TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a remarkable series of interviews with those few and brave Israeli citizens who refuse to do military service
Drawing back the media ‘iron curtain’
Independent broadcast media confront the information blackout imposed on Western media. DENNIS BROE recommends those that caught his attention
Multipolarista, with Ben Norton
The bard rests on his laurels, and swipes left and right
MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium
ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review The Courageous, The Cut, Christy, and On Swift Horses
TOM STONE sings the praises of one of the oldest open-air festivals in Britain
Chris Searle speaks to accordionist KAREN STREET
AS THE world draws closer to nuclear war, led by the US and cheered on by the vassal countries of the Nato alliance, even as those countries face the prospect of de-industrialisation and a frozen winter, it may be time to update Winston Churchill’s announcement of the Cold War in describing the role of Western media: “From Barcelona on the Mediterranean to Philadelphia on the Atlantic, an Iron Curtain has descended across The West.”
Because of the impenetrability of the present mediatic “Iron Curtain,” there is almost no anti-war movement to speak of in the West. To question the war is simply forbidden. Do it and you will end up censored and ostracised, even as it draws us all closer to Armageddon.
As the European economy tanks — as in France — even bakeries close because electricity is too expensive to keep them open; as the environmental crisis worsens, to which can now be added the massive leaks from the sabotaging of the Russian pipeline, weirdly blamed on the Russians themselves.
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