Tag: unworthy victims

A Tale of Two Breadline Massacres

Ms. Cat

All breadline massacres are equal, Orwell might have written, whilst adding that some breadline massacres are more equal than others. Such a thought comes to mind after February 4, 2024, when a Ukrainian armed forces projectile killed 28 residents in the city of Lysychansk, Lugansk region, and wounded several dozen. The civilian victims were standing in line in front of a local bakery, intending to buy bread.

A Tale of Two Breadline Massacres

Previously:

Death toll from Ukraine shelling of a bakery in Lysychansk rises to 28

Dehumanization, Lack of Empathy for Palestinians Is Alarming—and Dangerous’

Ms. Cat

The scale and brutality of Hamas’s grisly attack on Israel last Saturday, in which at least 1,300 Israeli men, women, and children were brutally murdered, has understandably triggered a massive outpouring of sympathy and solidarity with Israel from around the world, particularly in the United States, Europe and other western nations.

Dehumanization, Lack of Empathy for Palestinians Is Alarming—and Dangerous’ (archive)

Xi, Assad announce China-Syria strategic partnership

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Cooperation to help improve livelihood of Syrian people after turmoil

Xi, Assad announce China-Syria strategic partnership

Related:

Leaders of Syria and China announce strategic partnership as part of Asian Games diplomacy

Assad’s visit parallels in some ways that of Russian President Vladimir Putin last year for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

AP trying to draw parallels between Russia-Ukraine and China-Taiwan.

Chris Hedges “The Greatest Evil is War”

Ms. Cat

Chris Hedges returned to The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on October 21, 2022 to speak on the subject of his latest book, titled “The Greatest Evil is War” (Seven Stories Press). This unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war draws from experience and interviews for a book that looks at the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities, and nations.

Chris Hedges “The Greatest Evil is War” via MediaSanctuary

I’m surprised that he agrees with sanctions, even though they only hurt civilians?!

Related:

Chris Hedges: Writing on War and Living in a World from Hell

European Ukraine’s Lives Matter! Asian, MidEast, African, Latin Lives Didn’t!

Ms. Cat

While it would be expected for Western media to report fully on civilian life taken in the Ukraine by the military of US designated enemy Russia, and for CIA managed Western media1 to avoid reporting civilian loss of life caused by US/NATO military throughout the Third World, people in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are surely noticing an element of racism with so much media attention given White European lives lost reminding them of the complete absence of compassionate media coverage of the millions of civilian lives lost by peoples of skin of various hues during the many US led neocolonialist wars in their nations since the Second World War.

European Ukraine’s Lives Matter! Asian, MidEast, African, Latin Lives Didn’t!

US Media Held Murdered Russian Journalist to a Dangerous Standard

Ms. Cat

After the August 20 car-bomb assassination of Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultranationalist political philosopher, US media outlets quickly branded the 29-year-old as an agent in Russia’s “disinformation war.” Rather than treating her as a member of the civilian press, they seemed to downplay her death as a casualty of war.

US Media Held Murdered Russian Journalist to a Dangerous Standard

John Parker on his Fact-Finding Mission to Ukraine & Findings: US-NATO Proxy War on Donbass & Russia

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On September 17, 2022, John Parker, the founder and coordinator of the Harriet Tubman Center For Social Justice in Los Angeles and a leading member of the Socialist Unity Party and a candidate for the US Senate in California on the Peace and Freedom ticket, and also a union organizer, public school teacher, journalist, activist and coordinator of the International Action Center, joins the show to discuss his recent Fact-Finding mission to the Donbass and their findings: US-NATO Proxy War on Donbass & Russia

John Parker on his Fact-Finding Mission to Ukraine & Findings: US-NATO Proxy War on Donbass & Russia via Activist News Network

Previously:

Fact-Finding Mission to Donbass Part 3