INTERVIEW: All I know is that Gonzalo was detained on May 1

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 and the use of Nazi imagery by Ukrainian troops

This article was originally posted as a thread on Twitter.

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)

Who’s Funding ‘No Labels’? Pro-GOP Billionaires Opposed to Democracy

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.”

Who’s Funding ‘No Labels’? Pro-GOP Billionaires Opposed to Democracy

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Pentagon sending troops to train Peruvian coup regime’s killers

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

Kuleba: China did not offer to give occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia

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