Russians are proverbially slow to react, but when they do get started … it is prudent to be careful. We have been wondering what Russia’s war crimes Investigative Committee was doing since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine and what legal instruments it was prepared to use in the pursuit of its objectives. The answers to these questions even now are not entirely clear, but at least some encouraging news has recently emerged on the legal front. Karim Khan’s Russian Rap Sheet: Gotcha! Readers scarcely need to be reminded of the political weaponisation of the International Criminal Court [ICC]…
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Battered Serbia has just received even more nasty blows. Already traumatised by a multiplicity of psy-op and other assaults, the Balkan nation is now undergoing its bloody “Western values” rite of passage. In the first week of May, in quick succession, events heretofore unimaginable in that country took place in the form of two grisly mass shootings. One occurred in a primary school in Belgrade and the other in a village in the interior, each claiming at least eight innocent lives. Western countries have grown largely numb to such phenomena, which occur on a regular basis in their societies. But…
Appalling news continues to stream out of Kiev, but it no longer emanates exclusively from the usual source, the government bureaus on Kreschatyk Street. It is now coming out from a metaphysically incomparably more significant spot: the Kiev Caves Monastery complex overlooking them. In crazed Ukraine, monasteries are under siege, churches are being razed and burned and public officials are shamelessly gloating about it (and here). Meanwhile, according to the public admission of leading government officials (in this case Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Alexey Danilov) priests of the virtually outlawed Orthodox Church of Ukraine are being…
It is our pleasure to publish this analysis by George and Doris Pumphrey. Doris and George Pumphrey are long-standing activists in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States, France and Germany. Doris is a German citizen, George a USA-born French citizen. They are co-authors of the paperback Ghettos und Gefängnisse – Rassismus und Menschenrechte in den USA (1982). They can be reached at pumphrey@ipn.de. In the political and media mainstream, and even in the peace movement, the case seems clear: Russia has been considered the “aggressor” at least since February 24, 2022. This ahistorical approach is misleading.…
Milo Djukanovic, the outgoing Western puppet who ruled and plundered Montenegro for the last three decades, betrayed everything he ostensibly ever stood for during his insufferably long public career. Everything, that is, with the single exception of his own political survival. His finely tuned antennas assisted him at every turn to make opportunistically correct choices. The end came when it no longer depended on him and his puppeteers decided that his shelf life was over. Djukanovic will now be swept away as were Mobutu, Suharto, Mubarak, and scores of similar satraps who were allowed to misrule and steal for decades,…
Чињеница је да је међународно право доживело свој coup de grâce[2] 1999. године нападом САД/НАТО на Југославију[3] и Србе, а да су и последњи његови остаци раскомадани у Авганистану, Ираку, Либији, Сирији, Јемену, Малорусији… Државе и међународне организације предвођене Сједињеним државама Америке, познатије као Колективни Запад, су, после нестанка СССР-а и успостављања једнополарног света, поставиле нова правила[4] по којима само сила или немоћ вреде као основа за понашање и стање држава у свету. С обзиром да Колективни Запад инсистира на ”међународном поретку заснованом на правилима”[5] а не на међународним законима, тј. праву, самоме себи (а и својим лакејима) поништава право и могућност да се у будућности жали на исход који ће проистећи из нових правила…
Acting at the behest of its political controllers and paymasters, the racist International Criminal Court [ICC], whose principal activity since its founding in 2003 has been the malicious persecution of black African leaders, now, for a change, targets for judicial abuse a distinguished Eurasian figure. Observers with an attention span of more than fifteen minutes (which would exclude the vast majority in the bamboozled Western countries) should have noticed immediately several glaring anomalies in ICC’s “arrest warrant.” The warrant purports to be based on humanitarian concern for the welfare of children allegedly transferred illegally from the Donbas. The court officers’…
The late Gene Sharp, ideological godfather of countless colour revolutions, probably would not be pleased to see his teachings posthumously hijacked by a most unconventional activist. Father Anthony is an the unyielding, pesky Serbian Orthodox cleric who gets high on driving his country’s authorities crazy, but has he heard of Gene Sharp? Or ever read Sharp’s classical color revolution manual, “Self-liberation,” even more suggestively subtitled “A guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression”? Perhaps he and Sharp simply arrived at similar conclusions independently. Be that as it may, internal tensions in Serbia are rising,…
Those who watched Duran associate Alex Christoforou’s podcast the other day [at 18 to 19:45 minutes] must have been as taken aback as I was by Alex’s revelation of the unsavoury fate of Spanish journalist Pablo Gonzales in European “values” stronghold Poland. Gonzales, a Spanish (another “EU values” country) citizen, it turns out has been rotting in a Polish prison for the past year. Not a week, not a month or even a couple of months, but for just over a year. And nobody knew or cared. He is not being detained on any specific charges to which he could…
The infamous Carl Rove (we shall not bother with an explanatory note, whoever remembers this cowboy and is still interested may look him up) twenty and some years ago articulated the gist of the empire’s swaggering ideology: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we…