I continue to be amazed by the lack of debate over the US role. Regardless of blame, this is the most dangerous war for the US and the world in decades. Biden said that.

Yet Dems support it unanimously and the GOP establishment is fully aligned with Biden: UniParty consensus.

Tense exchange at Aryna Sabalenka's press conference, when a Ukrainian journalist asked her a pointed question about her previous support for Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko:

They seem to think the key to Ukraine winning is to force young tennis players to denounce their country after every match.

If Russia and Belarus are dictatorships where all government critics are murdered, isn't it immoral to demand this? And why would it make a difference?

At the start, top virologists/epidemiologists wrote to Fauci to say COVID was likely from a lab leak, not natural.

Within a week, Fauci - who funded that research - imposed a consensus that a lab leak was "debunked," and Big Tech censored any debate.
https://rumble.com/v2b6gvg--system-update-47.html

And, of course, "disinformation experts" - the world's worst hoax - reinforced this lie by branding lab leak "debunked" and urging it to be censored.

This wasn't about blaming China. It was about protecting the US and Fauci. They funded the research.
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavirus-research-at-chinese-lab/

Amazing article from the NYT about the rather uncomfortable fact that photos of Ukrainian soldiers and leading battalions so often include Nazi symbols and flags.

For a decade, the Western press warned Ukraine's fighters were dominated by Nazi units: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/nazi-symbols-ukraine.html

A Ukrainian woman living in Germany is found guilty and fined by a German court for pro-Russia comments, arguing that Russia is not the "aggressor.''

She faced prison but the judge didn't send her there only because she's unemployed with children:

https://www.ibtimes.com/germany-fines-woman-saying-russia-isnt-aggressor-invasion-ukraine-was-necessary-3698575

Hi Anne Applebaum : you've cheered every disastrous US war for the last 25 years; you've always sent other families to die in those wars; and much of what you've said about war has been proven to be lies.

So tell us what to think now:

A perfect microcosm of corporate media:

Who would have ever guessed CNN would immediately bring in a former federal prosecutor who worked for Preet Bharara to defend both Hunter Biden and the Biden DOJ?

This is so out of character for them: relying on US Security State officials to defend the Biden Administration.

No matter your ideological prism, no matter your moral code, there's nothing Trump did that came close to the evils, conspiracies and systemic deceit of the neocons and Bush/Cheney operatives who are embedded and beloved in Dem establishment circles.

Vital to recall:

All of these questions about Joe Biden's participation in the influence-peddling deals of Hunter, in China and Ukraine, were known before the 2020 election.

But CIA united with corporate media to spread the lie that the docs were "Russian disinformation."

Bit of a Freudian slip - about those who lost the war in Iraq and thus became "pariahs around the world."