Max Blumenthal

I once believed liberals opposed state suppression of alternative media. Today, it's their agenda.

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The real Zelensky: Ukrainian academic Olga Baysha tells how Ukraine's president went from celebrity populist to Pinochet-style neoliberal, embracing economic policies crafted by US advisors, repressing his rivals, and paving a path to war.

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/28/zelensky-celebrity-populist-pinochet-neoliberal/

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Scenes like these have been commonplace in Donetsk throughout the past eight years. Western media continues to look away as Ukrainian army shells rain down on civilian structures.

https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1519694012839510017?t=zdEXKXv7ZzqzHRwsyDB62A&s=09

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This video was taken in a class in "civilized and democratic" Ukraine. The cartoon calls for the genocide of Russians ("that there be no more Russian in the world") and wishing that all Ukrainian babies be like Bandera (his organisation also called for the genocide of Jews, btw...)
Meanwhile, in "despotic and barbaric" Russia, schools also teach patriotism to children, just slightly differently. Children of elementary schools are told to make drawings about the upcoming May 9th celebration, commemorating the victory over nazism in which 20 million Russians died. A schoolteacher told me that 3 out of 10 drawings are about peace between Russians and Ukrainians.

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Always ominous when Victoria Coup-land drops in a few months before a general election

https://twitter.com/UnderSecStateP/status/1518612546634190849?t=LxVEihSLG1yOcbwJ7YzpRw&s=09

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Madeleine Albright's funeral was held almost on the 23rd anniversary of NATO's deliberate bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia headquarters, which killed 16 employees, including makeup artists.

This is the building today.

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"Morning Joe" never tells viewers that their expert urging more weapons to Ukraine also sits on the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the world—an obvious conflict of interest. BUT they will tell you about his side-gig as a DJ...🤦‍♀️

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There was also a time not so long ago when the CDC could not take money from the pharmaceutical industry, but in 1992 they discovered a loophole in federal law that allowed them to accept pharma contributions through a nonprofit called the CDC Foundation.

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"Reporting from the ground in Donbas" YouTube
https://youtu.be/s-SubcsJRtI

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If you upset the pharma and war propaganda cartel as Kim has, the neocon Daily Beast tabloid will eventually come for you. It's a huge badge of honor.

https://twitter.com/KimIversenShow/status/1518636925657051137?t=m1_kaJyWnx9SEA89YrhfOw&s=09

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Top work from the fucking geniuses at Welt here, publishing an article about the "lie" of Azov being a Neo-Nazi unit with an accompanying picture of a Battalion flag featuring both its Nazi Wolfsjagd logo *and* Nazi black sun logo. What's that quote about not learning history?

https://twitter.com/welt/status/1517402720390586368?t=_7C9-LYU3VcD_7riqnkuKA&s=09

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UK animal shelters are inundated with returned pets as anti-Russia sanctions drive up cost of living across Britain. Recent polls show a precipitous decrease in public support for those sanctions. “The cost of living has shocked people."

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/dog-homes-inundated-with-people-returning-their-pets-as-the-cost-of-living-crisis-bites-12595819

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These Israelis are so connected to the land and history of the “Jewish State” that they went to fight in Eastern Europe alongside neo-Nazi paramilitaries under the flag of their second country

https://twitter.com/CanadianUkrain1/status/1518278916795949056?t=k085VNQQRs2tome8JhEBNQ&s=09

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Swedish journalist Kajsa Ekman was fired for writing this column, which correctly noted that Swedish/NATO-funded Kyiv Independent reporter llIia Ponomarenko openly reveres and has embedded with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion

https://www-etc-se.translate.goog/ledare/varfoer-accepteras-kyiv-independents-nazistkopplingar?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=ru&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=op,wapp

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“Controversial”

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“Controversial”

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Chants of support for the controversial Azov Battalion break out at a pro Ukraine rally in lower Manhattan

Attendees chant “Azov”

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You've got to be shitting me. Satire is dead.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/jfk-profile-in-courage-award-liz-cheney-volodymyr-zelensky/index.html

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It “feels like Russian propaganda,” says an actual Pentagon propagandist, because Lancaster interviews Mariupol residents and lets them describe in their own words the terror of NATO-backed Azov Nazis

https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1517610793981853698?t=RUnYn9mObyurVXPwcxH3PA&s=09

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In Chernigov, the Kiev regime demolished a monument to the heroine of the USSR Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Zoya was a partisan during the war. She was captured and tortured by Nazis but refused to give up her comrades. She was named a Hero of Russia posthumously.

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