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Leaked Biden-Poroshenko tape: who cares about Ukraine?
The release of a tape containing conversations between then US Vice-President Joe Biden and ex-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko were the sensation of this past week in Ukraine – and rightly so. What many had suspected – that the post-Maidan Ukraine had in fact become a sort of protectorate of the United States, not formally included… Continue reading
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Tape of Biden, Kerry and former Ukrainian President Poroshenko released in Ukraine
Today Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach has made public leaked audio recordings of phone conversations between US Vice President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State John Kerry and the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The most discussed subject of these calls appears to be US insistence of the dismissal of the then Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor… Continue reading
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The Ukrainian-Persian War and the great Ukrainian epos
It used to be a trope in the study of history that ancient, younger and more energetic peoples, thanks to their unconstrained genius, were able to craft powerful myths to explain the world around them, their own genesis and their mission. In these earlier stages of a civilization, ancient peoples were considered to be a… Continue reading
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The Illusion Of The Polish Road To Sovereignty – One World
This article was written by Polish journalist Konrad Rękas in response to Andrew Korybko’s latest piece about how “Germany Wants To Replace The Patriotic Polish Government With Europhile Puppets”. It originally appeared on One World. I tried to understand the author’s writing that Poland is already on its road to independence because I know that… Continue reading
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Germany Wants To Replace The Patriotic Polish Government With Europhile Puppets – One World
This article originally appeared on OneWorld. The former Polish Minister of Defense accused Germany of conspiring with a few other foreign actors to replace the patriotic Polish government with Europhile puppets, arguing that the country’s latest political controversy over the date of its presidential elections is proof of an attempt being made to carry out… Continue reading
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We shall never forget
Tomorrow is May 9, Victory Day. 75 years from the day when we gained full confidence that we will live, we the future generations whose grandparents, great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers have all directly or indirectly participated in the war. In 2017, new data was declassified 41 million people – 41 MILLION – in the USSR fell… Continue reading
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Никогда не забудем
Завтра 9 мая, день великой победы. 75 лет с того дня, когда мы получили полную уверенность в том, что будем жить, мы – будущие поколения, чьи бабушки и дедушки, прабабушки и прадедушки – все до единого прямо или косвенно учавствовали в войне. В 2017 г были рассекречены новые данные – 41 МИЛЛИОН. 41 миллион жителей… Continue reading
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How do Ukrainians see Europe?
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, for many Ukrainians, Europe became a kind of “promised land.” Not only for Ukrainians, however, but also for people from many other former Soviet republics. The media actively idealized and embellished Europe in order to turn people away from the nostalgia for Soviet times that existed in Ukrainian… Continue reading
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Как украинцы видят Европу?
После распада Советского Союза для многих украинцев Европа стала чем-то вроде «земли обетованной». Не только для ряда украинцев, впрочем, но и для жителей многих других республик. СМИ активно идеализировали и приукрашивали Европу, чтобы отвратить людей от ностальгии по советским временам, бытовавшей в украинском обществе в 1990х и начале 2000х. Такая ностальгия была вызвана резким ухудшением… Continue reading
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Один год президента Зеленского: разбитые надежды
English version В известной сцене из второй главы саги «Слуга народа» молодой президент Украины встречается с делегатами Международного Валютного Фонда для раунда переговоров о следующей кредитной линии для своей страны. Ссуды, однако, идут с тяжелыми условиями, такими как открытие страны для сланцевого газа, и представитель МВФ ясно дает понять, что эти условия необходимы. В конце… Continue reading
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President Zelensky one year on: dashed hopes
In a famous scene from the second chapter of the saga “Servant of the people”, a young Ukrainian President meets with delegates from the International Monetary Fund for a round of talks about the next line of credit for his country. The loans, however, comes with heavy conditions, like opening up the country for shale… Continue reading
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Will coronavirus revive global liberalism or put an end to it? – Myśl Polska
This article first appeared on Myśl Polska. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the face of the modern world in the basic spheres of human existence. He revealed above all the destructive nature of global political and economic-economic processes based on liberalism – not only at the societal level, but also in the individual space of… Continue reading
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Why do neocons support Joe Biden?
The American election is more than six months away and in these nervous pandemic times, it’s hard to see at the moment what could happen in the long battle between the Democratic candidate Biden and the current President Donald Trump. Arguably, much will depend on how the US deals with the coronavirus crisis. Crisis years… Continue reading
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“Independent media” made in USA – Myśl Polska
This article was originally published by Myśl Polska. State television holds the people for a bunch of thoughtless idiots, and this is undisputed. It serves them coarse propaganda on TVP1, TVP2 or TVP Info, which doesn’t make rational people even angry, but rather laugh. Watching the next news sites we see in front of our… Continue reading
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The European Union is an insufferable charade but it can emerge stronger after covid-19
The coronavirus epidemic has once again shown the true face of the European Union, just as the euro crisis in 2011 and the subsequent treatment of Greece showed. There are the beautiful slogans and proclaims of common values, solidarity and prosperity – and there is the hard, brutal and cold reality. Before this latest crisis,… Continue reading
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Putin has been waging war on American science for 10 years, writes the New York Times
Putin has waged war on American science and has run a campaign of health disinformation for a decade, the New York Times has argued in an article published on 13 April. According to the New York Times, this is “part of a wider effort to discredit the West and destroy his [Putin’s] enemies from within.”… Continue reading
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German lawyer who protested CoViD-19 quarantine in psychiatric hospital
Beate Bahner, a German lawyer from the city of Heidelberg who had filed a lawsuit to the German supreme court against the quarantine measures imposed by the German government to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, has been sectioned in a psychiatric hospital since Sunday, German media reports. Beate Bahner is a lawyer specialized in medical… Continue reading
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German arrogance will destroy the European Union
In recent years, Germany came to be seen as one of the few forces for good in the world: it took over a million refugees from Syria and other countries ravaged by war or simply poor; it led in the struggle against climate change and emissions, in particular after the Fukushima disaster, when it decided… Continue reading
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Italian PM Conte: “Insinuations about Russian aid offend me deeply”
In an interview with the BBC, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said Russian aid to Italy, until now the country that has registred the highest number of CoViD-19 deaths, has come with no strings attached. Answering to a question from BBC journalist Mark Lowen, who asked if Russia was planning to use aid to… Continue reading
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The EU may be a noble ideal, but its reality is grim
Defenders of the European Union argue that the institution may have flaws, but that it represents a noble ideal and for this reason the union must stand above everything else, like for example sovereignty, the will of the people in the individual nations and other petty and narrow-minded matters like national legislations. For the European… Continue reading
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The fake news about Russian fake news
Yesterday, once again, Russia was accused of spreading fake news by a European government. It was the UK turn this time, where government officials have rebuttedas fake news the news, reported by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, that the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who contracted the coronavirus, was put in intensive care on… Continue reading
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Diego Fusaro: “The European Union remains the main enemy of Italy”
The open society is coming to an end these days with the lockdown: the fuchsia-rainbows brigade of the “Bella Ciao” suddenly became a lover of drones and the army, mobile phone traceability and “law and order”. We would be laughing if we weren’t crying. Meanwhile, Albania has given its splendid lesson of dignity and solidarity… Continue reading
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Call for papers – East & West Journal
CALL FOR PAPERS Are you a student or a young scholar? Would you like to see your work published? Are you interested in international relations, history, political science, geopolitics, sociology, economics? For our first issue of “East & West Journal” coming out in June, we are making a call for papers. Your article must be… Continue reading
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Liberalism and the third world
To the so called third world, the periphery of the “civilized world”, the regions and countries that did not have the historical experience of capitalism and liberalism, the West offers a universal model of development and progress. This model of course cannot be implemented without the necessary financial means, and so the “civilized world” inevitably… Continue reading
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The true face of liberalism – Liberalism as anti-democracy
We used to be taught from childhood that public interests are higher than personal ones. All levels of social formation of a full member of society are saturated with this idea, starting from children’s fairy tales and cartoons, ending with history and religion. At each level of education of a spiritually healthy and highly moral… Continue reading
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