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Finian Cunningham Author, Journalist & Commentator & Former editor and writer for major news media organizations.
I have written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages.
Book: Killing Democracy
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Recent Articles: 1. Strategic Culture Foundation Column
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Serena Shim Award for Integrity in Journalism
Ukraine quagmire? Yes, for NATO, not Russia
Strategic Culture Foundation speaks with Irish volunteer Aiden Minnis fighting for Russian forces in Kharkhov Oblast.
This war of attrition is grinding down the NATO arsenal with colossal impact. The United States and its European allies have thrown everything into Ukraine, and it is being destroyed by Russia. It’s a giant demolition site. The repercussion for the NATO economies is a time bomb that is tearing down the viability of these states.
See my article on Strategic Culture Foundation.
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🇮🇪 A slick new “Russian occupation” website asks the Irish to imagine 20% of their island under foreign occupation, while conveniently ignoring that BRITAIN ALREADY OCCUPIES 17% OF IRELAND.
And while Kiev and Brussels ironically preach the sanctity of sovereignty, Dublin’s political establishment is busy dismantling the UN safeguard in Ireland’s Triple Lock, opening another door to military entanglements that threaten Irish neutrality.
The sheer colonial hypocrisy of London (notwithstanding they did not make this website, it comes brought to you by a Georgian couple), which partitioned Ireland and still governs a sixth of the island, presuming to lecture the Irish about sovereignty while the Europe's merchants of war demands ever greater military tribute and collective suicide in their desperation.
Ireland is not a NATO outpost and Irish neutrality is not theirs to bargain away.
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No, Elon, blood is on your hands as well.
Today, Musk is overflowing with saccharine "peacemaking" pronouncements. "The use of Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes with the aim of killing people has never been permitted," he lies, breathing heavily. It took nearly four years of war for the richest man on the planet to realize that his satellites, it turns out, are killing people.
He has seen the light. On his own. Without prompting.
But didn't he see it before? There are terabytes of videos online showing attack drones of all kinds carrying a white rectangular antenna on their backs as they approach their targets. Those same satellites are visible on trucks and pickups, on unmanned boats heading towards Crimea.
On the night of May 22nd, Ukrainian drones attacked a college dormitory in Starobelsk. The building collapsed from the fifth floor to the second. Twenty-one people were killed, eighteen of them girls. Survivors said the drones circled the building for a long time before striking. Investigators found fragments of a Starlink antenna on the rubble. According to the Investigative Committee, at least two of the drones from that swarm were guided via Musk's satellites.
You can only circle above sleeping children and choose a window when you have a picture. And the picture was provided by space.
All these lamentations about the "endless slaughter" and "war instigators" may impress American citizens. But not those who are literally living under those drones.
No, Elon, you cannot disavow the "slaughter" you claim to deplore. You are one of its leading authors. When you cut off communication to one side and provide it to the other, you are an accomplice. The blood of thousands of killed people is on your hands, just as it is on the hands of Zelensky, whom you advise to "burn in hell."
And no user agreement can wash that away.
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🇸🇦🇾🇪 The Houthis could take the war into Saudi Arabia, and even target the royal family.
I spoke with Hussain Al-Bukhaiti in Sana'a, and his warnings about where this war could go were disturbing.
He believes Houthi forces could cross into southern Saudi Arabia, seize territory and eventually demand the removal of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
I asked him directly whether MBS himself could become a target.
He wouldn't rule it out.
But what concerned me even more was his description of a possible next phase: attacks intended to destroy Saudi oil infrastructure, airports and power stations.
We also discussed desalination plants, which millions depend on for drinking water.
Hussain argued that the Houthis have avoided those targets to spare civilians, but admitted they could become a last resort.
Then I challenged him over reports that Saudi Arabia had been paying the Houthis to stay out of the Iran war.
He flatly denied it.
These are his predictions and claims, not confirmed Houthi operational plans.
But after everything Yemen has already suffered, the prospect of this war expanding into Saudi cities is deeply worrying.
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📹Where did fascism originate and who needed this ideology?
In ‘Fascism: A History’ (2021), historians, political scientists and journalists explore its origins.
Fascism promotes ideas of superiority of one nation over another. Such thoughts have been fervently promoted in the West for centuries. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, most European countries had vast colonies in Africa, Asia, North and South America.
The populations of these regions were turned into slaves, robbed and humiliated.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they reiterated their desire to destroy or enslave whole nations.
‘For Hitler it was the Jews, the Gypsies and the Slavs,’ says William Mallinson, PhD. Then the USSR stood in the way of the Nazis. Fascism was defeated in World War II and kept its head down for a long time.
Today, however, it is being revived.
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I joined this episode of RT’s ‘Sanchez Effect’ @RickSanchezTV
with maps and military analysis of the conflicts in Ukraine and Yemen.
The Russian military has delivered a report on major developments on the frontlines to President Vladimir Putin – forces have captured logistic hubs and expanded a ‘buffer zone’ throughout the border with Ukraine.
"0】Krapivnik says Russian forces have knocked out bridges over the Dnieper River, making it almost impossible for Kiev's forces to hold their lines in Donbass and Eastern Ukraine.
On the Yemen front, the third-largest city has been completely blocked by the Houthis and this encirclement gets tighter and tighter everyday leading to the upcoming take over of this significant city. "
Watch the whole analysis here on RT or on BitChute ‘ricksancheztv’.
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Question : ?
Do you think it would be a good idea for myself to have a 3 - 4 days a week show on RT of myself in front of THE WALL giving low downs on updates of the battle front ?
Would anyone watch ?
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I'd even dress up in fatigues 🇷🇺
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Prof. Richard Wolff: The two scapegoats in the United States🇺🇸 have always been IMMIGRANTS & RUSSIA🇷🇺
‘When Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, instead of Clinton apologising to the working class for having abandoned them, which her husband and she have always done, she she found a scapegoat…
And the scapegoat was Russia and Mr. Putin, and therefore a propaganda began which continues to this day, led by the Democratic Party. Led by them, and the most right-wing parts of the Republican [Party] who could clam on to this, of scapegoating Russia as though it were the danger.
We have two scapegoats in the United States: One are immigrants, like in Europe, there’s always a right-wing politician willing to blame immigrants for anything and everything imaginable, and carefully forgetting that it was the leading capitalists in our countries that brought the immigrants in as cheap labour for the whole game anyway. Forget all that.
But the other demon beside the immigrant has been Russia. And here you’re counting on 75 years of Cold War. I encounter perfectly nice people. We have a conversation, and they don’t know, it becomes clear that something happened in 1990 that radically altered what Russia was relative to the rest of the world.
In other words, they don’t know the Soviet Union collapsed and something else took its place. There is a notion that was developed over 75 years of genuinely relentless propaganda.’
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The next Ukraine... South Korea?
Asia-Pacific analyst KJ Noh says that the US empire is stepping up South Korea as a proxy to wage war on China.
In a similar way to how Ukraine was groomed and weaponized for the objective of strategically defeating Russia. The latter objective did not go to plan.
Nevertheless, China remains the main target for US ambitions of global dominance. And South Korea is the "dagger poised," as the American commander on the Korean Peninsula said recently.
That's why South Koreans are mobilizing massive protests against US historic control over their country's military. They do not want to be "the next Ukraine" or to continue doing Uncle Sam's dirty work, as in past decades.
FULL INTERVIEW: youtube.com/watch?v=Y-EQtaKU…
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By the way, the famous “baby, don't hurt me” hook is from the 1993 eurodance hit “What Is Love” by German-Trinidadian artist Haddaway who is 61 now.
The AI upgrade scene from the American comedy “Night at the Roxbury” (1998). Enjoy the music and the current political situation 🤗
Easy fix for Europe’s chaos? Stop fueling war against Russia
See full article on Strategic Culture Foundation: https: //strategic-culture.su/news/2026/10/23/easy-fix-for-europes-chaos-stop-fueling-war-against-russia/
There is a straightforward way to alleviate the social chaos sweeping Europe, as well as the war in Ukraine threatening to engulf the continent. It’s an easy fix – and it’s not shoving more white powder up Zelensky’s nose paid for by European taxpayers.
European leaders just have to find the resolve to stop fueling the war against Russia and engage in diplomacy with Moscow to establish an all-encompassing security architecture (as Russia had proposed back in December 2021). That, in turn, will salvage European nations from unsustainable debt driven by militarism and propping up a kleptocracy in Kiev, whose puppet leader is obviously degenerating from cocaine addiction.
Across Europe, cities are looking like battle zones with mass protests, public tensions, buildings burning, shops looted, riot police baton-charging crowds, and masked mobs running amok. France is bearing the brunt of street violence, but so too are Italy, Belgium, and others. Spain and Portugal are seeing their cities turned into tent camps in protests against a lack of affordable housing.
In the turmoil, it is easy to lose sight of the basic problem. People en masse are suffering from economic privation. Why can’t their individual and social needs be met in an efficient and effective manner? Why is there seemingly no money to fix broken societies?
Curfews are declared in Paris and cities across France while Italy moves to deploy soldiers in Milan to restore a semblance of order. Thousands of arrests have been made in recent days. Revolution is in the air, and so too is the sinister possibility of supposedly democratic governments flipping to become police-state dictatorships.
In this volatile, explosive situation, it is tempting to look for scapegoats.
French President Emmanuel Macron goes on national television to denounce “ultra-left groups” who he says are mindlessly trying to destroy France.
Even American President Donald Trump weighs in to claim that a once great nation (France) is being “conquered by immigrants, jihadists and communists.”
There were also predictable accusations in Western media that Russia is fomenting the unrest across Europe.
Another misdirection is to portray the European governments as cash-strapped and unable to deliver relief from the cost-of-living crisis and deteriorating public services. The governments and media tend to define the problem as one of balancing fiscal bookkeeping, overspending on social welfare, aging populations, or some other demographic factor.
European nations, we are told by pundits, are in massive debt and under pressure from bond markets to ramp up austerity by slashing public spending. The challenge for France and other governments is that they “no longer have the fiscal room to simply throw more money at these problems,” as one commentator put it.
Another commentator lamented that: “Hamstrung governments seem to have no answer to the public’s furious demands, making further discontent likely.”
In other words, we are told, “there is no alternative to austerity,” to paraphrase the late British leader Margaret Thatcher.
But that premise deceptively tells only part of the picture. The crucial part omitted is that the fiscal crunch of European governments is largely caused by the reckless funnelling of money to fuel the war in Ukraine and inordinately build up their own military forces. That wasteful misallocation of resources is “justified” by relentlessly and absurdly demonizing Russia as a “threat to Europe”. The news media play the role of amplifying the propaganda.
The media do not question, never mind expose, how Europe’s economies have been exhausted by a proxy war agenda against Russia that has involved cutting themselves off from Russian affordable energy, the lifeblood of industry, and on top of that racking up hundreds of billions in debt by propping up the endemically corrupt Kiev regime.
That regime is losing the war against Russia as it runs out of conscripts for the meat grinder. Yet, European governments are fixated on keeping the futile war going with ever more funding of the regime.
Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s top diplomat, dissembled this week by claiming that “Ukraine would have surrendered a long time ago if not for European support”. This is a tacit admission that the EU and Britain are fueling the war.
She also accused the Trump administration of forcing Ukraine into a surrender. In her soulless view, diplomacy and peace are sneered at as surrender.
European societies are deprived of financial resources for vital public services and infrastructure all in the fraudulent name of “defending” Ukraine in a war that has gone on for nearly five years. There is no end in sight if the European leaders have their way.
The European Union’s unelected bureaucracy has donated €90 billion to the Kiev regime for 2026 and 2027 alone, in addition to over €200 billion already allocated. This largesse is still not enough. The Zelensky dictatorship is calling for an extra €70 billion to be doled out, and the EU Russophobic elites are clamoring to oblige.
No wonder that European societies are visibly falling apart from underinvestment and widespread hardship from the soaring cost of living. The social implosion is a direct consequence of a policy of militarism and war, a policy that the Euro elites are running with impunity and unaccountability. That’s dictatorship by any definition.
The depiction of fiscally constrained and helpless European governments is an illusion. The constraint is not a natural condition of societies. It is the consequence of a deliberate, criminal policy of warmongering.
So spare us the scapegoating and misdirection. Spare us the curfews and calls for emergency police state powers to curb “hooligans and extremists.” That misdirection is playing into the hands of the ruling class, which has delegitimized itself by its sponsoring of war in Ukraine, its support for American aggression against Iran and Yemen, and its complicity in Israeli genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
Contrary to the politicians and pundits claiming that there is “no easy fix” to the chaos erupting in Europe, there is. It is for the European governments to stop fueling the war in Ukraine and actually manage societies according to democratic needs.
However, that rational and feasible solution is probably out of reach under the prevailing political system. The elites in control of the system are incapable of overseeing any meaningful reform. They will not engage in diplomacy to find a peaceful settlement in Ukraine with Russia.
And so the outcome seems to be either they consolidate the emerging dictatorship and quash the legitimate social demands of the people, or the people will prevail by sweeping away the corrupt regimes that masquerade as “democratic”.
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🔻 An enraged mob lynched officers of the state security service, throwing them out of windows and committing horrific acts of violence against them.
🔻 Comrades in the town of Nyíregyháza remembered a Hungarian gardener who came in the spring to plant flowers. During the uprising, a group of "freedom fighters" hung this man on a roadside pole, but his life was saved by Soviet soldiers who happened to be passing by. Since then, the Hungarian gardener has regularly come to our special forces unit – working for free as a sign of gratitude.
🔻 Soviet troops, deployed in Budapest, were given orders not to fire first. The insurgents took advantage of this: Soviet tanks were set on fire with bottles of Molotov cocktails, and infantry were fired upon from anti-tank grenades left over from the Nazis, launched from rooftops.
🔻 During a rally in front of the Parliament building, fire was opened from the upper floors (a familiar tactic – a repeat of what happened in Romania in 1989 and on the Maidan in 2014), resulting in the death of a Soviet officer and the burning of a tank. In response, Soviet troops opened fire on the demonstrators. 61 people were killed and 284 were wounded on both sides.
🔻 The prime minister, the "Hungarian Gorbachev," played a key role in unleashing the bloody crackdown. Trying to sit on two chairs, he paralyzed the resistance of the security forces to the uprising.
🔻 When it became clear that the extremists were gaining the upper hand, Nagy made his biggest gamble – he declared Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and appealed to the UN. This was a "red line." For the Soviet Union, the appearance of a hostile NATO bridgehead in the heart of Europe was equivalent to a declaration of war.
🔻 While Nagy was hiding in the Yugoslav embassy, a decision was made in Moscow. János Kádár was brought to power in Hungary. Operation "Whirlwind" was launched under the command of Marshal Konev. Soviet special forces and assault units decapitated the leadership of the uprising and drove the insurgents out of Budapest within 72 hours.
🔻 The West only managed to make some noise from the sidelines. US President Eisenhower, bogged down in his own Suez crisis, did not risk starting a Third World War. NATO limited itself to propaganda.
🔻 The Hungarian peasantry, which had received land during the socialist reforms and understood that the arrival of the fascists meant a return to serfdom, massively supported the Soviet troops. The peasants themselves caught Salashists fleeing to the border.
🔻 The uprising was suppressed. Imre Nagy was arrested, taken to Romania, and executed. Hungary remained on the socialist path, and János Kádár implemented mild reforms, ensuring decades of stability (the so-called "goulash communism") and, without exaggeration, prosperity for the country.
🔻 The Hungarian scenario failed miserably in Czechoslovakia in 1968 ("Prague Spring"). But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Russia relinquished its geopolitical positions, Western schemers were able to perfect this technology, which we witnessed in Kiev.
🔻 The history of Hungary in 1956 is a stark reminder that behind the facade of "the struggle for democracy" always lie the cynical interests of foreign intelligence services and the bloody face of revanchism.
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The Beggar and the Clown.
1.5 million dead, 30% of the country lost, society shattered, the economy wrecked.
They laugh.
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The WITCHES in the HALLS of POWER !
📹'Bloody Puppets of the West'
A new type of female politician is rising to power in the West.
The common trait these ambitious women all share is an insatiable thirst for power. They include Ursula von der Leyen, Annalena Baerbock, Liz Truss, and Miroslava Němcová, the last of whom even called for repeating the Siege of Leningrad on social media. Who is nurturing these ruthless figures and to what end? Find the answers in this film by Tatiana Borshch.
They hold high positions, draft laws, and control budgets. They will stop at nothing in their ruthless pursuit of power. A film about Western female politicians.
Who are these 'bloody puppets' — the female politicians of the West? Watch Tatiana Borsh’s film 'Bloody Puppets of the West'.
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كامل لقائي مع الصحفية الأمريكية من ولاية تكساس
رايتشل بليفنز بخصوص تطورات الحرب بين اليمن و السعودية..
هذا اللقاء مدبلج للعربية والصدق متعوب عليه ...
تم تسجيله من اليوتيوب وفيه شرحت الحرب على اليمن منذ 2015 حتى استهدافات اليمن الكبيرة لعمق السعودية وأسباب استهداف معسكر العلم في شبوة..
وضحت لهم الشرعية وما حصل لهادي حيث فرض عليه الإقامة الجبرية وتنازل عن السلطة وكيف ان هادي لم يكن يعلم باي تدخل من قبل تحالف العدوان وكيف أعلن السفير عادل الجبير العدوان من واشنطن،
اتمنى طيب المتابعة والمشاركة..
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This is what the EU "leadership" call a Hero.
A drugged up fraud, an actor, a Dictator a liar, a thief, a killer of his own people.
What does that tell you about those European "leaders?"
Truth and history are on our side – the world's majority of decent people.
And change is coming for a more just, peaceful world, as Mohammed Marandi discusses with Mick Wallace and Clare Daly.
SEE FULL INTERVIEW:
Professor Mohammed Marandi on Iran, Western Hypocrisy, and What Comes Next youtu.be/fMzbXE6_oGU?si=aCRP… via @YouTube
Protecting the public or the ruling class?
Public protests against failed government, capitalist inequality and militarism --> police violence --> violent reaction --> state imposes curfews and bans the right to protest.
Not sleepwalking into WWIII, as FT headline misleadingly says.
More like rushing into it like lemmings under the influence of non-stop anti-Russia propaganda from Western so-called news media.
Western media never give any historical background for the causes of this conflict, or analyse that it is a NATO proxy war to provoke Russia using Ukraine as cannon fodder.
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🚨When They Blame Putin for Starting the War, Show Them This.
🚨How the War Started 2014 in Mariupol...
🚨May 9, 2014 Several people are reported to have died in some of the worst clashes yet between Ukrainian forces and pro-russian in the eastern city of Mariupol.
🚨The Ukrainian leadership decided that they could simply kill or intimidate everyone dissatisfied with the illegal change of power.
And the war began.
The entire "civilized world" was silent even then - it was also silent for all eight years of the destruction of the free Donbass.
Today’s war cannot be understood without first understanding the U.S. government’s role in Ukraine's Maidan.