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LATEST ARTICLES ( 1909 )

• Героям Слава. Слава Україні. Ходімо, Брендон!

  

  I know the big thing for people is to knock Trump for somehow causing all this, but I have a hard time doing that when I look at the time line. Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Remember Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 !?!?!?

  

  I do. It was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv: Why Did So Many Leftists Turn a Blind Ey...

  This was published in a couple of places: Dissent and Open Democracy. I want to repost it since it is important to the debate, and really doesn't just apply to... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Intelligence Failure on Ukraine?

  

  Le Monde has an interesting article on how Western Intelligence Agencies had differing views on what Putain's intent was toward Ukraine (https://www.lemonde. Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What Now About Ukraine?

  

  I am surprised that this has lasted as long as it has, but then again, maybe not.Putain has staked his reputation on this invasion and he is not the type of... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Let's Also Stop Comparing This to Previous Wars

  

  First off, this is the first war where a madman has nuclear weapons and made it clear he will use them if anyone tries to stop his illegal invasion of a... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Stop Knocking the Green New Deal: Ukrainian Situation Shows Need for Energy...

  

  Very Amusing this: Despite what the one right wing Pennsylvania Representative says: The Green New Deal is not an off switch for the economy. If anything, energ... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Has Totally Lost It

  Wouldn't you try to avoid harming the people you are claiming to defend if that is your purported reason for illegally invading another country?Not Vladmir... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• I Would Like to Think That You Heard This Here First!

  Le Figaro asked if the invasion of Ukraine will be Putin's Afghanistan?Yes, very much so. It will probably have a much worse effect on him than he expects. Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Insane Enough to Use Nuclear Weapons?

  YES! Very Much so. He opened up this without too much of a threat from the west.The invasion is harming the people he claims to want to protect: the ethnic... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• No, You Cannot Compare Ukraine to Anywhere Else

  

  There is quite a bit of history in this region: especially since it is between Asia and Europe. The term "Rus" comes from the Vikings since they owe quite... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Meet Stepan Bandera

  

  He looks like a nice guy to me.This little clip from a Czech site pretty much sums up the situation in Ukraine: Stepan Andriyovich Bandera (1909-1959) is an ico... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• So, the "unthinkable" Has Happened.

  I'm not really surprised. Or that wrong.Remember that Russia has been aiding the Donbas separatists (and other ethnic Russians) since the Crimea voted to... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Wotinthefuck is Vladmir Putin Thinking (or Not)????

  You can’t really compare this situation to Hitler’s walking into countries since the locals aren’t going to give the Russians a warm welcome: unless you mean... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ukraine Helps to Debunk Second Amendment Fallacy of Armed Resistance.

  CONSIDER THIS... This is just part of the known tally ... In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Unified Language for Africa????

  This is a furtheration of my thoughts on this topic. Yeah, there is an irony that someone who quotes Julius Nyerere would critique the use of Swahili as a lingu... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• I Really Love Russell Brand and Agree with Him on a Lot of Things ("fings").

  

  The problem with democracy in the US is that it isn't. The country that spent most of the 20th Century preaching about free and fair elections on a secret ballo... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Still More Russell Brand on US Politics.

  

  Do this with a "French accent" and it's pretty much what I would say:[1]"I don't know how people can get so whipped up by either side of the political debate... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• "It's High Time We Move from the Coloniser's Language."

  

  OK, I have to laugh as someone who speaks the two most common languages spoken in Africa: English and French. Portugese is the third. Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Yet Another Reason I Don't Really Fit in the US.

  Besides being multilingual. Tant pis pour toi si tu n’es pas bilingue. My politics are pretty far left in the US, but pretty centre/centre-left in Europe. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2022 DEBATE, SOCIETY