Posted by Ken Waldron on January 12, 2024, 7:16 pm
Kim Iversen 🇺🇸 @KimIversenShow 1h I have received an email from @GonzaloLira1968's father. Gonzalo Lira is dead. He died in a hospital in Kharkiv between 11-12 pm Ukraine time yesterday January 11th, 2024.
The US government allowed an American YouTuber to be arrested by Ukraine and neglected to the point of death for criticizing the war. That was his only crime. He did what many of us do and paid the ultimate price.
Being a YouTuber shouldn't cost you your life @POTUS @SecBlinken Jan 12, 2024 · 5:51 PM UTC
If true, and from his father's description of his terrible medical state, there seems no reason to doubt it, that is appalling. But Ukraine is a noxious state run by noxious people, supported by another noxious state, the US. If this were an American citizen dying in a Russian prison, we'd never hear the end of the matter, but here the US "could care less" as they'd illogically say in that hoodlum-run country. .
Ultimately every single one of use becomes a pawn in someone else's bigger game. But the rich and the powerful should remember in this game they too can become someone else's pawn, Zelensky should recall that even Kings can eventually be toppled.
I haven't heard this before, an a mazing dissection and analysis of Nuland and the neocons, and her relationship with Russia. RIP.
I wrote this on the comments below the video Now a historical document, a powerful epitaph, tragically. Gonzalez imprisoned and tortured in a Ukraine prison, died the other day. His father gave an emotionally powerful public plea for property medical treatment and release just a few days ago on the Duran, but obviously too late. Not just sad, but incredibly anger producing, despite being a US citizen, imprisoned in a client state of the US, he was offered no effective protection or help. If this had happened in Russia, we'd have heard no end of it. But in the end, he's just one dead man among hundreds of thousands, what's that to the US and its satrapies? What's that to Victoria Nuland or her fellow neo-con travellers, including president Biden. Julian Assange next? I haven't hear this talk before, this is a man totally in charge of his remit - an amazing display of penetrating analysis. PS, a spider is not an insect, they're arachnids. Nuland et al, US Arachnids.
Alas, this was predicted when he was arrested again. More evidence that the feudal dystopia of America is as dangerous to Americans as it is to everyone else.The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
Not long ago Ritter et al. were calling him an SBU asset. nm
Gonzalo Lira, a prominent commentator on the Russia-Ukraine war imprisoned in Ukraine for speech critical of the country’s government, has died after weeks of medical neglect by Ukrainian authorities.
Chilean-American war commentator Gonzalo Lira died shortly before noon on January, 11, 2024 at a hospital in Kharkiv, where he had been imprisoned for eight months since he was accused of justifying Russian war efforts in Ukraine.
Lira came to prominence in 2022 when he emerged as a critical voice in an increasingly dictatorial Ukraine. His arrest in May 2023 on charges of “production and dissemination of materials justifying Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine” helped to galvanize domestic opposition to US funding for the war and led to calls for his release by tech baron Elon Musk and American political commentator Tucker Carlson.
A note written by Lira and provided by his father to The Grayzone indicates his death came after a nearly three-month battle with pneumonia, a condition which was apparently ignored by his Ukrainian jailers until just weeks before his death. Lira’s death was revealed by his father, Gonzalo Lira, Sr., who had spent weeks pleading with the American embassy to intervene in his son’s medical emergency.
Emails reviewed by The Grayzone show that after learning of his son’s illness, the senior Lira urged the embassy to intervene on January 3. In a message to US officials, he noted that Ukrainian authorities appeared to make an effort to conceal information about Lira Jr.’s health from his family and legal representatives. “The medical warden in the pre-trial jail in Kharkiv is not giving information as to the state of his health,” he wrote, concluding: “It has been 12 days since I knew his state.”
The following day, Lira Jr. was finally brought to the hospital and allowed to see his lawyer. The defense attorney left the meeting with a hand-written note from Lira explaining his situation, which is believed to be his final written correspondence.
The letter reads: “I have had double pneumonia (both lungs) as well as pneumothorax and a very severe case of edema (swelling of the body). All this started in mid-October, but was ignored by the prison. They only admitted I had pneumonia at a Dec. 22 hearing. I am about to have a procedure to reduce the edema pressure in my lungs, which is causing me extreme shortness of breath, to the point of passing out after minimal activity, or even just talking for 2 minutes.”
Unconvinced that his son would receive proper medical care in a Ukrainian hospital, Gonzalo Lira, Sr. continued to plead with the embassy to monitor the situation. The next day, he wrote to them again: “I need the Embassy to keep in close touch while he is in the hospital and ensure that his health is progressing while in the hospital. You should also contact the Doctor in charge of Gonzalo while in the hospital and verify his recuperation.”
But his efforts proved fruitless. A week later, Lira Sr.’s worst fears were confirmed when he received word that his son had died. He now blames Washington and Kiev for his death.
“I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son,” Lira Sr. stated in an email announcing the news.
“The responsibility of this tragedy is [with] the dictator Zelensky with the concurrence of a senile American President, Joe Biden,” he wrote, adding: “My pain is unbearable. The world must know what is going on in Ukraine with that inhuman dictator Zelensky.”
As the world’s attention shifts from the Western proxy war in Ukraine, Lira Sr. joins the hundreds of thousands of fathers now grieving the deaths of their sons. Unlike most of them, his son did not die on a battlefield, but in prison for condemning the war that doomed so many to an ignominious fate.
Sad news yet again revealing the inhumanity of the US and its fascist proxies in Ukraine (nm)