Pope Francis, when addressing the Easter crowds at the Vatican, said it was an ‘Easter of War’. This was not absolutely correct as it is the Catholic’s Easter but not Easter for the 30m Ukrainian Orthodox Christians who were celebrating Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Worshippers held
It’s more than a month since I first wondered, Has Putin Been Lured into a Trap? Was the US and NATO game plan a cynical ploy to fight Russia by proxy to the last Ukrainian, leaving them free to deal with China? As it turns out, I’m not
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Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. Far from perceiving each other as adversaries, the Public Health cartel in the West and in China are more accurately defined as competitors in a friendly game of chess, and humanity are their pawns. As global leaders remain noticeably
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JM White Information Opinion Ukraine has been a US vassal state since 2014. Russia considers that – as a vassal state – Ukraine in this post-2014 form fulfils neither the conditions of being a state forming people nor a system forming state. Therefore Russia considers it has not invaded a sovereign country.
There’s no doubt that the humanitarian cost of the war in Ukraine is appalling. There’s also no doubt that Russian President Vladimir Putin must bear the immediate blame for pulling the trigger of war. But the simplistic, dominant narrative that plucky little Ukraine is defending liberal democracy against
Vera Stanton On a cold morning in early January this year Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam met Major General Peng Jingtang, the newly-appointed Head of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Hong Kong garrison, at the opulent Government House. With a new Covid outbreak dominating the city’s
Capitalist Information Opinion The Industrial Revolution, which started about the time of the American Revolution, transformed the world in significant ways. Mass-production methods were invented and perfected, huge numbers moved to cities to seek employment, new products became widely available and incomes rose exponentially – with no inflation to speak of
Bryce Edwards Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Warning Long read: 1,653 words New Zealand is now part of the war with Russia. And our independent foreign policy is virtually dead. That’s the upshot of the Government’s definitive fall into line with Five Eyes
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Thornton Blackmore Information Opinion Throughout the ages, the struggle between rulers and their subjects to establish the status quo in one’s own favour has given rise to periods of both despotism and democracy, with various shades of governance in between. And as the world now simmers like a frog
Aleksandr Dugin, a neo-Nazi intellectual mystic, is said to be Putin’s brain and influence behind the Ukrainian invasion. He wears his hair long with a shaggy beard like the infamous Rasputin of a century ago. Dugin argues that Russia should rule from Vladivostok to Dublin. His concept is that
A brief update to my latest article. CJ Hopkins cjhopkins.substack.com All right, I’m not going to make a habit of this, writing multiple articles in rapid succession, but I wanted to share some actual good news for a change, and let you know about one additional interview
Truth might be the first casualty of war, but propaganda is one of its first beneficiaries and its handmaiden. No war is ever fought with bullets and bombs alone. Or even swords and spears — after all, would the Greeks have rallied to the cause if Agamemnon had just said, “Hey,
