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
Vladimir Golstein
Once in a while a book appears that forces us to rethink the previous cognitive patterns. To use the celebrated phrase from Thomas S. Kuhn’s influential, The Structure of...
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...
