The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inflicted by… a government,” they have no responsibility to pay for damages to the pipelines. To succeed with that defense, the companies will presumably be compelled to prove, in court, who carried out those attacks. British […]
Including Zelensky’s UNGA pantomime Zelensky watches his own speech at the UNGA. The grain dispute between Poland and Ukraine is gathering fury. Poland and other neighbouring countries have extended the grain embargo on Ukraine despite the EU not extending the block. After Zelensky insinuated at the UNGA that Poland was playing into Russia’s hands after maintaining curbs on Ukrainian grain […]
The Ukrainian leader resorts to lies and threats at the tail end of a failing counteroffensive Next Tuesday will be the anniversary of the Biden administration’s destruction of three of the four pipelines of Nord Stream 1 and 2. There is more I have to say about it, but it will have to wait. Why? Because the war between Russia and Ukraine, […]
Kiev was offered a peace deal long ago, but chose war instead, egged on by its Western backers. Now its fate is sealed September 2 marked the 78th anniversary of the World War Two surrender ceremony onboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. This moment formalized Japan’s unconditional capitulation to the United States, and its allies, and marked the end of the […]
The late writer, broadcaster and wit Clive James formulated what he called the ‘Barry Manilow Law’: ‘Everyone you know thinks Barry Manilow is absolutely terrible. But everyone you don’t know thinks he’s great.’ (James, cited Martin Amis, ‘Inside Story,’ Vintage, 2020, e-book, p.74) A Media Lens version of this might read: ‘Everyone you know thinks BBC News is absolutely terrible. […]
A review of the book by Grezgorz Rossoliński-Liebe: Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and Cult. (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2014. Unless otherwise indicated, all references are to this book). Little known outside of Western Ukraine during his lifetime, Stepan Bandera is now a celebrated figure in modern capitalist Ukraine with streets, statues and museums […]
‘Believe me, I’ve sobbed. I keep myself together while filming & speaking, but I do also feel deeply the pain & horror of what these people are being put through and what I’m seeing.’ Eva Bartlett The level of downright lies coming out of the western corporate media on Ukraine – let’s not even pussyfoot around with words like ‘misinformation’ […]
September 30, Wars should be avoided at all costs. Nuclear conflict should never be contemplated. These two truisms are often spoken, but rarely adhered to. Wars occur all too frequently, and so long as nations possess nuclear weapons, their use is contemplated on a continuous basis. The ongoing Ukrainian-Russian conflict has put the world’s two largest nuclear powers on opposing […]
‘I report from Donbass and refugee communities inside Russia.’ The Donetsk City polling station and surroundings were targeted around one hour after we left for the border. Under a constant barrage of Ukrainian shells being intercepted overhead by Donbass Air Defence we managed to observe the referendum in sectors of Donetsk including the City of Donetsk and Makeevka school which […]
Vanessa Beeley writes: A US state department sponsored round table on ‘countering disinformation’ was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. “Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals” Andrii Shapovalov According to the press release – “NGOs, mass media and international experts” took part in the round table […]
Donbass and the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime September 21, 2022: The subject of this address is the situation in Donbass and the course of the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine in 2014 as the result of an armed state coup. Today I am addressing you – all citizens of our country, people of different generations, ages and ethnicities, the people of our great Motherland, all who are united […]
The following interview was originally published on Sputnik News, a website which is currently banned in UK. On 9 May, US President Joe Biden signed a lend-lease Bill to streamline US lethal military aid to Ukraine, while the American press continues to present a one-sided picture of the Ukraine crisis. Vladimir Golstein, associate professor at Brown University in Rhode Island, has […]
