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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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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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Sleepwalking Into Disaster: How US Establishment Lost Fear of Escalating Ukraine Crisis

21st Century Wire — Sun, 15 May 2022 19:13:41 +0000

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 […]

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Russia’s judo kick to the western financial gut

Pepe Escobar — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 03:45:50 +0000

Washington's sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia

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Under Fire from Ukraine: The People of the DPR Share Their Stories

Eva Bartlett — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 01:25:20 +0000

First published in October 2019, independent journalist Eva Bartlett reported from Donetsk giving vital context to the current conflict in Ukraine: On September 2, I left the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don via minibus heading northwest to the border of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and on into Donetsk. For my first few days there, I rented an inexpensive apartment […]

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Blackwater mercenaries training far-right militia in Ukraine, Donetsk military commander claims

Steve Sweeney — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:53:21 +0000

Published on Jan 31st this article gives crucial insight into the reasons for the current conflict in Ukraine: EARS of a US invasion of Ukraine’s breakaway Donbass region have been raised amid allegations that the controversial Blackwater private security company — since renamed Academi — is training mercenaries for the task. Deputy chief-of-staff of the Donetsk People’s Republic militia Eduard […]

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Deconstructing Russophobia

Catherine Brown — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 15:37:27 +0000

Russophobia is composed of ignorance, a failure of scepticism and reasoning, pride, hypocrisy, condescension and churlishness, turned to the service of the military-industrial complex and NATO. It supports a one-sided Cold War against a country which is only just getting on its feet after collapse, is primarily focused on improving the living conditions of its people, wants war nowhere, and has no desire to be our enemy unless forced to defend itself. I wish it well.

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American Power Under Challenge

Noam Chomsky — Tue, 10 May 2016 01:00:54 +0000

When we ask “Who rules the world?” we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are states, primarily the great powers, and we consider their decisions and the relations among them. That is not wrong. But we would do well to keep in mind that this level of abstraction can also be highly misleading.

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Faking History

Luciana Bohne — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:29:34 +0000

Faking history is a form of burning books. Where books are officially burned, people follow. It’s already happened— on 2 May 2014 in the Hall of Trade Unions in Odessa set on fire by Kiev-junta-related neo-Nazi thugs. Over one hundred people died, including women and children. This was real history and real terrorism happening. The media ignored it.

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MH-17: The Dog Still Not Barking

Robert Parry — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:30:25 +0000

The dog not barking in the Dutch report on the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is the silence regarding U.S. intelligence information that supposedly had pinned down key details just days after the crash but has been kept secret, writes Robert Parry.

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