Podcasts about Maidan

Send us a textWhy does the Western narrative on Ukraine feel so one-sided? In this episode of the Open Minds Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist whose peer-reviewed research sheds a sobering light on Ukraine's internal divisions, the roots of war, and the media's oversimplified story. We talk about Crimea, Donbas, NATO and the infamous Maidan sniper massacre—an event that reshaped Ukraine and global geopolitics. Dr. Katchanovski's insights challenge widely held beliefs and force us to ask: what do we really know about this war?Inside GenevaInside Geneva is a podcast about global politics, humanitarian issues, & international aidListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showVisit my NEW Website! https://www.christopherbalkaran.comCheck out my Instagram/Tik Tok for daily posts: Instagram @openmindspodTiktok @openmindspodcast

Der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (ECHR) in Strasbourg nennt in einem aktuellen Urteil das Verhalten der ukrainischen Polizei und Feuerwehr am 2. Mai 2014 in Odessa als eine Ursache für den Tod von 48 Menschen. Sechs Menschen waren bei einer Straßenschlacht zwischen Maidan- und Anti-Maidan-Akivisten umgekommen und 42 Menschen bei einem Feuer in und vorWeiterlesen

In de korte geschiedenis van Zuid-Soedan, dat zich in 2011 losmaakte van Soedan, was het al vijf jaar oorlog. En nu staat de broze vrede in het land opnieuw onder grote druk. Het land kampt met een economische crisis en grote rivaliteit tussen de president en zijn vicepresident. En nu ook buurland Oeganda troepen naar Zuid-Soedan stuurt, groeit de angst voor een nieuwe burgeroorlog. Correspondent Koert Lindijer praat ons bij. (11:19) Van Moskou tot Maidan: making of met Jelle Brandt Corstius In de zesdelige serie Van Moskou tot Maidan verkent journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius Oekraïne tijdens het derde jaar van de oorlog. Wie zijn nu eigenlijk de Oekraïners? Corstius vertelt over het maakproces, maar over ook de dilemma's waar je tegenaan loopt wanneer je als documentairemaker niet neutraal bent in het conflict waar je over bericht. Presentatie: Eva Koreman

                                     REVOLUTION!                           Phase One - Trump/Zelensky                The Black Spy Podcast, Season 19, Episode 0004   The Trump/Zelensky debacle in the Oval Office, showed as clearly, as did the Vietnam or Afghanistan end of US engagement optics did, that the United states has ended its adventure in the Ukraine. However, in addition to just this sign that an incoming President wanted to divest himself of a losing, frankly unwinnable war, President Trump is showing a true revolutionary zeal to change the whole US military, industrial and congressional complex. Now transactional business and not secret intelligence driven covert and overt warfare is no longer the preferred model to retain US world-wide hegemony. At least not with a military pier equivalent nation. Russia's "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine, initiated in February 2022, has been framed by the Kremlin as a response to various historical and geopolitical factors. One narrative emphasizes the presence of far-right elements in Ukraine, drawing connections to nationalist groups active during World War II. However, although most western experts reject the portrayal of Ukraine as a neo-Nazi state, noting that while far-right groups exist, they do not hold significant influence in the government or military, they nevertheless have little to say about such far right units killing 14,000 Russian heritaged Ukrainian civilian citizens since 2016. In the early stages of the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies, including the CIA and MI6, reportedly collaborated with former Ukrainian nationalist fighters to undermine Soviet authority. These covert operations aimed to exploit anti-Soviet sentiments. This lasted 10 years and saw the reported death of up to a 100,000 Soviet Citizens. In the end though, it has been stated by the west, that this had limited long-term impact. The 2014 Maidan uprising, which led to the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian president, is viewed by Russia as a Western-backed coup that shifted Ukraine towards Euro-Atlantic integration. This assertion is backed up by Sigint in which, Victoria Nuland, the officer in charge of Eastern Europe in the US State Department discussing which Ukrainian's leaders should or shouldn't rule the country with the American Ambassador to the Ukraine The recording ends with Nuland saying she'll have president Biden slap the person they chose to lead Ukraine on the back when they take power! NATO's eastward expansion since 1991 has been perceived by Russia as a direct threat to its security interests. Despite assurances in the 1990s about limiting NATO's growth, to not one inch outside of the then East Germany, the alliance has incorporated several Eastern European countries, heightening tensions, as it attempted to incorporate the Ukraine. The Minsk agreements, brokered by Germany and France, aimed to cease hostilities in Eastern Ukraine. Critics argue that, rather than fostering peace, these accords allowed Ukraine to strengthen its military capabilities, which was confirmed by both the German Chancellor Merkel and French President Holland after they left office. This act intensifying conflicts in regions with significant Russian-speaking populations, such as Donbas and Crimea. In summary, President Trump appeared to validate everything that Russia has hitherto stated is its reason for military actions in Ukraine. The Oval Office statements of President Trump and administration seemed to agree with the justification previously articulated by the Kremlin through a complex interplay of historical grievances, security concerns over NATO's expansion, and perceptions of Western interference in Ukraine's political trajectory meaning their is now little dispute between the US' causes for war and Russia's. As Trump continually states, there would have been no war if he were president! As always, please don't be afraid to contact us and put any questions you might have to any of the Black Spy Podcast team concerning this or any other of our fascinating subjects. And, if you want to continue learning whilst being entertained, please don't forget to subscribe to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you'll never miss another episode. To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to Linked In To contact Dr. Rachel Taylor please use her Substack account. To contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following: To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast Facebook: Carlton King Author Twitter@Carlton_King Instagram@carltonkingauthor To read Carlton's Autobiography: “Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent” he incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent”

Pakistan's FIFA Ban is Finally Over, Stephen Constantine is back, and Pakistan play Syria in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers on 25 March! In this episode of Pressing Matters, host Ismail Farooq talks to Ali Ahsan of FPDC about all these developments and more, including the surprise exclusion of Otis Khan from the squad and the lack of Adil Nabi and Etzaz Hussain in the team as well. Did Stephen Constantine pick the right squad? What can we expect from Pakistan against Syria?Watch now and don't forget to LIKE, COMMENT & SUBSCRIBE for more football content!

(01:15) Boze liederen, protest bij de Amerikaanse ambassade en een weerzin tegen producten uit de VS: in Canada laat men van zich horen, sinds het buurland fikse importheffingen instelde. Scheidend premier Justin Trudeau weet die Canadese strijdlust woorden te geven, en ziet zijn partij daardoor stevig in populariteit toenemen. Maar, geeft hij toe, dit gaat een zware tijd worden voor het land. Welke gevolgen zal de handelsoorlog hebben voor beide landen? Daarover Canada-correspondent Tom Bijvoet en senior VS-strateeg bij de Rabobank Philip Marey. (14:53) De treinen rijden op tijd in Oekraïne De Russische invasie van Oekraïne is inmiddels zijn vierde jaar ingegaan, reden voor journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius om eens dieper in te gaan op de vraag: wie zijn dat nu eigenlijk, dé Oekraïners? En kun je eigenlijk wel spreken van dé Oekraïners? In deel 3 van de VPRO-serie Van Moskou tot Maidan ziet hij hoe belangrijk de spoorwegen zijn voor de strijd tegen de Russen. Presentatie: Chris Kijne

Nachdem die EU auf die amerikanisch-russischen Gespräche mit der Ankündigung einer massiven Aufrüstung und dem Versprechen, den Krieg gegen Russland notfalls auch ohne US-Unterstützung weiterzuführen, reagiert hat, scheint man in Russland nicht von einem baldigen Kriegsende auszugehen und bereitet offenbar eine neue Offensive vor.Ein Kommentar von Thomas Röper.Bei vielen herrschte nach den ersten Gesprächen zwischen den USA und Russland Optimismus vor, dass der Krieg in der Ukraine bald enden würde. Offenbar war das verfrüht, wie die aktuellen Meldungen zeigen und wie meine Quellen bestätigen. In Russland scheint man nicht von einem baldigen Ende des Krieges auszugehen, sondern sogar eine Eskalation des Krieges mit Europa nicht auszuschließen.Natürlich ist derzeit alles in Bewegung und beispielsweise Trumps Rede vor dem Kongress und Selenskys angeblicher Brief an Trump haben die Hoffnung entstehen lassen, ein Ende der Kämpfe in der Ukraine könne greifbar sein.Andererseits klingen die Meldungen über eine massive Aufrüstung Europas und Macrons Rede an die Nation ganz anders und lassen vermuten, dass die Europäer den Krieg in der Ukraine gegen Russland notfalls auch ohne die USA weiterführen wollen.Die amerikanisch-russischen GesprächeDass Optimismus für ein baldiges Ende der Kämpfe in der Ukraine verfrüht war, zeigten die Kommentare der russischen Regierung zu den Gesprächen mit den USA. Auch wenn Trump davon redet, ein Kriegsende könne nah sein, klingt das in Russland anders. Russische Vertreter bis hin zu Präsident Putin erklärten zu den Gesprächen mit der US-Regierung, dass dabei praktisch nicht über einen möglichen Waffenstillstand in der Ukraine gesprochen wurde, sondern dass es bei den Gesprächen in erster Linie um die russisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen und um einen Wiederaufbau des zerstörten Vertrauens gegangen sei.Das ist auch logisch, denn nach den vielen Wortbrüchen der USA unter Präsidenten wie Clinton (z. B. NATO-Osterweiterung), Bush Jr. (z. B. Unterstützung von Islamisten in Tschetschenien durch die USA oder Kündigung des ABM-Vertrages), Obama (z. B. Wortbrüche beim Maidan 2014) und Biden (z. B. Verstöße gegen die Verpflichtungen aus dem NEW-START-Vertrag) ist das Vertrauen zwischen Russland und den USA auf dem Nullpunkt.Wenn man etwas in Verhandlungen erreichen will, muss zunächst zumindest ein grundlegendes Vertrauen aufgebaut werden, dass sich beide Seiten auch an Absprachen und Verträge halten. Das war offensichtlich der Sinn der bisherigen Gespräche zwischen Russland und den USA, wobei es wohl auch um eine mögliche Wiederbelebung der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen gegangen ist....hier weiterlesen: https://apolut.net/der-ukraine-krieg-durfte-noch-lange-weitergehen-von-thomas-roper/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vào thời điểm cuộc xâm lược Nga chống Ukraina kéo dài đã hơn ba năm và các nỗ lực to lớn của phương Tây hỗ trợ Kiev và trừng phạt Nga đã không đủ để giúp chấm dứt chiến tranh, giới chuyên gia, chiến lược gia đặt ra nhiều câu hỏi về tương lai chung của an ninh châu Âu. Làm thế nào để chấm dứt cuộc chiến tranh có nguy cơ châm ngòi cho một xung đột quy mô toàn châu lục, thậm chí toàn cầu ? Năm nay 2025 là tròn 50 năm Hiệp định Helsinki. Hiệp định, được ký kết ngày 01/08/1975 tại thủ đô Phần Lan thời Chiến tranh Lạnh, là kết quả của hai năm đàm phán trong khuôn khổ của Hội nghị về An ninh và Hợp tác châu Âu (CSCE) (1973 – 1994) (thường được gọi là « tiến trình Helsinki ») cho phép mở ra thời kỳ tan băng giữa khối phương Tây và khối cộng sản, đứng đầu là Hoa Kỳ và Liên Xô, hai siêu cường hạt nhân. Tuyên bố 10 điểm Helsinki được ký kết bởi tất cả các quốc gia thành viên hai tổ chức quân sự thù địch, Liên minh phòng thủ Bắc Đại Tây Dương – NATO và Hiệp ước Varsava.Hiệp định Helsinki: Nền móng của « Kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu »Các nguyên tắc của Hiệp định Helsinki, như tôn trọng chủ quyền quốc gia, toàn vẹn lãnh thổ, giải quyết các tranh chấp bằng con đường hòa bình, không can thiệp vào công việc nội bộ của nhau, tôn trọng quyền con người và các quyền tự do cơ bản, tăng cường hợp tác giữa các nước… là thỏa hiệp mà hai khối đạt được. Theo nhiều nhà quan sát, Hiệp định này đã cho phép Liên Xô cải thiện hình ảnh trên trường quốc tế sau các đàn áp tàn bạo nhắm vào phong trào dân chủ Mùa xuân Praha năm 1968. Về phía các nước phương Tây, một thành công căn bản là lần đầu tiên nhân quyền được coi là một vấn đề an ninh trong quan hệ giữa các quốc gia.Hiệp định Helsinki tiếp tục có ý nghĩa quan trọng sau khi bức tường Berlin sụp đổ, Liên Xô tan rã. Năm 1990, sau khi bức tường Berlin sụp đổ, Hội nghị về An ninh và Hợp tác châu Âu – CSCE, họp tại Paris, đã ra một « Hiến chương Paris vì một châu Âu mới » ghi nhận sự chấm dứt của thời kỳ Chiến tranh Lạnh. Với Hiến chương Paris vì một châu Âu mới, CSCE có các cơ quan thường trực, như Ban thư ký, hay Trung tâm ngăn ngừa các xung đột, và các cơ chế can thiệp, để sẵn sàng đối phó với các thách thức của kỷ nguyên hậu Chiến tranh Lạnh. Đọc thêm : Hiệp định tên lửa Mỹ - Liên Xô 1987 bên bờ tan vỡ ? (INF, ký ngày 08/12/1987, là một đóng góp quan trọng giúp chấm dứt cuộc Chiến tranh lạnh giữa hai siêu cường)Tổ chức An ninh và Hợp tác châu Âu (OSCE), kế tục Hội nghị CSCE từ năm 1995, đã mở ra khả năng quản lý các xung đột của thời kỳ hậu Chiến tranh Lạnh tại châu Âu bằng con đường hòa bình. Hiệp định Helsinki và các cơ chế, tổ chức phát sinh, cùng với các hiệp ước cắt giảm và kiểm soát vũ khí chiến lược Mỹ - Liên Xô và sau này là Mỹ - Nga, đã cho phép tạo lập lòng tin giữa các nước có chế độ chính trị khác nhau. Hiệp định Helsinki được coi là nền tảng của « kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu » trong nhiều thập niên.Chiến tranh Ukraina và Hiệp định Helsinki, từ suy yếu đến tan vỡĐông đảo chuyên gia, nhà quan sát ghi nhận là cuộc xâm lược Ukraina của Nga đã báo tử « trật tự an ninh của châu Âu », được xác lập từ năm 1975 với Hiệp định Helsinki. Cựu đại sứ Pháp Pierre Vimont, nguyên tổng thư ký điều hành của cơ quan đối ngoại Liên Âu, tức nhân vật số hai của ngành ngoại giao Liên Âu (2010-2015), trong bài viết « Một trật tự an ninh châu Âu mới », nhấn mạnh với « chiến dịch quân sự đặc biệt » tại Ukraina, điện Kremlin đã tấn công vào « chủ quyền và toàn vẹn lãnh thổ », những nguyên tắc căn bản nhất của Hiệp định Helsinki, nền tảng của thế cân bằng tại châu Âu được xác lập một cách gian nan vào năm 1975. « Hợp tác kinh tế được dày công vun đắp từ hơn 40 năm qua bị hủy hoại với các đòn trừng phạt kinh tế và tài chính của phương Tây » nhắm vào Nga, « quan hệ giữa các xã hội dân sự, thành tố chủ chốt thứ ba của Hiệp định Helsinki, cũng đứng trước nguy cơ bị cắt đứt hoàn toàn do cuộc xung đột với các áp lực tẩy chay văn hóa Nga và xã hội Nga ».Cựu đại sứ Pháp Pierre Vimont ghi nhận việc kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu, ra đời với Hiệp định Helsinki, trên thực tế, đã suy yếu nghiêm trọng từ lâu trước khi Nga mở màn cuộc xâm lăng Ukraina, đặc biệt với cuộc can thiệp quân sự của Nga tại Gruzia, quốc gia thuộc Liên Xô cũ, vào năm 2008 (sau khi Mỹ để ngỏ khả năng Gruzia gia nhập khối NATO) và việc Nga thôn tính bán đảo Crimée năm 2014 và hậu thuẫn các lực lượng ly khai miền đông Ukraina, sau chính biến Maidan, đầu 2014, lật đổ lãnh đạo thân Nga Viktor Yanukovych.Tái xây dựng lòng tin hay đại cường phân chia thế giới: Hướng đến « Helsinki II » hay « Yalta II » ?Trước thềm cuộc xâm lăng Ukraina, cuối năm 2021, đầu năm 2022, Matxcơva liên tục phát đi các tín hiệu đòi phương Tây, trước hết là Mỹ, xem xét lại « kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu », đòi khối NATO không tiếp tục mở rộng sang phía đông, không kết nạp Ukraina, đồng thời giảm sự hiện diện quân sự tại các nước thành viên mới của NATO tại khu vực thuộc khối Đông Âu cộng sản trước đây, như Ba Lan, Rumani hay các nước Baltic. Đọc thêm : Châu Âu không muốn một Yalta II mà Nga đang cố áp đặt Đề nghị lúc đó của Nga đã bị Mỹ và các nước châu Âu bác bỏ. Ngoại trưởng Pháp vào thời điểm đó, Jean-Yves Le Drian, nhận định là đòi hỏi của Nga « rất giống với việc quay trở lại hiện trạng trước năm 1975, tức là một kiểu Yalta II, sẽ dẫn đến việc hình thành trở lại các khối, các vùng ảnh hưởng ». Hội nghị Yalta, rồi hội nghị Potsdam, diễn ra năm 1945, sau Thế Chiến Hai, được coi là các sự kiện có ý nghĩa biểu tượng cho việc các cường quốc thắng trận, Mỹ và Liên Xô, phân chia các khu vực kiểm soát.Ngoại trưởng Pháp nhấn mạnh là, để chống lại một « Yalta II », « cần phát triển một chiến lược thúc đẩy một Helsinki II, theo tinh thần những cam kết mà toàn bộ các nước ký kết các hiệp định Helsinki đã đưa ra năm 1975, trong đó có Liên Xô vào thời điểm đó, được tiếp nối với Hiến chương Paris (vì một châu Âu mới) năm 1990 ».Liên Âu tê liệt về « tư duy chiến lược » trước thời điểm sống cònVấn đề là để thúc đẩy được tinh thần Helsinki 1975, hướng đến xác lập một « Helsinki II », làm nền tảng cho một « kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu mới », các nước châu Âu phải xác lập được một tư duy chiến lược chung, trong đó quan hệ như thế nào với Nga là vấn đề cốt lõi. Nội bộ châu Âu phân rẽ sâu sắc về vấn đề này, từ nhiều năm nay. Trước chiến tranh Ukraina, các nỗ lực cải thiện quan hệ với Nga của nhiều lãnh đạo ngoại giao Liên Âu, từ Federica Mogherini đến Joseph Borell, đều không thuyết phục được Matxcơva. Kể từ khi chiến tranh bùng nổ, việc thảo luận về chủ đề này coi như kết thúc.Theo nhà ngoại giao Pháp Pierre Vimont, có một hố sâu ngăn cách giữa nhóm các nước cho rằng không thể đối thoại với Nga (đa số là các nạn nhân trước đây của đế chế Nga và Liên Xô), coi Nga là một đe dọa sinh tồn, và các nước cổ vũ cho việc mở ra các cơ hội đối thoại để vượt qua tình trạng mất lòng tin song phương. Đọc thêm : Chính sách quan hệ với Nga : Liên Hiệp Châu Âu và sự « chia năm xẻ bảy »Trong một cuộc trả lời Viện Nghiên cứu Cao cấp về Quốc phòng (IHEDN - Institut des hautes études de défense nationale) Pháp vào thời điểm hơn hai năm chiến tranh Nga - Ukraina, nhà chính trị học Barbara Kunz, giám đốc chương trình An ninh châu Âu của Viện Nghiên cứu về Hòa bình Quốc tế ở Stockholm (SIPRI) nhận định :« Tôi cho rằng tại châu Âu, thảo luận về vấn đề này sẽ rất là phức tạp, bởi có hai trường phái. Thứ nhất là những nước cho rằng cần phải cô lập Nga hoàn toàn, cụ thể như hoàn toàn không chấp nhận sự có mặt của các đại diện của Nga trong các hội nghị của Tổ chức An ninh và Hợp tác châu Âu OSCE. Và thứ hai là các nước có quan điểm gọi là ‘‘thực tế''. Những nước này trong lúc luôn cảnh giác về đe dọa từ Nga, nhưng khẳng định cần phải tìm ra các cách thức cho phép ít nhất là sống bên cạnh Nga, cho dù không thể cùng chung sống với Nga. Tìm ra được những cách thức hợp tác tối thiểu, ví dụ như trong việc kiểm soát vũ khí, để tránh leo thang, tìm thấy các cơ chế đối thoại để tránh tình hình trở nên tồi tệ hơn hiện nay. »Nước Mỹ của Trump: Bị đẩy vào chân tường, châu Âu buộc phải hướng đến « tự chủ chiến lược »Theo chuyên gia về an ninh châu Âu Viện Nghiên cứu về Hòa bình Quốc tế Stockholm, đối thoại để tìm kiếm một kiến trúc an ninh mới cho châu Âu một phần đáng kể bị cản trở do sự bất đồng cao độ và thái độ thụ động của đông đảo các nước châu Âu, lập trường của Mỹ có ý nghĩa quyết định trong bối cảnh này:« Cuộc thảo luận về tương lai của kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu, tôi có cảm giác là chưa thực sự bắt đầu. Hiện tại, chúng ta đang tập trung vào chiến tranh tại Ukraina, điều hoàn toàn có thể thông cảm được. Để nói một cách tóm lược, các nước ở sườn đông châu Âu, như các nước vùng Baltic, Ba Lan, Rumani, và những nước khác vốn có những kinh nghiệm lịch sử với Nga, khiến họ có thái độ hoài nghi cao độ về khả năng cùng tồn tại với Nga. Nước Đức có quan điểm như thế nào ? Về mặt lịch sử, trong thời kỳ Chiến tranh Lạnh, Đức thiên về phía các nước có quan điểm thực tế, tức tìm kiếm các khả năng chung sống với Nga. Điều này còn để xem. Nước Pháp tôi cho rằng cũng theo quan điểm thực tế. Các nước phía nam châu Âu, tôi nghĩ cũng tương tự, không nghi ngờ gì về đe dọa của Nga, nhưng đối với nhiều nước, đây không phải là chủ đề ưu tiên. Tôi cho rằng, rất nhiều điều trong vấn đề này phụ thuộc vào vai trò dẫn dắt của Mỹ. Bởi các nước châu Âu rất khó đạt đồng thuận về tiếp cận chung cần theo đuổi. » Đọc thêm : Tự chủ chiến lược của Liên Hiệp Châu Âu là một viễn cảnh xa vời (Lãnh đạo đảng bảo thủ Đức năm 2022 phản đối châu Âu "tự chủ chiến lược")Việc Donald Trump trở lại Nhà Trắng đầu năm 2025 này, và các chính sách của Washington trong những tuần cầm quyền đầu tiên của Trump cho thấy quan hệ hai bờ Đại Tây Dương bước vào một giai đoạn đầy bất định. Tân tổng thống Mỹ coi việc chấm dứt chiến tranh là ưu tiên cho dù có phải chấp nhận nhiều nhân nhượng với Nga, và việc hậu thuẫn Ukraina được coi gần như là chuyện riêng của châu Âu, khối NATO mà Mỹ là trụ cột sẽ không can dự.Bảo vệ Ukraina và tái lập quan hệ với Nga: Thách thức của một « kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu » mớiViệc đảng Cộng Hòa cầm quyền tại Mỹ là tác nhân trực tiếp kích phát trở lại đòi hỏi « tự chủ chiến lược » của châu Âu, vốn bị nhiều quốc gia chủ chốt của châu Âu như Đức không mặn mà. Hôm nay, 06/03/2025, Liên Hiệp Châu Âu họp thượng đỉnh để bàn về việc tăng cường tiềm lực quốc phòng của khối và hỗ trợ quân sự cho Ukraina. « Tự chủ chiến lược » bao gồm cả hai vế, quân sự và ngoại giao. Đọc thêm : Liên Hiệp Châu Âu phải làm gì để tự chủ về quốc phòng ? (Pháp thúc đẩy Liên Âu xác lập "la bàn chiến lược")Theo nhà ngoại giao Pháp Pierre Vimont, nguyên tổng thư ký điều hành của cơ quan đối ngoại Liên Âu, bên cạnh việc dành sự hậu thuẫn quân sự mạnh mẽ để giúp Ukraina tự vệ, Liên Hiệp Châu Âu cần chuẩn bị xác lập quan hệ hợp tác với Nga sau chiến tranh. Nhà ngoại giao, được tổng thống Pháp Emmanuel Macron bổ nhiệm làm đại diện đặc biệt của tổng thống trong các đối thoại vì « một kiến trúc an ninh châu Âu và xây dựng niềm tin với Nga » trước khi chiến tranh bùng nổ, lưu ý đến bài học lịch sử : tổng thống Mỹ Franklin Roosevelt không phải đợi đến khi Thế chiến Hai kết thúc mới chuẩn bị cho việc xây dựng một hệ thống quốc tế mới, và « những người sáng lập » Liên Âu cũng đã chuẩn bị nền móng cho việc xây dựng khối, nhiều năm trước 1945. Đọc thêm - Cuộc chiến vệ quốc chống Nga: Ukraina và Liên Âu ngày càng ‘‘vận mệnh tương liên''Cũng nhà ngoại giao kỳ cựu này, trong một bài viết với nhan đề « Châu Âu và Ukraina : Lấy lại thế chủ động » (nguyên văn « Europe et Ukraine : reprendre l'initiative », Viện nghiên cứu châu Âu Jacques Delors), ra mắt cuối tháng 1/2025, nhấn mạnh : « Thời kỳ bất ổn sẽ còn kéo dài trên lục địa châu Âu, do các đe dọa Nga, không cho phép trật tự Helsinki trở lại nhanh chóng. Nhưng thời kỳ căng thẳng không tránh khỏi diễn ra trong quá trình xác lập hòa bình tại Ukraina này sẽ là một trắc nghiệm đối với khả năng của châu Âu vươn lên để trở thành một thực thể địa chính trị độc lập, điều mà người châu Âu mong muốn ».Thách thức với châu Âu không phải chỉ là tái lập quan hệ với Nga để xây dựng một kiến trúc an ninh mới cho châu Âu, mà còn là « sáng tạo nên một cơ chế đa phương quốc tế mới ». Trong bối cảnh cơ chế đa phương quốc tế được xác lập sau Thế chiến Hai đang « sụp đổ », cộng đồng quốc tế đang cần đến các cơ chế hợp tác mới giữa các nước phương Tây với các nước phương Nam toàn cầu, để hóa giải hàng loạt thách thức sống còn với nhân loại, như đại khủng hoảng khí hậu.

The road to the TRUMPIAN revolution (Part 2) The Black Spy Podcast, Season 19, Episode 0003   Russia's "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine, initiated in February 2022, has been framed by the Kremlin as a response to various historical and geopolitical factors. One narrative emphasizes the presence of far-right elements in Ukraine, drawing connections to nationalist groups active during World War II. However, although most western experts reject the portrayal of Ukraine as a neo-Nazi state, noting that while far-right groups exist, they do not hold significant influence in the government or military, they nevertheless have little to say about such far right units killing 14,000 Russian heritaged Ukrainian civilian citizens since 2016. In the early stages of the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies, including the CIA and MI6, reportedly collaborated with former Ukrainian nationalist fighters to undermine Soviet authority. These covert operations aimed to exploit anti-Soviet sentiments. This lasted 10 years and saw the reported death of up to a 100,000 Soviet Citizens. In the end though, it has been stated by the west, that this had limited long-term impact. The 2014 Maidan uprising, which led to the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian president, is viewed by Russia as a Western-backed coup that shifted Ukraine towards Euro-Atlantic integration. This assertion is backed up by Sigint in which, Victoria Nuland, the officer in charge of Eastern Europe in the US State Department discussing which Ukrainian's leaders should or shouldn't rule the country with the American Ambassador to the Ukraine The recording ends with Nuland saying she'll have president Biden slap the person they chose to lead Ukraine on the back when they take power! NATO's eastward expansion since 1991 has been perceived by Russia as a direct threat to its security interests. Despite assurances in the 1990s about limiting NATO's growth, to not one inch outside of the then East Germany, the alliance has incorporated several Eastern European countries, heightening tensions, as it attempted to incorporate the Ukraine. The Minsk agreements, brokered by Germany and France, aimed to cease hostilities in Eastern Ukraine. Critics argue that, rather than fostering peace, these accords allowed Ukraine to strengthen its military capabilities, which was confirmed by both the German Chancellor Merkel and French President Holland after they left office. This act intensifying conflicts in regions with significant Russian-speaking populations, such as Donbas and Crimea. In summary, Russia's military actions in Ukraine are justified by the Kremlin through a complex interplay of historical grievances, security concerns over NATO's expansion, and perceptions of Western interference in Ukraine's political trajectory. However, many of these justifications have been contested by Western leaders, officials and the western mainstream mass media albeit now, President Trump is accepting that all of Russia's grievances are indeed TRUE! As always, please don't be afraid to contact us and put any questions you might have to any of the Black Spy Podcast team concerning this or any other of our fascinating subjects. And, if you want to continue learning whilst being entertained, please don't forget to subscribe to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you'll never miss another episode. To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to Linked In To contact Dr. Rachel Taylor please use her Substack account. To contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following: To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast Facebook: Carlton King Author Twitter@Carlton_King Instagram@carltonkingauthor To read Carlton's Autobiography: “Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent”

Na zijn winst bij de verkiezingen heeft hij bepaald niet stilgezeten; Friedrich Merz, leider van de christendemocraten en beoogde nieuwe bondskanselier van Duitsland. Zo bezocht Merz de Franse president Macron, en nam hij alvast een voorschot op het debat over vergaande economische hervormingen waar hij in zijn periode als kanselier niet omheen zal kunnen. Wat voor koers zal hij als leider gaan varen? Daarover te gast correspondent Guy Hoeks. (09:30) Helden en verraders in Oekraïne Deze week ging de Russische invasie in Oekraïne het derde jaar in. Bij die gelegenheid reisde journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius naar het land met één vraag: wie zijn nu eigenlijk de Oekraïners? In het tweede deel van de zesdelige serie Van Moskou tot Maidan bezoekt hij de regio Kherson, een gebied dat al in het eerste jaar van de oorlog werd bevrijd van de Russen. (17:54) Zelensky bereidt zich voor op bezoek aan Trump De Amerikaanse president Trump heeft aangekondigd dat hij op vrijdag de Oekraïense president Zelensky zal ontvangen in het Witte Huis. En als alles volgens plan, zullen de twee leiders tijdens het bezoek een veelbesproken grondstoffendeal ondertekenen. Maar er is onduidelijkheid ontstaan over de voorwaarden, want wat krijgt Oekraïne ervoor terug? Oost-Europa-verslaggever Michiel Driebergen bespreekt de onderhandelingstactiek van de Oekraïense leider. Presentatie: Sophie Derkzen

Er is weer een nieuwe aflevering van Europa Draait Door en daarin hebben we maar liefst twee gasten: Julia Soldatiuk-Westerveld van Instituut Clingendael en VPRO-journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius. Jelle maakte de zesdelige serie Van Moskou tot Maidan waarin hij helemaal in Oekraïne duikt, want het is inmiddels drie jaar geleden dat Rusland de grote invasie begon. Sinds Trump in Washington aan de touwtjes trekt is er ook voor Oekraïne een totaal andere realiteit ontstaan. Trump doet er alles aan om zo snel mogelijk een einde aan de oorlog te maken, ook als dat betekent dat Oekraïne flink moet toegeven. Is Europa bereidt en capabel genoeg om in Oekraïne te blijven steunen? En wie is, als er eenmaal een bestand is bereikt, troepen naar Oekraïne te sturen om die vrede te verdedigen? Daarnaast uitgebreid aandacht voor de Duitse verkiezingen. Op 23 maart 2025 staan wij op het NPO Luister Podcast Festival in TivoliVredenburg Daar staan we in de mooie Herz-zaal - tussen 17 en 18 uur. Ruslandkanner en vriendin van de show Helga Salemon is dan onze gast! Je kunt nog een kaartje kopen. Check hiervoor: podcastfestival.npo.nl (https://podcast.npo.nl/admin/feed/366/feeditem/podcastfestival.npo.nl) Minister Faber over Zelensky: 'Hij is niet democratisch gekozen' (https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/politiek/video/d1c2bd80-1730-4fac-996d-37541bc8934f/minister-faber-over-zelensky-hij-niet) Friedrich Merz examines using outgoing parliament to loosen debt brake (https://www.ft.com/content/33b4fcfd-803f-4b39-9778-6126196736c8) Wary of Trump, Germany's Merz warns it's 'five minutes to midnight for Europe' (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/merzs-conservatives-push-quick-coalition-talks-after-german-election-win-2025-02-24/) Van Moskou tot Maidan (https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/van-moskou-tot-maidan.html) Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US (https://www.ft.com/content/1890d104-1395-4393-a71d-d299aed448e6) Junge Männer rechts, junge Frauen links? (https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/bundestagswahl/bei-wem-die-linke-eine-mehrheit-haette-junge-frauen-waehlen-links-junge-maenner-rechts-110319938.html) A new global gender divide is emerging (https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998) Sonata No. 1 In E Flat, BWV 525: 1. - Johann Sebastian Bach, Simon Preston (https://open.spotify.com/track/1HW5C7J7n1xCWRFrYu4AMI?si=104d0c0c34a84e6e)

The road to the TRUMPIAN revolution (Part 1) The Black Spy Podcast, Season 19, Episode 0002   Russia's "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine, initiated in February 2022, has been framed by the Kremlin as a response to various historical and geopolitical factors. One narrative emphasizes the presence of far-right elements in Ukraine, drawing connections to nationalist groups active during World War II. However, although most western experts reject the portrayal of Ukraine as a neo-Nazi state, noting that while far-right groups exist, they do not hold significant influence in the government or military, they nevertheless have little to say about such far right units killing 14,000 Russian heritaged Ukrainian civilian citizens since 2016. In the early stages of the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies, including the CIA and MI6, reportedly collaborated with former Ukrainian nationalist fighters to undermine Soviet authority. These covert operations aimed to exploit anti-Soviet sentiments. This lasted 10 years and saw the reported death of up to a 100,000 Soviet Citizens. In the end though, it has been stated by the west, that this had limited long-term impact. The 2014 Maidan uprising, which led to the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian president, is viewed by Russia as a Western-backed coup that shifted Ukraine towards Euro-Atlantic integration. This assertion is backed up by Sigint in which, Victoria Nuland, the officer in charge of Eastern Europe in the US State Department discussing which Ukrainian's leaders should or shouldn't rule the country with the American Ambassador to the Ukraine The recording ends with Nuland saying she'll have president Biden slap the person they chose to lead Ukraine on the back when they take power! NATO's eastward expansion since 1991 has been perceived by Russia as a direct threat to its security interests. Despite assurances in the 1990s about limiting NATO's growth, to not one inch outside of the then East Germany, the alliance has incorporated several Eastern European countries, heightening tensions, as it attempted to incorporate the Ukraine. The Minsk agreements, brokered by Germany and France, aimed to cease hostilities in Eastern Ukraine. Critics argue that, rather than fostering peace, these accords allowed Ukraine to strengthen its military capabilities, which was confirmed by both the German Chancellor Merkel and French President Holland after they left office. This act intensifying conflicts in regions with significant Russian-speaking populations, such as Donbas and Crimea. In summary, Russia's military actions in Ukraine are justified by the Kremlin through a complex interplay of historical grievances, security concerns over NATO's expansion, and perceptions of Western interference in Ukraine's political trajectory. However, many of these justifications have been contested by Western leaders, officials and the western mainstream mass media albeit now, President Trump is accepting that all of Russia's grievances are indeed TRUE! As always, please don't be afraid to contact us and put any questions you might have to any of the Black Spy Podcast team concerning this or any other of our fascinating subjects. And, if you want to continue learning whilst being entertained, please don't forget to subscribe to the Black Spy Podcast for free, so you'll never miss another episode. To contact Firgas Esack of the DAPS Agency go to Linked In To contact Dr. Rachel Taylor please use her Substack account. To contact Carlton King by utilising any of the following: To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast Facebook: Carlton King Author Twitter@Carlton_King Instagram@carltonkingauthor To read Carlton's Autobiography: “Black Ops – The incredible true story of a (Black) British secret agent”

Journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius reist in zijn nieuwe serie ‘Van Moskou tot Maidan' door Oekraïne, drie jaar nadat de oorlog begon. Hij woonde vijf jaar in Moskou, waar hij werkte als correspondent voor Trouw en De Standaard. Brandt Corstius maakte eerder verschillende reisseries en schreef diverse boeken.  Presentatie: Nicole Terborg

Given the shameful American sacrifice of Ukraine, there will be few timelier movies than Anna Kryvenko's upcoming “This House is Undamaged”,. It will be an Orwellian documentary examining the Russian destruction of Mariupol, the Ukrainian city devastated by Putin's invasion in 2022. Krivenko, a Fellow at the Artist in Residence program, Institute for Advanced Studies at CEU, explains how Russian authorities are rapidly rebuilding and selling properties there while erasing Ukrainian history and creating the big lie of Mariupol as a historically Russian city. Kryvenko, originally from Kyiv, also discusses the parallels between Putin's and Trump's lies about Ukraine, summarizing their fundamental misrepresentation of the truth as a "carnival of hypocrisy."Here are the five KEEN ON takeaways from our conversation with Kryvenko:* The Russians are engaged in a systematic erasure of Mariupol's Ukrainian identity, not just through physical reconstruction but through an aggressive propaganda campaign that claims the city was "always Russian." This reconstruction effort began shortly after the city's destruction in 2022.* Pre-war Mariupol was not characterized by deep Russian-Ukrainian divisions as Russian propaganda claims. According to Kryvenko, language differences weren't a source of conflict before political forces deliberately weaponized them.* The rebuilding of Mariupol has a dark commercial aspect - Russians are selling apartments in reconstructed buildings, sometimes in properties where the original Ukrainian owners were killed, and marketing them as vacation properties while ignoring the city's tragic recent history.* There's a humanitarian crisis unfolding as some Ukrainians are being forced to return to occupied Mariupol because they have nowhere else to live, with Kryvenko citing statistics that around 150,000 people returned to occupied territories by the end of 2024.* The filmmaker is using a unique methodology of gathering evidence through social media content, vlogs, and propaganda materials to document both the physical transformation of the city and the narrative being constructed around it, rather than traditional documentary filming techniques.Transcript of Anna Kryvenko InterviewAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. As the situation in Ukraine becomes more absurd, it seems as if the lies of Donald Trump and the lies of Vladimir Putin are becoming increasingly similar. Trump has been talking about Zelensky and Ukraine, what is described as a barrage of lies. As CNN reports, Trump falsely called Zelensky a dictator. It's becoming more and more absurd. It's almost as if the whole script was written by some Central European or East Central European absurdist. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to lie as well. There was an interesting piece recently in the Wall Street Journal about Russia wanting to erase Ukraine's future and its past. My guest today, Anna Kryvenko, is a filmmaker. She's the director of an important new movie in the process of being made called "This House Is Undamaged." She's a visual fellow at the Central European University, and she's joining us from Budapest today. Congratulations on "This House is Undamaged." Before we talk specifically about the film, do you agree with my observations that there seems to be an increasingly eerie synergy between the lies coming out of Washington, D.C. and Moscow, between Trump and Putin?Anna Kryvenko: I think the situation is becoming more crazy and absurd. That's a better word to use in this situation. For me, all of this looks like some carnival of hypocrisy. It's unbelievable that someone can use the word "dictator" in comparison with Vladimir Putin or speaking about this 4% of the people who support Zelensky when he says it's only four persons. It looks completely absurd. And this information comes from Moscow, not from actual Ukrainian statistics.Andrew Keen: The phrase you use "carnival of hypocrisy" I think is a good description. I might even use that in the title of this conversation. It's almost as if Trump in particular is parodying himself, but he seems so separated from reality that it seems as if he's actually being serious, at least from my position in California. How does it look from your perspective in Budapest? You're originally from Ukraine, so obviously you have a particular interest in this situation.Anna Kryvenko: I don't even know what to think because it's changing so fast into absurd situations. Every day when I open the news, I'm speaking with people and it looks like some kind of farce. You're expecting that the next day someone will tell you that this is a joke or something, but it's not. It's really hard to believe that this is reality now, but unfortunately it is.Andrew Keen: Kundera wrote his famous novel "The Joke" as a parody of the previous authoritarian regime in Central Europe. Your new movie, "This House is Undamaged" - I know you are an artist in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University - is very much in that vein. Tell us about the project.Anna Kryvenko: We're in work in progress. I was doing research in the archives and internet archives. This documentary film will explore the transformation of Mariupol, a Ukrainian city that was destroyed by the Russian invasion in 2022. I will use only archives and found footage materials from people who are in Mariupol now, or who were in Mariupol at the time of invasion, who were actually trying to film what's going on. Sometimes I'll also use propaganda images from Russia, from Russian authorities. In May 2022, Mariupol, after intense fighting, was almost completely destroyed.Andrew Keen: Tell us the story of Mariupol, this town on the old border of Russia and Ukraine. It's in the southeast of Ukraine.Anna Kryvenko: It's on the shore of the Azov Sea. It's part of Donetsk region. It was always an industrial city, most known for the Azovstal factory. In 2022, after incredible brutality of Russian war against Ukraine, this strategically important city was almost completely destroyed in May 2022 and was occupied by Russian government. About 90% of buildings were destroyed or demolished in some way.Andrew Keen: The Russians have essentially leveled the town, perhaps in the same way as the Israelis have essentially destroyed Gaza.Anna Kryvenko: Exactly. For a lot of people, we have this image of destroyed Mariupol until today. But after these terrible events, the Russians started this big campaign to rebuild the city. Of course, we know it was done just to erase all the scars of war, to erase it from the city's history. They started the reconstruction. Some people who stayed in Mariupol thought they would have new housing since they had no place to live. But business is business - Russian authorities started to sell these apartments to Russian citizens.Andrew Keen: I'm surprised Trump hasn't got involved. Given his real estate background and his cozy relationship with Putin, maybe Trump real estate will start selling real estate in Mariupol.Anna Kryvenko: I was thinking the same thing this last week. It was looking like such an absurd situation with Mariupol. But now we are in this business mode again with Ukraine and all the minerals. It's only the economical part of war they look at.Andrew Keen: He probably would come up with some argument why he really owns Mariupol.Anna Kryvenko: Yes.Andrew Keen: Coming back to the Wall Street Journal piece about Russia wanting to erase Ukraine's future and its past - you're originally from Kyiv. Is it the old East Central European business of destroying history and creating a new narrative that somehow conforms to how you want history to have been made?Anna Kryvenko: I was really shocked at how fast this idea of Russian Mariupol is repeating after two years in Russian media, official and semi-professional blogs, YouTube, and so forth. As a person working with this type of material, watching videos every day to find what I need, I'm listening to these people doing propaganda from Mariupol, saying "we are citizens of the city and it's always been Russian." They're repeating this all the time. Even when I'm hearing this - of course it was always a Ukrainian city, it's completely absurd, it's 100% disinformation. But when you're hearing this repeated in different contexts all the time, you start to think about it.Andrew Keen: It's the same tactics as Trump. If you keep saying something, however absurd it sounds or is, if you keep saying it enough times, some people at least start believing it. You're not a historian or political scientist, but Mariupol is in the part of Ukraine which had a significant population of Russian-speaking people. Some of the people that you're filming and featuring in your movie - are they Russians who have moved into Mariupol from some other part of Russia, or are they people originally from Mariupol who are somehow embracing their new Russian overlords?Anna Kryvenko: The people I'm watching on social media, most of them say they're from Mariupol. But you can find journalistic articles showing they're actually paid by the Russian government. It's paid propaganda and they're repeating the same narrative. It's important that they're always repeating "we were born in Mariupol" and "we want the city to be Russian." But of course, you can see it's from the same propaganda book as 2014 with Crimea. They're repeating the same narrative from Soviet times - they just changed "Soviet Union" to "Russia" and "the West" to "European Union."Andrew Keen: You grew up in Kyiv, so you're familiar with all these current and historical controversies. What's your take on Mariupol before 2020, before it was flattened by the Russians? Was it a town where Russian-speaking and Ukrainian people were neighbors and friends? Were there always deep divisions between the Russian and Ukrainian speaking populations there?Anna Kryvenko: It's hard to explain because you need to dig deeper to explain the Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking parts of Ukraine. But it was never a problem before Yanukovych became prime minister and then president. It was his strategy to create this polarization of Ukraine - that the western part wants to be part of the European Union and the eastern part wants to be part of Russia because of language, and they cannot live together. But it's not true. For me as a person from Kyiv, from the center of the country, with friends from different parts of Ukraine, it was never a problem. I'm from a Russian-speaking family and have many friends from Ukrainian-speaking families. It was never a question. We were in a kind of symbiotic connection. All schools were in Ukrainian, universities in Ukrainian. We were bilingual. It was not a problem to communicate.Some of this division came from Yanukovych's connections to Putin and his propaganda. It was important for them to say "we are Russian-speaking people, and because we are Russian-speaking, we want to be part of Russia." But I have friends from Mariupol, and after 2014, when war in eastern Ukraine started and Mariupol was bombed a few times, it became a really good city to live in. There were many cultural activities. I know friends who were originally from Mariupol, studied in Kyiv in theater or visual art, and went back to Mariupol because it was a good place for their art practice. Ukraine is still a bit centralized, with most activity in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and the big cities, but Mariupol wasn't a city with internal conflict. It's weird that so fast after 2022, people started saying it was always problematic in wanting to be part of Russia. It was never like that.Andrew Keen: It's as if I lived for a year in Bosnia before the civil war, and it was almost as if ethnicity was invented by the nationalist Serbian regime. It seems as if the Putin regime is doing or has done the same thing in the eastern part of Ukraine.Anna Kryvenko: Yes.Andrew Keen: You talk to lots of friends still and you're from Kyiv originally, and obviously your professional life remains focused on the situation. In late February 2025, what's your sense of how Ukrainians are feeling given what Trump is now saying?Anna Kryvenko: I think a lot of people in Ukraine or Ukrainians abroad are feeling lonely, that they don't have support. Again we are in this situation where you have big deals about Ukraine without Ukraine. You feel like nothing, just an empty space on a map with minerals or sea access. We're just sitting there waiting while they're agreeing on deals. That's the negative layer. But it's important for all Ukrainians to be together and speak about the situation. After Trump's words about the 4% support for Zelensky, there were statistics from last year showing 57-55% support for Zelensky. Today, after these few days, new statistics show 65% support.Andrew Keen: Zelensky started his political career as a satirical comedian, and it's as if he's participating in his own comedy - as if he's almost paid Trump to promote him. What about the broader take on the US? Obviously Trump isn't all America, but he was just elected a couple of months ago. Are your Ukrainian friends and associates, as well as many people at the Central European University in Budapest, taking this as a message from America itself, or are people able to separate Trump and America?Anna Kryvenko: This is a hard question because we always know that you have a president or representative figure, but that's not the whole state. I spoke with someone from our university who was in Pennsylvania before the election, and he said all the people were pro-Trump. The logic was really simple - "he's good" and "he will stop this war" - though people sometimes don't even know which war or which country. They're just repeating the same talking points.Andrew Keen: It's sort of Orwellian in the sense that it's just war and it doesn't really matter who's involved - he's just going to stop it.Anna Kryvenko: It reminded me of how everyone was repeating about Lukashenko from Belarus that "he's a good manager" and can manage things, and that's why he's still president - not that he's a dictator killing his opponents. They use this to explain why he's good and people choose him. Now with Trump, they say "he's a good businessman," but we can see how this business works. Today, someone from Trump's administration said Zelensky needs to stop being arrogant because Trump is in a bad mood. In what world are we living where this is used as an argument?Andrew Keen: Coming back to real estate, he probably sees Mariupol as a nice strip on the Black Sea, like Gaza, which he sees as a valuable strip on the Mediterranean for real estate development. I found an interesting piece online about the Russian invasion, "When Buildings Can Talk: The Real Face of Civilian Infrastructure Ruined by Russian Invaders." In a way, your project "This House is Undamaged" is your way of making buildings talk. Is that fair?Anna Kryvenko: I think it's the best description you can use.Andrew Keen: Perhaps you might explain how and why.Anna Kryvenko: This name "This House is Undamaged" might or might not be the final name. For me, it's important because after the first months when it started to be a Russian city, some people were trying to sell apartments just to have some money. The reconstruction started a bit later. They were using video websites like Craigslist. It immediately became Russian, part of Russian territory. People from different Russian regions who saw this opportunity were trying to buy something because prices were so cheap. People needed money to buy a ticket and go to other cities or to relatives. In every advertisement, there was this phrase "this house has no damages" or "this house is undamaged." You had to put it there even if it wasn't true - you could see pictures where one building had a hole, but they were still saying "this house is undamaged."Andrew Keen: It's just again coming back to the carnival of hypocrisy or the carnival of absurd hypocrisy - you see these completely destroyed homes, and then you have the signs from the Russians saying this house is undamaged.Anna Kryvenko: It was also interesting why some people from Russia want to buy apartments in Mariupol, in these reconstructed buildings with weird pro-Russian murals - it's like Stalinism. They don't even know where Mariupol is - they think it's somewhere near Crimea, but it's not the Black Sea, it's the Azov Sea, an industrial region. It's not the best place to live. But they think it will be some kind of resort. They're living somewhere in Russia and think they can buy a cheap apartment and use it as a resort for a few months. This is absurd because the city was completely destroyed. You still have mass graves. Sometimes they're selling apartments where they can't even find the owner because the whole family is dead.On Google Maps, someone made an alternative version where you can see all the buildings that were destroyed, because officially you can't find this information anywhere. People were putting crosses where they knew someone died in a building - entire families. And after this, people are buying their apartments. For me, this is unbearable. You can do research about what you're doing, but people are lazy and don't want to do this work.Andrew Keen: It comes back to the Journal piece about Russia literally erasing not just Ukraine's past but also its future, creating a culture of amnesia. It's chilling on so many levels. But it's the old game - it's happened before in that part of the world and no doubt will happen again. As a filmmaker, what particular kind of political or aesthetic responsibility do you have? People have been writing - I mentioned Kundera, Russian writers, Gogol - satires of this kind of absurd political power for centuries. But as a filmmaker, what kind of responsibility do you have? How does your form help you make this argument of essentially restoring the past, of telling the truth?Anna Kryvenko: A lot of filmmakers in Ukraine, with the start of invasion, just brought cameras and started making films. The first goal wasn't to make a film but to document the crimes. My case is different - not only because my family's in Ukraine and I have many friends there and lived there until my twenties. For the last ten years, since the Maidan events in 2013-2014, I started working with archive and found footage material. This is my methodology. For me, it's not important to go somewhere and document. It's more interesting to use media deconstruction from propaganda sources, maybe from Ukrainian sources also because it's a question of ideology.One of my favorite materials now is people doing vlogs - just with their camera or mobile phone going from Russia to Crimea or back. You only have two ways to go there because airports aren't working, so you go through the Kerch-Crimea bridge. Now because of Mariupol's strategic location, you can go through there, so you have two different roads. People from different Russian cities sometimes film their road and say "what is this, is it destroyed?" This is the average Russian person, and you can hear the propaganda they're repeating or what they're really thinking. For me, it's important to show these different points of view from people who were there or are there now. I don't have the opportunity as a Ukrainian citizen to go there. Through this method, in the near future when I finish this film, we can have testimonies from the inside. We don't need to wait for the war to end because we don't know how or when it ends. It's important to show it to people who maybe don't know anything about what's going on in Mariupol.Andrew Keen: Given the abundance of video on the internet, on platforms like YouTube, how do you distinguish between propaganda and truth yourself in terms of taking some of these segments to make your film? It could be conceivable that some of the more absurd videos are put out by Ukrainians to promote their own positions and undermine the Russians. Have you found that? Is there a propaganda war on YouTube and other platforms between Ukrainian and Russian nationalists? And as a filmmaker who's trying to archive the struggle in an honest way, how do you deal with that?Anna Kryvenko: Of course, there are many people, and Mariupol is the best example because the Russian government is paying people to repeat pro-Russian ideology. Sometimes you can see just an average person from Mariupol going with a camera and shooting something without speaking - this is just documentation. Sometimes you have Russian people there for some days just saying something. And of course, you get different segments of real propaganda from some ministry in Russia with drone material and big music. I'm always trying to question myself: What am I looking at? Who is speaking? On technical aspects, why is this like this? It helps me to be holistic.Of course, I'm from Ukraine, and sometimes this is the most uncomfortable - you can hear actual people from Mariupol saying something you don't want to hear because it's not your point of view on the war. But these are people really from the city giving some kind of realistic point of view on the situation. It's sad, but there were statistics at the end of 2024 that about 150,000 people were returning to occupied territories, not only to Mariupol but all occupied territories. Maybe 40% were coming back to register their property and then returning to Ukrainian territory, but many people are returning to Mariupol because they don't have anywhere to live in Ukraine. It's not hundreds but thousands of people. As Ukrainians, we're not comfortable with this because we're all in different situations. But if something's not comfortable for my point of view, it doesn't mean it's bad or good.Andrew Keen: It's an important project. I know your artist residency at the Central European University is finishing at the end of February. You're going to focus on finishing the movie. When do you think it will be ready and what are your ambitions for the finished movie? Will you put it online, in theaters? What's your ideal?Anna Kryvenko: If everything goes well, we can finish it in a year and a half because it will be a long process of editing and working with rights. We only started working on it six months ago, and it's starting to go faster. Documentary making is a long process because of funding and everything. Even though I don't need to go somewhere physically, it's still a long process with a lot of waiting. First, we're thinking about festivals, maybe a theater release, maybe we'll have some broadcasters because it's an important topic to show to a wider audience. After a year, we'll see.Andrew Keen: If "Buildings Can Talk" is the subtitle of this upcoming movie "This House is Undamaged," it's a really important project about Mariupol. Thank you for being on the show. I'm going to have to get you back when the movie is done because I can't wait to see it.Anna Kryvenko: Thank you so much. Thank you.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Anna Kryvenko (1986, Ukraine) is a video and fine art photography artist based in Prague and Kyiv. She is a Fellow at the Artist in Residence program, Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University. She graduated from the Centre for Audio-Visual Studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU, Prague). Her films and performances were screened at Dok Leipzig, ZagrebDox, Visions du Reel Nyon, Fluidum Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, etc. With her found-footage film Silently Like a Comet, she won the prize for the Best Experimental Act at FAMUFEST, Prague (CZ), and a few others. Her film Listen to the Horizon won the prize for the Best Czech Experimental Documentary, Jihlava IDFF (CZ). Her first feature documentary film My Unknown Soldier won the Last Stop Trieste 2018 Postproduction Award, Special Mention at Zagreb Dox, the Special Prize of the Jury at IDFF CRONOGRAF, and the Andrej Stankovič Prize. Her newest short film Easier Than You Think won the Jury Award of the Other Vision Competition 2022 (PAF, Czech Republic).Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. 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Zo kort voor de lancering van zijn nieuwe reisserie, staat de wereld op zijn kop. Vanaf 23 februari is van Moskou tot Majdan door Jelle Brandt Corstius te zien op NPO2 en online. En juist nu volgen de geopolitieke ontwikkelingen zich razendsnel op, waarbij je je afvraagt of Trump Jelle’s nieuwe liefde, Oekraïne, weggeeft aan zijn oude liefde, Rusland. Drie jaar na de Russische invasie van 24 februari 2022 komt Jelle met een zesdelige reisserie over een land in oorlog, Oekraïne dus. De kijker ziet hem een atoomraket afvuren, kaas proeven en in gesprek gaan met Oekraïners over hun land. In deze Perestrojkast-aflevering koppelen we alles aan elkaar: de actualiteit met Jelle’s serie: hoe de geopolitiek de Oekraïners raakt. En waarom Jelle niet alleen bericht over de zonnige kanten van de Oekraïners. Helaas geen mop deze keer. Joost kon niet, Jelle wist er geen en Geert Jan en Floris zijn sowieso slecht in moppen. Hosts Geert Jan Hahn Floris Akkerman Op zoek naar zijn nieuwe liefde Jelle Brandt Corstius Op weg naar Georgië Joost BosmanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pakistan football is struggling because of a coaching crisis. Without top-quality coaches, Pakistan cannot produce world-class players. In this episode of Pressing Matters and another part in our football ecosystem series, we explore how coach education is a key pillar of a successful football ecosystem and why Pakistan needs more coaching licenses, modern coaching practices, and a new generation of coaches to move forward.Shaikh Hamdan, a UEFA-licensed coach and Academy Director at Karachi United, joins Ismail Farooq to discuss the current state of coaching in Pakistan, how we can develop elite coaches like Guardiola, Klopp, and Ancelotti, and what the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) must do to solve this crisis. Will Pakistan ever produce top-tier football managers? Watch now to find out!Powered by Maidan

In this explosive interview, Max Blumenthal joins Judge Napolitano to dissect the shifting dynamics of U.S. foreign policy under Trump, the provocations leading to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and the potential collapse of Zelenskyy's government. Blumenthal also delves into Netanyahu's strategies in Gaza and the hidden forces driving American interventionism.AI - Summary:In a revealing conversation on Judging Freedom, Max Blumenthal discusses the dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy under Donald Trump, particularly regarding Ukraine. Blumenthal argues that Trump's recent acknowledgment of the war in Ukraine as one of the most provoked conflicts in modern history marks a significant departure from previous administrations. He traces the roots of the conflict back to the 2014 Maidan coup, which he claims was heavily backed by the U.S., leading to Russia's annexation of Crimea and the ongoing war in Donbas.Blumenthal criticizes the narrative of Ukraine as a victim of Russian aggression, asserting that the U.S. and NATO's actions, including the buildup of military alliances on Russia's border, were deliberate provocations. He highlights how the American public is beginning to see through years of propaganda, recognizing the war as a result of U.S. intervention rather than unprovoked Russian aggression.The discussion also touches on the potential collapse of Zelenskyy's government if U.S. aid is cut off, with Blumenthal predicting internal strife and possible overthrow by nationalist factions. He critiques the Biden administration's sanctions on Russia, arguing they have harmed the U.S. economy more than Russia's, and calls for a reevaluation of America's foreign policy priorities.Shifting to the Middle East, Blumenthal examines Netanyahu's strategies in Gaza, suggesting that Israel's leadership is more interested in maintaining a state of conflict than achieving peace. He reveals disturbing details about the Hannibal Directive, which allegedly led to the deaths of many Israeli civilians during the October 7th attacks, and discusses the political turmoil within Israel as Netanyahu faces corruption allegations.Throughout the interview, Blumenthal emphasizes the need for a fundamental change in U.S. foreign policy, away from interventionism and towards a focus on domestic interests. He calls out the influence of lobby groups and the military-industrial complex, urging the Trump administration to prioritize America's needs over global entanglements.

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Auch nachdem US-Vizepräsident Vance der EU die Leviten gelesen hat und die EU bei der Regelung des Ukraine-Konfliktes außen vor geblieben ist, verweigert man sich weiterhin den Realitäten. Das hat das von Macron für Montag eilig angesetzte Krisentreffen gezeigt.Ein Kommentar von Thomas Röper.Die Führung der EU und der meisten ihrer Mitgliedstaaten verweigert sich hartnäckig den Realitäten. Offenbar lebt man in den europäischen Hauptstädten so sehr in der von der eigenen Propaganda geschaffenen Blase, dass man nicht mehr in der Lage ist, selbst einfache Zusammenhänge und Tatsachen zu erkennen.Die EU hatte in Sachen Ukraine nie ein MitspracherechtEine dieser Tatsachen ist, dass die EU bei allem, was die Ukraine angeht, von Anfang an nur Helfershelfer der Politik des Biden-Clans war. Das begann mit dem Maidan 2014, als die USA mit Jazenjuk ihren Kandidaten als ukrainischen Regierungschef eingesetzt und den Wunsch der EU, Klitschko diesen Posten zu geben, mit dem berühmten „Fuck the EU“ vom Tisch gewischt haben. Und es ging damit weiter, dass die US-Regierung die EU 2014 gegen deren Willen gezwungen hat, Sanktionen gegen Russland einzuführen, die der EU sehr geschadet haben. Es sei daran erinnert, dass Biden das am 3. Oktober 2014 ganz stolz erzählt hat:„Wir haben Putin vor eine einfache Wahl gestellt: Die Souveränität der Ukraine zu respektieren oder sich wachsenden Konsequenzen aussetzen. Das hat es uns erlaubt, die wichtigsten Industrieländer der Welt dazu zu bewegen, Russland echte Kosten aufzuerlegen. Es ist wahr, dass sie das nicht tun wollten. Aber wieder waren es die amerikanische Führung und der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten, die darauf bestanden und Europa oft beinahe in Verlegenheit bringen mussten, damit es aufstand und wirtschaftliche Einbußen hinnahm, um Kosten aufzuerlegen.“Und so war es auch in den Jahren danach, denn die nach dem Maidan bankrotte Ukraine wurde zum größten Teil von der EU, aber nicht von den USA, finanziert. So, wie die Ukraine für die USA nur ein Instrument war, um den geopolitischen Gegner Russland zu schwächen, so war auch die EU nur ein Instrument, das die USA mit dem gleichen Ziel benutzt haben.Ein Mitspracherecht hatten die EU und ihre Mitgliedstaaten in Sachen Ukraine spätestens seit 2014 nicht mehr.Die Verzweiflung nach MünchenDie EU und die meisten ihrer Mitgliedstaaten haben sich dieser offensichtlichen Realität jedoch konsequent verweigert und tun das weiterhin. Das Ergebnis sehen wir heute, denn nachdem die US-Regierung der EU letzte Woche gezeigt hat, dass die EU bei den Verhandlungen mit Russland nicht am Tisch sitzt, war man in Europa ganz überrascht. Von dem Telefonat zwischen Putin und Trump hat man in der EU beispielsweise aus den Medien erfahren.Nachdem die USA der EU gesagt haben, dass die EU nach einem Waffenstillstand selbst für die Sicherheit der Ukraine zuständig sei und einen Waffenstillstand mit eigenen Friedenstruppen absichern müsse, woran sich die USA auf keinen Fall beteiligen, wurde man in Europa hektisch....hier weiterlesen: https://apolut.net/das-von-macron-organisierte-treffen-und-der-realitatssinn-der-eu-von-thomas-roper/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Annemieke Bosman in gesprek met Jelle Brandt Corstius. Sinds de invasie van Rusland is Oekraïne volop in het nieuws, maar velen kennen het land en haar inwoners nauwelijks. In de tv-serie Van Moskou tot Maidan verkent journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius Oekraïne tijdens het derde jaar van de oorlog. Hij reist van steden langs het front tot gebieden meer dan duizend kilometer ervandaan. De strijd is overal voelbaar. Wie zijn de Oekraïners, wat is hun geschiedenis, en wat is hun cultuur waar ze nu zo hard voor vechten?  Jelle Brandt Corstius (1978) is journalist, auteur en programmamaker. Hij woonde vijf jaar in Moskou, waar hij werkte als correspondent voor Trouw en De Standaard. Voor de VPRO presenteerde hij Zomergasten (2010 / 2011) en maakte hij verschillende reisseries waaronder Van Moskou tot Magadan (2009), Grensland (2015), Robo sapiens (2017) en - samen met Ruben Terlou - Langs de nieuwe zijderoute (2023). Ook schreef hij diverse boeken, waarvan Spullen brengen (2024) het meest recent is. De VPRO-serie Van Moskou tot Maidan is vanaf zondagavond 23 februari op NPO 2 en NPO Start.

Julija Mykytenkos Vater verbrannte auf dem Maidan, russische Bomben töteten ihren Mann. Die 29-Jährige kämpft seit zehn Jahren als Kommandeurin einer Drohneneinheit für die Freiheit der Ukraine. Die Autorin Lara Marlowe hat die Soldatin porträtiert. Marlowe, Lara www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Julija Mykytenkos Vater verbrannte auf dem Maidan, russische Bomben töteten ihren Mann. Die 29-Jährige kämpft seit zehn Jahren als Kommandeurin einer Drohneneinheit für die Freiheit der Ukraine. Die Autorin Lara Marlowe hat die Soldatin porträtiert. Marlowe, Lara www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Julija Mykytenkos Vater verbrannte auf dem Maidan, russische Bomben töteten ihren Mann. Die 29-Jährige kämpft seit zehn Jahren als Kommandeurin einer Drohneneinheit für die Freiheit der Ukraine. Die Autorin Lara Marlowe hat die Soldatin porträtiert. Marlowe, Lara www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Timothy Snyder came to Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, to present his book "On Freedom". We have had several conversations about the ideas of this book before (in Kyiv and Kharkiv), and you can find links to the podcast episodes featuring these discussions in the description. However, this was the first time we talked about this book after its publication. We recorded this conversation on February 9, 2025, at the Sense bookstore on Khreshchatyk Street, in the heart of the Ukrainian capital, very close to Maidan. Several hundred people attended, with many staying despite the lack of available seats. Most of them were young. This demonstrates how important reading and critical thinking are for Ukrainians today. Host: Volodymyr Yermolenko – Ukrainian philosopher, the chief editor of UkraineWorld, and the president of PEN Ukraine. The Ukrainian translation of this book was done by Choven Publishing House (translator: Halyna Herasym), with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. UkraineWorld (ukraineworld.org) is a multilingual media about Ukraine produced by Internews Ukraine, one of the country's largest media NGOs. Listen on various platforms: li.sten.to/explaining-ukraine Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/ukraineworld – we offer exclusive content for our patrons. You can also support our volunteer trips to the front lines via PayPal: ukraine.resisting@gmail.com. Other conversations with Timothy Snyder: Kyiv, September 2022 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHksNrj7elQ&t=10s https://soundcloud.com/user-579586558/ep-144 Kyiv, September 2023 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LkXsW14qJQ&t=724s https://soundcloud.com/user-579586558/ep-258 Kharkiv, September 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0bqQy5gzA&t=9s https://soundcloud.com/user-579586558/snyder-kharkiv -- Contents: 01:54 - «I feel in Ukraine better than in most other places» 02:44 - being a historian who wrote a philosophy book 07:17 - What can the Ukrainian experience tell other nations about freedom? 12:45 - positive freedom (freedom-to) vs negative freedom (freedom-from). «Freedom isn't just the absence of evil, but the presence of good» 15:44 - thinking about positive and negative freedom in America and Ukraine 20:30 - freedom and values 24:55 - freedom and sovereignty 32:47 - freedom and unpredictability 41:13 - the metaphor of the bell 45:07 - freedom during military occupation and de-occupation 50:30 - is history repeating itself? 1:00:00 - on social networks 1:11:50 - which values can unite Ukrainians during the war? 01:14:50 - rethinking Ukrainian history from the global perspective

The bureaucratic deep state is toppling. In this episode, I talk about the corruption within the U.S. government, particularly through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and how Elon Musk and President Trump are working to expose and dismantle it signaling the potential collapse of corrupt government agencies.  -- Head to http://twc.health/turley and use code TURLEY to get 15% off plus Free Shipping. *The content presented by sponsors may contain affiliate links. When you click and shop the links, Turley Talks may receive a small commission.*   Register For The Golden Age Summit By Clicking Here! https://fight.turleytalks.com/golden-age-summit   Highlights: “USAID literally spits out money 24/7. Case in point, even though President Trump has ordered a freeze on all monies coming out of USAID, officials there still approved over $6 million dollars in contracts just this past Friday, much of this under the guise of miscellaneous expenditures.” “USAID has been at the forefront of carrying out CIA operations like the Maidan revolution in Kiev back in 2014 when the US government overthrew a democratically elected but relatively pro-Russian government in Ukraine and thus began the series of events that led to this horrific war.” Timestamps: [01:02 Elon Musk putting USAID into the wood chipper [02:21] How USAID is used for money laundering and covert operations [08:54] USAID as a front for CIA operations [11:52] Elon Musk and President Trump putting an end to corrupt government agencies -- Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review. FOLLOW me on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DrTurleyTalks Sign up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts to get lots of articles on conservative trends: https://turleytalks.com/subscribe-to-our-newsletter **The use of any copyrighted material in this podcast is done so for educational and informational purposes only including parody, commentary, and criticism. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015). It is believed that this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

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On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Policy Director Rachel Hoff is joined by Oleksandra Matviichuk who is the head of the Center for Civil Liberties. They discuss Oleksandra's decades-long commitment to defending human rights in Ukraine, the Maidan uprising, the ongoing war with Russia, the documentation of war crimes, and the importance of international support for Ukraine. Matviichuk emphasizes the need for justice and accountability for war crimes and the role of ordinary citizens in supporting democracy and human rights.

Dimitri and Khalid are joined by Peter, author of the excellent Events in Ukraine Substack (https://eventsinukraine.substack.com), for a wide-ranging conversation about the cultural, military, economic, and deep political dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine war as it faces its three-year anniversary. Topics include: Escaping Kiev after the war started, why bomb shelters don't matter, the epidemic of “State Department Leftoids”, how the post-Maidan government drove Ukraine's military-industrial complex into the dirt, Bill 3739 and the role of the Sorosites, what “liberalism” represents in post-Soviet countries (self-hating Europhilia), Aaron Moulton's work on Soros in Eastern Europe, 133 Western NGOs exempt from military service, the susness of pro-western “anti-corruption” activists, the Soros International Renaissance Foundation, Sternenko's “LGBT Nazi” gangs vs. the unwoke Nazis, gripes from the Tales of the Fourth Reich Telegram channel run by a former ANTIFA-turned-PROFA soldier, and why the Azovites have become more open to ending the war than “jihadist” Zelensky's clique… Business shakedowns via the “Trading With The Enemy Act”, the overarching role of media psyops in Ukrainian war strategy, organizational chaos in the army, pre-war ketamine hipsters DJing on a swastika laptop, why Azov is where the cool kids go, ubiquitous meth/LSD Telegram channels, Nazi units smoking DMT in Donbass, international techno superstar DJ Nastia and her NED-trained ex-husband, the coked up Zelensky advisor/pardigmatic Sorosite Serhiy Leshchenko, Nastia's sus campaign to get Russian techno figurehead Nina Kraviz blacklisted from EU venues and festivals in 2022, and why everyone in late 2024 dreams of leaving Ukraine. Part one of two. Read “Monday Meth Comedown”: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/monday-meth-comedown Subscribe to Peter's Events in Ukraine Substack here: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com For access to premium SJ episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.

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In the second of our 2 sessions with Scott, we get into some of the sources cited in his powerful book "Provoked," and whether they are biased by an extreme worldview. We also argue about Candace Owens and whether her views ought to make her beyond the pale as an accepted member of a political clique (Noam says yes, Scott says no). Also, was Maidan a coup, an organic movement, or a bit of both? Part 1 will be uploaded shortly. Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine Available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/hFaTYPm Some links: https://peakprosperity.com/dave-collum-year-in-review-2021-rise-of-global-authoritarianism/ https://www.jasonhartman.com/2182-trump-assassination-attempt-inside-job-or-incompetence-conspiracy-or-coincidence/ https://news.grabien.com/wire-dave-collum-goes-deep-conspiracy-theories-911-epstein-pizzag https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/third-911-hijacker-may-have-been-cia-recruit https://quoththeraven.podbean.com/e/quoth-the-raven-131-dave-collum-the-conspiracy-theory-episode/

In the first of our 2 sessions with Scott, we get into his powerful book "Provoked," and whether or not the United States is the main villain in the Ukraine War. Was the Maidan a coup, an organic movement, or a bit of both? What was the Nuland phone call all about? Where do the Kissingers and the Tucker Carlsons diverge? Part II is here: https://youtu.be/hdeMqJDWOm4 Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine Available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/hFaTYPm

In the second of our 2 sessions with Scott, we get into some of the sources cited in his powerful book "Provoked," and whether they are biased by an extreme worldview. We also argue about Candace Owens and whether her views ought to make her beyond the pale as an accepted member of a political clique (Noam says yes, Scott says no). Also, was Maidan a coup, an organic movement, or a bit of both? Part 1 will be uploaded shortly. Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine Available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/hFaTYPm Some links: https://peakprosperity.com/dave-collum-year-in-review-2021-rise-of-global-authoritarianism/ https://www.jasonhartman.com/2182-trump-assassination-attempt-inside-job-or-incompetence-conspiracy-or-coincidence/ https://news.grabien.com/wire-dave-collum-goes-deep-conspiracy-theories-911-epstein-pizzag https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/third-911-hijacker-may-have-been-cia-recruit https://quoththeraven.podbean.com/e/quoth-the-raven-131-dave-collum-the-conspiracy-theory-episode/

In the first of our 2 sessions with Scott, we get into his powerful book "Provoked," and whether or not the United States is the main villain in the Ukraine War. Was the Maidan a coup, an organic movement, or a bit of both? What was the Nuland phone call all about? Where do the Kissingers and the Tucker Carlsons diverge? Part II is here: https://youtu.be/hdeMqJDWOm4 Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine Available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/hFaTYPm

Waardeer je onze video's? Steun dan Café Weltschmerz, het podium voor het vrije woord: https://www.cafeweltschmerz.nl/doneren/Banken: 'Houd contant geld in huis vanwege geopolitieke dreiging'Jeroen en Willem pakken weer stevig uit deze week. Eerst de Rutte-doctrine: liegen om de bevolking leeg te trekken.Lekker bezig, toch? Ondertussen wil de politiek nóg meer geld voor nóg meer controle.Het klimaatverhaal brokkelt aan alle kanten af, maar ach, de economie is ook naar de knoppen—missie geslaagd...Propaganda werkt nauwelijks meer, dus wat te doen? Juist, strengere censuur.Trump speelt de grote dealmaker, maar vergis je niet: die deals zijn echt niet altijd in ons voordeel.RFK jr? Die wordt door corrupte “wetenschappers” gezien als een serieuze bedreiging.Natuurlijk is er weer gesjoemel boven water gekomen over de goedkeuring van de mRNA-injecties.Syrië lijkt ingewisseld voor een ander land, en in Roemenië is een echte coup gaande.Oh, en Georgië? De EU blijft daar falen in een nieuwe Maidan-poging. En juridisch? Daar is het een puinhoop, vooral in de rechtspraak. beginnen ze zelf ook wel door te krijgen dat niemand er nog vertrouwen in heeft?---Café Weltschmerz gelooft in de kracht van het gesprek en zendt interviews uit over actuele maatschappelijke thema's. Wij bieden een hoogwaardig alternatief voor de mainstream media. Café Weltschmerz is onafhankelijk en niet verbonden aan politieke, religieuze of commerciële partijen.Wil je meer video's bekijken en op de hoogte blijven via onze nieuwsbrief? Ga dan naar: https://www.cafeweltschmerz.nl/videos/Wil je op de hoogte worden gebracht van onze nieuwe video's? Klik hierboven dan op Abonneren!

Conversations on GroongTopics:The Maidan Massacre: Key findings from Ivan Katchanovski's research and its implicationsThe Ukraine War: How the Maidan events set the stage for the ongoing conflict.Conflicting Narratives: Dissecting media, government, and eyewitness accounts of the massacreForeign Involvement: The roles of Russia, the West, and other actors in Ukraine's political crisisLessons for Georgia and Armenia: What Ukraine's experience teaches about geopolitics in the South CaucasusGuest: Ivan KatchanovskiBOOK: The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: The Mass Killing that Changed the WorldSupport Prof. Katchanovki's work here:  via GoFundMe https://gofund.me/52b68e07  via PayPal (account: ikatchan@uottawa.ca) VIDEO: https://youtu.be/o0bCbTYTFNYHosts:Hovik ManucharyanAsbed BedrossianEpisode 393 | Recorded: December 7, 2024https://podcasts.groong.org/393VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/o0bCbTYTFNY#UkraineWar #MaidanMassacre #IvanKatchanovski #Geopolitics #UkraineCrisis #EasternEurope #Armenia #PoliticalViolence #EuroMaidan #SouthCaucasusSubscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

Waardeer je onze video's? Steun dan Café Weltschmerz, het podium voor het vrije woord: https://www.cafeweltschmerz.nl/doneren/Actieve dienstplicht na 27 jaar weer in beeld bij Defensie?!In weekoverzicht 49 nemen Jeroen en Willem geen blad voor de mond. De Europese economie? Daar moeten zware bezuinigingen aan te pas komen. Het klimaat? Gelukkig niet meer dan een storm in een glas water. Censuur moet volgens de wet worden afgedwongen, en vooral journalisten aanpakken zou een mooi middel zijn voor zelfcensuur.En Biden? Die strooit met gratie: zijn zoon krijgt er eentje voor vaders eigen misdrijven, en iedereen die Trump in de toekomst misschien gaat aanklagen, kan ook op een vrijkaartje rekenen. Israël glijdt steeds verder af als internationale paria, Syrië wordt opnieuw gebombardeerd door CIA-proxies, en in Georgië lijkt een Maidan-scenario zich al bijna vanzelf te ontvouwen.Down under betaalt Australië plots alle coronaboetes terug, en Zuid-Korea? Die trekt de coup toch maar niet door. Huig Plug pakt een overwinning, Jan Roos laat zien hoe politieke vervolging werkt, en zelfs Bill Gates reageert op het recht op recht. Ondertussen stappen rechters op vanwege een schandaal, en jawel, het OM is weer betrokken bij een bewijsvervalsing-schandaal. Zoveel drama, je weet niet waar je moet beginnen!---Deze video is geproduceerd door Café Weltschmerz. Café Weltschmerz gelooft in de kracht van het gesprek en zendt interviews uit over actuele maatschappelijke thema's. Wij bieden een hoogwaardig alternatief voor de mainstream media. Café Weltschmerz is onafhankelijk en niet verbonden aan politieke, religieuze of commerciële partijen.Wil je meer video's bekijken en op de hoogte blijven via onze nieuwsbrief? Ga dan naar: https://www.cafeweltschmerz.nl/videos/Wil je op de hoogte worden gebracht van onze nieuwe video's? Klik hierboven dan op Abonneren!

Biden's pardon bombshell for Hunter explodes, exposing shocking Ukraine connections.Join Jeremy Ryan Slate and Dr. Mark Young for a deep dive into this unprecedented move. We critically examine the pardon's timing, its potential links to the 2014 Maidan coup, and what it means for America's future. This insightful episode offers a unique perspective on the Biden administration's actions and their far-reaching consequences.Dr. Young, a psychology expert and host of Blunt Force Truth, shares his professional analysis of Biden's decision-making and its implications for justice. We explore the potential domino effect on other investigations and what it could mean for the 2024 election.This must-watch conversation goes beyond mainstream narratives, offering a critical examination of power, corruption, and the state of American democracy.Join the conversation and gain insights that challenge your understanding of current events.Don't miss out on this eye-opening discussion. Like, comment, and subscribe to stay informed and be part of our community dedicated to uncovering the truth. Follow Jeremy Ryan Slate, CEO of Command Your Brand, for more hard-hitting interviews and expert analysis on today's most pressing issues.#joebiden #bidenpardonsson #joebidenpardon #bidenpardonnews #joebidenpardonshunter #news #joebiden #ukrainenews #latestnews #bidenpardonnewsCHAPTERS:00:00 - Intro01:03 - Mark Young's Background07:31 - Biden's Hunter Pardon Explained12:22 - Timing of the Pardon17:01 - Implications of the Pardon20:48 - Joe Biden's Health Update23:17 - Significance of the Pardon26:38 - Will Trump Investigate Biden?30:26 - Trump's Plans for 2nd Term35:10 - Trump's Cabinet Selections40:00 - Understanding the Tax System45:00 - Left vs Right Reactions50:00 - Jealousy vs Envy Explained52:40 - Sources of Innovation53:44 - Connecting with Mark Young54:30 - Like, Comment, and Subscribe___________________________________________________________________________⇩ SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS ⇩THE WELLNESS COMPANY: Health without the propaganda, emergency medical kits before you need it. Get 15% off now by using our link: https://twc.health/jrsCOMMAND YOUR BRAND: Legacy Media is dying, we fight for the free speech of our clients by placing them on top-rated podcasts as guests. We also have the go-to podcast production team. We are your premier podcast agency. Book a call with our team https://www.commandyourbrand.com/book-a-call MY PILLOW: By FAR one of my favorite products I own for the best night's sleep in the world, unless my four year old jumps on my, the My Pillow. Get up to 66% off select products, including the My Pillow Classic or the new My Pillow 2.0, go to https://www.mypillow.com/cyol or use PROMO CODE: CYOL________________________________________________________________⇩ GET MY BEST SELLING BOOK ⇩Unremarkable to Extraordinary: Ignite Your Passion to Go From Passive Observer to Creator of Your Own Lifehttps://getextraordinarybook.com/________________________________________________________________DOWNLOAD AUDIO PODCAST & GIVE A 5 STAR RATING!:APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-create-your-own-life-show/id1059619918SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/5UFFtmJqBUJHTU6iFch3QU(also available Google Podcasts & wherever else podcasts are streamed_________________________________________________________________⇩ SOCIAL MEDIA ⇩➤ X: https://twitter.com/jeremyryanslate➤ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/jeremyryanslate➤ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/jeremyryanslate_________________________________________________________________➤ CONTACT: JEREMY@COMMANDYOURBRAND.COM

durée : 00:03:24 - Le monde à 18h50 - par : Franck MATHEVON - Voilà une semaine que la Géorgie est le théâtre de manifestations quotidiennes. Le pays se prépare à une septième nuit de mobilisation. Le parallèle avec la révolte de Maidan en Ukraine est presque une évidence, mais il est difficile de prédire l'avenir du mouvement.

Manche aktuelle Berichte über die Proteste in Georgien und der Tonfall mancher großer Medien hierzulande wirken wie eine Zeitmaschine, die einen ins Jahr 2014 versetzt – in die Zeit der Jubelberichte über die militanten Proteste auf dem Maidan in Kiew. Hier soll beispielhaft ein Bericht der Tagesschau betrachtet werden. Ein Kommentar von Tobias Riegel. DieserWeiterlesen

As the war in Ukraine grinds into yet another brutal winter, narratives are shifting in Western capitals regarding the nature of the conflict, its goals, and the longer term meaning of the war in terms of the balance of power on the European continent. Looking back to the war's origins, it is important not only to examine the build-up of Russia's aggression against the sovereignty of its neighboring states, but also the decades of miscalculations and lost opportunities specifically by the United States during the post-Cold War period. This is the central focus of the new book published by Jonathan Haslam, Professor Emeritus of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and one of the UK's most distinguished and respected experts on the former Soviet Union. In his latest book, "Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine," Haslam observes that a gross and systemic lack of understanding by Western allies concerning Russia's intentions and likely actions is ultimately to blame for the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. In this discussion with Robert Amsterdam about the history of NATO expansion and covert US activity within Ukraine, Haslam argues that even up to the Maidan crisis of 2014, the US could have backed away and avoided the negative outcome which will be dealing with for generations.

It's great to be back with everyone on the Tiger Bloc Podcast! On this episode, John Chinaman interviews Ukrainian antifascist and anti-authoritarian Dmytro Mrachnik. Dmytro has been fighting in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. Please bear with us on the sound quality. With power and internet failures in Ukraine, this podcast had to be a recorded phone call. Dmytro takes us back to 2014 and the Maidan Revolution, when he was hanging in the Kyiv punk rock scene. Dmytro gives us his perspective as a dual Russian and Ukrainian speaker and dispels myths about supposed discrimination against Russian speakers. Dmytro describes how the left reacted to the Maidan and Russian invasion in 2014, and what changed in 2022 with an increased left wing response and militancy. As is depressingly common, Dmytro also relates the lack of an international left-wing response to assist the Ukrainian left, even two years after the full-scale invasion.  Dmytro also talks a bit about what army life is like. Dmytro fought in both the Kharkiv and Bakhmut fronts. Since joining the military, he's actually risen in the ranks to first lieutenant. Listen to the podcast to learn about the experience of an antifascist in the military. Dmytro is a prolific writer about politics and Ukrainian culture. You can find his writings on nihilist.li and Anarchist Library. Find Dima on Instagram at @mrachnik, on Twitter at @dmrachnik, or email at dmrachnik@gmail.com. For more writings on Nihilist, check out the editor Romeo Kokriatski on Twitter at @VagrantJourno. Music: Outbreak of Evil by Sodom

The approach to supporting Ukraine which Western leaders have been taking so far has been „as long as it takes“. The lack of a clearly defined end goal impacted the pace and scale of the assistance, as well as raised questions on its efficiency. It cannot last this way in the protracted war as Ukraine's mobilisation potential and resources are shorter than Russia's. Instead, a clear commitment of the West to aid Ukraine with „whatever it takes for a fast victory“ is the only way to return sustainable peace back to Europe. ---------- ABOUT: Olena Halushka is a is a board member of the Ukrainian NGO “Anti-corruption Action Centre”, and co-founder of the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory. She has also worked as a chief of international advocacy at the post-Maidan coalition of 80 CSOs “Reanimation Package of Reforms”. Olena is a contributor to the Atlantic Council, Kyiv Independent. She has also written op-eds for the Washington Post, the Foreign Policy, and the EU Observer – but it's a major article she wrote for the UK's Guardian newspaper that we'll be discussing today. ---------- LINKS: https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka https://twitter.com/AntAC_ua https://twitter.com/ICUVua https://www.linkedin.com/in/olena-halushka-b7342259/?originalSubdomain=ua https://ukrainianvictory.org/experts/olena-halushka/ https://www.fpri.org/contributor/olena-halushka/ https://cepa.org/author/olena-halushka/ https://archive.kyivpost.com/author/olena-halushka https://foreignpolicy.com/author/olena-halushka/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

In this episode, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Chairman Omali Yeshitela to explore the fight for free speech as the Uhuru Three face charges for opposing U.S. government narratives. Together, they uncover the shocking connections between the trial, colonialism, and the global struggle for freedom. Find me and the show on social media. Click the following links or search @DrWilmerLeon on X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Patreon and YouTube! Hey everyone, Dr. Wilmer here! If you've been enjoying my deep dives into the real stories behind the headlines and appreciate the balanced perspective I bring, I'd love your support on my Patreon channel. Your contribution helps me keep "Connecting the Dots" alive, revealing the truth behind the news. Join our community, and together, let's keep uncovering the hidden truths and making sense of the world. Thank you for being a part of this journey! Wilmer Leon (00:00:00): The first amendment of the Constitution reads as follows, Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or the press or the right of people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. With that, here's a very simple question. If Congress cannot make a law abridging, which in law means to diminish or reduce in scope the freedom of speech, then why will the Yahoo three have to go on trial on September 3rd, 2024 in the federal court in Tampa, Florida? If you want to know the answer to that, let's find out Announcer (00:00:53): Connecting the dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon, where the analysis of politics, culture, and history converge. Wilmer Leon (00:01:03): Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon and I am Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they happen in a vacuum, failing to understand the much broader historical context in which most of these events take place. During each episode of this podcast, my guests and I have probing, provocative, and in-depth discussions that connect the dots between these events and the broader historic context in which they occur. This enables you to better understand and analyze the events and that impact the global village in which we live on today's episode. The issue before us is or are the indictments of the Uru three are the indictments of the Uru three a test case for the federal government. If Chairman Yella, penny Hess and Jesse Neville are convicted in this political attack, will free speech as we know it in this country, no longer exist for anyone. Let's talk with my guest. He's a political activist and author. He's the co-founder and ker chairman of the African People's Socialist Party, which was founded in 1972, and he also leads the Uhuru movement and he's one of the Uhuru 3 Chairman, Omali Yeshitela. Welcome back to the show. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:02:23): Thank you so very much. It is good to be with you again. This question of free speech is something that reverberates so many means, and this you give me access to speak with your show, and that's extremely important because some people recognize that how people who want to speak affect it negatively if they cannot speak. But many people do not recognize that a free speech attack does not only prevent me from speaking, it prevents people from hearing what I got to say. So it's an assault on people's ability to hear something that the government might not want heard or any other source. And so it's a critical question and it's one of the things that gives such significance being able to be here with you Brother Leon. Wilmer Leon (00:03:19): So the three of you are being charged with a violation of statute 18 USC, section 3 71, conspiring to commit an offense against the United States and acting as an agent of a foreign government and foreign officials to wit the Russian Federation without prior notification to the Attorney General as required by law in violation of 18 USC 9 51 A. With that as the technical description of what you all are charged with, what does that mean and what is the basis of these baseless charges? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:04:00): I think it's a really important question because what the government is doing is using some facts to obscure truth, to hide truth. The fact is, I did not register with the United States government as a foreign agent. That's a fact. But the truth is I'm not a foreign agent, never have been one, and I've always only worked for African people. They said that we ran candidates for office in 2017 and 2019 because the Russians wanted us to do that and paid for it. It's a fact we ran candidates for city council and mayor in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2017 and 2019. But the truth is the Russians did not pay for this. The Russians was not the idea of Russians, and we've been involved in Micropolitics and have been teaching other Africans how to be involved in Micropolitics for decades. They used the fact that we participated in a tour that was actually hosted by Fran fan's daughter throughout the United States, a committee of the United Nations checking on the conditions of African people, and we collected petitions on the question of genocide and fact. (00:05:29): We did go on that tour, we called it a winter tour, went to Jackson, Mississippi, Washington DC I think New York, and one or two other, Chicago, Illinois. That's a fact. We did those things. But the truth is that we did not do this for Russia. We did it because we wanted the United Nations to deal with this issue of genocide and reparations for African people in this country. So what they've done is take these facts and then construct a false conclusion for people, and it's extremely dangerous. And they do this at the expense of First Amendment because everything they've charged us with has to do with us speaking with us utilizing the Bill of Rights or utilizing the First Amendment that you just mentioned in the opening of this show. But they cannot say that we are attacking them because they use speech. They cannot say they're attacking us because just because we ran for office, which is something that we are supposed to have a constitutional right to do, it says not because they spoke. (00:06:35): It's because they spoke because the Russians wanted them to speak. The Russians wanted them to sow discord. The Russians wanted them to run for office in St. Petersburg, Florida as a stepping stone to somehow Russian interfering in the election, the national elections in this country. So that's dangerous because that means that anybody, oh, and it's a fact that I went to Moscow in May and September of 2015 at the invitation of a non-governmental organization, anti-global movement of Russia to participate in discussions with other people around democratic rights and around self-determination for peoples from various places around the world. So those are facts. I did that, but it is a lie that I was a Russian agent and I did it in the service of Russia. I did it because Zuckerberg and because the New York Times and because the Washington Post and because the Democratic Party and various other entities refuse to give access to black people so that we can speak independently about what our situation is. And you got to remember what was happening in 2014, 2015 with Mike Brown uprising because of the police murder of that young man in August of 2014, I think it was because of all kinds of police murder right before that one, the brother who was choked to death in New York, just all kinds of things were happening and the story of our people from our own initiatives could not be heard. And so I wanted to be heard, and I've been struggling for our story to be heard all around the world for the longest period of time. Wilmer Leon (00:08:35): Well, everybody knows that if you are planning to conspire against the government, if you're planning to bring down the American empire, the City Council of St. Petersburg, Florida is where you're going to start. That's the underbelly. That's the soft spot. That's the weak link in the American Empire is St. Petersburg, Florida. So I can see where the government would get the idea that, oh my gosh, the City Council of Florida and then the world, you mentioned that when you said you were brought to Moscow on behalf of an NGO, A non-government organization that made me think about the myON coup in Ukraine and Samantha Power and the NGOs that the United States has used to overthrow the democratically elected government in Ukraine. How the United States has been trying to overthrow Venezuela through NGOs. (00:09:48): They've got a playbook as it relates to non-governmental organizations. They've got a playbook and they understand very clearly how that game gets played. So that's one of the hypocrisies that immediately jumps out at me. And another one is they, they're claiming or they're charging you with running people for elected office. When apac, it was published in the New York Times back in April, that APAC came out and said they are committing 100 million to the 2024 election to unseat democratically elected officials who they deemed to be operating against the interests of Israel. And Jamal Bowman has been a victim of that. And Co Bush became a fell victim to that in Kansas City. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:10:48): She's from St. Louis, Missouri. So Wilmer Leon (00:10:50): St. Louis, thank you. Thank you. I get my Kansas City and my St. Louis mixed up. I got you. Yeah, in St. Louis. So here we have APAC operating on or for the interests of the Zionist government of Israel saying publicly we're spending a hundred million, I think they spent 7 million to 1C Bowman. So there seems to be some inconsistency if not in the rule of law, at least in the practical applications here. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:11:22): Yeah, and that's true. I mean, especially APAC is a splendid example, and it doesn't have to register as the people who accept that money as foreign agents. They don't have to register anything like that. And tremendous amounts of money, as you said, are involved in that. And there are corporations who do the same thing who work for foreign governments and it's well known and they haven't had to file as foreign agents. And the thing is that they claim that our movement took, I think they said either $6,000 over seven years or $7,000 from the Russians over six years. And they have taken, you talk about how they use facts to obscure truth because we do forums and we do events online and people make contributions to us online. And the A GM, the Russian anti-globalization movement may have made some contribution to us online, but you're talking about they say that over six years or seven years, we got something like $6,000 from that movement. (00:12:52): But even if we had, it would not have been illegal. But the point is that we raised $6,000 in a few hours. We raised 300 and some odd thousand dollars just to defend ourselves in this case that we are involved in. So they would take this poultry sum of money compared to the millions and billions of dollars that come from groups like APAC and from other kinds of, and from corporations funnel into this country and to employ people, corporations from other places around the world. And so this is just a fabrication, and they play upon the ignorance of people. They say, for example, there are someplace in this indictment, they said that we went to Moscow in 2015 or 16 and with all expense paid trip, this gives some impression of some great luxury that we, what was afforded to us. And by all expense, they mean that they paid for the air flight there. (00:14:05): They paid for where we stayed and for food. Now, I've gone on events, I've gone to international events sponsored by NGO, close to the government of Spain, and they spent a lot of money. They spent money to bring me there and two other people, one of whom was from England into Spain, they paid us, paid me for coming as well. But they would take this thing with Russia because the plot there is they've done so much work demonizing Russia saying Russia is the key. That's why Donald Trump, they say, Hillary Clinton didn't lose the election. Trump the Russians won the election. This is the kind of stuff that they're feeding the public. And so it doesn't matter. That's why it's so important for us to have this kind of discussion because they don't want this kind of stuff to get out even in a courtroom. They will place restrictions on what we can talk about in the courtroom. And that's why it's important for us to recognize that the trial has already begun. And this is some of the testimony that we are involved in at this very moment. Wilmer Leon (00:15:14): From what I understand, you have gone and spoken and gone to conferences in Ireland, in France, in England, in Spain, but all of those countries are European countries. And so long as Europe is paying the tab, then everything's fine. I've gone to Iran twice, similar types of programs, been brought to peace conferences and human rights conferences in Iran, and they pay my airfare, they pay my hotel bill, they pay my meals while I'm there. That's standard operating procedure. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:15:58): But you're talking to them and Wilmer Leon (00:15:59): They give you an honorarium. Many of them will give you Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:16:02): An honor, but we didn't even get an honorarium from Russia. But you think about this, you're talking to a jury that many of whom never even leave the United States, don't have an understanding of how this stuff is. And so that sounds like some real esoteric can thing to people, local people here in the Tampa Bay area or in this district where they intend to put us on trial, they intend to lynch us. Wilmer Leon (00:16:31): In fact, I don't know the events that you attended, but when I went to Iran, I was there for the first trip. I was there for 10 days, and not only did I participate in this human rights conference, I lectured at 13 universities throughout the country. I was in constant motion. It was not a vacation. In fact, I even got to spend two hours with former President Deja while I was in Iran. But I'm saying that traveled all over the country by car, by plane, man. It wasn't easy work. The honorarium, for as much as I appreciated receiving it, if you broke it down to an hourly rate, no. When I say it wasn't worth my time, I don't mean that it wasn't worth my time. I mean, it didn't equate to a decent hourly rate. So Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:17:37): I just thought it was really important and I think it is important. And every time I get an opportunity to tell the world about the conditions of African people in this country, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to say even when you are involved with the United States to other countries, because it's designated almost the entire world, its enemy. And I'm saying that the United States accuses other countries of these egregious kind of things that you have to hold the mirror up to the United States and force it to look at the treatment of African people, forced it to look at the situation that they've had. Mexicans in cages at the southern border forced it to look at the fact that 2024, now you've got a situation where there are concentration camps just like Gaza, so to speak, that they refer to as Indian reservations. (00:18:30): This is the reality of the United States. And I want people to be able to recognize that the condition of African people are similar and that we want support. I've told them we are not looking for pity. We are not looking for charity. We want solidarity in the struggle that we are involved in. We believe that we have the right to be a self-determining people, and we believe that there's nothing in the Constitution of the United States that should prohibit us from saying that we have that right. Even if we say it in Russia, even if we say it in places like Venezuela or in Nicaragua where I have been, or Ireland, as you mentioned, we have the right to be able to say that by the Constitution. So either you got to burn it up, tear the Constitution up, and this is the conundrum that they have. And as you know that since they've attacked us, we've seen charges all across the board on so many people. Similarly charged being agents for foreign government, Scott Riter, et cetera. Yes, Scott Ritter just the other day, Wilmer Leon (00:19:37): Scott. Scott Ritter is a friend of mine, and I just had Scott Ritter on another show that I do. And the FBI just raided his house last week, took his computers in talking to Scott, what they really seemed to be after in his case, because he was a weapons inspectors and he had all the evidence that proved there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iran. They took that trove of evidence from him and we'll have to wait and see. And his point was because they want to rewrite the historic record and they want to, no, I'm not going to put words that he didn't use. They want to rewrite the historic record and they want to cleanse the record of the information that he possesses. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:20:30): Yes. And of course we see Assange just getting out of prison right now for, I've forgotten how many years he was locked up, Wilmer Leon (00:20:39): His Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:20:40): Speech, it's Freedom of Press, some of the charges against us attack assaults on free press. They had chat us because we did an interview on burning spear.org. That's our newspaper, that's the.org. We did an interview with the Russian saying that the people have a right to know the position that's coming from Russia. We, Zuckerberg, Facebook, everything had blocked anything that people were trying to talk about that represent the position that might be coming from Russia just like they do now about Palestine. And so we did an interview, and so they said that was evidence of the fact that we worked for the Russians. So I mean, this is the kind of stuff that they've done, but it's a real treacherous situation because they're at a place where they say that if you have a position that is the same position of another government, another country, and what have you, then they can charge you with working as an accomplice of that government in some crime that they claim that government is creating. And that's a dangerous kind of thing. I mean, you talked about your trips and stuff to Iran, and that's especially true when you look at Iran because they've identified Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Wilmer Leon (00:22:01): China, Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:22:02): China, Korea as these enemies that they're contending with and they don't want anybody to know a truth that's independent of what it is that they have to say. Wilmer Leon (00:22:15): And when you peel back the layers of the onions, whether you're talking about Russia, talking about China, talking about Venezuela, Iran, what we're dealing with is anti imperialism. What we're dealing with is what's really at the crux of this issue. It's not communism, it's not socialism, it's not any other kind, ofm, anti-fascism, colonialism and anti imperialism at the crux, because that's what the empire sees as being the greatest threat. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:23:02): It is the question. And from our analysis, the whole emergence of the Soviet Union, things like that came about as a consequence of the Communist Party. The Bolsheviks at that time refusing to participate with the rest of the colonial powers in the world in that first imperialist world war to redivide the world. And that was a world that was an extreme crisis for the whole social system. That's the timeframe. You look at this 1917 being the Russian Revolution, you're looking at the time of World War I, as they call it, a timeframe that saw a struggle even happening throughout this country bombing of Tulsa, Oklahoma. People everywhere resisting this colonial domination and Russia became a serious factor because unlike the rest of the colonial powers, Russia refused to participate in that world war, to Redivide the world. And that turned all of them against Russia too. So the Russian revolution happens in 1917, and by the way, much of some of the law that we have been victimized has its origin in that timeframe as well. Russian Revolution in 19 17, 19 18, all the colonial powers, including the United States and Japan invade Russia. They invaded Russia to crush it. And that struggle that they talk about with Ukraine and what have you, some people are able to see a beginning in like 2014 when the Wilmer Leon (00:24:47): Maidan coup Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:24:49): Maidan coup. But I'm saying even Wilmer Leon (00:24:50): Before, thank you, Samantha Power. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:24:52): Yeah, but even before that, they've been dealing with Russia going back, like I said, a more than a hundred years. And even the NATO that they use in Ukraine and NATO that they use to kill Gaddafi, this NATO has its origin. It was created for the purpose of containing a crushing Russia. So this is not a new phenomenon. This is something that's been going on for a long time because they saw at one time Russia being aligned with the colonized peoples of the world and with the working peoples of the world. And this was a system that could not tolerate that and could not tolerate it spreading globally. Wilmer Leon (00:25:40): In fact, if you fast forward to the late fifties and the sixties, and you look at the anti-colonial movements in a number of African countries such as South Africa, such as Angola, which you find is the Soviet Union was involved in providing funding, training weapons to freedom fighters, supporting anti imperialist, anti colonial movements in those countries leading to the freedom of a number of those countries along with Cuba and some others. So people really need to understand the broader, they need to connect the dots here and so that they can understand the broader, in fact, historic context in which these events take place. People need to ask themselves, where is Patrice Lumumba University folks who was Patrice Lumumba? Where is Patrice Lumumba University? It's not in Nigeria, it's not in Swaziland, it's in Moscow. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:26:49): And I spoke at Patrice Lamu before an organization of migrants that were located in Russia. That was one of the things I spoke for. And I think it's really important to say that they intend to provide some kind of Russia expert who will testify that Russia has a history of creating foils, creating forces like our party and our movement to undermine the United States and undermine Western powers, et cetera. And they will use the kind of stuff that you're talking about as evidence of complicity of Russia in being in control of us, because Russia did support the struggle in Angola and various other places and trained and funded and supported. Then they go back all the way to that to show that there's this historical trend coming from Russia, even though it was the Bolsheviks that they're talking about, that was for the purpose of corrupting, undermining the United States and the Western powers, the democracies. (00:28:04): They would show that that's the typical thing that we are typical of dupes of Russia, if not dupes cooperatives of Russia based on the stuff that you just mentioned, which you and I think is right on you, and I think is glorious. I mean, that puts them in a situation. Have they saying Mandela, who they love, he is the Negro. They love that. Mandela took support from the Soviet Union and was refused along with other African countries to condemn Russia around the Ukrainian question precisely because of the history of Russia as it relates to people who are struggling for freedom. Wilmer Leon (00:28:45): And the Palestinian question as well Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:28:47): Palestinian Question, Wilmer Leon (00:28:49): Nelson Mandela was very clear that as he was fighting for the rights of South Africans, he was on record as saying, even when we win this struggle, we will not have completed our mission until the Palestinians are free. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:29:08): Yes, yes. Wilmer Leon (00:29:09): So in fact, a lot of people don't know the first person, the first head of state that Mandela went to see when he was released from Roobben Island was Fidel Castro. A lot of folks don't know that history, but in fact, Mandela said, and I'll paraphrase, your enemy is not my enemy, and I am not going to allow you to select who my friends and who my enemies are. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:29:37): Sure, sure, sure. That's the thing. 60 years ago, African people in this country initiated the freedom summer in Mississippi, and we dealt with the freedom summer in 1964. It was revolving around just democratic rights for black people been murdered, especially in Mississippi, which was the headquarters of much of the terror being murdered, African people being denied access to the ballot just as what's happening with us as quiet as Kept, I fought for the Civil Rights Bill, I fought for the Voting Rights Act, and now I'm being charged because of participating independently in the electoral process. But 60 years ago, freedom Summer student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was the key force in creating the freedom Summer. And people came from all around the country into Mississippi, a lot of white people came, and this was something that SNCC did deliberately in part because they knew that if white people came the ruling class media that was no longer paying attention to the Civil Rights movement, just as they don't in this movement, if white people came, then the media would come with them because some of them children of media owners and big shot white people, and also the white people who came would face some of the same threats that Africans were facing in Mississippi. (00:31:06): And as you know, on the first day of Freedom Summer 1964 and Mississippi, three people died, two of whom were white. Wilmer Leon (00:31:15): Goodman and Cheney. Right. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:31:19): And that brought a lot of attention to it. But off of that movement in 1964, that 1964 that pushed the Civil Rights Act, that pushed them to have to in 1965 passed the voting rights legislation. But 1965 is also the year to kill Malcolm X, so that even though now you can vote that they're doing things to eliminate what you would vote for, they killed Malcolm X 1968. They killed Martin Luther King, 1969. The war against the Black Panther Party was clear to everybody around the whole world that you had the head of the FBI declaring that the Black Panther Party represented the greatest threat to the internal security of this country. They arrested 21 members of the Black Panther Party on a conspiracy charge in New York on a more than a hundred charges, including threats to blow up the flowers in the botanical garden, that thing that lasted for two years, and they beat every one of the charges, and they were ridiculous charges in the first place. (00:32:22): But you had this period. So what we've done is we are now engaged in the Freedom Summer, summer Project, freedom Summer in St. Petersburg, Florida, which is right across the bridge from Tampa, Florida, where the court that we will be going to is located and we are inviting everybody. We've already begun. We're going door to door, talking to people, educating the people in the community about this case and about other things that's happening in the world. We are having forums and discussions of people are doing street corner stuff with banners, et cetera. We are calling people to come in the same Peterburg Florida now. And then of course, on August 31st, we have a massive mobilization that's going to be happening where people again will be coming from. We've got commitments for participation from Cornell West, from Jill Stein, from Charles Barron, from just a host of other people. Everybody's going to be in St. Petersburg, Florida for Freedom Summer. And the Freedom Summer is going to have similar consequences from this, that the freedom summer of 1964 had that gave rise to the civil rights bill, that gave rights rise to the Voting Rights Act. That gave rise to the Black Power Movement in 1966. All of these things came out of that. And we are rebuilding a whole movement, but with this attack on us, we are reestablishing the legitimacy of the entire struggle against colonialism and against imperialism. Wilmer Leon (00:33:52): We're talking about the First Amendment, we're talking about the right of freedom of speech. And there's a whole campaign, as you've mentioned Zuckerberg a couple of times, and there's a whole campaign against social media access and freedom of speech on social media. The United States government is using Zuckerberg, they're using some of the others to assist them in platforming people. And what this really comes down to is the power of the narrative, whose story is going to be told Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:34:32): That's Wilmer Leon (00:34:32): It, and by whom? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:34:34): That's it! Wilmer Leon (00:34:35):  So it's not so much that what you are advocating is seditious. No. The problem the government has is the narrative you are telling, the facts that you are providing is counter to that narrative, and then that threatens the empire. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:34:58): Yes. Yes. That is the truth. And I'm reminded of this movie, I forgot the name of it, but you had these two characters. Tom Cruise I think played some kind of lawyer and Jack Nicholson and Oh, you Wilmer Leon (00:35:14): Can't handle the truth. Yeah, I Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:35:16): Want the truth. I want the truth Say you can't handle the truth. That's essentially the case with the United States. Now, Wilmer Leon (00:35:24): Let me quickly jump in, because there's a reason that your narrative about Ukraine and my narrative about Ukraine and Russia's narrative about Ukraine are basically the same because we're telling the truth, the truth. And all you have to do is Google what we say about it. Google the Maidan coup Google. Now I'm drawing a blank on the agreement that they reached the Minsk courts. Yes, Google the Minsk courts, Google the Midon coup. Go back and look at when Joe Biden met with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland, and Putin told Biden, I'm giving you my security demands in writing. That's, and I expect your response in writing. And Joe Biden ignored him. You can Google Secretary of State Baker meeting with Gorbachev and promising Gorbachev, NATO will, if you agree to the reunification of Eastern West Germany, I guarantee you NATO will not move any further eastward towards Russia, towards the Soviet Union. That's all fact. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:36:43): Yes. But fact, you can't handle fact. You see, because what they've done, first of all, just think about who controls the narrative. I've seen Kamala Harris, she is just thrown this thing out about, the slogan is We won't go back. Now, that's our slogan. Not one step backwards, not one. That's no retreat. Wilmer Leon (00:37:08): No retreat. Not one Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:37:10): Step back, not one step backwards. So what happens is Zuckerberg won't let anybody hear what I got to say. I go on Facebook or on social media, and there are fewer people who see me than there are members of one of our local organizations. They won't let that happen. But so Kamala takes this because it resonates, because it speaks to the reality of black people who say, we won't go back. We're not going backwards, not going to let you push us back in the back of the bus. We're not going to do any buck dancing and shuffling and this kind of stuff. Not one step backwards, right. That's our position. And so now Kamala, because it resonates with black people, Zuckerberg won't let the people hear that from us. So Kamala comes forward, we won't go back. This is a part of the process that they're trying to solve a particular problem of the Democratic party to reenergize it among African people, many of whom are even going to the Republican party and Trump and others was just discussing not going to vote at all. So that's the controlling of the narrative, how that narrative gets out. That's a critical question. And that's the question of free speech as well. And that's why it's so important again, that we are having this discussion now. Wilmer Leon (00:38:24): In fact, there's another slogan that if folks knew the true origins of it, it would have an impact on the narrative that is from the river to the sea, from the sea that is now being described, or it is being used as this racist trope by Palestinians who are using it to say they want to cleanse historic Palestine of Jews. No, actually, folks, and look it up, because it's fact. That was the Zionist slogan. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:39:04): It was Wilmer Leon (00:39:05): Back in the thirties. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:39:06): It was, they wanted it all. That's what they were saying. They wanted it all from Wilmer Leon (00:39:10): The river to the sea, Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:39:11): From the river to the sea. Wilmer Leon (00:39:13): And what they don't tell you about the slogan now is what do the Palestinians say from the river to the sea? Palestine will be free. They're talking about democracy. Yes. They're talking about one person, one vote. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:39:31): They're Wilmer Leon (00:39:32): Not talking about genocide and removing people from their homes, killing their olive trees Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:39:39): And taking come back home. They're saying, let the people come back home. Because the truth of the matter is, the way they've distorted this whole history is that in Palestine, there were Jews, there were Muslims, there were Christians all living together in Palestine. And now you have this situation where the settlers brought in by the imperialist Palestine. You can go back to Balfour Declaration in 1917, I think it was. You can go back to the agreement that was made, that SS Wilmer Leon (00:40:21): Pico agreement. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:40:21): Yeah. That created the borders that now Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, white people did that and for their own benefit, et cetera. And then they act like they're surprised because there's chaos happening in those circumstances. So they've distorted this history, and it's all right for them to put lyrics in a song called From Sea to Shining Sea, which was a decoration that all of this land of indigenous people, they wanted all of it. It's not like they brought a million people here when they came. There's just a handful. But they set out to take every square inch from sea to shining sea. And we say from sea to shining sea, the indigenous people will be free and from the river to the sea, Palestine should be free. But history is something else. You can't make it go away just because you don't like it Wilmer Leon (00:41:21): As much as they're trying and they're doing as Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:41:22): Much as they're trying. Wilmer Leon (00:41:24): And again, I have to go back to this whole idea because one of the things that I have found in reading history is that the United States, when the United States finds itself in conflict, that's when the government becomes very sensitive about what's being said and who's saying it, and when it's being said. So you can go back to World War, and you touched on this, you can go back to World War. And that's when we first started seeing anti sedition laws when the United States was involved in World War I and was very fearful about losing the war. Then the United States was very concerned about people speaking out against what the government considered to be their interest. And then after those forces were vanquished and the dust started to settle, well, then things started to relax and folks started saying, well, and then we had the same problem in World War ii, and then after the threats were vanquished, then you could just about say anything. So with the attacks on you, with the attacks on Scott Ritter with the attacks on others, is that a signal to you that the United States is scared? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:42:46): It is a signal that the rulers of this country experience a very fragile situation. It is not like they control the world the way they used to. It is not like they can tell people to shut up and people would do what they say. They couldn't get even stooges in Africa to come out and support their position on Ukraine. They can't get people who they consider backwaters in their backyard, who they've characterized as Banana Republics in the past to just do what it is that they want them to do. They can't control Nicaragua, and they've tried and they can't control Venezuela, and they're even up to this point, they can't control the Palestinian people who are resisting. And so it's a very fragile situation because it's a situation that rests upon a colonial motor production where the entire process of human beings engaged in production in the world today is on a foundation of parasitic foundation of colonialism. And so it is a very tenuous situation for them. And I'm reminded of this statement by George Orwell in the book 1984, when he says, who controls the past controls the future, and who controls the present controls the past, the past, and this is where they found themselves in a really shaky foundation of controlling the past. Wilmer Leon (00:44:11): That's why they go after Scott Ritter because he has the historic documents. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:44:16): Yes. And that's why they're attacking us, right? They don't want history to start in 2014 when they say that somehow I became a stooge of Russia. That's where they want history to start. They don't want history to start with a murder of black people that would have incentivized us to take the kind of political stance that we take. They want to say the history of our party over the last 50 or more years. And our position consistent around genocide, around reparations, around, and actually I developed, excuse me, a pamphlet tactics and strategy that included looking for allies around the world and the struggle against colonialism, but that they don't want to talk about. So from their perspective, they're trying to control the past in that courtroom. They want to control the past. They've even moved that they want to deny us the right to use the First Amendment as a defense. Do you hear what I just said? Wilmer Leon (00:45:19): Say it again. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:45:20): Yeah. They want to deny us the right to use the First Amendment as a defense in court. Wilmer Leon (00:45:29): And that centers around, I haven't studied that point, but I believe it's because they know on that point, they lose they. So what they're saying is it's not a matter of, you don't have the right to say what you've said. It's that we don't like what you're saying, Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:45:54): But that's the real deal. But the way they cloth that, the way they try to hide their hand, and I think it's so shallow, it's so weak, is they say, well, hell, Wilmer Leon (00:46:03): If I figured it out, it ain't that deep. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:46:08): Oh, that's funny. What they're saying is that we are not attacking them because they said something. We are attacking them because they said it because the Russians told 'em to say it. So they liquidate, they try to liquidate the free speech question by turning speech into an act. Do you see Wilmer Leon (00:46:27): As a foreign agent? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:46:29): Yes, yes, yes. And it's ridiculous. Wilmer Leon (00:46:34): I want to be sure I don't forget this point. To your point about erasing history, another example of that is Hamas' attack on October 7th. The 99% of the narrative is this conflict started on October 7th, ignoring the Nakba in 1947. That has absolutely nothing to do with this and the over 50 years of genocide, oppression, and war crimes. Oh, no, forget that. That had nothing to do with October 7th. That's another example of what you It is. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:47:14): It's an example. And the fact is, one thing we know is that there are people who don't know me, don't know the African people Associates party, the who, the movement. And they hear us say something and then they hear the United States government say something. Sometimes they might have some struggles in trying to understand who might be telling the truth. The fact is that the oppressed must have truth because we cannot win freedom without truth. The oppressor cannot have truth because they can't have slavery where truth is involved. And so this is the thing that you start off knowing that those people who oppress, and there's no way you can deny the historical oppression of African people unless you control the courtrooms like they do now you have guns that can wake people up at five o'clock in the morning or with flash bank grenades and things like that. (00:48:16): The fact is that there are certain things that cannot be controlled, cannot be denied in terms of the history of oppression of African people in this country. And what they would do, of course, is they would use examples like Obama and Kamala Harris because they want to contain the struggle around racism. And you say, well, racism doesn't exist anymore. Not as bad because we elected a black president, or we are getting ready to select another Negro president, Negro Indian president. But it's not about race as such except to the extent that race represents and identifies a colonial population. The fact is we suffer from colonialism. So you can have black people who represent the colonial empire, just like you've had that African people, Mobutu and all over Africa and other puppets like that, and Africa, Wilmer Leon (00:49:08): William Ruto in Kenya being bought off to help the United States invade Haiti. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:49:14): That's right. That's right. And so that's what they've been able to do. And that's why the colonial question, understanding that colonialism is so important, and not colonialism just as a policy, but as a mode of production that came into existence with the first time in human history where there was a single world economy. And that world economy was something that was initiated by Portugal's attack on Africa in something like 14, 15. And then started the dispersal of African people and others who in what is now Europe, jumped in and participated in this process. That's where you got the So-called America from, that's where you've got Brazil, that's where you've got all of these territories throughout the So-called South America as a consequence of that initial attack and the world economy that was knit together for the first time in history, that that is not just a policy of a particular government as it may have been when Portugal started, as it may have been when some other countries started. (00:50:20): But now it's the basis of the whole world economy. It is a colonial mode of production. And to the extent that we understand this and really get a hold of that, we don't have to have somebody, Russians or somebody tell us what to do. We know that when colonialism tries to exert itself or when people are fighting against colonialism, it's part of a common struggle. And so I had never met Nicaraguan in my life when the Nicaraguan revolutions heated up and we organized in San Francisco Bay area, we organized the first mass meeting solidarity with Nicaragua people because we understood that was our struggle too. And we built the whole movement in support of Nicaragua because it is one mode of production. The colonialism is the thing that n this whole process together where you have colonizers and colonized and the vast majority of the people in the world experience the negatives of colonialism through this colonial motor production. It's only a handful of people. And that's something that's not widely understood either. Only a minority of the population benefits from this economic system that they've created on the backs of African and colonized people around the world. Wilmer Leon (00:51:42): And as you talk about Nicaragua, about three weeks ago, Chiquita Brands was found guilty in a Florida court of funding death squads in Columbia, and they were held to have, now they have to pay millions and millions and millions of dollars to the survivors. I just use that as another example of the colonialism that you're talking about. And that whole story right there could take us into another hour about immigration because the question that's not being asked in this political context about border protection and immigration, they keep talking about what are we going to do with all of these people that are at our border? But they don't ask why are the people coming in the first place? And so again, because we could talk about Haiti, why are there Haitians at the border in Texas and Mexico, California, and because the United States is decimating the Haitian economy, why are these people coming from Guatemala, Honduras, all over central and South America? Because the United States has decimated their economies and the people have no other choice? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:53:13): That's true. And I think even a related truth is the fact that when people talk about immigrants, sometimes they like to call America just a nation of immigrants. The melting pot, they call it the nation of immigrants. And we say, first of all, America's not a nation. It's a prison of nations. And that black people are not immigrants. We are captives. That's how we came here as captives. Now we are the only people other than the indigenous people who did not come here looking for a better way of life, but lost a better way of life as the consequences having been brought here. When you look at all the places where Europeans have gone to running from poverty, running from disease, running from despotism, from monarchy, and a feudal system, they came here, they came to the Americas, they came all these other places. They occupy New Zealand, Australia and things like that. (00:54:08): So when you look at immigrants, when you look at immigrants, and when they say that America's a nation of immigrants, what they're talking about is them. They are the ones who are immigrants. And why the hell did they come? They were running from chara, and this is the origin of the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights because they faced tyranny in the divine right of kings. They had no rights. So they came here to this land, and then they initiated laws and things like that to protect them from tyranny. But they won the freedom to oppress because when they were doing this, African people were enslaved. The Bill of Rights, the First Amendment was ratified by the United States Congress in 1791. 1791. African people were under the whip, under being enslaved, beaten and raped and stuff legally. So it wasn't for us. And this is something I'm trying to help white people understand that what they do is they will pick someone that they have made extremely unpopular. (00:55:18): When they want to attack a basic and fundamental right, they would pick someone they think they've made extremely unpopular, and they will use them as the means to attack that, right? They can't attack my right to free speech in many ways because I never had it look at people like Emmett Till, who they butchered because they said that he whistled at a white woman. And the fact is that black people learn how to shuffle and hold their heads down and not look up and not say anything that white people would find offensive. And this has been the history. So when they come at the Bill of Rights, when they come at the First Amendment as quiet as it's kept, they're simply using us as the means by which they can attack the First Amendment, the Bill of Rights, the constitutional democratic rights of everybody in this country, including white people. And we see evidence of that. You talk about Scott Riter, you talk about all these other people who they're attacking now, not in total disregard of what the Constitution is supposed to be about. Wilmer Leon (00:56:21): Hands off uru.org, hands off uru.org. What do you want, folks? And before I ask that question, lemme say this to those of you who are watching this that are just saying, oh, these guys, these guys are tripping. These guys are drunk. Look, folks, just research we're talking about, that's all you got to do. You can either summarily dismiss us or again, look up the Maidan Coup, look up the mens courts. Look up Chiquita brands being found guilty in a Florida court for sponsoring Death squads in Columbia. Look it up. And what you'll find is we're confusing you with the facts. That's what we're doing. So chairman, yes, Ella, what do you want my audience to do as it relates to the Uhuru 3? Chairman Omali Yeshitela (00:57:19): Well, one thing I want the audience to do is to understand that we are not guilty of anything they've charged us of. They've used the facts, as I mentioned earlier, that I went to Moscow, that we ran people for office, et cetera. And they've used these facts to obscure the truth and the truth that we didn't do what they said to do. Our lawyers though, for the sake of court argument, says that even if we did it, it's protected by the Constitution. So that's one thing I think is really important. And the other thing is that we are transparent. You don't engage in some kind of conspiracy to overthrow disabuse the government in public. Everything that we talk about, it's in our newspaper. They don't have to use flash bang grenades, bust down doors and stuff like that. Get a copy of the newspaper. It only costs a dollar. (00:58:13): Go to our websites. Everything is spelled out. The books that we were printed, all of it's in the books that we've written. So people should go to Hands Off Hurro, that's HandsOffUhuru.org. HandsOffUhuru.org. We want you to read the indictment. We want you to see it. We want you to see our response to that indictment. We want you to see their response to our response, read it. And because we believe that if people know the truth and the court is aware that people are aware of the truth, et cetera, it makes, it enhances the ability of the court to go by the law, which is what we want them to do, because they are using the law to pursue a political objective, destroying our movement, destroying the struggle of African people to win freedom and to take away basic rights from other people. (00:59:06): So we want you to read the indictments and the political, the court documents that's associated with that. We want you to come to St. Peterburg Florida. Come now, come anytime and stay as long as you can because we are going to be doing this work moving toward a massive event on August 31st, and then from August 31st, which is the weekend before the trial in Tampa, right across the bridge on the September 3rd, there's a trial. And we want you to be at that trial. So come and organize on the ground, come to Summer to the summer project that we've initiated here, the Freedom Summer in St. Petersburg, Florida, where we'll be educating people, organizing, doing forums, doing door-to-Door work, doing political education the whole bit. And that's what we are looking for. And we say HandsOffUhuru.org. And we really appreciate all the support that the people have given. And you comment Wilman, thank you so very much as well. Wilmer Leon (01:00:11): It is Chairman Omali Yeshitela (01:00:12): Melody. Wilmer Leon (01:00:14): Melody Graves. As always, without her, you and I would just be sitting here talking to ourselves. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (01:00:20): I got it. Wilmer Leon (01:00:22): Chairman brother Omai Yeshitela, thank you so much for joining me today. Chairman Omali Yeshitela (01:00:27): Thank you. I really appreciate being here, and I want to thank your audience. It is just splendid to be here with you. Thank you so much. Wilmer Leon (01:00:33): And folks, as Chairman Omali Yeshitela just said, thank you all so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wimer Leon, stay tuned. There are new episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, and follow us on social media. You can find all the links below in the show description. 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On the late Dmitri Furman's account of post-Soviet Russia. Patreon Exclusive: for the Reading Club, join for $12/mo and get access to ALL Bungacast content, incl. 4 exclusive, original episodes a month We continue our discussions along this year's themes (rise and fall of nations; Russia past and present) by tackling Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System. Why has there been a revival in interest in the late Soviet and early post-Soviet period? And in the global 1990s in general? What does it really mean to be without-alternative? Why didn't democracy take hold in Russia? And why did it become an "imitation democracy" and not something else? How was Yeltsin a disaster? And what was Putin's appeal? Does 'Putinism' actually exist? Is it interesting or novel in any way? What happened after Furman's death and Russia's turn to "violent parody of the West"? Readings: Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia's Post-Soviet Political System, Dmitri Furman, Verso Imitation Democracies: The Post-Soviet Penumbra, Dmitri Furman, New Left Review (pdf) Imitation Democracy: Perry Anderson writes about Dmitri Furman's analysis of Russia's post-communism, Perry Anderson, London Review of Books Listening Links: /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed - on the end of the "Age of Imitation" /270/ Russia vs the West ft. Richard Sakwa - on the endgame to war in Ukraine; and /271/ Russia vs the West (2) ft. Richard Sakwa - on the post-Soviet landscape /410/ Reading Club: Deutscher's Stalin - On Isaac Deutscher's classic Stalin: A Political Biography /421/ Who Are the Wrong Ukrainians? ft. Volodymyr Ishchenko - on post-Soviet Ukraine, from Maidan to war   Music: Éva Csepregi, "O.K. Gorbacsov", Hungaroton , WEA, High Fashion Music, Dureco

Send us a Text Message.To learn more about Tetiana Cheprasova, please visit her page at Agency of Artists in Exile.Special thanks to Valentina Kostornichenko for acting as interpreter in this episode.Show Notes:0:00 Tetiana Cheprasova's view of the war in Ukraine & interpreter Valentina Kostornichenko1:30 Cheprasova's background and work in painting, photography, sculptures and graphic design 4:50 Giovanni Ercolani's book The Maidan Museum Preserving the Spirit of Maidan. Art, Identity and the Revolution of Dignity that features Cheprasova's paintings inspired by Caravaggio8:00 from Cheprasova's Depassement portfolio - paintings of hands, including wounded hands signifying stigmata 10:30 Mariupol woman who inspired Cheprasova20:40 ‘Stop Emotions' series of 9 paintings25:00 Cityscapes of Mariupol29:30 sculpture that's part of new work to depict destruction in Ukraine34:00 Parisian architecture35:00 consequences of war 38:00 power of art to address social injustices and the impact of war41:00 Cheprasova's view of justice 45:40 Cheprasova's work as art therapist49:20 Cheprasova's hope for viewers of her work53:00 Giovanni Ercolani's questions to Cheprasova 56:00 if only one person is impacted by your work, it's worth doing 56:50 Artists as witnesses of their timePlease share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.comTo hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.Music by Toulme.To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. Thanks so much for listening!© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]

Ukraine, from Maidan to war. [For the full episode: patreon.com/bungacast] Berlin-based Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko joins us to talk about his new book, Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War and his dissection of the war and the underlying political crisis in Ukraine. We discuss: class conflict in Ukraine as a legacy of the collapse of the USSR and the stagnation of the Brezhnev regime in the 1970s.  The role of the Ukrainian professional classes in the conflict and oversize influence of relatively small neo-Nazi and far-right movements  The meaning of ‘Soviet Ukrainians' today and whether a neo-Soviet revival is happening among youth across the post-Soviet landscape  The difference between neo-Soviet revival and Eastern bloc ‘Ostalgie' The concept of de-modernisation The vicious post-Soviet cycle of passive revolutions and corrupt oligarchic regimes Links:  Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, Volodymyr Ishchenko The crisis of Soviet Ukraine, Volodymyr Ishchenko, UnHerd The class conflict behind Russia's war, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Lefteast Russia's War on Ukraine Has Already Changed the World, interview w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko, Jacobin As Ukraine Expands Military Draft, Some Men Go Into Hiding, NYT

Julia Kochetova (b. 1993) is a Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker based in Kyiv. Her work focuses on firsthand storytelling as a method, researching topics of the war generation, post-traumatic stress disorder, and feminism. Julia studied journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University (UA) and Mohyla School of Journalism (UA), alongside participating in IDFAcademy (NL). As a freelancer, Julia has covered the Maidan revolution (2013-2014), the annexation of Crimea (2014), and the Russia-Ukraine war (2014-now). She is a regular contributor to Der Spiegel, Vice News, Zeit, Bloomberg, The Guardian, amongst others.In 2023, Julia won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing News Coverage: Long Form with VICE News Tonight and in 2024, just a few weeks ago, was the global winner of the Open Format category in the World Press Photo awards for her multi-media project War Is Personal.In episode 230, Julia discusses, among other things:Viewing the war as a long-term project.Not choosing to be a war photoghrapher.Still photographs no longer ‘working' - importance of text.How her WPP winning project was done ‘last minute'.Her love/hate relationship with Instagram.How all her plans changed in 2014 with the Maidan Revolution.Her documentary film project See You Later.What she means by ‘it's about the photographs I haven't taken'.A valuable lesson learned about behaving ethically.How war has deprived her of the capacity for joy.Referenced:Oleksandr KomiakhovDaria Kolomiec Website | Instagram “I'm really grateful that our story is being told by Ukrainian photographers, but it never was about career ambition. We Ukrainian storytellers were never in the position that we chose to become war photographers. I keep saying I'm not a war photographer. I'm photographing war because this is what's happening in my country. I have zero wish to photograph any other wars. I'm doing this because this is my war. That's the only accurate skill I have.” Become a full tier 1 member here to access exclusive additional subscriber-only content and the full archive of previous episodes for £5 per month.For the tier 2 archive-only membership, to access the full library of past episodes for £3 per month, go here.

Scott was joined by Brad Pearce to talk about Ukraine. They discuss the report in the New York Times detailing the CIA's long-time presence in Ukraine, the stupidity of those in charge of American foreign policy, the absurdity of NATO's security guarantees, the color revolutions in post-Soviet states and more. Discussed on the show: “The CIA Admits Its Long-Time Presence in Ukraine” (Libertarian Institute) “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin” (New York Times) Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War by Volodymyr Ishchenko The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections, and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union by Mark A. MacKinnon Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and the Mirage of Democracy by Jonathan Steele Brad Pearce is a writer focused on international relations and politics. He writes at The Wayward Rabbler. Follow him on Twitter @WaywardRabbler This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott's interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices