Russian athletes banned and expelled from competition

Developments of Concern Related to U.S./NATO War Hysteria

Russian athletes are being targeted by various sports federations, including the paralympics, soccer, tennis, car racing, figure skating, curling and other sports who are banning them from competitions. The bans were instigated in large part when the International Olympic Committee (IOC), dominated by the U.S. and NATO countries, took an unprecedented step and demanded that global federations and event organizers put in place a global ban on athletes from Russia and Belarus from all sporting events.

Persecution of Russian artists is unacceptable

Developments of concern related to U.S./NATO war hysteria | Pierre Chénier

A matter of great concern is the persecution of Russian artists as a result of the U.S./NATO war hysteria which has become official ideology within the NATO member countries including Canada. The definition of persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. In this regard, there is currently a concerted offensive by cultural institutions in NATO member countries to fire or boycott prominent Russian artists. In some cases it is because they refuse to take a political position of their liking on events in Ukraine or simply because hysteria has been fomented against anything Russian.

Oppose attacks on Canadians of Russian origin and their institutions

Developments of concern related to U.S./NATO war hysteria

– Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) –

All Saints Russian Orthodox Church vandalized

Shortly after services ended on February 27, red paint was poured on the front doors of the All Saints Russian Orthodox Church in Calgary. Security cameras showed that a man first tried to enter the building, and on finding the door locked poured paint on the doors.

Owners of a Calgary Russian food store and the Russian Spoon in Vancouver have spoken out about the threats they are receiving, and how this is impacting the mental health of the workers. News media report that these are far from isolated cases. Social media threats against Canadians of Russian origin are also being reported.

New security arrangements: Measures strengthen US profiling of Canadians

By PAULINE EASTON and ENVER VILLAMIZAR

Since the New Year, a number of news reports have raised the problem of Canadian children, some just toddlers, being on no-fly lists without any explanation as to why this is the case.[1] The federal government has responded by reiterating instructions that airlines are not to subject passengers under 18 whose names appear on a no-fly list to additional security screening.

US: Terror network or lone wolf?

Disparate US legal treatment of Muslims and the Radical Right. Political interests define terrorism and atrocities in conjunction to whom it is perpetrated by and against, and then use this to divide the people on a religious basis; Muslims in particular are singled out, hiding that many countries where the majority of the citizens are Muslims have been destroyed by the U.S. and its NATO allies. “In the nearly 14 years since 9/11, more people have died in the U.S. from politically-motivated violence perpetrated by right-wing militants than by Muslim militants.” The latter are virtually ignored. NAOMI BRAINE* on June 19, 2015

This article appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of The Public Eye magazine.

In April 2014, an armed encampment formed at the Nevada cattle ranch of Cliven Bundy as news spread through militia networks about the confrontation between the 67-year-old rancher and the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM began to impound Bundy’s cows after he’d failed to pay grazing fees for approximately 20 years, claiming the federal government had no right to regulate the public land where he brought his livestock. Confronted with this armed encampment, the federal officials backed down, ultimately returning Bundy’s cows. He was not arrested for the confrontation,¹ and as of December, he bragged to reporters, he was continuing to graze his cattle, for free, on federal land.² Most media accounts treated Bundy as just a cantankerous oddball or, as an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times put it, “a scofflaw with screwy ideas about the Constitution.”³ 

US: Reality blows up media-police falsification of the murder of yet another African-American

A total of 111 people were killed by police in the United States in the month of March, 2015, almost four a day. (Since 1900, in the United Kingdom, with the exception of Northern Ireland, 52 people have been killed by police.) At least 1148 people were killed by police in 2014, of whom 304 (26 per cent) were Black and over 100 unarmed. Now one of them has been caught red-handed in South Carolina. A bystander filmed the unprovoked murder.

US: Miami police use black mug shots for target practice

Daily Mail, UK – Members of the North Miami Beach Police have been caught using photos of actual black teenagers for target practice.

This was discovered during an incident last month when Sgt. Valerie Deant, a clarinet player in the Florida Army National Guard’s 13th Army Band, showed up at the Medley Firearms Training Center after members of the department had been practicing, and recognized one of their targets – a mugshot of her brother from when he was just 18-years-old.

The other targets were also black men, and some just teenagers. But now the department is defending the practice.

North Miami Beach Police Chief J. Scott Dennis says there is nothing wrong with this practice at all however, and even defends its use.

‘Our policies were not violated,’ Dennis said.

‘There is no discipline forthcoming from the individuals who were involved with this.’

Dennis said it is common practice to use actual mugshots, and members of the same ethnic group help with facial recognition exercises.

US: Due process, grand jury process and Ferguson

By MARJORIE COHEN*

You know the fix is in when a suspect who shot an unarmed man voluntarily provides four hours of un-cross examined testimony to a grand jury without taking the Fifth.

On August 9, Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson gunned down 18-year-old African American Michael Brown. Since that fateful day, people across the country have protested against racial profiling, excessive police force, and the failure of the criminal justice system to provide accountability.

The nail in the coffin of “equal justice under law” came on November 24, when the St. Louis County grand jury refused to indict Wilson for any criminal charges in the shooting death of Brown. In a virtually unprecedented move, St. Louis Prosecutor Robert McCulloch in effect deputized the grand jurors to sit as triers of fact as in a jury trial.