In the name of those trapped in Debaltseve
While even Kyiv Post now admits that the situation for the Ukrainian forces abandoned in the Debaltseve Cauldron is dire indeed, and Democracy Now! is reporting that “Russian-backed separatists...
Brown Moses ‘proves’ again!
Well, ‘proves’ to the satisfaction of The Guardian, at least — not too difficult, as the Graun is clearly eager to believe. Believe what? Why, believe that Russia shelled...
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Alec Luhn takes a different tone . . .
. . . in this Vice News story about the Debaltseve cauldron than we usually see in his work for The Guardian. Indeed, one might reasonably conclude that Mr....
Voices of sanity and the massacre of dissent
While Guardian’s moderators are busy deleting comments and banishing dissenters en masse, journalistic sanity seems to be getting contagious. Here is a wonderful recent example from The New Yorker:...
A bit of sense and sanity makes it to The Guardian
Offerings of relative clarity and reasoned thinking on the Ukraine crisis are rare in The Guardian, even above the line in CiF. This piece by Dmitri Trenin, director of...
Kiev spills it: Rebels control access to Debaltsevo
Militants did not allow a OSCE mission to enter Debaltsevo to monitor the ceasefire, said Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin, at a briefing, which was broadcast by...
CiF = “Censorship is Final”
The Guardian, today, is featuring an article by European editor Ian Traynor claiming, per the headline: Putin tried to delay Ukraine ceasefire deal, EU summit told Unfortunately, Mr. Traynor’s...
Ukrainians duped US Senator Inhofe into supporting military aid to Kiev
Buzzfeed reports that a delegation consisting of Ukrainian members of parliament, a paramilitary leader, and one Georgetown professor gave a senator’s office photos purportedly of the Russian military invading...
Thus spake the forum
I find it more than commendable that forum posters keep enhancing their reading acumen. Also, one cannot but thank those that bring us the news which is increasingly not...
The Minsk Deal Which Isn’t
So a deal seems to have been announced. Was one reached, however? Leaks of draft documents and Putin’s smug briefing seem to corroborate Poroshenko’s earlier remark that “there is...
WSWS: “Spiegel Online warns of nuclear war”
While any sensible and reasonably-informed observer might think that increasing tension and conflict between the world’s most formidable nuclear powers would naturally increase the risk of nuclear war, that...
The Sound of Watching: Guardian takes on Assad (again)
The Guardian view on Bashar al-Assad’s BBC interview: the lies of a tyrant (Editorial) The Guardian has responded to Bashar Assad’s BBC interview. 700 words which can easily be...
Ukrainian Woman Denounces War & Conscription
If anyone is wondering why Kiev is having trouble mobilizing troops for its ongoing attacks on the people of the eastern oblasts, this should help clear things up.
Kiev’s Bloody War Is Backfiring
And the War Party is pushing to prop up their Ukrainian sock puppets, says Antiwar.com’s Justin Raimondo. ‘When Ukrainian army officers came to the Ukrainian village of Velikaya Znamenka...
Can’t Write without Spinning?
In today’s Guardian article about the wild unpopularity of conscription in Ukraine, Shaun Walker tells us that the eastern Ukrainian resisters ‘appear to have an unlimited supply of weapons...
