Professor Peter Kuznick, co-author (w Oliver Stone) of the Untold History of the United States, speaking at the Liverpool panel for Imperialism on Trial. Panel included: -Former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford --Gerry MacLochlainn , a former Irish political prisoner -Eva Bartlett, independent journalist and rights activist. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpMK7FK1yCM

In Krutaya Balka, a frontline village N of Donetsk and just outside of Yasinovataya, 15 people (mostly elderly) remain, under near-daily Ukrainian shelling & heavy machine gun fire. I spoke with those I could find at home while I was there. All told me they were constantly being assaulted by Ukrainian forces) by heavy machine gun fire and shelling. The machine gun fire not only punctures the walls but also can set fire to the roof, thus the whole house. All said they had no where to go, so they stay, living in hell in an area otherwise quite lovely. Same as I heard in Zaitsevo, further north in the Donetsk People's Republic. This video is the first of a few I'll upload from Krutaya Balka, letting the civilians speak about what corporate owned media will not. RELATED LINKS: From Frontline Village of Krutaya Balka, Where Residents Under Constant Ukrainian Machine Gun Fire, Sniping, Bombing https://www.patreon.com/posts/from-frontline-30172030 *ZAITSEVO AREA: DPR Defender: "(Ukraine's) biggest mistake here was using weapons against civilians" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhudqk4j2fY DPR Village Resident Says Ukrainian Bombings Destroying Homes Street By Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFsLzCxAKwM https://www.patreon.com/posts/dpr-village-says-30028169 Resident of the Mine 6-7 District, DPR, Shows Damage to her Home After Ukrainian Shellings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJabtYB3ay4 https://www.patreon.com/posts/resident-of-mine-29955432 Zaitsevo (DPR) resident: "We are not living, we are surviving" https://www.patreon.com/posts/zaitsevo-dpr-we-29918225 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qLQY06F_IU

Abu Mohammed is from Aleppo. I hired him to drive me from Damascus to Aleppo. As we drove around the city, he wanted to make some points about his love for his country. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H43oanu7MyQ

Search "Putin's Palace" and you will come across the shitty propaganda of team Navalny, who have seemingly employed halfwits who thought their photoshop of Putin swimming in a Russian river (come Palace pool) and of the run-down would-be hotel would go unnoticed (it didn't: https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1354100563756113922 ) (photoshopped photo on their website: https://palace.navalny.com/ )... ...Team Navalny doesn't know the difference between Russia's coat of arms and that of Montenegro (https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1355524965697781763) ...And to quote Valentina Lisita (who subtitled this clip on the fake exposé): "The interior design reeks of Las Vegas casino-hotels "luxury". These guys never saw 5 star Swiss or Russian hotels." * RT: "With its supposedly lavish furnishings, long swimming pool and digital dance studio, an opulent manor said to belong to Russian President Vladimir Putin shocked viewers of a documentary made by Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. Now, however, the very existence of its gilded corridors and plush carpets has been called into question, after a film crew from the Moscow-based Mash news channel paid a visit to the property in Gelendzhik. On Friday, the reporters released their footage on the Telegram messaging service. Having gained unprecedented access to the site, the journalists weren’t greeted by butlers or security guards, but by “an entrance without a gate,” they said. Instead of a luxurious coastal home, the channel’s editor-in-chief, Maxim Iksanov, described it as “a big pile of concrete.” Surrounded by scaffolding, the building has been only partly completed from the outside, while the interior is effectively a shell, with wires hanging from un-plastered walls. Across 16 identical rooms, bags of concrete are stacked up, with the swimming pool and much of the garden still unfinished. The scene is a far cry from the picture put forward in Navalny’s investigation, titled ‘Putin’s Palace’. Realistic, if far-fetched, virtual renderings, supposedly based on architectural plans, were shared widely online when the purported exposé was published earlier this month. A number of outlets even failed to mention that the images were mock-ups, rather than accurate representations. Video of the estate shot by drone reinforced the scale of the property. Mash says it gained access with the help of a construction supervisor who has been overseeing work at the site for years. The existence of the house, on Russia’s sunny Black Sea coast, has been known about since 2012, when UK state broadcaster BBC News claimed it could be Putin’s summer bolthole. At the time, the Kremlin said the allegations were not based on reality, and spokesman Dmitry Peskov repe ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz3immwPJBE