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View of the world – up to end of 2022
View of the world – 2023
View of the world – 2024
Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022
The Ukraine – what you are not told – 2024
The war in the Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2023
01 January 2023
Drone strike; Russia enters Klesheevka; with analysis of Putin’s New Year Address: conclusion is the west is not trusted.
New Year Address to the Nation – Vladimir Putin
02 January 2023
New Year missile and drone strikes continue across Ukraine as NATO recognizes scale of conflict.
03 January 2023
Ukraine: when will it reach the end of its propaganda line?
03 January 2023
Russia strikes Druzhovka; admits 63 killed at Makeyevka [later revised up]; Polish mobilisation and entry into the Ukraine war and how that would impact on the future of NATO.
04 January 2023
Can NATO and the Pentagon find a diplomatic ‘off-ramp’ from the Ukraine War?
04 January 2023
Ukrainian soldiers considering a plan to withdraw from Bakhmut.
04 January 2023
Russia approaches remaining roads in Bakhmut; Ukraine offensive fails in Kremennaya; Makeyevka 89.
04 January 2023
Putin’s plan to stop Ukraine turning to the west has failed – our survey shows support for NATO is at an all-time high. [What these ‘academics’ don’t realise is that Ukraine hasn’t acted independently for years – since at least 2014. And considering so many are now out of the country – and unlikely to return – the fate of the country continues to be decided by others. This ‘analysis’ is simplistic in the extreme and totally ignores reality. As always, follow the money.]
05 January 2023
Ukraine and Russia: waiting for the next phase?
05 January 2023
Wagner assault units are storming SOLEDAR! [An annoying presentation style – but makes some interesting points nonetheless.]
05 January 2023
US admits Russia Bakhmut advance; Russia claims Solidar gains; US and France to provide light armour; what are the circumstances of a Russian offensive; the consolidation of Russian society.
05 January 2023
The Establishment Left and Corporate America – the Jimmy Dore show on the redundancy of the so-called ‘progressives’ in the US Democratic Party.
05 January 2023
Despite Russian setbacks, an end to the conflict is not yet in sight. [Yet another article from The Conversation which demonstrates that a not inconsiderable number of British ‘academics’ are shamelessly acting as paid propagandists for the the Ukraine/NATO narrative. As always, follow the money.]
06 January 2023
Western escalation in Ukraine: sending in armour – but is it too little too late?
06 January 2023
Zelensky’s bloody war against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
06 January 2023
Russia breaks through in Soledar; Putin Announces Ceasefire, US Germany Send Armour To Ukraine.
06 January 2023
The Grayzone live on; Nicaragua; Nazis in the Ukraine; situation in the Donbass; the implications of the election of the US Speaker McCarthy and the possible implications on the war in the Ukraine; Twitter’s Russiagate files exposed. [A long discussion which covers many issues.]
06 January 2023
Why Russian soldiers’ mothers aren’t demonstrating the strong opposition they have in previous conflicts. [Whatever the aim of this article the most important idea here, as far as we are concerned, is that IF there were such huge Russian casualties, as are claimed by both the Ukrainians and their NATO backers, then the existing structure in Russian would have broken through this supposed move of opposition on to social media. Contrast that with the structure that doesn’t exist in the Ukraine. So many family members are no longer in the country that they don’t even know what might have been the fate of their sons, fathers, etc., let alone make a public statement to that fact.]
07 January 2023
Has NATO support been beneficial to the Ukraine – or not? Douglas Macgregor.
07 January 2023
Russia on brink of capturing Soledar; Ukrainian Bakhmut defences crumble; West rushes weapons to the Ukraine – whether they are of use is not taken into consideration.
07 January 2023
Military summary and analysis.
08 January 2023
Latest US arms shipment to Ukraine cannot solve Kiev’s fundamental problem.
What’s ahead in the war in Ukraine. [The last article referenced in the podcast above.]
08 January 2023
Ukraine admits heavy losses as Russia takes Podgorodnoye, most of Soledar and encircling what’s left.
08 January 2023
Biden’s existential angst in Ukraine.
09 January 2023
BBC and it’s claim of ‘impartiality’
Contrast both the headlines and the content of two articles that address to similar events that took place in the Ukraine in the space of 8 or 9 days. Although the facts (at the time of writing this) about the Russian attack on barracks in Kramatorsk are still to be confirmed before any more information becomes available the BBC is already banging the Ukrainian propaganda drum. Now that should come as no surprise, this has been the case for the last ten months and a bit.
Neither should it be a surprise that the BBC follows the dictat of the UK government when it comes to the news about a war in which, officially, Britain is not involved. Keeping people stupid is the name of the game. The problem arises when the BBC argues that it is being impartial in its news reportage – as claims the rest of the British mainstream ‘media’. Through this maintenance of the line that whatever everything Ukraine says is true (and thus that they are ‘winning’ the war – against all rational analysis) this allows western governments to continue to expend huge resources in support of the Nazis in the Ukraine in a desperate attempt to do serious damage to Russia. But, ultimately, those who will really suffer from this propaganda campaign are the Ukrainians themselves. As the corrupt Oliver North said recently the fight against Russia will be carried out by American bullets and Ukrainian blood.
Ukraine claims hundreds of Russians killed by missile attack (3rd January 2023)
Ukraine denies Russian claim it killed 600 soldiers (9th January 2023)
09 January 2023
Biden has never had a grasp of international politics. Was an arrogant fool in 1997 and remains so to this day – with added age degeneration.
09 January 2023
Russia claims Ukraine collapse and retreat from Soledar; Russian arms production; protests in Brazil.
09 January 2023
Military summary and analysis.
28 December 2022 (but only encountered 10 January 2023)
Russia winning the electronic war in Ukraine.
10 January 2023
Russia presses Ukraine in Soledar and Bakhmut; Ukraine mulls retreat; Patrushev says Russia fights West – not Ukraine.
10 January 2023
Washington has trouble refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after 220 million barrel draw.
10 January 2023
Colonel Douglas Macgregor on Bakhmut battle – and huge Ukrainian casualties; danger of NATO confronting Russia directly. Ideas on a possible Russian offensive. No one in the ‘west’ is prepared to admit they have lost.
11 January 2023
What (more reasonable) Western analysts say comes next for Ukraine.
11 January 2023
Life on Russia’s home front after ten months of conflict.
11 January 2023
Russia claims Soledar captured and remaining Ukrainian troops surrounded; West debates sending tanks to Ukraine.
11 January 2023
Military summary and analysis.
11 January 2023
Poland verges on total collapse, the government caught hiding the truth from Polish people.
12 January 2023
The Russian sledgehammer is beginning to fall in Ukraine. Another Macgregor interview. [The of the best of Macgegor’s analyses of the Ukrainian situation – taking into account the present situation with historical comparisons.]
12 January 2023
Large number of Ukrainian soldiers suffering from tuberculosis.
12 January 2023
Can a nuclear war be avoided? — Scott Ritter. Emphasising the reality that Russia doesn’t have any trust in the ‘West’.
12 January 2023
Russia consolidates control of Soledar and focuses on Bakhmut; Russia reshuffles military command structure; Kiev floats and rejects armistice.
12 January 2023
180 million barrels of crude may never be returned to the [US] Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
12 January 2023
Military summary and analysis.
12 January 2023
The bloody battle for Soledar and what it tells us about the future of the conflict. [Yet another ‘analysis’ by this so-called ‘academic’. As always with The Conversation (when it comes to the Ukraine, on other matters it’s quite good) ‘follow the money’.]
12 January 2023
Can the United States provide an ‘off-ramp’ for Putin?
12 January 2023
The Ukrainian Demilitarized Zone – ‘negotiations’ start at a dead end.
13 January 2023
Will western main battle tanks turn the tide in Ukraine? What do Russian gains in Soledar mean?
13 January 2023
Russia claims Soledar victory; Ukraine troops trapped in Bakhumt; Ukrainian Soledar counter-attacks fail.
13 January 2023
Russia claims Soledar victory and trapping of Ukraine troops in Bakhumt; Ukraine Soledar counter-attacks fail.
14 January 2023
Russia missile strike; advances in Bakhmut; German public criticism of tank transfers; US Navy weapons stocks depleted.
15 January 2023
Kiev says Ukraine cannot shoot down ballistic or supersonic missiles; Washington Post says Kiev may retreat from Bakhmut.
15 January 2023
Military summary and analysis.
16 January 2023
German general tells US generals to lose the Ukraine War as soon as possible to prevent losing the Empire in Europe.
The two links below are not ‘directly’ connected to the war in the Ukraine but it does put the approach of the UK government to the conflict in context.
16 January 2023 (published 10 January 2023)
The UK’s 83 military interventions around the world since 1945.
16 January 2023 (published 12 January 2023)
Britain’s 42 coups since 1945.
16 January 2023
As West sends more armour to Ukraine why ‘turning the tide’ is still fantasy.
Some statistics from around minute 20;
Russia has; available on the battlefield 2,800 tanks and 13,000 armoured vehicles;
in storage 10,00o tanks and 8,500 armoured vehicles.
16 January 2023
Russia prepares Bakhmut ‘cauldron’; German ex-General calls for peace and says West risks defeat and/or World war Three; an analysis of the failure of western sanctions against Russia and the fundamental reasons why by French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd.
16 January 2023
Military summary and analysis.
17 January 2023
What if Russia won the Ukraine War but the western press didn’t notice?
17 January 2023
Ukrainian Bakhmut crisis deepens; Zelensky fires key adviser; Bloomberg confirms Russian oil surge; ‘life is normal in St Petersburg’ and the failure of economic sanctions; the ‘blow-back’ on the USA of their irrational desire to destory the Russian Federation.
17 January 2023
NATO wonder weapons. [A discussion about the practicalities of the ‘game changer’ weapons that the west is proposing to send to the Ukraine. I can’t find anything which doesn’t hold together. The first hour deals with that issue, the second a Q+A which also includes some interesting points.]
18 January 2023
Supply of advanced tanks will give Kyiv an edge over Russia and move it closer to NATO. [Yet another contribution form a NATO/US/UK/EU paid ‘academic’ flunky. Again follow the money And who is the Kyiv Transatlantic Dialogue Center?]
[This is a strange site, referenced in the above article, which seeks to ‘prove’ Ukrainian claims on the number of Russian armour either destroyed or captured. But it’s merely a site with links to pictures that could have ben taken anywhere and at any time in the past. This ‘academic’, nonetheless considers this ‘credible’ evidence of what the west is promoting.]
Attack on Europe: documenting Russian equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
19 January 2023
Russia captures Kleshcheyevka; Bakhmut ‘cauldron’ looms; Zaluzhny warns about dangers to Siversk; Biden and Scholz quarrel about supplying tanks to Ukraine.
19 January 2023
Spoils of the Sanctions War – NATO lion meets Russian tit for tat.
19 January 2023
Jeffrey Sachs: The war in Ukraine and the missing context and perspective.
20 January 2023
US and allies send more weapons to Ukraine in the absence of real solution.
20 January 2023
Bakhmut operationally encircled; Russian advance in Zaporozhye; West talks tank deliveries in Ramstein; retired German General Kujat criticises NATO’s action in the Ukraine.
20 January 2023
Will Russia opt to continue the war into 2024?
21 January 2023
Russia offensive make rapid gains in Zaporozhye; Ukraine operational crisis in Bakhmut; Germany says ‘No’ to sending tanks to the Ukraine.
22 January 2023
Viewing Ukraine through the Davos lens.
22 January 2023 (Originally published by The Guardian newspaper in 2017.)
So, perhaps, surprising that The Guardian is now beating the ‘support democratic Ukraine’ drum.]
Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’.
22 January 2023
Russia advances further in Bakhmut, Siversk and Zaporozhye; US tells Ukraine it is losing attrition war and should leave Bakhmut.
22 January 2023
War to the last Ukrainian. Violent handout of draft notices in Ukraine, January 2023 (Videos).
22 January 2023
Military summary and analysis.
23 January 2023
Russia fighting west of Bakhmut and closing the trap; Russia pushes towards Zaporozhye City, threatening a new military crisis for Ukraine. [Also three interesting articles from Americans questioning the war. Links in video information.]
23 January 2023
Russian gains; US gears up for Crimea escalation; US proxies strike China/Pakistan in train bombing.
24 January 2023
German Greens on the warpath.
24 January 2023
German General Kujat warns the Ukraine War is lost, revives the stab-in-the-back charge against the US and NATO for ‘exposing Germany to Russia’.
24 January 2023
Russia begins new Vuhledar offensive; Russia advances in Bakhmut and Zaporozhye; big purge of politicians strikes Kiev; the debate about supplying western ‘modern’ tanks – from about 42 minutes to end.
25 January 2023
Russia closing Bakhmut cauldron; Belarus rejects Ukraine offer of a ‘non-aggression pact’; West escalates and sends Kiev tanks; interesting articles references around 45 minutes; Russian casualties discussed around 63 minutes.
25 January 2023
West risks war with Russia over escalating military aid – Geoffrey Roberts
25 January 2023
US to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine; US-backed terror targets Myanmar’s upcoming elections.
25 January 2023
Douglas Macgregor – What are the damages for the Russian side? [Includes an analysis of casualties on both sides.]
26 January 2023
Russia aims to surround Vuhledar; most recent missile strike against Ukraine; more on western tanks – and the problems associated with their provision, west mulls giving Kiev fighter jets and even more missiles.
26 January 2023
John Helmer: Blinken concedes war is lost – offers Kremlin Ukrainian Demilitarization; Crimea, Donbass, Zaporozhe; and restriction of new tanks to Western Ukraine if there is no Russian offensive.
26 January 2023
Zelensky admits: ‘Ukraine war is good for business’!
26 January 2023
Ukraine’s Zelensky sends love letter to US corporations, promising ‘big business’ for Wall Street.
26 January 2023
Douglas Macgregor – A huge offensive. [What the Russians might do and the failings of the Ukrainians. Although Macgregor is informative on the military aspects of the war but his right-wing political views always come through.]
27 January 2023
USAID quietly unveils plans to export Ukraine’s digital governance model around world.
27 January 2023
Russia close to capture Vuhledar; launches big missile attack; Blinken and Nuland floats ‘peace offer’.
28 January 2023
How tanks from Germany, US and UK could change the Ukraine war. [Yet another ‘game changer’.]
‘Western officials had hoped that Ukraine may be able to mount an offensive as soon as this spring. They believe there is now a window of opportunity while Russia struggles to recruit and rebuild its battered forces, and to replenish its dwindling supplies of ammunition.’ ]Assertions which are never accompanied with proof.]
28 January 2023
Russia presses forward in Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Orekhov; the western weapon ‘game changers’; Rand warns US overinvested in Ukraine and the prolongation of the war is not in the interest of the USA;
28 January 2023
The Russian Battalion Tactical Group, the New Atlas with Alex of Donbass Devushka. [A valuable introduction to Russia’s military organisation – useful for those not versed in the world’s militaries.]
A very much throw away comment, but important in the context of the NATO tanks that are supposed to be supplied to the Ukraine some time in the indeterminate future, that all Russian conscripts are trained of how to work with armoured ordinance in order to not be crushed by their own side. There is no way that Ukrainian conscripts will have any understanding of this idea. That point is made around minute 16.
But perhaps the most important thing to take from this discussion is that the Russian army has a strategy (it might not always work) whereas the Ukrainians don’t. Taking their decisions on the initiative of the British this is not surprising. The last ‘war’ the Buffoon had to fight was the pandemic. There was never any hint of a strategy then – and even now such a strategy doesn’t exist.
29 January 2023
‘Mainstream media’ admits Russia about to capture Bakhmut; Ukraine Vuhledar counter-attack fails; US equipment crisis – logistical and training problems of sending western material to Ukraine and the consequent depletion of all NATO nation’s military resources.
30 January 2023
Western volunteer in Bakhmut admits Ukraine is losing; is the western tank card a bluff?
Avoiding a Long War – US policy and the trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, RAND, January 2023. Document referred to above.
30 January 2023
Putin just pulled off the ultimate sneak attack against the West. [Not too sure about the advert for the ‘sponsor’ at around 10 minutes to the end.]
30 January 2023
Imperial dominance disguised as democratic deterrence.
30 January 2023
Wall Street Journal admits Bakhmut almost cut off; Russia pushes forward in Vuhledar; militaries in western Europe (especially Germany and Britain) concerned about armour and other war materiel being sent to Ukraine; US military wants end Ukraine War – as it feels itself weakened against their main enemy – China. [Sound not particularly good for first 17 minutes.]
30 January 2023
Why, despite RAND’s recommendation, the Ukraine War is unlikely to end in a negotiated settlement.
31 January 2023
That didn’t take long: Latin American governments refuse to send weapons, Russian or otherwise, to Ukraine.
31 January 2023
Russia’s ‘sanction-proof’ trade corridor to India frustrates the Neocons.
31 January 2023
Russia’s Bakhmut ring tightens; UK mainstream media admits Russia close to Chasov Yar; Russia advances on Vuhledar.
31 January 2023
Preventing a long war, The Duran with Scott Ritter. [A very long discussion.]
31 January 2023
Ukraine: banned landmines harm civilians – Ukraine should investigate forces’ apparent use; Russian use continues. [Article gives the impression it’s holding Ukraine to account for its ise fo anti-personnel mines but then, slavishly, accepts Ukraine’s assertion that it’s a problem of rogue elements as they are going to ‘investigate’ the matter – as if they don’t know what’s going on on the front line. The article also ignores the documented incidents of the Ukrainian use of the very same mines in Donetsk City – which was documented more than six months ago, at least. Yet another NGO which claims independence but which is just another arm of the western propaganda machine.
Ukraine turns Donetsk into a minefield using banned ‘Petal’ mines – a video by a journalist, Eva Bartlett, who has been based in Donetsk City since the beginning of the Special Military Operation.
01 February 2023
The Pentagon’s plans for a perpetual three-front ‘long war’ against China and Russia.
01 February 2023
US threatens missiles, jets – but without taking into account the logistic difficulties; is the US merely trying to bluff Russia and hope that Putin will back down first; also US now starts to threaten Crimea; US seeks war with China by 2025.
01 February 2023
Mainstream media admits Bakhmut Encirclement is close; speculations on the recent (and continuing) purge of the Ukrainian ‘leadership’; Lavrov ridicules Blinken offer; the supply of western armour looks more precarious by the day; West pulls back on jets.
01 February 2023
Douglas Macgregor on the imminent destruction of the Ukraine and the effect this will have on NATO – a resume of the situation in the war at the beginning of February 2023. Interesting quote from podcast ‘The Polish army could invade Germany tomorrow morning and conquer it in a week’.
01 February 2023
Ukraine war: casualty counts from either side can be potent weapons and shouldn’t always be believed.
02 February 2023
EU snubs Zelensky on Ukraine’s membership; Setback ahead of Kyiv summit on Friday 03 February.
02 February 2023
Is NATO tired of Ukraine’s demands?
02 February 2023
Mozart pro-Ukrainian mercenary group meltdown over viral Grayzone video exposé. [Mozart’s founder admits to Ukrainian corruption and extra-judicial murders of Russian POWs.]
02 February 2023
Ukraine war: how US-built F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ could help Kyiv move on to the offensive. [Yet another jingoistic article – which just brushes off the issues of training and logistics, as if anyone could just jump into the cockpit and become an expert within weeks.]
03 February 2023
Russia new Kremennaya offensive; only one road in and out of Bakhmut; Pentagon tells Congress that Ukraine is unable to take Crimea; ‘press gang’ on Ukrainian streets; the village of Sacco and Vanzetti; who destroyed Nordstream?
03 February 2023
Douglas Macgregor talks about the training and logistical issues related to the introduction of western weapons to Ukraine. [An audio interview with an extremely annoying and meaningless video with dogs. But … very significant and important statement between 09.13 and 10.38 minutes. And calculates 150,000 Ukrainian dead at 12.18 minutes. Ukraine has lost.]
03 February 2023
As US proxy war rages against Russia, US seeks war with China by 2025. [Another long, yet still interesting discussion.]
03 February 2023
Grayzone live with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate – the Chinese ‘spy’ balloon and the US multi-million project on spy balloons; the end of the western Mozart mercenary group; the bogus story of ‘Russiagate’; British politicians starting to speak about sending NATO (and presumably British) troops to the Ukraine. A long discussion which covers many points but worth the effort.
04 February 2023
Jimmy Dore drops fiery anti-war monologue (this time on provoking China) on the Tucker Carlson show.
04 February 2023
As Russia encircles Bakhmut Zelensky decrees ‘No Surrender’; New York Times writes Ukraine using its conscripts as cannon fodder; discussion on Russian casualties; more on the attack on Nordstream; US mulls China conflict; rumours to end war.
05 February 2023
US fails miserably in efforts to isolate Russia.
05 February 2023
UK Ministry of Defence admits Bakhmut is isolated; EU struggles to find tanks; Russia massively increases arms production; potential Russian Spring offensive; Ukraine follows French and German lead by promising negotiations in bad faith; the errant balloon over the US.
05 February 2023
Energy saving light bulbs and Ukraine’s membership of the EU; US Department of Justice to transfer assets seized from sanctioned Russians to be sent to the Ukraine; western skilled engineers to be embedded with Ukrainian units to assist in the maintenance of western provided munitions – starting with hundreds, could it get up to thousands?; why doesn’t Zelensky not donate some of his private wealth for the Ukrainian war effort?; Mission creep as in Vietnam in the 1960s; long range weapons aimed at Crimea; China spy balloon
06 February 2023
Latest US arms package (and a list of weaponry that has still to be produced) and US provocations versus Russia and China. [Includes an interesting (short) discussion of the meaning of 14 and 88 – the Germans are sending 14 Leopard 2 and 88 Leopard 1 tanks at minute 26.00.]
06 February 2023
The economics of the Ukraine proxy war with Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai.
06 February 2023
For Ukraine continued resistance is futile. They should sue for peace now. George Galloway and Scott Ritter. [A few Ritter quotes; ‘Your mouths are writing cheques your body can’t cash’. ‘NATO can’t get out of the barracks’. ‘The British Army will run out of ammunition in one day’. ‘Everything the US government says is lies.’]
06 February 2023
Bakhmut on the brink of capture by Russia; big Russian gains in Kharkov; Zelensky loses key ally Reznikov and continuing changes in Ukrainian government; more on the German Leopard tanks; the affair of the wandering Chinese balloon.
06 February 2023
The Maidan sniper killings were pivotal for the 2014 Kiev coup – why is research into the massacre being censored in the West?
07 February 2023
Moscow provides update on Ukrainian losses.
07 February 2023
The new atlas – Chinese-Russian history with Mark Sleboda and Carl Zha – a comprehensive explanation of the last 800 years.
08 February 2023
Seymour Hersh: Navy divers + spooks + Norway took out Nord Stream 2 on Biden’s orders, using timer.
08 February 2023
Bakhmut about to fall; Russia says Ukraine leaving Kupiansk; will Britain be out on a limb when it comes to support of Ukraine when the rest of the ‘west’ pulls back?; report implicates Biden in Nord Stream attack in 2022.
08 February 2023
Russia-Ukraine War: Ex-Israel PM Naftali Bennett’s shocking revelations about US/UK/NATO/EU interference to prevent bringing the war to an end in March 2022.
09 February 2023
Elite splits over Ukraine shed a tiny bit of light on factions.
09 February 2023
Propaganda in the Ukrainian proxy-war, with Noam Chomsky, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen. The ‘unprovoked’ invasion of the Russians.
10 February 2023
How did the German Greens become the party of warmongers?
10 February 2023
Missiles, earthquakes and pipelines – US hegemony fighting on all fronts. Again on the difficulties of introducing western weapons in Ukraine and all it will do is extend the war. US refusal to lift sanctions against Syria following the recent earthquake and states it wants to destroy the country. Report that US destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines last year. Taiwan and the Solomon Islands.
10 February 2023
Big missile strike; Bakhmut siege tightens; Russia advances on Kupiansk; UK to send Typhoon jets, not F16s; Scholz and Baerbock ‘not speaking’.
10 February 2023
GrayZone – Rant against the war machine rally on 19th February 2023 in Washington, with Jimmy Dore; some of the US ‘left’ not being anti-war; the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines; the earthquake and the block on aid to Syria because of US sanctions; the Syrian ‘White Helmets’ the tool of US and western imperialism.
10 February 2023
The Duran – Nord Stream pipeline and sabotaging peace with Jeffrey Sachs.
10 February 2023
The Leopard’s Tale: U.S. weapons makers on a marketing spree.
10 February 2023
The West thought oil sanctions would cripple Russia, here’s why the plan backfired.
11 February 2023
Russia tests new systems most recent missile barrage; Bakhmut trap tightens; New York Times writes Russia may plan encirclement; threats against venues hosting meetings against the war.
12 February 2023
Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war – Ukraine. [In this the headline says more than the body of the article. The Ukrainian figures are unsubstantiated – they never are – and the BBC always provides it’s (and that of the UK Ministry of Defence) get out by writing ‘The figures cannot be verified – but the UK says the trends are “likely accurate”.’ The word ‘likely’ appears in many BBC reports when it wishes to publicise matters that are, in all probability not likely.]
12 February 2023
West admits jets for Ukraine will take years and US sanctions blocking Syrian earthquake relief.
12 February 2923
Bakhmut siege tightens; Russia captures Krasnaya Gora; London Daily Telegraph economics editor cast doubts on the effects of western’ sanctions against Russia; Russian oil caps ‘watered down’; NATO back-pedal fighter jets; Zelensky plays western leaders ‘like a violin’; the decision to destroy the Nord Stream pipeline made by a ‘secret cabal’.
12 February 2023
‘Rules based international order’ to be imposed on Hungary – whether they want it or not.
12 February 2023
Zelensky shares photo of Ukrainian soldier with Nazi insignia, again.
13 February 2023
Russians slowly takes ground around Bakhmut.
13 February 2023
Is civilization at stake in Ukraine?
13 February 2023
Toll of Ukraine conflict on NATO assessed – Reuters.
13 February 2023
More balloons or UFOs? Is it all a distraction? Interview with Seymour Hersh and his article about the US involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines starts at 33.40 minutes to near the end. And with a very instructive and informative short video of Condoleezza Rice speaking about 20 years ago at 36.35.
14 February 2023 (originally broadcast 03 February 2023)
What becomes of NATO after the loss in Ukraine?
14 February 2023
Ukraine retreating from Bakhmut; Russia reaches Kupyansk and Liman; NATO out of stock of munitions; Stoltenberg makes strange speech which shows panic and lack of real understanding of logistics; confused and contradictory advice coming from the Pentagon.
15 February 2023
West’s ability to arm Ukraine continues to wane; western weapon systems won’t arrive for so-called Ukrainian ‘Spring’ offensive – and no time to train Ukrainians to use them; mainstream media starts to accept problems developing; US denies reality and continues to repeat their fantastical claims of Russian failures.
15 February 2023
Blood, money and imperial war.
No Nazis in Ukraine – says US/UK/NATO/EU, but the facts say otherwise.
15 February 2023
US official deletes tweet honouring Nazi collaborator.
15 February 2023
Ukrainian ‘commander’ shown with ISIS patch.
15 February 2023
Zelensky decorates military unit with ‘Nazi’ title.
15 February 2023
Russia closes in on Kupiansk and Liman; UK mainstream media admits NATO can’t – and never will – match Russia in production of ammunition; US depletes its ’emergency’ oil reserve.
16 February 2023
Russia in Paraskovievka and Bakhmut; more concern in the west that their ammunition stocks are being depleted; fewer NATO tanks than promised – especially Leopard 2 tanks from Germany; developments following Seymour Hersh’s article on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines; both Stoltenberg and Sullivan have questions to answer.
16 February 2023
Douglas Macgregor – The Russian onslaught. In the first few minutes three interesting video clips about the current situation and the amount of ammunition available for the Ukraine by Austin, Stoltenberg and Milley. Scoffs at the saga of the ‘surveillance balloons’. Seymour Hersh’s article on the Nord Stream sabotage ”more than credible’. [On the Ukraine I find it difficult to disagree with much of what Macgregor says about the military aspect of the war in the Ukraine. But, at foundation, he’s just a right-wing shit. He considers those in control of the industrial/military complex as ‘left-wing’ and constantly makes references, in a negative manner, to those crossing the southern border with Mexico.]
17 February 2023
China-Iran ties on the right side of history.
18 February 2023
How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline.
18 February 2023
Russian Bakhmut pincer closing; Paraskovievka captured and Russian forces approaching Kupiansk; Macron says there should be no regime change in Russia. [Although Mercouris offers a reasonable analysis he can sometimes waffle, especially when it comes to military matters. That’s the case here but his comments on the Munich Security Conference are worth a listen and start at around minute 30.]
18 February 2023
‘United States is corrupted!’ – The Russian-Ukrainian war explained. Commentary by Jimmy Dore. [With an interesting short video of US representative being caught out in justifying NATO expansion as not being a cause for the war.]
19 February 2023
Russia pushes west of Bakhmut; gloom over the Munich Security Conference – an ‘acceptance of the partition of the Ukraine; ‘the end of the world as we know it’; disappointment after the expectation that Russia would ‘implode’ following sanctions; bizarre (and hysterical) reaction of world leaders to China’s Wang Yi announcement that China will be publishing a ‘position paper’ later in the week; Sunak’s ‘double down’ an acceptance of Ukrainian defeat?
20 February 2023
Europe’s second largest industrial base [Italy] sinks under the weight of energy costs as divisions open up in the ruling coalition.
20 February 2023
Russia’s Special Military Operation one year on: How the US started this war and where it’s heading. [Includes a couple interesting video clips; Wesley Clark, retired US general, 17.43 minutes; Victoria Nuland and the US support for Ukraine, 36.33 minutes; as well as a couple of ‘forgotten’ articles/reports; EU report that Georgia started the war against Russia in 2008, 34 minutes; and a very different approach by the Guardian to the politics of the Ukraine in 2004, 29.15 minutes.
20 February 2023
Biden empty handed in Kiev – merely more propaganda and hot air; Russia advances in Bakhmut; Borrell begs for ammunition; leaders from the ‘global south’ shun the ‘west’ in Munich – Financial Times article about this analysed at 45 minutes; has Russian gained supremacy of the skies about Ukraine?
20 February 2023
Military summary and analysis.
21 February 2023
Putin’s February 21 speech: hot takes – Putin speaks for a strong, self-sufficient Russia.
21 February 2023
EU gas price cap: an exercise in futility.
21 February 2023
Russia 15km from Kupiansk; Lt. Col Daniel Davis, in the magazine 45, compares the respective strategy and tactics of the two opposing forces, from minute 4.25; Biden’s Kiev trip draws criticism from US politicians (17.10 minutes); fractious meeting between Wang Yi and Blinken at the Munich Security Conference; 34.45 minutes, editorial in Chinese Global Times; 39.45 Putin’s State of the Nation address.
21 February 2023
Ukraine forcing ethnic Hungarians to fight Russia, Hungary outraged.
21 February 2023
Vladimir Putin delivered his Address to the Federal Assembly. [The full text.]
Ukraine war: President Putin speech fact-checked. [Read the speech above and then consider if the BBC’s ‘fact checking’ holds water.
21 February 2023
‘I am ashamed to be a European’ Irish MEPs slam EU for silence on Nord Stream blasts.
22 February 2023
Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?
22 February 2023
Russia Centre Bakhmut, Russian Ministry of Defence disputes Prigozhin claims about being starved of ammunition; M of D statement at minute 2.30 and Prigozhin’s response; a strange and worrying internal conflict which only benefits the Ukraine; 46.15, ‘Battle of the Speeches’; Biden insults Putin in Warsaw; Putin’s speech more measured and with no personal attacks, also says sanctions have failed.
22 February 2023
Where is Russia’s winter offensive? Why should Russia carry out a big offensive if what they have already been doing is achieving their aim, i.e., the demilitarization of the Ukraine. President Biden substantially empty-handed in Kiev – form over substance.
23 February 2023
Russia taking Berkhova and tightens grip on Bakhmut; Wang Yi meets Putin and Lavrov, 35.00 minute; China slams US foreign policy in position papers: ‘US hegemony and its perils’, (46.40) and ‘Global security initiative concept paper’, (51.04).
US hegemony and its perils. [Full text.]
23 February 2023
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) war game: US vs China over Taiwan – provoking war to preserve US primacy.
23 February 2023
Jeffrey Sachs at the United Nations Security Council meeting on the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage.
23 February 2023
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin’s Regular Press Conference on February 23, 2023. [In answer to a question from CCTV (Chinese Central Television) towards the end of the press conference he states ‘The US is the No.1 warmonger in the world’ and makes direct reference to the US’s maintenance of world ‘hegemony’.]
24 February 2023
Scott Ritter – the Russian onslaught coming.
24 February 2023
China’s position on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis.
24 February 2023
Discussion between Gonzalo Lira and Yves Smith. [A long discussion, almost two hours, but covers many aspects of the current conflict in the Ukraine – as well as some thoughts on the covid pandemic.]
24 February 2023
Russian forces captures Bekhova; China’s Ukraine ‘Position Paper’ criticises ‘West’; UN resolution demonstrates ‘west’ out of ideas to isolate Russia (35.20); Russia and China deepen ties – ‘read out’ of meeting between Sergei Lavrov and Wang Yi in Moscow (53.30).
25 February 2023
5 reasons why much of the Global South isn’t automatically supporting the ‘West’ in Ukraine.
25 February 2023
Western mainstream media declare ‘life expectancy of Ukrainians in Bakhmut is 4 hours’; discussion on actual Russian casualties (minute 10.00) followed by possible Ukrainian casualties; destruction of Ukrainian artillery (22.30 minutes); ‘peace plans’.
25 February 2023
NATO propaganda on Ukraine war one year later.
26 February 2023
Ukrainian fighters at Bakhmut reported encircled.
26 February 2023
West is out of touch with rest of world politically, EU-funded study admits.
United West, divided from the rest: Global public opinion one year into Russia’s war on Ukraine – report.
26 February 2023
Russia pincers close in Bakhmut; Zaluzhny warns Zelensky; More on Ukrainian and Russian casualties (27.00); China spooks west – Wang Yi’s meetings in Munich, read-outs, (51.50); CIA says Russia confident – report of the only proven meeting to have taken place between representatives of the US and Russia (60.30).
27 February 2023
Russia claims Bakhmut roads cut; Scholz and Macron mull ultimatum – but is this a cover for ammunition in NATO’s stockpiles?; Moscow warns of a declaration of war if Transnistria attacked (41.40).
27 February 2023
Professor Peter Kuznick on American secret history – Seymour Hersh and US History of Secret Operations.
28 February 2023
China reboots ‘no limit’ partnership with Russia.
01 March2023
Russia repels drones; Bakhmut to become a ‘cauldron’ for Ukrainians within 48 Hours; neocons (in two British mainstream newspapers) ‘double down’ (38.00); discussion on why China is becoming more vocal now (50.30).
01 March 2023
Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine will be destroyed.
01 March 2023
Military summary and analysis – second half a discussion on the next Russian mobilisation.
01 March 2023
Ukraine – a year later, US Department of Defence and State Department officials retreat into delusion.
01 March 2023
Colonel MacGregor: Ukraine has been destroyed and there’s nothing left. NATO membership is on the cards for Ukraine – which means, in effect, that there is no possibility of any negotiated settlement. Ukraine calls for US soldiers to be sent to the front.
02 March 2023
Ukraine, Russia, China and dealing with crazy people.
02 March 2023
The fiscal side of Europe’s energy crisis: the facts, problems and prospects.
02 March 2023
Early news about Ukrainian attack on Bryansk (Russia); Russia shrinks Bakhmut exit route; China greets Lukashenko (from Belorussia) in a grand manner (35.00); is China edging towards an anti-US alliance?
03 March 2023
Why Biden snubbed China’s Ukraine peace plan.
03 March 2023
At the brink of war in the Pacific? The nightmare of ‘Great Power’ rivalry over Taiwan.
03 March 2023
Macgregor – Nazis and corruption in Ukraine; failures of US ‘adventures’ in the recent past; no accountability for failure in the US military; Macgregor’s right-wing, anti-immigration etc., views; ‘NATO will crumble’.
03 March 2023
Grayzone – Nord Stream terrorism (07.00); Crimea (23.00); events in Ukraine (35.00); US and China – Taiwan, and using other countries and their populations to maintain US hegemony (43.00); US ‘progressives’ (58.20); Syria and sanctions – and the ‘progressives’ in favour of maintianing them (73.30); Sean Penn – a CIA mole? (84.00); anti-war protests worldwide (97.00).
03 March 2023
UK mainstream media reports the Russian taking Lupiansk (22.11); Russian air force becoming more active in bombing raids; Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure – which also depletes Ukrainian air defence systems; Ukrainian ‘sabotage’ in Bryansk (44.50); US ‘hijacks and wrecks’ G20 (53.10).
04 March 2023 (originally posted 21 February 2023)
‘I am the President who delivers peace.’ [It sticks in the craw but included here out of interest.]
05 March 2023
The widening war: how the NATO-Russia confrontation is playing out in North Africa.
06 March 2023
The New Atlas – UK Ministry of Defence claims Russians fighting with ‘Shovels’ (08.50); Ukraine losing Bakhmut and low on artillery shells; Europe should convert to ‘war economy’ according to some EU ‘hardliners’; latest US military assistance package (16.00).
Russian reservists fighting with shovels – UK defence ministry. (BBC)
[The stories being published about the war in the Ukraine get more and more bizarre every day. If the Russian army is so badly equipped why are they winning the attrition war? If the Russians can take these highly fortified (prepared over a period of 7 to 8 years) towns, such as Soladar earlier in the year, and are winning – now accepted by more and more in the ‘mainstream media’ with just shovel wielding conscripts how pathetic does that make the NATO supported forces. The ‘journalist’ from the BBC was obviously aware of the ludicrous nature of this report as there is no byline. And if this is the quality of ‘intelligence’ coming from MI6 (which presumably is the source that provides the British Government with news from the front-line) then it’s no surprise that the British intelligence ‘community’ wasn’t on top of events that proceeded the Manchester Arena bombing. And if the Russians are sending troops into battle as suggested in this baseless crap, and simply pro-NATO/Ukraine propaganda, why are we being denied proof (photographic or otherwise) of these suicidal frontal attacks?]
06 March 2023
Wolf Richter: US natural gas production surges to record in 2022, up 33% from 2017. LNG exports hit record despite freeport terminal shutdown.
06 March 2023
America’s chips war with China: another sanctions backfire coming? [It’s starting to become more difficult to separate the events in the Ukraine with how the ‘west’ is acting in relation to China.]
06 March 2023
Russia claims Bakhmut ‘cauldron’ and 10,000 troops trapped; first NATO Leopard tanks to be used in Bakhmut?; west media admits Ukraine losses, blames Zelensky
06 March 2023
Ukraine is going to lose.
06 March 2023
Military summary and analysis. [Includes a speculative discussion about whether the Ukraine is using its defence of Bahkmut with inexperienced troops as a blind to build for a Spring offensive further south.]
07 March 2023
Wall Street Journal: ‘US is not yet ready for Great Power conflict’ yet still plots against China.
07 March 2023
Ukraine denies involvement in Nord Stream pipelines blast. [More irrational reporting from the BBC. And I deny any link to the Brink-Mats gold heist – but then no one accused me of being involved in the first place. This is just a screen to take the ‘heat’ off the US state terrorists. And in all the ‘debate’ about this non-news there’s no mention whatsoever about Seymour Hersh’s report, published earlier this year, that accused the US and Norway of planning and carrying out this terrorist act.]
07 March 2023
Russia presses Bakhmut ‘cauldron’; Zelensky vows Bakhmut defence; Ukrainian losses and inexperience (24.30); possible Ukrainian and Russian Spring offensives (37.21); Ukraine’s lack of infantry (44.50); Shultz in Washington for one hour meeting with Biden – and then back home (50.10).
08 March 2023
‘How stupid do they think we are?’ Nord Stream pipelines bombing edition.
08 March 2023
Douglas Macgregor – Russian methods of warfare.
08 March 2023
US General talks up war against China by 2025.
08 March 2023
Russia captures East Bakhmut; Zelensky admits strategic importance of Bakhmut (01.30); Intel: Nord Stream attack 6 guys and a boat (31.00); the limits of US power (60.00).
09 March 2023
The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf worries about Europe’s future.
09 March 2023
Georgia protests: US seeks to open 2nd front against Russia. [Listing other examples of where the US has interfered in the internal affairs of countries that follow a political line not in accord with US wishes.]
09 March 2023
Neocon fanatic Anne Applebaum confronted on Ukraine – a piece from the Grayzone’s longer piece published on 03 March 2023 – posted above.
09 March 2023
A feminist demand on International Women’s Day: Fire Victoria Nuland.
09 March 2023
Russian missile strike – using hypersonic missiles for the first time; failed Ukrainian counter-attack in Bakhmut; a different analysis of the Wager force by the Ukrainians (14.30); uncontrolled Ukrainian retreat; Financial Times criticises Ukrainian tactics in Bakhmut; 6 guys and a boat and Nord Stream terrorist attack (38.00); Haines, Director of National Intelligence sabre rattles against China(41.30); China’s Foreign Minister, Qin Gang, warns of coming conflict with the US at press conference (48.30).
Qin Gang meets the press: summary and full text.
10 March 2023
The Grayzone live – Nord Stream cover ‘story’ (03.00); Zelensky not invited to the Oscars, Ukrainian Nazis, (26.00); ethnic cleansing of Russians in Ukraine (31.05); US Democrats use McCarthyite tactics against journalist (45.00); Twitter files (77.00); the situation in Syria (86.00).
10 March 2023
Rashida Tlaib [of the so-called ‘progressive squad’ in the US Democrat Party] confronted about sending $100 Billion to Ukraine – and the general pusillanimity of the US democratic ‘left’. Jimmy Dore.
10 March 2023
Military summary and analysis. Any Ukrainian counter-offensive in Bakhmut suicidal? Bakhmut going to be biggest battle of 21st century – so far. What’s behind the argument between Prigozhin (of the Wagner Group) and the Russian Ministry of Defence?
10 March 2023
Ukraine counter-attack in Bakhmut; China linking arms to Russia to Taiwan; Russia sending SU35 aircraft to Iran.
11 March 2023
The New Atlas live – Russian missile campaign in Ukraine, respective casualties (02.00); Georgia street demonstrations (17.30); Taiwan (27.30); Nord Stream terrorist attack (53.00); Q+A (65.00).
11 March 2023
Russia in Bakhmut Centre; Kinzhal hypersonic missiles spook Kiev and the west; Nord Stream terrorist attack by 6 people in a yacht (38.00); China achieves a huge political coup as Iran and Saudi Arabia reconcile, Russia to supply aircraft and air defence systems – but all but ignored by the western mainstream media (43.00).
12 March 2023
Military summary and analysis.
13 March 2023
Bankruptcies soar across EU as companies hit wall at fastest rate since records began in 2015.
13 March 2023
Russia advances in Bakhmut and Slaviansk; Ukraine delays counter-attack; for the Kremlin there’s only a military solution; banking crisis hits US. [Time stamps can be found under disndat1000 in comments.]
13 March 2023
John Mearsheimer – the U.S. is destroying Ukraine.
13 March 2023
US ‘Imperial anxieties’ mount over China-brokered Iran-Saudi Arabia diplomatic deal.
13 March 2023
Different approaches to ‘foreign agent’ laws – depending if whether ot not you’re the US
EU may introduce ‘foreign agents’ law.
Echoes of Maidan: Georgia has a huge Western-funded NGO sector and regular outbreaks of violent protest, is there a link?
West blasts Balkan region’s plan to replicate US law.
Four views on the present (or is it best to say systemic?) banking crisis
13 March 2023
Why the banking system is breaking up.
13 March 2023
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse shows little has changed for big banks since 2008.
13 March 2023
Silicon Valley Bank: how interest rates helped trigger its collapse and what central bankers should do next.
14 March 2023
Why central banks are too powerful and have created our inflation crisis – by the banking expert who pioneered quantitative easing.
14 March 2023
West mainstream media (Washington Post, Daily mail, Wall Street journal) pessimistic about the deteriorating situation of Ukraine (08.00); Russia advances in Bakhmut; Ukraine losses mount; doubts over offensive grow; Rissian economy (43.00)
15 March 2023
Rosneft refinery in Schwedt continues to be a microcosm of Europe’s sanctions-induced energy mess.
15 March 2023
Why China is unlikely to invade Taiwan.
15 March 2023
Jeffery Sachs – the United States is a madman.
16 March 2023
The not-so-winding road from Iraq to Ukraine.
16 March 2023
Washington’s downed drone and growing admissions of Ukraine’s military deterioration.
16 March 2023
Russian forces capture southern Bakhmut.
17 March 2023
Bakhmut ties Russians as Ukrainians prepare for the next counter-offensive. [A very much pro-Ukrainian analysis – which takes all its ‘information’ by unsupported Ukrainian government sources. Seems to go against all other commentators analyses and doesn’t accept the idea that the Russians are following their strategy of gradually eliminating Ukrainian force (both in men and material) rather than gaining land. Included here to see how valid the conclusions might become as matters pan out in the next couple of months.]
17 March 2023
How Microsoft is becoming more and more embroiled in the conflict in the Ukraine.
18 March 2023
The Iraq War 20 years on: end of the US’s post-9/11 neoconservative dream
18 March 2023
The illegal invasion of Iraq: never forget.
18 March 2023
Finnish PM honors ultra-right Ukrainian militant.
19 March 2023
US threatens to arrest ICC judges if they pursue Americans for Afghan war crimes. [An article first published on 10th September 2018. It seems that if the International Criminal Court ‘threatens’ the US or any of its allies then it is ‘unaccountable’ and ‘illegitimate’ but the opposite if it makes rulings against the ‘enemies’ of the west.]
19 March 2023
Anti-China propaganda dismantled on BBC.
Economist, policy analyst and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs appeared on BBC in April 2021 to talk about international cooperation on climate change and instantly pushed back against the host’s framing of China as a rampant human rights abuser while letting the U.S. off the hook for minor offenses like the war in Iraq, Guantanamo and the CIA torture program. Sachs also challenged the host’s suggestion that Sachs was appearing as a stand-in for the United States government, a proposition he vehemently denied.
20 March 2023
Arresting Putin – or arresting all-out Western public revolt?
20 March 2023
Fiona Edwards speaking on behalf of No Cold War Britain at the NO2NATO NO2WAR Rally in London on 25 February 2023. [Video.]
21 March 2023
On the ICC, Putin, Netanyahu and Prosecutorial Discretion.
21 March 2023
Britain supplying depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine.
21 March 2023
The hidden proxy war Washington wages against China.
21 March 2023
Ukraine says Russian missiles destroyed in Crimea. [This claim was never verified and the story just disappeared from the ‘news’. The BBC, again, taking Ukrainian claims at face value without any attempt at verification. This is propaganda not news!]
21 March 2023
Banking crisis, de-dollarization and US Wars – a wide ranging discussion on the present financial ‘crisis’. Russia, due to sanctions, is immune from the banking problems in the collective west; bankers doing the same as in 2008 – banks ‘to big to fail’; effects of sanctions on Russia, incompetent financial policy in west, sequestration of Russian assets make other foreign ‘investors’ reluctant to invest in US Treasury Bonds; the market was going up during the pandemic ‘when the markets were closed’; 49.00 min., the start of the Petrodollar – but now the US is not a dependable partner; how Russia and China are different ‘friends’ than the US; why trust any of the old colonial ‘masters’ against Russia or China?; war to come with China in order for the US to get out of its financial mess; 75.00 min., explanation of derivatives market.
22 March 2023
Colonel MacGregor: The Gathering Storm in Ukraine spells doom for the West. [Includes, at the end, a video discussion the final part of which addresses the incident of the US drone that crashed into the sea off the coast of Crimea.]
22 March 2023
Send in the clowns.
22 March 2023
Depleted uranium to Ukraine. Putin and Russia forced to react. Lavrov, this will end badly for UK. Alex Christoforou. The UK government always first in line to escalate matters on the international scene. [Video podcast.]
22 March 2023
UK defends sending depleted uranium shells after Putin warning. [The normal uncritical response from the BBC.]
22 March 2023
Russia presses on Bakhmut and Avdeevka; Russia furious about UK supply of depleted uranium shells along with Challenger tanks; speculation on the situation of the production of armaments in Russia; China-Russia Mutual Defence Pact.
23 March 2023
What Europe got wrong about sanctions on Russia.
23 March 2023
West surges ammunition ahead of Ukraine’s all-or-nothing offensive; FT article admits problems in expansion of artillery shell production (18.00); US/NATO/EU/UK to deplete their own strategic reserves?; UK Telegraph article claims Russia not able to produce sufficient shells – but with no proof (23.26).
24 March 2023
The Nord Stream Cover-up – Seymour Hersh
24 March 2023
Slovakia offered US helicopters for giving jets to Ukraine.
24 March 2023
New Atlas Live: Ukrainian offensive; west giving Ukraine the illusion of support; UK supplying depleted uranium shells – for just 14 tanks, perhaps because that’s all they have so sending in desperation, and potentially polluting the country they are supposed to helping (in agricultural areas) with toxic chemicals; economic and social problems in the EU – regime change in the west rather than Russia?; Russia and China just waiting for the west to collapse?; AUKUS – and Australia buying nuclear powered submarines to defend their own country or to join the US/UK offensive against China?; what is real GDP/; who is buying US bonds any more?; west form over substance.
24 March 2023
Douglas Macgregor: Zelensky has thrown thousands of Ukrainian troops into the Bakhmut bloodbath – a horror story on the levels of WWI. Where will the soldiers come from to carry out the so-called ‘Ukrainian spring offensive’?
24 March 2023
Ukrainian counter-offensive ‘will shock the world’ – US adviser.
25 March 2023
NATO carried out ‘inhumane experiment’ in Balkans – health minister. [Now the UK plans to do something similar in the Ukraine.]
27 March 2023
End of unipolarity with Jeffrey Sachs, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen. [This writer is not such a big fan of ‘multipolarity’ as some – especially those on the ‘left’ who consider the People’s Republic of China still to be a socialist country. However, this discussion is included here for a little bit of historical context and also to illustrate the death of the present day world’s ‘hegemon’ – the USA.]
27 March 2023
Tactics, arms and ammunition: What will shape Ukraine’s offensive and the impact of its aftermath.
27 March 2023
Tensions rise in Crimea as Russia prepares for a likely spring offensive. [This is yet another ‘academic’ analysis which seems to go against all readily available information – other than that available from Ukrainian or western sources. Included here to see what happens in the next few weeks. I predict this argument will be conveniently forgotten as the Ukrainian forces descend into a debacle and chaos. But …. We shall see.]
27 March 2023
Ukrainian soldiers seen with depleted uranium ammo in UK.
28 March 2023
The Critical Hour: talking US-Russian tensions in Ukraine and US-Chinese tensions over Taiwan. ‘There seems to be no standard, no law which the United States will not ignore and break and then deny so long as it furthers its objectives’.
28 March 2023
Russia more Bakhmut gains, taking Azom industrial area; Russian aircraft bomb Sumy; missiles targeting Kiev; speculation that Kiev unable to attack Crimea with missiles but might use Taiwan bought drones instead; Ukraine still short of ammunition and tanks; opposition in Ukraine to the use of UK supplied depleted uranium shells on Ukrainian soil; analysis of munitions situation in Ukraine by Chinese commentator; China stonewalls Xi-Biden talks, as well as Zelensky speaking to China.
28 March 2023
Russia negotiates PEACE between Saudi Arabia and Syria!
28 March 2023
Here’s why Human Rights Watch deliberately only scratched the surface in exploring Ukraine’s use of banned ‘petal’ mines.
28 March 2023
UK Army putting ‘outrageous spin’ on depleted uranium science.
29 March 2023
The anniversary of the March 2022 sabotaged (the the US and the UK) peace accord arrived at in Istanbul; the escalation of the conflict with the supply of more and more materiel to Ukraine in order to achieve the wished-for ‘collapse’ of Russia and the fall of Putin; what’s really needed for an effective counter-offensive; the historical danger of being a proxy for the United States – they lose their independence; Russia speeds Bakhmut advance; Russia strikes Ukrainian rear; Ukraine shells Melitopol; divisions in the Ukrainian structure over the impact of the loss of Bahkmut; Russian weapons output; any Ukrainian counter-offensive will be the last call for Ukraine.
30 March 2023
What Ukraine needs to learn from Afghanistan.
30 March 2023
US issues NATO weapons playing cards to help Ukraine avoid friendly fire. [A bizarre article with some wild assertions – but gives an indication of the problems of the pick-and-mix military equipment which is being supplied to the Ukraine.]
30 March 2023
Russia to offer food for North Korean weapons – US. [Another link included here as it is just another part of the strange and wonderful world of western propaganda. No ‘facts’ are presented to substantiate the argument and there are no ‘facts’ on the ground that indicate that Russia is in urgent need of weapons in its war against the Ukraine. Like many stories over the past year this one will, more than likely, just peter out.]
30 March 2023
Russia storms Central Bakhmut; Kiev and the US in denial; Zelensky depressed; Putin upbeat on the economy; EU to prolong cutback in natural gas use.
30 March 2023
Military summary and analysis – statement about destruction of NATO bunker, with the loss of mainly UK and Polish troops (08.00).
30 March 2023
‘Significant portion’ of £4.8bn UK lethal aid for Ukraine will remain secret.
30 March 2023
UK ‘unaware’ of Russia firing depleted uranium in Ukraine – while the British military is supplying toxic ammunition to Ukraine, it lacks evidence Russia has already used it in the conflict.
31 March 2023
It’s not Russia that’s pushed Ukraine to the brink of war – an article originally published on 30 April 2014 when the Guardian took a different point of view about the conflict.
31 March 2023
Indictment strengthens Trump; Ukraine admits Russian gains in Bakhmut; China rejects EU pressure for talks with Zelensky; who has the ‘best’ technology, the west or the the Russians?
31 March 2023
The Grayzone Friday Live – the Trump indictment (04.00); the Azov battalion and the Ukrainian fascists and their international hangers-on (31.00 min.); the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin and ‘children camps’ in Russia 41.00 min.; OPCW cover up of the supposed Syrian government chemical attack in Duoma (81.00 min.); the continued US occupation of the oil and wheat region of NE Syria (96.00 min.)
31 March 2023
Ukraine’s End Game approaches but more war may come.
31 March 2023
Once the Dollar loses Reserve Currency Status – there’s NO GOING BACK.
02 April 2023
International Criminal Court [ICC] irreversibly crosses the line of legal decency.
03 April 2023
The ‘Battle of Bakhmut’ – and Russian efforts to ‘grind down’ Ukrainian forces, where the intention is to minimise Russian losses whilst maximising Ukrainian casualties, in both manpower and weaponry; the supposed Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’; the inability of the west to maintain the necessary level of military supplies; estimated Russian casualties (05.30); Russia’s GLONASS-Guided Glide Bombs (10.00); and Ukrainian air defence capabilities and the efforts of the Russians to destroy its infrastructure.
03 April 2023
Military summary and analysis. The Russians have caught the terrorist in St Petersburg. Bakhmut is now Artemovsk. Ukrainian missile attack in Melitopol.
03 April 2023
Russia captures central Bakhmut and raises flag over Town Hall; Russia outraged by Tatarsky murder in St Petersburg (32.00); expulsion of Orthodox monks from Kiev monastery (44.00); Saudi cuts oil output (47.30); and the disintegration of the oil price cap.
04 April 2023
First Russian shipment of (allegedly) diesel docks in Mexico since G7 Plus-imposed price cap, stoking controversy and confusion.
04 April 2023
The tragic U.S. choice to prioritize war over peacemaking.
04 April 2023
The Government is refusing to tell the public how billions worth of ‘lethal aid’ for Ukraine is being spent.
04 April 2023
Depleted uranium accident file censored – the government is hiding a paper on the ‘worst credible accident’ involving ammunition Britain has supplied Ukraine.
05 April 2023
US forces under fire in Syria: illegal occupation enters dangerous phase.
06 April 2023
Waiting for that too-much-discussed Ukraine Counter-offensive.
06 April 2023
Douglas Macgregor and Andrew Napolitano – what’s happening in the Ukraine at the beginning of April 2023.
07 April 2023
Telegram leak of US/NATO document paints grim picture of condition of Ukraine’s military.
09 April 2023
Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers’, says Macron.
09 April 2023
Ukraine’s coming offensive: leaked NATO plans and lack of arms.
10 April 2023
Pushilin visits Bakhmut; Ukraine suffers heavy losses; Ukraine air defence weakened; UK hints war may be lost.
10 April 2023
Pentagon in panic as second set of leaked documents gains traction, revealing spying on Allies and deteriorating Ukraine capabilities.
11 April 2023
Refugees from Ukraine recorded across Europe. [Note the large percentage of refugees who are in the Russian Federation or Belarus.]
11 April 2023
Pushilin claims Bakhmut advances and Marinka gains; Pentagon thinks Ukraine only capable of modest gains in any future ‘offensive’.
11 April 2023
U.S. intel leak reveals 50 elite British troops in Ukraine.
12 April 2023
Leak shows Western special forces on the ground. [The BBC reports it – will they pursue the issue and question the legality of their presence or just explain it away?]
12 April 2023
Ukrainian air defenses dwindling, West scours world for arms on eve of ‘Spring Offensive’.
12 April 2022
Prigozhin and Russian Ministry of Defence say priority is to resolve the conflict in Bakhmut; high casualties amongst western ‘mercenaries’; Russian air force active around Bakhmut; Russia claims it has captured the Marinka factory area; Crimea ready for ‘anything the Ukrainians throw at them’; Putin: Russian Economy Surging
12 April 2023
James K. Galbraith: The gift of sanctions – an analysis of assessments of the Russian Economy, 2022 – 2023.
12 April 2023
Ukraine Firepower v Russian Firepower, with Scott Ritter – leaked Pentagon briefing papers; seven to one kill ratio; Austin lying to Congress; Zelensky ‘out of his mind’ when he talks about Crimea; CIA using journalists as spies in Russia.
12 April 2023
Kiev votes to name street after WW2 Waffen-SS commander.
12 April 2023
Zelensky and team stole at least $400 million of US aid – Seymour Hersh.
13 April 2023
Russia repels Bakhmut counter-attack; Kiev postpones ‘offensive’; US ‘borrows’ shells; Brazil and China ditch USD in bilateral trade; Saudi Arabia defies the US and receives Syrian Foreign Minister.
13 April 2023
Pentagon leaks paint gloomy picture of long war that can’t be won but must not be lost. [This ‘academic’ – after months of just doling out Ukrainian government propaganda – starts to report the reality, but still will unproven and unsubstantiated claims about Russian casualties. As always, follow the money.]
14 April 2023
Larry Johnson and other former insiders debunk Air Guardsman-as-Pentagon-Leaker story as press cheers arrest – ‘six guys in a boat’ Part II.
14 April 2023
New Atlas LIVE: unrelenting Russian attacks in the Ukraine; the west talking sense after a year of misinformation; Germany shows it even more subservient to US interests; EU delegation to China treated exactly the same as any other foreign visitor; the perversion of the Dalai Lama; BBC complains about being described as being ‘state funded’.
14 April 2023
UK Ministry of Defence [interesting that western ‘information’ outlets are now seemingly following the reality on the ground – the question is ‘Why are they now telling the ‘truth’ when they have been lying for months?’ Everything is full of contradictions.]; Prigozhin’s estimate of Ukrainian casualties in the defence of Bakhmut; Ukraine retreats from Bakhmut, Russia advances Avdeyevka; US arrests ‘leaker’ – a young 21 year old; Hersh on Ukraine corruption.
15 April 2023
Russia leaves neoliberal ‘West’ to join world majority.
15 April 2023
Russia captures two Bakhmut districts; Prigozhin taunts Zelensky (15.30-25 min.); analysis of Ukraine’s ‘counter-offensive from what was revealed in the Pentagon documents leak – including thoughts of a British mercenary published in The Spectator (25-55 min.); Bloomberg casts doubt on a Ukrainian advance in 2023.
15 April 2023
Scott Ritter: NATO can’t do anything – following the fall of Bakhmut and the unravelling of the Ukrainian army. With an analysis of changing Russian tactics of its air war.
15 April 2023
Why the media don’t want to know the truth about the Nord Stream blasts.
15 April 2023
Is the Army all that you can be?
16 April 2023
The increasing number of trial balloons for Polish intervention in Ukraine.
16 April 2023
EU rejects Ukraine grain bans by Poland and Hungary. ‘Friends’ fall out.
17 April 2023
US rushes to provoke war with China over Taiwan, US think tanks admit Taiwan will be destroyed in whatever scenario. [It’s now becoming impossible to separate what happens in the Ukraine with that is developing in China/Taiwan.]
17 April 2023
Tracking the EU decoupling from Russia.
18 April 2023
Putin tours battlefronts and meets top commanders; Russia’s massive aerial bombing; Eastern European countries reject Ukrainian grain; ‘Global South’ continues to avoid supporting the ‘west’ in its conflict with Russia.
19 April 2023
Ukraine’s offensive: taking territory vs. the war of attrition.
19 April 2023
The official story of the Ukraine war grossly misleads.
20 April 2023
Leaks reveal reality behind U.S. propaganda in Ukraine.
20 April 2023
Russia advances on key Bakhmut Road; West splits on negotiations; reasons for the ‘counter-offensive’ from the interested players; west depending upon an internal collapse of both the Russian military and political structure; how the ‘leaked’ Pentagon Papers are being manipulated from all angles.
20 April 2023
U.S. Sends Troops To Taiwan! – even though the US officially recognises Taiwan as part of China under the acceptance of the ‘one China policy’.
20 April 2023
EU state [Latvia] bans WW2 victory celebration.
20 April 2023
Facebook labels Seymour Hersh’s reporting ‘false’.
21 April 2023
Ukraine conflict highlights key question for Africa: should we focus on the problems of the elite or those faced by the majority of the population?
21 April 2023
The Critical Hour: US sells 400 harpoon anti-ship missiles to Taiwan; update on Ukraine fighting – with Brian Berletic.
21 April 2023
New Atlas LIVE: US builds consensus for war with China and closer look at Taiwan with Carl Zha.
21 April 2023
Russia claims Bakhmut road cut; Ukraine troops caught in a true ‘cauldron’ in Bakhmut; G7 Russia blockade as Russia economy surges (22 min.).
21 April 2023
Did Russia destroy a deep underground bunker in March – complete with high Ukrainian officers and also numerous representatives from different NATO countries?
21 April 2023
Ukraine can retake Crimea within months, if we let it. [Another so-called ‘expert’ living in a fantasy world.]
22 April 2023
Road cut and encircled in Bakhmut; Kiev complains on lack weapons replenishment; General Ben Hodges lives in cloud cuckoo land – see article immediately above; Yellen’s arrogant, aggressive, condescending and paternalistic approach towards China (46 min.) and China’s response (54 min.); the present Sudan conflict and US interference.
23 April 2023
Ukraine shells Donetsk, killing multiple civilians.
23 April 2023
Biden told CIA to lie about Hunter Biden laptop.
24 April 2023
Russian air power over Ukraine increasing and more shortcomings appear ahead of the much awaited Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’.
24 April 2023
The Russians are winning too slowly! And are the Poles going to send in troops against the Russians?
24 April 2023
Tucker Carlson has been fired.
24 April 2023
Dozens of foreign mercenaries killed in Iskander strike.
24 April 2023
Liberal media won’t cover FBI raid on black Socialists – for speaking out against the Ukrainian proxy war.
24 April 2023
Ukrainian commander laments state of army – El Pais.
24 April 2023
‘Crazy’ that Russia and Ukraine still trade – Seymour Hersh.
24 April 2023
War, what is it good for? [OK – until the very last few paragraphs where he loses the plot.]
25 April 2023
Is Zelensky’s international charm offensive, backed up with US bullying, finally paying dividends in Latin America?
25 April 2023
The empire of hypocrisy.
25 April 2023
The reality of war in Ukraine.
26 April 2023
Military summary and analysis. Bakhmut is in the cauldron. Nevelske has been encircled.
27 April 2023
Ukraine war changing the face of Europe with Alastair Crooke.
27 April 2023
Ukraine still holds 7.5% of Bakhmut; Ukrainian counter-offensive ‘inevitable’; BBC article admits Ukraine is exhausted and out of ammunition [see below]; the success of the Russian in ‘bleeding’ Ukraine of men and material; did Ukraine attempt to assassinate Putin?; Xi-Zelensky phone call, where Xi states that sovereignty also applies to Taiwan [Global Times editorial below].
Bakhmut defenders worry about losing support. [BBC article referred in the podcast above.]
Xi’s call with Zelenskyy demonstrates responsibility of a major country.
28 April 2023
Russia rains down missiles – and how this is a continuation of the Russian tactic to degrade the Ukrainians air defence system; Lavrov at the UN on Israel-Palestine; Turkey blames US/EU collapse grain deal.
29 April 2023
The Critical Hour: Growing doubt over Ukraine’s offensive and US difficulties recruiting new soldiers.
29 April 2023
UK: west must double down even if Ukrainian offensive fails; Medvedev: Russia will go for full victory.
29 April 2023
Military summary and analysis. A fierce battle for the south of Ukraine is about to begin. [With an interesting – and new, at least for me – presentation about the role of the Russian navy in any upcoming offensive and how the west might seek to mitigate its effectiveness.]
29 April 2023
The Grayzone live; end of the Tucker era; US Democratic ‘left’ just accepting Biden’s re-election bid; US involvement in the present crisis in Somalia; Lloyd Austin lies to Congress about the vitality of the Ukrainian forces and effectively using the Ukrainian population as cannon fodder; ;
30 April 2023
Ukraine hold only 6% of Bakhmut; Ukrainian tactics in the conflict with Russia being determined by political aims, here the idea to ‘spoil’ the Victory Day celebrations in Russia on 9th May; Russian bombing intensifies; dilemma that Ukraine has about where to deploy their depleted air defence systems; UK mass media express doubts about the viability of the long awaited Ukrainian spring/summer ‘counter-offensive’; a Polish general has similar doubts; and that live is being ‘forced’ to attack’ – even though totally unprepared, the Xi-Zelensky phone conversation (which took place in the Russian language) – unbeknownst to the US.
01 May 2023
Why is the US wiring Ukraine with radiation sensors to detect nuclear blasts?
01 May 2023
Russian missile hit ahead Ukraine offensive and Kiev’s obsession over territory amid war of attrition – with suggestions about how Russian defences anticipate the Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’.
01 May 2023
Missiles strike Pavlograd; economic distortions caused by foreign ‘aid’; Ukrainian military admit – in the western media – that they are not ready for the so-called ‘counter-offensive’; US military: Russia more powerful now; would Ukraine actually consider an attack on the Russian mainland?; Biden looks for way out.
01 May 2023
Is the US narrative on Ukraine War changing? Ray McGovern. A discussion about the consequences of the recent leak of Pentagon documents.
01 May 2023
Will the EU sanction Russia’s nuclear industry?
01 May 2023
The single dumbest thing the Empire asks us to believe.
01 May 2023
The proxy war in Ukraine is an imperialist adventure.
02 May 2023
More than 20,000 Russian troops killed since December, US says. [The BBC publishes this as gospel even though the release of the ‘Pentagon Papers mark 2’ earlier in the year had proved that the US has been lying all the time in respect to the war in the Ukraine and that their statistics were only published for strategic, political aims. In this article the BBC doesn’t even question the veracity of the numbers and merely adds its normal, pathetic disclaimer; ‘The BBC is unable to independently verify the figures given’ adding, in this case, ‘and Moscow has not commented’. But then why should Moscow comment on fabrications? Neither the US nor the BBC show any evidence to back up these figures.]
02 May 2023
What happens if the west decides to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine and Russia does not (really) go along?
02 May 2023
Ukraine counter-attack in Bakhmut fails; angry attack by Prigozhin (of the Wagner group) on the Russian Ministry of Defence [this is a bizarre situation in the middle of an important battle of an ongoing war – is this just a ruse to blind side the Ukrainians and their western allies?]; Kirby bizarre statement on Russia losses and Milley calls Zaluznhy – is this to push for even a disastrous Ukrainian offensive? (20-42 mins.)[see the BBC link above]; Sullivan industry hollowed out.
02 May 2023
What China is really playing at in Ukraine.
03 May 2023
Nord Stream: Report puts Russian navy ships near pipeline blast site. [In the just over 14 months since the start of the Special Military Operation, with all sorts of bizarre and preposterous statements being made by the buffoon in Kiev and his equally inventive allies in the western mainstream media, this latest article must take the biscuit. And it took the combined resources of the west SEVEN months to come up with this fabrication – after realising that their almost equally ludicrous story about the sabotage being cause by ‘six guys and a boat’ wasn’t going to fly. This article doesn’t even contain a caveat that the BBC can’t verify the facts’. Does the ‘west’ expect people to believe this tripe? Unfortunately, I think they might. And it just goes to show how much a stooge of the security services is Gordon Corera. And this story is being published in other mainstream media – yet if you put ‘nord stream seymour hersh’ into a search on the BBC site (who wrote about the US involvement in the terrorist act) you get absolutely nothing. And this is reported on ‘Press Freedom Day.]
03 May 2023
US sells 400 Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Taiwan – will it make a difference?
03 May 2023
Drone attack on the Kremlin, BBC Radio 4, World at One. This less than three minute audio file is included here to demonstrate the different manner in which the BBC reports on entities with which the British Government does not agree. See how many reservations and qualifications these two ‘reporters’ make in discussing this event.
03 May 2023
Blinken, Russia has failed; train sabotage in Russia; Reznikov – a big attack coming. South Africa International Criminal Court problem.
04 May 2023
Russia mulls response to the Kremlin drone attack – who did it and why; nuclear war risks grow over US missiles in Poland, Rumania and possibly in the future Finland (58.30 min.)
04 May 2023
Ukraine war: drone ‘attack’ on Kremlin – logic suggests a false flag to distract Russians ahead of Victory Day on May 9. [Another article, from The Conversation, where so-called ‘academics’ (paid by NATO) who just regurgitate whatever ludicrous story comes out of Kiev. Apart from the theory just consider the language. As always with links to articles from The Conversation or the BBC always ‘follow the money’.]
05 May 2023
New Atlas Live: Talking Ukraine’s offensive and more with Mark Sleboda.
06 May 2023
Prigozhin says Bakhmut will be taken – and an analysis of what Prigozhin is up to; Russian advances on other parts of the front; HIMARS are losing their effectiveness with successful Russian electronic jamming; Russian economy grows.
07 May 2023
US vs. Gonzalo Lira.
07 May 2023
The arrest of Gonzalo Lira; Russia storming Bakhmut; Prigozhin says Surovikin in charge; Russia repels drones and bombards Ukraine.
07 May 2023
Ukraine jails US commentator Gonzalo Lira for speaking uncomfortable facts – especially about the presence of Nazis in the Ukrainian regime. Also highlighting the hypocrisy of western governments and so-called ‘human rights organisations’ such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
08 May 2023
‘The west will have to commit to industrial mobilisation’, BBC Radio 4, World at One, 08 05 23. [Some interesting points arise from this 10 minutes audio – especially if you have been following comments by other non-western loving commentators to whom their have been many links on this page. For example; if (and it’s a big ‘if’) 35 drones were shot down then that would have cost the Ukraine 70 anti-aircraft missiles. And what damage is all this falling munition doing to those underneath? The most interesting segment is from about 5.30 minutes. But it also has to be remembered that Barrons’ was glibly repeating the Ukrainian declaration of creating a ‘million man army’ last August.
08 May 2023
Kiev denies downing Khinzhal hyper-sonic missile but shoots down its own tb-2 drone, Russia plans slow grind after the (much anticipated but slow in coming) Ukrainian offensive.
09 May 2023
Today, our civilization is at a crucial turning point – Vladimir Putin’s speech at parade marking Victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War.
10 May 2023
The flight from the US dollar.
10 May 2023
Undermining deception
10 May 2023
Inside the fight for the last streets of Bakhmut.
10 May 2023
Bold gambits on the West Asian chessboard.
10 May 2023
Assassination bid on Putin to provoke furious escalation… for whom?
12 May 2023
Russian Ministry of Defence says Ukraine attacks repelled; Prigozhin feud intensifies – and is he part of the problem of panic over the last few days?; some Ukrainian officials continue to claim they have shot down Kinzhal; are new missiles being supplied by the west really ‘game changers;’ UK media admits sanctions against Russia have failed – an implicit admission that the economic power of the west is declining.
12 May 2023
Beltway mediocrities bumble toward Armageddon.
12 May 2023 (but first broadcast a couple of weeks ago)
They threw Jose Vega to the ground for asking the NY Times, and other US main stream media, a tough question about why they are not reporting on stories, like the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, which threaten the future of the world – and the connection of ‘permanent war’ advocates with the media.
12 May 2023
Wagner Group: what it would mean for the UK to designate Putin’s private army a ‘terrorist organisation’. [As the west sees its influence in the world decline it still thinks iy holds the moral high ground – and forgetting it’s own involvement in countless cases of ‘state terrorism’. And forgets that the west also have these ‘private armies’.]
13 May 2023
Russia Advance and only 20 buildings left under Ukrainian control in Bakhmut; Ukrainian flank attacks and if they are part of the long-awaited ‘counter offensive’; Storm Shadow strikes and are the Russians being too soft in reacting to the crossing of these ‘red lines’; what’s happening with Ukrainian grain; Egypt and South Africa continue to defy the US.
13 May 2023
Ukraine receiving Storm Shadow Cruise Missiles; the Nazis in the Ukrainian military; and the propaganda storm around Bakhmut – New Atlas.
14 May 2023
The EU looks doomed to repeat its Russia ‘de-risking’ strategy with China.
14 May 2023
Russia repels flank attacks by the Ukrainians in Bakhmut; Storm Shadow missiles must have been sent to the Ukraine many months ago, long before the official announcement of their deployment; Russia claims its air force destroyed 2 Ukrainian jets when they attacked with the Storm Shadow missiles; how was Ukraine able to down up to four Russian aircraft?; an extremely concerning issue for the Russians; Russian missile attack destroys a big Ukrainian ammunition dump – will this have an effect on any Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive; Zelensky meets Pope; who really leaked the latest ‘Pentagon Papers’?
14 May 2023
ASEAN Announce full use of local currency to replace US dollar settlement – thus further threatening US global hegemony.
14 May 2023
Cries and whispers along the Russian watchtowers.
14 May 2023
US hypocrisy and the Global South.
15 May 2023
Turkiye has its own Russiagate as election heads to run-off.
15 May 2023 (but first published on 4th May 2023)
Pro-ISIS fighter in Ukraine received UK missiles and ‘SAS training’.
16 May 2023
Zelensky’s European tour has won critical support for Ukraine’s counter-offensive. [This toe-rag considers himself an academic but if you look at where he gets all his funding he’s just a propagandist for the US/UK/NATO/EU alliance of imperialist interests. And he’s been trotting out such tripe since the first days of the special military operation.]
16 May 2023
Ukraine’s top spy admits agents murdered Russian public figures.
17 May 2023
Some US National Security experts call for peace in Ukraine.
17 May 2023
Ukraine’s neoliberalism on steroids, Europe’s economic suicide.
17 May 2023
Kiev demands apology after ‘cynical’ skit broadcast. [There are now, seemingly, countless occasions where Ukraine demands that the world serves only its interest. Like petulant children they are always in the right and no one has just cause to criticise them in any way.]
17 May 2023
Bakhmut defences disintegrate; US confirms Patriot strike; 7 Storm Shadows downed; India-Russian trade – and the cracks that are appearing in the ‘Quad’.
17 May 2023
Russian Kinzhal missile strikes US Patriot System in Kiev and the fundamental disadvantage the West faces – New Atlas
17th May 2023
Russian neo-Nazi leader obtained UK missiles in Ukraine.
18 May 2023
China and the revenge of the sanctioned.
18 May 2023
Is the U.S. preparing to punish OPEC?
18 May 2023
The arrest of Gonzalo Lira in Kharkiv and the lack of support from the US; Russia claims Patriot destroyed; fighting on the edge of Bakhmut; Chinese moves for peace rejected by the hard line Nationalist (Nazi) representatives in the Ukrainian government; African peace delegation also on the way to Moscow; west split on supply of F16 fighter jets.
19 May 2023
Russia storms last Bakhmut positions; where’s the so-called Ukrainian Spring ‘counter-offensive’; the debate on the destruction of a Patriot system; Russia continues to bombard Ukraine; no evidence that any Kinzhal hypersonic has been shot down; the fantasy that the west could (or would) be prepared to devote their economies to war production to ‘help’ the Ukrainians; US seeks to ‘freeze’ the conflict on ‘Korean lines’ and a ‘politically palatable long-term result’; west prepares F16s
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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 21st century and with all the immense resources at their command no one can come up with an answer to one of the biggest ecological terrorist acts ever committed. If anyone ever believes a word the BBC says in the future then they deserve to live in their chosen ignorance.]
06 June 2023
Ukrainian defeat in southern Donetsk; Who blew the Nova Kakhovka dam? Military summary and analysis.
06 June 2023
Disastrous day in Ukraine; discussion on who might have been responsible for the damage to the Kakhovka dam; Ukraine suffers heavy defeat in southern Donetsk, including the loss of 8 Leopard 2 tanks; Prigozhin continuing to get out of control.
06 June 2023
Ukraine-Russia war changing Global Order? Alastair Crooke, former British ambassador.
06 June 2023
What we know about the Nova Kakhovka dam and who gains from its destruction. [The Birmingham ‘academic’ duo again provide no facts only Ukrainian propaganda.]
07 June 2023
Russia details Ukrainian losses; Kakhovka dam destroyed to enable Ukrainian redeployment; possibility that explosions that weakened the dam were caused by un-manned drone boats; Medvedev says that once the Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’ is completed the Russians should go on the offensive.
07 June 2023
The Food War, the Grain Deal, and the Real Deal.
08 June 2023
Ukrainian ‘offensive’ – Russia repels attacks and inflicts heavy Ukrainian losses; Putin and Saudis agree oil production cut; ex NATO Chief – the Mad Dane suggests NATO troops to the Ukraine.
08 June 2023
Is Russia’s least bad option now the maximalist stance of taking control of Western Ukraine?
08 June 2023
There were Neo-Nazis, then there were no Nazis, then there were.
09 June 2023
Ukraine offensive standstill; Leopard 2 tanks destroyed; no ground taken; China-Russia increase military ties.
09 June 2023
The complete defeat of the Ukrainian-NATO forces. Military summary and analysis.
09 June 2023
A war long wanted: diplomatic malpractice in Ukraine.
09 June 2023
Annals of the Ukraine War: year two.
09 June 2023
Ukraine: Bankruptcy of Western policy or collective death wish?
10 June 2023
Ukraine’s offensive begins: burning NATO equipment vs. layered Russian defenses.
10 June 2023
The results of The Night Storm. Military summary and analysis.
10 June 2023
A petri dish for fascism: How Ukraine has become a magnet for Western neo-Nazis.
11 June 2023
Ukraine has achieved a small operational success – but without any strategic, tactical or military value, just useful for propaganda purposes. Military summary and analysis.
11 June 2023
The EU looks to ‘Jungle’ sacrifice zones to help it out of energy crisis.
11 June 2023
Ukraine offensive standstill; rains clogging up attacks; Pentagon ‘freaking out’ over possible defeat by China (from about 24 minutes).
11 June 2023
How Russia sanctions sparked global revolt against US dollar.
11 June 2023
New York Times outlines what Ukrainian counteroffensive ‘success’ means in the West.
11 June 2023
Poland refutes Nord Stream sabotage claim.
12 June 2023
The EU looks to ‘jungle’ sacrifice zones to help it out of energy crisis: North Africa Edition.
12 June 2023
Ukraine standstill – although claims 3 villages; Russia counterattacks at Makarenka; Ukraine attacks Donbass; US pushes security guarantees.
13 June 2023
Ukrainian platoon surrenders; Russia regains Vremivka Ledge; Russia captures Leopard 2s and Bradleys; Ukraine begs for more arms; Blinken talks nonsense.
13 June 2023
Ukrainian offensive amid week 2: NATO rushes in more armor as losses mount – New Atlas
13 June 2023
Ukraine offensive: Inside one of the villages freed from Russian forces [there were four insignificant villages and it’s not even sure the Ukrainians still hold them – if they do ‘where do they go from here?’ Again, the BBC clutching at anything, however minor. And look at the map for the ‘held or regained by Ukraine’ – and that’s after more than 10 days of fighting.]
13 June 2023
Douglas MacGregor sober analysis – Who is wining in Ukraine? Russia Ukraine war update.
13 June 2023
Michael Hudson at Global University, Hong Kong, on Ukraine, Europe, China, and the Dollar’s Future.
13 June 2023
The next wave of the counteroffensive with Scott Ritter.
14 June 2023
What’s behind the US-driven reforms coming to the World Bank?
14 June 2023
Valery Zaluzhny, the man behind Ukraine’s counter-offensive – [The BBC’s hagiography of the ‘invisible man’.]
14 June 2023
‘Loss after loss after loss’: Dam destruction in Ukraine. [‘Fake’ Human Rights Watch follows the west’s narrative and never tries to analyse who (and why) destroyed the dam – a dam that Russia controlled and if they wanted to cause devastation all they had to do was open the sluice gates.]
15 June 2023 (but originally published on June 1st 2023)
The disinformation wars: an epistemological, political, and socio-historical interrogation.
15 June 2023
Ukraine offensive stuck; Russian Defence Ministry claims 7.5k Ukrainian casualties in 10 days; Russian economy to grow by 2% in 2023.
15 June 2023
The surprising pervasiveness of pro-war propaganda.
15 June 2023
How UK media mislead us about Britain’s leading military ‘think tank’.
16 June 2023
The New Atlas: Mark Sleboda explains Ukraine’s offensive as it enters week 3.
16 June 2023
South Africa calls out Reuters’ air-raid ‘misinformation’.
17 June 2023
Ukraine war must end, South African President Ramaphosa tells Putin. [He also said the same to Zelensky but his response was ‘don’t go to Moscow’. Also, in this article nothing about the peace negotiations which were sabotaged by the US/UK back in March 2022. The BBC, if possible, is getting worse. Also see the link above.]
17 June 2023
Ukrainian offensive in Orekhov but attacks repelled; German main stream media suggests that Budanov is in a coma; Putin states that Russian may attack F16 bases if the planes used in the Ukrainian conflict; more on the Russian economy.
18 June 2023
Russia claims massive Ukrainian losses in failed offensive – which is becoming a ‘turkey shoot’; Putin shows Africa leaders the draft treaty the US/UK vetoed.
18 June 2023
Ukraine’s unsuccessful two-week ‘counter offensive’; Ukrainian forces starting to surrender to the Russians. Military summary and analysis.
19 June 2023
BBC on the front line as Ukraine attacks Russian trenches. [Yet again, how the BBC produces propaganda under the guise of news.]
19 June 2023
On the failure of the Ukrainian ‘counter-attack’.
19 June 2023
Blinken-Qin talks in Beijing: US and China agree to keep talking past each other.
19 June 2023
Germany suspects Ukraine over ammonia pipeline blast – BILD.
19 June 2023
Another act of terror. How the media do PR for Biden and Zelensky.
20 June 2023
The silent slaughter of the flower of Ukraine’s youth.
20 June 2023
Ukrainian offensive slackens after heavy losses; Ukrainian troops surrendering to the Russians; Russians advance on Kupyansk; no reports of any Russian aircraft destroyed displaying Russian dominance of the air; China steam rolls Blinken.
20 June 2023
Pentagon ‘factored in’ Ukrainian casualties.
21 June 2023
Biden undoes Blinken China visit and then some by calling Xi a dictator.
21 June 2023
Ukraine standstill, Russia warns US/UK about retaliation if missiles hit Russia; US callousness about Ukrainian casualties; Blinken humiliated by China.
21 June 2023
New Nord Stream blast aftermath footage released.
22 June 2023
Ukraine strikes Chonhar bridge to Crimea, says Russia. [Note the unsubstantiated claim about who destroyed the Kakhovka dam and the preparation of the propaganda war surrounding what might happen at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
24 June 2023
Prigozhin mutiny. Own goal, gift to collective west. Commentary before Putin’s speech
24 June 2023
Fog of Prigozhin: his bizarre and surely doomed military revolt.
24 June 2023
President Vladimir Putin vows to crush Wagner Army’s rebellion and defend Russia – and in the process stresses his anti-Bolshevik credentials.
24 June 2023
Prigozhin mutiny and Putin’s speech, The Duran.
24 June 2023
Here’s how NATO trainers sent Ukrainian troops to their deaths.
24 June 2023
Prigozhin rebels, Wagner group enters Rostov; Voronezh, Russian military, government and society rally behind Putin.
24 June 2023
From Pugachev to Lebed – the Muzhik Rebellion fizzles out without bloodshed, Prigozhin to exile.
24 June 2023
Operational pause – The Grayzone Friday live – how erstwhile ‘friends’ of the US get attacked in the mainstream media because they don’t follow the ‘rules based order’. The US ‘not in a good position’ in regards to China. More on the covid vaccine contradictions. ‘Russiagate’ and the Hilary Clinton campaign invention.[Broadcast before news of the mutiny broke.]
25 June 2023
Russia’s ‘Civil War’ evaporates as Ukraine’s offensive enters Week 4.
25 June 2023
Prigozhin uprising collapses; Putin in control and Prigozhin agrees to exile in Belarus; Wagner now under Russian Ministry of Defence.
25 June 2023
Putin seriously weakened by Wagner Group mutiny – but it was a missed opportunity for Ukraine too. [Yet again, Ukraine’s paid puppet in Britain’s ‘academia’ distorts the facts to create a narrative which makes success out of failure.]
26 June 2023
Putin orders reality check – no Ukrainians left on the battlefield, no sovereignty in Kiev.
27 June 2023
Ukraine likely to have retaken land occupied by Russia since 2014, UK’s Ministry of Defence says. [Notice the number of qualifiers in this article. This is NOT news.]
27 June 2023
Putin strengthened after mutiny peacefully quelled; Russian tactics explained; Prigozhin goes to Belarus; US denies involvement’
28 June 2023
Turkey continues to challenge Sweden’s NATO membership.
28 June 2023 (first broadcast months ago but only just made aware of it)
The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin. [A reminder of the background to the present conflict.]
28 June 2023
All aboard the gravy train: an independent audit of US funding for Ukraine.
29 June 2023
‘Waging Peace’: How a tour of Russia showed me that propaganda perverts reality in the minds of Americans – Scott Ritter.
29 June 2023
Ukraine will need 117 years to take territories from Russia – Seymour Hersh.
28 June 2023
Putin confirms Russian Ministry of Defence funded Wagner; no Ukrainian breakthroughs; NATO in disarray about the replacement for Stoltenberg – whose tenure has been extended for two years; Blinken’s Beijing visit a failing due to Biden irrationality.
29 June 2023
Max Blumenthal addresses UN Security Council on Ukraine aid.
30 June 2023
Kiev survey suggests huge Ukrainian losses; NATO unsure what to do in Vilnius next month; British mainstream media admits Prigozhin affair leaves Putin stronger; discussion on the origins of the Wagner organisation and what illegal activities in which it might have been involved; Russia would demand much harsher terms in any negotiations than those agreed in Istanbul in March 2022.
30 June 2023
New Atlas LIVE: Garland Nixon and Washington’s War on the World
30 June 2023
Mr. Prigozhin goes to Washington.
01 July 2023
Irish neutrality – MEP Clare Daly – speech from 24 Jun 2023
01 July 2023
West’s mainstream media admitting Ukrainian offensive at a standstill; no Ukrainian forces have even reached any of the fortified Russian defence lines; Zaluzhny reappears and criticises the launching of the offensive forced upon Ukraine by the west – demands jets and more ammunition; Putin reassures Modi.
01 July 2023
Ukraine proxy war is an unmitigated disaster for U.S./NATO.
01 July 2023
Neutrality: Who Cares? 4: Sevim Dagdelen. (Dublin neutrality conference 24th June 2023.)
01 July 2023
Washington’s REAL policy on China – ‘repairing ties’ is theatre ahead of sanctions and war.
01 July 2023
John Mearsheimer on US power and the darkness ahead for Ukraine.
02 July 2023
Ukrainian casualties remain high – according to Russian Ministry of Defence; events leading up to the beginning of the Special Military Operation; tension over Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant grows; Ukraine demands NATO entry; Russia huge tank production – and how much military production will be given a priority in the future.
02 July 2023
Compare the approach of the BBC to an attack in the Ukraine;
Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Kramatorsk strike.
and Israeli incursions into the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin;
Israeli strikes on Palestinian Jenin camp in West Bank.
Why is the first a ‘war crime’ and the second just what happens (and has been happening) to Palestinians for more than 75 years?
02 July 2023
End Washington’s build-up for war with China, pursue peace and economic cooperation.
02 July 2023
America is a military dictatorship disguised as a democracy.
03 July 2023
Ageing Iraq invaders keep accidentally saying ‘Iraq’ instead of ‘Ukraine’.
03 July 2023
The lethal minefields holding up Kyiv’s counter-offensive.
[“petals” – small, green, anti-personnel mines – that had recently been scattered across a field by Russian rockets.” Why no mention of the use of these anti-personnel mines by the Ukrainians (for years) against the civilian population of Donetsk City?
“The enemy has no mercy for their own soldiers. They’re used as cannon fodder. But we’re trying to move forwards with the minimum of casualties,” Where does that come from? Where’s the proof? What does it have to do with the substance of the article?
“Artyom’s anger was not just a response to the dangers of minefields, but to the “sly” mentality that he felt must lie behind the act of laying mines and boobytraps, rather than fighting your enemy “man to man”. Is this for real?
“Our kamikaze drone hit [our own] car. We have one dead, another injured. Get the [expletive] out of there.”
“The [soldiers] are running away. Some of them are stealing cars… 50 people have fled. They [expletive] ran away…”
The radio intercept suggested that Russian soldiers were deserting their positions after a Ukrainian artillery bombardment.
“This happens from time to time. In groups of 10 or 20 – [Russian] people disappear and leave without permission. The Russians realise we can eavesdrop on their communications but sometimes they forget,” said Artyom. This is ‘impartial’ reporting? Where is the proof? This is hearsay and nothing more.]
03 July 2023
Russian neo-Nazi fighting Putin taught at far-right camp in UK. [Originally published 08 June 2023.]
03 July 2023
Ukraine keeps no secrets from CIA – Zelensky.
03 July 2023
Zelensky pleads for military gains prior to NATO Summit in Vilnius this month; Ukrainian forces yet to even reach Russian fortified defences; Ukraine is now completely dependent (economically, militarily and politically) upon the west; meeting in Copenhagen failed to convince BRICS states to turn against Russia; Russian confidence grows; NATO doubts way forward
03 July 2023
Ukraine’s offensive at 1 month – losing the war of attrition – New Atlas. Ukraine is sacrificing its Third Army – there is no way they can create a Fourth Army.
04 July 2023
Will war-torn, power-starved Ukraine be world’s first cashless economy? (serious question).
04 July 2023
Aborted Wagner Group rebellion shows how Putin’s attempt to unify Russian forces has failed to quell factional rivalries. [This ‘academic’ is affiliated to the Royal United Services Institute. Read about how this ‘think tank’ is a UK government funded organisation. She is just a propagandist for the UK government. Amongst many other things the conflict in the Ukraine has shown clearly the dismal level of journalism and academia in Britain.]
04 July 2023
Failed African peace mission underscores need for more powerful political and military pressure on Putin. [As is normal in Wolff’s ‘analyses’ he fails to mention that the African mission was better received in Moscow than in Kiev. As with the above ‘academic’ follow the money when you read any of these articles.]
04 July 2023
What caused the Wagner mutiny and what does it mean for Russia and its opponents?
04 July 2023
Multiple victims in ‘fierce’ Ukrainian strike on Donbass.
05 July 2023
Rumours of an attack on the Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant – by both sides; Ukrainian attack on Bakhmut repelled; western supplied weaponry not faring well on the battle field and the West cools its enthusiasm on the supply of F16s; Russian economy grows despite sanctions.
05 July 2023
They lied about Iraq. And they are lying about Ukraine.
06 July 2023
Duel in Ukraine: Ka-52 Alligator vs Ukrainian Tanks. [An interesting video for those who are into the technicalities of modern weapons.]
06 July 2023
Is Wagner Group too big to fail? [A different point of view about Putin’s ‘survival’ of the attempted coup – this article argues he is actually weaker.]
06 July 2023
Russia repels Ukrainian attack on Klescheyevka; unlikely Ukraine will have a major ‘advance’ to boast about before the NATO summit in Vilnius in 5 days time; Ukraine’s standstill limited by western supplies; China prepared to meet (US’s) Yellen but refuses to meet (EU’s) Borrell.
06 July 2023
Fed’s alarming revelation! Recession looms as interest rate hikes persist! And global ‘de-dollarisation.
06 July 2023
Civilian deaths from cluster munitions. [As is usual with HRW – if they criticise the Ukraine they must also criticise Russia – although with little proof for the latter.]
06 July 2023
Cluster bombs for Ukraine? A warning from Kosovo.
07 July 2023
The EU’s mass censorship regime is almost fully operational. Will it go global? [Posted on this page as it’s initial target is anyone who publishes anything which goes against the west’s narrative about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.]
07 July 2023
Front-line troops discuss counter-offensive. [BBC propagandists ensure that war will be fought ‘to the last Ukrainian’ by trying to turn disaster into a victory.]
07 July 2023
Failed Ukrainian offensive splits the west; threat to Zaporozhzhye nuclear power plant seems to have reduced as west tells Ukraine not to do anything reckless; nuclear inspectors state the Russian have no intentions to sabotage the plant; looks like Zelensky is being proved to have lied about Russian intentions; rumours that there have been secret talks recognising that Ukraine’s chances of ‘victory’ are virtually nil; ex-US diplomats oppose Ukraine’s membership of NATO; Biden gives Kiev cluster shells.
07 July 2023
What are cluster bombs and why is US sending them to Ukraine? [The US will ‘lose the moral high ground’. This is the country that used Agent Orange and Napalm against the civilian population of Vietnam.]
07 July 2023
Jeffrey Sachs interview – Path to war with China. [The madness of the Anglo-Saxon world.]
08 July 2023
Zelensky visits Snake Island on Ukraine War’s 500th day. [Form over substance.]
08 July 2023
Wimbledon 2023: Elina Svitolina has ‘big motivation’ against Victoria Azarenka. [And this is not propaganda?]
08 July 2023
US admits out of conventional ammunition – so send illegal cluster shells; but cluster shells are old technology; Italian journalist states no Ukrainian advance in Bahkmut – although the British media doesn’t agree; the hypocrisy of the west about the use of cluster weapons – not a surprise; more arms from US to Ukraine buttwha/; Xi Tells Military Prepare for War, Yellen in Beijing
08 July 2023
Cluster bombs: video surfaces Of Biden administration previously calling them a ‘war crime’.
08 July 2023
Biden says preparing ‘Israel-style’ security guarantees for Ukraine.
08 July 2023
Türkiye’s release of Ukrainian neo-Nazis violates deal.
08 July 2023
‘Russian victory’ worse than civilian cluster-bomb deaths – Pentagon.
08 July 2023
The New Atlas: Mark Sleboda and Ukraine’s offensive at Week 5
09 July 2023
Let’s be clear, cluster bombs are an escalation.
09 July 2023
Kakhovka Dam breach in Ukraine caused economic, agricultural and ecological devastation that will last for years.
09 July 2023
Turkiye refuses to back down on Sweden accession ahead of NATO Summit.
09 July 2023
Western media prepping nuclear false flag… and thermonuclear war?
09 July 2023
CIA running Ukraine blows Biden’s bluster about no U.S. boots on the ground.
09 July 2023
Biden sending banned U.S. cluster bombs for Ukraine.
09 July 2023
‘Go to hell’, Ukraine tells anti-cluster bomb German MP.
09 July 2023
Ukraine admits responsibility for terror attack on Crimean bridge.
09 July 2023
Kerch bridge strike fails – and admits involvement in the attack last autumn; Russia analysing recovered UK supplied Storm Shadow missile; US protestations prove baseless; Ukraine coming close to the reality that there’s a limit of the west’s support in military equipment; US supply of cluster shells opens the way for future Russian use; Russia accuses Erdogan betrayal
09 July 2023
Ukraine’s offensive suffering heavy losses, Azov commanders return – New Atlas.
10 July 2023
NATO’s Vilnius summit will authorize escalation of its war against Russia.
10 July 2023
Zaluzhny tells Zelensky offensive unsustainable and should be stopped; UK Guardian newspaper argues for direct NATO intervention; Wagner troops swear loyalty and rejoin war.
10 July 2023
Underestimate Russia at your own risk: a comparison of hubris by Germany during WWII and today’s collective West.
10 July 2023
It’s hard for Americans to engage in China-bashing without tripping on contradictions.
10 July 2023
Cluster bombs: a war crime for Putin but not for Biden.
11 July 2023
NATO’s big climb down.
11 July 2023
The US is trying to use foreign mercenaries to plug gaps in Ukraine – they are in for a rude awakening.
11 July 2023
Douglas Macgregor and Kim Iversen: The Russians have 750.000 troops ready to attack.
11 July 2023
Erdogan flips and agrees Sweden’s membership of NATO in return for US F16s; another Ukrainian armoured attack driven back; Ukrainian troops enticed into booby trapped trench – and then destroyed; the west having to dip into missile reserves to prop up the Ukrainian ‘offensive’; the surprising ‘debate’ around cluster munitions; Russians advance Kupiansk and Liman; NATO summit in Vilnius; mediocrity of western ‘leaders’.
12 July 2023
The US is war.
12 July 2023
NATO is ‘malicious poison’ – former Australian PM.
12 July 2023
Two stern warnings must be given to the arrogant NATO: Global Times editorial.
12 July 2023
A bad day for the Ukraine; attack fails with heavy losses in manpower and Leopard 2 tanks; Russia captures an intact US Bradley; NATO turns back on Ukraine; Putin to go to Beijing in October.
12 July 2023
Moscow mulls plan to display destroyed NATO hardware outside embassies.
12 July 2023
UK ‘wastes billions’ on defence firms that give investors rich returns.
12 July 2023
NATO: The cracks are beginning to show over Ukraine.
12 July 2023
Irish fighter ‘Rambo’ describes ‘terrifying’ Russian tank chase.
12 July 2023
U.S. cluster bombs to Ukraine: an act of desperation.
12 July 2023
South America makes it clear what it thinks about Zelensky.
12 July 2023
How Putin broke the US grip on Russia.
13 July 2023
Scott Ritter: cluster munitions will change nothing for Ukraine.
13 July 2023
Biden keeps lying about the US ‘not trying to surround’ China.
13 July 2023
US no longer capable of maintaining mafia-style ‘rules-based order’ .
13 July 2023
Douglas Macgregor and Stephen Gardner: France and UK give long distance missiles to Ukraine; NATO divided and countries in Europe have internal problems; Poland and Lithuania have their own agenda.
13 July 2023
Ukraine offensive goes into reverse, Russians advance in Bakhmut, Avdeyevka, Vuhledar, and Kupyansk; NATO aid to Ukraine reduces.
14 July 2023
Cluster bomb decision puts blood of future civilian victims on Biden’s hands.
14 July 2023
Scott Ritter: NATO Summit serves up cringe nothing-burger.
14 July 2023
Ukraine got the best it could out of NATO’s Vilnius summit, say experts. [How the so-called ‘left’ still bats on NATO’s side in the proxy war.]
14 July 2023
Russia advances accelerate; more speculation on an Ukrainian Dnieper crossing; Russia almost certainly out of grain deal; Biden calls up reservists.
14 July 2023
U.S. soldiers don’t belong in Ukraine.
14 July 2023
[US] House [of Representatives] votes down amendment to block cluster bomb shipments to Ukraine.
15 July 2023
Zaluzhny demands more weapons and doesn’t give a damn on the potential risks of attacks on mainland Russia – appears to be unable to understand the limitations about what the west can give; has the UK given Ukraine all its Storm Shadow missiles?; Russian dominance in the air increases; questions in US about sending F16s; US intelligence reports on the failing Ukrainian offensive; the summer of 2023 is not the autumn of 2022 when Ukraine last made an ‘offensive’.
15 July 2023
Iran just announced a new game changing master plan with China by joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the west is terrified.
16 July 2023
Nato isn’t defending Ukraine. It’s stabbing it in the back.
16 July 2023
Biden’s corruption led to Ukraine’s destruction: former Kiev diplomat – with Aaron Maté.
16 July 2023
Is Biden preparing to take the U.S. to war against Russia? Larry Johnson
16 July 2023
Main stream media acknowledges heavy Ukrainian losses: 20% armour in the first weeks of the ‘offensive’, 10% in the ensuing ‘ensuing weeks’; Ukrainian ammunition firing rate falls.
17 July 2023
Recork the champagne: Sweden’s NATO accession deal with Turkiye still faces hurdles.
17 July 2023
Kerch bridge is hated symbol of Russian occupation – more BBC propaganda. ‘If the bridge is out of action, even for a short time, this will complicate Russia’s logistical challenges, a key aspect of the early phase of Ukraine’s counter-offensive.’ [‘Early phase’? It’s been going on for 6 weeks now and all Ukraine has gained is ’81 sq miles’ of fields.
17 July 2023
Ukraine grain deal expires after Russia pulls out. [But the BBC doesn’t even address the reasons why – non-compliance of the west of their side of the bargain.]
17 July 2023
Ukraine’s recent attack on the Crimean Bridge and why it doesn’t matter strategically.
17 July 2023
Zaluzhny (and his obsession on Crimea)/Syrsky (and his obsession on Bahkmut) rivalry; US blames minefields for Ukraine’s failure; more on cluster munitions – and their drawbacks; Yellen visits China and possible financial market support.
18 July 2023
Crimean bridge attack is another blow to Putin’s strongman image. [Wolff, Conversation’s most prominent Ukraine propagandists continues to make unsubstantiated claims – his contributions are a prime example of the fact that if you repeat something (however unsubstantiated) enough times it takes on the look of ‘truth’.]
18 July 2023
John Bolton accidentally explains why US policy on Russia and China is wrong.
18 July 2023
Why the Ukraine conflict will unravel NATO and Biden.
18 July 2023
Agent Zelensky by Scott Ritter. [Is there a limit on the stupidity of people, in the US? In the UK? In the Ukraine? The video here indicates that there’s no limit at all.]
18 July 2023
Ukraine’s slow advance doesn’t signal failure in its counteroffensive against Russia. [Another counter-factual piece. ‘The Ukrainian army still possesses a qualitative advantage over the Russian army’. Indeed? Where? ]
19 July 2023
Russia strikes Ukraine grain after ending sea deal. [‘The Kremlin argued its demands for Russian exports had not been honoured.’ This statement is included but there’s no comment on whether this is true or not – and if it is why if Russia honoured its side of the bargain (which is accepted) why the west didn’t honour theirs.]
19 July 2023
Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine – and what that means for the global food system. [This ‘academic’ is a director of a private university in the Ukraine – which gets its funding from the US and EU institutions/governments. And this is supposed to make her ‘independent’. Let alone the holes in her article.]
19 July 2023
Brian Berletic: Russia has destroyed Ukraine’s desperate plot to take Crimea.
19 July 2023
Leaked files suggest hidden British hand in latest Kerch Bridge strike.
20 July 2023
Russia destroys Ukrainian Black Sea ports; introduces Black Sea blockade; Syrsky states that the Ukraine is about to retake Bakhmut; Putin not to go to South Africa for BRICS meeting later this month.
20 July 2023
Ukraine and the great revival of American empire.
20 July 2023
The dynamics of war insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette.
20 July 2023
John Helmer: The Mosquito Swarm and the Violent Pinprick are Zelensky PR to beat NATO’s Christmas deadline.
20 July 2023
Why should we be concerned about depleted uranium?
21 July 2023
Newsweek article admits time running out for Ukraine – if it doesn’t win in the next few months then it won’t ever; Financial Times blames the extensive Russian minefields for Ukrainian failures – but that ‘forgets’ that Russia also has superiority in artillery and in the air; Russia drives back Ukraine in Bakhmut.
21 July 2023
Latin America again refuses to fall in line with the collective west on Ukraine, this time from Brussels.
21 July 2023
Douglas Macgregor. Ukraine is being destroyed and the whole affair is becoming a disaster.
22 July 2023
The looming war against China: economic logic has been replaced by national security overrides.
22 July 2023
Mainstream media admits Ukrainian heavy losses and forces demoralised, offensive ‘failed’ (38-64 mins); Putin makes statement about shortages of Ukrainian manpower and material – even that from the west – warns Warsaw of war after much of their territory was ‘a gift of Stalin’, (64-89 mins).
23 July 2023
Russia hammers Odessa on stored munitions or in readiness for a Russian attack; discussion on air defence capabilities of the combatants; west believed its own propaganda on the state of the Russian army; Putin and Lukashenko discuss war with Poland; Russian economic growth accelerates.
23 July 2023
Germany down the rabbit hole.
23 July 2023
15 Leopards, 20 Bradleys destroyed in one day – Putin.
23 July 2023
West knew Ukraine wasn’t ready for counteroffensive – Wall Street Journal.
24 July 2023
Ukrainian celebrity Roseanne Barr condemns Zelensky on TV .
24 July 2023
Russia breaks through Ukrainian defences at Kremennaya and advances to the Oskol River; Russia prepares future offensive; no ‘stalemate’ – rather Russian success; discussion on what Russia would not accept in any discussions – on the ‘Korean model’; Ukraine uses cluster munitions in Donetsk City.
25 July 2023
No joke: Ursula Von der Leyen’s EU Commission just received ‘World Prize for Peace and Freedom’.
25 July 2023
Russia pushes to Oskol River; more and more Ukrainian soldiers surrendering to Russian forces; Russian General, in an interview, suggests the war will end in the Spring of 2024; Shoigu in surprise visit to North Korea; more on the Russian and Belorussian approach to any possible move by Poland to try to take parts of western Ukraine.
26 July 2023
Ukrainian offensive nears 2 month mark: little left to replace heavy losses.
26 July 2023
U.S. boots on the ground, American soldiers fighting Russian soldiers – Douglas McGregor.
26 July 2023
Central Banks abandon US bonds for gold; a number of countries repatriating their gold reserves from the Federal Reserve in the US and the Bank of England.
27 July 2023
Jackson Hinkle destroys Piers Morgan in Ukraine ‘debate’.
27 July 2023
Western armour struggles against Russian defences. [The BBC tells the truth but ends the article with this meaningless quote from a Ukrainian General ‘If the offensive were not successful, I wouldn’t be talking to you now’.]
27 July 2023
The balloon goes up – How far will the Nato allies go to fight their losing war in the Ukraine — How much more will they risk losing of their post-1945 territorial gains?
27 July 2023
Two views on what is happening during ‘Ukraine’s great push’ on 27th July 2023. Compare and contrast and see what happens in the next few days.
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Onslaught
Kyiv claims success as southern fighting intensifies – the BBC
27 July 2023
Big Ukrainian defeat, Ukraine to relaunch their offensive; massive Russian missile strike; Russia’s effective use of small suicide drones; US-Russia secret talks? with the US ready to abandon Ukraine? – article in the Moscow Times; Russia and DPRK relations re-established.
27 July 2023
Scott Ritter – Comments on Victoria Nuland; how Hilary Clinton might have lost the election but she is definitely in the background; the failed grain deal; Shoigu in the DPRK; the US doesn’t believe in the international rule of law – which doesn’t fit into US interests; A real counter-offensive with 60,000 troops
27 July 2023
Experts say expecting Kiev to win is definition of ‘insanity’.
27 July 2023
Ukrainian corruption threatens US assistance.
28 July 2023
Some thoughts on the Russian end game in Ukraine.
28 July 2023
Sanctions on China, export controls on rare earths for the U.S.: two, it turns out, can tango.
29 July 2023
Disastrous Ukrainian attack in Orekhov fails; disagreements within Ukrainian forces about ‘offensive’; (61.00) British commentators on conflict; combined arms operations; Russian advance on Kupiansk; missile strike on Ukrainian Dnepro HQ.
29 July 2023
NATO failed in Ukraine against Russia. Now it’s targeting China.
30 July 2023
CHAOS! Jose Vega defies editors of New York Times and Washington Post on their censorship of Russiagate and the conflict in Ukraine. [First published three months ago.]
30 July 2023
Ukraine’s ‘Big Push’ results in big losses as offensive nears 2 months.
30 July 2023
Western media’s racist reportage on Ukrainian refugees. [First published a year ago but worth repeating.]
30 July 2023
Russia inflicts heavy losses on Ukraine.
30 July 2023
Russia advances on Kupiansk; Putin – Ukraine at a standstill, 415 Ukrainian tanks and 1300 armoured personal vehicles destroyed; Russia mulls a 2nd mobilisation.
30 July 2023
Eritrea: Isaias told Putin to lead the strategy against the west – One Africa.
31 July 2023
After two months of slow progress the long-awaited counteroffensive is picking up speed. Why has it taken so long? [And despite claims things are improving nothing changes.]
01 August 2023
Brian Berletic: Russia has defeated Ukraine’s offensive as NATO runs out of options.
02 August 2023
Russia pushes Ukraine back from Klescheyevka; US Department of Defense admits Ukraine offensive failure; seeks restart in the Autumn.
02 August 2023
The last gasps of the collapsing empire – Dan Kovalik.
03 August 2023
Ukrainians have been ground up – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.
03 August 2023
‘Weeds’ hindering Ukrainian counteroffensive – UK military.[The only vegetables are the British military and intelligence services.]
03 August 2023
Russian Kupiansk advance; UK military and intelligence blame trees for failure of Ukrainian offensive; Brazil, Mexico and China pull out of the Jeddah Conference; Putin and Erdogan speak and agree to meeting soon.
04 August 2023
Ukraine fights narrative battle as counteroffensive stalls.
04 August 2023
Asians are less ‘humane’ – Ukrainian security chief.
04 August 2023
New Atlas LIVE is a weekly stream for discussing current events, connecting with the New Atlas community – the Duran on Ukraine’s offensive, NATO’s Plan B and more.
04 August 2023
More on the collapse of operational capabilities in the West: How did we get here?
05 August 2023
Russia claims advances on Kupiansk; 42,000 Ukrainian soldiers dead in June/July; main stream media focuses on damage to 2 Russian ships; Ukraine and west ‘fear they are losing control of the narrative’.
05 August 2023
War hawks’ drive to expand NATO into Asia may destroy Western Military Alliance.
05 August 2023
Scott Ritter talks about the movie Oppenheimer.
07 August 2023
Zelensky prepares general mobilisation; 8 Ukrainian pilots train on F16s; global south reject Ukrainian ‘Peace Plan’ at Jeddah.
07 August 2023
Talks in Jeddah give Kyiv an opportunity to push its ten-point plan to Brics and the global south. [The truth? Ukraine came away with nothing. Even more. The picture associated with this piece of western propaganda implies that Zelensky was actually at the meeting when Ukraine was represented by just another insignificant functionary.]
07 August 2023
The senility of empire.
07 August 2023
Make peace, you fools!
08 August 2023
The movie and the moment: an Oppenheimer review through the lens of an anti-war activist.
08 August 2023
Russian broad Kharkov Advance; Ukraine short on weapons; Wang Yi and Lavrov friendly telephone call; Nuland flies to give ultimatum to Niger.
09 August 2023
NATO training leaves Ukrainian troops ‘underprepared’ for war.
09 August 2023
How to sell a war: Peace means war.
09 August 2023
West ‘must keep promises’ on grain deal – Erdogan.
09 August 2023
Profits of Western arms makers top $200 billion.
09 August 2023
West despairs with no Ukrainian breakthrough in its offensive; western media now accepts the failings in Ukraine yet still the ‘hawks’ talk up Ukrainian ‘victory’ and even go so far as to countenance nuclear Armageddon; joint Russia/China fleet close to the Aleutians; Nigeria cools on intervention in Niger.
09 August 2023
Ukraine’s offensive remains stalled: western media begins admitting failures. New Atlas looks at Ukraine’s tactics in its offensive against Russia.
10 August 2023
The overlooked role of the financial crisis in the subjugation of Europe [- and a subtext for the US getting the EU (and the UK) to agree to the suicidal sanctions against Russia].
10 August 2023
The sheer might of the Russian Army won’t be overcome – addressing the issue of the importance of an sufficiently strong industrial base in modern peer to peer warfare.
10 August 2023
Russia’s unique and unsurpassed mine clearance System UR-77 Meteorite clears a path to Kupyansk.
11 August 2023
The Polish President said Kiev isn’t doing the West any favors and its counter-offensive failed.
11 August 2023
Ukraine admits Kupiansk crisis; is Russia wanting to draw in Ukrainian reserves into another ‘meat-grinder’?; Syrsky warns defences collapse; Russia’s economy – no crisis in economy; ECOWAS probably to intervene in Niger.
11 August 2023
Two years after Taliban takeover: why Afghanistan still poses a threat to the region and beyond. [I am adding this post on the Ukrainian war page as Wolff is one of the principal ‘academic’ propagandists for the UK/US position on the Ukraine. He continues his role in other parts of the world.]
12 August 2023
The illusory truth effect and the ‘unprovoked’ invasion of Ukraine. [Quite badly written – but the main argument is correct.]
12 August 2023
CIA analyst on Russia Ray McGovern has never been more scared of nuclear catastrophe.
12 August 2023
Ukrainians paying up to $10,000 to escape draft.
12 August 2023
Piers Morgan gets dismantled over Ukraine war. [The clip of the interview has been posted before. It’s repeated here for the Jimmy Dore ‘commentary’ of the event.]
13 August 2023
Ukrainian counteroffensive falling short of NATO expectations.
14 August 2023
Is the US a failed state?
14 August 2023
The west and the war in Ukraine: selling and buying hopium.
14 August 2023
Contested memory in Giorgia Meloni’s Italy: how her far-right party is waging a subtle campaign to commemorate fascist figures. [What is ‘bad’ in Italy is OK in Ukraine? The Conversation is as schizophrenic and contradictory as the rest of the western media.]
15 August 2023
European gas price spike highlights painful exposure to global markets.
16 August 2023
Russia, Donbass and the reality of conflict in Ukraine.
16 August 2023
What is happening in Syria? [Yes. I do think it is relevant to the Ukraine.]
16 August 2023
U.S. capitalism and why the glut of ‘wonder weapons’ to Ukraine won’t make a difference.
17 August 2023
Drones are changing the conflict – both on the frontline and beyond. [But the ‘academic’ propagandists from Birmingham University don’t state that Russia is making an even better use of drones. Neither do they accept that the Ukraine is not only failing in its so-called ‘counter-offensive’ it is actually going backwards. However, if you care to look closely they do state a number of truths – although by accident.]
17 August 2023
West recriminations on any Ukrainian peace deal; Ukraine commits last reserve force in the failed ‘offensive’; Niger intervention revived.
18 August 2023
Better late than never? Spain’s El País sounds alarm over consequences of Ukraine ‘proxy war’ for EU’s future.
18 August 2023
Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi.
18 August 2023
U.S.-backed roll of the dice leaves Ukraine in worse crisis.
18 August 2023
Is America a war state?
18 August 2023
Russia storming Kupiansk; Ukraine’s last ditch attack to save ‘offensive’; US intel doubts success of Ukraine’s ‘offensive’; China’s economy.
18 August 2023
Anti-China brainwashing is the fast-track to war. [I don’t agree that China’s role is so benign but there is still some interesting information about the US’s past imperial activity.]
18 August 2023
You can’t project power when the world knows you are weak.
18 August 2023
70 years ago, an Anglo-US coup condemned Iran to decades of oppression – but now the people are fighting back. [But there’s no real condemnation of UK/US involvement in the coup and of all those that followed. It’s just a ‘what if’ article that is just a waste of space. And really only supports the Iranian opposition because Iran is not ‘friendly’ to the west.]
18 August 2023
The world would be better off without NATO.
18 August 2023
The decline of America’s military reflects the overall decline of America itself.
18 August 2023
You and what army? – The Grayzone live – discussing main stream media in the west accepting the failing of Ukraine’s counter-offensive; the redundancy of politics in the US; the crisis in western Africa.
19 August 2023
New York Times estimates 500,000 casualties in Ukraine war; the magazine 1945 blames Ukrainian failings in their ‘counter-offensive’ of the concentration of forces in Bakhmut; Ukraine will ‘save Africa’, neocons rebrand themselves as ‘realists’.
20 August 2023
Big brave western proxy warriors keep whining that Ukrainian troops are cowards.
21 August 2023
Western media faces Ukraine’s failures: offensive grinds on with no Plan-B – includes, near the beginning, a bizarre ‘assessment’ by UK ‘Military Intelligence’,
21 August 2023 (but first published this time in 2022 – but well worth reminding people of the argument.)
John Pilger silencing the lambs: How propaganda works.
21 August 2023
Leopold’s ghost redux.
22 August 2023
Ukrainian drone destroys Russian supersonic bomber. [With such a spectacular claim I was surprised this news item kept appearing and disappearing from the site. Perhaps an indication that the BBC wasn’t really sure of its veracity – even though ‘fact checked’ by their so-called ‘Verify’ entity. As someone elsewhere stated, why should a news outlet need a verify service if journalists were doing the job they boast they are doing. Perhaps, therefore, an implicit admission that they are not.]
22 August 2023
Jeffrey Sachs interview – a large-scale destruction is currently unfolding. Refers to the number of regime changes in which the US has been involved from 1947 to 1989.
23 August 2023
Are US officials signaling a new ‘forever war’ in Ukraine?
23 August 2023
Most ‘experts’ pushing for endless conflict in Ukraine share a common benefactor.
23 August 2023
US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows.
23 August 2023
Neocons and other malignancies in the American body politic.
23 August 2023
‘Poland lost 10,000 soldiers and officers in Ukraine’.
24 August 2023
US hegemony at heart of Ukraine conflict, Japan dumps radioactive water from Fukushima.
24 August 2023
Discussions in the US in 2021 about attempting to engineer a Russian defeat to break any alliance between Russia and China to make the US war against China easier; death of Prigozhin – causes and suspects; no Ukrainian Independence Day victory; US/UK tells Ukraine to give up on Bakhmut and fight where Ukraine’s ‘masters’ tell them to go; BRICS grows with six new members.
24 August 2023
Scott Ritter: Ukraine will ‘capitulate unconditionally’.
24 August 2023
Come on, Ukraine, learn from the U.S. Military.
24 August 2023
After months of negotiations Ukraine will be getting the F-16 warplanes it has been begging for – here’s why that’s important – yet another British ‘academic’ living in cloud cuckoo land.
24 August 2023
Western hegemony falling apart, BRICS now controls 40% world’s GDP and de-dollarising.
24 August 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group boss joins long list of those who challenged Vladimir Putin and paid the price. [Again the so-called ‘academic’ Wolff rushes in with assertions = but providing no proof whatsoever. If a student of his made such assertions in such a manner in any of his classes they would be, rightly, marked down. However, the ‘Professor’ can get away with breaking all the rules of academia because he is a paid government propagandist.]
25 August 2023
Ukrainian tries, but fails, to capture Rabotino; Ukrainian mass drone attack (42) on the Crimea – but Russia says all brought down by electronic jamming; Russian officials say major Russian offensive coming; current Ukrainian attacks show that the ‘counter-offensive’ is ebbing; Zaluzhny warns US about pushing into a Kursk type disaster; more on Prigozhin’s death.
25 August 2023
Mark Sleboda joins the New Atlas to discuss the latest developments in the conflict in Ukraine including: – Prigozhin’s plane crash; – Sabotage units reaching Crimea; – The current state of Ukrainian offensive as it reaches the 3 month mark and; – What happens after Ukraine’s offensive exhausts itself.
25 August 2023
Who Killed Prigozhin? The stuck Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’. How did the west get it so wrong?Deliberate malpractice and out of touch with reality. Power panel with Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern – intelligence roundtable.
26 August 2023
Russia’s big autumn offensive predicted; Ukraine fails in Zaporozhzhie; Wagner forces join the Russian Army; BRICS – a serious rival to the US system.
26 August 2023
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal’s critical articles about Kiev’s counter-offensive explain why it failed.
26 August 2023
Niger receives military aircraft from Russia through Mali ready to combat France and Ecowas. Russia not running out of weapons.
27 August 2023
Ukraine make major breakthrough and warn under-fire Putin ‘we don’t stop here!’ [An example of the NATO/US/UK/EU’s separation from reality.]
27 August 2023
‘Who knows what comes next for the West?’ – Neil Oliver.
27 August 2023
John Mearsheimer – Ukraine’s tragic fate: the unheeded prophecies.
27 August 2023
Who killed Prigozhin? Why did the US/NATO/UK/EU not think about the consequences of forcing Russia to attack the Ukraine. Russia is winning the war. With Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson.
27 August 2023
‘We get rich, they just die’ – the western mainstream media.
27 August 2023
West and Ukraine trade blame and talk about ‘wonder weapons’ as critical juncture approaches.
28 August 2023
Russia claims Ukrainian capture of Rabotino is false; Russia sends 110,000 troops in build-up around Kupiansk; Zelensky interview – Ukraine losing hope of external support and ‘will fight on alone’.
29 August 2023
Zelensky’s latest TV interview shows how much the Ukraine conflict’s dynamics have shifted.
29 August 2023
‘Dying by the dozens every day’ – Ukraine losses climb. [The BBC starting to tell the truth – but still only partial and using ‘official’ NATO figures rather than what is happening on the battlefield.]
29 August 2023
Claims of ‘successes’ by the Ukraine (destroyed bomber and capture of Rabotino) questionable; Russia advance on Kupiansk sparks Ukrainian fear of 2nd Bakhmut and the ‘meat-grinder’; ‘hawks’ in US government and mass media still try to maintain the consensus is pro-war; Putrin refusing attempts to speak by western leaders; Scholz and Macron shocked that Putin was unfazed by sanctions.
29 August 2023
Commerce Secretary Raimondo’s China visit for seeks help from the Chinese to bolster US Treasury Bonds whilst 121 nations seek to divest themselves of their holding of those bonds.
29 August 2023
Always opposing past wars but never the present one.
29 August 2023
Defunded for wrongthink? GoFundMe freezes donations made to independent outlet The Grayzone.
29 August 2023
GoFundMe sides with war machine – silences Grayzone!
30 August 2023
Ukraine stuck in Rabotino; Syrsky worries about situation in Kupiansk and Bakhmut; difference in quality of Ukrainian and Russian drone attacks; French rocked by coup in Gabon.
30 August 2023
The list is increasing! Russia has eliminated another high-ranking NATO General in Ukraine!
30 August 2023
Ukraine gains on southern front could open way to Crimea, says Kyiv. [Three months to do 6kms. How long to do 200kms?]
30 August 2023
Nikki Haley pushes stupid ‘Putin is a murderer’ defence of Ukraine war.
31 August 2023
Breaking the Silence: Truth and lies in the war on terror (2003);
31 August 2023
Russia advances on Kupiansk and Bakhmut; Ukraine gives up on Rabotino and fails in Verbove; Ukraine plans yet another mobilisation; Xi will not attend G20.
31 August 2023
Ukraine’s western sponsors running out of ammunition and out of time. Includes a breakdown of the latest list of equipment being sent to Ukraine from the US.
01 September 2023
Spain’s Defence Minister comes to defence of EU chief ‘diplomat’ Josep Borrell in war of words with Russia that Borrell initiated.
01 September 2023
Only idiots believe the US is protecting Australia from China.
01 September 2023
Russia repels attacks on Verbovoye and advances in Bakhmut; articles in western mainstream media of the dire situation for Ukraine and the need for a ‘workable’ agreement to be acceptable to the Russians before total Ukrainian collapse; latest arms package from the US very thin; Erdogan to meet Putin, Niger takes harder line against the French.
02 September 2023
Rabotino virtually destroyed and offers no cover; Russia stops Ukrainian advance on Verbovoye with heavy Ukrainian losses; Russian Ministry of Defence issues report on Ukrainian actions and losses; the fiercest fighting seems to be taking place in Bakhmut; failed Kerch Bridge attack; US dismayed that Xi will not be attending the next G20 – article in Financial Times.
03 September 2023
Europe and the Law of Holes.
03 September 2023
Threats, insults, and Kremlin ‘robots’: How Russian diplomacy died under Putin. [No mention of Russia’s diplomatic moves in December 2021; no mention of the Minsk Accords of 2015; no mention of how both Merkel and Hollande stated that these agreements were merely an effort to allow NATO to arm Ukraine; no mention of the Buffoon’s role in scuppering the Istanbul proposal to end hostilities in March/April 2022; yet again no ‘journalism’. Yet argues that Nuland is an example of a ‘diplomat’.]
03 September 2023
‘Western equipment burns like matches’; Polish volunteer reveals the truth; has Mariinka been captured?
04 September 2023
The New Atlas LIVE: The Duran on NATO’s industrial-scale problems in Ukraine.
04 September 2023
Ukraine says Russian drones crashed in Romania – but Romania denies that’s the case. [This is an interesting article as it starts to doubt whether the Ukraine is telling the truth rather than hoping to force NATO to get involved in the conflict directly – forgetting that they probably have been, surreptitiously, since the very beginning.]
04 September 2023
Gofundme, defunded – The Grayzone live. Biden’s attempt to introduce a Memorandum of Understanding to lock in military aid to the Ukraine whatever the wishes of any future government; the elites who dominate Burning Man get what they deserved.
05 September 2023
Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK – [and if all the crimes committed by the British Army were taken into account they would be top of the terrorist list.]
05 September 2023
Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’ a failure – according to Putin; statement by Shoigu; Ukraine loses 66,000; British Challenger 2 tank destroyed; US: Kim Jong un Meeting Putin, China New Chip, Russia Boom.
05 September 2023
‘Send diplomats, not weapons’: German MP Sevim Dagdelen speaks out against Ukraine War.
05 September 2023
End of the war, end of US exceptionalism.
05 September 2023
Contamination fears after Ukraine loses British tank.
06 September 2023
How sanctions failed to hinder China’s development.
06 September 2023
The real threat from China: they’re better at capitalism than we are.
06 September 2023
Scott Ritter: A comprehensive Ukrainian defeat is the only possible outcome of its conflict with Russia.
06 September 2023
Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden yes-man, a Putin apologist or a peacemaker?
06 September 2023
British Challenger tank destroyed in Ukraine and heavy losses amid failing offensive.
06 September 2023
Ukraine attacks fail and Syrsky says situation is ‘complex’; reports from the Russian Ministry of Defence; fears of Russia offensive and alarm at Russia-North Korea ties.
06 September 2023
What BAE’s Ukraine deal shows about the risks and opportunities of setting up a business in a war zone. [Yet another of The Conversation’s ‘academics’ living in cloud cuckoo-land. Although there is the admission that arms manufacturers are making a killing in the Ukraine conflict.]
07 September 2023
If everyone understood that the US deliberately provoked this war.
07 September 2023
The EU’s best weapon against free speech isn’t working
07 September 2023
Russia enters Sinkovka; Blinken to Kiev as offensive stalls – looking for a scapegoat?; US rejects negotiations and cuts Kiev loose; US’s primary focus is China – for the headbanging neo-cons.
07 September 2023
Anti-China and anti-Russia propaganda.
08 September 2023
Apple shares slide after China government iPhone ban reports – [the arrogance of the ‘west’ never ceases to surprise. They are so sure of their power that they think they can attack other country’s economies and that they will just turn over and accept it. If they retaliate they are then the ‘aggressors’. But no analysis in the normal, supine BBC report.]
08 September 2023
West faces Ukrainian defeat; 2nd Challenger destroyed; none of the objectives of the ‘counter-offensive’ have been, or will be, achieved; will there be a Russian ‘autumn’ offensive; the background of the conflict being ignored; Russia-DPRK relations; North Korea’s nuclear submarine; Niger calls ECOWAS bluff.
08 September 2023
Ukraine’s push for NATO membership is rooted in its European past – and its future. [As is usual with The Conversation when it comes to Ukraine, what it leaves out is more important than what it says. No mention at all of the US involvement in the 2014 coup, painting it instead as some sort of ‘popular revolution’. As well as re-inventing history.]
08 September 2023
Battle Taxis – evolution of the Armoured Personnel Carrier. [Probably the most important statement in this video is the very last line – which NATO forces have forgotten. It’s all about the co-ordination between armour and the infantry that make the difference.]
08 September 2023
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, UK Defence Chief says.
09 September 2023
Washington Post reported that Ukrainians are distrustful of the West and flirting with a ceasefire.
09 September 2023
Ukraine’s objectives ‘no longer aligned with’ West’s as Russia ‘no longer a threat’. [Didn’t see that one coming. The ‘West’ now things that Russia is now weaker? Interesting analysis – but it gives the ‘West’ an (what a terrible term!) ‘off-ramp’.]
09 September 2023
Fighting continues in Robotino; what’s happened to British Storm Shadow missiles; US military bad at mathematics; US supplying Ukraine ATACMS missiles is a major escalation; can we expect more attacks on the Kerch Bridge?; Ukraine believes it is entitled to anything it asks; G20 comes up with joint declaration which doesn’t condemn Russia directly; oil price grows and ‘West’ gives up on Russia oil price cap.
10 September 2023
Ukraine offensive could have only 30 days left. [The British more delusional that the Ukrainians – and posit an aim of the Russians which was never the case – ‘In the same interview, Adm[iral] Sir Tony Radakin, the UK chief of defence staff, said ‘Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing. That is because the aim of Russia was to subjugate Ukraine and to put it under Russia’s control’, he said. ‘That has not happened and it never will happen, and that’s why Ukraine is winning’.]
10 September 2023
Top US/Ukrainian officials signal offensive ending; linguistic acrobatics by western intelligence and military representatives on the failure of the ‘counter-offensive’; scale of Ukrainian losses; big Russian offensive rumours grow; ‘West’ humiliated at G20.
10 September 2023
Defamation League – The Grayzone live, including an analysis of the current situation in the Ukraine. (Aaron Mate returns with Max Blumenthal to cover Elon Musk’s pending lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League, and the organization’s history of collaboration with federal law enforcement and Silicon Valley to censor and smear opponents of Israel’s apartheid regime. They will also cover Blinken’s disturbing trip to Ukraine and the latest Omidyar-sponsored censorship ploy.)
10 September 2023
Here’s why Ukraine’s defeat could mean the end of NATO in its current form.
10 September 2023
Polish ambassador blasts Ukraine over memorials to WW2 Nazi collaborators.
10 September 2023
Biden aide intervenes to end rambling press conference.
10 September 2023
From Ukraine to Taiwan and Japan: Washington’s proxy wars around the world.
11 September 2023
Has the West closed all its Project Ukraine exits?
11 September 2023
The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine.
11 September 2023
America’s response to 9/11 in the lens of history.
11 September 2023
Ukraine offensive ending with massive Ukrainian losses; more reports of desertions amongst the Ukrainian military; Belgium seems to be back-tracking on the supply of F16 fighter jets; ‘sombre’ Zelensky rejects negotiations in Economist interview; Zelensky-Blinken public row – Blinken seeks negotiations but Zelensky doesn’t – reported in rival interviews; meeting in eastern Russia which includes Kim Jong Un (of the DPRK) and the future of South Korean companies in Russia.
11 September 2023
Danny Haiphong and Pepe Escobar: Russia-China-DPRK alliance destroys the neocons and signals the demise of the West.
11 September 2023
New Atlas – US considers ATACMS as Ukraine’s offensive struggles and the problems to come. As always, the New Atlas shows up the expectations of the west like building on sand. This is an important analysis of the last 18 months – about the arrogance of the ‘west’ and the preparedness of Russia.
11 September 2023
Judge Napolitano – Ukraine war as Putin meets with DPRK’s Kim Jong Un – with Scott Ritter. [With some interesting comments on the the destruction of the ‘Twin Towers’ in New York in 2001 at the beginning (8 minutes or so).]
12 September 2023
Russian-held elections seek to normalise illegal occupation and reveal reality of a long war ahead. [Yet more ‘analysis’ from a NATO ‘academic’ propaganda puppet.]
12 September 2023
Putin and Kim: Friends in need (of ammunition). [I’ll continue to include BBC reports just to illustrate the crassness of the organisation.]
12 September 2023
‘A good investment’: the Ukraine war and the US arms racket.
12 September 2023
Putin states 1000 Russian volunteers joining armed forces each week, says that Ukrainian casualties have reached 71,000 in its failed offensive; Putin rejects Ukrainian negotiations; the US and Vietnam come to some sort of commercial agreement; Vietnam and Russia come to an arms deal where Vietnam will be buying much material from Russia; Putin prepares to meet Kim Jong Un; Armenia tilts towards the US.
12 September 2023
Douglas Macgregor – Russia will bridge the river and capture Odessa. [Macgregor is a right-wing, racist shit BUT when he talks about the situation in Ukraine I can’t disagree with anything he says.]
12 September 2023
Britain orders more munitions as Ukraine war boosts UK defence.
13 September 2023
Air bases, drone swarms and new ports: US military footprint in Asia grows, but China grows faster.
13 September 2023
Russia’s disastrous decision to invade Poland in 1920 has parallels with Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine. [‘Academics’ queue up to see who is the best propagandist for the ‘west’. As always, follow the money.]
13 September 2023
The reported Russian-North Korean military deal is all about geostrategic balancing.
13 September 2023
Zelensky aide backtracks on insults to India and China.
13 September 2023
Ukraine attacks Sevastopol as ground attacks badly fail; Ukrainian losses surge; Russian losses lowest in war; Putin and Kim launch Russia-North Korea Strategic Partnership.
13 September 2023
CIA and the ‘Secret State’ manipulation of public opinion – with Jeffrey Sachs.
14 September 2023
Ukraine’s Bandera itch.
14 September 2023
Blinken sounds a rallying cry for a ‘new cold war’ that US cannot win.
15 September 2023
Ukrainian offensive continues to fail with limited or no real gains; in the attrition war, Russia shell output surges; Ukrainians and British argue of whose missiles are hitting the (very occasional) Russian targets; Blinken hints wants Ukraine conflict freeze and to focus China; Shoigu: victory Russia’s only option.
15 September 2023
China’s technological edge; Ukraine’s insurmountable odds; tensions in Korea and NATO posturing.
15 September 2023
Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter talk about Russia and Ukraine.
15 September 2023
Bidenomics: millions to rebuild Maui, billions for Ukraine.
16 September 2923
Russia is winning the industrial warfare race.
16 September 2923
The US is fanning the flames of war with China.
16 September 2023
Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods
16 September 2023
Maduro-Xi meeting: how China and Venezuela are changing the world.
16 September 2023
Russell Brand accused of rape and sexual assault. [Is there any relationship of this accusation to the fact that Russell Brand has been a long term critic of the US/UK/NATO/EU proxy war against Russia. Surely not. Compare this case with that of Julian Assange. And it makes no difference if these accusations are proven to be unfounded in a year or so – the damage has already been done.]
16 September 2023
Annalena Baerbock call Xi a dictator; Orban says EU grain deal was a lie; US to produce 100,000 rounds of ammunition a month – by end 2025; Obama wants to help Libya after causing its destruction.
17 September 2023
Russell Brand allegations mean entertainment industry has questions to answer – Cleverly. [It’s a pity that BBC journalists (and journalists in general) didn’t take such an investigative approach to the war in Ukraine as it is doing on the Brand allegations. And why is it the Foreign Secretary who is making the government’s response to the case?]
17 September 2023
The war in Ukraine helps advance the great EU neoliberal project.
17 September 2023
NATO hope of Ukrainian offensive victory; Ukraine media speaks of Ukrainian morale ‘souring’; Telegraph article talks about Ukraine regaining ground ‘tree by tree’ (25 min.); analysis of the present situation in US Today (33.5 min.); talks of a ‘long war’; continued heavy losses by Ukraine.
17 September 2023
Assange, Salmond and NOW Brand – George Galloway looks at how the State seeks to marginalise those it considers ‘inconvenient’.
17 September 2023
War in Ukraine: is the counter-offensive making progress? [Yet more bad reporting from the BBC.]
18 September 2023
Russia denies Kleshcheevka has been taken; breakdown of which side controls various contested locations (around 8 mins); Milley and Budanov now talk of a ‘long war’; the contrast of diplomacy in the 1960s/70s and now; US risks geostrategic disaster.
18 September 2023
Seized Zelensky home could become anti-Nazi museum.
18 September 2023
West admits Russia outguns them as Ukraine suffers heavy losses amid failing offensive – the New Atlas.
18 September 2023
The Intercept’s latest leak might deal irreparable damage to Pakistani-Chinese relations.
18 September 2023
Ukraine corruption? The intelligence community and journalism; the aim of ‘weakening Russia’; powers of the President; already American ‘boots on the ground’; with Phil Giraldi, former CIA.
19 September 2023
Ukrainian Ambassador to Mexico loses plot after Russian military takes part in Mexico’s Independence Day parade.
19 September 2023
Ukraine/West scale back offensive; western main stream media admits market missile was Ukrainian (26 min); Budanov interview in The Economist; Wang Yi meets Lavrov after Sullivan talk – and then stresses the friendship and unity between Russia and China.
19 September 2023
China dumps U.S. Treasuries to buy record amounts of gold as the U.S. dollar outlook weakens.
19 September 2023
This is a bizarre mish-mash from Fox News (I know, it leaves a sour taste) but this information is not forthcoming from anything in the British media – so that’s why it’s included here.
20 September 2023
U.S. is waging war with Russia, Foreign Minister Lavrov says.
20 September 2023
Zelensky’s terror team: Why the West looks the other way.
20 September 2023
Humanitarian imperialism created the Libyan nightmare.
20 September 2023
Mick Wallace invoking reason in the European parliament.
20 September 2023
Top 5 Russian weapon systems: and how they impact modern warfare – New Atlas.
21 September 2023
Poland and Ukraine have plunged into a full-blown political crisis with no end in sight.
21 September 2023
NATO chief admits NATO expansion was key to Russian invasion of Ukraine – Jeffrey D. Sachs
21 September 2023
Americans are being led by a lying media and corrupt political class.
21 September 2023
Intel-linked UK official pushing censorship of Russell Brand.
21 September 2023
Max Blumenthal: Ukraine to become ‘Big Israel’?
21 September 2023
Biden’s UN General Assembly speech aimed at Russia exposes US hypocrisy.
21 September 2023
How the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroying Donbass for 8 years.
21 September 2023
Libya catastrophe is a double whammy; capitalism is to blame.
21 September 2023
Putin talks with Aliyev and Pashinyan about the conflict in the Caucasus; Ukrainian ‘offensive’ splutters to a halt; Zelensky UN Speech falls flat; West aid to Ukraine dwindles; Ukraine rejects any idea of peace talks; Russian probing attacks preparing for a big offensive.
21 September 2023
Why the Black Sea is key to Kyiv’s counteroffensive. [Yet another ‘academic’ clutching at straws. What he doesn’t realise is that wars are won (and lost) on the battlefield. Yes, damage can be done by Ukraine’s attacks on Crimea but it will in no way change the situation where the Ukrainian army is being decimated in Ukraine itself.]
22 September 2023
Ukraine lost around 85% of its initial mobilized force: Field general.
22 September 2023
Most tanks provided by Denmark to Ukraine faulty.
22 September 2023
The coming Ukraine collapse and the ‘rebuilding’ headfake.
22 September 2023
Zelensky: war lost without US; Zelensky also has a ‘secret plan’; Russia missile strike targets Ukraine energy system; The Economist admits the ‘counter-offensive’ has failed but still beats the neo-con drum; Ukraine hits Black Sea HQ – but at a huge expense; Neocons unlimited war; historical revisionism.
22 September 2023
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover developments from Zelensky’s desperate DC visit amid a collapse of relations with Poland (and which includes a clip of Zelensky watching himself make his speech at the UN General Assembly) and the British government’s censorship campaign against Russell Brand as it rams through a disturbing ‘Online Safety Bill’.
22 September 2023
Elensky speaks to Zelensky at the UN General Assembly; McConnell says Ukraine money to deter China; Zaluzhny is becoming the failed offensive scapegoat; British government involvement in ‘cancelling’ Russell Brand due to allegations.
22 September 2023
This is why the Ukraine counter-offensive is failing – with Scott Ritter.
22 September 2023
US prepares Taiwan Proxy against China; NATO postures as Ukraine fails; New Atlas.
23 September 2023
Russell Brand makes first comments since sexual assault allegations – [I publish this link solely for the last paragraph which makes no mention, whatsoever, about Brand’s criticism of how the pandemic was managed or about his opposition to the war in the Ukraine – and the real reason he is being attacked.]
23 September 2023
Poland hinted that Germany is to blame for its dispute with Ukraine.
23 September 2023
Ukraine reports major increase in economic growth. [There are lies, damn lies and statistics.]
24 September 2023
Ukraine short of helicopters; Ukraine continues to attack Sevastopol – but with limited effect; Russia learning how to counter-act western missiles; US administration refuses to listen to its own people that the war is being lost; Lavrov rules out ceasefire, hints at an offensive and the aim of a battlefield victory; Poles decline meeting Zelensky;
24 September 2023
Training to clear the world’s most heavily mined country. [How do you determine whether a country is involved in a war?]
24 September 2023
Infamy, they’ve all got it infamy. But Trudeau can’t escape – George Galloway
25 September 2023
Canada saluting a Ukrainian Nazi was no coincidence.
25 September 2023
Ukraine’s ‘biggest arms supplier’ orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre, witnesses say.
25 September 2023
The Ukrainian morale in the battlefield: a snapshot.
25 September 2023
This war wasn’t just provoked — it was provoked deliberately.
25 September 2023
The ‘Peacemaker’ hit list.
25 September 2023
Jeffrey Sachs interview – the US and Ukraine – a deeper look. How the west sabotaged any peace agreements and wants war at all costs and how the western media don’t honestly report this. ‘The White House will not negotiate over NATO over Russia’. ‘The goal of this war is to weaken Russia’. US military expansion to the Russian border was planned from 1992.
25 September 2023
Mixed signals among Kyiv’s allies hint at growing conflict fatigue. [This ‘academic’ is now pulling back as the reality – which he constantly denied – is overwhelmingly becoming obvious to all but the most myopic observer. But he can’t refrain from missing out important facts in order to distort the picture still.]
25 September 2023
Ukrainian Intelligence head admits failures; Canada exposes West as on wrong side of history – including video of Canadian Parliament (to a man and woman) giving a standing ovation to a murdering Ukrainian Nazi. New Atlas.
25 October 2023
[Canadian] MPs plead ignorance after applauding Nazi war veteran.
26 September 2023
Is Chrystia Freeland [Canadian Deputy Prime Minister] a fraud or a Nazi sympathizer?
26 September 2023
The soldiers who can’t leave the front line until the war is over. [The clickable heading on the BBC home page for this article reads ‘Ukraine’s young lead their elders in one unit’. And this is supposed to be an army that has had fewer casualties than the Russians and which is up to ‘re-taking’ Crimea? ]
26 September 2023
Original sin: How the weak legal foundations of NATO make negotiations with Russia virtually impossible.
26 September 2023
MPs plead ignorance after applauding Nazi war veteran.
27 September 2023
Horrible fate of all Ukrainian attacks in the direction of Verbove. The ‘kill zone’ explained.
27 September 2023
Canada’s honoring of Nazi vet exposes Ottawa’s long-standing Ukraine policy.
27 September 2023
Bill Kristol’s refreshingly honest Ukraine war ad.
27 September 2023
Regime attacks on Russell Brand are a proxy to fight Free Speech Rumble.
27 September 2023
A year of lying about Nord Stream – Seymour Hersh
27 September 2023
Dozens of lost armored vehicles at a distance of less than 5 Km. Military Summary and Analysis.
27 September 2023
Shoigu: Ukraine self-destructing and assaults are senseless (15 mins); Budanov: Ukraine will fight to the end; US demands Kiev reforms
28 September 2023
Ukrainian forces quitting by the thousands, refusing to die in NATO’s war – Redacted News.
28 September 2023
Canadian journalists are worried a Nazi’s feelings may be hurt.
28 September 2023
How Canada helped whitewash the Nazi SS Galicia Division.
28 September 2023
The media are targeting the public for a war with China.
29 September 2023
Media completely ignores NATO war role in Libya chaos.
29 September 2023
The New Atlas LIVE: Mark Sleboda on west pivots to ‘long war’ in Ukraine; industrial capacity to decide victor.
01 October 2023
Ukraine endgame accelerates as Congress denies any funding in Stopgap Bill and Fico wins in Slovakia vote.
01 October 2023
EU will back Ukraine without the US – Borrell [There already exist a ‘permanent structure’ to keep on giving money to the Ukraine.]
01 October 2023
Russian Army’s crazy ‘Balaton Tactics’ completely paralyzed Ukrainian Army and amazed experts.
01 October 2023
The mad propaganda push to normalize war profiteering in Ukraine.
01 October 2023
Ukrainian SS in Britain – postwar SS-Galizien Division refugees – also to Canada.
01 October 2023
Medvedev: Kiev regime change, more territory; India: relations with Russia non-negotiable; support for Ukraine in the US under attack; Shapps suggests direct UK involvement in the Ukraine.
01 October 2023
US Marine Corps Officer Scott Ritter reveals truth about Ukraine. [One of Ritter’s best summaries of the background to the situation in the Ukraine.]
02 October 2023
NATO testing waters on buffer zone as Ukraine offensive grinds to a halt; includes analysis of UK’s Radakin in a propaganda infused interview;
02 October 2023
US media can’t stop lying about Ukraine.[First published on 22 September 2023.]
02 October 2023
UK talks of sending troops to the Ukraine; bizarre article from ex-Defence Minister, Ben Wallace, in Daily Telegraph (20 min), admits that the average age of Ukrainian troops is more than 40; Medvedev threatens that foreign troops will be targets; Fico wins on anti-Ukraine platform in Slovakia; Ukrainian troops deserting in increasing numbers.
02 October 2023
Zelenskyy: from hero to zero; US in the same situation as France before the Revolution; with Colonel Douglas Macgregor. [Includes short video clip of Biden just mumbling during a press conference.]
02 October 2023
Nagorno-Karabakh is no more.
02 October 2023
‘Not about NATO’, ‘Never about NATO’, ‘nothing to do with NATO’.
03 October 2023
Ukraine’s unraveling, the funding row, and coalition wobbles.
03 October 2023
Annalena Baerbock talks about the EU extending from Lisbon to Luhansk; Politico article suggesting that World War II is complicated, especially in western Ukraine; the role of the USSR being denigrated; Ukraine corruption a problem for future western support in ‘secret document’; European foreign ministers meet in Kiev – with Hungary opposing more money to the Ukraine; US sponsored group trying to promote ‘colour’ revolution in Georgia.
03 October 2023
Western allies say they are running out of ammunition. [Various commentators linked to on this page have been saying this for months but only now do military ‘experts’ realise what is happening. And the destruction of the industrial base, which has been ongoing in the UK since the time of early Thatcher, means that it will take decades to have the skills, equipment, factories and the ability to reverse the past. If it is a surprise to the ‘experts’ the BBC ‘journalists’ seem no less surprised.]
03 October 2023
This proxy war can’t be both ‘unprovoked, AND a great strategic investment.
03 October 2023
Ukraine offensive has failed, Russia attacking; Shoigu’s speech to the high command, including analysis of field hospital situation; Russia attacking; Russian Army grows by 335,000; Yellen: oil price cap not working; SWIFT system no longer to be used for Russian internal banking transactions; Russia to test a swathe of new weapon systems.
04 October 2023
The increasing financialization of Germany.
04 October 2023
Will the US own Ukraine? With Matthew Hoh, former State Department. Interesting clips of Hilary Clinton warmongering – and campaigning for the Presidency.
04 October2023
Scott Ritter, Andrei Martyanov and Garland Nixon join Danny Haiphong on NATO as Ukraine’s time runs out.
05 October 2023
NATO told to fight Putin and win nuclear war against Russia; Retired U.S. official drops a bombshell.
05 October 2023
How much longer can Ukraine last? with Professor Jeffrey Sachs – neo-cons desire to surround Russia; Hilary Clinton’s manic Russophobia; British Imperialist thinking still dominates thinking; the war could have been avoided so many times in the past.
05 October 2023
Ukraine fatigue is worrying NATO elites – and so they should be.
05 October 2023
‘Propaganda’s casualties’.
05 October 2023
Beyond the neocon debacle to peace in Ukraine.
05 October 2023
US can’t deal with defeat.
05 October 2023
The priority must be to put Bush, Blair and Cheney behind bars before Trump.
05 October 2023
‘Ukraine is a very cheap way to make sure Russia … is not a threat to the NATO alliance.’ – Dutch Foreign Minister; Pentagon sends Iran weapons to Ukraine. New York Times accepts that Russia cedes ground then strikes back; Ukrainian population dropping precipitously;.Zelenska not happy.
05 October 2023
Lies, propaganda and the west’s war in Ukraine – online pamphlet launch. Stop the War Campaign.
05 October 2023
More on Ukraine’s desperate economy.
06 October 2023
Russian airstrike kills 51 at a funeral in Ukraine.
Syria war: At least 100 dead in drone attack on cadet graduation ceremony.
Compare the BBC’s ‘impartiality’ in the above articles relating to two similar incidents. Its all about; the headline; the language; the emphasis of the report; the introduction of extraneous ‘information’; the direction in which they are trying to manipulate the reader to go.
06 October 2023
American neocons and their global community with Alastair Crooke former Brit ambassador – Ukraine unlikely to be offered EU membership; problems of bundling budget in US; Ukraine is coming undone; SS became part of the CIA.
06 October 2023
Putin’s speech at recent forum; Russia defends Russians, Odessa is a Russian city; Medvedev: west talks a trap; Kiev freaks out as US aid dwindles.
06 October 2023
Putin outlines desired principles of international relations.
06 October 2023
Colonel Douglas Macgregor: The Russians press on and take Odessa.
06 October 2023
BEWARE: Media and Government start pushing 2024 ‘Russian disinfo’ lies
06 October 2023
The Top Ten dumbest things empire propagandists ask us to believe.
06 October 2023
When 80 percent of US generals go to work for arms makers.
07 October 2023
Moscow and Kiev differ on Israel-Palestine escalation.
07 October 2023
Western media being pressured over Ukraine coverage – Washington Post.
07 October 2023
Nord Stream syndrome: One year on, EU states and the US collude to sweep the pipeline attacks under the rug.
08 October 2023
Patrick Bet-David, Jimmy Dore, Tim Pool, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana discus the forces behind the Ukraine war.
09 October 2023
Why are U.S. firms buying up all the farmland in Ukraine?
10 October 2023
Russia reiterates warning over black market Ukrainian weapons.
11 October 2023
Zelensky fears Israel will distract from Western aid to Kiev.
11 October 2023
Upgraded Russian drone takes out Ukrainian jet.
11 October 2023
More proof of a false-flag massacre at funeral by Kiev regime.
11 October 2023
Israel-Gaza conflict: an opportunity for Putin while the world is distracted. [Another ‘academic’ weighs in to the propaganda campaign. If any of his students used the sort of proof in their arguments that he does to maintain his ideas in this article then they would, and should, get a fail.]
12 October 2023
Estonia-Finland pipeline explosion: what’s the evidence that the damage was deliberate?
12 October 2023
The Russians started the largest offensive operation – using massive numbers of tanks. Military Summary and Analysis.
14 October 2023
US running low on weapons as proxy wars target Russia, Iran, & China. [Discusses both the conflict in the Ukraine and the Israeli assault on Gaza. Ukraine the main focus till minute 18.20.] New Atlas.
17 October 2023
US proxy wars: Israel gears up for Gaza incursion as initiative passes to Russia in the Ukraine. [Discussing Ukraine from the beginning to minute 18.30.] New Atlas.
18 October 2023
Russia’s losses mount – but self-sacrifice in war is part of the country’s mythology. [Yet again there’s no evidence provided to support the numbers – unless you consider Ukrainian claims as ‘proof’.]
19 October 2023
Ukraine uses ATACMS as offensive culminates, Israeli military targets civilians ahead urban operations.
24 October 2023
Are the walls finally closing in on Ursula von der Leyen?
24 October 2023
Biden election strategy: ‘Let’s fight three wars at once!’
25 October 2023
With all eyes on Israel-Gaza, Ukraine is losing war momentum.
25 October 2023
Russia’s plan to relocate its Black Sea naval base from Crimea is priceless for Ukraine’s morale. [Another ‘academic’ puts up false arguments – only to knock them down. For example; ‘an amphibious assault on Odesa, once a key objective’ – where is the ‘proof’ of this? ‘Putin’s imperialist narrative’ – again, where is there proof of this? And, finally, ‘Let’s not forget that, historically, maritime preponderance has been a decisive factor in winning long wars’ – but wars are won on land.]
25 October 2023
Ukraine’s IT army is a world first: here’s why it is an important part of the war. [Like in any war two can play at this.]
25 October 2023
Germany’s ex-leader says the US stopped Ukraine from signing a peace deal last year – why did Biden want the war to continue?
26 October 2023
Funding for Ukraine is anything but certain after US elects new speaker.
27 October 2023
Ukraine’s desperate search for war funding hits local budgets.
30 October 2023
More upheaval in German politics over Ukraine war, Russia sanctions and the heavy hand of the US.
31 October 2023
Zelensky ‘deludes himself’, aide claims, as Western proxy warriors leave him behind.
31 October 2023
Maidan snipers: The founding myth of ‘new’ Ukraine has been proven to be a lie. Why is the West silent?
02 November 2023
Judging Freedom – with former CIA Phil Giraldi on Gaza and Ukraine. [Ukraine from minute 17.00.]
02 November 2023
Gaza debacle: Biden hints at a ceasefire; States sever relations with Israel; from minute 53 Ukraine – Zaluzhny admits failure.
03 November 2023
Gaza City surrounded; Blinken talks about Israel ‘humanitarian pause’; is there going to be a Netanyahu regime change; Ukraine from 1.01.0, Kiev and the Avdeyevka crisis; what is the rationale for giving the Ukraine another $61 billion?
03 November 2023
Russia must protect Zelensky.
03 November 2023
The war is lost – Zelenski will leave – the White House has failed.
03 November 2023
Putin explains why he ordered military operation in Ukraine.
04 November 2023
We won’t talk to Russia – Zelensky.
05 November 2023
John Mearsheimer – Ukraine’s fate.
06 November 2023
The new electric war campaign – how the Russian Army will select the Ukrainian targets.
06 November 2023
The impossibility of negotiated settlements in the Gaza and Ukraine conflicts.
08 November 2023
Phil Giraldi (former CIA): unpardonable and unpunishable war crimes in the Ukraine and Gaza.
10 November 2023
US-Iran war risks; Deir Ezzor battle; US diplomats slam Biden policy; Putin visits HQ; Ukraine out of troops. [Gaza to minute 50, Ukraine after that to end.]
12 November 2023
Mainstream narrative on Ukraine-Russia War crumbling, conflict is unwinnable: David Sacks.
12 November 2023
Ukraine makes huge mistake! Also on Gaza. With former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
12 November 2023
Unconstitutional killings – in Ukraine, Gaza and throughout the world.
12 November 2023
Ukraine proxy war and Gaza genocide fatally expose western hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy.
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 – up to end of 2022
View of the world – 2023
View of the world – 2024
Ukraine – what you weren’t told – 2022
The Ukraine – what you are not told – 2024
