MAIN EDITORS—According to the collected statistics, 26% of Ukrainian families with one child and 39% families with two children (4.4 and 6.6 million correspondingly) are struggling to survive whilst living below the poverty line. Poverty leaves no other option to many people except providing sex services for rich and wealthy foreign guests. A 2008 research of the Ukrainian sex workers’ lifestyle revealed that 39% of them do not use condoms regularly and that 22% are drug users.
AMER MICIMATT
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WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER – # 78 – 10/27 IN NYC – RITTER – DORE – NIXON – DOBULAR
80 Mins readMAIN EDITORS—Garland and Scott talk about “Operation Dawn Brunch” (Sunday, Oct 27, 2024) in Tudor City (45 Tudor City Place, NY 10017), an event with many of today’s most articulate antiwar, free speech, anti-imperialist and pro (genuine) democracy activists. The brunch cum panel discussions will feature, among others, Garland Nixon, Scott Ritter, Russell Dobular, Jimmy Dore, Danny Haiphong, Dennis Fritz, Diane Sare, Jose Vega, and others of equal merit.
In this episode of Warrior Update with Scott Ritter (#78), Scott explains the plight in Ukraine as the war inexorably winds down to a huge defeat for the US-supported Kiev Banderista regime and its NATO sponsors. As the regime collapses, chaos and violence spread, and winter takes its toll, many Ukrainians may want to flee to the EU, creating an enormous refugee crisis in a continent already swamped with African and Middle Eastern immigrants, most of them product of the economic and social dislocations triggered by the US empire’s intrigues and regime change operations. Furthermore, notes, Scott, Ukrainian neo-Nazis may not be embraced by the rest of Europe. Ukrainians are not very well liked by many people in Europe, including in Germany. They will likely end up filling the bottom ranks of a highly stressed labour market, at a moment when the EU’s economy is rapidly tanking due (again) to America’s hegemonist policies. Many of the men, accustomed to violence and relative lawlessness, may end up choosing lives of crime, while many women may simply become prostitutes or be victimised by sex traffickers profiting from the chaos and the breakdown of civil society. -
Ex-U.S. Army Major Who Resigned over Gaza Warns Against Biden Sending 100 U.S. Troops to Israel
6 minutes readEDITORS—The Biden administration is sending an advanced anti-missile defense system and 100 U.S. troops to Israel in advance of expected retaliatory strikes against Iran. This marks the first significant deployment of American troops to Israel since the beginning of its assault on Gaza, though the U.S. has spent an estimated tens of billions of dollars on the Israeli military and related operations. “The irony here is the Iranian missile attack is only going to happen if we help Israel strike Iran first,” says Win Without War’s Harrison Mann. With the deployment of troops to Israeli military installations, says Mann, “Israel now has its own sort of American human shields” and “a new mechanism to drag America into a war with Hezbollah and Iran.” Mann, who is Jewish, is a former U.S. Army major who resigned from his position at the Defense Intelligence Agency in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza, a decision he says was inspired by student antiwar protests on U.S. campuses.
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“The Gaza Playbook”: Israel Brings Displacement, Death and Destruction to Lebanon Democracy Now!
6 minutes readDEMOCRACY NOW—We get an update on Israel’s war on Lebanon from journalist Rania Abouzeid in Beirut. “We are seeing a definite escalation that started a month ago and doesn’t show any sign of letting up,” she observes, describing unrestrained attacks by Israel throughout the country, on all sectors of society, as Israel carries out its “Dahiya doctrine” in an attempt to foment division among the Lebanese population. “This is the Gaza playbook. … The sentiment here is that this is now a war on Lebanon,” Abouzeid says.
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ALASTAIR CROOKE—John Kerry, just last week at the World Economic Forum, so clearly blurting out the truth: “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to our ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence”. Translated: Governing is all about narrative control. Kerry articulates the ‘International Order’s’ solution to the unwelcome phenomenon of an uncontrolled populism and of a potential leader who speaks for the people: Simply, ‘freedom to speak’ is unacceptable to the prescriptions agreed by the ‘inter-agency’ – the institutionalised distillation of the ‘International Order’.