ERIC ZUESSE—Apparently, Russia (just like China, in its approach) is relying upon African nations’ negative experiences of U.S.-and-allied imperialism, in order to attract Africa’s nations to an alternative to The West’s win-lose exploitative and coercive model of economic and social development, so as to enable constructive, win-win, international relationships to take root and to grow.
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SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER provides an exhaustive analysis of the situation in the Ukraine War at the moment Kiev continues to talk about an offensive—largely for p.r. reasons— and the West looks for an exit ramp or some viable manner to keep the conflict going indefinitely, without having to concede defeat.
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Kiev’s drones penetrate Moscow’s air defenses: Putin’s response
16 minutes readV. PUTIN—Basically, the territory called Ukraine was controlled from the very beginning by people who, led from the West, took the path of fighting not just with Russia, but creating an “anti-Russia” in this territory. They had to take into account people who lived in the southeast of Ukraine—these are voters, a large number of voters, they had to take into account. Let me also remind you that during the formation of independent Ukraine from the very beginning, from the first step, Ukraine declared itself a neutral state – the Declaration of Independence says so.
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Anti-Stalin Falsehoods from a “Socialist” Writer
191 minutes readGROVER FURR—n the January – February 2023 issue of Current Affairs there appears an article titled “Stalin Will Never Be Redeemable/” Its subtitle reads: Stalin was socialism’s worst enemy. History is easily forgotten, so nostalgia for the “Man of Steel” needs to be guarded against. A person who knows of my long interest in Joseph Stalin and the “Stalin years” of Soviet history alerted me to this article when it appeared online. He wondered what my response to Skopic’s accusations against Stalin might be.
I have been studying the Stalin period of Soviet history for many years now I decided to write a response to Skopic’s article because it is a brief compendium of many of the allegations made against Stalin not only by overtly pro-capitalist and anticommunist writers, but by persons who are, or wish to be, or think that they are, on the anti-capitalist Left. -
DEBORAH ARMSTRONG—“We were clearing the central part of Bakhmut, clearing civilian houses,” an unidentified member of Wagner said. “The civilians started running out of the basement. They said there were children in the basement. There was an 11-year-old child, a little girl, frightened. During the evacuation, they opened fire on us and a sniper was shooting at us. It was not in our direction, but directed at the little girl. During the evacuation we had to cover her with flak jackets, but she survived and was taken away.