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Brazil’s Lula in a Wilderness of Mirrors
A surprising Supreme Court decision that, while not definitive, restores Lula’s political rights has hit Brazil like a semiotic bomb and plunged the nation into a reality show being played in a wilderness of shattered mirrors. At first, it looked like three key variables would remain immutable. Continue reading
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Sputnik V Diplomacy: A Race Won As Humanity Continues Losing
Holy cow! The American expression most often reserved for stunning revelations suits a recent New York Times shocking headline. Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine may be worth a try, no less. When I read the headline, I dropped my morning cappuccino. That’s right, the bible of Putin and Russia haters has written a Psalm about Russia… Continue reading
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Starting to Crack a Hard Target: U.S. Intelligence Efforts Against the Soviet Missile Program through 1957
U.S. Learned of the First ICBM Test from a Soviet Press Release and the Second from a Remark Made to a French Politician UNAWARE OF SPUTNIK I AND II UNTIL THEY WERE IN ORBIT Continue reading
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Newspeak at the Media Freedom Conference Joint UK-Canada Event Littered With Insidious Undertones By Kit Knightly
OffGuardian already covered the Global Media Freedom Conference, our article Hypocrisy Taints UK’s Media Freedom Conference, was meant to be all there was to say. A quick note on the obvious hypocrisy of this event. But, in the writing, I started to see more than that. This event is actually…creepy. Continue reading
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Britain Ramps up Media War on Russia by Finian Cunningham
The British government appears to be more and more aping a Monty Python-type farce with each passing day. Soon the absurd ensemble will be complete if either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt becomes the next prime minister. Continue reading
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Government That Tortures Journalists Bans RT From Media Conference By Caitlin Johnstone
The British Foreign Office has banned Russian outlets RT and Sputnik from attending the upcoming Global Conference on Media Freedom in London, citing their predilection for “disinformation”. Continue reading