For all its chaos in operation, Trump's regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield
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US Pres. Donald Trump has lambasted USAID for absurd foreign expenditures. But Trump has omitted perhaps the most scandalous operation: in Ukraine, the US funded groups which defamed the US Vice President, members of Congress, and US journalists as “foreign propagandists,” while training Ukrainians in “PSYOP” tactics. The US government funded a Ukrainian military intelligence firm which smeared US Vice President JD Vance, US Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent, and Rep. Thomas Massie as “foreign propagandists of the Russian Federation.” To […]
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Zarina Zabrisky explores the cultural and political tensions of a country caught in the crossfire of global conflict
6th of March 2025 My Lords, I will not speak directly to the proposals of the report to improve our military capabilities but will consider the framework in which they are set. The report’s underlying assumption is that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made Europe a much more dangerous place, against which we have to … Continue reading House of Lords Speech – Ukraine: “A wake up call” (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)
"Let the Trumpists come and spend a few days [here] and feel, hear, and see how Putin 'wants peace'" a mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier tells Kris Parker
As the British state harasses and arrests a growing number of activists and dissident journalists, including the author of this piece, UN rapporteurs delivered a forceful letter of protest to London condemning its abuse of counter-terror legislation. In December 2024, a quartet of UN rapporteurs focused on “peaceful assembly and of association” and the “right to privacy” delivered a strongly-worded letter to the British government. Expressing grave concerns about the potential “misapplication of counter-terrorism laws” to arrest, detain, interrogate and […]
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With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian President, Zarina Zabrisky wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key
With the US potentially allied to Russia over the fate of Ukraine, there needs to be a root and branch rethinking of British and European security
The former senior diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall sees signs of Trumpist culture wars and a woeful lack of realism in the opposition leader's foreign policy set piece speech