RON UNZ—One year ago tomorrow a series of massive underwater explosions destroyed most of the $30 billion Russian-German Nord Stream Pipelines, probably Europe’s most important civilian energy infrastructure. All observers soon agreed that the blasts had been deliberate, likely constituting the greatest case of industrial terrorism in world history and an obvious act of war against Germany, NATO’s leading European member. And then in lock-step, nearly all Western media outlets declared that the Russians had destroyed their own pipelines, an action further demonstrating the dangerous insanity of President Vladimir Putin, our diabolical Moscow adversary. Only a handful of voices on the dissident fringe suggested otherwise.
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JOTI BRAR explains the origins and evil evolution of European colonialism and its successor, imperialism, around the world, especially in Africa, where it continues in its more brutal forms to this day. Joti notes that African nations have been energised and encouraged in their struggles by first the Soviet Union and later Russia, a posture that continues to this day, giving them hope that they will triumph.
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ERIC ZUESSE— Putin’s biggest-ever blunder has been his failure to have offered to Finland a guarantee of peaceful relations, and of favored-nation status on trade (including on energy-prices of oil and gas, which, prior to the 2022 U.S.-imposed sanctions against Russia, European countries had, for decades, been buying at lower prices from Russia than from any other country, even without any favored-nation status), if Finland will not join NATO.
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GARLAND WITH GUEST RAY MCGOVERN: THE CHINA, IRAN, SAUDI DEAL, ALSO THE NEW NORD STREAM HOAX / Plus Western Media Slowly Acknowledges the Ukraine Catastrophe. (Truth is finally oozing out of every pore in the Western wall of lies.)
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NORA HOPPE—The arts – in their truest and noblest forms – have always posed a serious threat to despotic powers because they represent a freedom of spirit and independence of thought. During the Third Reich, the Nazis engaged in “Cancel Culture” by censoring various forms of music, literature, films, theatre plays that were considered an “insult to German feeling” and which they condemned as “Entartete Kunst” [degenerate art]. Instead, they promoted works that exalted the “blood and soil” values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.
