The real Zelensky: from celebrity populist to unpopular Pinochet-style neoliberal

April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Ukrainian academic Olga Baysha details Volodymyr Zelensky’s embrace of widely loathed neoliberal policies, his repression of rivals, and how his actions fueled the current war with Russia.
The real Zelensky: from celebrity populist to unpopular Pinochet-style neoliberal

H/T: Natylie’s Place: Understanding Russia

American Commissars

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Social media platforms are aggressively censoring all who challenge the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.
American Commissars

German EU official uses racist rhetoric claiming Russians don’t value life

April 16, 2022April 16, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A German EU official claimed Russians don’t value human life and thus aren’t Europeans. The ex NATO researcher was echoing a centuries-old colonialist trope used to justify genocide of Indigenous peoples, US war on Vietnam, and Israeli occupation of Palestine.
German EU official uses racist rhetoric claiming Russians don’t value life

[2018] The Biggest Secret

April 15, 2022April 15, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By James Risen
My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror
The Biggest Secret

The Danger of Washington’s Shallow “Human Rights” Rhetoric

April 2, 2022April 2, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

For many generations the US has hidden the true, repugnant purposes of its regime change ops behind the sanctimonious rhetoric of “democracy” and “human rights”.
The Danger of Washington’s Shallow “Human Rights” Rhetoric

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC Briefing on Biological Laboratories in Ukraine, March 18, 2022

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC Briefing on Biological Laboratories in Ukraine, March 18, 2022

The Kharkov laboratory was also home to project P-781 on the study of ways of transmitting diseases to humans through bats. This work was done jointly with the infamous R. Lugar Center in Tbilisi.

First Amendment Scholars Want to See the Media Lose These Cases

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Some legal experts say it is time to draw a sharp line between protected speech and harmful disinformation.
First Amendment Scholars Want to See the Media Lose These Cases

H/T: Judge Napolitano (YouTube video)