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letter calling for negotiations with Russia over Ukraine, except now he’s apparently happy that the letter has been rescinded.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 […]

by Kurt Zindulka A debate has emerged in Britain over the term ‘globalist’, with elements of the legacy media and social media arguing that using the word to describe the political ideology of preferring super state over state is actually a racist term against Jewish people. Following what many, such as Brexit leader Nigel Fage, […]

By Richard Abelson The EU Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) will investigate the EU’s sham deal with Pfizer to purchase 1.8 billion doses of the untested vccine at a cost of €35 billion. EU Parliamentarian Christine Anderson is demanding a criminal investigation of EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen’s role in the deal, and a parliamentary investigative […]

By Henri Astier & Yaroslav Lukov BBC News Russia has launched a “new massive strike” targeting Ukraine’s energy grid, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. He said the attacks were on a “very wide” scale, hitting Ukraine’s regions in the west, centre, south and east. Nearly 1.5 million households were without electricity, Kyiv said. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63357393 […]

By Jon Lovvorn Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about Proposition 12, California’s landmark law to address animal cruelty and public health issues stemming from the worst factory farming practices, such as confining pregnant pigs in gestation crates so small they can hardly move. Jon Lovvorn, senior vice president and chief counsel for […]

By MATT POWELL FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 20:41 EDT, 18 October 2022 | UPDATED: 22:55 EDT, 18 October 2022 West holds its breath over Putin’s nuke threat: Defence Secretary Ben Wallace jets to US for talks amid spies’ fears the Russian despot WILL detonate nuclear bomb over the Black Sea – as Kremlin promotes Chechnya veteran nicknamed ‘General Armageddon’ There are […]

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk argued on Monday that Russia views Crimea as an integral part of its territory, and that Ukrainian or Western attempts to seize the peninsula could end in nuclear war. While Musk has previously backtracked on pulling his technological support for Ukraine, he has courted controversy for insisting that Crimea […]