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...
Bateson’s Schismogenesis as a propaganda tool
The concept of schismogenesis was developed by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson in the 1930s, to account for certain forms of social behavior between groups. It was built on Bateson’s...
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...
