By Peter Schwarz, wsws.org The release from jail of the Russian oligarch Mikhail…
"The Quiet Russian"
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SOURCE: Pravda.ru Among all leaders of the Soviet Union and the pre-Putin Russia, Russians…
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Pepe Escobar: Israel Facing Inevitable Defeat? – Is the Ukraine War About to End?!
by Pepe Escobar23 minutes readEDITOR—Pepe Escobar chats with Nima about the latest highly disturbing developments in the global clash between the US hegemon and the rising multipolar bloc, a confrontation currently anchored in Ukraine, Palestine and the Southeast Asia theater which may soon involve a direct collision between Russia and the US, and quite possibly their associated states.
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CHRISTINA MAAS—What’s Durov’s crime, you ask? Well, it depends on which bureaucrat you ask. According to the official indictment, he’s guilty of everything short of kicking puppies—fraud, drug trafficking, organized crime, encouraging terrorism, and, just for good measure, providing encryption. The French authorities must have felt ambitious that day, throwing in the entire criminal code just to be sure. Let’s not forget that this whole circus started because Durov reportedly had [stood firm in his support of] free speech. Apparently, in 2024, that’s enough to get you a one-way ticket to a Parisian jail cell.
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GARLAND NIXON discusses the shabby political motives behind the state’s harassment and intimidation of anti-imperialist foreign policy activists like SCOTT RITTER. Garland talks about the work Scott does to bring the peoples of Russia and the former Soviet Union and US closer as friends who understand each other as human beings, thereby facilitating international peace. Scott, married to a woman from Georgia (Europe), a nation formerly part of the USSR, and with a lot of friends and connections in Russia, where he is well-liked. Speaking about the paranoid measures implemented by the US government. Garland mentions the case of Tulsi Gabbard, who was recently put on a “quiet skies” TSA list deeming her a “potential terrorist”. Every time she flies now, absurd as it sounds, the TSA and other security agencies inject a full security team to fly along with her. The FBI and the rest of the security agencies, notes Garland, don’t do these things because they are incompetent or stupid. They are simply “leaning” on their targets to show them they don’t like what they are doing and want them to stop. The same kind of intimidation and judicial persecution is happening right now in America’s vassal states in Europe, where people are being tried for opinion that “helps Russian propaganda”.