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 »
In a short post – monolithic control at the Guardian? – I set out why that paper, though many of its writers are subjectively sincere, is not to be trusted. I home in on this organ more than any other … Read More »
People of Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) celebrate after Russia recognizes it as an independent state on February 21 Those who get their misinformation from Guardian and BBC might be forgiven their oblivion to the fact of Ukraine having seen eight … Read More »
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I came across this last night on Facebook. A chap named Mike, unknown to me, set out a list of motives for Russia invading Ukraine. It’s laborious, he offers no source for his claims about the latter’s natural wealth (not … Read More »
Within the tight confines of their worldviews, I often find the writings of the Guardian’s more rightwing columnists more useful than the bleatings of an Owen Jones or sub-clause stacked look-how-clever-I-ams of a Marina Hyde. (Hyde was good the other … Read More »
He being chief foreign correspondent for NBC, we’d expect Richard Engel to know something about the countries he reports on, wouldn’t we? Only kidding. Of course we wouldn’t! But we might expect some lowly minder to take him to one … Read More »
First, accuse Putin of plotting something he never intends to do. Second, tell the world you will strongly respond to the fabricated scenario. Third, tell the world when the fabricated scenario is to happen. Then, when the fabricated scenario never … Read More »
The Official Story The official story is that we live in a free democracy where our teachers tell us the truth about our nation, our government and our world when we are children, and then the free press continue telling … Read More »
Instead of a real military threat from Russia and China, the problem for US strategists is the absence of such a threat … What worries them is NATO nations and countries along the Belt & Road seeing the benefits of … Read More »