As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and running mate JD Vance continue to spread debunked, racist lies that Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio, are eating people's pets, we speak with Guerline Jozef from the Haitian Bridge Alliance, an immigrant advocacy group, about threats of violence that have forced closures and evacuations at hospitals, colleges and City Hall in Springfield, with some threats citing anger over the city's resettlement of Haitian immigrants. This comes as Trump continues to promise mass deportations if he is reelected, starting in Springfield, even though the Haitians there were welcomed under the Temporary Protected Status program.
Former Polish judge Tomasz Szmydt has called for the resignation of Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, saying that he jeopardized national security by sharing classified information with Russian pranksters.
On September 5, 2024, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock held a press conference in Amman with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi.
During the press conference, Al-Safadi pressed Germany to impose sanctions on Israel. Baerbock responded by announcing a €50 million increase in German aid to Gaza, resulting in total German aid of about €360 million since last year. This sum is a minute fraction of the €34 billion in military, economic and humanitarian aid that Germany has provided to Ukraine since 2022. In addition, Germany continues to be one of Israel's largest suppliers of military equipment.
On September 12, Dimitri Lascaris discussed these developments with Elijah Magnier. Magnier is a veteran war correspondent and political analyst with over 35 years of experience covering decades of war in the Middle East and North Africa. He has strong relationships with key players and has acquired in-depth experience, extensive contacts, and solid knowledge of the complex political situations in West Asia.
Magnier and Lascaris also discussed the escalation of the war between Israel and Lebanon's Islamic Resistance, as well as recent accusations by the Biden administration that Iran has supplied ballistic missiles to Russia.
We take a look how Western governments like the UK are cracking down on the information War by arresting and interrogating journalists for their coverage on Palestine.
As the ceasefire deal looks further away than ever over the issue of the Philadelphi Corridor, we are witnessing a renewed media and activism crackdown by Western Governments. From the detention of UK-based Journalists Richard Medhurst and Sarah Wilkinson, the raiding of former Marine Intelligence officer Soctt Ritter's home by the FBI, to the US Marshals questioning of Jewish activist Jacob Burger on his return from a humanitarian trip to Egypt, we examine the developing information landscape with regards to disastrous Israel/United States foreign policy.
The UK is currently holding 16 political prisoners from Palestine Action for their direct actions organized against Israeli weapons factories in the United Kingdom.
Canada’s National Post is refusing to comment after one of its columnists revealed himself to be a collaborator with Western-aligned intelligence agencies. A Canadian activist is now threatening to sue the paper after the confessed spy smeared him in a front page article.
Adam Zivo, a columnist who covered the war in Ukraine for Canada’s National Post newspaper, has outed himself as an operative of Canadian and Ukrainian intelligence. The admission came as Zivo publicly leapt to the defense of Canada’s Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), in response to a wave of online mockery directed towards a post by the spy agency which asked readers, “Has a stranger ever tried to inflate your ego?,” before warning them that such flattery “could be elicitation.”
“People are dunking on this tweet but this actually happened to me in Odesa in early 2023 with a guy who seemed to be a Chinese spy,” Zivo volunteered. “I ended up organizing a small sting operation with two Ukrainian intelligence officers to figure out what his deal was,” he declared.
In a subsequent post, Zivo expanded on his repeated attempts to entrap a man he had encountered in Odessa, and whom he claimed was a Chinese intelligence agent. “I met the Chinese man and his wife at a restaurant while wearing a wire,” while “SBU officers watched us from a car parked outside, which had tinted windows,” Zivo stated.
He told Canada’s PressProgress that following his meeting with the supposed Chinese agent, “I drafted a detailed report which I quickly provided to the National Post, CSIS [Canadian Security Intelligence Service] and the Ukrainian government. After the recorded dinner, I produced transcripts and a follow-up report which was also shared with these stakeholders.”
The National Post has so far refused to comment on the revelation. As PressProgress reported, “National Post Editor-in-Chief Rob Roberts and Managing Editor Carson Jerema did not respond to several requests for comment.” (more...)
People are dunking on this tweet but this actually happened to me in Odesa in early 2023 with a guy who seemed to be a Chinese spy. I ended up organizing a small sting operation with two Ukrainian intelligence officers to figure out what his deal was. https://t.co/UtyFcpVCZo
Material and rhetorical support for the genocide of the Palestinian people is everywhere. It's time to ask why
Nearly a year into the world’s first live-streamed genocide - which began in Gaza, and is rapidly expanding into the occupied West Bank - the establishment western media still avoid using the term “genocide” to describe Israel’s rampage of destruction.
The worse the genocide gets, the longer Israel’s starvation-blockade of the enclave continues, the harder it gets to obscure the horrors - and the less coverage Gaza receives.
The worst offender has been the BBC, given that it is Britain’s only publicly funded broadcaster. Ultimately, it is supposed to be accountable to the British public, who are required by law to pay its licence fee.
This is why it has been beyond ludicrous to witness the billionaire-owned media froth at the mouth in recent days about “BBC bias” - not against Palestinians, but against Israel. Yes, you heard that right.
We are talking about the same “anti-Israel” BBC that just ran yet another headline - this time after an Israeli sniper shot an American citizen in the head - that managed somehow, once again, to fail to mention who killed her. Any casual reader risked inferring from the headline “American activist shot dead in occupied West Bank” that the culprit was a Palestinian gunman.
After all, Palestinians, not Israel, are represented by Hamas, a group “designated as a terrorist organisation” by the British government, as the BBC helpfully keeps reminding us.
And it is the supposedly “anti-Israel” BBC that last week sought to stymie efforts by 15 aid agencies known as the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to run a major fundraiser through the nation’s broadcasters.
No one is under any illusions about why the BBC is so unwilling to get involved. The DEC has chosen Gaza as the beneficiary of its latest aid drive.
The committee faced the very same problem with the BBC back in 2009, when the corporation refused to take part in a Gaza fundraiser on the extraordinary pretext that doing so would compromise its rules on “impartiality”.
Presumably, in the BBC’s eyes, saving the lives of Palestinian children reveals a prejudice that saving Ukrainian children’s lives does not.
In its 2009 attack, Israel killed “only” 1,300 or so Palestinians in Gaza, not the many tens of thousands - or possibly hundreds of thousands, no one truly knows - it has this time around.
Famously, the late, independent-minded Labour politician Tony Benn broke ranks and defied the BBC’s DEC ban by reading out details of how to donate money live on air, over the protests of the show’s presenter. As he pointed out then, and it is even truer today: “People will die because of the BBC’s decision.”
According to sources within both the committee and the BBC, the corporation’s executives are terrified - as they were previously - of the "backlash" from Israel and its powerful lobbyists in the UK if it promotes the Gaza appeal.
A spokesperson for the BBC told Middle East Eye that the fundraiser did not meet all the established criteria for a national appeal, despite the DEC's expert opinion that it does, but noted the possibility of broadcasting an appeal was "under review". (more...)
“It’s really just such an incredible struggle to operate in Gaza. I’ve never seen anything like it in my career.”
Canadian aid organizations are renewing calls for a complete embargo on military exports to Israel, warning that it is impossible for them to provide basic support to Palestinians while Israel continues its brutal attacks on Gaza.
Dalia Al-Awqati, head of humanitarian affairs at Save the Children Canada (SCC), noted that Israel’s war has so far killed at least 16,456 children, amounting to more than 1 per cent of Gaza’s total child population.
Another estimated 20,000 are missing, she said, with many likely buried beneath rubble.
“We don’t believe that the government of Canada should continue to provide weapons that are likely being used in violations of international humanitarian law against civilians and particularly against children,” Al-Awqati told The Maple.
In March, the Trudeau government said it would pause authorizations of new permits for exports of military goods to Israel. However, this measure did not apply to approximately $95 million worth of export permits approved before January 8, or any goods that flow to Israel via the United States and other third countries. (more...)
— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
Specifically the "Jewish Security Network" or "JSN" (surely the choice of the same acronym as @JewsSayNo is coincidental) which mostly seems to be about (1) recruiting vigilantes like the @UofT steroid intimidation posse (see point 2 at the link)...https://t.co/iwREHqd7Iv
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— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
...and (2) surveilling / stalking / doxxing anti-genocide activists along the lines of that creepy @ l 3 v 1 a t 4 a n account or the surveillance described in The Lobby (UK edition: https://t.co/1NyFPMXULM; US edition: https://t.co/mnHlzpvdG2)
— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
FWIW there is no comparison between the "violence" he's so concerned about and the actual violence Palestinian-Canadians and their allies (many Jewish) have been facing, specifically from @TPSMyronDemkiw's cops and the very Zionists he's bragging about deputizing
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— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
See e.g. the two women @TPSMyronDemkiw's cops punched in the face and the third they put in the hospital two days ago to the cheers of Zionists like Meir Weinstein and those @ l 3 v 1 a t 4 a n creeps.
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— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
We remember Deborah Maes the Zionist who pulled a knife on encampment protesters. We remember Ilan-Reuben "nailgun" Abramov who attacked people peacefully protesting the sale of stolen Palestinian land.
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— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
We remember Meir Gerichter who attacked another peaceful protest with his flagpole and then jump kicked a disabled woman for daring to defend herself
etc. etc.
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— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
We also remember all the weird unsolved "hate-crimes" that seem very likely to have been false flags intended to smear the pro-Palestine movement (*cough* IDF Deli *cough* did someone say insurance fraud? not me!)
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— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
We remember these in the context of a long history, documented by historian Avi Shlaim among others, of the Z movement staging violent attacks on Jewish institutions to stoke perceptions of anti-semitism to legitimate 🇮🇱 & drive Jewish migrationhttps://t.co/7vynAUvKDs
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— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
None of what @TPSMyronDemkiw is talking about is actually about safety.
It's about intimidation and legitimating police violence in defense of the genocide @UJAFederation's crocodile tears are calculated to distract you from.
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— Eglinton-Lawrence + Don Valley West 4 Palestine (@ELDV4Palestine) September 13, 2024
“Our clients are very justified in having some very serious questions about the motivation of the city in taking down these posters.”
The City of Montreal is facing legal action after its employees were caught on camera tearing down pro-Palestine signs ahead of a federal by-election.
The signs belonged to LaSalle-Émard-Verdun pour la Palestine (LEV4P), which is legally registered as a third-party campaign group in the upcoming LaSalle—Émard—Verdun by-election, taking place on September 16.
The incident is the third time since 2008 that the City of Montreal inappropriately removed election signs belonging to Palestine solidarity groups and pro-Palestine political parties, raising questions about why such signs are being targeted.
LEV4P sent a cease and desist letter to the City on August 2. The City initially did not admit responsibility for tearing down the signs, until the group presented CCTV footage of one of the incidents, which was recorded on July 31.
One of the videos, seen by The Maple, shows an individual in a City vehicle pulling up beside a sign attached to a lamp post and using a box cutter to remove it, before driving away with the sign.
Signs belonging to registered third parties are protected under federal election law. (more...)
McGill president Deep Saini has repeatedly attacked students on his campus who oppose the Gaza genocide and has even asked pro-Israel students to spy on professors.
Wealthy donors, a well-organized outside lobby and an empowered victimhood narrative ensures McGill’s president promotes genocide. With students expressing their overwhelming support for divestment through referendums, rallies, petitions, a hunger strike and 75-day encampment Deep Saini recently claimed those opposing Israel’s holocaust in Gaza are “a small group” causing difficulty for “the majority”.
In a highly provocative move for a university president presenting himself as neutral, President Saini participated in a recent town hall with the most vocal advocate of Israeli violence in the House of Commons. A Canadian Jewish News report on an event Liberal MP Anthony Housefather billed as a discussion about Jewish students and faculty’s “safe return to campus”, quoted Saini smearing McGill students. “It’s very hard to tell whether the antisemitism went up or it became more overt,” Saini told the pro-genocide event. “Did we actually see a rise in antisemitism? Or did we see people using this moment, forum these circumstances, to give themselves a license to express antisemitism?”
The head of the prestigious university also labeled those opposed to the genocide as a small minority. “It was a stark example of how a small group of determined people can create an extremely difficult situation for the majority that remains relatively quiet and ends up becoming a victim,” Saini said.
President Saini threatened professors over any “abuse of podium.” “Nobody would be allowed to abuse their position to make a (political or hateful) statement”, Saini declared. He even asked Jewish Zionist students to spy on professors, reportedly “calling on Jewish students to be the ears on the ground and report any breaches of conduct.”
Keen to dispatch police against student protesters, Saini doesn’t believe those promoting a holocaust should feel uncomfortable. “Nobody is going to be now excluded from or made to feel uncomfortable in class because they are a Zionist and support Israel,” concluded Saini. (more...)
As the university continues repressing student calling for divestment, president Deep Saini was confronted yesterday by one of his own students about the matter.
Instead of listening to his student’s concerns, Saini decided to do what he does best: forcefully silence the student pic.twitter.com/twib8dVW3I
The far-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) is raising $150,000 to fund a lawsuit against the Canadian government to stop the potential release of the heretofore secret Part 2 of the 1985 Deschenes Commission Report on War Criminals in Canada. The report contains the names of more than 900 Nazi war criminals who were admitted as immigrants to Canada, the so-called “Master List,” along with summaries of the criminal allegations against each of them.
The campaign by the UCC, which has enjoyed the support of the Canadian state for decades and has significant influence within the pro-war Trudeau government, is supported by sections of the corporate media. The main argument raised against the Canadian government revealing the names of the mass murderers it allowed into the country following World War II is that it would harm the imperialist powers’ war on Russia. There could hardly be a more damning admission as to the character of the regime backed by Washington and Ottawa in Kiev. According to a Globe and Mail report, releasing the names of 900 Nazis “could fuel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that the invasion of Ukraine amounts to a purge of Nazis,” remarking that “Russian propaganda in the war against Ukraine could get a boost.”
“Russian propaganda” is the preferred term in ruling circles to denote any opposition to the imperialist-instigated war on Russia in Ukraine, especially opposition that develops in a left-wing, socialist direction. The aim of the war is to subjugate Russia to semi-colonial status so that Washington, Ottawa, and their European allies can seize its natural resources. The fear motivating the Globe, UCC, and broad sections of the ruling class is far less that Putin’s reactionary Russian nationalism, which has nothing to offer workers in Russia, let alone those in the West, will gain ground. Rather, it is that the further exposure of how the US/NATO war being waged in the name of “defending democracy” is in reality a predatory imperialist war of conquest being carried out in alliance with the political descendants of Nazi collaborators and war criminals will fuel anti-war sentiment. (more...)
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Logistics companies, with Maersk as the industry lead, are the invisible profiteers of the current genocide in Gaza.
Since last October, Maersk has transported over 300 million dollars worth of weapons components to the biggest arms manufacturers. We must intensify the pressure on these institutions that are profiting off of the blood of the Palestinian people! We can and must halt the flow of the weapons massacring our people, through every avenue available to us.
Internationally, the movement for Palestine is stronger than ever, but Israel’s genocide has not yet been stopped.
Palestinians continue to be martyred, maimed, and starved by the criminal Zionist regime and its Western backers.
Behind the horrific images and videos we have seen daily for almost ten months are corporations like Maersk who enable genocide to happen. Behind the grotesque statements of demonic politicians justifying ethnic cleansing are the companies like Maersk who profit from it.
It is time to pull the #MaskOffMaersk and show the world who they really are!
Come learn about why we are taking up this campaign, the need for a people’s arms embargo, and get involved!
Tkaronto (Toronto) - September 11/24 - You’ve seen everything by now. You’ve heard from your friends and comrades who were there.
Detainees have all been released - wrongly taken in, concussed, pepper sprayed, kneed, punched, dragged, and so on. While this may feel like a moment of coming together - which it is - this is also a wake up call.
Scarborough, UTAM, and last night at Meridian Hall happening within weeks of each other has fully, without qualification, unmasked the police state we are living under and must contend with moving forward.
Check in on your friends. Organize offline. Strategize with trusted leaders, and elders. Above all else, rest and prepare to continue the resistance in ways that adapt to our current reality. Stay safe, and stay together.
On January 9th, 2024, IRCC started accepting applications for a Temporary Residence Visa Program for Gazans with Canadian Family Ties that was called "Crisis in Gaza: Special Measure for Extended Family". Not long after it became clear that the program was not designed to accept refugees. Nothing about the program was urgent and in comparison to past programs the “special measures” seem to highly indicate racism towards Palestinians.
We have Safinaz El-Solh from Gazan Canadian Community Group who were directly affected by the crisis with family Gaza who organized together to focus on the program.
U of T hosted a colloquium in applied AI research with guest speakers from Israeli universities. TSSP comrades were told by an organizer of the event that it was funded by an anonymous donor with the explicit condition that speakers must be invited from Israeli universities. We demand that U of T cut ties with these universities, and does not accept donations or host events that normalize relations with academic institutions complicit in genocide.
The IOF has been using AI systems and AI enabled weapons in the ongoing genocide of Gaza, many of which come from tight partnerships with Israeli academic institutions.
Around the world, peace organizations are targeting ‘sole-source suppliers’ of F-35 jet parts like Canadian Gastops to stop Israel’s assault on Gaza
In a small, sleepy industrial park in the east end of Ottawa, a Canadian company is making essential parts for warplanes bombing Palestinians.
According to a Breach investigation, Gastops is the only company in the world that produces engine sensors that go into U.S.-made F-35 combat jets—including the ones dropping 2,000 pound bombs in Gaza.
The revelation is “very important,” according to one Canadian arms-control expert.
“It’s usually impossible to know whether parts made in Whitby or Winnipeg or Laval actually end up in the F-35s that Israel is using in its operations in Gaza, but in this case it’s certain,” said Kelsey Gallagher, a senior researcher at Waterloo, Ont.-based Project Ploughshares.
In other countries, civil society groups are using the existence of such “sole-source” manufacturers to petition domestic courts to recognize that exports of weapons parts violate international law.
A campaigner with the Netherlands’ largest peace organization, which earlier this year won a court challenge to halt the Dutch government’s transfers to Israel, told The Breach that discovering a sole-source company has been “vital” to their lawsuit. (more...)
I recognized him immediately. I had seen him the week before when he came onto the campus during a Shabbat service and unraveled his flag. The flag of the Orwellian named Jewish Defence League. The flag of Meir Kahane. The rabid Rabbi born in Brooklyn who created the Jewish terrorist group in 1968 and went on to preach and advocate for the annihilation of Palestinians. I reached out to the University of Toronto about the terror group on their campus but they refused to answer me.
‘This didn’t feel like British police questioning. More like Mossad or Shin Bet.’ Palestine activist Sarah Wilkinson on how balaclava’d ‘gorillas’ - no warrant or ID shown - ransacked her home, stole money and brutalised her
The British royal family of today typifies the Venetian Party, and continues the outlook and methods of an oligarchical faction which can be traced far back into the ancient world. Oligarchism is a principle of irrational domination associated with hereditary oligarchy/nobility and with certain aristocratic priesthoods. At the center of oligarchy is the idea that certain families are born to rule as an arbitrary elite, while the vast majority of any given population is condemned to oppression, serfdom, or slavery. During most of the past 2,500 years, oligarchs have been identified by their support for the philosophical writings of Aristotle and their rejection of the epistemology of Plato. Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of "facts." Aristotle's formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals. (more...)
The Canadian Polish Congress and the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians have joined calls for the identities of the alleged war criminals to be revealed.
Canadian Polish and Ukrainian groups have joined calls for the federal government to release the full list of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who came to this country after the war.
The list is among documents created by a 1986 federal government war-crimes commission led by Justice Jules Deschenes. For almost 40 years the federal government has refused to release the material to the public.
Library and Archives Canada is deciding whether it will release the records requested under Canada’s access to information law.
Holocaust survivors and some Jewish groups have called for a full release of the 900 names of alleged Nazi war criminals. The list is believed to contain names of Nazi collaborators from eastern European as well as Waffen SS veterans such as those from a Ukrainian division known as SS Galicia.
The Canadian Polish Congress as well as the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians have now joined calls for the identities of the alleged war criminals to be revealed.
“Many members of our community are descendants of victims and survivors of Nazi atrocities, including those perpetrated by SS Galizien,” John Tomczak, president of the Canadian Polish Congress, wrote in a letter to Leslie Weir, Librarian and Archivist of Canada. “The Canadian Polish Congress believes that the greater risk lies in secrecy and omission. The Polish-Canadian community feels that any reluctance to release these names may only deepen existing wounds.”
Tomczak wrote that by only fully confronting the truth of Canada’s history regarding Nazi war criminals can “we can hope to bring a sense of justice and closure to the many families and communities who continue to grapple with the horrors of that period.” (more...)
In a major win for the divestment movement, San Francisco State University has agreed to divest from four major weapons manufacturers backing the US-Israel genocide in Gaza. Dr. Rama Ali Kased, Professor of Race and Resistance Studies at SFSU and Max Flynt with Students for Gaza and the General Union of Palestine Students at SFSU, dive into the student-led movement that forced the university to the negotiation table.
Ukrainian military intelligence and ‘Nation Europa’
This year on Ukraine’s Independence Day, some prominent Russian neo-Nazis found themselves in Lviv, the unofficial capital of Ukrainian nationalism, to attend the first “Nation Europa” conference, which brought together representatives of an extreme-right network in Europe and neo-Nazi movements in the Ukrainian armed forces.
About half of the speakers from Ukraine’s military were affiliated with units in the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR, Holovne upravlinnia rozvidky). This government agency in the Defense Ministry of Ukraine was “our little baby” that “we had kind of rebuilt from scratch,” according to a former U.S. intelligence official. Now the HUR is playing with Nazi soldiers and helping to create a monster that may come to haunt Ukraine and its Western allies even more than Russia itself.
“Nation Europa” has claimed that the Azov movement and its military units, such as the 3rd Assault Brigade and HUR’s Kraken Regiment, were “not invited” to the conference, and blurred the face of its organizer who presided over the meeting. Twitter user @Dreznicagoat discovered that this was Yurii Pavlyshyn, a medic in the openly neo-Nazi 3rd Assault Brigade, which is commanded by Andriy Biletsky, the leader of the Azov movement.
According to Biletsky’s neo-Nazi manifesto for the “Patriot of Ukraine,” the paramilitary group that spearheaded the original Azov Battalion, “Our task is to fight for the creation of a powerful Social-Nationalist movement that will encompass the entire Nation and gain power in the State.” There is a section dedicated to “racism,” one of the “fundamental principles.”
All our nationalism is nothing — a castle on the sand, without the foundation of blood, the foundation of Race. … If Ukrainian spirituality, culture and language are unique, it is only because our racial nature is unique. If Ukraine is an earthly paradise, it is only because our Race has turned it into one. Accordingly, the treatment of our National organism must begin with the racial cleansing of the Nation. And then a healthy National Spirit will be reborn in a healthy Racial body, and with it culture, language and everything else. … The historical mission of our Nation in this turning point of the century is to lead the White Peoples of the world in the last crusade for their existence. A march against the Semitic-led subhumans. (more...)
Yevhen Karas explains the West does not supply them with weapons to help Ukrainians, but to fight Russians on behalf of the West. - "We have fun killing... We have started a war not seen for 60 years" pic.twitter.com/Edf8pSx2FA
‘Is the government of Canada moving forward with suspending or dissolving actual permits, or is this some sort of ad hoc arrangement?’
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly made headlines this week by announcing that she had suspended “around 30” export permits for sales of military goods to Israel over the summer.
Speaking at a Liberal Party caucus retreat in British Columbia, Joly also suggested that her government would oppose the potential transfer of mortar cartridges manufactured by the Quebec-based General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Inc. (GD-OTS) to Israel via the United States.
The potential $61 million U.S. contract was announced by the U.S. State Department last month. It highlighted a glaring loophole in the Trudeau government’s claim that it had paused authorizations of new permits for military exports to Israel.
Joly did not explicitly promise to block that potential transfer in her latest comments, but insisted “we will not have any form of arms or parts of arms be sent to Gaza,” and said that her ministry was in contact with GD-OTS.
Her latest comments mark a shift from previously claiming that concerns about the potential deal were “not based in fact.” According to reporting by The Globe and Mail in August, Joly initially “denied” that any such deal was in the works, and her ministry said it would “not speculate” on the potential transfer when asked about it by The Maple.
Those comments followed months of Joly claiming that all Canadian military exports to Israel were “non-lethal,” a term with no legal definition in Canada’s export control regime. (more...)
MSA press conference regarding the Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism the University of Toronto administration is allowing to fester on its campus.
