Telesur journalist Alejandro Kirk spoke to me about these weapons and vehicles that have been captured by the DPR and LPR forces, noting the many foreign made weapons sold to Ukraine. Western countries continue selling weapons to Ukraine. On March 20, journalist Alexander Rubinstein wrote of the West’s exorbitant shipping of billions of dollars in weapons to Ukraine over the years. He noted: “At least 32 countries have announced their intention to ship billions of dollars in weapons into Ukraine for use against Russian forces in Ukraine. Photographic evidence shows that these weapons have already ended up in the hands of neo-Nazi paramilitaries – units which have already received training and arms the US and its NATO allies. All of this builds on $3.8 billion in military aid from the United States to Ukraine, the training of 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers by Canada and the United Kingdom, and a longstanding CIA program aimed at cultivating an anti-Russian insurgency. …weapons furnished by NATO allies have been placed in the hands of the Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi former paramilitary organization incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard. The governments of Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom have presided over a massive program to train and equip Ukrainian soldiers for a full-scale war with Russia. Trainees have included top commanders of the Azov Battalion. In late February, the European Union opened the floodgates of weapon shipments to Ukraine, approving financing through the aptly-named “European Peace Facility” to reimburse countries sending weapons to the country to the tune of $500 million USD. Another $55 million USD is earmarked for non-lethal military aid. This February, the State Department announced $350 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, bringing “the total security assistance the United States has committed to Ukraine over the past year to more than $1 billion.” Another $200 million was sent in early March, and following Zelensky’s March 16 appeal to Congress for more weapons, Biden is reportedly set to dole out another $800 in military aid including 800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems, 9,000 anti-tank systems, 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 400 machine guns, 400 shotguns, 400 grenade launchers, 20 million rounds of ammunition, 100 tactical drones, 25,000 sets of body armor and 25,000 helmets. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. These figures add to the $2.5 billion in military aid the US delivered between 2014 and the summer of 2021, bringing the total to $3.8 billion.” https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/20/us-neo-nazi-ukraine-afghan-insurgency/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kq5dhWFIqc

Old City Damascus, Apr 2014 https://ingaza.wordpress.com/my-published-articles-and-other-musings-from-and-on-syria-20142015/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc8GJmbMBTs

Jaskeherry is the head of a colectivos in Caracas. I asked how his community got through the power outage earlier in March. *I don't have time or means to subtitle this. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvnMm_Gabjs

In March, one of the leaders of a youth collective in Caracas explained the importance of the space to the community, noting: "We are a group of young revolutionaries especially focused on cultural activities, artistic, historic, musical activities. We have a range of projects. One is a series of training courses for young people who look to set up productive social economical projects. We work on many social economical projects on a micro level in the community. We have a small shop where people can sell products they make in their homes. We have a coffee shop where we generate the finances to keep the building maintained. This is just one of a number of similar projects across the country that began with the revolution. This space provides very important support for a number of different collectives and grassroots organizations in the community especially focused on youth groups and projects. This is also a space a number of grassroots organizations in the community use to meet to organize activities, so the CLAP organization, the communal council, the pensioners organization, and a number of other ones. We were able to buy this property with the support of the Bolivarian government. In Venezuela, there are many people leaving, migrating, abandoning their properties. People who think this is a 'dictatorship', who don't like the revolution. Our first project here was to set up a coffee shop and start selling food to the community. But we've since developed and now have a youth cinema for the community, yoga, and other cultural projects. We have a small productive garden where we produce some of the agricultural products that we sell in the coffee shop. Despite the electrical sabotage we have suffered in the last few days, people have started organizing in their communities. This cultural centre has been used as a logistical centre and posit for drinking water being distributed to the community. Since the arrival of Hugo Chavez, popular organization has been very important. There's been strong support by the Venezuelan youth for these projects. The economic blockade against the country has led us to acquire a higher level of consciousness about the need to produce in urban spaces certain agricultural products. This is an example that despite all of the difficulties in the country, it is possible to set up successful projects like this, and there are a number of young people in Venezuela who want to remain here and work towards the advancing of the country. The sanctions have really affected us, especially in the food sector. This is a project that works in the productive growing of crops and selling of food. Finding the materials we need for this is harder every day, in part due to the hyper inflation which is partly due to the sanc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1ejy98SPbA