Our Man Yats: down to 4% support
by Vaska Strange how we don’t get to hear of these facts from our mainstream media, usually so slavish in repeating whatever the Kiev propaganda machine dishes out: “A...
VIDEO: Patrick L. Smith: Alternative Media Tells It Right on Ukraine
From Russia Insider Patrick L. Smith is the foreign affairs columnist at Salon and author of “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” (2013). He was the International...
You’re either with US or you’re a troll
By Julie Levesque at Global Research Foreign Policy Magazine recently had a column called Cranks, Trolls, and Useful Idiots, in which the author, Dalibor Rohac, hunts down “Russia’s information...
Greenwald: Iranians are much talked about on Sunday morning TV, but never heard from
The usual suspects speak again . . . and again, and again . . . Glenn Greenwald provides clear-headed analysis and incisive commentary on the one-sided propaganda about Iran...
French Intelligence: Russian Intervention in Ukraine is a Myth
Russian military intervention in Ukraine is a myth, General Christophe Gomart, France’s Military Intelligence Head has said. As reported by RT, General Gomart made his explosive comments in a...
UK Gov pays big money to ‘Demonize Russian politicians’
This extract from a form describing a project to be funded by the United Kingdom’s inter-agency “Conflict Pool” indicates one of the ways HMG is spending British tax money....
Kiev Post’s Promising Padawan
Pocket Vader? On the photo above: Arseniy Pavlov a.k.a. Motorola, a DNR commander, “self-confessed” murderer of exactly 15 Ukrainian POWs. When Luke Harding hyperlinked an outrageously stupid claim about...
Glen Ford: Killer Cops Boost Body Count — The War on Black America
The always-remarkable, thoughtfully-provocative Glen Ford offers his latest at the Black Agenda Report: March was a very good month for killer cops: they racked up at least 111 bodies,...
Stephen Cohen: That’s not the way democracies operate
Part 5 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...
Odessa to Poroshenko: Fascism will not pass! Murderer!
Hundreds of angry protesters shouted “Fascism will not pass!” and “Murderer!” during Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s visit to the Black Sea port city of Odessa, Vzglyad reports. This happened...
New Law Lets Poroshenko Seize Assets at Will
The Verkhovna Rada in Kiev today approved the bill on Martial Law, which now makes it legal to detain and intern foreign (Russian) citizens just for owning the wrong...
VIDEO: Crimea – the way back home (with English subtitles)
Anyone interested in the Russian POV on the “annexation” of Crimea should watch this film. Is it the final word and full story? Of course not, but it’s an...
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...
