The anti-fascist protests in Britain are almost the opposite of what happened in Ottawa during the fascist mob "Freedom Convoy" occupation. Following the British policing example, the Convoy fascists were not cleaned out by the Ottawa police. Inevitably, a local street response was needed to confront the Convoy fascists and drive them out.
It looks like Ukraine's democracy is toast, and Zelensky is a de facto dictator at this point. The first round of legally-mandated presidential elections were supposed to start last month but they've been put off.
For all the bullshit we were fed about defending democracy in Ukraine, none of Ukraine's international backers made a public push to have Zelensky hold elections. No public concern was raised by Trudeau and Freeland.
Retired General Romeo Dallaire, famous for his UN command in Rwanda and his book about the Rwandan Genocide, "Shake Hands With the Devil", has finally emerged into public view again now that a genocide is being inflicted upon Palestinians - with open Canadian complicity in arming Israel's death squads.
As it turns out, Dallaire does not say a damn thing about today's genocide. There isn’t a single mention of Palestine or Israel, although the Holocaust and "never again" is cited in the first paragraph after Dallaire reminds us he was in Rwanda in 1994.
With the disorderly retreat from Avdiivka, Ukraine has now suffered three major defeats in a row since its rapid advances in fall 2022 against thin Russian forces in the open plains of the northeast. The Battle of Bakhmut may have caused the Wagner Mutiny, but Zelesnky threw many of his best forces into the battle against a force of mercenaries and ex-convicts promised freedom through service. Feeding the Bakhmut meatgrinder was not a unanimous strategy but General Syrsky had Zelensky's ear and promised a victory. It never materialized.
The following are research notes outlining basic facts about the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists prior to the Nazi's forming the Ukrainian SS "1st Galicien" Division in 1943. Sources include scholarly articles; Canadian, British and American newspapers; and declassified OSS/CIA and other American government materials.
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| Edmonton Journal, October 10 1961 |
Zelensky's fascist-riddled and corrupt wartime dictatorship (he is cancelling elections scheduled for this spring) and his NATO financiers and arms dealers should have sat down with Putin last fall when Russia's northern front collapsed, the encirclement of Kharkiv was defeated, and the Kherson regions was recaptured in the south.
Between Sarah Jama's expulsion from the ONDP caucus, the Paul Miller fiasco in Hamilton East, and the glorious do-nothing reign of Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath, you can see the NDP cratering in Hamilton, one of the historic NDP strongholds in Ontario. We've already seen the big cracks in other traditional NDP strongholds in Windsor, Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins, and across northern Ontario. We've also seen the NDP's big gains in working-class Brampton completely rolled back in the wake of the ONDP's incredible backstabbing of their Brampton North MPP, Kevin Yarde, just before the 2022 election.
