In any war, the first casualty is truth. Here are the biggest lies:
1. “Ukraine is a democracy”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky banned all opposition parties and banned the use of Russian as a second state language. Why did he violate his 2019 campaign promise to stop the genocidal killing of...
Since the Russian military operation to de-Nazify and de-militarize Ukraine began in late February, there is a common misperception that the Western left is “split” over the conflict in its response.
Indeed, it is true there has been infighting within organizations such as the U.S.-based Democratic Socialists of America...
If a tree in the woods fell down
And we see no one is around,
Does it still, if you will, make a sound
With no ear which to hear it fall down?
Biden Not Getting Pre-Election Battlefield Victory He Was Hoping For
In a song that he wrote about the Korean War, the great American folk singer Woody Guthrie mocked General Douglas MacArthur and Defense Secretary Robert Lovett for promising that U.S. troops would be home by Christmas, emphasizing that MacArthur and...
As is usually the norm in this conflict zone, we had not received prior notice as to the day’s schedule.
Our vehicle worked its way to a district outside Donetsk called Shakhtersk, which bore the stigmata of nine years of shelling. The grim landscape of desolation stretched for miles on...
On July 7, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR.org) published an article by Gregory Shupak analyzing the hypocrisy of U.S. corporate media in its reporting of Ukraine, specifically the differing treatment by Western media of the situations in Donbas compared to that of the Serbian-Albanian territory of Kosovo. The...
Back in the 1960s and 1970s during the war in Vietnam, everybody knew about the “credibility gap,” which morphed into Credibility Gulch as the official story stretched ever-farther from reality.
We are seeing it again in the current war between the United States/NATO and Russia, being fought out mainly in...
Sensationalistic headlines about North Korean engagement in Kursk contradicted by statements of Secretary of Defense
On November 24, Newsweek ran a story by Ellie Cook with the headline “Russian and North Korean Troops Shrink Ukraine’s Gains in Kursk.”
The title made it seem like North Korea was fighting on the front-lines...
Russian and Donbas militia forces now control most Donbas territory and a large part of the Black Sea coast as Ukraine claims 200‒500 combat losses each day.
As the U.S. and its NATO allies met in Spain and Germany during the last week of June in the midst of four...
The latest example is its pressing for release of John McCain pallbearer from Siberian jail while it ignores a socialist arrested by the Ukrainian intelligence services and another socialist who was murdered
On April 9, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot specializing in political propaganda, hosted an...
