Military Resistance 12C22 - Lowlife in Command

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Lowlife In Command:Civilian Advocates Who WorkWith Wounded Soldiers When

They Are Being DischargedTargeted By General:

General Tells Soldier It Was TooLate. Maybe If He Had Not GoneRunning To The Advocates, HeWould Not Be In This Situation
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What mattered to the commanding general at Fort Carson, Colo., who spoke tohim that day in November 2012 was that he had tried to fight the discharge withthe help of a pair of civilian watchdogs, Georg-Andreas Pogany and RobertAlvarez.

If you had not gotten involved with those advocates, it would have gonedifferently, Tackett remembers the commander, Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson,telling him. Anderson is now commander of Fort Bragg, N.C.

A recording obtained by Al Jazeera America suggests Tackett and soldiers like him wereretaliated against because of an increasingly rancorous relationship betweencommanders at Fort Carson and the civilian advocates.

Anderson, who, according to Tackett and as confirmed in the recording, kicked outsoldiers for going to the advocates, says the charge is simply not true.

No Soldiers were ever punished due to their association with anyone, said Anderson,

who was commander of Fort Carson until March 2013.

Cases were only dealt with based on the evidence associated with what the Soldiers didon their own, he told Al Jazeera in an email from Afghanistan, where he is deployed.

The recording, which is just over two minutes long, suggests that at Fort Carson,Anderson made decisions based on factors other than law.

Anderson, who, according to Tackett and as confirmed in the recording, kickedout soldiers for going to the advocates, says the charge is simply not true.[Typical stupid lie by typical stupid Commanding Officer. T]

No Soldiers were ever punished due to their association with anyone, said Anderson,who was commander of Fort Carson until March 2013.

Cases were only dealt with based on the evidence associated with what the Soldiers didon their own, he told Al Jazeera in an email from Afghanistan, where he is deployed.

The recording, which is just over two minutes long, suggests that at Fort Carson,Anderson made decisions based on factors other than law.

The recording begins with Sgt. Maj. Mark Cook, the top enlisted soldier in Fort CarsonsStaff Judge Advocate Office, which oversees misconduct discharges.

Cook had clashed repeatedly with the advocates in the previous year as they tried toappeal his offices efforts to kick soldiers out.

A few months before the recording was made, Cook was instrumental in gettingthe two advocates banned from Fort Carson for being disruptive to the goodorder and discipline of the post.


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In response, the advocates appealed the decision to top levels of the Army andCongress, saying the accusations were baseless and the ban was designed tokeep them from intervening in wrongful discharges.

Now Cook was searching for evidence to justify the ban.

Who in your office is providing records to Pogany and Alvarez? Cause thatsillegal, Cook says at the start of the recording, speaking to an unidentifiedwoman at Fort Carsons hospital who seems to be crying.

The full context of the conversation, and who provided it to Al Jazeera, is not known, butbased on details of the conversation and the date the file was created, it likely took placein March 2013.

Cook tells the woman he can make sure no one sees her sworn statement against theadvocates other than a few commanders, and might be able to arrange that the womansname doesnt appear on the statement at all, but he needs her to give a statement.

The sergeant major, who is currently deployed in Afghanistan, told Al Jazeera in anemail statement that the recording was part of a 20+ minute phone conversation, butdeclined to elaborate.

Essentially What They Are Admitting Is They Punished Soldiers ForAsking Us For Help

In the recording, Cook tells the woman her statement will help a lot because he has toanswer questions from Congress, the Armys inspector general and top generals, andwe never actually caught them. Well, one time, I got one other statement fromsomebody that they told them to drool. Somebody witnessed them telling a patient to

drool so that they have to keep you in the mental hospital. Thats the other statement Ihave other than yours. But this statement is, it will be almost like the nail in the coffin forthese guys.

Pogany and Alvarez denied that they had told anyone to drool, calling the idearidiculous, and said they have no need to illegally obtain Army medical recordsbecause soldiers they help have access to their own records and provide themwillingly.

And these guys are bad, right, they are not good guys? the woman asks in therecording.

Yeah, Cook replies. I can give you an example of one case when the(commanding general) met with the soldier after he discharged the soldier, andthe general, General Anderson, told the soldier, If you would have brought thisstuff to the attention of the command beforehand instead of approaching it theway you did with these advocates, you probably would have been able to stay inthe Army.

Really? the woman asks.


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Yes, and that is straight I witnessed that from General Anderson, Cook says.

At that point the recording ends.

Shithead Scumbag Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson, formerly commander at Fort Carson, Colo., is nowcommander at Fort Bragg, N.C. US Army

In his statement, Cook said he was not implying soldiers were kicked out for associating

with the advocates.

The gist of what I said in that conversation is that if Soldiers with legitimate issuesexplained their misconduct to their chain of command to seek resolution, this matterwould likely have helped their situation. Instead, they chose to use two individuals whowere outside their chain of command as their ombudsmen, which may have negativelyaffected the outcome of their case, he said in his statement.

The advocates disagree.

Its absolutely outrageous, Pogany said when he heard the recording. Essentially whatthey are admitting is they punished soldiers for asking us for help.

What happened to Tackett seems to show in practice what is expressed in therecording: how the advocates tried to intercede for a veteran being mistreated bythe system and how commanders responded.

Tackett joined the Army at 19 and was soon deployed to Afghanistan, where he wasassigned as a prison guard.


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He came home a year later having seen things that stole his ability to sleep, madehim edgy and withdrawn, and left him trying to fill a hole in his life that seemed tohave no bottom. Medical records show the Army diagnosed him with PTSD andgave him medication, but no other treatment.

He was deployed again, to Iraq, in 2007 as a drug dog handler and a third time in 2009

as a handler for a bomb-sniffing dog at a checkpoint.

I was never blown up, I was never in a firefight. I got lucky, said Tackett, 29. But thefear was always there. Especially at the checkpoints. You were always on super alert.

Tackett got married and had two kids between deployments, but he also struggled. Armymedical records show he complained of being angry and numb, and could not sleep.

Records show he reported drinking too much on a number of Army health evaluations,but he was never referred to alcohol abuse classes.

Depending on the doctor, the Army said he had depression, PTSD or a disorder

similar to PTSD but with a shorter duration, called adjustment disorder. They puthim on antidepressant, antipsychotic and sleep drugs. He started seeing a civilianpsychologist.

Still, he said, his symptoms and drinking persisted.

In February 2011, while drunk, he punched a civilian he barely knew for no reason,breaking the mans nose.

He had never been in trouble before. Not even a traffic ticket. He was arrested forassault, pleaded guilty to a felony, but served no jail time, and was told he would bekicked out of the Army with no benefits.

A few months later he opened all his Army-issued medicine bottles and downed as manypills as he could in the hope that he would never wake up.

He didnt die. He crawled into bed with his wife, and when she couldnt wake up her limp,sallow husband in the morning, she called 911.

Doctors Diagnosed Him Again With PTSD. The Army Ignored It

After his suicide attempt Tackett was put in a civilian psychiatric hospital, wheredoctors diagnosed him again with PTSD.

The Army ignored it.

For the Army, a diagnosis of PTSD would likely mean Tackett would not be kickedout for the assault because he would instead qualify for a medical discharge along and costly process.


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Records show Fort Carson downgraded Tacketts diagnosis to adjustmentdisorder, which is considered the fault of the soldier (failure to adjust), not thefault of the Army (a wound of war), so it would allow him to be kicked out.

That is where Pogany and Alvarez got involved.

An Army Trial Defense Service lawyer referred Tackett to the two advocates, andhe called them.

The pair reviewed Tacketts records, which showed years of symptoms anddiagnoses of PTSD before his diagnosis was downgraded to adjustment disorder.They took the case to the head of the behavioral health department at Fort Carson,saying that if it wasnt corrected, they would alert the Army surgeon generalsoffice.

He raised his hands and basically said, OK, you caught us, but lets not take anythingto the surgeon generals office, Pogany said.

The doctor agreed to have Tackett reassessed.

The Army psychiatrist who reassessed the soldier determined he had PTSD, but said itwas not bad enough to require a medical discharge.

The advocates appealed again and had the soldier evaluated by another militarypsychiatrist, who reviewed all his records and gave a final ruling. In a stronglyworded letter, the doctor said Tackett had been showing symptoms of PTSD since2007 and repeated attempts to downgrade the diagnosis to adjustment disorderwere misleading.

He concluded that the soldier had chronic PTSD severe enough to qualify for

medical discharge with benefits.

The General Said It Was Too Late. Maybe If He Had Not Gone Running ToThe Advocates, He Would Not Be In This Situation

Commanding generals who oversee discharges have the authority to choose betweendischarging a wounded soldier who is in trouble through a medical discharge or amisconduct discharge.

A medical discharge comes with a pension and lifetime health care. A misconductdischarge usually comes with nothing. Army regulations stress that generals should give

preference to medical discharges. But it doesnt always happen.

In September 2012, the advocates sent an email to Fort Carsons commandinggeneral, saying they were concerned that the posts legal staff, including Cook,were illegally interfering in the discharge process for soldiers by not taking intoaccount soldiers medical records.

They asked that he look into the matter.


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When the legal office at Fort Carson, overseen by Cook, sent Tacketts case toAnderson later that month, the office did not include any of the information on hisPTSD evaluation, Pogany said, adding, They were deliberately trying to derail theprocess.

They Want To Get Us, And So They Punish The Soldier.

The general, seeing the assault in the paperwork, but not the PTSD and suicide attempt,chose to discharge the soldier for misconduct.

Tackett met with the general in the fall of 2012.

It is not common for soldiers getting kicked out of the Army to meet with thecommanding general, but he hoped he could explain his PTSD and persuade Andersonto reconsider.

In a brief conversation, Tackett said, the general told him he needed to own up to hisdecisions, and his PTSD didnt force him to drink or hit someone.

Tackett said he replied that he had owned up. He was getting counseling and hadnot had a drink since, but the general said it was too late. Maybe if he had notgone running to the advocates, he would not be in this situation.

Anderson gave Tackett a general discharge, which denied him any Army pensionand meant he would spend a year trying to get VA benefits.

A few months later he was working at a car wash, afraid of losing his house.

All I did, all I went through, how the Army never helped me when I was asking for help, Ijust dont understand, Tackett said.

I gave a lot for this country. And to have it all come down to something like this. Itmakes me furious.

Pogany and Alvarez still try to help soldiers but now do it secretly.

We realized we were having a negative effect on outcomes even before we heard therecording, said Pogany.

They want to get us, and so they punish the soldier.

The two estimated that they worked openly with about 40 soldiers while Anderson wasFort Carsons commander.

I hope someone reviews all the discharges under Anderson, Pogany said. We need toknow if they were just.


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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Resistance Action:The Taliban Launched An Assault In

The Afghan Capital On Tuesday

[Graphic: flickr.com/photos]

Mar 24 2014 Khaama Press & Mar 25 2014 By Ghanizada, Khaama Press & March 25,CBS

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban launched an assault in the Afghan capital onTuesday, with two bombers detonating their explosives outside an election officeon the citys outskirts and other attackers storming inside the premises.

Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said all attackers were killed and 37 election

workers rescued from the compound, but only after the militants left two police officersdead, reported CBS News Mukhtar Ahmad.

Fierce gunfire reverberated across the neighborhood in the early afternoon, as heavilyarmed troops from the Afghan rapid response force surrounded the office building,located near the home of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. He was nothome at the time of the attack, officials said.

One attacker detonated his car and the other set off his explosives vest, paving way forat least four other attackers to storm inside the building, said Hashimi.

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At least five people including four policemen were killed and 16 other were injuredfollowing militants attack on a private bank in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan onTuesday.

According to local government officials, the incident took place around 11:15 pm localtime after a group of 4 militants attacked the New Kabul Bank branch in this province


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This comes as provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Habib Syed Khel earlier said themilitants opened fire after entering the bank compound, leaving least 2 policemen deadand three others injured during the clashes with the assailant militants

He said all four militants who had stormed the bank were also killed during the clasheswhich lasted for several minutes.

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According to reports, an attack has take place in western Farah province of Afghanistanon Monday afternoon. The attack has reportedly taken place in Posht-e-Rod district ofFarah province.

Unconfirmed reports suggest an Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander was the targetof the attack and at least two ALP officers have been injured.

The source further added that a bomber detonated his explosives close to a securitycheck post belonging to ALP forces in Posht-e-Rod district around 1:30 pm local time.

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According to local authorities in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, unknowngunmen shot dead a female police officer on Tuesday morning in this province.

The incident took place in Greshk district of Helmand province early Tuesday morning,provincial police spokesman Abdul Ahad Chopan said.

He said the 40-year-old female police officer Qandi was leaving her house for dutywhen the incident took place.

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS


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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the ability, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom theyoppose.

Frederick Douglass, 1852

Rise like Lions after slumberIn unvanquishable number,Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many they are few-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819, on the occasion of a mass murder of British

workers by the Imperial government at Peterloo.

Its Silly For People In The WesternEuropean Left To Go Round Vaguely

Shouting That Fascists Are InGovernment In KyivEvery Ultra-Right-Wing Nationalist And

Pure Fascist In Russia Is Peeing HisPants With Excitement About The

Military Operation In Crimea

Mar 24, 2014 by Louis Proyect, Marxism List [Excerpts]

On some points of fact about western and central Ukraine.

1. The Communist Party of Ukraine supported Yanukovich; his last government, headedby Mykola Azarov, was kept in office by the CPUs votes in parliament. Most CPUparliamentarians supported all the violent assaults on protesters between November andFebruary.


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The CPU voted in favour of the 16 January laws designed to clamp down andsilence protest, earning the deep hatred of anyone on Maidan who didnt hatethem already.

Since the fall of Yanukovich, the CPU has not been banned (not according to the latestIve seen, i.e. a statement made on 15 March by their gen sec on the Russian CP web

site in English and easy to find). The fascists have taken advantage of the generalloathing for the CPU to attack their offices (inherited from the CPSU) and some of theirofficials.

2. The ultra nationalists (Svoboda) are in the government which I think is properlydescribed as neo-liberal.

(Its headed by a neo liberal economist who wants to work with the IMF to impose anausterity programme.)

Svoboda are a horrible bunch of anti-semites but they are no more or less fascist thanother extreme right-wing populist electoral parties in other European countries.

3. The real fascists of the Right Sector are not in government. Their leader DmytroYarosh was offered a position in the government but refused to take it up.

What worries the left in Kyiv is that these fascists outside of government will, building onsome collaboration with police in the aftermath of the collapse of Yanukovichsgovernment, intensify their campaign of violence against left wing activists and meetingsthat began long before Maidan and was stepped up during it.

Its silly for people in the western European left to go round vaguely shouting thatfascists are in government in Kyiv. Its not only not a very accurate use of theterm "fascist", but its also identical to Putins justification for his aggressive

militarist action.

And heres a point of fact about Putin.

He may not have neo-fascist allies, but every ultra-right-wing nationalist and purefascist in Russia is peeing his pants with excitement about the military operationin Crimea.

Just Google what Ramzan Kadyrov, the murderous thug who rules Chechnya onPutins behalf, has to say about Crimea.

He loves it.

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CLASS WAR REPORTS

Hundreds Of Thousands Of

Spaniards March In MadridAgainst The Government:Bread, Jobs And Housing ForEveryone, Read One Banner

Corruption And Robbery, SpainsTrademark, Said Another

Dozens Of Cases Of Corruption In TheRuling Class Are Investigated By

Judges Provoking Widespread Anger


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Anti-austerity demonstrators take part in a demonstration which organisers have labeled

the Marches of Dignity in Madrid, March 22, 2014. REUTERS/Paul Hanna

March 23rd, 2014 By Inmaculada Sanz, Reuters

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards rallied in Madrid on Saturday against poverty andEU-imposed austerity in a largely peaceful protest later marred by violent clashes inwhich police fired rubber bullets.

Some protesters started to throw stones and bottles at the large numbers of riot policepresent and attacked cashpoints and hoardings. The police fired rubber bullets todisperse them, according to video footage seen by Reuters.

Central government representative Cristina Cifuentes said 19 protesters had beenarrested and 50 police officers had been injured, one of them very badly, in the clashes.

The Dignity Marches brought hundreds of thousands to the capital, according toestimates of Reuters witnesses.

Travelling from all over Spain, they were protesting in support of more than 160different causes, including jobs, housing, health, education and an end to poverty.

Banners urged the conservative government not to pay its international debts and totackle Spains chronically high unemployment of 26 percent.

Bread, jobs and housing for everyone, read one banner, Corruption and robbery,Spains trademark, said another.

The OECD says the economic crisis has hit Spains poor harder than in any othercountry in the group.


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We Demand From Politics TheTransformation Of Our Economy

To Make It An Economy At TheService Of Humanity

Bread, A Roof, Rights And DignityFor All Workers

To Defend All That Is And Should Be Ours,Struggle Is The Only Way!

MANIFESTO:SPAIN MARCHES FOR DIGNITY 22-M

No To Pay The Debt!No More Cuts!

Out Governments Troika!Bread, Work And Shelter For All!

[March 23rd, 2014 Inmaculada Sanz, Reuters]

Were starting 2014 with no improvement for the workers, sunk in anunprecedented capitalist crisis and without any measures on the part of thisillegitimate government other than misery, precariousness and repression, rulerswho act as real representatives of big banks, employers and big business, ofcapitalism, under the order of the Troika (the European Commission, the CentralEuropean Bank and the International Monetary Fund)..

Were living in a situation in which every minute were being pushed to brink, a situationagainst which we must all start to give a real, collective, mass answer, by fighting fromthe grassroots, from our different territories but with one voice.

Because with every day that goes by the situation is getting more agonizing, moredifficult.

In the Spanish State there are hundreds of thousands of us who have lost our homes orwho dont receive benefits for dependents.

There are more than 6 million of us without paid work and unemployed.


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Weve got tens of thousands of working people without any unemployment benefits atall.

There are more than a million of us who are living below the poverty line and all thatsgoing down while the Popular Party continues with its cuts, destroying and robbing thehealth system, education, culture, pensions, closing down local television stations that

are essential to the survival of minority languages and other public services.

And they go on privatizing anything thats profitable and giving tax benefits to therich (bankers, big business, the Church, etc.)

There are more than 500,000 of us, young and not so young people, that have beenforced to emigrate in order to try to eke out our living in one way or another.

And despite this, they go on shutting down small and medium businesses with impunity,destroying most the real productive fabric, both industrial and agricultural, which couldgive work to the majority of the population.

In this context women have long had fewer rights: the right to live without male violenceor to decide over our own bodies the right to family planning.

In our country if you were born somewhere else in the world, if your skins a differentcolor or you have another religion, they take away your fundamental rights (healthcare,education et.) and can even shut you up in an Internment Center, even though youvecommitted no crime.

Simply for speaking our own minority language, simply for wanting to live inaccordance with the culture of our land, we can be fined or even thrown intoprison like during Francos fascist dictatorship, but now they call it democracy.

Fines and criminal penalties, imposed just for exercising the right of freedom ofspeech or the right to disobey unjust laws, are heavy, but the corrupt lite nevergo to prison and never have to pay for the damage they cause.

While the Government continues to hand out cash to big building firms, to theenergy companies, to bankers and to corrupt businessmen etc., theyre leaving uswith no work, no house, no health care, no pensions, no university grants, noschools, no education, no future: in a word no life.

Theyre raising taxes, the price of energy and basic products for the poorest ofuse, while theyre reducing to a bare minimum employers social securitycontributions, to create work, they cynically say, and they turn a blind eye to

massive fraud, corruption and capital flight.

And without money were left with no house, no job and no wherewithal tosurvive.

Both the so-called Popular Party (PP) and the so-called Spanish Socialist Workers Party(PSOE) are the culprits.


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To reduce us to this situation they made the constitutional reform in 2011, a Treaty withthe European Union and an Organic Law to guarantee payment of the debt and, if needbe, to suppress any public institution (like the Statute of Autonomy of the ValencianCountry), if it doesnt reduce its debt (and so its provision of public services) wheneverand however they want.

We fought with great sacrifice to gain our social rights and were just not prepared tolose them.

We demand from politics the transformation of our economy to make it an economy atthe service of humanity and to guarantee that these rights can be universally exercised.

Thats why we demand:

The abrogation of all the counter-reforms that have been forced down our throats(labor laws, laws affecting pensions, education the right to safe legal abortion, the15/97 act which commoditizes health care, the law of civil repression etc).

A realistic plan against unemployment and a law establishing a basic income.

Stoppage of all evictions, the guarantee of the fundamental right to housing andto the basic utilities of water and energy.

Universal, free and high-quality public services.

Realistic and effective policies to ensure equal opportunities, regardless of apersons origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, diversities or age.

A guarantee of the reimbursement of the loans made to banks and theirnationalization along with the nationalization of all strategic companies and

sectors.

A fiscal policy whereby those that have more, pay more and public socialexpenditure is guaranteed above everything else.

A guarantee of the right to decide, in all spheres, as persons, workers, peoples.Because we demand real democracy.

In order to advance in the construction of unity and peoples power we must advancein the Marches for Dignity so we can arrive in Madrid on March 22 from all cardinalpoints of the Spanish State!

We want to live and work with dignity in our land with our people!

To defend all that is and should be ours, struggle is the only way!

Bread, a roof, rights and dignity for all workers.


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Information Concerning TheRebellion In Bosnia And

Herzegovina For Our Foreign

ComradesThe Rebellion Is An Anti-

Nationalist And Social Rebellion


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Plenums Have Been Organized InDozens Of Cities And Towns, Big And

Small, All Over Bosnia AndHerzegovinaThe EU Has Condemned The Protesters

And Not The Government

The protests have spread not just to ethnically mixed cities like Tuzla or Mostarbut also to predominantly Croat towns like Livno and Orasje, and predominantlySerb towns like Prijedor and Bijeljina.

February 12, 2014 by irina ceric, Red Action, Croatia via Bhprotestfiles.wordpress.com/

Information concerning the current rebellion in Bosnia and Herzegovina for our foreigncomrades

The protest started on 4th of February in the industrial city of Tuzla. Workers of severalprivatized companies based in Tuzla organized a protest (without the help or support oftrade-unions) demanding the cancellation of privatizations and against closing-down ofthe factories.

They were joined by large number of people from the city and the region, especiallystudents and unemployed youth.

In the next few days, solidarity protests were organized in several other cities in Bosniaand Herzegovina.

This was not the first mobilization in Bosnia of this kind, but a continuation ofearlier protests against poverty and corruption that are frequent in the last fewyears not just in Bosnia, but in many countries in the region (Bulgaria, Romania,Croatia, Slovenia etc.).

Bosnia has the lowest average wage of all these countries and has significantly largerrates of youth unemployment than Greece, Spain or Croatia.

The protests that started last week were much more numerous than previous protests.

Also, the protesters very successfully defended themselves against police repression.On 7th and 8th of February, the protesters managed to occupy and partly burn severallocal and state government buildings in Tuzla, Zenica, Bihac, Mostar and Sarajevo,including the building of Presidency in Sarajevo.


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They have also forced several regional governments to officially resign. (Due to thecomplicated ethnicity-based political system, regional governments have bigger powersthan the state government).

On Sunday, 11th of February, coordinated by the EU, governments of Croatia andSerbia interfered.

On the same day, government of Serbia met with ethnically Serb politicians from Bosniaand Herzegovina and Croatian prime-minister visited ethnically Croat politicians in thecity of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Since then, Croatian media and politicians have started an aggressive campaignclaiming that the protest are not social protest at all but are oriented against theCroats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Serbian media and politicians have started a similar campaign claiming that theprotests are the beginning of a Muslim war against Serbs.

However, the protests have spread not just to ethnically mixed cities like Tuzla orMostar but also to predominantly Croat towns like Livno and Orasje, andpredominantly Serb towns like Prijedor and Bijeljina.

Also, Turkish foreign minister Mehmet Davatoglu has visited Sarajevo, met withpoliticians and the Islamic Community and promised that Turkey will prevent a war likeone in the nineties.

Unlike in Ukraine, the EU has condemned the protesters and not the Government.

The highest level of power in Bosnia and Herzegovina in not the state of regionalgovernment, but the Office of High Representative, a kind of colonial governor

appointed by the EU with support from the United States.

Current High Representative, an Austrian called Valentin Inzko, has promisedthat the EU will intervene militarily if the protests continue. Several other EU andUS official have called for a faster NATO integration in Bosnia to ensurestability.

During the past weekend, the protesters in several cities such as Tuzla, Sarajevo andMostar have organized plenums, peoples assemblies that aim to substitute the fallingpolitical structures on regional level.

The plenums have since been organized in dozens of cities and towns, big and

small, all over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The demands of plenums are similar: resignation of governments, cancellation ofprivatizations, release of the arrested protesters etc.

Contrary to propaganda in the western media, no plenum has demanded anyinvolvement by the international community.


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Hundreds of people in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been beaten and arrested bypolice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, many of them preventively and many for supportingprotests on the internet.

Solidarity protests are being organized in Croatia and Serbia this week.

The peoples rebellion in Bosnia and Herzegovina which is an anti-nationalist andsocial rebellion is being attacked by the reactionary alliance of the imperialistforces (EU, US), regional expansionists (Turkey, Croatia, Serbia) and localchauvinist political elites.

The joint attempt of these forces to try to separate workers and peoples of Bosniaand Herzegovina along ethnic and sectarian lines to secure their own influence,proves once again that imperialism can not solve the national question in theBalkans.

It in fact produces these divisions and tries to use them as a last line of defense of thesystem against the peoples rebellions.

For this reason, it is of great importance to support the current struggle in Bosnia andHerzegovina, to combat misinformation and reactionary propaganda and to fight againstforeign involvement of powers trying to suffocate the rebellion.

Spread the word, build new barricades, strengthen the struggle!

MORE:

Interview: Duko Vukoti,

President Of The Association OfRepublika Srpska Veterans

Power Can No Longer BeMaintained On Lies!

The Division Between The Rich And

The Poor Is Obvious, And We CanOnly Now Speak Here About TheDictatorship Of The Minority Over

The Majority!


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ANNOUNCER: Youre asking for the resignation of (the President of the VORS) ifIm not mistaken

VUKOTI: thats right! Because of what he did and what the representatives ofdifferent veterans organizations have done is irresponsible towards their own people,and if you want towards ones own entity.

They are the ones forwarding the thesis that the RS is threatened by events in theFederation.

But in principle, they are the ones with their stance who are creating an incrediblecrisis that is bringing the RS in danger.

What could be more dangerous than the division of the people?

The division between the rich and the poor is obvious, and we can only now speakhere about the dictatorship of the minority over the majority!

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DANGER: CAPITALISTS AT WORK

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Wall St. Pleased As VenezuelanGovernment Announces New
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Foreign Currency ExchangePolicy:

Will Sell Dollars At Eight TimesOfficial Price;

Wall Street Economists AndBondholders Have Welcomed The

New SystemThis Is A Massive Devaluation, Theres

No Doubt About It"

Though overseen by the central bank, the new system works on a supply-and-demand system, with individuals and companies allowed to participate in dailytrading.

"Without doubt, its the biggest monetary adjustment in Venezuelas history," saidHenkel Garcia, of private think tank Econometrica, referring to the unexpectedlyhigh price for dollars fetched on the first day of Sicad 2 trading.

Mar 24, 2014 By Andrew Cawthorne and Deisy Buitrago, Reuters

Venezuela launched a new free-floating foreign exchange system on Monday thatoffered dollars for eight times the official price in a move the government says willtame the black market but which critics see as a massive devaluation.

The central bank said the price for dollars on the inaugural day of the Sicad 2 systemwas 51.8 bolivars. Private bank operators who took part said demand was high butoffers thin.

The new platform added a third state-sanctioned exchange rate to the South AmericanOPEC members 11-year-old currency controls, with dollars selling at 6.3 bolivars forpreferential goods and around 11 bolivars for other items.

On the black market, greenbacks currently fetch around 57-58 bolivars. That price hasfallen from 85 bolivars a couple of weeks ago on expectations of greater dollar flows viaSicad 2.

Though overseen by the central bank, the new system works on a supply-and-demand system, with individuals and companies allowed to participate in dailytrading.


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"Without doubt, its the biggest monetary adjustment in Venezuelas history," saidHenkel Garcia, of private think tank Econometrica, referring to the unexpectedlyhigh price for dollars fetched on the first day of Sicad 2 trading.

President Nicolas Maduro denies that, saying the new market will account for only about

7-8 percent of dollar sales in Venezuela, with the 6.3 rate still applying for 80 percent ofgoods considered priority imports.

"To see the impact of this devaluation, we will have to see its weight in imports and thepayment of things such as private debt and repatriation of profits," Garcia added.

Foreign companies have long complained of difficulties in getting profits out ofVenezuela in hard currency.

Sicad 2 gives them a clear legal alternative, reducing the temptation to turn to theillegal market.

Wall Street economists and bondholders have welcomed the new system as amuch-needed easing of controls, though they want Maduro to go further acrossthe economy.

Most Venezuelan bond prices were up on Monday, with the benchmark sovereign global2027 gaining 2.22 percent to a bid price of 76.750.

Sicad 2 trading takes place daily until 1 p.m. local time (1730 GMT), with the bankannouncing the average price afterward.

The new system revives a previous one, known locally as the "permuta" or "swap"market, which Chavez shuttered in 2010 after accusing speculators of manipulating it.

Opposition politicians have long criticized the governments currency controls. Still, theyare lambasting Maduro for what they call a "stealth devaluation" via the new system.

"Today will be black Monday ... This mega-devaluation is a harsh blow to allVenezuelans," opposition leader Henrique Capriles said on Twitter.

Venezuelas annual inflation rate, currently at more than 56 percent, is the highestin the Americas.

Analysts expect the price of Sicad 2 dollars to remain around the opening level in theshort term, with the high rate likely to encourage initially reluctant private businesses to

offer dollars alongside Venezuelan state institutions.

State oil company PDVSA is likely to be a big player.

"I think its positive they are allowing the market to sell, to clear that price rather thantrying to massage it as much as they can in order to avoid the price signal that theeconomy is demanding," said Goldman Sachs analyst Alberto Ramos.

"I think it is a reasonable range, between 50 and 60...


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It is indeed a stealth devaluation as many of the transactions in the economy aregoing to close at this rate, not the official rate.

This is a massive devaluation, theres no doubt about it."

And Now For Something CompletelyDifferent:

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SOUND UP; FULL SCREEN

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DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK
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