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Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023

Are best years of my country behind me?

View of the world – 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Twenty years on from the war of lies – George Galloway and Arab journalist Abdel Bari Atwan. [Link to a video podcast.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forever Wars vs. Armageddon (22nd March 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘Don’t worry, it’s a slam dunk’.

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

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

The United States has a poverty problem.

[Or we could just change the system.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The enemy from within. (2nd may 2023)

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

Selling out Julian Assange. (2nd My 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The never ending Nabka.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The historical distortions around the Second Amendment:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bobby and the Lobby (4th August 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abandoning the poor. (12th October 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Know your enemy. (30th October 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023

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

Posted on 13/09/2022 by Michael

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View of the world – 2023

Blood, money and imperial war.

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

01 January 2023

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

14 January 2023

22 January 2023

Viewing Ukraine through the Davos lens.

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

28 January 2023

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

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

28 January 2023

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

28 January 2023

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

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

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

29 January 2023

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

30 January 2023

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

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

31 January 2023

14 February 2023

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

15 February 2023

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

15 February 2023

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

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

09 March 2023

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

09 March 2023

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

Qin Gang meets the press: summary and full text.

EU may introduce ‘foreign agents’ law.

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

18 March 2023

The illegal invasion of Iraq: never forget.

18 March 2023

Finnish PM honors ultra-right Ukrainian militant.

19 March 2023

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

19 March 2023

Anti-China propaganda dismantled on BBC.

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

20 March 2023

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

20 March 2023

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

21 March 2023

On the ICC, Putin, Netanyahu and Prosecutorial Discretion.

21 March 2023

Britain supplying depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine.

21 March 2023

The hidden proxy war Washington wages against China.

21 March 2023

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

21 March 2023

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

22 March 2023

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

22 March 2023

Send in the clowns.

22 March 2023

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

22 March 2023

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

22 March 2023

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

23 March 2023

What Europe got wrong about sanctions on Russia.

23 March 2023

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

24 March 2023

The Nord Stream Cover-up – Seymour Hersh

24 March 2023

Slovakia offered US helicopters for giving jets to Ukraine.

24 March 2023

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

24 March 2023

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

24 March 2023

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

25 March 2023

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

27 March 2023

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

27 March 2023

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

27 March 2023

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

27 March 2023

Ukrainian soldiers seen with depleted uranium ammo in UK.

28 March 2023

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

28 March 2023

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

28 March 2023

Russia negotiates PEACE between Saudi Arabia and Syria!

28 March 2023

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

28 March 2023

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

29 March 2023

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

30 March 2023

What Ukraine needs to learn from Afghanistan.

30 March 2023

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

30 March 2023

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

30 March 2023

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

30 March 2023

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

30 March 2023

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

30 March 2023

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

31 March 2023

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

31 March 2023

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

31 March 2023

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

31 March 2023

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

31 March 2023

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

02 April 2023

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

03 April 2023

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

03 April 2023

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

03 April 2023

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

04 April 2023

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

04 April 2023

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

04 April 2023

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

04 April 2023

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

05 April 2023

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

06 April 2023

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

06 April 2023

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

07 April 2023

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

09 April 2023

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

09 April 2023

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

10 April 2023

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

10 April 2023

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

11 April 2023

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

11 April 2023

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

11 April 2023

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

12 April 2023

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

12 April 2023

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

12 April 2022

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

12 April 2023

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

12 April 2023

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

12 April 2023

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

12 April 2023

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

13 April 2023

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

13 April 2023

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

14 April 2023

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

14 April 2023

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

14 April 2023

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

15 April 2023

Russia leaves neoliberal ‘West’ to join world majority.

15 April 2023

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

15 April 2023

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

15 April 2023

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

15 April 2023

Is the Army all that you can be?

16 April 2023

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

16 April 2023

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

17 April 2023

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

17 April 2023

Tracking the EU decoupling from Russia.

18 April 2023

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

19 April 2023

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

19 April 2023

The official story of the Ukraine war grossly misleads.

20 April 2023

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

20 April 2023

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

20 April 2023

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

20 April 2023

EU state [Latvia] bans WW2 victory celebration.

20 April 2023

Facebook labels Seymour Hersh’s reporting ‘false’.

21 April 2023

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

21 April 2023

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

21 April 2023

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

21 April 2023

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

21 April 2023

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

21 April 2023

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

22 April 2023

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

23 April 2023

Ukraine shells Donetsk, killing multiple civilians.

23 April 2023

Biden told CIA to lie about Hunter Biden laptop.

24 April 2023

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

24 April 2023

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

24 April 2023

Tucker Carlson has been fired.

24 April 2023

Dozens of foreign mercenaries killed in Iskander strike.

24 April 2023

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

24 April 2023

Ukrainian commander laments state of army – El Pais.

24 April 2023

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

24 April 2023

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

25 April 2023

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

25 April 2023

The empire of hypocrisy.

25 April 2023

The reality of war in Ukraine.

26 April 2023

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

27 April 2023

Ukraine war changing the face of Europe with Alastair Crooke.

27 April 2023

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

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

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

28 April 2023

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

29 April 2023

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

29 April 2023

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

29 April 2023

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

29 April 2023

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

30 April 2023

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

01 May 2023

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

01 May 2023

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

01 May 2023

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

01 May 2023

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

01 May 2023

Will the EU sanction Russia’s nuclear industry?

01 May 2023

The single dumbest thing the Empire asks us to believe.

01 May 2023

The proxy war in Ukraine is an imperialist adventure.

02 May 2023

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

02 May 2023

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

02 May 2023

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

02 May 2023

What China is really playing at in Ukraine.

03 May 2023

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

03 May 2023

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

03 May 2023

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

03 May 2023

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

04 May 2023

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

04 May 2023

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

05 May 2023

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

06 May 2023

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

07 May 2023

US vs. Gonzalo Lira.

07 May 2023

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

07 May 2023

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

08 May 2023

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

08 May 2023

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

09 May 2023

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

10 May 2023

The flight from the US dollar.

10 May 2023

Undermining deception

10 May 2023

Inside the fight for the last streets of Bakhmut.

10 May 2023

Bold gambits on the West Asian chessboard.

10 May 2023

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

12 May 2023

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

12 May 2023

Beltway mediocrities bumble toward Armageddon.

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

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

12 May 2023

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

13 May 2023

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

13 May 2023

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

14 May 2023

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

14 May 2023

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

14 May 2023

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

14 May 2023

Cries and whispers along the Russian watchtowers.

14 May 2023

US hypocrisy and the Global South.

15 May 2023

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

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

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

16 May 2023

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

16 May 2023

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

17 May 2023

Some US National Security experts call for peace in Ukraine.

17 May 2023

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

17 May 2023

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

17 May 2023

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

17 May 2023

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

17th May 2023

Russian neo-Nazi leader obtained UK missiles in Ukraine.

18 May 2023

China and the revenge of the sanctioned.

18 May 2023

Is the U.S. preparing to punish OPEC?

18 May 2023

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

19 May 2023

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

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20 May 2023

Poland wants Zelensky to apologize for WW2 Ukrainian Nazi massacre.

20 May 2023

Key Donbass [Bakhmut] city captured – Wagner chief.

20 May 2023

The West’s economic war on Russia has failed.

20 May 2023

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

21 May 2023

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

21 May 2023

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

21 May 2023

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

21 May 2023

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

22 May 2023

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

22 May 2023

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

22 May 2023

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

22 May 2023

US Geopolitics: Believing impossible things.

22 May 2023

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

23 May 2023

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

24 May 2023

British warmongering is driving Europe towards catastrophe in Ukraine.

24 May 2023

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

24 May 2023

John Mearsheimer Ukraine Salon – Committee for the Republic

26 May 2023

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

27 May 2023

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

28 May 2023

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

28 May 2023

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

29 May 2023

After Bakhmut – by Douglas Macgregor

29 May 2023

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

30 May 2023

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

30 May 2023

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

30 May 2023

Believing impossible things.

30 May 2023

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

30 May 2023

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

30 May 2023

Ukraine: bleeding out.

30 May 2023

When will US join global call to end Ukraine war?

30 May 2023

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

30 May 2023

Eye-witness Crimea.

30 May 2023

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

30 May 2023

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

31 May 2023

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

31 May 2023

The West continues to devour its own.

31 May 2023

The wars we are discouraged from seeing.

31 May 2023

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

31 May 2023

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

01 June 2023

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

01 June 2023

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

02 June 2023

Why Washington underwrites violence in Ukraine.

02 June 2023

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

03 June 2023

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

04 June 2023

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

04 June 2023

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

05 June 2023

Insurers signal fallout from sanctions on Russia.

05 June 2023

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

06 June 2023

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

06 June 2023

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

06 June 2023

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

06 June 2023

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

06 June 2023

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

06 June 2023

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

06 June 2023

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

07 June 2023

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

07 June 2023

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

08 June 2023

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

08 June 2023

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

08 June 2023

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

09 June 2023

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

09 June 2023

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

09 June 2023

A war long wanted: diplomatic malpractice in Ukraine.

09 June 2023

Annals of the Ukraine War: year two.

09 June 2023

Ukraine: Bankruptcy of Western policy or collective death wish?

10 June 2023

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

10 June 2023

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

10 June 2023

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

11 June 2023

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

11 June 2023

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

11 June 2023

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

11 June 2023

How Russia sanctions sparked global revolt against US dollar.

11 June 2023

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

11 June 2023

Poland refutes Nord Stream sabotage claim.

12 June 2023

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

12 June 2023

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

13 June 2023

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

13 June 2023

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

13 June 2023

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

13 June 2023

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

13 June 2023

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

13 June 2023

The next wave of the counteroffensive with Scott Ritter.

14 June 2023

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

14 June 2023

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

14 June 2023

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

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

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

15 June 2023

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

15 June 2023

The surprising pervasiveness of pro-war propaganda.

15 June 2023

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

16 June 2023

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

16 June 2023

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

17 June 2023

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

17 June 2023

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

18 June 2023

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

18 June 2023

Ukraine’s unsuccessful two-week ‘counter offensive’; Ukrainian forces starting to surrender to the Russians. Military summary and analysis.

19 June 2023

BBC on the front line as Ukraine attacks Russian trenches. [Yet again, how the BBC produces propaganda under the guise of news.]

19 June 2023

On the failure of the Ukrainian ‘counter-attack’.

19 June 2023

Blinken-Qin talks in Beijing: US and China agree to keep talking past each other.

19 June 2023

Germany suspects Ukraine over ammonia pipeline blast – BILD.

19 June 2023

Another act of terror. How the media do PR for Biden and Zelensky.

20 June 2023

The silent slaughter of the flower of Ukraine’s youth.

20 June 2023

Ukrainian offensive slackens after heavy losses; Ukrainian troops surrendering to the Russians; Russians advance on Kupyansk; no reports of any Russian aircraft destroyed displaying Russian dominance of the air; China steam rolls Blinken.

20 June 2023

Pentagon ‘factored in’ Ukrainian casualties.

21 June 2023

Biden undoes Blinken China visit and then some by calling Xi a dictator.

21 June 2023

Ukraine standstill, Russia warns US/UK about retaliation if missiles hit Russia; US callousness about Ukrainian casualties; Blinken humiliated by China.

21 June 2023

New Nord Stream blast aftermath footage released.

22 June 2023

Ukraine strikes Chonhar bridge to Crimea, says Russia. [Note the unsubstantiated claim about who destroyed the Kakhovka dam and the preparation of the propaganda war surrounding what might happen at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

24 June 2023

Prigozhin mutiny. Own goal, gift to collective west. Commentary before Putin’s speech

24 June 2023

Fog of Prigozhin: his bizarre and surely doomed military revolt.

24 June 2023

President Vladimir Putin vows to crush Wagner Army’s rebellion and defend Russia – and in the process stresses his anti-Bolshevik credentials.

24 June 2023

Prigozhin mutiny and Putin’s speech, The Duran.

24 June 2023

Here’s how NATO trainers sent Ukrainian troops to their deaths.

24 June 2023

Prigozhin rebels, Wagner group enters Rostov; Voronezh, Russian military, government and society rally behind Putin.

24 June 2023

From Pugachev to Lebed – the Muzhik Rebellion fizzles out without bloodshed, Prigozhin to exile.

24 June 2023

Operational pause – The Grayzone Friday live – how erstwhile ‘friends’ of the US get attacked in the mainstream media because they don’t follow the ‘rules based order’. The US ‘not in a good position’ in regards to China. More on the covid vaccine contradictions. ‘Russiagate’ and the Hilary Clinton campaign invention.[Broadcast before news of the mutiny broke.]

25 June 2023

Russia’s ‘Civil War’ evaporates as Ukraine’s offensive enters Week 4.

25 June 2023

Prigozhin uprising collapses; Putin in control and Prigozhin agrees to exile in Belarus; Wagner now under Russian Ministry of Defence.

25 June 2023

Putin seriously weakened by Wagner Group mutiny – but it was a missed opportunity for Ukraine too. [Yet again, Ukraine’s paid puppet in Britain’s ‘academia’ distorts the facts to create a narrative which makes success out of failure.]

26 June 2023

Putin orders reality check – no Ukrainians left on the battlefield, no sovereignty in Kiev.

27 June 2023

Ukraine likely to have retaken land occupied by Russia since 2014, UK’s Ministry of Defence says. [Notice the number of qualifiers in this article. This is NOT news.]

27 June 2023

Putin strengthened after mutiny peacefully quelled; Russian tactics explained; Prigozhin goes to Belarus; US denies involvement’

28 June 2023

Turkey continues to challenge Sweden’s NATO membership.

28 June 2023 (first broadcast months ago but only just made aware of it)

The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin. [A reminder of the background to the present conflict.]

28 June 2023

All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine.

29 June 2023

‘Waging Peace’: How a tour of Russia showed me that propaganda perverts reality in the minds of Americans – Scott Ritter.

29 June 2023

Ukraine will need 117 years to take territories from Russia – Seymour Hersh.

28 June 2023

Putin confirms Russian Ministry of Defence funded Wagner; no Ukrainian breakthroughs; NATO in disarray about the replacement for Stoltenberg – whose tenure has been extended for two years; Blinken’s Beijing visit a failing due to Biden irrationality.

29 June 2023

Max Blumenthal addresses UN Security Council on Ukraine aid.

30 June 2023

Kiev survey suggests huge Ukrainian losses; NATO unsure what to do in Vilnius next month; British mainstream media admits Prigozhin affair leaves Putin stronger; discussion on the origins of the Wagner organisation and what illegal activities in which it might have been involved; Russia would demand much harsher terms in any negotiations than those agreed in Istanbul in March 2022.

30 June 2023

New Atlas LIVE: Garland Nixon and Washington’s War on the World

30 June 2023

Mr. Prigozhin goes to Washington.

01 July 2023

Irish neutrality – MEP Clare Daly – speech from 24 Jun 2023

01 July 2023

West’s mainstream media admitting Ukrainian offensive at a standstill; no Ukrainian forces have even reached any of the fortified Russian defence lines; Zaluzhny reappears and criticises the launching of the offensive forced upon Ukraine by the west – demands jets and more ammunition; Putin reassures Modi.

01 July 2023

Ukraine proxy war is an unmitigated disaster for U.S./NATO.

01 July 2023

Neutrality: Who Cares? 4: Sevim Dagdelen. (Dublin neutrality conference 24th June 2023.)

01 July 2023

Washington’s REAL policy on China – ‘repairing ties’ is theatre ahead of sanctions and war.

01 July 2023

John Mearsheimer on US power and the darkness ahead for Ukraine.

02 July 2023

Ukrainian casualties remain high – according to Russian Ministry of Defence; events leading up to the beginning of the Special Military Operation; tension over Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant grows; Ukraine demands NATO entry; Russia huge tank production – and how much military production will be given a priority in the future.

02 July 2023

Compare the approach of the BBC to an attack in the Ukraine;

Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Kramatorsk strike.

and Israeli incursions into the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin;

Israeli strikes on Palestinian Jenin camp in West Bank.

Why is the first a ‘war crime’ and the second just what happens (and has been happening) to Palestinians for more than 75 years?

02 July 2023

End Washington’s build-up for war with China, pursue peace and economic cooperation.

02 July 2023

America is a military dictatorship disguised as a democracy.

03 July 2023

Ageing Iraq invaders keep accidentally saying ‘Iraq’ instead of ‘Ukraine’.

03 July 2023

The lethal minefields holding up Kyiv’s counter-offensive.

[“petals” – small, green, anti-personnel mines – that had recently been scattered across a field by Russian rockets.” Why no mention of the use of these anti-personnel mines by the Ukrainians (for years) against the civilian population of Donetsk City?

“The enemy has no mercy for their own soldiers. They’re used as cannon fodder. But we’re trying to move forwards with the minimum of casualties,” Where does that come from? Where’s the proof? What does it have to do with the substance of the article?

“Artyom’s anger was not just a response to the dangers of minefields, but to the “sly” mentality that he felt must lie behind the act of laying mines and boobytraps, rather than fighting your enemy “man to man”. Is this for real?

“Our kamikaze drone hit [our own] car. We have one dead, another injured. Get the [expletive] out of there.”

“The [soldiers] are running away. Some of them are stealing cars… 50 people have fled. They [expletive] ran away…”

The radio intercept suggested that Russian soldiers were deserting their positions after a Ukrainian artillery bombardment.

“This happens from time to time. In groups of 10 or 20 – [Russian] people disappear and leave without permission. The Russians realise we can eavesdrop on their communications but sometimes they forget,” said Artyom. This is ‘impartial’ reporting? Where is the proof? This is hearsay and nothing more.]

03 July 2023

Russian neo-Nazi fighting Putin taught at far-right camp in UK. [Originally published 08 June 2023.]

03 July 2023

Ukraine keeps no secrets from CIA – Zelensky.

03 July 2023

Zelensky pleads for military gains prior to NATO Summit in Vilnius this month; Ukrainian forces yet to even reach Russian fortified defences; Ukraine is now completely dependent (economically, militarily and politically) upon the west; meeting in Copenhagen failed to convince BRICS states to turn against Russia; Russian confidence grows; NATO doubts way forward

03 July 2023

Ukraine’s offensive at 1 month – losing the war of attrition – New Atlas. Ukraine is sacrificing its Third Army – there is no way they can create a Fourth Army.

04 July 2023

Will war-torn, power-starved Ukraine be world’s first cashless economy? (serious question).

04 July 2023

Aborted Wagner Group rebellion shows how Putin’s attempt to unify Russian forces has failed to quell factional rivalries. [This ‘academic’ is affiliated to the Royal United Services Institute. Read about how this ‘think tank’ is a UK government funded organisation. She is just a propagandist for the UK government. Amongst many other things the conflict in the Ukraine has shown clearly the dismal level of journalism and academia in Britain.]

04 July 2023

Failed African peace mission underscores need for more powerful political and military pressure on Putin. [As is normal in Wolff’s ‘analyses’ he fails to mention that the African mission was better received in Moscow than in Kiev. As with the above ‘academic’ follow the money when you read any of these articles.]

04 July 2023

What caused the Wagner mutiny and what does it mean for Russia and its opponents?

04 July 2023

Multiple victims in ‘fierce’ Ukrainian strike on Donbass.

05 July 2023

Rumours of an attack on the Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant – by both sides; Ukrainian attack on Bakhmut repelled; western supplied weaponry not faring well on the battle field and the West cools its enthusiasm on the supply of F16s; Russian economy grows despite sanctions.

05 July 2023

They lied about Iraq. And they are lying about Ukraine.

06 July 2023

Duel in Ukraine: Ka-52 Alligator vs Ukrainian Tanks. [An interesting video for those who are into the technicalities of modern weapons.]

06 July 2023

Is Wagner Group too big to fail? [A different point of view about Putin’s ‘survival’ of the attempted coup – this article argues he is actually weaker.]

06 July 2023

Russia repels Ukrainian attack on Klescheyevka; unlikely Ukraine will have a major ‘advance’ to boast about before the NATO summit in Vilnius in 5 days time; Ukraine’s standstill limited by western supplies; China prepared to meet (US’s) Yellen but refuses to meet (EU’s) Borrell.

06 July 2023

Fed’s alarming revelation! Recession looms as interest rate hikes persist! And global ‘de-dollarisation.

06 July 2023

Civilian deaths from cluster munitions. [As is usual with HRW – if they criticise the Ukraine they must also criticise Russia – although with little proof for the latter.]

06 July 2023

Cluster bombs for Ukraine? A warning from Kosovo.

07 July 2023

The EU’s mass censorship regime is almost fully operational. Will it go global? [Posted on this page as it’s initial target is anyone who publishes anything which goes against the west’s narrative about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.]

07 July 2023

Front-line troops discuss counter-offensive. [BBC propagandists ensure that war will be fought ‘to the last Ukrainian’ by trying to turn disaster into a victory.]

07 July 2023

Failed Ukrainian offensive splits the west; threat to Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant seems to have reduced as west tells Ukraine not to do anything reckless; nuclear inspectors state the Russian have no intentions to sabotage the plant; looks like Zelensky is being proved to have lied about Russian intentions; rumours that there have been secret talks recognising that Ukraine’s chances of ‘victory’ are virtually nil; ex-US diplomats oppose Ukraine’s membership of NATO; Biden gives Kiev cluster shells.

07 July 2023

What are cluster bombs and why is US sending them to Ukraine? [The US will ‘lose the moral high ground’. This is the country that used Agent Orange and Napalm against the civilian population of Vietnam.]

07 July 2023

Jeffrey Sachs interview – Path to war with China. [The madness of the Anglo-Saxon world.]

08 July 2023

Zelensky visits Snake Island on Ukraine War’s 500th day. [Form over substance.]

08 July 2023

Wimbledon 2023: Elina Svitolina has ‘big motivation’ against Victoria Azarenka. [And this is not propaganda?]

08 July 2023

US admits out of conventional ammunition – so send illegal cluster shells; but cluster shells are old technology; Italian journalist states no Ukrainian advance in Bahkmut – although the British media doesn’t agree; the hypocrisy of the west about the use of cluster weapons – not a surprise; more arms from US to Ukraine buttwha/; Xi Tells Military Prepare for War, Yellen in Beijing

08 July 2023

Cluster bombs: video surfaces Of Biden administration previously calling them a ‘war crime’.

08 July 2023

Biden says preparing ‘Israel-style’ security guarantees for Ukraine.

08 July 2023

Türkiye’s release of Ukrainian neo-Nazis violates deal.

08 July 2023

‘Russian victory’ worse than civilian cluster-bomb deaths – Pentagon.

08 July 2023

The New Atlas: Mark Sleboda and Ukraine’s offensive at Week 5

09 July 2023

Let’s be clear, cluster bombs are an escalation.

09 July 2023

Kakhovka Dam breach in Ukraine caused economic, agricultural and ecological devastation that will last for years.

09 July 2023

Turkiye refuses to back down on Sweden accession ahead of NATO Summit.

09 July 2023

Western media prepping nuclear false flag… and thermonuclear war?

09 July 2023

CIA running Ukraine blows Biden’s bluster about no U.S. boots on the ground.

09 July 2023

Biden sending banned U.S. cluster bombs for Ukraine.

09 July 2023

‘Go to hell’, Ukraine tells anti-cluster bomb German MP.

09 July 2023

Ukraine admits responsibility for terror attack on Crimean bridge.

09 July 2023

Kerch bridge strike fails – and admits involvement in the attack last autumn; Russia analysing recovered UK supplied Storm Shadow missile; US protestations prove baseless; Ukraine coming close to the reality that there’s a limit of the west’s support in military equipment; US supply of cluster shells opens the way for future Russian use; Russia accuses Erdogan betrayal

09 July 2023

Ukraine’s offensive suffering heavy losses, Azov commanders return – New Atlas.

10 July 2023

NATO’s Vilnius summit will authorize escalation of its war against Russia.

10 July 2023

Zaluzhny tells Zelensky offensive unsustainable and should be stopped; UK Guardian newspaper argues for direct NATO intervention; Wagner troops swear loyalty and rejoin war.

10 July 2023

Underestimate Russia at your own risk: a comparison of hubris by Germany during WWII and today’s collective West.

10 July 2023

It’s hard for Americans to engage in China-bashing without tripping on contradictions.

10 July 2023

Cluster bombs: a war crime for Putin but not for Biden.

11 July 2023

NATO’s big climb down.

11 July 2023

The US is trying to use foreign mercenaries to plug gaps in Ukraine – they are in for a rude awakening.

11 July 2023

Douglas Macgregor and Kim Iversen: The Russians have 750.000 troops ready to attack.

11 July 2023

Erdogan flips and agrees Sweden’s membership of NATO in return for US F16s; another Ukrainian armoured attack driven back; Ukrainian troops enticed into booby trapped trench – and then destroyed; the west having to dip into missile reserves to prop up the Ukrainian ‘offensive’; the surprising ‘debate’ around cluster munitions; Russians advance Kupiansk and Liman; NATO summit in Vilnius; mediocrity of western ‘leaders’.

12 July 2023

The US is war.

12 July 2023

NATO is ‘malicious poison’ – former Australian PM.

12 July 2023

Two stern warnings must be given to the arrogant NATO: Global Times editorial.

12 July 2023

A bad day for the Ukraine; attack fails with heavy losses in manpower and Leopard 2 tanks; Russia captures an intact US Bradley; NATO turns back on Ukraine; Putin to go to Beijing in October.

12 July 2023

Moscow mulls plan to display destroyed NATO hardware outside embassies.

12 July 2023

UK ‘wastes billions’ on defence firms that give investors rich returns.

12 July 2023

NATO: The cracks are beginning to show over Ukraine.

12 July 2023

Irish fighter ‘Rambo’ describes ‘terrifying’ Russian tank chase.

12 July 2023

U.S. cluster bombs to Ukraine: an act of desperation.

12 July 2023

South America makes it clear what it thinks about Zelensky.

12 July 2023

How Putin broke the US grip on Russia.

13 July 2023

Scott Ritter: cluster munitions will change nothing for Ukraine.

13 July 2023

Biden keeps lying about the US ‘not trying to surround’ China.

13 July 2023

US no longer capable of maintaining mafia-style ‘rules-based order’ .

13 July 2023

Douglas Macgregor and Stephen Gardner: France and UK give long distance missiles to Ukraine; NATO divided and countries in Europe have internal problems; Poland and Lithuania have their own agenda.

13 July 2023

Ukraine offensive goes into reverse, Russians advance in Bakhmut, Avdeyevka, Vuhledar, and Kupyansk; NATO aid to Ukraine reduces.

14 July 2023

Cluster bomb decision puts blood of future civilian victims on Biden’s hands.

14 July 2023

Scott Ritter: NATO Summit serves up cringe nothing-burger.

14 July 2023

Ukraine got the best it could out of NATO’s Vilnius summit, say experts. [How the so-called ‘left’ still bats on NATO’s side in the proxy war.]

14 July 2023

Russia advances accelerate; more speculation on an Ukrainian Dnieper crossing; Russia almost certainly out of grain deal; Biden calls up reservists.

14 July 2023

U.S. soldiers don’t belong in Ukraine.

14 July 2023

[US] House [of Representatives] votes down amendment to block cluster bomb shipments to Ukraine.

15 July 2023

Zaluzhny demands more weapons and doesn’t give a damn on the potential risks of attacks on mainland Russia – appears to be unable to understand the limitations about what the west can give; has the UK given Ukraine all its Storm Shadow missiles?; Russian dominance in the air increases; questions in US about sending F16s; US intelligence reports on the failing Ukrainian offensive; the summer of 2023 is not the autumn of 2022 when Ukraine last made an ‘offensive’.

15 July 2023

Iran just announced a new game changing master plan with China by joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the west is terrified.

16 July 2023

Nato isn’t defending Ukraine. It’s stabbing it in the back.

16 July 2023

Biden’s corruption led to Ukraine’s destruction: former Kiev diplomat – with Aaron Maté.

16 July 2023

Is Biden preparing to take the U.S. to war against Russia? Larry Johnson

16 July 2023

Main stream media acknowledges heavy Ukrainian losses: 20% armour in the first weeks of the ‘offensive’, 10% in the ensuing ‘ensuing weeks’; Ukrainian ammunition firing rate falls.

17 July 2023

Recork the champagne: Sweden’s NATO accession deal with Turkiye still faces hurdles.

17 July 2023

Kerch bridge is hated symbol of Russian occupation – more BBC propaganda. ‘If the bridge is out of action, even for a short time, this will complicate Russia’s logistical challenges, a key aspect of the early phase of Ukraine’s counter-offensive.’ [‘Early phase’? It’s been going on for 6 weeks now and all Ukraine has gained is ’81 sq miles’ of fields.

17 July 2023

Ukraine grain deal expires after Russia pulls out. [But the BBC doesn’t even address the reasons why – non-compliance of the west of their side of the bargain.]

17 July 2023

Ukraine’s recent attack on the Crimean Bridge and why it doesn’t matter strategically.

17 July 2023

Zaluzhny (and his obsession on Crimea)/Syrsky (and his obsession on Bahkmut) rivalry; US blames minefields for Ukraine’s failure; more on cluster munitions – and their drawbacks; Yellen visits China and possible financial market support.

18 July 2023

Crimean bridge attack is another blow to Putin’s strongman image. [Wolff, Conversation’s most prominent Ukraine propagandists continues to make unsubstantiated claims – his contributions are a prime example of the fact that if you repeat something (however unsubstantiated) enough times it takes on the look of ‘truth’.]

18 July 2023

John Bolton accidentally explains why US policy on Russia and China is wrong.

18 July 2023

Why the Ukraine conflict will unravel NATO and Biden.

18 July 2023

Agent Zelensky by Scott Ritter. [Is there a limit on the stupidity of people, in the US? In the UK? In the Ukraine? The video here indicates that there’s no limit at all.]

18 July 2023

Ukraine’s slow advance doesn’t signal failure in its counteroffensive against Russia. [Another counter-factual piece. ‘The Ukrainian army still possesses a qualitative advantage over the Russian army’. Indeed? Where? ]

19 July 2023

Russia strikes Ukraine grain after ending sea deal. [‘The Kremlin argued its demands for Russian exports had not been honoured.’ This statement is included but there’s no comment on whether this is true or not – and if it is why if Russia honoured its side of the bargain (which is accepted) why the west didn’t honour theirs.]

19 July 2023

Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system. [This ‘academic’ is a director of a private university in the Ukraine – which gets its funding from the US and EU institutions/governments. And this is supposed to make her ‘independent’. Let alone the holes in her article.]

19 July 2023

Brian Berletic: Russia has destroyed Ukraine’s desperate plot to take Crimea.

19 July 2023

Leaked files suggest hidden British hand in latest Kerch Bridge strike.

20 July 2023

Russia destroys Ukrainian Black Sea ports; introduces Black Sea blockade; Syrsky states that the Ukraine is about to retake Bakhmut; Putin not to go to South Africa for BRICS meeting later this month.

20 July 2023

Ukraine and the great revival of American empire.

20 July 2023

The dynamics of war insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette.

20 July 2023

John Helmer: The Mosquito Swarm and the Violent Pinprick are Zelensky PR to beat NATO’s Christmas deadline.

20 July 2023

Why should we be concerned about depleted uranium?

21 July 2023

Newsweek article admits time running out for Ukraine – if it doesn’t win in the next few months then it won’t ever; Financial Times blames the extensive Russian minefields for Ukrainian failures – but that ‘forgets’ that Russia also has superiority in artillery and in the air; Russia drives back Ukraine in Bakhmut.

21 July 2023

Latin America again refuses to fall in line with the collective west on Ukraine, this time from Brussels.

21 July 2023

Douglas Macgregor. Ukraine is being destroyed and the whole affair is becoming a disaster.

22 July 2023

The looming war against China: economic logic has been replaced by national security overrides.

22 July 2023

Mainstream media admits Ukrainian heavy losses and forces demoralised, offensive ‘failed’ (38-64 mins); Putin makes statement about shortages of Ukrainian manpower and material – even that from the west – warns Warsaw of war after much of their territory was ‘a gift of Stalin’, (64-89 mins).

23 July 2023

Russia hammers Odessa on stored munitions or in readiness for a Russian attack; discussion on air defence capabilities of the combatants; west believed its own propaganda on the state of the Russian army; Putin and Lukashenko discuss war with Poland; Russian economic growth accelerates.

23 July 2023

Germany down the rabbit hole.

23 July 2023

15 Leopards, 20 Bradleys destroyed in one day – Putin.

23 July 2023

West knew Ukraine wasn’t ready for counteroffensive – Wall Street Journal.

24 July 2023

Ukrainian celebrity Roseanne Barr condemns Zelensky on TV .

24 July 2023

Russia breaks through Ukrainian defences at Kremennaya and advances to the Oskol River; Russia prepares future offensive; no ‘stalemate’ – rather Russian success; discussion on what Russia would not accept in any discussions – on the ‘Korean model’; Ukraine uses cluster munitions in Donetsk City.

25 July 2023

No joke: Ursula Von der Leyen’s EU Commission just received ‘World Prize for Peace and Freedom’.

25 July 2023

Russia pushes to Oskol River; more and more Ukrainian soldiers surrendering to Russian forces; Russian General, in an interview, suggests the war will end in the Spring of 2024; Shoigu in surprise visit to North Korea; more on the Russian and Belorussian approach to any possible move by Poland to try to take parts of western Ukraine.

26 July 2023

Ukrainian offensive nears 2 month mark: little left to replace heavy losses.

26 July 2023

U.S. boots on the ground, American soldiers fighting Russian soldiers – Douglas McGregor.

26 July 2023

Central Banks abandon US bonds for gold; a number of countries repatriating their gold reserves from the Federal Reserve in the US and the Bank of England.

27 July 2023

Jackson Hinkle destroys Piers Morgan in Ukraine ‘debate’.

27 July 2023

Western armour struggles against Russian defences. [The BBC tells the truth but ends the article with this meaningless quote from a Ukrainian General ‘If the offensive were not successful, I wouldn’t be talking to you now’.]

27 July 2023

The balloon goes up – How far will the Nato allies go to fight their losing war in the Ukraine — How much more will they risk losing of their post-1945 territorial gains?

27 July 2023

Two views on what is happening during ‘Ukraine’s great push’ on 27th July 2023. Compare and contrast and see what happens in the next few days.

Battlefield Ukraine Russian Onslaught

Kyiv claims success as southern fighting intensifies – the BBC

27 July 2023

Big Ukrainian defeat, Ukraine to relaunch their offensive; massive Russian missile strike; Russia’s effective use of small suicide drones; US-Russia secret talks? with the US ready to abandon Ukraine? – article in the Moscow Times; Russia and DPRK relations re-established.

27 July 2023

Scott Ritter – Comments on Victoria Nuland; how Hilary Clinton might have lost the election but she is definitely in the background; the failed grain deal; Shoigu in the DPRK; the US doesn’t believe in the international rule of law – which doesn’t fit into US interests; A real counter-offensive with 60,000 troops

27 July 2023

Experts say expecting Kiev to win is definition of ‘insanity’.

27 July 2023

Ukrainian corruption threatens US assistance.

28 July 2023

Some thoughts on the Russian end game in Ukraine.

28 July 2023

Sanctions on China, export controls on rare earths for the U.S.: two, it turns out, can tango.

29 July 2023

Disastrous Ukrainian attack in Orekhov fails; disagreements within Ukrainian forces about ‘offensive’; (61.00) British commentators on conflict; combined arms operations; Russian advance on Kupiansk; missile strike on Ukrainian Dnepro HQ.

29 July 2023

NATO failed in Ukraine against Russia. Now it’s targeting China.

30 July 2023

CHAOS! Jose Vega defies editors of New York Times and Washington Post on their censorship of Russiagate and the conflict in Ukraine. [First published three months ago.]

30 July 2023

Ukraine’s ‘Big Push’ results in big losses as offensive nears 2 months.

30 July 2023

Western media’s racist reportage on Ukrainian refugees. [First published a year ago but worth repeating.]

30 July 2023

Russia inflicts heavy losses on Ukraine.

30 July 2023

Russia advances on Kupiansk; Putin – Ukraine at a standstill, 415 Ukrainian tanks and 1300 armoured personal vehicles destroyed; Russia mulls a 2nd mobilisation.

30 July 2023

Eritrea: Isaias told Putin to lead the strategy against the west – One Africa.

31 July 2023

After two months of slow progress the long-awaited counteroffensive is picking up speed. Why has it taken so long? [And despite claims things are improving nothing changes.]

01 August 2023

Brian Berletic: Russia has defeated Ukraine’s offensive as NATO runs out of options.

02 August 2023

Russia pushes Ukraine back from Klescheyevka; US Department of Defense admits Ukraine offensive failure; seeks restart in the Autumn.

02 August 2023

The last gasps of the collapsing empire – Dan Kovalik.

03 August 2023

Ukrainians have been ground up – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.

03 August 2023

‘Weeds’ hindering Ukrainian counteroffensive – UK military.[The only vegetables are the British military and intelligence services.]

03 August 2023

Russian Kupiansk advance; UK military and intelligence blame trees for failure of Ukrainian offensive; Brazil, Mexico and China pull out of the Jeddah Conference; Putin and Erdogan speak and agree to meeting soon.

04 August 2023

Ukraine fights narrative battle as counteroffensive stalls.

04 August 2023

Asians are less ‘humane’ – Ukrainian security chief.

04 August 2023

New Atlas LIVE is a weekly stream for discussing current events, connecting with the New Atlas community – the Duran on Ukraine’s offensive, NATO’s Plan B and more.

04 August 2023

More on the collapse of operational capabilities in the West: How did we get here?

05 August 2023

Russia claims advances on Kupiansk; 42,000 Ukrainian soldiers dead in June/July; main stream media focuses on damage to 2 Russian ships; Ukraine and west ‘fear they are losing control of the narrative’.

05 August 2023

War hawks’ drive to expand NATO into Asia may destroy Western Military Alliance.

05 August 2023

Scott Ritter talks about the movie Oppenheimer.

07 August 2023

Zelensky prepares general mobilisation; 8 Ukrainian pilots train on F16s; global south reject Ukrainian ‘Peace Plan’ at Jeddah.

07 August 2023

Talks in Jeddah give Kyiv an opportunity to push its ten-point plan to Brics and the global south. [The truth? Ukraine came away with nothing. Even more. The picture associated with this piece of western propaganda implies that Zelensky was actually at the meeting when Ukraine was represented by just another insignificant functionary.]

07 August 2023

The senility of empire.

07 August 2023

Make peace, you fools!

08 August 2023

The movie and the moment: an Oppenheimer review through the lens of an anti-war activist.

08 August 2023

Russian broad Kharkov Advance; Ukraine short on weapons; Wang Yi and Lavrov friendly telephone call; Nuland flies to give ultimatum to Niger.

09 August 2023

NATO training leaves Ukrainian troops ‘underprepared’ for war.

09 August 2023

How to sell a war: Peace means war.

09 August 2023

West ‘must keep promises’ on grain deal – Erdogan.

09 August 2023

Profits of Western arms makers top $200 billion.

09 August 2023

West despairs with no Ukrainian breakthrough in its offensive; western media now accepts the failings in Ukraine yet still the ‘hawks’ talk up Ukrainian ‘victory’ and even go so far as to countenance nuclear Armageddon; joint Russia/China fleet close to the Aleutians; Nigeria cools on intervention in Niger.

09 August 2023

Ukraine’s offensive remains stalled: western media begins admitting failures. New Atlas looks at Ukraine’s tactics in its offensive against Russia.

10 August 2023

The overlooked role of the financial crisis in the subjugation of Europe [- and a subtext for the US getting the EU (and the UK) to agree to the suicidal sanctions against Russia].

10 August 2023

The sheer might of the Russian Army won’t be overcome – addressing the issue of the importance of an sufficiently strong industrial base in modern peer to peer warfare.

10 August 2023

Russia’s unique and unsurpassed mine clearance System UR-77 Meteorite clears a path to Kupyansk.

11 August 2023

The Polish President said Kiev isn’t doing the West any favors and its counter-offensive failed.

11 August 2023

Ukraine admits Kupiansk crisis; is Russia wanting to draw in Ukrainian reserves into another ‘meat-grinder’?; Syrsky warns defences collapse; Russia’s economy – no crisis in economy; ECOWAS probably to intervene in Niger.

11 August 2023

Two years after Taliban takeover: why Afghanistan still poses a threat to the region and beyond. [I am adding this post on the Ukrainian war page as Wolff is one of the principal ‘academic’ propagandists for the UK/US position on the Ukraine. He continues his role in other parts of the world.]

12 August 2023

The illusory truth effect and the ‘unprovoked’ invasion of Ukraine. [Quite badly written – but the main argument is correct.]

12 August 2023

CIA analyst on Russia Ray McGovern has never been more scared of nuclear catastrophe.

12 August 2023

Ukrainians paying up to $10,000 to escape draft.

12 August 2023

Piers Morgan gets dismantled over Ukraine war. [The clip of the interview has been posted before. It’s repeated here for the Jimmy Dore ‘commentary’ of the event.]

13 August 2023

Ukrainian counteroffensive falling short of NATO expectations.

14 August 2023

Is the US a failed state?

14 August 2023

The west and the war in Ukraine: selling and buying hopium.

14 August 2023

Contested memory in Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: how her far-right party is waging a subtle campaign to commemorate fascist figures. [What is ‘bad’ in Italy is OK in Ukraine? The Conversation is as schizophrenic and contradictory as the rest of the western media.]

15 August 2023

European gas price spike highlights painful exposure to global markets.

16 August 2023

Russia, Donbass and the reality of conflict in Ukraine.

16 August 2023

What is happening in Syria? [Yes. I do think it is relevant to the Ukraine.]

16 August 2023

U.S. capitalism and why the glut of ‘wonder weapons’ to Ukraine won’t make a difference.

17 August 2023

Drones are changing the conflict – both on the frontline and beyond. [But the ‘academic’ propagandists from Birmingham University don’t state that Russia is making an even better use of drones. Neither do they accept that the Ukraine is not only failing in its so-called ‘counter-offensive’ it is actually going backwards. However, if you care to look closely they do state a number of truths – although by accident.]

17 August 2023

West recriminations on any Ukrainian peace deal; Ukraine commits last reserve force in the failed ‘offensive’; Niger intervention revived.

18 August 2023

Better late than never? Spain’s El País sounds alarm over consequences of Ukraine ‘proxy war’ for EU’s future.

18 August 2023

Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi.

18 August 2023

U.S.-backed roll of the dice leaves Ukraine in worse crisis.

18 August 2023

Is America a war state?

18 August 2023

Russia storming Kupiansk; Ukraine’s last ditch attack to save ‘offensive’; US intel doubts success of Ukraine’s ‘offensive’; China’s economy.

18 August 2023

Anti-China brainwashing is the fast-track to war. [I don’t agree that China’s role is so benign but there is still some interesting information about the US’s past imperial activity.]

18 August 2023

You can’t project power when the world knows you are weak.

18 August 2023

70 years ago, an Anglo-US coup condemned Iran to decades of oppression – but now the people are fighting back. [But there’s no real condemnation of UK/US involvement in the coup and of all those that followed. It’s just a ‘what if’ article that is just a waste of space. And really only supports the Iranian opposition because Iran is not ‘friendly’ to the west.]

18 August 2023

The world would be better off without NATO.

18 August 2023

The decline of America’s military reflects the overall decline of America itself.

18 August 2023

You and what army? – The Grayzone live – discussing main stream media in the west accepting the failing of Ukraine’s counter-offensive; the redundancy of politics in the US; the crisis in western Africa.

19 August 2023

New York Times estimates 500,000 casualties in Ukraine war; the magazine 1945 blames Ukrainian failings in their ‘counter-offensive’ of the concentration of forces in Bakhmut; Ukraine will ‘save Africa’, neocons rebrand themselves as ‘realists’.

20 August 2023

Big brave western proxy warriors keep whining that Ukrainian troops are cowards.

21 August 2023

Western media faces Ukraine’s failures: offensive grinds on with no Plan-B – includes, near the beginning, a bizarre ‘assessment’ by UK ‘Military Intelligence’,

21 August 2023 (but first published this time in 2022 – but well worth reminding people of the argument.)

John Pilger silencing the lambs: How propaganda works.

21 August 2023

Leopold’s ghost redux.

22 August 2023

Ukrainian drone destroys Russian supersonic bomber. [With such a spectacular claim I was surprised this news item kept appearing and disappearing from the site. Perhaps an indication that the BBC wasn’t really sure of its veracity – even though ‘fact checked’ by their so-called ‘Verify’ entity. As someone elsewhere stated, why should a news outlet need a verify service if journalists were doing the job they boast they are doing. Perhaps, therefore, an implicit admission that they are not.]

22 August 2023

Jeffrey Sachs interview – a large-scale destruction is currently unfolding. Refers to the number of regime changes in which the US has been involved from 1947 to 1989.

23 August 2023

Are US officials signaling a new ‘forever war’ in Ukraine?

23 August 2023

Most ‘experts’ pushing for endless conflict in Ukraine share a common benefactor.

23 August 2023

US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows.

23 August 2023

Neocons and other malignancies in the American body politic.

23 August 2023

‘Poland lost 10,000 soldiers and officers in Ukraine’.

24 August 2023

US hegemony at heart of Ukraine conflict, Japan dumps radioactive water from Fukushima.

24 August 2023

Discussions in the US in 2021 about attempting to engineer a Russian defeat to break any alliance between Russia and China to make the US war against China easier; death of Prigozhin – causes and suspects; no Ukrainian Independence Day victory; US/UK tells Ukraine to give up on Bakhmut and fight where Ukraine’s ‘masters’ tell them to go; BRICS grows with six new members.

24 August 2023

Scott Ritter: Ukraine will ‘capitulate unconditionally’.

24 August 2023

Come on, Ukraine, learn from the U.S. Military.

24 August 2023

After months of negotiations Ukraine will be getting the F-16 warplanes it has been begging for – here’s why that’s important – yet another British ‘academic’ living in cloud cuckoo land.

24 August 2023

Western hegemony falling apart, BRICS now controls 40% world’s GDP and de-dollarising.

24 August 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group boss joins long list of those who challenged Vladimir Putin and paid the price. [Again the so-called ‘academic’ Wolff rushes in with assertions = but providing no proof whatsoever. If a student of his made such assertions in such a manner in any of his classes they would be, rightly, marked down. However, the ‘Professor’ can get away with breaking all the rules of academia because he is a paid government propagandist.]

25 August 2023

Ukrainian tries, but fails, to capture Rabotino; Ukrainian mass drone attack (42) on the Crimea – but Russia says all brought down by electronic jamming; Russian officials say major Russian offensive coming; current Ukrainian attacks show that the ‘counter-offensive’ is ebbing; Zaluzhny warns US about pushing into a Kursk type disaster; more on Prigozhin’s death.

25 August 2023

Mark Sleboda joins the New Atlas to discuss the latest developments in the conflict in Ukraine including: – Prigozhin’s plane crash; – Sabotage units reaching Crimea; – The current state of Ukrainian offensive as it reaches the 3 month mark and; – What happens after Ukraine’s offensive exhausts itself.

25 August 2023

Who Killed Prigozhin? The stuck Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’. How did the west get it so wrong?Deliberate malpractice and out of touch with reality. Power panel with Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern – intelligence roundtable.

26 August 2023

Russia’s big autumn offensive predicted; Ukraine fails in Zaporozhzhie; Wagner forces join the Russian Army; BRICS – a serious rival to the US system.

26 August 2023

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal’s critical articles about Kiev’s counter-offensive explain why it failed.

26 August 2023

Niger receives military aircraft from Russia through Mali ready to combat France and Ecowas. Russia not running out of weapons.

27 August 2023

Ukraine make major breakthrough and warn under-fire Putin ‘we don’t stop here!’ [An example of the NATO/US/UK/EU’s separation from reality.]

27 August 2023

‘Who knows what comes next for the West?’ – Neil Oliver.

27 August 2023

John Mearsheimer – Ukraine’s tragic fate: the unheeded prophecies.

27 August 2023

Who killed Prigozhin? Why did the US/NATO/UK/EU not think about the consequences of forcing Russia to attack the Ukraine. Russia is winning the war. With Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson.

27 August 2023

‘We get rich, they just die’ – the western mainstream media.

27 August 2023

West and Ukraine trade blame and talk about ‘wonder weapons’ as critical juncture approaches.

28 August 2023

Russia claims Ukrainian capture of Rabotino is false; Russia sends 110,000 troops in build-up around Kupiansk; Zelensky interview – Ukraine losing hope of external support and ‘will fight on alone’.

29 August 2023

Zelensky’s latest TV interview shows how much the Ukraine conflict’s dynamics have shifted.

29 August 2023

‘Dying by the dozens every day’ – Ukraine losses climb. [The BBC starting to tell the truth – but still only partial and using ‘official’ NATO figures rather than what is happening on the battlefield.]

29 August 2023

Claims of ‘successes’ by the Ukraine (destroyed bomber and capture of Rabotino) questionable; Russia advance on Kupiansk sparks Ukrainian fear of 2nd Bakhmut and the ‘meat-grinder’; ‘hawks’ in US government and mass media still try to maintain the consensus is pro-war; Putrin refusing attempts to speak by western leaders; Scholz and Macron shocked that Putin was unfazed by sanctions.

29 August 2023

Commerce Secretary Raimondo’s China visit for seeks help from the Chinese to bolster US Treasury Bonds whilst 121 nations seek to divest themselves of their holding of those bonds.

29 August 2023

Always opposing past wars but never the present one.

29 August 2023

Defunded for wrongthink? GoFundMe freezes donations made to independent outlet The Grayzone.

29 August 2023

GoFundMe sides with war machine – silences Grayzone!

30 August 2023

Ukraine stuck in Rabotino; Syrsky worries about situation in Kupiansk and Bakhmut; difference in quality of Ukrainian and Russian drone attacks; French rocked by coup in Gabon.

30 August 2023

The list is increasing! Russia has eliminated another high-ranking NATO General in Ukraine!

30 August 2023

Ukraine gains on southern front could open way to Crimea, says Kyiv. [Three months to do 6kms. How long to do 200kms?]

30 August 2023

Nikki Haley pushes stupid ‘Putin is a murderer’ defence of Ukraine war.

31 August 2023

Breaking the Silence: Truth and lies in the war on terror (2003);

31 August 2023

Russia advances on Kupiansk and Bakhmut; Ukraine gives up on Rabotino and fails in Verbove; Ukraine plans yet another mobilisation; Xi will not attend G20.

31 August 2023

Ukraine’s western sponsors running out of ammunition and out of time. Includes a breakdown of the latest list of equipment being sent to Ukraine from the US.

01 September 2023

Spain’s Defence Minister comes to defence of EU chief ‘diplomat’ Josep Borrell in war of words with Russia that Borrell initiated.

01 September 2023

Only idiots believe the US is protecting Australia from China.

01 September 2023

Russia repels attacks on Verbovoye and advances in Bakhmut; articles in western mainstream media of the dire situation for Ukraine and the need for a ‘workable’ agreement to be acceptable to the Russians before total Ukrainian collapse; latest arms package from the US very thin; Erdogan to meet Putin, Niger takes harder line against the French.

02 September 2023

Rabotino virtually destroyed and offers no cover; Russia stops Ukrainian advance on Verbovoye with heavy Ukrainian losses; Russian Ministry of Defence issues report on Ukrainian actions and losses; the fiercest fighting seems to be taking place in Bakhmut; failed Kerch Bridge attack; US dismayed that Xi will not be attending the next G20 – article in Financial Times.

03 September 2023

Europe and the Law of Holes.

03 September 2023

Threats, insults, and Kremlin ‘robots’: How Russian diplomacy died under Putin. [No mention of Russia’s diplomatic moves in December 2021; no mention of the Minsk Accords of 2015; no mention of how both Merkel and Hollande stated that these agreements were merely an effort to allow NATO to arm Ukraine; no mention of the Buffoon’s role in scuppering the Istanbul proposal to end hostilities in March/April 2022; yet again no ‘journalism’. Yet argues that Nuland is an example of a ‘diplomat’.]

03 September 2023

‘Western equipment burns like matches’; Polish volunteer reveals the truth; has Mariinka been captured?

04 September 2023

The New Atlas LIVE: The Duran on NATO’s industrial-scale problems in Ukraine.

04 September 2023

Ukraine says Russian drones crashed in Romania – but Romania denies that’s the case. [This is an interesting article as it starts to doubt whether the Ukraine is telling the truth rather than hoping to force NATO to get involved in the conflict directly – forgetting that they probably have been, surreptitiously, since the very beginning.]

04 September 2023

Gofundme, defunded – The Grayzone live. Biden’s attempt to introduce a Memorandum of Understanding to lock in military aid to the Ukraine whatever the wishes of any future government; the elites who dominate Burning Man get what they deserved.

05 September 2023

Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK – [and if all the crimes committed by the British Army were taken into account they would be top of the terrorist list.]

05 September 2023

Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’ a failure – according to Putin; statement by Shoigu; Ukraine loses 66,000; British Challenger 2 tank destroyed; US: Kim Jong un Meeting Putin, China New Chip, Russia Boom.

05 September 2023

‘Send diplomats, not weapons’: German MP Sevim Dagdelen speaks out against Ukraine War.

05 September 2023

End of the war, end of US exceptionalism.

05 September 2023

Contamination fears after Ukraine loses British tank.

06 September 2023

How sanctions failed to hinder China’s development.

06 September 2023

The real threat from China: they’re better at capitalism than we are.

06 September 2023

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

06 September 2023

Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden yes-man, a Putin apologist or a peacemaker?

06 September 2023

British Challenger tank destroyed in Ukraine and heavy losses amid failing offensive.

06 September 2023

Ukraine attacks fail and Syrsky says situation is ‘complex’; reports from the Russian Ministry of Defence; fears of Russia offensive and alarm at Russia-North Korea ties.

06 September 2023

What BAE’s Ukraine deal shows about the risks and opportunities of setting up a business in a war zone. [Yet another of The Conversation’s ‘academics’ living in cloud cuckoo-land. Although there is the admission that arms manufacturers are making a killing in the Ukraine conflict.]

07 September 2023

If everyone understood that the US deliberately provoked this war.

07 September 2023

The EU’s best weapon against free speech isn’t working

07 September 2023

Russia enters Sinkovka; Blinken to Kiev as offensive stalls – looking for a scapegoat?; US rejects negotiations and cuts Kiev loose; US’s primary focus is China – for the headbanging neo-cons.

07 September 2023

Anti-China and anti-Russia propaganda.

08 September 2023

Apple shares slide after China government iPhone ban reports – [the arrogance of the ‘west’ never ceases to surprise. They are so sure of their power that they think they can attack other country’s economies and that they will just turn over and accept it. If they retaliate they are then the ‘aggressors’. But no analysis in the normal, supine BBC report.]

08 September 2023

West faces Ukrainian defeat; 2nd Challenger destroyed; none of the objectives of the ‘counter-offensive’ have been, or will be, achieved; will there be a Russian ‘autumn’ offensive; the background of the conflict being ignored; Russia-DPRK relations; North Korea’s nuclear submarine; Niger calls ECOWAS bluff.

08 September 2023

Ukraine’s push for NATO membership is rooted in its European past – and its future. [As is usual with The Conversation when it comes to Ukraine, what it leaves out is more important than what it says. No mention at all of the US involvement in the 2014 coup, painting it instead as some sort of ‘popular revolution’. As well as re-inventing history.]

08 September 2023

Battle Taxis – evolution of the Armoured Personnel Carrier. [Probably the most important statement in this video is the very last line – which NATO forces have forgotten. It’s all about the co-ordination between armour and the infantry that make the difference.]

08 September 2023

Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, UK Defence Chief says.

09 September 2023

Washington Post reported that Ukrainians are distrustful of the West and flirting with a ceasefire.

09 September 2023

Ukraine’s objectives ‘no longer aligned with’ West’s as Russia ‘no longer a threat’. [Didn’t see that one coming. The ‘West’ now things that Russia is now weaker? Interesting analysis – but it gives the ‘West’ an (what a terrible term!) ‘off-ramp’.]

09 September 2023

Fighting continues in Robotino; what’s happened to British Storm Shadow missiles; US military bad at mathematics; US supplying Ukraine ATACMS missiles is a major escalation; can we expect more attacks on the Kerch Bridge?; Ukraine believes it is entitled to anything it asks; G20 comes up with joint declaration which doesn’t condemn Russia directly; oil price grows and ‘West’ gives up on Russia oil price cap.

10 September 2023

Ukraine offensive could have only 30 days left. [The British more delusional that the Ukrainians – and posit an aim of the Russians which was never the case – ‘In the same interview, Adm[iral] Sir Tony Radakin, the UK chief of defence staff, said ‘Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing. That is because the aim of Russia was to subjugate Ukraine and to put it under Russia’s control’, he said. ‘That has not happened and it never will happen, and that’s why Ukraine is winning’.]

10 September 2023

Top US/Ukrainian officials signal offensive ending; linguistic acrobatics by western intelligence and military representatives on the failure of the ‘counter-offensive’; scale of Ukrainian losses; big Russian offensive rumours grow; ‘West’ humiliated at G20.

10 September 2023

Defamation League – The Grayzone live, including an analysis of the current situation in the Ukraine. (Aaron Mate returns with Max Blumenthal to cover Elon Musk’s pending lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League, and the organization’s history of collaboration with federal law enforcement and Silicon Valley to censor and smear opponents of Israel’s apartheid regime. They will also cover Blinken’s disturbing trip to Ukraine and the latest Omidyar-sponsored censorship ploy.)

10 September 2023

Here’s why Ukraine’s defeat could mean the end of NATO in its current form.

10 September 2023

Polish ambassador blasts Ukraine over memorials to WW2 Nazi collaborators.

10 September 2023

Biden aide intervenes to end rambling press conference.

10 September 2023

From Ukraine to Taiwan and Japan: Washington’s proxy wars around the world.

11 September 2023

Has the West closed all its Project Ukraine exits?

11 September 2023

The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine.

11 September 2023

America’s response to 9/11 in the lens of history.

11 September 2023

Ukraine offensive ending with massive Ukrainian losses; more reports of desertions amongst the Ukrainian military; Belgium seems to be back-tracking on the supply of F16 fighter jets; ‘sombre’ Zelensky rejects negotiations in Economist interview; Zelensky-Blinken public row – Blinken seeks negotiations but Zelensky doesn’t – reported in rival interviews; meeting in eastern Russia which includes Kim Jong Un (of the DPRK) and the future of South Korean companies in Russia.

11 September 2023

Danny Haiphong and Pepe Escobar: Russia-China-DPRK alliance destroys the neocons and signals the demise of the West.

11 September 2023

New Atlas – US considers ATACMS as Ukraine’s offensive struggles and the problems to come. As always, the New Atlas shows up the expectations of the west like building on sand. This is an important analysis of the last 18 months – about the arrogance of the ‘west’ and the preparedness of Russia.

11 September 2023

Judge Napolitano – Ukraine war as Putin meets with DPRK’s Kim Jong Un – with Scott Ritter. [With some interesting comments on the the destruction of the ‘Twin Towers’ in New York in 2001 at the beginning (8 minutes or so).]

12 September 2023

Russian-held elections seek to normalise illegal occupation and reveal reality of a long war ahead. [Yet more ‘analysis’ from a NATO ‘academic’ propaganda puppet.]

12 September 2023

Putin and Kim: Friends in need (of ammunition). [I’ll continue to include BBC reports just to illustrate the crassness of the organisation.]

12 September 2023

‘A good investment’: the Ukraine war and the US arms racket.

12 September 2023

Putin states 1000 Russian volunteers joining armed forces each week, says that Ukrainian casualties have reached 71,000 in its failed offensive; Putin rejects Ukrainian negotiations; the US and Vietnam come to some sort of commercial agreement; Vietnam and Russia come to an arms deal where Vietnam will be buying much material from Russia; Putin prepares to meet Kim Jong Un; Armenia tilts towards the US.

12 September 2023

Douglas Macgregor – Russia will bridge the river and capture Odessa. [Macgregor is a right-wing, racist shit BUT when he talks about the situation in Ukraine I can’t disagree with anything he says.]

12 September 2023

Britain orders more munitions as Ukraine war boosts UK defence.

13 September 2023

Air bases, drone swarms and new ports: US military footprint in Asia grows, but China grows faster.

13 September 2023

Russia’s disastrous decision to invade Poland in 1920 has parallels with Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine. [‘Academics’ queue up to see who is the best propagandist for the ‘west’. As always, follow the money.]

13 September 2023

The reported Russian-North Korean military deal is all about geostrategic balancing.

13 September 2023

Zelensky aide backtracks on insults to India and China.

13 September 2023

Ukraine attacks Sevastopol as ground attacks badly fail; Ukrainian losses surge; Russian losses lowest in war; Putin and Kim launch Russia-North Korea Strategic Partnership.

13 September 2023

CIA and the ‘Secret State’ manipulation of public opinion – with Jeffrey Sachs.

14 September 2023

Ukraine’s Bandera itch.

14 September 2023

Blinken sounds a rallying cry for a ‘new cold war’ that US cannot win.

15 September 2023

Ukrainian offensive continues to fail with limited or no real gains; in the attrition war, Russia shell output surges; Ukrainians and British argue of whose missiles are hitting the (very occasional) Russian targets; Blinken hints wants Ukraine conflict freeze and to focus China; Shoigu: victory Russia’s only option.

15 September 2023

China’s technological edge; Ukraine’s insurmountable odds; tensions in Korea and NATO posturing.

15 September 2023

Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter talk about Russia and Ukraine.

15 September 2023

Bidenomics: millions to rebuild Maui, billions for Ukraine.

16 September 2923

Russia is winning the industrial warfare race.

16 September 2923

The US is fanning the flames of war with China.

16 September 2023

Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods

16 September 2023

Maduro-Xi meeting: how China and Venezuela are changing the world.

16 September 2023

Russell Brand accused of rape and sexual assault. [Is there any relationship of this accusation to the fact that Russell Brand has been a long term critic of the US/UK/NATO/EU proxy war against Russia. Surely not. Compare this case with that of Julian Assange. And it makes no difference if these accusations are proven to be unfounded in a year or so – the damage has already been done.]

16 September 2023

Annalena Baerbock call Xi a dictator; Orban says EU grain deal was a lie; US to produce 100,000 rounds of ammunition a month – by end 2025; Obama wants to help Libya after causing its destruction.

17 September 2023

Russell Brand allegations mean entertainment industry has questions to answer – Cleverly. [It’s a pity that BBC journalists (and journalists in general) didn’t take such an investigative approach to the war in Ukraine as it is doing on the Brand allegations. And why is it the Foreign Secretary who is making the government’s response to the case?]

17 September 2023

The war in Ukraine helps advance the great EU neoliberal project.

17 September 2023

NATO hope of Ukrainian offensive victory; Ukraine media speaks of Ukrainian morale ‘souring’; Telegraph article talks about Ukraine regaining ground ‘tree by tree’ (25 min.); analysis of the present situation in US Today (33.5 min.); talks of a ‘long war’; continued heavy losses by Ukraine.

17 September 2023

Assange, Salmond and NOW Brand – George Galloway looks at how the State seeks to marginalise those it considers ‘inconvenient’.

17 September 2023

War in Ukraine: is the counter-offensive making progress? [Yet more bad reporting from the BBC.]

18 September 2023

Russia denies Kleshcheevka has been taken; breakdown of which side controls various contested locations (around 8 mins); Milley and Budanov now talk of a ‘long war’; the contrast of diplomacy in the 1960s/70s and now; US risks geostrategic disaster.

18 September 2023

Seized Zelensky home could become anti-Nazi museum.

18 September 2023

West admits Russia outguns them as Ukraine suffers heavy losses amid failing offensive – the New Atlas.

18 September 2023

The Intercept’s latest leak might deal irreparable damage to Pakistani-Chinese relations.

18 September 2023

Ukraine corruption? The intelligence community and journalism; the aim of ‘weakening Russia’; powers of the President; already American ‘boots on the ground’; with Phil Giraldi, former CIA.

19 September 2023

Ukrainian Ambassador to Mexico loses plot after Russian military takes part in Mexico’s Independence Day parade.

19 September 2023

Ukraine/West scale back offensive; western main stream media admits market missile was Ukrainian (26 min); Budanov interview in The Economist; Wang Yi meets Lavrov after Sullivan talk – and then stresses the friendship and unity between Russia and China.

19 September 2023

China dumps U.S. Treasuries to buy record amounts of gold as the U.S. dollar outlook weakens.

19 September 2023

This is a bizarre mish-mash from Fox News (I know, it leaves a sour taste) but this information is not forthcoming from anything in the British media – so that’s why it’s included here.

20 September 2023

U.S. is waging war with Russia, Foreign Minister Lavrov says.

20 September 2023

Zelensky’s terror team: Why the West looks the other way.

20 September 2023

Humanitarian imperialism created the Libyan nightmare.

20 September 2023

Mick Wallace invoking reason in the European parliament.

20 September 2023

Top 5 Russian weapon systems: and how they impact modern warfare – New Atlas.

21 September 2023

Poland and Ukraine have plunged into a full-blown political crisis with no end in sight.

21 September 2023

NATO chief admits NATO expansion was key to Russian invasion of Ukraine – Jeffrey D. Sachs

21 September 2023

Americans are being led by a lying media and corrupt political class.

21 September 2023

Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand.

21 September 2023

Max Blumenthal: Ukraine to become ‘Big Israel’?

21 September 2023

Biden’s UN General Assembly speech aimed at Russia exposes US hypocrisy.

21 September 2023

How the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroying Donbass for 8 years.

21 September 2023

Libya catastrophe is a double whammy; capitalism is to blame.

21 September 2023

Putin talks with Aliyev and Pashinyan about the conflict in the Caucasus; Ukrainian ‘offensive’ splutters to a halt; Zelensky UN Speech falls flat; West aid to Ukraine dwindles; Ukraine rejects any idea of peace talks; Russian probing attacks preparing for a big offensive.

21 September 2023

Why the Black Sea is key to Kyiv’s counteroffensive. [Yet another ‘academic’ clutching at straws. What he doesn’t realise is that wars are won (and lost) on the battlefield. Yes, damage can be done by Ukraine’s attacks on Crimea but it will in no way change the situation where the Ukrainian army is being decimated in Ukraine itself.]

22 September 2023

Ukraine lost around 85% of its initial mobilized force: Field general.

22 September 2023

Most tanks provided by Denmark to Ukraine faulty.

22 September 2023

The coming Ukraine collapse and the ‘rebuilding’ headfake.

22 September 2023

Zelensky: war lost without US; Zelensky also has a ‘secret plan’; Russia missile strike targets Ukraine energy system; The Economist admits the ‘counter-offensive’ has failed but still beats the neo-con drum; Ukraine hits Black Sea HQ – but at a huge expense; Neocons unlimited war; historical revisionism.

22 September 2023

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover developments from Zelensky’s desperate DC visit amid a collapse of relations with Poland (and which includes a clip of Zelensky watching himself make his speech at the UN General Assembly) and the British government’s censorship campaign against Russell Brand as it rams through a disturbing ‘Online Safety Bill’.

22 September 2023

Elensky speaks to Zelensky at the UN General Assembly; McConnell says Ukraine money to deter China; Zaluzhny is becoming the failed offensive scapegoat; British government involvement in ‘cancelling’ Russell Brand due to allegations.

22 September 2023

This is why the Ukraine counter-offensive is failing – with Scott Ritter.

22 September 2023

US prepares Taiwan Proxy against China; NATO postures as Ukraine fails; New Atlas.

23 September 2023

Russell Brand makes first comments since sexual assault allegations – [I publish this link solely for the last paragraph which makes no mention, whatsoever, about Brand’s criticism of how the pandemic was managed or about his opposition to the war in the Ukraine – and the real reason he is being attacked.]

23 September 2023

Poland hinted that Germany is to blame for its dispute with Ukraine.

23 September 2023

Ukraine reports major increase in economic growth. [There are lies, damn lies and statistics.]

24 September 2023

Ukraine short of helicopters; Ukraine continues to attack Sevastopol – but with limited effect; Russia learning how to counter-act western missiles; US administration refuses to listen to its own people that the war is being lost; Lavrov rules out ceasefire, hints at an offensive and the aim of a battlefield victory; Poles decline meeting Zelensky;

24 September 2023

Training to clear the world’s most heavily mined country. [How do you determine whether a country is involved in a war?]

24 September 2023

Infamy, they’ve all got it infamy. But Trudeau can’t escape – George Galloway

25 September 2023

Canada saluting a Ukrainian Nazi was no coincidence.

25 September 2023

Ukraine’s ‘biggest arms supplier’ orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre, witnesses say.

25 September 2023

The Ukrainian morale in the battlefield: a snapshot.

25 September 2023

This war wasn’t just provoked — it was provoked deliberately.

25 September 2023

The ‘Peacemaker’ hit list.

25 September 2023

Jeffrey Sachs interview – the US and Ukraine – a deeper look. How the west sabotaged any peace agreements and wants war at all costs and how the western media don’t honestly report this. ‘The White House will not negotiate over NATO over Russia’. ‘The goal of this war is to weaken Russia’. US military expansion to the Russian border was planned from 1992.

25 September 2023

Mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies hint at growing conflict fatigue. [This ‘academic’ is now pulling back as the reality – which he constantly denied – is overwhelmingly becoming obvious to all but the most myopic observer. But he can’t refrain from missing out important facts in order to distort the picture still.]

25 September 2023

Ukrainian Intelligence head admits failures; Canada exposes West as on wrong side of history – including video of Canadian Parliament (to a man and woman) giving a standing ovation to a murdering Ukrainian Nazi. New Atlas.

25 October 2023

[Canadian] MPs plead ignorance after applauding Nazi war veteran.

26 September 2023

Is Chrystia Freeland [Canadian Deputy Prime Minister] a fraud or a Nazi sympathizer?

26 September 2023

The soldiers who can’t leave the front line until the war is over. [The clickable heading on the BBC home page for this article reads ‘Ukraine’s young lead their elders in one unit’. And this is supposed to be an army that has had fewer casualties than the Russians and which is up to ‘re-taking’ Crimea? ]

26 September 2023

Original sin: How the weak legal foundations of NATO make negotiations with Russia virtually impossible.

26 September 2023

MPs plead ignorance after applauding Nazi war veteran.

27 September 2023

Horrible fate of all Ukrainian attacks in the direction of Verbove. The ‘kill zone’ explained.

27 September 2023

Canada’s honoring of Nazi vet exposes Ottawa’s long-standing Ukraine policy.

27 September 2023

Bill Kristol’s refreshingly honest Ukraine war ad.

27 September 2023

Regime attacks on Russell Brand are a proxy to fight Free Speech Rumble.

27 September 2023

A year of lying about Nord Stream – Seymour Hersh

27 September 2023

Dozens of lost armored vehicles at a distance of less than 5 Km. Military Summary and Analysis.

27 September 2023

Shoigu: Ukraine self-destructing and assaults are senseless (15 mins); Budanov: Ukraine will fight to the end; US demands Kiev reforms

28 September 2023

Ukrainian forces quitting by the thousands, refusing to die in NATO’s war – Redacted News.

28 September 2023

Canadian journalists are worried a Nazi’s feelings may be hurt.

28 September 2023

How Canada helped whitewash the Nazi SS Galicia Division.

28 September 2023

The media are targeting the public for a war with China.

29 September 2023

Media completely ignores NATO war role in Libya chaos.

29 September 2023

The New Atlas LIVE: Mark Sleboda on west pivots to ‘long war’ in Ukraine; industrial capacity to decide victor.

01 October 2023

Ukraine endgame accelerates as Congress denies any funding in Stopgap Bill and Fico wins in Slovakia vote.

01 October 2023

EU will back Ukraine without the US – Borrell [There already exist a ‘permanent structure’ to keep on giving money to the Ukraine.]

01 October 2023

Russian Army’s crazy ‘Balaton Tactics’ completely paralyzed Ukrainian Army and amazed experts.

01 October 2023

The mad propaganda push to normalize war profiteering in Ukraine.

01 October 2023

Ukrainian SS in Britain – postwar SS-Galizien Division refugees – also to Canada.

01 October 2023

Medvedev: Kiev regime change, more territory; India: relations with Russia non-negotiable; support for Ukraine in the US under attack; Shapps suggests direct UK involvement in the Ukraine.

01 October 2023

US Marine Corps Officer Scott Ritter reveals truth about Ukraine. [One of Ritter’s best summaries of the background to the situation in the Ukraine.]

02 October 2023

NATO testing waters on buffer zone as Ukraine offensive grinds to a halt; includes analysis of UK’s Radakin in a propaganda infused interview;

02 October 2023

US media can’t stop lying about Ukraine.[First published on 22 September 2023.]

02 October 2023

UK talks of sending troops to the Ukraine; bizarre article from ex-Defence Minister, Ben Wallace, in Daily Telegraph (20 min), admits that the average age of Ukrainian troops is more than 40; Medvedev threatens that foreign troops will be targets; Fico wins on anti-Ukraine platform in Slovakia; Ukrainian troops deserting in increasing numbers.

02 October 2023

Zelenskyy: from hero to zero; US in the same situation as France before the Revolution; with Colonel Douglas Macgregor. [Includes short video clip of Biden just mumbling during a press conference.]

02 October 2023

Nagorno-Karabakh is no more.

02 October 2023

‘Not about NATO’, ‘Never about NATO’, ‘nothing to do with NATO’.

03 October 2023

Ukraine’s unraveling, the funding row, and coalition wobbles.

03 October 2023

Annalena Baerbock talks about the EU extending from Lisbon to Luhansk; Politico article suggesting that World War II is complicated, especially in western Ukraine; the role of the USSR being denigrated; Ukraine corruption a problem for future western support in ‘secret document’; European foreign ministers meet in Kiev – with Hungary opposing more money to the Ukraine; US sponsored group trying to promote ‘colour’ revolution in Georgia.

03 October 2023

Western allies say they are running out of ammunition. [Various commentators linked to on this page have been saying this for months but only now do military ‘experts’ realise what is happening. And the destruction of the industrial base, which has been ongoing in the UK since the time of early Thatcher, means that it will take decades to have the skills, equipment, factories and the ability to reverse the past. If it is a surprise to the ‘experts’ the BBC ‘journalists’ seem no less surprised.]

03 October 2023

This proxy war can’t be both ‘unprovoked, AND a great strategic investment.

03 October 2023

Ukraine offensive has failed, Russia attacking; Shoigu’s speech to the high command, including analysis of field hospital situation; Russia attacking; Russian Army grows by 335,000; Yellen: oil price cap not working; SWIFT system no longer to be used for Russian internal banking transactions; Russia to test a swathe of new weapon systems.

04 October 2023

The increasing financialization of Germany.

04 October 2023

Will the US own Ukraine? With Matthew Hoh, former State Department. Interesting clips of Hilary Clinton warmongering – and campaigning for the Presidency.

04 October2023

Scott Ritter, Andrei Martyanov and Garland Nixon join Danny Haiphong on NATO as Ukraine’s time runs out.

05 October 2023

NATO told to fight Putin and win nuclear war against Russia; Retired U.S. official drops a bombshell.

05 October 2023

How much longer can Ukraine last? with Professor Jeffrey Sachs – neo-cons desire to surround Russia; Hilary Clinton’s manic Russophobia; British Imperialist thinking still dominates thinking; the war could have been avoided so many times in the past.

05 October 2023

Ukraine fatigue is worrying NATO elites – and so they should be.

05 October 2023

‘Propaganda’s casualties’.

05 October 2023

Beyond the neocon debacle to peace in Ukraine.

05 October 2023

US can’t deal with defeat.

05 October 2023

The priority must be to put Bush, Blair and Cheney behind bars before Trump.

05 October 2023

‘Ukraine is a very cheap way to make sure Russia … is not a threat to the NATO alliance.’ – Dutch Foreign Minister; Pentagon sends Iran weapons to Ukraine. New York Times accepts that Russia cedes ground then strikes back; Ukrainian population dropping precipitously;.Zelenska not happy.

05 October 2023

Lies, propaganda and the west’s war in Ukraine – online pamphlet launch. Stop the War Campaign.

05 October 2023

12 November 2023

Mainstream narrative on Ukraine-Russia War crumbling, conflict is unwinnable: David Sacks.

12 November 2023

Ukraine makes huge mistake! Also on Gaza. With former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

12 November 2023

Unconstitutional killings – in Ukraine, Gaza and throughout the world.

12 November 2023

Ukraine proxy war and Gaza genocide fatally expose western hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy.

EU-NATO Helpline

13 November 2023

Ukraine crisis deepens; Kiev begs for F16s; report says Biden blocked 2022 peace talks; Israel-Hezbollah war looms. [Ukraine from start to 1 hour 13 minute.]

13 November 2023

Jeffrey Sachs with John Mearsheimer – global crises, especially the Ukraine, and what is ‘rationality’?

13 November 2023

US to buy anti-aircraft weapon for Ukraine at huge markup.

13 November 2023

West admits Ukraine is losing, little can be done to change this fact.

14 November 2023

The media’s Nord Stream lies just keep coming. Jonathan Cook.

14 November 2023

This ain’t no ‘stalemate’: Ukrainian front-line breakdown, revisited.

14 November 2023

The latest claims in the western main stream media about who was culpable for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 – Scott Ritter. [The first seven minutes of the video.]

15 November 2023 (but originally published at the end of August 2023)

Hungary, a NATO nation known for its ‘Russia love’, has issued a war threat. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has apparently issued a warning to his ‘NATO allies’. Viktor Orban said that Hungary would ‘go to war if energy supplies were attacked’. Taking a swipe at Germany, Orban has claimed his nation would not remain passive like Berlin did during the Nord Stream blasts. [Relevant now as the wester mainstream media re-starts to make ludicrous claims on who was responsible – but being too stupid to realise that by stating that the Ukraine was ‘responsible’ they are, indirectly, implicating the US and NATO.]

16 November 2023

‘Failure to prevent genocide’: Biden sued as US provides arms and support for Israel’s Gaza assault.

16 November 2023

Why is Ukraine now claiming its disastrous counteroffensive was only a smokescreen?

17 November 2023

Mainstream media: Russia winning the war in the Ukraine; no Moscow regime change; Russia advances in Avdeyevka; Xi-Biden Talks: no result; comments on Gaza.

17 November 2023

German farmers: Ukraine membership would spell end of EU farming system.

18 November 2023

Scott Ritter: all lost, total failure achieved in Gaza and the Zionist settler state of Israel. [One of the best analyses that Ritter has made. Also includes an update on the situation in the Ukraine where the western alliance of the US/UK/EU/NATO has lost.]

18 November 2023

As Joe Biden downplays talk of a ceasefire in the Middle East, both Elon Musk and a top US General warn Israel’s killing of civilians will create more Hamas members. Includes some interesting video clips of Biden (when he wasn’t Alzheimic) maintaining that Israel is merely a useful tool of US imperialism.] Russell Brand.

19 November 2023

US proxy wars: Ukraine crumbles (from beginning to minute 25), Gaza burns as tensions rise in Asia-Pacific.

20 November 2023

Ukraine end game: Putin and Medvedev discuss maps, putting Kiev on the menu.

20 November 2023

Zelensky is trying to remove Generals he dislikes. Military Summary and Analysis.

20 November 2023

Avdeyevka crumbles as Russia takes the industrial zone and railway; Zaluzhny the target of Kiev purge; Russia shows 5% economic growth.

21 November 2023

Finland is hell bent on positioning itself as a front-line NATO state against Russia.

21 November 2023

Continued support for Ukraine is fading.

24 November 2023

NATO’s proposed ‘military Schengen’ is a thinly disguised German power play over Poland.

24 November 2023

The New Atlas: Mark Sleboda on growing Russian military vs West’s admissions Ukraine is losing.

24 November 2023

Ukraine sends women, the elderly to the front.

26 November 2023

Europe is getting record amounts of Russian gas through Turkstream. so who keeps trying to blow it up?

26 November 2023

Poland’s de facto blockade of Ukraine is its outgoing government’s last power play.

27 November 2023

The West is inching closer to more insanity in the Baltic Sea.

27 November 2023

The myth that Putin was bent on conquering Ukraine and creating a Greater Russia.

29 November 2023

Ukraine defences crumble; Russia captures Khromovo and advances in Avdeyevka; Putin hints of reunion of Russia-Ukraine-Belarus.

29 November 2023

Zelensky ally’s revelations betray motive to stage Bucha.

30 November 2023

Russia enters Bogdanovka and Sinkovka; Ukraine undermanned; Zelensky fears Zaluzhny, US-India relations worsen.

02 December 2023

‘We lost the war’: Slovakia recognized west’s defeat; Russian troops captured Maryinka and Bogdanovka.

03 December 2023

War and Theft – the takeover of Ukraine’s agricultural land.

03 December 2023

Russia outproduces West in drones and artillery shells as Ukraine goes on the defensive.

04 December 2023

EU and US Ukraine funding even more in doubt as war effort falters.

04 December 2023

How Kiev wanted to expand the war to Belarus.

04 December 2023

Ukraine: the credibility mirage.

04 December 2023

Ukraine and US trade blame for ‘failed counteroffensive’ – Washington Post.

05 December 2023

Russia’s hard line at European security meeting ratchets up tensions another notch. [As has become standard this ‘academic’ is merely a mouthpiece for the US and UK governments. No mention, whatsoever, of the illegal conflicts initiated – and in the process of being initiated – by the ‘west’.]

05 December 2023

Send Ukrainian men home to fight – German MP.

05 December 2023

Zelensky party MP tells Ukrainian women to go to the front lines.

05 December 2023

Russia advances on Bakhmut, Liman and Avdeyevka; UK military intelligence admits Marinka falling; Zaluzhny saying the Ukraine needs 17 million shells and $400 billion in material is so divorced from reality he can’t be serious – and a good analysis of the failure of the US to really understand the balance of forces in this war; US on the defensive everywhere.

05 December 2023

Vice chief: US can handle Middle East, Ukraine, China missions all at once.

06 December 2023

Ukraine endgame: US Congress providing no funds; Zaluzhny refuses to resign; Ukraine defences crumble; Putin in the UAE.

06 December 2023

UK special forces secretly operated in Ukraine.

07 December 2023

Pleading to prolong Ukraine war, Biden admin walks back false claims of victory.

08 December 2023

Ukrainians refusing to fight for ‘corrupt government’ – Washington Post.

08 December 2023

US missiles made for and aimed at China – not specifically about the Ukraine but an introduction to the US’s next conflict (unless things blow up in the Middle East over the Zionist attack upon Gaza.)

09 December 2023

‘No NATO’ for Ukraine, Ukrainian politician says.

10 December 2023

Why does Germany continue to self-destruct?

10 December 2023

Who is the jailed US journalist that Elon Musk is asking Biden and Zelensky about? [Gonzalo Lira.]

11 December 2023

West’s ‘new’ strategy for Ukraine victory: same as the old one and why it can’t work. New Atlas.

11 December 2023

Stakes are high for EU and Ukraine ahead of crucial European summit. [Wolff, yet again, displays his inability to understand what is/has been happening in the Ukraine. But now getting to clutching at straws.]

11 December 2023

Biden summons Zelensky; Syrski gives ‘optimistic’ analysis of the Ukraine’s situation; criticism of Zelensky grows; Russian officials rule out Kiev talks and hint at annexation.

13 December 2023

Ukraine flails as proxy/coalition war scheme comes apart.

14 December 2023

Russia’s goal ‘conquering Ukraine’, say western media. Not so, say experts.

15 December 2023

Hungary vetos €50 billion EU funding package for Ukraine; fuming EU leaders promise €50 billion workaround, but how?

15 December 2023

Western policymakers are panicking because there was no Plan B if the counteroffensive failed.

16 December 2023

Snowstorm; strike on NATO officers; battle for Novomykhailivka. Military Summary and Analysis.

17 December 2023

West seeks new narrative to frame failing Ukraine.

17 December 2023

UK contemplating sending troops to Ukraine.

17 December 2023

I was naive about the West – Putin.

17 December 2023

Russia will only accept the capitulation of Ukraine; new Ukrainian conscription laws, included the conscription of women; NATO officers killed in Russian attack in the Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis

18 December 2023

As Russia signals it can achieve maximalist aims in Ukraine, how would Russia manage Kiev and Western Ukraine?

19 December 2023

No NATO invite, no elections, failed counteroffensive: Key quotes from Zelensky’s press conference.

20 December 2023

US has a ‘clear plan’ for Ukraine’s future – Blinken.

21 December 2023

Kyiv digs in for the long haul with prospects looking bleak for 2024. [Wolff still denies reality but beginning to accept the Ukraine’s continued failings. Perhaps look back on his ‘analysis’ earlier in the year to see how he just follows the NATO party line.]

21 December 2023

Putin’s admission of naivety about the west signals his new stance towards peace talks.

21 December 2023

Ukraine’s secret attempt to bypass top trade union bodies.

21 December 2023

What Ukraine needs from its European partners (and the US) in 2024 – misguided views from yet another EU paid flunky, so-called ‘academic’.

22 December 2023

‘Russia stopped us from buying fighter jets’ – Ukrainian arms firm.

22 December 2023

Russia warns West against seizing assets.

22 December 2023

Why ‘digging in’ won’t save Ukraine and what the West got wrong about Russian defenses.

23 December 2023

EU nation willing to hunt down Ukrainian draft dodgers.

24 December 2023

Russian trade corridors flourish under western sanctions.

24 December 2023

SnowStorm; Russian breakthrough in Liman; front lines are falling apart; Ukrainian men stay at home to avoid forced ‘conscription’; Military Summary and Analysis.

26 December 2023

Russia said on Sunday that its forces have gained full control of Maryinka in Ukraine’s east, but Kyiv’s military denied Moscow’s claim, saying Ukrainian troops were still within the borders of the blighted town. Putin has hailed the victory, calling it ‘Maryinka’s liberation’.

26 December 2023

The growing US military recruitment crisis: there is no solution and the crisis will only grow…

27 December 2023

Mark Sleboda: Ukraine’s army is decimated and Putin is ready to finish it.

27 December 2023

Zaluzhny states that Russia to take Avdeyevka soon; his row with Zelensky; bankers oppose asset seizure; EU to borrow for Kiev – against wishes of some member states.

28 December 2023

US demands seizure of Russian assets; Kiev crisis, ex-PM Tymoshenko weighs in with Ukraine needs a Plan B; Russia-India ties deepen.

29 December 2023

Biggest ever Russian missile strike rocks Ukraine; Medvedev and Lavrov stress there will be no ceasefire; US looking for a way out.

29 December 2023

INTEL-Roundtable with Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson: Should the CIA be Dismantled? Judging Freedom.

29 December 2023

Biden admits Ukraine cannot win war, giving up territory; retired Lt Col Davis reacts; Ukraine not able to pay public servants and pensioners; Rising, The Hill.

30 December 2023

Russian missile strike smashed Ukrainian air defence system; Zelensky on Avdeyevka as defence crumbles; Russian industry surges.

30 December 2023

Zelensky is hated in Ukraine and NATO has nothing left – so says the Financial Times. A contribution from The Duran on Danny Haiphong.

31 December 2023

Furious Russia retaliates to Belgorod attack; Kharkov attacked; Bogdanovka captured; Middle East war looms.

View of the world – 2023

View of the world – up to end of 2022

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View of the world – 2023

Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023