Peace in Ukraine: Victory Over the New Fascism

Voices of Solidarity Against War and Authoritarianism

De: J D Everhard, Bill Weinberg, John Reimann, Michael Karadjis, Taras Bilous

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Uncover the stark realities tearing apart the antiwar movement worldwide: dark money from nefarious regimes run by nefarious dictators has corrupted the peace coalition that was once united in opposition to the Second Iraq War. As Alexander Reid Ross and others have uncovered, pundits and media outlets such as Russia Today have had a disproportionate level of influence on left-wing public opinion. That once-controversial claim has now become mainstream: Nancy Pelosi and Marco Rubio have called for investigations which, however, raise the issue to an inappropriate level and threaten free speech everywhere.

This issue raised its ugly head when the left split over the Syria question, following some divergence during the Bosnian conflict. This book unravels much of what is behind this issue, Virtually every mainstream human rights organization including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN Human Rights Commission has cast a jaundiced eye on regimes such as that of Bashar al-Assad.

Surprisingly, a coterie of left-of-center commentators dismissed serious charges against the Syrian regime as "colonialist propaganda." A conference in Tehran brought together Holocaust deniers, antisemites, and prominent leftist commentators, and subsequently, many overtly fascist-leaning circuit riders have been popping up at rallies against funding Ukraine's resistance to the Russian occupation and, more recently, infiltrating the pro-Palestine rallies.

On the other hand, politicians such as Rubio and Pelosi have unduly hyped the relationship between Chinese-American sponsors and peace movement activists, threatening to bring a new McCarthyism to bear upon US citizens. The allegation that opposition to elements of the Israel war on Gaza is "what Putin wants" is an absurdity that distorts the obvious fact that Russian foreign policy has been largely critical of Israel over the years. (It is also true that there are certain operational "understandings" between Russia and Israel, and that may have something to do with Israel's reluctance to arm Ukraine.)

The antiwar movement finds itself now impaled on the horns of a dilemma: how to resist the McCarthyism threatened by Rubio and Pelosi, while at the same time exposing the common cause some left antiwar activists have made with Russia, China, Iran, and Syria.

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Continuing the U.R.S.A. series with the focus on debunking the myths that are advanced to shift blame for Russian imperialism onto NATO, America, Europe, and everyone but the actual aggressors. These five activist-writers examine the the ideology of Eurasianism, which seeks to center Moscow as "the New Rome" by demonizing the West and curtailing the human freedoms associated with the Enlightenment.

Taras Bilous is a Ukrainian historian and an activist of the Social Movement organization. whose February 2022 "Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv" was an early warning that an " anti-imperialism of idiots’ meant people turned a blind eye to Russia’s actions."

J.D.Everhard is the General Editor of this series originally entitled Ukraine Resistance Support Archive and was a Plaintiff-Interpleader in Gore vs. Harris, which challenged the electoral manipulations that put George W. Bush in the White House.

Michael Karadjis teaches social sciences and international development at Western Sydney University in Australia. He is the author of “Bosnia, Kosova and the West” (2000).

John Reimann is editor of Oakland Socialist and a co-chair of the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign and formerly ran for mayor of Oakland, California.

Bill Weinberg is an award-winning journalist specializing in human rights and conflict zones worldwide, which he comments on via his Countervortex Channel.