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U.S. Special Forces Attack Radio Station Supported In Large Part By Propaganda Advertisements Paid For By The American Military
Radio Station Owner Taken Prisoner Accused American Soldiers Of Beating Him And Threatening To Kill Him

Station Trashed, Damaging Much Of The Broadcasting Equipment, As Well As Seizing Computers, Phones And Recording Gear
Stupid U.S. Command Caught Stupidly Lying About How The Raid Was A Largely Afghan Operation
Spokesmen for the Afghan Ministry of Interior, which is in charge of police units, and the Ministry of Defense, said they were unaware of the operation. The Afghan police chief in the Mohammad Agha district, Abdul Wakil Haqyar, said the local police had not found out about what he said was an American Special Forces operation until it was already underway on Thursday. MARCH 1, 2014 By ROD NORDLAND and JAWAD SUKHANYAR, The New York Times Company [Excerpts] KABUL, Afghanistan Qazi Nasir Mudassir said he had expected that if armed men climbed over the walls of his radio stations compound, they would probably be Taliban insurgents coming to make good on death threats because of his broadcasts. Instead, by his account and that of the local Afghan police, the armed men were American Special Forces troops, who scaled his walls with ladders on Thursday, arresting Mr. Mudassir and two other employees of Radio Paighame Milli. The station, which Mr. Mudassir owns, broadcasts in the Mohammad Agha district of Logar Province, an area troubled by insurgent activity, just 30 miles south of Kabul. After all three were released without charges the next day, Mr. Mudassir at first refused to discuss what happened, but on Saturday he accused American soldiers of beating him and threatening to kill him to extract information during his detention. They were apparently unaware, he said, that his radio station is supported in large part by pro-government, pro-coalition propaganda advertisements paid for by the American military. The arrests, which briefly cut off the stations broadcasts, also drew protests from Afghan journalists groups. The American military initially had no comment beyond a tersely worded statement released Saturday in the name of the International Security Assistance Forces Joint Command, claiming that the raid was a largely Afghan operation.

We can confirm an Afghan-led combined operation occurred on Feb. 27 in Mohammad Agha district due to reporting of potential enemy activity, the statement said. Afghan forces detained three individuals until the presence of heavy weapons and fighting positions at the location could be investigated further. Spokesmen for the Afghan Ministry of Interior, which is in charge of police units, and the Ministry of Defense, said they were unaware of the operation. The Afghan police chief in the Mohammad Agha district, Abdul Wakil Haqyar, said the local police had not found out about what he said was an American Special Forces operation until it was already underway on Thursday. The operation was independent and not coordinated with us, he said. No Afghan police units, local or national, were involved in the operation, he said. The American military maintains that it no longer conducts unilateral raids and operates only in conjunction with Afghan units, according to an agreement with the Afghan government. But many Afghan officials have complained that during operations by Special Operations and Special Forces troops, Afghan units are still often given only a secondary or token role if they are present. Mr. Mudassir said a force of more than two dozen Americans carried out the raid, ransacking his premises and damaging much of the broadcasting equipment, as well as seizing computers, phones and recording gear. They even put that black hood over my head and slapped me and beat me, he said. They treated us inhumanely even though we were very pro their presence, and pro-government, Mr. Mudassir said. He said that he had been taken to the United States Armys Special Forces base in Logar and held overnight, and that interrogators had tried to get him to identify photographs of people suspected of being insurgents. They said, You better tell the truth because you know if we want to kill you we can. Radio Paighame Milli, which has been operating for 11 years, broadcasts a mixture of news, cultural and religious programming. Abdul Hameed, the governor of the Mohammad Agha district, praised it as a positive force. Mr. Mudassir said one of his major advertisers was ISAF, which pays him to run about 10 pro-government announcements a day. For doing so, he said, he has received death threats from the Taliban. Six years ago, the stations compound was damaged in a Taliban attack, said the police chief, Mr. Haqyar.

According to Mr. Haqyar, during the raid the Americans confiscated two AK-47 assault rifles, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and ammunition for both. Mr. Mudassir said he needed the arms to defend himself from insurgents. Mr. Haqyar said he should have left the security arrangements to the police, who had a checkpoint nearby. The police said Mr. Mudassir had permits for the assault rifles, but not for the grenade launcher. Sediqullah Tawhidi, who runs the Nai Media Watch unit, a group that campaigns to protect journalists in Afghanistan, said the raid was an illegal act. The journalists association in Logar Province has threatened to go on strike over the arrests, said a member, Khanwali Ahmadzai. Mr. Mudassir said he would continue to broadcast the ISAF announcements. Its my responsibility, and theyve paid me, he said.

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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh had I the ability, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass, 1852 Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder and it is the working class who fights all the battles, the working class who makes the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely sheds their blood and furnishes their corpses, and it is they who have never yet had a voice - in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war. They are continually talking about patriotic duty. It is not their patriotic duty but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches. -- Eugene V. Debs

Ukraine: Criticism And Reply

Criticism: L
From: L To: Military Resistance Newsletter Subject: outlook Date: Mar 1, 2014 Hidden in this report is all you need to see the nearly inevitable undermining and blocking of the desires of the population following the West Ukrainian political revolution. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/world/europe/after-initial-triumph-ukraines-leadersface-battle-forcredibility.html?action=click&contentCollection=Europe&region=Footer&module=MoreIn Section&pgtype=article But so far, you have only cheerled fighting for fightings sake, whatever was done and whoever fought. You have sounded no alarms, considered no working class outlook and problems. Are you sure you should be quoting Marx and Trotsky, instead of Bakunin, Kropotkin and Makhno? And dont lump me in with any pro-Putin bullshit, the problem is the working class and its ability to self-organize and defend its own particular interests, regardless of boundaries.

Reply: T
REPLY PART 1: T
The writer says Hidden in this report is all you need to see the nearly inevitable undermining and blocking of the desires of the population following the West Ukrainian political revolution. The New York Times article referenced in part describes how assorted capitalist class politicians are scrambling to grab power and contain the revolutionary movement. Yes. Like pond scum, these politicians tend to surface when a revolutionary movement begins to subside after an old regime falls. No disagreement with the writer about that. Smoothing the way for opportunist politicians to grab power is the diffuse mix of political tendencies comprising mass revolutionary movements from below. Now that this revolution has brought down the old regime, the questions posed for Ukrainians, and for the rest of us too, are the same questions posed after any revolution from below has won the day.

Whose class will take up the power? What form of political organization will the winning class use to do so? Which side are you on? The following may be useful and informative concerning the confused, chaotic, internally contradictory, only partially conscious, multi-tendency composition of a mass revolutionary movement from below. Those who favor working class power require solid, united organization that can accomplish that objective in the face of the difficulties described here. **************************************************************************

Whoever Expects A Pure Social Revolution Will Never Live To See It

July 1916 by V. I. Lenin. [Excerpts] Published in October 1916 in Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata No. 1. Signed: N. Lenin. Published according to the Sbornik text. ***************************************************************************** To imagine that social revolution is conceivable without revolts by small nations in the colonies and in Europe, without revolutionary outbursts by a section of the petty bourgeoisie with all its prejudices, without a movement of the politically non-conscious proletarian and semi-proletarian masses against oppression by the landowners, the church, and the monarchy, against national oppression, etc.-to imagine all this is to repudiate social revolution. So one army lines up in one place and says, We are for socialism, and another, somewhere else and says, We are for imperialism, and that will be the social revolution? Whoever expects a pure social revolution will never live to see it. Such a person pays lip-service to revolution without understanding what revolution is. The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a bourgeois-democratic revolution. It consisted of a series of battles in which all the discontented classes, groups and elements of the population participated. Among these there were masses imbued with the crudest prejudices, with the vaguest and most fantastic aims of struggle; there were small groups which accepted Japanese money, there were speculators and adventurers, etc.

But objectively, the mass movement was breaking the back of tsarism and paving the way for democracy; for this reason the class-conscious workers led it. The socialist revolution in Europe cannot be anything other than an outburst of mass struggle on the part of all and sundry oppressed and discontented elements. Inevitably, sections of the petty bourgeoisie and of the backward workers will participate in itwithout such participation, mass struggle is impossible, without it no revolution is possibleand just as inevitably will they bring into the movement their prejudices, their reactionary fantasies, their weaknesses and errors.

REPLY PART 2: T
The writer says above: But so far, you have only cheerled fighting for fightings sake, whatever was done and whoever fought. You have sounded no alarms, considered no working class outlook and problems. Readers may judge for themselves whether this criticism is accurate or without any foundation in fact by reviewing many recent issues of the Military Resistance Newsletter discussing events in the Ukraine found on the Newsletter website at http://www.militaryproject.org . See, for one example, the article Manifesto -- 10 heses Of The Leftist Opposition In Ukraine, arguing in specific that Workers Should Control All Forms Of Ownership, found in Military Resistance 12B12; [2.21.14].

REPLY PART 3: T
The writer above inquires Are you sure you should be quoting Marx and Trotsky, instead of Bakunin, Kropotkin and Makhno? Nothing useful has been found so far by the named anarchist figures that would apply to the Ukraine today. The following position paper is from an organization that self-describes as following Trotskys political tradition. There are other self-described Trotskyist groupings which have taken the same general line of argument. The question of the merits or demerits of this particular organization as a whole to one side, if the writer above supports the overall political thrust of this statement, we are in general agreement. **************************************************************************

Statement on Ukraine

2 March 2014 by Fourth International Statement adopted by the International Committee of the Fourth International on 25 February 2014. http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article3295 1. The political crisis in Ukraine began in November 2013 when the President Yanukovich decided, under strong Russian pressure, not to sign the free trade association with the EU. The Party of Regions had been running an official campaign in favour of such an agreement for some months. It occurred in the context of a deep social and debt crisis that put the country under pressure from the IMF. The way the decision was taken, by the personal power of the president, increased popular fear that a new integration of Ukraine within a great Russian regional project was being decided and could increase the repressive oligarchic and presidential trend of the regime evident since 2010. Therefore, within the crisis there were not two clear-cut camps or programmes opposing each other but rather splits and hesitations within the oligarchs and elites, even within the Party of Regions itself. And despite cultural, social and political differences between historical regions of the country the emergence of the masses as an independent factor expressing indignation and distrust in political parties whether expressed through direct involvement in the Maidan movement (more in the West and centre) or through passivity (dominating in the Eastern Russian-speaking part of the country). A week of bloody violence imposed the protesters view for the immediate departure of the president Yanukovych. He has not been overthrown by a coup dEtat: his growing unpopularity became absolute rejection after the horror of some 80 deaths, victims of his snipers shooting demonstrators with real bullets. After months of hesitation of the president between repression and dialogue, this led to his profound isolation within his own camp the Parliament voted for him to be dismissed while a part of the police and probably the army declared in Kiev, as in other regions, that they were on the side of the people, and his flight to Russia was stopped in Donetsk, in the very heart of his bastion. 2. This movement from the beginning presented a combination of revolutionary (democratic, anti-elitist, self- organized) and reactionary elements the overall outcome was and remains a question of political and social struggle. Those features are also deeply rooted in the current character of the present post-soviet Ukranian society (atomized, without any class identity, with degradation of education and hegemony of reactionary nationalist ideas in society, combined with a legitimate commitment to national independence and the dramatic legacy of Stalinism).

We support the popular discontent and aspiration to live freely and decently, in a democratic state and to get rid of an oligarchic and criminal regime, expressed in the so-called Euro Maidan movement and throughout the country while we are convinced that the EU is unable to satisfy such aspirations, and we say so. We support the right of the Ukrainian people as a whole to decide and control international agreements signed or broken on its behalf, be it with Russia or with the EU, with full transparency about their political and socio-economic effects. We denounce all the institutions, international or national political forces, whatever their labels, which limit the full and free determination of these choices by the population, either by economic and financial diktats, by draconian laws and security forces, or by physical aggression that prevents full and pluralist expression of choices and disagreements. From that point of view we denounce equally the far right currents and the security forces, which often share the same reactionary, anti-semitic and violently exclusive nationalist ideology. While the main organized political forces are, for now, from the right and the far right, we support the social and political forces which are trying to build a left opposition within that movement. In so doing, they have refused to stay outside the movement and to identify the whole movement with its far-right component. Such an autonomous orientation has meant a difficult confrontation with fascist groups and a focus against 25 years of privatisations suppressing social rights whatever political party was in power since independence. 3. Since the end of the Yanukovich regime, the mass movement itself has no progressive programme on democratic, national and social issues and lacks a workers movement (independent trade union and political force implanted among the workers) while being full of hopes for real democratic political and social changes. Whatever the result of the next elections, popular disillusionment will follow. And whatever the agreements with the EU, the new ruling parties will continue social attacks with possible internal confrontation leading to the disintegration of the country. The alternative left has to respond to these popular hopes and illusions through its own proposals on social, linguistic, democratic issues against parties of the right of different kinds. We hope that the Ukrainian population will find its own forms of self-organized expression of its concrete demands and distrust of the dominant parties, in all the regions of the country.

REPLY PART 4: T
On a related but different area not touched on above: Ukrainian geographic/political history is more complicated that most major media report. Much of the west Ukraine was hacked off Poland by Stalin after World War II and stuck onto the Ukraine. Then, in 1954, Khrushchev, former head of the Communist Party of Ukraine, cut the Crimea off Russia, after it had been part of Russia for several hundred years, and transferred it to the Ukraine, in order to solidify the support of the Ukrainian Party boss for the Khrushchev faction then in power in Moscow. Most of the Crimean population is, by history, ethnicity and tradition, either Russian or Tartar; those Tartars who survived Stalin that is. And not so many did. At the moment, the focus is on events in Crimea. Do the people of the Crimea have the right to determine whether they wish to be part of Russia or part of Ukraine? Obviously, the Obama regime doesnt think so. One point of view follows. Comments?

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Democratic Federalism Would Require Development Of The Ukrainian Revolution In A Direction Towards Genuine Power Of The People

Not The Further Usurpation Of Power By Cosmetically Renewed Elites

The Fate Of The Crimean Population (Not Only The Russian, But Also Ukrainian And Tatar), Will Be Decided Behind Closed Doors
Its Fundamental Right For SelfDetermination Will Be Trampled On
Today, it is very difficult to estimate and predict the actual consequences of the Kiev Maidan. It has brought the revenge of oligarchic clans that were suppressed by Yanukovich, while creating an unbelievable (for the post-Soviet space) victory for a mass peoples movement from below. 3.1.14 Statement on Crimea, from the Russian Left (openleft.ru) The OpenLeft.ru site has published the following statement on the fallout from the change of government in the Ukraine, and the ongoing events in the Crimea. ******************************************************************* Crimea has found itself unlucky to be at the intersection of Russias imperialist ambitions, and the rough nationalist politics of the "new" Ukraine. The "Open Left" declares: the movement for self-determination in Crimea is more important in its significance than both, imperialist games and nationalist fervor. Today, as never before, it is necessary to call things by their proper names: what is happening these hours and days in the Crimea is a classic act of imperialist intervention by the Russian state. It is an intervention marked by stupidity, cowardice, and inconsistencies; naturally, these are the very same defining features of Vladimir Putins regime. By observing the events that have transpired so far, we can see that the pressure against Ukraine is following a script: two weeks ago, the Kremlin, without thinking of the consequences pushed Yanukovich towards a violent clearing of the Maidan.

A week ago, the Russian government supported the failed "separatist" congress of disoriented bureaucrats in Kharkov, and now it has deployed - the rather forgotten over the last ten years - "Crimean card". The first two scenarios have failed: the first, quickly and bloody, the second - almost immediately and shamefully. It is difficult to say how precisely the Crimean scenario will fail, but there is no doubt at all that it will. The Russian government has shown on a number of occasions its willingness to quickly abandon its allies. In the same manner, from the very first events in the Crimea, the Kremlin has positioned demarcation lines for a possible future withdrawal. Despite the fact that the Russian military has taken over a number of strategic facilities, and is in de facto control of the airspace over the peninsula, its official position continues to emphasize that what is happening is an "internal conflict", combined with planned military exercises. At the same time, Victor Yanukovich cannot count on strong support from Russia, given his rather strange status of simultaneously claiming to be the legitimate President, while also an international criminal, giving press conferences in Rostov. The new Crimean leadership also finds itself to be a hostage of ongoing developments, given it was elected through the direct participation of Moscow. The question that will be posed on the May 25th referendum opens up a field of new opportunities for future behind the scenes political haggling - with both the imperialist powers (the EU and the United States), and the new Ukrainian government - now controlled by the Kremlins old oligarchic partners from the circle of Yulia Timoshenko. A "Yes" to the referendum question (which apparently seems to be the sentiment of the vast majority of the Crimeas Russian-speaking population) would - in its most radical variant - bring a return to Crimean autonomy, based on the example from 1992. Such an outcome, under contemporary conditions, would transform the region in to a permanent source of internal tension in the Ukraine, and would guarantee the impossibility of its entrance in NATO for the foreseeable future. Crimea would find itself in a state of persistent Russian economic and political dependency, while at the same time its citizens would be deprived from the basic, formal rights of Russian citizens. If Russia succeeds in using its "Crimean card" to effectively blackmail its senior Western partners, and achieve a redrawing of spheres of influence in the Ukraine as a whole, then nothing will change in the Crimea (except, perhaps, the situation of Sergei Aksenov and his "Russian Unity" colleagues, who will probably have to move to Rostov or Barvihov). In either case, the referendums outcome, as well as the fate of the Crimean population (not only the Russian, but also Ukrainian and Tatar), will be decided behind closed doors.

Its fundamental right for self-determination will be trampled on, until Crimea, and Ukraine as a whole, remain an arena for clashes between outside forces - whether from the West, or East. The slogan of "federalizing" the country - used for irresponsible electioneering by Party of Region activists - would actually be a just solution for the Ukraine, with its multinational (in the cultural, national and language sense) population. The federal principle in a multi-national state would be a democratic means for conflict resolution, if it guaranteed genuine equality and freedom to make decisions on the local level. However, Ukraines newest history shows, that in a weak state this slogan means nothing other than the division of spheres of influence, between more powerful neighbors, and not its elimination. Actual democratic federalism would require a development of the Ukrainian revolution in a direction towards genuine power of the people, and not the further usurpation of power by cosmetically renewed elites and nationalists. The Crimean problem was not invented by the Russian government a week ago. The tens of thousands of people who took to the streets in Sevastopol, correctly perceived the hostile signal from Kiev, where the majority of victors in the Supreme Rada voted to repeal the law on regional languages. Despite its weak arguments and juridical imperfections, this vote had an obvious symbolic meaning. In a country standing at the doorstep of economic catastrophe, the new rulers decided to cover up the impending wave of "unpopular reforms" with new portions of nationalist speculation. For "Svoboda" ultra-rightists, who initiated this decision, the question of language is part of a large scale reactionary program for an ethnic state, a vision capable of burying Ukraine in its current makeup. This decision, with the background of ongoing binges by "Right Sector" militants - whose chief media partner is consistently the Russian television network - became an important factor for the deterioration of the political situation. The "Crimean scenario" will not last long. Kremlin elites will play this card quickly. The patriotic vuvuzelas - who are currently being blown by prepared teams of propagandists - will fall silent. "Office hawks" - currently launching appeals on various social networks for the return of "our Crimea" (as it happen during the 2008 war in Georgia) - will also fall silent. They will quickly shift to more interesting and fresh themes of discussion.

In turn, Crimeas residents - Russian, Ukrainian, and Tatar - will be left with their own problems. They continue to live in a depressed region, fully dependent on tourists and military bases, pressed between Kievs right-wing politicians, the "Russian defenders" of local oligarchs, and the cynical maneuvers of the Russian state, which could not care less for the rights and freedoms of 143 million of its own citizens, much less for those of the Crimea. Today, it is very difficult to estimate and predict the actual consequences of the Kiev Maidan. It has brought the revenge of oligarchic clans that were suppressed by Yanukovich, while creating an unbelievable (for the post-Soviet space) victory for a mass peoples movement from below. The Maidan has opened the gateway for the activization of right-wing creeps, while awakening a huge mass of people to political life, who have for the first time experienced the ability to be in control of their own lives. This diversity of possibilities can lead to progressive social changes, or the victory of extreme right-wing reaction. The final decision must undoubtedly remain in the hands of the Ukrainian people not only in Kiev and Lvov, but also in the Crimea and Donetsk.

Navy Goes Six Months Without Changing Uniforms

Photo Credit: US Navy

Mar 2, 2014 By drew, Duffel Blog NORFOLK The Navy Uniform Review Board announced they would go an unprecedented six months before making sailors buy a new set of uniforms, sources confirmed today. After careful review, weve decided to find other ways to anger our sailors, Admiral Joseph Davies said after the announcement. But after six months we will be sure to design another dozen sets of uniforms. Changing uniforms as much as possible is in keeping with the highest traditions of the Naval service. Davies began drafting plans for a new uniform the moment he left the podium. This was a change from policy, which states a new uniform must be designed by the time sailors start buying the latest new uniform. Recent uniform changes include the Naval Working Uniform, a ocean camouflage pattern designed to work in all ocean environments, and the Ocean Uniform, designed to work where the NWU pattern doesnt work. SEALs and other special operations units were given a specific desert pattern, which kept their identities secret by making them stick out like sore thumbs. Other new uniforms include the Service Uniform and the official PT uniform, which were designed to look as stupid as possible. Finally, the newest uniform change comes with the new coveralls, which are exactly the same as the old ones. I think the new uniforms are great, said John Waters, CEO of the uniform company that makes millions whenever the Navy changes uniforms. However, were working on an even better set of uniforms that the review board will love after we give them half a million dollars. I cant believe it, Seaman Apprentice Lucy Sandberg said. I dont want to wait six months, I want new uniforms. I joined the Navy so I could spend my entire paycheck on new uniforms, and then get a pittance reimbursement from the Navy. Im the fourth generation of my family to join the Navy. Im working on getting pictures of everyone in my family who served in the Navy, and I dont want a single one of us to be wearing the same thing.

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OCCUPATION PALESTINE

Unconquered -- Unconquerable

March 1, 2014 +972 News. Bilin, Occupied Palestine: Soldiers shot tear gas and rubber bullets, while local youths responded with stones. (Oren Ziv / Activestills)

March 1, 2014 +972 News. Bilin, Occupied Palestine: Several Palestinian demonstrators climbed the Israeli ghetto wall built to imprison Palestinians and raised their national flag. (Oren Ziv / Activestills)

Zionist Occupation Forces Kill Palestinian Inside Palestinian Gaza, As Usual;

The Womans Relatives Told AP She Was Mentally Ill, And Assumed She Wandered Toward The Border By Mistake

Maan News 3/1/14 Maan News GAZA CITY -- A Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli forces in the southern Gaza Strip late Friday, witnesses and medics said. Witnesses said 57-year-old Aminah Atiyeh Qudeih was shot and killed by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis when she approached the separation barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Ambulances were not allowed access to the area at the time, and when they reached the area Saturday morning, Qudeih was found dead, witnesses said. The womans relatives told AP she was mentally ill, and assumed she wandered toward the border by mistake. An Israeli army spokeswoman said a suspect approached the border fence east of Khan Younis late Friday.

After telling the suspect to stop and firing warning shots into the air, "Israeli forces fired toward the lower extremities," the spokeswoman said. "Hits were confirmed," she said. The site of the womans death saw demonstrations Friday, and Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canisters and warning shots into the air. No injuries were reported. Also Friday, a man in Beit Lahiya the northern Gaza Strip was shot in the leg by Israeli forces during a similar protest. The man, who is in his twenties but has not been identified by name, was shot in the leg near Beit Lahiya and taken to hospital with moderate injuries. To check out what life is like under a murderous military occupation commanded by foreign terrorists, go to: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/list.php?id=ej898ra7yff0ukmf16 The occupied nation is Palestine. The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli.

CLASS WAR REPORTS

Stop Intervention! Withdraw Russian Troops From Ukraine!"

Russian Activists Arrested And Facing Large Fines For Anti-War Action

March 2, 2014: Police detain a protester demonstrating against the Russian military presence in Crimea and developments in Russian-Ukrainian relations during an unsanctioned rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, 02 March 2014. (EPA/ANATOLY MALTSEV) Mar 2, 2014 via Sergii Kutnii, Marxism List Mary, a CWI activist writes "#Ukrain #war #protest #Russia #CWI We were released. The penalty is about 400 euros. For Russia it very much. And this is part of photos from the protests. [Site blocked; photos unavailable. T] People were arrested for posters, I was surrounded by people and listened to our position. After it was hard dispute. After provocation from official channels. Comrades of Ukraine, said that they had seen me on the official channels of Ukraine.

For today, detained 350 people, who are against the intervention. Other comrades were handing out leaflets to people. Stop intervention! Withdraw Russian troops from Ukraine!" MORE:

In Moscow, Anti-War Demonstrators Were Detained In Large Numbers

March 2nd, 2014 by Gabriel Levy, Peopleandnature.wordpress.com/ [Excerpts] In Moscow, anti-war demonstrators were detained in large numbers. Each time protesters assembled on Manezhnaya square in the city centre, more were arrested. Novaya Gazeta, the liberal opposition paper, reported 265 arrests and counting just after 16.00 Moscow time.

Ukraine:
Large Numbers Joined Demonstrations Against The War Not Only In Kyiv But In All The Large Russian-Speaking Cities In The East
March 2nd, 2014 by Gabriel Levy, Peopleandnature.wordpress.com/ [Excerpts] Large numbers joined demonstrations against the war not only in Kyiv but in all the large Russian-speaking cities in the east. Ukrainska Pravda reported a demonstration of 5-10,000 people against Putins aggression in Nikolaev, a predominantly Russian-speaking city in southern Ukraine. The report said that agricultural and public sector workers, students and the intelligentsia were all at the march. In Dnipropetrovsk, a predominantly Russian-speaking industrial city, and Odessa, the predominantly Russian-speaking port city in southern Ukraine, several thousand people joined similar marches. There were demos in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporozhye smaller than proRussian marches but shamefully downplayed by western media reports.

In Kyiv, the radical left called for working-class solidarity against Putins militarism. Theres no point in waiting for rescue from Nato, said a statement by the Autonomous Workers Union, published in English here. The war can be averted only if proletarians of all countries, first and foremost Ukrainian and Russian, together make a stand against the criminal regime of Putin.

The Political Forces Poised To Take Control Of Ukraine After Yanukovichs Fall Arent Looking Out For Workers, In Any Way, Shape Or Form
They Are No Strangers To Corruption, Favoritism And The Use Of Budget Funds For Personal Purposes
Whatever Happens Now, The Memory Of How Mass Resistance Forced Out A Tyranny Will Stay Burned In The Minds Of Ukrainians
February 24, 2014 by Sean Larson and Alan Maass, Socialist Worker [Excerpts] Ukraines president Viktor Yanukovich appears to have been driven from power after the mass protest movement that has occupied Kievs Maidan (Independence Square) since November survived a deadly crackdown last week. In a matter of days, the countrys corrupt and autocratic regime was overwhelmed. The parliamentary opposition to Yanukovich--dominated by center-right and even far-right parties, backed by the European Union (EU) and U.S. government--is moving quickly to establish its authority, ahead of new elections planned for May.

Their goal is to head off any further action from below that might undermine their claim to speak for the uprising--and that might target the countrys elite beyond Yanukovich and his ruling party. Contrary to this aim, however, the Maidan occupation grew larger over the weekend as masses of people celebrated reports that Yanukovich had fled the capital late Friday night. In scenes reminiscent of insurrections past, demonstrators poured into Yanukovichs abandoned private estate in Kiev, complete with a luxurious residence, zoo and carefully manicured golf course. The masses of people who participated in the Maidan movement did not endure months of encampments during a frigid winter and repeated assaults by the regimes riot police in order for a new political leadership to take charge and preside over the same neoliberal policies that have impoverished ordinary people. Whatever happens now, the memory of how mass resistance forced out a tyranny will stay burned in the minds of Ukrainians. The political forces poised to take control of Ukraine after Yanukovichs fall arent looking out for workers, in any way, shape or form. As a statement from the anarchist Autonomous Workers Union of Ukraine bluntly put it: Besides the fascists, old and experienced Oppositionists will also attempt to seize power. Many of them already have some experience with working in government, and they are no strangers to corruption, favoritism and the use of budget funds for personal purposes. As Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis explained in an interview with the German magazine Marx21, the wealthy elite "has influence not only on the economy and society, but also has direct control over one or more political parties. An oligarch can therefore translate their finance capital into direct political power."

Ukraines Interim Prime Minister May Prove To Be Arsenic To The Beleaguered Nation.
While He Does Not Have Strong Support Of The Electorate, And Would Have No Chance Of

Winning An Election, He Is ProIMF Austerity

That Includes Tax Increases, Interest Rate Hikes And Further Currency Devaluation
Im Going To Be The Most Unpopular Prime Minister In The History Of My Country
2/27/2014 by Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes [Excerpts] Ukraines interim prime minister, Arseniy Yats Yatsenyuk, may prove to be arsenic to the beleaguered nation. Ukraines new 450-seat parliament approved the appointment of the former Central Banker Yatsenyuk on Thursday by a vote of 371 to 1. Oddly enough, earlier this month, the pro-Western Yats trailed behind popular opposition leaders such as former heavyweight boxer Viltali Klitschko and the leader of the nationalist, Svoboda Party, Oleh Tyahnybok. But Yats had friends in high places and while he does not have strong support of the electorate, and would have no chance of winning an election, he is pro-IMF austerity and apparently the bulk of parliament is as well. Also today, Yatsenyuk promised to implement very unpopular measures to stabilize the countrys finances. The government said it needs $35 billion to support the country over the next two years. His language in a news report broadcast by Bloomberg today indicates he is heading toward a potentially destabilizing austerity campaign: The treasury is empty. We will do everything not to default. If we get the financial support from the IMF, the U.S., we will do it. Im going to be the most unpopular prime minister in the history of my country, he said. But this is the only solution. I would never promise any kind of huge achievements. First and the most important issue is to stabilize the situation.

It is unclear the kind of measures Yatsenyuk will tolerate, but it appears austerity is the path forward. That includes a regimen of tax increases, interest rate hikes and further currency devaluation. For economists who think austerity is a disaster, Ukraine is on a path to ruin.

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From: G.A. To: Military Resistance Newsletter Subject: Ukraine Date: Mar 1, 2014 You keep calling Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych a dictator. He was elected by the Ukrainians. Stop using the term dictator.

Reply: T No. Members of the armed forces, whether those of the United States or any other nation, have the right and duty to act against dictatorships commanding their services, and to assist civilian movements against dictatorship. This applies whether a political dictatorship is imposed by force of arms or a political dictatorship is imposed by those in command of the resources of society using their wealth to purchase the political leadership. As in the Ukraine. And the USA.

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