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Category Archives: ukraine war

I’m a fan of Sean Penn but …

30 Jan

A rich celebrity who makes millions of dollars a year in a fun, easy and egoically gratifying job is not going to be spotlighting all the lives who are being destroyed by the status quo systems which elevated them … … Read More »

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Ukraine Take 4 – The Guardian

27 Jan

I’m convinced that many of my friends and peers believe – though the more media savvy know better than to come right out and say so, even to themselves – that the Guardian and Observer are a cut above the … Read More »

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Ukraine Take 3 – Caitlin Johnstone

20 Jan

I hate people saying “I hope we do nuke ourselves off the map, we’re horrible.” Just because you’re unhappy with life here doesn’t mean all the innocents around the world are, doesn’t mean the animals are, the bugs, the trees. … Read More »

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US and NATO send tanks to Ukraine

14 Jan

Will German made tanks named after big cats once more strike through the Ukraine at Russia? Leopard tanks, by Porsche. I have my differences with WSWS hosts, the Socialist Equality Party. One of the most important is that, in common … Read More »

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Ukraine Take 2 – Stephen Gowans

5 Jan

A few days ago, in a post replicated here, Caitlin Johnstone followed the above with this: There’s still this notion in some anti-imperialist factions that Putin is a strategic wizard outfoxing the empire at 5D chess, but really he’s just … Read More »

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Ukraine take 1 – Richard Murphy

3 Jan

I’m sure that in the dying days of 2022 there were hundreds if not thousands of assessments of what is happening in Ukraine and why. I’ve selected three, each reflecting a worldview sharply distinguishable from the other two, and each … Read More »

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Is Vladimir Putin too soft?

23 Dec

For a long time now the Canadian socialist Stephen Gowans – author of the excellent Israel: a beachhead for imperialism in the middle east – has been forcefully pushing his take on the Ukraine war that Russia and the US … Read More »

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Biden’s role in the US war in Ukraine

17 Dec

If your understanding of world events doesn’t account for the easily quantifiable fact that the US is the most tyrannical regime on earth by a massive margin, nothing else in your understanding of world events will be fact-based. Caitlin Johnstone Eight … Read More »

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Russian oil cap? No EU-turn in Brussels!

5 Dec

From the centre-left Politico, December 4, 2022 * Why do the political elites of a nation or bloc of nations pursue courses of action they know will bring great harm to their citizens? Usually for at least two of the … Read More »

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Europe cannot win this economic war

2 Dec