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AUDIO: Six Months Later – Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine

Riley Waggaman What’s going on in Ukraine? In an attempt to (briefly) answer this question, I asked Marko Marjanović and Rolo Slavskiy to Zoom-chat with me for an hour. Marko is the editor of Anti-Empire.com (now available on Substack) and has written about the Ukraine conflict for this blog. Rolo is a writer, commentator and …

Jabs Under Duress: How Moscow’s Mayor is coercing compliance

Riley Waggaman With Moscow’s hospitals facing unprecedented strain not seen since six months ago, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has done away with antiquated notions of bodily autonomy and free commerce in order to save the city. Please clap. Muscovites collectively breathed a sigh of relief when Sobyanin announced last month that due to rising Covid hospitalizations, …