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Dear friends, here's another short documentary (around 45 minutes) which I found extremely interesting to share with you about Wagner and its leader Prigozhin, following the recent coup events in Russia. This was produced by WSJ. Russian government's paramilitary group? Private army of mercenaries? Let's find out:

The current discussions between friends or experts about the war in Ukraine, usually lead to past reports of the mistakes, responsibilities and aggressive actions of the West in the Balkans, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, military involvement in Ukraine and the periphery region of Russia. It seems that all those who try to justify Russia's indisputably murderous, criminal actions on European soil, with the daily deaths of children and civilians, have been finding it difficult for years to adopt the Western narrative, for deeply ideological reasons, not to mention the psychoneurotic empathy towards the Western order of things and perception of the reality of which they are -unfortunately for them- part. They live and breathe in a country of the European Union that is Greece for example, but their minds and souls are attracted to Mother Russia, the undefined East, because they do not like the Americans, NATO, Germany, France, UK, the established political-economic-social formations...

Οι τωρινές συζητήσεις στα διαφόρων ειδών καφενεία – τηλεοπτικά, ραδιοφωνικά, κοινωνικά δίκτυα – μεταξύ φίλων αλλά και ειδικών, για τον πόλεμο στην Ουκρανία, καταλήγουν συνήθως σε παρελθοντικές αναφορές για τα λάθη, τις ευθύνες και τις επιθετικές ενέργειες της Δύσης στα Βαλκάνια, Ιράκ, Λιβύη, Αφγανιστάν, Συρία, την ανάμειξη στην Ουκρανία και στη περιφέρεια της Ρωσίας. Φαίνεται πως όλοι αυτοί που προσπαθούν να δικαιολογήσουν τις αδιαμφισβήτητα δολοφονικές, εγκληματικές ενέργειες της Ρωσίας σε Ευρωπαϊκό έδαφος, με τον καθημερινό θάνατο παιδιών και αμάχων, δυσκολεύονται εδώ και χρόνια να προσεταιριστούν στο Δυτικό αφήγημα, για βαθιά ιδεολογικούς ή / και ιδεοληπτικούς λόγους, για να μην αναφέρουμε την ψυχονευρωτική εμπάθεια απέναντι στη Δυτική τάξη πραγμάτων και αντίληψης της πραγματικότητας της οποίας είναι -δυστυχώς για αυτούς- μέρος. Βρίσκονται, ζουν και αναπνέουν σε χώρα της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης που είναι η Ελλάδα, αλλά το μυαλό και η ψυχή τους ελκύεται από τη Μητέρα Ρωσία, την απροσδιόρισ...

Dear readers, I know that you are used reading topics around business, media, arts, and economics in my blog but I consider this following interview very important because of the current global geopolitical dangers and the increasing nuclear arms race. People in power should act now. Our lives, the planet, civilization and the global economy would be totally destroyed if a nuclear war takes place.

Recently watched the documentary film ''The Great Hack'' which was pretty good I think as it raises important questions about the endless personal data we provide online as individuals and internet users of web platforms and consumers-contributors of social media. Questions about who owns our personal data, who has access to these data, how third parties exploit our online data in order to benefit economically, create political campaigns and target people strategically.  I believe that the film spurs an ongoing conversation for the hot topic about US elections-facebook-Cambridge Analytica-Russia but at the same time it can also manipulate your view to look through the lense and the filters of the film in order to agree with the narrators.  -Stathis Kassios