Politics
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Stop Fake: “Behind Russian aid to Italy there are German Neonazis”
The delivery of Russian aid to Italy was coordinated with the help of German “neonazis”, the Italian version of Stop Fake, the famous web operation whose statutory mission is to unmask fake news, has claimed. Russia sent several planes with medical equipment and doctors to Italy on Sunday, in an effort to help the country… Continue reading
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Coronavirus and utopian dreams
Only a few weeks ago the world still believed in liberal dreams. Now thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, this all may look so obsolete very soon. Financial markets are tumbling and may plunge the world in an economic crisis greater than the one provoked by the crash of the US real estate bubble in 2008.… Continue reading
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How the West weaponizes human rights
Contemporary mainstream discourse in the West is almost entirely dominated by the concepts of “political correctness” and “inalienable rights”. As such Europeans and Americans are subtly swayed into believing that they are the fundamental force to help the world move closer to its perfect, final state. This provokes a surreal mind state: on a subconscious… Continue reading
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“The socialism doesn’t work narrative is wildly distorted and simplistic”
Interview with Alan MacLeod on Venezuela Dr Alan MacLeod is a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. His is the author of “Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting”, published by Routledge in 2018. You can find the book here (Amazon US) and here (Amazon UK). East & West: You… Continue reading
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Leftist remainers and their strange EU fetish
Following the British Parliament’s refusal to back Theresa May’s Brexit deal, there is renewed optimism and plenty of glee among many so called “Leftist” remainers that Brexit can be scuppered altogether. This glee is centred on the misconception that the EU represents a paragon of democracy, individual rights, and social protection. They consider the institution… Continue reading
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Письмо друзьям, которые любят Евросоюз
English version here Дорогие друзья — любители Европейского Союза! Как и вы сейчас, я был очень страстным еврофилом, даже не просто еврофилом а точнее евросоюзофилом. Я был полон энтузиазма по поводу идеи объединенной Европы. Повзрослев с учением истории полувекового прошлого, все еще присутствующим в моей памяти, я думал, что Европейский Союз – это единственное, что… Continue reading
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Confessions of a Kremlin troll: How I meddled in the 2016 US election and made Trump win
I was a Putin’s troll and I wrote a fake story in support of Donald Trump in September 2016, two months before the elections. And not only that: I used the Facebook ads system to promote the article on the territory of the USA so that the text where I was posing a middle-aged life-long… Continue reading
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Europe holds the keys to peace but it is incapable of unlocking the door
Curtailing power and conflict with the formation of a trade block from the Pacific to the Atlantic Europe today is the strategic heart upon which the foundations for a lasting peace may be established. The problem, however, continues to rest in Europe’s subservient position in relationship to US geostrategic interests, interests which seek to globally… Continue reading
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The Senate report on Russian meddling is a sign of unfettered self-righteousness and amateurishness
They think you are a cretin. They think you are a cretin who will believe anything they say and that they can get away with anything. There is not other plausible explanation if you want to understand the reasoning behind the new Senate Democratic minority report on the Russian “assault” on democracies worldwide. The 206-page… Continue reading
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Saakashvili threatens Poroshenko – and Western media fails to report it
Something strange is happening in Ukraine. Again, one might think. After having entered Ukraine forcing his way through the border in September, having toured the country calling for protests since, now Saakashvili is marching for the impeachment of President Poroshenko. We knew this much. The conflict, however, seemed to have escalated to a whole new… Continue reading
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Who is Mikheil Saakashvili and what does he want in Ukraine?
He has been called a “real fighter against corruption” and a “political adventurer”. Many certainly remember him as the President of Georgia Continue reading
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Кто такой Михаил Саакашвили, откуда он взялся и что ищет в Украине?
Его называют «политическим авантюристом» и «подлинным борцом с коррупцией». Но как Саакашвили возник Continue reading
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The top 10 mainstream media fake news of 2017
What is fake news? Everybody has become familiar with the phrase since last year US election. In the aftermath of one of the most unlikely defeats in the history Continue reading
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Book review: “Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win The White House”
Luke Harding’s latest book “Collusion: how Russia helped Trump win the White House” purports to be the definitive account of Russiagate Continue reading
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“There is no way out of the crisis for Europe” Interview with Peter Hitchens
East & West: Mr Hitchens, you have called the European Union “a continuation of German by other means”. How did it come to this? Peter Hitchens: It was always its purpose. The ‘preventing peace’ claim it ceaselessly makes is an admission of this. Germany, by nature of its size, position and wealth, is bound… Continue reading
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The dangers of power: a plea for direct democracy
In the last few years a host of organisations such as 38 degrees, change.org and Aavaz have sprung up with the intention of stimulating grass roots activism Continue reading
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Modern liberals have nothing to do with leftists
That the old concepts of left and right do not make sense anymore, has been said a thousand times. Still, especially among commentators from the United States, the category “the Left” Continue reading
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Nationalism, freedom and populism
Русская версия здесь A few days ago, I proposed a little experiment to two young women, one from Poland and the other one from Belarus Continue reading
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Serbia and the EU – a long journey to nowhere
The Serbian leadership wants to get Serbia in EU and they want it badly. This has been the main goal of every single goverment for the past 17 years Continue reading
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The West has entered its own Brezhnev era
All across the world there has been an increasing rejection of the neoliberal order. In the UK we had Brexit, while the rise of Le Pen in France or Geert Wilders in Holland, not to mention Donald Trump Continue reading
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