A prominent Canadian academic has come under fire in the Canadian press for attending the Valdai Forum in Russia. She told Sputnik that the Western press uses government-funded “lapdog” academics to smear the reputations of those who criticize Western policies and highlight how they have discredited themselves.
Radhika Desai: Western Press Uses ‘Ankle-Biting Yappy Dog’ Pseudo-Academics to Silence Critics
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Anti-War Views Criminalized in Germany
Divide and rule is the eternal law of Empire.
Anti-War Views Criminalized in Germany
Thousands in Italy protest West’s weapons supplies to Ukraine as war enters 2nd year
Thousands of Italians have demonstrated across the country in Rome, Florence and Genoa against Western sanctions imposed on Russia and transfer of lethal military hardware to Ukraine, a day after the first anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war.
Thousands in Italy protest West’s weapons supplies to Ukraine as war enters 2nd year
Video via World Politics
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Anti-NATO, Anti-EU, Anti-War, Protest Rallies Hit Germany, France, Italy
Updated: Protest in Berlin Over Arming Ukraine Against Russia Draws Thousands
BERLIN (Reuters) – A demonstration against supplying Ukraine with weapons for war with Russia attracted 10,000 people on Saturday, drawing criticism from top German government officials and a large police presence to maintain order.
Protest in Berlin Over Arming Ukraine Against Russia Draws Thousands
Video via Syriana Analysis
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The United States is obsessed with the idea of world hegemony, and Europe suffers from this – Wagenknecht
The United States is provoking a conflict in Ukraine in order to become the only world power, said the deputy of the German Bundestag from the “left” Sarah Wagenknecht in a video message published on her YouTube channel
The United States is obsessed with the idea of world hegemony, and Europe suffers from this – Wagenknecht
Sahra Wagenknecht SMASHES the US’ double standards
We depend on Russia more than Russia depends on us.
Sarah Wagenknecht, the new star of German politics, puts German national interests first and is not afraid to call things by their proper names. In a new interview she states openly that the government has not yet found an alternative to Russian energy resources. According to Sarah, boycotting energy resources from Russia because of the military confrontation with Ukraine does not fit in with the logic of buying energy resources from Azerbaijan, which has shown aggression against Armenia, or the UAE, which has been bombing Yemen for years, and the US, despite the “impeccable democracy” often violates the international law.
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How the Left betrayed the Truckers + Elites Are Smearing Truckers Because We’re Doing Their Job Representing the People
How the Left betrayed the Truckers
Ottawa’s truckers are a symptom of the massive class divide that is opening up across the West. Marxists are sticking their heads in the sand about this generational moment, or papering it over with absurd topsy-turvy leaps. In one recent display of moon logic, the Canadian activist, writer and self-described socialist Nora Loreto complained that “labour” was invisible in the resistance to the “fascist” truckers that had occupied Ottawa. An exasperated comrade chimed in with a story of being a shop steward for a teamster (truck driver) union, and — horror of horrors — the painful truth was that many teamsters were more likely to be in the protest themselves than protesting against it.
The exchange is modern Western Leftism in a nutshell. Is there a single better illustration of the contradictions of the moment? An “activist” and organiser” recoiling in horror at a bunch of truckers — people who work in the real, material economy, ferrying the foodstuffs and goods we all depend on to survive — staging a political protest, only to then ask “but where is the organised working class in all of this?”. Isn’t it obvious to the point of parody that the workers are the people inside the trucks?
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Elites Are Smearing Truckers Because We’re Doing Their Job Representing the People
Covid hit the working class hardest, but the traditional Left is deaf to their problems. Enter the populist Left
A real Left would have redirected this anger at the profiteers and politicians who failed the workers, giving them only crumbs in the form of stimulus payments. A worker-focused Left would argue for the appropriation of corporate delivery systems like Amazon for basic necessities if they wanted people to stay home, end evictions, protect wages, support those who continued to work, and much more. None of that happened, but at least Mr. Potato Head is now gender neutral. Tell that to the next class reductionist who wants to be protected from eviction!
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