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Big Tech’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Love Affair

By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and cross-posted with Consortium News Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else.  Journalism that does not conform must be taken down. This month, several of us – Scott Ritter, myself, ASB Military News, among others – were canceled from Twitter. The – unstated – reason: we were debunking the officially approved narrative of the

French presidential debate: Le Pen goes mainstream, proving Yellow Vests right

by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog What a difference five years makes? I wish I could report differently, but the long awaited French presidential debate was a total dud. Just like the whole election campaign was. And now, just like both candidates, too. I wasn’t sure if I was watching Marine Le Pen or Sarkozyist candidate Valerie Pecresse, that’s how mainstream Le Pen appeared. It was a total 180

Larry C. Johnson interviewed by RT

Larry C. Johnson: “RT sent an email and asked to interview me on the situation in Ukraine. I consented. Here is the result:” https://sonar21.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/%E2%80%98They-bit-off-more-than-they-can-chew-dealing-with-Russia-%E2%80%93-Former-CIA-Analyst1-1.mp4

Today’s Open Thread

This is today’s open thread for The Saker Blog discussion points. All moderation rules are in effect.  For all the new readers and commentariat, please read the moderation policy. Updates on the Ukraine Mariupol has been declared liberated and it is being called the 2nd Liberation of Mariupol.  Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced that “The Total Liberation of Mariupol by

The risks, challenges, and crisis of the Ukraine war.

By Zamir Awan for the Saker Blog The last few decades have witnessed several wars, like the Iraq war, Libya war, Yemen war, Syria war, the Afghan war, etc. But all of such wars were designed by the US and executed along with NATO/ US allies. The US-style of wars, was first building a narrative, using media as propaganda, and then, involving the UN and international community, or convincing the

Sitrep: Operation Z

By Nightvision for the Saker Blog Let’s start with the obvious, that all bells are sounding regarding the start of the much awaited ‘Phase 2’ of the SMO. However, I for one am not yet entirely convinced it has fully begun and take the side of caution in line with what the Pentagon and analysts like Colonel Cassad have stated: “We have not yet observed offensive actions using large forces

Sitrep: Julian Assange

Posted by Amarynth The Westminster Magistrate’s Court has issued an order to extradite journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. The order was sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel who has to sign off on extraditions. Assange’s defense has until May 18 to make submissions to Patel against extradition. Meanwhile Assange will remain in custody. He can only appeal once Patel has made a decision. https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/uk-court-issues-order-to-extradite?s=w British

A Blast from the Past – Ask yourselves: Are we the bad guys?

By R. Lesnoix for the Saker Blog Four years ago, I wrote an article for this site, my first, because of how bad I felt about how our western governments had been acting, especially in the middle east, and with regards to Syria in particular. There are a lot of my own emotions and frustrations buried in it. As you can probably tell. I used a comedy sketch by Mitchell

One, No-one, One Hundred Thousand

By Jimmie Moglia for the Saker Blog “One, no-one, one hundred thousand” is the title of a novel by Italian author Luigi Pirandello. ‘One’ refers to the image that everyone has of himself, ‘no one’ refers to what the protagonist decides to be at the end of the novel. ‘One hundred thousand’ refers to the images that others have of us. As the plot of the novel unfolds, the protagonist

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with India Today television channel, Moscow, April 19, 2022

https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1810023/ Question: The big question that most are asking is the reason for this operation, the reason for President Putin to take the country to war at a time when we have seen negotiations and talks taking place. What was the reason? We know that America said that Russia was going to carry out operations. New Delhi certainly was not aware of it. Many countries said that it is not

Phase 2 in progress

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Two Cheers for Realism

By Francis Lee for the Saker Blog One of the unstated and extant features of the contemporary age has been the demise of the Westphalian Treaty. This arrangement had in times past regulated the relationship and clashes of interest among the great powers. We should remind ourselves that the key precepts of the system were preceded by the carnage of the 30 years’ war in Europe circa 1618-1648, and eventually

Nasrallah: The war in Ukraine unmasked the racism and hypocrisy of the West

Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah on March 8, 2022, on the occasion of the Day of the Wounded.Source: video.moqawama.org Translation: resistancenews.com […] O my brothers and sisters, the events happening around us in terms must strengthen our awareness, our lucidity and our understanding of things, the conclusions we draw from them for the current equations, as well as the lessons and teachings we learn from them. This

Sitrep: Operation Z

By Nightvision for the Saker Blog I didn’t plan on covering the Moskva anymore, as I like many want to move on past that topic. But since the unexpected release of the only known images of the stricken cruiser, there are a few things that must be stated for the record, simply because I see no one else in the resistance sphere stating them, and certainly they will be covered

Sitrep: Zone B

By Amarynth for the Saker Blog By now everyone has read Andrei (The Saker’s) excellent essay on what he termed Zone A and Zone B. Zone B exists, thus there is hope, I promise you! This sitrep will look at three Zone B country actions, all driven by those that understand we are in a civilizational moment of change in our world. Mexico:  A week ago, AMLO fulfilled his promise

Serbs pressing on with pro-Russian stance

By Kiyoshi Hatanaka for the Saker Blog Serbian government’s recent vote in favor of ousting the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council reverberated badly with the Serbian public, as did the regime’s servile vote in the General Assembly a few weeks ago to condemn Russia for its operation in Ukraine. An estimated 20,000 Serbs poured into the streets of Belgrade, assembling symbolically in front of the monument to

Russia at war

War – for a long time by Evgeny Norin from the Telegram “Readovka” channel and translated for the Saker Blog War is too serious a matter to be approached with complacent illusions. Nevertheless, in Russia, it seems, many are still quite seriously convinced that the ongoing operation in Ukraine is just another local conflict that can be quickly ended in the style of the Five-Day War in Georgia, after which

The Paris Commune: The birth of international neoliberalism and EU neo-imperialism

by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog (This is the sixth chapter in a new book, France’s Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West’s Best Values. Please click here for the article which announces this book and explains its goals.) One hundred and fifty years later it’s clear that the Paris Commune of 1871 was four things, and only one – the last on this list – is widely understood

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