View of the world – 2023

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View of the world – 2023

There are many articles published each day which provide an interesting (and often insightful) analysis of the world in which we live – and how capitalism and imperialism manipulates populations and circumstances for its own financial gain.

Some might find a home in other pages on this blog but others are metaphorical ‘orphans’. This page seeks to provide them a home.

The Iranian Uprising and the Cycles of Protest. (2nd January 2023)

How authentic protest movements like the one in Iran can be hijacked by a funded opposition that builds momentum for war and military intervention.
 

The UK’s 83 military interventions around the world since 1945 (10th January 2023)

Britain has deployed its armed forces for combat over 80 times in 47 countries since the end of the Second World War, in episodes ranging from brutal colonial wars and covert operations to efforts to prop up favoured governments or to deter civil unrest.

Britain’s 42 coups since 1945. (12th January 2023)

The UK has planned or executed over 40 attempts to remove foreign governments in 27 countries since the end of the Second World War, involving the intelligence agencies, covert and overt military interventions and assassinations, Declassified has found.

It turns out Hillary Clinton, not Russian bots, lost the 2016 Election. (13th January 2023)

A new study of Russia-based Twitter posts by New York University researchers buries the liberal canard that Russian bots played any significant role in swinging the 2016 election for Donald Trump.

The richest 1% of people amassed almost two-thirds of new wealth created in the last two years, Oxfam says. (16th January 2023)

Taxes must be increased for the ultra-rich as a “strategic precondition to reducing inequality and resuscitating democracy,” Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International said. [Although something more drastic that higher tax cuts are really needed.]
 

When journalists act as state propagandists. (18th January 2023)

In advance of the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, the UK media parroted government lies and fabrications uncritically and became an enthusiastic part of the state’s propaganda machine. An inquiry into British reporting of the Iraq war is well past due.

Ashes of empire: Britain’s burning injustice in Kenya. (19th January 2023)

Six decades after colonial rule ended in Kenya, British troops that remain in the East African nation are being accused of massive environmental damage. Thousands of rural Kenyans are fighting for justice in a landmark community campaign.

Why the British army used heavy artillery to kill thousands of Londoners in the early 1940s. (26th January 2023) – video

Why is Venezuela’s gold still frozen in the Bank of England? (27th January 2023)

Four years ago, the UK government recognised Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president. He’s now gone, but the Bank of England is still holding some of the country’s key assets.

Latin America coming together (31st January 2023) – video

Yes, Britain is corrupt. but it’s a lot worse than you think. (1st February 2023)

This article raises a critical issue that applies to the US and most advanced economies: high level de facto bribery is see as routine, while slipping a $20 into your US passport so the customs officer in Cuba won’t stamp it is corrupt. In the US context, it would be seen as totally out of bounds to try to pay a cop not to issue a speeding ticket, yet it’s OK for police to engage in occasional hyper-vigilant and arguably overreaching traffic and nuisance fines….until it reaches extortionate scale and produces unforeseen Ferguson-type blowback.

Asking the oppressed to be nonviolent Is an impossible standard that ignores history. (17th February 2023)

It may well be that the circumstances where nonviolent protest can succeed are more limited than Gandhi and Martin Luther King fans would have you believe. Getting a ruling elite to cede significant power historically does seem to require violence. Ask the Visgoths in 476 AD, who I understand stormed Rome after seeking the same status as Roman citizens following many years of doing their dirty work. Or the French after 1789; Simon Schama in his account Citizens stresses the incredible violence of the revolutionary period. Or the Communist Revolution…

The endgame of the Cuban Missile Crisis – Part 1 (18th February 2023)

Most of the documents in this posting are never-before-published records discovered at the U.S. National Archives among the State Department’s central files and the records of the U.S. Embassy in Rome.

Secret power and the persecution of Julian Assange. (4th March 2023)

Assange, who hasn’t been found guilty, is being treated on a par with a convicted Hannibal Lechter level serial killer. An objective of his torture during his pre-trial detention appears to be to render him incapable of assisting in his defense.

Greece’s tragic rail accident was caused by austerity and privatization. (8th March 2023)

Last week, two trains collided in central Greece, claiming 57 lives. Unions had long warned that cuts to the now-privatized rail network would cause a severe accident, but neither the government nor the country’s corporate media heeded the calls.

The surprising history of International Women’s Day. (8th March 2023)

Though International Women’s Day may be more widely celebrated abroad than in the United States, its roots are planted firmly in American soil where efforts were made to separate it from its socialist origins.

The Betrayers of Assange – John Pilger (10th March 2023)

I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We have become friends, and I have sat in many courtrooms listening to the tribunes of the state try to silence him and his moral revolution in journalism.

Siege at Wounded Knee 50 years later: the fight for self-determination continues. (10th March 2023)

The 1973 Siege at Wounded Knee is the longest “civil unrest” in the history of the US Marshal Service. For 71 days, the American Indian Movement (AIM) and members of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) nation were under siege in a violent standoff with the FBI and US Marshals equipped with high powered rifles and armored personnel carriers. Two people were killed, over two dozen wounded. At stake, sovereignty and self-determination guaranteed through treaty rights.

NHS hospitals told to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm. (16th March 2023)

Palantir, whose owner claimed the NHS ‘makes people sick’, will ‘collect and process confidential patient information’.

Child labor is back…with a vengeance! (17th March 2023)

Child labor is back. That’s because rich corporations and their political parasites want it back. What better way, they doubtless imagine, for penniless, unaccompanied migrant children to spend their time than performing dangerous tasks in slaughterhouses or moiling with toxic cleansers in factories? What else are these kids going to do with their time? Go to school? Not likely, if our oligarchs have it their way.

Food barons are making a killing from this crisis. (17th March 2023)

Food prices have rocketed. Supermarket shelves are empty. The number of people going hungry has ballooned. But the cost of living crisis has not hit everyone. The food barons – like their friends in the oil and gas industry – are making a killing.

US media’s Iraq War pushers 20 years on: where are they now? Rich and influential. (17th March 2023)

Recently, the Pentagon reportedly blocked efforts by the Biden White House to share information pertaining to Russian war crimes with the International Criminal Court (ICC), citing concerns about the precedent it would set for prosecuting Americans for war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the other fields of US military involvement. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, there was a cyclical irony to the whole story: the US was effectively admitting it had zero legal or moral authority to help prosecute Russian war crimes in Ukraine because it had, itself, committed many of the same crimes, up to and including the invasion of another country.

20 years ago, Canadian media lined up to call for war in Iraq. (17th March 2023)

Here’s a roundup of some Canadian columnists and editorial boards that supported the Iraq war in March 2003. Don’t let them forget it.

Iraq 20 years on: death came from the skies on March 19 2003 – and the killing continues to this day. (17th March 2023)

The mass killings of Iraqis started on the night of March 19 2003 with the US-led coalition’s ‘shock and awe’ bombing of Baghdad. They called it ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’.

How the US and UK tried to justify the invasion of Iraq. (19th March 2023)

On March 20, 2003, the United States led a coalition that launched a fully-fledged invasion of Iraq, closely supported by the United Kingdom. The case it had made for invading the Middle Eastern nation was built on three basic premises: that the regime of Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD); that it was developing more of them to the potential advantage of “terrorist” groups; and that creating a “friendly and democratic” Iraq would set an example for the region.

Iraq War 20 years on: Tony Blair should be in prison NOT Julian Assange. (19th March 2023) [Video.]

Bush-era Neocons should shut up about Iraq (and everything else). (20th March 2023)

David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts they’d like to share with us as we approach the 20th anniversary (on Sunday) of that horrific and unforgivable war. Both of these perspectives can be read in widely esteemed mainstream publications, because everyone who was responsible for inflicting that war upon our species has enjoyed mainstream influence and esteem to this very day.

Label Israel what it is — an apartheid state. (20th March 2023)

The killing of the Palestinian people continues at full throttle. Not a day goes by without maiming, injuring, imprisoning, condemning schools, displacing families, and demolishing Palestinian homes. Yet, when somebody points to the similarities to pogroms, apartheid countries, Kristallnacht, and other examples of state terror, western leaders act incredulous and condemn the people who point to the similarities. They sidestep the actual crimes and terror committed and sanctioned by a powerful state and concentrate on those who stand with the Palestinians. 

The next bomb to go off in the banking crisis will be derivatives. (20th March 2023)

If the U.S. Treasury Secretary and her staff at F-SOC were just yesterday getting around to finding out which U.S. banks had counterparty exposure to Credit Suisse’s derivatives, we are all in very big trouble. The serious problems at Credit Suisse have been making headlines for two years, including here at Wall Street On Parade.

The invasion of Iraq wasn’t a ‘mistake’. It was a crime. (20th March 2023)

Today is the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. We should never forget and never forgive the architects of that evil war.

‘Mexico is not a US colony!’: AMLO [López Obrador, President of Mexico] condemns invasion threats and honors the nationalization of oil and lithium. (21st March 2023) [Link to a video/podcast.]

The Iraq invasion 20 years later: it was indeed a big lie that launched the catastrophic war. (21st March 2023)

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they were promoting false information.

Monopoly capitalism – what it is and how do we fight it. A report produced by Global Justice Now. Included here, as a pdf download, for the statistics and up to date information. The way we truly deal with ‘Monopoly Capitalism’ can be found on other pages of this blog, such as The Great Marxist-Leninist Theoreticians.

For Palestinians, Israel’s ‘Fight to protect democracy’ is bitterly surreal. (22nd March 2023)

You simply cannot call a state ‘democratic’ that legalizes privileges for Jews and denies equality and right to self-determination for the other half of the population under its control – the Palestinians.

Criminals at large: the Iraq War twenty years on. (22nd March 2023)

Twenty years on, former US President George W. Bush, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Australia’s own John Howard, the troika most to blame for not just the criminal invasion of a foreign country but the regional and global cataclysm consequential to it, remain at large. Since then, Bush has taken to painting; Blair and Howard have preferred to sell gobbets of alleged wisdom on the lecture circuit.

Forever Wars vs. Armageddon (22nd March 2023)

While the world’s attention is focused on the U.S. proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, 900 U.S. troops continue to occupy Syria, as they have since 2017 , and 2,000 remain stationed in Iraq, 20 years after the U.S. attacked, overthrew its government, and hung its president. Around 500 have been in Somalia since Biden redeployed them in June 2022.

Not the Andrew Marr Show: Galloway proved right about Iraq. (22nd March 2023) [Video podcast which contains some interesting, historical clips.]

BP extracted Iraqi oil worth £15bn after British invasion. (22nd March 2023)

Despite UK ministers denying the war was about oil, the flagship British company reaped a bonanza upon its return to Iraq after the 2003 invasion.

Criminals at large: the Iraq War twenty years on. (22nd March 2023)

The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a feeble distraction over the misdeeds and crimes of other leaders current and former. Russia, not being an ICC member country, does not acknowledge that court’s jurisdiction. Nor, for that matter, does the United States, despite the evident chortling from US President Joe Biden.

Selling the Iraq War: a how-to guide. (23 March 2023)

The war on Iraq won’t be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as ‘weapons of mass destruction’ and ‘rogue state’ were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us.

How Boris Johnson raked in £5m in 6 months after leaving office. (23rd March 2023)

The former prime minister has made over £25,000 a day in outside earnings since he left Downing Street.

G7 vs BRICS – off to the races. (23rd March 2023)

Last summer, the Group of 7 (G7), a self-anointed forum of nations that view themselves as the most influential economies in the world, gathered at Schloss Elmau, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, to hold their annual meeting. Their focus was punishing Russia through additional sanctions, further arming of Ukraine and the containment of China.

At the same time, China hosted, through video conference, a gathering of the BRICS economic forum. Comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, this collection of nations relegated to the status of so-called developing economies focused on strengthening economic bonds, international economic development and how to address what they collectively deemed the counter-productive policies of the G7.

Noam Chomsky on propaganda, war, fascism, free speech and the future. (24th March 2023) [First broadcast in February 2023, but we have only just become aware of its existence. A video podcast.]

Joint statements of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation. (24th March 2023)

Following extensive talks on March 21 between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Chinese leader’s Moscow visit, the two heads of state signed two important joint statements that will guide their bilateral relations for the coming period.

For 20 years, Team Bush has escaped prosecution for their war crimes in Iraq. (24th March 2023)

One year after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the International Criminal Court charged him with war crimes.
 

20 years of Iraq denialism: The New York Times continues to get it wrong on U.S. Empire. (24th March 2023)

Marking the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The New York Times ran a feature-length article titled, ‘20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?’ The piece acknowledges some harsh realities about the war, while dodging questions about its legality and the imperial motivations that fueled it. This is par for the course for the paper of record, which has a decades-long history of sidestepping damning questions about the war.

Still spinning the Iraq War 20 years later. (24th March 2023)

‘Don’t worry, it’s a slam dunk’.

—CIA director George Tenet’s response to President Bush’s demand for intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to provide to the American people, December 21, 2002.

America is in a disgraced class of its own. (28th March 2023)

The United States has a poverty problem.

[Or we could just change the system.]

Why would China be an enemy? (March 26th 2023)

I am completely at a loss as to why the UK should seek to join in with the US in considering China an enemy, and in looking to build up military forces in the Pacific to oppose China.

The U.S./EU/NATO axis of domination remains the greatest threat to international peace on our planet. (26th March 2023)

This commentary really should be part two from the piece I wrote last week in the run-up to the anti-war mobilization that took place March 18th which commemorated the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. In that article I made a similar argument about why the U.S. should be seen as the greatest threat to the survival of collective humanity on our planet.

Syrians have every right to attack US Occupiers. (26th March 2023)

The western world is solemnly commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Iraq invasion by blindly following the US into more conflict and militarism while repeating all the same kinds of mass media malpractice.

US continues its abuse of the EU with recent Inflation Reduction Act Agreement. (28th March 2023)

It was all rainbows and unicorns during a recent meeting between US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as they announced that EU-extracted and processed minerals will be covered by the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) clean vehicle tax credits.

Honduras now recognizes Beijing, not US-backed separatists on Taiwan. (29th March 2023) (Podcast.)

With a background on official recognition of the People’s Republic of China.

US officials really want you to know. The US is the world’s ‘Leader’! (30th March 2023)

In response to questions he received during a press conference on Monday about Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin cementing a ‘new era’ in strategic partnership between China and Russia, the White House National Security Council’s John Kirby made no fewer than seven assertions that the US is the ‘leader’ of the world.

High stakes as Uncle Sam’s days of impunity are finally over. (30th March 2023)

Russia and China are determined to hold the American perpetrators of the Nord Stream sabotage to account. Uncle Sam’s days – indeed decades – of wanton criminality are over. There’s going to be hell to pay as the imperialist tyranny in Washington hits a wall of reality.

Australia isn’t a nation, it’s a US military base with kangaroos. (2nd April 2023)

One of the many, many signs that Australia is nothing more than a US military and intelligence asset is the way its government has consistently refused to intervene to protect Australian citizen Julian Assange from political persecution at the hands of the US empire.

The Cold War was never about democracy. (3rd April 2023)

After World War II, the Indonesian Communist Party threw itself into democratic politics and outreach to broad segments of society. Western intelligence agencies were worried because they knew that the PKI was not coercing people into giving them power — they were simply growing in popularity.

The simple reason why the U.S. wants ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ of the Earth. (3rd April 2023)

Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments.

This amazingly has been the stated United States policy since 1997.

Profits of Doom: military contractors rob us daily. (5th April 2023)

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, and other Pentagon contractors make outrageous levels of profits, due to a number of corrupt practices that riddle the military procurement practices, Congress, and the corporate benefactors. One hundred percent of their profits are paid for with the taxes removed from your pay, usually before you ever see it.

U.S. interference in the Middle East – 20 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq – Colonel Larry Wilkerson. (6th April 2023)

It’s invaluable to hear from former insiders like Colonel Wilkerson, even if they sometimes unintentionally reveal biases and blind stops. And given how much harm the US has done, and how little our press admits to it, it’s important to look at our rap sheet, starting above all with the Middle East.

Should Leftists call for ending NATO? (6th April 2023)

Russia should withdraw its troops, there should be a cease-fire, and negotiations. Writer David Bacon wrote this in response Michael Kazin’s earlier piece, “Reject the Left Right Alliance Against Ukraine,” after Finland’s admission to NATO.
 

Dark Mines: the harsh underbelly of electric vehicles. (6th April 2023)

EVs are hardly the only pieces of cutting edge technology that exploit workers in the global south. The other development that has dominated the business press is the development of generative AI.

Congress calls for Assange’s freedom! (6th April 2023). Podcast.

Why the US wants ‘full spectrum dominance’ of the Earth. (7th April 2023)

Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments.

The West has been planning to crush China for a very long time. (7th April 2023)

Imperial spinmeisters like Gordon Chang are just lying when they frame China’s militarizing to defend itself against undisguised US encirclement as China militarizing to attack Americans.

The Grayzone Friday Live – Israel, Palestine and Saudi Arabia; British Muslim ‘fundamentalist’ Mehdi Hasan becomes champion of US Democrats. (7th April 2023) Podcast.

Corporate greed is a root cause of rail disasters around the world. (10th April 2023)

On February 25, Greece experienced its deadliest rail disaster ever when a freight train ran headlong into a passenger train coming towards it on the same track, killing 57 people. This tragic accident, near the city of Larissa, occurred just weeks after the East Palestine, Ohio rail disaster, and while the outcomes are different, the root cause is the same: corporate greed and deregulation. 

John Pilger’s tips for seeing through propaganda. (10th April 2023)

Journalist John Pilger explains how to see through propaganda, especially the most dangerous of all, which is the propaganda that claims to be ‘objective reporting’.

Biden just begged Canada to do his dirty work in Haiti. (11 April 2023). Podcast which discusses yet another plan of the ‘western’ powers to engineer an invasion of Haiti. Introduces the strangely named ‘Global Fragility Act’. Actions remain the same but the language changes.

Time to dismantle Monroe Doctrine politics. (11th April 2023)

The Monroe Doctrine became the ideological basis for US hegemony in the region, justifying the violation of the rights of nations of self-determination, as was the case for Venezuela in 2002 and since then.

German vaccine maker BioNtech faces series of lawsuits for alleged covid-19 vaccine harms. (14th April 2023)

The experimental mRNA covid-19 vaccines that were developed and launched to market in record time, generating record profits for their manufacturers as well as injuries for untold thousands, will be put to the test before the German courts.

Season of the Snitch – The Grayzone Friday Live. A podcast which described where so-called ‘journalists’ in the US boasted about traking down someone who leaked information which showed the US (and other ‘allies’) were lying about the war in the Ukraine. None of these ‘journalists’, or any of their peers, ever really challenged the substance of the leak. This attitude was repeated a few days later (The Media Show, BBC Radio 4, 16.30 Wednesday 19th April 2023) by equally supine British journalists who work for the prime source of British Government propaganda in the UK, i.e., the BBC. However, the BBC radio programme muddied the waters by aligning and comparing the report about the Pentagon Papers leak and a cold paedophile case in the UK.

Waiting for the End of the World. (16th April 2023)

We cannot even begin to fathom the non-stop ripple effects deriving from the 2023 geopolitical earthquake that shook the world: Putin and Xi, in Moscow, de facto signaling the beginning of the end of Pax Americana.

China, Brazil lead in chipping away at U.S. economic power abroad. (16th April 2023)

The United States proclaimed the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago and ever since has arranged Latin American and Caribbean affairs to its advantage. Nevertheless, struggles for national and regional independence did continue and the poor and marginalized classes did resist. Eventually there would be indigenous movements, labor mobilizations, and progressive and socialist-inclined governments. Cuba’s revolutionary government has endured for 63 years.

US moral authority is dead and buried. (16th April 2023)

Seven progressive Democrats from the House of Representatives have signed a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the Biden administration to drop the charges against Julian Assange and cease seeking his extradition.

Why did Madison write the Second Amendment? (17th April 2023)

The Second Amendment was intended in the first instance to protect slaveholders from the people they owned.

Research shows poverty is 4th leading cause of death in US. (19th April 2023)

Research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that poverty was linked to at least 183,000 deaths in the United States in 2019 among people aged 15 or older, making inadequate income the nation’s fourth-leading mortality driver that year behind heart disease, cancer, and smoking.

Snowden and Texeira: ten years of disaster. (19th April2023)

Ten years ago Edward Snowden was helped to escape by Wikileaks and to publish his revelations by The Intercept, Guardian, New York Times and others.

In 2023 Jack Texeira is tracked down by UK secret service front Bellingcat in conjunction with the New York Times and in parallel with the Washington Post, not to help him escape or help him publish or tell people his motives, but to help the state arrest him.

UK spent public funds backing Venezuelan ‘president’ in gold dispute. (25th April 2023)

Britain put tens of thousands of pounds towards Juan Guaidó’s efforts to access $2bn worth of Venezuelan gold held in the Bank of England, new data reveals.

De-dollarization kicks into high gear. (27th April 2023)

The US dollar is essential to US global power projection. But in 2022, the dollar share of reserve currencies slid 10 times faster than the average in the past two decades.

The United States of Paralysis. (27th April 2023)

Political paralysis is snuffing out what is left of our anemic democracy. 

John Pilger on the coming war. Speak up. Now. (1st May 2023)

The enormity of this violence and suffering seems to have no place in the western consciousness. ‘No one knows how many’ is the media refrain. Blair and George W. Bush — and Straw and Cheney and Powell and Rumsfeld et al — were never in danger of prosecution. Blair’s propaganda maestro, Alistair Campbell, is celebrated as a ‘media personality’.

In the Coronation, Britain’s ruling class will cast its dark spell on millions. (2nd May 2023)

Ambivalence is not enough. We can’t just ignore the monarchy. We need to oppose it, overthrow it, and replace it with rituals that really would help us build a better society.

The enemy from within. (2nd may 2023)

America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia.

Selling out Julian Assange. (2nd My 2023)

The Australian government is finally responding to growing public protests to get Julian Assange freed from his British torture dungeon.

Foiled escape: UC Global, the CIA and Julian Assange. (3rd May 2023)

However described, the shabby treatment of Julian Assange never ceases to startle. While he continues to suffer in Belmarsh prison awaiting the torments of an interminable legal process, more material is coming out showing the way he was spied upon while staying at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

Julian Assange’s letter to King Charles III. (6th May 2023)

On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.

After 75 Years, What Future for Palestine-Israel? (9th May 2023)

75 years after the Nakba, Palestine-Israel is one state under Israeli sovereignty but unequal. The struggle for a more equitable and democratic future will be long and ferociously resisted. That does not make it any less worth fighting for.

Are best years of my country behind me?

Reflections on a long-ago tour of Los Alamos and the Trinity Atomic Test Site. (10th May 2023)

‘The Forever Prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the depraved US torture policy. (12th May 2023)

For 21 years, the Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release.

How Britain built a second empire under the cover of ‘aid’. (10th May 2023)

The UK government has long presented its aid budget as a beneficent gift to the world’s poor. The truth is it developed out of Britain’s scramble to maintain and expand its corporate interests as its formal empire crumbled.

David Lammy: Washington’s man in Labour. (12th May 2023)

The likely future foreign secretary has been attending elite gatherings in the US while courting MI6 and displaying his establishment credentials on Labour’s foreign and military policy, which is likely to be near-identical to the current government.

Khader Adnan’s last hunger strike. (18th May 2023)

Khader Adnan died in prison on May 2, aged 45, after an 87-day hunger strike. He had been repeatedly held in administrative detention since 1999. Despite vilifying him as a terrorist, Israel never charged him with involvement in military activities.

EU adopts ‘pragmatic approach’ to sharing its citizens’ most precious data with US Department of Homeland Security. (19th May 2023)

The EU’s own top court has ruled on multiple occasions that the USA does not offer adequate privacy protections for non-citizens, yet the Commission and the member states are planning to open up their biometric databases to the [DHS].

Kissinger’s bloody paper trail in Chile. (21st May 2023)

The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.
 

Total indirect death toll in the U.S. ‘War on Terror’ is 4.5 million. (22nd May 2023)

Now, in mid-May, this project has also released its estimates of the indirect deaths caused in the War on Terror. These indirectly caused deaths have been estimated at 3.6 to 3.7 million. If these are added to the direct deaths caused earlier, the total number of deaths in the War on Terror goes up to 4.5 million to 4.6 million. So the total number of deaths is about 5 times the number of direct deaths.

America’s wars and the US debt crisis. (22nd May 2023)

To surmount the debt crisis, America needs to stop feeding the Military-Industrial Complex, the most powerful lobby in Washington.

Spycops: When the public is the enemy. (23rd May 2023)

The start of the Undercover Policing Inquiry provides startling details of how the Metropolitan Police and MI5 spied for decades on political parties and peace organisations.

After clearing MI5 of torture, Keir Starmer attended its chief’s leaving party. (25th May 2023)

The year after Starmer protected Sir Jonathan Evans from possible prosecution over MI5’s role in CIA torture, the then senior public prosecutor went to the spymaster’s farewell drinks, paid for by MI5.

Henry Kissinger Is a disgusting war criminal. And the rot goes deeper than him. (27th May 2023)

It’s Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday today. The fact that this monster is celebrated instead of in jail tells you that he’s part of a much bigger problem — and that problem is America’s global empire.

The peasants are seizing the Commons (again). (30th May 2023)

Protesters stormed a U.K. national park (Dartmoor), demanding the freedom to camp anywhere on public land.
 

Weaponising anti-semitism, bringing down Corbyn. (30th May 2023)

Britain’s mainstream media, its Army and the Israel lobby all combined to ensure Jeremy Corbyn did not become prime minister, a new book argues.

The truth about Israel exposed – the banned video Israel doesn’t’ want you to see.(31st May 2023)

The never ending Nabka.

Business over apartheid: when Thatcher met Mandela – or When Mandela (and the ANC) sold out their people. (31st May 2023)

As soon as Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years, and with apartheid still in place, UK officials were lobbying him for their business interests in South Africa, declassified files show.

Israeli forces’ systemic denial of fair trial rights to Palestinian child prisoners amounts to arbitrary detention. (1st June 2023)

Israeli authorities’ systematic denial of fair trial rights to Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces from the occupied West Bank and prosecuted in Israeli military courts constitutes arbitrary detention, Defense for Children International – Palestine said in a report released today.

EU’s covid-19 vaccine procurement scandal continues to grow despite deafening media silence. (2nd June 2023)

“Under Commission President von der Leyen, the tendency of EU institutions (and officials) to evade their due accountability by collectively hiding behind a democracy-defying bulwark of opacity has reached alarming proportions.”

The Second Amendment of the Constitution does not justify the ‘right to bear arms’. (2nd June 2023)

The historical distortions around the Second Amendment:

The Second (2nd) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is often cited by the National Rifle Association (NRA), right wingers, and members of the Republican Party to justify rejecting most if not all gun regulations. They argue that the 2nd Amendment means that Americans are and should be ‘free’ to carry arms. They say it gives Americans the right to bear arms to resist the ‘tyranny of governments’.

WHO forges partnership with EU to create Global Digital Vaccine Passport System. (6th June 2023)

The World Health Organization (WHO) adopts the EU’s expiring digital vaccine passport as a global standard, as we warned would happen over a year ago. 

Ten years later, Snowden’s heroism shines ever brighter (8th June 2023)

Ten years ago this week, Edward Snowden began shocking the world with his revelations of federal surveillance crime sprees. Unfortunately, many of the media outlets that used his disclosures of confidential information have long since shunned him or joined the shameless stampede calling for his prosecution.

Snowden warns today’s surveillance technology makes 2013 look like ‘child’s play’. (9th June 2023)

The continued erosion of privacy due to better snooping continues apace. What is particularly depressing is the way consumers eager aid the surveillance state by, for instance, installing Ring cameras, whose output Amazon can share with police without owner consent, or using biometric IDs on phones.

Labour’s love affair with private healthcare (19th June 2023)

From the embrace of private hospitals to shady donations from private health interests, there is little to suggest that today’s Labour leadership intends to defend Aneurin Bevan’s vision of a truly public NHS.

‘No strategic value to us’: When the UK planned to give the Falklands to Argentina. (21st June 2023)

Fourteen years before the Falklands war, British ministers planned to transfer sovereignty of the islands to Argentina, privately arguing the territory could become costly, could not be defended and was a source of military tension with Buenos Aires.

A New Third World Debt Crisis? The need for system change.(24th June 2023)

Emerging economies fall into debt crises usually for one of two reasons. The first is borrowing in foreign currencies, often to obtain lower interest rates or bigger loan amounts, only to see the debt cost rise greatly as the value of the domestic currency falls against the borrowing currency.

The EU sows the seeds of its own destruction. (25th June 2023)

Working class Europeans are increasingly facing declining living standards and are turning against the EU. The war in Ukraine and the energy crisis has exacerbated this trend, and national governments and the European Commission are only making matters worse.

An EU double standard with massive impact on the global environment. (26th June 2023)

A report that for the first time reveals the full scale of the European Union export trade in bee killing pesticides. The report sheds light on the double standard that’s been at play as the EU continues to export huge quantities of this pesticide despite having banned the use of these chemicals in their own fields.

IMF confirms that profits are driving inflation. (27th June 2023)

The idea of “greedflation,” that profits are playing a significant role in our current inflation, has been treated as controversial among economists. Some experts have even treated it as crankdom. Yet overwhelmingly, businesses have not accepted reduction in their returns to preserve market share. This is a big departure from past bouts of marked inflation, where companies did accept lower profits when inflation was high.

CPS has destroyed all records of Keir Starmer’s four trips to Washington. (29th June 2023)

US records show Starmer met with Attorney General Eric Holder and a host of American and British national security officials in Washington in 2011, when he was in charge of Julian Assange’s proposed extradition to Sweden.

The struggle against Assange’s extradition continues. (30th June 2023)

As Julian Assange’s appeal of his extradition to the United States wends its way through British courts, now is a good time to review what’s at stake. Nothing less than a free press and the rule of law. That’s because Assange is being persecuted for publishing proof of U.S. military criminality, among other war and political matters.

France’s Left has finally woken up to racist plice violence. (1st July 2023)

France’s left has often failed to speak up for marginalized minorities. But after the backlash over the police murder of 17-year-old Nahel, left-wing parties have taken a clear stance, refusing to condemn rioters and insisting their anger is justified.

As Israel smashes up Jenin, its British apologists are enabling this violence. (5th July 2023)

“The scenes in Jenin have been terrifying. There is live fire in every direction, and homes are being demolished. The sound of screams are hard to forget. They keep being replayed in my head. The biggest shock was when the Israeli forces came out of the jeeps and started firing bullets at us and our cameras when they saw us.”

Weaponised antisemitism crushed the political left. Now it’s the cultural left’s turn. (5th July 2023)

We have reached the seemingly absurd point that a political leader famed for his anti-racism, a rock star whose most celebrated work focuses on the dangers of racism and fascism, and a renowned film maker committed to socially progressive causes are all now characterised as antisemites.

When America was great, savage white un-settlers raped a continent and assaulted a planet. (5th July 2023 – first published on October 28th 2018)

Your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings…are…a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

In Jenin, Israel is unveiling the next phase of Apartheid (6th July 2023)

Palestinians in West Bank cities are fast discovering that if their expulsion won’t be possible, Gazafication will be their future.

Journalists abandoned Julian Assange and slit their own throats. (13th July 2023)

The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.

The destruction of this Palestinian community was greenlit by Israel’s Supreme Court. (13th July 2023)

The stories of the Palestinians struggling against Israel’s decades-long attempts to expel over 1,000 people from their homes in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank — the largest expulsion in the occupied territories since 1967.

A transatlantic trend: banks in the UK and US are closing customer accounts with little to no warning or explanation. (14th July 2023)

“The escalation team just reached out to me. They told me that the account was being shut down, and they wouldn’t give me a reason. I asked them if they would ever give me a reason. They said no.”

Israel killed civilians, targeted hospitals in Jenin with US weapons and support. (15th July 2023)

Israel could not mount its military operations against Palestinians without $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military aid.

Colonialism or sovereignty? How the global financial system traps countries in debt. (15th July 2023)

Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor continue their discussion of the third world debt crisis, its similarities to and difference from the 1980s debt crisis, and how they are the manifestations of a system that (whether intended to or not) operates to subject often poor borrower nations to the authority of the first world.

Jenin is just the start: Did Palestinians finally bury the ghosts of the past? (14th July 2023)

For the older generation, time has stood still. But it has not. The new Palestinian generation has buried the ghosts of the past and moved on. And now, they are ready to speak for themselves and to fight for themselves. Jenin is just the start.

Israel does not have a right to self-defense for its occupation. (15th July 2023)

Israel’s “right to defend itself” is invoked constantly by its supporters, but international law says Israel cannot simultaneously occupy Palestinian land and attack it as a “foreign” threat, or treat those resisting as enemy combatants.

European Parliament approves vicious anti-Cuba resolution. (19th July 2023)

Signs were evident. Touring Spain in May, the Cuban musical duo Buena Fe (Good Faith) had their concerts disrupted by thugs; some were canceled.  A month later in Paris, protests orchestrated by a Cuban émigré university professor forced a prestigious poetry festival to withdraw the honorary presidency it was going to award Cuban poet Nancy Morejón.

Palestinian resistance will not be snuffed out by Israel. (19th July 2023)

The Israeli incursion into Jenin showed the violence of occupation and blatant disregard for Palestinian rights. At least 133 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the start of this year alone.

Across the West, people are dying in greater numbers. Nobody wants to learn why. (20th July 2023)

There’s only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what the research may uncover.

70 years later, the Korean War must end. (28th July 2923)

July 27 marked 70 years since the signing of the armistice that halted — but did not end — the Korean War. Since then, the divided Peninsula has been locked in a perpetual state of war that grows ever more dangerous.

Iran 1953: MI6 plots with Islamists to overthrow democracy. (1st August 2023)

Declassified British files highlight a little known aspect of the joint MI6/CIA coup against Iran’s democratically elected government in August 1953 – UK covert action in support of leading radical Shia Islamists, the predecessors of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Fascism is the western answer to class struggle. (4th August 2023)

The US has the largest military budget in the world by a factor of ten. But it is nevertheless apparently incapable of producing usable weapons and bullets. The US spends multiples of what the rest of the rich world does per person on healthcare while it has active genocide levels of people dying who wouldn’t be in a functioning society. The end of the agreement between capital and the state to forego predatory pricing (‘greedflation’) on food and other necessities is increasing food insecurity for vast swaths of the West. And nuclear war with Russia is once again an implied possibility.

Bobby and the Lobby (4th August 2023)

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backing out of an Israel-Palestine dialogue he’d agreed to with Blumenthal, and his deepening involvement with some of the Israel lobby’s most extreme figures. (Video podcast).

Kiwirok: when the sky rained metallic death. (8th August 2023)

Violence from the military remained a constant threat. In one particularly harrowing incident, soldiers happened across Benny’s family in the jungle. The soldiers ripped Benny’s two year old cousin from his aunty’s arms and threw her to the ground with so much force that the child’s back was broken. They then raped his aunty, forcing Benny to watch. His small cousin died two weeks after the attack; his aunty sometime later from her own injuries.

Revisiting the bombing of Nagasaki, 78 years later. (9th August 2023)

The United States’ decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan was not without precedent. In the winter of 1945, the United States firebombed both Dresden, Germany, killing forty-five thousand people, and Tokyo, Japan, killing more than three hundred thousand people. Some believe these estimates to be low.

An exceptional military for the exceptional nation. (12th August 2023)

In his message to the troops prior to the July 4th weekend, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin offered high praise indeed. “We have the greatest fighting force in human history,” he tweeted, connecting that claim to the U.S. having patriots of all colors, creeds, and backgrounds “who bravely volunteer to defend our country and our values.”

Environmentalists owe an enormous debt to Julian Assange. (23rd August 2023)

Environmentalists throughout the world owe an enormous debt of gratitude to political prisoner Julian Assange, the founder and publisher of Wikileaks — and most of them don’t know it.

Disaster capitalists are circling Maui like buzzards. (24th August 2023)

Before the embers were even cold in Lāhainā, Maui, survivors of the wildfires started reporting cold calls from land speculators hoping to scoop up Hawaiian properties at bargain prices — proving once again that capitalists never let a good crisis go to waste.

Biden greeted with extremely HOSTILE response in Maui. (24th August 2023) – podcast

Henry A. Kissinger at 100, still a war criminal. (25th August 2023)

If nothing else, Kissinger’s approach to international politics has been consistent for more than half a century. Only actions advancing the military and imperial might of the United States were to be pursued. To be avoided were those actions that might diminish its power in any way or — in the Cold War era — enhance the power of its great adversary, the Soviet Union. Under such a rubric, any indigenous current favoring independence — whether political or economic — or seeking more democratic governance elsewhere on Earth came to represent a threat to this country. Such movements and their adherents were to be eradicated — covertly, if possible; overtly, if necessary.

Maui residents ERUPT IN RAGE. (29th August 2023) – podcast.

Loosening child labor regulations result in deaths of teen workers. (31st August 2023)

Child labor laws are being repealed in the United States in order to preserve profits, loosening previous restrictions in order to allow younger minors to work in dangerous settings. In a span of only five weeks this summer, three teens have died in industrial workplace accidents

His choice: Wasteful military spending or investing more in the British public? (1st September 2023)

While the government fails to devote adequate resources to the health and welfare of its citizens, it is squandering vast sums of money on unnecessary weapons systems. Will new defence secretary Grant Shapps continue to throw good money after bad?

‘Our major interest is copper’: Britain backed Pinochet’s bloody coup in Chile. (4th September 2023)

When the Chilean military overthrew Salvador Allende’s democratically elected government in September 1973, UK officials supported and worked with the new junta as it indulged in widespread atrocities, declassified files show.

Britain secretly helped Chile’s military intelligence after Pinochet coup. (5th September 2023)

As the Pinochet regime rounded up and murdered its political opponents after the 1973 coup, a UK Foreign Office propaganda unit passed material to Chile’s military intelligence and MI6 connived with a key orchestrator of the coup, newly declassified files show.

22 years of drone warfare and no end in sight. (6th September 2023)

“I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.”

Chile’s coup at 50: countdown toward a coup (11th September 2023)

“In the Eisenhower period, we would be heroes,” Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon several days after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, lamenting that they would not receive credit in the press for this Cold War accomplishment.

50 years after Chile’s coup, Salvador Allende’s grandson speaks about Britain’s role in the rise of Pinochet. (11th September 2023)

In Santiago, Declassified spoke with Pablo Sepúlveda Allende about Margaret Thatcher’s friendship with Chile’s dictator and how Labour helped him evade justice for crimes against humanity.

How the American invasion unleashed Jihad. (12th September 2023)

Journalist Anand Gopal on Islamism, ISIS, and the role of the United States in Iraqi politics today.

Chile: The secrets the US Government continues to hide. (17th September 2023)

Fifty years after the military coup that brought down Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dicatorship, there are still top secret documents on the US role that must be declassified.

Over Assange, Britain’s press prefers to serve power not media freedom. (18th September 2023)

We might have expected British journalists to have turned the Julian Assange case into a cause celebre for press freedom and free speech. Not at all. Most of the mainstream media are silent or hostile, and are acting as instruments of the state.

Biden is the latest President to tout the Vietnam War as proud history. (20th September 2023)

When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths. But, like every other president since the Vietnam War, he gave no sign of remorse. In fact, Biden led up to his visit by presiding over a White House ceremony that glorified the war as a noble effort.

‘Phantom Parrot’ – The secret state’s tool for mass intelligence gathering. (20th September 2023)

The British police can obtain the mobile phone passwords of members of the travelling public in order to download their data, in a programme linked to spy agency GCHQ, a new film shows.

Arundhati Roy: the dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world. (21st September 2023)

The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12…’What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing. We have become Nazis’,

Back to business as usual: the US is once again vigorously stirring the pot in its own ‘backyard’. (26th September 2023)

From Peru to Uruguay, to Ecuador and Guyana, the US is seeking to rebuild its strategic influence in Latin America, one gun at a time. 

US surveillance firm’s charm offensive to UK Councils and Police Forces. (26th September 2023)

A US tech firm has been privately lobbying UK councils and police forces to scale up their surveillance using an AI-powered platform used against Black Lives Matter protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.

Zambia: front line of the US crusade against China in Africa. (26th September 2023 – originally published February but relevent to what is happening now.) – podcast.

The West’s hypocrisy towards Gaza’s breakout is stomach-turning.(8th October 2023)

This is the first time Palestinians, caged in the coastal enclave, have managed to inflict a significant strike against Israel vaguely comparable to the savagery Palestinians in Gaza have faced repeatedly since they were entombed in a cage more than 15 years ago, when Israel began its blockade by land, sea and air in 2007.

They’re repeating the word ‘unprovoked’ again, this time in defense of Israel. (8th October 2023)

We’re seeing the western political/media class bleating the word “unprovoked” in unison again, this time in reference to the massive multi-pronged operation launched by Hamas against Israel on Saturday morning.

Who remembers Cheddi Jagan? Britain’s forgotten coup in South America. (10th October 2023)

In October 1953 the UK overthrew a democratically-elected government in British Guiana. UK officials knew deposed leader Cheddi Jagan was benefiting the impoverished local population but acted to protect its business interests.

Abandoning the poor. (12th October 2023)

In New York, where land is a finite resource and real estate determines so much, it is a cruel irony that the richest people in the world are using their capital to literally reach ever higher into the clouds, while back on earth, the average New Yorker, grimly ensconced in reality, lives paycheck to paycheck, navigating a constant storm of food, healthcare, housing, transportation and utility costs.

James Cleverly spent £420,000 in public money on luxury jet travel. (24th October 2023)

The UK Foreign Office chartered a jet used by billionaires and pop stars (at a cost to the public of more than £420,000) to take Cleverly and 18 members of his staff to Latin America and the Caribbean in May.

The only US military intervention Britain (somewhat) opposed. (25th October 2023)

Margaret Thatcher’s government sought to prevent the US invasion of Grenada in October 1983, but once it went ahead, Whitehall refused to condemn it and sought its ‘swift success’ – even though it knew it violated international law, declassified files show.

Big Brother unchained: UK Government to abolish biometrics and surveillance safeguards as it embraces facial recognition. (31st October 2023)

“The lack of attention being paid to [public safeguards] at such a crucial time is shocking, and destruction of the surveillance camera code that we’ve all been using successfully for over a decade is tantamount to vandalism.”

Know your enemy. (30th October 2023)

The vast mass of the ignorant have been made so by scientific propaganda, and they have lost their capacity for independent thought. They were powerless to prevent the creation of their opinion, and they are sure their views about America are their own, individually arrived at. That makes them hard to modify.

When Britain armed Iraq’s genocidal war on the Kurds. (31st October 2023)

Conservative and Labour governments supported Baghdad’s brutal attack on the Kurds 60 years ago, knowing it may have constituted genocide, declassified files show.

Armistice Day and the Empire: a A name change and the catastrophe that followed. (November 10th 2023)

In 1954, the US Congress renamed Armistice Day to Veterans Day. The stated reason was to remember all generations of US veterans, not just veterans from the First World War. Congress advanced this rationale on the disingenuous notion that Armistice Day’s purpose was a celebration of veterans. It was not. Armistice Day’s purpose was to serve as a reminder of the horrors of the First World War and carry forward the declaration of those veterans of Never Again.

The Pentagon proclaims failure in its War on Terror in Africa. (16th November 2023)

America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats. During 20-plus years of armed interventions, the United States has watched its efforts implode in spectacular fashion, from Iraq in 2014 to Afghanistan in 2021. The greatest failure of its ‘Forever Wars’, however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa.

U.S.-China extinction-level event narrowly averted. (17th November 2023)

We humans came within ten feet of extinction on October 24. That’s when World War III almost erupted due to a near collision between American and Chinese warplanes over the South China Sea. U.S. corporate media was quick to blame Beijing for the Chinese pilot’s ‘dangerous maneuvers’, but such accusations beg the question: What in God’s name were American fighter jets doing there, near Chinese airspace, eight thousand miles from U.S. borders in the first place?

Canada’s top 0.01% saw income growth of 30% in 2021. (20th November 2023)

The distribution of income in this country is the result of policy choices we can fight to change.

European Parliament votes in favor of changes to the EU treaties. (22nd November 2023)

The Parliament voted on the report from the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) of the European Parliament recommending changes to the EU treaties. The document envisages, among other matters, the transfer of more member states’ competencies to the EU level, which would, in fact, further reduce their sovereignty.

Quelle surprise! UK Government hands management of NHS patient data to CIA-linked US spyware firm, Palantir. (24th November 2023)

The company that aspires to be inside ‘every missile,… every drone’, including, it seems, those belonging to the Israeli Defence Forces, is now running the patient data platform of the world’s second largest public health care system. 

The United Eunuchs of Europe. (26th November 2023)

A ‘geopolitical EU’ remains little more than a consolatory fantasy predicated on its power of attraction — the queue to join.

The end of US nuclear superiority – Scott Ritter. (28th November 2023)

As Russia modernizes its nuclear arsenal it is no longer interested in trying to patch up an arms control relationship with the U.S. based on the legacy of the Cold War.

Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary – The primary sources on Kissinger’s controversial legacy. (30th November 2023)

The historical record documents the darker side of Kissinger’s controversial tenure in power: his role in the overthrow of democracy and the rise of dictatorship in Chile; disdain for human rights; support for dirty, and even genocidal, wars abroad.

ExxonMobil and a possible war in South America. (4th December 2023)

On December 3, 2023, a large number of registered voters in Venezuela voted in a referendum over the Essequibo region that is disputed with neighboring Guyana. Nearly all those who voted answered yes to the five questions. These questions asked the Venezuelan people to affirm the sovereignty of their country over Essequibo. “Today,” said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, “there are no winners or losers.” The only winner, he said, is Venezuela’s sovereignty. The principal loser, Maduro said, is ExxonMobil.

Kissinger: ‘The world’s most dangerous man’. (4th December 2023)

The obituaries for Kissinger in the Washington Post and the New York Times paint a dramatic picture of a dangerous man, an amoral man, who was unscrupulous in his handling of the foreign and national security policies of the United States.  These obituaries document the deceit and duplicity of the only man to serve simultaneously as secretary of state and national security adviser.

Pfizer and BioNTech are suing Poland over its refusal to pay for more covid-19 vaccines. Are they also suing Hungary? (5th December 2023)

Even by the normal standards of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), Pfizer and BioNtech’s lawsuit against the government of Poland for refusing to pay for more unwanted vaccines is especially egregious.

Richard Falk on Kissinger’s foreign policy. (5th December 2023)

Hitchens listed six major crimes carried out by Kissinger: 1) The deliberate mass killing of the civilian population in Indochina. 2) Deliberate collusion in mass murder, and later in assassination in Bangladesh. 3) The personal suborning and planning of murder, of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation—Chile—with which the United States was not at war. 4) Personal involvement in a plan to murder the head of state in the democratic nation of Cyprus. 5) The incitement and enabling of genocide in East Timor. 6) Personal involvement in a plan to kidnap and murder a journalist living in Washington, DC.

Kenya at 60: the shameful truth about British colonial abuse and how it was covered up. (8th December 2023)

It is fairly well known that the lives of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans were affected by terrible acts of violence under the British colonial administration. Less-known is how much the British imperialist government tried to cover up these violations. 

The Napoléon that Ridley Scott and Hollywood won’t let you see. (11th December 2023)

As with every other Napoléon movie, Scott’s version will leave viewers with no understanding of the genocidal war to restore slavery that Bonaparte waged against Black revolutionaries in the French colony of Saint-Domingue – what’s known as Haiti today.

From Wounded Knee to Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock still stands. (29th December 2023)

On December 29, 1890, over 250 Lakota men, women, and children were executed in what is known today as the Wounded Knee Massacre. Under pretenses of relocation, 500 soldiers of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, stoked by recent tension after the assassination of Sitting Bull and growing anti-Indian sentiment, opened fire on unarmed civilians with four Hotchkiss cannons and repeating rifles for several hours. The soldiers proceeded to go dwelling to dwelling, executing anyone upon discovery. Fleeing civilians were pursued and shot, some bodies found as far as three miles from the camp. In all, only four men and 47 women and children were left alive to be relocated.

 

View of the world – up to end of 2022

View of the world – 2024

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023

The Ukraine – what you are not told – 2024

The war in the Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023

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TOS-1a firing

View of the world – up to end of 2022

View of the world – 2023

View of the world – 2024

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022

The Ukraine – what you are not told – 2024

The war in the Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023

01 January 2023

Drone strike; Russia enters Klesheevka; with analysis of Putin’s New Year Address: conclusion is the west is not trusted.

New Year Address to the Nation – Vladimir Putin

02 January 2023

New Year missile and drone strikes continue across Ukraine as NATO recognizes scale of conflict.

03 January 2023

Ukraine: when will it reach the end of its propaganda line?

03 January 2023

Russia strikes Druzhovka; admits 63 killed at Makeyevka [later revised up]; Polish mobilisation and entry into the Ukraine war and how that would impact on the future of NATO.

04 January 2023

Can NATO and the Pentagon find a diplomatic ‘off-ramp’ from the Ukraine War?

04 January 2023

Ukrainian soldiers considering a plan to withdraw from Bakhmut.

04 January 2023

Russia approaches remaining roads in Bakhmut; Ukraine offensive fails in Kremennaya; Makeyevka 89.

04 January 2023

Putin’s plan to stop Ukraine turning to the west has failed – our survey shows support for NATO is at an all-time high. [What these ‘academics’ don’t realise is that Ukraine hasn’t acted independently for years – since at least 2014. And considering so many are now out of the country – and unlikely to return – the fate of the country continues to be decided by others. This ‘analysis’ is simplistic in the extreme and totally ignores reality. As always, follow the money.]

05 January 2023

Ukraine and Russia: waiting for the next phase?

05 January 2023

Wagner assault units are storming SOLEDAR! [An annoying presentation style – but makes some interesting points nonetheless.]

05 January 2023

US admits Russia Bakhmut advance; Russia claims Solidar gains; US and France to provide light armour; what are the circumstances of a Russian offensive; the consolidation of Russian society.

05 January 2023

The Establishment Left and Corporate America – the Jimmy Dore show on the redundancy of the so-called ‘progressives’ in the US Democratic Party.

05 January 2023

Despite Russian setbacks, an end to the conflict is not yet in sight. [Yet another article from The Conversation which demonstrates that a not inconsiderable number of British ‘academics’ are shamelessly acting as paid propagandists for the the Ukraine/NATO narrative. As always, follow the money.]

06 January 2023

Western escalation in Ukraine: sending in armour – but is it too little too late?

06 January 2023

Zelensky’s bloody war against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

06 January 2023

Russia breaks through in Soledar; Putin Announces Ceasefire, US Germany Send Armour To Ukraine.

06 January 2023

The Grayzone live on; Nicaragua; Nazis in the Ukraine; situation in the Donbass; the implications of the election of the US Speaker McCarthy and the possible implications on the war in the Ukraine; Twitter’s Russiagate files exposed. [A long discussion which covers many issues.]

06 January 2023

Why Russian soldiers’ mothers aren’t demonstrating the strong opposition they have in previous conflicts. [Whatever the aim of this article the most important idea here, as far as we are concerned, is that IF there were such huge Russian casualties, as are claimed by both the Ukrainians and their NATO backers, then the existing structure in Russian would have broken through this supposed move of opposition on to social media. Contrast that with the structure that doesn’t exist in the Ukraine. So many family members are no longer in the country that they don’t even know what might have been the fate of their sons, fathers, etc., let alone make a public statement to that fact.]

07 January 2023

Has NATO support been beneficial to the Ukraine – or not? Douglas Macgregor.

07 January 2023

Russia on brink of capturing Soledar; Ukrainian Bakhmut defences crumble; West rushes weapons to the Ukraine – whether they are of use is not taken into consideration.

07 January 2023

Military summary and analysis.

08 January 2023

Latest US arms shipment to Ukraine cannot solve Kiev’s fundamental problem.

What’s ahead in the war in Ukraine. [The last article referenced in the podcast above.]

08 January 2023

Ukraine admits heavy losses as Russia takes Podgorodnoye, most of Soledar and encircling what’s left.

08 January 2023

Biden’s existential angst in Ukraine.

09 January 2023

BBC and it’s claim of ‘impartiality’

Contrast both the headlines and the content of two articles that address to similar events that took place in the Ukraine in the space of 8 or 9 days. Although the facts (at the time of writing this) about the Russian attack on barracks in Kramatorsk are still to be confirmed before any more information becomes available the BBC is already banging the Ukrainian propaganda drum. Now that should come as no surprise, this has been the case for the last ten months and a bit.

Neither should it be a surprise that the BBC follows the dictat of the UK government when it comes to the news about a war in which, officially, Britain is not involved. Keeping people stupid is the name of the game. The problem arises when the BBC argues that it is being impartial in its news reportage – as claims the rest of the British mainstream ‘media’. Through this maintenance of the line that whatever everything Ukraine says is true (and thus that they are ‘winning’ the war – against all rational analysis) this allows western governments to continue to expend huge resources in support of the Nazis in the Ukraine in a desperate attempt to do serious damage to Russia. But, ultimately, those who will really suffer from this propaganda campaign are the Ukrainians themselves. As the corrupt Oliver North said recently the fight against Russia will be carried out by American bullets and Ukrainian blood.

Ukraine claims hundreds of Russians killed by missile attack (3rd January 2023)

Ukraine denies Russian claim it killed 600 soldiers (9th January 2023)

09 January 2023

Biden has never had a grasp of international politics. Was an arrogant fool in 1997 and remains so to this day – with added age degeneration.

09 January 2023

Russia claims Ukraine collapse and retreat from Soledar; Russian arms production; protests in Brazil.

09 January 2023

Military summary and analysis.

28 December 2022 (but only encountered 10 January 2023)

Russia winning the electronic war in Ukraine.

10 January 2023

Russia presses Ukraine in Soledar and Bakhmut; Ukraine mulls retreat; Patrushev says Russia fights West – not Ukraine.

10 January 2023

Washington has trouble refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after 220 million barrel draw.

10 January 2023

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on Bakhmut battle – and huge Ukrainian casualties; danger of NATO confronting Russia directly. Ideas on a possible Russian offensive. No one in the ‘west’ is prepared to admit they have lost.

11 January 2023

What (more reasonable) Western analysts say comes next for Ukraine.

11 January 2023

Life on Russia’s home front after ten months of conflict.

11 January 2023

Russia claims Soledar captured and remaining Ukrainian troops surrounded; West debates sending tanks to Ukraine.

11 January 2023

Military summary and analysis.

11 January 2023

Poland verges on total collapse, the government caught hiding the truth from Polish people.

12 January 2023

The Russian sledgehammer is beginning to fall in Ukraine. Another Macgregor interview. [The of the best of Macgegor’s analyses of the Ukrainian situation – taking into account the present situation with historical comparisons.]

12 January 2023

Large number of Ukrainian soldiers suffering from tuberculosis.

12 January 2023

Can a nuclear war be avoided? — Scott Ritter. Emphasising the reality that Russia doesn’t have any trust in the ‘West’.

12 January 2023

Russia consolidates control of Soledar and focuses on Bakhmut; Russia reshuffles military command structure; Kiev floats and rejects armistice.

12 January 2023

180 million barrels of crude may never be returned to the [US] Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

12 January 2023

Military summary and analysis.

12 January 2023

The bloody battle for Soledar and what it tells us about the future of the conflict. [Yet another ‘analysis’ by this so-called ‘academic’. As always with The Conversation (when it comes to the Ukraine, on other matters it’s quite good) ‘follow the money’.]

12 January 2023

Can the United States provide an ‘off-ramp’ for Putin?

12 January 2023

The Ukrainian Demilitarized Zone – ‘negotiations’ start at a dead end.

13 January 2023

Will western main battle tanks turn the tide in Ukraine? What do Russian gains in Soledar mean?

13 January 2023

Russia claims Soledar victory; Ukraine troops trapped in Bakhumt; Ukrainian Soledar counter-attacks fail.

13 January 2023

Russia claims Soledar victory and trapping of Ukraine troops in Bakhumt; Ukraine Soledar counter-attacks fail.

14 January 2023

Russia missile strike; advances in Bakhmut; German public criticism of tank transfers; US Navy weapons stocks depleted.

15 January 2023

Kiev says Ukraine cannot shoot down ballistic or supersonic missiles; Washington Post says Kiev may retreat from Bakhmut.

15 January 2023

Military summary and analysis.

16 January 2023

German general tells US generals to lose the Ukraine War as soon as possible to prevent losing the Empire in Europe.

The two links below are not ‘directly’ connected to the war in the Ukraine but it does put the approach of the UK government to the conflict in context.

16 January 2023 (published 10 January 2023)

The UK’s 83 military interventions around the world since 1945.

16 January 2023 (published 12 January 2023)

Britain’s 42 coups since 1945.

16 January 2023

As West sends more armour to Ukraine why ‘turning the tide’ is still fantasy.

Some statistics from around minute 20;

Russia has; available on the battlefield 2,800 tanks and 13,000 armoured vehicles;

in storage 10,00o tanks and 8,500 armoured vehicles.

16 January 2023

Russia prepares Bakhmut ‘cauldron’; German ex-General calls for peace and says West risks defeat and/or World war Three; an analysis of the failure of western sanctions against Russia and the fundamental reasons why by French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd.

16 January 2023

Military summary and analysis.

17 January 2023

What if Russia won the Ukraine War but the western press didn’t notice?

17 January 2023

Ukrainian Bakhmut crisis deepens; Zelensky fires key adviser; Bloomberg confirms Russian oil surge; ‘life is normal in St Petersburg’ and the failure of economic sanctions; the ‘blow-back’ on the USA of their irrational desire to destory the Russian Federation.

17 January 2023

NATO wonder weapons. [A discussion about the practicalities of the ‘game changer’ weapons that the west is proposing to send to the Ukraine. I can’t find anything which doesn’t hold together. The first hour deals with that issue, the second a Q+A which also includes some interesting points.]

18 January 2023

Supply of advanced tanks will give Kyiv an edge over Russia and move it closer to NATO. [Yet another contribution form a NATO/US/UK/EU paid ‘academic’ flunky. Again follow the money And who is the Kyiv Transatlantic Dialogue Center?]

[This is a strange site, referenced in the above article, which seeks to ‘prove’ Ukrainian claims on the number of Russian armour either destroyed or captured. But it’s merely a site with links to pictures that could have ben taken anywhere and at any time in the past. This ‘academic’, nonetheless considers this ‘credible’ evidence of what the west is promoting.]

Attack on Europe: documenting Russian equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

19 January 2023

Russia captures Kleshcheyevka; Bakhmut ‘cauldron’ looms; Zaluzhny warns about dangers to Siversk; Biden and Scholz quarrel about supplying tanks to Ukraine.

19 January 2023

Spoils of the Sanctions War – NATO lion meets Russian tit for tat.

19 January 2023

Jeffrey Sachs: The war in Ukraine and the missing context and perspective.

20 January 2023

US and allies send more weapons to Ukraine in the absence of real solution.

20 January 2023

Bakhmut operationally encircled; Russian advance in Zaporozhye; West talks tank deliveries in Ramstein; retired German General Kujat criticises NATO’s action in the Ukraine.

20 January 2023

Will Russia opt to continue the war into 2024?

21 January 2023

Russia offensive make rapid gains in Zaporozhye; Ukraine operational crisis in Bakhmut; Germany says ‘No’ to sending tanks to the Ukraine.

22 January 2023

Viewing Ukraine through the Davos lens.

22 January 2023 (Originally published by The Guardian newspaper in 2017.)

So, perhaps, surprising that The Guardian is now beating the ‘support democratic Ukraine’ drum.]

Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’.

22 January 2023

Russia advances further in Bakhmut, Siversk and Zaporozhye; US tells Ukraine it is losing attrition war and should leave Bakhmut.

22 January 2023

War to the last Ukrainian. Violent handout of draft notices in Ukraine, January 2023 (Videos).

22 January 2023

Military summary and analysis.

23 January 2023

Russia fighting west of Bakhmut and closing the trap; Russia pushes towards Zaporozhye City, threatening a new military crisis for Ukraine. [Also three interesting articles from Americans questioning the war. Links in video information.]

23 January 2023

Russian gains; US gears up for Crimea escalation; US proxies strike China/Pakistan in train bombing.

24 January 2023

German Greens on the warpath.

24 January 2023

German General Kujat warns the Ukraine War is lost, revives the stab-in-the-back charge against the US and NATO for ‘exposing Germany to Russia’.

24 January 2023

Russia begins new Vuhledar offensive; Russia advances in Bakhmut and Zaporozhye; big purge of politicians strikes Kiev; the debate about supplying western ‘modern’ tanks – from about 42 minutes to end.

25 January 2023

Russia closing Bakhmut cauldron; Belarus rejects Ukraine offer of a ‘non-aggression pact’; West escalates and sends Kiev tanks; interesting articles references around 45 minutes; Russian casualties discussed around 63 minutes.

25 January 2023

West risks war with Russia over escalating military aid – Geoffrey Roberts

25 January 2023

US to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine; US-backed terror targets Myanmar’s upcoming elections.

25 January 2023

Douglas Macgregor – What are the damages for the Russian side? [Includes an analysis of casualties on both sides.]

26 January 2023

Russia aims to surround Vuhledar; most recent missile strike against Ukraine; more on western tanks – and the problems associated with their provision, west mulls giving Kiev fighter jets and even more missiles.

26 January 2023

John Helmer: Blinken concedes war is lost – offers Kremlin Ukrainian Demilitarization; Crimea, Donbass, Zaporozhe; and restriction of new tanks to Western Ukraine if there is no Russian offensive.

26 January 2023

Zelensky admits: ‘Ukraine war is good for business’!

26 January 2023

Ukraine’s Zelensky sends love letter to US corporations, promising ‘big business’ for Wall Street.

26 January 2023

Douglas Macgregor – A huge offensive. [What the Russians might do and the failings of the Ukrainians. Although Macgregor is informative on the military aspects of the war but his right-wing political views always come through.]

27 January 2023

USAID quietly unveils plans to export Ukraine’s digital governance model around world.

27 January 2023

Russia close to capture Vuhledar; launches big missile attack; Blinken and Nuland floats ‘peace offer’.

28 January 2023

How tanks from Germany, US and UK could change the Ukraine war. [Yet another ‘game changer’.]

‘Western officials had hoped that Ukraine may be able to mount an offensive as soon as this spring. They believe there is now a window of opportunity while Russia struggles to recruit and rebuild its battered forces, and to replenish its dwindling supplies of ammunition.’ ]Assertions which are never accompanied with proof.]

28 January 2023

Russia presses forward in Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Orekhov; the western weapon ‘game changers’; Rand warns US overinvested in Ukraine and the prolongation of the war is not in the interest of the USA;

28 January 2023

The Russian Battalion Tactical Group, the New Atlas with Alex of Donbass Devushka. [A valuable introduction to Russia’s military organisation – useful for those not versed in the world’s militaries.]

A very much throw away comment, but important in the context of the NATO tanks that are supposed to be supplied to the Ukraine some time in the indeterminate future, that all Russian conscripts are trained of how to work with armoured ordinance in order to not be crushed by their own side. There is no way that Ukrainian conscripts will have any understanding of this idea. That point is made around minute 16.

But perhaps the most important thing to take from this discussion is that the Russian army has a strategy (it might not always work) whereas the Ukrainians don’t. Taking their decisions on the initiative of the British this is not surprising. The last ‘war’ the Buffoon had to fight was the pandemic. There was never any hint of a strategy then – and even now such a strategy doesn’t exist.

28 January 2023

The West has lost already. [Much of the world now doesn’t trust the USA. For western capitalism the world has changed irreversibly.]

29 January 2023

‘Mainstream media’ admits Russia about to capture Bakhmut; Ukraine Vuhledar counter-attack fails; US equipment crisis – logistical and training problems of sending western material to Ukraine and the consequent depletion of all NATO nation’s military resources.

30 January 2023

Western volunteer in Bakhmut admits Ukraine is losing; is the western tank card a bluff?

Avoiding a Long War – US policy and the trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, RAND, January 2023. Document referred to above.

30 January 2023

Putin just pulled off the ultimate sneak attack against the West. [Not too sure about the advert for the ‘sponsor’ at around 10 minutes to the end.]

30 January 2023

Imperial dominance disguised as democratic deterrence.

30 January 2023

Wall Street Journal admits Bakhmut almost cut off; Russia pushes forward in Vuhledar; militaries in western Europe (especially Germany and Britain) concerned about armour and other war materiel being sent to Ukraine; US military wants end Ukraine War – as it feels itself weakened against their main enemy – China. [Sound not particularly good for first 17 minutes.]

30 January 2023

Why, despite RAND’s recommendation, the Ukraine War is unlikely to end in a negotiated settlement.

31 January 2023

That didn’t take long: Latin American governments refuse to send weapons, Russian or otherwise, to Ukraine.

31 January 2023

Russia’s ‘sanction-proof’ trade corridor to India frustrates the Neocons.

31 January 2023

Russia’s Bakhmut ring tightens; UK mainstream media admits Russia close to Chasov Yar; Russia advances on Vuhledar.

31 January 2023

Preventing a long war, The Duran with Scott Ritter. [A very long discussion.]

31 January 2023

Ukraine: banned landmines harm civilians – Ukraine should investigate forces’ apparent use; Russian use continues. [Article gives the impression it’s holding Ukraine to account for its ise fo anti-personnel mines but then, slavishly, accepts Ukraine’s assertion that it’s a problem of rogue elements as they are going to ‘investigate’ the matter – as if they don’t know what’s going on on the front line. The article also ignores the documented incidents of the Ukrainian use of the very same mines in Donetsk City – which was documented more than six months ago, at least. Yet another NGO which claims independence but which is just another arm of the western propaganda machine.

Ukraine turns Donetsk into a minefield using banned ‘Petal’ mines – a video by a journalist, Eva Bartlett, who has been based in Donetsk City since the beginning of the Special Military Operation.

01 February 2023

The Pentagon’s plans for a perpetual three-front ‘long war’ against China and Russia.

01 February 2023

US threatens missiles, jets – but without taking into account the logistic difficulties; is the US merely trying to bluff Russia and hope that Putin will back down first; also US now starts to threaten Crimea; US seeks war with China by 2025.

01 February 2023

Mainstream media admits Bakhmut Encirclement is close; speculations on the recent (and continuing) purge of the Ukrainian ‘leadership’; Lavrov ridicules Blinken offer; the supply of western armour looks more precarious by the day; West pulls back on jets.

01 February 2023

Douglas Macgregor on the imminent destruction of the Ukraine and the effect this will have on NATO – a resume of the situation in the war at the beginning of February 2023. Interesting quote from podcast ‘The Polish army could invade Germany tomorrow morning and conquer it in a week’.

01 February 2023

Ukraine war: casualty counts from either side can be potent weapons and shouldn’t always be believed.

02 February 2023

EU snubs Zelensky on Ukraine’s membership; Setback ahead of Kyiv summit on Friday 03 February.

02 February 2023

Is NATO tired of Ukraine’s demands?

02 February 2023

Mozart pro-Ukrainian mercenary group meltdown over viral Grayzone video exposé. [Mozart’s founder admits to Ukrainian corruption and extra-judicial murders of Russian POWs.]

02 February 2023

Ukraine war: how US-built F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ could help Kyiv move on to the offensive. [Yet another jingoistic article – which just brushes off the issues of training and logistics, as if anyone could just jump into the cockpit and become an expert within weeks.]

03 February 2023

Russia new Kremennaya offensive; only one road in and out of Bakhmut; Pentagon tells Congress that Ukraine is unable to take Crimea; ‘press gang’ on Ukrainian streets; the village of Sacco and Vanzetti; who destroyed Nordstream?

03 February 2023

Douglas Macgregor talks about the training and logistical issues related to the introduction of western weapons to Ukraine. [An audio interview with an extremely annoying and meaningless video with dogs. But … very significant and important statement between 09.13 and 10.38 minutes. And calculates 150,000 Ukrainian dead at 12.18 minutes. Ukraine has lost.]

03 February 2023

As US proxy war rages against Russia, US seeks war with China by 2025. [Another long, yet still interesting discussion.]

03 February 2023

Grayzone live with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate – the Chinese ‘spy’ balloon and the US multi-million project on spy balloons; the end of the western Mozart mercenary group; the bogus story of ‘Russiagate’; British politicians starting to speak about sending NATO (and presumably British) troops to the Ukraine. A long discussion which covers many points but worth the effort.

04 February 2023

Jimmy Dore drops fiery anti-war monologue (this time on provoking China) on the Tucker Carlson show.

04 February 2023

As Russia encircles Bakhmut Zelensky decrees ‘No Surrender’; New York Times writes Ukraine using its conscripts as cannon fodder; discussion on Russian casualties; more on the attack on Nordstream; US mulls China conflict; rumours to end war.

05 February 2023

US fails miserably in efforts to isolate Russia.

05 February 2023

UK Ministry of Defence admits Bakhmut is isolated; EU struggles to find tanks; Russia massively increases arms production; potential Russian Spring offensive; Ukraine follows French and German lead by promising negotiations in bad faith; the errant balloon over the US.

05 February 2023

Energy saving light bulbs and Ukraine’s membership of the EU; US Department of Justice to transfer assets seized from sanctioned Russians to be sent to the Ukraine; western skilled engineers to be embedded with Ukrainian units to assist in the maintenance of western provided munitions – starting with hundreds, could it get up to thousands?; why doesn’t Zelensky not donate some of his private wealth for the Ukrainian war effort?; Mission creep as in Vietnam in the 1960s; long range weapons aimed at Crimea; China spy balloon

06 February 2023

Latest US arms package (and a list of weaponry that has still to be produced) and US provocations versus Russia and China. [Includes an interesting (short) discussion of the meaning of 14 and 88 – the Germans are sending 14 Leopard 2 and 88 Leopard 1 tanks at minute 26.00.]

06 February 2023

The economics of the Ukraine proxy war with Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai.

06 February 2023

For Ukraine continued resistance is futile. They should sue for peace now. George Galloway and Scott Ritter. [A few Ritter quotes; ‘Your mouths are writing cheques your body can’t cash’. ‘NATO can’t get out of the barracks’. ‘The British Army will run out of ammunition in one day’. ‘Everything the US government says is lies.’]

06 February 2023

Bakhmut on the brink of capture by Russia; big Russian gains in Kharkov; Zelensky loses key ally Reznikov and continuing changes in Ukrainian government; more on the German Leopard tanks; the affair of the wandering Chinese balloon.

06 February 2023

The Maidan sniper killings were pivotal for the 2014 Kiev coup – why is research into the massacre being censored in the West?

07 February 2023

Moscow provides update on Ukrainian losses.

07 February 2023

The new atlas – Chinese-Russian history with Mark Sleboda and Carl Zha – a comprehensive explanation of the last 800 years.

08 February 2023

Seymour Hersh: Navy divers + spooks + Norway took out Nord Stream 2 on Biden’s orders, using timer.

08 February 2023

Bakhmut about to fall; Russia says Ukraine leaving Kupiansk; will Britain be out on a limb when it comes to support of Ukraine when the rest of the ‘west’ pulls back?; report implicates Biden in Nord Stream attack in 2022.

08 February 2023

Russia-Ukraine War: Ex-Israel PM Naftali Bennett’s shocking revelations about US/UK/NATO/EU interference to prevent bringing the war to an end in March 2022.

09 February 2023

Elite splits over Ukraine shed a tiny bit of light on factions.

09 February 2023

Propaganda in the Ukrainian proxy-war, with Noam Chomsky, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen. The ‘unprovoked’ invasion of the Russians.

10 February 2023

How did the German Greens become the party of warmongers?

10 February 2023

Missiles, earthquakes and pipelines – US hegemony fighting on all fronts. Again on the difficulties of introducing western weapons in Ukraine and all it will do is extend the war. US refusal to lift sanctions against Syria following the recent earthquake and states it wants to destroy the country. Report that US destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines last year. Taiwan and the Solomon Islands.

10 February 2023

Big missile strike; Bakhmut siege tightens; Russia advances on Kupiansk; UK to send Typhoon jets, not F16s; Scholz and Baerbock ‘not speaking’.

10 February 2023

GrayZone – Rant against the war machine rally on 19th February 2023 in Washington, with Jimmy Dore; some of the US ‘left’ not being anti-war; the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines; the earthquake and the block on aid to Syria because of US sanctions; the Syrian ‘White Helmets’ the tool of US and western imperialism.

10 February 2023

The Duran – Nord Stream pipeline and sabotaging peace with Jeffrey Sachs.

10 February 2023

The Leopard’s Tale: U.S. weapons makers on a marketing spree.

10 February 2023

The West thought oil sanctions would cripple Russia, here’s why the plan backfired.

11 February 2023

Russia tests new systems most recent missile barrage; Bakhmut trap tightens; New York Times writes Russia may plan encirclement; threats against venues hosting meetings against the war.

12 February 2023

Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war – Ukraine. [In this the headline says more than the body of the article. The Ukrainian figures are unsubstantiated – they never are – and the BBC always provides it’s (and that of the UK Ministry of Defence) get out by writing ‘The figures cannot be verified – but the UK says the trends are “likely accurate”.’ The word ‘likely’ appears in many BBC reports when it wishes to publicise matters that are, in all probability not likely.]

12 February 2023

West admits jets for Ukraine will take years and US sanctions blocking Syrian earthquake relief.

12 February 2923

Bakhmut siege tightens; Russia captures Krasnaya Gora; London Daily Telegraph economics editor cast doubts on the effects of western’ sanctions against Russia; Russian oil caps ‘watered down’; NATO back-pedal fighter jets; Zelensky plays western leaders ‘like a violin’; the decision to destroy the Nord Stream pipeline made by a ‘secret cabal’.

12 February 2023

‘Rules based international order’ to be imposed on Hungary – whether they want it or not.

12 February 2023

Zelensky shares photo of Ukrainian soldier with Nazi insignia, again.

13 February 2023

Russians slowly takes ground around Bakhmut.

13 February 2023

Is civilization at stake in Ukraine?

13 February 2023

Toll of Ukraine conflict on NATO assessed – Reuters.

13 February 2023

More balloons or UFOs? Is it all a distraction? Interview with Seymour Hersh and his article about the US involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines starts at 33.40 minutes to near the end. And with a very instructive and informative short video of Condoleezza Rice speaking about 20 years ago at 36.35.

14 February 2023 (originally broadcast 03 February 2023)

What becomes of NATO after the loss in Ukraine?

14 February 2023

Ukraine retreating from Bakhmut; Russia reaches Kupyansk and Liman; NATO out of stock of munitions; Stoltenberg makes strange speech which shows panic and lack of real understanding of logistics; confused and contradictory advice coming from the Pentagon.

15 February 2023

West’s ability to arm Ukraine continues to wane; western weapon systems won’t arrive for so-called Ukrainian ‘Spring’ offensive – and no time to train Ukrainians to use them; mainstream media starts to accept problems developing; US denies reality and continues to repeat their fantastical claims of Russian failures.

15 February 2023

Blood, money and imperial war.

No Nazis in Ukraine – says US/UK/NATO/EU, but the facts say otherwise.

15 February 2023

US official deletes tweet honouring Nazi collaborator.

15 February 2023

Ukrainian ‘commander’ shown with ISIS patch.

15 February 2023

Zelensky decorates military unit with ‘Nazi’ title.

15 February 2023

Russia closes in on Kupiansk and Liman; UK mainstream media admits NATO can’t – and never will – match Russia in production of ammunition; US depletes its ’emergency’ oil reserve.

16 February 2023

Russia in Paraskovievka and Bakhmut; more concern in the west that their ammunition stocks are being depleted; fewer NATO tanks than promised – especially Leopard 2 tanks from Germany; developments following Seymour Hersh’s article on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines; both Stoltenberg and Sullivan have questions to answer.

16 February 2023

Douglas Macgregor – The Russian onslaught. In the first few minutes three interesting video clips about the current situation and the amount of ammunition available for the Ukraine by Austin, Stoltenberg and Milley. Scoffs at the saga of the ‘surveillance balloons’. Seymour Hersh’s article on the Nord Stream sabotage ”more than credible’. [On the Ukraine I find it difficult to disagree with much of what Macgregor says about the military aspect of the war in the Ukraine. But, at foundation, he’s just a right-wing shit. He considers those in control of the industrial/military complex as ‘left-wing’ and constantly makes references, in a negative manner, to those crossing the southern border with Mexico.]

17 February 2023

China-Iran ties on the right side of history.

18 February 2023

How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline.

18 February 2023

Russian Bakhmut pincer closing; Paraskovievka captured and Russian forces approaching Kupiansk; Macron says there should be no regime change in Russia. [Although Mercouris offers a reasonable analysis he can sometimes waffle, especially when it comes to military matters. That’s the case here but his comments on the Munich Security Conference are worth a listen and start at around minute 30.]

18 February 2023

‘United States is corrupted!’ – The Russian-Ukrainian war explained. Commentary by Jimmy Dore. [With an interesting short video of US representative being caught out in justifying NATO expansion as not being a cause for the war.]

19 February 2023

Russia pushes west of Bakhmut; gloom over the Munich Security Conference – an ‘acceptance of the partition of the Ukraine; ‘the end of the world as we know it’; disappointment after the expectation that Russia would ‘implode’ following sanctions; bizarre (and hysterical) reaction of world leaders to China’s Wang Yi announcement that China will be publishing a ‘position paper’ later in the week; Sunak’s ‘double down’ an acceptance of Ukrainian defeat?

20 February 2023

Europe’s second largest industrial base [Italy] sinks under the weight of energy costs as divisions open up in the ruling coalition.

20 February 2023

Russia’s Special Military Operation one year on: How the US started this war and where it’s heading. [Includes a couple interesting video clips; Wesley Clark, retired US general, 17.43 minutes; Victoria Nuland and the US support for Ukraine, 36.33 minutes; as well as a couple of ‘forgotten’ articles/reports; EU report that Georgia started the war against Russia in 2008, 34 minutes; and a very different approach by the Guardian to the politics of the Ukraine in 2004, 29.15 minutes.

20 February 2023

Biden empty handed in Kiev – merely more propaganda and hot air; Russia advances in Bakhmut; Borrell begs for ammunition; leaders from the ‘global south’ shun the ‘west’ in Munich – Financial Times article about this analysed at 45 minutes; has Russian gained supremacy of the skies about Ukraine?

20 February 2023

Military summary and analysis.

21 February 2023

Putin’s February 21 speech: hot takes – Putin speaks for a strong, self-sufficient Russia.

21 February 2023

EU gas price cap: an exercise in futility.

21 February 2023

Russia 15km from Kupiansk; Lt. Col Daniel Davis, in the magazine 45, compares the respective strategy and tactics of the two opposing forces, from minute 4.25; Biden’s Kiev trip draws criticism from US politicians (17.10 minutes); fractious meeting between Wang Yi and Blinken at the Munich Security Conference; 34.45 minutes, editorial in Chinese Global Times; 39.45 Putin’s State of the Nation address.

21 February 2023

Ukraine forcing ethnic Hungarians to fight Russia, Hungary outraged.

21 February 2023

Vladimir Putin delivered his Address to the Federal Assembly. [The full text.]

Ukraine war: President Putin speech fact-checked. [Read the speech above and then consider if the BBC’s ‘fact checking’ holds water.

21 February 2023

‘I am ashamed to be a European’ Irish MEPs slam EU for silence on Nord Stream blasts.

22 February 2023

Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?

22 February 2023

Russia Centre Bakhmut, Russian Ministry of Defence disputes Prigozhin claims about being starved of ammunition; M of D statement at minute 2.30 and Prigozhin’s response; a strange and worrying internal conflict which only benefits the Ukraine; 46.15, ‘Battle of the Speeches’; Biden insults Putin in Warsaw; Putin’s speech more measured and with no personal attacks, also says sanctions have failed.

22 February 2023

Where is Russia’s winter offensive? Why should Russia carry out a big offensive if what they have already been doing is achieving their aim, i.e., the demilitarization of the Ukraine. President Biden substantially empty-handed in Kiev – form over substance.

23 February 2023

Russia taking Berkhova and tightens grip on Bakhmut; Wang Yi meets Putin and Lavrov, 35.00 minute; China slams US foreign policy in position papers: ‘US hegemony and its perils’, (46.40) and ‘Global security initiative concept paper’, (51.04).

US hegemony and its perils. [Full text.]

23 February 2023

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) war game: US vs China over Taiwan – provoking war to preserve US primacy.

23 February 2023

Jeffrey Sachs at the United Nations Security Council meeting on the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage.

23 February 2023

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s Regular Press Conference on February 23, 2023. [In answer to a question from CCTV (Chinese Central Television) towards the end of the press conference he states ‘The US is the No.1 warmonger in the world’ and makes direct reference to the US’s maintenance of world ‘hegemony’.]

24 February 2023

Scott Ritter – the Russian onslaught coming.

24 February 2023

China’s position on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis.

24 February 2023

Discussion between Gonzalo Lira and Yves Smith. [A long discussion, almost two hours, but covers many aspects of the current conflict in the Ukraine – as well as some thoughts on the covid pandemic.]

24 February 2023

Russian forces captures Bekhova; China’s Ukraine ‘Position Paper’ criticises ‘West’; UN resolution demonstrates ‘west’ out of ideas to isolate Russia (35.20); Russia and China deepen ties – ‘read out’ of meeting between Sergei Lavrov and Wang Yi in Moscow (53.30).

25 February 2023

5 reasons why much of the Global South isn’t automatically supporting the ‘West’ in Ukraine.

25 February 2023

Western mainstream media declare ‘life expectancy of Ukrainians in Bakhmut is 4 hours’; discussion on actual Russian casualties (minute 10.00) followed by possible Ukrainian casualties; destruction of Ukrainian artillery (22.30 minutes); ‘peace plans’.

25 February 2023

NATO propaganda on Ukraine war one year later.

26 February 2023

Ukrainian fighters at Bakhmut reported encircled.

26 February 2023

West is out of touch with rest of world politically, EU-funded study admits.

United West, divided from the rest: Global public opinion one year into Russia’s war on Ukraine – report.

26 February 2023

Russia pincers close in Bakhmut; Zaluzhny warns Zelensky; More on Ukrainian and Russian casualties (27.00); China spooks west – Wang Yi’s meetings in Munich, read-outs, (51.50); CIA says Russia confident – report of the only proven meeting to have taken place between representatives of the US and Russia (60.30).

27 February 2023

Russia claims Bakhmut roads cut; Scholz and Macron mull ultimatum – but is this a cover for ammunition in NATO’s stockpiles?; Moscow warns of a declaration of war if Transnistria attacked (41.40).

27 February 2023

Professor Peter Kuznick on American secret history – Seymour Hersh and US History of Secret Operations.

28 February 2023

China reboots ‘no limit’ partnership with Russia.

01 March2023

Russia repels drones; Bakhmut to become a ‘cauldron’ for Ukrainians within 48 Hours; neocons (in two British mainstream newspapers) ‘double down’ (38.00); discussion on why China is becoming more vocal now (50.30).

01 March 2023

Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine will be destroyed.

01 March 2023

Military summary and analysis – second half a discussion on the next Russian mobilisation.

01 March 2023

Ukraine – a year later, US Department of Defence and State Department officials retreat into delusion.

01 March 2023

Colonel MacGregor: Ukraine has been destroyed and there’s nothing left. NATO membership is on the cards for Ukraine – which means, in effect, that there is no possibility of any negotiated settlement. Ukraine calls for US soldiers to be sent to the front.

02 March 2023

Ukraine, Russia, China and dealing with crazy people.

02 March 2023

The fiscal side of Europe’s energy crisis: the facts, problems and prospects.

02 March 2023

Early news about Ukrainian attack on Bryansk (Russia); Russia shrinks Bakhmut exit route; China greets Lukashenko (from Belorussia) in a grand manner (35.00); is China edging towards an anti-US alliance?

03 March 2023

Why Biden snubbed China’s Ukraine peace plan.

03 March 2023

At the brink of war in the Pacific? The nightmare of ‘Great Power’ rivalry over Taiwan.

03 March 2023

Macgregor – Nazis and corruption in Ukraine; failures of US ‘adventures’ in the recent past; no accountability for failure in the US military; Macgregor’s right-wing, anti-immigration etc., views; ‘NATO will crumble’.

03 March 2023

Grayzone – Nord Stream terrorism (07.00); Crimea (23.00); events in Ukraine (35.00); US and China – Taiwan, and using other countries and their populations to maintain US hegemony (43.00); US ‘progressives’ (58.20); Syria and sanctions – and the ‘progressives’ in favour of maintianing them (73.30); Sean Penn – a CIA mole? (84.00); anti-war protests worldwide (97.00).

03 March 2023

UK mainstream media reports the Russian taking Lupiansk (22.11); Russian air force becoming more active in bombing raids; Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure – which also depletes Ukrainian air defence systems; Ukrainian ‘sabotage’ in Bryansk (44.50); US ‘hijacks and wrecks’ G20 (53.10).

04 March 2023 (originally posted 21 February 2023)

‘I am the President who delivers peace.’ [It sticks in the craw but included here out of interest.]

05 March 2023

The widening war: how the NATO-Russia confrontation is playing out in North Africa.

06 March 2023

The New Atlas – UK Ministry of Defence claims Russians fighting with ‘Shovels’ (08.50); Ukraine losing Bakhmut and low on artillery shells; Europe should convert to ‘war economy’ according to some EU ‘hardliners’; latest US military assistance package (16.00).

Russian reservists fighting with shovels – UK defence ministry. (BBC)

[The stories being published about the war in the Ukraine get more and more bizarre every day. If the Russian army is so badly equipped why are they winning the attrition war? If the Russians can take these highly fortified (prepared over a period of 7 to 8 years) towns, such as Soladar earlier in the year, and are winning – now accepted by more and more in the ‘mainstream media’ with just shovel wielding conscripts how pathetic does that make the NATO supported forces. The ‘journalist’ from the BBC was obviously aware of the ludicrous nature of this report as there is no byline. And if this is the quality of ‘intelligence’ coming from MI6 (which presumably is the source that provides the British Government with news from the front-line) then it’s no surprise that the British intelligence ‘community’ wasn’t on top of events that proceeded the Manchester Arena bombing. And if the Russians are sending troops into battle as suggested in this baseless crap, and simply pro-NATO/Ukraine propaganda, why are we being denied proof (photographic or otherwise) of these suicidal frontal attacks?]

06 March 2023

Wolf Richter: US natural gas production surges to record in 2022, up 33% from 2017. LNG exports hit record despite freeport terminal shutdown.

06 March 2023

America’s chips war with China: another sanctions backfire coming? [It’s starting to become more difficult to separate the events in the Ukraine with how the ‘west’ is acting in relation to China.]

06 March 2023

Russia claims Bakhmut ‘cauldron’ and 10,000 troops trapped; first NATO Leopard tanks to be used in Bakhmut?; west media admits Ukraine losses, blames Zelensky

06 March 2023

Ukraine is going to lose.

06 March 2023

Military summary and analysis. [Includes a speculative discussion about whether the Ukraine is using its defence of Bahkmut with inexperienced troops as a blind to build for a Spring offensive further south.]

07 March 2023

Wall Street Journal: ‘US is not yet ready for Great Power conflict’ yet still plots against China.

07 March 2023

Ukraine denies involvement in Nord Stream pipelines blast. [More irrational reporting from the BBC. And I deny any link to the Brink-Mats gold heist – but then no one accused me of being involved in the first place. This is just a screen to take the ‘heat’ off the US state terrorists. And in all the ‘debate’ about this non-news there’s no mention whatsoever about Seymour Hersh’s report, published earlier this year, that accused the US and Norway of planning and carrying out this terrorist act.]

07 March 2023

Russia presses Bakhmut ‘cauldron’; Zelensky vows Bakhmut defence; Ukrainian losses and inexperience (24.30); possible Ukrainian and Russian Spring offensives (37.21); Ukraine’s lack of infantry (44.50); Shultz in Washington for one hour meeting with Biden – and then back home (50.10).

08 March 2023

‘How stupid do they think we are?’ Nord Stream pipelines bombing edition.

08 March 2023

Douglas Macgregor – Russian methods of warfare.

08 March 2023

US General talks up war against China by 2025.

08 March 2023

Russia captures East Bakhmut; Zelensky admits strategic importance of Bakhmut (01.30); Intel: Nord Stream attack 6 guys and a boat (31.00); the limits of US power (60.00).

09 March 2023

The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf worries about Europe’s future.

09 March 2023

Georgia protests: US seeks to open 2nd front against Russia. [Listing other examples of where the US has interfered in the internal affairs of countries that follow a political line not in accord with US wishes.]

09 March 2023

Neocon fanatic Anne Applebaum confronted on Ukraine – a piece from the Grayzone’s longer piece published on 03 March 2023 – posted above.

09 March 2023

A feminist demand on International Women’s Day: Fire Victoria Nuland.

09 March 2023

Russian missile strike – using hypersonic missiles for the first time; failed Ukrainian counter-attack in Bakhmut; a different analysis of the Wager force by the Ukrainians (14.30); uncontrolled Ukrainian retreat; Financial Times criticises Ukrainian tactics in Bakhmut; 6 guys and a boat and Nord Stream terrorist attack (38.00); Haines, Director of National Intelligence sabre rattles against China(41.30); China’s Foreign Minister, Qin Gang, warns of coming conflict with the US at press conference (48.30).

Qin Gang meets the press: summary and full text.

10 March 2023

The Grayzone live – Nord Stream cover ‘story’ (03.00); Zelensky not invited to the Oscars, Ukrainian Nazis, (26.00); ethnic cleansing of Russians in Ukraine (31.05); US Democrats use McCarthyite tactics against journalist (45.00); Twitter files (77.00); the situation in Syria (86.00).

10 March 2023

Rashida Tlaib [of the so-called ‘progressive squad’ in the US Democrat Party] confronted about sending $100 Billion to Ukraine – and the general pusillanimity of the US democratic ‘left’. Jimmy Dore.

10 March 2023

Military summary and analysis. Any Ukrainian counter-offensive in Bakhmut suicidal? Bakhmut going to be biggest battle of 21st century – so far. What’s behind the argument between Prigozhin (of the Wagner Group) and the Russian Ministry of Defence?

10 March 2023

Ukraine counter-attack in Bakhmut; China linking arms to Russia to Taiwan; Russia sending SU35 aircraft to Iran.

11 March 2023

The New Atlas live – Russian missile campaign in Ukraine, respective casualties (02.00); Georgia street demonstrations (17.30); Taiwan (27.30); Nord Stream terrorist attack (53.00); Q+A (65.00).

11 March 2023

Russia in Bakhmut Centre; Kinzhal hypersonic missiles spook Kiev and the west; Nord Stream terrorist attack by 6 people in a yacht (38.00); China achieves a huge political coup as Iran and Saudi Arabia reconcile, Russia to supply aircraft and air defence systems – but all but ignored by the western mainstream media (43.00).

12 March 2023

Military summary and analysis.

13 March 2023

Bankruptcies soar across EU as companies hit wall at fastest rate since records began in 2015.

13 March 2023

Russia advances in Bakhmut and Slaviansk; Ukraine delays counter-attack; for the Kremlin there’s only a military solution; banking crisis hits US. [Time stamps can be found under disndat1000 in comments.]

13 March 2023

John Mearsheimer – the U.S. is destroying Ukraine.

13 March 2023

US ‘Imperial anxieties’ mount over China-brokered Iran-Saudi Arabia diplomatic deal.

13 March 2023

Different approaches to ‘foreign agent’ laws – depending if whether ot not you’re the US

EU may introduce ‘foreign agents’ law.

Echoes of Maidan: Georgia has a huge Western-funded NGO sector and regular outbreaks of violent protest, is there a link?

West blasts Balkan region’s plan to replicate US law.

Four views on the present (or is it best to say systemic?) banking crisis

13 March 2023

Why the banking system is breaking up.

13 March 2023

Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse shows little has changed for big banks since 2008.

13 March 2023

Silicon Valley Bank: how interest rates helped trigger its collapse and what central bankers should do next.

14 March 2023

Why central banks are too powerful and have created our inflation crisis – by the banking expert who pioneered quantitative easing.

14 March 2023

West mainstream media (Washington Post, Daily mail, Wall Street journal) pessimistic about the deteriorating situation of Ukraine (08.00); Russia advances in Bakhmut; Ukraine losses mount; doubts over offensive grow; Rissian economy (43.00)

15 March 2023

Rosneft refinery in Schwedt continues to be a microcosm of Europe’s sanctions-induced energy mess.

15 March 2023

Why China is unlikely to invade Taiwan.

15 March 2023

Jeffery Sachs – the United States is a madman.

16 March 2023

The not-so-winding road from Iraq to Ukraine.

16 March 2023

Washington’s downed drone and growing admissions of Ukraine’s military deterioration.

16 March 2023

Russian forces capture southern Bakhmut.

17 March 2023

Bakhmut ties Russians as Ukrainians prepare for the next counter-offensive. [A very much pro-Ukrainian analysis – which takes all its ‘information’ by unsupported Ukrainian government sources. Seems to go against all other commentators analyses and doesn’t accept the idea that the Russians are following their strategy of gradually eliminating Ukrainian force (both in men and material) rather than gaining land. Included here to see how valid the conclusions might become as matters pan out in the next couple of months.]

17 March 2023

How Microsoft is becoming more and more embroiled in the conflict in the Ukraine.

18 March 2023

The Iraq War 20 years on: end of the US’s post-9/11 neoconservative dream

18 March 2023

The illegal invasion of Iraq: never forget.

18 March 2023

Finnish PM honors ultra-right Ukrainian militant.

19 March 2023

US threatens to arrest ICC judges if they pursue Americans for Afghan war crimes. [An article first published on 10th September 2018. It seems that if the International Criminal Court ‘threatens’ the US or any of its allies then it is ‘unaccountable’ and ‘illegitimate’ but the opposite if it makes rulings against the ‘enemies’ of the west.]

19 March 2023

Anti-China propaganda dismantled on BBC.

Economist, policy analyst and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs appeared on BBC in April 2021 to talk about international cooperation on climate change and instantly pushed back against the host’s framing of China as a rampant human rights abuser while letting the U.S. off the hook for minor offenses like the war in Iraq, Guantanamo and the CIA torture program. Sachs also challenged the host’s suggestion that Sachs was appearing as a stand-in for the United States government, a proposition he vehemently denied.

20 March 2023

Arresting Putin – or arresting all-out Western public revolt?

20 March 2023

Fiona Edwards speaking on behalf of No Cold War Britain at the NO2NATO NO2WAR Rally in London on 25 February 2023. [Video.]

21 March 2023

On the ICC, Putin, Netanyahu and Prosecutorial Discretion.

21 March 2023

Britain supplying depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine.

21 March 2023

The hidden proxy war Washington wages against China.

21 March 2023

Ukraine says Russian missiles destroyed in Crimea. [This claim was never verified and the story just disappeared from the ‘news’. The BBC, again, taking Ukrainian claims at face value without any attempt at verification. This is propaganda not news!]

21 March 2023

Banking crisis, de-dollarization and US Wars – a wide ranging discussion on the present financial ‘crisis’. Russia, due to sanctions, is immune from the banking problems in the collective west; bankers doing the same as in 2008 – banks ‘to big to fail’; effects of sanctions on Russia, incompetent financial policy in west, sequestration of Russian assets make other foreign ‘investors’ reluctant to invest in US Treasury Bonds; the market was going up during the pandemic ‘when the markets were closed’; 49.00 min., the start of the Petrodollar – but now the US is not a dependable partner; how Russia and China are different ‘friends’ than the US; why trust any of the old colonial ‘masters’ against Russia or China?; war to come with China in order for the US to get out of its financial mess; 75.00 min., explanation of derivatives market.

22 March 2023

Colonel MacGregor: The Gathering Storm in Ukraine spells doom for the West. [Includes, at the end, a video discussion the final part of which addresses the incident of the US drone that crashed into the sea off the coast of Crimea.]

22 March 2023

Send in the clowns.

22 March 2023

Depleted uranium to Ukraine. Putin and Russia forced to react. Lavrov, this will end badly for UK. Alex Christoforou. The UK government always first in line to escalate matters on the international scene. [Video podcast.]

22 March 2023

UK defends sending depleted uranium shells after Putin warning. [The normal uncritical response from the BBC.]

22 March 2023

Russia presses on Bakhmut and Avdeevka; Russia furious about UK supply of depleted uranium shells along with Challenger tanks; speculation on the situation of the production of armaments in Russia; China-Russia Mutual Defence Pact.

23 March 2023

What Europe got wrong about sanctions on Russia.

23 March 2023

West surges ammunition ahead of Ukraine’s all-or-nothing offensive; FT article admits problems in expansion of artillery shell production (18.00); US/NATO/EU/UK to deplete their own strategic reserves?; UK Telegraph article claims Russia not able to produce sufficient shells – but with no proof (23.26).

24 March 2023

The Nord Stream Cover-up – Seymour Hersh

24 March 2023

Slovakia offered US helicopters for giving jets to Ukraine.

24 March 2023

New Atlas Live: Ukrainian offensive; west giving Ukraine the illusion of support; UK supplying depleted uranium shells – for just 14 tanks, perhaps because that’s all they have so sending in desperation, and potentially polluting the country they are supposed to helping (in agricultural areas) with toxic chemicals; economic and social problems in the EU – regime change in the west rather than Russia?; Russia and China just waiting for the west to collapse?; AUKUS – and Australia buying nuclear powered submarines to defend their own country or to join the US/UK offensive against China?; what is real GDP/; who is buying US bonds any more?; west form over substance.

24 March 2023

Douglas Macgregor: Zelensky has thrown thousands of Ukrainian troops into the Bakhmut bloodbath – a horror story on the levels of WWI. Where will the soldiers come from to carry out the so-called ‘Ukrainian spring offensive’?

24 March 2023

Ukrainian counter-offensive ‘will shock the world’ – US adviser.

25 March 2023

NATO carried out ‘inhumane experiment’ in Balkans – health minister. [Now the UK plans to do something similar in the Ukraine.]

27 March 2023

End of unipolarity with Jeffrey Sachs, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen. [This writer is not such a big fan of ‘multipolarity’ as some – especially those on the ‘left’ who consider the People’s Republic of China still to be a socialist country. However, this discussion is included here for a little bit of historical context and also to illustrate the death of the present day world’s ‘hegemon’ – the USA.]

27 March 2023

Tactics, arms and ammunition: What will shape Ukraine’s offensive and the impact of its aftermath.

27 March 2023

Tensions rise in Crimea as Russia prepares for a likely spring offensive. [This is yet another ‘academic’ analysis which seems to go against all readily available information – other than that available from Ukrainian or western sources. Included here to see what happens in the next few weeks. I predict this argument will be conveniently forgotten as the Ukrainian forces descend into a debacle and chaos. But …. We shall see.]

27 March 2023

Ukrainian soldiers seen with depleted uranium ammo in UK.

28 March 2023

The Critical Hour: talking US-Russian tensions in Ukraine and US-Chinese tensions over Taiwan. ‘There seems to be no standard, no law which the United States will not ignore and break and then deny so long as it furthers its objectives’.

28 March 2023

Russia more Bakhmut gains, taking Azom industrial area; Russian aircraft bomb Sumy; missiles targeting Kiev; speculation that Kiev unable to attack Crimea with missiles but might use Taiwan bought drones instead; Ukraine still short of ammunition and tanks; opposition in Ukraine to the use of UK supplied depleted uranium shells on Ukrainian soil; analysis of munitions situation in Ukraine by Chinese commentator; China stonewalls Xi-Biden talks, as well as Zelensky speaking to China.

28 March 2023

Russia negotiates PEACE between Saudi Arabia and Syria!

28 March 2023

Here’s why Human Rights Watch deliberately only scratched the surface in exploring Ukraine’s use of banned ‘petal’ mines.

28 March 2023

UK Army putting ‘outrageous spin’ on depleted uranium science.

29 March 2023

The anniversary of the March 2022 sabotaged (the the US and the UK) peace accord arrived at in Istanbul; the escalation of the conflict with the supply of more and more materiel to Ukraine in order to achieve the wished-for ‘collapse’ of Russia and the fall of Putin; what’s really needed for an effective counter-offensive; the historical danger of being a proxy for the United States – they lose their independence; Russia speeds Bakhmut advance; Russia strikes Ukrainian rear; Ukraine shells Melitopol; divisions in the Ukrainian structure over the impact of the loss of Bahkmut; Russian weapons output; any Ukrainian counter-offensive will be the last call for Ukraine.

30 March 2023

What Ukraine needs to learn from Afghanistan.

30 March 2023

US issues NATO weapons playing cards to help Ukraine avoid friendly fire. [A bizarre article with some wild assertions – but gives an indication of the problems of the pick-and-mix military equipment which is being supplied to the Ukraine.]

30 March 2023

Russia to offer food for North Korean weapons – US. [Another link included here as it is just another part of the strange and wonderful world of western propaganda. No ‘facts’ are presented to substantiate the argument and there are no ‘facts’ on the ground that indicate that Russia is in urgent need of weapons in its war against the Ukraine. Like many stories over the past year this one will, more than likely, just peter out.]

30 March 2023

Russia storms Central Bakhmut; Kiev and the US in denial; Zelensky depressed; Putin upbeat on the economy; EU to prolong cutback in natural gas use.

30 March 2023

Military summary and analysis – statement about destruction of NATO bunker, with the loss of mainly UK and Polish troops (08.00).

30 March 2023

‘Significant portion’ of £4.8bn UK lethal aid for Ukraine will remain secret.

30 March 2023

UK ‘unaware’ of Russia firing depleted uranium in Ukraine – while the British military is supplying toxic ammunition to Ukraine, it lacks evidence Russia has already used it in the conflict.

31 March 2023

It’s not Russia that’s pushed Ukraine to the brink of war – an article originally published on 30 April 2014 when the Guardian took a different point of view about the conflict.

31 March 2023

Indictment strengthens Trump; Ukraine admits Russian gains in Bakhmut; China rejects EU pressure for talks with Zelensky; who has the ‘best’ technology, the west or the the Russians?

31 March 2023

The Grayzone Friday Live – the Trump indictment (04.00); the Azov battalion and the Ukrainian fascists and their international hangers-on (31.00 min.); the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin and ‘children camps’ in Russia 41.00 min.; OPCW cover up of the supposed Syrian government chemical attack in Duoma (81.00 min.); the continued US occupation of the oil and wheat region of NE Syria (96.00 min.)

31 March 2023

Ukraine’s End Game approaches but more war may come.

31 March 2023

Once the Dollar loses Reserve Currency Status – there’s NO GOING BACK.

02 April 2023

International Criminal Court [ICC] irreversibly crosses the line of legal decency.

03 April 2023

The ‘Battle of Bakhmut’ – and Russian efforts to ‘grind down’ Ukrainian forces, where the intention is to minimise Russian losses whilst maximising Ukrainian casualties, in both manpower and weaponry; the supposed Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’; the inability of the west to maintain the necessary level of military supplies; estimated Russian casualties (05.30); Russia’s GLONASS-Guided Glide Bombs (10.00); and Ukrainian air defence capabilities and the efforts of the Russians to destroy its infrastructure.

03 April 2023

Military summary and analysis. The Russians have caught the terrorist in St Petersburg. Bakhmut is now Artemovsk. Ukrainian missile attack in Melitopol.

03 April 2023

Russia captures central Bakhmut and raises flag over Town Hall; Russia outraged by Tatarsky murder in St Petersburg (32.00); expulsion of Orthodox monks from Kiev monastery (44.00); Saudi cuts oil output (47.30); and the disintegration of the oil price cap.

04 April 2023

First Russian shipment of (allegedly) diesel docks in Mexico since G7 Plus-imposed price cap, stoking controversy and confusion.

04 April 2023

The tragic U.S. choice to prioritize war over peacemaking.

04 April 2023

The Government is refusing to tell the public how billions worth of ‘lethal aid’ for Ukraine is being spent.

04 April 2023

Depleted uranium accident file censored – the government is hiding a paper on the ‘worst credible accident’ involving ammunition Britain has supplied Ukraine.

05 April 2023

US forces under fire in Syria: illegal occupation enters dangerous phase.

06 April 2023

Waiting for that too-much-discussed Ukraine Counter-offensive.

06 April 2023

Douglas Macgregor and Andrew Napolitano – what’s happening in the Ukraine at the beginning of April 2023.

07 April 2023

Telegram leak of US/NATO document paints grim picture of condition of Ukraine’s military.

09 April 2023

Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers’, says Macron.

09 April 2023

Ukraine’s coming offensive: leaked NATO plans and lack of arms.

10 April 2023

Pushilin visits Bakhmut; Ukraine suffers heavy losses; Ukraine air defence weakened; UK hints war may be lost.

10 April 2023

Pentagon in panic as second set of leaked documents gains traction, revealing spying on Allies and deteriorating Ukraine capabilities.

11 April 2023

Refugees from Ukraine recorded across Europe. [Note the large percentage of refugees who are in the Russian Federation or Belarus.]

11 April 2023

Pushilin claims Bakhmut advances and Marinka gains; Pentagon thinks Ukraine only capable of modest gains in any future ‘offensive’.

11 April 2023

U.S. intel leak reveals 50 elite British troops in Ukraine.

12 April 2023

Leak shows Western special forces on the ground. [The BBC reports it – will they pursue the issue and question the legality of their presence or just explain it away?]

12 April 2023

Ukrainian air defenses dwindling, West scours world for arms on eve of ‘Spring Offensive’.

12 April 2022

Prigozhin and Russian Ministry of Defence say priority is to resolve the conflict in Bakhmut; high casualties amongst western ‘mercenaries’; Russian air force active around Bakhmut; Russia claims it has captured the Marinka factory area; Crimea ready for ‘anything the Ukrainians throw at them’; Putin: Russian Economy Surging

12 April 2023

James K. Galbraith: The gift of sanctions – an analysis of assessments of the Russian Economy, 2022 – 2023.

12 April 2023

Ukraine Firepower v Russian Firepower, with Scott Ritter – leaked Pentagon briefing papers; seven to one kill ratio; Austin lying to Congress; Zelensky ‘out of his mind’ when he talks about Crimea; CIA using journalists as spies in Russia.

12 April 2023

Kiev votes to name street after WW2 Waffen-SS commander.

12 April 2023

Zelensky and team stole at least $400 million of US aid – Seymour Hersh.

13 April 2023

Russia repels Bakhmut counter-attack; Kiev postpones ‘offensive’; US ‘borrows’ shells; Brazil and China ditch USD in bilateral trade; Saudi Arabia defies the US and receives Syrian Foreign Minister.

13 April 2023

Pentagon leaks paint gloomy picture of long war that can’t be won but must not be lost. [This ‘academic’ – after months of just doling out Ukrainian government propaganda – starts to report the reality, but still will unproven and unsubstantiated claims about Russian casualties. As always, follow the money.]

14 April 2023

Larry Johnson and other former insiders debunk Air Guardsman-as-Pentagon-Leaker story as press cheers arrest – ‘six guys in a boat’ Part II.

14 April 2023

New Atlas LIVE: unrelenting Russian attacks in the Ukraine; the west talking sense after a year of misinformation; Germany shows it even more subservient to US interests; EU delegation to China treated exactly the same as any other foreign visitor; the perversion of the Dalai Lama; BBC complains about being described as being ‘state funded’.

14 April 2023

UK Ministry of Defence [interesting that western ‘information’ outlets are now seemingly following the reality on the ground – the question is ‘Why are they now telling the ‘truth’ when they have been lying for months?’ Everything is full of contradictions.]; Prigozhin’s estimate of Ukrainian casualties in the defence of Bakhmut; Ukraine retreats from Bakhmut, Russia advances Avdeyevka; US arrests ‘leaker’ – a young 21 year old; Hersh on Ukraine corruption.

15 April 2023

Russia leaves neoliberal ‘West’ to join world majority.

15 April 2023

Russia captures two Bakhmut districts; Prigozhin taunts Zelensky (15.30-25 min.); analysis of Ukraine’s ‘counter-offensive from what was revealed in the Pentagon documents leak – including thoughts of a British mercenary published in The Spectator (25-55 min.); Bloomberg casts doubt on a Ukrainian advance in 2023.

15 April 2023

Scott Ritter: NATO can’t do anything – following the fall of Bakhmut and the unravelling of the Ukrainian army. With an analysis of changing Russian tactics of its air war.

15 April 2023

Why the media don’t want to know the truth about the Nord Stream blasts.

15 April 2023

Is the Army all that you can be?

16 April 2023

The increasing number of trial balloons for Polish intervention in Ukraine.

16 April 2023

EU rejects Ukraine grain bans by Poland and Hungary. ‘Friends’ fall out.

17 April 2023

US rushes to provoke war with China over Taiwan, US think tanks admit Taiwan will be destroyed in whatever scenario. [It’s now becoming impossible to separate what happens in the Ukraine with that is developing in China/Taiwan.]

17 April 2023

Tracking the EU decoupling from Russia.

18 April 2023

Putin tours battlefronts and meets top commanders; Russia’s massive aerial bombing; Eastern European countries reject Ukrainian grain; ‘Global South’ continues to avoid supporting the ‘west’ in its conflict with Russia.

19 April 2023

Ukraine’s offensive: taking territory vs. the war of attrition.

19 April 2023

The official story of the Ukraine war grossly misleads.

20 April 2023

Leaks reveal reality behind U.S. propaganda in Ukraine.

20 April 2023

Russia advances on key Bakhmut Road; West splits on negotiations; reasons for the ‘counter-offensive’ from the interested players; west depending upon an internal collapse of both the Russian military and political structure; how the ‘leaked’ Pentagon Papers are being manipulated from all angles.

20 April 2023

U.S. Sends Troops To Taiwan! – even though the US officially recognises Taiwan as part of China under the acceptance of the ‘one China policy’.

20 April 2023

EU state [Latvia] bans WW2 victory celebration.

20 April 2023

Facebook labels Seymour Hersh’s reporting ‘false’.

21 April 2023

Ukraine conflict highlights key question for Africa: should we focus on the problems of the elite or those faced by the majority of the population?

21 April 2023

The Critical Hour: US sells 400 harpoon anti-ship missiles to Taiwan; update on Ukraine fighting – with Brian Berletic.

21 April 2023

New Atlas LIVE: US builds consensus for war with China and closer look at Taiwan with Carl Zha.

21 April 2023

Russia claims Bakhmut road cut; Ukraine troops caught in a true ‘cauldron’ in Bakhmut; G7 Russia blockade as Russia economy surges (22 min.).

21 April 2023

Did Russia destroy a deep underground bunker in March – complete with high Ukrainian officers and also numerous representatives from different NATO countries?

21 April 2023

Ukraine can retake Crimea within months, if we let it. [Another so-called ‘expert’ living in a fantasy world.]

22 April 2023

Road cut and encircled in Bakhmut; Kiev complains on lack weapons replenishment; General Ben Hodges lives in cloud cuckoo land – see article immediately above; Yellen’s arrogant, aggressive, condescending and paternalistic approach towards China (46 min.) and China’s response (54 min.); the present Sudan conflict and US interference.

23 April 2023

Ukraine shells Donetsk, killing multiple civilians.

23 April 2023

Biden told CIA to lie about Hunter Biden laptop.

24 April 2023

Russian air power over Ukraine increasing and more shortcomings appear ahead of the much awaited Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’.

24 April 2023

The Russians are winning too slowly! And are the Poles going to send in troops against the Russians?

24 April 2023

Tucker Carlson has been fired.

24 April 2023

Dozens of foreign mercenaries killed in Iskander strike.

24 April 2023

Liberal media won’t cover FBI raid on black Socialists – for speaking out against the Ukrainian proxy war.

24 April 2023

Ukrainian commander laments state of army – El Pais.

24 April 2023

‘Crazy’ that Russia and Ukraine still trade – Seymour Hersh.

24 April 2023

War, what is it good for? [OK – until the very last few paragraphs where he loses the plot.]

25 April 2023

Is Zelensky’s international charm offensive, backed up with US bullying, finally paying dividends in Latin America?

25 April 2023

The empire of hypocrisy.

25 April 2023

The reality of war in Ukraine.

26 April 2023

Military summary and analysis. Bakhmut is in the cauldron. Nevelske has been encircled.

27 April 2023

Ukraine war changing the face of Europe with Alastair Crooke.

27 April 2023

Ukraine still holds 7.5% of Bakhmut; Ukrainian counter-offensive ‘inevitable’; BBC article admits Ukraine is exhausted and out of ammunition [see below]; the success of the Russian in ‘bleeding’ Ukraine of men and material; did Ukraine attempt to assassinate Putin?; Xi-Zelensky phone call, where Xi states that sovereignty also applies to Taiwan [Global Times editorial below].

Bakhmut defenders worry about losing support. [BBC article referred in the podcast above.]

Xi’s call with Zelenskyy demonstrates responsibility of a major country.

28 April 2023

Russia rains down missiles – and how this is a continuation of the Russian tactic to degrade the Ukrainians air defence system; Lavrov at the UN on Israel-Palestine; Turkey blames US/EU collapse grain deal.

29 April 2023

The Critical Hour: Growing doubt over Ukraine’s offensive and US difficulties recruiting new soldiers.

29 April 2023

UK: west must double down even if Ukrainian offensive fails; Medvedev: Russia will go for full victory.

29 April 2023

Military summary and analysis. A fierce battle for the south of Ukraine is about to begin. [With an interesting – and new, at least for me – presentation about the role of the Russian navy in any upcoming offensive and how the west might seek to mitigate its effectiveness.]

29 April 2023

The Grayzone live; end of the Tucker era; US Democratic ‘left’ just accepting Biden’s re-election bid; US involvement in the present crisis in Somalia; Lloyd Austin lies to Congress about the vitality of the Ukrainian forces and effectively using the Ukrainian population as cannon fodder; ;

30 April 2023

Ukraine hold only 6% of Bakhmut; Ukrainian tactics in the conflict with Russia being determined by political aims, here the idea to ‘spoil’ the Victory Day celebrations in Russia on 9th May; Russian bombing intensifies; dilemma that Ukraine has about where to deploy their depleted air defence systems; UK mass media express doubts about the viability of the long awaited Ukrainian spring/summer ‘counter-offensive’; a Polish general has similar doubts; and that live is being ‘forced’ to attack’ – even though totally unprepared, the Xi-Zelensky phone conversation (which took place in the Russian language) – unbeknownst to the US.

01 May 2023

Why is the US wiring Ukraine with radiation sensors to detect nuclear blasts?

01 May 2023

Russian missile hit ahead Ukraine offensive and Kiev’s obsession over territory amid war of attrition – with suggestions about how Russian defences anticipate the Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’.

01 May 2023

Missiles strike Pavlograd; economic distortions caused by foreign ‘aid’; Ukrainian military admit – in the western media – that they are not ready for the so-called ‘counter-offensive’; US military: Russia more powerful now; would Ukraine actually consider an attack on the Russian mainland?; Biden looks for way out.

01 May 2023

Is the US narrative on Ukraine War changing? Ray McGovern. A discussion about the consequences of the recent leak of Pentagon documents.

01 May 2023

Will the EU sanction Russia’s nuclear industry?

01 May 2023

The single dumbest thing the Empire asks us to believe.

01 May 2023

The proxy war in Ukraine is an imperialist adventure.

02 May 2023

More than 20,000 Russian troops killed since December, US says. [The BBC publishes this as gospel even though the release of the ‘Pentagon Papers mark 2’ earlier in the year had proved that the US has been lying all the time in respect to the war in the Ukraine and that their statistics were only published for strategic, political aims. In this article the BBC doesn’t even question the veracity of the numbers and merely adds its normal, pathetic disclaimer; ‘The BBC is unable to independently verify the figures given’ adding, in this case, ‘and Moscow has not commented’. But then why should Moscow comment on fabrications? Neither the US nor the BBC show any evidence to back up these figures.]

02 May 2023

What happens if the west decides to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine and Russia does not (really) go along?

02 May 2023

Ukraine counter-attack in Bakhmut fails; angry attack by Prigozhin (of the Wagner group) on the Russian Ministry of Defence [this is a bizarre situation in the middle of an important battle of an ongoing war – is this just a ruse to blind side the Ukrainians and their western allies?]; Kirby bizarre statement on Russia losses and Milley calls Zaluznhy – is this to push for even a disastrous Ukrainian offensive? (20-42 mins.)[see the BBC link above]; Sullivan industry hollowed out.

02 May 2023

What China is really playing at in Ukraine.

03 May 2023

Nord Stream: Report puts Russian navy ships near pipeline blast site. [In the just over 14 months since the start of the Special Military Operation, with all sorts of bizarre and preposterous statements being made by the buffoon in Kiev and his equally inventive allies in the western mainstream media, this latest article must take the biscuit. And it took the combined resources of the west SEVEN months to come up with this fabrication – after realising that their almost equally ludicrous story about the sabotage being cause by ‘six guys and a boat’ wasn’t going to fly. This article doesn’t even contain a caveat that the BBC can’t verify the facts’. Does the ‘west’ expect people to believe this tripe? Unfortunately, I think they might. And it just goes to show how much a stooge of the security services is Gordon Corera. And this story is being published in other mainstream media – yet if you put ‘nord stream seymour hersh’ into a search on the BBC site (who wrote about the US involvement in the terrorist act) you get absolutely nothing. And this is reported on ‘Press Freedom Day.]

03 May 2023

US sells 400 Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Taiwan – will it make a difference?

03 May 2023

Drone attack on the Kremlin, BBC Radio 4, World at One. This less than three minute audio file is included here to demonstrate the different manner in which the BBC reports on entities with which the British Government does not agree. See how many reservations and qualifications these two ‘reporters’ make in discussing this event.

03 May 2023

Blinken, Russia has failed; train sabotage in Russia; Reznikov – a big attack coming. South Africa International Criminal Court problem.

04 May 2023

Russia mulls response to the Kremlin drone attack – who did it and why; nuclear war risks grow over US missiles in Poland, Rumania and possibly in the future Finland (58.30 min.)

04 May 2023

Ukraine war: drone ‘attack’ on Kremlin – logic suggests a false flag to distract Russians ahead of Victory Day on May 9. [Another article, from The Conversation, where so-called ‘academics’ (paid by NATO) who just regurgitate whatever ludicrous story comes out of Kiev. Apart from the theory just consider the language. As always with links to articles from The Conversation or the BBC always ‘follow the money’.]

05 May 2023

New Atlas Live: Talking Ukraine’s offensive and more with Mark Sleboda.

06 May 2023

Prigozhin says Bakhmut will be taken – and an analysis of what Prigozhin is up to; Russian advances on other parts of the front; HIMARS are losing their effectiveness with successful Russian electronic jamming; Russian economy grows.

07 May 2023

US vs. Gonzalo Lira.

07 May 2023

The arrest of Gonzalo Lira; Russia storming Bakhmut; Prigozhin says Surovikin in charge; Russia repels drones and bombards Ukraine.

07 May 2023

Ukraine jails US commentator Gonzalo Lira for speaking uncomfortable facts – especially about the presence of Nazis in the Ukrainian regime. Also highlighting the hypocrisy of western governments and so-called ‘human rights organisations’ such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

08 May 2023

‘The west will have to commit to industrial mobilisation’, BBC Radio 4, World at One, 08 05 23. [Some interesting points arise from this 10 minutes audio – especially if you have been following comments by other non-western loving commentators to whom their have been many links on this page. For example; if (and it’s a big ‘if’) 35 drones were shot down then that would have cost the Ukraine 70 anti-aircraft missiles. And what damage is all this falling munition doing to those underneath? The most interesting segment is from about 5.30 minutes. But it also has to be remembered that Barrons’ was glibly repeating the Ukrainian declaration of creating a ‘million man army’ last August.

08 May 2023

Kiev denies downing Khinzhal hyper-sonic missile but shoots down its own tb-2 drone, Russia plans slow grind after the (much anticipated but slow in coming) Ukrainian offensive.

09 May 2023

Today, our civilization is at a crucial turning point – Vladimir Putin’s speech at parade marking Victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War.

10 May 2023

The flight from the US dollar.

10 May 2023

Undermining deception

10 May 2023

Inside the fight for the last streets of Bakhmut.

10 May 2023

Bold gambits on the West Asian chessboard.

10 May 2023

Assassination bid on Putin to provoke furious escalation… for whom?

12 May 2023

Russian Ministry of Defence says Ukraine attacks repelled; Prigozhin feud intensifies – and is he part of the problem of panic over the last few days?; some Ukrainian officials continue to claim they have shot down Kinzhal; are new missiles being supplied by the west really ‘game changers;’ UK media admits sanctions against Russia have failed – an implicit admission that the economic power of the west is declining.

12 May 2023

Beltway mediocrities bumble toward Armageddon.

12 May 2023 (but first broadcast a couple of weeks ago)

They threw Jose Vega to the ground for asking the NY Times, and other US main stream media, a tough question about why they are not reporting on stories, like the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, which threaten the future of the world – and the connection of ‘permanent war’ advocates with the media.

12 May 2023

Wagner Group: what it would mean for the UK to designate Putin’s private army a ‘terrorist organisation’. [As the west sees its influence in the world decline it still thinks iy holds the moral high ground – and forgetting it’s own involvement in countless cases of ‘state terrorism’. And forgets that the west also have these ‘private armies’.]

13 May 2023

Russia Advance and only 20 buildings left under Ukrainian control in Bakhmut; Ukrainian flank attacks and if they are part of the long-awaited ‘counter offensive’; Storm Shadow strikes and are the Russians being too soft in reacting to the crossing of these ‘red lines’; what’s happening with Ukrainian grain; Egypt and South Africa continue to defy the US.

13 May 2023

Ukraine receiving Storm Shadow Cruise Missiles; the Nazis in the Ukrainian military; and the propaganda storm around Bakhmut – New Atlas.

14 May 2023

The EU looks doomed to repeat its Russia ‘de-risking’ strategy with China.

14 May 2023

Russia repels flank attacks by the Ukrainians in Bakhmut; Storm Shadow missiles must have been sent to the Ukraine many months ago, long before the official announcement of their deployment; Russia claims its air force destroyed 2 Ukrainian jets when they attacked with the Storm Shadow missiles; how was Ukraine able to down up to four Russian aircraft?; an extremely concerning issue for the Russians; Russian missile attack destroys a big Ukrainian ammunition dump – will this have an effect on any Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive; Zelensky meets Pope; who really leaked the latest ‘Pentagon Papers’?

14 May 2023

ASEAN Announce full use of local currency to replace US dollar settlement – thus further threatening US global hegemony.

14 May 2023

Cries and whispers along the Russian watchtowers.

14 May 2023

US hypocrisy and the Global South.

15 May 2023

Turkiye has its own Russiagate as election heads to run-off.

15 May 2023 (but first published on 4th May 2023)

Pro-ISIS fighter in Ukraine received UK missiles and ‘SAS training’.

16 May 2023

Zelensky’s European tour has won critical support for Ukraine’s counter-offensive. [This toe-rag considers himself an academic but if you look at where he gets all his funding he’s just a propagandist for the US/UK/NATO/EU alliance of imperialist interests. And he’s been trotting out such tripe since the first days of the special military operation.]

16 May 2023

Ukraine’s top spy admits agents murdered Russian public figures.

17 May 2023

Some US National Security experts call for peace in Ukraine.

17 May 2023

Ukraine’s neoliberalism on steroids, Europe’s economic suicide.

17 May 2023

Kiev demands apology after ‘cynical’ skit broadcast. [There are now, seemingly, countless occasions where Ukraine demands that the world serves only its interest. Like petulant children they are always in the right and no one has just cause to criticise them in any way.]

17 May 2023

Bakhmut defences disintegrate; US confirms Patriot strike; 7 Storm Shadows downed; India-Russian trade – and the cracks that are appearing in the ‘Quad’.

17 May 2023

Russian Kinzhal missile strikes US Patriot System in Kiev and the fundamental disadvantage the West faces – New Atlas

17th May 2023

Russian neo-Nazi leader obtained UK missiles in Ukraine.

18 May 2023

China and the revenge of the sanctioned.

18 May 2023

Is the U.S. preparing to punish OPEC?

18 May 2023

The arrest of Gonzalo Lira in Kharkiv and the lack of support from the US; Russia claims Patriot destroyed; fighting on the edge of Bakhmut; Chinese moves for peace rejected by the hard line Nationalist (Nazi) representatives in the Ukrainian government; African peace delegation also on the way to Moscow; west split on supply of F16 fighter jets.

19 May 2023

Russia storms last Bakhmut positions; where’s the so-called Ukrainian Spring ‘counter-offensive’; the debate on the destruction of a Patriot system; Russia continues to bombard Ukraine; no evidence that any Kinzhal hypersonic has been shot down; the fantasy that the west could (or would) be prepared to devote their economies to war production to ‘help’ the Ukrainians; US seeks to ‘freeze’ the conflict on ‘Korean lines’ and a ‘politically palatable long-term result’; west prepares F16s

See the paid for advertisement in the New York Times referred to above here.

20 May 2023

Poland wants Zelensky to apologize for WW2 Ukrainian Nazi massacre.

20 May 2023

Key Donbass [Bakhmut] city captured – Wagner chief.

20 May 2023

The West’s economic war on Russia has failed.

20 May 2023

National security experts: War in Ukraine is an ‘unmitigated disaster’.

21 May 2023

Ukraine war: Bakhmut ‘not occupied’ by Russia, says defiant Zelensky. [This article is being included here, not for it’s accuracy but as an example to use on future journalist courses. This is so badly written with no checking of facts, just taking as gospel whatever the Ukrainian propagandists trot out and fitting it into the narrative that has been established in the west in the last year. And it took THREE BBC journalists to produce this piece of crap. Probably so that if their accuracy is challenged in the future they can pass the blame on the one of the others. And will Zelensky have to be surgically removed from his T-shirt?]

21 May 2023

Defeat for Ukraine, Bakhmut Falls, Russia in full control; although Progozhin seems to be totally losing control of his mouth; Kiev and the West in denial; the total lack of reporting of what is going on in Ukraine in the English media; who is in control in Kiev when Zelensky is always out of the country; continued lack of understanding of Russian strategy in western media if not amongst politicians.

21 May 2023

Satellite images reveal Russian defences before major assault. [Has the BBC and its so-called ‘reporters’ lost their mind. This information was in the pubic domain months ago, not least from a report in the equally servile (to government diktat, that is) US main stream media. The sooner the BBC goes the better it will be for news dispersal in Britain.]

21 May 2023

Bakhmut folds and Russia takes the city; Ukraine’s struggle against the toll of attrition.

22 May 2023

How BBC Verify found and analysed Russia’s defences. [The BBC is getting more and more pathetic everyday. The New York Times had an article about Russian defences months ago. And here the BBC is trying to show that it is an investigative reporting outlet. If so-called ‘verify’ is to do its job then it should be checking on the news it uncritically reports from the Ukrainian propagandists.]

22 May 2023

Ukraine denys Bakhmut has fallen; Zelushny invisible; continued Russian attacks on Ukrainian logistics and preparations for the long-awaited ‘counter offensive’; UK supplied Storm Shadow missiles being easily shot down by the Russians; Biden demands that Ukrainian offensive must go ahead; NATO rehearses a potential air war with Russia; UK Guardian article states more sanctions demonstrate sanctions are not working; Putin confident about the Russian economy.

22 May 2023

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, dropping some major truth bombs.

22 May 2023

US Geopolitics: Believing impossible things.

22 May 2023

U.S. shale production is set for a rapid decline.

23 May 2023

Belgorod suicide mission; West admits fall of Bakhmut; Russia unfazed by the introduction of F16s; FT article accepts that the west would need to go into a war economy to support Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’; German intelligence service (BND) accepts that Russia is prepared for a long war; a ‘review’ of what the west expected their sanctions to achieve in February 2022.

24 May 2023

British warmongering is driving Europe towards catastrophe in Ukraine.

24 May 2023

Jeffrey Sachs on Rising, The Hill: New York Times lying about Nord Stream and events in Ukraine to its readers.

24 May 2023

John Mearsheimer Ukraine Salon – Committee for the Republic

26 May 2023

I did Nazi that coming – The Grayzone Friday live. [A reminder of the Nazi connection to the Kiev regime.]

27 May 2023

Russia prepares offensive; the west’s intensive pressure upon the Ukraine to carry out it’s so-called ‘counter offensive’ with the threat of cutting off aid if it doesn’t take place soon; F16s being supplied by the western allies are old and at the end of their effective life; Kissinger suggests Ukraine should surrender four regions in return for NATO membership.

28 May 2023

Biggest drone attack on Kiev aims to deplete Ukrainian air defence system; Simon Tisdall of the Guardian makes astounding assertions about Ukrainian terror tactics and also suggests the imposition of new fly zones ; Bloomberg article suggests limited offensive abilities of the F16s to be supplied; Russian don’t bluff.

28 May 2023

Geopolitics Live – background to situation in the Donbass as well as updates on the developing situation in the Ukraine.

29 May 2023

After Bakhmut – by Douglas Macgregor

29 May 2023

Erdogan wins election – West dismayed; huge Russian missile/drone strike all across Ukraine; Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive in doubt; Russia had no alternative to do what they did in February 2022 – and no one can come up with a suggestion that would have worked.

30 May 2023

U.S. Empire named most murderous killing machine in history.

30 May 2023

Russia hits ‘decision making centre’ in Kiev; Ukrainian drones aimed at civilians in Moscow; the west refuses Chinese mediation; Kosovo crisis shows cracks in NATO.

30 May 2023

Believing impossible things.

30 May 2023

Biden’s F-16 move is flight of fancy signifying desperation.

30 May 2023

Is the Ukraine war spreading into Russia? – by Ray McGovern and Judge Napolitano.

30 May 2023

Ukraine: bleeding out.

30 May 2023

When will US join global call to end Ukraine war?

30 May 2023

Prophets of Doom: Kissinger and the ‘Intellectual’’ decline of the West.

30 May 2023

Eye-witness Crimea.

30 May 2023

Here’s why oil flows can only be redirected, not stopped.

30 May 2023

Top Zelensky aide wants a ‘demilitarized zone’ in Russia. [An example of the arrogance and idiocy of the Ukrainians.]

31 May 2023

The mothers going to get their children back from Russia. [Included here as part of keeping records of how the British government’s propaganda outlet (the BBC) will construct stories – and manipulate evidence – to suit the US/UK/NATO/EU narrative. Yet will consciously ignore any criticisms of the Ukraine. And I wish I could learn Russian in so short a time!]

31 May 2023

The West continues to devour its own.

31 May 2023

The wars we are discouraged from seeing.

31 May 2023

Kadyrov (leader from Chechnia) suggests Russian offensive is starting in Avdeyevka; Ukraine shells Belgorod in Russia; tensions develop between the west and Turkiye (following Erdogan’s re-election), India (following Modi’s statement at the G7 meeting) and Brazil (following Lula’s snub by Zelensky at the G7).

31 May 2023

Russia sinks Ukraine’s ‘last warship’ – Russian Ministry of Defence

01 June 2023

Moscow drone attacks are a morale booster for Ukraine and a warning for Russia – here’s why. [More meaningless drivel from British ‘academia’ and a glorification of terrorism. I’m glad I never went to Birmingham University.]

01 June 2023

Ukraine should CANCEL its ‘counter-offensive’. [Another manic presentation but makes some interesting points.]

02 June 2023

Why Washington underwrites violence in Ukraine.

02 June 2023

New Atlas LIVE: Mike Jones: Living in Russia and life amid the Special Military Operation. A relaxed conversation which looks at so-called ‘press freedom’ and how the war in the Ukraine and other attempts of the ‘west’ to subvert the efforts of people throughout the world to better themselves.

03 June 2023

Russia takes 5 Marinka districts; Russia encircling Kupyansk; Ukraine army enlists untrained draftees; the serious cracks in the west’s coalition.

04 June 2023

Russia rapid advances in Marinka, Avdeyevka and Kupyansk; US Military Trainers describe dire state Ukrainian Army.

04 June 2023

Dark (Nazi) truth behind Ukraine’s NATO-armed border raids; cost of attrition continues to mount.

05 June 2023

Insurers signal fallout from sanctions on Russia.

05 June 2023

Ukraine attacks Zaporozhzhie and the Donbass but first attacks repelled with heavy Ukrainian losses; Belgorod incursion defeated – the start of the long awaited Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’?

06 June 2023

Catastrophic breach of Nova Kakhovka dam floods Lower Dnieper, cuts Crimea water supplies; Ukraine attacks in Bakhmut, South Donetsk.

06 June 2023

Troubles ahead of Ukraine’s offensive; China intercepts nosey US recon plane in the South China Sea.

06 June 2023

Nova Kakhovka: Who benefits from breaching the dam? [The BBC asks the question but doesn’t really try to answer it. It quotes the Ukrainian denial as if it were gospel. It challenges the Russian denial but no doubts are placed upon what the Ukraine has said. Why what happened in 1941 has any relevance whatsoever to what is happening in 2023 only the ‘journalists’ at the BBC can say – but they don’t. It’s quite amazing that in a war that the Ukraine is intimately involved whenever anything happens the Ukrainian say ‘It’s not us!’. If children kept on denying any involvement there reasons would be questioned. When the Ukrainians make such declarations the western main stream media just accepts it and moves on to the next lie. And the Nord Stream sabotage remains ‘unexplained’? With all the technology that exists in the 21st century and with all the immense resources at their command no one can come up with an answer to one of the biggest ecological terrorist acts ever committed. If anyone ever believes a word the BBC says in the future then they deserve to live in their chosen ignorance.]

06 June 2023

Ukrainian defeat in southern Donetsk; Who blew the Nova Kakhovka dam? Military summary and analysis.

06 June 2023

Disastrous day in Ukraine; discussion on who might have been responsible for the damage to the Kakhovka dam; Ukraine suffers heavy defeat in southern Donetsk, including the loss of 8 Leopard 2 tanks; Prigozhin continuing to get out of control.

06 June 2023

Ukraine-Russia war changing Global Order? Alastair Crooke, former British ambassador.

06 June 2023

What we know about the Nova Kakhovka dam and who gains from its destruction. [The Birmingham ‘academic’ duo again provide no facts only Ukrainian propaganda.]

07 June 2023

Russia details Ukrainian losses; Kakhovka dam destroyed to enable Ukrainian redeployment; possibility that explosions that weakened the dam were caused by un-manned drone boats; Medvedev says that once the Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’ is completed the Russians should go on the offensive.

07 June 2023

The Food War, the Grain Deal, and the Real Deal.

08 June 2023

Ukrainian ‘offensive’ – Russia repels attacks and inflicts heavy Ukrainian losses; Putin and Saudis agree oil production cut; ex NATO Chief – the Mad Dane suggests NATO troops to the Ukraine.

08 June 2023

Is Russia’s least bad option now the maximalist stance of taking control of Western Ukraine?

08 June 2023

There were Neo-Nazis, then there were no Nazis, then there were.

09 June 2023

Ukraine offensive standstill; Leopard 2 tanks destroyed; no ground taken; China-Russia increase military ties.

09 June 2023

The complete defeat of the Ukrainian-NATO forces. Military summary and analysis.

09 June 2023

A war long wanted: diplomatic malpractice in Ukraine.

09 June 2023

Annals of the Ukraine War: year two.

09 June 2023

Ukraine: Bankruptcy of Western policy or collective death wish?

10 June 2023

Ukraine’s offensive begins: burning NATO equipment vs. layered Russian defenses.

10 June 2023

The results of The Night Storm. Military summary and analysis.

10 June 2023

A petri dish for fascism: How Ukraine has become a magnet for Western neo-Nazis.

11 June 2023

Ukraine has achieved a small operational success – but without any strategic, tactical or military value, just useful for propaganda purposes. Military summary and analysis.

11 June 2023

The EU looks to ‘Jungle’ sacrifice zones to help it out of energy crisis.

11 June 2023

Ukraine offensive standstill; rains clogging up attacks; Pentagon ‘freaking out’ over possible defeat by China (from about 24 minutes).

11 June 2023

How Russia sanctions sparked global revolt against US dollar.

11 June 2023

New York Times outlines what Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘success’ means in the West.

11 June 2023

Poland refutes Nord Stream sabotage claim.

12 June 2023

The EU looks to ‘jungle’ sacrifice zones to help it out of energy crisis: North Africa Edition.

12 June 2023

Ukraine standstill – although claims 3 villages; Russia counterattacks at Makarenka; Ukraine attacks Donbass; US pushes security guarantees.

13 June 2023

Ukrainian platoon surrenders; Russia regains Vremivka Ledge; Russia captures Leopard 2s and Bradleys; Ukraine begs for more arms; Blinken talks nonsense.

13 June 2023

Ukrainian offensive amid week 2: NATO rushes in more armor as losses mount – New Atlas

13 June 2023

Ukraine offensive: Inside one of the villages freed from Russian forces [there were four insignificant villages and it’s not even sure the Ukrainians still hold them – if they do ‘where do they go from here?’ Again, the BBC clutching at anything, however minor. And look at the map for the ‘held or regained by Ukraine’ – and that’s after more than 10 days of fighting.]

13 June 2023

Douglas MacGregor sober analysis – Who is wining in Ukraine? Russia Ukraine war update.

13 June 2023

Michael Hudson at Global University, Hong Kong, on Ukraine, Europe, China, and the Dollar’s Future.

13 June 2023

The next wave of the counteroffensive with Scott Ritter.

14 June 2023

What’s behind the US-driven reforms coming to the World Bank?

14 June 2023

Valery Zaluzhny, the man behind Ukraine’s counter-offensive – [The BBC’s hagiography of the ‘invisible man’.]

14 June 2023

‘Loss after loss after loss’: Dam destruction in Ukraine. [‘Fake’ Human Rights Watch follows the west’s narrative and never tries to analyse who (and why) destroyed the dam – a dam that Russia controlled and if they wanted to cause devastation all they had to do was open the sluice gates.]

15 June 2023 (but originally published on June 1st 2023)

The disinformation wars: an epistemological, political, and socio-historical interrogation.

15 June 2023

Ukraine offensive stuck; Russian Defence Ministry claims 7.5k Ukrainian casualties in 10 days; Russian economy to grow by 2% in 2023.

15 June 2023

The surprising pervasiveness of pro-war propaganda.

15 June 2023

How UK media mislead us about Britain’s leading military ‘think tank’.

16 June 2023

The New Atlas: Mark Sleboda explains Ukraine’s offensive as it enters week 3.

16 June 2023

South Africa calls out Reuters’ air-raid ‘misinformation’.

17 June 2023

Ukraine war must end, South African President Ramaphosa tells Putin. [He also said the same to Zelensky but his response was ‘don’t go to Moscow’. Also, in this article nothing about the peace negotiations which were sabotaged by the US/UK back in March 2022. The BBC, if possible, is getting worse. Also see the link above.]

17 June 2023

Ukrainian offensive in Orekhov but attacks repelled; German main stream media suggests that Budanov is in a coma; Putin states that Russian may attack F16 bases if the planes used in the Ukrainian conflict; more on the Russian economy.

18 June 2023

Russia claims massive Ukrainian losses in failed offensive – which is becoming a ‘turkey shoot’; Putin shows Africa leaders the draft treaty the US/UK vetoed.

18 June 2023

Ukraine’s unsuccessful two-week ‘counter offensive’; Ukrainian forces starting to surrender to the Russians. Military summary and analysis.

19 June 2023

BBC on the front line as Ukraine attacks Russian trenches. [Yet again, how the BBC produces propaganda under the guise of news.]

19 June 2023

On the failure of the Ukrainian ‘counter-attack’.

19 June 2023

Blinken-Qin talks in Beijing: US and China agree to keep talking past each other.

19 June 2023

Germany suspects Ukraine over ammonia pipeline blast – BILD.

19 June 2023

Another act of terror. How the media do PR for Biden and Zelensky.

20 June 2023

The silent slaughter of the flower of Ukraine’s youth.

20 June 2023

Ukrainian offensive slackens after heavy losses; Ukrainian troops surrendering to the Russians; Russians advance on Kupyansk; no reports of any Russian aircraft destroyed displaying Russian dominance of the air; China steam rolls Blinken.

20 June 2023

Pentagon ‘factored in’ Ukrainian casualties.

21 June 2023

Biden undoes Blinken China visit and then some by calling Xi a dictator.

21 June 2023

Ukraine standstill, Russia warns US/UK about retaliation if missiles hit Russia; US callousness about Ukrainian casualties; Blinken humiliated by China.

21 June 2023

New Nord Stream blast aftermath footage released.

22 June 2023

Ukraine strikes Chonhar bridge to Crimea, says Russia. [Note the unsubstantiated claim about who destroyed the Kakhovka dam and the preparation of the propaganda war surrounding what might happen at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

24 June 2023

Prigozhin mutiny. Own goal, gift to collective west. Commentary before Putin’s speech

24 June 2023

Fog of Prigozhin: his bizarre and surely doomed military revolt.

24 June 2023

President Vladimir Putin vows to crush Wagner Army’s rebellion and defend Russia – and in the process stresses his anti-Bolshevik credentials.

24 June 2023

Prigozhin mutiny and Putin’s speech, The Duran.

24 June 2023

Here’s how NATO trainers sent Ukrainian troops to their deaths.

24 June 2023

Prigozhin rebels, Wagner group enters Rostov; Voronezh, Russian military, government and society rally behind Putin.

24 June 2023

From Pugachev to Lebed – the Muzhik Rebellion fizzles out without bloodshed, Prigozhin to exile.

24 June 2023

Operational pause – The Grayzone Friday live – how erstwhile ‘friends’ of the US get attacked in the mainstream media because they don’t follow the ‘rules based order’. The US ‘not in a good position’ in regards to China. More on the covid vaccine contradictions. ‘Russiagate’ and the Hilary Clinton campaign invention.[Broadcast before news of the mutiny broke.]

25 June 2023

Russia’s ‘Civil War’ evaporates as Ukraine’s offensive enters Week 4.

25 June 2023

Prigozhin uprising collapses; Putin in control and Prigozhin agrees to exile in Belarus; Wagner now under Russian Ministry of Defence.

25 June 2023

Putin seriously weakened by Wagner Group mutiny – but it was a missed opportunity for Ukraine too. [Yet again, Ukraine’s paid puppet in Britain’s ‘academia’ distorts the facts to create a narrative which makes success out of failure.]

26 June 2023

Putin orders reality check – no Ukrainians left on the battlefield, no sovereignty in Kiev.

27 June 2023

Ukraine likely to have retaken land occupied by Russia since 2014, UK’s Ministry of Defence says. [Notice the number of qualifiers in this article. This is NOT news.]

27 June 2023

Putin strengthened after mutiny peacefully quelled; Russian tactics explained; Prigozhin goes to Belarus; US denies involvement’

28 June 2023

Turkey continues to challenge Sweden’s NATO membership.

28 June 2023 (first broadcast months ago but only just made aware of it)

The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin. [A reminder of the background to the present conflict.]

28 June 2023

All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine.

29 June 2023

‘Waging Peace’: How a tour of Russia showed me that propaganda perverts reality in the minds of Americans – Scott Ritter.

29 June 2023

Ukraine will need 117 years to take territories from Russia – Seymour Hersh.

28 June 2023

Putin confirms Russian Ministry of Defence funded Wagner; no Ukrainian breakthroughs; NATO in disarray about the replacement for Stoltenberg – whose tenure has been extended for two years; Blinken’s Beijing visit a failing due to Biden irrationality.

29 June 2023

Max Blumenthal addresses UN Security Council on Ukraine aid.

30 June 2023

Kiev survey suggests huge Ukrainian losses; NATO unsure what to do in Vilnius next month; British mainstream media admits Prigozhin affair leaves Putin stronger; discussion on the origins of the Wagner organisation and what illegal activities in which it might have been involved; Russia would demand much harsher terms in any negotiations than those agreed in Istanbul in March 2022.

30 June 2023

New Atlas LIVE: Garland Nixon and Washington’s War on the World

30 June 2023

Mr. Prigozhin goes to Washington.

01 July 2023

Irish neutrality – MEP Clare Daly – speech from 24 Jun 2023

01 July 2023

West’s mainstream media admitting Ukrainian offensive at a standstill; no Ukrainian forces have even reached any of the fortified Russian defence lines; Zaluzhny reappears and criticises the launching of the offensive forced upon Ukraine by the west – demands jets and more ammunition; Putin reassures Modi.

01 July 2023

Ukraine proxy war is an unmitigated disaster for U.S./NATO.

01 July 2023

Neutrality: Who Cares? 4: Sevim Dagdelen. (Dublin neutrality conference 24th June 2023.)

01 July 2023

Washington’s REAL policy on China – ‘repairing ties’ is theatre ahead of sanctions and war.

01 July 2023

John Mearsheimer on US power and the darkness ahead for Ukraine.

02 July 2023

Ukrainian casualties remain high – according to Russian Ministry of Defence; events leading up to the beginning of the Special Military Operation; tension over Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant grows; Ukraine demands NATO entry; Russia huge tank production – and how much military production will be given a priority in the future.

02 July 2023

Compare the approach of the BBC to an attack in the Ukraine;

Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Kramatorsk strike.

and Israeli incursions into the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin;

Israeli strikes on Palestinian Jenin camp in West Bank.

Why is the first a ‘war crime’ and the second just what happens (and has been happening) to Palestinians for more than 75 years?

02 July 2023

End Washington’s build-up for war with China, pursue peace and economic cooperation.

02 July 2023

America is a military dictatorship disguised as a democracy.

03 July 2023

Ageing Iraq invaders keep accidentally saying ‘Iraq’ instead of ‘Ukraine’.

03 July 2023

The lethal minefields holding up Kyiv’s counter-offensive.

[“petals” – small, green, anti-personnel mines – that had recently been scattered across a field by Russian rockets.” Why no mention of the use of these anti-personnel mines by the Ukrainians (for years) against the civilian population of Donetsk City?

“The enemy has no mercy for their own soldiers. They’re used as cannon fodder. But we’re trying to move forwards with the minimum of casualties,” Where does that come from? Where’s the proof? What does it have to do with the substance of the article?

“Artyom’s anger was not just a response to the dangers of minefields, but to the “sly” mentality that he felt must lie behind the act of laying mines and boobytraps, rather than fighting your enemy “man to man”. Is this for real?

“Our kamikaze drone hit [our own] car. We have one dead, another injured. Get the [expletive] out of there.”

“The [soldiers] are running away. Some of them are stealing cars… 50 people have fled. They [expletive] ran away…”

The radio intercept suggested that Russian soldiers were deserting their positions after a Ukrainian artillery bombardment.

“This happens from time to time. In groups of 10 or 20 – [Russian] people disappear and leave without permission. The Russians realise we can eavesdrop on their communications but sometimes they forget,” said Artyom. This is ‘impartial’ reporting? Where is the proof? This is hearsay and nothing more.]

03 July 2023

Russian neo-Nazi fighting Putin taught at far-right camp in UK. [Originally published 08 June 2023.]

03 July 2023

Ukraine keeps no secrets from CIA – Zelensky.

03 July 2023

Zelensky pleads for military gains prior to NATO Summit in Vilnius this month; Ukrainian forces yet to even reach Russian fortified defences; Ukraine is now completely dependent (economically, militarily and politically) upon the west; meeting in Copenhagen failed to convince BRICS states to turn against Russia; Russian confidence grows; NATO doubts way forward

03 July 2023

Ukraine’s offensive at 1 month – losing the war of attrition – New Atlas. Ukraine is sacrificing its Third Army – there is no way they can create a Fourth Army.

04 July 2023

Will war-torn, power-starved Ukraine be world’s first cashless economy? (serious question).

04 July 2023

Aborted Wagner Group rebellion shows how Putin’s attempt to unify Russian forces has failed to quell factional rivalries. [This ‘academic’ is affiliated to the Royal United Services Institute. Read about how this ‘think tank’ is a UK government funded organisation. She is just a propagandist for the UK government. Amongst many other things the conflict in the Ukraine has shown clearly the dismal level of journalism and academia in Britain.]

04 July 2023

Failed African peace mission underscores need for more powerful political and military pressure on Putin. [As is normal in Wolff’s ‘analyses’ he fails to mention that the African mission was better received in Moscow than in Kiev. As with the above ‘academic’ follow the money when you read any of these articles.]

04 July 2023

What caused the Wagner mutiny and what does it mean for Russia and its opponents?

04 July 2023

Multiple victims in ‘fierce’ Ukrainian strike on Donbass.

05 July 2023

Rumours of an attack on the Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant – by both sides; Ukrainian attack on Bakhmut repelled; western supplied weaponry not faring well on the battle field and the West cools its enthusiasm on the supply of F16s; Russian economy grows despite sanctions.

05 July 2023

They lied about Iraq. And they are lying about Ukraine.

06 July 2023

Duel in Ukraine: Ka-52 Alligator vs Ukrainian Tanks. [An interesting video for those who are into the technicalities of modern weapons.]

06 July 2023

Is Wagner Group too big to fail? [A different point of view about Putin’s ‘survival’ of the attempted coup – this article argues he is actually weaker.]

06 July 2023

Russia repels Ukrainian attack on Klescheyevka; unlikely Ukraine will have a major ‘advance’ to boast about before the NATO summit in Vilnius in 5 days time; Ukraine’s standstill limited by western supplies; China prepared to meet (US’s) Yellen but refuses to meet (EU’s) Borrell.

06 July 2023

Fed’s alarming revelation! Recession looms as interest rate hikes persist! And global ‘de-dollarisation.

06 July 2023

Civilian deaths from cluster munitions. [As is usual with HRW – if they criticise the Ukraine they must also criticise Russia – although with little proof for the latter.]

06 July 2023

Cluster bombs for Ukraine? A warning from Kosovo.

07 July 2023

The EU’s mass censorship regime is almost fully operational. Will it go global? [Posted on this page as it’s initial target is anyone who publishes anything which goes against the west’s narrative about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.]

07 July 2023

Front-line troops discuss counter-offensive. [BBC propagandists ensure that war will be fought ‘to the last Ukrainian’ by trying to turn disaster into a victory.]

07 July 2023

Failed Ukrainian offensive splits the west; threat to Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant seems to have reduced as west tells Ukraine not to do anything reckless; nuclear inspectors state the Russian have no intentions to sabotage the plant; looks like Zelensky is being proved to have lied about Russian intentions; rumours that there have been secret talks recognising that Ukraine’s chances of ‘victory’ are virtually nil; ex-US diplomats oppose Ukraine’s membership of NATO; Biden gives Kiev cluster shells.

07 July 2023

What are cluster bombs and why is US sending them to Ukraine? [The US will ‘lose the moral high ground’. This is the country that used Agent Orange and Napalm against the civilian population of Vietnam.]

07 July 2023

Jeffrey Sachs interview – Path to war with China. [The madness of the Anglo-Saxon world.]

08 July 2023

Zelensky visits Snake Island on Ukraine War’s 500th day. [Form over substance.]

08 July 2023

Wimbledon 2023: Elina Svitolina has ‘big motivation’ against Victoria Azarenka. [And this is not propaganda?]

08 July 2023

US admits out of conventional ammunition – so send illegal cluster shells; but cluster shells are old technology; Italian journalist states no Ukrainian advance in Bahkmut – although the British media doesn’t agree; the hypocrisy of the west about the use of cluster weapons – not a surprise; more arms from US to Ukraine buttwha/; Xi Tells Military Prepare for War, Yellen in Beijing

08 July 2023

Cluster bombs: video surfaces Of Biden administration previously calling them a ‘war crime’.

08 July 2023

Biden says preparing ‘Israel-style’ security guarantees for Ukraine.

08 July 2023

Türkiye’s release of Ukrainian neo-Nazis violates deal.

08 July 2023

‘Russian victory’ worse than civilian cluster-bomb deaths – Pentagon.

08 July 2023

The New Atlas: Mark Sleboda and Ukraine’s offensive at Week 5

09 July 2023

Let’s be clear, cluster bombs are an escalation.

09 July 2023

Kakhovka Dam breach in Ukraine caused economic, agricultural and ecological devastation that will last for years.

09 July 2023

Turkiye refuses to back down on Sweden accession ahead of NATO Summit.

09 July 2023

Western media prepping nuclear false flag… and thermonuclear war?

09 July 2023

CIA running Ukraine blows Biden’s bluster about no U.S. boots on the ground.

09 July 2023

Biden sending banned U.S. cluster bombs for Ukraine.

09 July 2023

‘Go to hell’, Ukraine tells anti-cluster bomb German MP.

09 July 2023

Ukraine admits responsibility for terror attack on Crimean bridge.

09 July 2023

Kerch bridge strike fails – and admits involvement in the attack last autumn; Russia analysing recovered UK supplied Storm Shadow missile; US protestations prove baseless; Ukraine coming close to the reality that there’s a limit of the west’s support in military equipment; US supply of cluster shells opens the way for future Russian use; Russia accuses Erdogan betrayal

09 July 2023

Ukraine’s offensive suffering heavy losses, Azov commanders return – New Atlas.

10 July 2023

NATO’s Vilnius summit will authorize escalation of its war against Russia.

10 July 2023

Zaluzhny tells Zelensky offensive unsustainable and should be stopped; UK Guardian newspaper argues for direct NATO intervention; Wagner troops swear loyalty and rejoin war.

10 July 2023

Underestimate Russia at your own risk: a comparison of hubris by Germany during WWII and today’s collective West.

10 July 2023

It’s hard for Americans to engage in China-bashing without tripping on contradictions.

10 July 2023

Cluster bombs: a war crime for Putin but not for Biden.

11 July 2023

NATO’s big climb down.

11 July 2023

The US is trying to use foreign mercenaries to plug gaps in Ukraine – they are in for a rude awakening.

11 July 2023

Douglas Macgregor and Kim Iversen: The Russians have 750.000 troops ready to attack.

11 July 2023

Erdogan flips and agrees Sweden’s membership of NATO in return for US F16s; another Ukrainian armoured attack driven back; Ukrainian troops enticed into booby trapped trench – and then destroyed; the west having to dip into missile reserves to prop up the Ukrainian ‘offensive’; the surprising ‘debate’ around cluster munitions; Russians advance Kupiansk and Liman; NATO summit in Vilnius; mediocrity of western ‘leaders’.

12 July 2023

The US is war.

12 July 2023

NATO is ‘malicious poison’ – former Australian PM.

12 July 2023

Two stern warnings must be given to the arrogant NATO: Global Times editorial.

12 July 2023

A bad day for the Ukraine; attack fails with heavy losses in manpower and Leopard 2 tanks; Russia captures an intact US Bradley; NATO turns back on Ukraine; Putin to go to Beijing in October.

12 July 2023

Moscow mulls plan to display destroyed NATO hardware outside embassies.

12 July 2023

UK ‘wastes billions’ on defence firms that give investors rich returns.

12 July 2023

NATO: The cracks are beginning to show over Ukraine.

12 July 2023

Irish fighter ‘Rambo’ describes ‘terrifying’ Russian tank chase.

12 July 2023

U.S. cluster bombs to Ukraine: an act of desperation.

12 July 2023

South America makes it clear what it thinks about Zelensky.

12 July 2023

How Putin broke the US grip on Russia.

13 July 2023

Scott Ritter: cluster munitions will change nothing for Ukraine.

13 July 2023

Biden keeps lying about the US ‘not trying to surround’ China.

13 July 2023

US no longer capable of maintaining mafia-style ‘rules-based order’ .

13 July 2023

Douglas Macgregor and Stephen Gardner: France and UK give long distance missiles to Ukraine; NATO divided and countries in Europe have internal problems; Poland and Lithuania have their own agenda.

13 July 2023

Ukraine offensive goes into reverse, Russians advance in Bakhmut, Avdeyevka, Vuhledar, and Kupyansk; NATO aid to Ukraine reduces.

14 July 2023

Cluster bomb decision puts blood of future civilian victims on Biden’s hands.

14 July 2023

Scott Ritter: NATO Summit serves up cringe nothing-burger.

14 July 2023

Ukraine got the best it could out of NATO’s Vilnius summit, say experts. [How the so-called ‘left’ still bats on NATO’s side in the proxy war.]

14 July 2023

Russia advances accelerate; more speculation on an Ukrainian Dnieper crossing; Russia almost certainly out of grain deal; Biden calls up reservists.

14 July 2023

U.S. soldiers don’t belong in Ukraine.

14 July 2023

[US] House [of Representatives] votes down amendment to block cluster bomb shipments to Ukraine.

15 July 2023

Zaluzhny demands more weapons and doesn’t give a damn on the potential risks of attacks on mainland Russia – appears to be unable to understand the limitations about what the west can give; has the UK given Ukraine all its Storm Shadow missiles?; Russian dominance in the air increases; questions in US about sending F16s; US intelligence reports on the failing Ukrainian offensive; the summer of 2023 is not the autumn of 2022 when Ukraine last made an ‘offensive’.

15 July 2023

Iran just announced a new game changing master plan with China by joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the west is terrified.

16 July 2023

Nato isn’t defending Ukraine. It’s stabbing it in the back.

16 July 2023

Biden’s corruption led to Ukraine’s destruction: former Kiev diplomat – with Aaron Maté.

16 July 2023

Is Biden preparing to take the U.S. to war against Russia? Larry Johnson

16 July 2023

Main stream media acknowledges heavy Ukrainian losses: 20% armour in the first weeks of the ‘offensive’, 10% in the ensuing ‘ensuing weeks’; Ukrainian ammunition firing rate falls.

17 July 2023

Recork the champagne: Sweden’s NATO accession deal with Turkiye still faces hurdles.

17 July 2023

Kerch bridge is hated symbol of Russian occupation – more BBC propaganda. ‘If the bridge is out of action, even for a short time, this will complicate Russia’s logistical challenges, a key aspect of the early phase of Ukraine’s counter-offensive.’ [‘Early phase’? It’s been going on for 6 weeks now and all Ukraine has gained is ’81 sq miles’ of fields.

17 July 2023

Ukraine grain deal expires after Russia pulls out. [But the BBC doesn’t even address the reasons why – non-compliance of the west of their side of the bargain.]

17 July 2023

Ukraine’s recent attack on the Crimean Bridge and why it doesn’t matter strategically.

17 July 2023

Zaluzhny (and his obsession on Crimea)/Syrsky (and his obsession on Bahkmut) rivalry; US blames minefields for Ukraine’s failure; more on cluster munitions – and their drawbacks; Yellen visits China and possible financial market support.

18 July 2023

Crimean bridge attack is another blow to Putin’s strongman image. [Wolff, Conversation’s most prominent Ukraine propagandists continues to make unsubstantiated claims – his contributions are a prime example of the fact that if you repeat something (however unsubstantiated) enough times it takes on the look of ‘truth’.]

18 July 2023

John Bolton accidentally explains why US policy on Russia and China is wrong.

18 July 2023

Why the Ukraine conflict will unravel NATO and Biden.

18 July 2023

Agent Zelensky by Scott Ritter. [Is there a limit on the stupidity of people, in the US? In the UK? In the Ukraine? The video here indicates that there’s no limit at all.]

18 July 2023

Ukraine’s slow advance doesn’t signal failure in its counteroffensive against Russia. [Another counter-factual piece. ‘The Ukrainian army still possesses a qualitative advantage over the Russian army’. Indeed? Where? ]

19 July 2023

Russia strikes Ukraine grain after ending sea deal. [‘The Kremlin argued its demands for Russian exports had not been honoured.’ This statement is included but there’s no comment on whether this is true or not – and if it is why if Russia honoured its side of the bargain (which is accepted) why the west didn’t honour theirs.]

19 July 2023

Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system. [This ‘academic’ is a director of a private university in the Ukraine – which gets its funding from the US and EU institutions/governments. And this is supposed to make her ‘independent’. Let alone the holes in her article.]

19 July 2023

Brian Berletic: Russia has destroyed Ukraine’s desperate plot to take Crimea.

19 July 2023

Leaked files suggest hidden British hand in latest Kerch Bridge strike.

20 July 2023

Russia destroys Ukrainian Black Sea ports; introduces Black Sea blockade; Syrsky states that the Ukraine is about to retake Bakhmut; Putin not to go to South Africa for BRICS meeting later this month.

20 July 2023

Ukraine and the great revival of American empire.

20 July 2023

The dynamics of war insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette.

20 July 2023

John Helmer: The Mosquito Swarm and the Violent Pinprick are Zelensky PR to beat NATO’s Christmas deadline.

20 July 2023

Why should we be concerned about depleted uranium?

21 July 2023

Newsweek article admits time running out for Ukraine – if it doesn’t win in the next few months then it won’t ever; Financial Times blames the extensive Russian minefields for Ukrainian failures – but that ‘forgets’ that Russia also has superiority in artillery and in the air; Russia drives back Ukraine in Bakhmut.

21 July 2023

Latin America again refuses to fall in line with the collective west on Ukraine, this time from Brussels.

21 July 2023

Douglas Macgregor. Ukraine is being destroyed and the whole affair is becoming a disaster.

22 July 2023

The looming war against China: economic logic has been replaced by national security overrides.

22 July 2023

Mainstream media admits Ukrainian heavy losses and forces demoralised, offensive ‘failed’ (38-64 mins); Putin makes statement about shortages of Ukrainian manpower and material – even that from the west – warns Warsaw of war after much of their territory was ‘a gift of Stalin’, (64-89 mins).

23 July 2023

Russia hammers Odessa on stored munitions or in readiness for a Russian attack; discussion on air defence capabilities of the combatants; west believed its own propaganda on the state of the Russian army; Putin and Lukashenko discuss war with Poland; Russian economic growth accelerates.

23 July 2023

Germany down the rabbit hole.

23 July 2023

15 Leopards, 20 Bradleys destroyed in one day – Putin.

23 July 2023

West knew Ukraine wasn’t ready for counteroffensive – Wall Street Journal.

24 July 2023

Ukrainian celebrity Roseanne Barr condemns Zelensky on TV .

24 July 2023

Russia breaks through Ukrainian defences at Kremennaya and advances to the Oskol River; Russia prepares future offensive; no ‘stalemate’ – rather Russian success; discussion on what Russia would not accept in any discussions – on the ‘Korean model’; Ukraine uses cluster munitions in Donetsk City.

25 July 2023

No joke: Ursula Von der Leyen’s EU Commission just received ‘World Prize for Peace and Freedom’.

25 July 2023

Russia pushes to Oskol River; more and more Ukrainian soldiers surrendering to Russian forces; Russian General, in an interview, suggests the war will end in the Spring of 2024; Shoigu in surprise visit to North Korea; more on the Russian and Belorussian approach to any possible move by Poland to try to take parts of western Ukraine.

26 July 2023

Ukrainian offensive nears 2 month mark: little left to replace heavy losses.

26 July 2023

U.S. boots on the ground, American soldiers fighting Russian soldiers – Douglas McGregor.

26 July 2023

Central Banks abandon US bonds for gold; a number of countries repatriating their gold reserves from the Federal Reserve in the US and the Bank of England.

27 July 2023

Jackson Hinkle destroys Piers Morgan in Ukraine ‘debate’.

27 July 2023

Western armour struggles against Russian defences. [The BBC tells the truth but ends the article with this meaningless quote from a Ukrainian General ‘If the offensive were not successful, I wouldn’t be talking to you now’.]

27 July 2023

The balloon goes up – How far will the Nato allies go to fight their losing war in the Ukraine — How much more will they risk losing of their post-1945 territorial gains?

27 July 2023

Two views on what is happening during ‘Ukraine’s great push’ on 27th July 2023. Compare and contrast and see what happens in the next few days.

Battlefield Ukraine Russian Onslaught

Kyiv claims success as southern fighting intensifies – the BBC

27 July 2023

Big Ukrainian defeat, Ukraine to relaunch their offensive; massive Russian missile strike; Russia’s effective use of small suicide drones; US-Russia secret talks? with the US ready to abandon Ukraine? – article in the Moscow Times; Russia and DPRK relations re-established.

27 July 2023

Scott Ritter – Comments on Victoria Nuland; how Hilary Clinton might have lost the election but she is definitely in the background; the failed grain deal; Shoigu in the DPRK; the US doesn’t believe in the international rule of law – which doesn’t fit into US interests; A real counter-offensive with 60,000 troops

27 July 2023

Experts say expecting Kiev to win is definition of ‘insanity’.

27 July 2023

Ukrainian corruption threatens US assistance.

28 July 2023

Some thoughts on the Russian end game in Ukraine.

28 July 2023

Sanctions on China, export controls on rare earths for the U.S.: two, it turns out, can tango.

29 July 2023

Disastrous Ukrainian attack in Orekhov fails; disagreements within Ukrainian forces about ‘offensive’; (61.00) British commentators on conflict; combined arms operations; Russian advance on Kupiansk; missile strike on Ukrainian Dnepro HQ.

29 July 2023

NATO failed in Ukraine against Russia. Now it’s targeting China.

30 July 2023

CHAOS! Jose Vega defies editors of New York Times and Washington Post on their censorship of Russiagate and the conflict in Ukraine. [First published three months ago.]

30 July 2023

Ukraine’s ‘Big Push’ results in big losses as offensive nears 2 months.

30 July 2023

Western media’s racist reportage on Ukrainian refugees. [First published a year ago but worth repeating.]

30 July 2023

Russia inflicts heavy losses on Ukraine.

30 July 2023

Russia advances on Kupiansk; Putin – Ukraine at a standstill, 415 Ukrainian tanks and 1300 armoured personal vehicles destroyed; Russia mulls a 2nd mobilisation.

30 July 2023

Eritrea: Isaias told Putin to lead the strategy against the west – One Africa.

31 July 2023

After two months of slow progress the long-awaited counteroffensive is picking up speed. Why has it taken so long? [And despite claims things are improving nothing changes.]

01 August 2023

Brian Berletic: Russia has defeated Ukraine’s offensive as NATO runs out of options.

02 August 2023

Russia pushes Ukraine back from Klescheyevka; US Department of Defense admits Ukraine offensive failure; seeks restart in the Autumn.

02 August 2023

The last gasps of the collapsing empire – Dan Kovalik.

03 August 2023

Ukrainians have been ground up – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.

03 August 2023

‘Weeds’ hindering Ukrainian counteroffensive – UK military.[The only vegetables are the British military and intelligence services.]

03 August 2023

Russian Kupiansk advance; UK military and intelligence blame trees for failure of Ukrainian offensive; Brazil, Mexico and China pull out of the Jeddah Conference; Putin and Erdogan speak and agree to meeting soon.

04 August 2023

Ukraine fights narrative battle as counteroffensive stalls.

04 August 2023

Asians are less ‘humane’ – Ukrainian security chief.

04 August 2023

New Atlas LIVE is a weekly stream for discussing current events, connecting with the New Atlas community – the Duran on Ukraine’s offensive, NATO’s Plan B and more.

04 August 2023

More on the collapse of operational capabilities in the West: How did we get here?

05 August 2023

Russia claims advances on Kupiansk; 42,000 Ukrainian soldiers dead in June/July; main stream media focuses on damage to 2 Russian ships; Ukraine and west ‘fear they are losing control of the narrative’.

05 August 2023

War hawks’ drive to expand NATO into Asia may destroy Western Military Alliance.

05 August 2023

Scott Ritter talks about the movie Oppenheimer.

07 August 2023

Zelensky prepares general mobilisation; 8 Ukrainian pilots train on F16s; global south reject Ukrainian ‘Peace Plan’ at Jeddah.

07 August 2023

Talks in Jeddah give Kyiv an opportunity to push its ten-point plan to Brics and the global south. [The truth? Ukraine came away with nothing. Even more. The picture associated with this piece of western propaganda implies that Zelensky was actually at the meeting when Ukraine was represented by just another insignificant functionary.]

07 August 2023

The senility of empire.

07 August 2023

Make peace, you fools!

08 August 2023

The movie and the moment: an Oppenheimer review through the lens of an anti-war activist.

08 August 2023

Russian broad Kharkov Advance; Ukraine short on weapons; Wang Yi and Lavrov friendly telephone call; Nuland flies to give ultimatum to Niger.

09 August 2023

NATO training leaves Ukrainian troops ‘underprepared’ for war.

09 August 2023

How to sell a war: Peace means war.

09 August 2023

West ‘must keep promises’ on grain deal – Erdogan.

09 August 2023

Profits of Western arms makers top $200 billion.

09 August 2023

West despairs with no Ukrainian breakthrough in its offensive; western media now accepts the failings in Ukraine yet still the ‘hawks’ talk up Ukrainian ‘victory’ and even go so far as to countenance nuclear Armageddon; joint Russia/China fleet close to the Aleutians; Nigeria cools on intervention in Niger.

09 August 2023

Ukraine’s offensive remains stalled: western media begins admitting failures. New Atlas looks at Ukraine’s tactics in its offensive against Russia.

10 August 2023

The overlooked role of the financial crisis in the subjugation of Europe [- and a subtext for the US getting the EU (and the UK) to agree to the suicidal sanctions against Russia].

10 August 2023

The sheer might of the Russian Army won’t be overcome – addressing the issue of the importance of an sufficiently strong industrial base in modern peer to peer warfare.

10 August 2023

Russia’s unique and unsurpassed mine clearance System UR-77 Meteorite clears a path to Kupyansk.

11 August 2023

The Polish President said Kiev isn’t doing the West any favors and its counter-offensive failed.

11 August 2023

Ukraine admits Kupiansk crisis; is Russia wanting to draw in Ukrainian reserves into another ‘meat-grinder’?; Syrsky warns defences collapse; Russia’s economy – no crisis in economy; ECOWAS probably to intervene in Niger.

11 August 2023

Two years after Taliban takeover: why Afghanistan still poses a threat to the region and beyond. [I am adding this post on the Ukrainian war page as Wolff is one of the principal ‘academic’ propagandists for the UK/US position on the Ukraine. He continues his role in other parts of the world.]

12 August 2023

The illusory truth effect and the ‘unprovoked’ invasion of Ukraine. [Quite badly written – but the main argument is correct.]

12 August 2023

CIA analyst on Russia Ray McGovern has never been more scared of nuclear catastrophe.

12 August 2023

Ukrainians paying up to $10,000 to escape draft.

12 August 2023

Piers Morgan gets dismantled over Ukraine war. [The clip of the interview has been posted before. It’s repeated here for the Jimmy Dore ‘commentary’ of the event.]

13 August 2023

Ukrainian counteroffensive falling short of NATO expectations.

14 August 2023

Is the US a failed state?

14 August 2023

The west and the war in Ukraine: selling and buying hopium.

14 August 2023

Contested memory in Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: how her far-right party is waging a subtle campaign to commemorate fascist figures. [What is ‘bad’ in Italy is OK in Ukraine? The Conversation is as schizophrenic and contradictory as the rest of the western media.]

15 August 2023

European gas price spike highlights painful exposure to global markets.

16 August 2023

Russia, Donbass and the reality of conflict in Ukraine.

16 August 2023

What is happening in Syria? [Yes. I do think it is relevant to the Ukraine.]

16 August 2023

U.S. capitalism and why the glut of ‘wonder weapons’ to Ukraine won’t make a difference.

17 August 2023

Drones are changing the conflict – both on the frontline and beyond. [But the ‘academic’ propagandists from Birmingham University don’t state that Russia is making an even better use of drones. Neither do they accept that the Ukraine is not only failing in its so-called ‘counter-offensive’ it is actually going backwards. However, if you care to look closely they do state a number of truths – although by accident.]

17 August 2023

West recriminations on any Ukrainian peace deal; Ukraine commits last reserve force in the failed ‘offensive’; Niger intervention revived.

18 August 2023

Better late than never? Spain’s El País sounds alarm over consequences of Ukraine ‘proxy war’ for EU’s future.

18 August 2023

Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi.

18 August 2023

U.S.-backed roll of the dice leaves Ukraine in worse crisis.

18 August 2023

Is America a war state?

18 August 2023

Russia storming Kupiansk; Ukraine’s last ditch attack to save ‘offensive’; US intel doubts success of Ukraine’s ‘offensive’; China’s economy.

18 August 2023

Anti-China brainwashing is the fast-track to war. [I don’t agree that China’s role is so benign but there is still some interesting information about the US’s past imperial activity.]

18 August 2023

You can’t project power when the world knows you are weak.

18 August 2023

70 years ago, an Anglo-US coup condemned Iran to decades of oppression – but now the people are fighting back. [But there’s no real condemnation of UK/US involvement in the coup and of all those that followed. It’s just a ‘what if’ article that is just a waste of space. And really only supports the Iranian opposition because Iran is not ‘friendly’ to the west.]

18 August 2023

The world would be better off without NATO.

18 August 2023

The decline of America’s military reflects the overall decline of America itself.

18 August 2023

You and what army? – The Grayzone live – discussing main stream media in the west accepting the failing of Ukraine’s counter-offensive; the redundancy of politics in the US; the crisis in western Africa.

19 August 2023

New York Times estimates 500,000 casualties in Ukraine war; the magazine 1945 blames Ukrainian failings in their ‘counter-offensive’ of the concentration of forces in Bakhmut; Ukraine will ‘save Africa’, neocons rebrand themselves as ‘realists’.

20 August 2023

Big brave western proxy warriors keep whining that Ukrainian troops are cowards.

21 August 2023

Western media faces Ukraine’s failures: offensive grinds on with no Plan-B – includes, near the beginning, a bizarre ‘assessment’ by UK ‘Military Intelligence’,

21 August 2023 (but first published this time in 2022 – but well worth reminding people of the argument.)

John Pilger silencing the lambs: How propaganda works.

21 August 2023

Leopold’s ghost redux.

22 August 2023

Ukrainian drone destroys Russian supersonic bomber. [With such a spectacular claim I was surprised this news item kept appearing and disappearing from the site. Perhaps an indication that the BBC wasn’t really sure of its veracity – even though ‘fact checked’ by their so-called ‘Verify’ entity. As someone elsewhere stated, why should a news outlet need a verify service if journalists were doing the job they boast they are doing. Perhaps, therefore, an implicit admission that they are not.]

22 August 2023

Jeffrey Sachs interview – a large-scale destruction is currently unfolding. Refers to the number of regime changes in which the US has been involved from 1947 to 1989.

23 August 2023

Are US officials signaling a new ‘forever war’ in Ukraine?

23 August 2023

Most ‘experts’ pushing for endless conflict in Ukraine share a common benefactor.

23 August 2023

US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows.

23 August 2023

Neocons and other malignancies in the American body politic.

23 August 2023

‘Poland lost 10,000 soldiers and officers in Ukraine’.

24 August 2023

US hegemony at heart of Ukraine conflict, Japan dumps radioactive water from Fukushima.

24 August 2023

Discussions in the US in 2021 about attempting to engineer a Russian defeat to break any alliance between Russia and China to make the US war against China easier; death of Prigozhin – causes and suspects; no Ukrainian Independence Day victory; US/UK tells Ukraine to give up on Bakhmut and fight where Ukraine’s ‘masters’ tell them to go; BRICS grows with six new members.

24 August 2023

Scott Ritter: Ukraine will ‘capitulate unconditionally’.

24 August 2023

Come on, Ukraine, learn from the U.S. Military.

24 August 2023

After months of negotiations Ukraine will be getting the F-16 warplanes it has been begging for – here’s why that’s important – yet another British ‘academic’ living in cloud cuckoo land.

24 August 2023

Western hegemony falling apart, BRICS now controls 40% world’s GDP and de-dollarising.

24 August 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group boss joins long list of those who challenged Vladimir Putin and paid the price. [Again the so-called ‘academic’ Wolff rushes in with assertions = but providing no proof whatsoever. If a student of his made such assertions in such a manner in any of his classes they would be, rightly, marked down. However, the ‘Professor’ can get away with breaking all the rules of academia because he is a paid government propagandist.]

25 August 2023

Ukrainian tries, but fails, to capture Rabotino; Ukrainian mass drone attack (42) on the Crimea – but Russia says all brought down by electronic jamming; Russian officials say major Russian offensive coming; current Ukrainian attacks show that the ‘counter-offensive’ is ebbing; Zaluzhny warns US about pushing into a Kursk type disaster; more on Prigozhin’s death.

25 August 2023

Mark Sleboda joins the New Atlas to discuss the latest developments in the conflict in Ukraine including: – Prigozhin’s plane crash; – Sabotage units reaching Crimea; – The current state of Ukrainian offensive as it reaches the 3 month mark and; – What happens after Ukraine’s offensive exhausts itself.

25 August 2023

Who Killed Prigozhin? The stuck Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’. How did the west get it so wrong?Deliberate malpractice and out of touch with reality. Power panel with Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern – intelligence roundtable.

26 August 2023

Russia’s big autumn offensive predicted; Ukraine fails in Zaporozhzhie; Wagner forces join the Russian Army; BRICS – a serious rival to the US system.

26 August 2023

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal’s critical articles about Kiev’s counter-offensive explain why it failed.

26 August 2023

Niger receives military aircraft from Russia through Mali ready to combat France and Ecowas. Russia not running out of weapons.

27 August 2023

Ukraine make major breakthrough and warn under-fire Putin ‘we don’t stop here!’ [An example of the NATO/US/UK/EU’s separation from reality.]

27 August 2023

‘Who knows what comes next for the West?’ – Neil Oliver.

27 August 2023

John Mearsheimer – Ukraine’s tragic fate: the unheeded prophecies.

27 August 2023

Who killed Prigozhin? Why did the US/NATO/UK/EU not think about the consequences of forcing Russia to attack the Ukraine. Russia is winning the war. With Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson.

27 August 2023

‘We get rich, they just die’ – the western mainstream media.

27 August 2023

West and Ukraine trade blame and talk about ‘wonder weapons’ as critical juncture approaches.

28 August 2023

Russia claims Ukrainian capture of Rabotino is false; Russia sends 110,000 troops in build-up around Kupiansk; Zelensky interview – Ukraine losing hope of external support and ‘will fight on alone’.

29 August 2023

Zelensky’s latest TV interview shows how much the Ukraine conflict’s dynamics have shifted.

29 August 2023

‘Dying by the dozens every day’ – Ukraine losses climb. [The BBC starting to tell the truth – but still only partial and using ‘official’ NATO figures rather than what is happening on the battlefield.]

29 August 2023

Claims of ‘successes’ by the Ukraine (destroyed bomber and capture of Rabotino) questionable; Russia advance on Kupiansk sparks Ukrainian fear of 2nd Bakhmut and the ‘meat-grinder’; ‘hawks’ in US government and mass media still try to maintain the consensus is pro-war; Putrin refusing attempts to speak by western leaders; Scholz and Macron shocked that Putin was unfazed by sanctions.

29 August 2023

Commerce Secretary Raimondo’s China visit for seeks help from the Chinese to bolster US Treasury Bonds whilst 121 nations seek to divest themselves of their holding of those bonds.

29 August 2023

Always opposing past wars but never the present one.

29 August 2023

Defunded for wrongthink? GoFundMe freezes donations made to independent outlet The Grayzone.

29 August 2023

GoFundMe sides with war machine – silences Grayzone!

30 August 2023

Ukraine stuck in Rabotino; Syrsky worries about situation in Kupiansk and Bakhmut; difference in quality of Ukrainian and Russian drone attacks; French rocked by coup in Gabon.

30 August 2023

The list is increasing! Russia has eliminated another high-ranking NATO General in Ukraine!

30 August 2023

Ukraine gains on southern front could open way to Crimea, says Kyiv. [Three months to do 6kms. How long to do 200kms?]

30 August 2023

Nikki Haley pushes stupid ‘Putin is a murderer’ defence of Ukraine war.

31 August 2023

Breaking the Silence: Truth and lies in the war on terror (2003);

31 August 2023

Russia advances on Kupiansk and Bakhmut; Ukraine gives up on Rabotino and fails in Verbove; Ukraine plans yet another mobilisation; Xi will not attend G20.

31 August 2023

Ukraine’s western sponsors running out of ammunition and out of time. Includes a breakdown of the latest list of equipment being sent to Ukraine from the US.

01 September 2023

Spain’s Defence Minister comes to defence of EU chief ‘diplomat’ Josep Borrell in war of words with Russia that Borrell initiated.

01 September 2023

Only idiots believe the US is protecting Australia from China.

01 September 2023

Russia repels attacks on Verbovoye and advances in Bakhmut; articles in western mainstream media of the dire situation for Ukraine and the need for a ‘workable’ agreement to be acceptable to the Russians before total Ukrainian collapse; latest arms package from the US very thin; Erdogan to meet Putin, Niger takes harder line against the French.

02 September 2023

Rabotino virtually destroyed and offers no cover; Russia stops Ukrainian advance on Verbovoye with heavy Ukrainian losses; Russian Ministry of Defence issues report on Ukrainian actions and losses; the fiercest fighting seems to be taking place in Bakhmut; failed Kerch Bridge attack; US dismayed that Xi will not be attending the next G20 – article in Financial Times.

03 September 2023

Europe and the Law of Holes.

03 September 2023

Threats, insults, and Kremlin ‘robots’: How Russian diplomacy died under Putin. [No mention of Russia’s diplomatic moves in December 2021; no mention of the Minsk Accords of 2015; no mention of how both Merkel and Hollande stated that these agreements were merely an effort to allow NATO to arm Ukraine; no mention of the Buffoon’s role in scuppering the Istanbul proposal to end hostilities in March/April 2022; yet again no ‘journalism’. Yet argues that Nuland is an example of a ‘diplomat’.]

03 September 2023

‘Western equipment burns like matches’; Polish volunteer reveals the truth; has Mariinka been captured?

04 September 2023

The New Atlas LIVE: The Duran on NATO’s industrial-scale problems in Ukraine.

04 September 2023

Ukraine says Russian drones crashed in Romania – but Romania denies that’s the case. [This is an interesting article as it starts to doubt whether the Ukraine is telling the truth rather than hoping to force NATO to get involved in the conflict directly – forgetting that they probably have been, surreptitiously, since the very beginning.]

04 September 2023

Gofundme, defunded – The Grayzone live. Biden’s attempt to introduce a Memorandum of Understanding to lock in military aid to the Ukraine whatever the wishes of any future government; the elites who dominate Burning Man get what they deserved.

05 September 2023

Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK – [and if all the crimes committed by the British Army were taken into account they would be top of the terrorist list.]

05 September 2023

Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’ a failure – according to Putin; statement by Shoigu; Ukraine loses 66,000; British Challenger 2 tank destroyed; US: Kim Jong un Meeting Putin, China New Chip, Russia Boom.

05 September 2023

‘Send diplomats, not weapons’: German MP Sevim Dagdelen speaks out against Ukraine War.

05 September 2023

End of the war, end of US exceptionalism.

05 September 2023

Contamination fears after Ukraine loses British tank.

06 September 2023

How sanctions failed to hinder China’s development.

06 September 2023

The real threat from China: they’re better at capitalism than we are.

06 September 2023

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

06 September 2023

Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden yes-man, a Putin apologist or a peacemaker?

06 September 2023

British Challenger tank destroyed in Ukraine and heavy losses amid failing offensive.

06 September 2023

Ukraine attacks fail and Syrsky says situation is ‘complex’; reports from the Russian Ministry of Defence; fears of Russia offensive and alarm at Russia-North Korea ties.

06 September 2023

What BAE’s Ukraine deal shows about the risks and opportunities of setting up a business in a war zone. [Yet another of The Conversation’s ‘academics’ living in cloud cuckoo-land. Although there is the admission that arms manufacturers are making a killing in the Ukraine conflict.]

07 September 2023

If everyone understood that the US deliberately provoked this war.

07 September 2023

The EU’s best weapon against free speech isn’t working

07 September 2023

Russia enters Sinkovka; Blinken to Kiev as offensive stalls – looking for a scapegoat?; US rejects negotiations and cuts Kiev loose; US’s primary focus is China – for the headbanging neo-cons.

07 September 2023

Anti-China and anti-Russia propaganda.

08 September 2023

Apple shares slide after China government iPhone ban reports – [the arrogance of the ‘west’ never ceases to surprise. They are so sure of their power that they think they can attack other country’s economies and that they will just turn over and accept it. If they retaliate they are then the ‘aggressors’. But no analysis in the normal, supine BBC report.]

08 September 2023

West faces Ukrainian defeat; 2nd Challenger destroyed; none of the objectives of the ‘counter-offensive’ have been, or will be, achieved; will there be a Russian ‘autumn’ offensive; the background of the conflict being ignored; Russia-DPRK relations; North Korea’s nuclear submarine; Niger calls ECOWAS bluff.

08 September 2023

Ukraine’s push for NATO membership is rooted in its European past – and its future. [As is usual with The Conversation when it comes to Ukraine, what it leaves out is more important than what it says. No mention at all of the US involvement in the 2014 coup, painting it instead as some sort of ‘popular revolution’. As well as re-inventing history.]

08 September 2023

Battle Taxis – evolution of the Armoured Personnel Carrier. [Probably the most important statement in this video is the very last line – which NATO forces have forgotten. It’s all about the co-ordination between armour and the infantry that make the difference.]

08 September 2023

Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, UK Defence Chief says.

09 September 2023

Washington Post reported that Ukrainians are distrustful of the West and flirting with a ceasefire.

09 September 2023

Ukraine’s objectives ‘no longer aligned with’ West’s as Russia ‘no longer a threat’. [Didn’t see that one coming. The ‘West’ now things that Russia is now weaker? Interesting analysis – but it gives the ‘West’ an (what a terrible term!) ‘off-ramp’.]

09 September 2023

Fighting continues in Robotino; what’s happened to British Storm Shadow missiles; US military bad at mathematics; US supplying Ukraine ATACMS missiles is a major escalation; can we expect more attacks on the Kerch Bridge?; Ukraine believes it is entitled to anything it asks; G20 comes up with joint declaration which doesn’t condemn Russia directly; oil price grows and ‘West’ gives up on Russia oil price cap.

10 September 2023

Ukraine offensive could have only 30 days left. [The British more delusional that the Ukrainians – and posit an aim of the Russians which was never the case – ‘In the same interview, Adm[iral] Sir Tony Radakin, the UK chief of defence staff, said ‘Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing. That is because the aim of Russia was to subjugate Ukraine and to put it under Russia’s control’, he said. ‘That has not happened and it never will happen, and that’s why Ukraine is winning’.]

10 September 2023

Top US/Ukrainian officials signal offensive ending; linguistic acrobatics by western intelligence and military representatives on the failure of the ‘counter-offensive’; scale of Ukrainian losses; big Russian offensive rumours grow; ‘West’ humiliated at G20.

10 September 2023

Defamation League – The Grayzone live, including an analysis of the current situation in the Ukraine. (Aaron Mate returns with Max Blumenthal to cover Elon Musk’s pending lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League, and the organization’s history of collaboration with federal law enforcement and Silicon Valley to censor and smear opponents of Israel’s apartheid regime. They will also cover Blinken’s disturbing trip to Ukraine and the latest Omidyar-sponsored censorship ploy.)

10 September 2023

Here’s why Ukraine’s defeat could mean the end of NATO in its current form.

10 September 2023

Polish ambassador blasts Ukraine over memorials to WW2 Nazi collaborators.

10 September 2023

Biden aide intervenes to end rambling press conference.

10 September 2023

From Ukraine to Taiwan and Japan: Washington’s proxy wars around the world.

11 September 2023

Has the West closed all its Project Ukraine exits?

11 September 2023

The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine.

11 September 2023

America’s response to 9/11 in the lens of history.

11 September 2023

Ukraine offensive ending with massive Ukrainian losses; more reports of desertions amongst the Ukrainian military; Belgium seems to be back-tracking on the supply of F16 fighter jets; ‘sombre’ Zelensky rejects negotiations in Economist interview; Zelensky-Blinken public row – Blinken seeks negotiations but Zelensky doesn’t – reported in rival interviews; meeting in eastern Russia which includes Kim Jong Un (of the DPRK) and the future of South Korean companies in Russia.

11 September 2023

Danny Haiphong and Pepe Escobar: Russia-China-DPRK alliance destroys the neocons and signals the demise of the West.

11 September 2023

New Atlas – US considers ATACMS as Ukraine’s offensive struggles and the problems to come. As always, the New Atlas shows up the expectations of the west like building on sand. This is an important analysis of the last 18 months – about the arrogance of the ‘west’ and the preparedness of Russia.

11 September 2023

Judge Napolitano – Ukraine war as Putin meets with DPRK’s Kim Jong Un – with Scott Ritter. [With some interesting comments on the the destruction of the ‘Twin Towers’ in New York in 2001 at the beginning (8 minutes or so).]

12 September 2023

Russian-held elections seek to normalise illegal occupation and reveal reality of a long war ahead. [Yet more ‘analysis’ from a NATO ‘academic’ propaganda puppet.]

12 September 2023

Putin and Kim: Friends in need (of ammunition). [I’ll continue to include BBC reports just to illustrate the crassness of the organisation.]

12 September 2023

‘A good investment’: the Ukraine war and the US arms racket.

12 September 2023

Putin states 1000 Russian volunteers joining armed forces each week, says that Ukrainian casualties have reached 71,000 in its failed offensive; Putin rejects Ukrainian negotiations; the US and Vietnam come to some sort of commercial agreement; Vietnam and Russia come to an arms deal where Vietnam will be buying much material from Russia; Putin prepares to meet Kim Jong Un; Armenia tilts towards the US.

12 September 2023

Douglas Macgregor – Russia will bridge the river and capture Odessa. [Macgregor is a right-wing, racist shit BUT when he talks about the situation in Ukraine I can’t disagree with anything he says.]

12 September 2023

Britain orders more munitions as Ukraine war boosts UK defence.

13 September 2023

Air bases, drone swarms and new ports: US military footprint in Asia grows, but China grows faster.

13 September 2023

Russia’s disastrous decision to invade Poland in 1920 has parallels with Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine. [‘Academics’ queue up to see who is the best propagandist for the ‘west’. As always, follow the money.]

13 September 2023

The reported Russian-North Korean military deal is all about geostrategic balancing.

13 September 2023

Zelensky aide backtracks on insults to India and China.

13 September 2023

Ukraine attacks Sevastopol as ground attacks badly fail; Ukrainian losses surge; Russian losses lowest in war; Putin and Kim launch Russia-North Korea Strategic Partnership.

13 September 2023

CIA and the ‘Secret State’ manipulation of public opinion – with Jeffrey Sachs.

14 September 2023

Ukraine’s Bandera itch.

14 September 2023

Blinken sounds a rallying cry for a ‘new cold war’ that US cannot win.

15 September 2023

Ukrainian offensive continues to fail with limited or no real gains; in the attrition war, Russia shell output surges; Ukrainians and British argue of whose missiles are hitting the (very occasional) Russian targets; Blinken hints wants Ukraine conflict freeze and to focus China; Shoigu: victory Russia’s only option.

15 September 2023

China’s technological edge; Ukraine’s insurmountable odds; tensions in Korea and NATO posturing.

15 September 2023

Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter talk about Russia and Ukraine.

15 September 2023

Bidenomics: millions to rebuild Maui, billions for Ukraine.

16 September 2923

Russia is winning the industrial warfare race.

16 September 2923

The US is fanning the flames of war with China.

16 September 2023

Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods

16 September 2023

Maduro-Xi meeting: how China and Venezuela are changing the world.

16 September 2023

Russell Brand accused of rape and sexual assault. [Is there any relationship of this accusation to the fact that Russell Brand has been a long term critic of the US/UK/NATO/EU proxy war against Russia. Surely not. Compare this case with that of Julian Assange. And it makes no difference if these accusations are proven to be unfounded in a year or so – the damage has already been done.]

16 September 2023

Annalena Baerbock call Xi a dictator; Orban says EU grain deal was a lie; US to produce 100,000 rounds of ammunition a month – by end 2025; Obama wants to help Libya after causing its destruction.

17 September 2023

Russell Brand allegations mean entertainment industry has questions to answer – Cleverly. [It’s a pity that BBC journalists (and journalists in general) didn’t take such an investigative approach to the war in Ukraine as it is doing on the Brand allegations. And why is it the Foreign Secretary who is making the government’s response to the case?]

17 September 2023

The war in Ukraine helps advance the great EU neoliberal project.

17 September 2023

NATO hope of Ukrainian offensive victory; Ukraine media speaks of Ukrainian morale ‘souring’; Telegraph article talks about Ukraine regaining ground ‘tree by tree’ (25 min.); analysis of the present situation in US Today (33.5 min.); talks of a ‘long war’; continued heavy losses by Ukraine.

17 September 2023

Assange, Salmond and NOW Brand – George Galloway looks at how the State seeks to marginalise those it considers ‘inconvenient’.

17 September 2023

War in Ukraine: is the counter-offensive making progress? [Yet more bad reporting from the BBC.]

18 September 2023

Russia denies Kleshcheevka has been taken; breakdown of which side controls various contested locations (around 8 mins); Milley and Budanov now talk of a ‘long war’; the contrast of diplomacy in the 1960s/70s and now; US risks geostrategic disaster.

18 September 2023

Seized Zelensky home could become anti-Nazi museum.

18 September 2023

West admits Russia outguns them as Ukraine suffers heavy losses amid failing offensive – the New Atlas.

18 September 2023

The Intercept’s latest leak might deal irreparable damage to Pakistani-Chinese relations.

18 September 2023

Ukraine corruption? The intelligence community and journalism; the aim of ‘weakening Russia’; powers of the President; already American ‘boots on the ground’; with Phil Giraldi, former CIA.

19 September 2023

Ukrainian Ambassador to Mexico loses plot after Russian military takes part in Mexico’s Independence Day parade.

19 September 2023

Ukraine/West scale back offensive; western main stream media admits market missile was Ukrainian (26 min); Budanov interview in The Economist; Wang Yi meets Lavrov after Sullivan talk – and then stresses the friendship and unity between Russia and China.

19 September 2023

China dumps U.S. Treasuries to buy record amounts of gold as the U.S. dollar outlook weakens.

19 September 2023

This is a bizarre mish-mash from Fox News (I know, it leaves a sour taste) but this information is not forthcoming from anything in the British media – so that’s why it’s included here.

20 September 2023

U.S. is waging war with Russia, Foreign Minister Lavrov says.

20 September 2023

Zelensky’s terror team: Why the West looks the other way.

20 September 2023

Humanitarian imperialism created the Libyan nightmare.

20 September 2023

Mick Wallace invoking reason in the European parliament.

20 September 2023

Top 5 Russian weapon systems: and how they impact modern warfare – New Atlas.

21 September 2023

Poland and Ukraine have plunged into a full-blown political crisis with no end in sight.

21 September 2023

NATO chief admits NATO expansion was key to Russian invasion of Ukraine – Jeffrey D. Sachs

21 September 2023

Americans are being led by a lying media and corrupt political class.

21 September 2023

Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand.

21 September 2023

Max Blumenthal: Ukraine to become ‘Big Israel’?

21 September 2023

Biden’s UN General Assembly speech aimed at Russia exposes US hypocrisy.

21 September 2023

How the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroying Donbass for 8 years.

21 September 2023

Libya catastrophe is a double whammy; capitalism is to blame.

21 September 2023

Putin talks with Aliyev and Pashinyan about the conflict in the Caucasus; Ukrainian ‘offensive’ splutters to a halt; Zelensky UN Speech falls flat; West aid to Ukraine dwindles; Ukraine rejects any idea of peace talks; Russian probing attacks preparing for a big offensive.

21 September 2023

Why the Black Sea is key to Kyiv’s counteroffensive. [Yet another ‘academic’ clutching at straws. What he doesn’t realise is that wars are won (and lost) on the battlefield. Yes, damage can be done by Ukraine’s attacks on Crimea but it will in no way change the situation where the Ukrainian army is being decimated in Ukraine itself.]

22 September 2023

Ukraine lost around 85% of its initial mobilized force: Field general.

22 September 2023

Most tanks provided by Denmark to Ukraine faulty.

22 September 2023

The coming Ukraine collapse and the ‘rebuilding’ headfake.

22 September 2023

Zelensky: war lost without US; Zelensky also has a ‘secret plan’; Russia missile strike targets Ukraine energy system; The Economist admits the ‘counter-offensive’ has failed but still beats the neo-con drum; Ukraine hits Black Sea HQ – but at a huge expense; Neocons unlimited war; historical revisionism.

22 September 2023

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover developments from Zelensky’s desperate DC visit amid a collapse of relations with Poland (and which includes a clip of Zelensky watching himself make his speech at the UN General Assembly) and the British government’s censorship campaign against Russell Brand as it rams through a disturbing ‘Online Safety Bill’.

22 September 2023

Elensky speaks to Zelensky at the UN General Assembly; McConnell says Ukraine money to deter China; Zaluzhny is becoming the failed offensive scapegoat; British government involvement in ‘cancelling’ Russell Brand due to allegations.

22 September 2023

This is why the Ukraine counter-offensive is failing – with Scott Ritter.

22 September 2023

US prepares Taiwan Proxy against China; NATO postures as Ukraine fails; New Atlas.

23 September 2023

Russell Brand makes first comments since sexual assault allegations – [I publish this link solely for the last paragraph which makes no mention, whatsoever, about Brand’s criticism of how the pandemic was managed or about his opposition to the war in the Ukraine – and the real reason he is being attacked.]

23 September 2023

Poland hinted that Germany is to blame for its dispute with Ukraine.

23 September 2023

Ukraine reports major increase in economic growth. [There are lies, damn lies and statistics.]

24 September 2023

Ukraine short of helicopters; Ukraine continues to attack Sevastopol – but with limited effect; Russia learning how to counter-act western missiles; US administration refuses to listen to its own people that the war is being lost; Lavrov rules out ceasefire, hints at an offensive and the aim of a battlefield victory; Poles decline meeting Zelensky;

24 September 2023

Training to clear the world’s most heavily mined country. [How do you determine whether a country is involved in a war?]

24 September 2023

Infamy, they’ve all got it infamy. But Trudeau can’t escape – George Galloway

25 September 2023

Canada saluting a Ukrainian Nazi was no coincidence.

25 September 2023

Ukraine’s ‘biggest arms supplier’ orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre, witnesses say.

25 September 2023

The Ukrainian morale in the battlefield: a snapshot.

25 September 2023

This war wasn’t just provoked — it was provoked deliberately.

25 September 2023

The ‘Peacemaker’ hit list.

25 September 2023

Jeffrey Sachs interview – the US and Ukraine – a deeper look. How the west sabotaged any peace agreements and wants war at all costs and how the western media don’t honestly report this. ‘The White House will not negotiate over NATO over Russia’. ‘The goal of this war is to weaken Russia’. US military expansion to the Russian border was planned from 1992.

25 September 2023

Mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies hint at growing conflict fatigue. [This ‘academic’ is now pulling back as the reality – which he constantly denied – is overwhelmingly becoming obvious to all but the most myopic observer. But he can’t refrain from missing out important facts in order to distort the picture still.]

25 September 2023

Ukrainian Intelligence head admits failures; Canada exposes West as on wrong side of history – including video of Canadian Parliament (to a man and woman) giving a standing ovation to a murdering Ukrainian Nazi. New Atlas.

25 October 2023

[Canadian] MPs plead ignorance after applauding Nazi war veteran.

26 September 2023

Is Chrystia Freeland [Canadian Deputy Prime Minister] a fraud or a Nazi sympathizer?

26 September 2023

The soldiers who can’t leave the front line until the war is over. [The clickable heading on the BBC home page for this article reads ‘Ukraine’s young lead their elders in one unit’. And this is supposed to be an army that has had fewer casualties than the Russians and which is up to ‘re-taking’ Crimea? ]

26 September 2023

Original sin: How the weak legal foundations of NATO make negotiations with Russia virtually impossible.

26 September 2023

MPs plead ignorance after applauding Nazi war veteran.

27 September 2023

Horrible fate of all Ukrainian attacks in the direction of Verbove. The ‘kill zone’ explained.

27 September 2023

Canada’s honoring of Nazi vet exposes Ottawa’s long-standing Ukraine policy.

27 September 2023

Bill Kristol’s refreshingly honest Ukraine war ad.

27 September 2023

Regime attacks on Russell Brand are a proxy to fight Free Speech Rumble.

27 September 2023

A year of lying about Nord Stream – Seymour Hersh

27 September 2023

Dozens of lost armored vehicles at a distance of less than 5 Km. Military Summary and Analysis.

27 September 2023

Shoigu: Ukraine self-destructing and assaults are senseless (15 mins); Budanov: Ukraine will fight to the end; US demands Kiev reforms

28 September 2023

Ukrainian forces quitting by the thousands, refusing to die in NATO’s war – Redacted News.

28 September 2023

Canadian journalists are worried a Nazi’s feelings may be hurt.

28 September 2023

How Canada helped whitewash the Nazi SS Galicia Division.

28 September 2023

The media are targeting the public for a war with China.

29 September 2023

Media completely ignores NATO war role in Libya chaos.

29 September 2023

The New Atlas LIVE: Mark Sleboda on west pivots to ‘long war’ in Ukraine; industrial capacity to decide victor.

01 October 2023

Ukraine endgame accelerates as Congress denies any funding in Stopgap Bill and Fico wins in Slovakia vote.

01 October 2023

EU will back Ukraine without the US – Borrell [There already exist a ‘permanent structure’ to keep on giving money to the Ukraine.]

01 October 2023

Russian Army’s crazy ‘Balaton Tactics’ completely paralyzed Ukrainian Army and amazed experts.

01 October 2023

The mad propaganda push to normalize war profiteering in Ukraine.

01 October 2023

Ukrainian SS in Britain – postwar SS-Galizien Division refugees – also to Canada.

01 October 2023

Medvedev: Kiev regime change, more territory; India: relations with Russia non-negotiable; support for Ukraine in the US under attack; Shapps suggests direct UK involvement in the Ukraine.

01 October 2023

US Marine Corps Officer Scott Ritter reveals truth about Ukraine. [One of Ritter’s best summaries of the background to the situation in the Ukraine.]

02 October 2023

NATO testing waters on buffer zone as Ukraine offensive grinds to a halt; includes analysis of UK’s Radakin in a propaganda infused interview;

02 October 2023

US media can’t stop lying about Ukraine.[First published on 22 September 2023.]

02 October 2023

UK talks of sending troops to the Ukraine; bizarre article from ex-Defence Minister, Ben Wallace, in Daily Telegraph (20 min), admits that the average age of Ukrainian troops is more than 40; Medvedev threatens that foreign troops will be targets; Fico wins on anti-Ukraine platform in Slovakia; Ukrainian troops deserting in increasing numbers.

02 October 2023

Zelenskyy: from hero to zero; US in the same situation as France before the Revolution; with Colonel Douglas Macgregor. [Includes short video clip of Biden just mumbling during a press conference.]

02 October 2023

Nagorno-Karabakh is no more.

02 October 2023

‘Not about NATO’, ‘Never about NATO’, ‘nothing to do with NATO’.

03 October 2023

Ukraine’s unraveling, the funding row, and coalition wobbles.

03 October 2023

Annalena Baerbock talks about the EU extending from Lisbon to Luhansk; Politico article suggesting that World War II is complicated, especially in western Ukraine; the role of the USSR being denigrated; Ukraine corruption a problem for future western support in ‘secret document’; European foreign ministers meet in Kiev – with Hungary opposing more money to the Ukraine; US sponsored group trying to promote ‘colour’ revolution in Georgia.

03 October 2023

Western allies say they are running out of ammunition. [Various commentators linked to on this page have been saying this for months but only now do military ‘experts’ realise what is happening. And the destruction of the industrial base, which has been ongoing in the UK since the time of early Thatcher, means that it will take decades to have the skills, equipment, factories and the ability to reverse the past. If it is a surprise to the ‘experts’ the BBC ‘journalists’ seem no less surprised.]

03 October 2023

This proxy war can’t be both ‘unprovoked, AND a great strategic investment.

03 October 2023

Ukraine offensive has failed, Russia attacking; Shoigu’s speech to the high command, including analysis of field hospital situation; Russia attacking; Russian Army grows by 335,000; Yellen: oil price cap not working; SWIFT system no longer to be used for Russian internal banking transactions; Russia to test a swathe of new weapon systems.

04 October 2023

The increasing financialization of Germany.

04 October 2023

Will the US own Ukraine? With Matthew Hoh, former State Department. Interesting clips of Hilary Clinton warmongering – and campaigning for the Presidency.

04 October2023

Scott Ritter, Andrei Martyanov and Garland Nixon join Danny Haiphong on NATO as Ukraine’s time runs out.

05 October 2023

NATO told to fight Putin and win nuclear war against Russia; Retired U.S. official drops a bombshell.

05 October 2023

How much longer can Ukraine last? with Professor Jeffrey Sachs – neo-cons desire to surround Russia; Hilary Clinton’s manic Russophobia; British Imperialist thinking still dominates thinking; the war could have been avoided so many times in the past.

05 October 2023

Ukraine fatigue is worrying NATO elites – and so they should be.

05 October 2023

‘Propaganda’s casualties’.

05 October 2023

Beyond the neocon debacle to peace in Ukraine.

05 October 2023

US can’t deal with defeat.

05 October 2023

The priority must be to put Bush, Blair and Cheney behind bars before Trump.

05 October 2023

Ukraine is a very cheap way to make sure Russia … is not a threat to the NATO alliance.’ – Dutch Foreign Minister; Pentagon sends Iran weapons to Ukraine. New York Times accepts that Russia cedes ground then strikes back; Ukrainian population dropping precipitously;.Zelenska not happy.

05 October 2023

Lies, propaganda and the west’s war in Ukraine – online pamphlet launch. Stop the War Campaign.

05 October 2023

More on Ukraine’s desperate economy.

06 October 2023

Russian airstrike kills 51 at a funeral in Ukraine.

Syria war: At least 100 dead in drone attack on cadet graduation ceremony.

Compare the BBC’s ‘impartiality’ in the above articles relating to two similar incidents. Its all about; the headline; the language; the emphasis of the report; the introduction of extraneous ‘information’; the direction in which they are trying to manipulate the reader to go.

06 October 2023

American neocons and their global community with Alastair Crooke former Brit ambassador – Ukraine unlikely to be offered EU membership; problems of bundling budget in US; Ukraine is coming undone; SS became part of the CIA.

06 October 2023

Putin’s speech at recent forum; Russia defends Russians, Odessa is a Russian city; Medvedev: west talks a trap; Kiev freaks out as US aid dwindles.

06 October 2023

Putin outlines desired principles of international relations.

06 October 2023

Colonel Douglas Macgregor: The Russians press on and take Odessa.

06 October 2023

BEWARE: Media and Government start pushing 2024 ‘Russian disinfo’ lies

06 October 2023

The Top Ten dumbest things empire propagandists ask us to believe.

06 October 2023

When 80 percent of US generals go to work for arms makers.

07 October 2023

Moscow and Kiev differ on Israel-Palestine escalation.

07 October 2023

Western media being pressured over Ukraine coverage – Washington Post.

07 October 2023

Nord Stream syndrome: One year on, EU states and the US collude to sweep the pipeline attacks under the rug.

08 October 2023

Patrick Bet-David, Jimmy Dore, Tim Pool, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana discus the forces behind the Ukraine war.

09 October 2023

Why are U.S. firms buying up all the farmland in Ukraine?

10 October 2023

Russia reiterates warning over black market Ukrainian weapons.

11 October 2023

Zelensky fears Israel will distract from Western aid to Kiev.

11 October 2023

Upgraded Russian drone takes out Ukrainian jet.

11 October 2023

More proof of a false-flag massacre at funeral by Kiev regime.

11 October 2023

Israel-Gaza conflict: an opportunity for Putin while the world is distracted. [Another ‘academic’ weighs in to the propaganda campaign. If any of his students used the sort of proof in their arguments that he does to maintain his ideas in this article then they would, and should, get a fail.]

12 October 2023

Estonia-Finland pipeline explosion: what’s the evidence that the damage was deliberate?

12 October 2023

The Russians started the largest offensive operation – using massive numbers of tanks. Military Summary and Analysis.

14 October 2023

US running low on weapons as proxy wars target Russia, Iran, & China. [Discusses both the conflict in the Ukraine and the Israeli assault on Gaza. Ukraine the main focus till minute 18.20.] New Atlas.

17 October 2023

US proxy wars: Israel gears up for Gaza incursion as initiative passes to Russia in the Ukraine. [Discussing Ukraine from the beginning to minute 18.30.] New Atlas.

18 October 2023

Russia’s losses mount – but self-sacrifice in war is part of the country’s mythology. [Yet again there’s no evidence provided to support the numbers – unless you consider Ukrainian claims as ‘proof’.]

19 October 2023

Ukraine uses ATACMS as offensive culminates, Israeli military targets civilians ahead urban operations.

24 October 2023

Are the walls finally closing in on Ursula von der Leyen?

24 October 2023

Biden election strategy: ‘Let’s fight three wars at once!’

25 October 2023

With all eyes on Israel-Gaza, Ukraine is losing war momentum.

25 October 2023

Russia’s plan to relocate its Black Sea naval base from Crimea is priceless for Ukraine’s morale. [Another ‘academic’ puts up false arguments – only to knock them down. For example; ‘an amphibious assault on Odesa, once a key objective’ – where is the ‘proof’ of this? ‘Putin’s imperialist narrative’ – again, where is there proof of this? And, finally, ‘Let’s not forget that, historically, maritime preponderance has been a decisive factor in winning long wars’ – but wars are won on land.]

25 October 2023

Ukraine’s IT army is a world first: here’s why it is an important part of the war. [Like in any war two can play at this.]

25 October 2023

Germany’s ex-leader says the US stopped Ukraine from signing a peace deal last year – why did Biden want the war to continue?

26 October 2023

Funding for Ukraine is anything but certain after US elects new speaker.

27 October 2023

Ukraine’s desperate search for war funding hits local budgets.

30 October 2023

More upheaval in German politics over Ukraine war, Russia sanctions and the heavy hand of the US.

31 October 2023

Zelensky ‘deludes himself’, aide claims, as Western proxy warriors leave him behind.

31 October 2023

Maidan snipers: The founding myth of ‘new’ Ukraine has been proven to be a lie. Why is the West silent?

02 November 2023

Judging Freedom – with former CIA Phil Giraldi on Gaza and Ukraine. [Ukraine from minute 17.00.]

02 November 2023

Gaza debacle: Biden hints at a ceasefire; States sever relations with Israel; from minute 53 Ukraine – Zaluzhny admits failure.

03 November 2023

Gaza City surrounded; Blinken talks about Israel ‘humanitarian pause’; is there going to be a Netanyahu regime change; Ukraine from 1.01.0, Kiev and the Avdeyevka crisis; what is the rationale for giving the Ukraine another $61 billion?

03 November 2023

Russia must protect Zelensky.

03 November 2023

The war is lost – Zelenski will leave – the White House has failed.

03 November 2023

Putin explains why he ordered military operation in Ukraine.

04 November 2023

We won’t talk to Russia – Zelensky.

05 November 2023

John Mearsheimer – Ukraine’s fate.

06 November 2023

The new electric war campaign – how the Russian Army will select the Ukrainian targets.

06 November 2023

The impossibility of negotiated settlements in the Gaza and Ukraine conflicts.

08 November 2023

Phil Giraldi (former CIA): unpardonable and unpunishable war crimes in the Ukraine and Gaza.

10 November 2023

US-Iran war risks; Deir Ezzor battle; US diplomats slam Biden policy; Putin visits HQ; Ukraine out of troops. [Gaza to minute 50, Ukraine after that to end.]

12 November 2023

Mainstream narrative on Ukraine-Russia War crumbling, conflict is unwinnable: David Sacks.

12 November 2023

Ukraine makes huge mistake! Also on Gaza. With former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

12 November 2023

Unconstitutional killings – in Ukraine, Gaza and throughout the world.

12 November 2023

Ukraine proxy war and Gaza genocide fatally expose western hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy.

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13 November 2023

Ukraine crisis deepens; Kiev begs for F16s; report says Biden blocked 2022 peace talks; Israel-Hezbollah war looms. [Ukraine from start to 1 hour 13 minute.]

13 November 2023

Jeffrey Sachs with John Mearsheimer – global crises, especially the Ukraine, and what is ‘rationality’?

13 November 2023

US to buy anti-aircraft weapon for Ukraine at huge markup.

13 November 2023

West admits Ukraine is losing, little can be done to change this fact.

14 November 2023

The media’s Nord Stream lies just keep coming. Jonathan Cook.

14 November 2023

This ain’t no ‘stalemate’: Ukrainian front-line breakdown, revisited.

14 November 2023

The latest claims in the western main stream media about who was culpable for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 – Scott Ritter. [The first seven minutes of the video.]

15 November 2023 (but originally published at the end of August 2023)

Hungary, a NATO nation known for its ‘Russia love’, has issued a war threat. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has apparently issued a warning to his ‘NATO allies’. Viktor Orban said that Hungary would ‘go to war if energy supplies were attacked’. Taking a swipe at Germany, Orban has claimed his nation would not remain passive like Berlin did during the Nord Stream blasts. [Relevant now as the wester mainstream media re-starts to make ludicrous claims on who was responsible – but being too stupid to realise that by stating that the Ukraine was ‘responsible’ they are, indirectly, implicating the US and NATO.]

16 November 2023

‘Failure to prevent genocide’: Biden sued as US provides arms and support for Israel’s Gaza assault.

16 November 2023

Why is Ukraine now claiming its disastrous counteroffensive was only a smokescreen?

17 November 2023

Mainstream media: Russia winning the war in the Ukraine; no Moscow regime change; Russia advances in Avdeyevka; Xi-Biden Talks: no result; comments on Gaza.

17 November 2023

German farmers: Ukraine membership would spell end of EU farming system.

18 November 2023

Scott Ritter: all lost, total failure achieved in Gaza and the Zionist settler state of Israel. [One of the best analyses that Ritter has made. Also includes an update on the situation in the Ukraine where the western alliance of the US/UK/EU/NATO has lost.]

18 November 2023

As Joe Biden downplays talk of a ceasefire in the Middle East, both Elon Musk and a top US General warn Israel’s killing of civilians will create more Hamas members. Includes some interesting video clips of Biden (when he wasn’t Alzheimic) maintaining that Israel is merely a useful tool of US imperialism.] Russell Brand.

19 November 2023

US proxy wars: Ukraine crumbles (from beginning to minute 25), Gaza burns as tensions rise in Asia-Pacific.

20 November 2023

Ukraine end game: Putin and Medvedev discuss maps, putting Kiev on the menu.

20 November 2023

Zelensky is trying to remove Generals he dislikes. Military Summary and Analysis.

20 November 2023

Avdeyevka crumbles as Russia takes the industrial zone and railway; Zaluzhny the target of Kiev purge; Russia shows 5% economic growth.

21 November 2023

Finland is hell bent on positioning itself as a front-line NATO state against Russia.

21 November 2023

Continued support for Ukraine is fading.

24 November 2023

NATO’s proposed ‘military Schengen’ is a thinly disguised German power play over Poland.

24 November 2023

The New Atlas: Mark Sleboda on growing Russian military vs West’s admissions Ukraine is losing.

24 November 2023

Ukraine sends women, the elderly to the front.

26 November 2023

Europe is getting record amounts of Russian gas through Turkstream. so who keeps trying to blow it up?

26 November 2023

Poland’s de facto blockade of Ukraine is its outgoing government’s last power play.

27 November 2023

The West is inching closer to more insanity in the Baltic Sea.

27 November 2023

The myth that Putin was bent on conquering Ukraine and creating a Greater Russia.

29 November 2023

Ukraine defences crumble; Russia captures Khromovo and advances in Avdeyevka; Putin hints of reunion of Russia-Ukraine-Belarus.

29 November 2023

Zelensky ally’s revelations betray motive to stage Bucha.

30 November 2023

Russia enters Bogdanovka and Sinkovka; Ukraine undermanned; Zelensky fears Zaluzhny, US-India relations worsen.

02 December 2023

‘We lost the war’: Slovakia recognized west’s defeat; Russian troops captured Maryinka and Bogdanovka.

03 December 2023

War and Theft – the takeover of Ukraine’s agricultural land.

03 December 2023

Russia outproduces West in drones and artillery shells as Ukraine goes on the defensive.

04 December 2023

EU and US Ukraine funding even more in doubt as war effort falters.

04 December 2023

How Kiev wanted to expand the war to Belarus.

04 December 2023

Ukraine: the credibility mirage.

04 December 2023

Ukraine and US trade blame for ‘failed counteroffensive’ – Washington Post.

05 December 2023

Russia’s hard line at European security meeting ratchets up tensions another notch. [As has become standard this ‘academic’ is merely a mouthpiece for the US and UK governments. No mention, whatsoever, of the illegal conflicts initiated – and in the process of being initiated – by the ‘west’.]

05 December 2023

Send Ukrainian men home to fight – German MP.

05 December 2023

Zelensky party MP tells Ukrainian women to go to the front lines.

05 December 2023

Russia advances on Bakhmut, Liman and Avdeyevka; UK military intelligence admits Marinka falling; Zaluzhny saying the Ukraine needs 17 million shells and $400 billion in material is so divorced from reality he can’t be serious – and a good analysis of the failure of the US to really understand the balance of forces in this war; US on the defensive everywhere.

05 December 2023

Vice chief: US can handle Middle East, Ukraine, China missions all at once.

06 December 2023

Ukraine endgame: US Congress providing no funds; Zaluzhny refuses to resign; Ukraine defences crumble; Putin in the UAE.

06 December 2023

UK special forces secretly operated in Ukraine.

07 December 2023

Pleading to prolong Ukraine war, Biden admin walks back false claims of victory.

08 December 2023

Ukrainians refusing to fight for ‘corrupt government’ – Washington Post.

08 December 2023

US missiles made for and aimed at China – not specifically about the Ukraine but an introduction to the US’s next conflict (unless things blow up in the Middle East over the Zionist attack upon Gaza.)

09 December 2023

‘No NATO’ for Ukraine, Ukrainian politician says.

10 December 2023

Why does Germany continue to self-destruct?

10 December 2023

Who is the jailed US journalist that Elon Musk is asking Biden and Zelensky about? [Gonzalo Lira.]

11 December 2023

West’s ‘new’ strategy for Ukraine victory: same as the old one and why it can’t work. New Atlas.

11 December 2023

Stakes are high for EU and Ukraine ahead of crucial European summit. [Wolff, yet again, displays his inability to understand what is/has been happening in the Ukraine. But now getting to clutching at straws.]

11 December 2023

Biden summons Zelensky; Syrski gives ‘optimistic’ analysis of the Ukraine’s situation; criticism of Zelensky grows; Russian officials rule out Kiev talks and hint at annexation.

13 December 2023

Ukraine flails as proxy/coalition war scheme comes apart.

14 December 2023

Russia’s goal ‘conquering Ukraine’, say western media. Not so, say experts.

15 December 2023

Hungary vetos €50 billion EU funding package for Ukraine; fuming EU leaders promise €50 billion workaround, but how?

15 December 2023

Western policymakers are panicking because there was no Plan B if the counteroffensive failed.

16 December 2023

Snowstorm; strike on NATO officers; battle for Novomykhailivka. Military Summary and Analysis.

17 December 2023

West seeks new narrative to frame failing Ukraine.

17 December 2023

UK contemplating sending troops to Ukraine.

17 December 2023

I was naive about the West – Putin.

17 December 2023

Russia will only accept the capitulation of Ukraine; new Ukrainian conscription laws, included the conscription of women; NATO officers killed in Russian attack in the Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis

18 December 2023

As Russia signals it can achieve maximalist aims in Ukraine, how would Russia manage Kiev and Western Ukraine?

19 December 2023

No NATO invite, no elections, failed counteroffensive: Key quotes from Zelensky’s press conference.

20 December 2023

US has a ‘clear plan’ for Ukraine’s future – Blinken.

21 December 2023

Kyiv digs in for the long haul with prospects looking bleak for 2024. [Wolff still denies reality but beginning to accept the Ukraine’s continued failings. Perhaps look back on his ‘analysis’ earlier in the year to see how he just follows the NATO party line.]

21 December 2023

Putin’s admission of naivety about the west signals his new stance towards peace talks.

21 December 2023

Ukraine’s secret attempt to bypass top trade union bodies.

21 December 2023

What Ukraine needs from its European partners (and the US) in 2024 – misguided views from yet another EU paid flunky, so-called ‘academic’.

22 December 2023

‘Russia stopped us from buying fighter jets’ – Ukrainian arms firm.

22 December 2023

Russia warns West against seizing assets.

22 December 2023

Why ‘digging in’ won’t save Ukraine and what the West got wrong about Russian defenses.

23 December 2023

EU nation willing to hunt down Ukrainian draft dodgers.

24 December 2023

Russian trade corridors flourish under western sanctions.

24 December 2023

SnowStorm; Russian breakthrough in Liman; front lines are falling apart; Ukrainian men stay at home to avoid forced ‘conscription’; Military Summary and Analysis.

26 December 2023

Russia said on Sunday that its forces have gained full control of Maryinka in Ukraine’s east, but Kyiv’s military denied Moscow’s claim, saying Ukrainian troops were still within the borders of the blighted town. Putin has hailed the victory, calling it ‘Maryinka’s liberation’.

26 December 2023

The growing US military recruitment crisis: there is no solution and the crisis will only grow…

27 December 2023

Mark Sleboda: Ukraine’s army is decimated and Putin is ready to finish it.

27 December 2023

Zaluzhny states that Russia to take Avdeyevka soon; his row with Zelensky; bankers oppose asset seizure; EU to borrow for Kiev – against wishes of some member states.

28 December 2023

US demands seizure of Russian assets; Kiev crisis, ex-PM Tymoshenko weighs in with Ukraine needs a Plan B; Russia-India ties deepen.

29 December 2023

Biggest ever Russian missile strike rocks Ukraine; Medvedev and Lavrov stress there will be no ceasefire; US looking for a way out.

29 December 2023

INTEL-Roundtable with Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson: Should the CIA be Dismantled? Judging Freedom.

29 December 2023

Biden admits Ukraine cannot win war, giving up territory; retired Lt Col Davis reacts; Ukraine not able to pay public servants and pensioners; Rising, The Hill.

30 December 2023

Russian missile strike smashed Ukrainian air defence system; Zelensky on Avdeyevka as defence crumbles; Russian industry surges.

30 December 2023

Zelensky is hated in Ukraine and NATO has nothing left – so says the Financial Times. A contribution from The Duran on Danny Haiphong.

31 December 2023

Furious Russia retaliates to Belgorod attack; Kharkov attacked; Bogdanovka captured; Middle East war looms.

View of the world – up to end of 2022

View of the world – 2023

View of the world – 2024

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022

The Ukraine – what you are not told – 2024

View of the world – up to end of 2022

Lenin sweeping the world clean

View of the world – 2023

View of the world – 2024

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023

The Ukraine – what you are not told – 2024

View of the world

There are many articles published each day which provide an interesting (and often insightful) analysis of the world in which we live – and how capitalism and imperialism manipulates populations and circumstances for its own financial gain.

Some might find a home in other pages on this blog but others are metaphorical ‘orphans’. This page seeks to provide them a home.

Reckoning with slavery: What a revolt’s archives tells us about who owns the past (2nd December 2020)

Wall Street takes workers’ retirement money and uses it against them (July 2021)

Britain is ensuring the death of a Palestinian state (23rd September 2021)

The UK claims to support a ‘two-state’ solution in Israel-Palestine but the body of a Palestinian state has long been in the morgue, although nobody dares to have a funeral. As long as Britain and other states continue to superficially endorse a two-state solution, Israel will become entrenched as a full-blown apartheid state with international blessing.

The Long Haitian Revolution (10th October 2021)

How developing countries can make mRNA covid vaccines (22nd October 2021)

Blockade Against Cuba Turns 60 (4th February 2022)

On fails to understand how it has been possible for the US to act against millions of people for so long and with so much hatred, a hatred without limits or rational explanation.

Give Putin what he wants (4th February 2022)

On October 8, 1962, Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós told the UN General Assembly that there would be no need for Cuba to possess nuclear weapons were the US to guarantee that it would not invade Cuba as the US had attempted to do the year before. In other words, Cuba would trade missiles for a US security guarantee.

Now, Russia’s Vladimir Putin is requesting a guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO. The US should agree.

UK spends over £80m on media in 20 countries around Russia (8th February 2022)

The British government is spending tens of millions on media projects in Eastern Europe which are often presented as fighting “Russian disinformation”, but which may involve the UK’s own information operations.

‘Deceitful activities’: US expands its intelligence and military presence in UK (9th February 2022)

The US is quietly preparing to upgrade its presence in Britain in moves with huge implications for UK security and vulnerability in an international crisis.

The legacy of Lester Mallory: Brief statement against the U.S. economic war against Cuba (10th February 2022)

It has now been 60 years since this U.S. enacted its “embargo” on Cuba. The term embargo is however, a gross understatement of the measures designed to undermine and overthrow the Cuban government, in the words of U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Interamerican Affairs, Lester Mallory (1960) “through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship”. The concept of ‘economic war’ is a much more accurate depiction.

Blood on London’s hands (10th February 2022)

Whitehall knew for decades that the UDA paramilitary group was carrying out wholesale murder – yet ministers long refused to ban it as a terrorist organisation and officials continued to meet its leaders.

How can the US accuse any nation of violating ‘Rules-Based International Order’? (10th February 2022)

Sometimes the hypocrisy of the US government, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, is just too much to let pass.

America’s real adversaries are its European and other allies (11th February 2022)

The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia

America’s sanctions on its allies hurt their economies, not those of Russia and China

Oil diplomacy and America’s dream for post-Soviet Russia

U.S. dreams of a neoliberalized China as a U.S. corporate affiliate

U.S. demands are driving its allies out of the dollar-NATO trade and monetary orbit

UK commanders in Ukraine met neo-Nazi-linked National Guard to ‘deepen military cooperation’ (15th February 2022)

Ukraine’s National Guard says that in meeting last year the UK military agreed to start training its forces, which include a thousand-strong neo-Nazi unit. The UK Ministry of Defence disputes the claim.

Jeff Bezos wants all of us to satisfy his every whim (15th February 2022)

A billionaire literally dismantling public infrastructure to serve his most superficial whim — Jeff Bezos’s recent attempt to get the city of Rotterdam to dismantle its historic bridge to fit his gigantic yacht feels like a metaphor for our current stage of capitalism.

Suharto’s US-backed coup in Indonesia supplied a template for worldwide mass murder (15th February 2022)

Under the leadership of Sukarno, postcolonial Indonesia was an optimistic country finding its place on the world stage. Suharto’s 1965 coup drowned that experiment in blood, with US politicians and media cheering on his campaign of mass killings.

Britain and Australia’s resource grab in Afghanistan (16th February 2022)

A little-known aspect of the disastrous Western occupation of Afghanistan was that UK and Australian companies sought to access the country’s $3 trillion worth of untapped minerals – with little regard for the welfare of Afghans.

Can those prosecuted for acts of violence and recklessly endangering the public order, with no program, no proposals for positive change, be considered political prisoners? (16th February 2022)

A few days after the March 10, 1952 coup in Cuba, the young attorney Fidel Castro, “with a law office at Tejadillo, No. 57,” filed a complaint in court charging Fulgencio Batista with the crime of sedition. Motivated by personal interest or cowardice, the legal team of jurists, defending Batista’s coup against the 1940 Constitution, alleged that his actions did not constitute a coup, but rather a revolution, which was acceptable under the law.

Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., it is fine to lie to consumers but not to investors

Hyper-capitalism has systematically weakened regulations to help capital at the cost of consumers. The verdict on the Elizabeth Holmes case illustrates the truth: Protecting private property is central to bourgeois law, not people.

America’s Disastrous 60-Year War (21st February 2022)

Three generations of conspicuous destruction by the Military-Industrial Complex and a New Cold War.

Russia-Ukraine is an Information War, so government intelligence needs more scrutiny than ever (22nd February 2022)

The threat of war is difficult to beat when it comes to mending or enhancing a damaged reputation. President Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, both derided as ineffective in domestic policy only a few weeks ago, are now reborn as statesmen capable of guiding their countries through the minefield of Eastern European politics.

Bob Dylan, Masters of War and the Ukraine Crisis (23rd February 2022)

Red-white-and-blue chauvinism is running wild. Yet there are real diplomatic alternatives to the collision course for war.

WWII Redux: The endpoint of U.S. policy, from Ukraine to Taiwan (23rd February 2022)

The threatened peoples of East Asia and Europe can stop the U.S. drive to restore its global domination.

Arms industry sees Ukraine conflict as an opportunity, not a crisis (2nd March 2022)

On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine, pounding cities with ordnance and dispatching troops across the border. The sonic boom of fighter jets filled the air, as civilians flooded the highways in Kyiv, attempting to flee the capital. And the stock value of arms makers soared.

‘We are not the ones who owe; it’s capital and the state who owe us’: why feminists scholars and activists are working to destigmatise debt. (11th March 2022)

‘We want to be alive, free and without debt.’ With slogans such as these, Argentinian feminists are attempting to expose the connection between debt, global finance, labour exploitation and male violence.

Corporate Courts Vs The Climate (18th March 2022)

Fossil fuel companies are using secretive tribunals written into trade deals to sue governments for more than $18 billion over climate policy.

The horrific scam that water billionaires are running on poor countries (21st March 2022)

Mega corporations like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Danone are making around 494 times what they spend by bottling water in Mexico and selling it back to locals who have no choice but to buy it.

It’s all oligarchs all the way down (22nd March 2022)

Today’s US propaganda barrage seeks to demonize the Russians as thoroughly and completely as possible, which now ironically includes attacks on Russia’s oligarchy. This could, and hopefully will, open a can of worms for US oligarchic orchestrators of such propaganda, whose hypocrisy is apparently bottomless. If the Russian oligarchs are monsters, what about our own plutocrats? Today we are offered a typical capitalist “choice.” Which national set of oligarchs do we want to “support” and die for?

Bernie Sanders on the Worldwide Oligarchy (23rd March 2022)

‘We are in a struggle between a progressive movement that mobilizes around a shared vision of prosperity, security and dignity for all people, against one that defends oligarchy and massive global income and wealth inequality’

Judge Jackson’s hearing proves that all the Sold-Out GOP has left is performance art. (23rd March 2022)

They’ve sold out to big money and don’t give a rat’s ass about the issues that really matter to most Americans.

Julian Assange posed PR problem for UK government’s media campaign (23rd March 2022)

UK officials were worried about public reaction to their hosting a media freedom event a few miles from Belmarsh prison, where Assange is incarcerated. The Foreign Office monitored activity online, developed ‘lines to take’ and warned ‘we should be ready’, emails show.

A food crisis was brewing even before the Ukraine war (24th March 2022)

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the disruption, by sanctions or war, of two of the world’s largest grain exporters. This means 2022 is shaping up to be a very difficult year for the global food system. … Yet there were concerns that this system was creaking at the seams as far back as 2007.

Have We Forgotten…Afghanistan (24th March 2022)

The US 20-year war and occupation in Afghanistan, waged to avenge the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, has taken the lives of more than 71,000 Afghani and Pakistani civilians

Madeleine Albright Was a Killer (24th March 2022)

She was a pioneering imperialist who passionately advocated greater use of deadly violence in pursuit of a US-dominated post–Cold War global order — and killed many, many people in the process.

Unbeknown to most, a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) – enabled financial revolution is coming that will radically transform our lives (and probably not for the better) (25th March 2022)

Around 90 central banks are either in the process of experimenting with or are already piloting central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). In a world of just over 190 countries that is a large number, but given they include the European Central Bank (ECB) which alone represents 19 Euro Area economies, the actual number of economies involved is well over 100. Together those economies represent more than 90% of global GDP.

Britain uses vast swathes of one of the world’s most biodiverse countries for military training — and pays nothing. (29th March 2022 – originally posted on Declassified on 4th February 2020)

The British army is using one-sixth of Belize’s total landmass for jungle warfare training after gaining access to more than a dozen sites across the former UK colony in Central America, it can be revealed.

The Death Spiral of Globalization (30th March 2022)

After all, globalization is just a sanitized term to describe the ugly truth of the market system in which human and natural resources are exploited by wealthy nations that simply go to places with the fewest human rights and/or environmental regulations to obtain their goods — be it products of brutal sweatshops or oil, gas, and minerals. The resulting human and ecological disasters are then simply written off as the “price of doing business” in the global marketplace.

Afghanistan facing ‘total collapse’ as Biden refuses to release Central Bank assets (30th March 2022)

‘If the Afghan economy is not resuscitated, the severity of the current humanitarian crisis will only deepen, with dire consequences for life and limb of ordinary Afghans’.
 

‘Their inflation strategy Is working’: corporate profits soared to record high in 2021 (31st March 2022)

We’ve regularly described how the corporate profits as a share of GDP has been at close to 12% for years, which is twice the level Warren Buffet deemed to be unsustainably high in the early 2000s. These egregious profits are at the expense of low and mid level workers.

The importance of custody, or NATO’s Internal Gold War (4th April 2022)

Russia´s new rubles or gold payment requirements for any of its goods or services will necessarily prompt a major gold war between the UK and the EU probably resulting in NATO´s first-ever internal head-on gloves-off confrontation.

Falklands: Should UK negotiate with or defy Argentina? (4th April 2022)

While Britain currently claims sole ownership of the disputed Falkland Islands, UK records show past governments being willing to compromise and that the question of sovereignty is far from certain.

ExxonMobil announces $10 billion oil investment the same day Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) signals end for fossil fuels (6th April 2022)

 …. a $10 billion final investment decision for an oil and gas development project in the South American nation of Guyana that the company said would allow it to add a quarter of a million barrels of oil a day to its production in 2025.

The sun never set: British army’s secret payments to colonial-era farms (6th April 2022)

Almost 60 years after Kenya’s independence from Britain, the former colonial power is paying white landowners so it can conduct dangerous military exercises in East Africa. But the cost of these payments is shrouded in secrecy.

Ethiopia: crimes against humanity in Western Tigray Zone (6th April 2022)

Amhara regional security forces and civilian authorities in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone have committed widespread abuses against Tigrayans since November 2020 that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. .. Ethiopian authorities have severely restricted access and independent scrutiny of the region, keeping the campaign of ethnic cleansing largely hidden.

Why Stop at the Russian Oligarchs? (12th April 2022)

At a time when Russian bombs are destroying Ukrainian cities, there is good reason to focus on the oligarchs supporting the Kremlin. But do American multi-billionaires and Saudi princes enjoy less political clout, stash less money abroad, and use their influence any better?

Stormy days coming for solar power in the Sunshine State (13th April 2022)

All-powerful for-profit utilities have apparently bribed/persudaded Floria officials to crush what they consider to be a developing threat – Solar Power.

Biometric Surveillance Systems are being hastily rolled out across the West, with next to no public debate (12th April 2022)

By embracing biometric surveillance, governments across the West are hurtling down a path that could lead us all to a very dark place. 

How serious is antibiotic resistance? (16th April 2022)

‘By the 1950’s the US industry was “painting” steaks with antibiotics to extend their shelf life. They were washing spinach with antibiotics. Sometimes they even mixed antibiotics into ground meat. You could buy antibiotic soap. The stuff leaked everywhere. Studies at the time found penicillin even in milk and some people promptly developed an allergy to it.’

Latin America, the Caribbean and the War in Ukraine (18th April 2022)

As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine moves through its second month, its unconcealable economic impact continues to grow at the global level. Price rises in energy, food and fertilizer have driven up inflation to levels that haven’t been seen in decades, leading to higher interest rates that will stall economic growth.

British army destroyed files in Kenya (21st April 2022)

The UK military destroyed paper records from its Kenyan headquarters after the murder of a local woman, in an echo of Operation Legacy – the bonfire of records at the end of Empire.

British ammo almost certainly maimed Kenyan boy – new evidence (22nd April 2022)

A UK military investigation seen by Declassified found dozens of potential hazards to civilians in Kenya from unexploded bombs, and training exercises producing enough military debris to fill 13 shipping containers.

Jimmy Dore gives Barack Obama what’s what on censorship of social media (26th April 2022)

Prince William petitioned by Kenyan land grab victims (4th May 2022)

Their families were brutally evicted by the British empire to make way for tea plantations. Now they want the crown to apologise.

James Galbraith: The Dollar System in a Multi-Polar World (6th May 2022)

The dollar has by now been de facto the primary world reserve asset for over a hundred years, first because of US preeminence in the holding of gold and its creditor position with respect to the European belligerents in the Great War. In 1944 US military and industrial power, soon to be backed, in the shadows, by a monopoly over the atomic bomb, were the foundations of the gold-exchange standard established at Bretton Woods.

Our Men in Manila (6th May 2022)

The British establishment supported the authoritarianism of both Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s and Rodrigo Duterte from 2016 until now – the two darkest chapters in the post-independence history of the Philippines.

Schoolchildren as young as 14 targeted in 1975 for links to ‘subversive’ anti-fascist and socialist organisations.

US Air Force deployment in Britain is third largest in world (10th May 2022)

Only Japan and Germany, countries occupied by the US military after World War 2, host more US airmen than Britain. Nuclear-capable American B-52 bombers were recently deployed in Gloucestershire amid Ukraine tensions.

Hundreds of Native children died at Government boarding schools [in the US] (11th May 2022)

Hundreds of Native children died at boarding schools the U.S. government forced them to attend from 1819 to 1969 in a violent, racist attempt to assimilate Native people and take their territories, according to an Interior Department report.

Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh assassinated by Israeli Army troops in Jenin Refugee Camp (11th May 2022)

Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank. The 51-year-old, covering an Israeli army raid on the Jenin refugee camp when she was shot in the face by a single bullet despite wearing a press vest

Britain plotted propaganda campaign against Amnesty International (11th May 2022)

Declassified files from the early 1970s show the UK government secretly sought to discredit the human rights organisation’s investigation into British torture in Northern Ireland and its notorious ‘Five Techniques’.

Hunger crisis grips Horn of Africa – but 80% of Britons unaware. (12th May 2022)

UK government urged to act as worst drought in 40 years threatens region while aid efforts and global attention remain focused on Ukraine war

Not war alone (12th May 2022)

The global food crisis. Made worse, but not caused, by the war in the Ukraine.

Johnson’s Saudi WhatsApps to stay secret (13th May 2022)

WhatsApp messages that may have been sent between Britain’s Prime Minister and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia will not be made public.

The super immunity of our fabulously wealthy corporate dictators (16th May 2022)

Ever since the heads of East India Trading Company (1600) and Hudson Bay Company (1670), were incorporated by English Royal charters, there have been corporate dictators. Their range and actions, have varied widely however. Today’s new corporate dictators shatter past restraints.

ICE is tracking your every move (16th May 2022)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has become known for both mass deportations and unmarked-van snatchings of peaceful protesters. ICE also turns out to be operating a vast intelligence system that tracks the movements of hundreds of millions of Americans.

Peru sues Spanish oil giant Repsol for billions after ‘worst ever’ oil spill (17th May 2022)

Peru’s prime minister, Mirtha Vásquez, claims that Repsol “apparently” did not even have a contingency plan in place for an oil spill. 

How the US sent $12 billion in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish. (17th May 2022 – this article originally appeared in February 2007 but is reproduced here as it is relevant when we consider what is being proposed following the US Congress’s decision to approve a 40 billion dollar package for the Ukraine.)

Special flights brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone.

‘A shameful distinction’: US ranked world’s biggest perpetrator of financial secrecy (17th May 2022)

‘That isn’t a prize the U.S. wants to claim for itself,’ said one critic.

Was Ozark Actually About the Clintons? (17th May 2022)

In its last season, Ozark goes beyond family drama. It critiques the insidious ways that capitalism and political power work in America and the self-interested choices elites make to keep climbing the ladder.

Global WHO Treaty Is real and will control you. (17th May 2022)

Flying under the radar and unbeknownst to most, the World Health Organization is quietly pursuing an international treaty that would hand national sovereignty over healthcare decisions to the unaccountable global body, allowing the WHO to unilaterally declare pandemics and impose responses on individual nations. Not surprisingly, major WHO funder Bill Gates is fully supportive of the idea.

Why we’re trying to shut down Israel’s arms factories in Britain (17th May 2022)

A co-founder of activist group Palestine Action outlines why it seeks to close down Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms company, from its UK sites, amid the firm’s growing collaboration with Boris Johnson’s government.

Hungry babies, regrettably, are just the price of the Free Market. (19th May 2022)

Pete Buttigieg says that in a capitalist economy, the government doesn’t and shouldn’t make baby formula. But around the world, even in the United States, the public sector has stepped in to correct market failures.

Nato bombing of Libya ‘exceeded UN mandate’. (19th May 2022)

A new book by the UN’s top man on the ground in Libya during the anti-Gaddafi uprising argues Nato indulged in “mission creep” and gave “unconvincing” arguments for promoting regime change in the name of protecting civilians.

The Tory Guide to Surviving the Cost of Living Crisis (20th May 2022)

Across the UK, parents are struggling to balance bills with feeding their children, workers are juggling several jobs at the expense of their mental and physical health, and more and more people are being driven to food banks, with food prices predicted to reach ‘apocalyptic’ levels. Luckily for all of us though, some kindly Tory MPs have offered their top-tier budgeting advice, to help people to cope with the crippling cost of living crisis.

The root of Haiti’s misery: reparations to enslavers (22nd May 2022)

In 1791, enslaved Haitians did the seemingly impossible. They ousted their French masters and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom — in cash. How much has remained a mystery, until now.

Joe Biden has botched the Summit of the Americas. (23rd May 2022)

The United States is excluding Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua from the forthcoming Summit of the Americas. Washington probably wasn’t expecting that much of Latin America, led by Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador, would publicly push back in response.

Online learning costs many kids their privacy. (26th May 2022)

A new study by Human Rights Watch and media organizations found that governments of 49 countries harmed children’s rights by endorsing online learning products (EdTEch) during Covid-19 school closures without adequately protecting children’s privacy.

Is denying the Nakba antisemitism? (26th May 2022)

If expelling people because they are different does indeed constitute “anti-semitism,” then the Nakba — in which roughly 750,000 Palestinians were either expelled from their homes by Israeli forces or fled constitutes a vast “antisemitic” atrocity.

Understanding the global rise in inflation. (27th May 2022)

Since the start of the pandemic, global demand for tradable goods relative to non-tradable services has been exceptionally high. This column argues that this unusual demand pattern can push the global economy into stagflation, driven by scarcity of tradable goods. Countries running trade deficits export high inflation abroad, while policies that boost production of tradable goods and current account surpluses act as a benign disinflationary force. Due to a free riding problem, national monetary authorities may fall into a coordination trap leading to excessively high unemployment. High energy prices exacerbate all these effects.

Two Brazil cops torture 38-year-old Black man to death. (27th May 2022)

The victim, Genivaldo de Jesus Santos, died of asphhyxiation, media reports said. In the clip, the victim can be seen brutally tortured by the officers of Brazil’s Federal Highway Police. The cops put him in the trunk of a smoke-filled SUV. The smoke appears to be of tear gas.

The rise of NATO in Africa. (27th My 2022)

Anxiety about the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) toward the Russian border is one of the causes of the current war in Ukraine. But this is not the only attempt at expansion by NATO, a treaty organization created in 1949 by the United States to project its military and political power over Europe. In 2001, NATO conducted an ‘out of area’ military operation in Afghanistan, which lasted 20 years, and in 2011, NATO—at the urging of France—bombed Libya and overthrew its government. NATO military operations in Afghanistan and Libya were the prelude to discussions of a “Global NATO,” a project to use the NATO military alliance beyond its own charter obligations from the South China Sea to the Caribbean Sea.

Our global economic system Is broken. Are we headed for a mass revolt? (28th May 2022)

While it has long been blatantly obvious that the global economic model is not working for all, the rate of accumulation of wealth by a small minority is now breathtaking – if not totally obscene.

It’s not just Putin – UK ministers are also complicit in war crimes, in Yemen. (30th May 2022)

As Boris Johnson’s government galvanises international action to take Russia to the International Criminal Court over Ukraine, his officials are escaping accountability for their own complicity in violations of international humanitarian law.

The colonial mentality lives on in the Western media. (31st May 2022 – but originally posted on 23rd April 2022, only recently brought to our attention.)

How the old imperialist ‘masters’ look down upon and denigrate the countries in the ‘Global south’.

Attacks on education increased worldwide during pandemic. (1st June 2022)

More than 9,000 students, teachers, and academics were harmed, injured, or killed in attacks on education during armed conflict over the past two years, according to Education under Attack 2022, a 265-page report published today by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA). More than 5,000 separate attacks on education facilities, students, and educators, or incidents of military use, took place in 2020 and 2021, a significant increase over the previous two years.

How Elizabethan law once protected the poor from the high cost of living – and led to unrivalled economic prosperity. (1st June 2022)

In the closing years of Elizabeth I’s reign, England saw the emergence of arguably the world’s first effective welfare state. Laws were established which successfully protected people from rises in food prices.

The economic sh*tstorm coming is due to Reagan’s deregulated economy. (2nd June 2022)

In addition to an economy held together with the baling-wire of Fed stimulus (that’s ending), both the US & the world are facing a wild spectrum of assaults that could have huge economic impacts.

Let them eat (Jubilee) cake. (2nd June 2022)

When Marie Antoinette discovered her subjects were facing a bread shortage and starvation in around 1789, due to multiple poor crop harvests and rodent infestations, she apparently exclaimed ‘let them eat cake!’ Her hereditary privilege meant she had no grasp of the severity of their suffering, or the fact that cake was much more expensive than bread to produce.

To ‘level up’, the UK needs a real jubilee: a mass write-off of debts. (2nd June 2022)

Even before cost of living crisis, the poor owed the government – or, the Crown – £16 billion. Why not just write it off?

Anger as Queen bags ‘generous’ gift from dictator. (2nd June 2022)

As the Queen celebrates her Platinum Jubilee, she is facing calls to return a horse she recently received from a repressive regime – the third autocracy from which she has accepted such a gift.

The causal relationship between inequality and climate change. (5th June 2022)

Climate change has worsened global inequality, with poorer countries less able to withstand and adapt to climate change’s effects. It also has worsened inequality within countries between the rich and the poor: The impacts of drought, floods, hurricanes, and extreme heat are disproportionately felt by low-income communities and communities of color.

Mexican President boycotts Summit over US exclusion of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela. (6th June 2022)

Mexico’s leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Monday that he is skipping the Summit of the Americas, following through on his threat to boycott the upcoming meeting if the White House refused to invite officials from all nations in the Western Hemisphere.

What is really causing our inflation: ‘Inflation in a time of corona and war’. (8th June 2022)

About the US but would also apply to the Uk and Europe.

Britain’s bumbling foreign policy over Taiwan and Ukraine. (8th June 2022)

‘Global Nato’. Help Taiwan ‘defend itself’. Recover the ‘whole’ of Ukraine. Promote ‘the free world’ – UK foreign policy under Liz Truss has become a series of empty slogans from a declining power desperate to remain a major one.

Abolish the Military-Entertainment Complex. (9th June 2022)

For every one of the few anti-militarist screenplays that are made into films, far more are reflexively spiked because their defiant content raises objections from military leaders.

MPs and landowners rake in energy subsidies as millions struggle. (10th June 2022)

Tory MPs, Lords members and multi-millionaire landowners are raking in eye-watering sums from a taxpayer-funded subsidy to heat their mansions even as millions face fuel poverty this winter.

Soft White Underbelly images of the drug addicted and homeless community in Kensington, a neighborhood in Philadelphia. (10th June 2022 – originally posted 13th May 2022)

A wordless, 7 minute video that says much about the ‘land of the free’.

The US war in Europe isn’t hot enough – dropping the climate bomb on Russia. (10th June 2022)

There ought to be a law, or at least a sanction – tenure cancelled, travel visa blocked – for American experts on Russia who claim to know from their reading of other American experts on Russia why Russia does things, and what will happen next.

Why what’s going on right now at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) matters. (11th June 2022)

The press has managed to find enough emotionally “hot” stories, like the Ukraine conflict, baby food shortages, shootings and gunz, and spiraling gas prices [in the US], that important policy struggles are getting even less attention than usual We’ve tried to remedy this a bit with this well-written overview of the issues at play in the upcoming WTO meetings, and how the various power blocks are squaring off.

Western self-destruction continues: US eyepoking China, US failed muscling of Latin America, EU Commission schemes to admit Ukraine. To what end? (13th June 2022)

We’ll try to keep this post at a high level, since each of the three fresh examples of actual or expected own goals are part of a much longer list. But it’s baffling to see incompetence and hubris become a routine part of geopolitics, Western style.

Lords complain of ‘poor wine’ and ‘too much salmon’ in Parliament. (13th June 2022)

Peers sent angry letters about the ‘disappointing’ taxpayer-subsidised food and drink served in the Lords.

Myanmar: The Rohingya’s Decade of Detention. (15th June 2022)

The Myanmar authorities have detained over 135,000 Rohingya and Kaman Muslims arbitrarily and indefinitely in Rakhine State for a decade, Human Rights Watch said in a web feature released today. Drawing on interviews with Rohingya and humanitarian workers from 2012 to the present, Human Rights Watch documents how the authorities have capitalized on the ethnic cleansing campaign launched in June 2012 to segregate and confine a population they had long sought to remove from daily life in the predominantly Buddhist country.

The rotten roots of the IMF and the World Bank. (15th June 2022)

The kind of far-reaching interventionist powers of international economic institutions that we associate with the Washington Consensus—powers to enforce austerity in borrowing states and demand they enact extensive liberalizing reforms—did not emerge out of the blue in the late 20th century. Instead, they originated many decades before, at the end of the First World War, when powerful states and private actors forged new partnerships to protect their interests at a moment of enormous global economic and political turmoil.

Summit of the Americas underlines widespread discontent with U.S. policy. (16th June 2022)

Criticisms of the United States and OAS underlined the need to revive regional integration initiatives independent of U.S. influence.

100 million people in America are saddled with health care debt. (17th June 2022)

Medical debt is an American disgrace. I know people who’ve had to declare bankruptcy and one now who is facing having to live in her car to pay for some cancer treatments…and even then probably not enough for her to recover. I’m sure readers have personal and one-degree-of-separation stories.

Why does the United States have a military base in Ghana? (19th June 2022)

The United States claims that its military presence on the African continent has to do with its counterterrorism campaign and aims to prevent the entry of China into this region.

Don’t blame workers for price rises – blame the profiteers. (23rd June 2022)

The establishment wants you to blame workers for price rises, but wages have flatlined for a decade – the real cause of inflation is the profiteering of big corporations and the super-rich.

Rail firm paid shareholders £500 million before asking workers to take wage cut. (23rd June 2022)

CEOs of the six biggest train companies also took home a combined salary of more than £5 million in 2020.

 
A presentation given at the popular forum which had been set up to counter the ‘official’ Conference of the Americas which was being held in the same city.
 
The public cost of private schools: rising fees and luxury facilities raise questions about charitable status. (28th June 2022)
 
While less than 7% of pupils attend private schools in the UK, in 2020 more than 31% of students at Oxford University were privately educated. This educational disparity is effectively subsidised by all UK taxpayers through a broad range of tax exemptions available to private schools with charitable status. The UK also subsidises universities by a roundabout route, meaning that privately educated students pay to get access to a state-subsidised system.

Right-wing intelligence cabal seeks UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s help to ‘neutralize’ environmentalist enemies (28th June 2022)

Leaked emails expose Tory intelligence cabal scheming for Priti Patel’s authorization of MI6-style “counter-intelligence” operation against UK environmentalists. The cabal has turned on Boris Johnson and believes Patel is set to replace him.

 
 
Have we gone irreversibly too far down the road of spoiling the Earth’s fresh water resources.
 
Why the language we use to talk about inequality, power and class matters (1st July 2022)
 
A century after violent efforts to suppress resistance to class exploitation, the nation has learned to think about people and the economy with a language that favors the wealthy and elides issues of power.
 
EU Commission President once again in hot water (or at least should be) over her opaque dealings with Pfizer. (4th July 2022)
 
Text messages were deleted and now no one knows how the deal with Big Pharma was finally agreed.
 

Abolish the CIA (1st July 2022)

Just about every lousy U.S. foreign policy escapade from the 1950s to the late ‘70s traces back to the CIA. From the catastrophic1953 coup of Iranian president Mohammad Mossadegh, the 1954 regime change of Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz for daring to step on United Fruit’s toes, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the many, some of them quite ridiculous, attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem’s demise, a possible right-wing Cuban link to the JFK assassination, the murder of Chilean general Rene Schneider and the overthrow of Chilean president Salvador Allende, the Watergate break-in and much, much more – the CIA’s fingerprints were all over these crimes. It got so bad that two high-level, echt-centrist government officials called for scrapping the CIA: senator Patrick Moynihan in 1995 and president Harry Truman in 1963. They were right.

How South Africa’s abandoned mines prey on local communities (5th July 2022)

Thousands of abandoned mines litter South Africa, and a combination of poor governance and business practices have left many communities living in their shadow. Abandoned coal mines pose a grave ecological risk to local communities, polluting critical water sources and arable land, and specifically endanger the safety and lives of people who return to these unsafe mines in the hopes of earning a scant income.

The coming sanctions-induced economic tsunami? (6th July 2022)

Today I am risking being too glib, but my excuse is aspiring to meet the Einstein standard, “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” It’s not hard to see that as rough as economic conditions are now, they are set to get worse. And it’s not hard to see that despite the considerable blowback from the sanctions against Russia, the West is not going to relent.

UK Home Office launches new assault on the rights of modern slavery survivors (6th July 2022)

The UK Home Office seems to have a new project: help as few survivors of modern slavery as possible.

GOP ‘cancel culture’ is hard at work cancelling America (7th July 2022)

It turns out that America actually does have an issue with “cancel culture” but, the media has been focusing on the wrong one

Marx, Spinoza, and the political implications of contemporary psychiatry (7th July 2022)

Simple logic tells us that those atop a societal hierarchy will provide rewards for professionals—be they clergy or psychiatrists—who promote an ideology that maintains the status quo, and that the ruling class will do everything possible to manipulate the public to believe that the social-economic-political status quo is natural.

The end of Western Civilization – why it lacks resilience and what will take its place. (12th July 2022)

The greatest challenge facing societies has always been how to conduct trade and credit without letting merchants and creditors make money by exploiting their customers and debtors. All antiquity recognized that the drive to acquire money is addictive and indeed tends to be exploitative and hence socially injurious. The moral values of most societies opposed selfishness, above all in the form of avarice and wealth addiction, which the Greeks called philarguria– love of money, silver-mania. Individuals and families indulging in conspicuous consumption tended to be ostracized, because it was recognized that wealth often was obtained at the expense of others, especially the weak.

SAS accused of unlawful killings in Afghanistan, just a year after the British government made it harder to prosecute such crimes. (14th July 2022)

Lumumba’s politics are what really need to return. (17th July 2022)

Belgium has repatriated Patrice Lumumba’s gold tooth – his only remains. But there will only be justice when the Congolese win back what was truly killed in 1961: his politics of self-determination.

Evo Morales: ‘We lament the English were celebrating the sight of dead people’ (14th July 2022)

The President of Bolivia from 2006-19 invites Declassified to his house deep in the Amazon rainforest for an exclusive interview – on the UK role in the coup that overthrew him, how he reversed 500 years of history and industrialised Bolivia, and the efforts of the US and its British ally to bring him down.

How foreign private equity hooked New England’s fishing industry. (17th July 2022)

Owned by a billionaire Dutch family, Blue Harvest Fisheries has emerged as a dominant force in the lucrative fishing port of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Its business model: benefit from lax antitrust rules and pass costs on to local fishermen.

Sanctions cause global DeDollarization and don’t work. (19th July 2022)

An interesting approach to the issue but still made by Americans – who are so American-centric and don’t see the issue as crucial to the existence of capitalism.

Novichok investigation collapses in London court — Adam Chapman, lawyer appointed to represent Sergei and  Yulia Skripal doesn’t (19th July 2022)

This case stank from the beginning and it’s getting worse, although most people would have forgotten about it now. And still no one (apart from the British state knows anything about the condition or whereabouts of the ‘victims’. And just down the road from Porton Down?

China calls for war crimes investigation into US and UK (19th July 2022)

Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years (21st July 2022)

Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert.

Seven Skripal secrets The Secret Intelligence Service didn’t want to let out (23rd July 2022)

The 1877 Class War that America forgot (23rd July 2022)

Creating the Capitalocene: endless accumulation. (25th July 2022)

The world system we know today was born in a time roughly from the mid-14th to mid-17th centuries. We understand them as a time when the world came out of the “Dark Ages” into the Renaissance, when the light was breaking through. In truth, writes Fabian Scheidler, it was a time of unprecedented violence in Europe, of wars across the landscape culminating in the genocide of the indigenous of the Americas. The world system we know today was born in a time roughly from the mid-14th to mid-17th centuries. We understand them as a time when the world came out of the “Dark Ages” into the Renaissance, when the light was breaking through. In truth, writes Fabian Scheidler, it was a time of unprecedented violence in Europe, of wars across the landscape culminating in the genocide of the indigenous of the Americas.

Unbeknown to most US citizens, Washington is preparing to share their biometric data with dozens of other national governments. (26th July 2022)

But the deal is that the US gets to receive all the biometric date of the population from all the countries that take up the ‘offer’. And how many of those governments will be open about that to their own people?

Organized Plunder (27th July 2022)

In the absence of the tax dollars city governments rely on, American are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.

Another Hiroshima is coming — unless we stop it now (6th August 2022)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target – China.

Pentagon contractors in Afghanistan pocketed $108 billion over 20 years. (9th August 2022)

Military contracting “obscures where and how taxpayer money flows,” and “makes it difficult to know how many people are employed, injured, and killed,” said the Costs of War Project report’s author.
 

MPs charged public £1.3 million to foot their tax bills (10th August 2022)

Council tax expense claims come on top of the £11.4m taxpayers already spend on MPs’ rent and energy.

The (US) Government should cancel the F-35 Program and replace it with nothing. (12th August 2022)

The F-35 fighter plane project is a complete failure. But if it ends up on the congressional chopping block, Lockheed Martin will do everything in its power to line up another trillion-dollar weapons manufacturing contract in its stead.

Giant satirical billboards – mounted on trucks driven all over the nation’s capital – are publicly shaming Democratic Party leaders for their illegal persecution of Julian Assange. (16th August 2022)

The mobile billboards are a brainchild of standup-comic-turned- activist Randy Credico. Each one is 15 feet long and circulates around DC’s most famous landmarks, skewering the hypocrisy of Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, Jerald Nadler, Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats.

Former judges who sent kids to jail for kickbacks must pay more than $200 million. (18th August 2022)

Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history.

UK fossil fuel company wins over £210m payout from secretive tribunal over oil drilling ban. (24th August 2022)

UK oil and gas company Rockhopper has won over £210m (over €250m consisting of an award of €190m plus interest), after it sued the Italian government following the introduction of a ban on offshore drilling. The ban prevented Rockhopper from opening a new oilfield, Ombrina Mare. The amount is more than 6 times more than Rockhopper’s actual investment in the Ombrina Mare project, which is understood to be around £33m.

The Bank of England increasing Interest Rates to 4% – as markets expect – could be enough to bring the whole economy down. (26th August 2022)

The FT noted this morning that “Financial markets are betting the Bank of England will more than double interest rates by May next year.” That means rates of 4% are being pencilled in. This is another catastrophe in the making…a thread.

You’ve been lied to about the 1963 march on Washington (28th August 2022)

The March on Washington was 59 years ago today. It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration where MLK “had a dream” — but in fact, it was the decades-long culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice.
 
How the US and UK take what they want from ‘lesser powers’. (29th August 2022)
 
There is an old joke which still has resonance. A child asks his parent, “Why are there pyramids in Egypt?” The parent answers, “Because they were too big to take to Britain.”  Of course, many a true word is spoken in jest. Indeed, there is an apocryphal story that back in the day when Vladimir Lenin was in exile in London, he would enjoy taking friends to the British Museum and explaining to them how and from what far-flung lands all the antiquities there were stolen.
 
 
Numerous Syrian and foreign militants have reportedly been killed and several US troops injured in an escalating exchange of attacks between the American invaders and the people in the country whose territory they are illegally occupying.
 

How France Underdevelops Africa. (30th August 2022)

Most sub-Saharan African French colonies got formal independence in the 1960s. But their economies have progressed little, leaving most people in poverty, and generally worse off than in other post-colonial African economies.

How Shell and BP financed Britain’s Cold War propaganda machine (31st August 2022)

Formerly top secret files show how the two oil corporations bankrolled UK covert propaganda operations during the 1950s and 60s. The goal was to secure British access to key oil supplies across the developing world.

The cost of living crisis has been many years in the making – but politicians on both sides ignore this. (1st September 2022)

We are actually living through a slow-motion crisis which has been decades in the making and is set to continue. Understanding what is really happening is a vital first step to finding a way out.

China just gave a foretaste of one of the biggest dangers of biometric surveillance systems. (2nd September 2022)

Like just about anything on the Internet, biometric surveillance systems are eminently hackable as well as prone to human error. 

Mississippi’s dry run for eco-apartheid (2nd September 2022)

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, was thoroughly preventable. And it’s a vision of a disastrous future.

Remembering the Sabra Shatila Massacre, forty years later (2nd September 2022)

On the evening of September 14, 1982, we became aware that the President-elect of Lebanon had been assassinated. Around the break of dawn on the following day, we heard planes flying low into Beirut. Within hours, sounds of heavy artillery and machine guns could be heard close by. It continued all day and soon the periphery of the camp was hit relentlessly.

Creeping authoritarianism – the next threat to our civil liberties. (2nd September 2022)

While the mainstream media has been preoccupied by the Conservative Party’s infighting over who will be Britain’s new prime minister, sinister but barely noticed plans are being drawn up with profound threats to our civil liberties.

Hillary Clinton is wrong: electing a far-right woman Is not a step forward for women. (2nd September 2022)

Hillary Clinton has claimed that Giorgia Meloni becoming Italy’s first woman prime minister will “open doors” for women. Yet Meloni’s far-right agenda closes doors for women who want well-paid jobs, sexual autonomy, and reproductive rights.

Where’s the outrage? (6th September 2022)

Where’s the outrage? Bob Dole asked in the middle of the scandal-plagued presidency of Bill Clinton scandals. Voters, it turned out, cared more about prosperity.

The historic collapse of journalism. (6th September 2022)

Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.

John Pilger: Silencing the Lambs – how propaganda works. (11th September 2022)

In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Fuhrer. She told me that the “patriotic messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the German public.

Britain’s forgotten war for rubber. (13th September 2022)

70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism. British forces herded hundreds of thousands of people into fortified camps, heavily bombed rural areas and resorted to extensive propaganda to win the conflict.

US States fail to protect children’s rights. (13th September 2022)

New Scorecard Gives Only 4 a ‘C’ Grade; 46 Get ‘D’ or ‘F’

Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis. (13th September 2022)

We’re going to address the partial student debt relief in the United States, and the problem of debt, …. We’re going to talk about the inflation crisis, and some of the history of responses to the inflation that we’ve seen in the US.  … We’re also going to talk about the history of the Volcker shock, …. We’re going to talk about neoliberalism. …. And I’m going to ask Professor Hudson about disaster capitalism in Ukraine. Ukraine’s leader Zelensky just did a virtual bell ringing to open the New York Stock Exchange, and announced $400 billion of giveaways to foreign corporations, mostly US corporations, who are salivating to get access to Ukraine’s assets.

Monarchs belong in the dustbin of history. (13th September 2022)

The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite.

Our entire civilization is fake and stupid. (13th September 2022)

The more you learn about the world, the more fake and stupid our civilization looks. It’s because it is fake and stupid. Our news, our entertainment, our jobs, our legal systems, our political systems, our education systems, our financial, monetary, economic and commercial systems; the way our entire civilization is structured and organized has nothing to do with what’s true and good and everything to do with keeping human organisms compliantly turning the gears of capitalism and empire.

Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t a servant. She was a parasite. (13th September 2022)

The attempted rebranding of the monarchy as an institution for public service is nauseating, and must be resisted.

British police are now arresting people just for criticizing the monarchy. (15th September 2022)

In Britain, people are now being arrested just for saying things like “Who elected him?” about the newly crowned King Charles. It’s a shocking authoritarian clampdown — and it’s being applauded by the supposedly “pro-free-speech” right.

Like many Palestinians, I’m not mourning for the Queen. (16th September 2022)

Elizabeth’s death should serve as a reminder of the atrocities committed by the British Empire in Palestine.

Secret documents have exposed the CIA’s Julian Assange obsession. (17th September 2022)

New revelations show that the CIA secretly took control of the security company hired by Ecuador’s government to guard Julian Assange during his exile in London. The agency’s spying on Assange and his visitors constitutes a major breach of civil liberties.

We’re criminals but not as bad as Republicans! says Democrat Congressman (20th September 2022) – link to short video.

‘Comfortable in his coffin’ (21st September 2022)

A 10 year-old Belfast boy was killed by a plastic bullet fired by a British soldier in 1975 – one of 17 people who died from this ammunition during The Troubles. A coroner has now slammed the Ministry of Defence for failing to change its Rules of Engagement in time.

See also;

They Shoot Children – The use of rubber and plastic bullets in the North of Ireland

and

Plastic Bullets – Plastic Government – Deaths and Injuries by Plastic Bullets, Aug 1981 – Oct 1982

The US-led war on drugs, now in its 51st year, just hit a major snag in Colombia. (23rd September 2022)

After a million deaths in Latin America, Washington’s staunchest ally in the region, Colombia, just called time on the US’ ‘irrational war against drugs’. 

IMF just flagged another multi-trillion dollar threat to the global financial system: open-end funds. (7th October 2022)

Open-end funds have grown significantly over the past two decades and now manage around $41 trillion in assets globally. And the risks they pose to the global economy are growing, says the IMF. 

Britain’s covert war in Yemen. (5th October 2022)

The UK’s current war in Yemen is not the first time Britain has contributed to devastating the country. Sixty years ago, a coup in North Yemen prompted UK officials to begin a secret war that also led to tens of thousands of deaths – and, as now, no British minister was ever held to account.

So it begins, U.S. starts INVASION of Haiti with military force (14th October 2022)

A video presentation of present developments.

Three arguments why Just Stop Oil was right to target Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. (17th October 2022)

Waves of controversy were sparked recently when the Just Stop Oil activists threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London. Although the painting was behind glass so not damaged, politicians were quick to condemn their “attention-seeking” vandalism while media commentators proclaimed that the act had “lost them” to the cause.

Biden’s tech-war goes nuclear. (18th October 2022)

Lots of people don’t know what happened yesterday. To put it simply, Biden has forced all Americans working in China to pick between quitting their jobs and losing American citizenship. Every American executive and engineer working in China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry resigned yesterday, paralyzing Chinese manufacturing overnight.

Behind the Iranian riots. (18th October 2022)

Over the last weeks there were some riots in Iran. At first there were protest about the falsely reported death of a young women, Mahsa Amini, who had suddenly collapsed (video) while waiting in a police station. She died a few days later. Mahsa Amini had previously had brain surgery and her collapse and death were related to that, not to police action.

‘Bang – just like that’: How Thatcher backed Bush in Panama. (19th October 2022)

The UK understood Washington’s invasion of Panama in 1989 was illegal but supported it anyway, recently declassified documents show.

US-backed foreign intervention has led to the disaster in Haiti. (19th October 2022)

US justifications for intervention ignore the ways in which Haiti has rarely, if ever, been allowed to manage its own affairs.

The [British] Ministry of Defence (MOD)’s £300 billion waste of public money. (20th October 2022)

The British public is facing a new round of austerity while the Ministry of Defence squanders vast sums of money on weapons that are unusable in any foreseeable conflict.

Colombian President says the unspeakable out loud: ‘The US is ruining economies around the World’. (25th October 2022)

Until recently Washington’s closest ally/client state in South America, Colombia is now under new management. And that management has a wildly different perception of US influence in Latin America and the wider world.  

What U.S. Africa Command doesn’t want you to know. (24th October 2022)

What’s the U.S. military doing in Africa? It’s an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straight-jacketed in secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it would be if it were up to the Pentagon.

US waging brutal economic and tech war to halt China’s rise, Washington DC elites say openly – video presentation. (24th October 2022)

The presenter seems to evoke an attitude of surprise that the US might follow such a policy (although I’m sure that’s just for effect to convince people who had never thought about such matters before). However, this is the tactic of all moribund imperialists as they flay out in the vain hope of maintaining their dominance.

The grain giants have made a bonanza from hunger. Time to take them apart. (28th October 2022)

As economies tumble, inflation surges and global food prices soar to critically high levels, two sectors seem to have hit the jackpot in 2022 – energy giants and grain traders.

Haitians, peace activists denounce plan for another US-backed intervention. (30th October 2022)

As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Thursday in Ottawa to discuss a possible multilateral invasion of Haiti in the name of restoring “stability,” Haitian and anti-war voices denounced the prospect of yet another U.S.-backed intervention—which they say will bring the opposite of stability to the crisis-ridden nation.

After Bolsonaro’s failures, why was Brazil’s election so close? (2nd November 2022)

[Luiz Inácio] Lula [da Silva] has won the presidential elections in Brazil by a whisker– 50.9% to [Jair] Bolsonaro’s 49.1%. Why was it so close? Bolsonaro is arguably even crazier than Donald Trump. He mishandled the COVID situation even worse than Trump if that’s possible, and his family and many of his allies are up to their eyeballs in corruption. Why did he come within 2% of Lula and almost get reelected? Given the amount of support the far-right politics has, what does it mean for the future of Brazil?

Leaked documents: British spies constructing secret terror army in Ukraine. (3rd November 2022)

On October 28th, a Ukrainian drone attack damaged the Russian Black Sea fleet’s flagship vessel in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. Moscow immediately blamed Britain for assisting and orchestrating the strike, as well as blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines – the worst acts of industrial sabotage in recent memory.

NHS hires US “spy-tech” firm Palantir to extract patient data without patient consent. (8th November 2022)

Palantir, with intimate ties to defense, intelligence and security industries around the world, is set to play an even larger role in the UK’s crisis-ridden National Health System (NHS).

When Britain backed Iran’s dictator. (8th November 2022)

The UK armed the Shah’s “autocracy” and directly aided his brutal security service in the decades leading up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, declassified files show.

US farmers and Big Ag Corps press panic button on Mexico’s upcoming GMO ban. (11th November 2022)

As Mexico’s GMO ban looms ever larger, the US National Corn Growers Association is calling for the The U.S. Trade Representative to intervene, “before it is too late”.

The US military is operating in more countries than we think. (13th November 2022)

U.S. military forces have been engaged in unauthorized hostilities in many more countries than the Pentagon has disclosed to Congress, let alone the public, according to a major new report released late last week by New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice.

Julian is fighting for his survival and he’s going through hell’ Stella Assange. (13th November 2022)

The wife of the world’s most famous political prisoner is speaking to Declassified as part of her relentless battle to save her husband’s life.

Perverse priorities: Cut public spending, keep nuclear arms and warplanes. (14th November 2022)

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering billions worth of cuts in public spending while the Ministry of Defence, with Labour’s support, plans to spend vast sums on just two hugely expensive military projects.

China is making more big moves in Latin America. (15th November 2022)

What happens when one of Latin America’s smallest economies [El Salvador], perched on the US doorstep, decides to throw its lot in with China? It looks like we are about to see.

What my undercover investigations at arms fairs reveal about how the west supports military dictatorships. (15th November 2022)

COP27 has some of the most authoritarian security of any of the COP summits. Set in the walled resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, it is surrounded by 36km of concrete and razor wire, overseen by new surveillance technologies and a “security observatory”.

Britain’s secret role in the brutal US war in Vietnam. (16th November 2022)

There is a myth the UK did not support Washington’s war against Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. In fact, Labour and Conservative governments backed every phase of US military escalation and played secret roles in the conflict, declassified files show.

Britain’s secret propaganda campaign in the Vietnam war. (17th November 2022)

The UK Foreign Office’s propaganda unit, the Information Research Department, worked to gloss over Washington’s complicity in civilian bloodshed during its devastating war in Vietnam.

UK government deployed 15 staff on secret operation to seize Julian Assange. (28th November 2022)

New information raises further concerns about the politicisation of the WikiLeaks founder’s legal case.

11 years after toppling Gaddafi, UK gets Libya’s oil. (29th November 2022)

British oil giants BP and Shell are returning to the oil-rich north African country just over a decade after the UK plunged it into chaos in its 2011 military intervention, which the British government never admitted was a war for oil.

The disturbing parallels between Awaab Ishak’s death in Rochdale and the Grenfell Tower disaster. (1st December 2022)

A senior coroner in Rochdale, a large town in England’s northwest, has ruled that two-year-old Awaab Ishak died as a direct result of prolonged exposure to mould, due to the repeated failure of his family’s landlord to repair the property in which they lived.

Latin American leaders call for pardon and release of Julian Assange from his ‘unjust imprisonment’. (2nd December 2022)

‘Many people in Europe are following with admiration what is now happening in [Latin America],’ said Wikileaks’ editor-in-chief and close confidant of Assange. ‘When looking at the political landscape in Europe all we have are dark forces.’

Zapatistas versus the ‘neoliberal war against humanity’ (2nd December 2022)

The Zapatista revolution has survived in Chiapas, southern Mexico, since 1914, and that is a miracle. Zapatistas endured the assaults of government paramilitaries, the betrayals of Mexican presidents and crushing poverty. “They don’t care that we have nothing,” the Zapatistas said of Mexico’s elite at the start of their first uprising, “absolutely nothing, not even a roof over our heads, no land, no work, no healthcare, no food, no education, not the right to freely and democratically elect our political representatives nor independence from foreigners.”

The class conflict between elites and workers goes back to America’s founding. (11th December 2022)

You wouldn’t know it from the widespread glorification of America’s “founding fathers,” but the years around American independence were shot through with class conflict between elites and working people. And most of the founding fathers were on the wrong side.

Cambridge University’s course for spooks. (13th December 2022)

A former MI6 chief and an ex-CIA officer are offering a programme for budding intelligence practitioners at Magdalene College, Cambridge – one of several UK universities with links to British intelligence.

Will the fallout from ‘Qatargate’ (and now also ‘Moroccogate’) splatter the European Commission? (16th December 2022)

As the Qatargate scandal widens, questions are being asked as to whether its reverberations will reach the Commission, the EU’s executive branch. Recent revelations suggest the EU’s Chief Diplomat Josep Borrell could be implicated.

British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism. (18th December 2022)

A scholarly study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth. The global capitalist system was founded on European imperial genocides, which inspired Adolf Hitler and led to fascism.

Big Pharma’s obscene profits, not striking nurses, are Kklling the NHS. (22nd December 2022)

Th[e] global medical apartheid is created and perpetuated by pharmaceutical monopolies. Treatment pricing pursues a single sacrosanct goal: making profits. Trade laws allow corporations to keep most of their recipes secret, so that no one else can sell the same medicines at a cheaper price. Then the very same logic of capital menaces governments into withdrawing welfare nets – leaving families absolutely at the mercy of the market.

Netanyahu, the godfather of modern Israeli fascism. (22nd December 2022)

Israel’s next Netanyahu-led coalition government may be the most extremist in its history.

Congress decides Corporate Tax cuts are too expensive if it means also helping children. (22nd December 2022)

Cutting child poverty was not worth it if it could even be theorized that rich people might end up slightly less rich.

Israeli Government takes leaf out of EU Commission’s playbook, claims it can’t find Pfizer covid-19 vaccine agreement. (23rd December 2022)

Israel was the lab for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, as newly reelected President Benjamin Netanyahu admitted in a recent interview with Jordan Peterson. Yet the health ministry now claims to have mislaid or, even worse, never signed the vaccine agreement. 

Guinea-Bissau’s Liberation Struggle transformed the face of world politics. (25th December 2022)

A movement led by Amílcar Cabral fought against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and won independence against seemingly overwhelming odds. It also contributed to the end of white-settler rule in Southern Africa and the democratic revolution in Portugal itself.