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Controlled Western Media Prepares to Axe Zelensky / Boosts Russian Capitulation Myth – Simplicius

Fourth Estate Begins Conditioning Ground for Removal of Defiant ZelenskyЧетвертая власть начинает готовить почву для отстранения Непокорного Зеленского

Simplicius. Nov 14, 2024

Just a day after we wrote about the ‘rumored’ new plan for the US to hold Ukrainian elections next year to give intransigent Zelensky the boot, The Economist made it semi-official by acknowledging that, ‘suddenly’, Zelensky is facing a ‘power struggle’ at home:

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/11/12/volodymyr-zelensky-faces-a-power-struggle-in-2025

It’s in line with how Biden’s advanced dementia was just “abruptly” discovered by figures and organs of the establishment, only after becoming convenient and politically expedient enough for them to make it public.

Similarly here, as soon as the memo-from-above’s arrival, The Economist sprang into pre-conditioning the ground to sell the narrative that Zelensky’s regime is now on uncertain footing; they would have never been allowed to even suggest that Zelensky faced danger at home until it became necessary to do so.

The article opens up with the admission that funeral ceremonies for soldiers in Kiev have “become more frequent” after the recent ramp-up of Russia’s offensives, a testament to the AFU’s own mounting death toll at a time when they’re desperately trying to sell the opposing claim about ‘astronomical Russian casualties’.

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For now, there are two dates on Kyiv politicos’ lips: January 20th 2025, the date of Mr Trump’s inauguration, the first moment for any possible ceasefire and lifting of military law, and May 25th, the earliest mooted date for an election.

An election during pinnacle of wartime seems unthinkable, they write, but:

Still, some groundwork appears to have begun. Regional election headquarters are mobilising, and work on candidate lists is beginning. The representatives of one likely presidential rival to Volodymyr Zelensky say that Ukraine needs elections; but they worry about making a public statement to this effect, fearing a fierce backlash from the presidential office.

Then, of course, comes the obligatory stab in the back:

Not only did Economist now roll out some “internal polling” that seemingly didn’t exist before, but the big kicker is the predictable insertion of Zaluzhny as new heir to the throne. That’s not to mention the suggestive lay out of their preferred outcome:

But a former colleague of the president says his best move might be to step aside regardless, and keep to his original promise only to serve one term. “Zelensky has only one way out to get out with an intact reputation,” this source says. “That is to run elections [without him] and go down in history as the man who united the nation in war.” The alternative is to risk being associated with a military collapse or an incomplete peace.

Ah, so a ‘dignified bow out’ just like the same establishment forces asked of Zelensky’s fateful partner-in-crime Joe Biden. Remember, it’s either the “easy way” or the “hard way”, as Pelosi said; the same stands for Zelensky. Take your free trip to Tel Aviv or we can begin raising the level of ‘encouragement’.

Feminist Kurds on Death Row – please support our sisters #NoToExecutions

After the recent announcement of the death sentence against Warishe we as Women Defend Rojava call once again to strengthen the actions of the women’s movement KJAR within the framework of #NoToExecution.

Let’s make short videos in many places to express our solidarity with our imprisoned friend in the prison of the Iranian state and to create public awareness and pressure.
You can find examples of videos here:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBPADEcJ6YX/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
(Or see video above)

The videos can be sent directly to the campaign mail for publication: life.not.execution@gmail.com

Woman, Life, Freedom

Pashkan is another feminist activist currently waiting on Death Row in Irán…. Les companyes de presó de la feminista Pakhshan Azizi, condemnada a mort a l’Iran, demanen justícia per a ella https://kurdiscat.blogspot.com/2024/11/les-companyes-de-preso-de-la-feminista.html

To read the appeal:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9zXCgGN8OX/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

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Kurdish political prisoner Mixgin is DEAD. Turkey claims she died in hospital after a suicide attempt on Mardin Prison in the Turkish State

La presa política kurda Mizgin Acar, que suposadament va intentar suïcidar-se a una presó de Mardin l’u d’octubre, ha mort a l’hospital. https://t.co/l5nfsiK2qg

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Will the US American project survive the anger of bigoted white men? / by Carol Anderson

Will the American project survive the anger of white men? / by Carol Anderson

‘Trump has laid out an agenda that will provide the “wages of whiteness” to his male supporters but very little else.

The racist hate that undergirds Maga can only provide threadbare comfort.’

At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare

Afriend recently asked: “Do you think the United States will survive the anger of white men?”

As blunt as the question is, the core element is not so far-fetched. In fact, the majority of white men (and women) who voted in the presidential election in 2024 have rallied around a man who has called for the “termination of the constitution”, vowed to be a “dictator”, and threatened to deploy the US military against Americans.

They support a man who is a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, a proven liar, who has been fined nearly half a billion dollars for fraud, who incited an insurrection that injured 140 police officers, and who mismanaged the Covid-19 pandemic causing hundreds of thousands to die needlessly.

The fact that Donald Trump’s candidacy was even viable, given that horrific track record, was because of the support of white men.

White men, whose anger was on full display at Madison Square Garden as they spewed racist, misogynistic venom. White men who attacked poll workers and also voters of Kamala Harris. White men who chafed at the thought that their wives and girlfriends would not vote for the man who thought it was “a beautiful thing” that reproductive rights had been destroyed.

And, as the New York Times reported, the downwardly mobile, frustrated “white men without a degree, [who] have been surpassed in income by college-educated women”.

And let’s be clear. Trump has laid out an agenda that will provide the “wages of whiteness” to his male supporters but very little else. The racist hate that undergirds Maga can only provide threadbare comfort.

The planned enormous tariffs, the rollback on workplace, food and environmental safety regulations, the dismantling of labor protections, the planned deportation of tens of millions of undocumented people and naturalized citizens, the assault on reproductive rights and alignment with dictators – all of this will destroy the economy, explode the deficit and leave the United States severely isolated and weakened.

This is nothing new. White male anger, especially at the nation’s inclusion of African Americans, has repeatedly privileged white supremacy over the viability of the United States.

During the war of independence, when the nation was fighting to become the United States, South Carolina’s government fumed at Congress’s request to arm the enslaved and give them their freedom in exchange for fending off a British force that was more than 10 times the size of what those in Charleston could muster. Government officials flat out refused and barked that they weren’t sure that the US “was a nation worth fighting for” and would rather take their chances with the king of England.

In short, enslaving those of African descent was infinitely more important than the United States.

Later on, during the subsequent battles over drafting the constitution, far too many white slaveholding men were willing to hold the United States hostage unless they got their way.