Monthly Archives: June 2026

Craig Murray: Abandoning the primacy of freedom of navigation is absolutely a radical policy departure for the UK – driven, like so many other changes to traditional British legal positions, by the Starmer regime’s extreme support for Israel. … The … Continue reading →

On the Straßenbahn this morning.

Regime and personal survival are often overlooked as pundits and scholars alike try to build elaborate models of an ideology that drives Russia’s elite. But all the way back to the first unfairly contested reelection of Putin in 2005, perpetuating … Continue reading →

Therefore, to make the theoretical assumption that criminal groups do something other than commit crimes, that law enforcement agencies do something other than enforce laws, and that there is no hierarchy among coercive agencies is to posit a Hobbesian state … Continue reading →

Russia is in fact the posterchild for full-blown authoritarian neoliberalism and in many respects the neoconservative and neo-traditionalist discourse emanating from the center is intended to distract and displace opposition within the country to the terrible life-chances of all but … Continue reading →

Red Threads Research Center Superstructure Manifesto: In post-Soviet conditions, the production of knowledge detached from technocratic tasks is considered a dangerous excess. States are systematically weakening universities—the key institutions for the production of critical knowledge. They are underfunding the social … Continue reading →

Vera has a Herreys poster on her wall. Vasili Pichul was born June 15, 1961 in Zhdanov, Stalino Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Mariupol, Donetsk]. Little Vera was filmed in Zhdanov (Mariupol).

A rough-hewn Smolensk Lenin stands satisfied and confident. Lenin is often depicted holding a document or his hat, or holding his coat against the wind. Here he seems to give a thumbs up, and while the wind does seem to … Continue reading →