Shaun Pinner, his compatriot Aiden Aslin and Moroccan Saadun Ibrahim were found guilty of acting as mercenaries and attempting to seize power by force in the Donetsk People’s Republic. They were also accused of undergoing training in order to carry out terrorist activities on the territory of the state, which was formally recognized by Russia in February.
D. ORLOV—Lately, Dmitri Anatolievich Medvedev, an old statesman of Russian politics, has begun to publish brief encyclicals, a kind of urbi et orbi, which are really interesting since they allow us to see the mentality that is currently shared by a large majority of Russians, especially at the Taller. Since this mindset clashes with the dominant narrative endlessly repeated by all public figures in the West, it is deemed unacceptable and firmly ignored. Is there safety in this? I doubt it. Those who insist on trading with incomplete and faulty information make wrong decisions and arrive at unhealthy results. But things get even worse: as they wallow in the putrid bath of self-created predicaments, they discover that they have earned the Russians’ hatred and that they plan to take revenge on them.
Until recently Lyudmila Denisova worked as Ukraine’s human rights chief and main propagandist, but she has now been fired after outside groups have been able to uncover zero evidence to support the multiple allegations of mass rape Denisova lodged against invading Russian forces. Denisova’s propaganda was widely disseminated in the west and parroted by the pro-Ukraine corporate media in the United States.
Jimmy and his panelists, The Dive host Jackson Hinkle and American comedian Kurt Metzger, break down the story of the war propagandist who took things too far.
JOHN V. WALSH—week ago, we made note of a May 11 New York Times news article, documenting that all was not going well for the U.S. in Ukraine, and a companion opinion piece hinting that a shift in direction might be in order.
Now on May 19, “THE EDITORIAL BOARD,” the full Magisterium of the Times, has moved from hints to a clarion call for a change in direction in an editorial uninformatively titled, “The War Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready.” From atop the Opinion page the Editorial Board has declared that “total victory” over Russia is not possible and that Ukraine will have to negotiate a peace in a way that reflects a “realistic assessment” and the “limits” of U.S. commitment. The Times serves as one the main shapers of public opinion for the Elite and so its pronouncements are not to be taken lightly.
MONDOWEISS—ARRIA—Earlier this month faculty at the law school unanimously backed a Student Government resolution that “proudly and unapologetically” embraces the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The resolution, which was put forward by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Jewish Law Students’ Association (JLSA), was passed by the student body in December. Vernikov, and a number of her colleagues, condemned its passage at the time.