May 062023
 


Willem de Kooning Rosy-fingered Dawn at Louse Point 1963

 

Andrew Korybko:

 

Dual American-Chilean national Gonzalo Lira was recently arrested by Ukraine’s secret police on charges pertaining to “wartime propaganda”, for which he faces the possibility of 5-8 years in jail. The US Government’s (USG) silence on this incident completely contrasts with its hysteria over Wall Street Journal (WSJ) employee Evan Gershkovich’s arrest in Russia last month on charges of espionage after he was caught red-handed soliciting classified military-industrial information from a regional lawmaker.

This is a betrayal of American principles since the freedom of speech is regarded as a sacred right of all its citizens no matter where they might be at any given time. Regardless of whatever one might think about Lira’s views and the particular piece of Ukrainian legislation that was cited as the basis for arresting him, the USG is supposed to support the rights of its nationals abroad. This is especially so whenever they’re arrested for expressing an opinion and/or practicing journalism like he was.

Its silence in the face of this scandalous incident suggests a degree of complicity in, or at the very least tacit approval of, Lira’s arrest since nothing else cogently explains the conspicuous lack of any response. These suspicions are further reinforced by the fact that one of the USG’s leading information warfare assets in Ukraine, transgender mercenary Michael John Cirillo, admitted to the Daily Beast that he colluded with the SBU on its case against Lira and even plans to testify against him.

In his exact words, “I’ve already given my sworn statement to SBU about Gonzalo Lira several months ago and expect to be called as a witness in his prosecution.” Cirillo also added on Twitter that “When I’m on Capitol Hill in 10 days, no doubt the arrest of Gonzalo Lira will be a prime topic of conversation.” Instead of seeking his release, the USG is relying on one of its top propagandists in that country to pursue Lira’s conviction, prior to which their proxy brazenly plans to boast about this to Congress.

It should also be noted that Cirillo told this to Julia Davis, who’s banned by Russia on the basis of having worked against its national interests at the behest of hostile powers, which obviously refers to the USG in this context. Her article also mentions that she obtained exclusive footage of Lira’s arrest, which could only have been obtained by the SBU, whose employees shared it with her precisely because they know that she’s one of their patron’s most reliable agents and would thus use it to humiliate Lira in her piece.

These facts lead to the conclusion that the USG is indeed complicit in Ukraine’s arrest of this dual American national. It’s not even hiding its complicity in Lira’s persecution either after one of its leading information warfare assets in that country admitted to colluding with the secret police on this case, told the media that he plans to testify against him, and even plans to brag about this to Congress. The USG is perversely proud of this since it hopes to pressure critics of its proxy war into self-censoring.

This objective also clearly includes its own citizens like Lira, who the USG hates with a passion since his brave reporting from Kharkov discredited many of their claims about this conflict. It could have simply requested that Kiev deport him in order to lessen the damage that he’s inflicted on their information warfare operations, but it preferred to make an example out of him by pursuing his prosecution. Cirillo’s role in this incident and his plans to brag about it to Congress leave no doubt about the USG’ complicity.

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    Willem de Kooning Rosy-fingered Dawn at Louse Point 1963   Andrew Korybko:   Dual American-Chilean national Gonzalo Lira was recently arrest
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    #134731

    This makes me so angry and sad.

    #134733
    anticlimactic
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    “When we see the few truth-tellers who are the stars of their organizations jettisoned – Tucker Carlson from Fox News, Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone, Glenn Greenwald from The Intercept, James O’Keefe from Project Veritas… we must face the fact that there is an organized conspiracy to suppress truth.”

    – Paul Craig Roberts

    Another one bites the dust.

    #134771
    adrian144
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    have to say i thought he was tempting fate with his youtube videos

    #134782
    morongobill
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    This Twitter link shows a photo alleged to be GL sitting in a prosecutor’s office supposedly after signing a guilty plea.

    https://twitter.com/SarahAshtonLV/status/1654901119867404288/photo/1

    #134794
    Veracious Poet
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    Sorry RIM, but US vs Gonzalo Lira?

    Really?!? 😐

    From my vantage point it looked like Gonzalo Lira vs Gonzalo Lira, with a conclusion that even a brain-dead dolt could predict…

    The guy clearly has issues. Never understood all the fawning praise, I couldn’t stomach listening to his self-promotion antics for more than a minute or two, actually haven’t bothered clicking his bait after the first video or two 🙄

    Speaks volumes about your focus, sad to see TAE turn into just another noise filled NPD troll hangout.

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    aspnaz
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    This is a betrayal of American principles since the freedom of speech is regarded as a sacred right of all its citizens no matter where they might be at any given time.

    The USA government rejects free speech in the USA so in my mind there is zero expectation that they will support free speech overseas. I am only surprised that they left it so long to get rid of him and that they put him in jail instead of sending him to the front lines to fight Russia.

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