By Sarah Weaver The media appears to have rediscovered political violence the morning of October 28 when news broke that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul was attacked by a hammer-wielding mad man in their California home. The days of hysterical coverage that have since followed — certainly warranted to some degree for an alleged […]

by Mark Gullick Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. So say the lyrics to the National Anthem. But they already are, and these supplicant documents paraded by a nation’s great cultural institutions in its capital city show that. British culture is now constrained by coercive protocols, a quasi-legal system of crime and punishment. London is […]

Ex-Afghan generals tell AP that Russia is recruiting US-trained troops who fled to Iran after Taliban takeover for the war in Ukraine. Published On 1 Nov 20221 Nov 2022 Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the United States’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year are now being recruited […]

AARON MATÉ·OCTOBER 29, 2022 Dennis Kucinich on the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ Ukraine letter debacle and how to revive the US peace movement at a time when elected progressives are afraid to take a stand against war.   Dennis Kucinich, who led Congressional opposition to the Iraq war, reacts to the Congressional Progressive Caucus retracting a […]

RT https://www.rt.com/russia/565575-crimea-sevastopol-drone-ukraine/ All of the UAVs were shot down over the bay of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev claims Ukraine unsuccessfully attempted a major drone bombardment early on Saturday on the Crimean port of Sevastopol, home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the city governor has announced.  It was the largest attack of this nature on the peninsula […]

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/10/ukraine-open-thread-2022-186.html John Helmer reviews “Not One Inch Back” a new book about the last of the Gorbachov years in power, and the demise of the Soviet Union…. http://johnhelmer.net/stab-in-the-back-not-one-inch-but-right-to-the-heart/#more-69049 “Sarotte reports the Americans and Germans were cock-a-hoop. “Bush and Kohl needed,” she concluded, “to persuade Gorbachev to give up his legal [sic] right to keep troops […]

By Dion Nissenbaum Follow and Benoit Faucon Follow Oct. 28, 2022 5:30 am ET Ukrainian officials have warned that the two types of Iranian drones are just the beginning of Iranian support for Russia. They say Iran plans to send Russia both cruise and ballistic missiles that it can use in Ukraine. Norman Roule, a three-decade veteran of the […]

The Jimmy Dore Show October 27, 2022 Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin signed on to the House progressives’ letter calling for negotiations with Russia over Ukraine, except now he’s apparently happy that the letter has been rescinded. And if that wasn’t confusing enough, Raskin apparently thinks of Ukraine as some sort of woke paradise, with thousands […]

By Mike Whitney The US decided to make Russia its blood-enemy because it refuses to click-its-heels and do as it’s told. Russia refuses to be another sniveling flunky in the exalted “Rules-based System”. So, now we’re in a full-blown ground war with Russia; a war that was concocted, instigated, funded, guided, and micromanaged by Washington. A war […]