British journalist Peter Hitchens has been covering Russia for 47 years. He’s a critic of Vladimir Putin so nobody can say he’s “echoing Putin’s talking points.”
Hitchens writes: “You’ve been fed a steady diet of propaganda rubbish about Ukraine and the invented Russian menace.” In Daily Mail Op-Ed, Hitchens said he learned long ago that governments lie and get mainstream corporate media to lie for them. “It is what they do,” he writes, and yet seldom has he seen such a cloud of lies as we face about the war in #Ukraine:Alexander Solzhenitsyn, had been shocked and angered when, in 1999, under the leadership of Bill Clinton, NATO launched bombing strikes on Serbia, which had not attacked a NATO member.
That same year, despite James Baker’s “not one inch to the East” pledge to Gorbachev, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO – putting #NATO on Russia’s doorstep. And Hitchens points out that Britain’s MI6 and the CIA had been working on regime change in Ukraine since early 2000.
In 2014, Ukraine’s democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych was toppled by the Western intelligence agencies and a local mob. Hitchens concluded, “You just can’t do that and pretend to be the guardians of democracy.” [In other words, Team Biden’s “plucky little democracy” was little more than a tool of the NATO gambit to destabilize, overextend, and weaken Russia – now stronger than ever.]
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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