The second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022, has led to an outpouring of nauseating propaganda from Western governments and the European Commission, accompanied by various symbolic photoshoots. The...
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Alexei Navalny, 1976-2024
by John Laughland | Feb 24, 2024 | Featured Articles
When the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up in September 2022, the media rushed to say that Russia did it. We now know that the Americans did it, attacking their main European ally, Germany, and with it, the whole of Europe. When Alexei Navalny’s...
British Totalitarianism
by John Laughland | Aug 3, 2023 | Featured Articles
Since my an hour and a half long interrogation at Gatwick Airport last October, there have been a number of developments which only serve to reinforce my initial reaction, which is that Britain and Europe are sliding into totalitarianism. First, I am not the only...
Don Basilio, a Hero for our Times
by John Laughland | Oct 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
‘Russian spy among the guest lecturers of a Budapest elite college? ’The question mark at the end of this headline above a recent article in an English-language Hungarian media outlet, Daily News Hungary, is an excellent example of the vigorous dishonesty practiced by...
Europe's Descent into Totalitarianism
by John Laughland | Oct 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
On 7 October 2022, late in the evening, at around 11.30 pm, I was detained at Gatwick Airport in London by anti-terrorism police. I was not released until shortly before 1 am and my computer was taken from me. It has not yet been returned. My passport and all my...
NATO has Blinked First
by John Laughland | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
It is rare to hear politicians mention God but even rarer to hear them mentioning Satan. Yet the Russian president did both in a solemn speech in the Kremlin on 30 September. He described as ‘pure Satanism’ the ‘anti-religion’ which, he said, now grips the West and...
The Americans Did It
by John Laughland | Sep 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
In his remarkable book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, the Flemish psychologist Mathias Desmet explains how collective psychosis can cause people to lose their critical faculties. He cites a famous experiment in which a person can be made to say that one line on a...
Credibility of European Court of Human Rights lies in ruins after judges’ links to Soros revealed
by John Laughland | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
A study by the European Center for Law and Justice in Strasbourg has revealed several conflicts of interest between judges at the European Court of Human Rights and NGOs funded by George Soros. The European Center for Law and Justice is an NGO which often appears at...
Key Takeaway from Ukraine Peace Talks in Paris is that Zelensky’s Best Friend is Putin
by John Laughland | Dec 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Paris talks on Ukraine have enabled Putin and Zelensky to meet for the first time. But they have agreed only to kick the can down the road, to agree to disagree, while seeking progress on issues other than the war in Donbass. It would be difficult to exaggerate...
NATO at 70: Sclerotic & bureaucratic zombie should be pensioned off
by John Laughland | Dec 3, 2019 | Featured Articles
Seventy is normally considered a ripe old age at which people should be enjoying retirement. The NATO alliance, which meets to celebrate its anniversary in London, should have been pensioned off long ago. The French president, who told the Economist in early November...
Attempt to Prosecute Assad at ICC is Aimed at Undermining Syrian Peace Process
by John Laughland | Mar 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
The announcement that “a group of Syrian refugees and their London lawyers” have found “a neat legal trick” to press for an indictment against Syrian President Bashar Assad by the International Criminal Court demonstrates, yet again, the dangerous corruption of...
‘Moral disgrace’: EU Parliament lectures world on rule of law, then destroys legality in Venezuela
by John Laughland | Feb 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
It’s a moral disgrace when the EU Parliament, which lectures the world on the need to respect the rule of law, uses legal language to tell lies about the legality of the situation in Venezuela, and to destroy that legality. Exciting news from France: Marine le Pen is...
Orban’s Moscow Visit a Middle Finger to EU After Last Week’s Humiliation
by John Laughland | Sep 18, 2018 | Featured Articles
The “salon des refusés” of political dissidents in the EU is getting bigger by the day. Less than a week after his government was condemned in a vote in the European parliament, Orban is in Moscow for talks about energy with Putin. His visit to Russia is the political...
US diplomats act like imperial governors riding roughshod over sovereignty of national governments
by John Laughland | Jul 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
Former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaulOn the world’s Grand Chessboard, the US is fighting for control and influence. And there are countries where its ambassadors are perceived more as imperial governors than simple channels of communication. At the height of...
Blaming Russia for Skripal Attack is Similar to ‘Jews Poisoning our Wells’ in Middle Ages
by John Laughland | Mar 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
Congratulations to Craig Murray for getting there first. The colorful former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, turned anti-establishment dissident after he was sacked from the Foreign Office in 2004, has published on his blog some key texts by authoritative scientists...
Ukraine: It’s Not About Europe vs Russia
by John Laughland | Feb 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
To discuss the Ukrainian crisis in terms of a choice between Europe and Russia is misleading for several reasons. First, the European issue has been ruthlessly exploited by the Ukrainian opposition and its Western backers as an excuse for overthrowing the government...
‘Despite Rumors of a Coup, Another Orange Revolution in Ukraine is Unlikely'
by John Laughland | Dec 4, 2013 | Featured Articles
Pro-western forces in Ukraine will find it hard to provoke a new revolution, particularly as a potential EU trade agreement would not affect the constitution, John Laughland, director of studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, told RT. RT: The Ukrainian...
Ukraine Refused to Sign EU's ‘Suicide Note’
by John Laughland | Nov 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
This is an excerpt from RPI Academic Advisor John Laughland's recent RT interview. -ed.Joining an old European geopolitical and ideological project would have been catastrophic for the Ukrainian economy, political expert John Laughland told RT, noting that it was...
Navalny Reporting Shows Western Media Clueless on Russia
by John Laughland | Jul 22, 2013 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Ron Paul Institute Academic Board Member John Laughland appeared on France 24 recently to discuss the Alexei Navalny trial in Russia. Dr. Laughland was outnumbered on the panel, but his main point was that the Western mainstream media continues to completely...
Why the EU is Also Desperate for Snowden's Capture
by John Laughland | Jul 11, 2013 | Featured Articles
photo: -lucky cat-It’s very revealing and symbolic that President Morales’ plane should have been forced to land in a European Union country after the withdrawal of overflight rights by other EU countries, because this, of course, shows how the European poodle jumps...
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