Tag: hungary
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History, on this day: 83 years ago, operation Uranus
when the European fascist armies lost WW2 [republication of my article from November 19, 2022] The battle for Stalingrad is the climax of WW2. After a failure in front of Moscow in January, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) targets southern Russia in June. The planned goals are the oil fields in the Caucasus. On the…
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[Sharing] Living Dangerously – Big Serge
Russo-Ukrainian War: Autumn 2025 The Russo-Ukrainian War seems to have been engineered in a laboratory to frustrate people with repetition and analytic paralysis. Headlines appear to be circulating on a choreographed loop, all the way down to the place names. Kaja Kallas at the European Commission recently announced, without a hint of irony, that Europe’s…
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[Sharing] The ‘shadow fleet’ tanker raid was pure theatre – Owen Matthews, The Spectator
The news footage was satisfyingly reminiscent of Mission: Impossible. Masked French commandoes swarmed up the side of the rusty oil tanker Boracay, assault rifles drawn, and commenced their search for evidence the vessel had been responsible for launching Russian drones at Danish airports. The captain and first officer – both Chinese nationals – were taken…
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[Translation] Ukraine, nationalism, Nazism and the threat that Europe does not see – Andrea Lucidi, International Reporters
The word Nazism has returned to circulate with an impressive frequency, along with fascism and neo-fascism or neo-Nazism. No longer just as a historical concept, but as a political label. For most people that is meaning absolute evil, violence, fanaticism. Yet Nazism is not just an insult: it is a precise ideology, which focuses on…
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[Sharing] A Nobel for the Donald? – David Stockman, Antiwar.com
Donald Trump doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Not after his unprovoked bombing of a country (Iran) that is no military threat whatsoever to the American Homeland. Not after continuing to green-light and arm Israel’s genocidal madness on Gaza and elsewhere. And not, most especially, after fronting for an even bigger defense budget than…
