Stephen Cohen: A humanitarian disaster of the first magnitude
Part 4 of Stephen Cohen Lecture, “The Ukrainian Crisis: A New Cold War?” on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies...
Politics, Bullshit, and Ukraine
by Vladimir Golstein at Antiwar.com Once in a while a book appears that forces us to rethink the previous cognitive patterns. To use the celebrated phrase from Thomas S....
Ukraine ‘Disappears’ Regime Opponents
Guest post by Eric Zuesse In Odessa — the same city where the Ukrainian civil war started on 2 May 2014 with a massacre of opponents that had been...
The Maidan Retroactively Criminalizes Itself
By Anatoly Karlin, The UNZ Review The following leaflets are being spread in Slavyansk, a once focal point of the Donbass resistance that was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in...
Judge Orders U.S. Government to Release More Than 2,000 Photos of Abuse and Torture by U.S. Military in Iraq and Afghanistan
From Photography is Not a Crime After a 10-year legal battle, U.S. district judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled last Friday that the U.S. government must release more than 2,000 Torture...
FAIR: US media were already running with police fantasy when video exploded it
Michael Slager stands over the body of Walter Scott, whom he has just killed. Adam Johnson, at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), considers the way officer-involved violence is...
Stephen Cohen: How the current crisis developed – and the media myths about it
Part 3 of Stephen Cohen Lecture, “The Ukrainian Crisis: A New Cold War?” on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies...
Look Who’s Trolling: Khodorkovski Bets $5m on Propaganda
If color revolutions throughout the former USSR have something in common, it is the smoothness with which they bring your ordinary “comrade oligarch” to power, courtesy of the US...
Ukraine to sign cooperation memorandum with NATO
Ukraine Today reports on the latest development in the relationship between the Kiev regime and the Western military machine. Ukraine looks to be making its next steps towards closer...
Pianist punished for daring to challenge political orthodoxy in Ukraine
by Thomas Walkom in the Toronto Star. Surely it is enough that Canadian politicians have taken sides in Ukraine’s bitter conflict. All three major parties in Parliament agree that...
US ‘Disappointed’ by Support for Venezuela over Sanctions
byTeleSur The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson was not pleased by the reactions of Latin American countries to the U.S. stance on Venezuela,...
Century of Enslavement: the history of the Federal Reserve
Essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand some of our unacknowledged, unexamined realities. The Fed runs our lives to an extent most of us could never imagine. But...
VIDEO: Collateral Murder – Iraq
Given the spate of new US aggression in Syria and Yemen it’s a good time to rescue the recent past from the Memory Hole So let’s revisit this famous...
Shoo, Vlad, shoo!
Lech Wałęsa gives his sage advice on how to scare off Putin, how to break Russia up to save it, and how Ukraine will feed Europe after giving up its...
VIDEO: The War On Terror – Truth & Lies
‘Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror’ (2003) was screened six months after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and two years after the...
“Azov” Battalion rear-ends Poroshenko
Ukraine’s President son Alexiy Poroshenko, who is a Verkhovna Rada member, had an accident at the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukrainian media reported. His BMW 3 coupe-cabriolet, license plate...
Stephen Cohen on the 25-year lead-up to the current crisis
Part 2 of Stephen Cohen Lecture, “The Ukrainian Crisis: A New Cold War?” on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies...
NATO is lumbering towards war….
by BRIAN CLOUGHLEY in CounterPunch The German city of Frankfurt is continental Europe’s largest financial center and host to the country’s Stock Exchange, countless other financial institutions, and the...
America’s Safari to Nowhere
By Michael Brenner Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations; Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh The United States is heading over a cliff in the Middle East....
Toronto Symphony drops pianist for challenging the Imperial narrative on Ukraine
We don’t know which “Ukrainian media outlets” were so offended by Ms. Lisitsa’s bold commentaries on events in her native Ukraine, but we can guess. In any case, let...
