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...
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...
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...
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:...
