These remarks by Dmitri Orlov make sense. He noticed how socially isolated Zelensky looked at the recent NATO summit in Vilnius, and concluded that the West is starting to distance itself from Zelensky precisely because Ukraine is losing the war with Russia. This is not good advertising for NATO, which needs to maintain the…
If you’ve never heard this 13-minute rant, you’ve missed a moment of exquisite beauty. Michael Parenti, in a 1+ hour talk in Seattle in 1999, focused his brilliant intellect and his enormous heart on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and more generally on how “NATO destroys nations.” The rant below — the unbelievable rant…
Every citizen of planet Earth should watch this brief (4-minute) explanation by Scott Ritter, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector. I picked up a reference to this terrifying tidbit on Yves Smith’s Naked Capitalism newsletter (where I find most of my interesting sources). Here’s how she introduces it: Embedded within this post…
by Caitlin Johnstone Reprinted with permission of the author Listen to a reading of this article: Days after the war in Ukraine began it was reported by The New York Times that “President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has asked the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, to mediate negotiations in Jerusalem between Ukraine and Russia.” In a recent…
Jimmy Kimmel tonight got uproarious laughter from his audience when he mocked the lackluster announcement by the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that they have now moved the second hand of their Doomsday Clock to within 90 seconds of midnight (destruction of our civilization by nuclear war or…