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...
Quo Vadis, EU?
For once, either as a sign of things to come or in one of its infrequent gestures of tokenism to sanity, The Guardian carries a sober-minded analysis of the...
Incursions by whom?
Britain was pulled closer towards a renewed cold war with Russia when David Cameron announced UK military trainers are to be deployed to help Ukraine forces stave off further...
J. Steele in the Guardian: Frontline Ukraine – Richard Sakwa’s unrivalled account
“When Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine’s prime minister, told a German TV station recently that the Soviet Union invaded Germany, was this just blind ignorance? Or a kind of perverted wishful...
There goes The Guardian, censoring us away…again!
There goes The Guardian, censoring us away…again! Earlier today, I experienced yet another of The Guardian‘s acts of political censorship: this time on the topic of Greece. Since the...
John Pilger: War by media and the triumph of propaganda
Belfast Telegraph, 06 December 2014 The most effective propaganda is found not in the Sun or on Fox News – but beneath a liberal halo. When the New York...
Blast in Kharkov: Maidan remembered
An explosion has killed two pro-Kiev demonstrators in Kharkov. Ukrainian Security Council Turchinov has declared an Antiterrorist Operation in the city. VIDEO OF THE BLAST (18+) Well, it was...
[Counterpunch] There Goes the Guardian, Lying About Ukraine…Again!
by ERIC DRAITSER The western media is busily trying to prop up their failed narrative of “Russian aggression” in Ukraine in a desperate attempt to legitimize their consciously deceitful...
Guardian Lords: Let Our Sins be on Putin’s Head
Devil’s Advocate Dejevski Fed to the Trolls While a standard journalistic procedure, publishing conflicting views on a single subject has long escaped the Guardian on the Ukrainian crisis. Today...
When cultures clash: the West missed Russia’s resurgence as a global creator of meanings
nchudova.livejournal.com N. Chudova is a Russian psychologist and blogger, who provides insightful analyses on current and historic developments. Yury Lotman has a model of dialogue between cultures. Fifteen years...
