Last week, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh offered the most detailed account to date on the US Navy’s involvement in rigging Nord Stream to blow. Mainstream reporting on the bombshell story has been minimal, except to attack Hersh, who has over 60 years of journalistic experience, as a “discredited” or “controversial” journalist.

WE, CARTOONISTS, HAVE A HALF-DUTY TO CHALLENGE THE ESTABLISHMENT. WE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH AND WHEN WE FIND IT, IT’S OFTEN QUITE UGLY BECAUSE THE EMPERORS ALWAYS PARADE WITH NO CLOTHES. ALWAYS.

IN THE 2019 CARTOON ABOVE BY A UKRAINIAN ARTIST, OLEH SMAL, WE SEE ZELENSKY AS A CLOWN PROPPED UP BY HIS TV APPEARANCES. HE HAS DESTROYED HIS OWN PIANO, PROBABLY WITH HIS DICK. MY GUESS IS THAT THE CARTOON WAS MADE JUST BEFORE OR AROUND THE TIME ZELENSKY WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF “UKRAINE” WITH PROMISES OF THIS AND THAT. AS THEY SAY “PROMISES, PROMISES…”

Hypocrisy: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not : behaviour that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel…

Middle English: from Old French ypocrisie, via ecclesiastical Latin, from Greek hupokrisis ‘acting of a theatrical part’, from hupokrinesthai ‘play a part, pretend’, from hupo ‘under’ + krinein ‘decide, judge’.

IT HAS TO BE SAID THAT HYPOCRISY IS TOO WEAK A WORD TO DESCRIBE THE PRESENT WESTERN POLITICS AND MEDIATIC THEATRES.

OURS IS DOUBLE DEALING, LYING DANGEROUSLY, CREATING FALSE NARRATIVES, KNOWINGLY BEING OF BAD FAITH FOR PROFIT, FIGHTING DIRTY WITH LOW BLOWS, CORRUPTING THE REFEREE, NASTILY DESTROYING WHAT CAN SHOW OUR NASTINESS, USING UNREASONABLE MANTRAS AS REASON, BEING PHILOSOPHICALLY CORRUPT.... 

SO WHAT WORD EXISTS TO SUM UP ALL THIS :

The self-proclaimed "moral" superiority with which the rule of a small elite over the masses can be justified is guaranteed by socially approved doctrines and beliefs, such as "containment is Enlightenment ideology" or "diversity is strength ". These axioms make the rule of those currently in power seem reasonable to almost all members of society and satisfy the masses' instinctive need for legitimate domination, as opposed to emotionally "forced" alpha domination.

by Constantin von Hoffmeister

WE, OF ALL GREEN LOONIES, MADE RUDE JOKES ABOUT MALCOLM'S FOLLY: PUMPING WATER BACK UP THE SNOWY MOUNTAIN. OUR MAIN OBJECTION WAS THAT THIS COULD BE AN ENGINEERING NIGHTMARE, THOUGH POSSIBLE... THE COST WOULD SOON BLOW UP, LIKE NUCLEAR SUBMARINES, WHICH WERE NOT THOUGHT OF YET IN THIS SILLY COUNTRY OF SO CLEVER POLITICIANS.

SO HERE WE ARE, THE DRILLING MACHINE ON ITS MERRY WAY, GETS STUCK IN A SOFT GROUND AREA, BARELY 150 METRES INSIDE THE MOUNTAIN ON A 15 KMS JOURNEY. THERE WERE AND STILL ARE FAR CHEAPER SOLUTIONS TO STORE POTENTIAL ENERGY. BUT THEN MALCOLM, THE KING OF HALF-BAKED SOLUTION, THE BIG BRAIN BEHIND THE FOLLY OF OUR NBN, WENT FOR SOME REVATILISATION OF THE SNOWIES. 

Our political landscape is completely flooded by a massive tide of official propaganda. Therefore, it’s hardly surprising that the few visible points of surviving dissent are often found among those individuals who had previously represented the highest peaks of journalism and academic scholarship.

It’s been more than 30 years since Philippine lawmakers moved to end the permanent U.S. military presence in the country. Previously, the U.S. operated two major bases, but many Filipinos saw the bases as a legacy of U.S. colonialism, and wanted to assert their independence.

Now, the Philippines is inviting the U.S. to increase its military footprint in the country again—giving access to four new military bases amid rising tensions with China, the two countries announced Thursday.

PMC Wagner placed the northern suburbs of Artemovsk and the villages of Paroskovievka and Krasnaya Gora in operational encirclement.

In the early morning, the PMC Wagner fighters who took Blahodatne, after their recent big breakthrough from the Soledar direction, launched an offensive operation and operationally surrounded the villages of Paraskovivka and Krasnaya Gora and cut off all supply routes. 

This was confirmed by PMC Wagner Mapping, other pro-Russian sources and a member of an artillery unit from the 108th Guards Kuban Cossack Air Assault Regiment of the Russian Federation.

This means that 6 Ukrainian Armed Forces groups are now trapped in these villages. These battalions include:

A Freedom of Information request has lifted the lid on some of the Future Fund’s overseas investments. Those looking in might not like all that they see, writes Rex Patrick.

Late last month, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ ‘Capitalism after the crises’ essay was going to print, the Future Fund were busily processing my Freedom of Information request (FOI) for their investment portfolios in a number of overseas jurisdictions. 

Everyone with a brain already knew the Empire did it. Now Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report not only details how Nord Stream 1 and 2 were attacked, but also names names: from the toxic Straussian neoliberal-con trio Sullivan, Blinken and Nuland all the way to the Teleprompter Reader-in-Chief.

Prolific author Robert Kagan’s latest elevation of Americans to God’s new chosen people leaps from the 688 pages of his new book, The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941. It is probable that none wish it were longer, as sage Samuel Johnson said of John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

The lion’s share of Kagan’s handiwork is a workmanlike chronicling of United States politics and foreign policy from the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba, in 1898 through Pearl Harbor in 1941. The chronicle is meticulous but no literary equivalent of the Hope Diamond.

Prince Harry has been the subject of criticism from the military community and beyond after stating in his memoir Spare that he killed 25 members of the Taliban, according to reporting from leaked copies.

Aside from other shocking accusations—such as the claim that his brother, Prince William, knocked him to the floor during an argument—the 38-year-old also spoke of his decade-long service in the British army, which included being in charge of firing missiles from an Apache attack helicopter. 

BY SOLCYRE BURGA

We have a communication problem in Australia. Words that come out of a Black person's mouth are often heard so differently by white ears.

Take the ex-Green now crossbench senator Lidia Thorpe. She is constantly referred to as a "radical". Why? Because she is a champion of First Nations sovereignty.

Is that radical? First Nations people are the sovereign people of this country. This is, was and always will be our country.

The invasion and theft of our land does not change that. Never have our people ceded sovereignty.

On February 8, 2023, during a whirlwind visit by the Ukrainian president to Paris, Emmanuel Macron awarded the Legion of Honor to Volodymyr Zelensky, thus permanently dishonouring France.

by Christelle Nil

A lovely end of day — or a glistening night

In downtown Los Angeles where the shifting skies were made

Of yellow golden bursts and green streaks of purest jade

Above a boated harbour of attractive shopping malls on the edge

Of an ocean of silver sparks by Onyx, Tourmaline and liquid Pearls

We were looking for that famous shop of beautiful light

To buy a simple coffee and a TV

Everyone was so nothingly busy

No-one paid attention to our trollied follies

A soft crowd of strongest souls and full of muscular bodies

Dressed in black, platinum jewels and golden mink coats for Earls

So clean as America was right

And I’d been wrong all along.

Greed and equality had gone fine together along

Seventeen black dancers dressed in tinselling black

Came from the other side of the bay across a glass bridge