, but a conscientious journalist. Paradoxical situation, he tells reality, that the missile has struck Konstantinovka from the northwest, while in most Western media, the courtiers are carrying on deliberately spreading the Ukrainian fake news.

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