tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153712372024-03-13T19:56:34.609+07:00'Lemon Juice' BruceBruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.comBlogger1132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-30102547962156456182022-03-22T23:46:00.008+07:002022-04-04T08:04:18.907+07:00<p><span style="color: #050505;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibL_ImfHX2Flifm4WEH_Vpht7-DG1Imv3M52vbKpYfTOvyRDRZHKJyGE5XDnL6gXHCihnVnVmMNgzPkYO6lqNOouJl9f_YJ8bRYVlj-xwSL29vWpN57vTP5tuJDV74x_a8gGnx3jpFWwIPP2Zn-yYFd1MMhDK8h8qG-BL5vzh3Sp3NxWiD_QM/s1300/stop%20war%20in%20ukraine.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1300" height="411" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibL_ImfHX2Flifm4WEH_Vpht7-DG1Imv3M52vbKpYfTOvyRDRZHKJyGE5XDnL6gXHCihnVnVmMNgzPkYO6lqNOouJl9f_YJ8bRYVlj-xwSL29vWpN57vTP5tuJDV74x_a8gGnx3jpFWwIPP2Zn-yYFd1MMhDK8h8qG-BL5vzh3Sp3NxWiD_QM/w518-h411/stop%20war%20in%20ukraine.jpg" width="518" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Why have so many people
become passionately aware of Ukraine just in the last few weeks?</b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><b></b>Some of us
have been writing, sharing and warning about this evolving disaster for many years,
even decades. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;">With Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine on February 24,
2022, I reviewed my old blog posts on Ukraine going back to at least 2014.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
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enlightening, and a timely warning to resolve this conflict before it erupted into a
major world war, as it now has done. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This tragic Ukraine war, with far-reaching global
consequences, could and should have been avoided, but sadly the many warnings
went unheeded.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This devastating war must now be ended by de-escalation and genuine diplomacy. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s never too late to learn.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;">Question everything.
Research more. </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;">Search my blog for links to articles and videos I posted here
since 2014 and before. </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505;">Here is one link: </span><span style="color: #050505;"><a href="https://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2014/03/?fbclid=IwAR0JcLSvjxjmwtfm4zDoHnZR2cgdiiTSdGlbpyciXg-WaT1P1gZr0TkJlQc" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">http://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2014/03/</span></a> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Find more in
the Archive for 2014, and here: </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2005/09/added-web-links-additional-links-to.html">http://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2005/09/added-web-links-additional-links-to.html</a> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: x-large;">Below, are new posts since the current war began:</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YLTjm0FNWbyX26CQrHQ1K7xMItHlXcUUN2DGETuCEH2z8sB1BfcEysUEZjVPCE5bx0pRi03hBaDpSGFyF8v-_zNiWocZ4cOg2K9eVetylpazwV3W0GJhsXH6-x0RACLO4MpBu7dDE-qVAwaw5I8LujH0Iv-kJEu-yPcg-NZ80tJ5J2-kFiU/s1076/give%20peace%20a%20chance%20-%20soccer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="1076" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YLTjm0FNWbyX26CQrHQ1K7xMItHlXcUUN2DGETuCEH2z8sB1BfcEysUEZjVPCE5bx0pRi03hBaDpSGFyF8v-_zNiWocZ4cOg2K9eVetylpazwV3W0GJhsXH6-x0RACLO4MpBu7dDE-qVAwaw5I8LujH0Iv-kJEu-yPcg-NZ80tJ5J2-kFiU/w714-h313/give%20peace%20a%20chance%20-%20soccer.jpg" width="714" /></span></a></div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><p><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">During the UEFA
Europa League Rangers game, Belgrade (Serbia) Red Stars fans sent a message to
FIFA and UEFA. They put up banners listing countries that were victims of war
from USA and Europe including Vietnam, and many more recent wars. USA and
European athletes were not punished and banned by FIFA or UEFA. The frenzy now of absurd SANCTIONS against ordinary Russian athletes and citizens, being punished for the acts of their government whether they agree with them or not, is clearly insane and abhorrent. </b></span></p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsYV8vOss_zzy_3_reGDELBUHz-eYhpwxUCVTZnEXPGx4P4yCFV3gDqxrHFIYEh0s1fK3a8_YKJUw5E06BGrNXe2Dsyr9mwlXAxZiew22TeAMPWubo8vZDMgnZ80D_EaS3i0sQuExJZwkIfiZbysG9UcPLt1URkV4hUtl1LaPd9-Z3szQgSw/s500/Zeuss%20article%20photo%20on%20fire.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsYV8vOss_zzy_3_reGDELBUHz-eYhpwxUCVTZnEXPGx4P4yCFV3gDqxrHFIYEh0s1fK3a8_YKJUw5E06BGrNXe2Dsyr9mwlXAxZiew22TeAMPWubo8vZDMgnZ80D_EaS3i0sQuExJZwkIfiZbysG9UcPLt1URkV4hUtl1LaPd9-Z3szQgSw/w528-h276/Zeuss%20article%20photo%20on%20fire.jpg" width="528" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;">Ukraine is on fire….</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></span><div><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">We don’t put out a fire by pouring on petrol!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></b><div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span>My thoughts on Conflict in Ukraine, for the </span></span><span style="color: #050505;">CICD AGM, </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;">March 15, 2022.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Thank you, and greetings to CICD members and friends. Thank you for
asking me to offer some thoughts on the tragic events in Ukraine. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We have all
been following events in Ukraine for decades, so I don’t need to tell you that
history. But when the hysteria broke out with the “Russian invasion” [which Russia calls a "special military operation" instead], I
posted a lot of articles and videos on my Facebook, of course, to inform people
of the background and context, which was not being explained in the mainstream
corporate-state ‘news’ media. This stimulated a lot of interest and comments,
not always supportive, and occasionally even involving personal abuse,
experiences you may also have had, such are the emotions stirred up in times of
war.</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The peace movement is facing a particularly crazy and challenging time
of global turmoil now, on top of two years of the COVID pandemic. Now, a major
war in Europe, that could spin out of control. While people should be coming
together to intelligently solve our common problems, instead, we are gripped in
a frenzied herd mentality, of personal and political turmoil, of friends and family
divided over issues, and of increasing censorship of both social and mainstream
media. It seems critical thinking & informed debate is out of vogue. These
are dangerous times indeed.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This all coincides with the inevitable decline of Western superpower
hegemony, led by the USA, and the rising of a multipolar world... of the Russian
Bear standing up, being more assertive, for example with Syria and Ukraine, and
the resurgence of China. The unwillingness of the USA to accept this changing
global balance of power is a potential existential threat to the planet.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In the past with previous wars, it was usually very clear that the
imperialist powers were the instigators of war. Of course, we still had to
counter media misinformation, but the battle lines were clearer. Now, with
Ukraine, we face a quite different situation.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Decades of Anti-Russia propaganda is now bearing its poisoned fruit in
the global response to the conflict in Ukraine, especially in the West. This long
history of anti-Russia propaganda, from 1917 and before, to the more recent
“Russiagate” scam, and Russia’s effective role in thwarting imperialist regime
change in Syria…. All this fuelled the current “anti-Russia” frenzy, which now
makes many people automatically, and uncritically, blame Russia for Ukraine.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What should be the peace movement’s response? Obviously, we must oppose
all military action, and call for diplomatic solution. But, equally, it is essential
to explain the decades-long context of the conflict in Ukraine, because Western
media never will.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We must also condemn and oppose the irrational and absurd demonizing of ordinary
Russian people everywhere, such as sanctions on private bank accounts, Russian athletes,
taking Russian foods off menus, even ridiculously banning Russian cats! The demonization
of “Putin as Hitler” is also unhelpful in reaching a negotiated settlement of
the conflict.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Mass media – has a toxic influence. Western media never encouraged
public sympathy for the victims of other wars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Never encouraged people to wave flags for Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria,
Yemen, Libya, Somalia or Palestine. Those now “Standing with Ukraine” were silent
during the last 8 years, when Ukrainians were killing Ukrainians -- they didn’t
care then, because they didn’t know. Such is the power of media, lying by
omission.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">WE know the crisis in Ukraine has been engineered by the USA and its allies
for decades, but those who faithfully follow only Western media believe it only
started two weeks ago, and then by Russia alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must actively counter this false and
simplistic distortion of history, with effective peace education.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The tragic crisis in Ukraine could, and should, have been resolved by
common sense and diplomacy, instead of being allowed to fester, in the dark,
for more than three decades, to the point of now exploding. Every day this
drags on, the situation gets more dangerous.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Talk of a “No-fly zone” is not the harmless thing most people probably
think it is. It would be a total disaster! Effectively, a declaration of world
war between Russia and the USA/NATO, which could become nuclear! A reckless and
suicidal course of action.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The only viable solution is political, the active de-escalation of the
conflict, through dialogue, diplomacy, empathy, common sense, and balancing the
legitimate interests of all parties. This was Russia’s preferred course, but it
takes Two to Tango….</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Unfortunately, now the world is doing the exact opposite of
de-escalation. Instead, it’s hyping up the war propaganda, pouring more weapons
and foreign fighters into Ukraine, only prolonging the war and the inevitable
killing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Australia has delivered “lethal
aid” to Ukraine, “anti-tank” weapons. Surprise! Surprise! Who will they be used
against?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Ukraine is on fire…. We don’t put out a fire by pouring on petrol!</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Russia says it would stop its operation if Ukraine declares neutrality,
rejects joining NATO, recognizes Crimea as Russian territory, allows independence
of the Donbass republics, and reduces its military. All a perfectly reasonable basis
for negotiating a settlement.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">However, a peaceful diplomatic settlement may depend on Ukrainian
President Zelensky actually being willing, and able, to negotiate. This is uncertain
given the malign neo-Nazi forces within the Ukraine government and military. Direct
negotiations between the US and Russia may be the best, possibly only,
solution. The US is obviously the real power over Ukraine.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It may not be easy, but what is the alternative? Continuing and
worsening war</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Russia and others have been explaining all this to deaf ears for years. Eventually,
Russia decided their only option was to act decisively, to remove the
existential threats on its border. One day, we may know more about why this
became so urgent.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Russia must have been fully aware of the inherent dangers of taking
military action, however limited they may have intended them to be. They would have
understood that the West would exploit this opportunity to bog them down in
another quagmire, unleashing more brutal sanctions and mass media vilification.
Yet, they decided there was no other, but military, option. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Why?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I think that’s a most serious question for everyone to answer. For Russia.
For those sympathetic to Russia’s position but opposed to their military
intervention. For those “Standing with Ukraine” and totally blaming Russia. And
for peace activists.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Was there anything else at all Russia could, and should, have done,
instead of military action? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Was Russia expected just to do nothing, and accept an existential threat
on its border? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">And finally, let’s ask everyone: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">"If the exact same circumstances were reversed, what would the USA
have done?!....</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span>Everyone should be seriously asking these questions, and seeking
answers. </span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Because, Peace should be everyone’s business!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">- </span><span style="color: #050505;">Bruce McPhie, March 12, 2022</span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span><span><span style="color: #050505;">TRANSCRIPT of video recording with Andrew Irving: "My thoughts on Conflict
in Ukraine", presented to the AGM of Campaign for International Co-operation & Disarmament (</span><span style="color: #050505;">CICD), on March 15, 2022. Also broadcast on CICD's 'Alternative News' programme on Melbourne's community radio 3CR, </span></span><span style="color: #050505;">on Sunday March 20, 2022: </span></span><a href="https://www.3cr.org.au/alternativenews?fbclid=IwAR33GRk3BdD4JYHUCCticp1P4f11JG3i7yyk-LKGGVeavmSJ4xU7A-ybFuI" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.3cr.org.au/alternativenews</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6aU8XLOMR-0WHPIaOcUDKYOc5HS2ONqywd1V9Y-0OUeihCjxM9SQOHH0CMuVDwK5HUIicPfvXPGIpJwZ2LywnOk4GVX-84qzJuuh_8Q8CWmKhy1sJC_j1W5uinkcyyaKmOKdjWNrLKzLfTPuecusKNQIhqxzNgN8DISQUTp74fTTw7nqlUf4/s700/have%20been%20warned.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="700" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6aU8XLOMR-0WHPIaOcUDKYOc5HS2ONqywd1V9Y-0OUeihCjxM9SQOHH0CMuVDwK5HUIicPfvXPGIpJwZ2LywnOk4GVX-84qzJuuh_8Q8CWmKhy1sJC_j1W5uinkcyyaKmOKdjWNrLKzLfTPuecusKNQIhqxzNgN8DISQUTp74fTTw7nqlUf4/w590-h472/have%20been%20warned.jpg" width="590" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #050505;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>MANY WESTERN STRATEGIC
THINKERS HAD WARNED OF THIS UKRAINIAN CONFLICT LONG AGO:</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>George Kennan</b>, America's
foreign policy strategist, the architect of the U.S. cold war strategy. As
early as 1998 he warned that NATO expansion was a "tragic mistake"
that ought to ultimately provoke a "bad reaction from Russia".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;">*</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"><b>Henry Kissinger</b>, in 2014,
warned that "to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country",
and that the West therefore needs a policy that is aimed at
"reconciliation". He was also adamant that "Ukraine should not
join NATO".</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">* </span><b style="font-size: large;">John Mearsheimer</b><span style="font-size: large;">, arguably the leading geopolitical scholar in the US today,
in 2015: "The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end
result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked [...] What we're doing is in
fact encouraging that outcome."</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Jack F. Matlock Jr.</b>, US
Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991, warning in 1997 that NATO
expansion was "the most profound strategic blunder, [encouraging] a chain
of events that could produce the most serious security threat [...] since the
Soviet Union collapsed".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;">*</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"><b>William Perry</b>, President
Clinton's Defense Secretary, explained in his memoir that to him NATO
enlargement is the cause of "the rupture in relations with Russia",
and that in 1996 he was so opposed to it that "in the strength of my
conviction, I considered resigning".</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">* </span><b style="font-size: large;">Stephen Cohen</b><span style="font-size: large;">, a famed scholar of Russian studies, warning in 2014 that
"if we move NATO forces toward Russia's borders [...] it's obviously gonna
militarize the situation [and] Russia will not back off, this is
existential".</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: medium;">* </span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"><b>Bill Burns</b> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;">CIA director in 2008: "Ukrainian entry into NATO is the
brightest of all redlines for [Russia]" and "I have yet to find
anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to
Russian interests". (He was then Ambassador to Moscow in 2008 when he
wrote this memo).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">* </span><b style="font-size: large;">Vladimir Pozner</b><span style="font-size: large;">, Russian-American journalist, in 2018 stated that: NATO expansion
in Ukraine is unacceptable to the Russian, that there has to be a compromise
where "Ukraine, guaranteed, will not become a member of NATO."</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Malcolm Fraser</b>, 22nd prime minister of Australia, warned in 2014 that
"the move east [by NATO is] provocative, unwise and a very clear signal to
Russia", and this leads to a "difficult and extraordinarily dangerous
problem".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Paul Keating</b>, former Australian PM, in 1997: expanding NATO is "an error
which may rank in the end with the strategic miscalculations which prevented
Germany from taking its full place in the international system [in early
20th]".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Bob Gates</b>, former US Defense
Secretary, in his 2015 memoirs: "Moving so quickly [to expand
NATO] was a mistake. [...] Trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was
truly overreaching [and] an especially monumental provocation".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Pat Buchanan</b> in his 1999 book ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’: "By moving
NATO onto Russia's front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century
confrontation”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;">* </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"><b>Robert McNamara</b>, <b>Bill Bradley</b> & <b>Gary Hart</b>, among </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;">a group of
individuals, wrote a
letter in 1997 to Bill Clinton warning the "US-led effort to expand NATO is a
policy error of historic proportions", and would "foster
instability" in Europe.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Dmitriy Trenin</b> expressed
concern that Ukraine was the most potentially destabilizing factor in
US-Russian relations, given the level of emotion & neuralgia triggered by
its quest for NATO membership.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Sir Roderic Lyne</b>, former
British ambassador to Russia, warned a year ago that "[pushing] Ukraine
into NATO [...] is stupid on every level… if you want to start a war with
Russia, that's the best way of doing it."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Jeffrey Sachs</b>, famous US
economist, writing a column in the FT last year, warned that "NATO
enlargement is utterly misguided and risky. True friends of Ukraine, and of
global peace, should be calling for a US and NATO compromise with Russia."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">* <b>Fiona Hill</b>: "We
warned [George Bush] that Mr. Putin would view steps to bring Ukraine and
Georgia closer to NATO as a provocative move that would likely provoke
pre-emptive Russian military action. But ultimately, our warnings weren’t
heeded."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIi5BWqKXpdwfU727nlnmIcluUSHS9T4GWu6wV6ZnAsuEFVhV6FcnH9iAcZBPgbvE6gCakziCYYNCy5W_Msj7_AAVNSjmksrixj0sbvBQkGHXwIRpT34IhQc46HVswGn1jWF9cXKKfHHUVJHYTjgemRZxPxusl9a7Hkgpl2LNh7pb_K02eb3E/s1200/so%20it's%20our%20fault.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIi5BWqKXpdwfU727nlnmIcluUSHS9T4GWu6wV6ZnAsuEFVhV6FcnH9iAcZBPgbvE6gCakziCYYNCy5W_Msj7_AAVNSjmksrixj0sbvBQkGHXwIRpT34IhQc46HVswGn1jWF9cXKKfHHUVJHYTjgemRZxPxusl9a7Hkgpl2LNh7pb_K02eb3E/w578-h578/so%20it's%20our%20fault.jpg" width="578" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><br /><i><br /></i></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><i style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="color: #444444; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">Written by John Pilger,
just days before Russia began its military intervention in Ukraine on February
24, 2022, this provides essential context, conveniently left out of the Western
mainstream narrative now. . .</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">John Pilger: War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">By John Pilger</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“…The war hysteria that has rolled in like a tidal wave in recent weeks and months is the most striking example. Known by its jargon, “shaping the narrative,” much if not most of it is pure propaganda…”</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzc6TG0_Sfde-Kdf-AWCP2R3V9-6LjoNdkPMK6OLNj9npct44qkkop9pOm2JMVLfxWbLEdCdxYfC3QyUPFI3oCv8DAXwme0nJSBgXqNS8uC7Zlu-ZNe-2dKuDyPz-GiEl48I3Mj8jmkJj2cIfn5woORAZyedVzb1KXgZrUs8zpjo1rR52LiE/s1366/Zelensky%20photo%20for%20Pilger%20article.webp" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzc6TG0_Sfde-Kdf-AWCP2R3V9-6LjoNdkPMK6OLNj9npct44qkkop9pOm2JMVLfxWbLEdCdxYfC3QyUPFI3oCv8DAXwme0nJSBgXqNS8uC7Zlu-ZNe-2dKuDyPz-GiEl48I3Mj8jmkJj2cIfn5woORAZyedVzb1KXgZrUs8zpjo1rR52LiE/w640-h360/Zelensky%20photo%20for%20Pilger%20article.webp" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Feature photo | Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with service members of the country’s armed
forces at combat positions in the Donetsk region, Feb. 17, 2022. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo |
Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-war-in-europe-and-the-rise-of-raw-propaganda/279713/"><span lang="EN-AU" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">https://www.mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-war-in-europe-and-the-rise-of-raw-propaganda/279713/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #cc0000; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">VIETNAM-CAMBODIA 1978</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #cc0000; font-size: 28pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">RUSSIA-UKRAINE 2022</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Extract from 'In Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975' </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">by Max Hastings:</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRMROyCXUDSa8UPtCRc3cqrPKhNwktUNO8Db358g2MscnAQLh0vMfzeL0YD43uhs2rNccbn3nQfnZJl2ahPxi-1FoLGzp92ZdfSnX_Rr7jEv0hkCJn9LK_1IfdPTBV79IldfmZBUwX9amTee8K0WDLic7vLGezuGjld1nm9rPRrgGgyXNrO4/s842/Vietnam%20and%20Cambodia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="842" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRMROyCXUDSa8UPtCRc3cqrPKhNwktUNO8Db358g2MscnAQLh0vMfzeL0YD43uhs2rNccbn3nQfnZJl2ahPxi-1FoLGzp92ZdfSnX_Rr7jEv0hkCJn9LK_1IfdPTBV79IldfmZBUwX9amTee8K0WDLic7vLGezuGjld1nm9rPRrgGgyXNrO4/w381-h244/Vietnam%20and%20Cambodia.jpg" width="381" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">Nguyen Co Thach - an urbane
and leading Vietnamese diplomat showed the world a more liberal side to
Vietnam. He failed to normalize with the United States in his time in office
(1980-1991), but remained as an architect for the warmer relations later on. </span></i><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #444444;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">It has been said that
"history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes." I see "rhymes" in
the story of Vietnam's military intervention in Cambodia in 1978, and Russia's
military intervention in Ukraine in 2022.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In both cases, years of
dialogue and diplomacy to try to resolve a serious border security threat
failed, and eventually it was decided that military action was the only and necessary
option.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In both cases, the military intervention involved acceding to requests for help
from people in the neighbouring country who were being murdered in alarming
numbers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In both cases, most of the world then simplistically and incorrectly put all
the blame of "invasion" and "aggression" onto one side
only, avoiding the historical context that actually led to the conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">However, in time, people
understood the complexities of the situation. Will that also be the case with
Russia's military intervention in Ukraine? We will have to wait and see.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In the meantime, the
conflict in Ukraine must be resolved through genuine dialogue and diplomacy
that respects the legitimate security concerns and interests of all sides.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, much of the world is actively taking only a one-sided approach,
recklessly escalating the war through media propaganda designed to manipulate
the emotions of well-meaning people, and massively weaponizing the battle
field. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">All this will only prolong the killing, complicate the efforts for diplomacy,
increase the enmity between neighbours, and increase the risk of a disastrous
world war between nuclear-armed powers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Put out a fire with water,
not pouring on petrol!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">[Bruce McPhie on Facebook,
March 17, 2022]</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="501" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZHzI9QHoWfLo7b6gKexUzbZcxZbQEvF-C0l9768Vx5JQr3MCkU-D0Aw6vJCm7ljLB-LRRBDrJTQqeuWuaUwdE_NAOrsLg_Y1zG_zTbBFziEyM0bodUofVuJoFvqDPgKk_GFPF3TFuOTW7Jg4fXE_Fr7tZrHO3dDpSg9F1L-2j4AlzPM3CDQ/w618-h348/Vietnam%20calls%20Russia.jpg" width="618" /></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b>Vietnamese, Russian foreign
ministers hold phone talks on Ukraine situation</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"Minister of Foreign
Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov discussed the
conflict in Ukraine in a candid and constructive manner during a phone conversation
late Tuesday in an atmosphere of “trust and friendship.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Foreign minister Sơn
affirmed Việt Nam’s consistent stance that international disputes and
disagreements should be resolved by peaceful means in compliance with basic
principles of the United Nations Charter and international law, particularly
the principle of respecting countries’ independence, sovereignty and
territorial integrity. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">He urged the parties involved to exercise restraint,
reduce tensions, and continue to make efforts for dialogue to find a long-term
solution that is in line with international law and takes into account the
sides’ legitimate interests...</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Sơn suggested that the
Russian side continue to organise humanitarian corridors and take measures to
ensure the safety of civilians, including Vietnamese in Ukraine, in their
evacuation from war zones..."</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/1165275/vietnamese-russian-foreign-ministers-hold-phone-talks-on-ukraine-situation.html"><span>https://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/1165275/vietnamese-russian-foreign-ministers-hold-phone-talks-on-ukraine-situation.html</span></a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #cc0000; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Ukrainian leftist
criticizes Western war drive with Russia: </span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #990000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 28pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">US is
using Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">A left-wing
peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the
crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and
exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Yuliy
Dubovyk: "I am a Ukrainian-American... The overwhelming support that
Western governments and media outlets have poured out for Ukraine since Russia
invaded on February 24 is not actually motivated by concern for the Ukrainian
people. They are using us to advance their political and economic interests…
Washington is willing to fight until the last Ukrainian to weaken Russia..."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgN9I49KBLkiCYi5tKJqHPSGnrj-bmlyT9U5FC37rK_QZvyEt3xy0ohOZTFyzsWiuYjeCM71CCeVLA2nN-bO_EVCB0bvmt8TjIdxiTocKR-0aoZxCNiEPmGFzSFo9UZ4wBmlbyTDGGRuwFGQclr-NSSmxgtGCpa2xnZ6bSY1NjmUjRFpHqnFQ/s1536/Ukraine-soldier-military.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1536" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgN9I49KBLkiCYi5tKJqHPSGnrj-bmlyT9U5FC37rK_QZvyEt3xy0ohOZTFyzsWiuYjeCM71CCeVLA2nN-bO_EVCB0bvmt8TjIdxiTocKR-0aoZxCNiEPmGFzSFo9UZ4wBmlbyTDGGRuwFGQclr-NSSmxgtGCpa2xnZ6bSY1NjmUjRFpHqnFQ/w614-h346/Ukraine-soldier-military.webp" width="614" /></span></a></div><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</span></b></p></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-war-russia-us/?fbclid=IwAR3p0jSaW-Zfv4cLPsHuZZ9Ca9mPmCLdZw206cx_9WbLht6VA8l241xtows">https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-war-russia-us/?fbclid=IwAR3p0jSaW-Zfv4cLPsHuZZ9Ca9mPmCLdZw206cx_9WbLht6VA8l241xtows</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPAdhLNZrH0e1pq00iLG5k8EtRPkMhF1-NVY88x7LiaeAhvaFb0dosY6RVCePx3TC0FqOcb3_EN__I7gY45nabjIyHcsIr0l42eAhiyni489Etqpin7hVH-omdFynaFFjuZ-RhAZSp-dYVBTLrDun4H9RZk5MVQCJKfRJCiFtE51QdnO4KVQ/s1200/Mearshiemer%20in%20Economist.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPAdhLNZrH0e1pq00iLG5k8EtRPkMhF1-NVY88x7LiaeAhvaFb0dosY6RVCePx3TC0FqOcb3_EN__I7gY45nabjIyHcsIr0l42eAhiyni489Etqpin7hVH-omdFynaFFjuZ-RhAZSp-dYVBTLrDun4H9RZk5MVQCJKfRJCiFtE51QdnO4KVQ/w572-h572/Mearshiemer%20in%20Economist.jpg" width="572" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #990000; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%;">HERE’S WHY THE UKRAINE
NARRATIVE IS WRONG</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">BY JOHN MEARSHIEMER, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">MARCH
11, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Extracts from article in
The Economist:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">THE WAR IN UKRAINE IS the most
dangerous international conflict since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
Understanding its root causes is essential if we are to prevent it from getting
worse and, instead, to find a way to bring it to a close.</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">There is no question that
Vladimir Putin started the war and is responsible for how it is being waged.
But why he did so is another matter. The mainstream view in the West is that he
is an irrational, out-of-touch aggressor bent on creating a greater Russia in
the mould of the former Soviet Union. Thus, he alone bears full responsibility
for the Ukraine crisis.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But that story is wrong.
The West, and especially America, is principally responsible for the crisis
which began in February 2014. It has now turned into a war that not only
threatens to destroy Ukraine, but also has the potential to escalate into a
nuclear war between Russia and NATO.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>START OF THE TROUBLE</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The trouble over Ukraine
actually started at NATO’s Bucharest summit in April 2008, when George W.
Bush’s administration pushed the alliance to announce that Ukraine and Georgia
“will become members”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
Russian leaders responded immediately with outrage, characterising this
decision as an existential threat to Russia and vowing to thwart it. According
to a respected Russian journalist, Mr Putin “flew into a rage” and warned that
“if Ukraine joins NATO, it will do so without Crimea and the eastern regions.
It will simply fall apart.”</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">America ignored Moscow’s
red line, however, and pushed forward to make Ukraine a Western bulwark on
Russia’s border. That strategy included two other elements: bringing Ukraine
closer to the EU and making it a pro-American democracy.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">These efforts eventually
sparked hostilities in February 2014, after an uprising (which was supported by
America) caused Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, to flee the
country. In response, Russia took Crimea from Ukraine and helped fuel a civil
war that broke out in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>DE FACTO MEMBERSHIP</b></span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The next major
confrontation came in December 2021 and led directly to the current war. The
main cause was that Ukraine was becoming a de facto member of NATO. The process
started in December 2017, when the Trump administration decided to sell Kyiv
“defensive weapons”. What counts as “defensive” is hardly clear-cut, however,
and these weapons certainly looked offensive to Moscow and its allies in the
Donbas region.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
Other NATO countries got in on the act, shipping weapons to Ukraine, training
its armed forces and allowing it to participate in joint air and naval
exercises. In July 2021, Ukraine and America co-hosted a major naval exercise
in the Black Sea region involving navies from 32 countries. Operation Sea
Breeze almost provoked Russia to fire at a British naval destroyer that deliberately
entered what Russia considers its territorial waters.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BLINKEN: “FULL INTEGRATION”</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The links between Ukraine and America continued growing under the Biden administration.
This commitment is reflected throughout an important document—the “US-Ukraine
Charter on Strategic Partnership”—that was signed in November by Antony
Blinken, America’s secretary of state, and Dmytro Kuleba, his Ukrainian
counterpart.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
The aim was to “underscore … a commitment to Ukraine’s implementation of the
deep and comprehensive reforms necessary for full integration into European and
Euro-Atlantic institutions.” The document explicitly builds on “the commitments
made to strengthen the Ukraine-U.S. Strategic partnership by Presidents
Zelensky and Biden,” and also emphasises that the two countries will be guided
by the “2008 Bucharest Summit Declaration.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>BLINKEN’S INTRANSIGENCE</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Unsurprisingly, Moscow
found this evolving situation intolerable and began mobilising its army on
Ukraine’s border last spring to signal its resolve to Washington. But it had no
effect, as the Biden administration continued to move closer to Ukraine. This
led Russia to precipitate a full-blown diplomatic stand-off in December. As
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, put it: “We reached our boiling
point.”</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Russia demanded a written
guarantee that Ukraine would never become a part of NATO and that the alliance
remove the military assets it had deployed in eastern Europe since 1997. The
subsequent negotiations failed, as Mr Blinken made clear: “There is no change.
There will be no change.” A month later Mr Putin launched an invasion of
Ukraine to eliminate the threat he saw from NATO.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EVIDENCE CONTRADICTS NATO
CLAIMS</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">This interpretation of
events is at odds with the prevailing mantra in the West, which portrays NATO
expansion as irrelevant to the Ukraine crisis, blaming instead Mr Putin’s
expansionist goals. According to a recent NATO document sent to Russian
leaders, “NATO is a defensive Alliance and poses no threat to Russia.”</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The available evidence
contradicts these claims. For starters, the issue at hand is not what Western
leaders say NATO’s purpose or intentions are; it is how Moscow sees NATO’s
actions.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Mr Putin surely knows that
the costs of conquering and occupying large amounts of territory in eastern
Europe would be prohibitive for Russia. As he once put it, “Whoever does not
miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.” His
beliefs about the tight bonds between Russia and Ukraine notwithstanding,
trying to take back all of Ukraine would be like trying to swallow a porcupine.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Furthermore, Russian
policymakers—including Mr Putin—have said hardly anything about conquering new
territory to recreate the Soviet Union or build a greater Russia. Rather, since
the 2008 Bucharest summit Russian leaders have repeatedly said that they view
Ukraine joining NATO as an existential threat that must be prevented. As Mr
Lavrov noted in January, “the key to everything is the guarantee that NATO will
not expand eastward.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>COULD NOT ADMIT THEY HAD
PROVOKED IT</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Tellingly, Western leaders rarely described Russia as a military threat to
Europe before 2014. As America’s former ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul
notes, Mr Putin’s seizure of Crimea was not planned for long; it was an
impulsive move in response to the coup that overthrew Ukraine’s pro-Russian
leader. In fact, until then, NATO expansion was aimed at turning all of Europe
into a giant zone of peace, not containing a dangerous Russia.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
Once the crisis started, however, American and European policymakers could not
admit they had provoked it by trying to integrate Ukraine into the West. They
declared the real source of the problem was Russia’s revanchism and its desire
to dominate if not conquer Ukraine.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>NOT CONTROVERSIAL</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My story about the conflict’s causes should not be controversial, given that
many prominent American foreign-policy experts have warned against NATO
expansion since the late 1990s.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">America’s secretary of
defence at the time of the Bucharest summit, Robert Gates, recognised that
“trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching”.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Indeed, at that summit, both
the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Nicolas
Sarkozy, were opposed to moving forward on NATO membership for Ukraine because
they feared it would infuriate Russia.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>EXACERBATING THE RISKS</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The upshot of my
interpretation is that we are in an extremely dangerous situation, and Western
policy is exacerbating these risks. For Russia’s leaders, what happens in
Ukraine has little to do with their imperial ambitions being thwarted; it is
about dealing with what they regard as a direct threat to Russia’s future.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Mr Putin may have misjudged
Russia’s military capabilities, the effectiveness of the Ukrainian resistance
and the scope and speed of the Western response, but one should never
underestimate how ruthless great powers can be when they believe they are in
dire straits. America and its allies, however, are doubling down, hoping to
inflict a humiliating defeat on Mr Putin and to maybe even trigger his removal.
They are increasing aid to Ukraine while using economic sanctions to inflict
massive punishment on Russia, a step that Putin now sees as “akin to a
declaration of war”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
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the country will be gravely damaged, if not dismembered. Moreover, there is a
serious threat of escalation beyond Ukraine, not to mention the danger of
nuclear war. If the West not only thwarts Moscow on Ukraine’s battlefields, but
also does serious, lasting damage to Russia’s economy, it is in effect pushing
a great power to the brink. Mr Putin might then turn to nuclear weapons.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">At this point it is
impossible to know the terms on which this conflict will be settled. But, if we
do not understand its deep cause, we will be unable to end it before Ukraine is
wrecked and NATO ends up in a war with Russia.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
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R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the
University of Chicago.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="1024" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifhHpbXgCEQy4cAbZq4a4h-SywikcNiZOakw4KStc0vQoB8Ogww_kCVy_XOwCmQJiMuUsAMNEfKYC9f_y0SZH250WNUrWcFC2w4EGEKP-XWAo2-47NwA32vEwginxHGK3cnGOa2dEDQjP-ZU5QNUjPtMoLZDuPHLmuuZ_Oxr2k79VNzYSN0N8/w637-h376/FAIR%20article%20NATO-Expansion-1024x605.png" width="637" /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Calling Russia’s Attack
‘Unprovoked’ Lets US Off the Hook</span></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">By Bryce Greene FOR FAIR<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">MARCH 4, 2022</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
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condemns the invasion as illegal and ruinous—but calling it “unprovoked”
distracts attention from the US’s own contribution to this disastrous outcome.
The US ignored warnings from both Russian and US officials that a major
conflagration could erupt if the US continued its path, and it shouldn’t be
surprising that one eventually did. Now, as the world once again inches toward
the brink of nuclear omnicide, it is more important than ever for Western
audiences to understand and challenge their own government’s role in dragging
us all to this point."</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://fair.org/home/calling-russias-attack-unprovoked-lets-us-off-the-hook/?fbclid=IwAR0iWvqKXxVH0LNmDHDIaqUCTsP1wh8KTEQ7NWGARIOSuKG7TTEoZ28Jp2w">https://fair.org/home/calling-russias-attack-unprovoked-lets-us-off-the-hook/?fbclid=IwAR0iWvqKXxVH0LNmDHDIaqUCTsP1wh8KTEQ7NWGARIOSuKG7TTEoZ28Jp2w</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIz55h6zYaN-Ob-3aTdAVONIRvYOrTq_OpAfcFp7AGumQUmLbQTq-HeqwMJAo2bDLxDOGN7rxVhQOzDf9mpU2quAvQYQpD9mid34e6K0GQPYE9PCFDJvGRiJ5aJ-V6kHZtKMT9zvJKuBhmwyXHYPDtqaq_cGFFtvda1JpR7T-vKnt70DyasXY/s1280/Ukraine_farright_GettyImages-1207188548-2-1.jpg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="1280" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIz55h6zYaN-Ob-3aTdAVONIRvYOrTq_OpAfcFp7AGumQUmLbQTq-HeqwMJAo2bDLxDOGN7rxVhQOzDf9mpU2quAvQYQpD9mid34e6K0GQPYE9PCFDJvGRiJ5aJ-V6kHZtKMT9zvJKuBhmwyXHYPDtqaq_cGFFtvda1JpR7T-vKnt70DyasXY/w708-h257/Ukraine_farright_GettyImages-1207188548-2-1.jpg.webp" width="708" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">There Is No Wisdom in Pretending
That Ukraine's Neo-Nazis Don't Exist</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The troubling history and
dangerous U.S. relationship with the Azov Battalion and other extreme
right-wing groups in Ukraine cannot be forgotten.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">March 9, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br />
“…In the context of the Russian invasion, the post-2014 Ukrainian government's
problematic relations with extreme right-wing groups and neo-Nazi parties has
become an incendiary element on both sides of the propaganda war, with Russia
exaggerating it as a pretext for war and the West trying to sweep it under the
carpet… but we should not be surprised when the U.S. alliance with neo-Nazi
proxy forces in Ukraine, including the infusion of billions of dollars in
sophisticated weapons, results in similarly violent and destructive blowback.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
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Crescendo Amid the New ‘Red Scare’</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">By Josh Everson</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">March 11, 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
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pro-war, anti-Russia discourse surrounding the 2022 Ukraine-Russia war could be
viewed as a major win for US hawks who prefer rising tensions with Russia. But
how did we get here?... After being force-fed a decade of lies about Russia
(from Syria to Crimea to Russiagate), [many people] are expertly poised to fear
and hate Russia, the new Red Menace.</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The overwhelming weight of
evidence of Russia’s legitimate grievances with the US mean nothing, because
most...have never heard of it. Somehow such alternative viewpoints never make
it into the carefully crafted news narratives of the mainstream...</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...if one did not know
about the February 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Kiev, then claims that Russia had
aggressed into Ukraine and stolen Crimea in March 2014 would be much more
shocking and seemingly unprovoked…</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This is the Washington
playbook. Make up lies to support ongoing crimes, and new lies to justify future
crimes. History always starts the day after the opposition reacts, as we saw
with Crimea, and there’s no need to consider the enemy’s motivations.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
It’s much simpler to pretend the US is the indispensable nation, the shining
beacon on a hill, and defender of the weak and helpless against the forces of
tyranny... As is often the case, the truth is more complicated."</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://original.antiwar.com/josh_everson/2022/03/11/a-decade-of-war-lies-crescendo-amid-the-new-red-scare/?fbclid=IwAR3cvTpNtlA8P5uzX0iAyj1CmkF2eu3ml7PijUumWgLb1Sr7LpHNJOq3g60">https://original.antiwar.com/josh_everson/2022/03/11/a-decade-of-war-lies-crescendo-amid-the-new-red-scare/?fbclid=IwAR3cvTpNtlA8P5uzX0iAyj1CmkF2eu3ml7PijUumWgLb1Sr7LpHNJOq3g60</a></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxVmDkb8qUapE9Aii4iZnyGkcmA8BbEKFfk53iyqBlrihoEuS55aVd2coOPnVQQcqNKzhDA4zGWFxDxcnM2AgZUqyfLQtCTLlrOcTinekhuG0O9cYEr0uvEUiaxmCjuLN-IkjQKYxEj1jsbVJklJeRIKTeRvCec4FifuXi6a3KaAhXfvIqlcA/s526/standing%20with%20ukraine,%20only.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="499" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxVmDkb8qUapE9Aii4iZnyGkcmA8BbEKFfk53iyqBlrihoEuS55aVd2coOPnVQQcqNKzhDA4zGWFxDxcnM2AgZUqyfLQtCTLlrOcTinekhuG0O9cYEr0uvEUiaxmCjuLN-IkjQKYxEj1jsbVJklJeRIKTeRvCec4FifuXi6a3KaAhXfvIqlcA/w499-h499/standing%20with%20ukraine,%20only.jpg" width="499" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;">MintPress News: </span><b><span style="color: #990000;">Dan Cohen
and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter engage in an online discussion</span></b><span style="color: #050505;"> on
the Ukraine/Russia war, Pentagon-funded Bio-Labs in Ukraine and European Union
censorship. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #050505; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“If I were a Russian worried about the potential of Nazi extremists
coming up with a dirty bomb, I’d need to take control of this very facility” -
former US Marine, and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter.</span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">WATCH THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW: </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://youtu.be/lE2XYcHnJqE">https://youtu.be/lE2XYcHnJqE</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: large; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #cc0000; font-size: 36pt;">Why is Ukraine the West's Fault?</span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 36pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">The University of Chicago. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">UnCommon Core: The Causes
and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis, J</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">une 4-7, 2015.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>John J. Mearsheimer</b>, the R.
Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and
Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University
of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to
end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">A key assumption is
that in order to come up with the optimum plan for ending the crisis, it is
essential to know what caused the crisis. Regarding the all-important question
of causes, the key issue is whether Russia or the West bears primary
responsibility.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">WATCH THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW: </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCgW6JTbQ4jZL-9bPhCko7sP6k46SOZdfukTj1eMMGLRKhRvD44z-SOvTfX4opHAXK0CnSjJiIlQBvDuYjZLKqpEaY9FCyPfSi-NgZtLyBe7XDI7aMl3GAdxkgfv9YEqsV4Z9wjfYpcn_wuhkHatcj_VLtOecg6tBF_bEKSIdkfzUYJJDOmzc/s1125/war%20profiteers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="999" height="599" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCgW6JTbQ4jZL-9bPhCko7sP6k46SOZdfukTj1eMMGLRKhRvD44z-SOvTfX4opHAXK0CnSjJiIlQBvDuYjZLKqpEaY9FCyPfSi-NgZtLyBe7XDI7aMl3GAdxkgfv9YEqsV4Z9wjfYpcn_wuhkHatcj_VLtOecg6tBF_bEKSIdkfzUYJJDOmzc/w531-h599/war%20profiteers.jpg" width="531" /></span></a></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: verdana;">How and why the U.S.
Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Eric Zuesse</b>, investigative historian: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“…All of this goes back to the key U.S. decision, which was made on 24 February
1990… this is historically very important… </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">...what continues to be effectively
prohibited throughout the U.S. and its vassal nations, is public acknowledgment
that the U.S. Government perpetrated a coup in Ukraine that overthrew Ukraine’s
Government in February 2014 and that replaced it with a Nazi anti-Russian
regime and thereby started the current ‘Cold War’, which is much hotter than
the U.S. side acknowledges, or allows the public to know...”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://moderndiplomacy-eu.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/amp/?amp_js_v=a6&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D&fbclid=IwAR1CuooXUWgvG1fE5rLStL2RerclAIvA-lQyeEsg3XRmr1pq6DP73Vgceh4#aoh=16457589659621&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fmoderndiplomacy.eu%2F2018%2F06%2F04%2Fhow-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine%2F">https://moderndiplomacy-eu.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/04/how-and-why-the-u-s-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oop1biItCpx_1kWQCR2qSsFvhC60zXxsGI91mgxhXxAeelhrxi6cNpe3-vumip3XZwBwlKcvFIfjXwvKUA4x9mxvrP8hQQ0XTOz9DmFoCNwKHn1z_w-mL_1Vmoc6Gik3OfBryPQYUwQqBS18lafE32SlH2rbooCX_ZRn857cn80jFTYIh5w/s500/organizing%20to%20end%20the%20war.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oop1biItCpx_1kWQCR2qSsFvhC60zXxsGI91mgxhXxAeelhrxi6cNpe3-vumip3XZwBwlKcvFIfjXwvKUA4x9mxvrP8hQQ0XTOz9DmFoCNwKHn1z_w-mL_1Vmoc6Gik3OfBryPQYUwQqBS18lafE32SlH2rbooCX_ZRn857cn80jFTYIh5w/w580-h303/organizing%20to%20end%20the%20war.jpg" width="580" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2b00fe; font-size: 26pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">How are we organizing to end the war between Ukraine and Russia?</span></b><span style="font-size: 26pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #073763; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Video of Webinar: The Russia-Ukraine War and the Imperative of
Organizing for Peace</span></b><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">By RootsAction, </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">March 7, 2022</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>With speakers:</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><b style="color: #050505; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sevim
Dağdelen</b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">: Member of the German Parliament, Committee on Foreign Affairs.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><b style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Bill
Fletcher Jr.</b>: Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><b style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Katrina
Vanden Heuvel</b>: Editorial director of The Nation magazine and president of
the American Committee for US-Russia Accord.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">* </span><b style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ann
Wright</b>: Peace activist and retired U.S. Army Colonel.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">WATCH THE VIDEO:</span></b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://worldbeyondwar.org/video-of-webinar-the-russia-ukraine-war-and-the-imperative-of-organizing-for-peace/?fbclid=IwAR37a6TF-bHpFFLFNv8NX9-YiBkhFTYiNkYDKDpqOkx0Dny31nDWGKOMWI8">https://worldbeyondwar.org/video-of-webinar-the-russia-ukraine-war-and-the-imperative-of-organizing-for-peace/?fbclid=IwAR37a6TF-bHpFFLFNv8NX9-YiBkhFTYiNkYDKDpqOkx0Dny31nDWGKOMWI8</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhEzMyL3ErzT9HPb_22ba6sox3bnJqSta2M250UE7hrs1X4eJc52TZH8GypSn9tdtjw4ASNQ8K31kZZpbgNj6YtJ-7_BsrWC9aljaOuTvRBJg9x_8cEEWyYYCZq5ZOsCvR5JAJJPjUMmkFfFCfdQBXs3I1dRQUaCmqJ6OfRKUfNYTYcD9DdNI/s500/video,%20Ray%20McGovern.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhEzMyL3ErzT9HPb_22ba6sox3bnJqSta2M250UE7hrs1X4eJc52TZH8GypSn9tdtjw4ASNQ8K31kZZpbgNj6YtJ-7_BsrWC9aljaOuTvRBJg9x_8cEEWyYYCZq5ZOsCvR5JAJJPjUMmkFfFCfdQBXs3I1dRQUaCmqJ6OfRKUfNYTYcD9DdNI/w551-h287/video,%20Ray%20McGovern.jpg" width="551" /></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 26pt;">Putin's
Invasion of Ukraine: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><u>Consortium News</u>: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Convened March 2nd 2022 by
the Committee for the Republic. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Q&A host: Bruce Fein,
constitutional lawyer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">* <b>Prof. John Mearsheimer</b>,
political scientist, University of Chicago <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">* <b>Ray McGovern</b>, former
C.I.A. head of Russia desk <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">* <b>Jack Matlock</b>, last US
ambassador to the Soviet Union <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">* <b>Ted Postol</b>, MIT professor
of technology and international security <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">* <b>Susan Eisenhower</b>,
grand-daughter of General Dwight D. Eisenhower <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">— </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">Also, worth reading the Comments.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">WATCH THE ENLIGHTENING DISCUSSION: </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeeqooNWO48&t=8s"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeeqooNWO48&t=8s</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgsWClo5BG2pe4e91Wsxfgc3UKwBrBA7_Ew29TSQlMK9GvmTev90md6OnQzM0I28axeG_2oD3WBojskO39alS6kvNHRzFDBNMVAYOesVOm00X_LJn9LmvHx6hGn7ASpnrQ15fQ9tYMYI7zw6nos1XklcS2wi1uFWrP0yRPON_5Pe7BiGf9gl4/s500/map%20of%20ukraine,%20Zeuss%20article.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgsWClo5BG2pe4e91Wsxfgc3UKwBrBA7_Ew29TSQlMK9GvmTev90md6OnQzM0I28axeG_2oD3WBojskO39alS6kvNHRzFDBNMVAYOesVOm00X_LJn9LmvHx6hGn7ASpnrQ15fQ9tYMYI7zw6nos1XklcS2wi1uFWrP0yRPON_5Pe7BiGf9gl4/w646-h338/map%20of%20ukraine,%20Zeuss%20article.jpg" width="646" /></span></a><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">HOW THE WAR
IN UKRAINE STARTED</span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Eric Zuesse</b>, November 2019:</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">“…The accounts
that have been given about the Ukrainian war by U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media
have been boldly blatant lies… </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>The war in Ukraine didn’t start at the time when
a lot of people think that it did</b>… and, so, the facts that are told there might
be surprising (or even shocking) to readers under the U.S. regime; but they are
true, and the propaganda isn’t...”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #800180;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://robscholtemuseum.nl/eric-zuesse-how-the-war-in-ukraine-started/?fbclid=IwAR0dXzMO9ck7-ob3kUjjnlPkIb-sbvau8XKBWhNZPSKeECSZJSG5-WS4Tbg"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">https://robscholtemuseum.nl/eric-zuesse-how-the-war-in-ukraine-started/?fbclid=IwAR0dXzMO9ck7-ob3kUjjnlPkIb-sbvau8XKBWhNZPSKeECSZJSG5-WS4Tbg</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOAvmV49K3iKEm5K_3IA1geVGAkJnBZGK30jsKaqMeczDj1X2O5-Ik4WTDGzXJfRwNr-RJAXpt4EIw80qBRoCgoBGbMqZLcNjjtpsSGdakXhtWD_eZYVyTGjo5stAlvxCNE-cGxRaJD2x4yzqL1abNj11tHXcdlbXNUYrkibJkLtFYDLYi1Y/s500/St%20Pete%20for%20Peace%20logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOAvmV49K3iKEm5K_3IA1geVGAkJnBZGK30jsKaqMeczDj1X2O5-Ik4WTDGzXJfRwNr-RJAXpt4EIw80qBRoCgoBGbMqZLcNjjtpsSGdakXhtWD_eZYVyTGjo5stAlvxCNE-cGxRaJD2x4yzqL1abNj11tHXcdlbXNUYrkibJkLtFYDLYi1Y/w568-h297/St%20Pete%20for%20Peace%20logo.jpg" width="568" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">St. Pete for Peace: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">"<b>CENSORSHIP: </b>Many people have noted the one-sided news coverage of the
situation in Ukraine and how it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find
everyday news that provides objectivity and context...</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>‘KILLING ITS OWN PEOPLE’:</b>
For the past 8 years, the government of Ukraine, with US support, has been
waging war against its own citizens in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region –
‘killing its own people’ in Western jargon. That's the same pretext the US has
used multiple times in pushing for war in Iraq, Libya and Syria..."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #800180;">READ MORE:</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Censorship--De-Nazification--NATO--and-Ukraine-is-killing-its-own-people.html?soid=1126215295361&aid=Iqhaqxn-xh4&fbclid=IwAR2HnJNje-aKOIEtnjRAcl02PMsN1VMVcRwFI1LumMVtt98F3b1HwzYpGpg">https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Censorship--De-Nazification--NATO--and-Ukraine-is-killing-its-own-people.html?soid=1126215295361&aid=Iqhaqxn-xh4&fbclid=IwAR2HnJNje-aKOIEtnjRAcl02PMsN1VMVcRwFI1LumMVtt98F3b1HwzYpGpg</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/tmp-Russia-s-military-action-in-Ukraine.html?soid=1126215295361&aid=NsZdjXb3J7c&fbclid=IwAR2uqbeYzs-Tqvjez_vaJYYe9WnsTQ2Lhn9egANB1EIXkBaCBdw_Rmalxlk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-AU" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: verdana; padding: 0cm;">https://myemail.constantcontact.com/tmp-Russia-s-military...</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieltqKB7VP7BTtwPkCZMfYSWnqs02fJvuceJbzPACsORIm3hChDWmHmWyP3yGOAP6M0hkSUYeDfzg0aCJIKOkVwhKaFDO9ZSYtdDkJgj87K1vKXBybz-K2bxabluxs6H3IR2vnHVwLH26AIJ72igBDo-Jl6h_AW3Hd0squ7ngGKRLXIrX6H68/s1536/skynews-ukraine-russia-reservists_4507648-1536x864.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1536" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieltqKB7VP7BTtwPkCZMfYSWnqs02fJvuceJbzPACsORIm3hChDWmHmWyP3yGOAP6M0hkSUYeDfzg0aCJIKOkVwhKaFDO9ZSYtdDkJgj87K1vKXBybz-K2bxabluxs6H3IR2vnHVwLH26AIJ72igBDo-Jl6h_AW3Hd0squ7ngGKRLXIrX6H68/w573-h322/skynews-ukraine-russia-reservists_4507648-1536x864.jpg" width="573" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">Russian demands fall on
deaf ears and the war begins in Ukraine</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Mideast Discourse, </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">February 24, 2022</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Steven Sahiounie: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“…The war
began today, but has been brewing since January 10, when Russian and American
officials met in Geneva to discuss the Russian national security demands, but
the legitimate demands laid out by Russia were not even considered.
Negotiations for a peaceful solution were never considered by the US-NATO side.
Negotiations are a game of give and take, the US-NATO side was all take, and no
give...</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">NATO has been establishing
troops and weapons along the border of Russia, and this is what Russia has
objected to. There is no country on earth which would allow a military group,
with a long history of attacking and invading other countries, to establish
missiles all along its border with the missiles pointed at its capital.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
On February 21, President Putin recognized Donesk and Luhansk as independent
entities, and ordered the Russian military to maintain the peace there. The
Ukrainian Army has been attacking the people living in those areas for years,
and has used Neo-Nazi paramilitary groups to do so.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
On February 15, President Putin said the West needed to consider the security
demands of Russia, and he was willing to de-escalate tensions over Ukraine...</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On January 10, US and
Russian officials met in Geneva for diplomatic talks but Washington said it
will not accept Moscow’s security demands. It is in that meeting that the war
began.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When one side refuses to
consider the national security needs of another country, and decides only their
own wishes and demands take precedence over all others, the line of
negotiations and communications is dead. One side is talking, and the other
side has hung up the phone...</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">President Putin gave a
televised speech in which he said the two self-proclaimed “people’s republics”
of Donetsk and Luhansk in the breakaway Ukrainian region of Donbas, which he
had officially recognized as independent less than two days before, had “turned
to Russia with a request for help,” he said…”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #800180;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.mideastdiscourse.com/2022/02/24/russian-demands-fall-on-deaf-ears-and-the-war-begins-in-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR2G2pXqpaKxhM2p4jQNxkXAP_H_vOPvmusa58wLdFx1dBr1Dye5kgF2P74">https://www.mideastdiscourse.com/2022/02/24/russian-demands-fall-on-deaf-ears-and-the-war-begins-in-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR2G2pXqpaKxhM2p4jQNxkXAP_H_vOPvmusa58wLdFx1dBr1Dye5kgF2P74</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju4QUZBQJDJludOEYRxjGIkAFmM8jbNemAIHA8A7XjI2AFbyZ4N0TFXVgo-QJiUZdG4DRWEgedEt5tmiC9ElI84cTjLUmOVHvIhMXta3Qtoz3rrBAI9YopDA5xQDCdt3cPzcRJy2SFaOYjezmQnC9Ict_QG3_nLYrlXE5SzzzQoFeFJ0C1FsI/s500/New%20Atlas.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju4QUZBQJDJludOEYRxjGIkAFmM8jbNemAIHA8A7XjI2AFbyZ4N0TFXVgo-QJiUZdG4DRWEgedEt5tmiC9ElI84cTjLUmOVHvIhMXta3Qtoz3rrBAI9YopDA5xQDCdt3cPzcRJy2SFaOYjezmQnC9Ict_QG3_nLYrlXE5SzzzQoFeFJ0C1FsI/w473-h247/New%20Atlas.jpg" width="473" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The New Atlas</b></span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>:</b> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“The US
finds itself in the middle of a crisis with Russia over Ukraine, thousands of
miles from its own shores, and amidst a decades-long campaign to overthrow
governments across Europe, up to Russia’s borders and eventually aspiring to
overthrow Russia itself. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But this campaign in Europe is just part of a wider
global campaign by the US to eliminate its competitors and exercise uncontested
control over the world’s population, resources, and nations.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>This video explains
the background of the US-Ukraine-Russia conflict, how it ties in to US
provocations against China, and where in the Western media itself it admits to
many of the points made by both Moscow and Beijing in protest to US foreign
policy</b>…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">WATCH THE VIDEO (15:22):</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7-TV7E4ztg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7-TV7E4ztg</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqFSL3aJ7Z4A1DXRD2LZgAVhMT0SQob7x2zYKn6nYB8nyZtXRCObegAPpJK98qnAmMLiSmYg6w_OfvrHK087dfJnFIJehM9kNwEANs1cLoGzsA5On_TkfNGawqbxkSxN8FQUBK4-NyrpcOFtyRIu6OaikWL0q4ZwKNLZKH3wETWDRFwl_IcI/s500/Putin%20recognizes%20Donbass.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhqFSL3aJ7Z4A1DXRD2LZgAVhMT0SQob7x2zYKn6nYB8nyZtXRCObegAPpJK98qnAmMLiSmYg6w_OfvrHK087dfJnFIJehM9kNwEANs1cLoGzsA5On_TkfNGawqbxkSxN8FQUBK4-NyrpcOFtyRIu6OaikWL0q4ZwKNLZKH3wETWDRFwl_IcI/w473-h247/Putin%20recognizes%20Donbass.jpg" width="473" /></a></span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Putin Recognizes Donbass
Independence as Violence Soars</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Joe Lauria</b>, February 21, 2022:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“Russian
President Vladimir Putin has recognized the independence from Ukraine of two
breakaway provinces in Donbass as violence in the region continues to escalate… </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The two provinces declared independence after the 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Kiev
that overthrew democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych</b>…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After anti-Russian language
laws were passed by the coup government, hand-picked before the coup by the
United States, and after neo-Nazis burned dozens of people alive in a building
in Odessa on May 3, 2014, both Lugansk and Donetsk declared independence nine
days later on May 12…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The coup government
launched a civil war against the separatists, whom they called “terrorists.” In
essence the Donbass was defending their democratic rights to vote, as a
majority of the region voted for Yanukovych, in an election certified by the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In the eight years
since, as many as 14,000 people have been killed in the fighting...”</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/21/putin-recognizes-donbass-independence-as-violence-soars/?fbclid=IwAR1oCJH7zjquGuF4JyP8mz2DGZksX61twhZ-HMUKf3lmZ1sMu4TeHfn3lkM"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/21/putin-recognizes-donbass-independence-as-violence-soars/?fbclid=IwAR1oCJH7zjquGuF4JyP8mz2DGZksX61twhZ-HMUKf3lmZ1sMu4TeHfn3lkM</span></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Cast <a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/artist/168991" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d69c0; text-decoration-line: none;">Oliver Stone, </a><a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/artist/4010697473" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d69c0; text-decoration-line: none;">Vladimir Putin</a></span></div><div style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Director <a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/artist/2346277141" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #1d2129;"><br /></span></span></span></p></div></div></div>Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-50267778595236563562021-03-26T10:53:00.087+07:002021-09-24T10:53:18.657+07:00<p><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;">American </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; white-space: pre-wrap;">attorney DEBUNKS All Major Western Propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang!</span></span></b></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We have done it… We have broken down each bit of major Western propaganda on the Uyghur and Xinjiang situation in order to debunk the lies and reveal the truth. For over an hour, Bay takes on a series of propaganda ranging from Adrian Zenz to inconsistent witness testimony to debunking sterilization claims and all major propaganda promoted surrounding this incredibly manufactured issue..."</span><span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7vIW_k5nfF0/YF1WtjhpUoI/AAAAAAAAB4o/RbUU2PyLT4YfFNPoR4AisgY3MvE4aznRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/debunked.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="331" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7vIW_k5nfF0/YF1WtjhpUoI/AAAAAAAAB4o/RbUU2PyLT4YfFNPoR4AisgY3MvE4aznRQCLcBGAsYHQ/w638-h331/debunked.jpg" width="638" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Intro: </span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">0:00-5:30</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">History of Xinjiang: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">5:30-10:15 </span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Terrorism in Xinjiang: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">10:15-11:42 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Legal Standards for Genocide: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">11:42-15:24 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Adrien Zenz: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">15:24-18:25 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">1 Million Uygur Prisoners: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">18:25-19:01 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Debunking Sterilization Claims: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">19:01-25:50</span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Karakax List: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">25:50-27:13 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">‘Rashan Abbas: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">27:13-27:53</span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Missing" Uyghurs: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">27:53-30:40 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Sophie Richardson: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">30:40-31:18 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Arslan Hidayat: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">31:18-32:21</span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Think Tanks: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">32:21-36:04 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Inconsistent Witness Testimonies: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">36:04-48:55 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Failures of Western Media: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">48:55-57:44 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">The REAL Reason for Western Focus on Xinjiang: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">57:44-1:03:33</span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Aerial Photos: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">1:03:33-1:05:57 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Radio Free Asia & Forced Marriages: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">1:05:57-1:08:45 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">"Leaked" NYT Papers: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">1:08:45-1:10:32 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Forced Labor Camps: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">1:10:32-1:11:42 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">March 8, 2021 Study: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">1:11:42-1:13:24 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Han Supremacy:<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> 1:13:24-1:14:31</span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">The REAL Xinjiang: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">1:14:31-1:16:48 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Invitations to International Community: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">1:16:48-1:18:29 </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;">Conclusion: <span style="color: #2b00fe;">1:18:29-1:23:42</span></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: arial;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; 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</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div></div></div></div>Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-82080617440458058742021-03-02T23:15:00.012+07:002021-03-03T01:17:45.947+07:00<p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SyBJJkqqjjs/YD5R2VlnmUI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/TnoMJXeJn1UoZts6jvg3Fx9NOSl7pp6WgCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/Blood%2Bon%2Bthe%2Btracks.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SyBJJkqqjjs/YD5R2VlnmUI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/TnoMJXeJn1UoZts6jvg3Fx9NOSl7pp6WgCLcBGAsYHQ/w433-h225/Blood%2Bon%2Bthe%2Btracks.jpg" width="433" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Socialist Program with Brian Becker: </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>On this episode we are joined by Brian Willson, a Vietnam
veteran, writer, lawyer and a peace activist.</b></span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On September 1, 1987, Brian lost
his legs while participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience at a
railroad track at the Concord Naval Weapons Station to block the shipment of
weapons to the terrorist Contra fighters in Nicaragua, and has continued his
fight against U.S. empire. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #800180;">LISTEN
to the podcast </span></span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505;">with Brian Willson talking to Brian Becker: </span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/thesocialistprogram/the-real-story-blood-on-the-tracks-a-vietnam-veterans-battle-against-empire?fbclid=IwAR2dnTxAXPwhI4f4gH0rvdnKgmM4qH5y-rjlins0aGI4T4AV1XbTADe__7k" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">https://soundcloud.com/thesocialistprogram/the-real-story-blood-on-the-tracks-a-vietnam-veterans-battle-against-empire?fbclid=IwAR2dnTxAXPwhI4f4gH0rvdnKgmM4qH5y-rjlins0aGI4T4AV1XbTADe__7k</span></a></p>
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THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW THE U.S. AND ITS ALLIES DID TO IRAN</span></span></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">
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had done them to us, would have us out in the streets shouting “Death to
Norway!” </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">Unfortunately, not only have the U.S. and our allies done horrendous
things to Iran, we’re not even polite enough to remember it....”</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p>
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MORE:</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2015/04/07/10-things-didnt-know-weve-done-iran/?fbclid=IwAR1-lMXgXjoHdDArsnePNqMl1VgT9xL38Tmtmko_vCJVjsmpZJl_HycVrHY"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">https://theintercept.com/2015/04/07/10-things-didnt-know-weve-done-iran/?fbclid=IwAR1-lMXgXjoHdDArsnePNqMl1VgT9xL38Tmtmko_vCJVjsmpZJl_HycVrHY</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNiYJ3IsABA/YD5LSOET1sI/AAAAAAAAB14/4t5J1RFjrAkYaqMk3q-g1dtNdhzN2_0QwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/alphabet.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1080" height="194" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNiYJ3IsABA/YD5LSOET1sI/AAAAAAAAB14/4t5J1RFjrAkYaqMk3q-g1dtNdhzN2_0QwCLcBGAsYHQ/w387-h194/alphabet.jpg" width="387" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
ABCs </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">to decoding China's poverty alleviation campaign</span></span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">IMAGINE what can be done when a government uses its resources to
benefit its own people, instead of just enriching the privileged ruling class
elite, and waging murderous imperialist wars against the planet!</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">"Editor's Note: </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">As of Feb. 25, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced China's
"complete victory" in the country's fight against absolute poverty.</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">
It is another of China's miraculous feats that will go down in history! Under
the leadership of the Communist Party of China, China fought a massive people's
war against poverty during the past eight years. </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">What you may ask were the keys
for decoding China's success in poverty alleviation? Let's find out the
answer!</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">..."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">DISCOVER
MORE:</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://en.people.cn/n3/2021/0228/c90000-9823002.html?fbclid=IwAR0q3hz6aSQBj5wolZfZCZoJg2C3WHwYACHI8olMvuq2Bc5ox4-GWMRUat0"><span>http://en.people.cn/n3/2021/0228/c90000-9823002.html?fbclid=IwAR0q3hz6aSQBj5wolZfZCZoJg2C3WHwYACHI8olMvuq2Bc5ox4-GWMRUat0</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YmGhxwrzRHY/YD5XprekKTI/AAAAAAAAB34/saRYJWpgsZorIAQAxtTv8doFECSHmpi8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s527/Biden%2Bbombing.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="526" height="372" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YmGhxwrzRHY/YD5XprekKTI/AAAAAAAAB34/saRYJWpgsZorIAQAxtTv8doFECSHmpi8gCLcBGAsYHQ/w371-h372/Biden%2Bbombing.jpg" width="371" /></a></span></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Biden’s
Reckless Syria Bombing Is Not the Diplomacy He Promised</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;">Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies: </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">“...<b>Why is this
administration bombing the sovereign nation of Syria? Why is it bombing
“Iranian-backed militias” who pose absolutely no threat to the United States
and are actually involved in fighting ISIS?</b>...”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">READ
MORE:</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/26/bidens-reckless-syria-bombing-not-diplomacy-he-promised?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0Gu8zeK54K9EuiSymcPAdnP_poHAJyiUoMsNDhxUDx5AFqv4KUwmxpyE4">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/26/bidens-reckless-syria-bombing-not-diplomacy-he-promised?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0Gu8zeK54K9EuiSymcPAdnP_poHAJyiUoMsNDhxUDx5AFqv4KUwmxpyE4</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-88PnFT7O5_g/YD5TXUGsTKI/AAAAAAAAB2g/_EQub2PvrgMEkQ90xvIlO4_U8pzcLu40QCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/worth%2Bthe%2Bprice.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="217" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-88PnFT7O5_g/YD5TXUGsTKI/AAAAAAAAB2g/_EQub2PvrgMEkQ90xvIlO4_U8pzcLu40QCLcBGAsYHQ/w418-h217/worth%2Bthe%2Bprice.jpg" width="418" /></a></b></div><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A documentary short film reviewing the
role of then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) in leading the United States into the
most devastating foreign policy blunder of the last twenty years. </b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Produced and
directed by Mark Weisbrot and narrated by Danny Glover, the film features archival
footage, as well as policy experts who provide insight and testimony with
regard to Joe Biden’s role as the Chair of the United States Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations in 2002.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #800180;">WATCH
VIDEO (19:06):</span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></b><a href="https://youtu.be/vhcuei8_UJM"><span>https://youtu.be/vhcuei8_UJM</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vSysxOzW1FA/YD5RCckAvQI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/fmjxFq2BniomRNp4MdfVmtxdrxut-838ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1536/country%2Bgraph.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1536" height="322" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vSysxOzW1FA/YD5RCckAvQI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/fmjxFq2BniomRNp4MdfVmtxdrxut-838ACLcBGAsYHQ/w443-h322/country%2Bgraph.jpeg" width="443" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">How
Democratic is China?</span></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">By Here Comes China</span></b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">“... In Roman politics, citizens lost control of politicians
after they elected them. It’s one of the system’s greatest weaknesses and it is
no wonder that, like our Roman forebears, we regard government as our biggest
problem[2]: we cannot compel them to keep their promises...”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">READ
MORE:</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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US missile strike on Syria, Biden escalates US aggression in the Middle East</span></span></span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill Van Auken: “...The attack has made clear that agreement on
escalating military aggression to offset the decline of US imperialist global
hegemony will serve as the foundation for the Biden administration’s pursuit of
“bipartisan unity” with the fascistic elements within the Republican Party who
sought to overturn his election.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">There is also a powerful domestic political
motive for the escalation of US militarism. This is the need to divert outward
the immense and unsustainable social contradictions of American capitalism...”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">READ
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/27/pers-f27.html?fbclid=IwAR0RLD9tJQV2kSVzgG3m46jfz6om7GOwiNN8t2GqpGCOdDpvdXtukfW5h5k"><span>https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/27/pers-f27.html?fbclid=IwAR0RLD9tJQV2kSVzgG3m46jfz6om7GOwiNN8t2GqpGCOdDpvdXtukfW5h5k</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nPG69qVcS4M/YD5VaMBOm-I/AAAAAAAAB2w/fJ37iJOn_w88U_eTwN9KSG382fZl_MzEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/Biden%2Bspeaking%2BRussia%2Bslams.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="202" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nPG69qVcS4M/YD5VaMBOm-I/AAAAAAAAB2w/fJ37iJOn_w88U_eTwN9KSG382fZl_MzEwCLcBGAsYHQ/w386-h202/Biden%2Bspeaking%2BRussia%2Bslams.jpg" width="386" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Russia
slams US attack on Syria, says it's violation of international law</span></span></span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A US military strike on facilities belonging to resistance
fighters on the Syrian-Iraqi border, the first authorized by President Joe
Biden since taking office, has sparked strong condemnation and outrage. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">Russia
termed the airstrike that came in the wee hours of Friday morning as “illegal”
and “extremely dangerous”, which it said could “lead to escalation of
situation” and “outbreak of a major conflict”.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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WATCH VIDEO (11:38</span></span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">): </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZqhQ5akFD0/YD5VtO0ycRI/AAAAAAAAB24/YSHgmLjt6GUN7MKoviVvzQXxtEuW4zMwgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1456/Biden%2Bat%2Bdesk%2BCaitlin.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="1456" height="230" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZqhQ5akFD0/YD5VtO0ycRI/AAAAAAAAB24/YSHgmLjt6GUN7MKoviVvzQXxtEuW4zMwgCLcBGAsYHQ/w342-h230/Biden%2Bat%2Bdesk%2BCaitlin.jpeg" width="342" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">US
Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense</span></span></span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;">Caitlin Johnstone: </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“...<b>Rather than doing anything remotely
resembling journalism, the western mass media have opted instead to
uncritically repeat what they've been told about the airstrike by US officials,
which is the same as just publishing Pentagon press releases.</b>.. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It's
illegitimate for the US to claim to be acting defensively in nations it
invaded.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> It's illegitimate for the US to act like Iranian-backed fighters
aren't allowed to be in Syria, where they are fighting alongside the Syrian
government against ISIS and other extremist militias with the permission of
Damascus. It is illegitimate for the US to claim the fighters attacking US
personnel in Iraq are controlled by Iran when Iraqis have every reason to want
the US out of their country themselves...”</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/us-bombs-syria-and-ridiculously-claims?fbclid=IwAR3fdH0Irw_RsXS4W2x-mnWEcqL9QlNqcpdzt262Pj3Y64Gzz-AHvVojLWs"><span>https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/us-bombs-syria-and-ridiculously-claims?fbclid=IwAR3fdH0Irw_RsXS4W2x-mnWEcqL9QlNqcpdzt262Pj3Y64Gzz-AHvVojLWs</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yyu8FQITz6o/YD5WM0pKGPI/AAAAAAAAB3I/nhriAHkgfS84eLza7VhK5HbP_409aBxtgCLcBGAsYHQ/s450/terrorism%2Bin%2Bxinjiang.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="450" height="223" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yyu8FQITz6o/YD5WM0pKGPI/AAAAAAAAB3I/nhriAHkgfS84eLza7VhK5HbP_409aBxtgCLcBGAsYHQ/w431-h223/terrorism%2Bin%2Bxinjiang.jpg" width="431" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Fighting
terrorism in Xinjiang</span></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>"Between 1990 and 2016, thousands of terrorist attacks
shook the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, killing large
numbers of innocent people and hundreds of police officers.</b></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Horrific stabbings and bombings rocked the land once known as a
commercial hub on China's ancient Silk Road. The damage to local communities
was incalculable while stability in the region quickly deteriorated.
Authorities have been trying hard to restore peace to this land.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In this exclusive CGTN exposé, we show you never-before-seen
footage documenting the frightening tragedies in Xinjiang and the resilience of
its people.</b>"</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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VIDEO (50:01):</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-05/Fighting-terrorism-in-Xinjiang-MaNLLDtnfq/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1aaIt0rDb8S7DbVp7CxXXNPOEcLbd4UOmoestkhXMkuhFDs_bXk5BOlC4"><span>https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-05/Fighting-terrorism-in-Xinjiang-MaNLLDtnfq/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1aaIt0rDb8S7DbVp7CxXXNPOEcLbd4UOmoestkhXMkuhFDs_bXk5BOlC4</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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the new Cold War with Russia via Ukraine: </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">Biden’s Unprincipled Stands Involving
Covert Operations, Blackmail, Corruption, Nepotism and State Terrorism</span></span></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><b>Part 5 in our Biden Series: </b>The long suppressed facts involving
Biden and the Ukraine are clear, documented, and undisputed, even though you
will never read them in The New York Times.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">Jeremy Kuzmarov: "Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
And even a liar like Donald Trump can sometimes tell the truth. During the 2020
election campaign, Trump accused Biden of corruption with regard to secret
deals involving the Ukraine and China, in which the Vice President venally
leveraged the power of his office and title to enrich himself and his son in
clear violation of the law. In that charge, Trump was absolutely right. But he
did not know the half of it…”<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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McGovern, Biden, US Russia Relations, Ukraine, Donbass, Assange</span></span></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">
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‘insider’ — Ray McGovern with an incredible and exciting analysis, talks about
US/NATO provocations, sanctions, Navalny and Assange, and the debunking of
false narratives, including ‘Russiagate’, and why the DNC emails were not
hacked by Russia or anyone.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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VIDEO (1:16:44):</span><span style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></b><a href="https://youtu.be/pYcbbvXLAsg"><span>https://youtu.be/pYcbbvXLAsg</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TLwMfrxWjKU/YD5WxS1Y_-I/AAAAAAAAB3c/7nP5UVwzHYc6CZVsjy91CcdMVcK4uZ6hwCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/Xinjiang.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="215" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TLwMfrxWjKU/YD5WxS1Y_-I/AAAAAAAAB3c/7nP5UVwzHYc6CZVsjy91CcdMVcK4uZ6hwCLcBGAsYHQ/w413-h215/Xinjiang.jpg" width="413" /></a></span></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Xinjiang:
A Report and Resource Compilation</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: large;">WRITTEN
BY QIAO COLLECTIVE</span></span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes
clear that the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is
another front of the U.S.-led hybrid war on China.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">This resource compilation provides a starting point for critical
inquiry into the historical context and international response to China’s
policies in Xinjiang, providing a counter-perspective to misinformation that
abounds in mainstream coverage of the autonomous region...”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">DISCOVER
MUCH MORE:</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/education/xinjiang?fbclid=IwAR2k2k15OyGvZi7zeNvSD55jOeBl5Fw-XjuSxG2Vk7ouWfFZIKHfTO8iARg"><span>https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/education/xinjiang?fbclid=IwAR2k2k15OyGvZi7zeNvSD55jOeBl5Fw-XjuSxG2Vk7ouWfFZIKHfTO8iARg</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwGyvoF595k/YD5W_ZRx1yI/AAAAAAAAB3k/256Hx1_t8GoI9YYBctNAH-wlWV2ioYcMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/Zenz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="600" height="564" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwGyvoF595k/YD5W_ZRx1yI/AAAAAAAAB3k/256Hx1_t8GoI9YYBctNAH-wlWV2ioYcMQCLcBGAsYHQ/w649-h564/Zenz.jpg" width="649" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HTbn4nSxPLc/YD5XWXBBSUI/AAAAAAAAB3w/MHbN5JPJYc4EwDCwiNphulgwM_RJcfrqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s721/Biden-Nobel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="721" height="486" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HTbn4nSxPLc/YD5XWXBBSUI/AAAAAAAAB3w/MHbN5JPJYc4EwDCwiNphulgwM_RJcfrqwCLcBGAsYHQ/w650-h486/Biden-Nobel.jpg" width="650" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2b00fe; line-height: 51.36px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">More daily posts on my Facebook: Bruce McPhie.</span><span style="font-size: 36pt;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-54122613277323633512021-02-15T19:12:00.001+07:002021-02-15T19:12:53.017+07:00<p><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRWtCHbmoH0/YCpJgRVkhmI/AAAAAAAABxY/P_XT23hQr5Idwz8CYnAZhdcJc7YbBQSggCLcBGAsYHQ/s998/NorthKorea2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="666" height="545" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRWtCHbmoH0/YCpJgRVkhmI/AAAAAAAABxY/P_XT23hQr5Idwz8CYnAZhdcJc7YbBQSggCLcBGAsYHQ/w364-h545/NorthKorea2.png" width="364" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">This
Book Turns Everything You Thought You Knew About North Korea Upside Down</span></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Jeremy Kuzmarov: "</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How 70 years of CIA deceit and mainstream
media complicity convinced the American public that North Korea was the Bad Guy
and the U.S. was the Good Guy—when it was almost always the other way around...</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>A.B. Abrams’ new book, 'Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years
at War with American Power' (Clarity Press, 2020), shows that the common
perceptions in the U.S. of North Korea are mostly wrong</b>... Abrams’ book is most
significant in helping readers to understand the DPRK’s long staying power and
in debunking media stereotypes, which have helped validate aggressive
regime-change policies.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">As much as Americans think that the North Koreans are crazy,
North Koreans have far more grounds for believing that the reverse holds true.
They are the ones holding the upper moral hand in a conflict that was started
by the United States and needs to be ended by it."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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READ MORE:</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/12/17/this-book-turns-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-north-korea-upside-down/?fbclid=IwAR1hVcPJMUQbdfY8eMxC0WxYzxeRbXpQl7Y9mQrK8DFISlo6p4DEybAwMqU"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/12/17/this-book-turns-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-north-korea-upside-down/?fbclid=IwAR1hVcPJMUQbdfY8eMxC0WxYzxeRbXpQl7Y9mQrK8DFISlo6p4DEybAwMqU</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jEEemaLzW3Q/YCpLZdlzROI/AAAAAAAABxk/ZmpYqkquCyIbVboZYwwJQssxCgZnaMvRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s696/defense-contractors-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="696" height="188" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jEEemaLzW3Q/YCpLZdlzROI/AAAAAAAABxk/ZmpYqkquCyIbVboZYwwJQssxCgZnaMvRgCLcBGAsYHQ/w591-h188/defense-contractors-4.jpg" width="591" /></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>Who
Are the Ultimate War Profiteers?</b></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e06666; font-size: x-large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U.S.
Air Force Veteran Removes the Veil</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JNNDSzS0GjY/YCpMPpQ-inI/AAAAAAAABxw/53yPo9a8NGQh-utenc5vHslXklz91hWRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s696/wallstreet1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="696" height="192" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JNNDSzS0GjY/YCpMPpQ-inI/AAAAAAAABxw/53yPo9a8NGQh-utenc5vHslXklz91hWRQCLcBGAsYHQ/w340-h192/wallstreet1.png" width="340" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Christian Sorensen</b>: "While war corporations, or so-called
“defense contractors,” make billions in profits, Wall Street is the ultimate
beneficiary of today’s nonstop wars. The prosaic nature of war profiteering—far
from the work of a shadowy cabal—is precisely why the collusion is so
destructive and should be outlawed.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The U.S. ruling class deploys the military for three main
reasons: (1) to forcibly open up countries to foreign investment, (2) to ensure
the free flow of natural resources from the global south into the hands of
multinational corporations, and (3) because war is profitable.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The third of these reasons, the profitability of war, is often
lacking detail in analyses of U.S. imperialism: The financial industry,
including investment banks and private equity firms, is an insatiable force
seeking profit via military activity..."</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></b></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FNWQePE_Hbo/YCpPl_vhYkI/AAAAAAAAByI/NkQ1PPKVb9M8C_v-hjHZUo3bOlh4MoDCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s696/war%2Bindustry%2Bbook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="696" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FNWQePE_Hbo/YCpPl_vhYkI/AAAAAAAAByI/NkQ1PPKVb9M8C_v-hjHZUo3bOlh4MoDCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/war%2Bindustry%2Bbook.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></i></div><i style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Christian Sorensen</b> is an Air Force veteran and author of
the new book entitled 'Understanding the War Industry'.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></i></div></b></i><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y426yN1uRFM/YCpTciF8cJI/AAAAAAAAByg/gHNn9a6zS2gk9xonLDfi0SLiylnPpd1LgCLcBGAsYHQ/s269/sanctions-war.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="269" height="261" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y426yN1uRFM/YCpTciF8cJI/AAAAAAAAByg/gHNn9a6zS2gk9xonLDfi0SLiylnPpd1LgCLcBGAsYHQ/w440-h261/sanctions-war.JPG" width="440" /></a></span></b></div><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000;">“Sanctions
and drift.”</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #e06666;">America’s
alienating addiction.</span></b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Marshall Auerback, James W. Carden, </b>and<b> Patrick Lawrence</b>:
“...China and the E.U. signed what is commonly judged the most far-reaching
investment accord Beijing has ever negotiated. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Biden’s foreign policy people,
notably Jake Sullivan, the new national security adviser, were immediately
aggrieved. Why didn’t those Europeans ask us about it first, Sullivan wondered
on Twitter. Memo to Sullivan: Because they knew very well that all you had to
say was, “Please don’t,” perhaps without the “Please.”</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">...The more fully independent Europe is likely to aim to be a
balancing power between East and West… As far as relations with Washington go,
it will be transactional: We invest in them, they invest in us. But it won’t be
a quasi-colonial relationship in which the American government effectively
dictates foreign and, more specifically, defense policy.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>From Europe’s perspective there is no need any longer for an
American security umbrella, since there are no great-power threats to them,
including from China (which simply wants their IP and cash and markets, not
their territory)… Russia isn’t going to invade</b>…</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">If nothing else, the experience of a once war-torn Europe
evolving into a far more stable European Union should suggest that an
alternative paradigm is possible if its members seize the opportunity. In the
best of outcomes, the thought will eventually light upon the divisive,
sanctions-happy U.S., although that seems a bridge too far for the time being.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">
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Martin:</span></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #050505;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Afghanistan Mercenary Shocker + </span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">US Says Nuclear War “Very Real
Possibility”</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">
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occupation of Afghanistan; Biden's first foreign policy speech threatens war
with Russia; new administration begins with major aggression towards China; and
more."</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #800180; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">VIDEO (5:43):</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/abby-martin-afghanistan-mercenary-shocker-us-says-nuclear-war-very-real-possibility/?fbclid=IwAR3v0D6gNCe9DAACgSX5e-fjSFM2HgthAgnywLwTBj6kBnyvEfma3a1SsGE"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/abby-martin-afghanistan-mercenary-shocker-us-says-nuclear-war-very-real-possibility/?fbclid=IwAR3v0D6gNCe9DAACgSX5e-fjSFM2HgthAgnywLwTBj6kBnyvEfma3a1SsGE</span></a><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hc_c2za6tLM/YCpXDqKQYqI/AAAAAAAABy4/KvkMx72gauYU8Qx_O90F8kie2IwJ5brFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s480/Superimperialism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="480" height="237" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hc_c2za6tLM/YCpXDqKQYqI/AAAAAAAABy4/KvkMx72gauYU8Qx_O90F8kie2IwJ5brFQCLcBGAsYHQ/w453-h237/Superimperialism.jpg" width="453" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Michael
Hudson - Changes in Superimperialism:</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">The
Position of the USA and China in our Global Economic System</span></span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“...</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Nearly 50 years after the original publication of
‘Superimperialism’, Michael Hudson revisits how the lucrative dollar-based
economic system that the US set up after WWII has evolved with the rise of
China and the Covid-19 pandemic. </b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What financial weapons is the US likely to
use, and does China's de-dollarisation protect it from such attacks?</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The book provides a detailed analysis of how the US has used its
economic might to control international relations.</b> The book is complicated, but
essentially documents how after WWII the US held an unprecedented amount of the
world's gold reserves (50%). These reserves were depleted with the incursion
into Korea, and subsequent involvement in Viet Nam, requiring the US to abandon
the "gold standard" for valuing world currencies. A failure that
proved itself valuable, pushing the US to develop multiple strategies that
today allow it to make other countries pay for its military dominance…”</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Michael Hudson is Professor of Economics at the University of
Missouri-Kansas</b>...”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #800180; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">VIDEO (56:41):</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://youtu.be/PtHX23Trvy4">https://youtu.be/PtHX23Trvy4</a></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2Irlby2eL61ofrsoyFgh8LctTMMd7RkgMshJ3KUzeqx2prNyBTQtDkrB8&v=PtHX23Trvy4&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2Irlby2eL61ofrsoyFgh8LctTMMd7RkgMshJ3KUzeqx2prNyBTQtDkrB8&v=PtHX23Trvy4&feature=youtu.be</span></a><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Z47OA04nrk/YCpevmNxDrI/AAAAAAAAB0k/A64GiCejIEQNPdUWmQtd94lY6smhH5GewCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/CIA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="209" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Z47OA04nrk/YCpevmNxDrI/AAAAAAAAB0k/A64GiCejIEQNPdUWmQtd94lY6smhH5GewCLcBGAsYHQ/w403-h209/CIA.jpg" width="403" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">The
CIA is a Terrorist Organization</span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The CIA is responsible for some of the worst crimes in modern
history. The death toll from the wars and unrest caused by the CIA, not to
mention their many outright murders, is staggering. In this episode, we'll take
a look at just a few of the many examples of CIA terrorism, and discuss what
should be done...”</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Resources and further reading are in the notes.</span></b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><b>VIDEO (21:23):</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR063Rrx-lGB0MGYzYWiTDNxo0P9xwJSVgiCN4NBEqAw9On7q7rJNU7ucHQ&v=_2khAmMTAjI&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR063Rrx-lGB0MGYzYWiTDNxo0P9xwJSVgiCN4NBEqAw9On7q7rJNU7ucHQ&v=_2khAmMTAjI&feature=youtu.be</span></a><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j1IrUTy3F6g/YCpfWKD20AI/AAAAAAAAB0s/iHQIPuRL9owmg-dhNgyxN-y5TkXye14jQCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/Uyghurs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="230" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j1IrUTy3F6g/YCpfWKD20AI/AAAAAAAAB0s/iHQIPuRL9owmg-dhNgyxN-y5TkXye14jQCLcBGAsYHQ/w443-h230/Uyghurs.jpg" width="443" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">How
China isn't crushing Uyghurs in XinJiang!</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: x-large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Exposing
anti China spin & propaganda</span></span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Also, see the video notes for excellent resources with
solid research which debunk the lies, myths and propaganda on Xinjiang and
Uyghurs!</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><b>VIDEO (19:28):</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NnIk-znjJw&fbclid=IwAR16HdSUYuBjAThatlqxs_7vL-Z9JBeP81iDMSDTo0HQOi--2NWA6kDXupY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NnIk-znjJw&fbclid=IwAR16HdSUYuBjAThatlqxs_7vL-Z9JBeP81iDMSDTo0HQOi--2NWA6kDXupY</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">SHOULD
THE USA REJOIN THE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH IRAN?</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be aware, the strategy of the US now may be to use lies,
half-truths, fear mongering and false narratives to convince the public that
Iran is secretly seeking nuclear weapons, and is putting unreasonable
conditions on the US rejoining the nuclear agreement in order to make it fail. </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my humble opinion, Iran’s stated position is completely
correct re the JCPOA, the UN-recognized international nuclear agreement. The
USA is the problem, not Iran!</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The USA never fully honored the JCPOA even under Obama, and then
Trump walked away from it and massively increased illegal sanctions and
economic warfare against Iran, including piracy at sea and criminal
assassinations!</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The European partners to the deal never did enough to stand up
to the gangsters in Washington and resist the sanctions. So really Iran honored
the agreement all along, and got precisely nothing of benefit from it. Except
perhaps buying some time to improve their defenses.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Now the double-crossing USA regime will be up to their usual old
tricks of lies and deceptions yet again, with no honorable intentions.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>It would be national suicide for Iran to accept any restrictions
on its right to self defense and independence, including missiles, and its
peaceful nuclear program. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iran’s low enrichment to 20% is way short of the 90% required
for nuclear weapons. It is for its legal peaceful nuclear program, including
producing medical isotopes. Iran is a member of the Non-proliferation Treaty,
and subject to the most stringent IAEA inspections, with no evidence of a
nuclear weapons program.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scaremongering about Iran getting nukes is comparable to the
deliberate lies about non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It is
propaganda to sell a war. Israel has nuclear weapons, not Iran!</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Really, the JCPOA is of no further use to Iran. They would be
well within their rights to insist on their terms with zero compromise: USA
rejoins the deal, if they wish, but must end ALL sanctions first, and with no
negotiated changes to the original agreement.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, Iran must further develop their self-defense
missiles, drones and asymmetrical warfare to effectively deter anyone stupid
enough to attack them. Even closer military and economic co-operation with both
Russia and China would be advantageous.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The price for attacking Iran is now so great that Iran doesn’t
need the JCPOA. They can stand firm and put the sole blame for the JCPOA’s
demise on the USA and the gutless European partners!</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b>Iran has been incredibly patient in the face of lies and
relentless attacks against it, especially from the USA and Israel, who are
hell-bent on provoking another disastrous war of imperialist aggression in the
Middle East. The world must say: “Enough!”</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #800180; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Bruce McPhie</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F5GS92ZoKH4/YCpgKWzX7fI/AAAAAAAAB04/IildYMZ0tNA2cf0amZFGXU_4kOqjHMEQACLcBGAsYHQ/s480/secret%2BAustralia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="480" height="250" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F5GS92ZoKH4/YCpgKWzX7fI/AAAAAAAAB04/IildYMZ0tNA2cf0amZFGXU_4kOqjHMEQACLcBGAsYHQ/w479-h250/secret%2BAustralia.jpg" width="479" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">A
Secret Australia Revealed By Wikileaks Exposés</span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 'A Secret Australia' (Monash University Publishing) eighteen
prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learnt about itself from the
WikiLeaks revelations – revelations about a secret Australia of hidden rules
and loyalty to hidden agendas.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Join Jennifer Robinson (barrister and member of the legal team
acting for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks since 2010) and Peter Cronau
(investigative journalist, producer of ABC's Four Corners and co-editor of the
book) for a fascinating discussion.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><b>VIDEO </b>(1:01:25):</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2m6sCojdgKyvFZr39McLaSF0T250Y0SdrBkR-6jf1V-mGJaMR9KGp-Ee0&v=8wIbW_skE78&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2m6sCojdgKyvFZr39McLaSF0T250Y0SdrBkR-6jf1V-mGJaMR9KGp-Ee0&v=8wIbW_skE78&feature=youtu.be</span></a><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why
the Biden administration has set itself up for failure on the Iran nuclear deal</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Scott Ritter</b>: “By laying out unrealistic demands to Iran and
engaging in fearmongering about its nuclear program, Secretary of State Tony
Blinken has underscored America’s real intent about rejoining the controversial
agreement</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">...</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">...Iran has begun the process to enrich uranium to 20 percent,
and convert that uranium to metal. This would be used to produce fuel plates
needed to power a research reactor in Tehran used to produce medical
isotopes... <b>by converting the 20 percent enriched uranium into metallic fuel
plates, Iran has made it impossible to use this material in any “breakout”
weapons program</b>, given the complexities associated with reconverting the metal
into uranium hexafluoride for subsequent insertion into gas centrifuges for
follow-on enrichment to 90 percent.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As such, Iran’s actions actually inhibit its ability to pursue a
nuclear weapon, something Blinken ignores completely. But Blinken’s Iran
problem goes much further than giving misleading statements about the country’s
nuclear capabilities and intent. His prescription for the US rejoining the
JCPOA is little more than a poison pill designed to kill the agreement...</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">... Iran will be able to fulfil its plans for a viable
indigenous nuclear energy program, a right guaranteed to it under Article IV of
the nonproliferation treaty, to which it is a signatory. This, however, was
never the intent of the US...</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">...<b>Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament has set a deadline
of February 21 for the US to lift sanctions that had been re-imposed when Trump
removed the US from the JCPOA. If the US fails to act, then Iran will likely
suspend the enhanced inspections of its nuclear sites by the IAEA, and further
increase its uranium enrichment capacity.</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We have said time and again that if the US decides to go back
to its international commitments and lift all the illegal sanctions against
Iran, we will go back to the full implementation of JCPOA, which will benefit
all sides,” Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, said
recently</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">...</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">...</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Biden may seek to blame Trump for failing to rejoin the
JCPOA, but he only has himself to blame.</b>”</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WUIQKWYNIDs/YCphEUMFkZI/AAAAAAAAB1E/wijfaFlTkoccfWc9HKToJkBnR9-mxPXfgCLcBGAsYHQ/s980/nuclear%2Bsite%2BIran.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="980" height="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WUIQKWYNIDs/YCphEUMFkZI/AAAAAAAAB1E/wijfaFlTkoccfWc9HKToJkBnR9-mxPXfgCLcBGAsYHQ/w491-h275/nuclear%2Bsite%2BIran.jpg" width="491" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">FILE PHOTO:</span> <b style="font-size: 11.5pt;">A view of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility 250
km (155 miles) south of the Iranian capital Tehran.</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">© REUTERS / Raheb Homavandi</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 15.3333px;"><b>Iran's nuclear enrichment is for peaceful purposes, not nuclear weapons!</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 15.3333px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><b>READ MORE:</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/514410-biden-administration-iran-nuclear-deal/?fbclid=IwAR1U9MH_fU81FFkgpkYsltrYuTOyQb-eJx_-3fyQR0CHAp7v7mKfZptx9ro"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.rt.com/op-ed/514410-biden-administration-iran-nuclear-deal/?fbclid=IwAR1U9MH_fU81FFkgpkYsltrYuTOyQb-eJx_-3fyQR0CHAp7v7mKfZptx9ro</span></a><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A38jCyNahIQ/YCpiyvrl10I/AAAAAAAAB1Q/DTw4RcOM1dIpLYdG33V_VUA9PcMEnX6PwCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/Winter%2BSoldier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="241" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A38jCyNahIQ/YCpiyvrl10I/AAAAAAAAB1Q/DTw4RcOM1dIpLYdG33V_VUA9PcMEnX6PwCLcBGAsYHQ/w465-h241/Winter%2BSoldier.jpg" width="465" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">50
years ago, Winter Soldier exposed the Vietnam War as one long war crime</span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Chris Lombardi, February 3, 2021: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“...</span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Despite being largely ignored,
the powerful testimony by vets at Winter Soldier alerted the American public
that the whole war in Vietnam was an atrocity.</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">..</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can now watch footage from that week in Detroit on YouTube:
The footage shows a characteristic mix of youth, openness, high spirits and
that intense quiet that comes from having seen the indescribable. Day after
day, these very young men told horror stories of what had become normal in
Vietnam...it’s more important than ever to remember and acknowledge the
veterans who peacefully organized to tell truths only they knew...</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Their example inspired post 9/11 veterans to hold a four-day
event in Silver Spring, Maryland in 2008 called Winter Soldier: Iraq and
Afghanistan</b>... like the 1971 Detroit event for which it was named, Winter
Soldier was mostly ignored by both the mainstream media and the government — as
was the smaller “Winter Soldier on the Hill,” when veterans testified before
Congress six weeks later.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">...<b>Veterans For Peace is planning to hold “Winter Soldier 2021”
in March</b>, featuring vets from both of the prior events and a final panel of
both current service members and law-enforcement officers now trying to
reimagine what public safety means.“</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;"><b>READ MORE:</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/2021/02/fifty-years-ago-winter-soldier-exposed-vietnam-war-crime/?fbclid=IwAR3HQof2iAhiCVDHj9b7EyjrQBBPFfqfNbXn82_543pmFW3kiGfVemW7eI0"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://wagingnonviolence.org/2021/02/fifty-years-ago-winter-soldier-exposed-vietnam-war-crime/?fbclid=IwAR3HQof2iAhiCVDHj9b7EyjrQBBPFfqfNbXn82_543pmFW3kiGfVemW7eI0</span></a><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background: #F3F3F3; color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A selection
of recent posts on my Facebook: Bruce McPhie. </span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 48.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-45429944282657917112020-10-14T20:08:00.018+07:002020-10-18T19:54:57.415+07:00<p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pPtZJ0iOWNw/X4buv9zCh3I/AAAAAAAABvc/0aHRlCgQjkgj4VPDuTVX8rmexgsij5zZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s260/julian-free-s.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="260" height="312" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pPtZJ0iOWNw/X4buv9zCh3I/AAAAAAAABvc/0aHRlCgQjkgj4VPDuTVX8rmexgsij5zZQCLcBGAsYHQ/w500-h312/julian-free-s.jpg" width="500" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 28pt;">Part 2:</span></span></p><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: verdana; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>"The most important </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 28pt;">media trial of the century"</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 28pt;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Please share widely!</span></span></b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 24pt;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: verdana;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lYx3nWFn-w8/X4wUR734tDI/AAAAAAAABwE/7AhJOWnN14wSvtHYmhcg8JANfXKJKOIrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1772/world%2Bleaders.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="1368" height="612" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lYx3nWFn-w8/X4wUR734tDI/AAAAAAAABwE/7AhJOWnN14wSvtHYmhcg8JANfXKJKOIrwCLcBGAsYHQ/w473-h612/world%2Bleaders.jpg" width="473" /></a></span></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #e06666; font-size: 26pt;">World Leaders Defend Australian Julian Assange –</span></b><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #e06666; font-size: 26pt;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: 24pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">BUT NOT THE AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER!</span><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;">𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;">𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗮𝗿</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;"> - </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;">𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;">𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;">𝗼𝗳</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;">𝗔𝗺𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘆</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt;">𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"Assange's extradition to the US would set a chilling
precedent for those who publish leaked or classified information and runs the
risk of serious violations human rights"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗼</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">́</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗻𝗶𝗼</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗚𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗼𝗳</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝘁𝗵𝗲</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"When journalists are targeted, societies as a whole pay a
price. Without the ability to protect journalists, our ability to remain
informed and contribute to decision-making, is severely hampered.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗞𝗻𝗲𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗹</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗼𝗳</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"The Assange case as an exemplary warning for how a
whistleblower is silenced in established democratic societies, Julian's life
has been destroyed."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗪𝗼𝗹𝗳𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗴</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗼𝗳</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝘁𝗵𝗲</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗕𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗴</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"We wish to nominate Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and
Edward Snowden for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in honor of their unparalleled
contributions to the pursuit of peace, and their immense personal sacrifices to
promote peace for all."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗹</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗟𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘇</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗢𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗼𝗳</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗠𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗼</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"Liberating Julian Assange will be a very just cause for
human rights."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗟𝘂𝗹𝗮</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗗𝗲</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗮</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗼𝗳</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗹</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"The WikiLeaks founder is a champion of democracy – the
charges against him affect journalists around the world. We must keep this
outrage from happening. I call on all those committed to the cause of freedom
of speech in every corner of the world to join me in an international effort to
defend the innocence of Assange and demand his immediate release."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #050505;">𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span><span style="color: #050505;">𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> - </span><span style="color: #050505;">𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span><span style="color: #050505;">𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span><span style="color: #050505;">𝗼𝗳</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span><span style="color: #050505;">𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>"Julian will get no special treatment, none."</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>FOLLOW TO LEARN MORE: </b></span><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/505904763358823/user/115020076606789/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVvYnBt7K6i4fH8INJJcWDzypQyiHWuiHr9L_UHG3XOMqGAylqX-iNd70K1xrUDraV8C8kgJ8IeY1GrHKsowBEV5balKIY5q_MvFPAyeh6c0DFKaQbBNnplH-SLRaexBTMEaYdYtaVxvxU9fOJcdFRZGZTtC_9-jpfNIv6CAPfKGtXr_C4lvXyi3uM_FPYExUYSdC9TulBG-ZLSaYu0K6_7QLEIMxbySvnRyQuzT2TqjAcJkkevO4qc1FD-SOErgszJKoIztMXDKde1PTGe5wy8&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R">Australians for Assange</a> </span></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/505904763358823/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVvYnBt7K6i4fH8INJJcWDzypQyiHWuiHr9L_UHG3XOMqGAylqX-iNd70K1xrUDraV8C8kgJ8IeY1GrHKsowBEV5balKIY5q_MvFPAyeh6c0DFKaQbBNnplH-SLRaexBTMEaYdYtaVxvxU9fOJcdFRZGZTtC_9-jpfNIv6CAPfKGtXr_C4lvXyi3uM_FPYExUYSdC9TulBG-ZLSaYu0K6_7QLEIMxbySvnRyQuzT2TqjAcJkkevO4qc1FD-SOErgszJKoIztMXDKde1PTGe5wy8&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">World 4 Assange</span></b></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZEey6shjL0/X4wYZ7yev5I/AAAAAAAABwQ/yxjKPxsep5sFzmPwEN7syCz6h3zCTSW4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/stop%2Bpersecution.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="257" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZEey6shjL0/X4wYZ7yev5I/AAAAAAAABwQ/yxjKPxsep5sFzmPwEN7syCz6h3zCTSW4wCLcBGAsYHQ/w495-h257/stop%2Bpersecution.jpg" width="495" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 22pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana;">96 Expert Statements On Assange Case -</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 22pt;">Stop the political persecution of Julian Assange.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 22pt;">The UK must not extradite
a journalist to face charges of Espionage for publishing. The US must drop its
charges against Assange.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leading academics, legal experts, investigative journalists,
press freedom organizations, human rights groups, and politicians oppose the
extradition of Julian Assange.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #800180;">READ MORE:</span></b><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://dontextraditeassange.com/statements/?fbclid=IwAR3cHLsCUtSbZRqhgfQf6fv5GEQCUBoM0gSH42fN0LouWZnYzGwZFd5kEOg" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>https://dontextraditeassange.com/statements/</b></span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zs_iQ1o1_GU/X4bY08vCS3I/AAAAAAAABsw/fCavEz7372A9d7VYxNfwkkM2ed9_OvckACLcBGAsYHQ/s500/cn%2Blive.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="216" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zs_iQ1o1_GU/X4bY08vCS3I/AAAAAAAABsw/fCavEz7372A9d7VYxNfwkkM2ed9_OvckACLcBGAsYHQ/w416-h216/cn%2Blive.jpg" width="416" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-large;">Why
UK may rule in favour of Assange</span><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> - </span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><b><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Ellsberg, Narváez, Mercouris & Lauria</span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16pt;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180;">WATCH
our full show </span></span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">with Daniel Ellsberg,
John Kiriakou, Andrew Fowler, Mary Kostakidis, Alexander Mercouris & Fidel
Narváez:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uo4Es7ozKg">https://youtu.be/7uo4Es7ozKg</a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZX63e6_VAo/X4bZRm2thKI/AAAAAAAABs4/CRbJ4egjVsYaMb6fXd-B4B34-NPcUyWGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/%2528Glass%2529%2BDon%2527t%2Bshoot%2Bmessenger.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="378" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZX63e6_VAo/X4bZRm2thKI/AAAAAAAABs4/CRbJ4egjVsYaMb6fXd-B4B34-NPcUyWGwCLcBGAsYHQ/w728-h378/%2528Glass%2529%2BDon%2527t%2Bshoot%2Bmessenger.jpg" width="728" /></a></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></span></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 107%;">The Unprecedented and Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange</span></b></span></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e06666; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Assange would never receive a fair trial in the U.S., but he’s not receiving one in Britain either.</span></span></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Charles
Glass</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">: <b>“...the lawbreakers and conspirators turned out to be the
British and American governments. Witness after witness detailed illegal
measures to violate Assange’s right to a fair trial, destroy his health,
assassinate his character, and imprison him in solitary confinement for the
rest of his life.</b></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><b> </b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Courtroom evidence exposed illegality on an unprecedented scale
by America’s and Britain’s intelligence, military, police, and judicial
agencies to eliminate Assange... An impartial tribunal would have no option but
to exonerate Assange — but fairness has not thus far featured in proceedings...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><b>The maltreatment of Assange revealed at London’s Central
Criminal Court will not end if he is extradited. </b>Extradition will intensify his
“cruel and unusual punishment.” The prohibition of such punishment appears in
both the Eighth Amendment of the American Constitution and its predecessor,
Clause Ten of England’s 1689 Bill of Rights...”</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">READ
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/06/julian-assange-trial-extradition/?fbclid=IwAR1tonPZLAjAH8cblNRbk41slfcebTNQKNonEDzcGT707jNiM2ompQ07Fes" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">https://theintercept.com/2020/10/06/julian-assange-trial-extradition/?fbclid=IwAR1tonPZLAjAH8cblNRbk41slfcebTNQKNonEDzcGT707jNiM2ompQ07Fes</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AwHFSL6LLYk/X4baJyA3AeI/AAAAAAAABtE/Dkzf1Uu-1cU2L81wcPej69nWcqidzH8LQCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/corbyn.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="237" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AwHFSL6LLYk/X4baJyA3AeI/AAAAAAAABtE/Dkzf1Uu-1cU2L81wcPej69nWcqidzH8LQCLcBGAsYHQ/w457-h237/corbyn.jpg" width="457" /></a></span></b></span></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 107%;">Jeremy Corbyn: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 107%;">It will be a
perpetual punishment</span></b><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jeremy Corbyn, UK MP and former leader of the Labour Party,
talks about Julian Assange and the crimes that he exposed. Convened </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">by the
Progressive International, </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Belmarsh Tribunal investigated and evaluated US
war crimes in the 21st century</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> — </span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">and defended Julian Assange's right to reveal
them.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180;">WATCH:</span></span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/-dWFJdsFnBE"><span style="font-size: large;">https://youtu.be/-dWFJdsFnBE</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-46LcFCb1sH0/X4baiDMIOhI/AAAAAAAABtM/tIkrWKsUuRAhwGiTlwRbhESELrpElpMiwCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/grayzone.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="212" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-46LcFCb1sH0/X4baiDMIOhI/AAAAAAAABtM/tIkrWKsUuRAhwGiTlwRbhESELrpElpMiwCLcBGAsYHQ/w406-h212/grayzone.jpg" width="406" /></a></span></b></span></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 107%;">Julian Assange faces the ‘trial
of the century’: 10 reasons why it threatens freedom of speech</span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #e06666; font-size: xx-large;"> </span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">The Ecuadorian diplomat who gave Julian Assange political asylum
reports from the extradition hearing against the WikiLeaks journalist, and
explains why it is <b>“the most important case against the freedom of expression
in an entire generation.”</b></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Fidel Narváez (</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Translated by Ben Norton)</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fidel Narváez served as Ecuador’s consul in the UK from 2010
until July 2018... In a previous article for The Grayzone, Narváez </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/20/cnn-media-smears-julian-assange-fidel-narvaez/"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">debunked 40 media lies and distortions about Assange</span></a><i style="color: #2b2b2b;">.</i></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. In this piece, he
summarizes the key points from the British extradition hearings against Assange
in September 2020...</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Fidel
Narváez</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">: “...<b>If the case in London were decided solely on justice, as
it should in a state based on law, this battle would have been won by
Assange... </b></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><b>In this extensive summary, allow me to explain 10 reasons that I
identified as important factors against the extradition</b>...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1) The accusation is for a “political crime,” which is not
subject to extradition. Publishing classified, and truthful, information is not
a crime...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2) There was never a reckless disclosure of names. No one has
been hurt due to WikiLeaks publications...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3) WikiLeaks’ publications are truthful information that is
historically relevant...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4) WikiLeaks was not the first to publish the diplomatic cables
without redaction, but only Julian Assange is being persecuted...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5) Assange never helped Chelsea Manning access national security
information...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6) Assange would not have a fair trial in the U.S. “Spy
Court”...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7) Assange would face inhumane conditions in the U.S....</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8) Assange faces a high risk of suicide in the U.S....</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9) Assange and his lawyers were illegally spied on by the U.S.,
which makes a fair trial impossible...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10) Ecuador illegally gave the U.S. confidential materials about
Assange, including documents about his legal defense...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">...<b>The judge has an entire legal arsenal on the table to prevent
this extradition, protect the future of journalism, and put herself on the
right side of history. The question is, will she do it?“</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #800180; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">READ
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2020/10/12/julian-assange-trial-freedom-speech/?fbclid=IwAR3CEwsZ_Y2qN1N9MiUdp1z_X9uGbD7xVli45NfpetWXRilL9ZFHhbCVxS4">https://thegrayzone.com/2020/10/12/julian-assange-trial-freedom-speech/?fbclid=IwAR3CEwsZ_Y2qN1N9MiUdp1z_X9uGbD7xVli45NfpetWXRilL9ZFHhbCVxS4</a></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243);"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"></span></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ue4-VrY9we8/X4brtW7yfzI/AAAAAAAABvA/fqAOaWoiGhkm5Raug2qiv6BXaZ4BLAXNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/war%2Bis%2Ba%2Bcrime.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="242" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ue4-VrY9we8/X4brtW7yfzI/AAAAAAAABvA/fqAOaWoiGhkm5Raug2qiv6BXaZ4BLAXNgCLcBGAsYHQ/w462-h242/war%2Bis%2Ba%2Bcrime.jpg" width="462" /></a></span></span></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 28pt;">Assange Faces Extradition for Exposing US War
Crimes</span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Marjorie
Cohn</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">: </span></span><span data-offset-key="59sic-1-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">“...The 2003 U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty forbids extradition
for a political offense... Assange is charged under the Espionage Act and
espionage constitutes a political offense as well. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Like the heroic
whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who helped end the Vietnam War by leaking the
Pentagon Papers in 1971, Assange is the target of the U.S. government’s wrath
for revealing evidence of war crimes by the United States...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Journalists are permitted to publish material that was illegally
obtained by a third person and is a matter of public concern. The U.S.
government has never prosecuted a journalist or newspaper for publishing
classified information, an essential tool of journalism... There is no distinction
between what WikiLeaks did and what The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Le Monde,
El País and The Guardian did as well. They all published articles based on
documents WikiLeaks released...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">Assange took pains to ensure that the names of U.S. informants
in Iraq and Afghanistan were redacted to protect their identities...
WikiLeaks’s revelations actually saved lives... WikiLeaks also revealed
evidence of wrongdoing by other countries besides the United States...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">If Assange is extradited to the United States and convicted of
the charges against him, it would chill journalists from reporting the facts
for fear they could be indicted under the Espionage Act...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Judge Baraitser, who has granted extradition in 96 percent of
the cases that have come before her, plans to issue her ruling on January 4. If
she grants extradition, there will be several levels of appeals, including to
the European Court of Human Rights. The stakes could not be higher.“</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">READ
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</span></span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/assange-faces-extradition-for-exposing-us-war-crimes/?utm_campaign=Truthout%20Share%20Buttons&fbclid=IwAR0WVUaFqQnr_gwPWKdxPmrgULN-pDj-AhS11M6JcSQXRAa6Azgvp3RiJk8"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://truthout.org/articles/assange-faces-extradition-for-exposing-us-war-crimes/?utm_campaign=Truthout%20Share%20Buttons&fbclid=IwAR0WVUaFqQnr_gwPWKdxPmrgULN-pDj-AhS11M6JcSQXRAa6Azgvp3RiJk8</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243);"><span style="color: #050505;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #050505;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MAZVoJ5Z_9o/X4bbOgN-MeI/AAAAAAAABto/S3DUxSkxysc7cZmf6N3ELX5yRFe8fRHQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s540/Julian-Assange-Campaigner-or-attention-seeker-edit3.bmp" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="540" height="368" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MAZVoJ5Z_9o/X4bbOgN-MeI/AAAAAAAABto/S3DUxSkxysc7cZmf6N3ELX5yRFe8fRHQgCLcBGAsYHQ/w382-h368/Julian-Assange-Campaigner-or-attention-seeker-edit3.bmp" width="382" /></a></span></span></div><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: #050505;">MEDIA LENS:</span><b> </b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">‘None Of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange </span></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="59sic-1-0"><span data-text="true"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Trial</span></span></span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">"</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">One of the most imposing features of
state-corporate propaganda is its incessant, repetitive nature… But when it
comes to arguably the most important political trial in our lifetimes, there is
a not-so-curious media reluctance to dwell on it or even mention it, never mind
grant it the kind of blanket coverage that celebrity trials regularly generate…</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;">...We monitored BBC News at Ten, the main evening BBC news programme
on BBC1, during the four weeks of the Assange hearing. As far as we could tell,
there was not a single substantive item... And yet, bizarrely, there was a BBC
reporter present throughout the Assange hearing... providing daily trial
updates... So, what was happening to the reports that were presumably being
submitted by the BBC reporter? Nobody could tell us...</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">...<b>if the US wins, then journalism and the public’s ability to
know what is going in the world will be even more crushed than they already
are. And that spells disaster</b>..."</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">READ
THE DETAILED CRITIQUE OF THE FAILURE OF CORPORATE MEDIA TO PROPERLY REPORT THE
MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL TRIAL OF OUR LIFETIME:</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><a href="https://www.medialens.org/2020/none-of-it-reported-how-corporate-media-buried-the-assange-trial/?fbclid=IwAR1l4YHHNka1fIaMFf2F4pkVv71W6JFV4WdfEYTnNGn77iVhQkdLHKBvY2I"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">https://www.medialens.org/2020/none-of-it-reported-how-corporate-media-buried-the-assange-trial/?fbclid=IwAR1l4YHHNka1fIaMFf2F4pkVv71W6JFV4WdfEYTnNGn77iVhQkdLHKBvY2I</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243);"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euu0knD5mGc/X4bcGfq86bI/AAAAAAAABt4/IX9u0_uuFTcOSaZihBwjNr6kXrpeLN69wCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/ken%2Bloach.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-euu0knD5mGc/X4bcGfq86bI/AAAAAAAABt4/IX9u0_uuFTcOSaZihBwjNr6kXrpeLN69wCLcBGAsYHQ/w441-h229/ken%2Bloach.jpg" width="441" /></a></span></b></div><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Ken</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="59sic-1-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> Loach calls out Sir Keir Starmer: </span><span style="color: #e06666;">What were his dealings in the Julian Assange case</span></span></span></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505;">Ken
Loach: <b>“Everyone knows the real story, everybody can see it. We can’t believe
anybody is hoodwinked. It’s not espionage; this is journalism!”</b></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><b> </b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">WATCH: </span> </span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://youtu.be/M4hW2X37z8g">https://youtu.be/M4hW2X37z8g</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9dOoWwZZo28/X4bqAwfLWTI/AAAAAAAABu0/8t9puT_tEoA-ClnbUg0H_OC6IWN5CKMowCLcBGAsYHQ/s851/Assange%2Bwar%2Bhero.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="851" height="365" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9dOoWwZZo28/X4bqAwfLWTI/AAAAAAAABu0/8t9puT_tEoA-ClnbUg0H_OC6IWN5CKMowCLcBGAsYHQ/w660-h365/Assange%2Bwar%2Bhero.jpg" width="660" /></a></b></div><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Horror story in two parts: Part II </span></span><span data-offset-key="59sic-1-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> —</span> </span></span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;">A Travesty of Justice: UK Caters to the US Desire to Crush
Assange</span></b><span face=""Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">By Ron Ridenour<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The second
indictment of alleged violations of the Espionage Act belatedly filed by the US
against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange actually should not include him since
there is no contention that he spied for any warring enemy, nor is he a U.S.
citizen or resident, which the 1917 law targeted.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The original
indictment focused on allegations that Assange had criminally aided Chelsea
Manning in “hacking” into and downloading </span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">secret documents that show U.S. war
crimes. That case went sour when the government prosecutors could not find any
evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Hence the second
indictment admitted Assange is a publisher, but claimed he had put
government informant lives in danger — a different crime. Ample defense
evidence was presented showing how Assange had carefully redacted the names of
informants. Some names were mentioned by <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">The
Guardian </i>and other mass media…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Another problem with
the government’s admitting that Assange is a publisher is that under the US
Constitution’s First Amendment journalist-publishers have special protection
against prosecution for engaging in free-speech and press activities. So, in
another change of tactic, the US government now interprets the Espionage Act to
mean that anyone, journalists and publishers alike, can be charged with crimes
of violating the Espionage Act.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Edward Snowden wrote
about reading former British ambassador Craig Murray’s daily accounts of court
proceedings: <b>“Read this and tell me the show trial of Assange doesn’t read like
something from Kafka. The judge permits the charges to be changed so frequently
the defense doesn’t know what they are. The most basic needs are denied. No one
can hear what the defendant says—a farce”</b>…</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: large;">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #47321f; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://warisacrime.org/2020/10/10/horror-story-in-two-parts-part-ii-a-travesty-of-justice-uk-caters-to-the-us-desire-to-crush-assange/?fbclid=IwAR1l4YHHNka1fIaMFf2F4pkVv71W6JFV4WdfEYTnNGn77iVhQkdLHKBvY2I">http://warisacrime.org/2020/10/10/horror-story-in-two-parts-part-ii-a-travesty-of-justice-uk-caters-to-the-us-desire-to-crush-assange/?fbclid=IwAR1l4YHHNka1fIaMFf2F4pkVv71W6JFV4WdfEYTnNGn77iVhQkdLHKBvY2I</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #47321f; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AzOqEu-kZvw/X4gETIOesVI/AAAAAAAABv4/b60tS4IZoj8bhIWKuOjTRf29L6s7c7qywCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/safe_image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="236" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AzOqEu-kZvw/X4gETIOesVI/AAAAAAAABv4/b60tS4IZoj8bhIWKuOjTRf29L6s7c7qywCLcBGAsYHQ/w455-h236/safe_image.jpg" width="455" /></a></span></span></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #cc0000; font-size: 26pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wikileaks - USA against Julian Assange</span></b><span style="font-size: 26pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #e06666; font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is he a criminal or a revolutionary?</span></b><span style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505;">This
German television film (with English subtitles) tells the story of Julian
Assange and WikiLeaks. The multi-award-winning Australian journalist and
publisher revolutionized journalism by providing a safe place for whistle
blowers to release insider information in the public interest about crimes and
corruption that the guilty parties wished to keep secret. This made him
extremely popular with the public, but not so with those whose crimes were
exposed. <b>A targeted vilification campaign of lies and innuendos, aided by the
compliant corporate-state media, succeeded in turning people against him</b>, so
the US could destroy him and his vital work. Now, they seek to extradite him to
a tortuous hell-hole prison in solitary confinement for the rest of his life! Meanwhile,
the criminals he exposed, still walk free. <b>What most people think they know about
Julian turns out to be wrong! </b>This documentary shows a different picture of
Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Interviews include former CIA director Leon
Panetta, Edward Snowden, John Shipton, Stella Morris, and many others.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>WATCH
</b>(59:34):</span><b> </b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Uw1CuFckJPQ"><span style="font-size: large;">https://youtu.be/Uw1CuFckJPQ</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_uSwYxQ2Ps/X4bu_QQrA8I/AAAAAAAABvg/C7KwNeG5skAOdwx1Yr9hoA18D0kP8ErJQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1464/109318370_10218453952848394_2542910216068344095_o.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1464" height="271" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_uSwYxQ2Ps/X4bu_QQrA8I/AAAAAAAABvg/C7KwNeG5skAOdwx1Yr9hoA18D0kP8ErJQCLcBGAsYHQ/w740-h271/109318370_10218453952848394_2542910216068344095_o.jpg" width="740" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">See next post for Part 1 </b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">on the extradition trial of Julian Assange</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; 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margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: purple;">Facebook</span></b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1d2129;"> Bruce McPhie</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><br /><p></p>Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-84692250721461066372020-10-04T16:51:00.142+07:002020-10-12T19:18:22.537+07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="500" height="199" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qEc_lWaBvYc/X3mhojNYBOI/AAAAAAAABpU/8TuCxsHm5DwzldDA5GJ5W0uETxhPpgeFgCLcBGAsYHQ/w382-h199/safe_image%2B%25285%2529.jpg" width="382" /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505; font-size: 28pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Justice & Journalism are on trial in the
media court case of the century!</span> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Please share widely! </span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LBAV6w4_ZPc/X4QB6E_dzdI/AAAAAAAABsA/1VUt2cdrqQo1ZeQzECOOp2Kn850R4KV4gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1440/120585295_1235630813459228_6284674783127878825_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1440" height="380" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LBAV6w4_ZPc/X4QB6E_dzdI/AAAAAAAABsA/1VUt2cdrqQo1ZeQzECOOp2Kn850R4KV4gCLcBGAsYHQ/w673-h380/120585295_1235630813459228_6284674783127878825_o.jpg" width="673" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></b></span><p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e06666; font-size: x-large;">John Pilger: Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AlHpKDEd0NI/X3mD4NUfEfI/AAAAAAAABk8/wy_jrGTbvcw5da1CBbA5IXObERO7kLVKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s432/safe_image%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="432" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AlHpKDEd0NI/X3mD4NUfEfI/AAAAAAAABk8/wy_jrGTbvcw5da1CBbA5IXObERO7kLVKQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/safe_image%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.</i></span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>John Pilger</b>: “...I have sat in many courts and seldom known such
a corruption of due process... evocative of a Stalinist show trial... The sheer
bias in the courts I have sat in this year and last year, with Julian in the
dock, blight any notion of British justice...</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This is what the United Nations
Special Rapporteur on Torture Professor Nils Melzer calls ‘psychological
torture’, the result of a gang-like ‘mobbing’ by governments and their media
shills...</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;">There are few records of the proceedings. They are: Craig Murray’s personal blog, Joe Lauria’s live reporting on Consortium News, and the World Socialist Website. American journalist Kevin Gosztola’s blog, Shadowproof, funded mostly by himself, has reported more of the trial than the major US press and TV, including CNN, combined...</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">...WikiLeaks has allowed us to glimpse a rampant imperial march
through whole societies—think of the carnage in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,
Syria, Yemen, to name a few, the dispossession of 37 million people and the
deaths of 12 million men, women and children in the ‘war on terror’—most of it
behind a façade of deception. Julian Assange is a threat to these recurring
horrors—that’s why he is being persecuted, why a court of law has become an
instrument of oppression..."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE:</b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/02/john-pilger-eyewitness-to-the-agony-of-julian-assange/?fbclid=IwAR0uPIzaz2lyPZOI5Myfz9eUYAfepNeiW0fDSo05qG40Azi5c_Nku78bd-4" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">https://consortiumnews.com/.../john-pilger-eyewitness.../...</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="color: #050505; text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JXShlzMZx2s/X3mQyb57i8I/AAAAAAAABnc/Xz87Agbqz7UY7Qqzx2foGJLoszfmuqkXACLcBGAsYHQ/s618/i%2527m%2Bjulian.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="502" height="659" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JXShlzMZx2s/X3mQyb57i8I/AAAAAAAABnc/Xz87Agbqz7UY7Qqzx2foGJLoszfmuqkXACLcBGAsYHQ/w535-h659/i%2527m%2Bjulian.png" width="535" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGdWMaE3eoY/X3mMh0bOAGI/AAAAAAAABmY/a4PnbodWkFQ472nGHCzf4qpD5SKaTPfTQCLcBGAsYHQ/s110/download%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="72" height="237" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGdWMaE3eoY/X3mMh0bOAGI/AAAAAAAABmY/a4PnbodWkFQ472nGHCzf4qpD5SKaTPfTQCLcBGAsYHQ/w155-h237/download%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="155" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: #e06666;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Message from Kerry O'Brien - prominent Australian former ABC journalist.</span></b></span><p></p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br style="color: #050505;" /><span style="color: #050505;">"The Morrison Government should use its close friendship with the US to push hard for the extradition proceeding to be dropped against Julian </span><span style="color: #050505;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhashtag%2FAssange%3Fsrc%3Dhashtag_click%26fbclid%3DIwAR3nDaSLDhFOmIyLTZgK89cLektoIz5SARAz4ysdXodRNaUSgN0T9B2k3ME&h=AT3fkhwO1EFyPrPk5JjjRs4c9n2CCkGXIMUr3mtj9VKltGmBbhenzxwFk16HQ5QAgfTVTP6ZPSt08bDAk_hk2PHuJjp2KgN1VYsYLBn2DQhLhS88NWIfhpRXMGBnDBgT6nwq&__tn__=-UK-y-y-R&c[0]=AT1OSYFjo2NU1r3l_Kg48b9Hjt3UMqcdf9FkfzuyJ8kdIf7IC7y7VL690PKoEh-M-roEYD1P538Z0mSjqsns2o0DSHS8aQkw0lyjaWNF03AONCFJ_OLEZCzsYO36EKAiwZMfMwihf_zYAqklVi2Z69Wyxs0KGz9xHiIu5z7hfIZsfBlTDlV08gp6wqeqnAuooxHrLWWQGfsyGpy6OmulT6X1CZS0vpjfOoVgUh2g" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">#Assange</a></span><span style="color: #050505;">. NY Times published the revelations with impunity. This govt should demand the same treatment for one of our own journalists."</span></span><div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;">WATCH:</span></b><br style="color: #050505;" /><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://twitter.com/KerryOBrien/status/1311620069147910147?fbclid=IwAR2VaDYzvAfXuNPV93nrnfdTa2MuUo_2LAT2nTVjN_cYuVjfksIFUBUWDXs" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/KerryOBrien/status/1311620069147910147</a></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dR4RtKxgkx4/X3mTEO_Bv6I/AAAAAAAABn4/r7L13SMxRSAkLWS01oY0cxhk09XpzjF2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s414/first-they-came-for-journalist.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="414" height="389" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dR4RtKxgkx4/X3mTEO_Bv6I/AAAAAAAABn4/r7L13SMxRSAkLWS01oY0cxhk09XpzjF2wCLcBGAsYHQ/w460-h389/first-they-came-for-journalist.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana;"><p style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: large;"> </p><p><b style="color: #e06666;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="225u7-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #e06666;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Y6MqpTkuCM/X3mTrIVDwbI/AAAAAAAABoM/2Lo8wAbHlSEXvZkNH61R_m5z6wpnOafpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/safe_image%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="174" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Y6MqpTkuCM/X3mTrIVDwbI/AAAAAAAABoM/2Lo8wAbHlSEXvZkNH61R_m5z6wpnOafpQCLcBGAsYHQ/w334-h174/safe_image%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="334" /></a></b></div><b style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">John</span></b></span><b style="color: #e06666;"><span data-offset-key="225u7-1-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> Pilger: Julian Assange’s Crimes Are Truth Telling & Making War Criminals Look in The Mirror!</span></span></span></b><p></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to
legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger. He discusses the extradition
trial of Julian Assange being held at the Old Bailey in London, the war crimes
Julian Assange uncovered, why the United States wants to persecute him, key
statements delivered in court by witnesses that may help the Wikileaks founder,
allegations of bias against Judge Baraitser, the gruelling schedule Julian
Assange has to go through for court hearings, the likelihood of Julian Assange
committing suicide if he is jailed in a supermax prison which John Pilger
describes as a ‘clean hell’, the role of the mainstream media outlets such as
The Guardian in facilitating the persecution of Julian Assange, and more.“<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">WATCH THE INTERVIEW: </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/E_w8hWXoD6k" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">https://youtu.be/E_w8hWXoD6k</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505;"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DEZ4s8UM3b8/X3mSc-NmANI/AAAAAAAABnw/fHgo4smYccY1k4AuyvbF0IhK-0ZQf8BPwCLcBGAsYHQ/s589/unredacted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="526" height="647" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DEZ4s8UM3b8/X3mSc-NmANI/AAAAAAAABnw/fHgo4smYccY1k4AuyvbF0IhK-0ZQf8BPwCLcBGAsYHQ/w579-h647/unredacted.jpg" width="579" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JzA6I5UL4Cs/X3mQRToNmCI/AAAAAAAABnU/XM8yuY0aMfk2MMqJJrkvumtzfOnaEgJjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s295/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="295" height="209" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JzA6I5UL4Cs/X3mQRToNmCI/AAAAAAAABnU/XM8yuY0aMfk2MMqJJrkvumtzfOnaEgJjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w361-h209/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="361" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"This may be the City of London, but it's the U.S. that is
holding the gavel, and running the show."</span></b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Richard Medhurst speaks outside the Old Bailey in London where
witness testimonies concluded in week 4 of the Julian Assange extradition
hearing. Richard has been providing excellent independent coverage of the farce
taking place in the UK.</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">WATCH THE VIDEO: </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55669.htm" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55669.htm</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J8F6WbWUBLo/X3mT5JaUWWI/AAAAAAAABoQ/dwlCKKxqDRYhLOrkO5EiLXh9ndbiMyi8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/snowden.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="472" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J8F6WbWUBLo/X3mT5JaUWWI/AAAAAAAABoQ/dwlCKKxqDRYhLOrkO5EiLXh9ndbiMyi8ACLcBGAsYHQ/w628-h472/snowden.jpg" width="628" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="fvttp" data-offset-key="3u1hg-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3u1hg-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojWZw97NHn0/X33es9nszaI/AAAAAAAABro/Zk1tshyHOMo8GB1wK4l-CQtGjOyEpp_TwCLcBGAsYHQ/s480/safe_image%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="480" height="153" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojWZw97NHn0/X33es9nszaI/AAAAAAAABro/Zk1tshyHOMo8GB1wK4l-CQtGjOyEpp_TwCLcBGAsYHQ/w292-h153/safe_image%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="292" /></a></div><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-large;"><b>Senator Whish-Wilson on Bringing Assange Home</b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;">A short but concise summary </span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;">of the </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;">extradition trial and the</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"> dangerous precedent it would set if it succeeds. Senator Whish-Wilson spoke in the Australian Senate on Wednesday 7 October 2020, calling for the release </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;">of Julian Assange</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;">, and his return home to Australia </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;">with his family</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;">.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #800180;">LISTEN TO ADDRESS TO THE AUSTRALIAN SENATE:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #050505; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xfu7978uow&fbclid=IwAR0dUpu-4vOiI-ZvIlAK6kfvifTDzdxQTtAyxSOu3I21HuWey5nXCmp_46g"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xfu7978uow&fbclid=IwAR0dUpu-4vOiI-ZvIlAK6kfvifTDzdxQTtAyxSOu3I21HuWey5nXCmp_46g</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3u1hg-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div>
</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3u1hg-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-chHIYXdQcx4/X4RGEZX1lnI/AAAAAAAABsY/9htHhBeD1csiE67K6ZXJebGMjx9G1Z2nACLcBGAsYHQ/s552/120520859_10158818956102790_8614603546701611248_n%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="552" height="362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-chHIYXdQcx4/X4RGEZX1lnI/AAAAAAAABsY/9htHhBeD1csiE67K6ZXJebGMjx9G1Z2nACLcBGAsYHQ/w646-h362/120520859_10158818956102790_8614603546701611248_n%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="646" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fvttp" data-offset-key="cpanu-0-0" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cpanu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cpanu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nHconeJmGv8/X33eYyFnsEI/AAAAAAAABrg/BdOL4hpBBdIuhtqXFILBemTDqkJIppOEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/safe_image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="189" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nHconeJmGv8/X33eYyFnsEI/AAAAAAAABrg/BdOL4hpBBdIuhtqXFILBemTDqkJIppOEwCLcBGAsYHQ/w364-h189/safe_image.jpg" width="364" /></a></div><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-large;"><b>Assange Extradition Hearing</b></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Chris Hedges discusses with Craig Murray, former British Ambassador, the travesty of justice underway in London to extradite a multi-award-winning Australian journalist and publisher to solitary confinement for life in a maximum security prison in the USA, for the “crime” of journalism. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Murray’s exhaustive reporting each day from inside the court was one of the few sources of reliable information about a vital case being ignored or misreported by most media.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243); color: #050505; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #800180;">WATCH THE VIDEO: </span></b><a href="https://youtu.be/ZtwpzqAJMBo" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/ZtwpzqAJMBo</span></a></p><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e06666;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FdDFfoHzglU/X3mOSTKbGsI/AAAAAAAABm8/bth3d-no5Fw4oaczJwq_h4S1H2DzWpCsACLcBGAsYHQ/s500/round.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="206" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FdDFfoHzglU/X3mOSTKbGsI/AAAAAAAABm8/bth3d-no5Fw4oaczJwq_h4S1H2DzWpCsACLcBGAsYHQ/w395-h206/round.jpg" width="395" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Julian Assange's Extradition Trial and the War on Journalism</span></b></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Shadowproof presents an </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">independent media roundtable discussion</span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For th</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">e past month, a group of independent journalists have
tirelessly live-tweeted the most consequential journalism case of our
times—which the MSM has largely ignored. They are talking about it now on this
live panel. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;">WATCH: </span></b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imwuqDrXDPE&fbclid=IwAR27bMK9-CLpAXzFnrtR29bJ9nd6uRKT_o9p6I6VaUKrMjN5UlxovWpwp0g" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: center;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imwuqDrXDPE</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #050505;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2RtLfXUC9Q/X3mUeoDblyI/AAAAAAAABog/YngKUfKMkvkA9b_bSmjqSvXL4hv5s_X1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s573/julian-keep-your-mouth-shut.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="573" height="344" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2RtLfXUC9Q/X3mUeoDblyI/AAAAAAAABog/YngKUfKMkvkA9b_bSmjqSvXL4hv5s_X1gCLcBGAsYHQ/w629-h344/julian-keep-your-mouth-shut.jpg" width="629" /></a> </span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="color: #050505;"><br /></span></span></p><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: xx-large;"><span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Indepe</span>ndent journalists attended court every day reporting the entire proceedings in </b></span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: xx-large;"><b style="font-family: verdana;">great detail, thus providing an important historical record for future reference:</b></span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"> </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #e06666; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NAWhLVrJhP8/X3mIyEacsYI/AAAAAAAABlg/IB8NI30wPBgdrGq2Q0SGqhm3bC7eLIK_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s839/craig.png" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="839" height="73" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NAWhLVrJhP8/X3mIyEacsYI/AAAAAAAABlg/IB8NI30wPBgdrGq2Q0SGqhm3bC7eLIK_QCLcBGAsYHQ/w360-h73/craig.png" width="360" /></a></b></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-size: large;">Craig Murray’s personal blog:</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #e06666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CXSpygSKOK8/X3mJVvhNt_I/AAAAAAAABlo/zCXLDi5sntc-64ZhW7MHJxiLMWpYOOiIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/safe_image%2B%25284%2529.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="500" height="116" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CXSpygSKOK8/X3mJVvhNt_I/AAAAAAAABlo/zCXLDi5sntc-64ZhW7MHJxiLMWpYOOiIgCLcBGAsYHQ/w226-h116/safe_image%2B%25284%2529.jpg" width="226" /></a></b></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span>Joe Lauria’s live reporting on </span></b></span><b style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Consortium News:</span></b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">https://consortiumnews.com/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">World Socialist Website:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/mediaCategory/free-assange" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/mediaCategory/free-assange</a><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: large;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #e06666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j2dx9q27n2E/X3mLgNFPQaI/AAAAAAAABmM/bWIKNfZQ36caRJpzRn4HvCm9UFCwtN2zgCLcBGAsYHQ/s292/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="292" height="119" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j2dx9q27n2E/X3mLgNFPQaI/AAAAAAAABmM/bWIKNfZQ36caRJpzRn4HvCm9UFCwtN2zgCLcBGAsYHQ/w202-h119/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="202" /></a></b></span></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Kevin Gosztola, </span></b><span><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">American journalist's blog, 'Shadowproof':</span></b><span style="color: #050505; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://shadowproof.com/" style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">https://shadowproof.com/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #e06666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qt9KBbYpyIc/X3mHicx_2YI/AAAAAAAABlU/eOAJ5uJ_3RIT5Gt5oo4vUVVm-VbyrfCyACLcBGAsYHQ/s176/unnamed.jpg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" height="126" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qt9KBbYpyIc/X3mHicx_2YI/AAAAAAAABlU/eOAJ5uJ_3RIT5Gt5oo4vUVVm-VbyrfCyACLcBGAsYHQ/w126-h126/unnamed.jpg" width="126" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">Richard Medhurst, daily court videos:</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"> </span></b></span><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #050505; line-height: 107%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: blue; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/RichardMedhurst/videos?fbclid=IwAR2Eo9u044qAVk9FHpE6jPCIcOA8wV1iG_g_xX7B57c34JWRLEtrXhDY_ic" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/RichardMedhurst/videos</a></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KTaEKroiiEo/X3qkq7cY-ZI/AAAAAAAABps/oTZnYUNcNlMQJ6jhUAYxoXeL3WvIR0nBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Assange%2Band%2Btruth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KTaEKroiiEo/X3qkq7cY-ZI/AAAAAAAABps/oTZnYUNcNlMQJ6jhUAYxoXeL3WvIR0nBgCLcBGAsYHQ/w647-h362/Assange%2Band%2Btruth.jpg" width="647" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 48pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Debunking All The Assange Smears</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_TvAA6B2xtI/X3qmKoI3KSI/AAAAAAAABp4/gR7h2NqLjWU4FXEBrQQWalVb1c63nd1dwCLcBGAsYHQ/s80/1_UDnSUoroqCxShe6CBUDKiw%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="80" data-original-width="80" height="139" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_TvAA6B2xtI/X3qmKoI3KSI/AAAAAAAABp4/gR7h2NqLjWU4FXEBrQQWalVb1c63nd1dwCLcBGAsYHQ/w139-h139/1_UDnSUoroqCxShe6CBUDKiw%2B%25281%2529.jpeg" width="139" /></a></b></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Caitlin Johnstone</span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11.5pt;">Updated this mega-article ahead of the Assange trial because
whenever Assange is back in the news the smear engine ramps back up again.
Bookmark it and use it however you like. Let me know if you spot other needed
updates.</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #050505; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">How to argue against Assange smears:</b></span></span></p><div><b style="color: #800180; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><ol style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh gi gj gk gl gm gn go gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8e57" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 2em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-1-he-is-not-a-journalist-9ea4c6fa72fc" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s not a journalist.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1494" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-2-hes-a-rapist-df9effd8b49d" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s a rapist.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="335f" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-3-he-was-hiding-from-rape-charges-in-the-embassy-9765975d4067" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He was hiding from rape charges in the embassy.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6df0" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-4-hes-a-russian-agent-24e21be98087" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s a Russian agent.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="ce8a" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-5-hes-being-prosecuted-for-hacking-crimes-not-journalism-19e750235742" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s being prosecuted for hacking/espionage crimes, not journalism.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fb06" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-6-he-should-just-go-to-america-and-face-the-music-891ac6358ed3" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He should just go to America and face the music. If he’s innocent he’s got nothing to fear.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d190" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-7-well-he-jumped-bail-of-course-the-uk-had-to-arrest-him-9c006f435ba7" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“Well he jumped bail! Of course the UK had to arrest him.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f4ef" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-8-hes-a-narcissist-megalomaniac-jerk-d619c2662b99" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s a narcissist/megalomaniac/jerk.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="fcd3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-9-hes-a-horrible-awful-monster-for-reasons-x-y-and-z-but-i-don-t-think-he-915f69aa4da7" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s a horrible awful monster for reasons X, Y and Z… but I don’t think he should be extradited.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="b307" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-10-trump-is-going-to-rescue-him-and-theyll-work-together-to-end-the-deep-state-4b9d593ce7cc" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“Trump is going to rescue him and they’ll work together to end the Deep State. Relax and wait and see.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="aade" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-11-he-put-poop-on-the-walls-poop-poop-poopie-364df9539c4a" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He put poop on the walls! Poop poop poopie!”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5b4c" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-12-hes-stinky-a9d5be96bcca" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s stinky.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="4714" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-13-he-was-a-bad-houseguest-d0ddd156a837" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He was a bad houseguest.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="a136" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-14-he-conspired-with-don-jr-5981e012620f" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He conspired with Don Jr.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="1a37" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-15-he-only-publishes-leaks-about-america-443d277c3c13" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He only publishes leaks about America.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="59c9" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-16-hes-an-antisemite-9714896dde7a" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s an antisemite.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="dc15" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-17-hes-a-fascist-6b4a68318fff" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s a fascist.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="6dbd" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-18-he-was-a-trump-supporter-92db307784d7" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He was a Trump supporter.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="28ac" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-19-i-used-to-like-him-until-he-ruined-the-2016-election-i-used-to-hate-him-until-he-5e63444c8aed" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“I used to like him until he ruined the 2016 election” / “I used to hate him until he saved the 2016 election.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="40ce" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-20-hes-got-blood-on-his-hands-6916df73d9cc" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s got blood on his hands.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="9020" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-21-he-published-the-details-of-millions-of-turkish-women-voters-64a268f5bb4b" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He published the details of millions of Turkish women voters.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5875" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-22-he-supported-right-wing-political-parties-in-australia-8ac0bb553a66" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He supported right-wing political parties in Australia.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="bc6d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-23-he-endangered-the-lives-of-gay-saudis-6f520acc99c1" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He endangered the lives of gay Saudis.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="8417" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-24-hes-a-cia-agent-limited-hangout-459eb0ee10e5" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s a CIA agent/limited hangout.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="f33d" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-25-he-mistreated-his-cat-ae887a40324e" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He mistreated his cat.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e271" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-26-hes-a-pedophile-a0cd97e4561e" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s a pedophile.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="e5c1" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-27-he-lied-about-seth-rich-21c6999a2776" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He lied about Seth Rich.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="20fe" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-28-hes-never-leaked-anything-on-trump-738819af3f71" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He’s never leaked anything on Trump.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="c846" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-smear-29-he-conspired-with-nigel-farage-444edd59956f" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He conspired with Nigel Farage.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="71c3" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/debunking-the-smear-that-assange-recklessly-published-unredacted-documents-5366ca4a15f6" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8,<svg preserveAspectRatio=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 1 1\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"><line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"1\" y2=\"1\" stroke=\"rgba(41, 41, 41, 1)\" /></svg>"); background-position-x: 0px; background-position: 0px calc(1em + 1px); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="gg hh" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">“He recklessly published unredacted documents.”</span></a></li><li class="ge gf cr gg b gh hl gj gk gl hm gn go gp hn gr gs gt ho gv gw gx hp gz ha hb hi hj hk dj" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="d0ad" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #292929; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 21px; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 32px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: -0.46em; margin-left: 30px; margin-top: 1.05em; padding-left: 0px;"><a class="bq eu hc hd he hf" href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/smear-31-he-conspired-with-roger-stone-83036e3fd941" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">He was Senior Colonel </span></b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Nguyễn Văn Bảy, who sadly passed away in HCMC after a short illness on September 21, 2019, at the age of 84.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: verdana; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: verdana; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">A true hero of Vietnam’s air-war against technologically superior flying machines when he piloted a relatively slow, antiquated and mostly manual MiG-17, yet managed to shoot down 7 American fighter jets.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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this pandemic are already utterly disastrous for millions of people around the
world, and tragic for all those who have died and for their loved ones.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It will get worse before it gets better. This was never the time for cruel jokes or
complacency. No one on this planet is safe from its consequences, as viruses do
not respect borders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The temporary global suspension of all Intrepid
Travel tours, at least until September 30, will create enormous stress and economic
hardships for many in our company, and many associated local businesses and
communities in Vietnam and around the world. But it was the responsible thing
to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Intrepid Travel is now promoting new domestic travel in various countries. </b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>See website for more details.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So far, Vietnam has done extremely well in
taking this virus attack seriously and acting quickly and effectively, with few
positive cases and no deaths. It is inspiring to see the government and local people
and communities all working constructively together to defeat the latest
foreign invader.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vietnam’s relative success is all the more
remarkable given that it shares a long border with China, and trade and tourism
from China was so enormous. Quickly closing the border to tourists from China
and other affected countries was vital in slowing the spread of the virus here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vietnam is doing much better than everywhere
else, especially Europe, UK, US, even Australia, where too many thought it was
a joke, or media hype, or no worse than the common flu. How wrong they are
proving to be. Many who were laughing before are not laughing now! Vietnam was
wise to stop entry to such careless people.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seems this particular virus has disturbing
characteristics which make it more dangerous than “just a common cold”. A person
can already be infected with COVID-19 but be unaware of it and have no symptoms
for 14 days or longer, and yet be contagious, unknowingly infecting others with the virus. That is
staggering!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">True or not, there are reports that it
may not be an entirely natural virus but the result of human engineering to
make it more contagious. While it targets more elderly people, it is a myth that young, healthy people cannot get infected and die. Humanity is in this together. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To add to the mystery of
where the virus started, there are reports that so far only one form of this
coronavirus has been found in China, while all five have been detected in the
USA.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All this surely raises pertinent questions about whether its release was deliberate
or accidental, by whom, and for what purpose. The world was quick to blame China, but where did it really begin? These are all valid questions real investigative journalists should be investigating.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once again, as with all major news
events, it has been interesting to compare the reporting in the corporate-state
media with the alternative media. China has been the undeserved victim of a
vicious, racist and politically-motivated campaign of media misinformation and
lies, which has gone as viral as the virus itself.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #201f1e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was especially so at the
beginning when people foolishly and selfishly thought it was just a “China
problem”, but the misreporting in the media continues. I have been reading
widely from various different sources. The story is actually much more serious
and consequential than probably most people realize, if they only rely on the
inadequate reporting in the mainstream media.</span><br />
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COVID-19 has also been revealing. Countries with a more collectivist approach,
such as China and Vietnam, have been much more successful than Western
countries that are more focused on individualism and looking after the
corporate elite. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With at least 883 protests reported nationwide, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">can 100 local commemorations be held this spring</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">? National and local media largely ignored the anniversaries of the Moratorium and Mobilization. Let's help them do better this May. A phenomenal interactive map with thumbnail descriptions of strike actions produced by the University of Washington can be seen </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e7GcW5yitMNsOLIuNK8dQStHXSTAavqsn7z1V-yFBDHewklGAng6s7CDFXmyVuxRWl8eOI8Z6l8R1YpVbRjdo9FIuBTegAn1NbnWYUVJltTOSDTvuHNiuASQ1hUOPOoMH&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-weight: bold;">“The national student strike [of May 1970] was unprecedented in its scale and is an inspirational testament to the power of young people to disrupt politics at a national level and force their concerns to be acknowledged.“ </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mapping American Social Movements Project, University of Washington</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">An interactive map <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e7GcW5yitMNsOLIuNK8dQStHXSTAavqsn7z1V-yFBDHewklGAng6s7CDFXmyVuxRWl8eOI8Z6l8R1YpVbRjdo9FIuBTegAn1NbnWYUVJltTOSDTvuHNiuASQ1hUOPOoMH&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a> identifies 883 protest sites nationwide and provides an excellent overview by Amanda Miller. We offer some ideas of how you can foster recognition of your community's own experience <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5ekeAmvyQqUwHj0BS980mfFdxqQrAaPXtPq11an24nA2wsBQ-f1rDeIe0j2JJXw4obbUPjTTpAKGVz1Rolk4Wx7zEAxOnEsGWevt84N5rb3TfsrYK9-kPXTQgGzqgryc0WevllXO5vuLMoyRuJ36iQP4uEgupgKp2Zf4LMulpBkDE=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The only substantial account we have found was <span style="font-weight: bold;">"On Strike...Shut It Down!"</span> a 133 page "Report on the First National Student Strike in US History" published in May 1970 by the Urban Research Corporation in Chicago. It contains greater detail than the map about each school. Copies can be found on Amazon. We can share on request <a href="mailto:jmcauliff@ffrd.org" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:jmcauliff@ffrd.org">here</a> a 16 page PDF of the introduction and the information about particular schools.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Kent State University is organizing more than 80 educational programs, special events, speakers, conferences, exhibits and performances during the year. The program peaks May 1 - 4. A published summary is <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eW2dK0dmasXE2glo6IdZHTXvV3od4DIvQrub0RhqaBpN5cjRh3T1IoQCpw51rDiHI45aTT6hXdSHLt3tmdjDQGk2WJF94Iu6ing51Pnv8fDdZEnWyFMaEAnEdrqdwSv5iqXg8STdx8zcNymryZIFfC7HtVL0EcH2hwMo7Lyru0BJtabcBoV46boChkAM8panHUlcAauHBSKRa7ZAJV8hcjfoJSfcNyYBZ&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>. For additional details, monitor the university website <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e6Tv9qJbql_aPzpp6rBJYbC3-TgO4vAjsI2102HJgLhmBqL9Rps_sPYAyuNDpSJNLPfQZHPLdZevxXm4DEUPBVuMKMAudw0Yi&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Panels on Friday, May 1, will address the anti-war movement. VPCC member <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Joyce</span> will talk about his experience while visiting a North Vietnamese village when they learned of the deaths. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jane Fonda</span> will speak at the largest public event on May 3d.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">On February 20th Kent State held a symposium on "Rebuilding State and Society After Civil War". On February 29th, the Department of History will host a research symposium entitled, “The May 4th Event and New Directions in Scholarship on the Vietnam War”, free and open to the public, program <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e0KwuC8K3LeEuU1K8lBOdNB9KOn2vzboIMUPSSTjC5U7vn-fMyY4924Ng7bgoQUM4_pUeQRtBrENLIOn25yjxAmX85DZ2Mg4sRWZMOxIUiPNzCI6fywtZS-BEP010ncqpEo1Lns2F7-tnhp_1ud1i1Ays8aT2Z8aX&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: black;">A good account of what took place fifty years ago can be found on this 22 minute </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eUOZNgsXUuQt09ZdFX49lzcA97NIs63GNtqFl4EIdFal4cBKy9m2TZqoA5hxsROGvzYqghEd4lgB7DupX2mTxr21bhgbJKftqnQSXfQdEu9oIcCXEXM-iVg==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: black;" target="_blank">video</a><span style="color: black;">.</span> The commemoration program is being organized by the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5egqS4FaGpTzcKu1LxkYtWZQCSPnhu5F1ZtT_bTe7ftcVKmyTJTRw_-uhlBfRn5tuPteaGd2WtAnewBnvBnLKspvYS7NltbvatCRBd1EqF7AY=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">Margaret Walker Center</a> at Jackson State University. Events for Gibbs/Green 50 can be followed <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e22nZfKV2dWiRCP3n7OlaMx6iyLGCBG3Hhwlnb7wm8gczZ6lcdpMs7RMha0XpYnA7w0Mm0-Ao5kD4p1BLmttBfuDvJJhmLgB_20TTNkx0FAlUyyDu_H6986aMBOpJGrJhu7ejUJRa8Tk=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">May 13-15</span> 50th Commemoration of the Gibbs Green Tragedy. VPCC friend Peter Yarrow is expected to sing. A panel is being organized for the 15th on the relationship of Jackson State with the anti-war movement that will include John McAuliff, VPCC Coordinator.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Jackson State's connection to Kent State and the anti-war movement is not direct, although they are linked in the politics of the time and</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">in many Kent State remembrances. The coincidence of timing and the long relationship of the civil rights and anti-war movements led to the events being linked in the later stages of the student strike that had incorporated concern about racism in its initial call.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-style: italic;">A perceptive essay by Patrick Chura who will speak on the May 15 panel appeared in the journal </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eikWQP8dQnRlHdIXIWEOEvr5piB_8oW5VcBtICSjQJD3JgwWLHBIuWgQ_SDFYZi6Rwp9rDH4Fg5QauSk9V_ZTZPQ6ZHGLPIOTIp1x9nwhySnX3lCQMGuXB6NuCcWlpIyIGiLDvDTbToo=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199; font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Peace & Change</a><span style="font-style: italic;">, “'Mississippi Phenomenon': Reinterpreting the 1970 Jackson State Shootings in the Era of Black Lives Matter". He summarizes the view of Alan “Tre” Dufner, then a Kent State junior and president of the May 4 Task Force, that 'the most currently meaningful connections between Kent State and Jackson State stem not from a common cause of antiwar protest that never existed anyway, but from their joint reflection of truths about police brutality and abuse of government power." Chura, a professor at the University of Akron who teaches a course on </span>American Literature of the Vietnam War<span style="font-style: italic;">, also integrates into his analysis the perspective of Viet Thanh Nguyen in the book "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">August 29, 1970 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">Thirty thousand Chicanos and Mexican-Americans took to the streets in East Los Angeles to protest discrimination and lack of civil rights, and in particular, the high rates of the draft of Chicanos for the Vietnam war. An attack by the Los Angeles Police Department led to four deaths, including LA Times reporter Ruben Salazar. (summary </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eaXe4tlaSg2hOnVy_g_bZNXL9d9g-inB8ldRYTpdf8WBOyc9ashI3Ek40svUnPGKbogo3C1KImAgW4e1m9VHOQHXY5Xgbj2tpFeszQqtd0VpOnatLIgPn_lQ906f5g647hpgGmDbZvtrAa8l6dEv0ZQt63jGJpS73crVQwFumQ1aGX9y6QJwExrLBXTBjrF3uOC8aPyfbc0U=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">, 4 minute video </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e8UEAtYMycWKfhVtnOR1LLPo0g1IdHyCoyqU0iG-gD21EXmRcTWDf9Dp2b1uZWnpGsrZ6Yl3kQG9NT2D6O2Ny6w==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">KCET Television's Artbound series included moving interviews about the event in a one hour documentary about</span> young activists who used creative tools like writing and photography as a means for community organizing, providing a platform for the Chicano Movement in the form of the bilingual newspaper/magazine La Raza. View it <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eQke2tLJljZABxVyY8wQnl628Upo5vWAHG9US8uGQT5oor_qsaaLDn-2QNMbJ0HeYNQYKrJF6b-3R9rk5i9TnSUkpI-EWCwTchtATsw48fvztkIxB35_D0-mZBX6MuHqX&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The web site for 50th Chicano Moratorium Organizing Committee is <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eHKb7xVymLmDIozVJO8Vplec5YdLf4h6sqGv0VFuUvpIXqoyvS27CmrhifSavLjT2oJoFoRpQ-OH6vCykJzSl3g==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">In late November of 1970 the US National Student Association sponsored a delegation of students from fifteen US Colleges and Universities to meet with student representatives in South Vietnam and North Vietnam to negotiate a peace treaty. Members of the delegation met first in South Vietnam with the Saigon Student Union and later In Hanoi with the Vietnam National Union of Students and the South Vietnam Liberation Student Union. The treaty, which became known as the Peoples Peace Treaty, was formally signed in Hanoi on December 17, 1970. The US delegation then came home via Paris where the treaty was publicly unveiled. A few days later the delegation returned to the US where it was used as a major organizing tool on campuses during the spring semester of 1971, culminating in the May Day demonstrations in Washington, DC. More information and a list of 167 participating colleges and universities issued on April 27, 1971 is <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eAUGfjVFQdU4f0sshbIMkAlAg5CeSenrUWe_sK4gnujlT8HdWxQJ37hwQU08J9_gDZV6-YUdLGOFZ8k0wFelf6KEWUDVbZPI1obl1uJQdW2eaaU0VLFdwJPtfV9Kwa5fT4sJUWLeSCjLSxS7oWOxIUg==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>. See also Doug Hostetter's chapter in "The People Make the Peace", listed below in Resources.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Please contact VPCC member Doug Hostetter </span><a href="mailto:doughostetter@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:doughostetter@gmail.com">here</a><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> if you were active with the Peoples Peace Treaty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">A larger agenda could include discussion of the ongoing legacies of war, including the victims of land-mines, unexploded ordnance, Agent Orange, as well as the frequency of additional civilian massacres like in Ben Tre..</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: black;">One year before his assassination, Dr. King spoke out against the war at a meeting organized by Clergy and Laymen Concerned at Riverside Church in New York. His words inspired the anti-war movement, but he was criticized harshly by other civil rights leaders and the media. The full sermon can be heard </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5emNgO-Z-v5ALZSGmgS_OOCyYaKtLsvTgQY3UXWe42g0--DmuHdy-4Qxz15uOapAJ6MncIYJurkOAuhe78KefJaNz8uxEMW7Xt8cai235BXLTyznX9jEy_it0LR730vga63eAUq7BhBhz5JbRtJMI4S6VE-lvPIn5hK72qxvQrqoMfw3lcnuQN0A==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: black;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: black;"> and read </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e4Fe5bTTC0weAc6QIsK0m-QmF_OfEmErSYRuzDvuDRiwmcs-HGWwKwRFkn86ysMrUZxSy4iUW96P_r336zvyFWml_ToPa2fEEeuEPepNZ-bGuf0dM0o5vKf4L276-HdaP3Sp4Z5DzXIPuDRI7F4i6YXRGKtUUA7CAe8m0tOu3XumoktwDMxMOFw==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: black;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: black;">. Tavis Smiley's perceptive documentary about the sermon and its consequences is available </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eawyEpkFynv4cooSmPKm-RyRZEVGpMcjIcVrT9CTe0aQ41sFqIrnCwNfCrYQbOGAEkkdApECTj9hm5I-trGzZWum3k99wIhwucPWPPjIZjqNceo7gLke6yrg4nYa-zndAl2TUEenuOMI=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: black;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: black;">. A follow-up interview by Merv Griffin can be seen </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5emCqebLsLTfL2Ic1NnmqRGu9n5kealbNvIDiDadzi4dekJVNPYcLMoejtqJnJfMAUAYSrvwXIXvKAXVR78KMubvKcT1KM65Iq3tShFNdxSgUbS4XF57J2Sg==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: black;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: black;">. Additional background and analysis can be found in the first two articles listed below in Resources under Previously Posted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Dr. King's memory should be honored on the anniversary of his death</span><span style="color: black;"> every year or during the national holiday in his name by bringing together friends, classes or organizations. They can watch the Smiley video, listen to King give the sermon or share a group reading. United for Peace and Justice prepared a full sample program based on an annual event in Oakland, California. The sermon as divided for up to sixteen readers and supportive materials are available </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5ejGMOe5bhKEKBOip4G1U0suYVNQK9o_k24kRRxv346dClJXLi_1kMiRX-WgLYPCy0ZDmS8PhrrWD47DuSCrVlLhGz-HwIpodWyMf0pVpKyMQNwYnLuegxJI4GPVbp0zRHkAIdx93240Zda4gscV6-j7-sGxXVfOz0vcqaZGmohZa20Ys7D5CKncuCC7Luy59J6obRF9IqB-EIuT4e0QbIRQaSWfmcOMLkdXRbxDXxZEj3EZ_8lZmHmH0Hd3MxDr1ROTLLUVv96g6Hj3OJx4TB9fqN9yFWfp18cI5wvxZRxWnGkYcnyr5TSGIp037RPvHmhhBFtbcfATagNk98WftNfBTBD4Dgi6KqP0dgALv2BHoc5ZIqpx3_nF87RoHSDD5drw3BCF0p18c9NzfCgsQYm2jAyW0v11l5Z_r6N797CkcuAchHnIoV91lXRAmDonX0W_o5HceAcLSFip9agKPD4yPWurwWjCmKXYdR3M6rDiIz2zmYPTlb4sp5upWmD8KhK2chlMxdh6eEEYXV2HnVcHHjF2_dxCMnMB9n2GHMdyS3TGv_Qo6aGB4_sAijwUtW8-_Ub6I2vLMDlGqJQYZIKfTR1EbkC0vxoJrT_fOI4o8=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: black;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-size: 18px;">45th anniversary of peace and reunification</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The trip is currently scheduled from April 19 - May 3 with an optional extension to Cambodia and Laos. The itinerary is Hoi An, My Lai, Da Nang, Hue, Quang Tri, Vinh Moc, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa, Ben Tre, including official observances of the anniversary of the end of the war. If required by concern about risk from the corona virus, the trip will be postponed with adjusted content until late June - early July for the anniversary of diplomatic relations between Viet Nam and the U.S. More information is </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-zgWvAF7-jINcEyx3QLKJ0zYSUosTe4Bm9V5Td2k-y_FJKhdFn1Yca3G4j39CoIEluiSwa9YdrygapLB5FoU5AtT6AqFWBYGUk1LRUZJh7349LW8D7Eb2Azak3aue91AxUeHbPrZKH3LwND9iq1-VNSg3D80vFM-b0VobXQrv97U&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">If interested, contact us </span><a href="mailto:jmcauliff@ffrd.org" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:jmcauliff@ffrd.org">here</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> by March 1st.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: blue; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">University of Dayton, May 21-22, 2020</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Organized by the university's Human Rights Center, the Symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners to explore the enduring social, political, and human rights legacies stemming from America's involvement in the Vietnam War. The principal aim of the Symposium is to assess the extent to which U.S. society has come to terms and changed as a result of the conflict. A second aim is to foster understanding of the legacy of the War in contemporary Vietnam.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The Symposium will be organized into a series of speakers and panels addressing specific themes including reconstruction aid, reconciliation, and memorialization. Confirmed participants include Chuck Searcy of Project RENEW (working on unexploded ordnance in Viet Nam), Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Hung of the Hanoi University of Business and Technology, David Cortright from Notre Dame and Terry Provance of the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">For more information, contact Paul Morrow <a href="mailto:pmorrow1@udayton.edu" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:pmorrow1@udayton.edu">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: 10px;">Peter Yarrow and Rev. Richard Fernandez launch the walk to the White House after the conference (photo by Rick Hind)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The 50th anniversary of the Mobilization / Moratorium demonstration in Washington was the occasion of a week of programs at the Elliott School of George Washington University, culminating in a vigil at the White House.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">VPCC organized a panel, <span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">The Vietnam War Comes Home</span>, with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Clara Bingham</span>, author "Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul"; Dr. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary (Munchen) Posner</span>, organizer of the Moratorium demonstration on October 15, 1969, at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, and of a contingent in the November 15th Mobilization in Washington; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rev. Richard Fernandez</span>, founder of Clergy & Laity Concerned about Vietnam, organizer of the March Against Death; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Levering</span>, staff of New Mobilization Committee, responsible for training 5,000 marshals; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anne Gallivan</span>, Lessons of the 60's (Washington oral history project), Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Martha Norman</span>, Baltimore civil rights and peace activist, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, co-editor Hands on the "Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC"; Moderator: John McAuliff, Fund for Reconciliation and Development, VPCC, It can be seen <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-zVFs3rXLuCROJyPhWVTI_I2_rqAyolAn1Gksq5tGvzdobmIb7Qm66hJ5NJ96QJTL5LglJJxNYPXlznSu3CCiY08xcY5PX_KKA==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Book launch of Waging Peace in Vietnam</span></li>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Teaching the Vietnam War</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Vietnam War Soldier and Civilian Peace Initiatives</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Legacy of Agent Orange on Vietnamese and American Citizens</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Photos like the one above taken at the San Francisco Moratorium by <span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Stephen Shames</span> can be seen <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5ex1FCOaPdwgZRLKYbp_anKvyDpyIsH7BfPOqz4znEmf2QSuxAgEMd2ZOZaWf99YDFVqSmxlKGFI71Ek6PFM3q9zi1EKsnLcXUUaYHJ4lgMUZy4rb9xWdIgA==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>. He has compiled a book of photos from the 60s and is seeking a publisher. Contact him <a href="mailto:info@stephenshames.com" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:info@stephenshames.com">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Don't Burn </span>is the only available film that portrays the war from a Vietnamese perspective; made by Dang Nhat Minh about the journal of a young woman doctor serving in the south that was found by an American soldier and returned to her family in Hanoi decades later; English subtitled DVD for public showings is available in appreciation of donations of at least $20, contact us <a href="mailto:jmcauliff@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:jmcauliff@gmail.com">here</a>. <span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-weight: bold;">New option</span> The film can be previewed on nonpublic youtube by clicking <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eFGsmaJX0sReylaTX_GUHFIBByTl7RrZTlf694e7efwSUHreC8ldgbQiAW-XA6nFuRfoTVpJM898YnIm2EPOejDETLXtovlYdaQRST_nVLXq3jqOm4Ae0TCTfx00-acvyvxLGly4XbEk7GiUkn9p0srDiA9qj-sf1ajrDqCukVkGveqJ-_X_QYfiJ8mB-Vq0F3BnsAK1E57c=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Landon Carter Schmitt Memorial Fund</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, created by </span>Dabney and Dick Schmitt to honor their son who died in Viet Nam after studying and working there for five years. They have assisted a school for visually impaired children in Dong Ha and other projects, details <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eqCC5fFF-EO_Nesf8YK0uIZe8mF13-nlnO5hMmnxfjgtmANgzLknlPWlVxM_NjSWMs_rklZ_kpuhAG0xeLrDEQCgHFj9PvFE7Zw8XyAZznO6QIS7jry0GE4Fn1Y6bXror7TyCF8aToDz8w8Md2_PAu6uV9-hHTKL34UZWRtJEoLM=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">The “Research Arm” of the Peace Movement</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">: How Power Researchers Helped the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, </span>an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e7bm_wfYE6XvC6ua7zxNR6FgB1IWNcl3DlCUPaLaFlnsxu9TBpLAqHoiiEUvP1DycLfa8DeZLoikuUdYbryBuGLzfdZcSiHi5N6LxSWqpH4upSuvyC8TcsKT2mm8V2fv01A3QwECi2MuPNAsz0d0nIZlmcL2M2QbuxTI6fG8lh0QPuPVDavjX-DlrmnORcqsWPCXVihP9OWYMx2LzliJhi6qMVY7VJLZsG6iTXZ3mwkfoNG7TYFXl6A==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">interview </a>with Diana Roose about the NARMIC project of the American Friends Service Committee</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Vietnam: The Power of Protest"</span> The 2015 VPCC conference in Washington is only first person broad assessment of the anti-war movement undertaken to date. Videos can be see <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-wBeDejwyes1QlZ9siSaoJPb5pQvzpT2rb9ZbtUrbH29ubMGLDcW1nvnkmWGkL6wgeKoPtcVD91qZxZbqgEUgB9udqyRsqkJgw==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>: The site also includes videos from the October 2017 conference in Washington, <span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"From Protest to Resistance"</span> on the 50th anniversary of the March on the Pentagon except for the first half which is on C-SPAN for session one <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e0bpQ6aZeo31mjE-XYjaZ3J5KMoUR5MwOA-AqLK2DHYICRYMwAKXpcM9FdVx9tPQCaZjCq3Qgpd0iQJ4yH9psPSHZbj5Fe5B62gCobmK-g3ZQ9Q2sv_Py3AgppjDVQ7WN0y-_U0Fz1R7zZlYVn9fdadYa7ULhbPjiRdqVhvFxDs-7IuAGamXMAg==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a> and session two <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e0bpQ6aZeo31mjE-XYjaZ3J5KMoUR5MwOA-AqLK2DHYICRYMwAKXpcM9FdVx9tPQCaZjCq3Qgpd0iQJ4yH9psPSHZbj5Fe5B62gCobmK-g3ZQ9Q2sv_Py3AgppjDVQ7WN0y-_U0Fz1R7zZlYVn9fdadYa7ULhbPjiRdqVhvFxDs-7IuAGamXMAg==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">A 50 minute video based on<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> interviews </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">conducted at the 2015 conference</span> was produced by Activist Video Archive. It and the complete interviews of 43 participants can be seen <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eiY4Juak9S8-YNICqBYLsY0anH5vkaZRP3ETjTFxKYXcNOSyrcoy6AmZhxh4uwDfvvDkU_Klto_tOn-8vNch0mPOtbyql-IZ3luCWXHPlvhScScgSOaawrTdnmUwJFg8n&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"The People Make the Peace".</span> edited by Karin Aguilar-San Juan and Frank Joyce, reflections by activists who traveled to Hanoi during the war and returned in 2013 (includes VPPC members Frank Joyce, Doug Hostetter and John McAuliff) More information and order <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5enOkm3f6vHOyspuEm9IYInFEJ7I59-S7jjxUIx4CzoJK5dJa8AKLLh2Vp1uQAjQZx775E0o3r8mYXsS2aE6s05eYq4hrRaNUoxNVUAKGphfhRuEE_FuSDiRjJi3GeZVKMltOtFns_gFY=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The best <span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">web site on Agent Orange, land mines, unexploded ordnance</span> is <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0016Zgv3CSeKuZhNQA_mL0FL1zV8SuiWU2rZOZ6_zyInd0aDlnV9C5xgBQ05nL3XNLJ9ygZfDOPakpmo6FfdXM3j2lMcELFefjVpePqW1Nlb_B-DHYdLdps_bzk2x6mTuVWQDGiXKlU88isQutdLorq8qdvQSQezd9nw9jCR4Irv9xj7y_c6zSuWx9EM15JvL1ACv1QQohlI_xENy1ChkJctUC2rhk5GWKJr1dQmsAHuMC59ZlB92J1pIFIX2YRuu0ifYnclTt9aW70-cIjj0Bhl5j2ZnyrZkIxB-6rM1BkpgrSia0d7qa7kg==&c=WIvbgxOw5UctuAAst9HSfd-V1P5SPK2FH1oNfFragVTtx-AwtRiLOQ==&ch=PyaX9KEJaHKC-1Z9Y0NwcT-68ikzv6eYxL1Ulel0hVMEZybZhWLvLA==" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">here</a> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"The MLK Speech We Need Today Is Not the One We Remember Most"</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span>an essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen in <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-whe1TCzzU1dFpTwRWBmKmdu_XzSMmZ4yMW2K1NRVlQCftfVCYVbU9_DkRWVezYaTLTim0PoZvIq-6-PuVMWupJclbbBf3NLyzUeH5FgFytBJmlaIFdmptPyFu7wiCNOP2ddsBvBKtYm&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">Time Magazine</a> on the relevance of the Riverside Church sermon to the present. "King’s prophecy connects the war in Vietnam with our forever wars today, spread across multiple countries and continents, waged without end from global military bases numbering around 800. Some of the strategy for our forever war comes directly from lessons that the American military learned in Vietnam: drone strikes instead of mass bombing; volunteer soldiers instead of draftees; censorship of gruesome images from the battlefronts; and encouraging the reverence of soldiers.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Exceptional Victims" </span>an essay by Christian Appy in the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-whe1TCzzU1d3dItoWoYH-11fJ45ukAILD-4XQtIqmBSZlQRhyJi1-8GPXKgGxB3aS4hS6FqQNmA4EuukQp6qOjUyvb8r9i2Fm0DBRoMhA108MUC09jG79njqCDfiCWQDOmZIGGconWD1tZNTYN7oqVuTiyqlM6fjw==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">Boston Review</a> linked to King's speech "The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1e0a3c; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Overcoming War Legacies: The Road to Reconciliation and Future Cooperation Between the United States and Vietnam",</span><span style="color: #1e0a3c;"> a remarkable March 26, 2019, conference at the US Institute of Peace featuring high level representatives of both countries' foreign and defense ministries and of the US Senate and NGOs; sessions available </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-whe1TCzzU1dDVHnGELzQCoiGm8Vn7sU0tOJaNtyTzkH-Ft7dC3A6IKjDBCO012O3uwX1K35DC__v9Gul6AKe0V7DEWL2Hsn7DO90onMbv5e5jDxLPrj_ASJ-d7Eyp5P2g==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1e0a3c;" target="_blank">on-line</a> Especially notable is the eloquent luncheon speech <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-whe1TCzzU1dDVHnGELzQCoiGm8Vn7sU0tOJaNtyTzkH-Ft7dC3A6IKjDBCO012O3uwX1K35DC__v9Gul6AKe0V7DEWL2Hsn7DO90onMbv5e5jDxLPrj_ASJ-d7Eyp5P2g==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a> by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Vietnam's Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc</span> about the path that took him from fleeing US bombs in Ha Noi as a child to Washington. (He was introduced by William Taylor, then Executive Vice President of USIP, before returning as ambassador to Ukraine and most recently giving historic testimony at the impeachment hearing.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Witness to the Revolution" by Clara Bingham </span>An oral history of 1969-1970 includes interviews about the Moratorium and Mobilization with Sam Brown, David Hawk, David Mixner, Daniel Ellsberg, Seymour Hersh, Oliver Stone, Barry Romo, Wayne Smith and Bobby Muller. (Clara spoke on the VPCC panel in Washington November 13th.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Soldiers for Peace"</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span>is an audio documentary produced by American Public Media (APM) featuring first-person interviews and oral histories with Vietnam veterans transformed by the war. • Documents their decisions to organize and participate in their own antiwar movement • Highlights the numerous ways GIs and veterans protested the war, both in collaboration with the civilian antiwar movement and separately. To hear it, click <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eA8X72sORhRHc3BMCyoqZHFp4BWJnz-p1hMBU35P4e3x2dLMacKFhvNf9vM14gXqXWFagnsEhW9nVz1eIdE_vt-fgMJraiPTOgiV7OOeWVtcm63-vFC202A==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">here</a>. For information, contact tyangchen@americanpublicmedia.org</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Vietnam Reconsidered: The War, the Times, and Why They Matter"</span>, a new book by <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-_WkiW2kHWSaGtr8Rl2LhphDSf5Tg6JZTJ-0HtvfhktZebUAguwmCTJxd4O8lZUfeN8eks7Tv5qq7YB6HYDt0ZE8gQReNbSK7w==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">John Ketwig</a>, author of "…and a hard rain fell" (now in its 27th printing over 34 years)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Safe Return: A Vietnam Veteran’s Involvement in the 1970s Amnesty Movement" </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">by Michael Uhl available as an </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-_WkiW2kHWSaMvpjMNbQoc2aivkLMNmipSZnxUCqV1WQj5VahSVmpPofu30B8wc0FBhudUmrhEXM-JtSXwsT5Ge1yyO5HLhT2GZ4rmd1ARp6aZrjlMWN0HYKeu6-CzwF7N6gj94IfkIiMM5b6iawK13C6SmVvNUz40Eaxj8Ne0_20-pnSaosQ_oQIgZSXM4NtFOd_VuoO7leQiJhtyQqCwc=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Amazon e-book</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Reclaiming the Community One Bomb at a Time: The View From Indochina"</span>, text and photos by Ted Lieverman;<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-_WkiW2kHWSaYeunA20C2ZVlU4gDmt5u5ZZw_jibFVAUQBz6OKLSHuJNmUlqX8NECcBHJzqdxLM7EBJEAyLopDw3DTFrE3ry93do-JIs0sciNpjBZePrjig=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank"> The Asia-Pacific Journal</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Letter from Vietnam War Correspondents to Rory Kennedy</span> about her misleading film, "Last Days in Vietnam"; published in <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-_WkiW2kHWSaI9HvwVYWV6owQNuKUT1rE8q5SwzQ5gu3l_J2DIobIaR1WlDqEeUqsR--I9i4BbmxJegDqSNcuZLvk0vQ7_LG901Sa85A0oCJG8mKnPgoCd3Q_T8SCckOcw==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">The Shipler Report</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">A motivating force for the anti-war movement was the right of the Vietnamese people to independence and freedom. For a century the problem was France. For two decades, it was the US. For centuries before, and again now, it was China. Just as Russia helps Cuba and Venezuela resist US hegemony, the US helps Viet Nam and the rest of South East Asia resist China's dominance. The big powers provide support because it serves their strategic and economic interests. Nevertheless, the support is essential to the recipient, no matter the contradictions and compromises. The situation in the South China Sea merits our attention, not just for the benefit of Viet Nam and its neighbors, but because if could become the provocation of superpower military conflict with tragic costs for all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">If this concerns you, set a google alert for "South China Sea" to receive daily links about the festering danger of conflict.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">In the meantime, some sample articles from the past few weeks follow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"South China Sea of brewing troubles and its implications for India"</span>, Mona Thakkarin <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eNKgIZYC0i_SmZL51Yx1Mnbr5HxNGf2WzwS-UIfjBhZeRuQtooYiU9hldN74yUVynRYIy67UyVxEQIMrIGgJ4sM9Z9nXP-vRlsOlm0ExXC9kox7u19Rw5AA-bomxxeOvio1OH72_jzesrX1RNGQcw89ybur6vUaNZKRL3eg9qigheL69voCX2ShSakKnIvTo4AxSz30ayCfk=&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">ModernDiplomacy.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Vietnam To Counter China With Asean Backing On Mekong River Region"</span>, Thitinan Pongsudhirak in <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5eaWFXASGn_jL-WkBKyvFBVpZauIP_8iDq1N5geNz78EvGSNVcV0GWx-_nUMF_6NhSuHNOfPNZlxd2MgwcXwkEsOkfB5t0oGAPMOUkhJsLVQ3N4mGdEBxyxmuLBo0qXXADp9-WaXhONZCLkuNfdX0UTuc1lx4ltfnrYo7mNuliqvYA_FO2c0dK7URx8EyIPtJ1MWUv1FwCz9ZAAhg_Z8heYd-VyxfrILFQbowG6rEbI9O0xJ6G52WdXg==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">Forbes Asia</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"China threatens stability in the Pacific: U.S. commander"</span>, Colin Packham reports from Australia for <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5ezYaQwNLuzY5Y_L76splecrQBy5RtnLrwr5HCr70798D5Id6YbYZVtpxu9b9Q5wbUxYhzn1P-xulqeask-EjF0ukHXfQnJUdutXhGzA9YAK2B5ExyqiJKQDa0s6q8WlMrIDXM4NQ4msBXcaUGuNv8ubOaBmCJDDjpUtej9QK_8BFfA1CFCFbUKkhrSszAky--&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">Reuters</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">'In challenging China’s claims in the South China Sea, the US Navy is getting more assertive', </span>David Larter in <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5e_vuDQakNrU2yc1DmO6Bn5nfET9KBcwS8G5xDIM9PVb3SmUoI62TRSMmxLfYxnbmDkYDwPvh42bAPhD3MU7zFG_K7qV-XcpLgiM9pmNtuH4mxOfY4XtZb5tCBx_NVPwWE9ErTrWkgaAx4NZ7tSbEnYov5P2jwbRnN&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">Defense News</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"Understanding Total Competition and China’s Challenge in the South China Sea"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> an interview in </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5ephgB3fgszcWVz1Cet4AOctkhWU05tDMDKau9MJgHBbW-Xag1p45oSvDhsVWEJ1Q-WazvGQF6_kboqJ6Rb3J5k14HUTxMw3XIvshEzq4ltAtREku1wdds5gHe3056JZOUjbTIVe2hDDs-E2TfdR7GgO5JfjshOwWQWH600nzGrdFzqUIfauAmc662Zl0iNfW_H9rh4-oL9ZA-Hx2rr0wIgg==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">The Diplomat</a>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> by </span>Prashanth Parameswaran of Patrick Cronin and Ryan Neuhard of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">"In The South China Sea Do As We Say Not As We Do</span>",Analysis by Mark J. Valencia sympathetic to China in the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5evkYoEf3iFiWgBTDzO56t9R9sDWXxRLfGRMO1FPhASmfiO3bjb2HURN8zIahYUJV481hXJNkC6UqVlsv87I78jY6nAgZiDtINOlvmKglCQp9V4xI6zCqW0YUBvXBSFSM-AmaMz1F40W5cdKUxT2XR28Z4PR72CwuiFjxz1_kpupkmo4iK0R8QvA==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">Eurasia Review</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Testimony by Fiona Hill</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span>during the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001nzdfjRcLP84QhQuG1Yfk5XI4P0p9Mi9lX_wOG6rsR1eXCD27dmje-yFKMu-Muv5efO5DDrE4135yjEU7KWbTFngrwTmxjy1Og9TWcNUmUVr9QBojO1pEjEGSPf164hZ_qLCduUcZQpNQM0HIGzGJskY4580G2Ysmw4ESnchb0GeE5unkePI9AO_JppSOIH4f5GgCIQkNeNdi_YzMxXin9LJKiO09xzDVOcDWA5Pt5camChFPZc6prg==&c=A7DYu4M-PIn82aDg0P-yAlUHWeZ_dppf5VZ0EsFzYJahezYQuFzlaw==&ch=3ZYd56jjOGHtN90EB3zSXi7vXqdDFW-Yavay_0xTuwNdzG0QbHVtTQ==" rel="nofollow" style="color: #48a199;" target="_blank">impeachment hearings</a> that illustrated the transactional character of superpower support, an indication that the Russians would accept US application of the Monroe Doctrine to Venezuela if the US gave them similar authority over Ukraine.</span></div>
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Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-33965738479853491142019-12-25T19:54:00.000+07:002019-12-25T20:03:36.404+07:00<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="background: red; color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The facts about Xinjiang</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Xinjiang Province in the far western region of China is an arid, mountainous and still largely underdeveloped region. Xinjiang has significant oil and mineral reserves and is currently China’s largest natural-gas-producing region.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Xinjiang borders five Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, where more than 1 million U.S. troops and even more mercenaries, contractors and secret agents have operated over four decades in an endless U.S. war.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What is happening in Xinjiang today must be seen in the context of what has been happening throughout Central Asia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This was disputed in a detailed investigative report by Ben Norton and Ajit Singh titled, “No, the UN did not report China has ‘massive internment camps’ for Uighur Muslims.” (The Grayzone.com, Aug. 23, 2018)</span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> They expose how this widely publicized claim is based entirely on unsourced allegations by a single U.S. member, Gay McDougall, on an “independent committee” with an official sounding name: U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has confirmed that no U.N. body or official has made such a charge against China.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After this fraudulent news story received wide coverage, it was followed by “reports” from the Washington-based Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders. This group receives most of its funds from U.S. government grants, primarily from the CIA-linked National Endowment for Democracy, a major source of funding for U.S. “regime change” operations around the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders shares the same Washington address as Human Rights Watch. The HRW has been a major source of attacks on governments targeted by the U.S., such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Syria and China. The network has long called for sanctions against China.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The CHRD’s sources include Radio Free Asia, a news agency funded for decades by the U.S. government. The World Uighur Congress, another source of sensationalized reports, is also funded by NED. The same U.S. government funding is behind the International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation and the Uyghur American Association.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The authors of the Grayzone article cite years of detailed IRS filing forms to back up their claim. They list millions of dollars in generous government funding — to generate false reports.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This whole network of supposedly impartial civil society groups, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks and news sources operates under the cover of “human rights” to promote sanctions and war.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beginning in 1979, the CIA, operating with the ISI Pakistani Intelligence Service and Saudi money, funded and equipped reactionary Mujahedeen forces in Afghanistan to bring down a revolutionary government there. The U.S. cultivated and promoted extreme religious fanaticism, based in Saudi Arabia, against progressive secular regimes in the region. This reactionary force was also weaponized against the Soviet Union and an anti-imperialist Islamic current represented by the Iranian Revolution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For four decades, the CIA and secret Pakistan ISI forces in Afghanistan sought to recruit and train Uyghur mercenaries, planning to use them as a future terror force in China. Chechnyans from Russia’s Caucasus region were recruited for the same reason. Both groups were funneled into Syria in the U.S. regime-change operation there. These fanatical religious forces, along with other small ethnic groups, formed the backbone of the </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Islamic State group </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(IS) and Al-Qaida.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center bombing, the very forces that U.S. secret operations had helped to create became the enemy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Uyghurs from Xinjiang were among the Al-Qaida prisoners captured in Afghanistan and held in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo for years without charges. Legal appeals exposed that the Uyghur prisoners were being held there under some of the worst conditions in solitary confinement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">U.S. wars dislocate region</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and the massive U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 created shockwaves of dislocation. Social progress, education, health care and infrastructure were destroyed. Sectarian and ethnic division was encouraged to divide opposition to U.S. occupations. Despite promises of great progress, the U.S. occupations sowed only destruction.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this long war, U.S. prisons in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq were notorious. The CIA used “enhanced interrogation” techniques — torture — and secret rendition to Guantanamo, Bagram and the Salt Pit in Afghanistan. These secret prisons have since been the source of many legal suits.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to U.N. investigations, by 2010 the U.S. held more than 27,000 prisoners in over 100 secret facilities around the world. Searing images and reports of systematic torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Bagram airbase in Afghanistan surfaced. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Exposing coverup of war crimes</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In July 2010 WikiLeaks published more than 75,000 classified U.S./NATO reports on the war in Afghanistan.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In October of that year, a massive leak of 400,000 military videos, photos and documents exposed, in harrowing detail torture, summary executions and other war crimes. Army intelligence analyst former Private Chelsea Manning released this damning material to WikiLeaks.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Based on the leaked documents, the U.N. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">chief investigator on torture, Manfred Nowak, </span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">called on U.S. President Barack Obama to order a full investigation of these crimes, including abuse, torture, rape and murder committed against the Iraqi people following the U.S. invasion and occupation.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The leaked reports provided documentary proof of 109,000 deaths — including 66,000 civilians. This is seldom mentioned in the media, in contrast to the highly publicized and unsourced charges now raised </span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">against China.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Prosecuting whistle blowers</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The CIA’s National Endowment for Democracy pays handsomely for unsourced documents making claims of torture against China, while those who provided documentary proof of U.S. torture have been treated as criminals. </b></span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>John Kiriakou</b>, who worked for the CIA between 1990 and 2004 and confirmed widespread use of systematic torture, was prosecuted by the Obama administration for revealing classified information and sentenced to 30 months in prison.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Chelsea Manning</b>’s release of tens of thousands of government documents confirming torture and abuse, in addition to horrific photos of mass killings, have led to her continued incarceration. </span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Julian Assange</b> of WikiLeaks is imprisoned in Britain and faces deportation to the U.S. for his role in disseminating these documents.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rewriting history</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How much of the coverage of Xinjiang is intended to deflect world attention from the continuing crimes of U.S. wars — from Afghanistan to Syria?</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 2014 a Senate CIA Torture Report confirmed that a torture program, called “Detention and Interrogation Program,” had been approved by top U.S. officials. Only a 525-page Executive Summary of its 6,000 pages was released, but it was enough to confirm that the CIA program was far more brutal and extensive than had previously been released. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mercenaries flood into Syria</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The U.S. regime-change effort to overturn the government of Syria funneled more than 100,000 foreign mercenaries and fanatical religious forces into the war. They were well-equipped with advanced weapons, military gear, provisions and paychecks. </span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One-third of the Syrian population was uprooted in the war. Millions of refugees flooded into Europe and neighboring countries.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beginning in 2013, thousands of Uyghur fighters were smuggled into Syria to train with the extremist Uyghur group known as the Turkistan Islamic Party. Fighting alongside Al-Qaida and Al-Nusra terror units, these forces played key roles in several battles.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reuters, Associated Press and Newsweek all reported that up to 5,000 </span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turkic-speaking Muslim</span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Uyghurs from Xinjiang were fighting in various “militant” groups in Syria. </span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to Syrian media, a transplanted Uyghur colony transformed the city of al Zanbaka (on the Turkish border) into an entrenched camp of 18,000 people. Many of the Uyghur fighters were smuggled to the Turkish-Syrian border area with their families. Speaking Turkish, rather than Chinese, they relied on the support of the Turkish secret services.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">China follows a different path</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">China is determined to follow a different path in dealing with fanatical groups that are weaponized by religious extremism. China’s action comes after terror attacks and explosives have killed hundreds of civilians in busy shopping areas and crowded train and bus stations since the 1990s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>China has dealt with the problem of religious extremism by setting up large-scale vocational education and training centers. Rather than creating worse underdevelopment through bombing campaigns, it is seeking to engage the population in education, skill development and rapid economic and infrastructure development.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Terrorist attacks in Xinjiang have stopped since the reeducation campaigns began in 2017.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two worldviews of Xinjiang</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In July of this year, 22 countries, </span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">most in Europe plus Canada, Japan, </span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australia and New Zealand, sent a letter to the U.N. Human Rights Council criticizing China for mass arbitrary detentions and other violations against Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. The statement </span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">did not include a single signature from a Muslim-majority state.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Days later, a far larger group of 34 countries — now expanded to 54 from Asia, Africa and Latin America — submitted a letter in defense of China’s policies. These countries expressed their firm support of China’s counterterrorism and deradicalization measures in Xinjiang.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More than a dozen member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the U.N. signed the statement.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A further statement on Oct. 31 to the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly explained that a number of diplomats, international organizations, officials and journalists had traveled to Xinjiang to witness the progress of the human rights cause and the outcomes of counterterrorism and deradicalization. </b></span></span></div>
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political frenzy that surrounds our impeachment hearings.</b> It’s all about
America. And as far as our political establishment is concerned, Ukraine is
just a forward operating base full of Ukrainians eager to die to keep us safe
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Before-and-After Pics Reveal What War Has Done to Syria</span></span></b></div>
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Site by UNESCO have been reduced to rubble through looting, burning, and
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Contrary to the false mainstream narrative, Syria is NOT a ‘civil war’; it is a brutally ‘uncivil’ war of
foreign aggression and illegal regime change for imperialist interests, led by
the gangsters of the US Empire and its terrorist proxies. Australia, to its
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tony Cartalucci:</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">"</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The West’s human rights racket has once again mobilized</b><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b> –
this time supposedly in support of China’s Uyghur minority centered primarily
in the nation’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, China.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">...China’s Uyghur population is a target of foreign efforts to
radicalize and recruit militants to fight proxy wars both across the globe, and
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">...omitted is any mention of systematic terrorism both inside
China and abroad carried out by radicalized Uyghur militants. </span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With this information intentionally and repeatedly omitted,
Chinese efforts to confront and contain rampant extremism are easily depicted
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Within China, Uyghur militants have carried out serial terrorist
attacks… Abroad, Uyghur-linked terrorists are believed to be responsible for
the 2015 Bangkok bombing which targeted mainly Chinese tourists and left 20
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The bombing followed Bangkok’s decision to send Uyghur terror
suspects back to China to face justice – defying US demands that the suspects
be allowed to travel onward to Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">In Turkey, they were to cross the border into Syria where they
would train, be armed, and join terrorists including Al Qaeda and the so-called
Islamic State (ISIS) in the West’s proxy war against Damascus and its allies…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The US National Endowment for Democracy’s own website admits to
meddling all across China and does so so extensively that it felt the necessity
to break down its targeting of China into several regions including mainland,
Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang/East Turkistan…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">By omitting the very real terrorist problem facing China in
Xinjiang as well as elsewhere around the world where state-sponsored Uyghur
terrorists are deployed and fighting, and by depicting China’s campaign to
confront extremism as “repression,” the West aims at further inflaming violent
conflict in Xinjiang and jeopardizing human life – not protecting it…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Uyghur extremism has become a central component in Washington’s
struggle with Beijing over influence in Asia and in a much wider sense,
globally…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">...the US has already openly wielded terrorism as a geopolitical
tool everywhere from Libya where the nation was divided and destroyed by
NATO-led military operations in the air and terrorist-led troops on the ground,
to Syria where the US is all but openly aiding and abetting Al Qaeda and its
affiliates cornered in the northern governorate of Idlib, and even in Yemen
where another AP investigation revealed the US and its allies were cutting
deals with Al Qaeda militants to augment Western and Persian Gulf
ground-fighting capacity….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Exposing and confronting these appendages of Western
geopolitics, and the Western corporate-financier interests themselves directing
their collective agenda is key to diminishing the dangerous influence they have
and all the violence, conflict, division, and destruction they seek to employ
as they have already done in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, and
Syria.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Pardon Assange
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jacob G. Hornberger:</span> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“</span><b style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The Washington Post has just released a trove of previously
secret records documenting that the U.S. war in Afghanistan has been based on a
multitude of lies and deception...</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">But that’s also what Julian Assange and Edward Snowden did. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">They
didn’t publish any lies either. They simply published records that revealed the
truth about the deep state. That’s why the deep state has condemned and
vilified them as bad people, even as traitors — because they revealed the
truth...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Why should anyone who publishes the truth about the deep state
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Why shouldn’t the condemnation and punishment instead be leveled
at the entity that engages in sordid, dark-side practices and the intentional
utterance of lies and deception, especially with respect to something as
important as war?...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The ones who deserve condemnation and punishment are those who
engage in sordid, dark-side practices and who then cover it up and lie about
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Assange and Snowden deserve immediate pardons, which would
enable them to be released from prison and exile and to begin resuming their
normal lives...”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people with eye injuries from the Great Return March are journalists or
photographers.</b> One of them is Sami Musran 35, a photographer who works for
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me, and I received death threats as well," he says. "But I decided to
keep on with my work to reveal the Israeli crimes against unarmed Palestinians
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Israel wants to blind the eyes of the truth by sending messages
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Heidi Boghosian and Michael Steven Smith • November 21, 2019</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">"<b>Douglas Valentine is an investigator and author with a
rare and tenacious approach toward research. His writing results in uniquely
incisive and revealing books on the dark side of U.S. intelligence activities
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">In this bombshell interview, Valentine ups the
ante in his decades-long campaign to expose the agency for what it is: "an
instrument of the rich, political elite [that] does their dirty business."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">His latest book, The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal
Operations Corrupt America and the World, shines a pervasive searchlight on the
agency’s destructive covert activities in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Iraq,
Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">In this interview, Valentine airs the dirty CIA laundry from
plausible deniability, paramilitary wars, drug trafficking and sabotage to
blackmail, betrayal, propaganda, political corruption, assassination, operation
GLADIO, class interests of the CIA establishment, Donald Trump, the Mueller
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Blum—that no matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you think you are, what
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Jan Oberhausen: “...<b>Western, Saudi, Turkish and the Gulf States
supported innumerable illegal, destructive and mainly foreign terrorist groups
with the goal to undermine the legitimate Syrian government and destabilise the
country – as had been recommended by US ambassador William Roebuck in Damascus
as far back as in 2006</b>...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Every war is two wars: the one on the ground and the one in the
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">You begin to understand why Western media, politicians and
experts have virtually avoided every mention of international law – according
to which everything done by the NATO countries and their regional friends, such
as Saudi Arabia, was illegal, an act of aggression on sovereign Syria and never
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">War and other violence is a boomerang.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">You cannot repeatedly do evil things – radical evil things – to
countries, peoples, cultures and nature – without, over time, harming and
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Scott Ritter: “...<b>If an organization like the OPCW can be used
at will by the U.S., the UK and France to trigger military attacks intended to
support regime-change activities in member states, then it no longer serves a
useful purpose to the international community it ostensibly serves.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">To survive as a credible entity, the OPCW must open itself to a
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awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its contributions to world peace, permanently
stained by the reality that it is little more than a lap dog of the United
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>My (incomplete) photographic journey from Bangkok to Singapore.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>We visited many more places, and did much more than shown in these few photos.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>For me, a relaxing holiday to revisit places, and old friends, not seen for far too long.</b></i></span><br />
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Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-61961940256820507372019-07-09T12:51:00.000+07:002019-09-03T23:30:08.348+07:00<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 28pt;">SOME KEY POINTS TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE IRAN CRISIS:</span></b><br />
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*</span></b> </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Iran’s uranium enrichment to higher levels is for their legal peaceful
nuclear programme, still way below the 90% needed for nuclear weapons.</span></span></div>
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*</span></b> </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Iran can reverse these changes when the other signatories honour their
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Israel has nuclear weapons!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">AUDIO INTERVIEW</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;"> with leading Middle East and Asia analyst Dr.
Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran, on what’s really driving US-Iran
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everyone should visit Iran!”</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I travelled on the amazing two-week <b>Intrepid Iran Adventure</b>, </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Many insightful articles </b></span><b style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">on Iran and other news:</b></span></div>
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Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-576868901286080562019-06-28T15:42:00.000+07:002019-06-28T15:58:10.122+07:00<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 36pt;">Shame Australia, shame!</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The Australian Government would
“seriously” consider any US request to join military action against Iran. </span></span><br />
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Australia would seriously consider participating in yet another war crime of
aggression against a country not threatening Australia? Have we learned nothing
from our war crimes based on lies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Unilateral US sanctions and
economic warfare against Iran are already a criminal attack, a war crime, and a
crime against humanity. As with any country, Iran has the legal right to defend
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the international Iran nuclear agreement (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action -
JCPOA), which is obviously a lie, as it also supports the criminal economic
sanctions against Iran.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">According to all available
evidence, Iran has no nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons programme.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Iran has
declared it is not seeking nuclear weapons, and has repeatedly called for a
Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East. Iran’s highest authority Ayatollah
Khamenei has issued a fatwa (religious decree) banning acquisition of nuclear
weapons as illegal. Israel has the nuclear weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Iran still adheres to the
international agreement, which the US unilaterally withdrew from a year ago,
and Iran calls on the other nations to honour their commitments under the
JCPOA, including protecting Iran from the devastating effects of the unilateral
US sanctions. Iran is enriching uranium, but to levels way below weapons grade,
for its legitimate peaceful nuclear programme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Iran, like any other country, is
developing weapons for self-defense against obvious threats, not to attack
Australia or any other country. If attacked, Iran has the means and
determination to defend itself with asymmetrical warfare, which would have
far-reaching consequences. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Casualties would not be limited to Iran, and there
is the real potential of a disastrous regional or even World War. Contrary to
the propaganda, Iran is not the "biggest state sponsor of terrorism"
- that would be the USA and Saudi Arabia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">For Australia to engage in any
military action against Iran, a sovereign country not threatening Australia,
would be a blatant violation of the UN Charter and international law. It would
be a war crime of aggression and a crime against humanity. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The use of force, or
even the threat to use force in an unprovoked attack, is against international
law, which Australia claims to respect. Australia has a bad habit of following
the US into war crimes. It must not be allowed to add Iran to its list.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The Australian people really must
wake up, and speak up against the ongoing war against Iran. If not, they will
share responsibility for the disastrous consequences which will inevitably
follow. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Those conspiring to get into a war with Iran must be restrained. It is
time to end the sanctions, reverse the rhetoric for war, and give diplomacy and
peace a chance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The Australian Government should
be condemned for even entertaining the thought of attacking Iran. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Australia
must unequivocally inform the US government that Australia will not participate
in any military action against Iran. Australia should also end its support for
the brutal economic sanctions and economic warfare against Iran and the Iranian
people.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">If not… Shame
Australia, shame!</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: #F3F3F3; color: red; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 26.0pt;">Background reading
on Iran:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="https://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2018/09/defy-u.html" style="color: #de7008;"><span style="color: #de7008;">https://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2018/09/defy-u.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(243, 243, 243); font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2018/08/i-r-n.html"><span style="color: #de7008; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">https://lemonjuicebruce.blogspot.com/2018/08/i-r-n.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;"><b>Many insightful articles </b></span><b style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;">on Iran and other news:</b></span></div>
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Bruce McPhiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17579815910123232764noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15371237.post-83534986132486435892019-06-26T16:32:00.032+07:002021-07-16T18:41:39.892+07:00<div class="container-fluid font-family-oswald font-weight-300 padding-bottom-15 font-size-16" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 36pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWyHGFmWU5A/YPFseoLTTYI/AAAAAAAAB6c/w0tZ_xn-T3Y7cR4QOGwCVqeLMQBd4zvaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Pompeo_Welcomes_Australian_Foreign_Minister_Payne_25b8e.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWyHGFmWU5A/YPFseoLTTYI/AAAAAAAAB6c/w0tZ_xn-T3Y7cR4QOGwCVqeLMQBd4zvaQCLcBGAsYHQ/w357-h240/Pompeo_Welcomes_Australian_Foreign_Minister_Payne_25b8e.jpg" width="357" /></a></div><b>Will the Australian Government Join in a "Nuremberg Class" Attack on Iran?</b></span></div></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-size: large;">History would suggest that "Canberra" </span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-size: large;">will do whatever it's masters in Washington dictate, willingly or subserviently</span><span face="verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-size: large;">. Australia long ago gave up its independence and sovereignty to
be a colony of the warmongering USA. Sadly, this is bipartisan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana;"><i>War Crimes R Us! </i><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Are Australians, who once proudly stood up for the
battler against the bully, ok with this?</span></b></div>
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based on lies, including in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria? Have we sold out
our </span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">humanity, integrity, empathy, common sense and self-respect, to side again
with an aggressive bully? Do we even understand any of this, given the misinformation
peddled by the corporate-State ‘news’ media? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Or will we finally wake up and
stand up against the corrupted politicians and irresponsible media recklessly
leading us into yet another war of aggression? Iraq </span></span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">déjà vu</span></i><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1c1e21;"> – but warring against Iran will be so much worse, including
for ‘us’!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>For
such a long time, we have been deliberately drip-fed lies and false narratives
about the world, and Iran, so that now what most people believe is actually the
opposite of reality. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Iran
is not the country destabilizing and warring against the world, or the leading
"sponsor of terrorism" - that would be the USA and its allies. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Iran
does not have a nuclear weapons programme, according to everyone except the
deluded warmongers. Even the current uranium enrichment (fully one year after
the US walked away from the international agreement regulating it) is way below
weapons grade and is for legal peaceful purposes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Iran has no nuclear weapons,
and has stated it has no intention of having nuclear weapons – although the
aggressive actions of the US might excuse them if they decide to change their
mind. Israel has the nukes, but we are not allowed to talk about that. And the
US is the only country so far to have ever used them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Iran has
stated it will not be the first to attack.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Actually, the USA has already been
the first to attack, by withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Agreement, and imposing
sanctions and waging economic warfare against the country and people, with
disastrous results. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">But if Iran is militarily attacked, does anyone seriously think
Iran would not respond?</span><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Iran can use asymmetrical warfare with devastating
consequences. Iran is literally surrounded by enemy targets, on land and water.
Imagine the fallout if Iranian missiles were to hit Israeli nuclear weapons? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Does
anyone think a war against Iran, including the current economic warfare, will
have casualties only in Iran? </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">How
about giving up the long-term, illegal ‘regime change’ plan, ending the
sanctions and economic blockade, and giving peace and diplomacy a chance? <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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up people, before we sleep walk into disaster!</b></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I have been dreading getting this news for a long time, but nothing really prepares for the deep sadness and sense of loss when it finally comes. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Long-time friend, comrade, activist for peace and humanity, John Ellis will never be f</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">orgotten by anyone privileged to have known him. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">His life's work will continue to serve future generati</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">ons thanks to his vast and unique collection of photos and documents recording the struggles for a better world, now preserved forever in the Melbourne University Archives. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">My sincere condolences to John's family, friends and especially to Dianne, his faithful partner and carer to the end.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Sadly, today’s world is not yet blessed with the
peace and justice John devoted his whole life to achieving, but his example must
motivate the rest of us to keep struggling for it, with the same positive energy and inspiration shown by the remarkable John Ellis. </span></span></div>
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dead ‘till you’re forgotten. If so, it’ll take a long time for John to go. We
remember his memoirs of a busy life as a PKIU workplace activist in Flinders
Street and later at Hawthorn where he printed many ‘foreigners’ for anti-war
and other campaigns. Like many printers he was fiercely proud of the skills his
trade conferred and the dignity that accompanied it, all of which was embodied
in their union and all that it stood for.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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demonstrations and functions, camera in hand, capturing the event for us all.
Political activism and photography were bound together in John’s life. When
recruiting me as his apprentice for labour movement photography he told me how
he came to it. He and his comrades at anti-war marches were irritated by ASIO
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always carried his camera. Over the years he amassed a remarkable collection of
images and, to his enduring credit, kept them in reasonable order. It is
through John’s work that we have clear, engaging shots of demonstrations,
marches, speeches and songs, sometimes by very famous singers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">John’s sense of
history, which attracted him to the Labour History Society where he maintained
long-term membership, encouraged him to accept the offer from Melbourne
University Archives to take his collection into their archives. They also
helped him to arrange the photos into a coherent order with John’s comments on
the images. As such, they are now the best collection of radical and labour
movement photographs in the country. They stand as an enduring testimony of his
devotion to the movement as well as a legacy for us all to embrace.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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interest in music, toying with various instruments, as many of us do, until he
eventually settled for choral singing with the Victorian Trade Union Choir.
Before that, he was already very keen on political music. He was captivated by
Paul Robeson and all that he represented. Pete Seeger was another of his
favourites who he sought out on a trip to the USA, along with other campaigner
for peace. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">He enjoyed both the singing and the comradeship of the choir, where
he made several deep and enduring friendships. I recall one occasion where he
collapsed during a choir performance at Trades Hall and as the Ambos wheeled
him out of the lift on a gurney, he handed me his camera and commanded me to
get the ‘decisive moment’ as he was carried off. I obeyed and still have the
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about John Brant Ellis but one thing stands out. He was a thoroughly decent,
interesting and engaging comrade. It was always good to be in his company and,
now, to rejoice in the memory of it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"John Brant Ellis was born on 3</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">rd</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> December, 1929 in Melbourne. He was educated at Albert Park Primary School and South Melbourne Technical School. Upon leaving school he completed a six-year apprenticeship to Hand and Machine Composition (Linotype operator). From 1951 till 1955 he held various typesetting jobs in Melbourne and Kalgoorlie as well as having a twelve month break on an overseas trip.<br /><br />John had first become interested in photography when his mother gave him her precious bellows-type Kodak camera to take overseas in 1951..."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">People</span>...<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">are being hit with an avalanche of
propaganda about Venezuela and the government of President Nicolás Maduro. This
happens in the run up to every U.S. war. The tactic is to psychologically
prepare people to accept the </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">coming aggression by connecting it to a noble
cause. The information war always precedes the real war.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The ANSWER Coalition has issued an anti-war call to action —
based on opposition to the U.S.-backed coup, sanctions and war — which allows
people with varying opinions of the Venezuelan government to find the necessary
points of unity to take action together. The PSL agrees that this is the
correct approach for building the movement. With that said, we think it is
critical to challenge the mass media’s depiction of the Venezuelan government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That demonization is constant — led by Donald Trump, Mike Pence,
John Bolton and Marco Rubio and then echoed by the “opposition” like Nancy
Pelosi, Joe Biden, CNN and the New York Times. It is repeated so often that it
has an impact even on progressive people who are against a new war. In opposing
a coup or intervention, many will quickly add “of course I don’t support
Maduro” who is “dictatorial,” “corrupt,” and “undemocratic” or “has mismanaged
the economy.” But is this really true, or is it just propaganda of the
war-makers themselves?</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">President Nicolás Maduro at a rally in support of the Bolivarian Revolution on Feb. 2, 2019. Photo: Prensa Presidencial</span></i></div>
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‘dictator’?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If President Maduro is a dictator, why has he allowed large
demonstrations to take place on a regular basis calling for his ouster,
promoted by huge private media corporations? Does a dictatorship allow 11
opposition partiesto take part in elections, as happened in the most recent
vote the country held last December?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even the U.S.-backed coup leader Juan Guaidó, who pronounced
himself president and every day calls for the military to mutiny and for a
hostile foreign power to intervene, is free to travel around the capital city
giving speeches and holding meetings as part of his campaign to overthrow the
government.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Is the
electoral system fraudulent?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Venezuela has had 24 elections since Chavez was first elected in
1998. International observer missions have long verified the electoral system
as free, fair and top-notch. The right-wing opposition even won some of these
elections and didn’t claim fraud then! The system is unchanged since then. The
claim of electoral fraud has not been backed by evidence; it has been made
precisely because the opposition could not find a way to dislodge the governing
socialist party and President Maduro.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">What about the
images of violence on the streets?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opposition protests large and small take place all the time in
Venezuela without incident. Following Maduro’s first election in 2013,
right-wing forces initiated a series of riots called “guarimbas” in 2014 that
claimed 43 lives. The majority of the 43 people killed were bystanders or
others who were targeted by the rioters, including nine members of the police
or national guard. They set up barricades and barbed wire to close off
intersections and whole neighborhoods, and commit horrific violence against
those who stood in their way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elvis Rafael Durán was one of their victims. His father Luis
recalled two years after his death, “On [my son’s] way home he crashed into a
barbed wire that was hanging across the boulevard and he was decapitated. … If
these people hadn’t called for these violent acts, none of this would have
happened. My son would not have lost his life.” In 2014, an opposition
demonstration marched on a government agency that provides free housing to the
poor and attempted to burn down the building, which included a nursery filled
with children!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The opposition revived these tactics in 2017 with renewed
brutality and with their extreme white supremacy on full display. One of their
victims was a young Afro-Venezuelan named Orlando Figuera, who was stabbed
multiple times, then doused with gasoline and burned alive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The riots were aimed at escalating the conflict with Venezuela’s
government to give the image of instability or provoke the sort of repression
which could usher in an international intervention. Any government would punish
the perpetrators of such violence. One opposition “freedom fighter” celebrated
by U.S. politicians like Marco Rubio was Oscar Perez, who was killed in a
shootout while being arrested. His crime? He had hijacked a helicopter and
dropped grenades on the Venezuelan Supreme Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Despite all this, the government has cracked down on police excesses. After
violent anti-government protests in late 2016, for example, seven police
officers were arrested and charged with “violations of fundamental rights.” In
2014, a police officer was charged with the murder of an opposition protester
despite the fact that he was surrounded and being pelted with rocks. Maduro’s
interior minister defended the officer’s arrest, saying, “We will be relentless
in the application of justice and the law.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Are opposition
leaders being arrested?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The right-wing leaders who were arrested and jailed, like
Leopoldo Lopez, Freddy Guevara and David Smolansky, were those who organized
and encouraged this violent movement. They were not arrested because of their
beliefs. This is who the U.S. considers “political prisoners.” Opposition
parties and leaders, drawing on huge sums from the country’s upper class and
U.S. agencies, continue to organize and agitate openly. One such opposition
leader Henri Falcon ran in the 2018 presidential election and received 2
million votes (just under 20 percent). He accepted his defeat to Maduro.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: purple;">What about the removal of opposition
parties?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of the opposition parties that boycotted the last few
elections have been de-listed by the government. That is true, but hardly a
scandal. In most states in the United States too, a third party is only on the
ballot if it reaches a certain threshold in votes in the last election, and if
it fails to do so it has to start from scratch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Did Maduro
‘ruin the economy’?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The country is in the midst of a serious economic crisis. But
laying the blame on Maduro ignores both the causes of the crisis and the
government’s response.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The main reason for the economic problems is the historic
collapse of the price of oil that began in 2014. For the last 100 years,
Venezuela has depended on oil almost exclusively to fund its national budget
and acquire foreign currency earnings. The Bolivarian Revolution has led to
enormous social progress since Hugo Chavez’s election in 1998, but it has not
yet been able to overcome this legacy of foreign domination, a difficult task
that few countries have been able to accomplish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The price of oil reached a peak of more than $105 per barrel in
June 2014 and then fell dramatically to under $35 in February 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This has been greatly exacerbated by U.S. sanctions against the
industry that has now turned into a full-blown blockade, which Trump’s National
Security Adviser John Bolton estimates will cost Venezuela about $30 million a
day. At the urging of the United States in late 2017, Belgian financial
services firm Euroclear froze $1.65 billion of Venezuelan public funds —
including $450 million of cash! — that the government was attempting to use to
purchase food and medicine. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In January, the Bank of England essentially
plundered $1.2 billion worth of Venezuelan gold that the government had
deposited with them, announcing that they would only allow the coup leader
Guaidó to access the assets. This is pure colonial looting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Is the economic
crisis because of socialism?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">While the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuelan government have
declared that their project is to build socialism and have made major strides
in that direction, the vast majority of the economy is still in the hands of
capitalists. The private sector controls 50 percent of production and
distribution of food, 80 percent of personal hygiene items, 70 percent of
pharmaceutical items, and 80 percent of clothes and shoes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Venezuela exists in a global order dominated by hostile capitalist classes, to
whom it has to sell its exports, such as oil, and from whom it has to import
goods as wide-ranging as food to technology and spare parts. Even the
state-owned and nationalized enterprises have to operate by the rules of those
foreign corporations, banks and creditors. All this creates a large toolkit for
the forces of capitalism — not socialism — to sabotage, extort and undermine
Venezuela’s economic development.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">What about the
inflation?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2003, Hugo Chávez instituted currency exchange controls to
keep the Venezuelan elite from taking their money out of the country and its
banks, exchanging it for dollars, which would leave the country broke and
collapse its currency. Only certain amounts of currency could be exchanged for
dollars and it had to go through government approved institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This led to an underground exchange of currency that widened
over time. When oil prices collapsed, the government could have done what the
governments of the rich do: cut off all social programs, sell off government
assets to private investors, and let the poor fend for themselves and starve.
Instead, the government continued to finance these programs and import food and
medicine with its dwindling foreign currency reserves. The government tried to
issue debt to investors to stabilize its finances, like so many others do, but
U.S. sanctions and a pullout by international capital limited this. In
response, the Maduro government printed more money to import needed food and
technology (for the people). This increased inflationary pressures, however.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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There is also considerable evidence that suggests the U.S. Federal Reserve
devalued Venezuelan currency at various moments for political reasons.
Meanwhile, privately run websites like DolarToday, publishes wildly inflated
estimates of the “true” value of the Venezuelan currency relative to the U.S.
dollar. DolarToday is run by Gustavo Díaz, a former Venezuelan military officer
who participated in the failed 2002 coup. This constitutes a form of
psychological warfare constantly throwing workers and businesses into doubt
about the real value of their wages and products. With each exchange rate
spike, stores increased their prices, but, fearing future instability, did not
then lower prices in equal measure when the exchange rate declined. This too
accelerated inflation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, private distributors and importers hoarded goods to
inflate their costs and deepen the social crisis. State-subsidized and
price-controlled goods (such as gasoline) have been pilfered into the
underground market and resold at huge profits at the Colombian border. For
instance, one raid conducted by security forces in 2015 uncovered a stockpile of
176,000 liters of gasoline, 1,260 liters of vehicle oil, 2,000 cases of beer,
two tons of sugar, three tons of rice, a half ton of cooking oil and nearly 15
tons of other essential food goods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Altogether these factors created a crisis of confidence in the
currency as a whole. Mistakes and mismanagement are of course part of the
problem — as the government has always declared — but at its core Venezuela has
been punished by international capitalism for continuing to prioritize the
needs of the poor throughout this economic downturn and against the sanctions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Is the
government letting people starve?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">No. Six million families now benefit from a new initiative
called Local Committees for Supply and Production that directly distributes
packages of essential food and other consumer goods on a regular basis to those
who are most affected by inflation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Venezuelan government has repeatedly raised the minimum wage
to try and make up for inflationary pressures. Other steps include making the
metro transportation system of Caracas, although already affordable, completely
free so people can go to work and school unimpeded by finances.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Are all the
country’s resources being stolen by the Venezuelan leadership, as the U.S.
government claims?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is of course bureaucratic corruption in Venezuela, as the
government readily admits, and as there is in many countries. But in the face
of this crisis, the Venezuelan government has focused on defending the living
standards of poor and working people. In 2016, during the collapse of oil
prices, the Venezuelan government allocated 73 percent of its budget to social
programs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2017, Maduro announced a new program aimed at guaranteeing
jobs to young people called Chamba Juvenil. Nearly 200,000 youths enrolled in
the program. Venezuelan youth, especially those historically excluded from
higher education because of poverty, now enjoy free education and real
opportunity, thanks to 45 public universities and colleges that have been
created in 20 years of the Bolivarian Revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps the Maduro government’s most impressive social program
is the Grand Housing Mission Venezuela, an initiative to give free or nearly
free homes to every Venezuelan who is in need of dignified housing. At the
beginning of this year, the Housing Mission reached a new milestone: 2.5
million new homes constructed and distributed to the people. Taking an average
family size of four, this means one-third of Venezuela’s 30 million people
benefiting from the program. Imagine the U.S. government — which is far richer
— providing homes to 100 million poor people!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">What about the
medical shortages?</span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Venezuela’s constitution guarantees the right to medical care,
and more than 20,000 Cuban doctors and nurses provide free care to the
population. With Cuban-Venezuelan cooperation, thousands of Venezuelans have
been trained to become the new generation of doctors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But these health gains have been threatened by U.S. sanctions
and even right-wing violence targeting these facilities and doctors. In 2018,
Venezuela’s purchase order of five major medical shipments was blocked by U.S.
banks under government order. The year’s vaccination program for children was
delayed for five months, and the country’s 60,000-plus diabetics were denied
insulin, again because of U.S. sanctions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The United Nations and Red Cross have both declared that the
“aid” at the Colombian border does not meet the definition of humanitarian,
which has to be neutral, apolitical and requested by the receiving country. Why
would Venezuela allow the very countries that have looted its resources and
treasury to now pretend to be for “humanitarian aid”? It rightly views this as
political theater to try and humiliate the government in the media and provoke
it into a military conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Venezuela has not rejected aid from its international friends.
Venezuelan Health Minister Carlos Alvarado announced last week the arrival of
933 tons of medicines and medical supplies from China, Cuba, and the Pan
American Health Organization. Earlier this week, President Maduro announced
that 300 tons of Russian aid is scheduled to arrive soon. This is more than 10
times the amount being “offered” by USAID, whose director has been giving
militant speeches calling for regime change in Venezuela.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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There is no need to bow before the lies about Venezuela from Trump, Bolton or
Senator Marco Rubio. There is a reason that the Maduro government continues to
enjoy its widest support among the country’s poor and working class, even
though they have been hit hardest by the economic crisis. Millions see that the
government and United Socialist Party has consistently tried to make society
more just, equal, participatory and independent — and that is precisely why
U.S. imperialism and the country’s oligarchy are trying to strangle it.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/242059076711261/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1165ab; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">On March 16</a>, <span style="color: #cc0000;">the people of the United States will come together to say: </span></span></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">U.S. hands off Venezuela! </b></span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>NO to the coup</b> — the U.S. does not have the right to select other country’s leaders!</span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>NO to the sanctions, oil embargo and economic war on Venezuela</b> that aims to cause suffering for ordinary people in the country.</span></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>NO to intervention and war from the U.S. and their proxies in the region</b></span></span></li>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Signers:</span></span></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">ANSWER Coalition</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">CodePink</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Black Alliance for Peace</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Alliance for Global Justice</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">San Francisco Central Labor Council</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Popular Resistance</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Haïti Liberté</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">International Support Haiti Network</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Popular Education Project</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Abby Martin, journalist, The Empire Files</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dr. Jill Stein, 2016 Green Party presidential candidate</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dr. Jared Ball, Prof. of Communication Studies, Morgan State Univ., imixwhatilike</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Medea Benjamin, activist and author, CodePink</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Cindy Sheehan, activist and author, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Berthony Dupont, Director, Haïti Liberté</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, constitutional rights attorney</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Max Blumenthal, journalist</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer, Black Alliance for Peace</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Mike Prysner, Iraq War veteran, producer, The Empire files</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, author</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dr. Anthony Monteiro, Saturday Free School</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dr. Jodi Dean, author, Prof. of Political Science, Hobart & William Smith Colleges</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Gloria La Riva, National Coordinator, Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Kim Ives, journalist</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Anoa Changa, host, The Way With Anoa</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dan Cohen, journalist and filmmaker</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Eugene Puryear, Stop Police Terror Project</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Jeanette Charles, International Solidarity Liaison, Venezuela Analysis</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Lucas Koerner, Editor and Analyst, Venezuela Analysis</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Margaret Flowers, Co-Coordinator, Popular Resistance</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Kevin Zeese, Co-Coordinator, Popular Resistance</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dan Kovalik, author and human rights lawyer</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Mahdi Bray, National Director, American Muslim Alliance (AMA)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Brian Becker, National Director, ANSWER Coalition</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">615 U.S. West Coast Committee</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Arab Americans for Syria</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Baltimore Peace Action</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">BAYAN Pacific Northwest</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Canadian Peace Congress</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Centro Autónomo de Albany Park, Chicago</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Chicago ALBA Solidarity</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Christian Network for Liberation and Equality</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Clínica Martín-Baró (San Francisco, CA)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">D19: FNRP/LIBRE, USA-Canada</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Democratic Socialists of DePauw</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Eastern Masschusetts Pride at Work, AFL-CIO</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice - Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (Canada)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Friends of the Congo</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Global Women's Strike</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Green Party of New Jersey</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Green Party US Peace Action Committee</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">GW Progressive Student Union</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Int'l Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">International Action Center</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Internationalist Students' Front at GW</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Jamaica Patriotic Movement</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Juan Jose Gutierrez, director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Korean Peace Alliance</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Labor Fightback Network</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Malcolm X Center</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) - Vancouver, Canada</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Monmouth County Green Party</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Movimiento 26 de Abril-Puerto Rico</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">National Lawyers Guild/L.A.</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">New Mexico Raging Grannies</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Office of the Americas</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Peace Action of San Mateo County</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">People United Against Oppression</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Pittsburgh Anti-Imperialist League</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Pride at Work, Massachusetts AFL-CIO</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Puerto Rican Nationalist Party</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Roofers Local 36</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">RootsAction.org</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">San José Peace and Justice Center</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Seattle Anti War Coalition</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Seed the Commons</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Socialist Coalition of North Georgia</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Socialist Rifle Association</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Sri Lanka Peace & Solidarity Council</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">St. Pete for Peace</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Stop the War Machine</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Task Force on Americas</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Tennessee Activist Coalition</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The Peace House, OKC</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Unidad Latina en Accion</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Veterans For Peace</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Veterans For Peace Chapter 099</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Veterans For Peace Chapter 89 Nashville</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Washtenaw Reds</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Wilder Utopia</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">WNC 4 Peace</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Women In Black Lancaster</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Women of Color in the Global Women's Strike</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Coleen Rowley (Apple Valley, Minnesota)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dominic Moulden (Washington, DC)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dr. Henry Clark (Richmond, Ca)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Elaine Kinch (Racine, WI)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Walter Lippmann (Los Angeles, CA)</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Alan Minsky, Progressive Democrats of America*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Ann Wright, Retired US Army Colonel and former US diplomat*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Arnold Matlin, Rochester Committee on Latin America*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Carolyn/Tom Horvath/Leonhardt, Hope House of Prayer*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Corry Hughes, For the People, By the People Indivisible North Country NH*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Danilo Udovicki, University of Texas at Austin, associate professor School of Architecture*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dr Eulalia Reyes, Australia - Venezuela Solidarity Network*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Gar Smith, Environmentalists Against War*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Gayle McLaughlin, California Progressive Alliance*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Gerry Condon, President, Veterans For Peace*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Jim Lafferty, Executive Director Emeritus of the National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">John Beacham, Crashing the System Podcast*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Johnny Achi, Co-Founder Arab Americans for Syria*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Jon Flanders, Troy Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Juan José Gutiérrez, Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Lucy Pagoada, D19: FNRP/LIBRE, USA-Canada*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Madelyn Hoffman, New Jersey Peace Council *</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Susanna Cooper, Jemez Action Group*</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Valerie Robinson, Stop Targeting Ohio's Poor*</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 26pt;">“The US plan
failed to prevent an election, the election was contested and it was fair…”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Ted
Snider:</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">“…</span><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">an election narrative quite different from the one offered
by the Venezuelan opposition and its American allies and repeated by the
mainstream press emerges when some of the unsupported premises are questioned</span></b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">… </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No
one seriously claims that Maduro’s opponent, Henri Falcón, won more votes in
the 2018 election. It wasn’t even close… </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Voter
turnout was low because Maduro’s opposition called on its followers not to
vote</b>…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maduro
had initiated a series of negotiations with the opposition, during which an
election date was agreed upon… At the last minute before the agreement was to
be signed, the opposition withdrew and refused to sign. But they didn’t do it
because they didn’t agree with the terms. <b>They did it because they wanted to
claim that an election held without them was illegitimate</b>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that part of the story is sometimes told – though not very often in the
mainstream media – the striking part that is never told is that <b>it was the U.S.
that told the radical opposition to boycott the election to create the
appearance of illegitimacy</b>…<b> </b></span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">then
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the opposition’s spokesperson, Julio
Borges, and instructed him to refuse to sign the agreement…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the
plan was not just an election that was boycotted by the radical opposition, but
an election that was boycotted by every serious opposition candidate, so that
Maduro could win only an uncontested victory… <b>it was also meant to get Falcón
to boycott the election</b>…<b> But Falcón did not join the boycott</b>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">the
leading opposition contender for Venezuela’s May presidential election, Henri
Falcón, was told by US officials that the Trump administration would consider
financial sanctions against him if he entered the presidential race… </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the
larger US plan was to hold all opposition candidates back, leaving an
uncontested Maduro looking like the illegitimately anointed dictator of
Venezuela…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>the
election was not the uncontested anointing of Maduro that the opposition and
the media portray. Henri Falcón offered the electorate a legitimate alternative
to Maduro</b>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maduro
and Venezuela’s U.N. ambassador formally asked the UN to send observers to monitor
the election. Falcón went to New York with the ambassador so that he, too,
could try to persuade the UN to monitor the elections. It was the bloc of
opposition boycotters – and some say the US – who acted as obstructionists and
asked the UN not to send the monitors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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they couldn’t present the election as illegitimate because it was uncontested,
then they would attempt to present it as illegitimate because it was
unmonitored…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What
the mainstream media never mentions, though, is that, even under the weight of
opposition obstructionism, the elections were not unmonitored. At least four
different groups of international observers monitored the election</b>…<b> All four
certified the election as fair</b>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So,
the US plan failed to prevent an election, the election was contested and it
was fair…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">…<b>The
Venezuelan opposition is typically presented by the media as a monolithic bloc.
It is not. </b>The coalition represented by Juan Guaidó is an extremist group that
has been largely discredited in Venezuela because of their past illegal
involvement in coups and street violence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There
is also a more moderate opposition. And that more moderate opposition has not
followed Guaidó down the road of abandoning the electoral arena in favor of
international pressure and coups. They have not even endorsed Guaidó…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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received the votes of 31% of all eligible voters: more than Trump received in
2016 or Obama in 2012. It is not even obvious that the opposition is united
behind Guaidó.</b>”</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of
Venezuela Doesn’t Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">This exposes how US and other governments, such as
Australia, which recognize Guaido as "interim president of
Venezuela", are acting fraudulently.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As Alfred de Zayas, United Nations
independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international
order, tweeted: </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">“Article 233 of the Venezuelan constitution is inapplicable and
cannot be twisted into legitimizing Guaidó’s self-proclamation as interim
President. A coup is a coup.”</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Roger Harris</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">: “Donald Trump
imagines Juan Guaidó is the rightful president of Venezuela. Mr. Guaidó, a man
of impeccable illegitimacy, was exposed by Cohen and Blumenthal as “a product
of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change
trainers.”... <b>Here, his constitutional credentials to be interim president of
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although anointed by Trump and company, Guaidó’s Popular Will
Party is not representative of the “Venezuelan opposition,” which is a
fractious bunch whose hatred of Maduro is only matched by their abhorrence of
each other. <b>Leading opposition candidate Henri Falcón, who ran against Maduro
in 2018 on a neo-liberal austerity platform</b>, had been vehemently opposed by
Popular Will who demanded that he join their US-backed boycott of the election…<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The Guaidó/Trump cabal does not reflect the democratic consensus
in Venezuela</b>, where polls consistently show super majorities oppose outside
intervention. </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Popular opinion in Venezuela supports negotiations between the
government and the opposition as proposed by Mexico, Uruguay, and the Vatican.
The Maduro administration has embraced the negotiations as a peaceful solution
to the crisis facing Venezuela.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The US government rejects a negotiated solution</b>, in the words of
Vice President Pence: “This is no time for dialogue; this is time for action.”
This intransigent position is faithfully echoed by Guaidó…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Guaidó/Trump cabal’s fig leaf for legitimacy is based on the
bogus argument that Article 233</b> of the Venezuelan constitution gives the
National Assembly the power to declare a national president’s “abandonment” of
the office. In which case, the president of the National Assembly can serve as
an interim national president, until presidential elections are held. The
inconvenient truth is that Maduro has shown no inclination to abandon his post,
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ), which is the separate
supreme court branch of the Venezuelan government has certified Maduro’s
reelection, as have independent international observers. Further, <b>no appeal was
filed by any of the boycotting parties, while all participating parties –
including opposition ones – signed off on the validity of the election after
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Alfred de Zayas, United Nations independent expert on the
promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, tweeted: “Article
233 of the Venezuelan constitution is inapplicable and cannot be twisted into
legitimizing Guaidó’s self-proclamation as interim President. A coup is a
coup.”</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paul Craig Roberts: <b>“Nothing better illustrates Washington’s
opposition to democracy and self-determination than the blatantly public coup
Washington has organized against the properly elected president of Venezuela… </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moon of Alabama’s explanation of Washington’s attack on Venezuela gives you a
truer picture that differs completely from the lies voiced by the American and
European politicians and presstitute media, a collection of whores who are
devoid of all integrity and all morality and lie for their living…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">...If Russia and China quickly established a military presence
in Venezuela to protect their loans and oil investments, Venezuela could be
saved, and other countries that would like to be independent would take heart
that, although there is no support for self-determination anywhere in the
Western World, the former authoritarian countries will support it. Other
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Venezuela is an opportunity for Russia and China to assume the
leadership of the world</b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">, but I doubt the Russian and Chinese governments have
the vision to seize the opportunity and, thereby, fundamentally change the
world. Putin is wasting his breath when he correctly criticizes Washington for
its violations of international law. In Washington’s view, law is what serves
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moon of Alabama</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">: “…<b>The U.S. is
using the pretext of 'delivering humanitarian aid' from Columbia to Venezuela
to undermine the government</b> and to establish a supply line for further
operations… The government of Venezuela does not reject aid that comes without
political interference. Last year it accepted modest UN aid which consisted
mostly of medical supplies from which Venezuela had been cut off due to U.S.
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The International Red Cross, the Catholic church's aid
organization Caritas and the United Nati</b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>ons rejected U.S. requests to help
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Rejecting aid out of political reasons is not unusual.</b> When the
hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused huge damage along the U.S. gulf coast, a
number of countries offered humanitarian and technical aid. U.S. President Bush
accepted help from some countries, but rejected aid from oth</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">er ones: An offer
of aid from the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, which included two mobile
hospital units, 120 rescue and first aid experts and 50 tonnes of food, was
rejected, according to the civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson. Mr Jackson said
the offer from the Venezuelan leader…included 10 water purification plants, 18
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The U.S. intent to establish a 'humanitarian aid' supply line
into Venezuela has a secondary purpose.</b> Such aid is the ideal cover for weapon
supplies. In the 1980s designated 'humanitarian aid' flights for Nicaragua were
filled with weapons. The orders for those flights were given by Elliot Abrams
who is now Trump's special envoy for Venezuela…</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Officials in Venezuela have accused the US of sending a cache of
high-powered rifles and ammunition on a commercial cargo flight from Miami so
they would get into the hands of President Nicolás Maduro's opponents… Where
one such weapon transport is caught multiple are likely to go through.</span></b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But to run a war against the government pure weapon supplies are
not enough. The U.S. will have to establish a continuous supply line for heavy
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Under the current government most people in Venezuela are still better
off than under the pre-Chavez governments</b>... The people will not forget that
even when the economic situation will become more difficult. They know who is
pulling the strings behind the Random Guy Guaido who now claims the presidency.
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">U.S. politicians are making the same mistakes with regards to
Venezuela as they made with the regime change wars on Iraq and Syria. They
believe that all people are as corrupt and nihilistic as they are…”</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: normal;">One of the
most respected independent economists gives an </span></em><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">understanding of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">the state of Venezuela’s
economy when Chavez came to power, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">the
various reforms and changes that he introduced, the causes of the current economic
crisis in Venezuela, and how to rescue it. </span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 107%;">How Chrystia Freeland
Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eric Zuesse</span></b><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">: “…Her active
effort to replace Venezuela’s Government began with her formation of the Lima
Group, nearly two years ago. And she and Trump together chose whom to replace
Venezuela’s President, Nicholas Maduro, by: Juan Guaido. Guaido had secretly
courted other Latin American leaders for this, just as Freeland had already
done, by means of her secretly forming the Lima Group.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On 25 January 2019, the AP bannered “AP Exclusive: Anti-Maduro
coalition grew from secret talks” and reported that the man who now claims to
be Venezuela’s legitimate President (though he had never even run for that
post), Juan Guaido, had secretly visited foreign countries in order to win
their blessings for what he was planning…<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Regardless of whether or not the Trump-Freeland-Luna program for
Venezuela succeeds, democracy and human rights won’t be advanced by it; but, if
it succeeds, the fortunes of US-and-allied billionaires will be. It’s part of
their global privatization program…</b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s their dream. They want to monopolize the corruption
everywhere, not to end it, anywhere. And that’s why they distort and blatantly
lie about Venezuela’s democratic constitution now, just as they did about
Ukraine’s democratic constitution in February 2014. <b>It’s, essentially, a
lawless international gang of billionaire thugs. It is the international Deep
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Really ‘Steal’ the 2018 Election from an Unknown Who Didn’t Run?</span></b></div>
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didn’t even run in the 2018 presidential election. Henri Falcón was the opposition
politician who finished a very distant second in that election… Nobody has
shown or even attempted to show that any votes, never mind millions of votes,
were stolen from Falcón… in 2012, Jimmy Carter said the Venezuelan electoral
system was the best in the world…</b></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So wh</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">y wasn’t Falcón ‘recognized’ by Trump? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What’s the argument for Trump anointing Guaidó?<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The US recognizes the 2015 national assembly election won by the
opposition – as it would definitely have recognized the 2018 presidential election
had Falcón won. And part of article 233 of the Venezuelan constitution says
that if the president “abandons” his post, the president of the national
assembly takes over until new elections are held. Guaidó was very recently
named the national assembly president.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Clearly, Maduro did not ‘abandon’ the
presidency by soundly beating Henri Falcón in a clean election that was marred,
if anything, by murderous US interference</b>…”</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"Call this elision what it is: war propaganda."</b></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gregory Shupak:</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">“The US media c</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">horus supporting a US overthrow of the
Venezuelan government has for years pointed to the country’s economic crisis as
a justification for regime change, while whitewashing the ways in which the US
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thus, the US government acknowledges that it is knowingly,
consciously driving the Venezuelan economy into the ground</b>, but US media make
no such acknowledgment, which sends the message that the problems in Venezuela
are entirely the fault of the government, and that the US is a neutral arbiter
that wants to help Venezuelans. Call this elision what it is: war propaganda.”</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 107%;">Former US President Carter:
Venezuela’s Electoral System “Best in the World”</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">...“of the 92 elections that we’ve
monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the
world.” Venezuela has developed a fully automated touch-screen voting system,
which now uses thumbprint recognition technology and prints off a receipt to
confirm voters’ choices. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the context of the Carter Centre’s work monitoring
electoral processes around the globe, Carter also disclosed his opinion that in
the US “we have one of the worst election processes in the world, and it’s
almost entirely because of the excessive influx of money,” he said referring to
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On US Venezuela Coup</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If Guaidó comes to power and privatizes PDVSA, U.S. oil
companies — with Chevron and Halliburton leading the pack — stand to make
record profits in the world’s most oil-rich nation, as they did in Iraq
following the privatization of its national oil industry after U.S. intervention.</b></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whitney Webb</span></b><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">: “…the current
U.S. effort to topple the government led by Chavista politician Nicolás Maduro
has become notable for the openness of the “coup architects” in admitting that
putting American corporations – Chevron and Halliburton chief among them — in
charge of Venezuelan oil resources is the driving factor behind this aggressive
policy… <b>However, the timing of the Trump administration’s regime-change push in
Venezuela is key.</b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While companies like Chevron and Halliburton have been
hemorrhaging profits in recent years, they have so far withstood the fallout
due to the record high production of U.S. shale oil. Yet, the “golden age” of
U.S. shale is quickly disappearing, with top industry insiders like Harold Hamm
along with Halliburton’s rival company, Schlumberger, expecting shale output
growth to slow by as much as 50 percent this year. Hamm is a close confidant of
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If this comes to pass, American oil companies will be in a bad
way. <b>Yet, if Guaidó comes to power and privatizes PDVSA, U.S. oil companies —
with Chevron and Halliburton leading the pack — stand to make record profits in
the world’s most oil rich nation, as they did in Iraq following the
privatization of its national oil industry after U.S. intervention.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Worst of all, as the U.S.’ past interventions in Iraq and Libya
and elsewhere have shown, Washington stands willing to kill untold thousands of
innocent people in Venezuela — either through direct military intervention or a
proxy war — to benefit American oil companies. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Will the American people let yet
another presidential administration destroy an entire nation for Chevron,
Halliburton and other powerful American corporations?...”</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%;">Venezuela: The US’s 68th
Regime Change Disaster</span></b></div>
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are looking at an almost irresistible gold mine if they can bring Venezuela to
its knees... But the only things that will force a radical change in US policy
are public outrage, education, and organizing, and international solidarity
with the people of Venezuela."</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 36pt;">John Perkins - Confessions of an economic
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man, and it rapidly rose up The New York Times’ best-seller
list. In it, Perkins describes his career convincing heads of state to adopt
economic policies that impoverished their countries and undermined democratic
institutions. These policies helped to enrich tiny, local elite groups while
padding the pockets of U.S.-based transnational corporations… </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If economic
pressure and threats didn’t work, Perkins says, the jackals were called to
either overthrow or assassinate the non-compliant heads of state. That is,
indeed, what happened to Allende, with the backing of the CIA…”</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%;">The Making of Juan Guaido:
How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by
Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of
democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of
destabilization.</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Max Blumenthal</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">: “…While Guaidó seemed to have materialized out of nowhere, he
was, in fact, the product of more than a decade of assiduous grooming by the US
government’s elite regime change factories… While Guaidó is today sold as the
face of democratic restoration, he spent his career in the most violent faction
of Venezuela’s most radical opposition party, positioning himself at the
forefront of one destabilization campaign after another…<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“‘These radical leaders have no more than 20 percent in opinion
polls,” wrote Luis Vicente León, Venezuela’s leading pollster. According to
Leon, <b>Guaidó’s party remains isolated because the majority of the population
“does not want war. ‘What they want is a solution.’”</b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But this is precisely why he Guaidó was selected by Washington:
he is not expected to lead Venezuela towards democracy, but to collapse a
country that for the past two decades has been a bulwark of resistance to US
hegemony. His unlikely rise signals the culmination of a two-decades-long
project to destroy a robust socialist experiment…”</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 107%;">Internal US Gov’t Document
Outlines Program of ‘Economic Warfare’ on Venezuela</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>An internal government document reveals tactics of “economic
warfare” and “financial weapons” the US is using against Venezuela in the name
of “furthering capitalism.”</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ben Norton</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">: “…President
Trump’s ultra-militaristic National Security Adviser John Bolton echoed these
priorities in an interview with Fox Business. “We’re in conversation with major
American companies now… I think we’re trying to get to the same end result
here,” Bolton declared. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“It will make a big difference to the United States
economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and
produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.”</b>…”</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Major-General Smedley Butler</b> (1881-1940): </span></span></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 36pt;">“War is a racket”.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-large;"><b>It was then; it is now. Why believe the lies about Venezuela
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">3-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, twice decorated with
the Medal of Honor, America's most decorated soldier became a whistle blower
against the racket of wa</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">r</span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Butler famously confessed to having been a “high
class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In
short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“…I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American
oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the
National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half
a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record
of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international
banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican
Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras “right”
for American fruit companies in 1903…”</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 28pt;">“Economic Warfare” against Venezuela. Illegal
US Sanctions Causing Economic and Humanitarian Crisis according to Former UN
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“A former United Nations rapporteur has criticised the US for
engaging in “economic warfare” against Venezuela which he claimed was the real
reason for the economic and humanitarian crisis facing the country.</b></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Alfred de Zayas, who last year became the first UN rapporteur to
visit Venezuela for 21 years, also suggested in his recently published UN
report, that <b>US sanctions on the country are illegal and could amount to
“crimes against humanity” under international law</b>… </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. De Zayas is one of 70
signatories of an open letter, along with with Noam Chomsky and over 70 other
academics and experts, who have condemned what they described as a US-backed
coup attempt against the Venezuelan government.”</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 107%;">Venezuela: Let’s Cut to the
Chase</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">By Pepe Escobar</span></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Caracas has committed the ultimate cardinal sin in the eyes of Exceptionalistan;
oil trading bypassing the US dollar or US-controlled exchanges. Remember Iraq.
Remember Libya.</span></span></b></span></div>
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his analysis of Venezuela’s political crisis. He says Juan Guaido’s “real
constituency is in Washington” and that he’s at the forefront of a years-long
destabilization campaign orchestrated by the US.</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 36.0pt;">ELLIOTT ABRAMS</span></b><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 28.0pt;">, TRUMP’S PICK TO BRING
“DEMOCRACY” TO VENEZUELA, </span></b><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">HAS SPENT HIS LIFE CRUSHING
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Elliott Abrams, America’s special envoy to
Venezuela, participated in many of the most ghastly acts of U.S. foreign policy
from the past 40 years, all the while proclaiming how deeply he cared about the
foreigners he and his friends were murdering, writes <b>Jon Schwarz</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Network: US Special Envoy on Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, is back
in the halls of power after a career of supporting dictators, violence and
genocide around the world</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><br />
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for America the issue in Venezuela is oil, not democracy, will surprise only
those who watch the news and ignore history. Venezuela has the world’s largest
oil reserves on the planet.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">“Veterans For Peace is outraged at the unfolding coup d’etat in
Venezuela, which is clearly being orchestrated by the U.S. government. Two
hundred years of blatant U.S. intervention in Latin America must come to an
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985, in part prompted by the
U.S.-backed “contra” war in Nicaragua, and U.S. support for the right wing
government in the bloody civil war in neighboring El Salvador. We did not want
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Years of increasingly crippling U.S. sanctions have succeeded in
destabilizing the Venezuelan economy and created great unrest, division and
migration. The U.S. government encouraged Venezuelan opposition parties to
boycott last year’s election. Now they are calling the election fraudulent, and
attempting to install a little-known politician more to their liking. This is
part of a dangerous game that the U.S. continues to play throughout Latin
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">THE WAR ON
VENEZUELA IS BUILT ON LIES</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #1c1e21;">John Pilger</span></b><span style="color: #1c1e21;"> looks back
over the Chavez years in Venezuela, including his own travels with Hugo Chavez,
and the current US and European campaign to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in a 'coup
by media' and to return Latin America to the 19th and 20th centuries.<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Venezuela – US
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economist and geopolitical analyst, after working for over <span style="font-size: x-small;">30 years with the
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Adam H. Johnson</b>: "...the instinct to alleviate that
suffering is a healthy one. But a craven marketing stunt by far-right Cold
Warriors - without any buy-in from actual aid organizations - cannot be taken
at face value..."<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">US Media Erase
Years of Chavismo’s Gains</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Gregory Shupak</b>: Under President Hugo Chávez, poverty in
Venezuela was cut by more than a third, and extreme poverty by 57 percent. In
2013, the UN included Venezuela in a group of 18 nations that that had cut
their number of hungry people by half. In 2014, the resident UN coordinator for
Venezuela called the country “one of the leading countries in Latin America and
the Caribbean in reducing inequality.” These kinds of social gains have been
almost entirely written out of media coverage of the effort to overthrow the
Venezuelan government.<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Claims of ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ in Venezuela</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“…The “humanitarian crisis” is a category of the International
Humanitarian Law… The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) considers
Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Syria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (in all these
crises the U.S. played a direct or indirect role) as countries that qualify for
the category of “humanitarian crisis”… Venezuelans do not face all these issues
and whatever issues are there, are much less intensified… Western media are
only interested in showing the 4.4 percent of extreme poverty… they are turning
a blind eye to the fact that the U.S. sanctions are the main reason for
economic problems in the country along with private companies boycotting
Venezuelan goods… Calling out the fakeness of the humanitarian aid for “hungry”
people of Venezuela, the President said to BBC, “It's very simple if you want
to help Venezuela, release the billions of dollars in resources that belong to
us. So don't come with a cheap show, a show of indignity, of humiliation...”…</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Venezuela
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<b><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The World Today With Tariq Ali - No War in
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tariq spoke at a
public meeting in London, where many attended to express their solidarity with
the people of Venezuela, and to reject the coup attempt by the United States
and their allies.<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who Is Joanna Hausmann?</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why is Joanna Hausmann
(Joanna Hausmann Comedy), whose father is a member of the Central Bank of
Venezuela and chair of the World IMF bank committee, becoming a mainstream
media sensation and talking head on the crisis in Venezuela to push for regime
change and US intervention? Kei Pritsker breaks it down:<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">That is the overwhelming message from my two
week Intrepid Iran Adventure holiday. Iran was amazing! Our excellent, small
group of 6 travellers from Australia, UK and the USA included a professional
travel writer who has so far been to more than 80 countries</span><span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">, and rated Iran in his top 5
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<span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Our Intrepid tour leader, Nadia, was exceptional,
sharing her vast knowledge of Iran’s rich history and culture, and introducing
us to today’s Iran with passion and fun and ‘secret’ local interactions we
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She was saddened by the reduced number of visitors this year, perhaps due to
misinformation about Iran, which has had a negative impact on the local
economy. The U.S. sanctions have made life harder for the people, but with
the government subsidizing food and other services, Iran is actually a low-cost
destination for foreign tourists.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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Everywhere we went, the people were welcoming and helpful, curious to know
where we were from, and what we thought of their country. Contrary to the
misinformation, Iran is a safe place to travel.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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We were all impressed by the friendliness and honesty of the people, the
stunning beauty of the architecture and natural landscapes, and the rich
history and culture of the past and present. Iran has a young population,
with the hope of evolving and prospering in the future, if spared the ravages
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<span style="background: rgb(243 , 243 , 243); font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Walking around the stunning UNESCO World
Heritage sites and bustling, modern cities, I kept thinking of the similar
sites of Iran’s neighbours bombed into rubble by U.S.-led wars, hoping
Iran can be spared the same terrible fate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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emotionally-charged journey of discovery, greatly surpassing my expectations.
Since returning, I read again what I had posted on my blog before going to
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now been corrected to more than 80 countries. (Bruce)</span><br />
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ourselves what it’s like. That's just what I am doing!</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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it very different and much better than what they expected. Visitors are
pleasantly impressed by the welcoming warmth and friendliness of the people,
and the impressive history and culture of the country. The Iranian
people are suffering financially from the criminal U.S. sanctions – a blatant
act of war. All the more reason to support them, and call for sanctions against
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Nikki Vargas: “…Meet Nadia Badiee, a tour guide for Intrepid
Travel’s new Women’s Expedition Tour to Iran, which leads women on a 12-day
trip from Shiraz to Eghlid and beyond. Badiee—a progressive woman in her own
right— aims to debunk the many assumptions that surround Iran and its women by
leading a trip that takes travelers behind-the-scenes to meet some of Iran’s
entrepreneurial and forward-thinking ladies… </span></span></div>
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Iran should form their opinion by reading about other tourist’s experiences and
watching some of the videos that these same tourists have made. This way,
travelers will discover that the newspapers are too negative and pessimistic.
Iran is a beautiful and peaceful country that welcomes foreigners of all
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Economic war on Iran is war on Eurasia integration</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>By Pepe Escobar: </b>"...The U.S. sa</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nctions offensive, launched after Washington’s
unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal, should be interpreted as an
advance gambit in the New Great Game at whose center lies China’s New Silk Road
– arguably the most important infrastructure project of the 21st century — and
overall Eurasia integration….”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Russia and Iran among five coastal nations forging landmark
Caspian Sea deal</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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water sign legal convention to share its resources</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">“Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani met on Sunday after a
dramatic few days in which both were threatened with punishing economic
sanctions by the US… The Russian and Iranian presidents were in the small
Kazakh coastal city of Aktau to sign a legal convention on the Caspian Sea… A
legally binding convention that prevents Caspian nations from opening their
borders to third party aggressors – such as the US or NATO – or allowing any
foreign military presence at all on Caspian waters is a triumph for Putin. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">For
Rouhani, a strategic display of Russian support is more pressing… The best
possible outcome for the Iranians will be to walk away with something tangible
to take back to Tehran that says we’re doing just fine with or without US
sanctions.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>By Muhammad Sahimi</b>, August 13, 2018</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“…The US exit from the JCPOA is, however, illegal. </b>When the
JCPOA was signed in 2015, it was endorsed by the UN Security Council, which
approved unanimously Resolution 2231 expressing its endorsement. The Resolution
was filed in the framework of Chapter VII of UN Charter that deals with peace
and stability in the world. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to the Charter, it is mandatory for all
members of the UN to abide by the provisions of any Resolution filed under
Chapter VII. Thus, not only has the US broken its promises to Iran and violated
its commitment to the JCPOA, it is also in violation of its obligations toward
the UN….<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">…<b>But, Iran’s grievances do not end with violations of the two
treaties, and imposition of the economic sanctions. </b>In addition to supporting
the dictatorship of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the US sided with Saddam
Hussein’s regime during its war with Iran. The US destroyed two of Iran’s
offshore oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in 1987; it attacked the Iranian
navy in the same year, and shot down Iran’s passenger airliner over the Persian
Gulf in July 1988, killing 290 people, including 63 children. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since 1995, the
United States has prevented large-scale foreign investment in Iran’s oil and
natural gas industries. The complete list of grievances is too long to be given
here. As a UN member, the US is violating its obligations toward that
organization and its charter by trying to topple Iran’s political system.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Ever since the 1979 Revolution, the image of Iran and its people
that has been presented to the American public has been unreal and completely
distorted.</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Iran’s population of 83 million is young, educated [Iran’s rate of
literacy is 93 percent], and very well connected to the rest of the world.
While Iranian people want democracy, respect for human rights, economic
prosperity, and friendly relations with the rest of the world, which the
Islamic Republic has failed to a large extent to deliver, they also reject
outside intervention in their internal affairs...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, next time when you read about Iran, remember what the US has
done to that nation for the past 65 years.”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 28.0pt;">US boycott of Iran risks being godsend for China and Russia</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 28.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">RYO NAKAMURA and HIDEMITSU KIBE, Nikkei staff writers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">August 07, 2018</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">“China and Russia have indicated no plans to cooperate with
U.S.-led efforts to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran, with both positioned
to pursue trade and enhance their influence in the Middle Eastern country…”</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b style="color: #1d2129;">By Scott Ritter:</b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> “…The danger here is that Trump doesn’t realize he
is playing a losing hand. His bluff will be called by Iran (indeed, based upon
Rouhani’s words, it has been called), but Trump will continue to throw chips
into the pot until compelled to either reverse course and rejoin the JCPOA
(unlikely), or force the issue and watch the United States enter a war with
Iran it will not lose—but cannot win.”</span></span></span><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 48pt; padding: 0in;">Hello, They
Lied To You About Iran!</span></b></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; border: 1pt none; color: black; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;"></span></b></span></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; border: 1pt none; color: black; padding: 0in;">By Andre
Vltchek:</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; border: 1pt none; color: black; padding: 0in;"> </span><b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; border: 1pt none; color: black; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;"> </span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; border: 1pt none; color: black; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;"></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; border: 1pt none; color: black; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;"><b>“…</b></span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: black;">I have just left
Tehran, a city with a tremendous history and culture, overflowing with museums,
theatres, wonderfully kept parks dotted with modern art sculptures. </span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: black;">It is a
city with modern and fully subsidized public transportation, consisting of
high-tech metro, ecological bus ways, as well as suburban trains. A city of
tall trees, and quiet squares, of elegant cafes, and extremely educated and
kind people.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">A city that could easily be part of the ‘top ten’ cities
on Earth, were it not the capital of a country that the West is trying to
ruin, first with unjust and draconian sanctions, and then, who knows, even by a
militarily invasion.</span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">What do most Westerners know about Iran; what were they
told?...</span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">...You are also expected to remain ignorant about Iran’s social
system, clearly socialist. Free education and medical care, greatly subsidized
public transportation and culture, huge public spaces and to some extent, strong
government and at least partially, central planning.</span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Despite those absolutely unjust, terrible sanctions imposed, with
some interruptions, from Washington and its allies, Iran is standing tall,
trying as much as it can to take care of its people. And despite the terrible
ordeal Iranian people are being put through, they do not cheat and do not
steal. </span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">The exchange rate collapsed after Washington imposed another round of
bizarre sanctions, triggering frustration, even protests. But the majority of
Iranians understands who the real culprit is. And it is no <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">secret that the
so-called opposition is often financed from the West…</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: black;">Iran is bleeding,
suffering, but it is strong. Not everyone agrees with government policies here
(although most of them do support their government), but everybody is
determined to fight <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">and defend his or her country, if it is attacked militarily
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">…Perhaps that is why the West wants to first ruin, and then to
totally destroy this country… To ruin Iran will not be easy, I would even say:
it could prove impossible. Its people are too smart and determined and strong.
Iran is not alone; it has many friends and comrades…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>Don’t take my word for all this. Just come and see. </b>But </span>do not
preach: ask questions, and then, please sit, listen and learn! This country has
more than 7,000 years of tremendous history. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="color: black;">Instead of bombing it, read its
poets, </span><span style="color: black;">watch its films, and learn from its internationalist stand! And
then, only then, decide, whether Iran is really your enemy, or a dear comrade
and friend.”</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/19/hello-they-lied-to-you-about-iran/">https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/19/hello-they-lied-to-you-about-iran/</a></span></b></span></span></div>
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interest: </span></span></span></span><br />
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whole world sanction the United States for its continuing aggressions that
devastate so many people.</span></b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;"><b>”</b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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horrors visited upon the Venezuelan people.</b> They are suffering and dying
because of decisions made by the bipartisan war party. If the left were
consistent in its analysis and actions no president would dare to attack
Venezuela or any other country in this manner...</span>”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee is preparing for a new stage of action and invites both your counsel and participation.</span></div>
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Our primary focus moving forward will be the 50th anniversaries in 2019 of the nationwide Moratorium (October) and the Mobilization demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco (November).</div>
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<em style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">locally</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">nationally</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. An easy way to join the process is through the survey form available </span><a alt="https://form.jotform.com/81704420280952?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://form.jotform.com/81704420280952?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Make use of the comment box or write us at greater length.</span></em></div>
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Following are accounts of how VPCC addressed the 50th anniversary of My Lai, in Vietnam and in Washington. <span style="color: #0a74db;">I</span><span style="color: #0a74db; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>f you organized or participated in an observation of any kind, please let us know, and send copies of press coverage.</strong> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><reachout .ffrd="" gmail.com=""></reachout></span></div>
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The PBS Vietnam War documentary continues to be both a concern and an opportunity, as reported below with a link to VPCC's new Ten Questions guide.</div>
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We were represented at the 50th anniversary of the Catonsville Nine draft file burning in May and will publicize other commemorations organized locally with national significance such as for the Chicago Democratic Convention protests.</div>
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We envision the Martin Luther King Holiday and the anniversary of My Lai as annual opportunities to lift up in our communities the link between peace and social justice as well as the ongoing need to address the humanitarian legacies of war.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Despite decades of peace, the war constantly claims new victims from land mines, unexploded ordnance and Agent Orange.</span></div>
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And Vietnam's sovereignty faces new yet very old threats in the South China / East Sea, ironically this time with Washington as Hanoi's ally.</div>
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Sally Benson * David Cortright * Ann Gallivan * Susan Hammond * Rick Hind * Susanne Jackson * Frank Joyce * Steven Ladd * Paul Lauter * John McAuliff * Terry Provance * Brewster Rhoads * Nancy Jane Woodside </div>
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The Moratorium proved to the country that the movement against the Vietnam war was diverse and widespread. Newscaster Walter Cronkite told a national audience that October 15, 1969 was "historic in its scope. Never before had so many demonstrated their hope for peace." </div>
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The <a alt="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/15/newsid_2533000/2533131.stm?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/15/newsid_2533000/2533131.stm?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">BBC reported</a>, "<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Peace Moratorium is believed to have been the largest demonstration in US history with an estimated two million people involved.</span><br />
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In towns and cities throughout the US. Students, working men and women, school children, the young and the old, took part in religious services, school seminars, street rallies and meetings."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">in the shape of a peace symbol in Pittsburgh to support the Vietnam Day moratorium, Oct. 15, 1969. </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">The 137 wooden crosses bore the names of men from Allegheny County who have died in Vietnam." </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">(AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">A month later some schools and communities carried on the Moratorium's goal of monthly grassroots action, but most energy and media attention went to the Mobilization, the largest anti-war demonstrations to date. It brought as many as 500,000 people to Washington and 150,000 to San Francisco, including active duty GIs and Vietnam veterans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Mobilization was preceded by the 40 hour March Against Death. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Contingents carried on individual placards t</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">he names of Americans from their own state who had been killed, totaling 38,000 at that time, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">as well as of destroyed villages, pausing and proclaiming them in front of the White House. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Merging the styles and politics of the Moratorium and the Mobilization was not simple. Unfortunately the idea of coordinated grass roots nationwide activity faded away, until the eruption that followed Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent and Jackson States.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Moratorium's 50th anniversary is a special opportunity to remind our country of the power and influence of the antiwar movement and to explore lessons for today. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> A columnist in the </span><a alt="http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/what-we-need-now-a-national-moratorium-to-end-the-trump-presidency-20170804.html?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/what-we-need-now-a-national-moratorium-to-end-the-trump-presidency-20170804.html?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-size: 14.6667px;" target="_blank" track="on">Philadelphia Inquirer</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> portrayed t</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">he 1969 Moratorium</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">it as a model for mobilizing opposition to Donald Trump.</span></div>
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Discussion is under way with leaders of the October Moratorium (Sam Brown, David Hawk and others) and of the November Mobilization (Cora Weiss, Dick Fernandez, Ron Young) to learn what they plan to do and how VPCC can cooperate. </div>
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Conversations are also being initiated with contemporary young activists. We are inspired by <a alt="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kho_dGraM6U&feature=youtu.be" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kho_dGraM6U&feature=youtu.be" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">these energizing words</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of Jaime Mattingly, a young mother who helped lead the March for Our Lives in Key West. She described her Millennial Generation of activists as standing on the shoulders of grass roots struggles of the past including the anti- war movement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">We envision sharing and weighing options over the next few months, contingent always on our search for<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">funding. A decision about how to move forward will be made in the fall.</span></span></div>
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<em><strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">An important question is whether to focus on stimulating local programs in October or a national event in November, or to try to do both. A working draft for local activity is outlined </span><a alt="http://tinyurl.com/OctPlan" href="http://tinyurl.com/OctPlan" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-size: 14.6667px;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">. A different approach to build a national action is described </span><a alt="http://tinyurl.com/NovPlan" href="http://tinyurl.com/NovPlan" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-size: 14.6667px;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">. </span></strong></em></div>
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A welcome amount of attention was given by the US mass media to the 50th anniversary of the massacre in My Lai. </div>
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In Vietnam there was a large public ceremony at My Lai, headlined by the presence of recently retired President Trương Tấn Sang, seen with his wife placing flowers in this <a alt="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwpCFCrt6I" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwpCFCrt6I" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: black;" target="_blank" track="on">AP Video</a>. While the victims were honored, the orientation of the event was more to the present and future. The Vice Chair of the Province gave the principal address but none of the survivors or eyewitnesses spoke. (Brief video by Rick Hind <a alt="https://www.facebook.com/rick.hind/videos/10215448264857329/" href="https://www.facebook.com/rick.hind/videos/10215448264857329/" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: black;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Leaflets were given to passersby, some of whom joined us. Our large banner "MY LAI: NEVER AGAIN" could be seen from all parts of Lafayette Square and we took time to discuss the reasons for our gathering with people who stopped and showed interest. Tourists photographed us. Three television crews covered the demonstration. Reuters, Religious News Service, Al Jezeera, and BBC Radio 5 interviewed speakers. Vietnam News Agency ran a story and The Washington Post had an op-ed by Howard Jones, author of a new book on the massacre and a speaker. (</span>see pictures and text <a alt="http://www.vietnampeace.org/my-lai-vigil-report?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.vietnampeace.org/my-lai-vigil-report?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: black;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a> )</div>
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We have adapted the My Lai 50th anniversary statement that was endorsed by 250 people into a permanent sign-on call urging the date be observed annually. Read it and add your name <a alt="http://tinyurl.com/MyLaiAppeal2" href="http://tinyurl.com/MyLaiAppeal2" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The full PBS series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick can now be viewed on Netflix. Those who buy the double box set have the option of watching a more explicit language version. There is also "bonus content" provided but it does not affect problems in the series from a peace movement perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">PBS has created nineteen lesson plans for high schools using sections of the documentary. They are listed <a alt="https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/the-vietnam-war/?utm_source=PBSEDU&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vietnamwar_2017&elqTrackId=96791f029a7c4f6ca0f38fc9abdce0b6&elqTrack=true#.Wz1m6adKg2w&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/the-vietnam-war/?utm_source=PBSEDU&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vietnamwar_2017&elqTrackId=96791f029a7c4f6ca0f38fc9abdce0b6&elqTrack=true#.Wz1m6adKg2w&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a> The Chicago Democratic Convention unit is <a alt="https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/201645f5-c6eb-4cf8-9cca-297fea277866/the-1968-democratic-national-convention/?#.Wz1oFadKg2w&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/201645f5-c6eb-4cf8-9cca-297fea277866/the-1968-democratic-national-convention/?#.Wz1oFadKg2w&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a> . </span><strong style="color: #0a74db; font-size: 11pt;"><em>(If you are or were a teacher, we very much need publishable evaluations of each of these lesson plans.)</em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">VPCC member Paul Lauter has authored <strong>Ten Questions, </strong>an essential supplement to the PBS guides that will help teachers, librarians and others using the series for educational purposes. View and download them <a alt="http://www.vietnampeace.org/blog/10-questions?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.vietnampeace.org/blog/10-questions?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming for "Episode 8: The History Of The World (April 1969-May 1970)". Other nominations that were received by the production team are for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming (</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" shape="rect" style="font-size: 11pt;">Geoffrey C. Ward for the same episode)</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Outstanding Sound Editing For Non Fiction Programming and Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming. (Full list </span><a alt="http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=The+Vietnam+War&submit=Search&field_celebrity_details_field_display_name=&field_show_details_field_nominee_show_nr_title=&field_show_details_field_network=All&field_show_details_field_production_company=All&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nominations_year_1=2018-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_award_category=Allundefined&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=The+Vietnam+War&submit=Search&field_celebrity_details_field_display_name=&field_show_details_field_nominee_show_nr_title=&field_show_details_field_network=All&field_show_details_field_production_company=All&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nominations_year_1=2018-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_award_category=Allundefined&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.)</span></div>
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Documentaries don't get a lot of attention from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences but if Burns, Novick and Ward receive an Emmy in September, it will benefit long term use of the series and bring some attention to the episode that includes the Moratorium. </div>
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Veterans for Peace objected to "The Vietnam War" being nominated because of its <a alt="http://vietnamfulldisclosure.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/VFDEmmyad.pdf?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://vietnamfulldisclosure.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/VFDEmmyad.pdf?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">content</a>. The organization is expected to oppose the directing and writing awards. </div>
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The cumulative effect [of the series] is sobering, and it might act as a deterrent when viewers are confronted by American leaders promoting the next war.</div>
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But a debate over the historical accuracy and truthfulness of the series would have the benefit of keeping the subject in the public mind. Does the "The Vietnam War" deserve to be rewarded and canonized with Peabodys, Emmys and Pulitzer prizes? Or should we say "No," and push PBS to put forth a deeper, more honest historical account? </div>
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The film, despite its many flaws, does have a positive impact on people new to the history of the war. If Buns and Novick win, it will build more of an audience, which in the long run will create more interest in the war that we might be able to take advantage of. If they lose, it will have no impact on antiwar work.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">A new critical article has been published by Michael Stewart Foley of the University of Grenoble in The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture: "There is no single lie in war (films): Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and The Vietnam War". Read it <a alt="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17541328.2018.1464105?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17541328.2018.1464105?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. Links to additional reviews are <a alt="http://www.vietnampeace.org/blog/thomas-bass-review-of-the-vietnam-war?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.vietnampeace.org/blog/thomas-bass-review-of-the-vietnam-war?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a> and <a alt="http://www.vietnampeace.org/blog/jim-laurie-review-of-pbs-vietnam-series?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.vietnampeace.org/blog/jim-laurie-review-of-pbs-vietnam-series?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. Please send reports of new reviews to reachout.ffrd@gmail.com .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This Kroc Institute in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">sponsored a successful conference </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">May 22-24</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to examine the history and moral and political implications of opposition to war within the military during both the Vietnam and Iraq wars.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is the link to the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" shape="rect">Voices of Conscience </a><a alt="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dvg2jVNf4zAPpXkcEn0rCllrJtElmzWz?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dvg2jVNf4zAPpXkcEn0rCllrJtElmzWz?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">Google Drive</a>. It contains a Panel Audio folder with full recordings of all the May 23 workshops. The sessions are labeled according to time and the names of moderators. </span></div>
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Waging Peace, a photo display about GI opposition to the war organized by Ron Carver was presented at the conference. It is shown <a alt="http://www.wagingpeaceinvietnam.com/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.wagingpeaceinvietnam.com/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a> as a slide show and available for public exhibition in the US.</div>
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T<span style="font-size: 11pt;">he demonstrations in August 1968 in Chicago confronted the pro-war Democratic Party of President Johnson and Mayor Daley with many forms of activism. The police riot in response was </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">part of a tumultuous and tragic year that witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. In addition to everything else they represented, Martin and Bobby seemed uniquely able to bring together into mass politics the struggles for domestic justice and peace. </span></div>
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For many of us who participated in the Chicago maelstrom, an unintended consequence was the election of Richard Nixon and six more years of death and destruction in Indochina. Alienation from LBJ's candidate Hubert Humphrey led people to vote for Dr. Benjamin Spock or Eldridge Cleaver or to stay home.</div>
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Activists is Chicago are undertaking commemorative events that speak to the whole year and the broader progressive movement in the city. Michael Klonsky is the primary organizer. Contact him at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" shape="rect">michaelklonsky@yahoo.com</a> A regularly updated listing of their planned program can be found ib Facebook <a alt="https://www.facebook.com/groups/68Chicago/about/" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/68Chicago/about/" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: black;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Media and the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention - Then and Now series has examined issues of objectivity and patriotism in a turbulent time. The last program presented by the</span><a alt="http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2018/1968-discussion-series.html?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2018/1968-discussion-series.html?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: black;" target="_blank" track="on"> Medill School of Journalism</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> at</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Northwestern University is </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"The Media Legacy of Chicago '68" on August 8th.-- </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">How well did established and counter-media do as 'the first draft of history?' What is the media legacy of Chicago '68, from social media to the alt-right?"</span></div>
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The 50th anniversary of the first draft file burning led by Catholic priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan was observed in Catonsville and Baltimore, with a <a alt="http://www.catonsville9.org/50th-anniversary-commemoration/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.catonsville9.org/50th-anniversary-commemoration/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: black;" target="_blank" track="on">web site</a>, a symposium and the dedication of an official <a alt="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-catonsville-nine-sign-20180505-story.html?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-catonsville-nine-sign-20180505-story.html?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: black;" target="_blank" track="on">state historical marker</a>. Past activists and the inheritors of their spirit offer a model for locally organized commemorations with national significance.. </div>
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"When the Government Went After Dr. Spock", <span style="font-size: 11pt;">a good op ed in the <a alt="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/when-the-government-went-after-dr-spock.html?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/when-the-government-went-after-dr-spock.html?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: black;" target="_blank" track="on">New York Times</a>by Michael Stewart Foley</span></div>
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The most accessible film made in Vietnam about the war is "Don't Burn" by Dang Nhat Minh. It powerfully dramatizes the story of a young woman doctor from Hanoi who was killed in the south. Her diary was found by a US soldier and 35 years later returned to her family. It became a literary phenomena in Vietnam and was published in the US as "Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram"</div>
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Minh's film can be seen on Youtube <a alt="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2kPdDYJWx8" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2kPdDYJWx8" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a> with characters speaking their native Vietnamese or English, but without subtitled translations. A DVD copy with English subtitles has just become available in the US for a $20 donation to the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, 64 Jean Court, Riverhead, NY 11901. It is a superb follow-up and balance to the Burns and Novick series.</div>
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T<span style="font-size: 11pt;">he preview of a moving new film by Connie Field about the making of Kronos opera on helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson and My Lai can be seen </span><a alt="http://mylai.clarityfilms.org/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://mylai.clarityfilms.org/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a> It was shown in Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Noi in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the massacre. US distribution will begin soon.</div>
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Any public space can be utilized for education about the real history of the war. Good venues are museums, art galleries, student unions or religious institutions. Exhibits can be accompanied by film showings, panels, poetry and journal readings, etc. Three compelling examples:<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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The Chicago chapter of Veterans for Peace has organized a traveling exhibit about My Lai that has been mounted in West Coast venues and is seeking additional sites. Preview it <a alt="http://www.mylaimemorial.org/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.mylaimemorial.org/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. <span style="font-size: 11pt;">It will be shown in northern New York state July - September then return to Chicago to tour the Midwest in October-November and again in 2019. A brief video from the showing in Spokane, WA, can be seen<a alt="https://vimeo.com/237646547?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://vimeo.com/237646547?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. To arrange a visit, contact </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mac MacDevitt macinessex@gmail.com</span></div>
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The exhibit illustrates US soldiers and veterans who opposed the war, including through GI newspapers and coffeehouses. It was shown at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City in March. View it <a alt="http://www.wagingpeaceinvietnam.com/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="http://www.wagingpeaceinvietnam.com/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. To arrange for an exhibition, contact Ron <span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Howard</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" shape="rect" style="font-size: 11pt;">info@wagingpeaceinvietnam.com</a></div>
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The oldest and newest threat to the independence and freedom of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos comes from their superpower neighbor China. Its economic influence is growing in all three countries, most dramatically in the latter two. Protests erupted in Vietnam when plans were announced for 99 year leases in economic development zones that could benefit Chinese financial penetration. The complex political challenge they reflect was described in <a alt="https://thediplomat.com/2018/06/vietnam-mass-protests-expose-hanois-china-dilemma/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://thediplomat.com/2018/06/vietnam-mass-protests-expose-hanois-china-dilemma/?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">this story</a> by long term Indochina reporter Tom Fawthrop. </div>
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China's aggressive and legally discredited "nine dash line" territorial claims have endangered Vietnamese fishermen, forced the withdrawal of a Spanish oil exploration rig from Vietnam's maritime territory, and led to the creation of artificial islands with military emplacements. (More in this <a alt="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-south-china-sea-fell-off-trumps-radar-this-year-he-may-have-to-pay-attention-in-2018/2018/01/01/b7c9a27a-eb1e-11e7-956e-baea358f9725_story.html?utm_term=.7f11196d9367&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-south-china-sea-fell-off-trumps-radar-this-year-he-may-have-to-pay-attention-in-2018/2018/01/01/b7c9a27a-eb1e-11e7-956e-baea358f9725_story.html?utm_term=.7f11196d9367&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">article</a>.<span style="font-size: 11pt;">) Because the US sees China's claims as a threat to freedom of navigation, strengthening American military presence paradoxically supports Vietnam's sovereignty, prompting conflicting feelings among former anti-war activists.</span></div>
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On July 29th National Assembly elections will be held in Cambodia. VPCC committee member John McAuliff will be a registered observer for the fourth time. The elections are controversial because the principle opposition party created by Sam Rainsy, the Khmer National Rescue Party (KNRP), has been outlawed. Rainsy has long associated himself with anti-Vietnam sentiment and can be seen expressing support for separatist Montagnards <a alt="https://youtu.be/GZHKJTr79AU?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://youtu.be/GZHKJTr79AU?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">here</a>. However 19 other parties with varied political viewpoints are actively contesting the authority of the Cambodian Peoples Party (CPP) led by Hun Sen. Sixty percent of the candidates of the newly formed <a alt="https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sixty-percent-kwps-candidate-list-are-former-cnrp-members?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sixty-percent-kwps-candidate-list-are-former-cnrp-members?utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">Khmer Will Party (KWP)</a> were members of KNRP. Three parties are <a alt="https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-parties-promise-free-sokha-other-prisoners-conscience?utm_source=Phnompenh+Post+Main+List&utm_campaign=6a365ae7e8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_10_04_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_690109a91f-6a365ae7e8-62240457&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" href="https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-parties-promise-free-sokha-other-prisoners-conscience?utm_source=Phnompenh+Post+Main+List&utm_campaign=6a365ae7e8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_10_04_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_690109a91f-6a365ae7e8-62240457&utm_source=Resend+July+VPCC+NL&utm_campaign=July+VPCC+nl+resend&utm_medium=email" linktype="1" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" track="on">campaigning for release</a> of KNRP leaders and others they believe are prisoners of conscience.</div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><b>“A shadowy chapter of US Cold War history involving germ warfare
allegations in 1952 recently played out in the New York Review of Books: In
February, Michael Ignatieff, former Canadian politician and international
political scholar, wrote a movie review of Errol Morris’s recent six-part
Netflix docudrama, “Wormwood.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">“Wormwood” investigates the mysterious 1953 death of a top US
germ war scientist and CIA employee, Frank Olson. Olson was bludgeoned on the
back of the head and “dropped” from the 13th floor window of his Manhattan
hotel room under orders from his CIA bosses, according to his son, Eric Olson.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The US government was at that time very actively engaged in an
international denial effort to brand claims of widespread US biological warfare
use during the Korean War as communist propaganda. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">As a top scientist at the Army Chemical Corp’s biological
warfare lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, Frank Olson was in the unique position
to spill the beans on this cover-up. He did not fully grasp how dangerous his
CIA associates were, how freely they operated outside the law, or his own
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The American use of bioweapons in Korea is known and accepted as
fact by most Cold War scholars outside the US, but domestically, biological
warfare remains one of the deepest kept secrets of the Cold War. That secret,
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">…The hidden history of the Korean War — the 4 million dead
Koreans, the carpet bombing, firebombing, germ bombing, the entire built
infrastructure of North Korea reduced to rubble, the prisoner torture, civilian
massacres, suppression of war crime evidence, the lies and the silent
forgetting — all this is now coming into the sunshine. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Going forward toward Korean unification, nobody should agree to
bury these truths again.”</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"><b>READ the complete story:</b></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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larger Korean War germ warfare story:</span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 48pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 28pt;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #990000;">Wormwood and a Shocking Secret
of War: How Errol Morris Vindicated My Father, Wilfred Burchett</span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 28pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>By GEORGE BURCHETT</b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve seen this footage before. It’s from a 1952 Chinese film
recording “Captured U.S. airmen Kenneth L. Enoch and John S. Quinn,
interrogated by the Joint Interrogation Group of Korean and Chinese specialists
and News Correspondents” in which the two airmen repeat what they had already
said in their “voluntary confessions”: that the U.S. was waging germ warfare in
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, the
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Scientific Commission, led by one of Britain’s most distinguished scientists,
Joseph Needham, a fellow of the British Academy, who travelled to China and
Korea to investigate the allegations and attended the “interrogation” of the
captured U.S. pilots…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><b>My father, journalist Wilfred Burchett, was accused by the
Australian conservative establishment of </b></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><b>fabricating the germ warfare story, of
torturing Allied POWs – including Australians – brainwashing them and
extracting confessions. He was branded a traitor and denied Australian
citizenship for 17 years. These accusations are repeated to this day…</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Among many other stories, he also reported and investigated
allegations made by the Chinese and North Koreans that the U.S. had used germ
warfare. Just as he was the first to report on the effects of the atomic bomb
dropped on Hiroshima, and just as he would be one of the first to accuse the
U.S. of using chemical defoliants in Vietnam, facts no one now denies. Most
people have heard of Agent Orange and its devastating effects on humans and the
environment…<br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">…scientist Frank Olson, who worked on biological weapons
development for the U.S. military and secret interrogation and mind control
programs for the CIA was convinced that the U.S. was conducting germ warfare in
Korea. He was so tormented by this, that the CIA was afraid he’d reveal its
darkest secrets. And they killed him. Dropped him out of a window and claimed
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">To this day, the US government dismisses the allegations of germ
warfare as communist propaganda. Some scholars argue that the germ warfare
“hoax” was concocted by Stalin, Mao and Kim Il-sung to tarnish the image of the
United States and its Allies in the eyes of world public opinion.<br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">…I’d like to quote Wilfred Burchett here: “I think that as a
journalist, there’s a very great responsibility, particularly journalists
reporting on international affairs, as I do, to get the facts right and to be
absolutely free of any doctrine or of any ideological optical devices. To be
free and really seek the truth, get the truth and publish the truth” (in Public
Enemy Number One, a film by David Bradbury, 1980).<br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><b>Wilfred Burchett told the truth about Nazi Germany when the
Australian government was courting Hitler and helping arm Imperial Japan. He
told the truth about Hiroshima, as the first Western correspondent to report
from the city one month after the atomic bomb was dropped. He reported the
truth about germ warfare in Korea and the use of chemical defoliants in Vietnam
and the many other atrocities of both wars. None of this endeared him to the
Australian or US governments of the time. He was accused of treason, denied an
Australian passport, was vilified and is still vilified as a communist
propagandist, KGB agent and so on.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">So, Mr Hersh, I challenge you to tell us the truth about Frank
Olson’s murder by the CIA, about germ warfare in Korea and the other dark
secrets that led to his elimination by the CIA. You owe it to his son Eric and
to the rest of us. You say you know the truth, so please share it with us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">I would like to thank Errol Morris for telling this important
story in such a brilliant, masterful and compelling way (and for including my
father, no matter how fleetingly, in the narrative). He is a filmmaker who has
spent most of his career examining how film and photography reveal and conceal
truth and reality, and in our current epoch, so obsessed with the idea of
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">And I want to express my admiration and profound esteem for Eric
Olson’s sticking by his father, for seeking the truth about his death and for
unpeeling the layers of deceit that protect the dark secret at the heart of the
matter. I hope that one day the bitterness washes away, the secret is released
and light prevails over darkness.”<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: x-large;"><b>READ the complete story:</b></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: x-large;">READ more articles by George Burchett:</span></span></b></span></div>
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