JOHN PILGER—In McCarthy’s time, there were bolt holes of truth. Mavericks welcomed then are heretics now; an underground of journalism exists (such as this site) in a landscape of mendacious conformity. Dissenting journalists have been defenestrated from the “mainstream” (as the great editor David Bowman wrote); the media’s task is to invert the truth and support the illusions of democracy, including a “free press”.
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SIMPLICIUS—Suffering from standard artillery shell hunger, Ukraine has asymmetrically invested into small, cheap drone production—and it’s paying off for them, as Russia is struggling to develop a consistent counter against them. Sure, Russia itself outproduces Ukraine in raw FPVs, but the issue is, since it’s Russia that is now on the offensive, the situation favors Ukraine. Russian forces have to go out in the open to attack, creating a target-rich environment for the AFU. The Ukrainians on the other hand are all bunkered up and no longer assault, so despite having a positive FPV ratio, Russia doesn’t have as many easy or open targets to hit.
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Garland Nixon: ISRAEL – THE NEOCON SUICIDE PILL
9 minutes readEDITOR—Garland Nixon and his guests take an in-depth look at the social, military and economic crises detonated by the Empire, from Ukraine to the Middle East and the Far East, currently afflicting all continents, and the imperial dynamics eroding the last vestiges of Constitutional rights protecting US citizens from the horrid crimes committed by the Empire outside US borders.
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A Chinese documentary seeking to explain the slow-motion downfall of the USSR in terms of historical nihilism, basically a cultural disease eventually corroding politics. Obviously many forces and events contributed to this outcome, both internal and external. During its entire life the Soviet Union was subjected to the immense hostile pressures of world capitalism—economic (boycots, sanctions, sabotage); political, military (arms race), diplomatic (isolation, blockades), cultural (defamation) etc— all spearheaded by the US, which forced Moscow to alter its course and often adopt policies that proved more costly to its socialist construction than anticipated.
as later other socialist states,
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DAN COHEN/ MINTPRESS NEWS—Filmed during the attack and in the days following the ceasefire, the documentary tells the story of how Gaza’s armed resistance groups outwitted the vastly superior Israeli military and established their ability to intervene against Israeli ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods like Sheikh Jarrah and provocations at the al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem. “The Palestinian military capabilities are not highly sophisticated and destructive, but it becomes so effective when it’s used by smart Palestinian youths who believe in their rights and freedom,” a masked al-Qassam commander says.