Brzezinski calls for “accommodation” with Russia
… Interviewer: You wrote, I think in 1997, in your book about The Grand Chessboard … this same phrase which I wrote down about Russia with Ukraine is an...
VIDEO: Prof Stephen Cohen: “This is the worst International crisis since the Cuban Missile crisis…”
by BlackCatte For the past several months Stephen Cohen has been warning the world about a potential catastrophe looming in the standoff between NATO and Russia. The political and...
Russian aggression, or a war no-one cares about?
Or how the term “Jingoism” came to life by Harry J. Bentham, Beliefnet.com Probably no regime has sacrificed more of its soldiers towards distant and irrelevant conflicts than the...
The West’s V-day Shame
by Brad Cabana, RockSolidPolitics There is something so bizarre, so inhumane about Western countries boycotting the parade for the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Germany in World...
The World on the Brink of WW3 – Sputnik News
from Sputniknews.com As Washington continues to sound its war drums despite the second Minsk ceasefire, it’s worth asking why NATO continued to remain such a bellicose organization after the...
The Good, the Bad and the Preposterous: The Metamorphosis of Vladimir Putin
by ANDREW LEVINE in COUNTERPUNCH Suddenly last summer, Vladimir Putin, formerly once a decent enough Russian leader (with a few unsettling quirks), turned into a malevolent, almost demonic, force....
Donald Tusk: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!
European Council President Returns from Washington, Explains Commandments If you ever wondered how would a Polish snuff-loving politician lead a major European institution, created to promote dialogue, please partake...
YEARS OF WESTERN MEDDLING PUSHED UKRAINE OVER THE EDGE
by Tara McCormack at SPIKED-ONLNE.com The current mainstream argument in the West about Ukraine is seriously misguided and dishonest. According to Western media and politicians, Russia has become an...
“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...
The Guardian’s Tory Donor of Salo Cries Wolf
“And don’t forget to arm Ukraine!” (A. Temerko – left) At some point on the cusp of the centuries American television invented and quickly proliferated the idiotic genre of...
Guardian-watch: The referendum that never was
by BlackCatte The Guardian’s slide from liberal, informed media outlet, to crass, Ministry of Truth propaganda-sheet, gathers pace every day. Yesterday, for example, came this offering: Vladimir Putin describes...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
