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A German TV report about an alleged Russian soldier who went to war in the south-east of Ukraine has been exposed as a fake news story.  The story was reported by German TV channel ZDF and featured a Russian “volunteer” who called himself Igor. The volunteer was actually a resident of Kaliningrad and had been paid as an actor to feature in the news report. Pravdareport.com reports: The main character of the report is named Igor, although his real name is Yuri Labyskin. He said that all of his remarks in the documentary had been rehearsed and scripted.

The impromptu Christmas truce of 1914 was a rare moment when human solidarity overrode the demands of hatred and war, when the guns fell silent over the Western Front of World War I and enemies became briefly friends, as Michael Winship recalls. By Michael Winship Last Friday night, I went to a small off-Broadway theater…

Knowing where we're headed requires knowing how we got here from where we've been.

The wars on terror and drugs create more terror and more drugs.

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“The truth is like poetry, and most people fucking hate poetry.”