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The Ukrainian “Spring” counteroffensive, long heralded by the leading Western sources of media such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal as a the beginning of a new phase in the Ukraine war, has ground slowly to a halt. Distributed across more than three different axes on the 1000…

Considered to have been a ‘major’ escalation in the war, Germany’s illustrious Leopard 2 main battle tanks are exploding left and right on the battlefield, straining Ukraine’s extremely limited stock of Bergepanzer 2 Armored Recovery Vehicles. These vehicles, which do not have a primary combat function, are a part of a small fleet of eight…

In its own reporting on the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, the New York Times initially ignored Seymour Hersh’s exposition of the Biden administration’s operation in his article published on February 8th, 2023 with the title, “How America Took Out the Nord Stream.” In accordance with the nearly complete media blackout of his exposition,…

The Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun. In an article entitled, “Ukraine Starts Drive to Regain Occupied Area,” from the Friday edition of the New York Times, the authors describe “Ukrainian forces [mounting] a major attack in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, taking the offensive against the invading Russians in multiple places in the east…

Upon the conclusion of a special counsel’s investigation into the mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, a grand jury elected to indict former President Donald J Trump. It is the first time in the history of the United States of America, a former president is scheduled to be arrested by the Federal government,…

The fall of Bakhmut, whose significance entailed the exposure of Zelensky as the mass murderer that fed Territorial Defense Forces into its ‘meat-grinder,’ is provides an unfavorable backdrop for the continued call to launch a ‘Spring’ counteroffensive. Zelensky, who is reeling from the city’s loss, has launched a massive campaign in the media to damper…

The idea that Ukrainian soldiers, the vast majority of whom were mobilized from the ranks of Territorial Defense Units (i.e., untrained, inexperienced, non-combatant civilians), could overcome “pocket resistance” within the encircled city of Bakhmut is a myth. It is the myth of “Fortress Bakhmut” that Volodymyr Zelensky sought to propagandize to ensure the war’s continuation…

In June of 2022, the Supreme Court decided New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. The case is a major victory for the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The legal community addressing the Second Amendment have sought to examine a short passage by Justice Thomas, author of the Bruen opinion,…

Shortly before last year ended, the New York Times ran a front page article entitled, “Putin’s War,” (December 18th, 2022) where the authors advanced numerous claims in bold faced print containing subparagraphs that describe how on the Russian military is struggling with a “collapsing front,” “internal rot,” “shoddy intelligence,” “divided ranks,” whose cumulative effect against…

On Friday, May 19th, 2023 President Joe Biden, who was at Hiroshima, Japan, the site the United States targeted with an atomic bomb during World War II, confirmed the decision to approve Ukraine’s request for F-16 fighter jets, escalating the war drastically on the eve of Ukraine’s “Spring” offensive. In a clear indication of its…

Daniel Swift, a former Navy SEAL, is one of the many American victims to die in the fighting in Bakhmut, Ukraine.In a battle that has raged since Russian armed forces withdrew from the western banks of the Dnipro in the Kherson region shortly before the new year, Swift, a former veteran from “America’s war on…

In an article detailing a new high in inflation published in the New York Times on January 13th, 2022, the authors explained how inflation “climbed to its highest level in 40 years at the end of 2021, a troubling development for economic policy-makers as rapid price gains erode consumer confidence,” casting “a shadow of uncertainty…

The mortally debouched defense of Bakhmut, one of the greatest expositions of Ukraine’s waning military powers, is an indictment of his regime’s catastrophic failure on the battlefield. The Institute for the Study of War, for instance, recently sought to bolster Bakhmut’s defense with blatantly cynical remarks and lies. In at least one of its Russian…

In his most recently televised rant on Friday May 5th, 2023, Evgeny Prigozhin’s severely criticized both Sergey Shoigu as well as Valeriy Gerasimov, both on Russia’s extremely tight general staff, for their failure to provide munitions to Prigozhin’s Wagner Group. In response to the shortage of munitions, Prigozhin announced his intention to withdraw on May…

The McCollum Memo is a document of immense contemporary relevance for the Ukraine War. Although the document was written on the eve of the United States’ entrance into World War II, for which no constituency in the American population provided any public support, the document’s explanation of the successive steps a government, namely the United…

Following this week’s collapse of First Republic on Monday, the second largest bank failure in the history of the United States, PacWest Bancorp, whose shares began to slide in its aftermath, stands on the verge of collapse. On Thursday, PacWest Bancorp’s stock price dropped more than 39%, a sign of a lack of confidence in…

Biden recently announced his intention to rerun for president in 2024. During the course of his administration, Biden has accomplished little to nothing for American working people. It would be convenient to equate his lack of results with failure. But Biden’s domestic agenda for Americans, if one can even relate his legislative history to Americans…

On May 5th, 2023 the District Assembly’s plans to celebrate the LeftOpposition.com‘s one year anniversary with a publication schedule. On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 12:01AM, the District Assembly will publish its latest news articles on the LeftOpposition.com regularly. Consequently, LeftOpposition.com’s one year anniversary article will be published on Saturday May 6th, 2023 at 12:01AM,…

First Republic, the third bank in a row to collapse in less than two months, failed over the weekend before regulators arranged for its sale to J.P. Morgan Chase on Monday morning. Prior to its collapse on Monday, First Republic maintained nearly $230 billion in assets, eclipsing the Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. Already the nation’s…

The Western media continues to criticize the slogging, slow, ‘grinding’ advances of the Russian armed forces as “inch by inch.” Almost none of the mainstream reporting on these small advances attributes the speed to the actual state of mud on the ground in Ukraine, especially around Bakhmut. It is not hard to imagine, however, how…

A massive campaign is already underway to disorient workers away from a defense of Jack Texeira towards a call for his prosecution. The result of Texeira’s leak is the exposition of NATO war plans, the sum total of which debunk US government’s lies to American people about the Ukrainian war. It is immaterial that Marjorie…

On Thursday, April 13th, 2023, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation surrounded a house in the small town of North Dighton, Massachusetts before arresting Jack Teixeira, the suspect accused of leaking the classified NATO documents on Ukrainian armed forces. In our initial reporting, the author of an article published last week noted how the…

It is often the case that the Western media fails to report on the tendency among members of Zelensky’s regime to elevate the anti-Semitic character of Stephan Bandera, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, or the fascist breakaway state the OUN leader sought to establish against the rights of Poles, Jews, or both in 1941. It…

Classified military intelligence documents, detailing Ukraine’s combat readiness, substantiate the claim that Ukraine’s ability to launch a Spring counteroffensive depends upon the readiness of a fourth Ukrainian army. In an article published on April 6th, 2023, entitled “Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation,” the New York Times claims that the documents display the results…

Western media recently hailed Zelensky’s recent visit to the Donets basin, a historic trip, as a milestone in the war. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Russian Private Military Corporation, Wagner Group, in contrast, noted in one of its Telegram channels that Zelensky’s recent trip to the Donets basin stands in sharp contrast…

Russia’s response to Seymour Hersh’s exposition of the Nordstream explosion as a military operation designed, implemented, and executed by President Biden has sent shockwaves throughout the country. Published on February 8th, 2023, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s article entitled “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline,” which implicates the United States’ Navy in…

In a revealing admission of Poland’s stance, if not NATO’s, on the Ukraine war, Poland’s ambassador, Jan Emeryk Rościszewski, to France announced his country’s entrance into the Ukraine War during a televised interview on the French La Chaîne Info channel, a free news to air channel. “It is not NATO, Poland or Slovakia that are…

On Thursday, March 16th, 2023, Andrzej Duda, the President of Poland, announced at a press conference, his plan to give Ukraine about a dozen MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, which would make it the first NATO Member State to fulfill Kyiv’s increasingly urgent requests for warplanes, as Russia edges closer to foreclosing on the encircled…

Under the the deal, Poland agreed to buy 980 units of the K2 tanks, 648 units of the K9 self-propelled howitzers and 48 units of the FA-50 light combat aircraft. Following this deal and the delivery of the first batch of tanks and howitzers, Poland has already announced the conclusion of an agreement to purchase…

Today marks one year from the day Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, expanding a conflict in development already for many decades.  The war, instigated by NATO’s relentless expansion and the global geopolitical and economic interests of US and European imperialism, especially for the Black Sea Region, is quickly escalating toward the outbreak of…

Today marks the one year anniversary of the Ukraine war. No less than a year ago, Russia, provoked by the US, invaded Ukraine, creating the circumstances for an explosion of militarism on the European continent unseen since World War II, causing the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, the destruction of Ukraine, and sending…

With Bakhmut scheduled to fall within the next few weeks, “inspiring altruists,” “visionary entrepreneurs,” “savvy business strategists,” or “budding philanthropists,” all of whom have been engaged since the war’s inception in a battle for access to what the New York Times describes as “the world’s largest construction site,” have already begun to express dismay over…

The attempt to dispatch Main Battle Tanks to Ukraine for a Blitzkrieg offensive is an attempt to transform the Ukrainian armed forces in a NATO Wehrmacht. In several important respects, the Ukrainian armed forces are simply not up to the task, let alone capable of utilizing the MBTs as a Panzerwaffe, an elite force, in…

Rheimetall, the primary manufacturer of Nazi Germany’s weaponry of death, a company specializing in the manufacturer of anything from guns, machine-guns, cannons, artillery, to tanks, renews its cast. The furnaces through which the Nazi’s sped their engines of Blitzkrieg are burning all over again in a renewed action of aggression. 90 years after Hitler took…

New information suggests that divisions within Germany’s ruling elite over the shipment of tanks may not come from any concern over the devastating effects an escalation in the war may cause Germany’s economy but from the battlefield itself. It appears that according to the latest reports, Ukrainian soldiers are dying in staggeringly high numbers, and…

Amidst a media blackout in the New York Times on Friday, January 20th, 2023, where the New York Times featured no story on Ukraine in its headlines, the Ramstein meeting, a highly anticipated meeting on Leopard II tank shipments to Ukraine among leaders from the United States and NATO allies in Germany, concludes with the…

On January 17th, 2022 Russian armed forces, who began to coordinate their next attack after the fall of Soledar, have began to encircle the city, threatening it with siege.  Shortly after the fall of Soledar, Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the Ukrainian armed forces must resupply the soldiers of Artemovsk quickly and and without interruption. It…

On January 11th, 2023 the city of Soledar, situated to 50 kilometers to the North of the strategically valuable region of Bakhmut in Donetsk, fell to Russian forces, the primary thrust for which Russia’s private military company, the Wagner Group advanced. Bakhmut In response to the city’s fall and subsequent exposure of Bakhmut to siege,…

On January 14th, 2011 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Tunisia, seeking refuge in Saudi Arabia, not more than a month after Mohammed Bouazizi’s self-immolation on 17 December 2010 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Bouazizi’s self-immolation is widely held to have served as a catalyst for what would quickly become successive waves of revolutions across…

Russia’s recent capture of the city of Soledar, home to the largest salt mine in Europe and situated to the North of Bakhmut, a highly contested battlefield for control of its territory, is causing concern with the United States and its NATO allies, whose calculation for Russia’s advances during the winter failed to predict the…

On January 12, 2022 Attorney General Merrick Garland announced at a press briefing at the Department of Justice in Washington that he appointed a special counsel to investigate President Biden after the discovery of classified government records at the President’s private home and office. The discovery is a second discovery with more discoveries likely on…

The fall of Soledar is a significant political development in the Ukraine war, most especially for Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russian private military company, the Wagner Group. The Wagner Group, which has been fighting for control over Bakhmut since Russia’s withdrawal from the Western bank of the Dnipro to its Eastern shore, ending the…

The battle for Kherson continues. After the withdrawal, Alarabiya (i.e., العربية ) reported Volodymyr Zelensky saying: “Russia had destroyed all critical infrastructure in the parts of Kherson that Ukrainian armed forces recovered the week prior.” [1] No less than a few week have passed since Russia’s “retreat” from the Western bank of the Dnipro than…

The last conference before the outbreak of World War I, the Second International’s “Extraordinary International Socialist Congress at Basel” from November 24th to the 25th in 1912, represented an extraordinary event in the history of the class struggle, if not for the entire world. At the congress, delegates of the Second International, which were already…

On October 8th, 2022 Ukrainian armed forces attacked the bridge joining Russia to Crimea (i.e., the Kerch bridge). The act can be described as nothing less than an act of terrorism. Committed by Ukrainian intelligence agencies with the full support of Washington together with its allies in NATO, the terrorist act represents a significant escalation…

Norway, which is one of Europe’s major competitor’s to Russian energy, is profiting immensely from the death agony caused by the continuation of the Ukraine war, one of the most putrid outcomes of which is the destruction of Russia’s Nord Stream. Since the beginning of the further invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, disruptions…

The day after Russian President Vladimir Putin proudly proclaimed the illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, thousands of his troops withdrew from a strategic town there under Ukrainian fire. On Saturday, the day after Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of Ukraine’s Donetsk region in a speech (which demonstrates the bankruptcy of Russian nationalism), Russian armed…

On July 28th, 2022 Poland signed a major military contract for $1.7 billion in arms exports from South Korea. Hailed as South Korea’s biggest yet for arms since the beginning of the Ukraine war, the deal is set to deliver to Poland 1, 600 tanks together with no less than 50 fighter jets, a massive…

Azerbaijan and Armenia began accusing each other of violating a cease-fire along their shared border as lingering tensions following their war from two years ago over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh erupt, resulting in casualties. “On the morning of August 3, members of [an] illegal Armenian armed detachment in the territory of Azerbaijan, where the…

Prior to the 2011 outbreak of the Arab Spring, which completely transformed the alignment political forces across the Middle East and Fertile Crescent, Fox News ran an advertisement recommending investors to invest in Syria. With little to no mention of the Bashar Al Assad regime, its history or its leaders, the advertisement mentioned a few…

On July 17th, 2022, Sergey Shoigu, the Russian Minister of Defense, who has occupied has position for more than a decade, held a visit with Russian forces fighting in Ukraine. It is the first time that the Russian Minister of Defense made a personal appearance on the ground in Ukraine. During the meeting Shoigu encouraged…

Ariel Plotnik In the Ancient Greek language of the West’s predecessor is the word “ἀγωνία”  or agony in English. Agony is the terminal state of the body preceding the onset of death, which is associated with the activation of compensatory mechanism aimed at preventing the extinction of the vital forces of the body, limbs and…

On July 11th, 2020, less than two years ago, Marc Angelucci, a well regarded civil rights attorney in the United States of America practicing primarily in California, is said to have been found dead on his front porch after having been allegedly shot in the face at point blank range. Shortly before his assassination, Marc…

After executing days of a Democrat party sanctioned police rampage on peaceful protesters, mayor of Akron, Ohio, Horrigan Gives (Democrat) finally calls for “pause” throughout the city.  Almost immediately after the release of body camera footage showing police from Akron, Ohio shoot Jayland Walker, an African American male, more than 90 times at point blank…

Editor-in-Chief in Exile Signifying the rise of fascism for the first time in the history of the United States of America, Donald J Trump executed a fully preplanned armed insurrection against the constitutionally mandated peaceful transition of power on January 6th, 2022 in an act of Contempt of Congress. The failed coup d’etat’s exposition during…

Ariel Plotnik Julian Assange, who is imprisoned in a maximum security prison in London, England, called Belmarsh, is scheduled to receive an announcement from the United Kingdom’s Home Secretary, Priti Patel, regarding his request to quash a summons for extradition to the United States of America on charges originally filed on March 6, 2018 but…

Editorial Board of the Left Opposition, Ariel Plotnik In a lawsuit addressing one of many corruptions of the Courts in California, retired appellate attorney Joe Eisenberg sued a justice of the Court of Appeal, Third District for delays in opinions. In his petition numbered S269691 with the Supreme Court of California retired appellate attorney Joe…

Suvorov General Dvornikov’s Entrance into the Ukrainian War Signals New Stage On April 4th, 2022 the Kremlin nominated General Alexander Dvornikov the head of the Russian central command in Ukraine. Previously the head of Russian armed forces from the outset of Russia’s defense of Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad regime since 2015, for whose successful leadership of…