In Episode 158 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg notes that the Russian Socialist Movement has issued a call for solidarity actions with anti‑war activists in Russia on Jan. 19. This is the date when left activists Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova were gunned down by far-right militants in Moscow in 2009. Today, the Vladimir Putin regime is persecuting activists such as Alexandra Skochilenko—who faces a long prison term for producing public art on an anti-war theme. Instead of responding to this call for solidarity, the ANSWER Coalition and other exponents of the "tankie" pseudo-left have called a rally against aid to Ukraine, and implicitly in support of Putin and his war aims, for Jan. 14 in locations such as New York's Times Square—perversely, in the name of Martin Luther King. The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign repudiates this pseudo-anti-war rally, urging: "No exploitation of Dr. MLK Jr. to support war criminal Putin!" Debunking the Russian propaganda that portrays Putin's aggression as a defensive move against NATO encroachment, Weinberg demonstrates that the principles propounded by Dr. King in his courageous dissent from LBJ's criminal war in Vietnam now mandate that we direct our protests at Vladimir Putin.

Speeches and essays discussed: "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence" by MLK, 1967; "The Social Organization of Nonviolence" by MLK, 1959; "My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence" by MLK, 1958; "The Doctrine of the Sword," by MK Gandhi, 1920; "Looking Back on the Spanish War" by George Orwell, 1942; "I'm a Ukrainian Socialist. Here's Why I Resist the Russian Invasion" by Taras Bilous, 2022 (anthologized in the book Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity)

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Against tankie MLK-exploitation

A tankie agent carried out "false flag" vandalism of a synagogue and other Jewish targets in Detroit, attempting to blame it on the Azov Battalion and tar Ukrainians. She turns out to have been a member of the retro-Stalinist Workers World Party and a staff writer for openly dictator-shilling MintPress News—which has itself engaged in "false flag" disinformation, blaming the Syrian rebels for chemical attacks against their own strongholds by the Bashar Assad regime. MintPress has also received funding directly from the Assad Lobby. In Episode 176 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg examines this ultra-cynical propaganda nexus, and asks whether such agents are mere "useful idiots" for the Kremlin, or actual conscious assets operating in the "gray zone"—the sphere of "hybrid warfare" in which the line between state and non-state actors is blurred. 

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Tankies, ‘false flags’ & the ‘gray zone’

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Amid jubilation following the overthrow of long-ruling dictator Bashar Assad, the only fighting in Syria is now between Arabs and Kurds—as the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) expels the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from the town of Manbij. Ankara's design is clearly to expunge the Kurdish autonomous zone in the northeast region of Rojava. Yet there are also positive signs of an accommodation between the Rojava Kurds and the new revolutionary administration in Damascus. In Episode 256 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg examines the new political landscape in Syria and tries to identify a way forward—past the threat of ethnic war and toward a multicultural democracy.

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Free Syria and the Kurdish question

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Lyrics

In the shadows, unseen, unheard,
One shot, one word...

Lines are drawn, but I break them apart,
Pixel by pixel, I aim for the heart.
Tactical ghost with a mind like a blade,
A legend was born in the crossfire’s haze.

Locked and loaded, no turning back,
From ambush to counterattack.

I’m notorious in the Gray Zone,
Carved my name in the battle stone.
Every move is a masterpiece,
Victory’s mine, no retreat, no peace!
Notorious in the Gray Zone,
No safe place when I’m in my zone!

Every respawn’s just another new start,
Outplaying them all with my battle-smarts.
Tread through the chaos, I know every map,
A step ahead, always setting the trap.

Locked and loaded, no turning back,
From ambush to counterattack.

I’m notorious in the Gray Zone,
Carved my name in the battle stone.
Every move is a masterpiece,
Victory’s mine, no retreat, no peace!
Notorious in the Gray Zone,
No safe place when I’m in my zone!

Game on, lights out,
Fear my name, hear the shout!
Game on, lights out,
Unstoppable, no doubt!

I’m notorious in the Gray Zone,
Carved my name in the battle stone.
Every move is a masterpiece,
Victory’s mine, no retreat, no peace!
Notorious in the Gray Zone,
No safe place when I’m in my zone!

One shot, one word...
Notorious...

Notorious in the Gray Zone

Notorius

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GrayZone - Main Menu

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New to the world of music songwriting, just enjoying life and creating music people can relate to. Nothing better than a good tune to get you dancing. Enjoy! My atrist names include Darius Endovins, Maurice Videns, and Les Nouveaux Digitale.

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