eugyppius: a plague chronicle | January 22, 2023 In 1952, Hastings Ismay famously remarked that the purpose of NATO is “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down,” and the war in Ukraine has made it very hard to doubt that he was wrong. From the Neue Zürcher Zeitung: The Ukraine needs […]
Vladimir Potanin. © Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin RT | January 23, 2023 Western countries are sawing off the branch they are sitting on by confiscating Russian assets, billionaire businessman Vladimir Potanin believes. Following the launch of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in February last year, multiple countries have frozen assets belonging both to the Russian state, and […]
By Petr Beryshnikov – Sputnik – 23.01.2023 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in this year’s BRICS host state, South Africa, on Monday morning to discuss bilateral relations as well as coopeation within the BRICS. Western countries, namely the US and the UK, are crossing all red lines by exerting pressure on the states that […]
Why has Western media ignored its report? By Felix Livshitz | RT | January 23, 2023 On November 30, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an elite military think tank, and lobby group, with deep ties to the UK government, published a landmark report entitled ‘Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022’. While […]
RT | January 23, 2023 The current situation in Ukraine shows that the conflict between Russia and the West can no longer be defined as a “hybrid war” but is instead approaching being a real one, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Speaking at a press conference following a meeting with his South […]
In December 2022, corruption revelations involving the state-owned Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi (ETT) mining company sparked enormous protests in Ulaanbaatar. What initially began as a backlash against an entrenched “coal mafia” snowballed into a trenchant critique of the government’s inability (and unwillingness) to provide a better future for Mongolia’s youth. Protestors told The Diplomat that suffocating […]
BY WILLIAM M BRIGGS • JANUARY 13, 2023 If you’ve never seen this entire episode, I urge you to do so. Note that in Buffalo, the more things change the more, etc. Also note the hopeful ending. Amusing to think the propaganda in this is more accurate than the putrid stuff they serve us today. […]
The Defender | January 20, 2023 New York City public-sector workers who lost their jobs for refusing to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Thursday filed a $250 million lawsuit against the city and Mayor Eric Adams seeking to end the mandate. The 72 fired workers are demanding the city overturn the mandate, reinstate their jobs and […]
Traveling the nine circles of thought-police hell with TJ Coles, the cancelled University of Plymouth academic. Helen of desTroy | January 22, 2023 An informational iron curtain is coming down across the West, and its architects are determined to make examples out of those who refuse to pick a side. Our Democracy™ has adopted a […]
By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net | January 20, 2023 The mask is slipping (pun fully intended), all over the place – regarding the Big Tech/Big Government collusion. Now it’s time to pay close attention to the role played by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We’ve already been awed – just […]
