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War games go postal

Cannes, 8 March 2022 by Mark Porter The Lithuanians have officially renamed the road in Vilnius where the Russian Embassy is housed "Ukrainian War Heroes Street"...

Britain’s hollow Ukraine rhetoric contrasts with Zelensky’s heroic speech

Cannes, 8 March 2022 by Mark Porter President Zelensky summoned up the ghost of Churchill when he addressed Britain's parliament on Tuesday night, in a harrowing...

Putin’s king of gas and his UK throne

Meet Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch who was widely seen as helping to restore Russian influence over his homeland after a popular uprising in...

Gas-powered kingmaker: how the UK welcomed Putin’s man in Ukraine

The long read from The Guardian, Tuesday 8 March 2022 Oligarch Dmitry Firtash is wanted by the FBI for bribery. Nonetheless, he was received into...

Sale of the Century 2: The Road to Serfdom

Cannes, 8 March 2022 by Mark Porter A Quick Guide: below is the third part of Adam Curtis's The Trap. He explains the philosophy of liberty...

Nuclear minefield

The irony of the fight is that the better the Ukrainians do in the great David and Goliath contest, the more terrible could be...

Poker-faced murderer keeps everyone guessing

Cannes, 7 March 2022 OPINION by Mark Porter "Putin – khuylo!" they shouted from St Petersburg to Nur-Sultan on the Kazak steppes. But the inalienable right to...

News in brief 07/03/22

♦ US secretary of state Antony Blinken has assured Lithuania and Latvia of NATO protection and American support as he made visits to two...

Camp Putin – right and left deserting

London, March 6, 2022 by Nick Cohen   The savagery of Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukrainian democracy has sent them into headlong retreat. Nothing better illustrates their panic...

Mind your manners

A very British train analogy to explain Ukraine. By Australian comedian, Adam Hills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA6n4bAzDFg

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