ROTTEN GOVERNMENTS

EVA BARTLETT—Near the ATM, there were flowers and candles laid in memory of the civilians murdered that day, with haunting photos nearby depicting the aftermath of the bombing, the grisly scenes of the dead and the maimed—scenes you will generally never see blasted across Western corporate media, just as the same media were silent when terrorism struck civilian areas in Syria.
I’m intimately familiar with war zones, and with Western corporate media’s white-washing of the perpetrators’ crimes (Israeli crimes against Palestinians; Western-backed terrorists’ crimes against Syrians; Ukrainian military and Nazi crimes against the civilians of the Donbass—and also against Ukrainians proper), so the lack of media coverage on this recent Ukrainian war crime doesn’t surprise me.

PATRICE GREANVILLE—Carlson says many odious things, and he is still very much part of the imperial propaganda establishment, yet he’s the only one on the mass media who says some things the American people badly need hearing. And it is Carlson, not some “leftie” media, as so many fakes like to see themselves at CNN, MSNBC, etc., that frequently offers his show as a megaphone to voices of real leftists, like Jimmy Dore. Overall, only Joe Rogan reaches as many people across so many vital demographics. The videos below prove our point.

VV PUTIN—Of course, practice, international relations and the rules regulating them had to take into account the changes that took place in the world and in the balance of forces. However, this should have been done professionally, smoothly, patiently, and with due regard and respect for the interests of all states and one’s own responsibility. Instead, we saw a state of euphoria created by the feeling of absolute superiority, a kind of modern absolutism, coupled with the low cultural standards and arrogance of those who formulated and pushed through decisions that suited only themselves. The situation took a different turn.

DMITRY ORLOV—This sort of downward spiral does not automatically spell “Apocalypse,” but the specifics of the state cult of the US—an old-time religiosity overlaid with the secular religion of progress—are such that there can be no other options: either we are on our way up to build colonies on Mars, or we perish in a ball of flame. Since the humiliation of having to ask the Russians for permission to fly the Soyuz to the International Space Station makes the prospect of American space colonies seem dubious, it’s Plan B: balls of flame here we come!

One of the most important videos by Caleb Maupin n a topic that many Americans cotnue to misunderstand given the longstanding level of toxic misinformation. What is the Ukraine? Why did the Eastern regions peoples’ republics—Lugansk and Donetsk— declared themselves independent from Kiev’s rule after the US-supported coup in 2014? What is the probable future of Ukraine and these new republics?