On Thursday – just hours after approving another $40 billion in US taxpayer dollars for Ukraine – the US Senate blocked a bipartisan $48 billion aid package for restaurants, gyms, and other small businesses that have been struggling in Biden’s post-lockdown economy…
Torture in Ukraine: Interview with Journalist Laurent Brayard (VIDEO-Subtitles)…
Stratpol recently interviewed Laurent Brayard, a French journalist and pro-Donbass activist who has been collecting testimonies of Ukraine’s prison survivors: militiamen, spies or innocent passerby, the stories he collected shed a new light on the historical roots of the ongoing conflict, and the methods used by Ukrainians since 2014…
Pathetic, Truly: MSNBC ‘Military Analyst’ Posts Video Game Clip Claiming It’s Ukraine War Footage…
Retired Four Star General Barry McCaffrey who now serves as a “military analyst” for MSNBC tweeted out footage of fighting in Ukraine that was actually a clip from a video game…
Sitrep Operation Z: NATO Surrenders in Azovstal…
The New York Times prevaricates as follows: Ukraine ended its “combat mission” in Mariupol and said fighters were being evacuated, signaling that the battle at a steel plant was over…
Ukraine SitRep – Russians Break Through U.S. Bolsterism….
Thinks must be bad in Ukraine for this to have happened. Indeed if one trusts the daily ‘clobber list’ the Russian Ministry of Defense puts out all positions of the Ukrainian army are under heavy artillery fire and it is losing about 500 men per day. There are additional Russian effective strikes on training camps, weapon storage sites and transport hubs all over the country…
Sitrep as of May 19: Kiev’s Lies and Russia’s Victories in Eastern Ukraine (VIDEO)…
The First Casualty of War Is the Truth – The Current Western Propaganda for Ukraine Is Epic in Scale…
When we shared yesterday that all interested observers should be very wary of the information from media sources around Ukraine, there was a reason for that. Question everything. Take nothing at face value…
How War Propaganda in the Film Industry Really Works
As the co-authors of National Security Cinema, we have become known — rather inaccurately — for encouraging two major ideas: 1. That the government is really important in making movies more militaristic. 2. That Hollywood doesn’t produce dissenting films. While the first of these is somewhat true it is a simplification, the second is a […]
Omidyar’s Intercept Teams Up with War-Propaganda Firm Bellingcat…
The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using “open source” tools — with Bellingcat’s past, controversial investigations for […]
Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran by Patrick Lawrence…
The Trump administration has brought U.S. foreign policy to the brink of crisis, if it has not already tipped into one. There is little room to argue otherwise. In Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and in Washington’s ever-fraught relations with Russia, U.S. strategy, as reviewed in my previous column, amounts to little more than […]