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UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were ‘government’ backed

Wyatt Reed — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 22:40:34 +0000

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 […]

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Ukraine grain scandal and the myth of the wonder weapons

Vanessa Beeley — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:11:38 +0000

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 […]

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Seymour Hersh: ZELENSKY’S ‘BAD MOMENT’

Seymour Hersh — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:26:47 +0000

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, […]

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Scott Ritter: A comprehensive Ukrainian defeat is the only possible outcome of its conflict with Russia

Scott Ritter — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:19:44 +0000

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 […]

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Killing The Story – Bakhmut, Nick Cohen, Kakhovka, Nord Stream and Piers Morgan

Media Lens — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:15:33 +0000

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. […]

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Stepan Bandera: A devastating portrait of the figurehead of Ukrainian fascism

Jason Melanovski — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:47:40 +0000

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 […]

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Compilation: Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett – Real Reporting From Ukraine

Alison Banville — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:38:46 +0000

‘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’ […]

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SCOTT RITTER: The Onus Is on Biden & Putin

Scott Ritter — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:50:26 +0000

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 […]

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Vanessa Beeley Report From Donetsk Referendum

Vanessa Beeley — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 21:14:33 +0000

‘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 […]

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Journalists who challenge NATO narratives are now ‘information terrorists’

Vanessa Beeley — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:42:50 +0000

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 […]

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