latest a complete list of every article on OffG in descending date order
“Cartoon Détente” between Russia and Japan?
Crimea’s Attorney-General Natalia Poklonskaya will head the Russian-Japanese Friendship Society, Russian media reported. The news was broken during former Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama’s visit to the peninsular which rejoined...
Scale of Russian invasion revealed!
Well, that’s what The Guardian was telling us before the headline on this story was changed. The convicted spy who wrote the underlying report is still telling us that,...
[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...
“Liberators” in action…
…“liberating” Donbass civilians from their belongings . Video evidence [from 0:38] about looting by Ukrainian fascists, they did it at day, in front of child at playing area, at...
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...
Land rush
Hot on the heels of Kiev’s tanks came… Joe Biden’s shale mining equipment: “These vehicles were brought here in June, at the time the tanks arrived in Metalist and...
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...
Better late…
What Glenn Greenwald has to say on his latest piece in The Intercept came as a great surprise to me. An excerpt: Russian President Vladimir Putin has long said that...
Debaltsevo Junction – Story of Ukrainian occupation
A terrible truth begins to come out. An armoured vehicle with a loudspeaker drove along the streets and warned: “For helping the separatists, of hiding separatists — execution.”
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...
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...
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...
What really pushed Crimea away from Ukraine
From the Russian MFA WHITE BOOK ON VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RULE OF LAW IN UKRAINE (NOVEMBER 2013 — MARCH 2014) February 19, 2014. Near the town...
