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  •  | Putins State of the Union   The Greanville Post | MR Online

    Dehumanizing the enemy

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on December 27, 2022 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    The word “Russophobia” has been used very widely in the past couple of years by Russians and by “friends of Russia” abroad to describe the campaign of vilification of President Putin in particular and of the Russian people more generally that the U.S. led West has practiced with rising volume and shrillness ever since the start of an Information War launched in 2007.

  •  | Peace March The Banner Reads Together against the Warthe Message of the Combined Russian and Ukrainian Flags Moscow September 21 2014 Photo by E RazumnyiVedomosti | MR Online

    Is the Russia-Ukraine war at a crossroads?

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on November 21, 2022 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    In a new 25-minute live broadcast devoted to the war, Iran’s Press TV showcases key issues from this week’s developments on the front lines, including the latest bombardments of the Zaporozhie nuclear power station and the missiles which fell on Polish territory, threatening to bring in NATO as full co-belligerents.

  •  | How the Western Media Deciphers the Neo Nazi Code   Counter Information | MR Online

    Russian allegations of rampant Nazism in Europe

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on August 25, 2022 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    A couple of weeks before Vladimir Putin announced his ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine, he met in the Kremlin with Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz.

  •  | Russia and Ukraine are all set for war as Ukraines deadline for Russia to leave is ending | MR Online

    The United States pushes Russia to the brink of war, then cries “wolf”

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on December 5, 2021 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    The Russians have plainly said that they deem the Ukrainian government to be U.S-controlled, not a free agent, and they hold Washington directly responsible for whatever may happen on the ground in their neighborhood. 

  •  | The Master and Margarita | MR Online

    Mikhail Bulgakov, “Master and Margarita” and the anti-Russian hysteria in the United States

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on July 19, 2021 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog)

    You cannot argue with mass hypnosis. You can keep a diary, write a chronicle that reveals the falseness of the spirit of the age to hopefully enlighten future readers, because, as we hear in another of the main points of Bulgakov’s novel Master and Margarita, “manuscripts do not burn.” That is what I do….

  •  | Republic of Latvia flag Photo Ionotron Designs | MR Online

    Republic of Latvia, Apartheid State within the EU

    Originally published: Gilbert Doctorow Blog on July 31, 2018 (more by Gilbert Doctorow Blog) (Posted Aug 04, 2018)

    This essay draws upon my personal acquaintance with Alexander Gaponenko, the victim of ongoing cruel and unusual judicial procedures in Riga, Latvia which violate fundamentally the much-touted “values” of the European Union.

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    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

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