Ukraine

Before viral Islamophobic rant, ex-Obama official harassed women, Russian diplomat’s dog

Prior to going viral after footage emerged showing ex-State Department official Stuart Seldowitz spewing Islamophobic slurs at a Halal food cart operator, he spent his spare time harassing female Russian diplomats and an ambassador’s pet dog, the Grayzone has learned. The viral footage of Stuart Seldowitz berating a Halal food cart operator with Islamophobic diatribes and calls for the death of more Palestinian children has laid bare the link between extremism and American foreign policy.  Seldowitz, a former national security […]

Beliefs in every group are shaped by liars. Americans as an example of this:

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) In U.S.-and-allied countries, the belief is overwhelmingly widespread that the war in Ukraine was started “by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine”. However, this widely-circulated belief in The West is clearly and unequivocally false, because the war in Ukraine started in 2014, as both NATO’s Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Zelensky have said; […]

N.Y. Post: Washington Post does Biden’s bidding, trying to wave away Hunter’s corruption

New York Post, November 21, 2023 Washington Post does Biden’s bidding, trying to wave away Hunter’s corruption by James Bovard Kleenex sales may have shattered records in the DC metropolitan area this weekend thanks to The Washington Post’s nearly 5,000-word pity party for Hunter Biden. The Post revealed that “Hunter’s relationship with his own last […]

The Media’s Nord Stream Lies Just Keep Coming

Want to understand why the media we consume is either owned by billionaires or under the thumb of government? The latest developments in the story about who was behind the explosions that destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines that brought Russian gas to Europe provide the answer. Although largely forgotten now, the blasts in the Baltic […]

What Anders Fogh Rasmussen Actually Said About Why Ukraine Should Enter NATO Now

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The Guardian headlined on November 11th, “Ex-Nato chief proposes Ukraine joins without Russian-occupied territories: Former secretary general says partial membership would warn Russia it cannot stop Ukraine joining the alliance”, and didn’t cite the source of their report or when Rasmussen allegedly said this. Yahoo News on November 11th headlined […]

The U.S. Gov’t’s Top Priority: To Conquer Russia

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) It’s not only congressional Democrats who are obsessed to conquer Russia; it is also congressional Republicans who are — especially the ones who control in the congress. For example, on November 10th, the AP headlined “Mitch McConnell, standing apart in a changing GOP, digs in on his decades-long push against […]

U.S. and allies wasted $360 billion losing Ukraine’s war since 24 February 2022.

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The war in Ukriane started in 2014, as both NATO’s Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Zelensky have said; but Russia responded militarily on 24 February 2022 in order to prevent Ukraine from allowing the U.S. to place a missile there a mere 317 miles or five minutes of missile-flying-time away from The […]

With All Other Reasons Having Run Out, Biden Now Urging Support For Ukraine War on Spurious Economic Grounds

With Ukraine’s global image having taken a hit because of its identification with Naziism along with the failings of its summer counteroffensive, the Biden White House is now urging lawmakers in both parties, according to Politico, to sell the war effort in Ukraine as a job creator and economic stimulus in the U.S. In an […]

Kim Iversen’s reassessment on Tulsi Gabbard, and my personal position on the Israel-Palestine conflict [Video]

Kim Iversen is one of the journalists I have a lot of respect for. Whether right or wrong, she is interested in the truth, and that search often takes her out of her own rather left-winged comfort zone, at least as I see it. She produced tremendous work during both COVID and the early stages […]