Vladimir Putin

British “watchdog” journalists unmasked as lap dogs for the security state

Events of the past few days suggest British journalism – the so-called Fourth Estate – is not what it purports to be: a watchdog monitoring the centers of state power. It is quite the opposite. The pretensions of the establishment media took a severe battering this month as the defamation trial of Guardian columnist Carole […]

BBC interview with Lavrov is not to be missed [Video]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hammered BBC interviewer Steven Rosenberg, putting the veteran journalist on his own heels several times in an outright fiery interview. It should be noted that this interview took place in Russia. It is further noteworthy that Steven Rosenberg is an excellent choice, for he himself speaks Russian in the interview. In […]

Market God + Private Profits = Public Loss

All people need food, shelter and health care. In an alleged democracy, none of them need the religion of market forces governing their ability to get them. Nor do those of us temporarily comfortable while enjoying the benefits that come to a minority which does well with capitalism (as it did with slavery) but now […]
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Paradigm for Peace Applied to Ukraine: Proposal for a Peaceful Pathway Forward (Part 2B)

Part 2B. The Violence of Ukrainian Ultranationalists We’ve been examining how threats to life are driving much of the violence of the current crisis in Ukraine. In the last part, we discussed how threats to Russian lives posed by the US and NATO have in turn provoked Russia to take military action. In this part, […]

Ukraine War! What Is It Good For? Transformation

Iain Davis In Part 5, we discussed the true nature of sovereignty and considered how, when sovereignty is stolen from its only rightful possessor, the individual, the resultant hierarchical structure eventually and inevitably forms a worldwide system of power. That network of power, based upon highly centralized political authority, acts as a population control mechanism. Today …

Paradigm for Peace Applied to Ukraine: Proposal for a Peaceful Pathway Forward (Part 2A)

Part 2A. Russian Fears for Life In the Paradigm for Peace model, the Roots of Violence are divided into seven categories. While a few of the categories aren’t as easily divided into defensive and aggressive motivations, for the most part, we examine how each party to the conflict may be defensively motivated or aggressively motivated […]