To the hundreds of millions of credulous westerners who still buy the simplistic “Putin’s war” narrative – a narrative dependent, as Caitlin Johnstone recently reminded us, on believing the US Empire does not exist – that the whole ghastly business … Read More »
If NATO encirclement of Russia was a betrayal of promises made by a string of senior Western politicians commencing with Bush Senior’s Secretary of State, James Baker, who promised that, following German reunification, NATO would advance “not an inch eastwards” … Read More »
Under the actual circumstances we are living through, determined opposition to NATO’s war against Russia, China and anyone else considered a “threat” to the interests of the Western ruling classes becomes synonymous with the struggle for the salvation and survival … Read More »
In my post five days ago, US Diplomacy as Greek Tragedy, I wrote that: Anyone taking the trouble – few do of course – to study the speeches and interviews of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Lavrov and Maria Zhakarova in Russia; … Read More »
Our European Values’: 1.21 Euro Minimum Wage in Ukraine Meet Ukraine, a country with Europe’s poorest and sickest population, the hub of cigarette smuggling, the world leader in female body trafficking. When a statutory minimum wage was first introduced in … Read More »
They laughed because they were untouchable, not because what I said was wrong. Sinead O’Connor As I and others will insist on saying, we are being lied to on a monumental scale about what the war in Ukraine is really … Read More »
Well, maybe not quite, but the writing is on the wall. Any truly impartial assessment of the hard realities our leaders and systemically supine media have been in flat denial of must conclude that, America having overplayed its hand repeatedly … Read More »
Wars are irruptions of brutal reality into fantasy and the Ukraine war is laying bare the empty complacency at the root of the West’s view of Russia. It’s going to be a cold hungry winter in Europe and in parts … Read More »
World Socialist Website, early today: The staggering hypocrisy of Wimbledon’s ban on Russian and Belarusian tennis players David Walsh Play began at the 135th edition of the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London on Monday without the participation of Russian or … Read More »
I won’t be saying much in this post; rather, handing over to others. Followers of this site over the past four to six months know of my insistence that it’s just plain stupid to suppose that Ukraine coverage by corporate … Read More »
