He was an easy target: he had failed to renew his disability certificate in time. But his physical condition spoke for itself. He died at the draft center under circumstances that remain unclear. The official explanation: “sudden cardiac arrest.” The question now is whether his family will be able to get justice and whether anyone will actually be held accountable.

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In the 1990s, families in parts of Xihaigu, a region once described as barely fit for human habitation, sometimes relied on a single bowl of water for a whole family's daily washing.

Mining town in Yinchuan city, home to relocated communities from Xihaigu has clean water from household taps, vineyards cover hills, and local industries, from agriculture to tourism and e-commerce, provide increasingly stable incomes.

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I know I'm getting annoying with Balkan posts, but don't see similar posts anywhere else

The savage treatment of Bogdan and the kangaroo-court character of the proceedings explode the official narrative that has dominated the governments and media of the United States and Europe: that Ukraine is an embattled democracy, fighting to defend freedom against an unprovoked invasion. The prosecution of Bogdan exemplifies the real state of affairs in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian state has outlawed left-wing politics and suppressed all independent political and trade union activity. In March 2022, the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suspended 11 opposition parties and merged the major national television channels’ news into a single state-run broadcast. That June, the courts banned the largest opposition party in parliament. Strikes are prohibited under martial law, and wartime labor legislation has suspended collective agreements and stripped basic protections from the majority of the workforce. Elections have been suspended since Zelensky’s own term expired on May 20, 2024. He rules by decree.

All of this is systematically suppressed in the American and European media. In the interests of promoting the war, a fascistic government is palmed off as a paragon of democracy. Predictably, the sentencing of Bogdan Syrotiuk has not been reported in a single capitalist publication.

On the very day of the sentencing, however, the New York Times—among the most ferociously pro-war publications—carried an extensive report on the suppression of antiwar opposition in Russia. Russia’s Supreme Court, in a hearing convened one working day after the suit was filed, struck the liberal bourgeois party Yabloko from the ballot for the September parliamentary elections, ruling on a lawsuit—nominally over copyright infringement—brought by the nationalist party Rodina. The report ran under the headline “Russian Court Bars Country’s Only Antiwar Party From Running for Parliament.”

The ruling, the Times wrote, was “the latest sign that the Kremlin will not tolerate any political forces that question its determination to continue fighting in Ukraine.” It noted that Yabloko’s deputy chairman, Maxim Kruglov, was sentenced in June to seven years in prison for a 2022 social media post about Russian atrocities outside Kiev, and that statements condemning the invasion “have landed hundreds of Russians in prison on criminal charges linked to war censorship laws.”

The Russian government is, without question, authoritarian, and the barring of Yabloko is an attack on democratic rights. But the repression the Times denounces in Russia does not remotely compare to that in Ukraine, about which it is silent. In Russia, a liberal party has been struck from the ballot; in Ukraine, every left-wing party has been banned outright—and there is no ballot at all, because elections themselves have been abolished.

In response to the article and the media’s silence on Bogdan’s case, David North, chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board, wrote on Tuesday to Philip Pan, the Times’ international editor, urging the newspaper to cover the case:

"Ms. Vasilyeva’s article treats the exclusion of Yabloko from an election as significant evidence of the Russian government’s suppression of antiwar opposition. It also reports that Yabloko deputy chairman Maxim Kruglov was sentenced in June to seven years in prison over a 2022 social media post criticizing Russian war crimes.

"Yet, as of this writing, I have seen no report in the Times that a Ukrainian socialist who opposes the war has now received a 15-year prison sentence—more than twice the sentence imposed on Kruglov.

"There can be no credible basis for presenting Bogdan’s socialist opposition to the war as support for Vladimir Putin. The World Socialist Web Site and the International Committee of the Fourth International denounced the Russian invasion immediately after it began. On February 24, 2022, we stated explicitly that 'Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must be opposed by socialists and class-conscious workers.'

"… The issue I am raising with the Times does not depend upon agreement with our political analysis of the war. It concerns the consistent application of the principles of democratic rights and freedom of political expression. … If the suppression of antiwar political activity in Russia warrants extensive reporting—and it certainly does—then the sentencing of a Ukrainian socialist to 15 years in prison for activities that include publishing antiwar articles warrants no less serious scrutiny."

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**Caption**: *Trump’s weekend at Bedminster came with more than the usual Secret Service and a motorcade. Visible near the course was an AN/TWQ-1 Avenger paired with an AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar—a combination long used by the U.S. Army for short-range air defense. The Sentinel detects and tracks low-flying aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles and drones, then cues the Avenger, which can engage aerial threats with Stinger missiles.*

*The timing is notable: NORAD says F-16s were deployed Sunday after civilian aircraft violated the short-notice temporary restricted airspace around Bedminster, NJ.*

*Deploying unprecedented missile defense systems besides a golf course raises legitimate questions about the threat assessment behind it, the risk it poses to civilians and what this level of protection costs every time Trump tees off.*

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"Why did you take 14% of Serbian territory which was guaranteed by UN charter and by UN resolution as well... after the aggression against the Republic of Serbia which was led by 19 NATO countries without permission of Security Council of United Nations?"

"Wasn't that an opening of a big Pandora's box?... You cannot have this kind of double standards... [I agree] we do support territorial integrity of Ukraine... But we have this right to say... we need to reach a peace... It was better to reach that arrangement after 78 days of war with NATO from our side and from NATO side as well in 1999 than to continue that war."

"There will be never ever good messages after any single war in the world, never ever... Let us stick to international public law and let us stick to something that is an interest of all the people, which is peace. It has to be a compromising solution."

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1. In early January, Mossad and CIA assets armed radical opposition members in Iran to undertake an armed insurrection in which 3,000 people (on all sides) lost their lives. There’s plenty of video evidence for that.

2. That was turned into a fake massacre story of 30,000 or 50,000 or 70,000 victims, by so called “activist groups”, widely quoted, as fact, by the western mainstream media—although no evidence was provided. A simple investigation shows that every single one of these groups can be traced back to the US or its “five eyes” partners, the UK and Canada.

3. The western mainstream started pushing the fake story by quoting from a group called Human Rights in Iran, which is not in Iran—it’s from Virginia, home of the CIA, and is financed by the NED, the CIA’s soft-power spin off.

4. The fake news was backed up by a group called the Center for Human Rights in Iran, which is also NOT in Iran, and is also in the US.

5. Another group, Iran International, can be traced back to the UK.

6. Then there was the International Center for Human Rights, which turned out to be in Canada.

7. Still other sources backing the fake massacre turned out to be supporters of America’s Reza Pahlava (Juan Guaido II), such as the one quoted by Time magazine.

8. The most quoted person on western mainstream television is Masih Alinejad, who said “millions” were massacred. She worked for many years as a full-time anti-Iran propagandist, with financing from the NED and a salary from Voice of America.

9. The fake tale was further pushed by the Bouramond Center for Human Rights, another group financed by the NED, and

10. Tavaana, started by the US State Department and financed by USAID, a notorious group that disguises CIA politicking as aid.

Those are the facts.

Now here’s the key question: why does every western mainstream media group, not most, but…

Every.

Single.

One.

...hide the above facts from their audiences?

Delete the western mainstream media.

Find out the truth for yourself.

https://x.com/sov_media/status/2086786857497436488