Russia
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Pop ‘til We Drop? by JOHN FEFFER
We are currently at 6.6 billion and expected to approach 9 billion some time before 2050. Mother Earth is mad as hell and isn’t going to take us anymore. We’ve heard this all before. Continue reading
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This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression By Seumas Milne
The outcome of six grim days of bloodshed in the Caucasus has triggered an outpouring of the most nauseating hypocrisy from western politicians and their captive media. As talking heads thundered against Russian imperialism and brutal disproportionality, US vice-president Dick Cheney, faithfully echoed by Gordon Brown and David Miliband, declared that “Russian aggression must not… Continue reading
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Meeting on GEORGIA, NATO & THE SPREAD OF WAR
Stop the War Coalition T: 020 7278 6694 www.stopwar.org.uk Friends Meeting House (Small Hall) 6.30 pm, Thursday 14 August, 2008 with MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus KATE HUDSON, Chair of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament BORIS KAGARLITSKI, former director Institute of Globalisation Studies, Moscow and author of, ‘Empire of… Continue reading
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Meeting on GEORGIA, NATO & THE SPREAD OF WAR
Stop the War Coalition T: 020 7278 6694 www.stopwar.org.uk Friends Meeting House (Small Hall) 6.30 pm, Thursday 14 August, 2008 with MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus KATE HUDSON, Chair of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament BORIS KAGARLITSKI, former director Institute of Globalisation Studies, Moscow and author of, ‘Empire of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: INVASION – A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE – PART 2 By Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 22, 2007 Blaming ‘External Interference’ A striking feature of Soviet media performance on Afghanistan was its focus on “external interference” – primarily US in origin – and the role of this interference in fuelling the war. In 1988, Pravda reported that Afghan president… Continue reading