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San Juan, Puerto Rico Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz calls out Trump’s false statements about how much aid has reached Puerto Rico, and says that he uses the peoples suffering to pitch them against each other

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INTERDICTION OF OIL SHIPMENTS BETWEEN CUBA AND VENEZUELA BY THE UNITED STATES WILL LEAD TO WAR.

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The Case of Professor GN Saibaba : MEP Lídia Senra Rodríguez writes to Ms Federica MOGHERINI

                       Professor GN Saibaba

Dear Ms Federica MOGHERINI

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

I call on you once again regarding your responsibility as High Representative of the European
Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in order to ask for your much-appreciated reaction
about the dramatic situation of Professor GN Saibaba.

As you know, the Nagpur High Court have refused the release on bail of Professor GN Saibaba.
During the current European Parliament term, two written questions have been addressed to
the European Commission regarding the situation of the Indian professor GN Saibaba sentenced
to life imprisonment. He has a 90% physical disability, aggravated in recent months with acute
pancreatitis, and it was recommended the removal of his gallbladder.

Because of this, this life imprisonment sentence is actually a death sentence for this professor,
who has done nothing but defend the rights of the Adivasis and Dalits people with words, as
well as denounce the counterinsurgency strategy ʹOpera on Green Huntʹ.

On June 26 2018 United Nations human rights experts urged the government of India to release
the teacher for health reasons and to ensure immediate access to medical care, including
appropriate treatment and rehabilitation: “We would like to remind India that any denial of
reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities in detention is not only discriminatory
but may well amount to ill-treatment or even torture. In particular, solitary confinement should
be prohibited when the conditions of prisoners with disabilities would be made worse by this
measure”.

The answers given by you on behalf of the European Commission were the following: “The EU has been closely following cases of human rights defenders arrested in India, including the cases of professor Saibaba, accused of having links with Naxal militants, and of Ms. Arundathi Roy, accused of contempt of court for her article defending the cause of Professor Saibaba”. “The EU Delegation in New Delhi has made appeals on humanitarian grounds with the National Human Rights Commission.

The EU attaches great importance to the issues at stake, most importantly to the freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial and the rights of human rights defenders. These issues are also addressed at the EU-India human rights dialogue.ʹ ʹThe EU continues to follow the case of professor Saibaba convicted by sessions court in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra in March 2017. As Professor Saibaba lodged an appeal against the verdict with the Nagpur High Court, the case is still sub judice. The EU has been raising the case on humanitarian grounds with the Indian authorities”.

On March 25 2019 the Nagpur High Court, in an unprecedented decision, has decided to deny
bail to the professor, condemning him definitively to death. The European Commission cannot
remain impassive and be complicit in such a violation of Human Rights.

I must to demand from the European Commission all the necessary measures for the
immediate release of the professor GN Saibaba. If this does not happen, and in line with the
human rights advocacy that EU is committed to, I think it would be timely to halt all EU
agreements with India.

I also demand the immediate release of the lawyer of Professor GN Saibaba, Surendra Gadling,
as well as human rights activists Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun
Ferreira, Shoma Sen, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut.

Sincerely yours,

MEP Lídia Senra Rodríguez

TURKISH election authorities moved to block Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) candidate Mehmet Fatih Macoglu from taking office as mayor of Dersim

TURKISH election authorities moved to block Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) candidate Mehmet Fatih Macoglu from taking office as mayor of Dersim today on “security” grounds.

The Supreme Election Board (YSK) did not give any explanation for the decision which it said was based on the “security problem today.”

Mr Macoglu said: "No explanation was made. They said, ‘We don’t approve giving the mandate today because of a security problem and we don’t want to explain that’.”

Turkey’s first ever communist municipal mayor said the decision was “like a joke” but added the hold-up would “not put a spoke in our wheel” and the situation would be approached with “maturity and calm.”

He first shot to prominence as the mayor of a small town, Ovacik, where he was known for planting chickpeas, beans and potatoes in municipal lands across the district, distributing the income from the fields to low-income families and creating a scholarship for students.

Under his mayoralty, public transport was made free and the cost of water was massively reduced, with his “communist honey” proving popular in Turkey’s large cities, including Istanbul.

His victory in the largely Kurdish Alevi municipality came as Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was given a bloody nose in the local elections, suffering humiliating defeats in the capital Ankara and Istanbul, where former prime minister Binali Yildirim lost out to Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem Imamoglu.

The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) also won plaudits for its electoral strategy, which saw it not standing candidates in areas where the CHP could win.

Their candidates took back most of the municipalities that were “stolen” after the Turkish state arrested 85 elected mayors and replaced them with trustees loyal to Mr Erdogan.

The election of Mr Macoglu, who won the south-eastern province of Dersim with 32.7 per cent of the vote, has been welcomed with messages from sister parties across the world.

Solidarity messages were received from the Communist Party of Cuba along with those in Hungary, Ecuador and Spain.

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) saluted the TKP for using the electoral campaign “to establish roots in dozens of new working-class and people’s neighbourhoods, which is an important achievement that will help enhance the struggle of the working class and of the popular strata in your country.”

Mr Macoglu will meet with YSK officials again today and is expected to take office this afternoon

SOURCE: MORNING STAR

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NATO 70 Years : Its Anti Democratic Roots

CANADA AGAINST NATO

With NATO turning 70, it’s a good occasion to revisit the creation of a military alliance operating under the stated principle that an “attack against one ally is considered as an attack against all allies.” Now encompassing 29 member states, the North Atlantic alliance was instigated by US, British and Canadian officials.

Formally, NATO was the West’s response to an aggressive Soviet Union, but the notion that the US, or even Western Europe, was threatened by the Soviet Union after World War II is laughable. Twenty-five million people in the Soviet Union lost their lives in the war, while the US came out of WWII much stronger than when they entered it. After the destruction of WWII, the Soviets were not interested in fighting the US and its allies, which Canadian and US officials admitted privately. 

In April 1945 Canada’s ambassador to Russia, Dana Wilgress, concluded that “the interests of the Soviet privileged class are bound up with the maintenance of a long period of peace.” The Soviet elite, the ambassador continued in an internal memo, was “fearful of the possibility of attack from abroad” and “obsessed with problems of security.” Wilgress believed the Soviets wanted a post-war alliance with the UK to guarantee peace in Europe (with a Soviet sphere in the East and a UK-led West). Internally, US officials came to similar conclusions.

Rather than a defense against possible Russian attack, NATO was partly conceived as a reaction to growing socialist sentiment in Western Europe. During WWII, self-described communists opposed Mussolini in Italy, fought the fascists in Greece and resisted the Nazi occupation of France. As a result, they had a great deal of prestige after the war, unlike the wealth-holders and church officials who backed the fascists. 

If not for US/British interference, communists, without Moscow’s support, would probably have taken power in Greece and won the 1948 election in Italy. In France the Communist Party won 30 percent of the first post-war vote, filling a number of ministries in a coalition government.

At the time of Italy’s first post-war election, prominent Canadian diplomat Escott Reid, explained that “the whole game of the Russians is obviously to conquer without armed attack.” For his part, Pearson decried an “attempt at a complete Russian conquest of Italy by constitutional or extra-constitutional means” and described class struggle by workers as a “new and sinister kind of danger, indirect aggression.”

US officials were equally concerned. George Kennan, the top US government policy planner at the time of NATO’s formation, considered “the communist danger in its most threatening form as an internal problem that is of western society.” For his part, NATO commander Dwight D. Eisenhower explained: “One of the great and immediate uses of the [NATO] military forces we are developing is to convey a feeling of confidence to exposed populations, a confidence which will make them sturdier, politically, in their opposition to Communist inroads.”

NATO planners feared a weakening of self-confidence among Western Europe’s elite and the widely held belief that communism was the wave of the future. Tens of thousands of North American troops were stationed in Western Europe to strengthen the Western European elite’s confidence to face growing left-wing parties and movements. Apparently, “Secret anti-Communist NATO protocols” committed alliance countries’ intelligence agencies to preventing communist parties from gaining power. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, information surfaced regarding groups the CIA and MI6 organized to “stay-behind” in case of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. No invasion took place, of course. Instead, NATO’s Secret Armies notes: “The real and present danger in the eyes of the secret war strategists in Washington and London were the at-times numerically strong Communist parties in the democracies of Western Europe. 

Hence the network in the total absence of a Soviet invasion took up arms in numerous countries and fought a secret war against the political forces of the left. 

The secret armies … were involved in a whole series of terrorist operations and human rights violations that they wrongly blamed on the Communists in order to discredit the left at the polls.”

Informally known as “Operation Gladio,” these right-wing “stay behind” groups were overseen by NATO’s Office of Security. A Spanish paper reported, in November 1990, “The Supreme  Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe (SHAPE), directing organ of NATO’s military apparatus, coordinated the actions of Gladio, according to the revelations of Gladio Secretary General Manfred Wörner during a reunion with the NATO ambassadors of the 16 allied nations.” At the time the European Parliament condemned Operation Gladio and requested an investigation, which hasn’t been undertaken.

Canada was one of two NATO countries omitted from Daniele Ganser’s NATO’s Secret Armies (Iceland was the other). No researcher has tied the two together, but the year after NATO was established the RCMP began a highly secretive espionage operation and internment plan known as PROFUNC (PROminent FUNCtionaries of the Communist Party). 

In October 2010, CBC’s Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada’s Enquête aired shows on “this secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, [which] allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to be Communist sympathizers.” 

In case of a “national security” threat up to 16,000 suspected communists and 50,000 sympathizers were to be apprehended and interned in one of eight camps across the country. Initiated by RCMP Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood in 1950, the plan continued until 1983.

Blunting the European Left was an important part of the establishment of NATO. 

As odes to the organization ring across the dominant media during its 70th celebrations, it’s important to remember that NATO was birthed with an elitist, anti-democratic intent. 

Its reason for creation was to manage “democracy” so that existing elites maintained their status.

SOURCE: https://therealnews.com/columns/on-natos-70th-anniversary-important-to-remember-its-anti-democratic-roots


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Labour Party Social Democratic history says he will save her  - or will Corbyn prove us all wrong and Theresa May be hoisted by her own petard.


Let her fall into the abyss of history if you hold her hand she will bring you down,