https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/10/liberals-are-adopting-an-old-soviet-tactic-painting-opponents-as-mentally-ill/ The pathologization of dissent is not going away. It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows. Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy…

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/03/ukraine-on-the-fault-line-between-east-and-west.html Michael J. Totten in Quillette: MSNBC’s Joy Reid thinks the West’s galvanizing response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unfair. “Let’s face it,” she said on March 8th, “the world is…

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/03/how-did-this-many-deaths-become-normal.html Ed Yong in The Atlantic: The united states reported more deaths from COVID-19 last Friday than deaths from Hurricane Katrina, more on any two recent weekdays than deaths during the…

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/03/donald-trumps-power-is-fading-trumpism-is-the-clear-and-present-danger-now.html Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian: Proclaiming what’s going to happen is a popular way to shrug off taking responsibility for helping to determine what’s going to happen. And it’s something…

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/03/there-is-no-such-thing-as-countries.html by Thomas R. Wells Countries exist. They are places on the map which have a political identity and borders and which people or things can live in, come from,…

This is the extent of voluntary reaction to events in Ukraine. By Joe LAURIA The International Federation of Felines (FIFe) on Tuesday ordered a ban on the importation of Russian-bred…

https://www.economist.com/china/2022/03/01/vladimir-putin-is-an-imperialist-but-china-does-not-care China and Russia agree that big countries should run the world TO THE FERVENT revolutionaries who ran China in 1968, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was a monstrous crime,…

https://www.unz.com/article/us-foreign-policy-is-a-cruel-sport/ Bear baiting was long ago banned as inhumane. Yet today, a version is being practiced every day against whole nations on a gigantic international scale. NATO officials visit Ukraine,…

https://www.unz.com/proberts/by-all-measures-the-us-has-the-worlds-most-incompetent-government-and-the-worst-media/ US President Biden claims Russian troops continue “encircling Ukraine” even as Moscow says they are withdrawing. The Russian soldiers were never there for the purpose of invading Ukraine. They…

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Propaganda isn’t just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we’d never normally accept. That’s what most people think of when they hear that word,…