EDITOR—1943, the Great Patriotic War, territory of Belarus. The 16-year-old boy Flera, having dug out a carbine among scraps of barbed wire, rusty machine-gun belts and shot-through helmets, goes into the forest to join the ranks of the partisans. This film, like no other, shows the tragedy of a child on a battlefield. At the beginning of the picture Flera is just a teenager. But In the end, having gone through horror and fear, child becomes an adult, frighteningly adult – his face is distorted by senile wrinkles, and there is no room for love in his soul…
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SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER provides an exhaustive analysis of the situation in the Ukraine War at the moment Kiev continues to talk about an offensive—largely for p.r. reasons— and the West looks for an exit ramp or some viable manner to keep the conflict going indefinitely, without having to concede defeat.
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AMONG THE TOPICS DISCUSSED:
• The West’s elites complete disconnection from reality and criminal indifference to the lot of ordinary people
• The effects of having the West/US controlled by a corrupt “Bubble” of self-perpetuating privileged and ultra-wealthy insiders.
• How rotten leadership is inevitable under an advanced capitalist regime (imperialism)
• Realities of the Ukraine war, the Russian options -
THE CONVO COUCH—Matt Ehret joins The Convo Couch to discuss Russia, Ukraine, and what’s been happening in the world. Interview recorded on June 3rd, 2022. It’s noteworthy that the world elites would not be able to impose any kind of new order in the world without the collaboration of the US elites. As it is, it is precisely the US oligarchy that is leading the world into this new dystopia.
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When the CIA overthrew the democratically-elected Mossadegh government in 1953, it brought rent-a-mobs into the streets of Tehran to provide cover for the coup. Were the riots that broke out in Iran last week the latest iteration of the CIA’s rent-a-mob coup strategy?
