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Almost 90,000 British (and still more to come) wish to offer rooms to Ukrainian refugees
While their charity and compassion are very laudable but the refugee camps in Turkey, the Greek islands and Libya plus elsewhere are still full of refugees hopeful of sanctuary in Europe.
Why is the government sponsoring such a scheme only for Ukrainian victims of war and not others? I think you probably know the reason why.
Another example of humanitarian principles being applied very differently.
Asylum seekers are denied the right to work in the UK but some businesses are pressing to be permitted to employ Ukrainians to express their sympathy
The world weeps over Ukraine but very few tears for Yemen’s suffering
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/03/meanwhile-in-yemen.html
Where’s all that emergency humanitarian aid to it?
But I don’t want to make this a league table of tragedies and victimhood, merely again to point out the double standards applied.
The USA appear to be promoting the news that China will actively support Russia.
However, it is conspicuously failing to share its raw intelligence sources with other NATO countries.
A stratagem to warn off China? Or it could have unintended blow-back involving China even more?
Not in her name
Russia’s Channel One, protester Marina Ovsyannikova, recorded a video in which she called events in Ukraine a “crime”.
“I’m ashamed that I allowed myself to tell lies from the television screen. Ashamed that I allowed Russians to be turned into zombies,” Ovsyannikova, an editor at the channel, explained.
She called on the Russian people to protest against the war, saying that only they could “stop the madness”.
Ovsyannikova is now in police custody.
The hypocrisy of highlighting the censorship and jailing of journalists by Russia and treatment of Assange for his reporting is astounding.
It is due to WikiLeaks that we know of the foreign interference in Ukraine’s internal politics during the 2014 coup.
“The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
The remit of his job is to bring the worst-case scenario, whether it is famine, environment or war.
Assange has moved a step closer to a US trial on espionage charges after the UK’s highest court refused to hear his appeal against extradition.
Assange’s lawyers will have four weeks to make submissions to the home secretary before her decision.
Germany has warned that an immediate boycott of Russian gas and oil supplies could hurt its own population more than Vladimir Putin, bringing mass unemployment and poverty.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/russian-gas-oil-boycott-mass-poverty-warns-germany
So Russia’s main source of income, oil and gas, will continue to finance the war.
Cold Response military exercise – 35,000 NATO troops, 50 vessels and 200 aircraft to Norway a few hundred kilometres from the Russian border.
Routine regular exercise. No provocation, at all
Isn’t it strange that the UK cut its foreign aid budget yet all this Ukrainian assistance is now miraculously available to be delivered?
It may merely be Ukrainian propaganda but hopefully not
There have been cases of mass refusals by russian servicemen to “travel to Ukraine” to take part in hostilities, despite promises of “war veteran” status, additional daily allowances and higher salaries.
https://www.facebook.com/MinistryofDefence.UA/posts/275078331471293
The first stage towards the fulfilment of The International
“No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.”MS, if you can send me the blog details of your Spanish-language blog sites will be my pleasure to include them in our SOYMB links and WSM page.
Indeed the WSPUS should recognise Spanish being a frequently used language in the US and the website could do as the Canadian comrades have done with French and add Sopanish articles
Guatemala’s congress has increased prison sentences for women who have abortions.
Guatemalan women convicted of terminating their pregnancies can now face sentences up to 10 years that before were a maximum of three. Congress imposed even heavier penalties for doctors and others who assist women in ending pregnancies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/guatemala-abortion-punishment-bans-same-sex-marriage
“Markets are fine, but artillery saves time.”
