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The Yavorovsky training ground in the Lviv region, the barracks in Nikolaev, now the Desna training center in the Chernihiv region… Russian missiles continue to reap a bloody harvest, and Ukraine’s outdated air defense continues to demonstrate its impotence. What is the Ukrainian command doing in this situation? Declares a taboo on the disclosure of […]

We Need To Talk About The Politics Of Climate ExpertsBy Ian SinclairMorning Star16 May 2022 It is widely understood the very powerful forces of climate change denial have delayed action to address the climate crisis, and thus are responsible for a huge amount of suffering and deaths attributable to climate breakdown. Less appreciated is the […]

The execution of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli soldier in the Palestinian city of Jenin, along with Israel‘s immediate efforts to muddy the waters about who was responsible and the feeble expressions of concern from western capitals, brought memories flooding back from 20 years of reporting from the region. Unlike Abu […]

The 1995 nuclear submarine mutiny thriller Crimson Tide was rejected by the US Navy, for fairly obvious reasons (the whole...

You can go through life with a thousand epigrams or deep quotes that you might come back to over two, four, six decades. Then, the disrupters pop up, those techno fascists, the tinkers and culture blasters. These sociopaths who get the limelight then become part of a new set of epigrams, but not grand ones, […]
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The Latest Media Assault on Freedom   b y James Bovard Prominent journalists are calling for the media to champion a “pro-democracy” bias in how they portray politicians and government agencies. But tub-thumping for democracy — or at least for politicians who claim to be pro-democracy — is a poor substitute for exposing the proliferation of […]
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This is a commentary upon N.Y. Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s statement on May 6 that Ukraine’s Government is and ought to be the U.S. Government’s agent in its war against Russia, not representing the interests of the Ukrainian people in it. He introduced the statement by noting that Ukraine is a bad country, a country […]

Humanity’s great Achilles’ heel, the flaw that may well determine our fate, was summed up in a couple of lines in the classic Simon & Garfunkel song, ‘The Boxer’: Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. Women, too! Erich Fromm discussed this remarkable phenomenon of ‘selective inattention’: man’s capacity […]
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We all know by now, the all too familiar term Godi Media. A media which has been purchased by a particular economic or ideological entity either explicitly through a formal accusation or through other ways of inducement or coercion. Either way, the media identity; be it a print medium or a digital one ceases to report or analyse news in[Read More...]

Bucha, one month later: an eyewitness account “Yesterday I talked on the phone with my uncle from the sadly famous Bucha in the Kyiv region. He said that life is getting better in general. “I restored the land a little, straightened the fence, and together with the neighbors dragged the burned-out military equipment to the […]