CYNTHIA CHUNG—The CIA bought and paid for a brand of Ukrainian Nationalism à la Lebed. One of the most horrifying butchers of OUN/UPA was given reign to shape the hearts and minds of the Ukrainian people around their nationalist identity, an identity as defined by the OUN. It has also shaped historical and cultural interpretation such as to further romanticise the concept of the great Ukrainian race of Volodymyr the Great, encouraging a further sense of superiority and further divide between themselves and Belarussians and Russians.
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MATT EHRET—Not only is Iran a key player in the Greater Eurasian Partnership serving as a strategic hub for the southern route of China’s BRI, but it is also a keystone of the Russia-Iran-India-led International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) which has become a major force synergizing with the BRI.
Iraq and Iran themselves are in the final stages of building the long-awaited Shalamcheh-Basra railway which will unite the two nations by rail for the first time in decades while also offering a potential extension to the already existent 1500 km railway through Iraq to Syria’s border.
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While rich establishmentarians like Bill Maher try to pretend there is a real democracy in the US, or that the Dems are its champions, Jimmy strongly disagrees. (And so do we, of course.) THE DEMS ARE NOT THE “LESSER EVIL” BUT THE MORE EFFECTIVE EVIL, AS THE LATE GLEN FORD WARNED US. Jimmy uses a hilarious collage by Turncoat Don to illustrate what Maher deserves for his cynical misleading of the clueless public. A man that smart surely knows better.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Now it’s painfully clear the imperial velvet gloves are off when it comes to the vassals. EU independence: verboten. Cooperation with China: verboten. Independent trade connectivity with Asia: verboten. The only place for the EU is to be economically subjugated to the US: a tawdry remix of 1945-1955. With a perverse neoliberal twist: we will own your industrial capacity, and you will have nothing.
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Putin: “The so-called collective West is purposefully destroying the European security system…They need conflict to maintain their hegemony. That is why they prepared the fate of the people
of Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’…turned a blind eye to the spread of neo-Nazi ideology…”
