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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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