EvaKareneBartlettJournalism

March 31 (2019), I spent over an hour with a Venezuelan journalist, Ricardo González, talking with people who had come to Waraira Repano mountainside to collect clean spring water. In spite of the media hype that Venezuela is in a state of crisis, you can see people calmly waiting for their opportunity to fill up water jugs, kids wading in the water, people joking, also people frustrated as to be expected under such exhausting circumstances. You can also hear a variety of opinions here. It's interesting that those who spoke in a pro-government stance seem to be politically aware of US machinations against Venezuela, which is something I've encountered among many of the poorest I've been meeting in my last few weeks here, moving around Caracas' poorest areas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

March 31 (2019), I spent over an hour with a Venezuelan journalist, Ricardo González, talking with people who had come to Waraira Repano mountainside to collect clean spring water. In spite of the media hype that Venezuela is in a state of crisis, you can see people calmly waiting for their opportunity to fill up water jugs, kids wading in the water, people joking, also people frustrated as to be expected under such exhausting circumstances. You can also hear a variety of opinions here. It's interesting that those who spoke in a pro-government stance seem to be politically aware of US machinations against Venezuela, which is something I've encountered among many of the poorest I've been meeting in my last few weeks here, moving around Caracas' poorest areas. March 2019, Caracas. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

The San Agustín – Parque Central line was one of the first cable cars in Caracas, built at time of Hugo Chavez (2010), purely for transportation for the people who live in the barrios. It serves four stations between hilltop barrios. Before the cable car, people living in these barrios took 3 or 4 buses, taking as many hours, to go down into the city, or walked down—impossible for disabled, elderly, pregnant women—or would simply just not come down at all for extended periods. Integrated into the metro system, this is an effectively free system of transportation (I went on the metro a number of times and never saw anyone buying tickets, nor ticket vendors). Paul Dobson (Venezuelanalysis): “For a lot of people it's free; for those who pay, it's a tiny price—much less than a cup of coffee.”

(2019) In March, one of the leaders of a youth collective in Caracas explained the importance of the space to the community.

In 2006, the "Bolivar 1" urban agriculture plot was inaugurated by former president Hugo Chavez who, according to the Ministry of Urban Agriculture, had spent time in New York and was impressed by the urban agriculture he'd seen there and prospects for improving food security. The Ministry of Urban Agriculture was created three years ago, in 2016. Their goal is to provide 50% of the food needs ultimately, 25% by the end of this year. Given the dire effects of the US (and Canada) economic war and sanctions against Venezuela, this initiative is needed. One of the youths on the plot, from a nearby housing mission, explained: "We're about 20 young people working here, from the Robert Serra mission. We give them technical training, but also political training, so they understand why we're doing this. The political side of things is also part of what's going on here. The idea here is creating some independence, so we don't have to depend on importing food any more, especially in the war context we're now in.” Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

On March 11, I took a walk around Plaza Bolivar, Caracas, with Paul Dobson of Venezuelanalysis.com. He explained that some of the buildings in this beautiful square had been abandoned, that the government restored them, turning them into theatres, with a very cheap entrance fee, providing cultural activities. I asked about a sign I saw about Wifi, he said normally it was working but due to the power outage not that day. Life was as I remembered it from 2010, perhaps fewer people since the metro wasn't running, but otherwise much the same. I returned another evening with a friend and the plaza was even busier, kids playing, adults talking. That friend said every time he'd been there random people would come up to him and without introduction start in with their political views. On March 11, as we walked from the square, we came across a group of people chanting 'long live Maduro' to a tv journalist from Catia tv, a poor urban sector of Caracas. Excerpts of what they were saying to the camera: Woman: “We didn't vote for you, Guaido. We're not a North American colony. We're not Colombia. Respect Venezuela. The US wants to steal our resources. Trump, stop fucking us over.” Man: “Our president, Nicolas Maduro, the constitutional president of Venezuela, should be hard against Guaido. He should be arrested for violating the constitution. We in Venezuela will solve our own problems.” Other woman, passionately saying President Maduro needs to be tougher, Guaido and the US backers are ruining the country. Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

March 2019, when most Western corporate owned media were insisting most stores in Caracas were empty-shelved. At the time, I walked around Caracas noting how most of the shops actually had full shelves. But for skeptics, that wasn't good enough. So, I went with a friend on his motorcycle to Petare, which is generally dubbed the "largest slum in Latin America", in other words a very poor area, where if there were empty shelves you'd think it would be there. We first went to a central hub, filled with food shops, and then up into the hills where in smaller barrios we still kept seeing tables of produce for sale, signs for chicken, cheese, and stalls with full shelves. This is not to say there is not poverty (thank you Western sanctions and economic war on Venezuela), but to highlight that what the media were screaming was patently false. They were painting scenes of chaos that didn't exist. Recall that this was around the time the West was pushing the lie that Guaido was "interim president", which he was/is not. For more on Venezuela, I can't recommend enough Dan Kovalik​'s excellent book, The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil [https://www.amazon.com/dp/151075072X], which gives the needed historical context to the current situation in Venezuela (the US-led economic war and quite overt interference in that country's internal affairs) and surrounding countries where dictatorships and violations of human rights about, but the West and the bought-and-sold media keep hush about it (as with Saudi, israel) because those countries are allies... US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and 'needed' intervention https://www.rt.com/op-ed/455081-manufactured-crisis-venezuela-us-intervention/ Venezuela isn't Syria… but America’s war tactics are the same https://www.rt.com/op-ed/459333-syria-venezuela-same-tactics-america/ Yesterday in Petare, largest barrio in Latin America (& one of poorest in Caracas), I saw not-starving ppl purchasing similar vegs, plus meats, walking like normal ppl, not like a "crisis". Media is lying about a humanitarian crisis. Same media that doesn't care about Yemen. https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1111409230043439111

(March 2019, Caracas.) Jesus Rodriguez Espinoza was Venezuela's Deputy Consul in Chicago from 2005-2008, and Consul General from 2008-2017. In 2017, after the US suddenly ordered consulate staff to leave the country, Jesus returned to Caracas. In December 2018, he founded The Orinoco Tribune, an English website focused on news and analysis from Venezuela. In March, I interviewed Jesus, discussing Venezuelan politics, economy, Chavismo and more. Unfortunately the first video file was corrupted, so the intro is missing. However, Jesus brings needed insight to those less informed on Venezuela. Excerpt on Chavismo “It's a feeling that goes beyond ideology, like something that connects the Chavistas with Chavez. Chavez is a mix of socialism and patriotism, using the right concept of nationalism. The Latin American nationalism. Whenever Chavez talked about nationalism, he talked about the nation being from Mexico to Argentina. That's the Bolivar idea also. Whenever we talk about Chavismo, we're talking about sovereignty, socialism, peoples empowerment—giving power to the ones that were usually excluded. That's very important, especially among the poorest Venezuelans that in the years before Chavez were invisible. As we are invisible right now for the mass media around the world. It's very rare—one out of two hundred pieces that I read in English refers to Chavismo and what it means. In all the analyses that are made, they make invisible whatever is Chavismo. They base all of their analysis on lies, because if you talk about Venezuela and you don't talk about Chavismo, about the millions of Venezuelans that are committed to not going back to what we had before Chavez...you will realize that your analysis is wrong." Consider supporting his project, the Orinoco Tribune: https://orinocotribune.com Related: Venezuelan Man Burned Alive Dies as Death Toll Tops 73 (June 2017) A Venezuelan man burned alive by opposition protesters has died of his injuries as anti-government unrest claimed two more lives over the weekend. https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13170 Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity-with-venezuelan-government-and-against-imperialism/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/president-maduro-the-venezuelan-people-do-not-want-violence-or-foreign-military-intervention/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/04/04/venezuelans-calmly-helped-one-another-during-manufactured-electricity-crisis/

On March 30, I joined hundreds of members of a motorcycle-taxi union colectivo driving their motorcycles through and around Caracas in a show of support for their country and defiance against foreign intervention. These were women and men making a statement with their physical presence: they would not allow their country to be attacked, from within or without. One of the organizers, acutely aware of how colectivos are portrayed, told me, “We are not terrorists, the terrorists have come with that lackey opposition,” and went on to say that governments bring terrorism to Venezuela. Another man at the motorcycle demonstration said: “We are suffering because of terrorism that has been implanted through a US puppet named Juan Guaidó. We say to you Guaidó and we say to you Trump: You took away our water, you took away the light, but you ignited our soul, and we are determined to defend the country with our lives if it is necessary.'” The same bikers later joined up with the tens of thousands of Venezuelan civilians who took to the streets in a festive show of support for President Maduro. Two weeks prior, on March 16, I'd walked for a few hours in another such mass demonstration, filming demonstrators, hearing their opinions on the non-president Guaido, on their support for Maduro, and on their refusal to see their Bolivarian project be destroyed. [https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/march-16-demonstration-of-solidarity:6?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&lid=1e213e88fef5948f7c2faafebe20bf423242a37b ] https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/

On Saturday March 16, for two hours I joined a massive demonstration of Venezuelans rejecting US policies against their country and leadership. The people in this video are largely excluded by corporate media reporting on Venezuela. They include Caracas' poorest, defiant supporters of the Venezuelan government and Bolivarian project [see: https://venezuelanalysis.com/topic/bolivarian-project] Media would have you believe they are against President Maduro, and that any who show up to such rallies are forced to do so. You decide whether these vivacious, strong, informed people seemed forced to participate. Venezuela has for years been subject to an economic war led by the U.S., and continues to face sanctions after brutal sanctions by the very governments purporting to care about human rights and hunger. https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/

In Catia, western Caracas, a barrio of over 1 million people, mainly supporters of Chavez and and now overwhelmingly of President Maduro. In the 1980s, people living here weren't even on the map of public planning agency, so they didn't get any public services, no water, no electricity, no medical services. That changed under Chavez. Poverty is still a major issue in Venezuela, prime factors being the US long economic war, and sanctions, against the country, but also the practises of opposition supporting suppliers, jacked up food prices, hyperinflation. Visiting the Fabricio Ojeda commune, I met Venezuelans enthusiastically talking about their rabbit breeding project aimed at enabling households to be self-sufficient in affordable proteins as well as cash, and their array of outdoor beds and plastic roofed greenhouses. In 2016, they produced 17 tons, sold in the community at between 30-50% lower than average market price. A spokesperson of the commune explained: “This was built in 2011. Everything produced here goes to the community. So far this year, we've already produced 2 tons of food, in spite of some difficulties..." Another spokesperson: "All this is thanks to the local commune. We're trying to achieve self sustainability of this produce, for the community. This is what we're doing against the economic war.”

From March 2019: Message from a Venezuelan man in the mountaintop community of (Urbanismo) Ciudad Mariche. Excerpts include: "We are Venezuelan people, we are not the government. We are poor people, but we are proud, we have dignity. We are, at this moment, fighting against Imperialism. Against rich people that want our country, that want us as slaves. That want our oil, our water. But we will win. Today, it's Venezuela. Yesterday, Palestine, Syria, Libya... And in this part of the world its Colombia, Panama, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua... Imperialism is our common enemy. We're asking you for your solidarity, your compassion, for our people, our families. We're not starving. We have many general problems, but not starving. We're learning how to prepare food differently, but this is not a humanitarian crisis. The rich people, and the governments of the United States and other nations, want to tell everybody that we are starving, we are dying in the streets, we are being oppressed by our government. But we've never been more free than now, in spite of all the problems we do have. There are things that could be better. But we are sure that before it was worse, before we were treated like nothing, we were treated only as workers, that was it. Say to your governments, this isn't a fight against Maduro, this is a fight against a people that are trying to be free."

(October 2023) Mike Jones [https://foreignagent.tv/] had me on yesterday. He wrote: Now banned from YouTube, Eva K Bartlett ( @Reality_Theories ) was kind enough to sit down with me and share her experience of living in Gaza. She describes the horrific conditions suffered by the Palestinian people and numerous war crimes perpetrated on a daily basis by Israel providing an educated and qualified perspective you'll likely not hear reported in the Western Media. Some recommended reading and resources from Eva: https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/02/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/ Eva's account of Israel killing medics: https://t.me/Reality_Theories/14526

First published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37a4haHEw7I & https://tntradio.live/shows/the-david-kurten-show/ My Related Links here: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/interviewed-on-the-david-kurten-show-hypocrisy-and-culpability-of-western-politicians-msm-on-ukraine-and-gaza/

I spoke with prolific Canadian journalist and author Yves Engler about Canada's unconditional support to Israel, even, or especially, as Israel has slaughtered up to nearly 200, 000 Palestinians in Gaza (Lancet), or potentially double that number (Gilbert). Yves lays out Canada's long history of support to Israel, including during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Gaza, and including over 7 decades ago with Canadian pilots participating in the Zionists' ethnic cleansing of Palestine. He talks about Canada's arms to Israel, and providing components to the fighter planes which bomb Gaza now, and about the Canadians fighting in the Israeli army, and those being recruited by various charities and organizations in Canada. Important information you won't hear on legacy media. Yves is author of 13 books, and publishes at yvesengler.com & https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/articles?author=57f2952659cc6814c896c9fa He tweets at https://x.com/EnglerYves Some of his books: https://www.barakabooks.com/?post_type=dd-product&s=yves+engler My blog post with related links: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/07/18/canadian-journalist-author-yves-enger-on-canadas-complity-in-israels-genocide-of-palestinians-in-gaza/

March 27, 2024 "In a conversation with Eva Bartlett, Brian Gerrish (UK Column) learns what takes a young woman from Canada to travel to explore the world. Bartlett (2007) paid for herself to go to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (2008-2013) to understand what was really happening. Eva paid a price for her courage on the front lines: she suffered physical harm from Israeli soldiers & from illegal Jewish colonists; she endured arrest, shackling and custody by the Israeli police; and she experienced the trauma of being in the firing line when Israeli troops targeted live rounds against unarmed Palestinian protestors—a frequent occurrence. Eva visited Syria (2014-2021, 15 times), rather than relying on the reports of others while observing from a distance. Western media reports on the Syrian war were heavily distorted to meet what she clearly regards as a US-UK-NATO official line. In more recent years, Eva went to see and experience the reality of life in both the Crimea and in the Donbass. It was in the Donetsk environs that Eva was to understand the horrors of the Ukrainian shelling and rocket attacks that the Russian civilian population has endured for nearly a decade. She spoke with local families, she witnessed the destruction, and she filmed and reported the reality of the dead bodies and parts of bodies of those killed in recent attacks. Placing herself at risk on the front line of conflict zones, Eva Bartlett has then had to defend herself against vile and dangerous social media and related attacks. Abuse ranges from accusations of cowardice by armchair social media warriors to her being placed on Myrotvorets (‘Peacemaker’), the supposedly non-official Ukrainian death list Canadian state-aligned media (CBC), clearly intent on undermining her Donbas reporting in whatever manner they could, smeared her, drawing from the kill list entry... Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/about-me/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/illegal-colonists-assault-palestinian-farmers/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/ Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer https://youtu.be/zSECq3kxT4I?si=nkVj9UD-EFD3hqin&t=88 https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/ My Gaza playlist: https://odysee.com/$/playlist/ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6 https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/im-on-a-hit-list-kiev-allows-to-silence-dissent-journalism-thats-all-you-need-to-know-about-ukrainian-democracy/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/government-funded-cbc-smears-me-interview-with-maverick-media-cbc-fake-news-hit-piece-targets-journalists-eva-bartlett/

On my last visit to Mariupol, one morning I walked ~15 minutes (if I didn't keep stopping to film) from the centre to the site of newly constructed apartment buildings. While doing so, I kept stopping every 5 or so metres to film renovations on the street I was walking on, so prevalent are the ongoing renovations. I would like to reiterate that rags like the Guardian which claim Mariupol was completely "destroyed" were/are lying through their teeth, as they did re Syria (where the Guardian rendered terrorists into fuzzy "rebels" and whitewashed al-Qaeda in Syria ( https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/how-the-mainstream-media-whitewashed-al-qaeda-and-the-white-helmets-in-syria/ )). They also do not mention the reason for what damage and destruction there was in Mariupol (In summary: Ukrainian troops, and Azov Nazis, occupying upper floors of apartment buildings and firing on Russian troops (and also on civilians). I'll be writing an article which will address some of the dirty tricks the Guardian used in an article (2023) I only recently came across, wherein they grossly distorted satellite images to fit their lying narrative that Mariupol was completely destroyed (as in levelled like the US actually did to Raqqa, or as Israel actually has been doing all over the Gaza Strip). For now, this clip, which includes some conversations I had with a woman who lived in Mariupol during 2022 (when Ukraine was severely bombarding Donetsk ( https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/ ), where she was from), and her notes on changes in Mariupol that surprised even her.

Following my re-visits to Crimea ( https://t.me/Reality_Theories/18833 ) & Donbass ( https://t.me/Reality_Theories/19036 ), 🇷🇺 I've finally found the time to stitch together some of my footage from Mariupol! The city is brimming with life & construction. This short clip is a taste of what I saw in my recent visit, with a couple of clips from visits last year & late 2022. I'll be putting together more videos from my last visit—there is so much construction that's happened since I visited last year. I was astonished. For a city "destroyed" (as Western mouthpieces claim), Mariupol is pulsing with life.

Conversation on RBN July 10 on matters occupied Palestine & a bit about my DPRK visit (2017) & impressions. First pubished here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ACBnHZmxeBw My Related: -My entries from occupied Palestine, April-December 2007 ( https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/ ) -Overview of time in West Bank ( https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/ ) -Huwara lines: one of Israel’s degrading & deadly military checkpoints ( https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/huwara-lines-one-of-israels-degrading-deadly-military-checkpoints/ ) -We were arrested for protesting Israel’s illegal roadblock cutting Sarra village off from Nablus ( https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/arrested-for-protesting-illegal-roadblock/ ) -Illegal Israeli colonists assault Palestinian farmers & me ( https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/illegal-colonists-assault-palestinian-farmers/ ) -Bil'in entries ( https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/bilin/ ) -Susiya entries ( https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/susiya/ ) -Nablus After the Israeli Military Invasion ( https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/nablus-invasion-aftermath/ ) -Israeli massacre of Gaza December2008-January 2009 ( https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/ ) -Israeli massacre of Gaza November 2012 ( https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/ ) -Gaza overview ( https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/ ) -Gaza videos playlist ( https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/Gaza-Strip%2C-from-Nov-2008-March-2013:c?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs&lid=ce33a0a4910ada76a21dffe25319f136eb6e96f6 ) -DPRK overview ( https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/photo-report-the-north-korea-neither-trump-nor-western-media-wants-the-world-to-see/ ) -DPRK videos playlist ( https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/DPRKorea%2C-a-visit-to-the-north%2C-2017:e?lid=e2e1e1158cfb7640c4e42a3d212b189d7c941c7d ) [Excuse the blurred background, couldn't figure out how to unblur.]

I spoke recently with Nick of Revolutionary Blackout Network on a variety of issues, including the on the ground community-building work he is involved in, supporting Palestine—especially Palestinian Resistance, and why average people have been conditioned to hate places like the DPRK (North Korea). A very interesting conversation, I'm grateful to Nick for his time. Follow him at: https://www.youtube.com/@revolutionaryblackout7315 https://www.revolutionaryblackoutnetwork.com/ https://x.com/SocialistMMA https://www.patreon.com/RevolutionaryBlackout Related Links: -The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist. 22/06/2021, Louis Allday https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/the-palestinians-inalienable-right-to-resist n -Bilin & nonviolent resistance https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/protesters-take-rubber-bullets-to-head-and-stomach-at-bilin/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/good-ole-cnnenterprise/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/no-iof-love-for-bilin-non-violent-protesters/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/ -Bassem Abu Rahme, killed by Israeli army in Bil’in protest against the Wall https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/bassem-abu-rahme-killed-in-bilin-protest-against-the-wall-rest-peacefully/ -Great March of Return protests https://electronicintifada.net/tags/great-march-return -Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria (regarding “nonviolent” “rebels” in Syria ) https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/ -My report from visit to the DPRK https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/photo-report-the-north-korea-neither-trump-nor-western-media-wants-the-world-to-see/ -We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E Interview With The Makers of “The Haircut (2017) A North Korean Adventure” https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/interview-with-the-makers-of-the-haircut-2017-a-north-korean-adventure/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/

I was interviewed on Scott Ritter’s Ask the Inspector, October 24, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjHo5tZ2ftc Related Links: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/interview-on-israels-ongoing-genocide-of-gaza/ –Observations from Occupied Palestine: Gaza (My 2014 overview of my 3 years in Gaza: Israel’s 2009 war & 2012 war on Gaza, Israel’s brutal siege on Gaza, wars on Gaza, assault of farmers & fishers…) https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/ –My 2007 West Bank writings https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/ –Observations from Occupied Palestine, part 1 (My overview of what I witnessed in 8 months in the West Bank) https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/observations-from-occupied-palestine-part-1/

In late April, survivors of Ukrainian bombing in Artyomovsk spoke to Christelle Néant (Donbass Insider (https://t.me/donbassinsider)) & myself about the horrors they endured on April 11, when Ukrainian forces deliberately blew up the ground floor of their apartment building, burying the civilians sheltering in the basement below. Seven of the seventeen civilians in that basement died almost immediately, including a seven year old child. These civilians spoke about how people known as "White Angels", Ukrainian military police, were actively seeking to abduct children, and were succeeding. “They were hunting our kids, and we were hiding them around the buildings.” Kiev openly announced they would be forcibly taking children, under the premise of providing security. They do so, according to the people we spoke with (and many other testimonies since) against the will of parents, without their consent. Kiev is doing precisely what it falsely-accused Russia of doing (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/10885): abducting children, without their parent's consent. My article on this, as well as longer testimonies from the Artyomovsk refugees, will be published soon.

In Moscow I spoke with Jeff Monson, a world-acclaimed American mixed martial arts fighter and political activist. Jeff travelled to the Lugansk People's Republic in 2016, and has returned to the LPR and neighbouring Donetsk People's Republic nearly a dozen times since, speaking with every day people about their lives under Ukraine's war on the Donbass. We spoke about his experiences in the Donbass and how they directly contradicted media claims, as well as his opening of dozens of sports schools in Russia and now in Donetsk. Monson, together with RT journalist Donald Courter, collaboratively-produced the independently-funded documentary “8 Years Before”, on the suffering that the people of the Donbass under Ukraine's 8+ years of bombings. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0VYkL_UI4 ]