Dear friends,
Our brother-in-arms at SouthFront have been sending us daily reports about the war in the Ukraine. They are also the folks who produced truly excellent reports such as Foreign Policy Diary – The US-China Standoff in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region and special high quality maps such as the Russian Military Map, July 22 – August 2, 2015 I posted today. The contribution of SouthFront to this blog simply cannot be overstated and I think that we all owe them a huge debt of gratitude.
You might recall that a few months ago I reported that the YouTube channel of SouthFront had been censored. Since then, this have gone from bad to worse. There is now clear evidence that SouthFront is the object of a campaign to silence their reports. Here is the message they have sent me and asked to pass on to you:
Our last Facebook page was banned because of photos with Novorossian warriors(!). In 2014 another our Facebook page in English with just under 20000 likes was deleted because of no formal reason.
The SouthFront project has been under the pressure of censorship since its start in 2014. Along the way Facebook and Youtube administration deleted our biggest accounts in the end of summer 2014, last winter and July 2015. We lost at least 70 000 subscribers total because of the censorship. Meanwhile, our editors’ accounts were hacked, posts and videos deleted, websites attacked many times. Every time, we restored the project despite the aggressive environment and never used combative advertising or spamming for donations.
The last attack on July 20, when our Facebook page (15500 likes) was deleted, again, led to the fact SouthFront already reduced by the constant censorship lost the last channel of gaining direct support. Unfortunately, many people don’t know about our website (http://southfront.org/) because we were focusing on the Social Media last years.
The SouthFront Team spends a lot of time and effort to produce and distribute content as “The US-China Standoff in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region”. We ask to help to save our project in hard times. It can’t be done without you and many other people. You can help via PayPal: southfront@list.ru or here: http://southfront.org/donate/
Friends, I ask you all to pitch in, even if you can only offer a modest donation. This is not only a matter of helping a brother in arms, this is also a matter of not letting a unique and very high quality resource be silenced. Honestly? I think that we need SouthFront. I can tell you that the Saker Community simply does not have the personnel or skillset needed to replace them. As far as I can tell, neither can any other of our brother in arms. So by helping SouthFront your donation will be helping all of us, the Saker Community and all the other brother in arms who rely on SouthFront.
Please help.
SEND THE MONEY DIRECTLY TO SOUTHFRONT – NOT TO ME!!
You can help via PayPal: southfront@list.ru or here: http://southfront.org/donate/
If you have sent me any money by mistake, please email me.
The Saker
Well, i donated. I hope more will join in.
Greetings! Thank you for the participation in the project. We are strongly aimed to make a lot great content (already developed products and new ideas) with help of you and other supporters.
Kind regards,
SouthFront Team
Southfront, are you on vk? In English? You should at least mirror your site there, and mention it is an alternative for your subscribers in case anything happens to FB or google etc.
Saker,
Done!
Commenters and Viewers,
SouthFront deserves real support, not lip service. No excuses. They produce great SitReps and Reports.
A lot of folks roll out the words. A mass of people view the Vineyard. Too few step up and act.
There is no Resistance without money behind the great volunteer efforts.
To mouth a bunch of stuff is weak when action (donation) is what is needed.
A few have excuses, most don’t.
If you are against the Hegemon, against Fascism, against the oligarchs and perverts, multiply yourself with donations to SouthFront, Saker and others who are on vapors.
The time to act is now. Ten bucks x 1000 is real money. Be one of the thousand.
The Hybrid War is on. It is aimed at you, if you don’t realize it. We need a media weapon for our side.
Contribute. Load the ammo belt. No one asks you to go to the front and fight. Just load the ammo belt.
Hi Larchmonter445,
Thanks for the support. Our power in unity.
Kind regards,
SouthFront Team
I will send my small contribution. It is of the enormous importance to keep independent media to counteract the web of lies we are fed on a daily basis by the MSM. A little bit out of subject but a very sad new is the latest killing of journalists in Mexico http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=412068
pointing most probably to the governor of Veracruz (a state in Mexico) as the organizer of the killing. So as often occurs in that country no one will be prosecuted or someone innocent may be blamed (if the police ever captures somebody). In Mexico tenths of journalists are killed on yearly basis not so seldom journalists are kidnapped first, then horrendously tortured and killed to put fear on other honest journalists from making their job properly. Most of these killings do not make it to the MSM since Mexico is an “asset” (slave I would call it) of the empire.
Paypal, Facebook, Youtube?
All are Jewish/Zionist run companies. Sorry, am not going to spend a dime on it.
But you read South Fronts reports and if they get some money from PayPal why wouldn’t people interested and reading their reports help them?
I am sure you watch youtube videos as well.
@ jomo,
Q; I am sure you watch youtube videos as well.
R: Youtube doesn’t allow you to watch clips anonymously.
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It doesn’t make any sense to me to rally and rail against Anglo/Zionism and then turn around and hand them money.
It does if they aren’t rated ’18+’, which most Southfront are not.
Dear Daniel, You are right Facebook and Youtube are an aggressive environment for the alternative media with a hard attitude. But users of these websites deserve to know the truth. Moreover, our aim is to disseminate the truth with all accessible ways. So, we cannot ignore them.
Nonetheless, in order to avoid constant censorship in Social Media we launched website http://southfront.org/ and developed a video player. Now, anyone can watch SF videos from our dedicated web server at our website.
Kind regards,
SouthFront
http://southfront.org/donate/ lists several ways to donate which are not through those companies.
Maybe South Front could give an address or PO Box to send snail mail with contributions? That could help with your corporate concerns and be able to send funds.
I donated a small amount a few hours ago, and see others posting here that they donated too, but their donation counter is still at $50. They need to update it.
Paypal takes time (days) for transactions to be completed.
Don’t worry. It’s there in due course.
Mat, thanks for the comment. The real reason is that our designer didn’t update it yet. In general, he updates it 1 time per 1-2 days.
Kind regards,
SouthFront Team
Dear Jomo,
Thank you for the support. We want to answer why “donation counter is still at $50”. The donation counter is an image we need to update by ourselves. Our designer will be able to update it in next 4 hours.
Kind regards,
SouthFront Team
It was at $552 when I donated 08.09 UTC
It’s now at $1017.34 on the evening/night of August 4 – I am happy to see that. Saker’s crew is coming through.
In last two years the pro Rusdian entities could not get themselves ridden of anglozionist spy net work like Facebook,you tube goggle like!then what hope is there if not even a feeble attempt is made to be independent of Anglo liar spying entities?
Hi Saker, yes, I wonder if you could re-run this every couple of days … I’m really worried about south front.
there you go dear South Front…thanks so much for all your great work !!
by the way SF…don’t leave any money in paypal overnight…ICH got their account frozen when there was money still in their account….
Hi Ann, thank you for the warm words and support. We are trying our best.
Kind regards,
SouthFront Team
P.S. I am on google+, and private e-mails I sent (gmail to gmail) to a lady in Russia were deleted by google. You have been warned.
Apparently also, Ukrainian users of vk etc were in a panic, because from August 01, 2015, the FSB was to have had open access to everything on it. Can others confirm that this is so, and not just rumoured?
P.P.S. paypal is also rubbish: I tried to pay money to 2 persons in the Donbass, they tried to pick it up, but as soon as they tried, paypal removed the money, and when I complained to pp, they LIED, and said the reason for the non-payment/transfer was because the 2 persons refused [sic] the money!!! I asked the 2 persons if it was true, and they stated ‘No’.
I support them as I do you, Saker.
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