DMITRI ORLOV—Lists of things worth saving from collapse and destruction can be made arbitrarily long: the wetlands, the symphony orchestra, the public library, the public transportation system, the solar sewage treatment plant… the list can go on and on. Saving something generally means preserving it in some intact, functional state, and often involves some fund-raising activities, and political lobbying to secure the much-needed funds. But in the US there is one category that never makes the list, and it is the most important one: ruins.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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BRUCE GAGNON and Joan Roelof discuss the many obstacles, including distractions such as manufactured political divisions, social stresses, insidious entertainment, lack of leadership, etc., that stand in the way of forming a powerful national and international antiwar movement in the West.
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COL. MACGREGOR rejects the idea that Prigozhin’s uprising was a coup, but believes his actions will have plenty of repercussions and that Russia will probably alter its current strategy and implement and far more aggressive approach toward Kiev.
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• Prigozhin’s Gambit—Treason by any other name
34 minutes readSCOTT RITTER—Prigozhin’s antics, which were played out in intimate detail on social media, caught the attention of pro-Ukrainian information warfare specialists, who began promoting the narrative of Prigozhin—a former convict with zero political experience—assuming a leadership position in Russia. Prigozhin himself seemed to feed off this notion. While publicly denying any such ambition, Prigozhin continued his public trolling of Shoigu and Gerasimov. The vitriol became so intense that Putin was compelled to summon both men to the Kremlin, where they were read the riot act by an irate Russian President.
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PUTIN ORDERS REALITY CHECK – NO UKRAINIANS LEFT ON THE BATTLEFIELD, NO SOVEREIGNTY IN KIEV
22 minutes readJOHN HELMER—“If [NATO Secretary-General] Mr Stoltenberg again says on behalf of NATO that they are against freezing the conflict in Ukraine,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on June 21, “this means that they want to fight. So let them fight. We are ready for that. We realised NATO’s true goals in Ukraine some time ago as their plans took shape over the years that followed the Maidan coup. Today, NATO is attempting to implement them…they are directly involved in the hybrid and hot war declared on Russia.”