Congrats! I learned a lot from the article by Roger Cohen published by the New York Times on August 7, 2023. It should be used in journalism schools (Putin’s Forever War).  Roger Cohen’s report is a very well-written and professional propaganda operation. I might change the names and the places and use the same plot to write about any country I want to discredit, including US, Italy, Israel, Iran, by applying all the possible biases. If I get paid for, of course.  It is ridiculous to call ‘ridiculous’ (as Cohen does) the affluence of some Moscow neighborhoods without comparing the same […]

“Al Fossar de les Moreres no s’hi enterra cap traïdor; fins perdent nostres banderes serà l’urna de l’honor” (“In the graveyard of the mulberry trees no traitor shall be buried; even if our flags are lost, it will be the urn of honour”), by Federic Soler ‘Pitarra’. Many years ago, I read this line engraved on a vermillion wall next to the basilica of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona. I was moved to tears. I realized then how often arrogant governments have labelled as terrorists, traitors of the homeland, villains, honorable people who were later cleared of all their […]