Cook on Monbiot on Ukraine
6
Mar
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Category Archives: russia
Media double standards over Ukraine
6
Mar
Our media are large corporations selling privileged audiences to other large corporations. Now the question is, what pictures of the world would a rational person expect from this arrangement? Noam Chomsky . I often use the term, propaganda blitz, in reference … Read More »
Is this Russian propaganda?
5
Mar
A friend posted on FB her admiration of the “hero” Volodymyr Zelensky. Yeah, the guy referred to by this White House reporter for CNN: No Fly Zones imposed by the US Empire plunged Africa’s richest country into over a decade … Read More »
The most important question in the world
28
Feb
A good few people for whom I have great respect – and one or two for whom I harbour no such sentiment – are denouncing Russia’s move on Ukraine. I will not, which puts me at odds even with those … Read More »
Ukraine through the eye of a UK diplomat
28
Feb
Writing yesterday, February 27, on the Strategic Culture Foundation website, former UK diplomat and spy Alastair Crooke assesses Russia’s move and the West’s response. First though, a word about Mr Crooke. Says wiki: … Crooke, (born 1949) is a British … Read More »
Ukraine: what does Mr Putin have to say?
27
Feb
A striking feature of corporate media propaganda blitzes is that the targets are not only highly personalised, and often as not likened to Hitler. They are also assiduously deplatformed. How many of the scores of millions of Westerners who rely … Read More »
Diana Johnstone on Russia bear baiting
26
Feb
I’m again indebted to a friend for alerting me to a worthy piece. The Defend Democracy article replicated below is by Diana Johnstone. As far as I know, this American in Paris is no relation to Melbourne’s Caitlin Johnstone. Diana … Read More »
Ukraine: the elephants in the room
24
Feb
The Economist today, February 25, 2022: … on a gloomy grey morning on February 24th, the onslaught against Ukraine ordered by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, had acquired a sickening inevitability. Yet nothing about this war was inevitable. It is a conflict … Read More »
Russia Today
24
Feb
RT published the following at 12:55 today, February 24. Putin will decide when Ukraine offensive ends – Kremlin Russian military action is the prerogative of the president, who makes the calls on its goals and terms, Kremlin said. Russia’s President … Read More »
Kiev shelled: Zelensky calls martial law
24
Feb
Clara Weiss, on the World Socialist Website today, February 24. After Russia announces “special military operation” in Ukraine, Biden declares US will “hold Russia accountable” At 5:50 a.m. Moscow time on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated a “special military … Read More »