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As Ukraine’s struggle against Russia and its proxies continues, Kiev must also contend with a growing problem behind the front lines: far-right vigilantes who are willing to use intimidation and even violence to advance their agendas, and who often do so with the tacit approval of law enforcement agencies.... Western diplomats and human rights organizations must urge Ukraine’s government to uphold the rule of law and to stop allowing the far right to act with impunity.... Far from the...

On Iraq, the UK’s version of “the facts” was embraced by pretty much all our political establishment and many of our allies – with the honourable exception of the French, the Germans, the late Charles Kennedy and his little band of Lib Dems, and – yes, let it not be forgotten – the leader of today’s Labour opposition, Jeremy Corbyn. It was a version that proved to be disastrously wrong. Yet a combination of Tony Blair’s persuasive powers, naïve acceptance of the need for national unity, and...

Control of the narrative runs from the US deep state through the "lamestream" media where propaganda poses as journalism. In this article, Maduro can be replaced with Putin, and Venezuela with Putin. It's the same script. TruthoutIn Venezuela, It's "Democracy" if US-Backed Candidates Are Empowered, "Tyranny" if They Are NotSteven Chovanec, Truthout | News Analysis

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India is the most vulnerable country to climate change, followed by Pakistan, the Philippines and Bangladesh, a ranking by HSBC showed on Monday.... Pakistan was ranked by HSBC among nations least well-equipped to respond to climate risks.... Not that prior to the partition of India after independence, Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India. This area of the subcontinent is most vulnerable.ReutersIndia most vulnerable country to climate change - HSBC report

Left Out, a podcast produced by Michael Palmieri, Dante Dallavalle, and Paul Sliker, creates in-depth conversations with the most interesting political thinkers, heterodox economists, and organizers on the Left. Transcript Debtors Prisons 2018 THE HUDSON REPORT: Modern-day debtors’ prisons and debt in antiquityPOSTED ON MARCH 19, 2018 We’re excited to announce our new weekly series called The Hudson Report with the legendary economist Michael Hudson. Every episode we’ll pick Professor...

It is Wednesday so only a couple of snippets today. I was going to write about the BBC’s ridiculous attempt to portray Jeremy Corbyn as a sort of Russian-spy-type-dude in its Newsnight segment last Thursday (March 15, 2018). They manipulated his peaked hat (via Photoshop or through lighting) to make it look like a typical Lenin-type “Soviet stooge” hat and presented him against a red Kremlin skyline of Red Square...

Petr Akopov reminds that Great Britain is Russia's old enemy and that Russians need to wake up to the reality that they are now under attack again.The Vineyard of the SakerRussia is fighting a lethal enemy Petr Akopov for Vzgliad Translated by Edvin Buday Also Peter Koenig makes a similar point about the West. Russia’s Reaction to the Insults of the West is Political Suicide Peter Koenig Do the Russians fail to see this? I doubt it. It's been obvious for a long time and set forth...

MoA-ites correctly distrust every word emanating from the mealy mouthed Guardian because it has been used in a vicious campaign to advance the interests of Zionists to the point where the well being of Guardian readers has been relegated below the interests of apartheid Israel. Nevertheless having a bit of a shufti at the loudly trumpeted Facebook-Cambridge Analytica expose is an essential act for anyone who wants to try to get a grip on how populations are being deliberately manipulated....

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