Paralyzed by fear of a nuclear holocaust, the West responds to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Savage dives into the centuries of Russian history to speculate on Putin’s motives and his end game for Kiev. Why did Putin seize Chernobyl? How is Zelensky connected to Soros? Savage unravels the enigma of the Russian invasion on this […]

by Johan Eddebo Ukraine became formally independent about 30 years ago, in relation to the dissolution of the USSR. Strategically, Ukraine is indispensable for Russian security. One aspect of this is the Black Sea region and Crimea, the importance of which was the key reason for Florence Nightingale’s Crimean War of the 1800s. Sevastopol has […]

Elon Musk has claimed that SpaceX-operated Starlink satellite internet constellation now “active” in Ukraine Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed on Saturday that his satellite internet program Starlink now covers Ukraine after a request for aid from the country’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Fedorov had published an open letter to Musk on Saturday, which read, “While […]

Timeline: Euromaidan, the original “Ukraine Crisis” Genuine grassroots revolution or NATO backed coup? Here are the facts to help you decide. Kit Knightly As Russia actually do launch an invasion or “special operation” in Ukraine, we thought now was a good time to recap on how we got here. The historical, political and ethnic divisions […]

Sky News Many citizens are fleeing Kyiv as Russian troops fight to surround the city. Sky News spoke to one inexperienced 21-year-old soldier who is guarding a bridge into the city. He told Stuart Ramsay he has only fired 16 rounds in his life. https://youtu.be/SB1cxIc3qDA

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by Joshua Klein Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson warned Canadians in a podcast this week to withdraw money from Canadian banks, citing a source allegedly in the Canadian military who warned “the situation is far worse” than imagined. The “situation” in Canada is the unprecedented activation of the Emergencies Act, a law intended to grant the […]

https://off-guardian.org/2022/02/20/this-week-in-the-new-normal-23/   BONUS: DEPRESSING POSTER OF THE WEEK Someone forwarded us this on social media this week… It’s a poster promoting the current events program Re: on Arte TV, and it poses the question: The Future or Climate Killer? Over the image of a woman with two young children. For those who don’t know, Arte is a European television […]

A wonderfully-scathing article by Mark Crispin Miller: And so it’s time now for the rest of us to recognize that this “left” is itself the enemy it used to warn against—a “left” that hates the working class, and wants to see its independence smashed, its peaceful protests halted everywhere, whatever that may take, so that those “far […]

by Cristina Laila A Canadian single mother’s bank account was frozen for donating $50 to the Freedom Convoy, according to MP Mark Strahl. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week invoked emergency orders to break up the trucker Freedom Convoy. Trudeau also froze financial accounts of truckers who participated in the protest and those who […]