The war in the Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2024

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The war in the Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022

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

The war in the Ukraine – what you are not told – 2025

01 January 2024

Russia resumes massive missile strikes as Ukraine continues to rely on deadly, senseless PR stunts.

03 January 2024

The British and Americans were involved in organizing terrorist attack in Belgorod! Russian presentation to the UN.

04 January 2024

Ukraine war increasingly seen as ‘fought by the poor’, as Zelensky raises taxes and proposes strict mobilisation laws. [The first time in almost two years that this ‘academic’ has written an objective article about the war in the Ukraine.]

04 January 2024

A freezing nightmare is approaching ukraine from the north. Military summary and analysis.

04 January 2024

Russian asset seizure scheming: EU and Euro as US war proxies would take most risk; USD assets only $4.6 billion.

07 January 2024

Why giving Ukraine longer-range missiles will make no difference – New Atlas.

07 January 2024

The EU’s efforts to silence Hungary show how NATO objectives continue to eclipse any pretense of European democracy.

08 January 2024

Kiev mayor buys $6 million mansion in Germany.

08 January 2024

Russian missile strike rocks Ukraine; Zelensky admits Ukrainian air defences depleted; Kiev plans new Dneiper offensive – which will almost certainly be suicidal; Ukraine banking on ‘game changer’ F16s arrival. [After minutes 56 Mercouris starts to talk about Palestine – an area of which he demonstrably understands nothing.]

10 January 2024

Why Ukraine’s 2024 strategy will fail and why isolating Crimea is impossible – New Atlas.

11 January 2024

Pentagon report finds failure to track $1 billion in weaponry for Ukraine.

14 January 2024

Ukraine to defend UK ‘within 24 hours’ if attacked – so we in the UK can now sleep soundly in our beds knowing the the Ukrainian Nazis have our back.

15 January 2024

Death of Gonzalo Lira, crumbling Ukrainian air defenses, growing Russian military capabilities – New Atlas.

15 January 2024

Russian missiles hit Kharkov; Kremlin denies Ukrainian claims of an A-50 and IL22 being shot down; Zelensky ‘peace’ plan fails at Davos.

16 January 2024

Russian advances alarm Stoltenberg; no proof of A-50 aircraft loss; G7/Ukraine bizarre scheme on how to steal Russian frozen assets; Iranian strikes in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan.

17 January 2024

Russian major attacks on Ukrainian frontlines; still nothing definite about the ‘downed’ Russian aircraft; Modi tells Putin India backs Russia and the BRICS; Putin meets DPRK foreign minister; sabre rattling by various western commentators about Iran.

17 January 2024

Why Kyiv is cock-a-hoop about shooting down two Russian aircraft – although not providing proof and just taking Ukrainian claims at face value.

18 January 2024

Talk of Russian spring offensive raises fears that Kyiv is ill-prepared to face it. [The so-called ‘academic’ is probably correct here in his analysis but the way he gets there means he distorts the facts – not surprisingly. As always, follow the money.]

18 January 2024

NATO personnel in Ukraine now ‘fair game’ for Russia – Ritter.

19 January 2024

Russia advances as Ukraine retreats, according to Financial Times; Ukraine losing Krynky; comparison of both sides defence structure; admission by Ukraine of crucial ammunition shortage; Medvedev suggests possible outcome will be the end of Ukraine as a state; Western/Ukrainian failings in strategic planning in the winter of 2022/2023; Saudi plan on Palestine alarms Israel.

19 January 2024

Zelenskyy sold Ukraine to US corporate? Kennedy’s nephew adds to Russia’s explosive claim. [A bit of a messy video (I think) but it gets the idea across that whoever owns the Ukraine after the hostilities end it won’t be the Ukrainians.]

19 January 2024

INTEL Roundtable: Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern: CIA and Neocon Intransigence. Judge Napolitano.

20 January 2024

The Russians entered Avdiivka from the south. Military summary and analysis.

21 January 2024

Ukraine seeks PR ‘wins’ as West admits war may be lost.

21 January 2024

Orbán outfoxes the EU in nationalism vs. technocracy fight.

21 January 2024

Donetsk: Deadly blast hits market in Russia-held Ukraine city, officials say. [How the BBC reports Ukrainian terrorist attacks. This didn’t stay on the homepage for very long, substituted by old Gaza news.]

21 January 2024

Death toll spikes in Ukrainian shelling of Russian city. [How RT reports Ukrainian terrorist attacks.]

21 January 2024

The Ukraine charade, revisited.

22 January 2024

Kiev and the West panic over Avdeyevka breakdown and Russian advances; Budanov rumours about change in the command of the Ukrainian army; a West/Ukraine ‘insurgency plan’ after Russian victory.

22 January 2024

Larry Johnson: Zelenskyy should end Ukraine war now. Judge Napolitano.

22 January 2024

Ukrainians surrender en masse; air defense base has fallen. Military Summary and Analysis.

23 January 2024

Mark Sleboda: Putin just changed everything as Russia’s Military overwhelms Ukraine. Danny Haiphong. [With a reference to how matters developed at the beginning of the Special Military Operation.]

26 January 2024

FPV drones and Artificial Intelligence: How Russia is transforming drone warfare.

27 January 2024

Why does Russia produce more ammunition than the US?

28 January 2024

US seeks ‘new’ strategy for Ukraine as reality of Russia’s advantages sets in.

01 February 2024

Aaron Maté: (The GrayZone) – Ukraine on its last legs. Judge Napolitano.

01 February 2024

Ukraine war: corruption scandals and high-level rifts could become an existential threat as Kyiv asks for more military aid. [Milo Minderbender working in the Ukraine. Another analysis of the situation in the Ukraine from our favourite so-called ‘academic’ working in the UK. After two years of attempting to talk up the Ukraine he now has to, reluctantly, accept that it is rotten to the core.]

01 February 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer : Can Israel win in Gaza? – Judge Napolitano [the Ukraine at the beginning then Gaza from minute 14.]

02 February 2024

Former Google CEO wants to build AI drone army for Ukraine.

02 February 2024

Ukraine: breakthrough on all fronts ahead of schedule.

02 February 2024

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: America the Bully. Judge Napolitano.

04 February 2024

Dialogue Now, Russia demilitarizing NATO, Larry C. Johnson – and an analysis of the disintegration of the ‘West’ and its supposed power.

04 February 2024

German establishment prepares to cross the Rubicon.

04 February 2024

‘Issue’ forces UK aircraft carrier to miss NATO drills

04 February 2024

Ukraine’s reported sinking of Russian missile boat distracts from Ukraine’s core weaknesses; US analysts believe Ukraine can use 2024 to ‘rebuild’ for 2025; US analysts share a misconception that Russia’s lack of territorial gains results from a lack of offensive potential; US analysts believe in the inherent superiority of Western military power.

05 February 2024

Nuland leaves sense of foreboding in Kiev.

08 February 2024

Tucker-Putin Interview – this changes everything. It’s on! The legacy media are furious about Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin. But why? And does the new power axis of Tucker and Elon Musk now dwarf all legacy media combined? Russel Brand.

08 February 2024

Heads explode over Tucker interviewing Putin! Tucker Carlson recently traveled to Russia to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, and heads in the establishment commentariat predictably exploded. The European Union is threatening to sanction Carlson as a result, while the Ukrainian government has placed Carlson’s name on the country’s ‘kill list’. Jimmy is joined by Due Dissidence’s Russell Dobular and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger to discuss the rank McCarthyism on display in this episode from the American liberal class. Jimmy Dore Show.

09 February 2024

Tucker Carlson interviews Vladimir Putin. With comments.

09 February 2024

Beneath the Rubble. Documenting Devastation and Loss in Mariupol. Human Rights Watch. [It will be interesting to see if HRW do a similar ‘in depth’ report and video about the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza by the US-backed Zionist settler state.]

09 February 2024

Ecuador pays a high price, in bananas and carnations, for giving Russian-made weapons to US (and by extension, Ukraine).

09 February 2024

Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview gave Russian leader a platform to boost his own cause – and that of Donald Trump. [The expected response to an interview with a leader of one of the most powerful and significant countries on the planet from another so-called ‘academic’. The British university structure is truly in a dire state.]

09 February 2024

Ground launched small diameter bombs: why this new munition can’t help Ukraine.

09 February 2024

Scott Ritter: Putin up close! [Commenting on the Carlson-Putin interview.] Judge Napolitano.

10 February 2024

Covering the Waterfront with the Judge. John Mearsheimer with Judge Napolitano. [Note the short clip of Hilary Clinton giving an ‘insightful’ analysis of the interview around minute 29.30.]

10 February 2024

Invented Peoples – The Grayzone live. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss Vladimir Putin’s stemwinding interview with Tucker Carlson, the continuing blowback from Biden’s Middle East policy, and the latest from the Gaza war.

10 February 2024

John Mearsheimer: ‘The Israel lobby is as powerful as ever’. The American international relations scholar on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and power competition in the Middle East.

11 February 2024

Why US artillery shell production isn’t enough and why other munitions will fall far shorter still.

12 February 2024

Kyiv needs a fundamental rethink of its strategy, not just a reshuffle of military leadership. [As out favourite NATO-paid ‘academic’ writes more about what really is happening in the Ukraine he still maintains his pro-NATO bias.]

12 February 2024

Tucker Carlson’s first discussion since Putin interview.

The following two articles have ‘nothing’ to do with the Ukraine – but they do in that the Ukraine is only part of the story of the US seeking to maintain world ‘dominance’. One of the interesting aspects of these two articles, written by so-called ‘academics’ is the assumption that the ‘west’ has the right to try and restrict the economy of another sovereign state. European imperialism has been doing that for centuries and have the mindset they can do so for the next 500. However, now they are trying that on with states who are prepared, and have the ability, to fight back.

12 February 2024

As US-China tensions mount, the UK will need to work closer with Europe in the Indo-Pacific.

13 February 2024

China’s chip industry is gaining momentum – it could alter the global economic and security landscape.

13 February 2024

Heading into 3rd year of Russia-Ukraine conflict, NATO reveals its true nature as an undertaker.

13 February 2024

Ukraine collapse starting. What happens next?

14 February 2024

How the US Air Force is preparing for war with China, and why it won’t work.

14 February 2024

Aaron Maté: Biden and his proxy wars – with Judge Napolitano.

15 February 2024

Ukraine disaster: Ukrainian troops in Avdeyevka surrounded and fronts collapse; Russian missile strike – possibly on large concentration of Azov troops; Zelensky, yet again, goes abroad.

15 February 2024

‘Heinous crime’ – Moscow slams Kiev for deadly strike on border city.

15 February 2024

Ukraine war’s 10th anniversary: it started 20 February 2014. Here’s how.

16 February 2024

West sends Ukraine 3D printers to make spare parts, but won’t solve critical logistics problems.

17 February 2024

No one uninvolved – The Grayzone live. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the death of Navalny; the US-Israeli assault on multilateral institutions seeking to prevent famine in Gaza; renewal of US starvation sanctions on Syria and the looming catastrophe in Rafah. Correction: In discussing Alexey Navalny, Aaron erroneously says that there is video of Navalny meeting with a British official to seek foreign funding. In fact, the person filmed meeting with the British official was not Navalny but one of his top aides, Vladimir Ashurkov.

17 February 2024

They finally killed Navalny

18 February 2024

European governments look for ways to send Ukrainian refugees home.

18 February 2024

Russia takes all of Avdeevka after Ukrainian forces begin fleeing crumbling defenses; change in Ukrainian military leadership; the Western media continues to depict Ukraine’s military deficiencies as resulting from delayed Western funding; western arrogance about ‘superior innovation’; attempts to increase production of air defense systems and artillery munitions are falling far short; claims that Ukraine will build up its own military industrial capacity is unrealistic. New Atlas.

18 February 2024

Russia declares victory in Avdeyevka; Russian offensive in Zaporozhye; Global South rejects NATO/Ukraine ‘Peace Plan’.

18 February 2024

Throwing good money after bad in Ukraine?

18 February 2024

Wikileaks reveals Alexei Navalny’s US funding as Washington exploits his death. Alexei Navalny’s political activities were funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as part of an effort to repeat US-backed 2014 Ukraine regime change inside Russia itself.

19 February 2024

The tragic end of Gonzalo Lira: a voice silenced in Ukraine. [An article that originally appeared on 13 January 2024. Compare the reaction of the west the death of the racist Navalny and that of Gonzalo who was reporting from ‘democratic’ Ukraine.]

19 February 2024

Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of ‘prisoner of conscience’ status (24 February 2021). Although the BBC bends over backwards to try to exonerate the right-wing racist it still tells of how he sees migrants – and indicates his actual thinking. Remember this when all the plaudits are splashed around in the next few days.

19 February 2024

Cult of the drone: at the two-year mark, UAVs have changed the face of war in Ukraine – but not outcome.

19 February 2024

Perfidious Teutons and their Polish accomplices – how the Rosneft Refinery in Germany is being expropriated.

20 February 2024

Why the United States needs NATO – 3 things to know.

20 February 2024

What happened to Alexei Navalny this time round.

20 February 2024

The west is at a crossroads – double down on aid to Kyiv, accept a compromise deal, or face humiliation by Russia. [This blog’s ‘favourite’ British ‘academic’ continues to accept the reality of the situation but still holds on to fantastical ideas.]

21 February 2024

Roger Waters slaps down Bono’s pro-war propaganda.

21 February 2024

Russia’s capture of Avdeevka will reverberate across Europe and accelerate geostrategic shifts.

22 February 2024

Navalny’s death: who is to blame?

22 February 2024

Wall Street Journal misinforms by omission in article on oil sanctions-buster by getting lost in weeds.

22 February 2024

John Mearsheimer: Ukraine can’t win – but can it avoid defeat?

22 February 2024

Ex-NATO official reveals the lies of Neocon warmongers to German public.

22 February 2024

Experts analyze state of Ukraine war 2 years into Russia’s invasion. ‘Ukraine has already lost the war’. John J. Mearsheimer.

23 February 2024

Russia-Ukraine two years on: towards an endless and wider war? UpFront – Al Jazeera, with Aaron Maté.

23 February 2024

John Mearsheimer on the US role in Ukraine (from minute 23) but also some interesting clips before that about the Democrats in the US and genocide.

23 February 2024

The fatal flaw undermining America’s defense industrial base. New Atlas.

23 February 2024

Putin just exposed an evil lie by Blinken.

23 February 2024

Is the west plotting a false flag provocation in Poland to blame on Russia and Belarus?

24 February 2024

The basic difference between today’s ‘The West’ and today’s Russia.

25 February 2024

It’s a turning point in the war: Russian army captured Petrovskoye and forced Abrams tanks to flee. [With an interesting comment about Ukrainian ‘shell starvation’.]

25 February 2024

Pentagon admits Ukraine aid unsustainable and why neutrality is Ukraine’s only (good) option. New Atlas.

26 February 2024

Russia’s victory in Ukraine resonates in Central Asia.

26 February 2024

NATO freakout over crumbling Ukraine military: Poland threatens us with nuclear development if no aid package.

26 February 2024

Mark Sleboda: NATO is being destroyed and Putin will finish it.

26 February 2024

Mayor of London wants assets of Russian ‘oligarchs’ seized. [- for housing for Ukrainian ‘refugees’ but says nothing about the genocide and ethnic cleansing by the US-backed Zionist settler state in Gaza – and doesn’t come up with any ideas about the housing crisis in London.]

26 February 2024

Biden calls China’s Xi ‘head of Russia’.

26 February 2024

Scott Ritter: Explaining Ukraine’s military failures – also on Gaza. Judge Napolitano.

27 February 2024

NATO’s debate over whether to conventionally intervene in Ukraine shows its desperation.

27 February 2024

‘Won’t let Russia win’: NATO nation [France] declares readiness to deploy troops in Ukraine.

28 February 2024

Who’s brain-dead now, Macron?

29 February 2024

Scholz slammed for revealing UK troop presence in Ukraine.

29 February 2024

More anti-Russian hysteria from the New York Times.

29 February 2024

The Ukrainian Intelligence Committee is preparing for the worst-case scenario.

29 February 2024

Macron now jump-starts Trump’s plans for NATO and the Ukraine.

29 February 2024

Sanctions: To Russia with Love – JK Galbraith.

01 March 2024

China resumes shuttle diplomacy as Ukraine war drums are getting louder.

01 March 2024

Scorching the earth westward — what comes next as the Ukraine army collapses.

01 March 2024

Amid Russia’s streak of wins in Ukraine, Putin aide’s message for UK for helping Zelensky.

01 March 2024

The ongoing disasters in Gaza and the Ukraine with the Judge Napolitano. John Mearsheimer.

01 March 2024

Russian aggressive attrition and the limits of western analysis.

01 March 2024

Intel roundtable with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern: Is Putin right to threaten NATO? Judge Napolitano.

02 March 2024

Scholz’s slip of the tongue spilled the beans on Ukraine’s worst-kept secret.

02 March 2024

Leaked Crimean Bridge attack conversation is real – Berlin.

03 March 2024

Democratic rights are no excuse for airing Russian perspectives in Europe.

03 March 2024

Full transcript of German top military officials’ leaked plot to attack Crimean bridge.

03 March 2024

Ukraine losing ground as weapons wear out and ammunition is depleted. New Atlas.

04 March 2024

Putin’s nuclear warning is direct and explicit.

04 March 2024

Jens Stoltenberg: ‘Putin’s Puppet’.

04 March 2024

One step closer to crossing the line of no return: confrontation within NATO.

04 March 2024

Armenia freezes participation in collective security treaty organization, further poisoning ties with Russia.

05 March 2024

Farmer protests engulf Europe – and the importance of the ‘Ukraine effect’.

05 March 2024

The NATO hydra is raising its heads.

05 March 2024

British troops operating on the ground in Ukraine – what international law says. [Yet another British ‘academic’ supporting the US/UK/EU/NATO in the Ukraine.]

06 March 2024

Finland’s new president — a CIA asset — invites US nuclear missiles into Finland 500 miles from Moscow.

06 March 2024

The ideology of war in Ukraine and Israel.

06 March 2024

Victoria Nuland, major force behind failed Project Ukraine, retires unexpectedly.

06 March 2024

Containing China: US using Taiwan as East Asian ‘Ukraine’.

06 March 2024

German military officials on the wire.

06 March 2024

John Mearsheimer – US blind support of Ukraine – The West: collective suicide.

07 March 2024

Is ground beneath Biden’s Russia policy shifting?

07 March 2024

Nothing in Nuland’s life became her like the leaving of it.

07 March 2024

Was Nuland fired for her role in the Ukraine debacle?

08 March 2024

Germany and NATO caught red-handed in war planning.

08 March 2024

Empire decline and costly delusions.

09 March 2024

Putin’s State of the Union address, to compare with Biden’s on March 7th.

11 March 2024

Wannabe Napoleon: Macron humiliates himself.

11 March 2024

Are France and the UK plotting a Ukrainian power play right under Germany’s nose?

11 March 2024

Russia bars UK fleet from vital fishing grounds.

11 March 2024

Britain’s flagship aircraft carrier catches fire en route for repairs.

11 March 2024

From isolation to containment: Washington’s economic war against Russia gets a rebrand.

12 March 2024

New storyline in Wall Street Journal: ‘Russia is running out of missiles’ shifts to ‘Russia can’t keep up production forever’.

12 March 2024

Will Trump election bring back isolationism and threaten NATO?

12 March 2024

Germany undermines the European security.

12 March 2024

Europe is destroying its economy for NATO and Russia is the big winner.

13 March 2024

Phil Giraldi: How dangerous is Israel to the US? Judge Napolitano. Also about Victoria Nuland and the Ukraine.

13 March 2024

Sink the Hessen! Russia doesn’t have to strike beyond the Ukrainian battlefield – the German, French, British and US governments are sinking themselves.

13 March 2024

The internal struggle within the Deep State over whether to escalate to nuclear war.

13 March 2024

Aaron Maté – (The GrayZone) : Nuland and the leaked German plot. Judge Napolitano.

13 March 2024

Kiev’s drones losing electronic war – New York Times.

14 March 2024

Moscow estimates number of foreign mercenaries killed in Ukraine.

14 March 2024

Germany falls into deindustrialization, as United States cheers on.

14 March 2024

Cenotaph honouring SS veterans won’t return to Oakville cemetery [Ontario, Canada].

14 March 2024

Confident Dragon lays out modernization roadmap – [although primarily about China the situation in the Ukraine, and its machinations, determines much of China’s policy].

14 March 2024

Are we stumbling into World War III in Ukraine?

14 March 2024

The helpless Biden Administration faces twin disasters in Gaza and Ukraine – John Mearsheimer.

14 March 2024

Professor Jeffrey Sachs on CIA shenanigans and the Ukraine debacle.

15 March 2024

Russia under cyber-attacks.

15 March 2024

Ukraine is facing the scenario of asymmetrical partition.

15 March 2024

Ten years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky. [It’s really our favourite British ‘academic’ whose arguments are ‘shaky’.]

15 March 2024

Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?

16 March 2024

New evidence the German Taurus attack plan was leaked by the US Air Force.

16 March 2024

European powers stab each other in the back over Ukraine proxy war defeat.

16 March 2024

Germany prepares for war, but what is the point?

16 March 2024

Sweden closing Nordsteam investigation shocking cover up.

16 March 2024

How does Russia keep hitting high value targets? [See comments to qualify some of these assertions.]

17 March 2024

Collapse on the EU Home Front.

17 March 2024

Ukraine’s costly cross-border PR stunt; Russia continues out-producing collective west.

18 March 2024

Putin’s talk of setting up a ‘sanitary/security zone’ in Ukraine hints at a potential compromise.

19 March 2024

US government-funded polling validates 2024 Russian elections – West simply doesn’t like the outcome.

19 March 2024

France goes all-in; an entire platoon of the Ukrainian army surrendered to the Russians in Georgievka.

20 March 2024

Russia has spoken… and the elitist west grumbles.

21 March 2024

Polish-Ukrainian cooperation: troubles in paradise?

21 March 2024

What is necessary for the Ukrainian ‘sanitary zone’ to be sanitary?

22 March 2024

Who stands for what?

22 March 2024

France will likely seek to secure Ukraine’s Black Sea coast if it conventionally intervenes.

22 March 2024

Türkiye offers to host Russia-Ukraine Summit: retrospective view on 2022 Istanbul talks.

22 March 2024

RFK Jr. makes CNBC heads explode over Nordstream truth! ‘Of course, we blew it up!’

22 March 2024

West admits Russian glide bombs might actually be ‘game-changer’.

22 March 2024

Terrorist attack on Moscow – Ukraine committing suicide? Larry Johnson with first impressions of the attack on the concert venue outside of Moscow.

23 March 2024

It’s war: the real meat grinder starts now.

23 March 2024

Furious Putin; Crocus gunmen captured; terror network destroyed; big Ukrainian defeat as Ivanivske falls.

23 March 2024

Understanding the implications of today’s terrorist attack in Russia. Larry Johnson.

24 March 2024

Russia mourns Crocus dead; gunmen talk; 3rd big Russian missile strike, Ukrainian defence collapsing in Chasov Yar. In the first part of the video Mercouris casts doubt that the attack on Moscow was solely an Islamic/ISIS operation.

26 March 2024

The CIA don’t do things like this any more. (The terrorist attack in Moscow.)

26 March 2024

Is the West scapegoating Islamic State over Moscow attack?

26 March 2024

This was the last straw for Ukraine, it’s over’. Colonel Douglas MacGregor says this attack on Moscow was the last desperate move from a desperate Zelensky and they will pay the price. [I have to reiterate every so often that although I can find little fault with McGregor’s military analysis at foundation he’s still a right-wing headbanger.]

26 March 2024

ISIS-K: the ultimate can of worms.

26 March 2024

Europe sleepwalks through its own dilemmas.

26 March 2024

On the Moscow terror attack. John Mearsheimer.

26 March 2024

Moscow attack reminds us of the links between Islamists and Kiev’s fundamentalist nationalists.

26 March 2024

Ukraine’s F-16s: too little, too late.

26 March 2024

Ten years since its annexation, Crimea serves as a grim warning to any Ukrainian lands that fall under Russian occupation. [This is the normal type of article produced by The Conversation when it comes to Russia/The Ukraine. Very little in the way of facts (or citations for assumptions) – typical of The Conversation’s ‘academics’ when it comes to discussing those countries that don’t kow tow to the west – but included here to see how matters develop in the future.

26 March 2024

SS veteran in [Canadian] Parliament scandal receives award named after Nazi collaborator.

27 March 2024

So many Ukraine peace initiatives, yet so little progress (I).

27 March 2024

The evidence on the Crocus gang attack in Moscow.

27 March 2024

Russian Crocus City investigation focuses on Ukraine; Ukrainian intelligence chief Danilov resigns/sacked; Russian heaviest bombing of Kharkov; Odessa suffers blackouts.

27 March 2024

US backed itself into corner by blaming IS for Crocus City Hall terror attack.

28 March 2024

The biggest U.S. and allied lies about the war in Ukraine.

28 March 2024

The Crocus City Hall attack – an operational failure.

28 March 2024

Putin says Russia will not attack NATO.

28 March 2024

Intel round table with Johnson and McGovern on the Moscow attack and the west’s response – within 55 minutes of it taking place. Judge Napolitano.

28 March 2024

Moldova: Russia continues its mischief-making in breakaway Transnistria. [Oyr favourite British ‘academic’ again. Not having learnt that he got it all wrong about the Ukraine he now starts to pontificate about Moldova. However, have a look at the second to last paragrapgh. After two years arguing the US/UK/EU/NATO line that Russia is poised to take over all of Europe he admits that Russia would have serious difficulties in occupying Transnistria – even if it wanted to. ‘There is no evidence that the Kremlin has any concrete plans, let alone any capabilities, for military action against Moldova’.

29 March 2024

So many Ukraine peace initiatives, yet so little progress (II).

29 March 2024

Does the fate of US arms in Ukraine create pause for thought ahead war with China?

30 March 2024

Unfortunately, Europe does not exist as an independent player! Lavrov on Russia and the Ukraine.

30 March 2024

The fantasized ‘end of history’ is now long gone. So: what’s left?

30 March 2024

West failed to defeat Russia.

01 April 2024

The EU’s internal reasons for ‘fighting to the last Ukrainian’, Arta Moeini.

01 April 2024

Did the US first catch wind of the Crocus terrorist attack by spying on Kiev?

01 April 2024

Germany as collateral damage in America’s New Cold War.

02 April 2024

How the electric war is redrawing the Ukraine map – in black.

02 April 2024

Ukraine: an oligarchy turned autocracy standing for democracy.

02 April 2024

Israel kills aid workers and seeks war with Iran; GOP caves on Ukraine. Aaron mate with Judge Napolitano.

03 April 2024

Yellen trip to China: Biden Administration presumption and cluelessness on display.

03 April 2024

Electric war goes west – depopulation turns into displacement turns into civil war in Galicia.

04 April 2024

By now, it’s conclusive that the US government blew up the Nord Stream pipelines and blamed Russia.

04 April 2024

This was deliberate murder by the Israelis. [The Ukraine from 23.30 minutes.]

05 April 2024

Ukraine plan of Crocus City Hall attack to start ethnic pogroms, civil war in Russia.

05 April 2024

Biden and his toy soldiers.

05 April 2024

Ukraine’s ‘wonder weapon’ captured by Russia.

05 April 2024

Professor John Mearsheimer : US Troops in Taiwan? [The second half of this video.}

06 April 2024

Jeffrey Sachs excoriates Biden on Ukraine-Russia war.

08 April 2024

Ukraine’s ammunition crisis persists as Western desperation grows.

08 April 2024

Ukraine’s drone strikes against Russian oil refineries complicate Biden’s re-election bid.

08 April 2024

Ukraine suffers shortage of manpower, mobilization, NATO troops or refugees?

08 April 2024

Why many NATO countries are thinking of introducing conscription and the issues that involves.

08 April 2024

Ukrainian drone attack on nuclear plant a ‘dangerous provocation’ – Kremlin.

09 April 2024

Desperados… NATO cranks up false-flag mode.

09 April 2024

Oh! ISIS-K. Riiiight.

10 April 2024

Aaron Maté :Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis.

10 April 2024

Americans can’t tell us who blew up Nord Stream, but they solved the Moscow terror attack case in 15 minutes?

11 April 2024

Terrorism, Burisma, and the White House.

11 April 2024

Ukraine committing suicide – Scott Ritter.

11 April 2024

How thousands of Ukrainian men are trying to dodge the conflict. [Note that the interviewer doesn’t point it out but the 3rd Assault Brigade, for which ‘the smiling volunteer’ is signing up, is the renamed Azov Brigade, that is he is joining a Nazi formation and probably holds those ideological views. What the mainstream media oft times omits is just as (or even more) important than what it includes.]

11 April 2024

US artillery capabilities fall victim to ‘profit over purpose’, no solution in sight.

11 April 2024

Russia delivers major blow to Ukraine by destroying Kiev’s biggest power plant.

Another pair of British so-called ‘academics’ make an ‘analysis’ of the current situation of the Special military operation in Ukraine without (seemingly) recognising that the ‘West’ doesn’t have the arms and ammunition to give to the Ukraine – even if the money was made available. If they do recognise this issue and chose to ignore it then it just demonstrates the dire straights into which British academia has fallen. ‘Academics’ that write for The Conversation are merely paid propagandists of the State.

11 April 2024

Russia’s devastating use of Soviet-era ‘glide bombs’ shows how urgently Kyiv needs air defence systems.

11 April 2024

Battlefield tipping in Russia’s favour as Kyiv begs allies for more arms.

Don’t think I posted the article below in May 2023. reproducing it here (just under a year later) so that readers will be able to compare the analysis of a (this time Australian) ‘academic’ just before the Ukraine’s much vaunted ‘counter-offensive’ of last year and the situation, on the ground, now.

12 April 2024 – but first published 03 May 2023

Why Ukraine’s fate rests on its imminent counteroffensive. [Even the ‘imminent’ in his heading was wrong.]

12 April 2024 – came out about a month ago but still relevant today.

How America destroyed the German economy.

12 April 2024

Ukraine could face defeat in 2024. Here’s how that might look. [For more than two years Barrons hasn’t had a clue about what has been happening in the Ukraine. Anyone remember him confidently predicting the ‘million man army’ of the Ukraine ready to sweep away the Russian invaders? Now he accepts the reality but still has to throw in unsubstantiated claims made all the time by the pro-west propagandists.]

12 April 2024

DragonFire: UK laser could be used against Russian drones on Ukraine front line. [But this ‘game changing’ system will not be operable until 2027 – at the earliest. By then the Ukraine, due to NATO intransigence, won’t exist as a functioning country.]

12 April 2024

John Mearsheimer: Ukraine’s new counteroffensive, Zelensky guarantees victory?

16 April 2024

Lenin revised — Russian military power means de-electrification and unconditional surrender of the Kiev regime.

17 April 2024

Russia’s meat grinder soldiers – 50,000 confirmed dead. [But pro-Ukrainian commentators, whose words have often been reported by the BBC, have for long been arguing that the figures are ten times what the BBC now ‘confirms’. So why didn’t the BBC ‘journalists’ make a comment upon that fact in the past? And the BBC, so concerned with ‘factual evidence’, even repeats Zelensky’s fantastical figure of 31,000 Ukrainian dead to ‘demonstrate’ that Russia is losing in the death stakes.]

17 April 2024

Ukraine is losing the war and the west faces a stark choice: help now or face a resurgent and aggressive Russia. [Yet the same ‘academic’ was saying that Russia would fail if it tried to takeover Transistria, Moldova.]

17 April 2024

NATO is losing the proxy war against Russia, so expect surge in false-flag terrorism – John Kiriakou.

17 April 2024

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

21 April 2024

ATACMS, what exactly does the voted US aid mean for Ukraine?

22 April 2024

Russia warns of direct clash with West over Ukraine military support.

22 April 2024

Angela Merkel and François Hollande’s crime against peace.

22 April 2024

US$60 billion in US military aid a major morale boost but no certain path to victory. [The well known ‘academic expert’ on the Ukraine war still living in cloud cuckoo land.]

22 April 2024

Georgia is sliding towards autocracy after government moves to force through bill on ‘foreign agents’. [What would be the response if organisations that wanted to change the government in the UK were found to be funded by Russia or China – or, indeed any other foreign power. The hypocrisy of the west is unbounded’]

22 April 2024

‘Put those damn flags away!’

22 April 2024

US passes $61 billion Ukraine spending bill but lacks arms/ammunition to send in sufficient amounts.

23 April 2024

The US’ long-delayed aid to Ukraine might prevent its collapse but won’t push Russia back

24 April 2024

Is it game, set, match to Moscow? Douglas Mcgregor

24 April 2024

Final nail in America’s coffin?

24 April 2024

NATO endangers security of the whole world – German Parliamentarian Sevim Dagdelen.

24 April 2024

Will the Anglo-American axis deploy nukes to Poland?

24 April 2024

Mark Sleboda: Russia has destroyed Ukraine’s army and Putin’s next move has NATO worried.

25 April 2024

Why Ukraine is doomed on the battlefield with or without the U.S. aid package.

25 April 2024

Trying to make sense of the Ukraine war with the Judge – John Mearsheimer.

29 April 2024

Mark Sleboda: Putin and China issue devastating warning to Blinken, Neocons and they’re not bluffing.

30 April 2024

How 10 years of US meddling in Ukraine undermined democracy and fueled war.

01 May 2024

Britain’s ‘newest’ tank: Challenger 3, failing to learn lessons from Ukraine.

01 May 2024

Mark Sleboda: Putin and China issue devastating warning to Blinken, Neocons and they’re not bluffing.

02 May 2024

Vladimir Putin warned he could ‘lose his life’ as Ukraine prepares huge attack in war. [I don’t know what’s more amazing with this article. What it says (which is plainly ludicrous) or that the so-called ;journalist’ put his name to it.]

02 May 2024

Washington moves on to Plan B.

02 May 2024

Panic deepens: Macron – NATO will intervene if Kiev asks; Russian strikes kill top Ukrainian officials in Odessa; Israel, the US and the ICC.

03 May 2024

The UN is afraid of fingering ‘whodunnit’ on the Nordstream pipelines. Spoiler alert, it was the USA! And what’s happening on US university campuses. George Galloway with Larry Johnson.

04 May 2024

Putin humiliated after special forces wiped out and army losses hit catastrophic levels. [As has been the case since the very beginning of the Special Military Operation these ‘facts’ have been taken from Ukrainian sources without any independent verification. The Express doesn’t even make a possible disclaimer, thereby giving the ‘news’ validity – to the ignorant and stupid who read the Express.]

05 May 2024

Ukraine’s Donbass lines collapsing – Russia’s strategy of attrition comes full circle – New Atlas.

05 May 2024

Ukraine is preparing for peace talks with Russia. [But in 2025! The war will be over by then.]

06 May 2024

Remembering a day the West wants to forget.

06 May 2024

Blinken’s hypocrisy in China.

06 May 2024

NATO’s soon-impending surrender to Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine.

06 May 2024

Israel attacks Rafah; Ukraine pays proxy war’s cost.

06 May 2024

Larry Johnson: US supplied ATACMS target troops inside Russia.

06 May 2024

Scott Ritter : Russia’s next move: unpacking the future of the Ukraine conflict.

06 May 2024

Colonel Douglas MacGregor: Ukraine front lines buckled, will Russian troops push deeper? Daniel Davis, Deep Dive.

07 May 2024

Russia and North Korea: developing relations in new geopolitical realities.

07 May 2024

Eating the seed corn – intervention threats and responses.

07 May 2024

The Russia–Iran–China search for a new global security order.

08 May 2024

Ukraine: where reality goes to die.

08 May 2024

Is Zelensky’s life in danger now that he’s on Russia’s wanted list?

09 May 2024

Russian missiles destroy Ukrainian power stations, power cuts; NATO draft statement: no NATO troops in Ukraine.

10 May 2024

Ukraine is set to abolish human rights.

10 May 2024

Ukraine a ‘corrupt s**thole’ – ex-Boris Johnson adviser.

11 May 2024

Graduation day – The Grayzone live. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss rising repression against student protest encampments, the looking Israeli assault on Rafah and Biden’s pathetic attempts to limit its savagery.

11 May 2024

On the front lines with Ukrainian forces.

12 May 2024

‘Zelensky conned us’: Ex-British PM adviser blasts West, says ‘Putin knew we were jokers before war’.

14 May 2024

Shoigu’s promotion makes perfect sense if seen from Putin’s perspective.

16 May 2024

Xi, Putin hold talks, sign joint statement on deepening ties.

16 May 2024

Biden and Congress seek to ‘Trump-proof’ permanent war in Ukraine.

17 May 2024

USA: Common sense? No, never heard of it.

17 May 2024

A former Ukrainian MP blew the whistle on Burisma’s connections to terrorism.

17 May 2024

Intel Round table with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern: Weekly wrap up. Judge Napolitano.

18 May 2024

Ukraine can’t win. NATO must negotiate – ex-German general Harald Kujat.

18 May 2024

The drive for war.

19 May 2024

The West has decided to sort things out on the battlefield! Russia is ready! Lavrov.

19 May 2024

Ray McGovern: Russia and China — two against one.

19 May 2024

Washington and Western allies turn on India over Russia and China.

20 May 2024

Assassination attempt on Slovak PM highlights dangers of constant EU demonization of project Ukraine opponents and hypocrisy of ‘misinformation’ crackdown.

20 May 2024

China and Russia (Chinussia or Russchina) announce their foreign policy.

20 May 2024

‘The peace conference’ on Ukraine – an attempt to accuse Russia of unprovoked aggression.

20 May 2024

Promising the impossible: Blinken’s out of tune performance in Kyiv.

22 May 2024

Ukraine seeks more US help to strike Russia. Aaron Maté on Judging Freedom with Andrew Napolitano.

24 May 2024

Meanwhile, we’re still way too close to nuclear Armageddon.

24 May 2024

Boris Johnson pictured holding Ukrainian neo-Nazi banner.

24 May 2024

Intel round table: Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern – weekly wrap up with Judge Napolitano. On the recent ruling of the International Court of Justice.

24 May 2024

Yes, but they’re our bastards – The Grayzone live. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the British parliament’s hosting of actual neo-Nazis from Ukraine, the push in Washington for Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia, the new ICJ ruling on Rafah, the Biden admin’s pathetic withdrawal of another red line on Israeli violence, and Trump’s disturbing Veepstakes.

25 May 2024

Ukraine attacked key element of Russia’s nuclear umbrella [with US knowledge and assistance] — Russian senator.

26 May 2024

No country can survive conflict with Russia alone – Zelensky.

29 May 2024

Talking about Escalation Dominance with ‘The Spectator’.

30 May 2024

Prof. John J. Mearsheimer: How Ukraine war started. Judge Napolitano.

31 May 2024

Biden authorizes Ukraine to make ‘limited’ strikes on Russia with US weapons.

31 May 2024

Biden lets Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons while Ukraine attacks Russian nuclear defenses.

01 June 2024

Meet newly invented Russian ethnic group: how CIA tries to fragment Russia’s identity.

01 June 2024

Peace talks without Russia ‘laughable’ – John Mearsheimer.

01 June 2024

Scott Ritter: Russia’s victory over Ukraine is drawing near.

02 June 2024

US ‘green lights’ strikes on Russia; reality behind Kerch Port attack; Czech ammo bid falls short. New Atlas.

03 June 2024

The U.S. Government’s many lies about the war in Ukraine.

03 June 2024

Italy pipes up against NATO escalation as court ruling could cut off Russian gas sooner than expected.

04 June 2024

Scott Ritter removed from plane to Russia and had passport seized with no explanation.

04 June 2024

Russia’s victory over Ukraine is drawing near.

04 June 1024

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Why the west hates Russia.

04 June 2024

The Five Goals of the US’ reportedly impending anti-Russian propaganda campaign in Scandinavia.

04 June 2024

‘State of panic’ as Putin realises he cannot win in Ukraine – Yuri Felshtinsky. [Including this tripe and Gorgonzola from Times Radio (sic) as a demonstration for those who might not have seen it before how weak and prejudice is the reporting in the UK. It won’t happen again.]

04 June 2024

Scott Ritter : on my way to Russia I met Big Brother and the extension of the use of western supplied weapons on Russian soil.

04 June 2024

The demise of the Liberal International Order and more, The Duran.

05 June 2024

Buried in Steel: military production and NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine.

05 June 2024

Russia prepares Kharkov battle; Russia jams US black sea drones; Ukrainian troops untrained; Turkey wants BRICS.

05 June 2024

Ukrainians’ claims on the origin of Odessa City are baseless. And here is why.

05 June 2024

Col. Larry Wilkerson on Scott Ritter and Russia’s devastating warning to NATO.

05 June 2024

Land of the free, home of the grave – George Galloway talks to Scott Ritter.

05 June 2024

Kiev regime tortured US journalist [Gonzalo Lira] to death – Putin.

05 June 2024

Putin outlines Russian response to long-range strikes.

06 June 2024

Biden’s plans to start WW3 either in Ukraine or in Taiwan.

06 June 2024

Does Poland fear that Ukraine might one day make irredentist claims against it?

06 June 2024

Putin, Russian strike back will possibly mean arming various western enemies; Zelensky illegitimate; Kharkov offensive and Russian considering a return to Kherson.

07 June 2024

Who might Russia arm as an asymmetrical response to the west arming Ukraine?

07 June 2024

Myanmar civil war: US proxy war to contain China.

07 June 2024

The cautious US escalation against Russia is developing not necessarily to US advantage.

07 June 2024

A slippery slope to World War III?

08 June 2024

Black Sea port becomes geopolitical battleground between China and the EU.

09 June 2024

Will French jets, additional US arms help change the tide in Ukraine? New Atlas.

09 June 2024

The war racket in Germany.

10 June 2024

Larry Johnson: my week in Russia.

10 June 2024

How Germany’s Government is either insane or outright evil.

10 June 2024

Ray McGovern: will Biden heed Putin’s warnings?

10 June 2024

Obama’s guilt for Ukraine’s war.

10 June 2024

The Military-Industrial Complex is killing us all.

10 June 2024

A Navy admiral’s bribery charges are just part of a system of corrupt dealings.

11 June 2024

Buzzer beater – Russian General Staff aims at ending the Ukraine by electric war.

11 June 2024

Kiev’s plan to store F-16s in NATO states raises the risk of World War III.

11 June 2024

Scott Ritter: Why did it take Russia so long to realize Donbass was worth fighting for?

12 June 2024

Truth, Ukraine, Burisma and the Biden Family.

12 June 2024

On poking dragons.

12 June 2024

Biden’s falsification of history: exploiting D-Day for anti-Russia agenda.

12 June 2024

Arming Ukrainian neo-Nazis a sign of US desperation – ex-Pentagon official.

12 June 2024

With Russia not attending, what can this weekend’s Ukraine peace summit achieve?

12 June 2024

‘Historical Estonian territory’? Why the Balts can’t accept they have nothing of their own.

12 June 2024

The Grayzone targeted in US govt-backed ‘enemies of Ukraine’ list.

13 June 2024

How to justify NATO’s aggression against Russia.

13 June 2024

Big embarrassment for Zelensky at German Parliament; MPs boycott speech – ‘President of war’.

13 June 2024

Taiwan slides toward US-engineered ‘Ukraine-ization’.

13 June 2024

John Mearsheimer: political winds shift against Ukraine war support, with Daniel Davis

14 June 2024

Milei’s latest plan to embroil Argentina in Ukraine conflict involves sending five French fighter jets that cannot fly.

14 June 2024

Western officials and press starting to acknowledge impact of Russian electric war on Ukraine.

14 June 2024

Putin names conditions for Ukraine peace talks.

14 June 2024

Putin’s speech at the Ministry of International Affairs: an olive branch.

14 June 2024

Orban got what he wanted from NATO and ensured Hungary’s objective national interests.

14 June 2024

Two European thorns in the Empire’s side: Rightist Orban and Leftist Fico (and look what happened to him).

14 June 2024

‘We must go after everything Russian’ – UK’s Cameron.

15 June 2024

NYT publishes alleged draft of failed Russia-Ukraine peace deal.

15 June 2024

Putin is sending another signal to the world.

15 June 2024

The US’ security pact with Ukraine is a consolation for not approving its NATO membership.

15 June 2024

Why NATO weapons are way overpriced.

16 June 2024

Propaganda vs. Pragmatism: can US ATACMS clear the way for F-16 warplanes in Ukraine?

16 June 2024

Russia traps Ukrainians in Volchansk; Russian-EU gas exports overtake US LNG; Hollow Swiss ‘Piss’ Summit; G7 targets China.

16 June 2024

Twelve states refuse to sign Zelensky ‘peace conference’ declaration.

16 June 2024

The summer of living dangerously.

17 June 2024

The Russian ‘phenomenon’ through the eyes of the western media.

17 June 2024

Conscription squads send Ukrainian men into hiding.

17 June 2024

Next stage – the General Staff’s targets after Putin’s feint.

17 June 2024

Michael Hudson: Agricultural imperialism in the EU.

18 June 2024

The US’ sharp rebuke of Vietnam for hosting Putin later this week was ridiculous.

18 June 2024

Ukraine summit fails to provide a path to peace for Kyiv and its allies. [Our favourite academic starts to accept reality – but is still ‘straw clutching’.]

18 June 2024

Confused Biden clips are ‘deepfakes’ – White House.

18 June 2024

The US is preparing for WWIII while expanding draft registration.

19 June 2024

Never ending troubles for Uncle Sam. John Mearsheimer.

19 June 2024

Netanyahu’s tantrum; Russia’s new offer and Ukraine’s new excuse.

20 June 2024

The history of Baltic ‘sovereignty’: three myths about Baltic statehood.

20 June 2024

Behind the myth of ‘billions in arms’ flowing into Ukraine.

21 June 2024

Russia and Ukraine trade drone strikes on energy facilities.

21 June 2024

The Russian-Vietnamese strategic partnership checks US influence in Southeast Asia.

21 June 2024

Trump points to ‘cause’ of Ukraine conflict.

21 June 2024

Reality has changed: the Ukraine war slams Europe rightward.

21 June 2024

Peace, peace, when there is no peace – The Grayzone live. Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal discuss new mainstream coverage of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia back in 2023 amid Zelensky’s bogus peace summit, Russian retaliation against US arming of Ukraine, new threats by Netanyahu against a cowering Biden administration, and Israel’s continuing onslaught against Gaza.

22 June 2024

Why NATO is now in a Rutte.

22 June 2024

US may have secretly trained Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

23 June 2024

Is Ukraine using an ‘elastic defense’? Or just losing the war?

24 June 2024

Ray McGovern: The attack on the Crimean beach – first 13.5 minutes.

24 June 2024

Civilians killed on Sevastopol beach were ‘occupiers’ – top Zelensky aide. [And the ‘civilians’ in Zionist occupied Palestine?]

24 June 2024

Between the Kremlin cup and the General Staff lip after Sunday’s Crimea and Dagestan attacks.

24 June 2024

Scott Ritter on Ukraine’s shelling of Sevastopol: it’s a direct attack on Russia by US and NATO.

24 June 2024

New terrorist attacks in Russia. The US and Ukraine are responsible.

25 June 2024

The Duran – Dangerous escalation with Brian Berletic.

26 June 2024

Biden likely to allow US contractors to deploy in Ukraine – CNN.

26 June 2024

Is EU’s fuzzy natural gas math leading to major minuses in the Caucasus?

26 June 2024

Aaron Maté: Who sabotaged the Istanbul deal? Also the attack on the Crimea.

26 June 2024

New ICC warrants issued for Ukraine crimes. [Watch how this develops in comparison with those issue against leaders of the Zionist settler state.]

26 June 2024

Freedom isn’t free – The Grayzone live. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the release of Julian Assange from 14 years in captivity and what it means for the future of antiwar journalism. They will also cover the Israel lobby’s opening salvo in the 2024 campaign and the latest from the war in Gaza and start with the recent attempted military coup in Bolivia.

27 June 2024

John Mearsheimer: U. S. leaders impotent – war escalation risk grows. With Daniel Davis on Deep Dive.

27 June 2024

New evidence US blocked Ukraine-Russia peace deal, and a new Ukrainian excuse for walking away.

27 June 2024

Mounting troubles for Uncle Sam and his friends in Israel and Ukraine.

28 June 2024

Russia’s response to Ukraine’s US-backed bombing of beach goers wasn’t what many expected.

30 June 2024

West admits Ukraine’s growing manpower crisis and the evolution of Russia’s FAB-3000 bomb.

30 June 2024

Russia strikes New York in Donbass with giant bomb.

01 July 2024

America’s AP (Associated Press) model for corrupt ‘news’ media: lying about history.

01 July 2024

Visit to North Korea: will the west conceive Putin’s clear signal?

02 July 2024

Confronting NATO’s war summit in Washington.

02 July 2024

Keep an eye on Ukraine’s military build-up along the Belarusian border.

02 July 2024

Destroying Ukraine with idealism.

03 July 2024

World Bank finally reclassifies Russia to top category: ‘high income country’.

03 July 2024

Kyiv rejects Orbán ceasefire plan but global security deals offer hope. [Our favourite British ‘academic’ still presents delusional ideas and continues to be selective in his facts.]

03 July 2024

Russia toughens up draft law to round-up more people for the frontlines. [Another British ‘academic’ being selective in their choice of ‘facts’ – relying on unverifiable declarations that have become unsubstantiated myths.]

03 July 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer : China in the wings.

04 July 2024

The descendants of Ukrainian Nazis are calling on ethnic Ukrainian-Russians to become terrorists.

05 July 2024

Trump’s reported plan for NATO is already being partially implemented.

05 July 2024

Washington’s ‘Hellscape’ drone war vs China and its 1000 drone arms deal with Taiwan Admin.

07 July 2024

Spook scholarship: a prominent former CIA analyst and project Ukraine backer moonlights as a collegiate textbook co-author.

07 July 2024

Western mercenaries killed Russian POWs – German medic.

07 July 2024

Ukraine asks West for submarines.

07 July 2024

West admits Ukraine is out of air defenses and losing ground, with no way to reverse it.

08 July 2024

What would a Russian victory in Ukraine look like?

08 July 2024

NATO state could shoot down Russian missiles – Zelensky [Although refuted by the Poles some time later – at least for a while.]

08 July 2024

Mike Pompeo about CIA : ‘We lied, we cheated, we stole’. [Archive, from 5 years ago.]

09 July 2024

EU undershoots 155mm shell capacity target by more than half, blames all sorts of things besides lack of operational capability.

09 July 2024

Saudi Arabia threatened to sell off European debt if G-7 seized Russian assets.

09 July 2024

Xi and Putin talk up growth of their Eurasian bloc organisation as counterweight to NATO. [Our favourite ‘academic’ actually does some real analysis here – yet doesn’t accept that NATO aggressive expansion is the cause of many of the present ills.]

10 July 2024

Michael Hudson: Russia and China crush NATO’s plan as Ukraine falls apart.

10 July 2024

Why the news media’s job is to groom us.

11 July 2024

Baltic Syndrome: why the Balts worship Nazism.

11 July 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: Ukraine collapsing.

12 July 2024

Interpreting the Polish military chief’s decision to prepare for ‘full-scale conflict’.

12 July 2024

Tulsi Gabbard reacting to Biden’s dangerous NATO speech.

12 July 2024

NATO is shocked by Kyiv’s claims that North Korean troops entered Ukraine and attacked Toretsk Front. [Not too sure of some of the conclusions of this piece but interesting nonetheless.]

12 July 2024

‘We love you Joe, but…’: Hollywood’s advice to President Biden.

12 July 2024

Chain of fools – The Grayzone live. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss plans announced by NATO at its Washington DC summit to escalate conflicts across the globe and its expand its ranks, the vindication of their reporting on Israel’s scandalous Hannibal Directive, the ongoing meltdown over Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, and much more.

12 July 2024

Prof John Mearsheimer NATO declares Ukraine’s membership irreversible.

13 July 2024

Why George Clooney, Peter Welch, and the New York Times, are dangerous.

14 July 2024

NATO’s 2024 Summit fails to deliver as Russia continues grinding Ukraine down.

15 July 2024

As NATO bids farewell to reality, Moscow and Beijing pursue win-win deals with Türkiye.

15 July 2024

How the West double-crossed — and aims to conquer — Russia.

15 July 2024

‘Big Boy’ Biden in his own words.

16 July 2024

Views in the West on the prospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis.

17 July 2024

China dumps US debt, fearing a capitalist Armageddon, Richard Wolff.

17 July 2024

Crisis in the West, opportunity for the rest?

18 July 2024

Space-based warfare: America’s dominance challenged.

18 July 2024

Auschwitz Museum responds to RT’s Ukrainian Nazi exposé.

18 July 2024

Russia accuses Ukraine of using chemical weapons.

18 July 2024

A Trump-Vance White House could undermine European security – and end up pushing Russia and China closer. [I thought our favourite ‘academic’ had started to accept the reality of what is happening in the Ukraine. From being a mere NATO propagandist he was starting to (even within his meagre abilities) to analyse the facts. But what he has really done is resorted to outright lies to ‘make his case’. In this article he states that it was Russia that reneged on the Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015 when it was the West that used the agreements to arm the Ukrainians – witness the statements made by Merkel and Hollande in 2022.]

19 July 2024

What happens with the war in Ukraine if Trump wins?

20 July 2024

War ‘to the last Ukrainian’: why Kiev will resort to provocations to continue fighting Russia.

20 July 2024

Government by gunplay – The Grayzone live. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the high and lowlights of the RNC, the Democratic Party elite’s push for Joe Biden to drop out of the race, the CrowdStrike IT disaster, Max Boot-gate, and the latest from Gaza.

21 July 2024

The US vassal state of Germany comes apart.

21 July 2024

West admits Ukraine is losing, encourages Ukrainians to fight on anyway. New Atlas.

23 July 2024

UK must be ready for war in three years, head of British Army warns. [At its current level the British Army wouldn’t be ready for war in 30 years.]

23 July 2024

Mark Sleboda: Putin drops bombshell on NATO as Russia sends 200,000 troops to finish Ukraine’s army.

23 July 2024

How will US political upheaval influence Ukraine? John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris Glenn Diesen.

24 July 2024

NATO’s civilian bases.

24 July 2024

More guns, less butter: how will the EU wed austerity to militarization?

24 July 2024

The West is learning the wrong lessons about airpower in Ukraine.

25 July 2024

Ukrainian Foreign Minister tells Beijing that Kiev is ready for peace talks, as Russian troops advance. Rachel Blevins with Glenn Diesen.

25 July 2024

Jeffrey Sachs on why U.S. foreign policy is dangerously misguided.

25 July 2024

More evidence of the rot in America.

25 July 2024

Vietnam is precedent as US prepares for war with China.

25 July 2024

The message of Zelensky’s top rival is pleasing for Western elites, but terrifying for Ukrainians.

26 July 2024

Ukraine’s rebranded neo-Nazis dazzle the Western press on tour.

26 July 2024

The Russian momentum is back – although this was published a month ago, before Zelensky’s ‘Piss’ Summit, what is presented is even more valid today. However, this ‘expert, persists in advancing the idea that Western ‘game changers’ (such as F16 jets) could actually turn the tide. Strange really, when all he said in the vast majority of the presentation gives the impression that the Ukraine has irretrievably lost.

26 July 2024

Russian hackers expose ‘Western mercenaries’ in Ukraine.

26 July 2024

Ukraine’s rebranded neo-Nazis dazzle the Western press on tour.

27 July 2024

Five takeaways from Hungary and Slovakia’s Russian oil dispute with Ukraine.

28 July 2024

Analyzing the latest car bomb attack in Moscow.

28 July 2024

Why Britain’s F-35s could be consigned to the scrap heap.

28 July 2024

Top Ukrainian commander admits defeat is near and why nothing will change after US elections.

29 July 2024

Kyiv and Brussels weaponize oil, use other tools in bid to force Hungary and Slovakia into supporting project Ukraine.

29 July 2024

Ukraine end-game: rate-determining steps and the question of Denazification.

29 July 2024

A personal discussion of Russian national security.

30 August 2024

What happens when the U.S. coup machine hires people who don’t know that that’s their actual job.

30 July 2024

Leaked emails reveal ‘civil war’ at CIA regime-change cutout.

30 July 2024

The Grayzone caused ‘biggest PR fiasco in history’ for US government regime change arm, leaked emails reveal. [The story of the National Endowment for Democracy.]

31 July 2024

One-third of Ukrainians would give up land for peace – but it’s not as simple as that. [From our favourite ‘straw-clutching’ ‘academic’.]

31 July 2024

First US-made F-16s arrive in Ukraine – Bloomberg.

31 July 2024

NATO working on new Russia strategy – Washington.

31 July 2024

What’s next for European Security?

01 August 2024

Here’s what’s likely to follow the Tuaregs’ devastating ambush of Wagner in Mali.

01 August 2024

How Kamala Harris sold out struggling homeowners to save banks in 2012 and then lied about it.

01 August 2024

A hidden weapon of the United States or a way to manipulate the world? (II).

01 August 2024

JD Vance’s nomination sends clear message to Ukraine.

02 August 2024

Judge Napolitano intel roundtable with Johnson and McGovern.

02 August 2024

America’s military-industrial complex too corrupt to win.

04 August 2024

West admits to continued Russian gains and Kiev’s detachment from geopolitical reality. New Atlas.

05 August 2024

Who caused the Ukraine war? John J. Mearsheimer

05 August 2024

Kamala Harris: papier-mâché coronation.

05 August 2024

Larry Johnson: will US F-16s help Ukraine?

06 August 2024

The reasons for the transformation of Finland’s approaches to Russia.

06 August 2024

US uses familiar strategy in Bangladesh [as it did in the Ukraine.]

07 August 2024

Biden believes he doesn’t have to talk to Putin.

08 August 2024

Here’s why the US forced Ukraine to call off its reportedly planned assassination of Putin.

09 August 2024

$5 million in ‘black money’ seized from Ukrainian army food supplier.

09 August 2024

Ukrainian unit in Kursk bears name of WW2 German Nazi battalion.

10 August 2024

Washington further escalates its war on dissent.

12 August 2024

Kursk attack: This is the reason that may have emboldened Zelensky.

12 August 2024

Chaos on the Russian-Ukrainian border: how Ukraine attacks innocent people.

12 August 2024

Larry Johnson: did Ukraine really invade Russia?

12 August 2024

Scott Ritter : The Department of Justice and me. Also on the Ukrainian invasion of Russia and when Iran will attack the Zionist settler state.

14 August 2024

Kursk offensive has taken the war into Russia and put Putin on the back foot – for now. Published so we can see how another UK ‘academic’ analyses the situation – and what will be the reality.

15 August 2024

Ukrainian attacks on nuclear power plants: nuclear catastrophe is closer and closer.

15 August 2024

Analyzing Putin’s assessment of Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk.

15 August 2024

US defense firms reluctant to cooperate with Ukraine due to safety, corruption.

15 August 2024

Ukraine’s Kursk incursion: how the invasion of Russia could change the political focus of the conflict. [Our favourite ‘academic’ returns after a period when even he realised his straw-clutching analysis wouldn’t hold water. Now, using unsubstantiated ‘facts’, he encourages more and more Ukrainian soldiers to die for the benefit of the US/UK/NATO/EU ‘axis of evil’. Their propaganda should be considered a war crime.]

15 August 2024

West knew about Ukraine’s Kursk incursion plan – Zelensky aide.

15 August 2024

Supporting Ukraine ‘a business opportunity’ – new NATO member’s PM.

15 August 2024

Ukrainian troops in Nazi helmets taunt Russian pensioner.

15 August 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: is the US still indispensable?

15 August 2024

Max Blumenthal: the pro-war bias of traditional media.

16 August 2024

‘Words like slaughter:’ a comparative study of the New York Times reporting in Ukraine and Gaza.

16 August 2024

Intel roundtable with Johnson and McGovern. Judge Napolitano.

17 August 2024

Russia analyst Glenn Diesen predicts ‘massive escalation’ after Ukraine’s incursion into Russia.

18 August 2024

The US strategy in the Black Sea region is falling apart.

18 August 2024

Ukraine’s Kursk ‘success’ speeds own defeat and the next US ‘wonder weapon’ for Ukraine – with the debatable idea that Russia allowed things to happen as they knew of Ukrainian plans before they crossed the border.

18 August 2024

Kursk offensive ‘humiliates’ Russia, devastates Ukraine’s army, Danny Haiphong with Mark Sleboda.

19 August 2024

Washington Post report on Russia-Ukraine negotiation to end energy system attacks: an admission of Russian long-term weakness or more complex calculation?

19 August 2024

Doomed Kursk invasion kills negotiations – The Grayzone.

21 August 2024

Kamala’s National Security Adviser points to continuation of Biden’s Russia policy.

21 August 2024

Kursk was the site of a massive WWII tank battle – now it’s at the heart of Ukraine’s counterattack. [Yet another bumbling UK ‘academic’ speaks.]

22 August 2024

Ukrainian commanders blaming unmotivated conscripts for lost ground.

22 August 2024

Ukraine tried to attack Russian nuclear plant.

22 August 2024

The nonsensical Kursk Offensive – John Mearsheimer with Danny Davis.

23 August 2024

US and NATO allies are considering taking over state-owned Argentine arms manufacturer to bolster munitions for Ukraine.

23 August 2024

Unending trouble for Israel and Ukraine.

23 August 2024

Intel roundtable with Johnson and McGovern – Judge Napolitano.

24 August 2024

Ukraine’s Kursk op slows as Russian gains speed up – New Atlas.

25 August 2024

‘Imagine if it were Moscow?’ How prominent Russians reacted to arrest of Telegram founder Durov.

26 August 2024

Why US belligerence towards Russia is likely to continue no matter who is President.

26 August 2024

Ray McGovern : Kiev’s suicidal Russian invasion.

27 August 2024

Ukraine to present ‘victory plan’ to US – Zelensky. [Delusional – or what?]

27 August 2024

Away from the battlefield the diplomatic wrangling hots up with Modi visit to Kyiv. [ More from the straw-clutching UK ‘academic’.]

27 August 2024

The rising democratic threat of ‘hopeful militarism’.

28 August 2024

Ukrainian draft office threatens lethal force against citizens.

29 August 2024

How drone attacks are changing the rules and the costs of the Ukraine war.

29 August 2024

Western intel key to Kiev’s Russia incursion plan – US spy chief.

29 August 2024

U.S. volunteer fighter against Russia speaks.

29 August 2024

Telegram popularity skyrockets, as EU tries to silence Durov. [See the second to last paragraph. If the Russian military are using such a platform for such purposes they, perhaps, should be placed under arrest.]

29 August 2024

Kamala Harris is the new face being put on America’s wars.

29 August 2024

Kursk: fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian

29 August 2024

Ukraine confirms loss of first F-16.

30 August 2024

Ukrainian MP claims F-16 was downed by Patriot. [If the Ukrainians keep on shooting down their own aircraft all the Russians have to do is sit back and wait for the destruction of the whole ‘fleet’.]

30 August 2024

Vague prospects for the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict due to Kiev’s ‘gamble in Kursk’.

02 September 2024

‘Knockout Blitz’, or a Crash in the First Battle.

03 September 2024

Canadian journalist outs himself as Canadian, Ukrainian intelligence collaborator.

04 September 2024

Reshuffling the deck chairs in Ukraine.

06 September 2024

Putin comments on US election, Russian advances and Zelensky’s foreign minister quits, Rachel Blevins with Mark Sleboda.

06 September 2024

INTEL Roundtable with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern – Weekly Briefing Wrap Up.

07 September 2024

Washington wants Ukraine’s resources – US Senator.

08 September 2024

As Ukrainian lines crumble, Kiev asks for, ‘receives’ non-existent missiles. New Atlas

09 September 2024

Nuland confirms West told Zelensky to abandon peace deal.

09 September 2024

Polish Foreign Minister volunteers country to fight Russia.

09 September 2024

Russia’s prosecution of the war in Ukraine: can it square the circle of probable boundary conditions?

09 September 2024

‘Let’s just fight’: How Britain prefers war over peace in Ukraine.

09 September 2024

Ray McGovern : CIA/MI6 in Gaza and Ukraine

09 September 2024

Larry Johnson : Zelensky on the brink.

10 September 2024

Bypassing sanctions: Russia, trade routes and outfoxing the West.

10 September 2024

John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs – at the All-in Summit.

11 September 2024

Nuland admits US opposed Russia-Ukraine peace deal. The Biden admin shrugs off Israel’s killing of American citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi. Plus, as Nuland admits that the US prolonged the war, Blinken signals that the US will authorize long-range strikes.

11 September 2024

US seeks ‘super weapons’ to reign as sole Superpower.

12 September 2024

Putin calls for sanctions revenge, threatens to cap uranium exports.

12 September 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: the Ukrainian incursion into Russia, Bibi’s catastrophic blunders.

12 September 2024

How the west is foiling Russia’s attempts to use the Arctic in the Ukraine war. [Our favourite straw-clutching ‘academic’ seems to have been spurred into action by the above article published on the 10th, which suggests that Russia is ‘outfoxing the west’ in the Arctic.]

12 September 2024

Why Putin has resisted using Ukraine’s Kursk offensive to call for greater Russian sacrifices. [Yet another British ‘academic’ gives an analysis not on what the Russians are doing and why but on what she thinks they SHOULD be doing. The problem with a great deal of Western analysis since the beginning of 2022.]

12 September 2024

Scott Ritter : US to attack Russia.

13 September 2024

INTEL Roundtable with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern – Weekly Wrap. Judge Napolitano.

14 September 2024

US backs off missile strikes; tense US/UK talks; Russia storms Ukraine Kursk enclave; BBC states Pokrovsk critical.

15 September 2024

Ukraine’s Kursk operation crumbles, crisis on frontline grows.

15 September 2024

UK shocked about US missile strike no; blames Sullivan, Ukraine aid dwindles; Russia’s Chasov Yar pincers closing.

16 September 2024

Musings on the second Trump assassination attempt.

16 September 2024

The EU retreats further into a world of self-delusion.

16 September 2024

Alastair Crooke : Israel and Ukraine soon to explode?

16 September 2024

Ray McGovern : will Putin be provoked?

16 September 2024

Larry Johnson : claims Ukraine is winning are inconceivable! With an astute understanding of the British towards the end of the broadcast.

16 September 2024

Scott Ritter : Ukraine, Gaza, and Free Speech.

17 September 2024

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Ukraine, Israel, and diplomatic failures.

17 September 2024

Matt Hoh: can Israel legally own Gaza?

17 September 2024

Lt COL. Karen Kwiatkowski : War, Propaganda, and Free Speech.

18 September 2024

‘Please save me’: The Indians duped into fighting for Russia. [This is a strange one. Like our favourite ‘academic’, here the BBC seems to be clutching at straws as things fall apart for the Ukraine and they run out of things to write about in their propaganda campaign.]

18 September 2024

Growing number of war-weary Ukrainians would reluctantly give up territory to save lives, suggests recent survey. [Notice the wording of the survey questions.]

19 September 2024

US war on China is a war on the entire world.

19 September 2024

Volunteers dying as Russia’s war dead tops 70,000. [As always with the BBC, it’s the caveats that try and define the narrative. But interesting nonetheless – and at least gives a base point from which to measure the casualties. It’s also clear here how the British media takes whatever the Ukrainians say as gospel. Quoting Zelensky’s ‘31,000’ without an serious challenge is typical. If the truth were told the Ukrainian dead would more than likely be to times that of the Russian.]

19 September 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: Long range missiles to attack deep inside Russia – or not? Is Israel on the Brink?

19 September 2024

Biden stands down on Russia strikes; Hillary’s criminal Russiagate propaganda.

19 September 2024

INTEL Roundtable with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern: Weekly Intel Wrap – Judge Napolitano.

20 September 2024

How the ‘rules-based international order’ uses humanitarianism to turn refugees into disposable migrant labor.

21 September 2024

Europe prepares for hot war with Russia, US readies for hot war with China.

21 September 2024

‘It’s over for Russia’ – ex-UK PM [Britain’s Buffoon.]

21 September 2024

BRICS and de-dollarization: an alternative or potential disaster?

22 September 2024

Russian and Western nuclear industries remain interdependent.

22 September 2024

Top 10 manufacturing countries in the world.

23 September 2024

Lavrov explained what Russia hopes to achieve by talking about its red lines.

23 September 2024

Atlanticism or Sovereignty? Fight in Germany continues with latest State election.

23 September 2024

Is the Pentagon against expanding Ukraine war? Ray McGovern.

24 September 2024

Denmark’s prime minister calls for WW3 now against Russia and maybe China.

24 September 2024

Europe is destroying its own economy.

24 September 2024

Türkiye formally applies to join BRICS.

24 September 2024

Craig Murray: The UK and genocide in Palestine and British ‘gung-ho’ approach towards the Ukraine.

25 September 2024

Cognitive warfare in the West.

25 September 2024

Colonel Douglas MacGregor : Putin’s patient plans.

26 September 2024

Pepe Escobar – from BRICS to war; how the US/UK underestimates Russia.

26 September 2024

The UN speech that shocked the world: Russia’s harsh criticism of Zelensky and western intervention.

27 September 2024

Ukrainian army plagued by desertion and draft-dodging – The Economist.

27 September 2024

The Nord Stream cock and bull story sums up Western Europe’s Stockholm Syndrome.

28 September 2024

Most Ukrainian soldiers last only a few days – Financial Times.

29 September 2024

Ex-spy and daughter will not give evidence in court. [Just to keep up the Russophobia.]

29 September 2024

UK admits out of arms since last year as west attempts to prolong Ukraine war.

01 October 2024

The 1918 Meuse-Argonne campaign was a disaster for the US army, so journalists glamorised it. [Nothing has changed in over a hundred years.]

01 October 2024

‘Ukraine will be 2nd strongest NATO member’ in Europe’, Latvian FM says. [Why is that some one so out of touch with reality is allowed to have a position of power. This is beyond delusional and even surpasses what the Buffoon said a few weeks ago. What world are they living on?]

01 October 2024

John Mearsheimer reveals shocking geopolitical insights before the Ukraine-Russia war. [But the alliance of evil of US/UK/EU/NATO still want to expand NATO into the two really contentious countries, the Ukraine and Georgia.]

02 October 2024

The US tries to pressure Türkiye into putting its Russian missile systems under American supervision.

02 October 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: The changed relationship of Russia with Israel and Russia’s present approach in the Ukraine.

04 October 2024

WaPo [Washington Post] detailed the new tactics responsible for Russia’s latest successes in Donbass.

04 October 2024

The final warning.

04 October 2024

Half of Ukraine land has been sold to Western corporations!

War and theft – the takeover of Ukrainian agricultural land

06 October 2024

Prof. Mearsheimer warns: Israel is forcing a major conflict. Ukraine is rapidly deteriorating.

06 October 2024

What’s wrong with Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘save’ Ukraine? New Atlas.

07 October 2024

Does China now have a permanent military base in Cambodia? [ But the fact that the US has 800 or so bases (every time it is mentioned the number changes – this is a mid-point of those I’ve heard about) seems to cause no problem whatsoever. Perhaps as some of those US bases are in the neo-colony of the US they call the UK.]

09 October 2024

Colonel Douglas MacGregor: Israel after a year of slaughter. Reaching its ‘Little Big Horn’ moment. US will ditch the Ukraine before Israel.

09 October 2024

NATO has begun its death-spiral.

09 October 2024

Putin to meet Iranian President; strike on Iran delayed; West debates Kiev escalation; central Toretsk falls.

09 October 2024

Western media urges public: believe our lies, not your own eyes regarding China. New Atlas.

09 October 2024

EU Parliament member exposes Brussel’s madness. Michael von der Schulenburg.

11 October 2024

Final proof: Biden did do the Nordstream catastrophe — did/does Harris approve of it?

13 October 2024

Western narratives unravel in Ukraine including Ukraine’s Black Sea ‘Victory’.

14 October 2024

Lavrov’s interview with Newsweek concisely summarized Russia’s positions.

15 October 2024

Moldova votes on whether to join EU as Russia intensifies vast disinformation campaign. [Having failed to understand the situation in the Ukraine our favourite ‘paid for by NATO’ ‘academic’ now tries to tell us about Moldova.]

16 October 2024

The collapsing U.S. Empire.

16 October 2024

Secrets and Lies: This is how the West doomed Ukraine.

16 October 2024

NATO refuses to support Ukraine’s North Korea claims.

17 October 2024

Zelensky’s unrealistic ‘Victory plan’ is driven by one of two ulterior motives.

17 October 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: When will Ukraine collapse?

17 October 2024

Pepe Escobar: Putin’s thoughts on Ukraine/Israel.

17 October 2024

Ukraine must have nukes or NATO – Zelensky.

18 October 2024

Glenn Greenwald and Jeffrey Sachs – Ukraine is now a sacrificial lamb.

19 October 2024

China holds massive military drills after Taiwan’s President vows to ‘resist annexation’. Rachel Blevin with KJ Noh.

20 October 2024

Ukraine’s ‘Victory Plan’ implies NATO intervention.

21 October 2024

Germany can’t stop digging.

21 October 2024

UNSC: Russia calls Zelensky’s ‘Peace Plan’ a ‘Path to Nuclear Apocalypse’.

21 October 2024

Russia’s ‘meat grinder’ tactics in Ukraine have proved effective in past wars – but at terrible cost. [This ‘academic’ is yet another paid stenographer for the US/UK/NATO/EU group. She gets paid by the British American Security Information Council – which calls itself ‘independent’ and ‘non-partisan’ but gets its funding from various governments, including the UK Foreign Office and the US State Department. And her links to ‘support’ her argument are primarily the likes of the BBC and the Voice of America – hardly trust worthy sources. As always in these cases – follow the money.]

21 October 2024

EU backing for Ukrainian neo-Nazis ‘a disgrace’ – Lavrov.

22 October 2024

NATO mercenaries in Ukraine.

22 October 2024

Why NATO lost, and Russia won, the Ukraine war.

22 October 2024

Kim Jong-un sends North Korean troops to fight in Ukraine – here’s what this means for the war. [Yet another UK ‘academic’ weighs in with unsubstatiated claims about what is happening in the Ukraine. Check his references – they are virtually all from the likes of himself and provide no real evidence whatsoever. If a student in his classes submitted such a piece of work it would get an ‘F’ yet this tripe is allowed to be published on a site which claims it publishes to the highest academic standard.

22 October 2024 [but this article was first published in April 2023]

Leak shows Western special forces on the ground. [The idiot ‘academic’ above uses this article from the BBC in support of his ‘argument’ about troops from the DPRK on the front line. He reminds us that NATO have been fully involved with this conflict from the beginning with its own personnel actually involved in the fighting – although they always strenuously deny it.]

22 October 2024

BRICS Kazan Summit; Kiehl Institute: West unable to match Russia in the production of weapons; Russia storms Girnik, 60% taken.

23 October 2024

Moldova’s EU Referendum was neither free nor fair.

23 October 2024

Aaron Maté: Zelenskyy’s ‘Victory Plan’ [from minute 11.]

24 October 2024

US government behind campaign violating North Korean airspace.

24 October 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: Putin, Xi, and BRICS.

24 October 2024

Ukraine cannot defeat Russia – the best the west can do is help Kyiv plan for a secure post-war future. [An ‘academic that accepts reality – but still with the obligatory Russophone statements.]

24 October 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: BRICS vs G-7: Economic or Military?

24 October 2024

Who perpetrated the 2014 Ukraine ‘Maidan Coup’ that started Ukraine’s war?

24 October 2024

Global power shift. BRICS Summit 2024 with John Mearsheimer. Daniel Davis – Deep Dive.

25 October 2024

Korean troops to take part in Kursk counteroffensive. Hirnyk abandoned? Military summary.

25 October 2024

Neil Oliver: the failed elite plot to ‘crush’ Russia and ‘sell it off’ to big banks.

27 October 2024

EU state’s PM wants Russians banned from voting.

28 October 2024

Ray McGovern: The Koreans are coming to Ukraine! Also first reactions to Zionist attack on Iran.

28 October 2024

Larry Johnson: Israel and Ukraine covering up failures.

30 October 2024

Why Europe should consider putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. [An article from yet another idiot ‘academic’ (this time from Italy) accepts the war is lost but still suggests escalation.]

30 October 2024

Chechen leader issues ominous threat after Ukrainian drone targets Putin-named university – in Chechnya.

30 October 2024

As German industry implodes, country’s wealthiest make out like bandits.

31 October 2024

Why does the West hate Russia so much?

31 October 2024

Georgia [country] election update.

31 October 2024

Admitted: how Victoria Nuland and the US, damaged Ukraine.

31 October 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: Will BRICS change Russia?

31 October 2024

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson : Can Ukraine survive as a country?

31 October 2024

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Is the West deteriorating?

01 November 2024

INTEL Round table with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern. Judge Napolitano.

03 November 2024

Western arms industry building ‘factories’ in Ukraine to make money, not arms/ammunition. New Atlas.

03 November 2024

Here’s why Trump just claimed credit for ‘killing’ Nord Stream II.

04 November 2024

Larry Johnson: Both Israel and the Ukraine inventing ‘victories’, even the NY Times admits Ukraine is in trouble.

04 November 2024

Ray McGovern: is Russia trying to influence the Trump/Harris race?

04 November 2024

German expert doesn’t believe Ukrainians blew up Nord Stream.

05 November 2024

Scott Ritter: Ukraine’s done; Israel’s in uproar.

05 November 2024

Russia’s UN Representative reaffirmed his country’s belief in a maximum victory.

06 November 2024

Zelensky goes against the will of Europe.

06 November 2024

Colonel Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine: a collapse in slow motion.

07 November 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: The Kremlin’s view of US elections and the prospects for ending the war in the Ukraine.

07 November 2024

Aaron Maté: Russia on the march.

07 November 2024

CMD CMSgt Dennis Fritz: how Neocons tricked us.

08 November 2024

INTEL Round table with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern: weekly wrap.

09 November 2024

Moldova’s pro-Western President was predictably re-elected due to the Diaspora.

09 November 2024

Goodbye to the liberal elites: Trump’s no savior, but he correctly identified America’s biggest problem. [But this analysis might already be out of date if news (12/11/24) of Trump’s appointments to senior cabinet posts are accurate.]

10 November 2024

President-elect Trump, the war in Ukraine and continuity of agenda.

10 November 2024

Germany, Trump and walking the Trans-Atlantic plank.

11 November 2024

Alastair Crooke: Will there be a Trump foreign policy?

11 November 2024

Ray McGovern: Putin, Trump and Ukraine.

11 November 2024

Larry Johnson: Kiev attacking Moscow!

11 November 2024

Scott Ritter: Ukraine’s nightmare.

11 November 2024

Trump, Xi and Putin: a dysfunctional love triangle with stakes of global significance. [Our favourite ‘academic’ just doesn’t know when to give up. Having failed miserably to predict or accurately analyse events in the Ukraine since 2022 he attempts to come up with an ‘analysis’ of international relations based on little more than wishful thinking.]

11 November 2024

How blind support for Ukraine broke Germany.

11 November 2024

Witnesses describe alleged Ukrainian war crimes in Donbass city.

12 November 2024

The Dolts who are trying to march us into WWIII – NATO head completely floored by real reporter.

12 November 2024

Matt Hoh: Can Trump control foreign policy?

12 November 2024

Lt Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski: what if Trump goes Neocon?

14 November 2024

North Korean troops in Russia could be game changer for US, Western officials believe. [making a big thing out of nothing.]

14 November 2024

Moscow rebukes UN nuclear chief.

14 November 2024

Gabbard DNI. Gaetz AG. Bolton ballistic. EU freak out as Russia wins. Economist, Elensky clueless. Alex Cristoforou.

14 November 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: will Russia protect Iran? And unravelling the intentions of Trump and his new administration.

14 November 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: should the US be at war with China?

14 November 2024

Ukraine war: following Donald Trump’s re-election, four likely scenarios are becoming clear. [Included here merely to demonstrate ‘Western’ thinking.]

14 November 2024

China just made a big move in Hungary, shocking the U.S. – what the hell is happening?!

15 November 2024

Intel round table with Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson: weekly wrap up. Judge Napolitano.

15 November 2024

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump and the Defense Department.

15 November 2024

The meltdown begins – The Grayzone live. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the liberal meltdown over the latest round of Trump picks, and what they mean for his second term agenda, particularly on the world stage. They will also cover the latest from Gaza, Lebanon, and highly revealing comments by Tony Blinken on Ukraine.

16 November 2024

Putin shuts down Scholz during call. Elensky, Pandora box is open. EU accuses China of lethal aid.

16 November 2024

Leaks expose secret British military cell plotting to ‘keep Ukraine fighting’.

17 November 2024

Biden greenlights ATACMS to hit Russia, spiting Trump. Russia missile strike targets Ukraine energy. [But the escalation might be what some in the Trump camp want.]

17 November 2024

US options narrow as Ukrainian lines continue crumbling.

18 November 2024

Alastair Crooke: the West lusts for war – including the US decision to allow the Ukrainian use of long range weapons into Russia.

18 November 2024

Pepe Escobar: Biden, BRICS and Putin.

18 November 2024

Ray McGovern: will Kiev use US missiles on Moscow?

18 November 2024

Larry Johnson: Biden’s insane authorization.

18 November 2024

Scott Ritter: Biden suddenly relevant as he begins WWIII.

18 November 2024

After 1,000 days of war, Europe must prepare for a Trump-brokered peace deal by asserting its own interests. [Our favourite ‘academic’ starts to see reality – but still ignores inconvenient facts, e.g., who actually broke the Minsk Accords.]

19 November 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: Kremlin reaction to US escalation – and the response to the attack early on the 19th November.

19 November 2024

Severed subsea internet cables raise network security questions. [Interesting that the ‘culprit’ for the break in these cables is known with hours yet ‘no one knows’ who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines more than TWO YEARS ago.]

20 November 2024

Who is authorizing Biden’s nuclear brinkmanship while the President’s brain is missing?

20 November 2024

Now, even Zelensky knows he’ll lose the war in Ukraine.

20 November 2024

Escalation from Biden.

20 November 2024

Aaron Maté: Biden’s parting Ukrainian sacrifice.

20 November 2024

Colonel Douglas MacGregor: Trump and the Storm of the Century.

20 November 2024

Ukraine launches UK long-range missiles into Russia for first time.

20 November 2024

Going out with a bang? Biden plays nuclear chicken with Russia.

20 November 2024

Russia reveals retaliation for Western seizure of its assets.

20 November 2024

Phil Giraldi: the consequences of a ‘Zionist’ Cabinet in the US on both Palestine and the Ukraine.

20 November 2024

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: who sets US Foreign Policy?

20 November 2024

UK sees privatisation ‘opportunities’ in Ukraine war.

21 November 2024

Russia needs a peace deal soon as it is running out of soldiers. [How these ‘academics’ get away with citing unreliable sources never ceases to amaze. The cited confirmation of her assumptions are circular in that they are often to other unconfirmed sources. Such is the case about North Korean soldiers on the front line. This has been asserted but never proven.]

21 November 2024

US decision to supply Kyiv with hated anti-personnel mines is both controversial and a depressing sign of the way the war is going.

21 November 2024

A new hypersonic missile, conflict escalation and a warning for NATO: What you need to know from Putin’s latest address.

21 November 2024

Scott Ritter : Russia fires first ICBM in combat for the first time in history.

21 November 2024

Colonel Douglas MacGregor: Russia fires an unstoppable ICBM into the Ukraine and the military making threatening statements about nuclear weapon use.

21 November 2024

Using missiles as diplomacy: Ukraine and Russia with John Mearsheimer. Daniel Davis, Deep Dive.

21 November 2024

The politically sensible road to Armageddon.

22 November 2024

Satellite images show Russia giving N Korea oil, breaking sanctions. [Follow the money. Open Source Centre = Royal United Services Institute = US/UK governments = US/UK intelligence services.]

22 November 2024

Russia’s updated nuke doctrine aims to deter unacceptable provocations from NATO.

22 November 2024

INTEL Round table with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern: Weekly wrap – Netanyahu arrest warrant; JFK assassination; intermediate missiles hit the Ukraine.

22 November 2024

If you want to help the world, focus on fighting the empire.

22 November2024

FT confirms what we’ve been saying for three years: the US is losing the ‘battle… for Latin America’ to China.

23 November 2024

Britain’s Challenger 2 tanks face setbacks in Ukraine war.

23 November 2024

The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks cover. [Tisdall is almost apoplectic in his Russophobia.]

24 November 2024

Dangerous escalation: Russia responds to NATO strikes with new ‘Oreshnik’ ballistic missile.

24 November 2024

Ukraine can make America rich.

24 November 2024

Russia goes savage on the UK at the UNSC, calling out its colonial mindset.

25 November 2024

Polls show most Ukrainians now support a negotiated peace as Russian advances continue. [Each time out favourite ‘academic’ starts to get things right he persists on continuing citing the Ukrainian’s lies, here about only 30,000 Ukrainian deaths,]

25 November 2024

Alastair Crooke: Deep State vs Trump. Putin ‘checkmate’ with new intermediate missile? Iran stronger than the ‘West’ thinks.

25 November 2024

Ray McGovern: taking Russia seriously – and more of the Russian intermediate ballistic missile.

25 November 2024

Larry Johnson: the recent Russian missile attack on the Ukraine is a true ‘game changer’.

25 November 2024

Scott Ritter: how close to nuclear war? Very close if the US doesn’t understand Russian strength.

25 November 2024

Pepe Escobar: Captain America’s delusions.

25 November 2024 (no exact date of publication)

Lindsey Graham helping Ukraine for a trillion.

25 November 2024

Putin is finally climbing the escalation ladder.

25 November 2024

Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t looking good for peace in Ukraine.

25 November 2024

Method or madness: Why has Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to fire long-range missiles deep inside Russia?

25 November 2024

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: bellicose statements from Trump’s appointees; donor class and military-industrial complex impairing the US.

25 November 2024

Sebastian Gorka: British intelligence asset?

26 November 2024

The West’s big lie to Russia, and why: the record, and Jeffrey Sachs’s view.

26 November 2024

The magic number is 2.5 in the UK.

26 November 2024

Why might the US let an American investor purchase the bankrupt Nord Stream project?

26 November 2024

US and UK ‘directly involved’ in Nord Stream sabotage.

26 November 2024

Aaron Maté: Biden’s reckless war escalation.

26 November 2024

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: Can Russia legally attack NATO?

26 November 2024

CMSgt Dennis Fritz (Chief): The US and genocide.

26 November 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: Russia’s deadly new missile.

27 November 2024

American mines sent to Ukraine will kill and maim civilians. That’s exactly what the West wants.

27 November 2024

Italian mercenaries exasperated in Ukraine – Corriere della Sera.

27 November 2024

Ukraine has lost almost 500,000 troops – Economist.

27 November 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: ignore Putin at your peril.

28 November 2024

Police treat Nazi monument as ‘War Memorial’ in alleged vandalism case. [Canada]

28 November 2024

Germany faces stagnation, as industrial output plummets.

28 November 2024

Ukrainians and Americans are done with this war, but it keeps escalating anyway.

28 November 2024

Warning to Kiev and missile revelations: Key takeaways from Putin’s CSTO summit address.

28 November 2024

Western Europe ‘at war’ with Russia – ex-MI6 chief.

28 November 2024

Ukrainian draftees are ‘like cornered rats’ – recruitment officer.

28 November 2024

Assessing the feasibility of a Russian gas pipeline to China through Kazakhstan.

28 November 2024

US foreign policy vs. China continues under Trump.

29 November 2024

Merkel blows a hole in Washington’s Nord Stream narrative.

30 November 2024

Deception, manipulation, sabotage: How the UK works to keep the Ukraine war going.

30 November 2024

Ukrainian tour companies cashing in on conflict.

30 November 2024

Putin reveals plan to strike Kyiv’s military targets after Oreshnik success.

01 December 2024

US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine extends to Syria.

02 December 2024

Scott Ritter: Ukraine nearing its end.

02 December 2024

Joe Biden’s Crime Bill, Black People and Hunter Biden.

04 December 2024

Blinken calls for more military conscription in Ukraine.

04 December 2024

Colonel Douglas MacGregor: covering the Ukraine, the South Korean attempted coup and Syria.

04 December 2024

Putin’s nuclear threats aim to scare the west – but Ukraine’s allies are now calling his bluff. [Another idiot ‘academic’ throws in his pennyworth to make escalation (with the threat of nuclear annihilation) more acceptable.]

04 December 2024

Washington’s war in Ukraine: narrowing options, growing consequences.

04 December 2024

Joe Biden really pardoning himself for his financial crimes in Ukraine!

05 December 2024

Blinken is pushing for Ukrainian teens to die for US hegemony.

05 December 2024

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow: What exactly is the Oreschnik missile and is it as powerful as stated. What are Russia’s next moves?

05 December 2024

UK media duped by fake ‘female North Korean soldiers in Russia’ photo.

05 December 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: our dangerous geopolitical landscape – covering international developments over the last week.

06 December 2024

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov describes the war with the US and how to end it.

06 December 2024

No Russia-US war, Ukraine ‘a tragedy’, Palestine ‘a catastrophe’: key points from the Lavrov-Carlson interview.

08 December 2024

Ukraine war latest: 43,000 dead, Volodymyr Zelensky says in rare update. [The BBC, yet again, taking Ukrainian ‘facts’ as gospel and not bothering to check – or even consider they are only for propaganda purposes.]

09 December 2024

Larry Johnson: chaos the only road for Syria and Putin’s warning to the US in the Ukraine.

11 December 2024

Patrick Lancaster: news from Tbilisi, Georgia.

12 December 2024

US targets Georgia to extend Russia: defending against America’s regime change super-weapon.

16 December 2024

Ray McGovern: history of what happened to lead up to the ‘Special Military Operation’ in the Ukraine, the deception of the West – and Putin’s trusting of Western ‘promises’.

16 December 2024

Larry Johnson: Trump and the Ukraine – and finishing about the ‘liar and coward’ Assad.

16 December 2024

Kiev names street after Holocaust perpetrator.

16 December 2024

John Mearsheimer – with Danny Davis. Putin ‘The West pushing us to our red lines’. Ukraine for the first 33 minutes then the Middle East.

17 December 2024

Karen Kwiatkowski: on the Ukraine, assassination in Moscow and a future devastated country when peace eventually arrives.

17 December 2024

Alleged chemical provocations exposed by murdered Russian general: The main cases.

18 December 2024

Nuclear war would be good for Ukraine – neo-Nazi activist.

18 December 2024

What chemical weapons is Russia accused of using and why? [As with all these ‘academics’ what is omitted is more important than what they say. Here, no mention of US backed laboratories dealing in chemical and biological research.

19 December 2024

Ian Proud – former British Diplomat to Russia: NATO, Ukraine, Russia and the assassination in Moscow.

19 December 2024

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: a confident Putin humiliates British/US ‘journalist’.

19 December 2024

Prof. John Mearsheimer: US taunts Russia – and Putin challenges the ‘West’ to a dual.

19 December 2024

It’s the biolabs, stupid: Is this why Ukraine murdered a Russian general?

20 December 2024

Intel Round-table with Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern: weekly wrap up. Judge Napolitano.

21 December 2024

Russia advances in Ukraine, pivots to Libya as US poised to continue global aggression into 2025.

22 December 2024

The science of anti-Russian propaganda. [An interesting discussion for anyone who wants to understand current (and past) international developments.]

23 December 2024

Ray McGovern: Trump, CIA, and a helpless Ukraine.

23 December 2024

Larry Johnson: Ukraine opts for terrorism – [with an interesting interlude about Panama].

26 December 2024

Zelensky admits he tried to bribe Robert Fico.

26 December 2024

Here’s how the US burned millions ‘fighting propaganda’.

30 December 2024

Energy wars: European crisis worsens as Ukraine severs key energy route to the European Union.

31 December 2024

Jimmy Carter Presidency scorched by Chomsky and Chris Hedges. Jimmy Dore.

 

October 2023 – Palestine’s ‘Tet’?

View of the world – up to end of 2022

View of the world – 2023

View of the world – 2024

The war in the Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022

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

The war in the Ukraine – what you are not told – 2025

An alternative view of the world – 2024

Lenin sweeping the world clean

Lenin sweeping the world clean

An alternative view of the world – up to end of 2022

An alternative view of the world – 2023

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023

The Ukraine – what you are not told – 2024

An alternative view of the world – 2024

A voice for the oppressed: John Pilger, radical journalist and documentarian. (1st January 2024)

John Pilger was always on the side of the oppressed. He denounced Empire and all its violent predations–war, genocide, exploitation–as well as its endless lies and propaganda.

There is a war coming, shrouded in propaganda. (1st January 2024)

John Pilger’s final essay investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the world’s two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.

Death of a hero: John Pilger RIP. (1st January 2024)

John Pilger, who has died of pulmonary fibrosis aged 84, was a journalist who never shirked from saying the unsayable. Across half a century, in newspapers and in his documentary films – many for ITV, but later also in the cinema – he became an ever stronger voice for those without a voice, and a thorn in the side of those in authority.

John Pilger: Silencing the lambs:: How propaganda works. (first published 21st August 2023)

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 Führer. 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.

Constitutional violations: Julian Assange, privacy and the CIA. (1st January 2024)

While the US Department of Justice battles to indict Assange for absurd espionage charges, various parts of his case have begun to unravel.

‘Home Desk’: The Foreign Office’s covert propaganda campaign inside Britain. (3rd January 2024)

A secret unit of the Foreign Office monitored leftist journalists, intellectuals and trade unions deemed “subversive” and sought to discredit them during the Cold War.

Will 2024 mark the end of Ursula Von Der Leyen’s EU Presidency? (5th January 2024)

With court cases and EU elections looming in the first half of this year, big question marks hang over the future of the EU Commission president.  

Assange’s rights and press freedom hang in the balance. (5th January 2024)

The deadline for Julian Assange’s fight against extradition to the United States looms, as British judges will decide his case on February 21. Meanwhile, the American demand that Wikileaks publisher Assange stand trial in Virginia on trumped-up charges is what has kept this journalist locked up in Britain’s maximum security Belmarsh jail for four years, and sequestered for refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London for seven years before that.

China’s capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty – new data suggests the opposite. (7th January 2024)

In contrast to the World Bank, we find that from 1981 to 1990 – at the end of the socialist period – China’s rate of extreme poverty was one of the lowest in the developing world. It averaged only 5.6%, compared to 51% in India, 36.5% in Indonesia and 29.5% in Brazil.

The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire (documentary film)

In the days of the British Empire, London served as the world’s most impressive financial center. As the empire began its decline, anti-colonial sentiment became more rampant and greater numbers of British territories began to strive for independence. The financial stronghold of its capital city began to deteriorate as well. The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire recounts how the country transformed to become a global financial power in the face of these challenges, and how their continued prominence shapes the world we live in today.

The UK government covertly plotted to discredit John Pilger. (8th January 2024)

The legendary foreign correspondent who has died at the age of 84 was monitored and targeted by a covert British propaganda unit.

UK Government prepares to launch massive attack on financial privacy, targeting benefits claimants and state pensioners. (9th January 2024)

The government’s Orwellian-dubbed “Data Protection and Digital Information Bill” — which, according to Stephen Cragg KC, “appears to be designed to downgrade the safeguards on the use of personal data for big business and government” — includes a proposal to grant the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) fresh powers to obtain data from banks and building societies to help detect breaches of eligibility rules for benefits, such as universal credit.

The ‘Ghost Budget’: How America pays for endless war. (9th January 2024)

There were three primary drivers of the Ghost Budget: unusual economic conditions, congressional budget dysfunction, and military assertiveness.

The social housing secret: how Vienna became the world’s most livable city. (10th January 2024)

In the Austrian capital, renters pay a third of what their counterparts do in London, Paris or Dublin. How is it possible?

Gonzalo Lira is dead (12th January 2024)

I am saddened and outraged at this news. It is a disgrace, particularly after Gonzalo reported having been tortured and extorted while in prison, that the State Department did nothing to assist him, when they clearly could have gotten him deported. But that was certain not to happen given his show on Victoria Nuland.

The American Way of Life in its foulest manifestation. (12th January 2024)

The United States has a long history of engaging in wars for economic and strategic gain, dating back to its colonial origins. From the Puritan colonization of Massachusetts to modern conflicts, the nation’s military actions have consistently prioritized profit and power over lofty ideals.

Chinese masterplan is a thing of beauty. (12th January 2024)

The Hegemon, is in a tremendous hurry: it’s all about Divide and Rule.

The general who terrorised the colonies. (15th January 2024)

General Sir Frank Kitson, who has died aged 97, saw the people of Kenya, Malaya and Northern Ireland as little more than laboratory rats to test his brutal military theories.

Controlling the World. (15th January 2024) Video.

The ‘fiction’ of money.

What happens when national governments and law enforcement agencies use biometric ID and surveillance systems illegally? (16th January 2024)

The answer, it seems, is nothing. But some governments, including the UK and Australia, are now modifying their laws to make sure it is no longer illegal. 

If Wikileaks is the enemy, then the true criminals are perpetrating a powerful feat of optics. (17th January 2024)

When Julian Assange was disgracefully arrested in 2019, he shouted, as he was dragged out of the Ecuadorean Embassy with his hands shackled to his feet, “RESIST.” His and Wikileaks‘ story is a good illustration of why resistance is so necessary, timely, and urgent.

There’s no free press without a free Assange. (18th January 2024)

In September 1918, Eugene V. Debs stood trial on several charges brought following an anti-war speech he had delivered in June, at a gathering of socialists, workers, and sympathetic friends in Canton, Ohio. For delivering his speech, critical of the United States’ entry into World War I and heralding “the emancipation of the human race,” Debs was arrested and branded a traitor and seditionist by the U.S. government.

Labor and green colonialism in the Global South. (18th January 2024)

Making a transition away from fossil fuels is going to require a lot of work. But there’s a real concern that it will also require a lot fewer workers.

Finance firms gave Labour £2m in two years before banker bonuses U-turn. (1st February 2024)

Bankers and City-linked firms have handed Labour the equivalent of £2m since the party launched its charm offensive on big business in 2022, openDemocracy analysis of Electoral Commission data shows.

The concept of Just War and outlines of the Just War Theory in International Relations. (5th February 2024)

[Here] is a useful primer on the evolution of thinking around what constitutes a just war and an outline of what are now considered to be the key parameters. You’ll note that a just war can take place only between states, leaving wars of liberation and revolutions as presumed unjust.

Why is Tony Blair so keen for the UK’s National Health Service to sell off its patients’ health data to private companies? (6th February 2024)

What is being proposed is obviously a terrible deal for NHS patients. But could the Tony Blair Institute’s biggest donor benefit handsomely?

A visit to Julian Assange in prison. (7th February 2024)

In Mid-December 2023, Charles Glass, the esteemed writer, journalist, broadcaster, and publisher visited with Julian Assange, an inmate at Belmarsh Prison in the U.K. Assange has been confined there since April, 2019. He is awaiting his final appeal to quash U.S. efforts to extradite him.

From the History of Western War Crimes: The Dresden Massacre (February 1945) (15th February 2024)

That night in this one raid alone, more than 45,000 men, women, and children were killed in Hamburg. Half the houses in the city were destroyed, and more than a million Germans had to flee into the surrounding countryside.

CIA had foreign allies spy on Trump Team, triggering Russia collusion hoax. (15th February 2024)

In truth, the US IC asked the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance to surveil Trump’s associates and share the intelligence they acquired with US agencies, say sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation. The Five Eyes nations are the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

How the CIA destabilizes the World. Jeffrey Sachs.(15th February 2024)

If only the CIA’s rogue operations had been consigned to history as a result of the crimes exposed by the Church Committee, or at the least had brought the CIA under the rule of law and public accountability. But that was not to be.

MPs must oppose US/UK nuclear arms accord. (15th February 2024)

A little known but long standing nuclear weapons agreement between Washington and London is up for renewal – and must be challenged.

The Tory appointee holding Julian Assange’s life in her hands. (16th February 2024)

Judge Dame Victoria Sharp’s family have attained high-level positions in the British establishment after being appointed by Conservative ministers.

Crocodile tears over Navalny while ignoring Assange. (17th February 2024)

The entire western political-media class are currently rending their garments about the prison death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and are being joined by the propaganda-addled citizenry of the western empire. Meanwhile Julian Assange’s last-ditch effort to appeal against extradition to the United States is coming up in a few days with a tiny fraction of the attention.

John J Mearsheimer speaks on behalf of Julian Assange. (17th February 2024). Short video.

Russiagate revived in latest MI6 operation against Russia — ‘A Spy Alone’ is spy baloney. (17th February 2024)

Just like those horrible movie franchises that lumber on through zombified sequels and prequels, Russiagate is getting a revival in the UK via a ludicrous tale of Russia being the moving force behind the Brexit vote.

Julian Assange’s Final Appeal – Chris Hedges. (18th February 2024)

Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.

Julian Assange’s moment of truth has arrived – and the stakes are high. (18th February 2024)

If his appeal fails this week, the WikiLeaks founder could soon be on a plane towards a potential jail term of 175 years.

We’ve been lied to all along. (19th February 2024)

What brought down World Trade Centre Building 7?

Julian Assange judge previously acted for MI6. (19th February 2024)

The judge set to rule on the Assange extradition case was previously paid to represent the interests of MI6 and the Ministry of Defence – whose activities WikiLeaks has exposed.

What’s at stake for Julian Assange—and the rest of us. (19th February 2024)

On February 20 and 21, the High Court of Justice in London will conduct a hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal the court’s earlier decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face 17 charges under the Espionage Act and one for computer crime, with a Methuselan prison sentence of 175 years. This, even though Julian is not an American citizen (he’s Australian), and he was not under U.S. jurisdiction when the “crimes” were allegedly committed.

Electric water wars: It’s a dam crazy world. (20th February 2024)

We live in a world of dangerous, deadly extremes. Record-breaking heat waves, intense drought, stronger hurricanes, unprecedented flash flooding. No corner of the planet will be spared the wrath of human-caused climate change and the earth’s fresh water is already feeling the heat of this new reality.

This is a panel I moderated on Monday evening with Stella Assange, attorney Jennifer Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, at The Frontline Club in London. Chris Hedges Report. (20th February 2024)

The last days of Julian Assange in Britain. (20th February 2024)

The WikiLeaks publisher’s long and winding road through England’s legal system could soon be up. What he faces next is terrifying.

Julian Assange’s Day in Court. (21st February 2024)

Julian Assange’s lawyers — in a final bid on Tuesday to stop his extradition — fought valiantly to poke holes in the case of the prosecution to obtain an appeal.

A panel discussion I took part in with former UK Ambassador Craig Murray and other diplomats, activists and journalists following the first day of Julian Assange’s final appeal hearing. Chris Hedges Report. (21st February 2024)

Julian Assange’s Grand Inquisitor. Chris Hedges. (22nd February 2024)

The prosecution lawyers in the High Court seeking to ensure Julian’s extradition to the U.S. rely almost exclusively on the judicial opinions of Gordon Kromberg, a highly controversial U.S. attorney.

Identifying imperial venality: Day One of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal. (22nd February 2024)

On February 20, it was clear that things were not going to be made easy for Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who infuriated the US imperium, the national security establishment, and a stable of journalists upset that he had cut their ill-tended lawns. He was too ill to attend what may well be the final appeal against his extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States. Were he to be sent to the US, he faces a possible sentence amounting to 175 years arising from 18 venally cobbled charges, 17 spliced from that archaic horror, the Espionage Act of 1917.

Veterans Minister suspected S.A.S. of war crimes. (22nd February 2024)

Johnny Mercer changed the law to protect soldiers from “vexatious” prosecutions. Now the minister admits he always thought some were guilty of war crimes.

Imperial venality defends itself: Day Two of Julian Assange’s High Court Appeal. (23rd February 2024)

On February 21, the Royal Courts of Justice hosted a second day of carnivalesque mockery regarding the appeal by lawyers representing an ill Julian Assange, whose publishing efforts are being impugned by the United States as having compromised the identities of informants while damaging national security. Extradition awaits, only being postponed by rearguard actions such as what has just been concluded at the High Court.

CIA’s torture and abuse: America’s shame! (23rd February 2024)

The legacy of the CIA’s torture and abuse program continues to obstruct the Guantanamo trials of those responsible for the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000; the 9/11 bombings in 2001; and the nightclub bombing in Indonesia in 2002. The various defendants were subjected to waterboarding in CIA secret prisons; painful shackling; and solitary confinement in darkened dungeon-like conditions for years.

The Rich versus Poor Country stakes at the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference this month in Abu Dhabi. (24th February 2024)

The new Global Majority is challenging the established economic powers in more and more venues. Here we see power struggle expected at the upcoming WTO.

On Unipolarity – discussion between John Mearsheimer and judge Napolitano. (24th February 2024)

They also discussed the depressing course of events in both the Gaza War and the Ukraine War.

How to know if a news-medium is honest. (26th February 2024)

The most-accurate — the FIRST — single measure of whether a given news-medium is honest and deserves to be called “journalism,” or else is dishonest and deserves to be called “propaganda,” is whether that news-medium refers to the U.S. Government as being a “dictatorship” (or an “aristocracy” or “oligarchy,” which is its type of dictatorship), or instead as a “democracy” (or a “democratic republic,” which is the type of ‘democracy’ that the U.S. Government claims to be).

Imperial cartoons – the great Nalvalny hypocrisy. (26th February 2024)

The caricatures are of three men whose lives are, in one way or another, of great, indeed, of so obsessively great importance to The Empire that if feels it imperative to control absolutely what you think of or about these men. This is odd, because two of the men are dead, and one might suppose their need to make you understand them properly would be less important than when they were living, but that’s not how it works in The Empire. The three are Alexei Navalny, Gonzalo Lira, and Julian Assange.

Trident missile failure exposes folly of nuclear weapons. (26th February 2024)

Britain’s nuclear arsenal has failed two tests in a row. Why must we still pay for these extortionate weapons of mass destruction?

Navalny organization splits into Whites and Reds as lies multiply. (27th February 2024)

John Helmer is continuing to follow l’affaire Navalny, having documented that Navalny appears to have cut his wife entirely out of his will. That is not surprising given other accounts that Navalny’s wife was living off his money and name while swanning about with another man and not even bothering to visit Navalny in prison.

UK Government sued over NHS’s heavily redacted contract with US Spytech firm Palantir. (27th February 2024)

Even critical paragraphs on how NHS patients’ personal data will be handled have been blacked out.

US refuses to assure UK judges that Assange won’t be executed if he’s extradited. (27th February 2024)

UK law prohibits extradition to a country that may impose capital punishment.

The October 7th America has forgotten. (28th February 2024)

And the war deaths we no longer protest (or even think about). [A strange article this, but included here to remind ourselves that although the most vicious Gaza is not the only conflict initiated and sustained by the US.]

Assange: Our enemy of the State. (1st March 2024)

The intensity of the legal and information campaign against Julian Assange demonstrates the fragility of our soi-disant leaders. Even though he exposed war crimes and dirty election dealings, they did not represent threat to security. But you’d never know that if you listened to the calls for him to be drawn and quartered.

The Chris Hedges Report with Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Gretchen Morgenson on how Private Equity billionaires bought up America and turned workers into serfs. (1st March 2024). Video discussion.

Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War. (1st March 2024)

Ryan Grim speaks to Stuart Reid about his new book, “The Lumumba Plot.” Audio podcast.

Mistakes, misfiring and Trident: Britain’s flawed nuclear deterrence. (4th March 2024)

Nuclear weapons are considered the strategic silverware of nation states. Occasionally, they are given a cleaning and polishing. From time to time, they go missing, fail to work, and suffer misplacement. Of late, the UK Royal Navy has not been doing so well in that department, given its seminal role in upholding the doctrine of nuclear deterrence. In January, an unarmed Trident II D5 nuclear missile fell into the Atlantic Ocean after a bungled launch from a Royal Navy submarine.

Top Secret document exposes UK role in Ghana Coup. (4th March 2024)

The UK Foreign Office conducted a covert propaganda campaign to help remove Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah in 1966.

Global pet craze is becoming a major contributor to the extinction crisis. (6th March 2024)

In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—announced that about 1 million species around the world are threatened with extinction.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s potential conflicts of interest are by now too big to ignore. (8th March 2024)

Sunak’s father-in-law’s company, Indian tech giant (and digital identity developer) Infosys, has been doing a roaring business with UK government departments since his son-in-law became chancellor and then PM.  

The reach of JSOC ‘the President’s Private Army’. (8th March 2024)

Even though the existence of these special forces is not a surprise, the scale of their operation might be.

How Madeleine Albright got the war the U.S. wanted [in Yugoslavia]. (8th March 2024)

Twenty-five years have passed since the U.S.-orchestrated NATO attack on Yugoslavia. As the United States readied its forces for war in 1999, it organized a peace conference that was ostensibly intended to resolve differences between the Yugoslav government and secessionist ethnic Albanians in Kosovo on the future status of the province. A different scenario was being played out behind the scenes, however. U.S. officials wanted war and deliberately set up the process to fail, which they planned to use as a pretext for war.

The campaign to free Assange: reflections on Night Falls. (11th March 2024)

The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos. People gather; debates held. Views converge; others diverge. Speakers are invited to stir the invitees, provoke the grey cells. Till artificial intelligence banishes such gatherings, and the digital cosmos swallows us whole, cherish these events.

Gen. Mark Milley’s Second Act: Multimillionaire. (14th March 2024)

Former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, has transitioned to lucrative roles at JPMorgan Chase, Princeton, and Georgetown post-retirement.

Why has Niger declared US military presence in its territory illegal? (19th March 2024)

Only months after forcing its former colonizer France to withdraw its troops, Niger, West Africa’s largest country, has said the presence of US troops is illegal. This could be a major blow to the US military’s power-projection capacity in the region.

Cutting the Pentagon down to size. (20th March 2024)

In an age when American presidents routinely boast of having the world’s finest military, where nearly trillion-dollar war budgets are now a new version of routine, let me bring up one vitally important but seldom mentioned fact: making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security.

Inside the anti-Syria lobby’s Capitol Hill push for more starvation sanctions. (20th March 2024)

A week from the 13th anniversary of the US-backed Syrian dirty war, the American Coalition for Syria held its annual day of advocacy in Washington DC. I went undercover into meetings with Senate policy advisors and witnessed the lobby’s cynical campaign to starve Syria into submission.

PEN America self-destructs – Chris Hedges (23rd March 2024)

In May 2013 I resigned from PEN America over the appointment of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state.

The Empire’s surprise. (23rd March 2024)

The American press, has become a mouthpiece for deceit. The collapse of this empire is inevitable.

NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia: a quarter century later. (25th March 2024)

Over the years, much has been written about the consequences of this aggression – about the blatant violation of the principles of international law, as the UN did not sanction any military action against a sovereign state; about numerous human rights violations during the bombings; about orchestrated propaganda campaigns against Serbs, which had nothing to do with reality; and about the impact of the war on the civilian population – from post-traumatic syndrome to the increase in oncological diseases due to the use of depleted uranium ammunition.

The shameful way that the American empire is ending. (25th March 2024)

The American empire — which is now the largest empire in history — is ending not only with defeats on every front, but with the historically profound stigma of being one of the two perpetrators (the other and more-publicized one being Israel) of the largest ethnic-cleansing operation (to remove all of the 2.3 million Gazans from Gaza) ever since Hitler’s ethnic-cleansing campaign ended.

West Papua: The torture mode of governance. (25th March)

Budi Hernawan said it ten years ago: “torture in Papua … has become a mode of governance.” It hasn’t stopped. It’s got worse. It’s got worse precisely because it’s a mode of governance accepted and blessed by the international “community” whose neoliberal politics of extraction means extermination of anything and anyone getting in its way.

Deterrence by savagery? (25th March 2024)

The West’s historical success was rooted in organized violence, rather than its proclaimed values.

The Buoyancy of Psychopaths and the Genesis of the Great Asian War. (25th March 2024)

On the eve of the Great Asian War against China, in a rousing speech, Biden assured the American people that the war was necessary because China was the most dangerous country in Latin America and didn’t have American values.

Assange’s ‘reprieve’ is another lie, hiding the real goal of keeping him endlessly locked up. (26th March 2024)

The US has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so. The UK court’s latest ruling is yet more collusion in his show trial.

Julian Assange wins temporary reprieve in case against extradition to US. (26th March 2024)

This decision offers a temporary reprieve but leaves Assange’s future uncertain.

The empire slowly suffocates Assange like it slowly suffocates all its enemies.(27th March 2024)

The British High Court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may potentially get a final appeal against extradition to the United States, but only within a very limited scope and only if specific conditions are met.

The Crucifixion of Julian Assange. (27th March 2024)

British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point.

How CIA and MI6 created ISIS. (31st March 2024)

Contrary to their mainstream portrayal, as inspired purely by religious fundamentalism, Daesh are primarily guns for hire.

Is justice finally catching up with Ursula von der Leyen? (5th April 2024)

Prosecutors “could theoretically seize phones and other relevant material from Commission offices or in other European countries,” as they expand their criminal probe into the Pfizergate scandal.  
 

The Mechanism: how the “order” based on made-up rules is descending into savagery. (9th April 2024)

Anyone applying critical thinking to the world around us can feel the collapse of the system.

Spies and their lies: the trials and tribulations at Guantanamo. (10th April 2024)

“And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”

The biblical quotation engraved on the marble walls of the lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia.

‘Quaint and obsolete?’ (10th April 2024)

Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released I am Gitmo, a feature movie about the now-infamous Guantánamo Bay detention facility. As I was soon to discover, those two disparate events in my life spoke to one another with cosmic overtones.

Greece just gave a glimpse of how the EU’s ‘voluntary’ Digital ID Wallet will gradually become mandatory. (12th April 2024)

The EU Commission has repeatedly stated that EU citizens will not face discrimination or exclusion for not using its new digital identity wallet. However, the Greek government just signalled its intent to do just that. 

Inside the global arms industry: what a secretive London trade fair reveals about international weapons sales. (12th April 2024)

One of the world’s largest arms fairs, Defence and Security Exhibition International (DSEI), takes place every two years at the ExCeL centre, a vast exhibition space in London Docklands. The venue usually hosts food, cosmetics and car events, but DSEI is a trade show for weapons.

War makes humans the most dangerous species. (13th April 2024)

To the victor goes the spoils, so it’s said, but a planet despoiled by thermonuclear war, cast into darkness, ravaged by radiation, disease, and death, would, of course, offer no victory to anyone.

House votes to approve law allowing warrantless surveillance of US citizens. (13th April 2024)

Fisa allows for monitoring of foreign communications, as well as collection of citizens’ messages and calls.

Eight decades after the Spanish Civil War, is Spain’s slow exhumation of its traumatic past a signal that it is ready to build a culture of memory? (15th April 2024)

Three people work in silence over a hole in the ground. They are hunched over, on their knees. One of them lays down to make it easier to manoeuvre. In front of them is a collection of bones: arms, pelvis, ribs emerging from deep in the ground; skulls too, several of them. At least five can be seen from above. Below, there are at least five more.

Assange extradition case moves forward while the CIA covers its tracks. (17th April 2024)

So they’re really doing it. The Biden administration is really ignoring Australia’s request to end the case against Julian Assange, and they’re proceeding with their campaign to extradite a journalist for telling the truth about US war crimes.

U.S. Government bullies weak nations. (19th April 2024)

Weak nations have long been terrified at the power that the U.S. regime has to destroy them such as has happened most recently with the CIA’s and U.S. military’s efforts ever since 2012 to grab control over Syria’s Government, and such as what the U.S. regime did to Iraq in 2003 and in its ever-continuing military occupation there (all on the basis of lies), and such as it did to Libya, and to so many other weak nations.

Britain’s covert propaganda campaign over Kosovo. (22nd April 2024)

Declassified files show how officials in Tony Blair’s government planted unattributable material in media outlets and coordinated a network to convince the public that its 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia was “a just cause”.

How to not get along with Apocalypses in other countries. (24th April 2024)

Gaza is a US-backed apocalypse and all of the Global South has been living through various grades and shades of apocalypse for decades and centuries. Ignored starvation, colonization, massacres and coups, torture, media belittlement, and erasure of identity, culture and history.

The Trump-Biden rematch is a stunning image of the Decline and Fall of the USA. (24th April 2024)

With those two old men, one of whom is also bizarre beyond compare, wrestling each other for the presidency, this country is threatening in its own odd fashion, like the USSR in 1991, to come apart at the seams.

Ignorance, its uses and nurture. (26th April 2024)

Democracy is flawed due to widespread public ignorance about international and national affairs. The article asserts that the public’s limited understanding makes functional democracy unattainable.

The wars come home. (28th April 2024)

As Russia continues to grind down Ukraine and Israel does the same to Gazans, with heavy US involvement in both arenas, it’s worth remembering how tools used and lessons learned in theaters of combat typically find their way back to the US to be used on American citizens.

How private ‘charities’ now replace the CIA for carrying out U.S. coups. (1st May 2024)

The Crucial Role that the ‘Nonprofits’ (‘Charities’ “NGOs”) Owned by U.S. Billionaires, Play in Fomenting ‘Revolutions’ (Coups) Abroad for the U.S.

New laws are turning police into ‘Supercitizens’. (May 8th 2024)

A series of legislative and judicial efforts have removed police oversight from oversight boards and communities.

A sick, dystopian system worth overthrowing. (10th May 2024)

Many friends and allies, especially younger ones, have been getting The Lecture from older Democratic Party relatives or friends – the Lesser Evil Lecture.

EU Commission plans to strip funding from Public Prosecutors investigating Ursula von der Leyen’s Pfizergate scandal. (17th May 2024)

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is facing a number of legal challenges over the Pfizergate scandal, including from the New York Times, the governments of Hungary and Poland, a Belgian lobbyist and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, or EPPO.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wins bid to appeal extradition to US. (20th May 2024)

Julian Assange has been granted a full appeal over his US extradition. His wife hailed the decision as a turning point, while Amnesty International praised it as rare positive news for press freedom.

De-dollarization Bombshell: The coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem.

Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working group set up by the BRICS+ Business Council and has a serious shot at becoming official BRICS+ policy as early as in 2025.

The slow-motion execution of Julian Assange continues. (24th May 2024)

The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.

SouthCom Commander Laura Richardson just described ‘Plan Colombia’ as a success, a model for the region. (24th May 2024)

Even the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has admitted that Plan Colombia was a resounding failure from a counter-narcotics perspective while providing short-term benefits from a counter-insurgency perspective.  

Set the killers free: the pardoning of Daniel Perry. (24th May 2024)

In one of the most egregious uses of the pardon power since Bill Clinton freed billionaire tax cheat, Israeli agent and international fugitive Marc Rich as the clock struck midnight on his lamentable administration, last week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott freed an avowed racist who ran a red light, before plunging his car into a crowd of protesters and fatally shooting a man who was trying to protect people from being run over. Abbott granted the killer a pardon, even though the gunman had been obsessed for months with the idea of killing BLM activists.

The indicted Congressman’s Club. (24th May 2024)

Well-deserved indictments keep hitting Congress. The latest indicted legislator is Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, the politician backed by former House speaker Nancy Pelosi in his last election, against a more progressive opponent, of course.

‘To be America’s friend is fatal’: A current overview. (26th May 2024)

“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

-Henry Kissinger

When one looks today out over the carnage and destruction on the periphery of a declining empire, have those words ever been so true? One twist, nowadays, might be that to be America’s enemy is actually beneficial due to the parade of unforced errors by the falling hegemon.

Von der Leyen proposes ‘vaccines’ for minds and a ‘shield’ for democracy. (26th May 2024)

The European Commission president‘s campaign features an unprecedented preventive crackdown on wrongthink.

King Charles accepted award from Nazi veteran. (28th May 2024)

Charles received honorary degree from Ukrainian Nazi veteran when he was Prince of Wales in 1983.

Jeffrey Sachs: The untold history of the Cold War, CIA coups around the world, and Covid’s origin. (28th May 2024)

Professor Jeffrey Sachs is the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is the author of many best selling books, including The End of Poverty and The Ages of Globalization. Here he is with probably the smartest and most accurate assessment of the Ukraine war, and American foreign policy more broadly, ever caught on tape.

The West foments chaos in the Caucasus. (29th May 2024)

Wedged between Russia, Iran, and Eastern Europe the Caucasus are considered a crossroads in more ways than one. That can be an uncomfortable place to be nowadays as great power games pick up steam. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and if we throw Türkiye in here as well, are all struggling in their own ways to navigate the pressure cooker.

How long must he wait? Assange wins right to appeal. (7th June 2024)

Washington and London have inflicted great damage on Assange, being directly and deliberately responsible for his mental and physical deterioration, no doubt in the hopes that his death will end what has become a very nettlesome publicity fiasco.

Two views on the future/importance of the US Dollar as it stands in June 2024.

The Petrodollar ended on June 9th; Sauds no longer ally with U.S. (13th June 2024)

The 50-year-old petrodollar agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia was just allowed to expire. The term “petrodollar” refers to the U.S. dollar’s role as the currency used for crude oil transactions on the world market.

‘Dollar doomsters have got it all wrong‘. (13th June 2024)

There’s been an odd failure to question the claims about the dollar being past its sell-by date date even as it trades at lofty levels, including relative to the Euro, renminbi, and rouble. For instance, the dollar is at .93 Euro, well above its 5 five-year low of .82 in January 2020, as in well before the US shock-and-awe sanctions against Russia and ring-leading an asset freeze (EU banks actually hold way more than US banks).

David Lammy’s big idea: Nothing will change under Labour. (13th June 2024)

The man who wants to be foreign secretary is reassuring elite audiences that UK foreign policy will not seriously change under a Keir Starmer government – a strategy confirmed in Labour’s election manifesto.

In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible. (15th June 2024)

We live in a world of make-believe politics, a world where strings pulled in the interests of the super-rich are ever more visible. And yet we are expected to pretend we cannot see those strings. More astonishing still, many people really do seem blind to the puppet show.

Britain spends £12,000 a minute on nuclear weapons. (17th June 2024)

The lavish spending would continue under Labour.

The free trade myth: how the US manipulates global markets for economic supremacy. (17th June 2024)

In the rules-based multilateral trading system of today, China has not entirely played by the rules either. But China hasn’t come close to trying to change the rules to work in their favour as much as the US. So, who’s really cheating here?

Cheap and lethal: The Pentagon’s plan for the next drone war. (17th June 2024)

UAVs continually kill civilians, but the U.S. military wants to expand its arsenal with an army of new, mass-produced kamikaze AI drones.

Reuters reveals secret U.S. Government Anti-China Operation to increase Covid-19 deaths In East Asia and Pacific. (17th June 2024)

On June 14th, Reuters headlined Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic:

Land grabs squeeze rural poor worldwide. (18th June 2024)

Since 2008, farmland acquisitions have doubled prices worldwide, squeezing family farmers and other poor rural communities. Such land grabs are worsening inequality, poverty, and food insecurity.

The US list of countries allegedly sponsors of terrorism: Another imperialistic scam. (19th June 2024)

In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony. Placing a country in the US list of countries sponsors for terrorism is intended to lend some phony legitimacy to UCMs imposed against targeted States.

The unreported irony of Hunter Biden’s conviction. (19th June 2024)

It has gone largely, if not completely, unremarked in all the verbiage spun out by the 24-hour news cycle in the US media that the law under which the president’s son, Hunter Biden was convicted on three felony counts, was something pushed by his own dad, Joe Biden as part of his effort to “lock up drug users” for lengthy terms in 1994.

British Government invents phantom Skripals to refuse to testify in the Novichok Inquiry. (23rd June 2024)

A new lawyer appeared in a London court on Friday claiming to represent Sergei and Yulia Skripal. Jack Holborn, a barrister specializing in what he calls human rights,  told Lord Anthony Hughes, who is conducting a public inquiry into the alleged Novichok death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018, that the Skripals should not be called to give evidence or testify in the case.

Julian Assange strikes plea deal, Will return to Australia. (24th June 2024)

In April, President Joe Biden said he was “considering” dropping charges against the WikiLeaks founder.

Assange is free, but justice has not been done. (25th June 2024)

Justice would look like Assange being granted a full and unconditional pardon and receiving millions of dollars in compensation from the US government for the torment they put him through by his imprisonment in Belmarsh beginning in 2019, his de facto imprisonment in the Ecuadorian embassy beginning in 2012, and his jailing and house arrest beginning in 2010.

Washington frets as Chinese Company Cosco wraps up construction of South America’s largest deep sea port. (25th June 2024)

“Due to its potential size and volume of operations, Peru’s Chancay mega-port is destined to become a nerve centre of international trade.” And it will be exclusively controlled by Cosco. 

It was the media, led by the Guardian, that kept Julian Assange behind bars. (26th June 2024)

The media’s villainy will soon be erased because it writes the script telling us what’s going on in the world.

Corruption, fraud, personal revenge – welcome to the U.S. Congress! (26th June 2024)

A growing number of Congressmen are being investigated by U.S. law enforcement agencies. They are accused of using their official positions to commit crimes.

Kyrgyzstan in its struggle for sovereignty. (26th June 2024)

Can Russia strengthen the statehood of a friendly republic and improve Eurasian integration?

You saved Julian Assange – Chris Hedges (26th June 2024)

After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.

70 years of the CIA-organized Coup in Guatemala. (27th June 2024)

In the 1950s, the United States began to actively apply the practice of overthrowing foreign governments.

Ursula von der Leyen: Beyond redemption. (27th June 2024)

To be accused of impropriety on one occasion may be regarded as a misfortune but to be accused on four occasions looks like carelessness. (With apologies to Oscar Wilde)

Yanis Varoufakis on Julian Assange’s release. (27th June 2024). Video.

The release of Julian Assange: Plea deals and dark legacies. (27th June 2024)

One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate of Julian Assange seems determinative.

What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July? (4th July 2024)

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but to remind all of its continuing enslavement of millions of people.

Will a Keir Starmer Government make digital identity a reality in the UK? (5th July 2024)

Big tech and fintech companies would certainly like to think so, as too does the City of London Corporation and Starmer’s mentor, Tony Blair. 

Why is Joe Biden not being tried for bribery and conspiracy? (5th July 2024)

And why are America’s ‘news’-media covering this up?

Who is Starmer – and where does he come from (and why)? (6th July 2024)

Discussion on the statistics about the UK General Election and the character of Starmer. (The first 45 minutes or so of the video – but the rest is also worth a watch.)

It is now Labour’s turn to expand the piecemeal privatisation of the UK’s National Health Service. (9th July 2024)

The UK’s new Labour government is only six days old but its grand project to further privatise the National Health Service (NHS) is already up and running. On his first day in office, “über-Blairite” Health Secretary (and wannabe prime minister) Wes Streeting announced that the NHS was “broken,” which should give his ministry plenty of leeway to inflict further damage while blaming all the resulting chaos and destruction on the last 14 years of Tory government.

Lovebombed by lobbyists: How Labour became the party of Big Business. (9th July 2024)

An openDemocracy investigation reveals the secretive mass lobbying campaign that shaped Starmer’s policies.

European election records highest turnout in 25 Years – but it is still barely 50%. (10th July 2024)

Brussels is indeed happy to note the Euro-friendly parties of the establishment have won the majority of the seats. However, they seem to omit the obvious facts. 50% of the population did not vote at the election, roughly 15% voted for various political groups at the far-right end of the political spectrum, another 7-8% voted for far-left-leaning groups and the Greens.

Something rotten in the State of Albion. (11th July 2024)

All imperial powers eventually wither away. Some through war, some through economic decline, some as a result of a smorgasbord of internal contradictions, and most through a combination of these. But even long after a state’s primacy has crumbled, the ruling class perpetuates myths designed to maintain a semblance of importance and respect.

How far goods travel: global transport and supply chains from 1965-2020. (13th July 2024)

Disruptions from conflicts, climate change, and the pandemic have raised the question of whether today’s supply chains and transportation networks [are] more resilient or vulnerable.

UK Government and Israeli energy firm are preparing to drill for oil in disputed seas off Falkland Islands (Malvinas). (16th July 2024)

The Malvinas, or Falkland Islands, dispute is back in the headlines in Argentina, albeit not on the front pages. The cause this time is mineral. For over a decade, the British government, together with the British company Rockhopper, has been exploring the islands’ waters for oil. And they appear to have finally struck black gold — purportedly some 500 million barrels of the stuff.

For the rest of the world, the U.S. President has always been above the law. (16th July 2024)

Americans will now know what a lack of accountability means.

EU elites are still treating Africans as savages that need ‘educating’. (17th July 2024)

The West regularly reveals its patronizing attitude towards Africa, and this is disturbing

How Big Pharma preys on poor countries – and patients pay the price. (18th July 2024)

US readers often hear tales of egregious Big Pharma price gouging, particularly for medications that are essential in treating dangerous conditions. Patients here are regularly told, regularly with specific examples, of how much cheaper anti-cancer meds or insulin are in other countries.

Looking ahead, but not forward, to five more years of “Queen” Ursula von der Leyen. (19th July 2024)

After five years of overseeing creeping digital censorship, corruption, economic decline, war and institutional support for genocide, Von der Leyen has been given five more years to do more of the same, or worse.

In major shift, British newspapers begin warning of perils of cashless society after global IT outage. (23rd July 2024)

The mainstream media has, until now, played a key role in advancing the Global War on Cash — a war that began with no official declaration but in which propaganda, as with all wars, is a vital weapon.

Is the food industry concealing possible destruction of the Tropics from the public? (24th July 2024)

Palm oil is one of the most used vegetable oils in the world and is found in a large variety of packaged products, from shampoos and lipstick to cookies and frozen pizza.

Massive US-led naval exercises in Hawaii and Pacific islands reflect over a century of colonial exploitation of the region. (25th July 2024)

Since the last week in June, navies and naval assets from 29 countries have been taking part the world’s largest naval exercises. The US-led Rimpac 2024 (Exercise Rim of the Pacific), the 29th such exercise to be held since 1971, claims to promote “a free and open Indo-Pacific”. But many of the Indigenous peoples of this region, which covers more than 50% of the Earth’s surface, don’t see it that way at all.

US sanctions policy ‘out of control’ – Washington Post. (25th July 2024)

Sixty percent of low-income countries have been economically punished by the US, an in-depth report by the outlet has claimed.

Dear West: your ‘Age of Monsters’ has begun. (25th July 2024)

Antonio Gramsci was not a professional philosopher. His intellect was refreshingly situated within an inherent bias towards the common people, the ‘subaltern’ classes, particularly the working class.

More poverty for the poor. (25th July 2024)

Many low-income countries (LICs) continue to slip further behind the rest of the world. Meanwhile, people in extreme poverty have been increasing again after decades of decline.

‘No children in the village’: Tribes’ losses to Indian boarding schools. (30th July 2024)

“My aunt said after we all left, after the planes came and we all left, she said the village was so quiet because there was no children. No children in the village,” another student from Alaska told a panel convened to hear from boarding students…

Starvation in Sudan. (31st July 2024)

Sudan is home to the world’s largest hunger crisis, as the war continues to devastate lives and livelihoods. As in Gaza, the deprivation is deliberate.

The Venezuelan people stay with the Bolivarian Revolution. (31st July 2024)

On July 28, the 70th birthday of Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), Nicolás Maduro Moros won the Venezuelan presidential election, the fifth since the Bolivarian Constitution was ratified in 1999. In January 2025, Maduro will start his third six-year term as president.

OpenAI closes its mind and opens yours. (31st July 2024)

In 2022, the CIA was celebrating its 75th anniversary and the NSA its 70th. Snowden, who worked for both agencies, seems intent on making sure the reader knows that the work they do isn’t always honorable or in the service of national security.

US research stations in Peru and elsewhere prepare for Biowarfare. (31st July 2024)

The U.S. government began preparing for biological warfare during World War II. Biological weapons were employed during the Korean War against North Korea and China.

Venezuela: an attempted coup by any other name. (2nd August 2024)

Once again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organized crime and a cyber-attack.

Blank checks for war: Congressional abdication from Tonkin to Gaza. (2nd August 2024)

Sixty years ago, on August 7, 1964, Congress handed President Lyndon Johnson the power to wage a major war in Vietnam, solidifying its long-standing deference to the presidency on foreign policy. Not once since World War II has Congress exercised its constitutional responsibility to vote on declarations to decide if, when, and where the United States goes to war.

U.S. sanctions have devastated Venezuela. How does that help democracy? (2nd August 2024)

In the chaotic aftermath of Maduro’s contested reelection, the case that U.S. policy worked in Venezuela is on shaky ground.

National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise fairness, transparency of Venezuelan election process. (5th August 2024)

National Lawyers Guild electoral observers condemn the U.S. backed opposition’s refusal to accept the outcome of democratic election

What’s the best way forward for Bangladesh after its regime change surprisingly succeeded? (6th August 2024)

What just happened in Bangladesh is ominously similar to 2014’s “EuroMaidan” in Ukraine where legitimate grievances gave rise to a nationwide protest movement that was then co-opted by political opportunists, radicals, and external forces to carry out regime change like the West wanted.

The undemocratic reality of capitalism. (6th August 2024)

Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No matter how many times that is repeated, it is simply not true and never was.

What is the Milei Government doing with Argentina’s gold? (6th August 2024)

Where is Argentina’s gold?

This is a question that began doing the rounds, particularly in Argentina’s financial media, a few weeks ago.

If anyone got toppled in Venezuela, it was Juan Guaidó. (7th August 2024)

Despite the disapproval of Western governments and their cronies, the elections in Venezuela were conducted at an enviable level of democracy. Nicolás Maduro won a competitive struggle against opposition candidate Edmundo González and gained 51% of support against the latter’s 44%.

The Myanmar mess. (12th August 2024)

For those of you, like me, who have grievous little understanding of Myanmar, this presentation provides a history, particularly of British misrule and the major ethnic groups, discusses the interests and actions of the major powers, and reviews the recent fighting and the prospects for Myanmar.

Zombie wells: a $280 billion problem the U.S. can’t ignore. (17th August 2024)

It also confirms the consequences of subsidizing gas and fuel prices with no thought of the long-term consequences. Properly pricing oil and LNG production would include requiring large reserves for clean-up after shut-down and ongoing liability to operators.

Defence correspondents: the journalistic wing of the military? (19th August 2024)

There are stenographers – and then there are UK defence correspondents.

The Chokepoint: a ubiquitous and powerful tool for strategic analysis. (25th August 2024)

Everybody knows what chokepoints are — think a robber baron stretching a chain across the Rhine to collect tolls — but nobody seems to have noticed how ubiquitous the checkpoint concept is, or in how many contexts it appears.

What Kamala Harris meant by ‘most lethal fighting force’ in her DNC speech. (27th August 2024)

The Pentagon buzzword can apply to anything from missiles to pepperoni pizzas inside the military — while papering over the corpses that “lethality” produces.

Awareness of capitalists’ use of colonialism encourages international solidarity. (29th August 2024) 

Those struggles for social justice and equality that are confined to the world’s industrial centers do target aspects of capitalism, but without far-reaching expectations. The full effort consists of: pushing for reforms that ease burdens placed upon working people, building mass opposition, and – crucially – advancing the international solidarity movement.

The farce is over, Long Live the Farce! (29th August 2024)

The whole world has been shown evidence of the corrupt activities of the US President, which has now been disavowed by the very Republicans who conducted the investigation.

Starmer permanently ties UK nuclear arsenal to Washington. (3rd September 2024)

Britain’s nuclear weapons are now forever reliant on US military scientists after a transatlantic treaty was quietly rewritten.

The persistent human costs of deindustrialization: lessons from the collapse of the British coal industry. (5th September 2024)

Industrial decline has been directly linked to a worsening of various social and economic indicators.

US prepares color revolution in Georgia. (6th September 2024)

American intelligence agencies have seemingly abandoned the idea of ​​inventing original ways of conducting international relations and have returned to their traditional practices of blatant interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states around the world.

[Canadian] Liberals are finding new ways to undermine the Right to Strike. (16th September 2024)

The government has dusted off a rarely used section of the Canada Labour Code and sought to pre-empt strikes.

The Media against Julian Assange. (20th September 2024)

The liberation of the Australian journalist in late June closes an ordeal lasting fourteen years. On the other hand, it doesn’t lighten the responsibility of his persecutors. In this domain, Washington, London, and Stockholm have acted with the complicity of an institution supposed to speak truth to power and to protect the innocent—the press, for once, not very supportive of another journalist.

The biggest military base empire on Earth. (23rd September 2024)

The United States of America, unlike any other nation on Earth, maintains a massive network of foreign military bases around the world, more than 900 bases in more than 90 countries and territories.

War forever, everywhere. (24th September 2024)

Count on one thing: armed conflict lasts for decades after battles end and its effects ripple thousands of miles beyond actual battlefields.

‘Propaganda material will need to be disseminated’. (24th September 2024)

Whitehall officials and ministers connive with the BBC and the press during wars, to promote ‘propaganda’ to domestic and foreign audiences, declassified files show.

Hillary Clinton returns to muzzle everyone. (25th September 2024)

As the race enters the home stretch, Hillary Clinton is riding in like Joan of Arc to rescue truth – or at least to call for hammering government critics. But Hillary has been a triple threat to American democracy for 15 years.

How cities run dry. (25th September 2024)

In April 2024, more than 9 million residents of Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, were told to collect rainwater – if the city was lucky enough to experience a storm.

The US Government’s viciousness and hypocrisy (Ecuador’s experience). (26th September 2024)

On September 24, 2024, Gallup issued a new report about the percentage of people in scientifically representative samples of 1,000 people, in each of 140 countries and areas around the world, the percentage who answered “Yes” to “Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the area where you live?” That percentage is the lowest in Ecuador.

How wokeness kills class politics and empowers empire – with Christian Parenti. The Chris Hedges Report. Video discussion.(25th September 2024)

How the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US – and the UK. (30th September 2024)

Lobbyists and lawmakers have coordinated to enact new laws that increase criminal penalties for peaceful protests.

‘Escalation Dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts. (1st October 2024)

Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons.

Robbing Africa’s riches to save the climate (and power AI). (11th October 2024)

Its white sand beaches, vibrant blue waters, and mild tropical climate have made Lobito a tourist destination in recent years. Yet under its shiny new façade is a history fraught with colonial violence and exploitation.

UK snubs Council of Europe over Assange inquiry. (25th October 2024)

Politicians across Europe want Britain to investigate why the WikiLeaks founder spent five years in jail.

The giant warships sinking Britain’s budget. (29th October 2024)

If chancellor Rachel Reeves is serious about public finances, she must stop the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers causing a black hole in the military budget.

An honest discussion of Covid vaccine side effects is overdue. (7th November 2024)

While seeing some big breaks with former code of omerta about Covid side effects is welcome, this piece is still frustrating. It still recites the tired and almost certainly false trope that Covid vaccine side effects are rare.

Labour hands £2.2bn in NHS contracts to corporate health in just two months. (15th November 2024)

NHS no-profit bid rejected and a contract handed to firm despite massive security breach as Starmer and Streeting NHS give-away through US-style so-called ‘integrated care’ ramps up.

Starmer says ‘most accurate focus group is local pub’. Local pub… (26th November 2024)

Deeply unpopular PM puts his foot in it again.

Biden declares another ‘National Emergency’ because of the threat posed by tiny Nicaragua. (27th November 2024)

In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua still poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”.

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Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Metro – Narvskaya – Line 1

Leningrad Metro - Narvskaya - Alex 'Florstein' Fedorov

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Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Metro – Narvskaya – Line 1

Narvskaya (Russian: На́рвская) is a subway station in Saint Petersburg, Russia on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line between the stations Baltiyskaya and Kirovsky Zavod.

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Leningrad Metro – Narvskaya – 02

The station was opened on 15 November 1955, as a part of the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro from Avtovo to Ploschad Vosstania.

When the construction of the station began, it was named after the Ploshchad Stachek (Russian: Площад Стачек, lit. ’Square of the Strikes’), but several years before it was opened the name was changed to ‘Stalinskaya’ after Joseph Stalin. When the Soviet leader died in 1953, and de-Stalinization under Nikita Khrushchev began, the station was renamed ‘Narvskaya’, after the Narva Triumphal Gate, located opposite of the entrance to the station. The name indicates that once there was a gate to the road to Narva.

Despite the name change, it still contains a large number of decorative elements related to Stalin and his cult of personality.

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Leningrad Metro – Narvskaya – 05

The irregular-shaped pavilion is built in the neoclassical style with a dome at one end. The station is lined in white marble with many bronze inserts. The walls of the vestibule are painted red and balustrades of escalators are decorated with red plastic. There is a decorative strip of red stone on the upper section of the walls in the underground hall, and the centre of the station’s platform is constructed with red granite.

Concourse

The station has one concourse, located at Ploshchad Stachek, at the corner of Staro-Peterhofskiy Prospekt and Ivan Chernyh Street. The vestibule of the station was designed by architects I. V. Vasilyev, D. S. Goldgor, S. B. Speransky and engineer O. V. Ivanova.

The wall of the vestibule was planned to be decorated with the engraving of the following quote of Stalin:

There is a chance that Russia will be the country to lead the way to socialism… One must discard the obsolete idea that only Europe can show us the way.

Не исключена возможность, что именно Россия явится страной пролагающей путь к социализму… Надо откинуть отжившее представление о том, что только Европа может указывать нам путь.

Over the escalator run there is a relief reading ‘Glory to Work!’ (Russian: Слава труду!, romanized: Slava trudu!), sculpted by G. V. Kosov, A. G. Ovsyannikov, V. G. Stamov, and A. P. Timchenko. This area had been planned to contain an engraving of Stalin.

In recent years, the station has struggled under the large volume of passenger traffic. Its three escalators have not been sufficient to carry passengers during the morning and afternoon rush hours. The escalators were built in the 1950s and they require occasional repairs. In peak hours, the station works only in one direction: either on the entrance or on exit.

In 2012, the station was closed for a 14-month reconstruction, which was planned to include the replacement of the three outdated escalators with four new ones.

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Leningrad Metro – Narvskaya – 06

Architectural appearance of the underground hall

Three lines of escalators deliver passengers to the underground hall, which is located at a depth of 52 metres (171ft). These escalators are illuminated by highly-artistic fixtures – cylinders topped with a bronze colour metal crown. Fixtures and the housing of the escalator motors are made of steel and aluminium.

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Leningrad Metro – Narvskaya – 08

Below the escalators small rooms are located closed off the main area. The main hall is illuminated gracefully with fixtures located on the walls in groups of three.

The underground hall of the pylon station was built under the direction of architects Alexander Vasilev, David Goldgor, Sergey Speransky, and engineer O. V. Ivanova. The subjects of the station reflect ‘the valour of labour of the Soviet people’ and many elements and decorations represent Soviet-era symbols: hammer and sickles, red stars, and images of red flags.

On walls opposite the platforms, there are decorative lattices with the inscription ‘1955’, the year the station was opened.

Fluorescent lamps on consecutive arches of the ceiling illuminate the central hall, merging in the distance to create the impression of a continuous shiny surface.

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Leningrad Metro – Narvskaya – 01

Originally there was a large mosaic panel ‘Stalin on a tribune’, Russian: Сталин на трибуне, romanized: Stalin na tribune, located on a prominent wall of the central underground hall. This mosaic was constructed by the director of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Gerasimov. Stalin’s bust was planned to be displayed on a colourful background; however, in 1961, after the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the panel was covered by a false wall of marble, with a photo of the original panel included in the book dedicated to the line’s opening.

There was a boardroom in an enclosed space. Later this premise was used as the linear point for machinists of the Depot ‘Avtovo’ which is still there. According to machinists, the wall with a mosaic is still displayed and staff-only premises have been expanded to the following pair of columns, but during the organization of the Museum of Saint-Petersburg Metro a museum of underground this mosaic has not been displayed, and its location and condition are not known.

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Leningrad Metro – Narvskaya – 07

Sidewalls of the pylons of the central underground hall are decorated with high reliefs depicting people of different professions:

High reliefs of Narvskaya

 

Professions

Sculptors

In Russian

Peoples of art

Maria Litovchenko

Мария Тимофеевна Литовченко

Collective farmers

Mikhail Anikushin

Михаил Константинович Аникушин

Naval architects

Mikhail Gabe

Михаил Руфимович Габе

Scholars

Elena Chelpanova

Елена Георгиевна Челпанова

Plant selection breeders

Valentina Rybalko

Валентина Лаврентьевна Рыбалко

Tube builders

Alexander Ignatiev

Александр Михайлович Игнатьев

Textilemen

Lubov Hohlina

Любовь Михайловна Холина

Founders

P. Kulikov

П. А. Куликов

Seamen

V. Sichev

В. И. Сычёв

Doctors

N. Slobodinskiy

Н. К. Слободинский

Red soldiers

V. Pirozhkov

В. О. Пирожков

Builders

Alexander Chernitsky

Александр Николаевич Черницкий

Facts and prospects

The 2.5-kilometre (1.6mi) run between Narvskaya and Kirovsky Zavod stations is the longest on the initial stage of the Saint Petersburg Metro. To meet the schedule for the opening, fast construction methods were employed. Information displays the information for passengers on platforms of stations: under the phrase ‘the train follows to station’ one of two variants was highlighted: Avtovo or Narvskaya.

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Leningrad Metro – Narvskaya – 04

The first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro was laid practically on an existing branch of a tram. To accustom passengers to use new transport, the tram line has been transferred on small streets, but at Narvskaya metro station the tram ring has remained.

After these tunnels ceased to be used for transport Line 1, they were used for storing Line 2 trains overnight. When in 1972 Depot 3 ‘Moskovskoye’ was constructed, all trains of Line 2 began to spend the night on the line.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the station has been functioning continuously under a maximum load. In 2007, the Administration of the underground announced the full closure of the station in 2010 due to repairs and replacement of the escalators. In 2008 the tender for manufacture and delivery of four escalators was won by factory Universalmash [perhaps].

On summer 2009, information of the project approval were published and plans specified the middle of 2010 as the beginning of work. [But what happened from then is unknown – at present.]

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Leningrad Metro – Narvskaya – 03

Text from Wikipedia [slightly re-worked]

Location:

Kirovsky District

GPS:

59°54′04.35″N

30°16′29.65″E

Depth:

52m (171ft)

Opened:

15 November 1955

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