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International Editor of the Morning Star newspaper in Britain.
It seems that Ukraine, Syria, and other war zones are seen as cash cows for the publicity-seeking soldiers of fortune, who seek fame, notoriety, and adulation for their actions.
Taiwan was ruled under martial law from 1949 until 1992 with a period known as “the White Terror” seen as a form of fascism under which as many as 28,000 civilians were killed and 140,000 jailed.
We know that when communist parties are banned or destroyed, the labour movement soon follows, press freedom is crushed and democracy stifled. This is exactly what is happening now in Ukraine.
“Ukraine says” has become the caveat added to any sentence so that any report, no matter how ridiculous or lacking in evidence, can be passed off as undeniable truth.
While many viewed the Spanish Civil War as the precursor to World War II, the war in Ukraine is in reality a proxy war being fought by NATO and the US against Russia.
Neo-nazis across the world glorify Azov, and whitewashing them in the way the BBC and other mainstream media organizations have should not be taken lightly.
What is increasingly clear is that ISIS will not be defeated by the same forces that brought it into Syria and Iraq in the first place.
The attack bore all the hallmarks of a US-backed intervention, and it doesn’t take much digging to find the links between the murky hand of Washington and the dark forces behind the bloodshed on the streets and a cover-up by a compliant western media.
The future of journalism, democracy, and the right for people to know the truth is at stake. None of us are free as long as Julian Assange remains behind bars.
By the end of Obama's tenure, the US was waging a secret war in at least 134 countries from the Horn of Africa to the Middle East and Latin America with Special Operations forces present in nearly 70% of the world’s nations.
