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Nexus X HumectressFree Thought Project (MPN) — HAJJAH, YEMEN – “We’re brutally bombed every day. So why doesn’t the Western world care like it does about Ukraine?!!… Is it because we don’t have blonde hair and blue eyes like Ukrainians?” Ahmed Tamri, a Yemeni father of four, asked with furrowed brows […]
By Christian Britschgi Reason Yanking The Batman from Moscow theaters won’t bring peace to Ukraine, it will just sever much-needed cultural connection with everyday Russians. Last Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a violent invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Late that night East Coast time, the D.C. bar and […]
By Patrick Rhamey As someone who works with questions of power, major power status, and international conflict, I want to address the use of John Mearsheimer’s views on Ukraine by the Russian MFA for propaganda purposes. I had the opportunity to listen to Mearsheimer’s talk on Ukraine for […]
Krystal and Saagar provide a battle update between Russia and Ukraine, decisions being made by China, Russian oligarchs’ wealth being taken, Trump flip flopping on Putin, media thirsting for war, economic toll of sanctions, the case for nuclear energy, and an interview with congressman Ro Khanna! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ […]
After an embattled few days, the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has fallen to invading Russian troops, The New York Times reports. Kherson mayor Igor Kolykhaev met today with the local Russian commander who plans to set up a military administration in the area, according to the newspaper. […]
The Woke-Azov Pact.
Are platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram harming Americans in ways that government regulation could help correct?
By Vladimir Sorokin, The Guardian Putin’s end goal isn’t Ukraine but western civilization – the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat. n 24 February, the armor of the “enlightened autocrat” that had housed Vladimir Putin for the previous 20 years […]
“The data has not been spun, and we still have companies trying to make money on this.” – Government
Someone owes an apology, to a lot of people.
The WSJ mentioned this a week ago but didn’t make any of the obvious connections.
It goes both ways. Russia just banned multiple opposition networks like Echo and Dozhd. That’s very important context.
So weird seeing Pat come out of the grave— I mean retirement.
She laughs when she says “there were other unintended consequences, as we know”
Azov Battalion and the National Guard are under the Interior Ministry, basically a paramilitary wing of their Homeland Security Department
There’s no “morality” in state-based politics – just expediency.
To be fair, if you poll these people with the question “where is Ukraine” you would probably get answers like 20% in or near Russia 30% in Asia 50% undecided
By Joel Mathis The Week One of the more astonishing developments of the last week has been the sight of ordinary Russians taking to the streets to decry Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. In a country where dissent can quickly get you imprisoned or even poisoned, it takes […]
By Jason Fields The Week Wars aren’t civilized. The very definition of war includes death and cruelty, and everyone who dies has loved ones who mourn them. But some wars are more brutal than others, more deadly to civilians, and Russia’s recent wars in Chechnya and Syria stand […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Russia may be planning aggressive moves against the Republic of Moldova, according to a map Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko displayed during a meeting of his country’s security council. Lukashenko is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He seemingly allowed Putin to […]
By Grayson Quay The Week President Biden told reporters Wednesday that Russian forces are deliberately targeting Ukrainian civilians but that he cannot yet say with certainty whether Russia has committed war crimes, The Hill reports. When asked if Russia was intentionally targeting civilians in Ukraine, Biden said, “It’s […]
By Peter Weber The Week As the sun rises on a seventh day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a 40-mile-long Russian military convoy appears stalled about 20 miles north of Kyiv, and the Ukrainian-held cities of Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mariupol are encircled. Russia also intensified its bombing of cities on Tuesday, […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Simon & Garfunkel once described a scenario in which “friends just can’t be found,” and one can easily imagine that, following Wednesday’s United Nations vote condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin and company might find solace in listening to “Bridge […]
Even in Vietnam, the Soviet Union realized that they couldn’t completely humiliate the United States because they didn’t want to risk massive escalation. They wanted to weaken the US but not start a nuclear war. Towards the end of the war, they were pushing Hanoi to the diplomatic […]
Kim Iversen highlights previous warnings from world leaders that NATO expansion would lead to a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen react to reports that extreme hunger in Afghanistan is forcing parents to sacrifice their bodies to feed their children.
Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Doctor Amesh Adalja, weighs in on the debate on whether children should be masked.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave weigh in on President Biden’s statement that fighting inflation is a “top priority.”
Host of the Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, reacts to Senate Democrats’ failed push to invoke cloture on the codification of Roe v. Wade.
Team Rising discusses the phasing out of pandemic restrictions.
Robby Soave highlights the hypocrisy of unmasked members of congress at the State Of The Union address.
Ryan Grim breaks down the opaque funding behind the bipartisan dark money group, No Labels.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to President Biden’s statements on Ukraine during his State of the Union address.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster founder David Sirota to uncover how Wall Street’s fight for lax transparency laws helps protect Russian oligarchs from US sanctions
Ferocious shelling in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has killed at least 21 people and injured over a hundred in the last 24 hours, say local authorities
Free Thought Project In case you haven’t noticed, a line is being drawn in the sand: you either stand with Ukraine and unquestioningly parrot the establishment narrative — or you are an agent of the Kremlin. The war propaganda is palpable and we haven’t seen anything like this […]
by Brian Czech People tend to think of Russia as a wide-open country with plenty of space for economic growth. While it may take days to ride the trans-Siberian railway, any notion of an empty Russia is as antiquated as Dr. Zhivago. European Russia, especially, has been cultivated, […]
Sounds like fairly standard Republican “family values.” “Marriage is between one man, one woman, his secretary, his daughter, the pool boy, transvestite street whores, mail order hookers, trafficked Third World children, and ISIS brides.” By Gabrielle Fonrouge and MaryAnn Martinez New York Post A married-with-kids Texas congressman abruptly […]
German Foreign Policy BERLIN/WASHINGTON/KIEV (Own report) – Former NATO special forces – including Germans – are in combat in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on Ukraine’s side. This was reported by a US news portal. According to this information, over the weekend several western ex-elite soldiers experienced […]
By Craig Murray I could not believe Putin really would invade Ukraine, because I could see no sensible outcome for him. I still cannot. Initiating a war on this scale has no legal justification, and no moral justification either. Russian troops are in areas which have no wish […]
By Jack Mirkinson People following the mainstream coverage of Ukraine are getting an excellent lesson in media double standards. Running alongside the ongoing horror of the war in Ukraine has been a pernicious thread of racism and hypocrisy in some of the coverage of the conflict. If you […]
The last time wheat exports from the former Soviet space were limited, it was due to a poor Siberian harvest in 2010. Within a few months wheat prices doubled globally, tripling in the markets heavily dependent upon Russia’s low-quality output. The region most affected was North Africa and […]
Peter Zeihan predicting the oil supply shock of 2022 back in 2018.
By Caitlin Johnstone Kremlin-backed media outlets have been banned throughout the European Union, both on television and on apps and online platforms. RT has lost its Sky TV slot in the UK, where the outlet is also blocked on YouTube. Australian TV providers SBS and Foxtel have dropped […]
By Caitlin Johnstone It’s just incredible how even after all this time, after all those wars, after all those lies, it’s not even occurring to most mainstream westerners to investigate whether the US could possibly have had anything to do with starting the war in Ukraine. There’s one […]
By David Livingstone Facebook has been targeting QAnon ads towards those interested in alternative health, resulting in what academics have identified as “Conspirituality,” a strange blend of the New Age movement and right-wing conspiracy theories.[1] The merger of these seemingly paradoxical influences can be traced back to David […]
LA Progressive As if killing the Child Tax Credit, blocking voting rights, gutting key climate legislation, and refusing living wages wasn’t enough, West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is now promoting legislation that further punishes the poor and marginalized. Along with Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, he’s introduced the PIPES Act, which undercuts key […]
By Asaf Shalev Jewish Telegraphic Agency Russia’s Jewish oligarchs and their donations come under threat of Western sanctions amid Ukraine war. (JTA) – Jewish communities in Ukraine received a $10 million gift from a perhaps unlikely source Monday: a charitable organization founded by three Russian Jewish oligarchs who […]
By Ankush Kumar, Yahoo News Desperate to avoid the shadow of Vladimir Putin’s bigoted regime falling over Ukraine, LGBTQ combat volunteers told The Daily Beast that members of the gay community had been rushing to prepare for this invasion of Ukraine in recent weeks. Now, they stand ready […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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