Where was their support for Eastern Ukrainians against government-backed neo-Nazis in the eight years before the Russian invasion?

Actually there was a small amount of support that ultimately got crushed: The Nation, 2016: Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill

And so, in July of last year, Congressmen John Conyers of Michigan and Ted Yoho of Florida drew up an amendment to the House Defense Appropriations bill (HR 2685) that “limits arms, training, and other assistance to the neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, the Azov Battalion.” It passed by a unanimous vote in the House.

Ukrainians did live under apartheid, Eastern Ukrainians that is, in the nine years leading up to the Russian invasion.

Stochastic terrorism is what you get from the Blob’s incessant Cold War II sabre-rattling. My Midwestern Chinese wife is increasingly unsafe in her own country.

(Innuendo Studios comes to mind)

Seems like someone should read the whole post before responding 😅

Innuendo Studios did a decent short summary. For more, see the “bibliography” in the video description and/or the other videos in the series.

Why Are You So Angry? Part 4: An Autopsy on GamerGate

Playlist for anyone interested: Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson - Geopolitical Economy Hour

I swear if it weren’t for Michael Hudson’s writings & interviews, I wouldn’t understand half the things I do. He’s an invaluable resource on domestic & international economics (and politics, and history for that matter).

• A compilation of countervailing views: What’s going on with the Uyghurs?
• American ex-marine Brian Berletic’s debunking video.

Because it’s bullshit: CIA Behind Uyghur Propaganda and Scheme to Demonize and Destabilize China

I assume a lot of actual leftists left Reddit in the mass exodus this year like I did, which would leave the entire site more rightist.

We’re using women as beards for warhawkery nowadays: Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Victoria Nuland, etc.

Clinton, Susan Rice & Samantha Power were key figures in the destruction of Libya: Obama’s Women Advisers Pushed War Against Libya.

I don’t know about Max having vast wealth, as Ben put it, but his dad, Sidney Blumenthal, probably has a few million bucks, is well-connected, and seems to be a shady political operative, having allegedly been involved with Obama birtherism and the debunked Steele Dossier.

Aaron & Katie don’t seem to want to reveal their actual ideologies, but they seem to be reliably anti-imperialist & anti-chauvinist, and they never seem to portray capitalism in a favorable light. So they seem to at least be sympathetic to socialism.

Aaron Maté still live streams with Blumenthal on The Grayzone’s YouTube channel. Has he not yet left for contractual reasons or what?

Reality has a well-known Russian propaganda bias.

Article link: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/04/my-friends-prabir-and-amit-are-in-jail-in-india-for-their-work-in-the-media/

I’ve been going under the assumption that he was a CIA-or-whichever-Blob asset, and ended up on the wrong side of the Saudi royal family during MBS’s Year of the Long Knives.

Ackchyually the preferred nomenclature is housing provider. Berkeley Property Owners Association: Why We’re “Housing Providers”:

We politely decline the label “landlord” with its pejorative connotations.

Right, landleech it is then.

Unsolicited trivia: there’s a symbol for generic/unspecified currency: ¤

Bruce Schneier is a well known & respected computer security & cryptography expert, but also a bog-standard American liberal, hence the projection that American Democracy is besieged by enemies foreign & domestic.