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Smart money and stupid money

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Three of the smartest commentators on the world situation, the Saker, Pepe Escobar, and Michael Hudson, combine here to give us a lucid description of whjere the Ukraine conflict is actually going. Let us remind ourselves for the second time what real smart Americans are thinking about this:

Don't take this course

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Friday, 25 February 2022

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Michael McFaul
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Please don't give Putin propagandists a platform on your media platforms. There is a time and place for hearing two sides of an issue. This tragic moment in European history is not one of them. Do not give false equivalency to voices of evil and voices of good.
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Troglodytes of their echoing caves and victims

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Saturday, 19 February 2022

2-19-22
Breakaway Ukrainian regions order mobilization
The head of the Donetsk People’s Republic has called on all able-bodied men to stand up to “Kiev’s aggression”
A soldier of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic on the frontline in eastern Ukraine, February 15, 2022. © Sergey Averin/Sputnik
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Breakaway Ukrainian regions order mobilization — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Substance and thought on the Ukraine

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Saturday, 19 February 2022

The article below has rationally organized facts gained from years of study and experience in Russia. They are an anecdote to the tissue of lies our government is feeding us. You';ll have to excuse it: it's currently in the hands of a feeble unpopular Democratic Party, greedier for wealth today and enough votes tomorrow to hang onto their privilege and their pork barrels than it could ever be for a decent reputation in the world. -- wmh

2-15-22

Asia Times

The road from the fog of bullshit to the fog of war

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Thursday, 17 February 2022

Our government has orchestrated a "story" about the Ukraine, Russia and NATO that is missing so many details that would give it even a whiff of reality that we are actually being clobbered hourly by lies in the service of warmongers in Washington trying to make their insanity history instead of stark ravings in an echo chamber that is effectively walled off from the American people by greed for money, power, and the blood of other peoples' children. -- Bill Hatch

Another German step toward energy independence

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Monday, 14 February 2022

A means of at least partial  escape --step by step -- from being caught between the American oil industry's liquid natural gas and Russian natural gas piped under the Baltic Sea, -- blj

German State Plans Hundreds of Artificial Energy Islands to Deploy North Sea Wind
CLEAN ENERGY WIRE
02/13/2022
By Jessica Bateman | –

The northernmost German state of Schleswig-Holstein has announced it wants to help push forward the energy transition by building artificial power islands in the North Sea, newspaper Die Zeit reported.

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