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TG 1898: The Gaggle Talks To Prof. Jonathan Haslam

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle sat down for a long conversation about Ukraine, NATO, Trump and the prospects for peace with renowned Cambridge historian Professor Jonathan Haslam.

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TG 1939: Russia Ends Moratorium On Intermediate-Range Missile Deployments

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss Russia's announcement that it would henceforth no longer abide by the self-imposed moratorium on intermediate-range missile deployments, and reflect on the Western media's strange pretense that the defunct INF Treaty is still in place.

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TG 1938: Is NATO Planning To Strike Republika Srpska?

George Szamuely discusses the growing legal and political campaign against Bosnian Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik, and wonders whether NATO is ready to step in as a way of removing Russian influence from the Balkans once and for all.

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Monday Night At The Movies: "Germany Year Zero" (1948)

Join Gagglers for the runner-up of the "aftermath of war" movie poll: Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero"!
The screening starts at 3 p.m. ET sharp.
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Monday Night At The Movies

Please choose which one of the following 8 movies you would like to have screened next Monday, Aug. 11.

The theme is "films in which people adopt fake identities."

Please continue to vote after Aug. 11, so that we can determine the runner-up. The runner-up will be screened on Aug. 18.

August 05, 2025

https://www.rt.com/russia/622537-israeli-settlers-attack-russian-diplomats/

Why the hell is she puzzled by this? The Israelis do whatever they want, to anybody- does not matter if you are a Russian diplomat-- WAKE-UP!!!!!

August 05, 2025

World War Now:
🇲🇩⚡- BREAKING: Moldovan court sentences Evghenia Gutsul, Governor of the separatist region of Gagauzia, Moldova, to seven years in prison for "financing banned-opposition party Shor with Russian money."

🇺🇸 - Trump endorses a Vance/Rubio ticket for the 2028 presidential election.

Follow: @ThermopylaeNews

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister is using his close relationship with both leaders, President Trump and Russia's Putin, to ease tensions between Washington and Moscow, according to Israeli Channel 11, Kan11.

Kan11 says the reason for the increased number of calls between Netanyahu-Putin is to mediate between the US and Russia. The White House was informed of the calls.

🇦🇿🇮🇱⚡- The 70th anniversary of the European Rabbis Conference, which is held every two years, will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan, this year. The event will start on November 4th and end on the 8th, with over 500+ rabbis planned to participate.

This will be ...

January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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