The Grayzone has the YouTube video Ukraine exposed as CIA-MI6 beachhead
The Grayzone’s Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal discuss a stunning New York Times report which was intended to highlight achievements by the CIA and MI6 in Ukraine, but which wound up confirming Russia’s understanding of the post-Maidan government as a blunt instrument of Western intelligence.
YouTube has the video Statement by Democratic Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson on the War in Gaza.
She makes too many assumptions about Israel. Israel is a perfect example of why it is a bad idea to form a nation based on religion.
New Dawn Magazine has the article Why Did Russia REALLY Invade Ukraine?
The following article by Patrick Henningsen – written only months after Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine on 24 February 2022 – explains the background dynamics of this war. The facts outlined here – that were suppressed in the West but well known to informed observers – are only now emerging in mainstream media as Western backers of Ukraine begin to face reality.
I wanted to preserve a link to this article. This is the real history as I remember it.
Here is an excerpt from the article that summarizes the point of the history.
After eight long years of bloodshed and failed peace negotiations, the Russian president took to the airwaves to announce Moscow’s formal recognition of the independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. For a legal perspective, this immediately qualified them for official Russian military protection, including the establishment of humanitarian corridors which were quickly opened. After more than seven years of stalled diplomacy, Moscow finally chose to abandon the already dead Minsk agreement and directly deal with the situation in Donbass – and the threat posed by a US-controlled and NATO-occupied Ukraine to its national homeland security.
Tucker Carlson has posted Ep. 73 The Vladimir Putin Interview.
I have spent 2 hours watching this. I do not see why this is such a big deal in the west.
I first learned about Žižek’s Jokes when someone mentioned the term in a comment on Facebook. My search for the term fist led me to the article 10 jokes from philosopher Slavoj Žižek
In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by censors, he tells his friends: “Let’s establish a code: if a letter you will get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it is true; if it is written in red ink, it is false.” After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: “Everything is wonderful here: stores are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, movie theaters show films from the West, there are many beautiful girls ready for an affair—the only thing unavailable is red ink.”
There is also a book Žižek’s Jokes
The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Žižekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Žižek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him. Žižek’s Jokes contains the set-ups and punch lines—as well as the offenses and insults—that Žižek is famous for, all in less than 200 pages.
The Bigthink website has the article Sorry, Astronomers: Practically All Of The Universe’s Matter Is Still Missing
They said the “missing half” of the Universe’s matter was just found. But what they found barely makes a dent to the big picture.
I am always interested in learning a little more. I probably won’t live long enough to find out what dark matter is.
The Levy Institute has a podcast Episode 1: James K. Galbraith.
Our inaugural episode, hosted by John Harvey, Professor and Hal Wright Chair of Economics at Texas Christian University. Harvey sits down for an in-depth conversation with James K. Galbraith regarding the state of the economics discipline, central bank policy, and more.
A most fascinating discussion on the history and current status of the world of economic thought. My own thinking is still evolving. It is discussions like this one that keep the topic alive.
Recommended readings:
- “In Defense of Low Interest Rates,” Policy Note by James K. Galbraith
- The Poverty of the World, by Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani
- The Age of Uncertainty, by John K. Galbraith
- The Anatomy of Power, by John K. Galbraith