latest a complete list of every article on OffG in descending date order
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...
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...
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....
Debaltsevo from “springboard” to “cauldron”
With my emphasis. Admittedly, when “the mousetrap” began to shut, everyone began to shout about the need… the need of what? Oh, about the need to follow the Minsk...
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...
How to surrender
As it happens, my computer froze completely as I was trying to post this in CiF (after a couple of warnings about a problem in posting it): The DNR...
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...
Two Gates of Hell and the Crisis in Ukraine as a Gateway to the Crisis of the Empire and Its System
This is a very interesting post from June 2014 by Vladimir Suchan in his blog Logos politikos: “Here is a usable kernel of insight that can be extracted from...
