Month: March 2022

I recently watched the film “For the Children of Donbass“, which is a very interesting short documentary by an Italian filmmaker about the conflict in Donbass, that started in 2014 and in many was was a “prequel” to the current conflict involving Russia and the Ukraine. I recommend that everyone watches it — I added…

From Covid to Russia, these are bad times to be an artist First the lockdowns hit hard all types of artists and artistic venues. As art and culture are considered by most governments as “non-essential”, they were the first things to close down. Many artists and performers were unable to find work for months, or…

A world on the brink of nuclear war… Since there is talk of Russia and nuclear war, I have uploaded a copy of Tarkovsky’s film “The Sacrifice”, filmed in Sweden in 1986 and about a world facing nuclear extinction. This was in the context of the Cold War but I suppose is as valid now,…

There is no “impartial news” I feel I need to make a point that seems very basic, and which to me was always obvious, but which doesn’t seem to be so obvious for many people. All “news” and everything that is shown in the media is propaganda, one way or another. There is no “impartial…

The Russian film director presents his view in a recent documentary Nikita Mikhalkov is a famous Russian film director. He directed the very good movie “Burnt by the Sun”, about the Stalinist purges, which I believe won the foreign film Oscar in 1995. He also directed “Oci Ciorne” (Dark Eyes), a story based on Tchekhov’s…

Is the current war the second phase of the Great Reset? It sounds almost like a parody of that famous poem. First they came for the anti-vaxxers, but I didn’t say anything, because I wasn’t an anti-vaxxer. Then they came for the truckers, but I didn’t say anything, because I wasn’t a trucker. Then they…

Notes on “Taras Bulba” and the current Ukrainian war The European Union has banned RT and other Russian media, accusing them of “misinformation”. Since “Covid”, we are supposed to trust only the official Western big media and governments; any other source of information is dismissed as “misinformation” and directly censored. I don’t remember having seen…