SCOTT RITTER—Of the many points of conflict occurring in the world today, one stands out as a manifestation of the ongoing fascination liberal democracy adherents have with the victory over communism, which they thought was won more than three decades ago, namely, the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Political scientists in the Fukuyama “end of history” school view this conflict as being derived by the resistance of the remnants of Soviet regional hegemony (i.e., modern-day Russia, led by its president, Vladimir Putin) over the inevitability of liberal democracy taking hold. But a closer examination of the Russian-Ukraine conflict points to the present conflicts being born of not simply the incomplete divorce of Ukraine from the Soviet/Russian orbit that occurred at the end of the Cold War, but also the detritus from the collapse of previous ruling systems, especially the Tsarist Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires.
WESTERN MEDDLING & HYPOCRISY
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EDITOR—As it turns out, the source of many of the allegations of rape – including multiple alleged cases of rape to death of children – was the Ukraine parliamentary commissioner for human rights, Lyudmila Denisova. Her evidence was alleged to be a helpline set up to report allegations of human rights abuses. Her tales were too much even for the Ukrainian government, which dismissed her at the end of May 2022.
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Norman Finkelstein on Canada’s Applause for Nazis
11 minutes readNorman Finkelstein, whose latest book is I’ll Burn that Bridge When I Get to It, returns to Useful Idiots with as much heretical bravado as ever: he’s coming out swinging. First, he’s dissecting the embarrassing Nazi celebration in Canada: the Orwellian push to have it erased from history, Trudeau’s fake apology, and the despicable claims that Zelensky, who speaks English and understands Ukrainian history, didn’t know that he was saluting a Nazi soldier. “When he [Zelensky] raised his hand,” Norman explains, “this Jew as we’re constantly told, he was lending himself to the Nazi cause.”
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Ukrainian Journalist DESTROYS Zelensky For Applauding A Nazi
9 minutes readThis panel is definitely anti-Nazi, but, as is common with Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union, or sharp, upper-middle class Jews, like Mark Ames (who lived in Russia during the Yeltsin period, published the slackers’ bible about life in Moscow with Taibbi, the eXile, etc.), many of their views can also be at times gratuitously pedantic and Russophobic. Chalk that up to the limits of left-liberalism.—Editor
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BILLY BOB—The Blowback roundtable episode 20 with special guest Daniel Lazare. The regulars: Bill Bob, Carlo Parcelli, Ben Toth. In depth discussion of imperial policies, Canada’s descent into near overt fascism, along with most vassal nations controlled by the US. Canada now has the distinction—with the UK and the US—of harboring more Ukrainian war criminals than any other part of the world, except for Ukraine and other states in Eastern Europe, especially Hungary and the Baltics. These people were accepted by London, Ottawa and Washington with full knowledge of their Nazi past, but what mattered to the “Western allies” was the fierce anti-communist Russophobia that these individuals carried in their hearts and still do after many decades of silent residence in these complicit countries.