What “community standard” did this comment breach? #6
This comment was censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Comment Removed from: Britain Should Arm Ukraine Which of the Guardian’s “community...
What “community standard” did this comment breach? #5
This comment was censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Comment Removed from: Britain Should Arm Ukraine Does it “misrepresent the Guardian...
The Guardian’s Tory Donor of Salo Cries Wolf
“And don’t forget to arm Ukraine!” (A. Temerko – left) At some point on the cusp of the centuries American television invented and quickly proliferated the idiotic genre of...
Readers Dissect The Guardian over US Venezuela Sanctions
Umberto Eco describes the resistance to the new totalitarianism of colluding media and cleptocratic elites, as a “semiological guerrilla warfare“. As in most colonial wars, the abused and exploited...
[Journalitico] Propaganda: The Nebulous Term Given to ‘Other’ Perspectives
By Danielle Ryan All sides must be challenged relentlessly — with evidence, incontrovertible fact and perhaps most importantly, a decent, honest attempt to understand other human perspectives. What is...
Peter Hitchens: Forget ‘evil’ Putin – we are the bloodthirsty warmongers
The Mail Online, 21 December 2014 “…It seemed fairly clear to me… that war had in fact been a miserable affair of fear, hunger, threadbare darned clothes, broken windows...
[Spiegel] Breedlove’s Bellicosity: Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine
The Agreed Narrative may not be holding up as well as some will have hoped. It was quiet in eastern Ukraine last Wednesday. Indeed, it was another quiet day...
U.S. plan to train Ukraine national guard ‘on hold’
Maybe someone realized that viral social media photos of American GIs hanging with these guys would be bad PR. (Reuters) – A U.S. plan to train Ukrainian national guard...
What “community standard” did this comment breach? #4
This comment was censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Comment removed from: “The Women Fighting on the Frontline in Ukraine” Does...
The Evil Empire is Very Evil
America revives the Cold War on the cheap By Boris Kagarlitsky I had not been in America for several years. Not for some political reasons: I just had too...
What “community standard” did this comment breach? #2
This comment was censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Comment removed from: “The Women Fighting on the Frontline in Ukraine” Does...
“We can’t rely on entitlement addicts to care about ethics in journalism”
By Dace Mikey We can get into trouble telling stories. Few things evoke more high-handed, Puritanical moralizing than someone else doing something untoward that each of us has done...
What “community standard” did this comment breach? #1
This comment was censored by the Guardian. Which of the well-publicised CiF “community standards” did it breach? Comment removed from: “The Women Fighting on the Frontline in Ukraine” Does...
Guardian exclusive! Putin hates freedom, starves aspiring satirists
Well, that’s more or less the gist of Shaun Walker’s most recent contribution to the Graun’s Bad Russians series. There are these creative guys, see? And they’ve wanted to...
The Nation: Turning the European Debt Myth Upside Down
“Industrious” Germany and “lazy” Greece: when ants gamble, grasshoppers pay While lots of empathy has been expended on the plight of people in Greece and Spain, most of us...
Bryan Macdonald: Guardian vs. RT. The spoiled child is losing it.
Bryan Macdonald, an Irish journalist, comments on the Guardian’s latest attack on RT. While UK press regulators consistently find the Russian broadcaster’s practices fair and acceptable, the self-anointed guardians...
Brad Cabana: Stratfor is Wrong. BRICS’ Market Beats the West 3.1 to 1.1 Billion
If pole shift theory peddlers wants us to wait for a dozen or hundreds of centuries to get the ultimate confirmation of their musings, Brad Cabana, a Canadian political...
And so, the spin begins
Within hours of the murder of Boris Nemtsov in downtown Moscow, the Western media are beginning to spin his tragic and untimely death as a political story out of...
Ukraine: Currency panic and empty shelves
Bloggers expect destabilization, possible government exit A currency panic engulfs the Ukraine while the population sweeps shop shelves clean of all basic necessities. As blogger El-Murid puts it, Kiev’s...
Ambassador James Matlock: US Should Not Risk ‘Spiraling Confrontation’ With Russia Over Ukraine
Ukraine cannot have a united and successful society unless it has a reasonable relationship with Russia CNS News. The United States should not risk a “spiraling confrontation” with Russia...