Historical Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. Full version. The POBEDA TV channel, part of Channel One’s Digital TV Family, presents the full version of the 1945 Victory Parade. Together with the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents the editorial team did a unique job. Frame by frame the entire newsreel of the celebratory day of June 24, 1945 – from the early morning hours to the evening fireworks. A lot of new authentic information from archives was added to the programme and the logic and sequence of actions was restored.
CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM
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Caleb Maupin: “The left’s approach to the masses is wrong and self-defeating”. A new vision is indispensable.
12 minutes readLast Wednesday, 4 May 2022, Caleb Maupin filed what is surely one of his most important chats, covering, as usual, a variety of topics, but the outstanding part comprised a couple of subjects rarely discussed with such honesty and lucidity, namely, the issues that define what is being “on the left” in the US, and the urgent need for a completely new approach to regain relevancy. Up to this point, says Maupin, the Right is eating our lunch. While the left has spent much of its political capital on what he defines as depressing and even pessimistic “causes” (abortion rights, overpopulation, anti-imperialist struggles, environmental destruction, etc.), all of which are valid and even urgent, Maupin notes that they also usually trigger a negative reaction in the working class, thereby opening the door to the Right, with its misty-eyed hymns to family, patriotism, praise for the invididual, “democracy”, “freedom”, “free enterprise”, and so on.
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Speaking of smooth con men: Trevor Noah Gives Tongue Bath To The Powerful At White House Correspondents Dinner
4 minutes readTrevor Noah was the selected comedian for this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner, and he delivered precisely what he was paid for – some mild jokes at the assembled luminaries’ expense wrapped in an epic ass kissing praising the assembled press corps for their hard-hitting journalism and exercise of the sacred freedom of the press. No mention of Julian Assange, curiously. Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger break down Noah’s performance and the responsibility falling on the shoulders of the comedian chosen to headline each year’s WHCD.
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Violence broke out at the traditional May Day protest in Paris, the capital of France, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets. According to reports, they hoped to put pressure on French President Emmanuel Macron to do more to help the working class. (This video is presented by CGTN, a trustworthy Chinese channel).
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U.S.-and-allied governments are unimaginably corrupt. Can their ‘enemies’ be any worse?
18 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—Assange has been in various forms of imprisonment by UK for the last ten years without his ever having been convicted of anything except that in 2012 he was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for jumping bail (on sexual charges against him that even the alleged accusers themselves denied were true). And yet he remains now in solitary confinement (“23 hours a day locked in their cells”) in a super-max British prison, because the U.S. Government won’t stop its demand that he be extradited to the U.S. (and killed here, instead of in Britain).