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PECOS, March 17, 1997 - Head Start Policy Council members reversed a
decision made Thursday, voting 6-0 Friday to hire Mary Jane Ontiveros as
director for the Head Start program that serves Pecos, Saragosa and
Two Saragosa parents who had opposed Ontiveros' hiring in Thursday's
meeting objected to reconsidering the matter and left after council
chairman Laura Carrasco declared a quorum of five parents and two
community representatives.
That left only five council members and no quorum. Members rounded up
another parent to complete the quorum of four parents and two community
representatives, said Frank Perea, interim executive director for the
Community Council of Reeves County.
The first motion was to invalidate Bill Wendt's vote in Thursday's
meeting because he told Carrasco after the meeting that his term expired
in November, 1996, Perea said.
That made the vote not to hire Ontiveros 3-3, a tie.
Perea said he gave the council resumes of all the seven applicants he
interviewed for Head Start director, and they went into executive
The council then called Ontiveros in and interviewed her for about 30
minutes. After re-opening the session to the public, they voted
unanimously to give her the job.
Ontiveros began work with Head Start in February, 1987, as a cook in
Saragosa. After a tornado demolished most of the community and killed 30
people during graduation ceremonies for that program in May 1987, the
Head Start teacher was unable to resume work, and Ontiveros took that
position, which she held for five years.
She then held the title of program coordinator for 1½ years and was
promoted to Head Start director in April, 1993.
Ontiveros said she began having misunderstandings with Community Council
executive director Yvonne Martin.
"She wanted me to be lenient with the rules and regulations of the Head
Start program, so we started having conflicts," Ontiveros said.
"I gave her my oral resignation, but my staff convinced me I should stay
to help the program work and help them get their child development
certification," she said. "I submitted a letter to Martin telling her I
wanted to stay, but she didn't accept it. She gave me a letter of
termination in August, 1994."
Ontiveros said she re-applied every time the position came open, but had
not been hired until now.
"The staff convinced me to come back," she said. "They felt that I was
the one that needed to be here due to problems the program was having. I
knew what the deficiencies were and how to correct them."
Most of the deficiencies are corrected, except for a community needs
assessment and administrative procedures, Ontiveros said.
"We will be doing a CNA to find out where the needs of the community are
and whether they need a Head Start program," she said. "We will learn
how many families are in Winkler, Ward, Reeves and Loving counties
because that is the area the Community Council serves."
The administrative plan will tell how, who, when, where and what time
the staff is to perform their duties.
"We will also get trining this week on how to develop it," she said.
"Then we will need support of the board, policy council and parents to
assist in developing the plan."
Other deficiencies include replacing playground equipment and getting
staff training so they can do a better job, Ontiveros said.
"The main focus right now is the six deficiences. I am pretty sure we
will have them done by April 27, but it will take a lot of time,
involvment of the staff, support of the community reps and parents in
order to get the deficiencies corrected."
Ontiveros said she was "kind of concerned" about comments made by Wendt
which appeared in Friday's Enterprise. Wendt said he voted against
Ontiveros' employment as Head Start director because that is what
Saragosa residents wanted.
"It upset me Friday, but over the weekend most of the people from my
community were congratulating me and said they were glad I was there,"
Ontiveros said.
"I don't know if there was only one or two people and they made it seem
like a whole community," She said. "I know everyone there and I don't
think it was everyone. I have always got along with everyone really well
- with the staff. Nobody else but them can say how we got along."
Ontiveros said Wendt's comment that most of the deficiencies are
corrected and an inexperienced director could be trained to carry on the
duties also concerned her.
"That has been done before," she said. "It is not as easy to do as it is
to say. Training is not enough. You need good background knowledge of
duties you are going to perform."
Ontiveros said she takes paperwork home on weekends to read and plan.
"I do it for the program because it is something our children need," she
"I thank everyone that supported me and encouraged me to come back. I am
going to do my best for all, even those that were against me. My door is
always open."
PECOS, March 17, 1997 - Accidents in the area over the weekend and early
this morning sent six persons to Reeves County Hospital, with a mother
and daughter later going on to a Lubbock facility.
The most serious accident took place about 7:40 a.m. Saturday. Texas
Department of Public Safety Trooper William P. Blakeley was dispatched
to an accident at the 180 mile marker of U.S. Interstate 10, three miles
east of Kent.
Guillermo Borgon Campos, 25; Margarita Beltran Campos, 21,; Jessica
Campos, 3, and Yesenia Campos, 1, all of San Antonio, were transported
from the scene to Reeves County Hospital.
Blakeley reported that Guillermo Campos fell asleep at the wheel of a
1990 Plymouth Sundance while westbound on I-10. He then ran off to the
right side of the road and overcorrected.
The vehicle came back across the westbound lane sideways into the center
median where it overturned 1¼ times, coming to rest upside down, facing
Jessica Campos was ejected and knocked unconscious, according to the
investigating trooper.
Guillermo Campos was admitted to the Reeves County Hospital for
observation and Yesenia was treated and released, according to a RCH
Margarita Campos remains at Lubbock Methodist Hospital and is listed in
stable and good condition, according to a hospital spokesperson, who
added that Jessica was released and was staying in the same room as
All passengers except Jessica were wearing seat belts, said Blakeley,
who said Guillermo Campos received a citation for allowing a child to
ride unrestrained.
On Sunday, Police Patrolman Ishmael Gamboa investigated a two-vehicle
collision in the 1500 block of South Cedar Street.
Esmeralda Arenivas, 19, who was driving a 1996 Ford Ranger pickup,
reportedly struck a 1991 Chevrolet Silverado pickup, driven by Mark
Allen Zuniga, 37.
Arenivas was southbound and attempting to make a left turn when she
failed to notice Zuniga approaching from the north.
Pecos ambulance were dispatched to the scene, but there was no hospital
record of anyone being treated.
No citations were issued.
This morning, about 7:35 a.m., Blakeley was again dispatched to the 372
mile marker of Texas Highway 17, about 15 miles south of Pecos.
He reported that Mary Lopez Ontiveros, 33, of Saragosa, who was driving
a 1994 GMC pickup, rear-ended a 1985 Chevrolet pickup driven by Roberto
Alvarez Cazares, 64.
Cazares suffered minor cuts to the head after hitting the back window
and breaking it out, Blakeley said. He was transported to Reeves County
Ontiveros was also transported upon her request, said the trooper. She
was treated and released, according to hospital spokesperson.
Conditions were foggy, said Blakeley, and any citations as a result of
the accident are still pending.
PECOS, March 17, 1997 - Senior Judge Lucius Bunton presided for jury
selection in two criminal and one civil case this morning and ordered
one jury to return at 12:30 p.m. to begin hearing testimony.
In that case, Julea Simpson, 19, of Fort Worth, is charged with
possession with intent to distribute flunitrezepam on Nov. 22, 1996. Her
attorney is Lizabeth Rogers of El Paso.
The other criminal case is styled USA vs. Jose Eduardo Quezada-Huerta.
Tom Morgan represents Quezada on a drug charge. Judge Bunton hopes to
start that trial at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
In the civil case, Eugenio Rodriguez is suing Reeves County Sheriff
Arnulfo Gomez for placing him in segregation without due process.
Rodriguez has been an inmate in state prison since 1985. He was brought
to Pecos to testify in a trial and placed in Reeves County Jail Nov. 18,
Gomez says in a motion for summary judgment that Rodriguez has been
continuously in administrative segregation in state prison for fighting,
contraband and refusing to obey orders.
When placed in Reeves County Jail, his segregation classification was
Rodriguez testified he was told he was placed in segregation, not as
punishment, but for his own protection. Segregation had no effect on the
length of his incarceration.
Another civil trial that was scheduled to begin this week was settled
out of court.
In that case, Deborah Parker sued Pecos County and its hospital board,
claiming the board violated her federal civil rights and the state
whistleblower act when they terminated her employment as administrator
of the Iraan hospital in May, 1996.
She said she was terminated her because she reported violations of
federal and state law. However, board members claim that Parker was
terminated for poor job performance and made the reports after they
placed her termination on the agenda for discussion - so she would have
a lawsuit against the hospital.
PECOS, March 17, 1997 - Jury selection began this morning in the
aggravated assault trial of Gabriel Gonzales, 19.
Gonzales is charged with beating Ruben Mendoza with a bat and shovel on
July 21, 1996. The indictment is enhanced by the allegation that
Gonzales and four others acted as members of a criminal street gang in
beating Mendoza and his sister, Lupe Mendoza. Both were hospitalized as
a result of the beating.
The beating occurred at the car wash at Eighth and Eddy streets.
Indicted along with Gonzales were Jose Urias, 21, Gilberto M. Rayos, 26,
Joe Machuca, 21 and Charlie Arenivas, 17.
District Attorney Randy Reynolds is prosecuting, assisted by
investigator Orlando Franco.
Richard Abalos of Odessa is defense attorney. Judge Bob Parks is
PECOS, Mar. 17, 1997 - Parents concerned about the recent dress code
changes at the Pecos High School were unable to hold their scheduled
meeting Sunday afternoon.
Spokesperson for the group, Louis Matta, said this morning that both the
Pecos Community Center - where the group met on March 9 and had planned
to meet again Sunday at 4:30 p.m. - and the Reeves County Civic Center
were booked.
Matta said a letter has been submitted to Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD
Superintendent Mario Sotelo requesting that the dress code be put on the
agenda for Thursday night's school board meeting.
However, a preliminary agenda received this morning by the Enterprise on
the May 20 meeting does not include the dress code item.
Matta said he will be meeting Sotelo later today to discuss parents'
concerns, "to see if we can reach an agreement."
He added that he'll be requesting a postponement of the dress code until
parents, administrators and school board members can meet and further
discuss the issue.
Changes in the dress code at Pecos High School, which limited the type
of clothes students could wear, and banned other types of grooming items
in class, were approved at the school board's Feb. 27 meeting.
The changes led to four days of protests by a group of PHS students the
week following the board's vote. School was closed last week, due to
Spring Break.
They will also consider CIC (AIM) asset management, property tax
abatement and guidelines, financial reports, bills, medical staff report
and administrative report.
The board meets in the hospital classroom. All meetings are open to the
FORT STOCKTON, Mar. 13, 1997 - Citing a growing problem with gophers in
the area, a representative from Texas A&M is seeking the help of Pecos
County and other local government entities in funding a solution. During
Monday's meeting, Pecos County Commissioners considered the problem and
noted other entities in the county may contribuge to the cooperative
FORT DAVIS, Mar. 12, 1997 - Although the meeting dragged on for 2½ hours
last Thursday, it ws effectively over within the first five minutes.
Monday morning, Jeff Davis County commissioners made it official, in a
5-0 unanimous vote, the court shot down any thoughts of a bill in the
Texas Legislature to form a historic district in Fort Davis. A week
earlier copies of a 12-page bill had shown up in Fort Davis.
Commissioners said the bill is too wide in scope, too strict in tone and
contains some tough peanlties for those who can't or won't comply.
MARFA, Mar. 13, 1997 - One of the earliest pioneers of Presidio County
will be honored by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City on
Saturday. Lucas Charles Brite, a rancher, businessman, politician,
theologian and philanthropist, will be inducted into the Hall of Great
Westerners at the 26th annual Western Heritage Awards.
ALPINE, Mar. 13, 1997 - Brewster County Sheriff Steve Whitley made
history last Thursday when he hired his first femal deputy. Elva Acosta,
36, of Alpine was hired after the department fired deputy Joe Hamilton.
Acosta, who said this is her lifelong dream, graduated from the 1996 Sul
Ross State University Police Academy and became a reserve officer/jailer.
PRESIDIO, Mar. 13, 1997 - The streets of Presidio are taking on a more
appealing appearance with the installment of lamp posts on O'Reilly
Street and palm trees near the port. There's also the completion of the
park near Big Bend Telephone Co. to look forward to. But residents can
expect even more improvements during the coming year, with help from the
Texas department of Transportation's $700,000 allocation for a highway
beautification project.
McCAMEY, Mar. 12, 1997 - Upton County Sheriff's deputies responding to a
call for assistance pursued a vehicle driven by David Rios on March 3.
Rios stopped 1.6 miles est of Midkiff and pointed a pistol at Deputy
Pritchett. Prtichett shot him once in the lower extremity with a
12-gauge shotgun. Rios is in Midland County Jail in lieu of $75,000 bond
on a charge of aggravated assault on peace officer.
CRANE, Mar. 13, 1997 - The Crane Memorial Hospital board of directors
may finally be confronting some of its long-standng problems, thanks to
a strange turn of events and an unlikely source. Willford Alford, whom
the board hired as administrator, opted instead to take a pharmacist
position in Pecos. The board then called an emergency meeting to decide
if it should hire an interim administrator. They hired Michelle Aguilar,
the administrator's executive secretary and medical records clerk.
Aguilar gave the board her unvarnished assessment of the hospital's
problems and vowed to make changes immediately. By Tuesday night's
meeting, the changes had begun, with billing procedures and collection
of past due accounts on $881,000 uncollected revenue.
MONAHANS, Mar. 13, 1997 - Jobs and dollars are coming bck to the oil
patch in Ward and Winkler counties. Oil and gas field wages are up more
than $1 million a year. Production values and economic factors in the
two counties pushed past $1 billion last year. Wages paid to oil and gas
extraction workers in the second quarter of 1996 totaled $5.1 million,
compared to $4.9 million for the smae period the previous year. The
Texas Railroad Commission reported that Ward County last year produced
6.1 million barrels of oil and 64.86 million Mcf of natural gas valued
at $243 million at the wellhead.
Felisiano Hignojoz, 68, died Friday, March 14 in Colorado City.
A mass was held today at 11 a.m. at Santa Rosa Catholic Church with
burial at Greenwood Cemetery.
He was born June 9, 1928, was a lontime Pecos resident, a retired
laborer and a Catholic.
Survivors include two stepsons, Reynaldo Ramirez of Dallas, Fernando
Granado of Burlock, Calif.; five step-daughters, Melinda Medina of El
Monte, Calif., Lolly Granado of Los Angeles, Calif., Ymelda Vejil of
Santa Fe, N.M., Hilda Flores of Midland and Irma Lara of Fort Worth; one
brother, Eloy Hignojoz of Odessa; four sisters, Elena Matta, Juanita
Bitolas, Ciria Gamboa of Odessa, Gregoria Garza of Pecos; 20
grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.
Martinez Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
E.J. (Jesse) James, 81, of Pecos, died Saturday, March 15 at Fort
Stockton Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today at Fourth and Bois D'Arc
Church of Christh with Jim Morrow of Alamgordo officiating along with
Monty Huffman of Pecos assisting. Burial was held in Evergreen Cemetery.
He was born March 8, 1916 in Rule, Tx.
He was preceded in death by one daughter, Verna Christine James.
Survivors include his wife, Ina Bess James of Pecos; three sons, Jesse
James Jr. of Llano, Ike James of Keller, Neil James of Fort Stockton;
five daughters, Tomijo Blackstock and Mary Ann Box of Pecos, Linda Cox
and Mavanee Young of Odessa, Ruth Loftin of Alamagordo, N.M.; one
sister, Iola Reeves of Colorado City; 18 grandchildren; 26
great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren and numerous nieces
and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to
Lakeview Christian Home in Carlsbad, N.M.
Pecos Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Joseph Wilhelm Carl Knust, 76, of Clifton died March 13.
Funeral services were March 15 at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in
Clifton. The Reverend John R. Austin presided. A burial followed at the
Clifton Cemetery.
Knust was born March 14, 1920, in the Running Brook Farm just south of
Womack. A former resident of Pecos, he was a United States Navy veteran
of World War II.
Knust retired from managing a feedlot in Pecos in the 1970s before
moving to back to Bosque County.
He is survived by wife, Lydia Knust, of Clifton; four daughters, Barbara
Treat, Sue Mills, Nell Vaughn and Christina Mills; one sister, Rosa
Knudson; seven grandchildren and two neices and one nephew.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Esther Wiederaenders.
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All governments face people living beyond their borders, both foreign and native-born, who are either detractors or advocates of its policies. Vladimir Putin's government is no different from any other in this respect. What is odd about the Russian case is that radical leftists are among those who support the Russian ruling class and its decidedly capitalist and imperialist government.
The triumphal rise of corporate power, neo-liberal capitalism, and neo-conservative/right-wing Republican influence on US foreign policy during the last 20 years gave Marxism and radical leftists new relevance. EU voters recently gave approximately the same percentage of votes to radical left as radical right parties (8-10%). Radical political leftists present themselves as advocates for oppressed and dispossessed individuals groups societies or countries, and opponents of unjustifiable inequalities and exploitation. In practice, they are selective about which social labour and national movements they support. Pro-Kremlin leftists oppose Ukraine's Maidan movement, Ukrainian national ambitions in general. They support Putin's territorial claims against Ukraine and the Russian neo Nazis waging war against the newly elected Ukrainian government.
Not all who hold radical left views are necessarily affiliated with a political party – as shown by the Occupy Movement. Among these, internet comment on Maidan-related articles suggest there are many pro Russian European and North American leftists who share the Russian government's anti Ukrainian position. Typical well known examples of such post 1991 non-party affiliated leftists are Noam Chomsky and John Pilger who have no interest in any evil that cannot be linked to America nor in the victims of such evil.
Since 1991 pro Kremlin leftists have been either been silent on or supportive of regimes in China, North Africa, Syria, North Korea, Zimbabwe, the Congo, fundamentalist Islamists, and Arab Baathists. Now Putin's government, and pro Russian neo Nazi and fascist parties can be added to the list. Activists, workers, indigenous minorities and groups or persons with grievances against, opposed to or miserable due to the above listed governments or groups are ignored or condemned. Alongside the Russophilism, neo Soviet sympathies, material interest, delusion and ignorance that can account for this double standard among pro Kremlin leftists, is the anti-Americanism that has overshadowed anti-imperialism in their thinking. This world view plays a key role in keeping such leftists as amenable to Russian government media and continued Russian domination of Ukraine now as they were before 1991.
Anti- Americanism is a set of beliefs that classifies imperialism as a singular specific American rather than global phenomenon that discounts or ignores competition between imperialists and intra capitalist rivalries. Anti- Americanism bears little relation to Lenin's concept of rival imperialist ruling classes divided within and engaged in an unending struggle with one another that dominated classes groups and nations might exploit. Instead, anti- americanists restrict "imperialism" to the objectives of a corporate controlled US government that supposedly dominates a bloc without fundamental intra ruling- class differences. Such a perspective leads believers to see the world as a stage for a duel between a capitalist USA and NATO on one side, and capitalist Russia on the other ---with possible allies like India Brazil and China. On this manichaen stage, Ukraine must remain Russian so the US does not get stronger. Middle or working class Ukrainians who see benefit in the EU, the massive support for the Maidan, a long tradition of Ukrainian anti-colonialism, and the possibility of future support from Ukrainian leftists in the fight against neo liberal capitalism within the EU, have no place on this stage. Nor does the possibility that Ukrainians might prefer the EU to the Russian variant of neo liberal capitalism because experience has shown them the latter is more destructive and rapacious than the former. Russian-style neo-soviet capitalism as exists in Ukraine is not tempered by a strong left opposition, trade unions, independent political parties and rule of law -- what Marx considered the "bourgeois rights and liberties" established in Europe between 1789 and 1914.
Such anti Americanism has little in common with Marx or Trotsky. It has much in common with people who have nothing to do with socialism or marxism like Carl Schmitt, Aleksandr Glaziev, Vladimir Putin and Aleksander Dugin. According to the anti-Americanist script, those who support EU membership for Ukraine are dupes in a fascist plot, run by the USA and NATO and its new puppet Kyiv "junta" government. Ukrainian national ambitions and independence are synonymous with what pro Kremlin leftists and Russian leaders call fascism. [1]
Russian communist leaders who condemned any manifestations of Ukrainian national independence as "fascist" had no problems with real Nazis or fascists as long as they were pro Russian. Thus, Stalin's treaties with Fascist Italy (1933) and Nazi Germany (1939) – that obliged Stalin to deliver refugee German communists back to Germany. Those leftists in Europe who thought state control of the economy amounted to socialism accommodated themselves to these treaties and dutifully supported Russian annexation of Finnish territory in 1940 as a defensive measure against British imperialism. When Hitler's 1941 invasion made Nazism and Fascism anti –Russian, Stalin and his associates made "anti fascism" synonymous with pro –Russian in a formula that did not clearly distinguish between Nationalism, Fascism and Nazism. Today this formula is still used by Russian leaders and foreign pro Kremlin leftists. Stalin's formula had profound implications for non Russians in the USSR opposed to a Kremlin rule that they identified with Russia. Basically, it permitted his representatives and supporters to label all non Russian opposition fascist and, implicitly, Nazi. This semantic trick discredited such opposition in the eyes of uninformed foreigners much more effectively than the term "anti- Russian" could have done by adding a class aspect to what is basically a national issue – Russian rule over foreign countries.
Despite the collapse of the USSR, the introduction of neo liberal capitalism in Russia and, the authoritarian nature of Putin's government, a sizable number of foreign leftists have remained politically pro –Kremlin. In 2004, in step with Russia's leaders, they condemned Ukraine's Orange Revolution. In 2014 they condemned the Euromaidan. Supporting Russia's new capitalist government, like they had its old soviet government, these leftists did not condemn Putin's annexation of the Crimea, or his sponsorship of neo imperialist Russian neo Nazis armed gangs in eastern Ukraine. In neither year did they organize mass anti-colonialist anti-imperialist anti Russian demonstrations in any US or EU city.
Pro Kremlin leftists who consider themselves radical marxists and are normally censorious, if not disparaging of US corporate media and governmental pronouncements, do not extend that critical doubt to Russian government media. Despite being funded and controlled by an authoritarian right-wing government, foreign leftists read and retransmit accounts from this official outlet as well as anonymous ostensibly private non-leftwing pro Russian outlets like Slavyangrad and Vineyardsaker. These accounts include anti -Ukrainian horror stories. In July 2014, for instance, Dugin claimed Ukrainian troops crucified a child, while Russia Today purported the Ukrainian government was teaching children nazi slogans and conducting ethnic cleansing in eastern Ukraine. Both these stories were removed when they were exposed – but not before unknown thousands had seen them. [2]
In so far as Putin's capitalist government has an ideology it is traditionalist, clericalist, and imperialist. Putin declared at the ceremony marking the annexation of Crimea in March 2014, forgetting about the Jews and the Chinese, that the Russian people are the largest geographically disconnected people in the world and that he sees it as his job to unite them all in a single state. Like its tsarist precursor, todays government includes in the cabinet the head of the Russian Orthodox church – now called a Patriarch instead of an Oberprokurator. While not all academics consider Putin's government fascist they do consider it right-wing authoritarian. For Russian leaders, a high percentage of whom made their careers alongside Putin in the KGB, Ukrainian independence is a "historical accident." Ukrainians are really "Little Russians" loyal to Russia and not much different from Russians and, they are unrelated to a supposed minority of extremist nationalists obsessed with a perverse idea of independence. Today's borders are artificial, Ukrainian society is supposedly deeply divided and it is a failed state – "not a country" as Putin told US President Bush in 2008. Ukrainian citizens who want political cultural and economic independence from Russia are extremists, fascists, and nazis who will repress Russians. [3] This is a world view normally attributed to Dugin although it incorporates elements of official Stalinist ideology and its roots reach back to various early 20th century loyalist Russian rightist extemists then called "Black Hundreds."
Foreign radical leftist repetition and dissemination of official Russian government views about Ukraine coincided in 2014 with the formation of a pro Russian anti-EU, extreme right/far left alliance in the European Parliament – along the lines of the 1933 and 1939 treaties. Both groups consider Putin Ukraine's savior from "western imperialism." The pro Kremlin EU extreme leftists allied with the EU extreme rightists offer no explanation of why pro capitalist EU fascists and neo nazis are worthy allies while pro capitalist Ukrainian fascists and neo Nazis are not. Besides bone fide fascists, except those of the Ukrainian variety, pro Kremlin radical leftists are also in bed with another of the Kremlin's allies, fundamentalist Christian Evangelicals. [4]
"Borotba," "Liva," "Counterpunch.org," "Marxist.com," "Greenleft.org," "Workers.org," "World Socialist Website," "Stopimperialism.com,'" "Links.org," "Criticatac.ro/lefteast," "Canadian Dimension" and "Globalresearch.ca," are 12 radical left sites whose editors share anti- Americanist premises. They regularly post pro- Kremlin, anti- Maidan, and anti -Ukrainian articles that identify the 2014 conservative Ukrainian government containing Russians and Jews as a fascist "regime" exploiting Russians and oppressing "freedom fighters" in the Donbass. Few of these sites list who finances them. How many like Globalresearch, which is probably funded by the Kremlin, is unknown. [5] Some of these pro- Kremlin leftist authors cite official Russian media or Russian neo nazi sites. Others have no compunction to travel to Russian occupied territory to anonymously financed conferences and sign declarations supporting the foreign policy interests of the Russian ruling class. [6]
Like Kremlin officials, these foreign radical leftists condemn Ukrainians who in any EU country would be termed "patriots" as "fascists," which they do not distinguish from Nazis, or from conservatives – or even from nationalists. Preoccupied with a relatively weak Ukrainian extremist right they ignore the much more numerous and powerful imperialist Russian extremist right in Russia and Ukraine who seek to reestablish the tsarist Russian empire. [7] Like their Russian media sources foreign pro Kremlin leftists are silent about the Ukrainian national question and Ukrainian anti-colonialist thought. They do not consider the political and economic pressure Putin's government exercises on Ukraine that radicalizes Ukrainian liberal nationalism. They do not post analysis of Russian colonialism, Russian imperialism, Eurasianism, Russian militarism, or the linguistic/cultural russification of non Russians outside Russia's borders. They carry no critiques of Putin or his aides and advisors like Dugin Surkov and Glazev — the counterparts to the American neo-conservatives Wolfowitz, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Neither official Russian media nor foreign pro Kremlin leftists scrutinize Putin's ties to and sponsorship of pro- Russian EU neo Nazi's and Russian neo Nazi groups in Ukraine. [8]
Sometimes authors cite individual Russians who share their preconceptions as sources to confirm their opinions. One such source is Boris Kargalitsky, a leftist who moved right to join Russia's "red brown coalition." Kargalitsky has a Russocentric perspective on the former Soviet ruled space, calls for the reincorporation of and domination of Russia within that space, and travels the EU addressing pro Russian extremist right and extremist left groups. Sympathizers translate his articles, that contain some decidedly imaginative twists, for posting on foreign pro Kremlin sites.
In his opinion the Russian ruling class is part of the global capitalist system and dominates Ukraine. Kargalitsky imagines that the imperialist Russian neo nazi groups in Crimea and eastern Ukraine represent a mass proletarian revolution that will spark his desired re-establishment of a Russian dominated USSR. Within this context he explains that Putin does have an interest in a weak small poor Ukraine over which Russian domination could be extended, but, he does not send troops into Ukraine to secure the existence of the "workers revolution" in the self-proclaimed Russian "republics" there because he does not want that revolution to spread to Russia and overthrow him. The capitalist desire for business and profits as usual, meanwhile, will ensure that foreign sanctions will not appreciably effect the Russian ruling class.
Kargalitsky's pro Kremlin audience finds his worker revolution scenario appealing. But given their preconceptions, ignorance of Russian and Ukrainian, and minimal knowledge about either country, they either cannot, or choose not to, know what he omits from his articles. For example, he makes no mention of Russian imperialism, great power chauvinism, non Russian national movements, linguistic and cultural russification of non Russians, or the link between the national and the social questions. He does not dwell on how his imagined "working class" movement was aided and funded in its origins by Ukraine's pro Russian capitalists (oligarchs); in particular, Rinat Akhmetov, nor that the local Russian extremist leaders are not interested in nationalization – least of all Akhmetov's holdings. He does not mention either the small size of the neo-Nazi section of the Ukrainian right nor how few Ukrainian citizens support the Russian neo nazi right. [9] For all their Marxist rhetoric neither Kargalitsky or his likeminded reflect on why the Russian neo nazi leaders of Ukraine's imagined proletarian revolution do not associate themselves with Marxism of any kind, why they sport double headed eagles and tsarist colours, rather than hammers and sickles and red banners, why they use Orthodox symbolism, or, why they wax nostalgic over the tsarist empire rather than the short-lived Russian Bolshevik Krivoi-Rog Republic of 1918.
Another local professed Marxist pundit reproduced and cited by foreign pro Kremlin leftists is Vladimir Ishchenko. In June 2014 he signed a declaration about events in Ukraine with 29 others that recognized the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics without mentioning or condemning as imperialist the Russian neo Nazi groups that proclaimed them. Using old soviet terminology the declaration juxtaposes Ukrainian "nationalism" to "anti-fascism," does not mention Russian imperialism and, does not consider Ukrainian nationalism progressive in so far as it is anti imperialist. The signatories call for an "informational and organizational consolidation of the left groups in the former Soviet space" rather than in Europe and the EU. [10]
Before 1991 foreign leftists who supported the USSR and condemned anti Russian Ukrainian national liberation could be dismissed as naïve dupes or idealists. However, they did have some Marxist credibility. In so far as they defined socialism in terms of one party rule, state ownership and, the Kremlin was ruled by a communist party, their defense of what they deemed to be communism derived logically from their definition of socialism. Today, the USSR no longer exists and Russia is a capitalist state whose leaders have imperialist claims on former subject peoples. Nonetheless, there are still foreign leftists today who support these leaders, whose guiding principle in foreign policy can hardly be considered socialist even in theory, and, is not unlike Hitler's. That is, Putin is prepared to "defend co-countrymen [sootechestvennik]," meaning Russians very broadly defined, beyond Russian borders by force is necessary whether or not they want defending -- much like Hitler sought to "defend" Germans outside Germany in the 1930s.
Russian media and pro Kremlin radicals both condemn Ukrainian independence and its new capitalist government, but not Putin's capitalist government, as a "fascist junta." Leftists unable to deny Putin's government is capitalist, remain silent on it and tacitly assign it a "progressive" role in as much as it is anti-American and uses some oil and gas revenues to finance social programs. Neither Russian media nor pro Kremlin leftists treat Russia's neo liberal capitalist government as imperialist.
In conclusion, it should be noted that there are radical leftists critical of Putin's government. Proceeding from anti-imperialist rather than anti-Americanist premises, these persons might be characterized as sympathetically neutral towards Ukrainian national interests and the Maidan movement. Unlike their anti- Americanist pro Kremlin opposites they share Trotsky's characterization of Ukraine's fate within the USSR and have some understanding of why Ukrainians after 1929, unlike populations throughout Asia, Africa, and western Europe, stopped associating communism with national liberation. [11]
These groups place themselves in the tradition of the Ukrainian pre-Stalinist radical left (the Borotbists and the Ukrainian Communist Party, not to be confused the Stalinist Communist Party of Ukraine – a Russian party in Ukraine, and not a Ukrainian party). Like them they regard Russia as an imperialist power. [12] Unlike the UCP and Borotbists, they do not regard Russians in Ukraine as settler colonists. Thus, absent from their writings today are comparisons with French settlement in Algeria or Protestant settlement in Ireland where unassimilated imperial loyalist colonist communities served as the social base for the extremist rightwing OAS and UDA and UDF, much like today Russian settlement in Ukraine provides a base for Russian neo Nazis. [13]
"The Fourth International," "Ukrainesocialistsolidarity," "Workersliberty.org," "Themilitant.com," "Openleft.ru," "Revolutionary Communist International Tendency," "FifthInternational.org" and "Socialist Worker" share anti-imperialist positions. They contain articles condemning not only the Ukrainian right, which they consider too influential in the new government but, also Putin, and the armed Russian neo Nazis. This is also the position of the Party of the European Left. These foreign leftists are critical of the new government as neo liberal capitalist, call for peace and the right of Ukrainians to determine their political future for themselves independent of either US or Russian imperialism.
While radical leftist parties have increased seats in the EU parliament, their influence will depend on how intensely European bankers and corporation owners and managers persist in imposing their neo liberal capitalist agenda on an increasingly angry and impoverished population. As far as concerns general opinion about Russia pro Kremlin radical leftists seem to have little if any influence. A PEW survey of world public opinion on Russia between July 2013 and 2014 shows that the number of those with favourable views of Russia declined substantially in every country surveyed except China. [14] Regardless of whether or not pro Kremlin leftists are more or less influential than ostensibly liberal pundits and activists, like the Americans Stephen Cohen and Thomas Hartmann, collectively they ensure that more people are exposed to the Kremlin anti-Ukrainian viewpoints outside Russia than would be without them. [15]
RUSSIAN TRANSLATION: http://www.geopolitika.lt/?artc=7123 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NOTES
1. http://zavtra.ru/content/view/spasti-ukrainu-2/. This document, "Save Ukraine," was released by the supposedly non governmental right-wing Izborsk Club whose founders include Putin associates Leonid Ivashov (former head of the International Relations Department of the Ministry of Defense), Sergei Glazyev, Alexander Prokhanov and Alexander Nagorny. English translation: http://www.globalresearch.ca/russias-save-ukraine-memorandum-prevent-the....
2. http://www.sott.net/article/281891-Eyewitness-account-of-Ukrainian-atroc.... http://belsat.eu/en/wiadomosci/a,20867,lurid-antiukraine-propaganda-russ... ; http://khpg.org.ua/en/index.php?id=1405478412. http://neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1278-victims-of-russi....
3. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3130165/posts; http://www.examiner.com/list/russia-s-top-80-lies-about-ukraine; http://www.ji.lviv.ua/n18texts/okara.htm.
4. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-Kremlin-builds-an-unholy-alliance-w...
5. http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.ca/2014/02/what-west-should-know-about... http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.ca/2014/02/pro-russian-network-behind-... http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.ca/2014/01/italian-fascist-socialists-.... Criticatac.ro/lefteast sometimes posts views of anti imperialist leftists critical of the Kremlin. .
6. http://links.org.au/node/3957; http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2014/07/23/popular-front-russian-nat....
7. As of 2011 there were at least 17 Kremlin sponsored anti Ukrainian Russian fascist and neo nazi organizations in Ukraine. http://j-mihalych.livejournal.com/456482.html. A list compiled by Sergei Bilokin (Kyiv) in 2014 lists 53 Russian fascist and neo nazi parties, some of which have filial branches in Ukraine. How many of these are funded by the Kremlin is unknown. To this total should be added at least 4 organizations that are not Ukrainian parties but merely Russian parties in Ukraine : the Communist Party of Ukraine, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Borotba and Liva Sprava. FASCIST: 1. Российский общенародный союз — РОС 2. Национально-Демократическая Партия — НДП 3. Новая Сила 4. ЭО Русские 5. Великая Россия — ВР 6. Национал-демократический альянс — НДА 7. Народный собор — НС 8. Русское Имперское Движение — РИД 9. НСР(Национальный Союз России) 10. Собор русского народа — СРН 11. Русское общественное движение — РОД 12. Национальное русское освободительное движение — НРОД 13. Партия защиты российской Конституции «Русь» — ПЗРК «Русь» 14. Национал-патриоты России — НПР 15. Национал-демократическое движение «Русский Гражданский Союз» — НДД РГС 16. Нация Свободы — НС 17. Русское Национал-патриотическое движение 18. Сопротивление 19. Национальная Социалистическая Инициатива — НСИ 20. Конгресс русских общин 21. Реструкт 22. ОД "РАССВЕТ"(Общественное Движение "РАССВЕТ") 23. Национальная организация русских мусульман
NEO NAZI: 1. Народное ополчение имени Минина и Пожарского — НОМП 2. Другая Россия 3. Русский Фронт Освобождения «Память» — РФО «Память» 4. ООПД «Русское национальное единство» — "Гвардия Баркашова" 5. ВОПД «Русское национальное единство» — ВОПД РНЕ 6. Движение «Александр Баркашов» 7. Национально-державная партия России — НДПР 8. Народная национальная партия — ННП 9. Истинное русское национальное единство — ИРНЕ 10. Балтийский Авангард Русского Сопротивления — БАРС 11. Русский объединённый национальный альянс (РОНА) 12. Гвардия Христа 13. Национальный союз — НС 14. Союз православных хоругвеносцев— СПХ 15. Союз русского народа — СРН 16. Северное братство — СБ 17. Чёрная Сотня 18. Движение Парабеллум 19. Национал-социалистическая партия Руси — НСПР 20. Партия Свободы — ПС 21. Русский Образ 22. Национал-синдикалистское наступление — НСН
BANNED: 1. Движение против нелегальной иммиграции — ДПНИ 2. Национал-социалистическое общество — НСО 3. Национал-большевистская партия — НБП 4. Славянский союз — СС 5. Фронт национал-революционного действия (ФНРД) 6. Русский общенациональный союз — РОНС 7. Лига обороны Москвы 8. Формат 18.
8. The Kremlin's Anti Extremist Law is worded to allow officials to determine what is "extremist" and thus ensure that law is not applied to groups it sponsors secretly or otherwise like Rodina and Nashi. One wonders whether there are two intelligence directorates dealing with extremists. One that represses them and another that sponsors them. On Kremlin sponsorship of Russian neo nazi groups http://www.academia.edu/4348334/Russia_-_The_Uses_of_Extremism_The_Emerg... http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1399501345.
9. Polls taken in early 2014 show that had presidential elections occurred then, no more than 15% would have voted for clearly neo soviet politically Russophile candidates. 12% supported full integration with Russia. In the most heavily colonized and Russified provinces where most of the population follow Russian rather than Ukrainian media, 24 percent in Luhansk and Odessa, 33 percent in Donetsk, and 41 percent in Crimea, supported political union with Russia. http://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&;cat=reports&id=236&page=1 Despite high pro Russian sentiment in Crimea according to Serhiy Kunitsyn Crimean prime minister for six years: "The only thing that forced Crimean elite to support Moscow was the presence of 20,000 Russian troops." http://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/108310
10. http://www.globalresearch.ca/stop-the-war-in-the-ukraine-antiwar-appeal-.... Leftists sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause issued a counter-declaration specifically identifying Russian imperialism and Russian neo Nazis as threats. It was ignored by the foreign pro Russian group. http://www.ukrainesolidarity.co.uk/#!THE-SLOGAN-OF-THE-MOMENT-PROTECTING...
11. http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/04/ukraine.html. See also: http://louisproyect.org/2014/04/20/lenins-party-great-russian-chauvinism...
12. http://socialistworker.org/2014/03/11/ukraine-and-the-national-question http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/imperialist-russia/. See also. S. Velychenko, "Ukrainian Marxists and Russian Imperialism 1918-1923: Prelude to the Present in Eastern Europe's Ireland," Irish Left Review (2014) http://www.irishleftreview.org/2014/05/23/ukrainian-marxists-russian-imp... ; "Ukrainian Anti-Colonialist Thought in Comparative Perspective. A Preliminary Overview," Ab Imperio no. 4 (2012); "The Issue of Russian Colonialism in Ukrainian Thought," Ab Imperio no. 1 (2002) 323- 66.
13. Events have shown that only a minority of Russians descended from settler colonists are politically pro Russian today. Not enough supported the Russian neo Nazi loyalist equivalents of the OAS and UDA to give them control over Odessa Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. In these provinces, unlike in the Crimea, there were no stationed Russian troops. Like most other settler-colonist based extremists, Ukraine's Russian groups are divided between the empire loyalists who seek incorporation into Russia and the "creoles" who want independent republics.
14. http://www.pewglobal.org/files/2014/07/PG-2014-07-09-Russia-Favorability...
15. The following are non-left wing anonymous pro Russian sites: the Orwellian named I"nternational Observatory of Ukrainian Conflict," "slavyangrad.org," " vineyardsaker.fr" and " vineyardsaker.de." The anonymous "Human Rights Investigations.org" and the "Ukrainian Human Rights.org," must not be confused with the legitimate "Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union" and " Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group." The Paris based ostensibly liberal "Institut de la Democratie et de la Cooperation" is Russian funded. There is no evidence that pro Kremlin sites "Sott.net" or "Voltairenet.org" are Kremlin funded. Founder of the latter, Thierry Meyssan, is someone whose concern about French and Ukrainian right-wing extremists does not extend to Russian neo Nazis. He is associated with the official Kremlin journal "Odnako."


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- A deadly Hunger Game in Syria
In the towns of Madaya and Alfoua in Syria there are catastrophic events occurring. Besieged by militias and terrorist groups for months on end, the residents are at risk of starving or freezing to death
The most recent Iranian and Saudi dispute is not taking place in Riyadh or Tehran, for now it is flaring up in Madaya and Alfoua in Syria.
Madaya is a town predominantly inhabited by Sunnis. It is only half an hour northwest of Damascus in the mountains and was a popular destination for wealthy Gulf tourists. Alfoua, together with the Kafaria, are villages located in northwest Syria near the city of Idlib. Alfoua is populated mainly by SHiites.
80,000 at risk of dying from starvation
However, there are no picnics happening there anymore.
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If you were to search the word Madaya on twitter, horrible images will show up; the skeletal frames of starving children, slaughtered cats to be eaten, the concave stomachs depicting desperate hunger and endless images of suffering. A resident offering his car for five kilos of milk or rice. It is unclear whether the reports are all authentic or whether there are forgeries and propaganda within. Sadly the situation got worse dramatically over the new year.
Nearly 370,000 tweets have been calling to save the little town, trying to draw attention to the fact that 40,000 people are being starved to death. Activists stated on Wednesday that 28 people died of hunger in the besieged village of Madaya. Attempts have been made to contact the United Nations, but in the last few days the activists recieved only automated email responses: Until 5 January all UN staff were on holiday.[[{"fid":"67945","view_mode":"full","type":"media","attributes":{"height":141,"width":250,"style":"width: 280px; height: 158px; margin: 5px; float: right;","class":"media-element file-full"}}]]
On Thursday, the United Nations informed: "The United Nations received credible reports of people dying from starvation and being killed while trying to leave"
Where a proxy war between the two great powers Saudi Arabia and Iran is being raged - Madaya and Alfoua are hostages in a cynical game.
The Syrian army and the Shiite Hezbollah militia are besieging the Sunni Madaya to exert pressure on their opponent. On the other hand, Syrian rebel groups and Jaish al-Fatah, an arm of the Sunni terrorist group Al Qaeda, have at the same time Jeish Alfatah have been attacking the Shiite village of Alfoua.These units are supported by both Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The last food aid they let through to Alfoua was in September.
"People are looking at Iran and Saudi Arabia's conflict as the biggest thing on the news, but we don't care, we just need to be released, people here are dying of hunger," said Amer Borhan, a manager of a civil hospital in Zabadani a neighboring town of Madaya.
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Nevertheless, many people on twitter comment with a distinctly sectarian and political stance. It seems Syrians often choose one side or the other in this humanitarian crisis, sympathising with only half of those in need. The opponents of the regime side with the besieged people in Madaya while Assad supporters assist the starving in Alfoua.
This escalation of violence, was incited by the execution of the Shiite sheikhs Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia 2nd of January.The Syrian writer Rateb Shabo, who was detained as a political opponent for 16 years in Assad's prisons and now lives in France, has another theory: The time of the execution could have something to do with the talks over Syria, which began in Riyadh in December.
On January 25, the peace talks in Geneva will be continued. "But Saudi Arabia does not want the Syrian parties involved in them," says Shabo. Expectations of the conference over Syria are very low, very few people believe they will reach an agreement. "Most of the conflicting Syrian parties don't even want to find a solution," says Shabo.
"For them, we are just a pawn in their game"
Saudi Arabia maintain that the deterioration of relations with Iran will not affect the Syrian peace talks. However, it will in fact do just that. The Iranian-American Middle East affairs analyst Holly Darges said in an interview with Cicero: "Coming to the table was already hard enough. Now Iran will further want to back Bashar Al-Assad in Syria and vice versa with Saudi Arabia and the rebels. Both countries will stick to their cards at the bargaining table in order to push forth their own agenda."
But the Saudi-Iranian Hunger Games in Syria urgently require a solution. "We are here only a pawn in the game," said a young activist from Madaya who wishes to remain anonymous. "We can see the conflict here in front of us, on Syrian soil. Even senior officials in the Syrian army have said to us directly: Iran and Turkey have involved you here - and only they can release you from it".
A little milk and rice will relieve the besieged people for the time being, but it will take a lot longer to heal the deep wounds within Syrian society.
"The inhabitants of these two towns are humans. They need to be rescued. In this war, we are losing our humanity " Sawas explains, "..when did we become such a divided, sectarian and ugly nation".
Update at 16:20 clock: Meanwhile, the Assad's government has agreed to allow the United Nations to access the besieged places of Madaya, Aloua and Kefraya.


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By Danielle Tumminio, Special to CNN • Updated 23rd March 2012
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Coober Pedy is one of the least accessible towns in Australia -- the place where the old American West meets Mars -- which is probably why it gained a reputation as the place where outlaws went to hide.
Situated in the Outback, it is close to nothing: The cities of Adelaide and Alice Springs are respectively nine hours south and eight hours north, and the nearest town -- William Creek, official population three -- takes 3½ hours to reach, provided the dirt roads aren't closed due to rain. Here, the earth is red, vegetation bare and temperatures extreme, but none of that stopped Westerners from setting up camp a century ago when they found opal shimmering in the dirt.
Lots of opal.
So they began digging, in more ways than one. As they mined the earth to discover one of the world's richest gem deposits, they also discovered why Westerners didn't settle in this barren, desolate region of Australia before: The heat. To battle temperatures that regularly reached above 110, settlers dug underground dwellings, a practice that continues to this day. In the heat of day, people are nowhere to be found, each hidden in a mine or dugout.
One sees why outlaws chose to come here: It's far from anything, it's desolate, it's pockmarked with underground homes, and it offers the possibility of a fresh start and the hope of a fortune.
Walking down the town's main drag today makes one feel like a real-life space cowboy and evokes an episode of "Firefly." There's a reconstructed "Star Wars" spaceship, underground hotels, a Volkswagon beetle painted like an opal dangling from a store, signs for underground churches, a kangaroo orphanage, a couple of mining museums, underground home tours, and a pizza place that sells pies with toppings like kangaroo, emu sausage, sweet cranberry, asparagus, onions and Camembert.
Its residents are known for being eccentric and hearty -- and if some are outlaws, they don't publicize it much on the street. What they do publicize is the town's international community, which represents more than 50 countries. There are olive groves for the Italians and Greeks, a Chinese restaurant so Asians can taste home and grocery stores with fare ranging from sweet chili sauce to imported Greek fondant and a whole kangaroo tail, complete with fur.
All in a town of 1,900.
Coober Pedy remains a popular tourist destination for those seeking an authentic Outback experience (or who want to see where films like "Red Planet," "Mad Max" and "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" were filmed). Visitors often walk through the graveyard, where several tombstones are decorated with colored lights, and one even has, "Have a drink on me," etched into it, with beer and wine bottles resting nearby, free of charge. They board a four-wheel drive mail truck for a 13-hour tour of Outback cattle stations and towns. And, of course, they sit on the hot, dusty earth, shooing away oddly persistent flies as they lose all sense of time searching for opal in the dirt, hoping that the next stone they turn might let them retire early.
Outlaws came to Coober Pedy a century ago to find their fortune. Today, the town is an international community of residents united by their commitment to mining one of the world's most precious gems. Just as the town is home to the kind of diversity found in many cities, the opal that miners find so alluring, seductive, even, is a gem of many colors, with specks of pink, green, blue and red. It's a singular, unique, precious stone, and like Coober Pedy itself, what makes it so valuable is the rainbow inside.
What to do
Outback Mail Run Tour:
Guests travel 13 hours with an Australian mail carrier to deliver mail and supplies to five cattle stations (including the largest in Australia) and two towns (including one of the smallest in Australia). The tour provides a unique opportunity for visitors to experience the vastness of the Australian Outback and to learn about what it's really like to live there.
Sunset, Ghosts and Stars Tour:
Run by the Desert Cave Hotel, guests begin this tour by traveling 20 minutes outside town to the Breakaways, a geological formation of jagged hills marking what used to be the shorelines of an ancient ocean, to see the sunset. Once the stars have risen, guests travel back to the Old Cemetery in Coober Pedy, where a guide delights them with ghost stories of the town's most notable residents. Be sure to ask about Crocodile Harry!
Old Timers Mine Museum:
One of Coober Pedy's most popular destinations, the mine provides visitors with an opportunity to learn about the search for opal and the struggles of Coober Pedy's earliest miners. As part of the museum, guests have the chance to walk through an old-time dugout as well as a mineshaft.
Fossicking: Tourists in Coober Pedy are welcome to dig for their own opal fortune at public fossicking sites in town. Simply sit on the red earth and look for shimmery rocks. Fossicking is free and guests usually find numerous low-quality opals. Ask any resident for directions to the nearest public fossicking site.
Getting there
By plane:
Regional Express
operates a two-hour flight from Adelaide to Coober Pedy most days of the week.
By train:
The Ghan
train operates a weekly service from Adelaide or Alice Springs to Manguri Station, 45 minutes outside Coober Pedy; transportation from the station must be arranged with hotels in advance, as there is no transportation at the station and trains from both cities arrive late at night.
By bus:
offers daily service to Coober Pedy from both Adelaide and Alice Springs. Expect the trip from Adelaide to take 11 hours and the trip from Alice Springs to take eight.
By car:
Coober Pedy can be reached by car via a nine-hour drive from Adelaide or an eight-hour drive from Alice Springs. Drivers are warned not to drive through the Outback at night, because of the lack of gas stations and the threat of accidents caused by kangaroos; rain in the Outback may also render roads impassable, and drivers should not expect to have cell phone reception in the desert.
Where to stay
Desert Cave Hotel:
Located in the middle of Coober Pedy's main street, this is the town's only four-star hotel. Guests have the option to stay underground or aboveground. Underground rooms have ventilation but no windows.
The Underground Motel:
Offers underground accommodations to travelers with friendly hospitality. All rooms are underground with natural light and ventilation.
Underground Bed and Breakfast:
Owners Ana and Ken Male treat their guests to truly authentic Coober Pedy accommodation. Guests stay in underground rooms with a choice of en suite or shared bathrooms.
Where to eat
John's Pizza Bar and Restaurant:
Awards hang from the walls of John's, testifying to its reputation for having not only the finest pizza in Coober Pedy but some of the best in Australia. John's serves up not only traditional pies but also regional specialties like the Malu (smoked kangaroo, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, eggplant, marinated tomatoes, roasted peppers, eggplant and olives) and the Coat of Arms (sweet cranberry, mozzarella cheese, Camembert, emu metworst, spinach and smoked kangaroo). Pasta and sandwiches are also available.
Tom and Mary's Greek Taverna: The place to go for Mediterranean food in the Outback. A favorite of locals and visitors alike, Tom and Mary impress visitors with authentic Greek fare. The restaurant is renowned for its seafood, especially the Saganaki prawns, so don't be afraid to try some fish in the desert. Also be sure to try some tzatziki -- the yogurt is made from scratch and the herbs are grown in the backyard. Then, with a full stomach, ask for directions to Coober Pedy's olive grove to continue that Greece-in-Australia experience. Hutchinson Street, Coober Pedy
Located in the Desert Cave Hotel, Umberto's is Coober Pedy's finest dining establishment, and is known for its Mod-Oz cuisine, including regional specialties like kangaroo, camel, emu and Australian beef. Italian food is also on the menu.
The Pink Roadhouse
(Oodnadatta): Situated in a largely aboriginal town of fewer than 300 people, this combo restaurant, grocery store and post office looms over the town in all its pink, hand-painted-sign splendor. The restaurant is known throughout Australia for its iconic Oodnaburger, which is composed of meat seasoned with secret spices, onion, cheese, egg, bacon, pineapple, lettuce, beetroot and tomato. The Outback Mail Run Tour stops here for lunch.
William Creek Hotel
(William Creek): Owned by two of the three permanent residents in South Australia's tiniest settlement, the William Creek Hotel serves a changing menu of fresh schnitzel, burgers and curries. The walls are covered with photos and business cards from folks who have passed through, and the owners always welcome friendly conversation and questions about what it's like to live in such rural territory. If visitors are too tired to move after eating, they can stay in one of the pub's hotel rooms. The Outback Mail Run Tour stops here for dinner.
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HFL general manager June Parkin and founder Liz Mullinar presented Lisa Presbury with its Supporter of the Year Award. Ms Mullinar said Ms Presbury, an executive with the Greater Building Society, had provided much love and support over 10 years to staff and guests as well as helping to raise funds for it to be able to run programs to help survivors of childhood abuse and trauma.
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Favorite Recipes: Buckin' Bull Nachos, Get Along Pretzel Doggies, Slow-Cooked Smoky Brisket, Cinnamon Churro Sundae, Pioneer Honey Taffy.
Chapters: 1) Breakfast at the Ranch 2) Cowpunchers Campout 3) Rodeo Refreshments 4) Chuck Wagon Dinner 5) The Pioneer's Pantry 6) Wild Western Grub
Author: Zac Williams is a partner at Williams Visual, a creative communications company. He has been the principal photographer of more than 200 books. He enjoys exploring food and culture through writing and photography. He is also the author of Little Monsters Cookbook and Little Aliens Cookbook.
Details: 8.75" x 7.25" / Hardcover with spiral binding / 63 pages