INTERVIEW: I don’t know if my son is alive or whether he has been tortured, says Gonzalo Lira Sr. Zelensky claims Ukraine’s fight is about freedom. Well he’s not showing it to the rest of the world.
INTERVIEW: All I know is that Gonzalo was detained on May 1 via George Galloway
Previously:
Father of Gonzalo Lira, American jailed in Ukraine, speaks out against “political imprisonment”
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The New York Times palms off the deep historical and present-day links of Ukrainian nationalism to Nazism and genocide as merely “thorny issues,” i.e., a public relations problem for media propagandists, who are trying to sell NATO’s proxy war as a struggle for democracy.
The New York Times and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops
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Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History (archived)
US citizen Gonzalo Lira faces a long prison term in Ukraine for criticizing the country’s government. Shunned by the US government, his father is fighting to stop the “slow death of a son.”
Father of Gonzalo Lira, American jailed in Ukraine, speaks out against “political imprisonment”
I’d argue that Biden is the status quo, as well.
“At the end of the day, these billionaires and large corporations are deeply invested in maintaining the status quo and opposing Democrats’ agenda for working people.”
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It’s Memorial Day and Americans are out barbequing, having a few beers, and spending time with their loved ones; they are celebrating to honor the fallen warriors who have died to protect our nation, our freedoms, and our way of life.
A Memorial Day Message From a Former US Marine
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) contacted The Grayzone to dispute our characterization of their organization as a CIA cutout. Listen to our highly revealing conversation with the NED’s communications director.
The Grayzone debates National Endowment for Democracy VP on group’s CIA ties
The US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), the Pentagon’s overseer for Latin America and the Caribbean, will be sending hundreds of Marines and special forces troops to Peru beginning as early as this week, to train military and Peruvian National Police special forces units. These same forces have carried out massacres and extra-judicial executions to suppress the mass protests against the coup regime of Dina Boluarte.
Pentagon sending troops to train Peruvian coup regime’s killers
I would like to thank each and every member of our nation who once again conveyed to us responsibility for governing Türkiye for next 5 years: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
All 85 million of Türkiye’s citizens won in elections: President Erdogan
When most people in the English-speaking world hear the word “propaganda”, they tend to think of something that’s done by foreign nations who have governments that are so totalitarian they won’t even let people know what’s true or think for themselves.
Most Propaganda Looks Nothing Like This
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Polish, German, French and Belgian diplomats do not confirm that Chinese Special Envoy Li Hui proposed to leave the occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Chinese delegation headed by Li Hui, during a tour of the EU, urged European leaders to demand an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, leaving Russia with the territories it seized.
Kuleba: China did not offer to give occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia
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