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Scott Ritter: Ukraine cannot win this war. It’s a ‘fantasy.’ Don’t believe the Military Industrial Complex that Ukraine can win this war! If you won’t listen to all of this excellent conversation by extremely knowledgeable Scott Ritter, at least listen to the first 10 and last 5 minutes!

The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin The Ukraine-Russia War purpose is to make money for the Military Industrial Complex even if it risks a nuclear war! The U.S. will harass Rusia to the last Ukrainian. Ukraine and the world need serious negotiations to end this war and bring peace!

KPFA Talkies with Fred Weir who writes for Christian Science Monitor Fred has lived near Moscow for decades with his family. Russia is vibrant capitalist market society and is wrongly portrayed by corporate media. The truth is that all of the U.S.’s sanctions have had only minor if any negative effects on the average Russian. Those sanctions are affecting Europe and other parts of the world more seriously than Russia.

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2023-01-29 The war in Ukraine – a balanced perspective Review of the book written by Medea Benjamin. In 2022 Medea Benjamin published “War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict,” with Nicholas J.S. Davis.  The paper has seven chapters and gives a rigorous overview of the main events related to the war in Ukraine. The main merit of the book is that it does not shy away from repeatedly blaming both Russia’s criminal actions and the provocations of Western states. 

Maintaining an illusion at the cost of the lives of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers is how Western powers have chosen to project their power and interests in the region. Fanatical warmongering and support for a war that can only escalate into a catastrophe seem the only options presented to us as legitimate. If you read the book written by the two authors, you will perhaps better understand why peace and negotiations would be the way forward.  https://thebarricade.substack.com/p/the-war-in-ukraine-a-balanced-perspective?

2023-01-27 Incentivizing Russia To Hit NATO The message to Moscow at this point — with de-escalation and detente entirely missing from public discourse — is that they’re going to get squeezed harder and harder until they attack NATO itself.  When even the myopic empire scribes at The New York Times are acknowledging that Western powers are escalating aggressions in a very dangerous direction, you should probably sit up and pay attention.

In his recent article for Responsible Statecraft, “Mission Creep? How the U.S. role in Ukraine has slowly escalated,” Branko Marcetic outlines the ways the U.S.  empire has “serially blown past their own self-imposed lines over arms transfers,” over and over again relenting to war hawks and requests from Ukrainian officials to supply weapons which it had previously refrained from supplying for fear that they would be too escalatory and lead to hot warfare between nuclear superpowers. https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/27/caitlin-johnstone-incentivizing-russia-to-hit-nato/

2023-01-23 Mission Creep? How the US role in Ukraine has slowly escalated. The Biden team has quietly blown past red lines of involvement. The question now, is how far it is willing to go. Little by little, NATO and the United States are creeping closer to the catastrophic scenario President Joe Biden said “we must strive to prevent” — direct conflict between the United States and Russia. Despite stressing at the start of the war that “our forces are not and will not be engaged in the conflict,” current and former intelligence officials told the Intercept back in October that “there is a much larger presence of both CIA and US special operations personnel” in Ukraine than there was when Russia invaded, conducting “clandestine American operations” in the country that “are now far more extensive.”  https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/01/23/how-the-us-role-in-ukraine-has-slowly-but-steadily-escalated/

2023-01-02 Putin and Zelensky Both Vow to Keep Fighting in New Year’s Addresses Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky both delivered New Year’s Eve addresses to their countries, where they vowed to continue fighting as the war shows no sign of slowing down in 2023.

In his speech, Putin reiterated that he has no intention of leaving the areas Russian forces have captured and annexed, saying Russia is fighting to protect people “in the new regions of the Russian Federation.”

Putin took aim at the US and its European allies, saying the West “lied to us about peace while preparing for aggression,” likely referring to recent comments from former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She said in December that the Minsk accords that were brokered by France and Germany and meant to end the Donbas war were really an effort to “give Ukraine time” to build up its military. https://www.activistpost.com/2023/01/putin-and-zelensky-both-vow-to-keep-fighting-in-new-years-addresses.html

2022-12-30 Zelensky Prepares for WEF and BlackRock Private-Public Takeover of Ukraine One only has to look at the website of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to see the various agenda items they are actively promoting, including openly using the war as a springboard to bring Ukraine into the EU. They are also planning to make Ukraine their ‘beta testing ground’ for Klaus Schwab’s Fourth Industrial Revolution and smart city digital control grid.

Unbeknownst the most Ukrainians, the former comedian turned president is scheduled to hold talks with BlackRock Investments to negotiate the private-public partnership takeover the country’s postwar ‘reconstruction’. https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/zelensky-prepares-for-wef-and-blackrock-private-public-takeover-of-ukraine.html

2022-12-29 Zelensky, BlackRock CEO Agree to Coordinate on Ukraine’s Reconstruction Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and CEO of the US investment management company BlackRock, Larry Fink, held a video meeting on Wednesday and agreed to coordinate the reconstruction of Ukraine.

Zelensky’s office said that he and Fink “agreed to focus in the near term on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country, channeling investment into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy.”

The World Bank estimated this month that it could cost between 500 and 600 billion euros ($525 billion-$630 billion), and the number could rise as the war drags on. Back in June, the World Bank said reconstruction would cost about 350 billion euros. Ukrainian officials have previously put the price tag for Ukraine’s “recovery plan” at $750 billion. https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/zelensky-blackrock-ceo-agree-to-coordinate-on-ukraines-reconstruction.html

2022-12-27 UKRAINE WAR TOLLS DEATH KNELL FOR NATO To quote Biden, “Now, you say, ‘Why don’t we just give Ukraine everything there is to give?’  Well, for two reasons. One, there’s an entire Alliance that is critical to stay with Ukraine.  And the idea that we would give Ukraine material that is fundamentally different than is already going there would have a prospect of breaking up NATO and breaking up the European Union and the rest of the world… I’ve spent several hundred hours face-to-face with our European allies and the heads of state of those countries, and making the case as to why it was overwhelmingly in their interest that they continue to support Ukraine… They understand it fully, but they’re not looking to go to war with Russia.  They’re not looking for a third World War.” https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-war-tolls-death-knell-for-nato/

2022-12-27 Omnibus Shows Congress’s Priorities: Authoritarianism and War Those hoping for a Christmastime government shutdown were once again disappointed when Congress passed a 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that few, if any, representatives and senators read before voting on. The Republican leadership celebrated this bloated monstrosity because it spends $858 billion on warfare while “only” spending $772.5 billion on welfare.

No one should think Republican insistence on more warfare than welfare spending means Democrats oppose the warfare state. Under President Biden and a Democrat-controlled Congress, “defense” spending has increased by 4.3 percent over the last two years. Similarly, every Republican President in recent years – including two who had a Republican-controlled Congress for at least part of their term – supported huge increases in welfare state spending. Most Democrats only pretend to oppose warfare and most Republicans only pretend to oppose welfare to appease their parties’ respective bases. https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/omnibus-shows-congresss-priorities-authoritarianism-and-war.html

2022-12-27 ANTIWAR ACTIVIST FACES REPRESSION IN GERMANY https://popularresistance.org/antiwar-activist-faces-repression-in-germany/

2022-12-26 Disinformation, Censorship, and Information Warfare in the 21st Century In recent years, prominent national security officials and media outlets have raised alarm about the unprecedented effects of foreign disinformation in democratic countries. In practice, what they mean is that democratic governments have fallen behind in their command of the methods of information warfare in the early 21st century. As outlined herein, while information warfare is a real and serious issue facing democratic governments in the 21st century, the war on disinformation, as currently practiced, has backfired spectacularly and done far more harm than good, as evidenced most clearly by the response to COVID-19.

We begin with the definitions and history of a few key terms: censorship, free speech, misinformation, disinformation, and bots. (See article)

COVID: The best evidence that national security officials’ alarm about foreign disinformation is justified is, ironically, an example so egregious that they have yet to acknowledge it happened, seemingly out of embarrassment and fear of the political fallout: the lockdowns of spring 2020. These lockdowns weren’t part of any democratic country’s pandemic plan and had no precedent in the modern Western world; they appear to have been instigated by officials with strange connections to China based solely on China’s false claim that their lockdown was effective in controlling COVID in Wuhan, assisted in no small part by a vast propaganda campaign across legacy and social media platforms. It’s therefore essentially axiomatic that the lockdowns of spring 2020 were a form of foreign disinformation. The catastrophic harms that resulted from these lockdowns prove just how high the stakes in 21st century information warfare can be.

That said, the astonishing failure of Western officials to acknowledge the catastrophe of lockdowns seems to speak to their unseriousness in actually winning the 21st century information war, justifying skeptics’ arguments that these officials are merely using foreign disinformation as a pretext to suppress free speech at home.

For example, after the catastrophic lockdowns of spring 2020, not only did national security officials never acknowledge foreign influence on lockdowns, but on the contrary we saw a small army of national security officials actually engaging in domestic censorship of well-credentialed citizens who were skeptical of the response to COVID—effectively exacerbating the effects of the lockdown disinformation campaign and, conspicuously, making their own countries even more like China.

The Orwellian pretext for this vast domestic censorship apparatus is that, because there is no way to properly identify or control foreign social media bots, foreign disinformation has become so ubiquitous within Western discourse that federal officials can only combat it by surreptitiously censoring citizens for what the officials deem to be “misinformation,” regardless of the citizens’ motivations. These officials have thus deemed well-qualified citizens who oppose the response to COVID-19 to be spreading “misinformation,” a term which can encompass virtually any human thought or statement. Depending on their underlying motivations and loyalties, the actions of these officials in surreptitiously censoring “misinformation” may have even been an intentional part of the lockdown disinformation campaign; if so, this speaks to the multi-level complexity and sophistication of information warfare in the 21st century. https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/disinformation-censorship-and-information-warfare-in-the-21st-century.html

2022-12-25 Ukraine is CNNs War

If a tree in the woods fell down
And we see no one is around,
Does it still, if you will, make a sound
With no ear which to hear it fall down?

When TV ignores the news
Of Russian-speakers who
were killed 8 years ago
How can anyone know?

Ten thousand Donbass dead!
Can it enter our head
That we are being misled
By TV and agents in bed?

Ukraine is CNN’s War
By hiding what came before.
Denying provocation
Of Russian mobilization.

U.S. imperialism’s tool,
CNN plays us for fools
Spending billions for war
Rich get richer some more.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/12/25/ukraine-is-cnns-war/

2022-12-23 The Mandate to End War in Ukraine The mandate to end war in Ukraine is written clearly and decisively in our founding document, the Constitution of the United States. Article IV, Section 4 requires that “The United States…shall protect each of them [the states and the people] against invasion.”

Fomenting war in Ukraine runs counter to that mandated obligation. In fact, fomenting war in Ukraine can bring about destruction in the United States from large numbers of nuclear missile strikes emanating from Russia. Russia has huge stocks of nuclear weapons and long range missiles. In addition, Russians believe that the United States and the West pose an existential threat to their existence. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/12/23/the-mandate-to-end-war-in-ukraine/

2022-12-22 ‘Victims of war for generations’ Journalist Konstantin Skorkin revisits the conflicts that shaped Crimea’s past and looks to the not-so-distant future (recent history of Crimea from a pro-Ukraine viewpoint) https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/12/22/victims-of-war-for-generations

2022-12-21 Canadian Journalist Added to Ukrainian Hitlist It seems as though no one on the planet has the power, or the guts, to shut down this kill list even though it violates the law of every civilized country in the world, and people exposed on the list continue to be murdered.

It’s no secret that Ukraine’s so-called “Center to Control Disinformation” operates a database which publicizes the private information of thousands of journalists worldwide. The site, called “Mirotvorets” (also spelled “Myrotvorets”), means “Peacemaker” in Ukrainian. In the fascist lexicon, “peace” is “made” by killing anyone not in lockstep with Ukraine’s goals of securing a pure ethno-state purged of all untermenschen such as the Roma people, LGBTQ and the most hated minorities of all — “Moskals,” a Ukrainian slur for Russians.

Mirotvorets is an open-source website and NGO which publicizes a running list of “enemies of Ukraine,” or, as the website itself declares, those “whose actions show signs of crimes against Ukraine’s national security, peace, human security and international law.” In other words, having opinions counter to Ukraine’s official narratives, or opposing the Nazi-worshipping regime in Kiev, qualifies as such a threat under Ukrainian law.

The website, which was first launched in December 2014 by Ukrainian politician and activist Georgy Tuka, has remained online all this time despite repeated requests from the UN, G7 ambassadors, the EU and various human rights groups to shut it down. In 2018, the German Foreign Office asked the Ukrainian government to take the website down. In response, the Security Service of Ukraine issued a statement that Mirotvorets had not violated Ukrainian law. https://progressiveissuesblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/26/2022-12-21-canadian-journalist-added-to-ukrainian-hitlist

2022-12-21 Zelensky Headed to Washington for “Weapons, Weapons, and More Weapons” Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Zelensky, said the Ukrainian President will be seeking “weapons, weapons, and more weapons.” He said it’s important for Zelensky to “personally explain” why Ukraine needs certain types of weapons.

“In particular, armored vehicles, the latest missile defense systems, and long-range missiles,” Podolyak said. Ukraine is set to receive some of the new weapons that it seeks. A senior US official told Reuters that Biden is expected to announce a new $2 billion arms package for Ukraine that will include Patriot missile defense systems for the first time.

The Patriots are an advanced system that will take six months to train Ukrainians how to use. Russia has repeatedly warned against the US providing Patriots, saying they will be a legitimate target for Russian forces.

While in Washington, Zelensky is expected to address Congress, which is set to pass $45 billion in new aid for Ukraine, bringing total US spending on the war to about $112 billion. The Ukrainian leader addressed Congress virtually back in March and asked for the US to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which would require the US to shoot down Russian warplanes and bomb missile systems inside Russia. https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/zelensky-headed-to-washington-for-weapons-weapons-and-more-weapons.html

2022-12-20 JOURNALIST TARGETED BY UKRAINE SPEAKS OUT: WYATT REED WITH LEE CAMP Wyatt Reed was put on a dystopian kill list run by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry bearing the name Myrotvorets or Peace Maker.  He was added to this list less than two weeks before his hotel was bombed by the Ukrainian military while he was in Donetsk. Today, he told MintPress’ Lee Camp of the harrowing details of how he came under artillery fire on his way back to his hotel.

“Two hours after arriving in Donetsk, maybe 1 hour after checking into my hotel and 45 minutes after communicating my location to a colleague in Donetsk I went to try to find some dinner. On my way back, I’m about 100 meters away from the front door of my hotel. A massive explosion happened directly in front of me, I screamed out ‘holy shit’, I took out my phone and started recording”. https://www.mintpressnews.com/journalist-targeted-ukraine-speaks-wyatt-reed-lee-camp/283074/

2022-12-20 TWITTER FILES: Twitter Assisted Pentagon’s “Psychological Influence Ops” These Twitter Files drops are getting further and further down the dystopian rabbit-hole. Today’s drop, brought to you by The Intercept‘s Lee Fang, provides insight into Twitter’s efforts to aid the Pentagon’s “online psychological influence ops.”https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/twitter-files-twitter-assisted-pentagons-psychological-influence-ops.html

2022-12-20 Congress Includes $45 Billion in New Ukraine Aid to $1.7 Trillion Funding Bill The $45 billion is over $7 billion more than the $37.7 billion in Ukraine aid that the White House asked Congress to authorize before the next congressional session begins in January.

According to a summary of the new Ukraine aid, the $45 billion includes $9 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the US to purchase arms for Kyiv and funds other types of support, including training and intelligence sharing.

The aid includes $11.8 billion to replenish US military stockpiles that have been sent to Ukraine. US European Command will get $6.98 billion for “mission support, intelligence support, pay, equipment, and related activities.” The US is set to open a new command in Germany dedicated entirely to overseeing the training and arming of Ukrainian forces. Other types of aid include $13.37 billion for economic assistance and direct budgetary support and $2.47 billion for humanitarian aid. When it comes to oversight, the new aid includes $6 million for the Pentagon’s Inspector General and requires an IG report on the new funds.

The NDAA will allow the US to arm Ukraine even more as it includes another $800 million in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. The NDAA will also grant the Pentagon wartime purchasing powers by allowing non-competitive, multi-year contracts for certain arms. The authority could be used to refill US stockpiles, arm Ukraine, and assist foreign governments that have provided support for Ukraine. https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/congress-includes-45-billion-in-new-ukraine-aid-to-1-7-trillion-funding-bill.html

2022-12-19 Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War with Russia These comments echoed those of Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, who came to power in snap elections after the 2014 coup d’état. Regarding his signing of the Minsk Accord, Poroshenko repeated in a Deutsche Welle interview last June his previous admission: “Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war—to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.” https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/12/19/former-german-chancellor-angela-merkel-admits-that-minsk-peace-agreements-were-part-of-scheme-for-ukraine-to-buy-time-to-prepare-for-war-with-russia/

2022-12-18 ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: MONEY FOR UKRAINE AND WAR The U.S. does not respect the right to health care, housing, employment, or education while making war on the rest of the world. What does the idea of human rights amount to in this country?

December 10th is recognized globally as International Human Rights Day (IHRD) to commemorate the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. But how does the U.S. state celebrate this day? Two days before the day of recognition, legislators in the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the $858 billion dollar National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which also specifically earmarked another $800 million for the Ukraine war. https://popularresistance.org/on-international-human-rights-day-money-for-ukraine-and-war-but-austerity-for-the-people/

2022-12-17 ILWU LEADERS AND MEMBERS ON UKRAINE: STOP THE UKRAINE WAR In 2014, a U.S.-driven Maidan coup in Ukraine overthrew the elected government and burned down the trade union headquarters building in Odessa, killing 48 people. In opposition to the coup two Russian-speaking provinces of Eastern Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk, seceded. The democratic right to self-determination from the nationalist Kiev government which banned the Russian language must be recognized for the Eastern and Southern provinces. The neo-fascist Azov Brigade opened fire on the two newly-founded republics of the Donbas region, killing over 15,000 civilians. African immigrants in Ukraine attempting to flee the war were subjected to racial discrimination by the Zelensky government.

Furthermore, his neoliberal capitalist government just passed Law 5371 meaning 70% of Ukraine’s workers cannot have unions negotiate collective bargaining agreements or fight an employer’s firing of workers. This anti-union law is opposed by Ukraine’s Federation of Trade Unions. Zelensky’s martial law prevents workers from protesting anti-labor laws by striking.

The ILWU must call for an end to the war. Most importantly we must appeal for port actions to the International Dockworkers Council (IDC) and the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) to refuse to handle military cargo by dockworkers around the world. They both opposed the Zionist massacre of Palestinians last year. They can call for an end to the Ukraine war now. International workers actions refusing to handle military cargo can stop it. https://popularresistance.org/ilwu-leaders-and-members-on-ukraine-stop-the-ukraine-war-refuse-to-handle-military-cargo/

2022-12-16 Anti-Blackness in Europe Creates Vulnerability During War Russia invaded Ukraine February 24, 2022, and that same day, harrowing reports of discrimination were making it out of the Ukraine-Poland border.

Many African students reported a “Ukrainians First” policy in which Black people were denied access to transportation during evacuation from Ukraine until after all White refugees found safety across Ukraine’s border.  There are few Black Ukrainian nationals. But for those who are both Black and Ukrainian, this racist double standard is an everyday norm, especially in war-torn Ukraine. 

There were 76,000 African students in Ukraine at the start of the war, and the majority were studying medicine or seeking engineering degrees that were not available in their home country.  https://blog.ucsusa.org/chanese-forte/anti-blackness-in-europe-creates-vulnerability-during-war/

2022-12-15 Congress To Sneak $37 Billion Ukraine Aid Into Must-Pass Omnibus Bill As opposition to Washington’s Ukraine blank check mounts, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has signaled that the next huge check – nearly $38 billion – will be conveniently hidden in a year-end, must-pass omnibus bill. It’s a way to keep the gravy train flowing while sparing Members the inconvenience of having to face voters.

Also today…White House to send more troops into Ukraine. What could go wrong? https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/congress-to-sneak-37-billion-ukraine-aid-into-must-pass-omnibus-bill.html

2022-12-13 Wyatt Reed & Lee Camp: Journalist Targeted By Ukraine Journalist Wyatt Reed was recently reporting from the separatist Donbass region that’s in dispute in the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine. His hotel, which hosts many foreign journalists, was hit by Ukrainian artillery one morning while he was returning to it. These artillery strikes have been commonplace for residents of the Donbass since 2014, after the Maidan coup, when their conflict with the U.S.-backed regime in Kiev began. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UazhNBlk44g

2022-12-13 Ukraine Says It Needs $1 Billion to Quickly Repair Energy Infrastructure As Russian missile strikes have decimated Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Monday that Kyiv needs $1 billion to restore its power grid and heating systems.

“The approximate cost of urgent help for the power sector stands at $500 million,” Shmyahl told the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to Reuters. “The approximate cost of urgent help for the power sector stands at $500 million.” https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/ukraine-says-it-needs-1-billion-to-quickly-repair-energy-infrastructure.html

2022-12-10 These Are The World’s Largest Arms-Producing Companies

As Statista’s Martin Armstrong shows in the infographic below, U.S. companies dominate the top of the list.

You will find more infographics at Statista

According to the source, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), arms sales of the world’s largest 100 arms-producing companies grew by 1.9 percent to $592 billion in 2021, despite supply chain challenges.

https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/these-are-the-worlds-largest-arms-producing-companies.html

The Big Rip-Off: Congress Packs Military Spending Bill To Insane Level!

2022-12-07 Meet the Brutal Proxy Force Fighting the Russians, Not Only on the Ground in Ukraine But Also on the Internet The story of the Georgian Legion is more than just battles and atrocities. Far from the battlefield, thousands of people are now soldiers on a second, digital front. They are engaged in both propaganda and attack, relentlessly swarming anyone who dares to question approved narratives. These are not random Internet trolls; rather, they operate with the approval and backing of the Pentagon and the Ukrainian defense apparatus. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/12/07/meet-the-brutal-proxy-force-fighting-the-russians-not-only-on-the-ground-in-ukraine-but-also-on-the-internet/

2022-12-06 SENATE CANDIDATE DIANE SARE REVEALS HOW SHE ENDED UP ON UKRAINE’S NOTORIOUS “INFO TERRORIST” HIT LIST Diane Sare ran for Senate this year in New York against Chuck Schumer and was very outspoken that the United States should not be funding and arming the proxy war in Ukraine. She didn’t know that would earn her a spot on the Ukrainian government’s list of “information terrorists.”

Ukrainian government officials said they were also looking into bringing war crimes charges against those on the list, which included Senator Rand Paul and musician Roger Waters.  https://www.mintpressnews.com/diane-sare-reveals-how-she-ended-up-on-ukraine-notorious-info-terrorist-hit-list/282923/

2022-12-07 EU just woke up and realized it was America’s bitch. Reset needed, claims Macron Remarkably, the EU is beginning to wake up and realise not only that it is more servile to the U.S. than ever before, but in fact the relationship has reached farcical levels of master and slave since the Ukraine war started. And yet, despite the EU’s chief diplomat recently refusing to be drawn into a conflict scenario with China and MEPs pathetically voting to deem Russia a terrorist state, it was not the EU which came to the conclusion. It was the French president Emmanuel Macron.

Nine whole months since the war started in February of this year, Macron is beginning to see that he has been outplayed by the incumbent buffoon in the White House. Yes, ‘Where Am I going Biden’ is actually not as dumb as he looks or acts. The true winner of the Ukraine war is America by far which has made Europe dependent on its LPG, while it is Europeans who are reduced to living like refugees in their own countries once the cost is passed on. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/37084

2022-12-07 Sanctions batter Russia as the Kremlin attempts to overcome them Western economic punishments on Russia continue to severely limit its economic prospects. But they also risk hastening the development of sanctions evasion techniques and rival economic mechanisms outside the control of Brussels and Washington. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/37079

2022-12-01 Eight reasons why now is a good time for a Ukraine ceasefire and peace talks. 1. The first, and most urgent reason, is the incredible, daily death and suffering in Ukraine. 2. Neither side can achieve a decisive military victory, and with its recent military gains, Ukraine is in a good negotiating position. 3. U.S. government officials, especially in the Republican Party, are starting to balk at the prospect of continuing this enormous level of military and economic support.  4. The war is causing upheavals in Europe. 5. Most of the world is calling for negotiations. 6. The war in Ukraine, like all wars, is catastrophic for the environment. 7. The war has a devastating economic impact on countries across the world. 8. The last reason, which dramatically reinforces all the other reasons, is the danger of nuclear war. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/37024

2022-11-29 Retired US Army Colonel on Ukraine, Iran & the State of the US Empire Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army Colonel and former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, about foreign policy with a focus on North Korea, Iran, and Ukraine. Lawrence Wilkerson served in the U.S. Army for 31 years and is now a Senior Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. https://theanalysis.news/retired-us-army-colonel-on-ukraine-iran-the-state-of-the-us-empire/

2022-11-23 Scott Ritter & Lee Camp: Why Ukraine Can’t Win https://leecamp.com/scott-ritter-lee-camp-why-ukraine-cant-win/

2022-11-23 Georgian Legion Carries Out ISIS-Style Executions in Ukraine—with Covert U.S. Support U.S. has a long history of subcontracting dirty counterinsurgency operations to brutal proxy forces–the Georgian Legion is but the latest.

The Georgian Legion stands out among the many right-wing militias of Ukraine.

While most of the new breed of Ukrainian fascists are active on social media, the Georgian Legion has gone beyond Telegram and risen to mainstream appeal through clever internet memes. An army of trolls called the “Fellas” with cartoon Shiba Inu avatars earned through donations to the legion prowl social media, eager to dog-pile and mass-report anyone who questions official narratives. This cutesy exterior is cover for a unit every bit as brutal and violent as their Nazi counterparts.

The Georgian Legion prides itself on never taking prisoners, releasing videos on its social media of ISIS-style executions of bound, tortured POWs that are so brazen even Western intelligence cutouts such as Bellingcat and Western press agencies like CNN and The New York Times have confirmed their authenticity. Despite this, the Georgian Legion finds support not just among internet trolls, but also from people at the highest echelons of American power. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/23/georgian-legion-carries-out-isis-style-executions-in-ukraine-with-covert-u-s-support/

2022-11-22 Risking Nuclear War to Avoid Humiliation – Ellsberg (pt 1/2) The Ukrainian missile that hit Poland and was first attributed to Russia was one of the most dangerous moments since the Russian invasion. Daniel Ellsberg says as it was for Kennedy in 1962 in Cuba, so it is now for Putin in Ukraine. There is no actual national security threat, only a threat to the leader’s domestic political survival. That does not mean the danger isn’t real. https://theanalysis.news/risking-nuclear-war-to-avoid-humiliation-ellsberg-pt-1-2/

2022-11-22 Fraud Crypto FTX Tied to WEF, Ukraine, & Top Biden Official https://leecamp.com/fraud-crypto-ftx-tied-to-wef-ukraine-top-biden-official/

2020-11-16 FTX PARTNERSHIP WITH UKRAINE IS LATEST CHAPTER IN SHADY WESTERN AID SAGA As the turbulence grows, the government of Ukraine is conducting an ongoing cleanup and whitewashing operation to rid any and all references to a high-level cryptocurrency fundraising arrangement it struck with FTX from the web. Eerily, it seems to have commenced just days before the scandal erupted.

Online records unearthed by The Grayzone claim tens of millions were raised by FTX for the Ukrainian government and put to a variety of belligerent uses. But with the company now exposed as a Potemkin village lacking underlying assets, and major question marks hanging over whether its operations were from day one fraudulent top to bottom, where does that leave the supposedly successful donation scheme? Were those sums truly raised, and if so, to what purposes were they actually put?

Massive customer holdings have apparently gone missing thanks to a secret “back door” in the FTX bookkeeping system that allowed Bankman-Fried to make changes to the company’s financial records without any accountability. This connivance may have been used to hide at least $10 billion in client funds Bankman-Fried transferred from exchange to another company he founded, digital asset trader Alameda Research.

The partnership between FTX and the Ukrainian government was first publicized on March 14th when the leading cryptocurrency website CoinDesk announced Kiev had launched a dedicated webpage for cryptocurrency donations dubbed Aid for Ukraine. Under its auspices, FTX pledged to “convert crypto contributions to Ukraine’s war effort into fiat for deposit” at the National Bank of Kiev, allowing the embattled government to “turn bitcoin into bullets, bandages and other war materiel.”  https://www.mintpressnews.com/ftx-partnership-ukraine-latest-chapter-shady-western-aid-saga/282761/

2022-11-14 Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia If the powerful leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senators Jack Reed (D) and Jim Inhofe (R), have their way, Congress will soon invoke wartime emergency powers to build up even greater stockpiles of Pentagon weapons. The amendment is supposedly designed to facilitate replenishing the weapons the United States has sent to Ukraine, but a look at the wish list contemplated in this amendment reveals a different story.

Reed and Inhofe’s idea is to tuck their wartime amendment into the FY2023 National Defense Appropriation Act (NDAA) that will be passed during the lame duck session before the end of the year. The amendment sailed through the Armed Services Committee in mid-October and, if it becomes law, the Department of Defense will be allowed to lock in multi-year contracts and award non-competitive contracts to arms manufacturers for Ukraine-related weapons.

If the Reed/Inhofe amendment is really aimed at replenishing the Pentagon’s supplies, then why do the quantities in its wish list vastly surpass those sent to Ukraine? http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36881

2022-11-06 American-Born Canadian Professor Attacked by Mainstream Media for Opposing NATO Narrative on Ukraine A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Professor Michael Carley at the University of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign. Canada’s role in the Ukraine conflict and the power of the right-wing Ukrainian diaspora in Canada may be underestimated, according to the vitriol we have seen directed at Professor Carley. He is among the first in Canada to feel the wrath of the country’s mainstream media, after Russia’s special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/06/american-born-canadian-professor-attacked-by-mainstream-media-for-opposing-nato-narrative-on-ukraine/

2022-11-02 Why support for Ukraine could dwindle in the final months of 2022 Since February 24, 2022, Ukraine’s armed forces have successfully defended much of their country. But without American assistance, the Ukrainian military campaign would have likely floundered months ago. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. has provided the lion’s share of military aid to Ukraine, alongside enormous financial and humanitarian assistance. With the U.S. midterm elections to be held on November 8, 2022, both President Joe Biden’s administration and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fear that these channels of support for Ukraine will diminish significantly.

The economic effects of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, such as higher energy prices, have taken their toll on American voters, and recent polling shows that U.S. support for the war is waning, especially among Republicans. According to Pew Research Center, the belief that the U.S. is providing too much support to Ukraine surged among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents from 9 percent in March to 32 percent in September. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36776

2022-11-01 30 Dems RETRACT Statement For Peace in Ukraine https://leecamp.com/30-dems-retract-statement-for-peace-in-ukraine/

2022-10-30 Schrödinger’s Bomb: False Flags Over Ukraine Well, if the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February and the ramping up of tensions with China over Taiwan this past summer didn’t convince you that the struggle for control of the grand (3D) chessboard has indeed “come back with a vengeance” this year, the events of this past week should be more than enough to dispel your doubts.

First we had the news that Russia is ringing the alarm over a false flag dirty bomb attack that (they assert) the Ukrainians are planning to stage in Ukraine in order to blame Russia. Then we had the US counter-warning that it’s actually Russia who’s planning to release nukes in Ukraine and the Kremlin’s false flag warning is a trick to make everyone believe that the Ukrainians are going to do it.

Is your head spinning yet? Mine, too. In fact, I think that’s the point. Accusation. Counter-accusation. Bluffs and double-bluffs in an ever-crazier game of nuclear chicken. What the hell is going on here? And—regardless of what results from this latest kerfuffle—what does the normalization of false flag accusations portend for the future of geopolitics? https://www.corbettreport.com/schrodingers-bomb-false-flags-over-ukraine/

2022-10-28 The growing chorus for peace in Ukraine Ukraine has been wracked by shocking destruction and deadly violence since Russia invaded the country in February. Estimates of the death toll range from a confirmed minimum of 27,577 people, including 6,374 civilians, to over 150,000. The slaughter can only get more horrific as long as all sides, including the United States and its NATO allies, remain committed to war.

In the first weeks of the war, the United States and NATO countries sent weapons to Ukraine to try to prevent Russia from quickly defeating Ukraine’s armed forces and conducting a U.S.-style “regime change” in Kyiv. But since that goal was achieved, the only goals that President Zelenskyy and his Western allies have publicly proclaimed are to recover all of pre-2014 Ukraine and decisively defeat and weaken Russia.

These are aspirational goals at best, which require sacrificing hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of Ukrainian lives, regardless of the outcome. Even worse, if they should come close to succeeding, they are likely to trigger a nuclear war, making this the all-time epitome of a “no-win predicament.”

At the end of May, President Biden responded to probing questions about the contradictions in his Ukraine policy from the New York Times Editorial Board, replying that the United States was sending weapons so that Ukraine “can fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.” http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36745

2022-10-26 Documents Reveal that NATO Was Rehearsing for an Amphibious Assault on Eastern Ukraine Using Ukrainian Naval Bases Acquired in Agreement with the UK The naval agreement between Ukraine and the United Kingdom was to act as a tripwire. These “Ukrainian” naval bases in the Black and Azov Seas were likely going to be used as hubs for NATO ships to prepare an amphibious assault on the port cities of Odessa and Mariupol while Kyiv was massing ground troops on the western front lines of these regions.

Had Moscow ignored the quickly developing situation, it would have been forced to confront a situation which would have impeded its ability not only to prevent a genocide on its doorstep but also to preserve its own territorial integrity. With NATO warships allowed to roam in the area, time was of the essence and Moscow could not afford not to act.

The POLARIS 21 simulation under these circumstances was likely designed to prepare to engage the Russian fleet before it got the chance (as it did in Syria) to create a buffer zone in order to confront the incoming NATO fleet and thwart its amphibious operation. This could help explain POLARIS 21’s stated goal of “winning the war before the war.” https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/10/26/documents-reveal-that-nato-was-rehearsing-for-an-amphibious-assault-on-eastern-ukraine-using-ukrainian-naval-bases-acquired-in-agreement-with-the-uk/

2022-10-26 The West must stop blocking negotiations between Ukraine and Russia Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. This war has been horrendous, though it does not compare with the terrible destruction wrought by the U.S. bombardment of Iraq (“shock and awe”) in 2003. In the Gomel region of Belarus that borders Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian diplomats met on February 28 to begin negotiations toward a ceasefire. These talks fell apart. Then, in early March, the two sides met again in Belarus to hold a second and third round of talks. On March 10, the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia met in Antalya, Türkiye, and finally, at the end of March, senior officials from Ukraine and Russia met in Istanbul, Türkiye, thanks to the initiative of Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. On March 29, Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said, “We are pleased to see that the rapprochement between the parties has increased at every stage. Consensus and common understanding were reached on some issues.” By April, an agreement regarding a tentative interim deal was reached between Russia and Ukraine, according to an article in Foreign Affairs.

In early April, Russian forces began to withdraw from Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv Oblast, which meant that Russia halted military operations around Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. The United States and the United Kingdom claimed that this withdrawal was a consequence of military failure, while the Russians said it was due to the interim deal. It is impossible to ascertain, with the available facts, which of these two views was correct.

Before the deal could go forward, then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Kyiv on April 9. A Ukrainian media outlet—Ukrainska Pravda—reported that Johnson carried two messages to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: first, that Russian President Vladimir Putin “should be pressured, not negotiated with,” and second, that even if Ukraine signed agreements with the Kremlin, the West was not ready to do so. According to Ukrainska Pravda, soon after Johnson’s visit, “the bilateral negotiation process was paused.” A few weeks later, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Kyiv, and following the trip, Austin spoke at a news conference at an undisclosed location in Poland and said, “We want to see Russia weakened.” There is no direct evidence that Johnson, Blinken, and Austin directly pressured Zelenskyy to withdraw from the interim negotiations, but there is sufficient circumstantial evidence to suggest that this was the case.

The lack of willingness to allow Ukraine to negotiate with Russia predates these visits and was summarized in a March 10, 2022, article in the Washington Post where senior officials in U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration stated that the current U.S. strategy “is to ensure that the economic costs for Russia are severe and sustainable, as well as to continue supporting Ukraine militarily in its effort to inflict as many defeats on Russia as possible.”

In March 2020, Zelenskyy said that he and Putin could work out an agreement within a year based on the Minsk II agreements of February 2015. “There are points in Minsk. If we move them around a bit, then what bad can that lead to? As soon as there are no people with weapons, the shooting will stop. That’s important,” Zelenskyy told the Guardian. In a December 2019 press conference, Putin said, “there is nothing more important than the Minsk Agreements.” At this point, Putin said that all he expected was that the Donbas region would be given special status in the Ukrainian Constitution, and during the time of the expected Ukraine-Russia April 2020 meeting, the troops on both sides would have pulled back and agreed to “disengagement along the entire contact line.” http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36719

2022-10-30 Thirty progressive Democrats break rank, calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine In a dramatic break with the Biden administration on the eve of the midterm elections, 30 House Democrats sent a letter to President Biden urging him to engage in direct talks with Russian President Vladmir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. In addition to bilateral talks, signatories to the letter, initiated by Progressive Caucus Chair Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, urge the White House to support a mutual ceasefire and diplomatic efforts to avoid a protracted war that threatens more human suffering and spiraling global inflation, as well as nuclear war through intention or miscalculation.

Despite President Biden’s recent acknowledgement that we have never been closer to nuclear Armageddon since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Biden has not met with Putin since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, and he recently told the press he will refuse to meet with Putin next month when the two attend the G-20 Summit in Bali.

In addition to Congresswoman Jayapal (D-WA), the Democratic signers of the letter are Representatives Adams (NC), Blumenauer (OR), Bowman (NY, Bush (MO), Carson (IN), Clarke (D-NY), De Fazio (D-OR), DeSaulnier (CA), Garcia (IL), Grijalva (AZ), Jackson Lee (TX), Jacobs (CA), Johnson (GA), Jones (NY), Khanna (CA), Lee (CA), Moore (WI), Newman (IL), Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Omar (MN), Paine (NJ), Pingree (ME), Pocan (WI), Pressley(MA), Raskin (MD), Takano (CA), Tlaib (MI), Velazquez (NY) and Watson Coleman (NJ). http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36707

2022-10-20 Europe under control of the U.S. mafia Who benefits from the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines which connect Germany to natural gas in Russia? The U.S. has the means, motive, and opportunity and was publicly opposed to the project for many years. Yet the crime victims are strangely silent about identifying the probable perpetrator.

“And ultimately this is also a tremendous opportunity.  It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs.  That’s very significant and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come…”—Secretary of State Antony Blinken

On September 26, 2022 both the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines were damaged in an explosion which spewed natural gas into the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland. There was never any serious consideration that the cause was accidental. Sabotage was immediately suspected. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36670

2022-10-18 If arming Ukraine is our only war strategy we are headed for global, thermonuclear war When the Russians invaded Ukraine, the Western establishment and its obedient press opined that it would be a short-duration incursion, a quick defeat, and Russia would control the entire country in short shrift.

So why did it go so badly for Russia?  President Putin believed Ukraine would simply cave, based on what happened to Georgia in 2008. But Russia had fought against Georgia in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, not on ancient Georgian soil, so had the support of the locals who hate what they see as Georgian oppressors.

The difference is that Ukrainians are fighting on their own soil, so fight much better (and of course have modern Western arms supplied to them). The more modern weapons they are given by Western nations, the longer they can hold out, forcing Russia to increase pressure if it wants to reach its objectives. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36655

2022-09-30 Putin’s Nuclear Threats and the Commitment Trap Ukraine has made the risk of nuclear war higher than it is been in decades. If humanity manages to survive this crisis, world leaders must turn their focus to the elimination of nuclear weapons. That is the only path to ensure our long-term survival. If they don’t, at some point our luck will run out and a crisis will go nuclear, with unimaginable consequences. We and our descendants deserve a brighter future, and we can achieve it if we all work together toward that goal. https://blog.ucsusa.org/syoung/nuclear-threats/

2022-09-27 The CIA in Ukraine—Philip Agee Would Have Been Outraged Agee would have recognized the usual pattern within the United States’s imperialist, foreign policy: to protect U.S. interests in its attempt to make Ukraine a market satellite, even though the latter is on the other side of the world. Agee would have been aware of the imposition of private monopolies characteristic of capitalism, or what is called neoliberalism. The idea of taking advantage of the wealth, resources and labor in the former Soviet republic as it has done in other nations.  

Another familiar element in the imperial pattern would be the supporting of rights abusers in and out of government. The CIA is particularly known to support right-wing tyrants and death squads in the nations of Latin America, e.g., during the 1980s. It imposed what was called “enhanced interrogation techniques” when the U.S. Empire illegally invaded Iraq in 2003. And it supported religious fanatics in Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded that nation in 1978 to aid a socialist government and its supporters. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/27/the-cia-in-ukraine-philip-agee-would-have-been-outraged/

2022-09-26 For Humanity’s Sake, Ukraine War Must End – Wilkerson An important Chinese commentator warns that a cornered Russia may lead to “unimaginable consequences”. Larry Wilkerson says there must be immediate negotiations to end the war to avoid the danger of nuclear conflict and to refocus the world on the climate crisis. Wilkerson and Jay also discuss rising fascism in the U.S. https://theanalysis.news/for-humanitys-sake-ukraine-war-must-end-wilkerson/

2022-09-23 How Russians read the conflict in the Caucasus Overall, the current situation surrounding Mountainous Karabakh has profound security implications for Moscow that are arguably just as serious as those in Ukraine. From the Kremlin’s perspective, if NATO-allied Turkey comes to dominate the Caucasus, they will also dominate Central Asia, and suddenly NATO’s influence will be felt as far as the Altai mountains. Such a scenario is naturally intolerable for Russia, and the fears over security along its southern parameter undoubtedly informed its swift reaction to the events in Kazakhstan in January, dealing a blow to Ankara’s post-Soviet ambitions. These same concerns continue to fuel anxiety in the Kremlin over the border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the past week. Indeed, in Eurasia, Russia seems left with few easy decisions, but at some point, it will be forced to get tough in the Caucasus. Like a bear defending its territory, Moscow will not hesitate to defend its vital national security interests. The Russians are a patient people, but their patience is not infinite. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36617

2022-09-22 Peace activists hit the streets from D.C. to San Francisco On September 18, President Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin, “Don’t. Don’t. Don’t” use nuclear weapons in retaliation for severe battlefield losses in Ukraine. While Putin dismissed Biden’s worries as unfounded, the specter of nuclear Armageddon drove U.S. antiwar activists to the streets days before in a September Week of Action organized by the Peace in Ukraine Coalition.

Demanding a “ceasefire now,” activists hosted antiwar events in D.C., San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Madison, Boston, Rockville, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles.

The Peace in Ukraine Coalition—consisting of CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, Democratic Socialists of America, Massachusetts Peace Action, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom-U.S., and other organizations—mobilized for negotiations, not escalation, in what CODEPINK describes as a proxy war threatening a direct war between the two most heavily armed nuclear nations, the United States and Russia. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36609

2022-09-19 Ukrainian “Hit List” Publishes Names and Addresses of Alleged “Russian Propagandists:” Turns Out To Be Based Not in Ukraine But in Langley VA Where CIA Headquarters Is Located Under Public Law 117-128, the U.S. Congress is funding an organization called Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), whose professed purpose, according to its website, is to “counter Russian disinformation.” But its real purpose may be to create the equivalent of a “fatwah list” of alleged traitors whom patriotic Americans and/or Ukrainians will feel they have a green light to assassinate.

The fatwa list includes such “traitors” as writers Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald, political scientist John Mearsheimer, Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, conservative military analyst Edward Luttwak who was placed on the list for suggesting that referendums should be held in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions concerning their relations to Ukraine, and Henry Kissinger, who is worried about the prospects of a war between the U.S. and Russia. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/19/ukrainian-hit-list-publishes-names-and-addresses-of-alleged-russian-propagandists-turns-out-to-be-based-not-in-ukraine-but-in-langley-va-where-cia-headquarters-is/

2022-09-17 Ukraine War, Divided Left: “Social Patriots” and the “Anti-Imperialism of Fools”! Since Russia’s military operation commenced on February 24, the socialist left has been divided in its response to the armed conflict in Ukraine. 

On one side are those who align with the U.S., NATO and the Ukrainian state in denouncing Russia as the principal villain. In opposition are those who view the conflict as the outcome of the West’s new cold war against Russia, and the post-coup regime in Ukraine as a willing pawn of the West (U.S. and its geopolitical allies) in that new cold war. 

There are also some groups who condemn both: Russia for its February 24 military action, and the U.S. and NATO for their provocations against Russia’s national security concerns. Many of the left’s published commentaries repeat invalid assumptions, evade crucial issues, and/or misrepresent the realities of the conflict. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/17/ukraine-war-divided-left-social-patriots-and-the-anti-imperialism-of-fools/

2022-09-15 Eyewitness: Human Toll of Eight-Year Ukrainian Army Onslaught in Eastern Ukraine is Shocking After the 2014 U.S.-sponsored coup in Ukraine that brought to power a pro-Washington, anti-Moscow regime partnering with fascist forces, the majority Russian-speaking people of the Donbas region decided they did not want any part of this backsliding of history.

Dramatic evidence of the new coup government’s fascist leanings came in its support for the neo-Nazis who burned alive activists at Odessa’s House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014. To this day, none of the perpetrators has been charged with any crime. Given that incident, the people of the Donbas region declared themselves the independent Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). They voted by 89% in Donetsk and 96% in Lugansk for that change.

Instead of honoring the wishes of the people of Donbas, Kyiv labeled them terrorists and sent armed forces with heavy artillery and aircraft against civilians, threatening to wipe out the population. The Lugansk People’s Militia was organized to defend the area.

In the U.S., the “other” is usually anyone who is non-white and is therefore not taken as seriously, not as believable, not as legitimate and reliable a source of information, and definitely not due as much empathy. This is even carried over to certain white people deemed as the other. And we are told by the U.S. government who the latest other is—sometimes it is the Iraqis and their leaders, or it is the Syrians and their leadership, or the Libyans and their leadership.

Despite the fact that information that comes from the U.S. corporate media during a U.S. war drive is consistently false—from the Lusitania incident in 1915 or the Gulf of Tonkin lie pushing the U.S. into war with Vietnam or the lies pushing war in Iraq and Libya—we are supposed to accept it as gospel and reject all information coming from the official or unofficial sources from the latest target of U.S. imperialism. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/15/eyewitness-human-toll-of-eight-year-ukrainian-army-onslaught-in-eastern-ukraine-is-shocking/

2022-09-15 How the US & UK Stopped Peace Deal In Ukraine Lee Camp proves that NATO and the U.S. want their proxy war in Ukraine to be fought to the last Ukrainian. A new report shows that Russia and Ukraine had negotiated a peace deal in April. However, as Camp explains, NATO wasn’t ready for peace so they intervened to stop it. Now, after months of grueling conflict, Ukrainian forces have suffered catastrophic losses and their friends in NATO are pushing them to face worse. https://leecamp.com/how-the-us-uk-stopped-peace-deal-in-ukraine%ef%bf%bc/

2022-09-12 Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy Looking back, the U.S. under Truman began the policy of turning enemies (Germany, Japan) into friends and friends (the important war-time alliance with the USSR) into enemies. The CIA, established in 1947, was the main clandestine instrument of this policy, working closely with the neo-Nazi Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) to carry out acts to sabotage, divide and destabilize the Soviet state.

As in the past, U.S. foreign policy is prepared to accommodate such sectors within its circle of allies. On December 16, 2021, a draft resolution of the UN General Assembly was listed as “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”

It passed by a recorded vote of 130 in favor (mainly the Third World, constituting the large majority of the world’s population), 51 abstentions (mainly the EU, Australia, New Zealand and Canada), and two opposed, the two being Ukraine and the United States. The Western European countries that Hitler conquered and occupied would not condemn present-day manifestations of Nazism and fascism. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-proxy/

2022-09-08 The road to fascism: How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe As a journalist, having access to only one side of the Russia-Ukraine war story was a major predicament. How is one to develop a rounded view of such a complex issue when only a one-sided narrative of the war is allowed to be propagated?

Of course, the problem is widespread, and has afflicted much of ‘democratic’ Europe. The continent that has often justified its political and military interventions in the affairs of other parts of the world in the name of spreading democracy is failing to adhere to the most basic principle of democracy: freedom of speech. The discovery made me recall recent comments by prominent American intellectual Noam Chomsky, who told me in an interview that “this is a level of hysteria I have never seen even during the Second World War”.

Therefore, witnessing the horrific censorship underway in Italy and other European countries is most alarming. Though mainstream Italian politicians refuse to recognize that the government in Rome is adopting many of the fascist traits that defined the country a century ago, evidence suggests otherwise.

Like any other ideology, fascism is constantly redefined and reinterpreted. But core elements of fascist tendencies—the growing influence of corporations and oligarchs, media censorship, cracking down on dissent, and the over-emphasis on militarism and nationalist symbols—remain unchanged. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36453

2022-09-07 REVEALED: US & EU PLANS TO PLUNDER UKRAINE Now that the U.S. has publicly accepted that what is happening in Ukraine is a proxy war and Ukraine won’t win, the focus has moved to who will get to plunder what from Ukraine after the war.

Benjamin Norton of Multipolarista reports, “On July 4 and 5, 2022, top officials from the US, EU, Britain, Japan, and South Korea met in Switzerland for a so-called ‘Ukraine Recovery Conference.’“ A Ukraine Recovery Conference sounds good, right? I bet they recommend volunteering in elder care facilities, free housing for everyone in Ukraine having a rough time and maybe funding a free public transit system. No?

Norton continues, “[They met] to plan a series of harsh neoliberal policies to impose on post-war Ukraine, calling to cut labor laws, ‘open markets,’ drop tariffs, deregulate industries, and ‘sell state-owned enterprises to private investors.’“ In other words, they’re just repeating the normal gameplan of the U.S. Empire. Destroy an area of the world, then put in drastic and cruel capitalist policies that enrich a tiny number of people and don’t help suffering people.

This plan to pillage Ukraine didn’t start when the proxy war did this past February. New evidence shows that the U.S. and other Western countries had been planning to privatize the Ukrainian economy since at least 2018. https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-us-eu-plans-ukraine-privatization/281865/

2022-09-07 Where does Russia receive its aid from? Thus, while countries opposed to the U.S. order have been more open about their support for Russia, the Kremlin continues to receive, openly and subtly, substantial support from other states. This underlines the notion that the war in Ukraine continues to be a conflict between the West and Russia, with most other countries seeking to avoid being drawn in, and reinforces the influential role that Russia continues to play in global affairs. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36440

2022-09-06 NATO’s five steps to control any country NATO employs the five basic processes of location, dependency, bribery, civilian control and force to subjugate every country that makes it onto their hit list.

NATO must first decide on which country it wants to colonize at any particular time. This is, of course, a movable feast because, as Churchill explained, NATO has no permanent friends, only permanent interests. These interests motivate NATO to target countries like Nigeria or Iraq that are resource rich or others, like Ireland, Serbia or Estonia that might supply geographical or political leverage at any given time.

Having picked its quarry, just as a parasite makes itself indispensable to its host, so also must NATO make its prey dependent on it for survival. Because this is best done by controlling the prey’s export revenues, NATO must make those revenues dependent upon what NATO’s The Economist magazine calls Free Trade, NATO’s rules based order, where the host can only export on NATO’s terms and in NATO’s currency of choice, now almost invariably the Yankee dollar. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36417

2022-08-30 A Warning From Chomsky and Ellsberg “It’s beyond lunacy,” say Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg. In their 90s, the two men tirelessly fight to warn people of the need for urgent action to deal with climate change and the threat of nuclear war. Joining Paul Jay, they discuss the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis. https://theanalysis.news/a-warning-from-chomsky-and-ellsberg/

2022-08-22 WILL THE IDEA OF THE ‘WEST’ SURVIVE THE SCOURGE OF THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR? At times, the US was willing to cancel the very idea of the West and demarcate entirely new geopolitical lines. When, in 2009, US President George W. Bush declared before Congress, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”, he had, though temporarily, walked away from the West to whole new uncharted geopolitical territories.

That designation did not last for long, as the ‘war on terror’ took a back seat to supposedly more imminent threats, China’s economic rise and Russia’s growing military might. For Washington, the ‘West’ now simply means NATO, and nothing else.

The eagerness in US President Joe Biden was palpable on August 9 when he ratified the US government’s decision to approve the applications of Finland and Sweden to join NATO. “Our alliance is closer than ever. It is more united than ever and … we’ll be stronger than ever,” Biden declared. Ironically, only four years ago, it was Washington that seemed to be leading a political war on NATO, with then US President Donald Trump warning US allies of “grave consequences” if they did not ramp up their spending, and threatening that the US could “go our own way”.

Despite the over-emphasis on closeness, unity, and strength by the US, not all Western NATO members are participating in the American euphoria. The cracks of disunity among European countries – both western and eastern – continue to make daily news headlines. And while US weapons manufacturers and energy exporters are making outrageous profits as a direct outcome of the war in Ukraine, other Western economies are suffering. https://www.mintpressnews.com/will-idea-west-survive-scourge-russia-ukraine-war/281792/

2022-08-17 Washington wants a new cold war—but that’s a bad idea Cold War is America’s comfort zone. We won the last one. We wear the white hats. It’s democracy against authoritarianism. And we’ve got the biggest and best military. Who could object?

But haunting questions remain. Does a new Cold War—taking on Russia and China at once—serve the real security of Americans? Does it further President Biden’s promised “foreign policy for the middle class?” Might most Americans prefer that this country curb our enthusiasm for foreign adventure while focusing on getting our own house in order?

The existential threat to our security now is the extreme weather caused by climate change, which is already costing lives and billions of dollars in destruction from wildfires, floods, plagues and drought. Monkeypox reminds us that the deadliest attacks have come from global pandemics. Throwing money at the Pentagon doesn’t help. Wouldn’t it be better if Special Presidential Envoy John F. Kerry’s journeys got as much attention as Pelosi’s Taiwan performance? Addressing climate change and pandemics can’t be done without Chinese and Russian cooperation, yet the Chinese officially terminated talks on these issues in the wake of Pelosi’s visit. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36219

2022-08-13 War Propaganda About Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin As Amnesty International confirms the inconvenient truths, which many independent journalists and political observers already knew, about the Ukrainian army’s behavior in Donbass, it’s worth examining how manipulating the truth has become—not only an everyday occurrence but a central element of the West’s proxy war in Ukraine.

An increasing number of mainstream journalists, commentators and ordinary individuals who had rushed to “Stand with Ukraine ” are finding the inconvenient truths about the Zelensky regime and its Army harder and harder to ignore. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/13/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-starting-to-wear-thin/

2022-08-12 Ukraine is a wake-up call for Europe It is becoming clear that U.S. neoconservatives have succeeded in creating a warmongering, anti-Russian mood in Europe through an unprecedented information war, the consequences of which will take some time to assess. It is, however, possible to identify the signs of what is to come.

We do not yet know who will win this war (or if anyone will win it, apart from the arms industry). But we do know who will lose the most: the Ukrainian and European people. Parts of Ukraine are in ruins, millions of people have been displaced, and the euro has fallen; these are signs of defeat. In the seven decades since the destruction caused by World War II, Europe had risen again. Led by high-profile politicians and supported by the United States in its anti-communist crusade, Western Europe managed to establish itself as a region of peace and development (even if, alas, at the expense of colonial and neocolonial violence and appropriation). All it took to put the peace and development at risk was one ghost war: fought in Europe, but not led by Europe, and not even in the interest of Europeans. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36184

2022-08-06 Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, is Responsible for the War in Ukraine On July 7, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR.org) published an article by Gregory Shupak analyzing the hypocrisy of U.S. corporate media in its reporting of Ukraine, specifically the differing treatment by Western media of the situations in Donbas compared to that of the Serbian-Albanian territory of Kosovo. The article was titled, “Media support ‘self-determination’ for U.S. allies, not enemies.”

The conflict in Donbas commenced in April 2014 when the coup regime in Kyiv and its paramilitary, extreme-right battalions-in-formation invaded the two then-Ukrainian oblasts (provinces) of Donetsk and Luhansk. The two oblasts comprise the historic region of Donbas. Kyiv intended to violently suppress the pro-autonomy movements there.

Shupak describes Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine is unjust. But unjust for whom? Certainly not for the people of Donbas. They have endured seven years of low-intensity war against them by Ukrainian armed forces and paramilitaries, with political support as well as military training and equipping by NATO countries. That war cost some 14,000 lives on both sides (as of February 24, 2022), including more than 3,100 civilian deaths. Most of those deaths occurred on the Donbas side.

Today, it is necessary to understand not only what Russia is doing with its intervention in Ukraine but also what alternative existed to stop Ukrainian aggression against Donbas and to assure Russia’s national security. Recall that Ukraine and NATO were preparing in late 2021 and early 2022 for what they hoped would be a “final” military blow to aspirations for Donbas autonomy (now independence-from-Ukraine). Russia warned the world against this months earlier. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/06/shedding-light-on-who-exactly-is-responsible-for-the-war-in-ukraine/

2022-08-08 High-Level Ukrainian Intelligence Official Admits U.S. Deeply Involved in Ukraine Conflict Major General Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of the Kyiv regime’s military intelligence directorate, admitted in an interview with the British daily Telegraph, that the U.S. government is involved in targeting decisions regarding U.S. supplied Lockheed Martin’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS). Asked by the Telegraph how the HIMARS have so precisely targeted Russian fuel and ammunition depots (at least this is what the Kyiv regime has alleged—ed.), as well as battlefield headquarters in eastern Ukraine, General Skibitsky replied, “in this case in particular, we use real-time information.”

Moscow has seized on this admission to charge the U.S. with direct involvement in the Ukraine War. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/08/high-level-ukrainian-intelligence-official-admits-u-s-deeply-involved-in-ukraine-conflict/

2022-08-03 The weaponization of food The spike in food prices has in turn brought people into the streets all over the world, from Peru to Palestine to Indonesia, to protest their governments’ inaction in the face of inflation. The government in Sri Lanka, which had been in place for most of the last two decades, fell as a result of the country’s current, unprecedented economic crisis. In the Sahel, 18 million people face severe hunger because of diminished harvests while 13 million people are experiencing severe drought in the Horn of Africa. Ordinarily, it’s the World Food Program that steps in to help. But the WFP purchases more than half of its wheat from Ukraine. An estimated 47 million people are on the verge of starvation. Who should all these people blame for their predicament? http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36091

2022-08-02 MOST OF THE “FACT-CHECKING” ORGANIZATIONS FACEBOOK USES IN UKRAINE ARE DIRECTLY FUNDED BY WASHINGTON Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

In light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook’s official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction for Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European users. These nine organizations are: StopFake, VoxCheck, Fact Check Georgia, Demagog, Myth Detector, Lead Stories, Patikrinta 15min, Re:Baltica and Delfi.

“To reduce the spread of misinformation and provide more reliable information to users, we partner with independent third-party fact-checkers globally,” the Silicon Valley giant wrote, adding, “Facebook’s independent third-party fact-checkers are all certified by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). The IFCN, a subsidiary of the journalism research organization Poynter Institute, is dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.”

The problem with this? At least five of the nine organizations are directly in the pay of the United States government, a major belligerent in the conflict. The Poynter Institute is also funded by the NED. Furthermore, many of the other fact-checking organizations also have deep connections with other NATO powers, including direct funding. https://www.mintpressnews.com/facebook-fact-checking-organizations-ukraine-funded-washington/281618/

2022-07-30 Ukraine Notes – The Long Proxy War IV In The West, Militarism is revered by Political Elites and Mainstream Media personalities. A rare occasion where they honour the lower educated working class. The Religious Class is notably silent. They generally are, if not boosting for foreign wars. The West thus exhibits a form of Fascist Italy, a union of State Power, Private Capital along with privatized Armaments Manufacturers and a form of Nazi Germany, Veneration of the Military.  https://les7eb.substack.com/p/ukraine-notes-the-long-proxy-war-67b

2022-07-29 What the U.S. Government and The New York Times Have Quietly Agreed Not to Tell You About Ukraine Indeed, some journalists and pundits even claim that Ukrainian democracy is why Putin invaded, fearing that the Russian people would follow Ukraine’s alleged example and throw him out.

But this narrative—no matter how beloved by U.S. corporate media or endlessly repeated by the State Department—is a fantasy. History has shown us that the Ukrainian government’s commitment to democracy is dubious or non-existent. Ukraine currently has more banned political parties than legal ones; political repression and imprisonment of dissidents has been commonplace ever since its independence; and both the government and its affiliated party militias routinely resort to violence to quell peaceful protests while turning a blind eye to violence inflicted on Jews and other racial and ethnic minorities.

The fall of the Soviet Union and the Communist Bloc in 1991 was supposed to usher in a great new era of history—“the end of history,” as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed. Unfortunately, however, it provided an opportunity for the old gladiators, or fascist network in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a paramilitary movement headed by the anti-Semitic, fascist, Nazi collaborator and war criminal Stepan Bandera, to complete the job they had spent seven decades preparing for. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/07/29/what-the-u-s-government-and-the-new-york-times-have-quietly-agreed-not-to-tell-you-about-ukraine/

2022-07-28 The phoniest, most PR-intensive war of all time Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February we have not only been smashed with mass media propaganda unlike anything we’ve ever seen while Russian media are purged from the airwaves, we’re also seeing the new media element of  unprecedented amounts of online censorship, algorithm-boosted propaganda, and social media trolling.

So we’ve literally never seen this much overall effort put into manipulating the way the public thinks about a war. Which makes sense, given that it’s a profoundly dangerous proxy war which stands to benefit ordinary people in no way, shape or form.

I mean, can you imagine if people were allowed to just think their own thoughts about their government’s economic warfare against Russia which is hurting them financially and pushing millions toward starvation with the full awareness and approval of the US government? Or if Americans were allowed to wonder if the billions they are pouring into this proxy conflict could be better spent at home? Or if people started objecting to a needless conflict for geostrategic domination threatening their lives and the lives of everyone they know with the risk of nuclear annihilation? http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/36019

2022-07-25 Weaning the State Department from war-making to peaceful robust diplomacy Our country’s founders established the State Department in 1789 to conduct diplomacy (plus consular duties). Its charter explicitly instructs its function to be peaceful relations with other nations.

We now have Secretary of State Antony Blinken who comes from the Hillary Clinton school of routine, unconstitutional and unlawful adventures overseas. He is ignoring the arms control treaties, especially with Russia, that have either expired, are about to expire, or are violated by both Russia and the US and other nations such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Then there are the treaties signed by 100 or more countries to which the U.S. State Department has scarcely made a move for Senate ratification. These include the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Criminal Court, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Cluster Munitions and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Waging peace and conflict resolution should be the State Department’s main mission. There is a lot of inherited work for Antony Blinken and a revived foreign service corps to engage big time. Mr. Blinken could press aggressively for ‘cease fires’ for example, as with Russia’s war in Ukraine. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35982

2022-07-20 Will the Ukraine conflict turn private? Since the turn of the century, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have played an increasingly important role in conflict zones. Because the lines between private military companies and private security companies are often blurred, the all-encompassing PMSC term is used to describe them.

While PMSCs became more prominent in the immediate post-Cold War era, it was the U.S.-led war on terror that saw them become major actors in warfare. During the peak of the U.S. military campaign in Iraq in 2007, for example, the 160,000 troops deployed by Washington were outnumbered by more than 180,000 contractors working there. Additionally, contractor deaths exceeded those of U.S. military personnel during the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan.

The 2008 Montreux Document, since signed by almost 60 countries, was put forward to regulate the growing PMSC industry and provided limitations on their use in armed conflicts.

Russia is one of many countries that is yet to sign the document, but Russian PMSCs have existed for decades. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin granted Russian security and detective firms increased weapons and arrest powers throughout the 1990s and by the end of the decade, there were “6,775 private security firms and 4,612 armed security services… registered in Russia.” Often, Russian PMSCs were little more than protection rackets run by organized crime. The Kremlin reestablished a strong security state in Russia after Vladimir Putin was elected president in 2000. But observing the use and legitimization of PMSCs during the war on terror, the Kremlin again began to entertain the possibility of using PMSCs to promote Russian foreign policy. While not committing to legalization, Putin stated in 2012 that “such companies are a way of implementing national interests without the direct involvement of the state.” By avoiding legalization, Russia also did not have to admit it was employing PMSCs or did not need to publish about their deaths. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35943

2022-07-13 Lithuania will allow sanctioned Russian goods trade to Kaliningrad European Union member Lithuania will allow sanctioned Russian goods to transit its territory on their way to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, its Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, reversing its policy after new European Commission guidelines. The new guidelines on Wednesday followed weeks of tension among Moscow, Lithuania and the European Union that tested Europe’s resolve to enforce sanctions on Russia. https://www.reuters.com/world/lithuania-will-allow-sanctioned-russian-goods-trade-kaliningrad-2022-07-13/

2022-07-11 Kaliningrad proposes ban on movement of goods between Baltic states and Russia The governor of Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday proposed a total ban on the movement of goods between the three Baltic states and Russia, in response to what authorities in the exclave have called a “blockade” of it by Lithuania. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kaliningrad-proposes-ban-movement-goods-between-baltic-states-russia-2022-07-11/

2022-07-03 Lithuania’s blockade of Kaliningrad ends A couple of weeks ago Lithuania blocked train shipments of goods from one part of Russia to another (Kaliningrad). They justified their actions by citing the EU sanctions against Russia. The EU then distanced itself from Lithuania’s actions, telling them that this was not done under their authority. Lithuania–an EU member–then hardened its position, essentially defying the EU in a clear case of the tail wagging the dog.

Now the EU has come out with a more forceful position, ending the blockade. The whole confrontation has embarrassed the EU and has made the EU look weak in the eyes of the world. I suspect that there is infighting among different factions in the EU. https://godskingdom.org/blog/2022/07/lithuanias-blockade-of-kaliningrad-ends

2022-07-01 Don’t expand NATO, disband it Decisions taken at the summit include inviting Sweden and Finland to join as NATO’s 31st and 32nd member states, an increase in “high readiness” forces to more than 300,000, more money in general, and of course more money for non-member state Ukraine in its conflict with Russia.

None of these, of course, will “preserve peace” or “prevent conflict,” and given the last 30 years of the alliance’s history, even the notion that they’ll “protect” the people of NATO member states is dubious. That’s not what NATO does these days.

What NATO does these days is constantly attempt to remake the world in the image of “liberal democracy,” very loosely defined as whatever the organization’s member regimes happen to want at any given moment. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35778

2022-06-27 How Kaliningrad Blockade Could Spark Escalation of Russia-Ukraine War partial blockade of a Russian exclave ensconced between Lithuania and Poland along the Baltic coast could cause a dramatic escalation in the Ukraine war.

The Kaliningrad region is sandwiched between the two NATO member countries, and it has been Russian territory since the end of World War II in 1945. Its eponymous capital was formerly one of East Germany’s main cities before it was captured by then-Soviet Union in April 1945, with the Potsdam Agreement later that year placing it under Soviet administration. The region, which is armed with nuclear-capable missiles, has about one million residents.

The exclave could spiral into a new flashpoint of the war in Ukraine, as the Kremlin has warned Lithuania of “serious consequences” for its application of European Union sanctions on certain products, including Russian coal, iron, oil, and steel.  https://www.newsweek.com/how-kaliningrad-blockade-could-spark-escalation-russia-ukraine-war-1719506

2022-06-28 The Ukraine war’s role in exacerbating global food insecurity Since February, Russia has seized some of Ukraine’s most vital agricultural regions in the eastern and southeastern parts of the country. The Russian military has also prevented Ukraine from accessing its ports on the Black Sea recently, leaving Ukraine essentially landlocked, and unable to export its food products to the international markets.

But though the war has certainly exacerbated the global food crisis, it was preceded by the food price hikes of 2007 and 2011, in addition to the hike witnessed due to COVID-19, after decades of falling costs in real prices of food items. In 2021, data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) showed more massive increases in meat, dairy, cereals, vegetable oils, and sugar prices that exceeded the previous spike witnessed in 2007 and 2011.

Since the beginning of the Ukrainian war, prices of food items have skyrocketed further. The situation has highlighted the decreasing levels of food self-sufficiency around the world, which the FAO defines as “the extent to which a country can satisfy its food needs from its own domestic production.” Food self-sufficiency has declined globally since the 1960s, particularly in Africa, but also in countries like Japan. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35751

2022-06-22 Will Lithuania’s Rail Blockade Make Kaliningrad a Russia-NATO Flashpoint? Russian officials lashed out after Lithuania banned the passage of sanctioned goods through its territory into Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania.

“We pointed out in this regard that if the transit of goods between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of Russia through Lithuania is not fully restored, Russia reserves the right to take action to protect its national interests,” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

The Kremlin has decried the move as illegal and provocative. “Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions. Measures are being worked out in an interdepartmental format and will be taken in the near future. Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the Lithuanian population,”  Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, told Russian state news. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/will-lithuania%E2%80%99s-rail-blockade-make-kaliningrad-russia-nato-flashpoint-203139

2022-06-22 Denunciation of Vladimir Putin’s Essay on History of Russia and Ukraine is Unwarranted on July 2021, Vladimir Putin published a historical essay on Russia and Ukraine on the website of the President of Russia.

The essay is a very informative read, written by someone with a deep knowledge of the subject. It is titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” and was published in Russian, English and Ukrainian.

The essay’s appearance occasioned a round of gratuitous condemnations by Western media and pro-Western academics. The pro-NATO think tank Atlantic Council, for example, published a series of short comments on the essay that carefully avoided any substantive reporting of the essay content.

So what does President Putin actually say in his 14-page essay? The remainder of this present essay is a summary, concluding with brief comment by this writer on several points of Russian and Soviet history in the 20^th century which President Putin’s essay arguably overlooked.

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/06/20/denunciation-of-vladimir-putins-essay-on-history-of-russia-and-ukraine-is-unwarranted/

2022-06-18 Daniel Ellsberg on Nuclear War and Ukraine Daniel Ellsberg discusses the significance of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the growing danger of nuclear war with U.S. and NATO. https://theanalysis.news/daniel-ellsberg-on-nuclear-war-and-ukraine/

2022-06-15 We’re getting used to fake news. And we’re getting tired of the Ukraine War. Here’s why you should be worried The most that western news outlets do is simply attribute which they believe is the most prudent way of covering themselves when what they’re offering as so-called news turns out weeks or months later to be total fiction. The thundering headline on the CNN website which claims 300 people died in the Mariopol theatre bombing is attributed to the Ukrainian government. Nothing more said. No mention that the Zalenski regime can’t or won’t substantiate the claim at all, even though Reuters days later stated that it was not at all clear if 300 people had perished or not.

These nuances are important as they lead readers and viewers away from the actual truth to the perceived truth which the US and the UK want to present as factual news.  http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35634

2022-05-24 U.S. Increases Aid to Over $100 Million per Day for Ukraine War: A Critique of the West’s Militarized Approach Putin only understands the language of strength” has become the unanimous position among elite decision-makers within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Germany, as a last holdout, has now embraced the arming of Ukraine in furtherance of what the U.S. State Department is calling an effort “in support of Ukraine in response to Russia’s premeditated, unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine.”

To coordinate this initiative, the U.S., vowing to “move heaven and earth to help Ukraine win the fight against Russia’s unprovoked aggression,” convened a working group of defense ministers from some 40 nations at its military base in Ramstein, Germany, to systematically bolster the defense capabilities of Ukraine.

U.S. interest in the militarization of Ukraine, however, well pre-dates the February 2022 Russian invasion. Following the 2014-2015 Ukraine crisis, the floodgates for defense support opened wide. Since 2014, the U.S. has provided more than $6.4 billion in security assistance, including Stinger anti-aircraft systems, Javelin anti-armor systems, Switchblade Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems, Howitzers, tactical vehicles, helicopters, armored personnel carriers, extensive munitions, tactical equipment, and more. This military support has been coupled with increased incorporation of Ukraine in NATO operations. Ukraine has been invited to participate in multiple NATO exercises in recent years, including the Rapid Trident 21 Ukrainian-led, U.S.-facilitated military training exercise along with NATO partner nations in September 2021. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/24/u-s-increases-aid-to-over-100-million-per-day-for-ukraine-war-a-critique-of-the-wests-militarized-approach/

2022-06-13 Why won’t Europe call for an end to this war? The North Atlantic media are entangled in an unprecedented information war. It is characterized by a relentless erosion of the distinction between facts and the manipulation of emotions and perceptions, between conjectures and unassailable truths. I saw this kind of information war in the United States firsthand during the last years of the war on Vietnam and in the lead-up to the war on Iraq—both wars driven by political hoaxes that led to numerous war crimes.

Manipulation of the news around Russia’s war on Ukraine is aimed to prevent public opinion from seeking a lasting peace for both Ukraine and the region. The aim of this information war is to prolong the war to serve the interests of those who wish to promote it. How does one know what constitutes facts and what constitutes lies, and how can one learn to explain events without being accused of justification?

When armed conflicts take place in Africa or in the Middle East, Europe’s leaders are the first to call for a cessation of hostilities and to declare the urgent need for peace negotiations. Why is it then that when a war occurs in Europe, the drums of war beat incessantly, and not a single leader calls for them to be silenced and for the voice of peace to be heard? http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35596

2022-06-10 U.S. effort to hurt Russia undermines itself and the world The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot in its futile effort to damage the Russian economy. It is also asking other nations to do likewise and live with inflation, food scarcity, and rising energy prices. European countries have gone along with the sanctions which cut off their natural gas supplies from Russia when there is no logical alternative source for them. However, the rest of the world has refused to join in U.S. and EU condemnations or accept that they must live with privations caused by the reckless actions of other nations. Of course, the ongoing state of delusion just continues the fantasy foreign policy decision making in Washington. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35577

2022-05-31 DHS ‘CONCERNED’ OVER NAZIS RETURNING TO US AFTER FIGHTING IN UKRAINE. WHY ISN’T THE MEDIA? American white nationalists with documented histories of violence are attaining combat experience with advanced US-made weapons in a foreign proxy war. That’s according to the Department of Homeland Security, which has been gathering intelligence on Americans who have joined the ranks of the more than 20,000 foreign volunteers in Ukraine.

The FBI has indicted several American white nationalists associated with the Rise Above Movement after they trained with the neo-Nazi Azov Battaliion and its civilian wing, the National Corps, in Kiev. But that was almost four years ago. Today, federal law enforcement has no idea how many US neo-Nazis are participating in the war in Ukraine, or what they are doing there.

But one thing is for certain: the Biden administration is allowing the Ukrainian government to recruit Americans – including violent extremists – at its embassy in Washington DC and at consulates across the country. As this report will show, at least one notorious extremist fighting in Ukraine has received extensive promotion from mainstream media, while another who is currently wanted for violent crimes committed in the US was mysteriously able to evade FBI investigators looking into war crimes he previously committed in Eastern Ukraine. https://www.mintpressnews.com/dhs-concerned-nazi-paul-gray-returning-to-us-fighting-in-ukraine/280989/

2022-05-22 Calls By Western Socialists For A Russian Retreat From Ukraine Amount To De Facto Support For NATO Aggression In reality, Russian diplomatic efforts to push back against NATO’s aggression—and NATO’s use of Ukraine for its aggression—have gone on for several decades. Russia’s most sustained diplomatic push began in 2015 through efforts to have Ukraine and the NATO countries of Europe respect and implement the “Minsk 2” ceasefire agreement in 2015 of that year (text of Minsk 2 here).

Although the agreement was endorsed by no less than the UN Security Council on February 17, 2015 (with no veto by any permanent member), three of the five permanent members of that body—the U.S., France and Britain—have encouraged Ukraine in its sabotage of any negotiations. France and Germany, together with Russia, signed on as ‘guarantors’ of Minsk 2, but their support turned out to be feigned, as the Russian government has patiently explained.

Another current of NATO socialism that throws around the epithet “Russian imperialism” is Socialist Alternative in the U.S. Its most well-known leader is Seattle city councilwoman Kshama Sawant. A commentary published by the group on April 4, 2022, describes the 2014 coup in Ukraine as a “mass protest,” not the violent, murderous event that it was.

As with most other Trotskyists and other Western leftists, the Socialist Alternative commentary makes no reference whatsoever to the war by Ukraine, supported by NATO, against the people of Donbas, beginning in 2014, and no mention of Minsk 2. A new analysis published by the group on May 19 declares, “We completely oppose the invasion and occupation of Ukraine by the Russian army, and fully support the right of self-determination for Ukraine… We support neither the strengthening of Russian or western imperialism…” Opposition to war and militarism was once a central tenet of socialist theory and practice. Reaffirmation of this symbiotic unity is vital for socialists and anti-imperialists in today’s world.

That day, as documented extensively by Ottawa researcher Ivan Katchanovski, neo-Nazi paramilitaries sowed extreme chaos and created the ultimate pretext for the coup by firing indiscriminately from hotel rooms overlooking the pro-Europe, anti-Russia protest encampment on Maidan Square. The right-wing snipers killed nearly 50 protesters and dozens of police of the then-government. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/22/calls-by-western-socialists-for-a-russian-retreat-from-ukraine-amount-to-de-facto-support-for-nato-aggression/

2022-05-18 CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Whitewashing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine & Biden’s “Disinformation Governing Board” Biden announced last month the assembly of a team within the Department of Homeland Security with the title: Disinformation Governing Board (DGB). Supposedly this team will be working to combat Russian, Iranian, and Chinese “disinformation.” We dive deeper into the contradictory history of disinformation about Ukraine in 2014 spread by non other than the executive director of the DGB board, Nina Jankowicz. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/18/covertaction-bulletin-podcast-whitewashing-neo-nazis-in-ukraine-bidens-disinformation-governing-board/

2022-05-18 The 16 Biggest Lies the U.S. Government Tells America About the Ukraine War

1. “Ukraine is a democracy” 2. “National sovereignty is sacred” 3. “Putin is a war criminal” 4. “The world condemns Russia’s invasion” 5. “Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons” 6. “With his back against the wall, Putin will resort to chemical warfare, just like in Syria 7. “Putin may resort to biological warfare” 8. “Russia is targeting civilians in Ukraine” 9. “Russia will make false-flag attacks”10. “If Putin prevails in Ukraine, he will attack NATO countries next” 11. “Russia is threatening nuclear power plants” 12. “Russia’s invasion threatens the whole world” 13. “The U.S. has a ‘free press’ while Russia’s news is controlled” 14. “Russia is planning cyber attacks on the U.S.” 15. “Russia is killing children.” 16. “Russia may use tactical nuclear weapons.” https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/18/the-16-biggest-lies-the-u-s-government-tells-america-about-the-ukraine-war/

2022-05-05 Cost of the Ukraine war felt in Africa, Global South While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions around the world. Even when these repercussions are discussed, disproportionate coverage is allocated to European countries, like Germany and Austria, due to their heavy reliance on Russian energy sources.

The horrific scenario, however, awaits countries in the Global South which, unlike Germany, will not be able to eventually substitute Russian raw material from elsewhere. Countries like Tunisia, Sri Lanka and Ghana and numerous others, are facing serious food shortages in the short, medium and long term.

The World Bank is warning of a “human catastrophe” as a result of a burgeoning food crisis, itself resulting from the Russia-Ukraine war. The World Bank President, David Malpass, told the BBC that his institution estimates a “huge” jump in food prices, reaching as high as 37%, which would mean that the poorest of people would be forced to “eat less and have less money for anything else such as schooling.” http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35493

2022-5-04 What the War in Ukraine Can Teach the US Government about Competition with China The Senate passed the United States Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) with a bipartisan majority of 68-32 last June. The House passed the America Competes Act with only one Republican vote the following February. A conference committee is set to iron out the differences between the two. 

The House bill is focused on lifting the United States up. The Senate bill that passed with a bipartisan majority aims to tear China down. The prevailing political winds suggest Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer may adopt the Senate’s approach to competition with China in the final bill. But the outbreak of war in Ukraine suggests investing our resources at home is the better choice. https://blog.ucsusa.org/gregory-kulacki/what-the-war-in-ukraine-can-teach-the-us-government-about-competition-with-china/

2022-05-02 THE NON-INDEPENDENCE OF WESTERN-FUNDED “INDEPENDENT MEDIA” IN UKRAINE WITH ALAN MACLEOD Chief among these is The Kyiv Independent, a newspaper that was barely three months old at the time of the Russian invasion but has shot to prominence in the West, being relentlessly promoted on television and radio and in print. As a result, it has managed to garner over two million followers on Twitter and raise millions of dollars in crowdfunding.

However, far less known is that The Kyiv Independent was born thanks to a grant of over CA$200,000 from the Canadian government, which made the donation through the European Endowment for Democracy. Furthermore, virtually all of The Kyiv Independent’s staff came from The Kyiv Post, an outlet that has long been financially supported by NATO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and Western governments, meaning that for years they were directly in the pay of the national security state. Perhaps, then, The Kyiv Independent is not quite as independent as it makes itself out to be.

Furthermore, as MacLeod explained, many Kyiv Independent journalists come from suspect backgrounds, including individuals who previously worked for NATO think tank The Atlantic Council, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, or for the Council on Foreign Relations. https://www.mintpressnews.com/non-independence-western-funded-news-media-ukraine-alan-macleod/280351/

2022-05-02 How could the U.S. help to bring peace to Ukraine? On April 21, President Biden announced new shipments of weapons to Ukraine, at a cost of $800 million to U.S. taxpayers. On April 25th, Secretaries Blinken and Austin announced over $300 million more military aid. The United States has now spent $3.7 billion on weapons for Ukraine since the Russian invasion, bringing total U.S. military aid to Ukraine since 2014 to about $6.4 billion.

The top priority of Russian airstrikes in Ukraine has been to destroy as many of these weapons as possible before they reach the front lines of the war, so it is not clear how militarily effective these massive arms shipments really are. The other leg of U.S. “support” for Ukraine is its economic and financial sanctions against Russia, whose effectiveness is also highly uncertain.

How the United States and its NATO allies act now and in the coming months will be crucial in determining whether Ukraine is destroyed by years of war, like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, or whether this war ends quickly through a diplomatic process that brings peace, security and stability to the people of Russia, Ukraine and their neighbors.

If the United States wants to help restore peace in Ukraine, it must diplomatically support peace negotiations, and make it clear to its ally, Ukraine, that it will support any concessions that Ukrainian negotiators believe are necessary to clinch a peace agreement with Russia. http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35459

2022-04-26 Caitlin Johnstone: The Billionaire Savior of Twitter   Elon Musk’s talk about free speech will only matter if and when Twitter stops censoring Russian media and people who question the official narrative about Ukraine.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/26/caitlin-jonhstone-the-billionaire-savior-of-twitter/

2022-04-25 AN INTELLECTUAL NO-FLY ZONE: ONLINE CENSORSHIP OF UKRAINE DISSENT IS BECOMING THE NEW NORM Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Earlier this month, Google AdSense sent a message to a myriad of publishers, including MintPress News, informing us that, “Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war.” This content, it went on to say, “includes, but is not limited to, claims that imply victims are responsible for their own tragedy or similar instances of victim-blaming, such as claims that Ukraine is committing genocide or deliberately attacking its own citizens.”

This builds on a similar message Google’s subsidiary YouTube released last month, stating, “Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events. We are now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy.” YouTube went on to say that it had already permanently banned more than a thousand channels and 15,000 videos on these grounds. https://www.mintpressnews.com/online-censorship-ukraine-russa-google-facebook-twitter/280304/

2022-04-24 British Mercenary Says He Made a “Stupid Choice” and “Joined the Wrong Side” in Ukraine War    Aislin, a 28-year-old from Nottingham who first came to Ukraine in 2018 and fought as a mercenary with the Kurds in Syria, sat down for a long interview with Graham Phillips, a journalist also from Nottingham.   Aislin pleaded for others “not to take up arms with the Ukrainians,” because “you’ll be used, turned aside and forgotten about….if you go you’re an idiot like myself.”   Aislin believes that Ukrainian military commanders are responsible for the devastation because “they couldn’t accept reality that they would lose the battle and recklessly ordered their soldiers to fight to the last man when they should have left peacefully.” 2022-09-12 Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-proxy/

According to Aislin, the Azov Battalion fighters—whom he described as “fanatics, criminals and Nazis”—were dominant in the city and used the cover of civilian-occupied buildings to fire from.     Aislin said that he was misled by the British media which presented the Ukrainians as good guys, when they not only refused opportunities at diplomacy but also committed war crimes and slaughter and did not adhere to the Geneva Convention on prisoners.    The Russians by contrast, Aislin said, were abiding by the Geneva Convention, as he was being well treated in captivity—much better than he expected—even though as a mercenary he could have been subjected to the death penalty.   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/24/british-mercenary-says-he-made-a-stupid-choice-and-joined-the-wrong-side-in-the-ukraine-war/

2022-04-24 Western Claims of Russian Mass Graves Near Mariupol Another Fake News Hoax–I Know, I Went To See For Myself     According to Western media, now copy-paste reporting the same claims, Russian forces apparently secretly buried *up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians* in “mass graves” in a town just west of the city. Except, it never happened, there is no mass grave.   It’s actually just a normal, small, cemetery…no pits, no mass graves, just an orderly cemetery whose grave diggers refuted Western claims.   https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/04/24/western-claims-of-russian-mass-graves-near-mariupol-another-fake-news-hoax-i-know-i-went-to-see-for-myself/

2022-04-23 Russia Cancels Assault on Mariupol Azovstal Steel Plant   Russian troops have taken control of the entire city of Mariupol, except for the Azovstal plant, and have been planning a final attack after making countless calls to the Neo-nazi Azov Battalion for their surrender.    https://orinocotribune.com/russia-cancels-assault-on-mariupol-azovstal-steel-plant/

2022-04-23 State National Guards to send armored vehicles to Ukraine    Multiple governors announced this week that their state National Guards would be sending armored vehicles to Ukraine in response to a request from the Pentagon.    https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3461074-state-national-guards-to-send-armored-vehicles-to-ukraine/

2022-04-22 Synthetic Left Joins Corporate Right in Getting Ukraine War Wrong    Since the Russian military operation to de-Nazify and de-militarize Ukraine began in late February, there is a common misperception that the Western left is “split” over the conflict in its response.   Indeed, it is true there has been infighting within organizations such as the U.S.-based Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) between its “International Committee”—whose official statement rightly faulted NATO enlargement for “setting the stage” for Russia’s actions in Ukraine—and local branches of the group which released their own takes distancing themselves from the former.  Similar sectarian splinters have occurred among the U.S. Green Party over the issue with the Howie Hawkins-led wing on one side endorsing sending lethal aid to Ukraine and its peace action committee on the other.

However, all of them fell in line behind the corporate media in characterizing the Russo-Ukrainian conflict as an “invasion” by Moscow to be condemned. For what the late Edward S. Herman called the “cruise missile Left,” the 14,000 ethnic Russians killed in Donbass by the Ukrainian army since 2014 are “unworthy victims,” as Herman and Noam Chomsky defined the notion in Manufacturing Consent. With a few notable exceptions, the vast majority of the so-called left wing in the United States and Western Europe have gotten Ukraine totally wrong .https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/22/the-synthetic-left-joins-the-corporate-right-in-getting-the-ukraine-war-wrong/

2022-04-22 Chomsky: Our Priority on Ukraine Should Be Saving Lives, Not Punishing Russia   early two months into the war in Ukraine, and peace is nowhere in sight. In fact, the level of destruction has intensified and both sides seem to have little hope for a peaceful settlement anytime soon. Furthermore, the international situation is also heating up as some European neutral countries are thinking of joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a development that prompted the Kremlin to respond with threats of deploying nuclear weapons in the Baltic region should such a move take place.   https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-our-priority-on-ukraine-should-be-saving-lives-not-punishing-russia/

2022-04-21 US Trashes ICC, But Wants It to Charge Russians   Although the United States has tried mightily to undermine the International Criminal Court since it became operational in 2002, the U.S. government is now pushing for the ICC to prosecute Russian leaders for war crimes in Ukraine. Apparently, Washington thinks the ICC is reliable enough to try Russians but not to bring U.S. or Israeli officials to justice.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/21/us-trashes-icc-but-wants-it-to-charge-russians/

2022-04-21 The Panama Canal, a Weapon the West Will Not Use Against Russia   Preventing the passage of Russian ships through the Panama Canal, as proposed by Ukraine and the United States, would break the historical “neutrality” of the passage and turn the canal into a military objective, warned the Panamanian political analyst Richard Morales, in an interview with Sputnik.   The official agenda of the visit by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to Panama, has as its central point the migratory cooperation between both countries. However, it occurs in the context of the conflict in Ukraine and the emphatic request of Oksana Dramaretska, concurrent Ukrainian ambassador in Panama, to prevent the passage of Russian ships through the Panama Canal, and in the context of the campaign encouraging sanctions against Russia promoted by the US and the European Union. 

The channel’s neutrality has been enshrined since the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, signed in 1977 by Panamanian President Omar Torrijos and US President Jimmy Carter. One of the agreements signed on that occasion established the neutrality of the Canal so that “both in times of peace and in times of war, it remains safe and open for the peaceful transit of ships from all nations on terms of complete equality.”  https://orinocotribune.com/the-panama-canal-a-weapon-the-west-will-not-use-against-russia/

2022-04-21 Israel is still arming Ukrainian Nazis   A video published by Ukraine’s Azov Battalion on Twitter this week showed one of its fighters firing an anti-tank missile. In the tweet Azov claimed it had hit a Russian vehicle.   Israeli media on Wednesday identified the missile system in the Azov video as a Matador, a weapon developed by a consortium involving Rafael, a state-owned Israeli arms manufacturer.     https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-still-arming-ukrainian-nazis

2022-04-20 Zelensky’s Hardline Internal Purge   Ukraine’s “pro-democracy” president has outlawed his opposition, ordered rivals arrested and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents, Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy report. Several mayors and other Ukrainian officials have been killed since the outbreak of war, many reportedly by Ukrainian state agents after engaging in de-escalation talks with Russia.  “There is one less traitor in Ukraine,” Internal Affairs Ministry adviser Anton Geraschenko stated in an endorsement of the murder of a Ukrainian mayor accused of collaborating with Russia.  Zelensky has further exploited the atmosphere of war to outlaw an array of opposition parties and order the arrest of his leading rivals. His authoritarian decrees have triggered the disappearance, torture and even murder of an array of human rights activists, communist and leftist organizers, journalists and government officials accused of “pro-Russian” sympathies.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/20/zelenskys-hardline-internal-purge/

2022-04-20 War in Ukraine Could Be the Mother of All Energy Wars: But the Media Still Misses the Context     s never before, the connection between war and big power rivalry over oil and gas in Ukraine—and beyond—has become disturbingly tangible to average citizens, when it was once known only to world leaders, their militaries and spies, and their wealthy backers. Henry Kissinger, protégé of Nelson Rockefeller, once said, “you control the oil, you control the world.”    https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/20/war-in-ukraine-could-be-the-mother-of-all-energy-wars-but-the-media-still-misses-the-context/

2022-04-19 Dangerous Crossroads: NATO’s ‘Weapons for Peace’ Program Conducive to Escalation of Ukraine War   The document, titled “On Russia’s concerns in the context of massive supplies of weapons and military equipment to the Kiev regime,” was forwarded to the State Department by the Russian Embassy in Washington, in which Russia accused NATO of trying to “pressure Ukraine to abandon peace negotiations with Russia in order to continue the bloodshed.”  Moscow also warned Washington that US and NATO shipments of the “most sensitive” weapons systems to Ukraine were “adding fuel” to the conflict and could bring “unpredictable consequences.” Russia experts suggested Moscow, which had labeled weapons convoys coming into the country as legitimate military targets but had not thus far attacked them, might be preparing to do so.  Russia accused the Western powers of violating “rigorous principles” governing the transfer of weapons to conflict zones, and of being oblivious to “the threat of high-precision weapons falling into the hands of radical nationalists, extremists and bandit forces in Ukraine.”  https://www.globalresearch.ca/dangerous-crossroads-natos-weapons-for-peace-program-conducive-to-escalation-of-ukraine-war/5777831

2022-04-19 Thinking Harder About False Flags and Other Fables   Calling foreign heads of state criminals and mass murderers is not the best way to restore a satisfactory level of mutual respect that will permit discussion regarding issues of mutual concern, like war and peace.   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is being heavily coached by neocon handlers to push the right buttons to appeal to international sentiment in favor of his country. He has been very successful at being alarming about the Russian threat coupled with his demands for more and better weapons. Two expressions that have come to the surface recently to further blacken Vladimir Putin have centered around the concern that the Russians will employ what is referred to as a false flag deception or use chemical weapons in such a fashion, possibly against themselves, so as to justify broadening their invasion. Indeed, the two can be used together. A false flag essentially involves an assailant or a contact pretending to represent something apart from their or his/her genuine identify in an attempt to deceive the targeted individual. False flags are used extensively in intelligence operations and also in military operations where an attempt is being made to hide the true attribution of an act of war.   https://www.globalresearch.ca/thinking-harder-about-false-flags-other-fables/5777990

2022-04-19 Gold Rush in Ukraine    The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought immense suffering to the people of that land, while sparking calls for increased military spending in both the United States and Europe. Though that war may prove to be a tragedy for the world, one group is already benefiting from it: U.S. arms contractors.  Even before hostilities broke out, the CEOs of major weapons firms were talking about how tensions in Europe could pad their profits.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/19/gold-rush-in-ukraine/

2022-04-18 Einstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited: Why Anti-War Efforts Go Nowhere    in Ukraine with the antiwar movement again demonstrating its ineffectiveness and, in the case of Ukraine, failing to comprehend the deeper agenda behind what is taking place in that country.  Of course, while an utterly inadequate analysis of what, fundamentally, is driving war is the critical foundation of the anti-war movement’s problems, it is still just one of the substantial range of problems it faces, some of which derive from this flawed analysis but others which a better analysis would expose. These include, for example, an understanding of why the fear of most of those within the anti-war movement is preventing the movement from mustering the commitment and courage that will be necessary if we are to undertake the many actions necessary to end war. In essence, fear makes most participants in the movement happy to complain about war but not take action themselves (or take action that has zero or minimal impact).   https://www.globalresearch.ca/einstein-freud-why-war-revisited-why-anti-war-efforts-go-nowhere/5777921

2022-04-18 Chris Hedges: American Commissars   Social media platforms are aggressively censoring challenges to the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.  The ruling class, made up of the traditional elites that run the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, is employing draconian forms of censorship on its right-wing and left-wing critics in a desperate effort to cling to power.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/18/chris-hedges-american-commissars/

2022-04-18 Information Warfare From Pre-History to Ukraine     The Ukraine war is rife with information warfare from both sides, rising to a ubiquity and sophistication perhaps never seen before, says Joe Lauria.  The first thing to keep in mind is that information warfare is war. War by other means, but war nonetheless. The object is to win. To defeat your opponent. Information Warfare, as it is now called but known as propaganda earlier, has been around in rudimentary form from the beginning of humanity, evolving over millennia largely by the advancement of technology, political systems and the education of populations. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/18/information-warfare-from-pre-history-to-ukraine/

2022-04-18 From Iran, Syria and Afghanistan to Ukraine: U.S. Empire Sows Violence and Chaos Yet Again     s I wrote four years ago in 2018 after visiting Iran, there is a battle for civilization taking place. And note how I phrased this: “battle for civilization”; not “battle of civilizations” as many have referred to it.    That is, you have one side of the conflict which is trying to defend civilization, and the other side which is trying to wipe it out. And one might be surprised about how the players line up in this struggle.   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/18/from-iran-syria-and-afghanistan-to-ukraine-u-s-empire-sows-violence-and-chaos-yet-again/

2022-04-17 “One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition   Western media has looked the other way, however, as Zelensky and top officials in his administration have sanctioned a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination of local Ukrainian lawmakers accused of collaborating with Russia. Several mayors and other Ukrainian officials have been killed since the outbreak of war, many reportedly by Ukrainian state agents after engaging in de-escalation talks with Russia.   https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/17/traitor-zelensky-assassination-kidnapping-arrest-political-opposition/

2022-04-17 The cost of “defending freedom” in Ukraine   The world is too connected for the U.S. to go unaffected by war in Ukraine.   Now that war has broken out, the biggest costs for the U.S. will likely be in higher prices – on top of what is already the fastest pace of inflation in 40 years.  How much worse inflation could get will depend on how far Putin goes, the severity of the sanctions placed on Russia and how long the crisis lasts. Will Putin cut off oil or gas to Europe? Will the invasion thoroughly disrupt Ukraine’s ability to export food and other products to the rest of the world?   https://www.salon.com/2022/04/17/the-cost-of-defending-freedom-in-ukraine-_partner/

2022-04-17 Madeleine Albright’s Legacy Lives on as False Flag Attacks and Fake News Comes Straight From Yugoslav War Handbook   The events on the ground and across the diplomatic community involved in the Ukraine conflict are strikingly similar.    The over simplification and total abandonment of facts and historical context when dealing with Milosevic designed to give the diplomats, like Albright, a clearer path to finding a solution is worrying.   Are we being tricked in a similar light in Ukraine? Is western media, lazy and complicit to tag along with the oversimplification of the situation, dutifully reporting on attacks which they know are a grey zone and are suspicious at best and duplicitous at worse?  https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/17/madeleine-albrights-legacy-lives-on-as-false-flag-attacks-and-fake-news-comes-straight-from-yugoslav-war-handbook/

2022-04-16 PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Great Acquiescence — Glory to Ukraine     Americans don’t merely acquiesce to the imperium’s wars, interventions, collective punishments and assorted other deprivations. They actively embrace them.   We are not reading in the corporate press, by contrast, that a new wave of brute censorship is now upon us, as social media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube “suspend,” “cancel,” “de-platform” — whatever this radically antidemocratic business is called — dissenting writers and analysts who have taken the trouble to examine the facts on the ground in Ukraine such as we have them with professional disinterest.   Since the Russiagate farrago overcame liberal America in 2016, there has been much debate as to whether our McCarthyesque circumstances are as bad as, similar to, or not as bad as things got during the Cold War decades.   This no longer seems to me the useful question. In various important ways we have passed beyond even the worst of the Cold War’s many dreadful features.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/16/patrick-lawrence-the-great-acquiescence-glory-to-ukraine/

2022-04-16 Weapons Are Not Helping: How Do We End the War in Ukraine?    The West is sending more weapons to Ukraine. Will that help? Let’s get down to the numbers: Russia’s “limited military operation” is currently deploying 150,000 Russian soldiers. Although there were some tactical defeats, the Russian army continues to advance. There are one million Russian soldiers on active duty and another two million on reserve duty to be deployed. Let alone a full mobilization of the adult population of Russia. There is no way this war can be won. In other words, more weapons will prolong the war and lead to needless bloodshed.

Admittedly, after a long war, Russia may perceive the costs to be too high and withdraw. Think of the American defeat in Vietnam. Or the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan. Those wars have resulted in millions of deaths. The count in Ukraine now stands at a few thousand. Is that really a scenario we want? Both U.S. and European policymakers are already preparing for a protracted guerrilla war with Russia. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton even openly supports the idea of ​​turning Ukraine into a new “Afghanistan.” In fact, similar to the Soviet-Afghan war in the 1980s, U.S. military planners have been consciously aiming to “provoke” (in their own words) Russia into a war. As such, Ukrainian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski rightly points out that Western countries “want to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.” That is downright bloodthirsty and criminal.   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/16/weapons-are-not-helping-how-do-we-end-the-war-in-ukraine/

2022-04-15 Team Zelensky Overplays Hand By Humiliating Germany   Zelensky and his handlers want the whole of Europe to drive over the abyss.   The Ukrainian president has found time in his busy wartime schedule to address over 17 parliaments around the world in recent weeks, each time with a speech tailor-made to push specific cultural emotive buttons.  The comedian-actor with Jewish heritage is a perfect ventriloquist foil for fronting a regime that is infested with Nazi military forces. All the more important is this foil because Western “democratic” states are neck-high in sponsoring and weaponizing the regime whose foot-soldiers proudly don Waffen-SS insignia.  https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/15/team-zelensky-overplays-hand-by-humiliating-germany/   

2022-04-15 NYT Smears Journalist, Calls 2014 Ukraine Coup ‘Conspiracy Theory’   It is an uncontroversial matter of public record that the U.S. government sponsored the 2014 coup in Ukraine, writes Ben Norton.   The Times’ hatchet job violates basic journalistic practices.   Ironically the Times itself, back in 2014, reported some of these facts that it now disparages as a “conspiracy theory,” as I document below in this article.  The newspaper did not even reach out to me with a request for comment, while it defamed me and published a photo of my face.   The smear piece is a case study in the U.S. newspaper of record’s propaganda techniques. And it is part of a transparent drive to advance the U.S. government’s new cold war on China and Russia.  The fact that The New York Times collaborates closely with the U.S. national security state is well established. The newspaper has publicly admitted to sending sensitive stories to the U.S. government for approval before publication, to ensure that “national security officials” have “no concerns.”    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/15/nyt-smears-journalist-calls-2014-ukraine-coup-conspiracy-theory/

2022-04-14 A Hunger Within the US Left for “Action” on Ukraine Is Driving Us Astray   But we want to suggest that this can lead to a disastrous and self-defeating strategy. “Doing something” has tended to mean demanding increased action from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to protect Ukraine, which, we insist, will only reproduce the conditions that helped produce the current conflict in the first place.     https://truthout.org/articles/a-hunger-within-the-us-left-for-action-on-ukraine-is-driving-us-astray/

2022-04-14 A World Without Walls   Once the Russian government decided that integration with Europe and the U.S. was not possible, the West began to portray Putin as diabolical, writes Vijay Prashad.    We can live in a war-filled world awash with weapons and confounded by intimidation, a world that continuously prepares for combat. Or, we can live in a world of teachers and doctors, scientists and social workers, storytellers and singers. We can put our confidence in people who help us create a better world than the one we live in today, this wretched world of war and profit, where ugliness threatens to overwhelm us. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/14/a-world-without-walls/

2022-04-14 Corporate Media’s War-Industry Pundits    Analyzing a range of TV news outlets, journalists at The Lever found viewers are often not informed when hawkish “experts” on Ukraine are employed by the weapons industry.  U.S. corporate media outlets are saturated with pundits — many of them ex-military or national security officials — who take to the airwaves to promote hawkish policies and actions in Ukraine and elsewhere without disclosing their own ties to the arms industry, according to a report published this week.   Analyzing punditry across a range of outlets including CNN, MSNBC, and NBC News, Aditi Ramaswami and Andrew Perez at The Lever found that the networks failed to inform viewers that many of their expert guests who called for supplying Ukraine with more weapons to defend against Russia’s invasion were currently employed by the weapons industry or its advocates.     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/14/corporate-medias-war-industry-pundits/

2022-04-14 WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Crushing Dissent’ With George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and Jill Stein Join us as we examine the information warfare being waged to enforce a single narrative about the war in Ukraine.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/14/watch-cn-live-crushing-dissent-with-george-galloway-chris-hedges-scott-ritter-and-jill-stein/

2022-04-14 Ukraine War Reveals Possible U.S. Preparations for Biological Warfare   The gist of the Chinese and Russian communications is their claim that the U.S. Government is doing bio-warfare. In that regard, the “Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research” in Tbilisi, Georgia, looms large. The U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) paid for the Center’s construction and for its operation, between 2011 and 2018.  

Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva produced a report in 2018 alleging the Center had bio-weapons capabilities. She claimed that most of the Center’s staff were U.S. citizens enjoying diplomatic immunity and that at least three U.S. companies were doing bio-weapons research there. She indicates elsewhere that biologic specimens arrive by diplomatic pouch.   Gaytandzhieva’s extraordinarily detailed report displays dozens of official U.S. documents and graphics. She points out that DTRA-funded private companies carry out bio-weapons research and testing in laboratories and facilities located in Georgia, Ukraine, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. U.S. government apologists have dismissed the report as Russian-inspired propaganda.   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/14/ukraine-war-reveals-possible-u-s-preparations-for-biological-warfare/

2022-04-13 America’s Whoops Apocalypse Is Just Not Cricket   NATO’s perpetual wars are hell, for those whose lives they destroy, and an abomination that must be ended for the rest of us.   Russian President Putin remains America’s preferred nemesis and The White House, in true Tinseltown form, has made a yet bigger fool of itself by christening the West’s rampant inflation Putin’s Price Hike, as if the Russian government is somehow forcing Western price gougers to boycott Russia and up their prices.   https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/13/americas-whoops-apocalypse-is-just-not-cricket/

2022-04-13 Ukraine’s Non-White Refugees    Over 4 million refugees – mostly women, children, and students – have fled Ukraine over the past month. In response, Europe has opened its arms to Ukrainian refugees and the EU has announced that all Ukrainians are eligible for temporary refugee protection for up to three years, with politicians and the public showing their support. This is how the international refugee protection regime should work.  

According to official Ukrainian government statistics, Ukraine had over 76,000 foreign students in 2020. About 20,000 of these were Indians and over 15,000 originated from Africa, mainly from Nigeria, Morocco and Egypt. In contrast, they have had a very different experience fleeing Ukraine.   African and Asian students have described horrid stories of being beaten with sticks by Ukrainian security, pushed off buses and trains, and neglected in favour of Ukrainians. And recent disturbing reports suggest that they are also being unfairly detained at EU borders – being denied access to protection, basic human rights, and dignity, as well as being threatened with deportation.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/13/ukraines-non-white-refugees/

2022-04-13 If You Only Follow Mainstream McNews, You Have No Clue About Ukraine   Since western corporate-controlled media dominates the global conversation about Ukraine, it’s easy to forget just how many other voices are out there, working hard every day to bring you the truth while being marginalized by the perfectly-groomed, plastic faces of the McMedia which have the biggest platforms and the biggest paychecks.   Just like junk food, though, junk news is bad for you. It consists of highly processed, establishment-approved narratives which are easy to swallow and taste good. It tastes good because it tells you that you live in The Greatest Country in the World™ and other countries are full of people who are inferior to you. It’s easy to swallow because it comes in neatly-packaged little soundbites that don’t require any thinking. All you have to do is open your mouth and let MSNBCIA spoon-feed you while you relax from the day’s work. Then, for a little evening entertainment before you hit the hay, you can hop on the internet and get a nice narcissistic buzz by showing everyone how “informed” you are.  https://orinocotribune.com/if-you-only-follow-mainstream-mcnews-you-have-no-clue-about-ukraine/

2022-04-12 Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Drives America’s Cynical Concern for Human Rights in India    The real worry for the Biden administration is a potential Indian pivot away from Washington toward Moscow.   While it is true that India’s right-wing government is guilty of human rights abuses and has been for years, it is also true that the U.S.  State Department does not actually care about human rights abuses.    A leaked State Department memo from the early days of the Trump administration showed neoconservative empire manager Brian Hook teaching a previously uninitiated Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that for the U.S. government, “human rights” are only a weapon to be used for keeping other nations in line. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/12/caitlin-johnstone-ukraine-drives-americas-cynical-concern-for-human-rights-in-india/

2022-04-11 Chris Hedges: The Pimps of War   The unaccountable coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.  They are protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Pseudo intellectuals, they exude a cloying Ivy League snobbery as they sell perpetual fear, perpetual war and a racist worldview, where the lesser breeds of the earth only understand violence.

They are pimps of war, puppets of the Pentagon, a state within a state, and the defense contractors who lavishly fund their think tanks — Project for the New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, Atlantic Council and Brookings Institute.   Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does not matter how wrong they are, how absurd their theories, how many times they lie or denigrate other cultures and societies as uncivilized or how many murderous military interventions go bad.   They are immovable props, the parasitic mandarins of power that are vomited up in the dying days of any empire, including that of the U.S., leaping from one self-defeating catastrophe to the next.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/11/chris-hedges-the-pimps-of-war/

2022-04-11 Facebook Warns About Consortium News Story    Social media giant Facebook has slapped a warning on an article published by Consortium News, saying at the same time that the piece does not violate its community standards and then saying it does.    The article, reporting that there are questions about who is responsible for the massacre at Bucha, Ukraine, appears on Facebook news feeds with a cover over the photograph associated with the article.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/11/facebook-warns-about-consortium-news-story/

2022-04-11 US LAWMAKERS WELCOMED NOTORIOUS GEORGIAN WARLORD NOW BOASTING OF WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE While Western media pundits howled about images of dead bodies in the city of Bucha, echoing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy’s accusation that Russia is guilty of “genocide,” they have largely overlooked the apparent admission of atrocities by an avowed ally of the United States who was welcomed on Capitol Hill by senior lawmakers overseeing congressional foreign policy committees.

Having fought in four wars against Russia, and despite allegations that he played a leading role in the massacre of 49 protesters in Kiev’s Maidan Square in 2014, Mamulashvili has taken multiple trips to the United States, where he received a warm welcome from members of Congress, the New York Police Department, and Ukrainian diaspora community.

In an interview this April, Mamulashvili, was asked about a video showing Russian fighters who had been extrajudicially executed in Dmitrovka, a town just five miles from Bucha. Mamulashvili was candid about his unit’s take-no-prisoners tactics, though he has denied involvement in the specific crimes depicted.

“We will not take Russian soldiers, as well as Kadyrovites [Chechnyan fighters]; in any case, we will not take prisoners, not a single person will be captured,” Mamulashvili said, implying that his fighters execute POWs. https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-lawmakers-welcomed-notorious-georgian-warlord-now-boasting-of-war-crimes-in-ukraine/280182/

2022-04-11 Caitlin Johnstone: Twitter IS ‘State-Affiliated Media’    Twitter has been working in steadily increasing intimacy with the U.S. government since it began pressuring Silicon Valley platforms to regulate content in support of the establishment following the 2016 election.  British politician and broadcaster George Galloway has made headlines in the U.K. with his threat to press legal action against Twitter for designating his account “Russia state-affiliated media,” a label which will now show up under his name every time he posts anything on the platform.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/11/caitlin-johnstone-twitter-is-state-affiliated-media/

2022-04-10 The Dangerous Idea of a Well-Behaved War   There is dominant propaganda that seems to suggest war can be conducted in a clean and orderly way and that civilian deaths are always exceptional.   The war in Ukraine resuscitated a certain dangerous fascination for war. Notions such as patriotism, democratic values, “the right side of history,” or a new fight for freedom are mobilized as imperatives for everyone to take a side in this war. It is not surprising then that a large number of so-called foreign fighters are willing to go to Ukraine to join one side or the other. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/10/the-dangerous-idea-of-a-well-behaved-war/

2022-04-09 Ukraine: The Broader Geopolitical Conflict   Vijay Prashad reviews the geopolitical battles of recent decades that leave Germany, Japan and India — among others — rattled in their response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  It is hard to fathom the depths of our time, the terrible wars and the confounding information that whizzes by without much wisdom.  Do they acknowledge the horrific reality of hunger that has increased due to this war and the sanctions?   It appears that many of the “certainties” are caught up in the “Cold War mentality,” which views humanity as irreversibly divided on two opposing sides. However, this is not the case; most countries are struggling to craft a non-aligned approach to the U.S.-imposed “new Cold War.” Russia’s conflict with Ukraine is a symptom of broader geopolitical battles that have been waged over decades.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/09/ukraine-the-broader-geopolitical-conflict/

2022-04-09 The United States and Ukraine Started the War—Not Russia     For eight years, Ukraine terrorized the people of Eastern Ukraine with U.S. weapons but this was never reported on.   The democratically elected government of Ukraine, overthrown by a U.S.-supported violent coup in 2014, was sparked by a massacre of protesters by a renegade Nazi brigade in the Ukraine Army, a cynical and deliberate false-flag tactic to anger the population. It worked as well as the German Nazi false flag Reichstag Fire that allowed Hitler to take over Germany.  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/09/the-united-states-and-ukraine-started-the-war-not-russia/

2022-04-08 NOAM CHOMSKY: A LEFT RESPONSE TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE   World-renowned linguist and analyst Noam Chomsky speaks with activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. about the geopolitical stakes of the war in Ukraine and how the left must respond. https://therealnews.com/noam-chomsky-a-left-response-to-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine

2022-04-08 Outrage as Azov Nazi Addresses Greek Parliament   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky brought along an Azov Nazi of Greek heritage to his speech to the Greek Parliament on Thursday and all hell broke loose     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/08/outrage-as-azov-nazi-addresses-greek-parliament/

2022-04-07 Destination Ukraine: The Ignorance of War   At this perilous time in history, as with too many wars previous, it is ignorance that has driven the civilized part of the world to provide the necessary “approval ratings” of war. On the long list of US-inspired wars and colour revolutions globally, each time the “Masters of War” quickly and tightly pulled the mask of propaganda over the eyes, the minds and the heartstrings of good-hearted men and women. It is natural and correct for all of sound conscience to abhor the horrors of war. However, goodness is too easily abused by the evil that drives other men to war.  https://www.globalresearch.ca/destination-ukraine-ignorance-war/5775354

2022-04-07 Defending the Lies of Psychological War   This is the stage of narrative control where the public is trained to defend their government’s right to commit psychological warfare, even when it’s openly based on outright lies.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/07/caitlin-johnstone-defending-psychological-war/

2022-04-07 Russia Hits Back at Israel Over Ukraine    Israel has tried to toe a neutral line on Ukraine, but comments from the Israeli foreign minister and a blistering response from the Russian foreign ministry has imperiled the two states’ relations.   Israel’s foreign minister in a Twitter post on Sunday, the day the massacre at Bucha was revealed and before any investigation could be conducted.   Foreign Minister Yair Lapid wrote: “It is impossible to remain indifferent in the face of the horrific images from the city of Bucha near Kyiv, from after the Russian army left. Intentionally harming a civilian population is a war crime and I strongly condemn it.”   Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine also implied that Russia had committed a war crime.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/07/israel-russia-clash-over-ukraine/

2202-04-07 Report: Ukraine Crisis Profiteering by US Oil Giants   An analysis released Tuesday by a trio of groups highlights how Big Oil has cashed in on various crises over the past year — including the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the global climate emergency —while enriching wealthy shareholders.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/07/report-ukraine-crisis-profiteering-by-us-oil-giants/

2022-04-06 ‘Most Dangerous Point in Human History’ Looming, Warns Noam Chomsky    “We are now facing the prospect of destruction of organized human life on Earth.”  https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/06/most-dangerous-point-human-history-looming-warns-noam-chomsky-0

2022-04-06 Zelenksy Blasts Russia at UN for ‘Worst War Crimes’ Since 1945; Russia Blames Ukraine for Massacre   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a speech to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday said Russia was guilty of ‘heinous” war crimes, while the Russian ambassador vociferously denied the allegations The meeting began with an angry statement from the Russian ambassador addressed to the British envoy about her decision to twice reject Russian requests,  without holding a procedural vote, for a Security Council meeting to discuss events surrounding the massacre in Bucha. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “immediately called for an independent investigation to guarantee effective accountability.”  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/06/watch-zelenksy-blasts-russia-at-un-for-worst-war-crimes-since-1945-russia-blames-ukraine-for-massacre/

2022-04-06 CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: U.S., NATO Blocking Peace in Ukraine   U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters on Monday that weapons and other equipment, including anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, Humvees and Puma drones, are being sent to Ukraine and NATO allies at “an unprecedented pace.” At the UN Security Council, in the White House and at NATO briefings, the military officials, politicians and the press only seem to be able to discuss sending more weapons instead of finding a lasting, diplomatic solution to the crisis.  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/04/06/covertaction-bulletin-podcast-us-nato-blocking-peace-in-ukraine/

2022-04-05 New Analysis Details ‘Master Class in War Profiteering’ by US Oil Giants   “Oil and gas companies are feeding off humanitarian disaster and consumer suffering in order to reward Wall Street,” said Lukas Ross at Friends of the Earth. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/new-analysis-details-master-class-war-profiteering-us-oil-giants   

2022-04-05 NATO’s Neverending Wars  If more lethal weapons were the answer, the conflict in Ukraine would have been resolved years ago, writes Ramzy Baroud. The country needs help finding non-violent solutions.   hypocrisy is a reflection of a much larger phenomenon which governs the West’s relationship to war and conflict zones.   enthusiasm for war remains high, as if over 70 years of failed military interventions have not taught any meaningful lessons. Daily, news headlines tell us that the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Germany, Spain or some other Western power have decided to ship a new kind of “lethal weapons” to Ukraine. Billions of dollars have already been allocated by Western countries to contribute to the war in Ukraine.

In contrast, very little has been done to offer platforms for diplomatic, non-violent solutions. A handful of countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia have offered mediation or insisted on a diplomatic solution to the war, arguing, as China’s foreign ministry reiterated on March 18, that “all sides need to jointly support Russia and Ukraine in having dialogue and negotiation that will produce results and lead to peace.”  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/05/natos-neverending-wars/

2022-04-05 The US Bubble of Pretend   The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/05/patrick-lawrence-the-us-bubble-of-pretend/

2022-04-04 Russian Chauvinism and an American Global Monroe Doctrine – Vijay Prashad pt 2 (see March 31, 2022 for pt 1) https://theanalysis.news/russian-chauvinism-and-an-american-global-monroe-doctrine-vijay-prashad-pt-2/

2022-04-04 Unhinged Responses to Bucha     Mainstream pundits calling for a military escalation that could set off nuclear war and end humankind should get on a plane and go fight Russia directly themselves.   But it’s becoming more and more common. The line that we’re already in World War 3 and need to begin acting accordingly is showing up more and more often. The idea that NATO powers might be able to get away with attacking the Russian military in Ukraine without sparking a nuclear exchange is fast becoming its own genre of Western foreign policy punditry, and that trend looks to accelerate with the latest (arguably pretty dubious) claims of Russian atrocities in this war. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/caitlin-johnstone-unhinged-responses-to-bucha/

2022-04-04 Questions Abound About Bucha Massacre   The West has made a snap judgment about who is responsible for the massacre at the Ukrainian town of Bucha with calls for more stringent sanctions on Russia, but the question of guilt is far from decided.    If there were to be a serious probe, one of the first places an investigator would begin is to map out a timeline of events.  

Last Wednesday, all Russian forces left Bucha, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.   This was confirmed on Thursday by a smiling Anatolii Fedoruk, the mayor of Bucha, in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page.   All of the Russian troops are gone and yet there is no mention of a massacre. The beaming Fedoruk says it is a “glorious day” in the history of Bucha, which would hardly be the case if hundreds of dead civilians littered the streets around Fedoruk.  Evidence of crimes in Bucha appeared only on the fourth day after the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town. All Russian units completely withdrew from Bucha on March 30, and ‘not a single local resident was injured’ during the time when Bucha was under the control of Russian troops,”.  What happened then on Friday and Saturday?   The New York Times was in Bucha on Saturday and did not report a massacre. Instead, the Times said the withdrawal was completed on Saturday, two days after the mayor said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.”  In Bucha, the Times was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s photographs. In his piece, McCann suggests that Azov may responsible for the killings:   ‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’     The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/

2022-04-04 CN Live! — ‘Ukraine on Fire’ Screening With Director Igor Lopatonok     his 2016 documentary Ukraine on Fire, which is more relevant than ever as the MSM whitewashes the Ukraine story, rendering it to a fairy tale.   With Western corporate media excising the 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine, Kiev’s war against Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbass who resisted the coup, and the outsized role of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, the documentary Ukraine on Fire is more timely and necessary than ever.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/watch-cn-live-ukraine-on-fire-screening-with-director-igor-lopatonok/

2022-04-01 NO, RUSSIA ISN’T ‘REVIVING THE SOVIET EMPIRE’ We speak with two world-renowned historians of Russia’s past empires about what that history can (and can’t) tell us about the war in Ukraine.  https://therealnews.com/no-russia-isnt-reviving-the-soviet-empire   

2022-04-01 History Rounds Off Skeletons to Zero   The war in Ukraine and associated U.S. sanctions are exacerbating a world hunger crisis that already afflicts billions of people, writes Vijay Prashad.   While 22 percent  of world cereal production crosses international borders, Big Agriculture controls both the inputs for cereal production and the prices of cereals. Four corporations – Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina and Limagrain – control more than half of the world’s seed production, while four other corporations – Archer-Daniels-Midland, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus – effectively set global food prices.   Very few countries in the world have been able to develop a food system that is immune from the turbulence of market liberalization (read our Red Alert no. 12 for more). Modest domestic policies – such as banning food exports during a drought or keeping high import duties to protect farmers’ livelihoods – are now punished by the World Bank and other multilateral agencies. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/01/history-rounds-off-skeletons-to-zero/

2022-04-01 Russia, Ukraine and the Law of War: War Crimes     Scott Ritter, in the second and final part of this series, lays out what the law says about war crimes and how it applies to the conflict in Ukraine.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/01/russia-ukraine-and-the-law-of-war-war-and-war-crimes/

2022-03-31 HOW THE MEDIA TURNS WAR INTO A SPECTATOR SPORT   Coverage of the war in Ukraine has demonstrated once again how corporate and social media have turned us all into passive spectators to a world on fire.     https://therealnews.com/how-the-media-turns-war-into-a-spectator-sport

2022-03-31 Partnering with neo-Nazis in Ukraine: an inconvenient history   Volodymyr Zelensky defeated Petro Poroshenko in the 2019 election on a platform that included making peace with Russia and signing the Minsk Agreements. The Minsk Agreements would have granted a degree of autonomy to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of the Donbas that had voted for independence from Ukraine after the 2014 US backed coup put a government in power that was handpicked by the US and that was pro-West and anti-Russian. It was intense pressure from the far right wing ultra-nationalists that bent Zelensky from a Minsk backer into the shape of a Minsk rejecter. Under that pressure from neo-Nazi parties that have large power that is disproportionate to their small support, Zelensky abandoned his campaign peace promise and refused to talk to the leaders of the Donbas and implement the Minsk Agreements.  https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/31/partnering-neo-nazis-ukraine-history/

2022-03-31 Ukraine: Transfer of Power Balance from West to East   Western response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is rapidly accelerating what had been a more drawn-out process.    The preponderance of human-interest reporting of the conflict in lieu of coverage of the war itself is illustrative. The heartbreaking examples of families torn asunder along with the brave exploits of Ukrainian soldiers or allegations of war crimes by Russia, whilst important, tends to trigger an emotional response rather than provide an accurate depiction of the course of events.

Partly this is because very few mainstream Western reporters, if any, appear to be located where the bulk of the fighting is, namely in the Donbass and around Mariupol. The resulting vacuum is filled by claims, many unverified and unverifiable, from the Ukrainian side, the aforementioned human-interest stories or the impact of missile strikes in and around the major cities. Truth has long been described as the first casualty of war. It would be unwise to think that this conflict is an exception. We should thus take a healthy dose of skepticism about the media reporting and analysis of the war — from all sides. 

The Russian military is running an “economy of effort” operation. It has effectively fixed in place the garrisons defending Ukraine’s major cities leaving them incapable of supporting the troops in the Donbass.   Meanwhile Russia is progressively destroying the military infrastructure of the Ukraine (resupply, maintenance and command and control facilities and weapon systems such as air defense, artillery and armored vehicles) through a combination of air strikes, cruise missiles, rockets and traditional artillery across the breadth and depth of Ukraine.   

Approximately 60,000 of Ukraine’s best trained and equipped troops are located in the Donbass. It would appear unlikely that this force is capable of anything other than localized tactical level manoeuvre at this point due to a combination of ever dwindling supplies of ammunition, fuel and rations, Russia’s dominance in the air and ground based combat power, and the effects of combat to date.   Despite the alleged incompetence of the handling of the initial stages of the war, the Pentagon assesses that the Russian forces still retain nearly 90 percent of the initial combat power assigned to the invasion.   With Russian forces on the verge of completing the capture of Mariupol, it will only be a matter of time before the Ukrainian forces in the Donbass are fully encircled and subsequently destroyed or forced to surrender. Whilst there may be many weeks, or even months of fighting ahead, the writing is on the wall that Russia, barring outside intervention (i.e. NATO — which has repeatedly ruled out direct military intervention), will achieve its military objectives.     

Ukraine is actually an unfortunate pawn in the much bigger conflict. As long time Russia analyst Gilbert Doctorow notes this is a  “full-blown proxy war between the United States of America and the Russian Federation, and it is about ending or perpetuating American global hegemony.”   Whilst the war in Ukraine will end sooner or later, the implications at a global scale of this proxy war will be of much greater consequence for a much greater period of time.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/31/ukraine-transfer-of-power-balance-from-west-to-east/

2022-03-31 Ukraine a Pawn in a Larger Struggle – Vijay Prashad pt 1 (see April 4,2022 for Pt 2) https://theanalysis.news/ukraine-a-pawn-in-a-larger-struggle-vijay-prashad-pt-1/

2022-03-31 Transcript of CN Live! — ‘Ukraine: The Economic Fallout’ With Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson    Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff joined CN Live! to discuss the economic war against Russia and its boomerang effect on the West. Does it mean that globalization is over? But so far, the sanctions do not seem to be working as planned. China has come to Moscow’s rescue, buying more oil and other commodities from from Russia. Beijing has allowed Russia to use its UnionPay banking system, replaced Russia’s use of SWIFT with China’s Inter-Bank system.  And China and the Eurasian Economic Union, which Russia is a part of, are designing a new monetary and financial system that would bypass the U.S. dollar, threatening it as the world’s reserve currency.   The U.S. has not only driven Russia and China closer together than ever, but has now brought in India, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East into a new bloc with an economic power that exceeds the West. All of those regions have refused to sanction Russia and continue to trade with it.   

The U.S. has turned the majority of the world’s population against it. We might be witnessing the end of Western dominated globalization and the birth of a divided world of two separate economic, financial and commercial systems. Cutting off trade and finance to Russia has already boomeranged on Western countries. Driving up prices, especially at the pump and at the supermarket.   Instead of prompting a popular uprising in Russia as a result of its sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity has actually risen since the invasion. Adding China as a target of economic war could drive the populations of the U.S. and Europe against their own governments instead.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/31/read-transcript-of-cn-live-ukraine-the-economic-fallout-with-richard-wolff-and-michael-hudson/

2022-03-30 War in Ukraine and the Climate Crisis Are Connected: Our Future Depends on Solutions that Address Both The week in February when Russia attacked Ukraine, government representatives and scientists from around the world were hard at work finalizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Its findings are incredibly sobering, showing that millions of people around the world are already living in places vulnerable to climate change and as climate impacts worsen, many more will face acute water and food shortages, loss of land and livelihoods, and deadly heatwaves, and many of the world’s critical ecosystems will increasingly reach the limits of their ability to adapt, with vast extinctions of species likely.

The report also points out that the many impacts of human-caused climate change will collide with increasing frequency with each other, and with other crises such as economic downturns, pandemics and wars. We simply don’t have the luxury of tackling one crisis at a time. In the era of climate change that is now firmly here, global leaders and policymakers must recognize and work within this reality to implement multi-faceted solutions that can help solve for crises simultaneously. https://blog.ucsusa.org/rachel-cleetus/war-in-ukraine-and-climate-crisis-are-connected-our-future-depends-on-solutions-that-address-both/

2022-03-30 Dear President Biden    We, the undersigned thirteen organizations, are writing to urge you to maximize your efforts to achieve a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine. As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky recently stated in an address to the people of Ukraine “Any war ends in an agreement.”    https://rootsaction.org/news-a-views/2746-dear-president-biden

2022-03-30 Lowkey petition to Spotify grabs 4,000 signatures in first three hours     A petition telling Spotify to ignore the Israel lobby and keep Lowkey on its platform was signed by 4,000 people within the first three hours of its launch on Wednesday.    As of this writing the petition has been signed by just over 7,000 people.   British pro-Israel lobby group group We Believe in Israel launched a campaign last week to have the rapper and Palestine solidarity campaigner deleted by the streaming giant.   But huge names from the worlds of music, arts, culture and now journalism, activism and academia have backed Lowkey against the Israel lobby, calling their campaign “unacceptable censorship.”  https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/lowkey-petition-spotify-grabs-4000-signatures-first-three-hours

2022-03-29 Ukrainian Climate Activists Say They Don’t Want the US’s Fracked Gas Exports    Climate activists living under the constant blare of air raid sirens in Ukraine say they don’t want the United States’ fracked gas exports, and don’t want frontline communities along the U.S. Gulf Coast living with the impacts of so-called liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure to become sacrifice zones in their name. Instead, they say, they want a dramatic, wartime mobilization for a transition to clean energy.   https://truthout.org/articles/ukrainian-climate-activists-say-they-dont-want-the-uss-fracked-gas-exports/

2022-03-29 Is Putin’s War Legal?    It has apparently become obligatory for any commentator on the Ukraine war to state upfront that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “illegal” before proceeding to list reasons why the U.S. and NATO bear responsibility for what Russia has done.  This declaration of “illegality,” however, is almost never accompanied by a detailed analysis of why it is illegal. The statement stands on its own, intended, it seems, to protect the author from the out-of-control barrage of criticism and censorship being widely leveled at anyone not strictly toeing the line against Russia.     Given the complexities of international law and the Ukraine situation, an explanation is indeed needed before passing legal judgement on Russia’s military action. 

Comparing the U.S. invasion of Iraq to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a false equivalency on several grounds. The U.S. cried self defense, but Iraq was never remotely a threat to the territory of the United States, especially when the basis for this supposed threat, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, turned out to be cruelest lie of the century so far. There also weren’t thousands of Americans killed in a civil war inside Iraq, which is nearly 10,000 kilometers away from Washington.

Ukraine borders Russia, where NATO has been nearing.  Putin said the military operation he was launching was a “question of life or death” for Russia, referring to NATO’s expansion east since the late 1990s.    Putin said he was also acting to save Russian speakers (many who have Russian passports) from a renewed offensive against them after eight years of attacks because they had rejected the 2014 U.S.-backed coup and declared independence from Ukraine. He said NATO and Ukraine:     “… did not leave us [Russia] any other option for defending Russia and our people, other than the one we are forced to use today. In these circumstances, we have to take bold and immediate action. The people’s republics of Donbass have asked Russia for help. In this context, in accordance with Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, with permission of Russia’s Federation Council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic, ratified by the Federal Assembly on February 22, I made a decision to carry out a special military operation.”  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/29/is-putins-war-legal/

2022-03-29 Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression   Scott Ritter, in part one of a two-part series, lays out international law regarding the crime of aggression and how it relates to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/29/russia-ukraine-the-law-of-war-crime-of-aggression/

2022-03-28 HOW OIL AND THE WAR IN UKRAINE ARE SHAPING NEGOTIATIONS OVER THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL   Negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal are intertwined with the fate of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the resulting, harried geopolitical race for oil. https://therealnews.com/how-oil-and-the-war-in-ukraine-are-shaping-negotiations-over-the-iran-nuclear-deal

2022-03-28 Biden’s Unhinged Call for Regime Change in Russia    Ever since Joe Biden ended his speech in Poland on Saturday night by making one of the most dangerous statements ever uttered by a U.S. president in the nuclear age, efforts to clean up after him have been profuse. Administration officials scurried to assert that Biden didn’t mean what he said. Yet no amount of trying to “walk back” his unhinged comment at the end of his speech in front of Warsaw’s Royal Castle can change the fact that Biden had called for regime change in Russia.   They were nine words about Russian President Vladimir Putin that shook the world: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”  With a reckless genie out of the bottle, no amount of damage control from the president’s top underlings could stuff it back in.  https://rootsaction.org/news-a-views/2743-bidens-unhinged-call-for-regime-change-in-russia

2022-03-28 Poll: Majority of Americans Fear Nuclear War   Nearly three-quarters of polled respondents thought the Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased the likelihood that nuclear weapons will be used anywhere in the world.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/28/poll-majority-of-americans-fear-nuclear-war/

2022-03-28 Chris Hedges: On Being Disappeared     YouTube has removed the entire six-year archive of the author’s show “On Contact.” This censorship, he says, is about supporting what I.F Stone reminded us is what governments always do — lie.     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/28/chris-hedges-on-being-disappeared/

2022-03-28 Re-Visiting Russiagate in Light of Ukraine War   Russiagate was never about removing Trump, but making sure Trump played along with their regime change plans for Moscow and manufacturing consent for the escalations we’re seeing today. It’s hard to believe that the last president spent his term pouring weapons into Ukraine, shredding treaties with Russia and ramping up cold war escalations against Moscow which helped lead us directly to the extraordinarily dangerous situation we now find ourselves in, and yet mainstream liberals spent his entire administration screaming that he was a Kremlin puppet.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/28/caitlin-johnstone-re-visiting-russiagate-in-light-of-the-ukraine-war/

2022-03-27 Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This War     In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.   The U.S. got its war in Ukraine. Without it, Washington could not attempt to destroy Russia’s economy, orchestrate worldwide condemnation and lead an insurgency to bleed Russia, all part of an attempt to bring down its government. Joe Biden has now left no doubt that it’s true.   The president of the United States has confirmed what Consortium News and others have been reporting since the beginnings of Russsiagate in 2016, that the ultimate U.S. aim is to overthrow the government of Vladimir Putin.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/27/can-russia-escape-the-us-trap/

2022-03-27 Teach-in Webinar – War in Ukraine: How the Lies of Empire Stand in the Way of a Diplomatic Resolution   The world has been horrified by recent events in Ukraine.     The mainstream media has not been reporting the facts including a hidden history of nefarious covert activities that fit with the past pattern of U.S. foreign policy.  This Teach-in Webinar will illuminate the backstory the media has not reported, and challenge the dominant narrative about the war. We will further raise concerns about the growing threat of nuclear conflagration while provoking discussion about what the peace movement should now be doing.  https://covertactionmagazine.com/teach-in-webinar-war-in-ukraine-how-the-lies-of-empire-stand-in-the-way-of-a-diplomatic-resolution/

2022-03-26 The BBC’s Ukrainian War-Messager    BBC reports on suspicious destruction of Mariupol theater were co-authored by a Ukrainian PR agent tied to a firm at the forefront of her country’s information warfare efforts, reports Max Blumenthal.  Before serving as a fixer and reporter for the BBC in Ukraine, Orysia Khimiak handled PR for a start-up called Reface which created what the Washington Post called a “reality distorting app” now serving as “a kind of Ukrainian war-messaging tool.”

Khimiak’s Twitter background references the “Snake Island” standoff which was widely reported by mainstream Western media outlets and heralded as a testament to Ukrainian military bravery. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, 13 Ukrainian border guards “died heroically” defending an island base against they Russian Navy. “Russian warship, go fuck yourself!” were the soldiers’ final words, or so the story went.  The Ukrainian guards ultimately turned up alive as Russian captives. The entire story of courage under fire, including the Snake Island defenders’ famous last words, was a myth – one of so many stories fabricated or heavily distorted by pro-Ukraine elements that they have become impossible to count.

On the Twitter page of the PR agent-turned-BBC correspondent Khimiak, the phony Snake Island stand-off is still treated as a real historical event. On her Twitter timeline, meanwhile, Khimiak takes credit for the BBC’s reports on the destruction of the Mariupol dramatic theater. She and her co-author, Bachega, have yet to respond to a request for comment from The Grayzone.   The incident at the Mariupol theater represents one of the most suspicious events of the war, with both the BBC and CNN citing a claim by one local Ukrainian official claiming hundreds were killed inside the building, but producing no evidence to verify it.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/26/the-bbcs-ukrainian-war-messager/

2022-03-25 Supplying (Sort Of) Our Demand  Do you really think the fossil fuel giants want to make things easier and more affordable for the average consumer?     https://progressive.org/latest/supplying-demand-fiore-220325/

2022-03-25 5 things to know about what’s happening in Ukraine   https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/5-things-to-know-about-whats-happening-ukraine

2022-03-25 Warnings for Washington About Cold War 2.0   The authors raise the brutal U.S. military misadventures committed during the first Cold War in the name of defending “the free world,” a term Biden ominously revived in his State of the Union address.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/25/warnings-for-washington-about-cold-war-2-0/

2022-03-25 UK Spook Set to Repeat Syria Role in Ukraine   Shadowy U.K. intel figure Hamish de Bretton-Gordon was at the forefront of chemical weapons deceptions in Syria. Now in Ukraine, he’s up to his old tricks again.   U.S. and British officials have resorted to a troubling tactic that could trigger a massive escalation. Following similar claims by his Secretary of State and ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. President Joseph Biden has declared that Russia will pay a “severe price” if it uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.     The warnings emanating from the Biden administration contain chilling echoes of those issued by the administration of President Barack Obama throughout the U.S.-led dirty war on Syria.

Almost as soon as Obama implemented his ill-fated “red line” policy vowing an American military response if the Syrian army attacked the Western-backed opposition with chemical weapons, al Qaeda-aligned opposition factions came forth with claims of mass casualty sarin and chlorine bombings of civilians. The result was a series of U.S.-U.K. missile strikes on Damascus and a prolonged crisis that nearly triggered the kind of disastrous regime change war that had destabilized Iraq and Libya.  In each major chemical weapons event, signs of staging and deception by the armed Syrian opposition were present. As a former U.S. ambassador in the Middle East told journalist Charles Glass, “The ‘red line’ was an open invitation to a false-­flag operation.”   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/25/uk-spook-set-to-repeat-syria-role-in-ukraine/

2022-03-25 U.S. Media Decries Brutal Russia Invasion of Ukraine—Yet an Intrepid Reporter Finds that the Russians Were Welcomed as Liberators in the Southern Ukrainian City of Henichesk along the Sea of Azov    he Russian army, patrolling the city, went with us—the embedded journalists—for protection. But actually the protection was not really needed; the people in Henichesk, at least the majority with whom I spoke, were very happy that the Russian army was there.

The people that I spoke to all said the same thing: They felt protected from the criminal gangs, with their Nazi ideology, who raged the towns. They in turn hoped that Ukraine will prosper again.     https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/25/u-s-media-decries-brutal-russia-invasion-of-ukraine-yet-an-intrepid-reporter-finds-that-the-russians-were-welcomed-as-liberators-in-the-southern-ukrainian-city-of-henichesk-along-the-sea-of-a/

2022-03-24 US spends billions on war in Ukraine and working class pays the price  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/24/us-spends-billions-on-war-in-ukraine-and-working-class-pays-the-price/

2022-03-24 The Racism and Incoherence of the World’s Asylum Systems    https://www.thenation.com/article/world/immigration-system-ukraine-refugees/

2022-03-24 Workers in Italy protest ammunition dispatches to Ukraine disguised as humanitarian aid   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/24/workers-in-italy-protest-ammunition-dispatches-to-ukraine-disguised-as-humanitarian-aid/

2022-03-24 Say No to a ‘No-Fly Zone’ in Ukraine  https://progressive.org/op-eds/no-to-a-no-fly-zone-in-ukraine-bennis-220324/

2022-03-24 THE ANGRY ARAB: What Arab Media Is Saying About Ukraine    Perceptions of the conflict are being shaped by the agendas of the Arab governments that own the media, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.    Gulf regimes are trying to handle a situation in which they feel they can’t afford to displease either U.S. President Joe Biden or Russian President Vladimir Putin.  And their media reflect that.  The rise of satellite television stations and the decline in newspaper readership, has concentrated Arab media ventures in fewer and fewer hands. It was one thing to launch a newspaper with a small staff, and it is another to launch a satellite regional station which costs millions of dollars — and is rarely profitable.   Most television media in the Arab world are controlled by Saudi, UAE and Qatari regimes (or their business affiliates), and by local stations that are controlled either by local governments or by local billionaires. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/24/the-angry-arab-what-arab-media-is-saying-about-ukraine/

2022-03-24 WATCH: Alternative Media & the Russia-Ukraine War  Consortium News editor-in-chief Joe Lauria and former C.I.A. officer John Kiriakou join Shadowproof‘s Kevin Gosztola for a conversation about the importance of alternative media during the Russia-Ukraine War.     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/24/watch-alternative-media-the-russia-ukraine-war/

2022-03-24 Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Signifies the End of an Era of Unipolar American Power     Russia had drawn a line in the sand and, once violated, defied Washington by acting to defend its interests. A lot of countries support Russia, and Washington is powerless to stop it. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/24/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-signifies-the-end-of-an-era-of-unipolar-american-power/

2022-03-23 Blame Greed for Rising Prices   https://progressive.org/op-eds/blame-greed-for-rising-prices-herrig-220323/

2022-03-23 Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs to Stave Off War With Russia    Leaked stories from the Pentagon have exposed how mainstream media reports Russia’s conduct in the Ukraine war, in a bid to counter propaganda intended to get NATO into the conflict.   The Pentagon has been engaged in a consequential battle with the U.S. State Department and the Congress to prevent a direct military confrontation with Russia, which could unleash the most unimaginable horror of war.   President Joe Biden is caught in the middle of the fray. So far he is siding with the Defense Department, saying there cannot be any kind of NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine fighting Russian aircraft because “that’s called World War III, okay? Let’s get it straight here, guys. We will not fight the third world war in Ukraine.”   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/23/pentagon-drops-truth-bombs-to-stave-off-war-with-russia/

2022-03-23 Ukraine’s Propaganda War    Dan Cohen reveals the network of foreign strategists, Washington lobbyists and intelligence-linked media outlets behind Kiev’s public relations blitz.   Since the Russian offensive inside Ukraine commenced on Feb. 24, the Ukrainian military has cultivated the image of a plucky little army standing up to the Russian Goliath. To bolster the perception of Ukrainian military mettle, Kiev has churned out a steady stream of sophisticated propaganda aimed at stirring public and official support from Western countries.  The campaign includes language guides, key messages and hundreds of propaganda posters, some of which contain fascist imagery and even praise Neo-Nazi leaders.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/23/ukraines-propaganda-war/

2022-03-23 The Impact of Ukraine on Yemen    The Western economic war on Russia over Ukraine is having a spillover effect on the forgotten war in Yemen, writes Kathy Kelly.  The United Nations’ goal was to raise more than $4.2 billion for the people of war-torn Yemen by March 15. But when that deadline rolled around, just $1.3 billion had come in.  “I am deeply disappointed,” said Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council. “The people of Yemen need the same level of support and solidarity that we’ve seen for the people of Ukraine. The crisis in Europe will dramatically impact Yemenis’ access to food and fuel, making an already dire situation even worse.”    With Yemen importing more than 35 percent  of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine, disruption to wheat supplies will cause soaring increases in the price of food.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/23/the-impact-of-ukraine-on-yemen/

2022-03-23 U.S. Hypocrisy—CIA Trains Insurgents in Ukraine     As the US government continues to say it does not want U.S. or NATO forces coming into direct conflict with Russian troops, a recent report in Yahoo News revealed that since 2015, the CIA has been overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special operations forces who are trained for insurgency.   What is the real purpose of this CIA program? And what does it actually say about U.S. intentions in the region?  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/23/covertaction-bulletin-podcast-u-s-hypocrisy-cia-trains-insurgents-in-ukraine/

2022-03-23 As Outrage Grows Over Civilian Casualties in Ukraine, Media Ignores Suffering of Yemeni People    The method is to denounce the crimes of official government enemies, while staying silent about the crimes of the U.S. government or its allies.   As an example, the media have failed to report on large-scale war crimes committed by the Ukrainian Army in Eastern Ukraine. The plight of Yemenis subjected to years of international terror by some of the most powerful nations on Earth has also been ignored.   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/23/as-outrage-grows-over-civilian-casualties-in-ukraine-media-ignores-suffering-of-yemeni-people/

2022-03-22 U.S. Lied About Funding “Dangerous Pathogen” Research in Secret Ukrainian Biolabs, Newly Leaked Documents Reveal   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/22/u-s-lied-about-funding-dangerous-pathogen-research-in-secret-ukrainian-biolabs-newly-leaked-documents-reveal/

2022-03-22 Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine’s ‘Agency’ the CIA Kind   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/22/caitlin-johnstone-ukraines-agency-the-cia-kind/

2022-03-22 Major media in the U.S. become cheerleaders for war in Ukraine    http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35177

2022-03-22 The war in Ukraine is sending Russia-China relations in new directions    http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35171

2022-03-22 Putin’s ‘Peaceful Atom’ apocalypse draws closer by the minute (important article on dangers of nuclear power, but sadly Harvey has to use MIMC bias language to smear Putin and Russia)  http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35169

2022-03-22 Ukraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts   https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/

2022-03-22 US and NATO Allies Arm Neo-Nazi Units in Ukraine as Foreign Policy Elites Yearn for Afghan-style Insurgency  https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-arm-neo-nazi-units-ukraine-afghan-style-insurgency/279997/

2022-03-22 The Loathsome Hypocrisy of Republicans Who Now Applaud Volodymyr Zelensky  https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/gop-hypocrisy-zelensky/

2022-03-22 Five activists arrested after locking down on Raytheon roof  http://www.nukeresister.org/2022/03/22/five-activists-arrested-after-locking-down-on-raytheon-roof/

2022-03-22 Coverage of Ukraine Reveals the Racist Biases of Western Media  https://progressive.org/latest/ukraine-racist-biases-western-media-jeffrey-220322/

2022-03-22 Any Use of Tactical Nukes Denounced as ‘Bat-Sh*t F**king Insane’   “If escalation led to a massive exchange of nuclear weapons,” warned one expert, “the world would experience a catastrophe of immeasurable proportions.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/any-use-tactical-nukes-denounced-bat-sht-fking-insane

2022-03-22 Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: Why Does Ukraine Seem to Have So Many Nazis Nowadays?   Are Nazis Now the New “Good Guys”?  There is a bit of mixed messaging that has been going on, especially in the last few weeks. Are there significant numbers of Nazis in Ukraine and are these “bad” or “good” Nazis in the context that they are fighting the Russian “invaders”?  In one breath we hear the counter, how can there be Nazis in Ukraine when there is a Jewish President calling the shots? In another breath we hear Facebook is now allowing users to praise the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion while they are fighting Russians. In yet another breath we hear, well its complicated, Ukrainian Nationalism should be considered at the forefront of any debate, even if it overlaps with Nazi ideology.   https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/22/fact-checking-the-fact-checkers-why-does-ukraine-seem-to-have-so-many-nazis-nowadays/

2022-03-22 LISTEN: ‘The US Could Have Stopped This War’   CN Editor Joe Lauria on “By Any Means Necessary” on how US could stop the war & why it keeps it going; the White House press corp’s cluelessness; & the danger of extending economic war to China.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/22/listen-the-us-could-have-stopped-this-war/

2022-03-22 Chris Hedges: The Lie of American Innocence    U.S. hypocrisy on war crimes makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.    The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States.

It is unclear how anyone would try Putin for war crimes since Russia, like the United States, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But justice is not the point.   Politicians like Biden, who do not accept responsibility for our well-documented war crimes, bolster their moral credentials by demonizing their adversaries. They know the chance of Putin facing justice is zero. And they know their chance of facing justice is the same.   We know who our most recent war criminals are, among others: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, General Ricardo Sanchez, former CIA Director George Tenet, former Asst. Atty. Gen. Jay Bybee, former Dep. Asst. Atty. Gen. John Yoo, who set up the legal framework to authorize torture; the helicopter pilots who gunned down civilians, including two Reuters journalists, in the “Collateral Murder” video released by WikiLeaks. We have evidence of the crimes they committed.

But, like Putin’s Russia, those who expose these crimes are silenced and persecuted. Julian Assange, even though he is not a U.S. citizen and his WikiLeaks site is not a U.S.-based publication, is charged under the U.S. Espionage Act for making public numerous U.S. war crimes.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/22/chris-hedges-the-lie-of-american-innocence/

2022-03-22 Ukraine’s ‘Agency’ the CIA Kind   Denying the Western role in subverting Ukrainian sovereignty doesn’t benefit ordinary Ukrainians, it hurts them.  One of the many, many tricks that imperial spinmeisters have pulled out of their hats in their shockingly frenetic campaign to manage the narrative about what’s happening in Ukraine is to insist that it’s outrageous and disgusting to suggest that Ukraine is being used as a sacrificial pawn in the grand chessboard maneuverings of the U.S.-centralized empire, because it is denying the “agency” of that nation. The argument is that Ukraine freely chose to enter into the situation in which it now finds itself, with no outside pressure or influence of any kind whatsoever.

Seemingly overnight it became not just wrong to say that the U.S. hegemon has played a role in giving rise to this war, but actually monstrous and evil. My online notifications are currently flooded with furious empire apologists screaming at me for assigning any degree of responsibility in this conflict to Western power structures with the kind of vitriol people normally reserve for Holocaust deniers or pedophelia advocates.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/22/caitlin-johnstone-ukraines-agency-the-cia-kind/

2022-03-21 Opposition political parties banned in Ukraine and ‘unified information policy’ imposed  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/21/opposition-political-parties-banned-in-ukraine-and-unified-information-policy-imposed/

2022-03-21 Is the Ukraine War a Prelude to a More Protracted Global War?  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/21/is-the-ukraine-war-a-prelude-to-a-more-protracted-global-war/

2022-03-21 Will the Decline of the U.S. Empire Usher in a More Peaceful World Order, or Will New Empires Emerge that are Just as Lethal and Exploitative?   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/21/will-the-decline-of-the-u-s-empire-usher-in-a-more-peaceful-world-order-or-will-new-empires-emerge-that-are-just-as-lethal-and-exploitative/

2022-03-21 Albania in turmoil as fuel and food prices skyrocket    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/21/albania-in-turmoil-as-fuel-and-food-prices-skyrocket/

2022-03-21 Multiplying hatred and division: Humanity at war with itself    http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35153

2022-03-21 Unequal Justice: Can Russia Get Away with its War Crimes?   https://progressive.org/latest/russia-get-away-with-war-crimes-blum-220321/

2022-03-21 The People of Yemen Need Our Help, Too   https://progressive.org/op-eds/yemen-needs-help-too-kelly-220321/

2022-03-21 A Period of Great Tectonic Shifts    Vijay Prashad presents six theses about the establishment of the U.S.-shaped world order in 1990 and its current fragility in the face of growing Russian and Chinese power.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/21/a-period-of-great-tectonic-shifts/

2022-03-21 Imperial Infantilism   Diplomacy is an essential skill in the century swiftly taking shape around us, but we find that hurling playground insults at the leader of another nation has become normal in post-9/11 Washington.   Now the names we have for Putin roll around among like pinballs.  “Hitler” has fallen somewhat out of fashion, the hyperbole having proven too silly, or maybe because NATO is now arming a Nazi-infested regime.   He’s all sorts of other things too, keeping us well on the side of repugnance and hostility, and safely away from a serious, adult understanding of the man, the nation and what the man and the nation are doing — in Ukraine and elsewhere.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/21/patrick-lawrence-on-american-infantilism/

2022-03-20 The Azov Battalion | The neo-Nazis of Ukraine    https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/the-azov-battalion-the-neo-nazis-of-ukraine/article65239935.ece?

2022-03-20 US and NATO allies arm neo-Nazi units in Ukraine as foreign policy elites yearn for Afghan-style insurgency  https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/20/us-neo-nazi-ukraine-afghan-insurgency/

2022-03-20 The Challenge of an Independent Anti-Imperialist Policy in Ukraine: A Response to Achcar and Kouvélakis  https://www.leftvoice.org/the-challenge-of-an-independent-anti-imperialist-policy-in-ukraine-a-response-to-achcar-and-kouvelakis/

2022-03-20 The Jaw-Dropping Power of US Propaganda      The ability to manipulate public thought, not just within the U.S. but across vast swaths of nations, has allowed the U.S. to manufacture international consensus for whatever agendas it wishes to advance.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/20/caitlin-johnstone-the-jaw-dropping-power-of-us-propaganda/

2022-03-20 US Media Pushing for World War III    Rather than neutrally trying to get the facts, White House reporters have become unabashed activists for going to war with Russia.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/20/us-media-pushing-for-world-war-iii/

2022-03-19 WATCH: Lauria & Galloway on Censorship Over Ukraine    George Galloway speaks to CN Editor Joe Lauria about censorship and the war in Ukraine. Security analyst Mark Sleboda adds perspective on the origins of the war.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/19/watch-lauria-galloway-on-censorship-over-ukraine/

2022-03-18 Is Putin Heading Toward a Partition of Ukraine?  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/18/is-putin-heading-toward-a-partition-of-ukraine/

2022-03-18 History is Not Bunk: the Ukraine War and a Cautionary Tale  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/18/history-is-not-bunk-the-ukraine-war-and-a-cautionary-tale/

2022-03-18 Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now: Reflections on War, Peace, and Ukraine    https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/18/let-us-not-talk-falsely-now-reflections-on-war-peace-and-ukraine/

2022-03-18 What the Ukraine War Means for China: a View From Beijing  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/18/what-the-ukraine-war-means-for-china-a-view-from-beijing/

2022-03-18 The Only Thing That Can Save Ukraine is Secession  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/18/the-only-thing-that-can-save-ukraine-is-secession/

2022-03-18 What’s Ukraine got to do with Palestine?   https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/whats-ukraine-got-do-palestine

2022-03-18 How Much Less Newsworthy Are Civilians in Other Conflicts?   https://fair.org/home/how-much-less-newsworthy-are-civilians-in-other-conflicts/

2022-03-18 Shireen Al-Adeimi on Yemen, David Arkush on Fed Climate Veto https://fair.org/home/shireen-al-adeimi-on-yemen-david-arkush-on-fed-climate-veto/

2022-03-18 Fires Rage within Canada’s Ukrainian Community as Professor Attacks the Myth of Holodomor   https://www.globalresearch.ca/fires-rage-canada-professor-attacks-myth-holodomor/5774844

2022-03-18 Who are the foreign fighters traveling to Ukraine? What we know and what we don’t  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/18/who-are-the-foreign-fighters-traveling-to-ukraine-what-we-know-and-what-we-dont/

2022-03-18 VIDEO: Former top Pentagon advisor Col. Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine war   https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/pentagon-doug-macgregor-russia-ukraine-war/

2022-03-18 Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?  https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/bombing-mariupol-theater-ukrainian-azov-nato-intervention/

2022-03-18 Our military budget is more lopsided than ever   http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35148

2022-03-18 Travel Diary: From the War in Ukraine to the Struggle in Palestine   https://www.leftvoice.org/travel-diary-from-the-war-in-ukraine-to-the-struggle-in-palestine/

2022-03-18 Poles Have Opened Their Arms to Ukrainians—but Will It Last  https://www.thenation.com/article/world/poles-open-to-ukrainian-refugees/

2022-03-18 The Dawn of an Even More Dangerous Cold War    https://www.thenation.com/article/world/more-dangerous-cold-war/

2022-03-18 A Lone Voice in the Sports World Asks: “What About Palestine?”  https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ali-farag-palestine/

2022-03-18 WATCH: UN Security Council on Ukraine’s Bio Labs   Russia made new allegations at the U.N. Security Council on Friday that Ukraine was working on biological weapons, which led to further clashes with the U.S. and its allies on the council.     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/18/watch-un-security-council-on-ukraines-bio-labs/

2022-03-18 WATCH: UN Security Council on Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine   A U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine again pitted Russia’s ambassador against the United States and its allies on the council. Watch it here.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/18/watch-un-security-council-on-humanitarian-situation-in-ukraine/

2022-03-18 US Militarism in Russia & Around the World   By following the Truman Doctrine, Brian Terrell says the U.S exploits and dishonors the very real aspirations of people for peace and self-determination.     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/18/us-militarism-in-russia-around-the-world/

2202-03-17 Why a Ukraine “No-Fly Zone” is a One-Way Ticket to Nuclear War https://www.liberationnews.org/why-a-ukraine-no-fly-zone-is-a-one-way-ticket-to-nuclear-war/

2022-03-17 World War III? Pressure mounts on Biden to launch war on Russia with ‘no-fly zone’    https://www.liberationnews.org/world-war-three-pressure-mounts-on-biden-to-launch-war-on-russia-with-no-fly-zone/

2022-03-17 Rethinking the unthinkable: Ukraine reveals the need for nuclear disarmament    https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/rethinking-the-unthinkable-ukraine-reveals-the-need-for-nuclear-disarmament/

2022-03-17 CIA Director William F. Burns–Capo of World’s Biggest Spreader of Lies and Misinformation–Is Spreading The Big Lie that Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine was “Unprovoked”  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/17/cia-director-william-f-burns-capo-of-the-worlds-biggest-spreader-of-lies-and-misinformation-is-spreading-the-big-lie-that-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-was/

2022-03-17 Israel lobby group ADL rehabilitates Hitler’s accomplices in Ukraine   https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-group-adl-rehabilitates-hitlers-accomplices-ukraine/35021

2022-03-17 Black Caucus fails on Ukraine   http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35134

2022-03-17 The History Behind Putin’s War in Ukraine     https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/doug-henwood-anatol-lieven-ukraine-russia-putin-sanctions-nuclear-war-history

2022-03-17 Italian Airport Workers Stop Arms Shipment to Ukraine Under Guise of “Humanitarian Aid”    https://www.leftvoice.org/italian-airport-workers-stop-arms-shipment-to-ukraine-under-guise-of-humanitarian-aid/

2022-03-17 ‘I JUST WANT TO BE SAFE’: YEMENIS FLEEING UKRAINE STRUGGLE TO FIND REFUGE   Having already fled the horrors of war back home, Yemenis living in Ukraine describe the Kafka-esque struggle to find safety in Europe after the Russian invasion  https://therealnews.com/i-just-want-to-be-safe-yemenis-fleeing-ukraine-struggle-to-find-refuge

2022-03-17 WE MUST ORGANIZE FOR PEACE LIKE OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT (BECAUSE THEY DO)     https://therealnews.com/we-must-organize-for-peace-like-our-lives-depend-on-it-because-they-do

2022-03-17 International Law Becomes Meaningless When Applied Only to US Enemies    You don’t get to make international law meaningless and then claim that an invasion is “illegal.”    As far as I can tell this point is logically unassailable. International law is a meaningless concept when it only applies to people the U.S. power alliance doesn’t like. This point is driven home by the life of McBride himself, whose own government responded to his publicizing suppressed information about war crimes committed by Australian forces in Afghanistan by charging him as a criminal.    Neither George W. Bush nor Tony Blair are in prison cells at The Hague where international law says they ought to be. Bush is still painting away from the comfort of his home, issuing proclamations comparing Putin to Hitler and platforming arguments for more interventionism in Ukraine. Blair is still merrily warmongering his charred little heart out, saying NATO should not rule out directly attacking Russian forces in what amounts to a call for a thermonuclear world war.   They are free as birds, singing their same old demonic songs from the rooftops. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/17/caitlin-johnstone-international-law-becomes-meaningless-when-applied-only-to-us-enemies/

2022-03-16 Ukraine’s Corn Harvest May Plunge By A Third, Estimates Show  https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/ukraines-corn-harvest-may-plunge-by-a-third-estimates-show.html  

2202-03-16 Israeli Apartheid on full display amid Ukraine refugee crisis    https://www.liberationnews.org/israeli-apartheid-on-full-display-amid-ukraine-refugee-crisis/

2022-03-16 In Address to Congress, Zelensky Pleads for Help With War Against Russia Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a virtual speech to Congress on Wednesday and reiterated his call for the US to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which would mean direct war with Russia.

“Is this a lot to ask for, to create a no-fly zone — zone over Ukraine to save people? Is this too much to ask — humanitarian no-fly zone, something that Ukraine — that Russia would not be able to terrorize our free cities?” Zelensky said. https://news.antiwar.com/2022/03/16/in-address-to-congress-zelensky-pleads-for-help-with-war-against-russia/

2022-03-16 UKRAINE’S THRIVING NEO-NAZI MOVEMENT: WHAT YOU’RE NOT BEING TOLD  https://wearechange.org/ukraines-thriving-neo-nazi-movement-what-youre-not-being-told

2202-03-16 The Bunker: Nukes Keep U.S. Sidelined Over Ukraine   https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2022/03/the-bunker-nukes-keep-u-s-sidelined-over-ukraine/

2022-03-16 Russia-Ukraine talks continue amid contradictory signals from Volodymyr Zelensky   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/16/russia-ukraine-talks-continue-amid-contradictory-signals-from-volodymyr-zelensky/

2022-03-16 Central Asia struggles with the consequences of Russia’s war   http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35117

2022-03-16 It’s Time to Cancel Ukraine’s Foreign Debt  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/ukraine-foreign-debt-cancellation-imf-global-finance

2022-03-16 Volodymyr Zelensky Is Not a Comedian—and That’s No Joke  https://www.thenation.com/article/world/zelensky-ukraine-servant-people/

2022-03-16 The Dreams of a New Cold War Are Here to Stay  https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-russia-new-cold-war/

2022-03-16 FIFA’s hypocrisy in Palestine and Ukraine   https://therealnews.com/fifas-hypocrisy-in-palestine-and-ukraine

2022-03-16 For Washington, War Never Ends    The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of Germany confirmed that for the United States, the war in Europe was not entirely over. It still isn’t.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/16/diana-johnstone-for-washington-war-never-ends/

2022-03-15 War Profiteers Cash In  https://www.liberationnews.org/war-profiteers-cash-in/

2022-03-15 10 Signs The War In Ukraine Is Part Of The Great Reset     https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/10-signs-the-war-in-ukraine-is-part-of-the-great-reset.html

2022-03-15 Black Caucus Fails on Ukraine  https://www.blackagendareport.com/black-caucus-fails-ukraine

2022-03-15 Many Africans Reject Washington’s Position on Ukraine Crisis   https://www.blackagendareport.com/many-africans-reject-washingtons-position-ukraine-crisis

2022-03-15 In striking Ukraine, Russia also hit nuclear arms control  https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/in-striking-ukraine-russia-also-hit-nuclear-arms-control/

2022-03-15 Central Asia struggles with the consequences of Russia’s war    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/15/central-asia-struggles-with-the-consequences-of-russias-war/

2022-03-15 Cracking down on Russian oligarchs means cracking down on U.S. tax havens  http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35111

2022-03-15 Israel’s Links to Ukraine’s Thriving Neo-Nazi Movement      https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-links-to-ukraine-neo-nazi-movement/279936/

2022-03-15 HOW COLD WAR-ERA HOLLYWOOD MOVIES ROTTED OUR BRAINS   Cold War-era Hollywood movies in the ‘80s were fun and entertaining as hell, but they really did a number on the American psyche.  https://therealnews.com/how-cold-war-era-hollywood-movies-rotted-our-brains

2022-03-15 The US, NATO & the Article IV Trap in Ukraine    Scott Ritter says the ongoing flow of refugees out of Ukraine into neighboring territories poses the greatest potential for a NATO-Russia clash.   The ongoing Russian invasion has torn asunder whatever passed for geopolitical stability in Eastern Europe in the years since NATO expansion brought Poland and the three former Soviet Baltic Republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into its membership.

While peeved, Russia had accepted the resulting equilibrium with stoic grace, bristling at every NATO effort at muscle flexing, but not overreacting. Even in the face of NATO and EU intervention in the affairs of Russia’s neighbor and ostensible ally, Belarus, in the aftermath of a contested August 2020 presidential election and sustained border crisis over immigration policy, Russia kept its cool, reining in Viktor Lukashenko, the impetuous Belarussian president, while trying to calm the situation with the four NATO members in question.

The Russo-Ukrainian War has changed this equation, with Poland and the three Baltic States using the conflict as an excuse to trigger Article IV of the NATO Charter to call for consultations among the NATO membership regarding a situation the four Eastern European nations view as a pressing national security matter.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/15/the-us-nato-the-article-iv-trap-in-ukraine/

2022-03-15 Waltzing to Armageddon    The Dr. Strangeloves, like zombies rising from the mass graves they created around the globe, are once again stoking new campaigns of industrial mass slaughter.    The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the C.I.A., the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalism with freedom. In the name of national security, the Cold Warriors, many of them self-identified liberals, demonized labor, independent media, human rights organizations, and those who opposed the permanent war economy and the militarization of American society as soft on communism.    That is why they have resurrected it.  The decision to spurn the possibility of peaceful coexistence with Russia at the end of the Cold War is one of the most egregious crimes of the late 20th century. https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/15/chris-hedges-waltzing-to-armageddon/

2022-03-15 Britain & NATO’s Nuclear Posture     To most, the idea of fighting a nuclear war seems absurd — the assumption being that a nuclear balance provides stability, writes Paul Rogers. But this has never been the case.  Nuclear weapons have come back to center stage with Russian President Vladimir Putin putting Russian forces on nuclear alert over Ukraine. The war is not going according to plan and as the Kremlin escalates it to leveling cities, the demand across Europe and beyond for a NATO no-fly-zone is growing.    Putin’s nuclear threat is designed to discourage NATO from implementing any such thing. [Ed.: Russia says its operation is not stalled, but carefully measured, despite Western media reports, conducted with a diplomatic track, which if it fails, could see a more fierce Russian attack.]  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/15/britain-natos-nuclear-posture/

2022-03-14 Why we should oppose a ‘no-fly zone’ over Ukraine (downloadable brochure for mass distribution)  https://www.liberationnews.org/why-we-should-oppose-a-no-fly-zone-over-ukraine-downloadable-pamphlet/

2022-03-14 Mapping Faultlines: Russia-Ukraine war and the impact on raw materials and supply chains  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/14/mapping-faultlines-russia-ukraine-war-and-the-impact-on-raw-materials-and-supply-chains/

2022-03-14 Why Europe needs to take a hard look at itself   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/14/why-europe-needs-to-take-a-hard-look-at-itself/

2022-03-14 If high gas prices are so painful, shouldn’t we move away from fossil fuels?   http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35100

2022-03-14 Beyond Putin’s Propaganda, the Far Right Is a Major Problem in Ukraine  https://www.leftvoice.org/beyond-putins-propaganda-the-far-right-is-a-major-problem-in-ukraine/

2022-03-14 Is it legal for foreigners to fight for Ukraine?  https://www.rawstory.com/explainer-is-it-legal-for-foreigners-to-fight-for-ukraine/

2022-03-14 WATCH: Ukraine Crisis — Looking Back, Looking Ahead   Tony Kevin, former Australian diplomat, and Emeritus Prof. Ramesh Thakur, Australian National University, in a deep discussion on the causes and future of the Ukraine war and its impact on the world. Presented by Pax Christi Australia.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/14/watch-ukraine-crisis-looking-back-looking-ahead/

2022-03-13 Censored Reports from Donbass Make Clear Ukraine and Not Russia Started the War—Eight Years Ago  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/13/censored-reports-from-donbass-make-clear-ukraine-and-not-russia-started-the-war-eight-years-ago/ 

2022-03-13 Zelensky threatens supporters of Russia in Ukraine   https://www.rawstory.com/zelensky-threatens-supporters-of-russia-in-ukraine/

2022-03-13 In Praise of ‘Whataboutism’     Anyone who speaks out against imperialism, capitalism, or racism with concrete examples of the terrible harm they do, can expect to be charged with the dreaded term “whataboutism.” Like clockwork, the act of revealing American crimes will result in an accusation that is used to silence dissent.   When war propaganda prevails regarding Ukraine or any other place where the hegemon is doing its dirty work, it is reasonable to ask probing questions. Why are the deaths of 14,000 people killed by Ukraine’s civil war swept under the rug? Why is it forbidden to ask about the U.S. destruction of Libya? But once having asked a good question, one will be told that raising the topic is proof of the whataboutism sin.  

The word whataboutism is in the dictionary and is defined as, “the act or practice of responding to an accusation of wrongdoing by claiming that an offense committed by another is similar or worse.” That meaning is accurate and also completely defensible.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/13/in-praise-of-whataboutism/

2022-03-12 WATCH: UN Security Council on Ukraine’s Bio Research     The U.N. Security Council met Friday to debate allegations that Ukraine possesses biological weapons. Watch it here.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/12/watch-un-security-council-on-ukraines-bio-research/

2022-03-11 The working class must reject the new Cold War: five points of unity    https://www.liberationnews.org/the-working-class-must-reject-the-new-cold-war-5-points-of-unity/

2022-03-11 World War III Has Already Started, and It’s an Economic War   https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/world-war-iii-has-already-started-and-its-an-economic-war.html

2022-03-11 Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” Becomes Reality as Facebook Now Allows Violence & Hate Directed at Russians  https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/orwells-two-minutes-hate-becomes-reality-as-facebook-now-allows-violence-hate-directed-at-russians.html

2022-03-11 Ukraine and the Pathology of the Liberal Worldview: An African American Perspective   https://www.blackagendareport.com/content/ukraine-and-pathology-liberal-worldview-african-american-perspective

2022-03-11 Why Ukraine Matters   https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/11/why-ukraine-matters/

2022-03-11 Understanding the War in Ukraine    https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/11/236617/

2202-03-11 Ukraine’s War of Illusions  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/11/236710/ 

2022-03-11 What Polls About a Ukraine ‘No-Fly Zone’ Really Tell Us    https://fair.org/home/what-polls-about-a-ukraine-no-fly-zone-really-tell-us/

2022-03-11 Khury Petersen-Smith on Economic Sanctions  https://fair.org/home/khury-petersen-smith-on-economic-sanctions-greg-leroy-on-amazon-subsidies/

2022-03-11 Anti-Russian hysteria in the US: Who does it serve?  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/11/anti-russian-hysteria-in-the-us-who-does-it-serve/

2022-03-11 How U.S. has empowered and armed neo-Nazis in Ukraine  http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35091

2022-03-11 Cutting through the fog masking ‘a new page in the art of war’ (Ukraine’s Pentagon funded bi-labs)  http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35087

2022-03-11 The Case for Declaring a National Climate Emergency     https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/biden-climate-emergency-dpa/

2022-03-11 “’What is Ukraine?’ is a question only Ukrainians can answer”    https://therealnews.com/what-is-ukraine-is-a-question-only-ukrainians-can-answer

2022-03-11 BIG OIL DENOUNCED FOR ‘SHAMELESSLY’ PRICE-GOUGING AMID WAR IN UKRAINE  “Now more than ever, we can see why it is so essential to double down on our transition to renewable energy,” said Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee.  https://therealnews.com/big-oil-denounced-for-shamelessly-price-gouging-amid-war-in-ukraine

2022-03-11 Facebook Says It’s OK to Kill Russians    Normally when the U.S. and its allies are involved in a war they’ll at least pay lip service to the notion that they have nothing but good will for the people of the enemy nation.    Reuters reports that Facebook and Instagram are now allowing calls for the death of Russians and Russian leaders in exemption from the platforms’ hate speech terms of service due to the war in Ukraine.     [In response, Russia has launched a criminal investigation of Meta, CNN reports.]    Twitter has also altered its rules against incitement and death threats in the case of Russian leaders and military personnel, as Ben Norton explains here for Multipolarista.   Last month we also learned that Facebook is now allowing users to praise the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov Battalion because of the war, a move that is arguably the most liberal thing that has ever happened.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/11/caitlin-johnstone-facebook-says-its-ok-to-kill-russians/

2022-03-11 The West’s Hands in Ukraine as Bloody as Putin’s    Jonathan Cook confronts the demand throughout the Western press and social media to not only “condemn” the Russian president, but do so without qualification.     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/11/the-wests-hands-in-ukraine-as-bloody-as-putins/

2022-03-11 On a Knife’s Edge in Ukraine    The settlement of the Ukraine war or its escalation to a NATO-Russia conflict with all that entails comes down to how far Ukraine will go to get the Western alliance involved in its war, writes Joe Lauria.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/11/on-a-knifes-edge-in-ukraine/

2022-03-10 FIFA’S HYPOCRISY IN PALESTINE AND UKRAINE  https://therealnews.com/fifas-hypocrisy-in-palestine-and-ukraine

2202-03-10 Ukraine War: Russia, the United States, and the Nature of Imperialism  https://www.liberationnews.org/ukraine-war-russia-the-united-states-and-the-nature-of-imperialism/

2022-03-10 As Gov’t Sends Billions to Ukraine, Millions of US Children are Being Pushed into Horrible Poverty   https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/as-govt-sends-billions-to-ukraine-millions-of-us-children-are-being-pushed-into-horrible-poverty.html

2022-03-10 Russia To Ban Fertilizer Exports To “Not Friendly” Countries; China Warns US Against Retaliation   https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/russia-to-ban-fertilizer-exports-to-not-friendly-countries-china-warns-us-against-retaliation.html

2022-03-10 When Did the Ukraine War Begin?   https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/10/when-did-the-ukraine-war-begin/

2022-03-10 The AFL-CIO’s Nazi Friendly Union in Ukraine   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/10/the-afl-cios-nazi-friendly-union-in-ukraine/

2022-03-10 Why Rep. Thomas Massie stood against “stand with Ukraine” resolution    https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/10/thomas-massie-ukraine-resolution/

2022-03-10 VIDEO: Congress screws American workers to escalate war on Russia    https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/10/congress-american-workers-war-russia/

2022-03-10 In praise of “whataboutism” (The charge is meant to censor the speaker, excuse U.S. actions, and defend its human rights violations.)   http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35073

2022-03-10 Understanding the war in Ukraine   http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35071

2022-03-10 Why don’t we treat all refugees as though they were Ukrainian?  http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35069

2022-03-10 Debates on the War in Ukraine   https://www.leftvoice.org/debates-on-the-war-in-ukraine/

2022-03-10 The West’s Hands in Ukraine Are as Bloody as Putin’s   https://www.mintpressnews.com/wests-hands-ukraine-bloody-putins/279897/

2022-03-10 Take action: We need tools to meaningfully end war in Ukraine, not more weapons  https://www.afsc.org/action/take-action-we-need-tools-to-meaningfully-end-war-ukraine-not-more-weapons

2022-03-10 You Are Also a Victim of War     “The top officials of the leading NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organisation] countries have made aggressive statements against our country,” Putin said. Therefore, he told his top officials “to transfer the deterrence forces of the Russian army to a special mode of combat duty.”   The last phrase, reasonably cloaked in bureaucratic language, means that Russia’s nuclear arsenal will move to high alert. Meanwhile, Russian forces appeared to have seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Early reports that the power plant was on fire were false, although it was sufficiently chilling to hear that there had been fighting at the site.  More than 90 percent of the world’s 12,700 nuclear weapons are owned by the United States and Russia; the rest are found in seven other countries. About 2,000 of these warheads – held by the U.S., Russia, Britain and France – are on perpetual high alert, which means that they are ready to be used at a moment’s notice.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/10/you-are-also-a-victim-of-war-like-us/

2022-03-10 Propaganda Shapes the Past, Present & Future   Lawrence Davidson examines how indoctrination from previous eras is being resurrected around two crises — U.S. curricula and foreign policy — with debate raging around one and largely absent from the other.   There is a famous quote from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, that goes, “those who control the present control the past and those who control the past control the future.” This process is achieved by substituting propaganda for reality. In so doing, thinking is bound to present culturally acceptable storylines that support official views of the past and are designed to carry on into the future.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/10/propaganda-shapes-the-past-present-future/

2022-03-09 Embargo on Russian oil gives gift to energy corporations, deals blow to hopes for peace    https://www.liberationnews.org/embargo-on-russian-oil-gives-gift-to-energy-corporations-deals-blow-to-hopes-for-peace/

2022-03-09 Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem  https://www.blackagendareport.com/russia-ukraine-and-race-problem

2022-03-09 Ukraine building a nuclear bomb? Dangerous nonsense.  https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/ukraine-building-a-nuclear-bomb-dangerous-nonsense/

2022-03-09 In Ukraine, US-military-linked labs could provide fodder for Russian disinformation  https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/in-ukrainian-cities-under-russian-attack-us-linked-research-labs-could-provide-fodder-for-future-russian-disinformation/

2022-03-09 Understanding the War in Ukraine   https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/understanding-the-war-in-ukraine/

2022-03-09 One Ukraine or Two?  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/09/one-ukraine-or-two/

2022-03-09 The Bunker: Moscow’s MIA Military Might   https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2022/03/the-bunker-moscows-mia-military-might/

2022-03-09 Shunning Russia, EU snuggles up to Israel’s killer cops   https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/shunning-russia-eu-snuggles-israels-killer-cops

2022-03-09 Ukraine faces defeat?  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/09/ukraine-faces-defeat/

2022-03-09 Victoria Nuland declares US is protecting ‘biological research facilities’ in Ukraine  https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/09/victoria-nuland-us-biological-research-facilities-ukraine/

2022-03-09 Ukraine: A conflict soaked in contradictions and new patterns in war and media  http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35061

2022-03-09 The war-profiteering gangsters will kill us all unless we unite against them    http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/35051

2022-03-09 Back to the Cold War? An interview with Sergey Radchenko   A leading historian reflects on how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have been prevented, and the prospects for wider conflict  https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/new-cold-war-russia-ukraine-sergey-radchenko/

2022-03-09 There Is No Wisdom in Pretending That Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis Don’t Exist     The troubling history and dangerous U.S. relationship with the Azov Battalion and other extreme right-wing groups in Ukraine cannot be forgotten.  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/09/there-no-wisdom-pretending-ukraines-neo-nazis-dont-exist

2022-03-09 ARMS FLOOD INTO UKRAINE AS US, NATO PURSUE PROXY WAR OVER PEACE  The strategy significantly expands the growth prospects for military companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.  In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country has been flooded with weapons and military hardware from Europe and North America.  https://shadowproof.com/2022/03/09/arms-flood-ukraine-us-nato-pursue-proxy-war-over-peace/

2022-03-09 Worthy & Unworthy Victims   The life of a Palestinian or an Iraqi child is as precious as the life of a Ukrainian child. No one should live in fear and terror. No one should be sacrificed on the altar of Mars.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/09/chris-hedges-worthy-unworthy-victims/

2022-03-08 The war in Ukraine and ways of seeing  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/08/the-war-in-ukraine-and-ways-of-seeing/

2022-03-08 When Did the Ukraine War Begin?    https://www.blackagendareport.com/when-did-ukraine-war-begin

2022-03-08 CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Ukraine Crisis Fueled by U.S. and NATO Expansion  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/08/covertaction-bulletin-podcast-ukraine-crisis-fueled-by-u-s-and-nato-expansion/

2022-03-08 Understanding the War in Ukraine  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/08/understanding-the-war-in-ukraine/

2022-03-08 Ukrainian government refuses Russia’s offer to evacuate civilians trapped in war zones as humanitarian situation worsens   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/08/ukrainian-government-refuses-russias-offer-to-evacuate-civilians-trapped-in-war-zones-as-humanitarian-situation-worsens/

2022-03-08 The UK’s inaction is to blame for the spiralling energy crisis – not Russia    Rising energy prices will hit the most vulnerable unless the government takes action to end reliance on gas and build for a sustainable future https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/the-uks-inaction-is-to-blame-for-the-spiralling-energy-crisis-not-russia/

2022-03-08 ABBY MARTIN: HOW THE MEDIA MANUFACTURES ‘BLOODLUST’ FOR WAR   Just like in the dark days after 9/11, corporate media have responded to the war in Ukraine with a craven ‘bloodlust’ that is making all of us less safe.   https://therealnews.com/abby-martin-how-the-media-manufactures-bloodlust-for-war

2022-03-08 In These Days of Great Tension    Rather than allow this war to escalate and for positions to harden, it is important for the guns to go silent and the discussions to recommence. writes Vijay Prashad.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/08/in-these-days-of-great-tension/   

2022-03-08 The Casualties of Empire   Diabolic methods of propaganda and perception management are at work now that have no precedent. This is war waged in a new way — against domestic populations as well as those declared as enemies.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/08/patrick-lawrence-the-casualties-of-empire/

2022-03-08 The War-Torn & Dispossessed Worldwide   Arbitrary borders, miserly aid and cruel policies ensure that those most victimized by conflict will remain adrift, writes Nick Turse.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/08/the-war-torn-dispossessed-worldwide/

2022-03-07 The War In Ukraine Is Going To Trigger The Biggest Global Food Crisis That Any Of Us Have Ever Seen   https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/the-war-in-ukraine-is-going-to-trigger-the-biggest-global-food-crisis-that-any-of-us-have-ever-seen.html

2022-03-07 “Phone Hasn’t Stopped Ringing” — The World’s Ultra Rich Are Panic Buying Doomsday Bunkers   https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/phone-hasnt-stopped-ringing-the-worlds-ultra-rich-are-panic-buying-doomsday-bunkers.html

2022-03-07 The Ukraine War and the “Good” Refugee   https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/07/the-ukraine-war-and-the-good-refugee/

2022-03-07 The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War    https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/07/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-a-planetary-crisis-provoked-by-the-u-s-that-threatens-nuclear-war/

2022-03-07 National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/07/national-endowment-for-democracy-deletes-records-of-funding-projects-in-ukraine/

2022-03-07 The Ukraine War Challenge to the US Antiwar Movement Hearing The Ukraine Crisis: Challenge to the US Antiwar Movement NO TO US/NATO WAR IN UKRAINE! No to NATO and NATO expansion! No war with Russia! No sanctions! Speakers: Joe Lombardo (UNAC), Patricia Gorky (ANSWER Coalition), Rhonda Ramiro (BAYAN USA), Jacqueline Luqman (Black Alliance for Peace), Rick Sterling (Task Force on the Americas, Veterans For Peace), Judy Greenspan (International Action Center), Jeff Macker (UNAC West Coast). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iuhAOrynGo

2022-03-07 Dutch universities boycott Russia, but bow to Israel lobby   https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/adri-nieuwhof/dutch-universities-boycott-russia-bow-israel-lobby

2022-03-07 By trying to sanction the whole world, Washington backs itself into a corner    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/07/by-trying-to-sanction-the-whole-world-washington-backs-itself-into-a-corner/

2022-03-07 Russia-Ukraine war: The real prize is cutting Germany off from China’s Eurasia plan  https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57028.htm

2022-03-07 Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine  https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57021.htm

2022-03-07 How Trade Unions Are Helping With Ukraine’s Humanitarian Crisis  https://portside.org/2022-03-07/how-trade-unions-are-helping-ukraines-humanitarian-crisis

2022-03-07 Omar Says Biden Visit to Saudi Arabia Over Oil Would Be ‘Wildly Immoral’    “Our response to Putin’s immoral war shouldn’t be to strengthen our relationship with the Saudis, who are currently causing the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet in Yemen,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar.   https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/07/omar-says-biden-visit-saudi-arabia-over-oil-would-be-wildly-immoral

2022-03-07 Why Binary Thinking on Russia’s Invasion Is a Losing Strategy     The invasion is posing a challenge for progressives and people on the left—particularly for those of us located in the U.S. As we work to stand with the peoples of Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Haiti, and many other places, we are also challenged to find ways to stand with the besieged people of Ukraine—who are facing an aggressor that is not the U.S.   Indeed, the story of how Russia came to invade Ukraine requires looking at what the U.S. and NATO have been doing in Europe over decades, and especially in  https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022/03/07/russia-ukraine-nato-military-war

2022-03-07 Pity the Nation    Fact-based arguments Scott Ritter made challenging the case for war against Iraq were effectively silenced. Today he sees the same template in play towards anyone challenging the dogma of “Putinism.”     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/07/pity-the-nation/

2022-03-07 A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War   An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/07/a-proposed-solution-to-the-ukraine-war/

2022-03-06 The Overton Window Is Being Shoved Toward Warmongering Extremism    https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/the-overton-window-is-being-shoved-toward-warmongering-extremism.html

2022-03-06 ROBERT PARRY: When US House Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/06/robert-parry-when-us-house-saw-ukraines-neo-nazis/ 

2022-03-06 Ending Ukraine Crisis and How U.S. Shock Therapy in Russia Enabled Putin  https://portside.org/2022-03-06/ending-ukraine-crisis-and-how-us-shock-therapy-russia-enabled-putin

2022-03-06 WATCH: Mearsheimer and McGovern on Ukraine    Prof. John Mearsheimer and ex-C.I.A. Russia specialist Ray McGovern discuss the Ukraine conflict and U.S. policy towards Moscow, presented by the Committee for the Republic in Washington.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/06/watch-mearsheimer-and-mcgovern-on-ukraine/

2022-03-06 ROBERT PARRY: When Western Media Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis      Emmanuel Macron said in a speech Wednesday it’s a lie that Russia is fighting Nazis in Ukraine. But in 2014, the BBC, the NYT, the Daily Telegraph and CNN — not just CN — reported on the Nazi threat.   Throughout the Ukraine crisis, the U.S. State Department and mainstream media have downplayed the role of neo-Nazis in the U.S.-backed Kiev regime, an inconvenient truth that is surfacing again as right-wing storm troopers fly neo-Nazi banners as they attack in the east  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/06/robert-parry-when-western-media-saw-ukraines-neo-nazis/

2022-03-05 “Brace for Rationing” – Food Crisis Escalates – EU Farmers Furious    https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/brace-for-rationing-food-crisis-escalates-eu-farmers-furious.html

2022-03-05 What led to the war in Ukraine?   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/05/what-led-to-the-war-in-ukraine/

2022-03-05 Mapping Faultlines: Is there scope for de-escalation?   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/05/mapping-faultlines-is-there-scope-for-de-escalation/

2022-03-05 Neither NATO nor Putin: How the U.S. Left is Getting Ukraine Wrong (authors seem intend to merely promote their ideology by smearing all others on the Left concerning the Russian-Ukraine War while deliberately ignoring U.S., NATO and Russian history that le to in the war)  https://www.leftvoice.org/neither-nato-nor-putin-how-the-u-s-left-is-getting-ukraine-wrong/

2022-03-05 ‘19th-century racism’ at Ukraine border  https://therealnews.com/19th-century-racism-at-ukraine-border

2022-03-05 War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth    Michael Brenner says the frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/05/war-conflict-enemies-of-truth/

2022-03-05 The Predictable Demise of RT America     The closure of RT’s operations in the U.S. might be an opportunity to build the global alternative media structures that are so desperately needed, writes Sam Husseini.     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/05/the-predictable-demise-of-rt-america/

2022-03-04 A Large-Scale False Flag Cyber Attack Is Now Imminent https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/a-large-scale-false-flag-cyber-attack-is-now-imminent.html

2022-03-04 As Ukrainians Get Killed and Displaced, Weapons Companies Reaping Record Profits Off Their Suffering  https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/as-ukrainians-get-killed-and-displaced-weapons-companies-reaping-record-profits-off-their-suffering.html

2022-03-04 These Countries Face Unprecedented Hunger Crises Due To The Ukraine War  https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/these-countries-face-unprecedented-hunger-crises-due-to-the-ukraine-war.html

2202-03-04 Calling Russia’s Attack ‘Unprovoked’ Lets US Off the Hook    https://fair.org/home/calling-russias-attack-unprovoked-lets-us-off-the-hook/

2022-03-04 Forever war in Ukraine or an end to the unipolar world?   https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/war-ukraine-unipolar-world/

2022-03-04 How Ukraine’s Jewish president Zelensky made peace with neo-Nazi paramilitaries on front lines of war with Russia  https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/04/nazis-ukrainian-war-russia/

2022-03-04 10 Questions about Russia, Ukraine and “World War  https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57019.htm

2022-03-04 Navigating our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine  https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57030.htm

2022-03-04 UKRAINE AND THE NEW AL QAEDA  https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-and-the-new-al-qaeda/

2022-03-04 CHRIS HEDGES: WAR PROFITEERS ARE FUELING THIS CRISIS  While debates about the war in Ukraine center on the motivations of Putin and NATO powers, the merchants of death profiting from war are—literally—making a killing.   https://therealnews.com/chris-hedges-war-profiteers-are-fueling-this-crisis

2022-03-04 OPINION | THE WESTERN LEFT DOESN’T UNDERSTAND PUTIN–OR THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE US   After Russia’s shelling of Kharkiv, the post-Soviet Left sees all too clearly what has been lacking from the West’s analysishttps://therealnews.com/opinion-the-western-left-doesnt-understand-putin-or-the-world-outside-the-us  

2022-03-04 WATCH: UN Security Council Meets Again on Ukraine    The council is discussing the latest events in Ukraine.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/04/watch-un-security-council-meets-again-on-ukraine/

2022-03-04 WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Ukraine Update[MEK1] [MEK2] ’    CN Live! was joined by Mark Sleboba in Moscow and Scott Ritter in the U.S. to discuss the current situation on the ground in Ukraine, and the economic and information war that is raging along with the guns.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/04/watch-cn-live-ukraine-update/

2022-03-04 John Mearsheimer Ukraine-Russia 2022 Analysis    This video contains only the highlights of John Mearsheimer’s Ukraine-Russia War 2022 Analysis.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6mw9U62ZJU

2022-03-03 US Put “Doomsday Plane” Into the Air This Week After Putin Nuclear Threat  https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/us-put-doomsday-plane-into-the-air-this-week-after-putin-nuclear-threat.html

2022-03-03 Ukraine War: Who’s to Blame and What’s the Solution? A Socialist View    https://www.liberationnews.org/ukraine-war-whos-to-blame-and-whats-the-solution-a-socialist-view/

2022-03-03 Hypocrisy Over Ukraine    https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/03/hypocrisy-over-ukraine/

2022-03-03 ACTION ALERT: NBC Off by 18 Years on US’s Last Use of Cluster Bombs   https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nbc-off-by-18-years-on-uss-last-use-of-cluster-bombs/

2022-03-03 Conflict between Russia and Ukraine may lead to global wheat shortage     https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/03/conflict-between-russia-and-ukraine-may-lead-to-global-wheat-shortage/

2022-03-03 Racism, hypocrisy, and lies: What to watch out for in Western media coverage of Ukraine  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/03/racism-hypocrisy-and-lies-what-to-watch-out-for-in-western-media-coverage-of-ukraine/

2022-03-03 Ukraine: A conflict soaked in contradictions and new patterns in war and media  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/03/ukraine-a-conflict-soaked-in-contradictions-and-new-patterns-in-war-and-media/

2022-03-03 By banning Russian media outlets, EU exposes its discomfort with alternative narratives of the Ukrainian crisis  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/03/by-banning-russian-media-outlets-eu-exposes-its-discomfort-with-alternative-narratives-of-the-ukrainian-crisis/   

2022-03-03 CLIMATE MOVEMENT ANNOUNCES GLOBAL RALLIES TO DEMAND END OF WAR IN UKRAINE   One climate activist in Ukraine called for people to take part in demonstrations “in support of peace everywhere without fossil fuels.” https://therealnews.com/climate-movement-announces-global-rallies-to-demand-end-of-war-in-ukraine

2022-03-03 UN SAYS 1 MILLION HAVE FLED UKRAINE SINCE START OF ‘SENSELESS WAR’   “Peace is the only way to halt this tragedy,” said the UN high commissioner for refugees  People fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine arrive in Slovakia     https://therealnews.com/un-says-1-million-have-fled-ukraine-since-start-of-senseless-war

2022-03-03 FROM THE EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTION TO RUSSIAN INVASION: HOW UKRAINE WAS RIPPED APART  A deeper look at the political history of Ukraine through recent decades shows how the country has been pulled apart in a geopolitical and macroeconomic tug of war   https://therealnews.com/from-the-euromaidan-revolution-to-russian-invasion-how-ukraine-was-ripped-apart

2022-03-03 Ukraine & Nukes   After a New York Times reporter grossly distorted what Putin and Zelensky have said and done about nuclear weapons, Steven Starr corrects the record and deplores Western media, in general, for misinforming  and leading the entire world in a dangerous direction.   Ukrainian Volodymyr  Zelensky’s recent statements at the Munich conference centered around the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which welcomed Ukraine’s accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in conjunction with Ukraine’s decision to return to Russia the nuclear weapons left on its territory by the Soviet Union.    In other words, the Budapest Memorandum was expressly about Ukraine giving up its nukes and not becoming a nuclear weapon state in the future. Zelensky’s speech at Munich made it clear that Ukraine was moving to repudiate the Budapest Memorandum; Zelensky essentially stated that Ukraine must be made a member of NATO, otherwise it would acquire nuclear weapons.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/03/ukraine-nukes/

2022-03-03 Freedom & Democracy Via Censorship     You’d think a free society would have no objection to people trying to learn about the other side of  a war in which NATO powers very plainly had a hand in starting.     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/03/caitlin-johnstone-freedom-democracy-via-censorship/

2022-03-03 Ban on Russian Cats     This is the extent of voluntary reaction to events in Ukraine.    The International Federation of Felines (FIFe) on Tuesday ordered a ban on the importation of Russian-bred cats, presumably anywhere in the world.   “No cat bred in Russia may be imported and registered in any FIFe pedigree book outside Russia, regardless of, which organization issued its pedigree,” the FIFe board said in a statement.   The board said the ban was imposed because of events in Ukraine:  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/03/ban-on-russian-cats/

2022-03-02 War and hollow promises: Biden’s State of the Union address  https://www.liberationnews.org/war-and-hollow-promises-bidens-state-of-the-union-address/

2022-03-02 Shippers Cut Off Russia – Wheat Price Explodes – Cyberattacks on Shipping  https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/shippers-cut-off-russia-wheat-price-explodes-cyberattacks-on-shipping.html

2022-03-02 For African and Colonized Peoples, to Understand Ukraine: De-center Europe and Focus on Imperialism  https://www.blackagendareport.com/african-and-colonized-peoples-understand-ukraine-de-center-europe-and-focus-imperialism 

2022-03-02 In Ukraine, U.S. Support for Self-determination is Both Political and Conditional  https://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-us-support-self-determination-both-political-and-conditional

2022-03-02 Ukraine Exposes White Supremacist Foreign Policy  https://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-exposes-white-supremacist-foreign-policy

2022-03-02 Ukraine: Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective    https://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-getting-it-right-revolutionary-pan-african-perspective

2022-03-02 Without Even Realizing How We Were Being Played. Could This Be Russiagate’s Checkmate?   https://www.blackagendareport.com/without-even-realizing-how-we-were-being-played-could-be-russiagates-checkmate

2022-03-02 US sanctions on Russia over Ukraine also target Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba  https://www.blackagendareport.com/us-sanctions-russia-over-ukraine-also-target-venezuela-nicaragua-cuba

2022-03-02 Ukraine War, US/West’s War Hypocrisies, and Quest for a Rule-based World – Can UN Help?  https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/ukraine-war-us-wests-war-hypocrisies-and-quest-for-a-rule-based-world-can-un-help/ 

2022-03-02 Ukraine updates:  Racism Against Students, Fake Video,  Mexico Declines To Join Anti-Russia Sanctions, Maduro Condemns Destabilizing Activities of U.S. and NATO, Poland and Bulgaria Deny Warplanes Supply to Ukraine, Ukraine Recalls Ambassadors,  China Suggests Russia and Ukraine Can Make Peace,  Iran’s Supreme Leader on Root Cause of Ukraine Crisis, India to Ship Record Wheat as Ukraine Crisis Upends Trade Flows, Chaos in Commodities,   ‘Moving, But Completely Fake’, Emergency Release of Crude Oil From U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve,  US Stocks Fall by 597 Points as Oil Prices Skyrocket https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/76722/

2022-03-02 Ukraine Maps Tell a Different Story Than Putin’s Claims    https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/02/ukraine-maps-tell-a-different-story-than-putins-claims/

2022-03-02 Syria’s War Comes to Ukraine    https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/02/syrias-war-comes-to-ukraine/

2022-03-02 The Bunker: Ukraine’s Lessons (So Far)  https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2022/03/the-bunker-ukraines-lessons-so-far/

2022-03-02 West intensifies economic warfare against Russia as military operation in Ukraine enters second week   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/02/west-intensifies-economic-warfare-against-russia-as-military-operation-in-ukraine-enters-second-week/ 

2022-03-02 Boycotting Russia compulsory, while boycotting Israel is punished   https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/boycotting-russia-compulsory-while-boycotting-israel-punished

2022-03-02 How to stop World War III  https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-stop-world-war-iii/34936

2022-03-02 It’s Different, They’re White: Media Ignore Conflicts Around the World to Focus on Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-russia-war-media-bias-study/279847/

2022-03-02 Tears for Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Arms for Saudis: The West’s Grotesque Double Standard  https://www.mintpressnews.com/tears-ukraine-russia-yawns-yemen-saudia-arabia-double-standard/279837/

2022-03-02 Stranded Indian students ‘watched as Ukrainian pets crossed border to safety’   African, Asian and Caribbean people said they had seen refugees being assaulted and others left needing emergency treatment for hypothermia  https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/stranded-indian-students-watched-as-ukrainian-pets-crossed-border-to-safety/

2022-03-02 HOW CAN WE FIGHT—HERE, NOW—TO STOP WAR AND AVOID NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE?   One week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, more people are dying and humanity is creeping closer to potential nuclear devastation. We need to do whatever we can to de-escalate and stop the bloodshed https://therealnews.com/how-can-we-fight-here-now-to-stop-war-and-avoid-nuclear-catastrophe

2022-03 02 The Russian Statelets in the Donbas Are No “People’s Republics”   Vladimir Putin claims to be defending populations in the Donbas. In fact, the Kremlin-controlled statelets there are dominated by military rule and repression of organized labor — a troubling indicator of the future Putin has in store for neighboring regions.  https://jacobinmag.com/2022/03/donbas-donetsk-luhansk-ukraine-russia-putin

2022-03-02 Putin: Crazy Like a Fox   Scott Ritter says the Russian president is working from a 2007 playbook, when he warned European leaders of the need for a new security framework to replace the system built by the U.S. and NATO.    The pro-Ukraine crowd has put forth a narrative constructed around the self-supporting themes of irrationality on the part of a Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and his post-Cold War fantasies of resurrecting the former Soviet Union.    This narrative ignores that, far from acting on a whim, the Russian president is working from a playbook that he initiated as far back as 2007, when he addressed the Munich Security Conference and warned the assembled leadership of Europe of the need for a new security framework to replace existing unitary system currently in place, built as it was around a trans-Atlantic alliance (NATO) led by the United States.  Moreover, far from seeking the reconstitution of the former Soviet Union, Putin is simply pursuing a post-Cold War system which protects the interests and security of the Russian people, including those who, through no fault of their own, found themselves residing outside the borders of Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/02/putin-crazy-like-a-fox/

2022-03-02 Munich Philharmonic Conductor Sacked for Remaining Silent    The esteemed Russian conductor was fired because he would not publicly condemn Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine. Rotterdam, Vienna, Carnegie Hall also let him go.  https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/02/munich-philharmonic-conductor-sacked-for-remaining-silent/

2022-03-02 How Can the War End?   [MEK Note:  The author starts with the assumption that the 2014 U.S. led coup, that NATO is not a serious threat to Russia, downplays 8 years of attacks against the Russian speaking Eastern Ukraine republics and the refusal of Ukraine to honor the Minsk agreement or negotiate any reasonable settlement has  not being legitimate reasons that forced Russia to invade.  He also assumes erroneously that Putin wants a regime change.]  NATO, rather than find Putin a ladder to climb down, the NATO leadership will strike heroic poses, wave Ukrainian flags and send more weapons.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/02/craig-murray-how-can-the-war-end/

2202-03-01 War Intensifies as Russia-Ukraine Negotiations Open   https://www.liberationnews.org/war-intensifies-as-russia-ukraine-negotiations-open/

2202-03-01 World’s Biggest Container Shippers Suspend Cargo Deliveries To And From Russia  https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/worlds-biggest-container-shippers-suspend-cargo-deliveries-to-and-from-russia.html

2202-03-01 If You’re Suddenly Yelling About Ukraine and Have Been Silent on Yemen — You’re Being Manipulated   https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/if-youre-suddenly-yelling-about-ukraine-and-have-been-silent-on-yemen-youre-being-manipulated.html

2022-03-01 “Breadbasket Of World” Choked Off By Russian Invasion As Wheat Prices Soar  https://www.activistpost.com/2022/03/breadbasket-of-world-choked-off-by-russian-invasion-as-wheat-prices-soar.html

2022-03-01 Ukraine – Sacrificial Lamb      https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/ukraine-sacrificial-lamb/

2022-03-01 Russia’s Use of Force against Ukraine    https://countercurrents.org/2022/03/russias-use-of-force-against-ukraine/

2022-03-01 Profile: Who are Ukraine’s far-right Azov regiment?  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment

2022-03-01 Respond to Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine With Diplomacy Not War   https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/01/respond-to-putins-invasion-of-ukraine-with-diplomacy-not-war/

2022-03-01 Repeating ’70s Strategy of Grand Chess-Master Brzezinski: Biden Appears to Have Induced Russian Invasion of Ukraine to Bankrupt Russia’s Economy and Advance Regime Change  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/01/repeating-70s-strategy-of-grand-chess-master-zbigniew-brzezinski-biden-administration-appears-to-have-induced-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-to-bankrupt-russias-economy-and-advance-regime-cha/

2022-03-01Understanding the conflict in Ukraine and perspectives for the anti-war movement    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/01/understanding-the-conflict-in-ukraine-and-perspectives-for-the-anti-war-movement/

2022-03-01 Ukraine sparks EU, US rush to Iran deal  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/03/01/ukraine-sparks-eu-us-rush-to-iran-deal/

2022-03-01 The U.S. Hypocrisy on Ukraine   https://progressive.org/latest/us-hypocrisy-on-ukraine-zunes-220301/

2022-03-01 RUSSIANS AGAINST WAR IN UKRAINE NEED INTERNATIONAL HELP  Russians who are protesting the war in Ukraine have been praised by the international community, but they cannot oppose Putin and confront Russia’s massive police apparatus alone.  https://therealnews.com/russians-against-war-in-ukraine-need-international-help

2022-03-01 AMID NUCLEAR CRISIS, US OFFICIALS RELUCTANT TO PURSUE CEASEFIRE IN RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR  The world is in a nuclear crisis, and instead of strongly supporting ceasefire talks to end the Russia-Ukraine war, Western countries are pouring gasoline on the fire.   https://shadowproof.com/2022/03/01/us-officials-reluctant-pursue-russia-ukraine-ceasefire/

2022-03-01 The Crisis in Ukraine: Major Challenge to the U.S. Antiwar Movement   The Ukraine crisis has taken its toll, at least for the moment, on the still modest forces of the U.S. and international antiwar movements, with two poles emerging with counterposed strategic conceptions. In the U.S. a growing minority, perhaps a majority, feels compelled to denounce with equal fervor both sides, Russia on the one, and US/NATO on the other.  In sharp contrast, organizations representing the major antiwar coalitions demand: “No to US/NATO War in Ukraine! No wars with Russia! No sanctions!  No to NATO and NATO expansion” – a central cause of the present crisis – and, “Fund human needs, education, housing, the environment & healthcare not war!”    https://socialistaction.org/2022/03/01/the-crisis-in-ukraine-major-challenge-to-the-u-s-antiwar-movement/

2022-03-01 Jail Time for Czechs Agreeing With Russian Intervention    The supreme state prosecutor’s office of the Czech Republic has warned Czech citizens that they can be imprisoned for agreeing with Russia’s military operation in Ukraine     https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/jail-time-for-czechs-agreeing-with-russian-intervention/

2022-03-01 The Single Most Important Question In The World Right Now     The more tense things get, the greater the likelihood of an unthinkable chain of events from which there is no coming back.   “Is what the U.S. and its allies are trying to accomplish in Ukraine worth continually risking nuclear armageddon for?”   Russian state media confirmed that Vladimir Putin’s orders to move the nation’s nuclear deterrent forces into “special combat duty mode” have been carried out, citing “aggressive statements from NATO related to the Russian military operation in Ukraine.”https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/caitlin-johnstone-the-single-most-important-question-in-the-world-right-now/

2022-03-01 White Ukrainian Refugees Accepted by Nations Who Shut Out Others     The country receiving the most so far is Poland, where over 280,000 people entered, according to a spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency.   Amid repeated calls for borders to be kept open to those fleeing Russia’s military attack, the United Nations refugee agency said Monday that more than 500,000 refugees have so far fled from Ukraine and crossed into neighboring countries.   The open doors some nations have offered the current wave of refugees has thrown into sharp relief the anti-migrant and anti-refugee sentiment and policies the same governments only recently put forth toward other groups fleeing conflict from the Middle East and Africa.   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/white-ukrainian-refugees-accepted-by-nations-who-shut-out-others/

2022-03-01 The Greatest Evil     Russia was baited into war but that does not absolve its criminal act of aggression.  Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is launched on the basis of lies and fabrications, as was the case in Iraq, or because of the breaking of a series of agreements with Russia, including the promise by Washington not to extend NATO beyond the borders of a unified Germany, not to deploy thousands of NATO troops in Eastern Europe, not to meddle in the internal affairs of nations on the Russia’s border and the refusal to implement the Minsk II peace agreement.    The invasion of Ukraine would, I expect, never have happened if these promises had been kept. Russia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed, and angry. But to understand is not to condone. The invasion of Ukraine, under post-Nuremberg laws, is a criminal war of aggression.   [Ed.: Russia says it intervened in the eight-year civil war in Ukraine to stop the massacre of ethnic Russians in Donbass led in part by openly neo-Nazi units.]   https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/chris-hedges-the-greatest-evil/

2022-03-01 Text of Putin’s Announcement of Military Action     Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday morning announced the start of military action in Ukraine. For information purposes only, we publish here the text of his address.    https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/01/text-of-putins-announcement-of-military-action/

2022-03-01 The Crisis in Ukraine: Major Challenge to the U.S. Antiwar Movement by Jeff Mackler. https://socialistaction.org/2022/03/01/the-crisis-in-ukraine-major-challenge-to-the-u-s-antiwar-movement/

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2022-02-28 Official statement: ‘Cuba advocates a solution that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all’    https://www.liberationnews.org/official-statement-cuba-advocates-a-solution-that-guarantees-the-security-and-sovereignty-of-all/

2022-02-28 Global Financial System on the Brink   https://www.activistpost.com/2022/02/global-financial-system-on-the-brink.html

2022-02-28 The Ukraine invasion highlights why Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review should endorse bold new vision for nuclear security  https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/the-ukraine-invasion-highlights-why-bidens-nuclear-posture-review-should-endorse-bold-new-vision-for-nuclear-security/

2022-02-28 The Ukraine Crisis: What You Need to Know You’ve no doubt heard the story of the crisis in Ukraine by now. But, as we’ve been told all our lives, there are two sides to every story. So, which side of the story have you heard?

There’s the MSM/establishment/dinosaur media side of the story. Let’s call it the “Team NATO” narrative. In this version of events, the bloodthirsty insane psychopathic literally Hitler leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin, woke up a few weeks ago and suddenly decided to invade the free, peaceful nation of Ukraine for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHATSOEVER!

And then there’s the “alternative” media side of the story. Let’s call it the “Team BRICS” narrative. In this version of the story, the valiant defender of human liberty, Vladimir Putin, is fighting to protect the free peoples of the world from the globalists and their sinister machinations. https://www.corbettreport.com/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need-to-know/

2022-02-28 15 Bad Ukraine Narratives   https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/28/fifteen-bad-ukraine-narratives/

2022-02-28 Crisis Over Ukraine: A Primer  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/28/crisis-over-ukraine-a-primer/

2022-02-28 Putin has Gambled Everything on His Snap-Invasion of Ukraine, Now His Political Survival in Russia is in Doubt   https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/28/putin-has-gambled-everything-on-his-snap-invasion-of-ukraine-now-his-political-survival-in-russia-is-in-doubt/

2022-02-28 The Ukraine Crisis: What You Need to Know  https://www.corbettreport.com/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need-to-know/

2022-02-28 Ukraine, Palestine and the propaganda of war  https://electronicintifada.net/content/ukraine-palestine-and-propaganda-war/34921

2022-02-28 Foreign Agents Designation Causes Media Cold War https://fair.org/home/foreign-agents-designation-causes-media-cold-war/

2022-02-28 Political economy of the conflict in Ukraine  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/28/political-economy-of-the-conflict-in-ukraine/

2022-02-28 Russia-Ukraine talks begin in Belarus amid growing international pressure on Russia    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/28/russia-ukraine-talks-begin-in-belarus-amid-growing-international-pressure-on-russia/ 

2022-02-28 The Ukraine Crisis with Dan Cohen and Scott Ritter   https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-crisis-dan-cohen-scott-ritter/279819/

2022-02-28 Critics Denounce Racist Double Standard of Western Media’s Ukraine Coverage   “If your response to war in Ukraine is ‘they’re just like us,’ remember that so are the people of Yemen, Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine,” said one British lawmaker.https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/28/critics-denounce-racist-double-standard-western-medias-ukraine-coverage

2022-02-28 ‘THE WHOLE WORLD ORDER IS BEING RESTRUCTURED RIGHT NOW’   Many never expected that Russian troops would invade Ukraine until the moment it happened, but the reality of war means the geopolitical security arrangement is being redrawn in real time.  https://therealnews.com/the-whole-world-order-is-being-restructured-right-now

2022-02-28 Mainstream media opposes military aggression — unless the U.S. is doing it    Suddenly the media is concerned about international law and imperialist war. Fair enough — but look closer to home.    Having worked inside mainstream U.S. media during the beginning of the “War on Terror” and run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the differences in today’s war coverage are dizzying to me.    https://rootsaction.org/news-a-views/2728-mainstream-media-opposes-military-aggression–unless-the-us-is-doing-it

2022-02-28 Thoughts on the present crisis in Ukraine    In 2013, the president of Ukraine was Viktor Yanukovych.  He was a leader of the largest party in Ukraine called the Party of Regions, which generally wanted better relations with Russia.  The US and its European allies did not want Ukraine to have good relations with Russia and the US poured 5 billion dollars into Ukraine to support hundreds of NGO’s to move the country more towards the US and the West.  https://socialistaction.org/2022/02/28/thoughts-on-the-present-crisis-in-ukraine/

2022-02-28 Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Demonstrates Our Need to Break Away From Oil    We can’t let the war justify an expansion of our fossil fuel dependence.   https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2022/02/28/ukraine-russia-fossil-fuels-oil

2022-02-27 WEBINAR: Ukraine — Questions for the U.S. Anti-War Movement   https://www.liberationnews.org/webinar-ukraine-questions-for-the-u-s-anti-war-movement/

2022-02-27 Pope, Putin and Ukraine in crisis  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/27/pope-putin-and-ukraine-in-crisis/

2022-02-27 Hedges: The Greatest Evil Is War   Russia was baited into war but that does not absolve its criminal act of aggression.   https://scheerpost.com/2022/02/27/hedges-the-greatest-evil-is-war/

2022-02-26 Dozens turn out to hear activist Juliana Musheyev speak against war with Russia    https://www.liberationnews.org/dozens-turn-out-to-hear-anti-war-activist-juliana-musheyev-speak-against-war-with-russia/

2022-02-26 Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s “regime change” in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences, wrote Robert Parry on July 13, 2015. As the Ukrainian army squares off against ultra-right and neo-Nazi militias in the west and violence against ethnic Russians continues in the east, the obvious folly of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy has come into focus even for many who tried to ignore the facts, or what you might call “the mess that Victoria Nuland made.”

Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs “Toria” Nuland was the “mastermind” behind the Feb. 22, 2014 “regime change” in Ukraine, plotting the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych while convincing the ever-gullible U.S. mainstream media that the coup wasn’t really a coup but a victory for “democracy.” https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/

2022-02-26 ROBERT PARRY: Playing Nuclear Chicken Over Ukraine   https://labourheartlands.com/robert-parry-playing-nuclear-chicken-over-ukraine/

2022-02-25 Canada and Ukraine https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/25/canada-and-ukraine/

2022-02-25 What’s Happening in Ukraine? – Questions For Corbett (video)   https://www.corbettreport.com/whats-happening-in-ukraine-questions-for-corbett-video/

2022-02-25 Chris Hedges: Russia, Ukraine and the Chronicle of a War Foretold  https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-ukraine-soviet-union-russia-war/279793/

2022-02-25 Russian Troops Close In on Kyiv as Zelensky Warns of Assassination   “Ukraine has always left and leaves room for negotiations. Including now—even after Russia launched a full-scale invasion. This war must be stopped,” said an adviser to Ukraine’s president. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/25/russian-troops-close-kyiv-zelensky-warns-assassination

2022-02-24 PSL Statement on Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine  https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-on-russias-military-intervention-in-ukraine/

2022-02-24 Russia Invades Ukraine, Why?    https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/24/russia-invades-ukraine-why/

2022-02-24 What’s Happening in Ukraine? – Questions For Corbett #084    https://www.corbettreport.com/qfc084-ukraine/

2022-02 24 In Ukraine, ‘No One Hears That There Is a Diplomatic Solution’   https://fair.org/home/in-ukraine-no-one-hears-that-there-is-a-diplomatic-solution/

2022-02-24 Russian troops enter Ukraine after Putin announces “special operations”    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/24/russian-troops-enter-ukraine-after-putin-announces-special-operations/

2022-02-24 The invasion of Ukraine must be stopped – but U.S. military aid is not the answer    https://www.afsc.org/newsroom/invasion-ukraine-must-be-stopped-us-military-aid-not-answer

2022-02-23 Crisis in Ukraine https://www.liberationnews.org/crisis-in-ukraine/   

2022-02-23 Why the Russian Federation Recognized the Independence Movements in the Donbas   https://www.blackagendareport.com/why-russian-federation-recognized-independence-movements-donbas

2022-02-23 GLEN FORD: U.S. Prepares to Gas Russia Into Submission, March 20, 2014   https://www.blackagendareport.com/glen-ford-us-prepares-gas-russia-submission-march-20-2014

2022-02-23 NATO’s Ukraine Playbook Resonates Traditional Imperialism https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/natos-ukraine-playbook-resonates-traditional-imperialism/

2022-02-23 Putin’s Advance Into Ukraine Compares with Saddam Hussein’s Invasion of Kuwait…a Disaster for Russia  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/23/putins-advance-into-ukraine-compares-with-saddam-husseins-invasion-of-kuwait-a-disaster-for-russia/

2022-02-23 Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine      https://fair.org/home/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-neo-nazi-publicity-stunt-in-ukraine/

2022-02-23 With Putin’s Ukraine Incursion, Hawks in Washington Got Exactly What They Wanted    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/02/with-putins-ukraine-incursion-hawks-in-washington-got-exactly-what-they-wanted

2022-02-22 PSL statement: NATO expansion must end to guarantee peace in Ukraine  https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-nato-expansion-must-end-to-guarantee-peace-in-ukraine/

2022-02-22 Documents Reveal US Gov’t Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad   https://www.blackagendareport.com/documents-reveal-us-govt-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine-and-abroad

2022-02-22 War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda  https://www.blackagendareport.com/war-europe-and-rise-raw-propaganda

2022-02-22 Ukraine crisis highlights West’s hypocrisy over Israeli land theft   https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/ukraine-crisis-highlights-wests-hypocrisy-over-israeli-land-theft

2022-02-22What are the Minsk agreements and what are their role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/22/what-are-the-minsk-agreements-and-what-are-their-role-in-the-russia-ukraine-crisis/

2022-02-22 ‘War Between Nuclear-Armed Powers Is Not an Option’: Calls for Diplomacy Surge  “De-escalation and diplomacy are the only way to secure peace,” said British MP Jeremy Corbyn. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/22/war-between-nuclear-armed-powers-not-option-calls-diplomacy-surge

2022-02-22 Putin is about to start the most senseless war in history   A view from Russia: no sanctions will stop Moscow, and its actions will drive more countries into NATO’s arms   https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-ukraine-most-senseless-war-nato-history/?

2022-02-22 US Gas Exporters Set to Benefit After Germany Halts Russian Pipeline    “There are always those who will want to profit from war or the threat of war, as unscrupulous as it may seem,” said one critic. “And for the American oil and gas industry there is no exception.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/02/22/us-gas-exporters-set-benefit-after-germany-halts-russian-pipeline

2022-02-21 Sacramento groups gather to denounce Washington’s warmongering over Ukraine  https://www.liberationnews.org/sacramento-groups-gather-to-denounce-washingtons-warmongering-over-ukraine%ef%bf%bc/

2022-02-21 U.S. Labor Leaders Statement on Ukraine Crisis https://portside.org/2022-02-21/us-labor-leaders-statement-ukraine-crisis

2022-02-20 San Diego activists rally to demand ‘No War with Russia!’     https://www.liberationnews.org/san-diego-activists-rally-to-demand-no-war-with-russia/

2022-02-20 Today’s Crisis Over Ukraine   https://portside.org/2022-02-20/todays-crisis-over-ukraine

2022-02-18 Ukraine crisis escalates after U.S. swats away Russian olive branch    https://www.liberationnews.org/ukraine-crisis-escalates-after-u-s-swats-away-russian-olive-branch/

2022-02-18 What Is Going to Happen in Ukraine?  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/18/what-is-going-to-happen-in-ukraine/

2022-02-18 Bryce Greene on Ukraine  https://fair.org/home/bryce-greene-on-ukraine/

2022-02-18 Documents Reveal US Gov’t Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad   https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-us-ned-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine/279734/

2022-02-17 Peace is Possible: The Solution to the Crisis in Ukraine https://www.liberationnews.org/peace-is-possible-the-solution-to-the-crisis-in-ukraine/

2022-02-17 The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It’s About Germany  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57002.htm

2022-02-16 Ukraine: The Tip of the Spear for the Imperialist Project  https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-the-tip-of-the-spear-for-the-imperialist-project/

2022-02-15 Los Angeles activists join national day of action to say, ‘No war with Russia’    https://www.liberationnews.org/los-angeles-activists-join-national-day-of-action-to-say-no-war-with-russia/

2022-02-15 VIDEO: Russian UN ambassador responds to US ‘war propaganda’ in interview w/Grayzone    https://thegrayzone.com/2022/02/15/russian-un-ambassador-us-war-propaganda-grayzone/

2022-02-14 Ukraine and the Dangerous Munich Analogy   https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/14/ukraine-and-the-dangerous-munich-analogy/

2022-02-14 History Matters: Peter Kuznick on US/NATO Tensions, Russia/Ukraine, and Avoiding Catastrophic War  https://www.projectcensored.org/history-matters-peter-kuznick-on-us-nato-tensions-russia-ukraine-and-avoiding-catastrophic-war/

2022-02-13 British Government Laundered Fake U.S. ‘Intelligence’ On Ukraine   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56993.htm

2022-02-12 US war hysteria over Ukraine won’t gel     https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/12/us-war-hysteria-over-ukraine-wont-gel/

2022-02-12 THERE’S STILL TIME FOR THE US TO AVOID A CATASTROPHIC WAR WITH RUSSIA IN UKRAINE  As we teeter on the precipice of war, more than 100 national and regional organizations have called on President Biden “to end the US role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine.” https://therealnews.com/theres-still-time-for-the-us-to-avoid-a-catastrophic-war-with-russia-in-ukraine

2022-02-11 The War in Ukraine Will Not Take Place: The New Cold War as Simulacra  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/11/the-war-in-ukraine-will-not-take-place-the-new-cold-war-as-simulacra/

2022-02-11 Polling on Issues People Know Little About Creates Illusion of Public Opinion    https://fair.org/home/polling-on-issues-people-know-little-about-creates-illusion-of-public-opinion/

2022-02-10 A Ukrainian Sociologist Explains Why Everything You Know About Ukraine Is Probably Wrong   https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/02/us-russia-nato-donbass-maidan-minsk-war 

2022-02-08 Memo to Congress: Diplomacy for Ukraine Is Spelled M-i-n-s-k     https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/memo-to-congress-diplomacy-for-ukraine-is-spelled-m-i-n-s-k/

2022-02-08 The Senate’s Ukraine Bill Will Flood the Country With US Arms   https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/02/senate-ukraine-bill-russia-us-weapons-military-arms-bipartisan-pentagon

2022-02-07 VIDEO: Stop the war with Russia over Ukraine — national online rally    https://www.liberationnews.org/video-stop-the-war-with-russia-over-ukraine-national-online-rally/

2022-02-07 Times Square action says: ‘Fight racism, not Russia!’   https://www.liberationnews.org/times-square-action-saysfight-racism-not-russia/

2022-02-07 Communists urge for peaceful resolution of Ukraine-Russia conflict; slam US-led war mongering  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/07/communists-urge-for-peaceful-resolution-of-ukraine-russia-conflict-slam-us-led-war-mongering/

2022-02-07 A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea

2022-02-06 Protest outside White House joins 55+ cities demanding ‘No war on Russia! Disband NATO!’  https://www.liberationnews.org/protest-outside-white-house-demands-no-war-on-russia-disband-nato/

2022-02-06 United against U.S. aggression: What’s behind the Xi-Putin summit?  https://www.liberationnews.org/united-against-u-s-aggression-whats-behind-the-xi-putin-summit/

2022-02-04 MintPress Study: NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia Over Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/279612-2/279612/

2022-02-03 Ukraine crisis: ‘The U.S. is climbing the escalation ladder’    https://www.liberationnews.org/ukraine-crisis-the-u-s-is-climbing-the-escalation-ladder/

2022-02-03 Ukraine Crisis      https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/ukraine-crisis/

2022-02-03 Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/03/pipeline-politics-hits-multipolar-realities-nord-stream-2-and-the-ukraine-crisis/     

2022-02-02 Crisis or Confusion? A Brief Guide for Black Folk on the Situation in Ukraine  https://www.blackagendareport.com/crisis-or-confusion-brief-guide-black-folk-situation-ukraine

2022-02-02 The U.S. Black Political Class and War    https://www.blackagendareport.com/us-black-political-class-and-war

2022-02-02 America Is Reaping What It Sowed in Ukraine   https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/02/america-is-reaping-what-it-sowed-in-ukraine/

2022-02-02 In the Line of Eternal Fire: Ukraine’s Nuclear Reactors  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/02/in-the-line-of-eternal-fire-ukraines-nuclear-reactors/

2022-02-01 Russia Gains Much From Threats to Invade Ukraine, But Knows That Actually Doing So Would be a Disaster  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/01/russia-gains-much-from-threats-to-invade-ukraine-but-knows-that-actually-doing-so-would-be-a-disaster/

2022-02-01 Russia accuses US and NATO of provoking war in Ukraine    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/01/russia-accuses-us-and-nato-of-provoking-war-in-ukraine/

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2022-01-31 Stop the war posturing – Ukraine is a tinderbox    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/31/stop-the-war-posturing-ukraine-is-a-tinderbox/

2022-01-31 Progressive sections in Czech Republic protest plans to dispatch ammunition to Ukraine  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/31/progressive-sections-in-czech-republic-protest-plans-to-dispatch-ammunition-to-ukraine/

2022-01-31 Mapping Faultlines: Ukraine dials down war talk    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/01/31/mapping-faultlines-ukraine-dials-down-war-talk/

2022-01-29 Emergency rally at White House demands ‘No War with Russia,’ NATO be disbanded    https://www.liberationnews.org/emergency-rally-at-white-house-demands-no-war-with-russia-nato-be-disbanded/

2022-01-28 It’s Time to Roll Back NATO Itself – Larry Wilkerson Let’s just look at what we’re talking about. The essence of NATO, it’s very raison d’être. It’s difference. Its reason for being the most successful political and military alliance, arguably in history, is article five: an attack on one is an attack on all. That was unprecedented when it was done. It made people in Congress, especially the Senate; it made people like Dean Acheson and others stand up on their hind legs and tiptoes because no one had ever done anything like that.

Look at what we’ve done. We’ve gone to war with NATO in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya. Where was article five? Well, I’ll tell you, it was nonexistent. The NATO alliance is defunct, and we are desperately— we being principally Washington— trying to resurrect it. And we’re trying to resurrect it on out of area operations and, more importantly, on expansion. The more members, the more it seems relevant. https://theanalysis.news/its-time-to-roll-back-nato-itself-larry-wilkerson/

2022-01-28 What You Should Really Know About Ukraine   https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/

2022-01-28 From Ukraine to Yemen, US arms industry reaps the spoils of war    https://thegrayzone.com/2022/01/28/from-ukraine-to-yemen-us-arms-industry-reaps-the-spoils-of-war/

2022-01-28 Media Beats War Drums with Russia Over Ukraine While US/Saudis Kill Hundreds in Yemen    https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-war-drums-russia-ukraine-us-saudi-arabia-yemen/279574/

2022-01-28 THE US AND RUSSIA MAY BLUFF THEIR WAY INTO A WAR NEITHER IS PREPARED FOR   With each country embroiled in their own respective bouts of political and economic turmoil and jockeying for position on a changing geopolitical stage, Russia, Ukraine, and the US may be saber-rattling and bluffing their way into a war no one wants.  https://therealnews.com/the-us-and-russia-may-bluff-their-way-into-a-war-neither-is-prepared-for

2022-01-27 Ukraine 2022: An Avoidable Train Wreck?  https://prospect.org/world/ukraine-2022-an-avoidable-train-wreck/

2022-02-27 Europe for Peace. Stop the war in Ukraine   https://portside.org/2022-01-27/europe-peace-stop-war-ukraine

2022-01-26 PSL Statement: No War on Russia! Abolish NATO!     https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-no-war-on-russia-abolish-nato/

2022-01-26 U.S. Imperialism: Addicted to War & Militarism   https://www.liberationnews.org/u-s-imperialism-addicted-to-war-militarism-2/

2022-01-26 Ukraine and U.S. War Propaganda  https://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-and-us-war-propaganda

2022-01-26 Endless War is the Empire’s Last Dance  https://www.blackagendareport.com/endless-war-empires-last-dance

2202-01-26 Ukraine as Game Board  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/26/ukraine-as-game-board/

2202-01-26 Biden’s Escalation With Russia Over Ukraine Is a Terrible Idea    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/putin-nato-us-war-donbass-minsk-2 

2022-01-25 Right on NATO’s doorstep?   https://www.liberationnews.org/right-on-natos-doorstep/

2022-01-25 Isn’t It Obvious? Observations on the Ukraine “Crisis”  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/25/isnt-it-obvious-observations-on-the-ukraine-crisis/

2022-01-25 Ukraine: Dangerous Dance of Military-Industrial Complex – Paul Jay Great powers, especially the Americans, believe prestige and “strategic power,” in other words a pissing match, is worth sending other people’s kids to die for. This is a fight between the oligarchs on all sides. They will all find ways to make money out of the tension, even if they are playing with nuclear fire.  https://theanalysis.news/ukraine-dangerous-dance-of-military-industrial-complex-paul-jay/

2202-01-25 STRIPPING AWAY THE BULLS**T: U.S. and Russian Threats Over Ukraine—What They’re About and Who’s the Aggressor   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/01/25/stripping-away-the-bullst-u-s-and-russian-threats-over-ukraine-what-theyre-about-and-whos-the-aggressor/ 

2022-01-24 US and UK escalate Russia war fever, but NATO splits over Ukraine emerge   https://thegrayzone.com/2022/01/24/us-and-uk-escalate-russia-war-fever-but-nato-splits-over-ukraine-emerge/

***2021-01-19 HYPOCRITICAL SCOLDING WON’T STOP A RUSSIAN WAR ON UKRAINE  https://fpif.org/russia-is-wrong-to-bully-ukraine-but-its-not-worth-a-war/

2022-01-18 Bill Clinton’s Role in the Crisis Over Ukraine    https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/18/bill-clintons-role-in-the-crisis-over-ukraine/

2022-01-15 Hawkish Pundits Downplay Threat of War, Ukraine’s Nazi Ties  https://fair.org/home/hawkish-pundits-downplay-threat-of-war-ukraines-nazi-ties/

2022-01-12 US War Lobby Fuels Conflict in Russia, Ukraine, and Syria: Ex-Pentagon Advisor https://www.blackagendareport.com/us-war-lobby-fuels-conflict-russia-ukraine-and-syria-ex-pentagon-advisor

2022-01-12 Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the Policies of the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination in Ukraine  https://www.blackagendareport.com/black-alliance-peace-condemns-policies-useunato-axis-domination-ukraine

2022-01-11 “Expect Escalation of Conflict in Donbass and Ukraine Soon,” Says Foreign Correspondent   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/01/11/expect-escalation-of-conflict-in-donbass-and-ukraine-soon-says-foreign-correspondent-embedded-in-ukrainian-anti-fascist-brigade/

2022-01-07 Six Things the Media Won’t Tell You About Ukraine    https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/07/six-things-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-ukraine/

2022-01-06 US war lobby fuels conflict in Russia, Ukraine, and Syria: ex-Pentagon advisor   https://thegrayzone.com/2022/01/06/us-war-lobby-fuels-conflict-in-russia-ukraine-and-syria-ex-pentagon-advisor/

2022-01-05 Ukraine: What Does it Have to Do with Black Folks?   https://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-what-does-it-have-do-black-folks

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2021-12-30 Why is Biden Pushing Putin on Ukraine? – Larry Wilkerson  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56950.htm

2021-12-30 Neocons bent on starting another disaster in Ukraine  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56952.htm

2021-12-27 Nuclear War is the Most Urgent Threat – Andrew Cockburn pt 2/2 While climate change is an existential threat, the more immediate danger is nuclear war which would end human life on earth. Both must be averted. Andrew Cockburn joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news https://theanalysis.news/nuclear-war-is-the-most-urgent-threat-andrew-cockburn-pt-2/

2021-12-24 Failure of US media on Ukraine   https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/failure-of-us-media-on-ukraine/ 

2021-12-21 Risking Apocalypse for the Spoils of War – Andrew Cockburn pt 1/2 More than effective weapons, geopolitics or national defense, profit and massive budgets drive U.S. military and nuclear weapons spending. Andrew Cockburn joins Paul Jay to discuss his new book “Spoils of War”. https://theanalysis.news/risking-apocalypse-for-the-spoils-of-war-andrew-cockburn-pt-1/

2021-12-20 Mapping Faultlines: NATO remains aggressive on Ukraine, Russia draws red lines  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/20/mapping-faultlines-nato-remains-aggressive-on-ukraine-russia-draws-red-lines/

2021-12-20 U.S. Proxy War Against Russia in Ukraine: The Afghanistan-Syria Redux Option    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56939.htm

2021-12-17 U.S. And Ukraine, Only Two Countries Vote Against UN Resolution Condemning Nazism    https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/u-s-and-ukraine-only-two-countries-vote-against-un-resolution-condemning-nazism/

2021-12-15 How Do We Stop the Neocons From Starting Another Disaster in Ukraine?     https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/how-do-we-stop-the-neocons-from-starting-another-disaster-in-ukraine/

2021-12-14 Mapping Faultlines: After Biden-Putin summit, what next for Ukraine and the region?   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/14/mapping-faultlines-after-biden-putin-summit-what-next-for-ukraine-and-the-region/

202120-12-09 Biden-Putin Teleconference: Putin Rejects Biden’s Demand That U.S. Take Control Over Negotiations Between Ukraine and Its Former Donbass Region    https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/12/09/biden-putin-teleconference-putin-rejects-bidens-demand-that-u-s-take-control-over-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-its-former-donbass-region/

2021-12-08 Understanding What Happened in Ukraine in 2014    https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/08/understanding-what-happened-in-ukraine-in-2014/

2021-12-08 ROBERT PARRY: Who’s Telling the ‘Big Lie’ on Ukraine?  https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/08/robert-parry-whos-telling-the-big-lie-on-ukraine/

2021-12-08 The United States Can Solve the Ukraine Crisis    https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/08/the-united-states-can-solve-the-ukraine-crisis/

2021-12-08 U.S.-Ukraine Plan Emerges… Make Another Afghan Quagmire for Russia  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56919.htm

2021-12-07 Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56916.htm

2021-12-06 War in Ukraine? NATO expansion drives conflict with Russia    https://thegrayzone.com/2021/12/06/war-in-ukraine-nato-expansion-drives-conflict-with-russia/

2021-12-05 Mapping Faultlines: Tensions escalate on Russia-Ukraine border    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/12/05/mapping-faultlines-tensions-escalate-on-russia-ukraine-border/

2021-12-01 NATO aggression increases risk of war in Eastern Europe   https://www.liberationnews.org/nato-aggression-increases-risk-of-war-in-eastern-europe/

2021-11-12 Is Biden Looking to Reignite a Dirty War in Ukraine? Recent Visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Raises Concerns  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/11/12/is-biden-looking-to-reignite-a-dirty-war-in-ukraine-recent-visit-by-u-s-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-raises-concerns/

2021-10-28 NATO Sliding Towards War Against Russia in Ukraine    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56838.htm

2021-10-21 More Skeletons in Obama’s Closet: Mass Grave in Lugansk, Ukraine Yields Over 200 Bodies   https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/10/21/more-skeletons-in-obamas-closet-mass-grave-in-lugansk-ukraine-yields-over-200-bodies/

2021-08-25 BIDEN SHOULDN’T SOFT-PEDAL UKRAINE ON HUMAN RIGHTS    https://fpif.org/biden-shouldnt-soft-pedal-ukraine-on-human-rights/

2021-07-20 Influential DC-based Ukrainian think tank hosts neo-Nazi activist convicted for racist violence  https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/20/ukrainian-think-tank-neo-nazi-racist-violence/

2021-07-01 Media Applaud the New Cold Wars—but Could US Be More Aggressive, Please?   https://fair.org/home/media-applaud-the-new-cold-wars-but-could-us-be-more-aggressive-please/

2021-06-17 What does Biden’s summit spree tell us about the future of U.S. empire?   https://www.liberationnews.org/what-does-bidens-summit-spree-tell-us-about-the-future-of-u-s-empire/

2021-05-26 US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine  https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/belarus-roman-protasevich-plane-nazis-ukraine/

2021-04-16 US escalates in Ukraine battleground  With encouragement from his patrons in Washington, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is escalating against Russia and provoking a harsh response    https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/16/us-escalates-ukraine-battleground/

2021-04-16 PUTIN, NAVALNY, AND THE LEFT: THE COMING POLITICAL CRISIS IN RUSSIA    From Alexei Navalny’s return to mass protests and COVID-19, new TRNN contributor Radhika Desai sits down with world-renowned sociologist and activist Boris Kagarlitsky to discuss the tectonic shifts taking place in Russian politics—and what Western media gets wrong about Russia.     https://therealnews.com/putin-navalny-and-the-left-the-coming-political-crisis-in-russia

2021-04-14 From RussiaGate to UkraineGate: Route to Apocalypse    https://www.mintpressnews.com/russiagate-ukraine-nato-route-nuclear-war/276634/

2021-04-07 Ukraine in NATO? U.S.-led military alliance considers explosive move   https://www.liberationnews.org/ukraine-in-nato-u-s-led-military-alliance-considers-explosive-move/

2021-04-06 Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics     https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/04/06/why-ukraines-borders-are-back-at-the-center-of-geopolitics/

2021-02-20  Escalating the new Cold War with Russia via Ukraine: Biden’s Unprincipled Stands Involving Covert Operations, Blackmail, Corruption, Nepotism and State Terrorism  https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/02/20/escalating-the-new-cold-war-with-russia-via-ukraine-bidens-unprincipled-stands-involving-covert-operations-blackmail-corruption-nepotism-and-state-terrorism/

2021-02-03 The Threat of Nuclear Weapons with Noam Chomsky As the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons enters into force on January 22, join the world-renowned intellectual for “The Threat of Nuclear Weapons: Why Canada Should Sign the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty” Presented by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute. https://theanalysis.news/the-threat-of-nuclear-weapons-with-noam-chomsky/

2021-01-08 While Railing Against Trump Coup, Biden Appoints Chief Ukraine Coup-Plotter Victoria Nuland   https://www.mintpressnews.com/railing-trump-coup-biden-appoints-chief-ukraine-coup-plotter-victoria-nuland/274096/

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2020-12-21 US, Ukraine vote against UN resolution against Nazism   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/21/us-ukraine-vote-against-un-resolution-against-nazism/

2020 11-11 Biden state media appointee advocated using propaganda against Americans and ‘rethinking’ First Amendment   https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/11/richard-stengel-propaganda-usagm-biden/

2020-11-06 Did Media Spiking the Ukraine-Burisma Story Win Joe Biden the Election?  https://www.mintpressnews.com/did-media-spiking-the-ukraine-burisma-story-win-joe-biden-election/272943/

2020-10-23 Trump and Biden agree: U.S. empire should reign supreme   https://www.liberationnews.org/trump-and-biden-agree-u-s-empire-should-reign-supreme/

2020-10-12 What’s behind the crisis in Belarus?    https://www.liberationnews.org/whats-behind-the-crisis-in-belarus/

2020-08-24 How a Ukrainian Oligarch’s Companies Got Paycheck Protection Program Loans    https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2020/08/how-a-ukrainian-oligarchs-companies-got-paycheck-protection-program-loans/

2020-07-08 Standing up to Rosatom (Russian Nuclear Power Industry) http://www.nukeresister.org/2020/07/08/standing-up-to-rosatom/

2020-06-15 NATO’s colonization of Ukraine under guise of partnership  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55233.htm

2020-05-01 COUNTRY PROFILE: UKRAINE  https://newint.org/features/2020/05/01/country-profile-ukraine

2020-03-26 ‘Forced labor’ stories on China brought to you by US gov, NATO, arms industry to drive Cold War PR blitz  https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/26/forced-labor-china-us-nato-arms-industry-cold-war/

2020-01-17 It Is Beginning to Look Like the U.S. Has a Corruption Problem, Not Ukraine   https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/01/17/it-is-beginning-to-look-like-the-u-s-has-a-corruption-problem-not-ukraine/

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201912-13 Episode 58 – A Ukraine Impeachment Scandal? Part 2: The House Intelligence Report https://www.projectcensored.org/episode-58-a-ukraine-impeachment-scandal-part-2-the-house-intelligence-report/  

2019-12-12 Russia-Ukraine agreement could mark the beginning of an end to conflict    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2019/12/12/russia-ukraine-agreement-could-mark-the-beginning-of-an-end-to-conflict/

2019-12-12 US ARMS COMPANIES USE TRUMP’S MILITARISM TO DOMINATE THE GLOBAL ARMS TRADE    U.S. companies control 35% of the global arms industry. The growing weapons market is fueled by wars in the Middle East and by Trump’s excessive defense budget and aggressive posturing.  https://therealnews.com/us-arms-companies-trump-militarism-global-trade

2019-12-10 ROBERT PARRY: Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine  https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/10/cheering-a-democratic-coup-in-ukraine/

2019-12-06 IMPEACH THE SYSTEM!   As the twin parties of the corporate elite battle it out on whether Trump’s phone call to the Ukrainian president constituted an impeachable  “high crime or misdemeanors,” the real crimes, committed daily against the people and nations of the world and inherent in the capitalist system, are nowhere to be seen.   https://socialistaction.org/2019/12/06/impeach-the-system/

2019-11-25 Protests grow in Ukraine against government’s decision to lift moratorium on land sales   https://peoplesdispatch.org/2019/11/25/protests-grow-in-ukraine-against-governments-decision-to-lift-moratorium-on-land-sales/

2019-11-23 Episode 55 – What Do We ACTUALLY Know About This Ukraine Impeachment Scandal? Part 1   https://www.projectcensored.org/episode-54-what-do-we-actually-know-about-this-ukraine-impeachment-scandal-part-1/

2019-11-20 Freedom Rider: The Ukrainegate Farce   https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-ukrainegate-farce

2019-11-16 Why Are We in Ukraine?   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52557.htm

2019-11-03 Ukrainegate: What You’re Not Being Told  https://www.corbettreport.com/ukrainegate-what-youre-not-being-told/

2019-10-30 Watchdog Files Hatch Act Complaints Against Mulvaney and Sondland in Ukraine Affair   https://www.pogo.org/press/release/2019/watchdog-files-hatch-act-complaints-against-mulvaney-and-sondland-in-ukraine-affair/

2019-10-20 Progressive groups in Ukraine condemn PM’s participation in neo-Nazi rally     https://peoplesdispatch.org/2019/10/20/progressive-groups-in-ukraine-condemn-pms-participation-in-neo-nazi-rally/

2019-10-16 Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories   https://www.mintpressnews.com/under-fire-from-ukraine-everyday-life-in-the-donetsk-peoples-republic/262363/

2019-10-08 US arming of Ukraine is a scandal on its own   https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/08/us-arming-of-ukraine-is-a-scandal-on-its-own/

2019-10-07 Trump meddled in Ukraine, and he’s not alone https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/07/trump-meddled-in-ukraine-and-hes-not-alone/

2019-09-23 IS CANADA’S GOVERNMENT A PARTNER IN AMERICA’S CRIMES?   Well, the problem is that Canada is the U.S.’s partner. Canada is a member of NATO, Canada’s part of the G-7, so Canada is a partner in crime to the United States. Canada makes common cause with Ukraine, where they’ve put neo-Nazis–maybe they’re not neo, maybe we shouldn’t use that–people who are openly fascist in Ukraine’s government. Canada has helped the U.S. in its attack on Venezuela, upheld the sanctions against Venezuela. Canada’s mining interests have a role in Haiti; Canada’s helped occupy Haiti. Canada is pro-Zionist and anti-Palestinian.   https://therealnews.com/is-canadas-government-a-partner-in-americas-crimes

2019-06-04 Facebook’s new public policy manager for Ukraine is nationalist hawk who volunteered with fascist party during US-backed coup  https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/04/facebook-public-policy-manager-ukraine-kateryna-kruk/ 

2019-04-26 Joe Biden Launches Campaign with Charlottesville Condemnation after Supporting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/joe-biden-launches-campaign-charlottesville-condemnation-supporting-neo-nazis-ukraine/257891/

2019-04-23 Will Ukraine’s new president be able to carve out a new path?    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2019/04/23/will-ukraines-new-president-be-able-to-carve-out-a-new-path/

2019-04-23 Ukraine’s Voters Didn’t Just Reject Nationalism, They Rejected Maidan, Bandera and the Revolution  https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-voters-didnt-just-reject-nationalism-they-rejected-maidan-bandera-and-the-revolution/257747/

2019-04-23 U.S. HOPED PUTIN WOULD BE A ‘SOBER YELTSIN’ – RAI WITH STEPHEN COHEN (3/5)   After the fall of the Soviet Union, a dysfunctional and pro-American Russian President Yeltsin presided over the chaos of the 1990’s; when Putin came to power, the West was very disappointed at the independent and nationalist character of the Putin led state and the demonization began –  Stephen Cohen joins Paul Jay on Reality Asserts Itself  https://therealnews.com/u-s-hoped-putin-would-be-a-sober-yeltsin-rai-with-stephen-cohen-3-5

2019-04-22 Who’s Laughing Now: Zelensky or Putin?  https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/22/whos-laughing-now-in-ukraine/

2019-04-22 Ukraine: Why “OU” Lost by a Landslide   https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-why-ou-lost-by-a-landslide/257670/

2019-04-22 COMEDIAN ZELENSKIY WINS UKRAINIAN PRESIDENCY IN LANDSLIDE   Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an actor and comedian with no political experience, is the new president of Ukraine. He received 73% of the vote, beating incumbent Petro Poroshenko, who received 25% of the vote. Between 2015 and 2019, Zelenskiy played the president of Ukraine on the show “Servant Of The People” and named his political party after the show.  https://therealnews.com/comedian-zelenskiy-wins-ukrainian-presidency-in-landslide

2019-04-17 As Ukraine Descends to Failed-State Status, US-Backed Fascists Exploit the Chaos  https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-descends-failed-state-status-us-backed-fascists-exploit-chaos/257524/

2019-04-08 WHAT IS NATO GOOD FOR?       As foreign ministers gathered in Washington to celebrate NATO’s 70th anniversary and deliberated about its further extension, prominent peace activists also gathered to present a critique of NATO. Carmen Russell reports from DC     https://therealnews.com/what-is-nato-good-for

2019-04-03 ‘OBSCENE’ BIPARTISAN APPLAUSE FOR NATO IN CONGRESS   NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress fanning the fire of a ‘Russian threat.’ Peter Kuznick says it is an ‘obscene bipartisan spectacle applauding war’; Pietro Shakarian discusses the self-serving NATO expansion and the hyperbolic Russia threat narrative   https://therealnews.com/obscene-bipartisan-applause-for-nato-in-congress

2019-04-02 THE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC ROOTS OF NATO   The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) must be understood from its roots, which is anti-democratic says Yves Engler, while discussing his four part print series on The Real News     https://therealnews.com/the-anti-democratic-roots-of-nato

2019-03-28 PELOSI AND MCCONNELL: CRANKING UP BIPARTISAN MADNESS FOR NATO   When Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell teamed up to invite NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to address a joint session of Congress, they had every reason to expect the April 3 speech to be a big hit with U.S. media and political elites. The establishment is eager to affirm the sanctity of support for the transatlantic military alliance.   https://therealnews.com/pelosi-and-mcconnell-cranking-up-bipartisan-madness-for-nato

2019-03-27 The Many Reasons to Believe Vasily Prozorov’s Testimony About Ukraine’s Role in Downing MH-17  https://www.mintpressnews.com/reasons-believe-vasily-prozorov-testimony-ukraine-role-downing-mh-17/256642/

2019-03-20 GLOBAL MERCHANTS OF DEATH: US INCREASES ARMS SALES BY 29%    The U.S. continues to dominate the worldwide arms market, selling far more than any other country in the world, to over 100 countries. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s arms imports have tripled, according to SIPRI’s latest report     https://therealnews.com/global-merchants-of-death-us-increases-arms-sales-by-29

2019-03-13 AS UKRAINE’S PRESIDENTIAL RACE HEATS UP, POLITICS SHIFT TO THE RIGHT   A brand new face entered the Ukrainian presidential race, promising to clean up the country’s corrupt politics, but the three main candidates are all pro-West and political discourse has moved to the right as the far-right continues to gain influence. Prof. Tarik Cyril Amar analyzes the situation  https://therealnews.com/as-ukraines-presidential-race-heats-up-politics-shift-to-the-right

2019-03-09 Netanyahu advisers hatched anti-Semitic conspiracy against George Soros     https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/netanyahu-advisers-hatched-anti-semitic-conspiracy-against-george-soros 

2019-03-06 Persecuted for Defending the Persecuted in Ukraine: Interview with Vyshinsky Defense Attorney Andriy Domansky   https://www.mintpressnews.com/persecuted-for-defending-the-persecuted-in-ukraine-interview-with-vyshinsky-defense-attorney-andriy-domansky/255920/

2019-02-26 Greg Craig: A Washington Insider May Be Headed to Jail for His Work in Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/greg-craig-washington-insider-may-be-headed-jail-work-ukraine/255596/

2019-01-27 Ukraine on the Brink  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/ukraine-maidan-protests-elections-volodymyr-ishchenko

2019-01-26 Washington Follows Ukraine, Syria Roadmap in Push for Venezuela Regime Change  https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-follows-ukraine-syria-roadmap-in-venezuela-regime-change-push/254265/

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2018-12-27 Washington Just Injected Serious Cash and Weapons into Ukraine’s Far-Right Regime  https://www.mintpressnews.com/washington-injects-cash-and-weapons-into-ukraine-far-right-regime/253330/

2018-12-14 Bellingcat’s Kerch Gaff – How Kurt Volker Bought Ukraine’s Lie    https://www.mintpressnews.com/bellingcats-kerch-gaff-how-kurt-volker-bought-ukraines-lie/252926/

2018-12-12 UKRAINE REQUESTS NATO MILITARY BUILDUP, IMPOSES MARTIAL LAW AS RUSSIA SENDS TROOPS TO BORDER    Tensions flare as Ukraine imposes martial law and President Poroshenko requests a major NATO military presence in the Black Sea, while Russia sends troops to Crimea and its border. Historian Tarik Cyril Amar speaks about the increasing militarization of the conflict   https://therealnews.com/ukraine-requests-nato-military-buildup-imposes-martial-law-as-russia-sends-troops-to-border

2018-12-10 NATO-backed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko poses with pro-Nazi soldier  https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/10/nato-ukraine-president-poroshenko-nazi-soldier-totenkopf/

2018-11-29 NATO & EU MEMBER POLAND COLLABORATES WITH FASCISTS & MANDATES HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM   Poland’s far-right government, a close US ally, co-sponsored a fascist march after passing a law that makes Holocaust revisionism mandatory. Dovid Katz of Defending History warns Eastern European NATO/EU member states are becoming authoritarian nationalist regimes  https://therealnews.com/nato-eu-member-poland-collaborates-with-fascists-mandates-holocaust-revisionism

2018-11-26 With Tensions Mounting over Kerch Strait Incident, Will Ukraine Replace Syria as Focus for US’ Russia Containment Strategy?  https://www.mintpressnews.com/kerch-will-ukraine-replace-syria-in-us-russia-containment-strategy/252225/

2018 -11-26 MOSCOW & NATO PLAYING A ‘DANGEROUS TIT-FOR-TAT GAME’ IN THE UKRAINE   Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says that the latest Ukraine crisis, in which Russia is holding Ukrainian navy boats, was foreseeable and likely, given NATO’s constant encroachment on Russia’s border region  https://therealnews.com/moscow-nato-playing-a-dangerous-tit-for-tat-game-in-the-ukraine

2018-11-19 Blowback: An Inside Look at How US-Funded Fascists in Ukraine Mentor US White Supremacists  https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-backed-fascist-azov-battalion-in-ukraine-is-training-and-radicalizing-american-white-supremacists/251951/

2018-11-14 Teaching Kids to Kill at a Far Right Nationalist Summer Camp in Ukraine   https://www.mintpressnews.com/training-kids-to-kill-at-a-far-right-nationalist-summer-camp-in-ukraine/251845/

2018-11-12 Media Ignores the Plight of Kirill Vyshinsky: A Russian Journalist Imprisoned Without Trial in Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-ignores-the-plight-of-kirill-vyshinsky-a-russian-journalist-imprisonment-without-trial-in-ukraine/251736/

2018-11-09 FBI: Neo-Nazi Militia Trained by US Military in Ukraine Now Training US White Supremacists   https://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-neo-nazi-militia-trained-by-us-military-in-ukraine-now-training-us-white-supremacists/251687/

2018-10-30 Violent Neo-Nazi Organizer Speaks at US Government Event in Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/violent-neo-nazi-organizer-speaks-at-us-government-event-in-ukraine/251247/

2018-10-25 The Rise of Ukraine’s Ultra-Nationalist Christian Church  https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-rise-of-ukraines-ultra-nationalist-christian-church/251007/

2018-10-03 US Pivots from Syria to Ukraine as Tensions with Russia Continue to Rise    https://www.mintpressnews.com/wwiii-us-ukraine-syria-russia/250253/

2018-09-28 RIGHT-WING EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES HONOR NAZI-COLLABORATING FASCISTS AS ANTI-COMMUNIST ‘HEROES’ (PT 1/2)     Far-right governments in Eastern Europe are rehabilitating past Nazi collaborators as national heroes, rewriting the history of the Holocaust to turn the Soviet Union into the villain. Historian Dovid Katz explains how the fascist-apologist “double genocide” myth is spreading   https://therealnews.com/right-wing-eastern-european-states-honor-nazi-collaborating-fascists-as-anti-communist-heroes-pt-1-2

2018-09-28 EASTERN EUROPE’S FAR RIGHT REWRITING HISTORY OF NAZI HOLOCAUST (PT 2/2)    https://therealnews.com/eastern-europes-far-right-rewriting-history-of-nazi-holocaust-pt-2-2

 2018-09-04 United States to Drastically Expand Military Assistance to Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-military-assistance-ukraine/248675/

2018-08-08 This is the Real, Americanized, Nazi-Dominated, Ukraine   https://www.mintpressnews.com/real-ukraine/247281/

2018-08-07 IS TRUMP BEING TOUGH ON RUSSIA? Q&A (PT 3/5)  Watch Part 3 of Paul Jay and Aaron Mate’s interactive discussion with viewers about the controversy over Trump’s visit to Helsinki – From a live recording on July 18th, 2018   https://therealnews.com/is-trump-being-tough-on-russia-qa-pt-3-5 

2018-07-24 Ukraine Shifts to Nuclear Cooperation with US-Based Westinghouse    https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-nuclear-cooperation-westinghouse/246312/

2018-07-24 DEBUNKING THE PUTIN PANIC WITH STEPHEN F. COHEN    There is much to criticize the Russian president for, says Professor Stephen F. Cohen of Princeton and NYU, but many US political and media claims about Putin are false – and reckless   https://therealnews.com/debunking-the-putin-panic-with-stephen-f-cohen

2018-07-20 IS TRUMP IMPLEMENTING THE ‘BANNON STRATEGY’ BY COURTING RUSSIA?   Prof. Gerald Horne examines the Trump-Bannon objectives of forming an alliance with Russia to isolate China and Iran, while Democrats spin out of control in their attacks against Trump   https://therealnews.com/is-trump-implementing-the-bannon-strategy-by-courting-russia

2018-07-18 Connecting the Diaspora to Ukraine’s Monsters Through a Ukrainian Diaspora Handler    https://www.mintpressnews.com/connecting-diaspora-ukraines-monsters-ukrainian-diaspora-handler/246021/

2018-07-16 PAUL JAY ON TRUMP-PUTIN AND THE REAL THREATS TO DEMOCRACY   Whether the Kremlin meddled in the U.S. election or not, the hyper-focus on Russiagate overlooks bigger threats: Russian elites to the Russian people, and U.S. elites to the American people, says Paul Jay   https://therealnews.com/paul-jay-on-trump-putin-and-the-real-threats-to-democracy

2018-07-12 THE US IS EMPOWERING NAZIS IN UKRAINE   The United States is helping Ukrainian neo-Nazis fight against Russia. Ex-Bush administration official turned whistleblower Larry Wilkerson warns this is the most dangerous kind of “the enemy of the enemy is my friend” politics.    https://therealnews.com/the-us-is-empowering-nazis-in-ukraine

2018-07-11 Ukraine Attacks Journalists Who Reported Israeli Weapons Flow to Its Neo-Nazi Militia  https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-arming-ukraine-neo-nazis/245742/

2018-07-11 UKRAINE PRESIDENT’S ADVISER WRITES ‘HEIL HITLER’ NEO-NAZI SYMBOL ON FACEBOOK   This comes at a time when neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine, some of which have received direct support from the Ukrainian government, are terrorizing ethnic minorities from the Roma and Jewish communities.  https://therealnews.com/ukraine-presidents-adviser-writes-heil-hitler-neo-nazi-symbol-on-facebook

2018-07-09 Rights groups demand Israel stop arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-1.6248727     http://greeknewsondemand.com/2022/03/21/rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-ukraine/

2018-07-06 ISRAEL IS ARMING UKRAINE’S BLATANTLY NEO-NAZI MILITIA THE AZOV BATTALION   A shocking new report in the Electronic Intifada reveals that Ukrainian neo-Nazis are using Israeli weapons to fight Russia. Journalist Max Blumenthal discusses the SS-wearing Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia that uses Hitlerian symbols and is embedded in the National Guard of Ukraine, which also receives support from the US and Canada https://therealnews.com/israel-is-arming-ukraines-blatantly-neo-nazi-militia-the-azov-battalion   

2018-07-06 UKRAINIAN FASCIST LEADER SPEAKS IN US CONGRESS, WHILE NAZIS LAUNCH RACIST ATTACKS   Journalist Max Blumenthal asked why a fascist leader was welcomed in the US Senate building. He discusses Andriy Parubiy, the founder of two neo-Nazi organizations and the chair of Ukraine’s parliament, and the violent white supremacist movement against Russia  https://therealnews.com/ukrainian-fascist-leader-speaks-in-us-congress-while-nazis-launch-racist-attacks

2018-07-04 Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine  https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876

2018-07-02 Watch | Congress Hosts Actual Fascist as Nazi Violence Rages in Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/watch-congress-hosts-actual-fascist-as-nazi-violence-rages-in-ukraine/245184/

2018-06-18 U.S. Military Involvement in Ukraine: NATO Expansion Through Proxy War   https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-ukraine-nato-expansionism-proxy-war/244189/

2018-06-06 As Neo-Nazis in Ukraine Keep Gaining Power, the West Keeps Turning a Blind Eye  https://www.mintpressnews.com/neo-nazis-in-ukraine-gain-power/243356/

2018-05-25 Conflict in Eastern Ukraine May Soon Turn into Open War  https://www.mintpressnews.com/conflict-ukraine-become-war/242663/

  2018-04-29 The Pentagon Bio-weapons (Bio warfare scientists using diplomatic cover test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world.)   https://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/

2018-02-20 CAN TRUMP’S NEOCONS EXPLOIT RUSSIAGATE? (2/2)   However much Russiagate may annoy Trump personally, administration officials like H.R. McMaster are seizing on it to advance a militarist agenda at home and abroad. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss   https://therealnews.com/can-trumps-neocons-exploit-russiagate-2-2

2018-02-05 MAX BLUMENTHAL: US IS ARMING NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE   Max Blumenthal reports that the US has provided military assistance to the Azov Battalion, known as a bastion of neo-Nazism within the    MAX 2018-02-05 BLUMENTHAL: US IS ARMING NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE   Ukrainian armed forces. He also discusses US and Israeli ties to the far-right government in Poland, where neo-Nazism is on the rise   https://therealnews.com/max-blumenthal-us-is-arming-neo-nazis-in-ukraine

2018-01-22 War With Russia Creeps Closer as Ukraine Moves to Pull out of Minsk Accords    https://www.mintpressnews.com/war-with-russia-creeps-closer-as-ukraine-pulls-out-of-minsk-accords/236565/

2018-01-18 THE US IS ARMING AND ASSISTING NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE, WHILE CONGRESS DEBATES PROHIBITION   https://therealnews.com/the-us-is-arming-and-assisting-neo-nazis-in-ukraine-while-congress-debates-prohibition

2018-01-09 Trump Continues Obama-Era Saber Rattling With Russia By Arming Ukraine     https://www.mintpressnews.com/trump-continues-obama-era-saber-rattling-russia-arming-ukraine/236101/

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2017-12-30 DID RUSSIAGATE JUST ESCALATE UKRAINE’S WAR?    President Trump has agreed to arm the Ukrainian military in its fight with Russian-backed forces in the Donbass region. Leading Russia scholar Stephen F. Cohen says it’s the latest Russiagate-driven escalation of the new Cold War   https://therealnews.com/did-russiagate-just-escalate-ukraines-war

2017-11-26 WILL EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES BE DRAWN INTO RUSSIA-U.S. CONFLICT?        https://therealnews.com/lwilkerson1121pt5

2017-11-25 EUROPE’S WHITE SUPREMACISTS HAVE POWERFUL ALLIES    After a massive neo-fascist march in Poland and new reports of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine, Lev Golinkin, an author who fled then-Soviet Ukraine as a child, says both the US and Russia have troubling ties to Europe’s far-right    https://therealnews.com/lgolinkin1121ukraine

2017-10-16 American Liberals And Neocons Unite To Push War In Ukraine   https://www.mintpressnews.com/american-liberals-and-neocons-unite-to-push-war-in-ukraine/233254/

2017-08-22 US Turns to Ukraine for Next Russia Proxy War Gambit     https://www.mintpressnews.com/frustrated-syria-us-turns-ukraine-next-russian-proxy-war-gambit/231181/

2017-08-22 HOW THE US HELPED SET ‘UKRAINE ON FIRE’      https://therealnews.com/iiopatonok0810ukraine

2017-08-16 The Story of Charlottesville was Written in Blood in the Ukraine   https://www.blackagendareport.com/story-charlottesville-was-written-blood-ukraine

2017-08-15 Right Wing Extremists Condemned In Charlottesville, Funded And Armed In Ukraine And Syria   https://www.mintpressnews.com/right-wing-extremists-charlottesville-funded-ukraine-syria/230897/

2017-08-14 US Officials See Arming Ukraine As Chance To ‘Pressure’ Russia   https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-officials-see-arming-ukraine-as-chance-to-pressure-russia/230860/

2017-08-14 NYT: US-Backed Ukraine Supplying Missile Engines To North Korea  https://www.mintpressnews.com/nyt-ukraine-supplying-missile-engines-to-north-korea/230855/

2017-8-02 PENTAGON PLAN TO ARM UKRAINE MEANS ESCALATION WITH RUSSIA    As U.S. and Russian relations hit a new low, the Pentagon and State Department have drafted a plan to arm Ukraine’s fight against Russian-backed rebels, a move that would escalate the country’s three-year war https://therealnews.com/npetro0801ukraine

2017-08-01 Watch: Truth of Ukraine’s Crisis http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47552.htm

2017-07-27 CONGRESS UNITES ON RUSSIA SANCTIONS, BUT AT WHAT COST?   As the House overwhelmingly backs new sanctions on the Kremlin, Russian lawmakers vow a “painful” response and the European Commission mulls retaliation of its own  https://therealnews.com/dkovalik0726russia

2017-07-17 NATO-RUSSIA TENSIONS RISE, ARMS MAKERS BENEFIT    For the first time, the U.S. has deployed advanced Patriot missiles as part of military exercises in the Baltic region, escalating tensions with Russia and helping boost military industry stock prices to record highs   https://therealnews.com/dkimball0713baltic

2017-07-11 TRUMP & PUTIN TALK, BUT US-RUSSIA CONFRONTATION LINGERS   James Carden, contributing writer at The Nation and executive editor for the American Committee for East-West Accord, analyzes the many areas threatening US-Russia relations, including Ukraine, Syria, and the ongoing Russiagate fixation within the US political and media elite  https://therealnews.com/jcarden0710russia

2017-07-07 TRUMP TELLS RUSSIA TO STOP ‘DESTABILIZING’ UKRAINE, BUT WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON?    Western powers fuel the Ukrainian conflict — and wider tensions with Russia — by treating Ukraine as a strategic prize, says Nicolai Petro, Silvia-Chandley professor of Peace Studies and Nonviolence at the University of Rhode Island https://therealnews.com/npetro0706ukraine

2017-06-27 RUSSIAGATE OVERSHADOWS HOW FOREIGN POWERS BUY INFLUENCE   While U.S. media focuses on alleged Russian election meddling, reporter and author Jonathan Marshall says influence-peddling from other foreign governments has been ignored  https://therealnews.com/jmarshall0623foreign

2017-05 27 DOES NATO CONFRONT THREATS, OR CREATE THEM?   As President Trump is criticized for declining to endorse NATO’s mutual aid clause, Professor David Gibbs of the University of Arizona argues that the alliance creates threats that previously didn’t exist    https://therealnews.com/dgibbs0526nato

2017-03-23 RUSSIA VS. USA: WHO IS THE THREAT, WHO IS THE AGGRESSOR? (2/2)   Jeffrey Tayler, Contributing editor to The Atlantic, tells Paul Jay there are steps the Trump administration can take if it is serious about reducing tensions with Russia   https://therealnews.com/jtayler0317proposals

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2016-12-21 NATO Ramps Up Ukraine War After Defeat in Syria  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46088.htm

2016-11-03 Chernobyl Wildlife Thriving 30 Years Later  https://emagazine.com/chernobyl-wildlife/

2016-11-03 Wikileaks: Clinton Foundation’s ‘Pay-To-Play’ With Ukraine Oligarch To Show Support For Coup    https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-clinton-foundations-pay-play-ukraine-oligarch-show-support-coup/222011/

2016-10-23 PROSPECT OF US ARMS SHIPMENTS TO UKRAINE AFTER ELECTIONS PROMPTS RESTARTING OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS     The Europeans tried to restart the process for implementing the deal because they believe Clinton is likely to send weapons to the Kiev government if she becomes the next president, says former CIA analyst Ray McGovern   https://therealnews.com/rmcgovern1021ukraine

2016-08-23 US/NATO-backed Israeli think tank: Don’t destroy ISIS; it’s a ‘useful tool’ against Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia  https://thegrayzone.com/2016/08/23/us-nato-israeli-think-tank-isis-useful-tool/

2016-08-20 STAND For Ukraine Act Would Establish Russia As Permanent US Enemy    https://www.mintpressnews.com/stand-ukraine-act-establish-russia-permanent-us-enemy/219644/

2016-08-19 Foreign Influence Becomes Hot Issue on US Campaign Trail  https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2016/08/foreign-influence-becomes-hot-issue-on-us-campaign-trail/

2016-08-12Ukraine’s ‘October Surprise’  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45281.htm

2016-08-11 Ukraine Ammases Troops On Crimean Border    https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-ammases-troops-on-crimean-border/219376/

2016-08-08 Ukraine, Instability, and the US Election – No Way Out?  A possible invasion has been as true for decades as it is now, and it will be just as true as long as Russia and Ukraine share a border (currently almost 1,000 miles long). Since September 2014, Ukraine has been building “Project Wall” along about 110 miles of the Russian border, an admitted “jobs project” reminiscent of the Maginot Line of the 1930s between France and Germany. But a possible invasion is a far cry from an imminent invasion, and a farther cry from an actual invasion, neither of which is shouted among the current cries of wolf in the region.   https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38477-ukraine-instability-and-the-us-election-no-way-out

2016-06-06 US Sanctions On Russia Are Hurting Ukraine’s Economy   https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-sanctions-russia-hurting-ukraines-economy/216977/

2016-04-26 OBAMA PRESSURES GERMANY TO COMMIT MORE TROOPS FOR NATO EXERCISES ON UKRAINE BORDER   In Europe, President Obama commits more special forces for Syria but Larry Wilkerson says he is more concerned about dangerous and provocative posturing on the Ukraine border     https://therealnews.com/lwilkerson0425troops

2016 04-06 David Cameron’s Father, Ukraine’s President, And Saudi King Salman Tied To Panama Leaks Scandal    https://www.mintpressnews.com/david-camerons-father-ukraines-president-saudi-king-salman-tied-panama-leaks-scandal/215374/

2016-03-25 How The IMF Turned Ukraine Into Europe’s Colonial-struck ‘Liberia’   https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-turning-liberia-thanks-imf/215118/

2016-02-24 The New Global Financial Cold War  https://www.blackagendareport.com/new_global_financial_cold_war

2016-01-29 Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists  https://consortiumnews.com/2016/01/29/ukraine-merges-nazis-and-islamists-2/

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2015-12-11 Crimea Loses Power Temporarily, Ukraine Loses Crimea Forever http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43691.htm 

2015-12-10 The IMF Forgives Ukraine’s Debt to Russia  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43673.htm

2015-09-25 Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer     John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. A key assumption is that in order to come up with the optimum plan for ending the crisis, it is essential to know what caused the crisis. Regarding the all-important question of causes, the key issue is whether Russia or the West bears primary responsibility.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

2015-09-15 Ukraine Peace Move Sets Off Violent Rightist Riot in Kiev   When the Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly, but almost a year late, to amend the Ukrainian constitution to allow greater autonomy to the eastern, separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine’s right-wing nationalists immediately unleashed violence in the streets.   By contrast, there were no public outbursts earlier this year, after the parliament formally recognized and granted pensions to members of the World War II fascist army, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), that collaborated with the Nazi occupation in killing Jews and Poles.    https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/32278-focus-ukraine-peace-move-sets-off-violent-rightist-riot-in-kiev

2015-08-15 Another Big Lie About Ukraine’s War  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42642.htm

2015-07-15 The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made   https://truthout.org/articles/the-ukraine-mess-that-nuland-made/

2015-07-08 Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42334.htm

2015-07-01 Nuclear power in Ukraine: Crisis or path to energy independence?  https://thebulletin.org/2015/07/nuclear-power-in-ukraine-crisis-or-path-to-energy-independence/

2015-06-12 U.S. House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine  https://consortiumnews.com/2015/06/12/u-s-house-admits-nazi-role-in-ukraine/

2015-06-12 Robert Parry on the Obama Administration and the Civil War in Ukraine by Norman Markowitz  http://www.politicalaffairs.net/robert-parry-on-the-obama-administration-and-the-civil-war-in-ukraine-by-norman-markowitz-3/

2015-06-03 Surprising New Evidence Emerges In Malaysian Flight 17 Crash Over Ukraine    https://www.mintpressnews.com/surprising-new-evidence-emerges-in-malaysian-flight-17-crash-over-ukraine/206190/

2015-06-03 French Rap US and NATO for Playing Russian Roulette with Ukraine   For months now, the US general in charge of NATO forces has been crying out in warning that the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming, to invade Ukraine. And Gen. Philip Breedlove goes on crying that the Russians are coming to invade – except when he’s crying that they’ve already invaded. This long-running performance is a new twist on the Boy Who Cried Wolf – the General who cries both that the wolf is coming and that the wolf is already here.   https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/30528-focus-french-rap-us-and-nato-for-playing-russian-roulette-with-ukraine

2015-04-01 George Soros Looks To Co-Own Ukraine   https://www.mintpressnews.com/george-soros-looks-to-co-own-ukraine/203866/

2015-04-01 Conclusion: Fateful Steps that Led to the Crisis in Ukraine (Part Two) by Thoms Riggins   http://www.politicalaffairs.net/conclusion-fateful-steps-that-led-to-the-crisis-in-ukraine-part-two-by-thoms-riggins/

2015-03-22 Fateful Steps That Led to the Crisis in Ukraine (Part One) by Thomas Riggins   http://www.politicalaffairs.net/fateful-steps-that-led-to-the-crisis-in-ukraine-part-one-by-thomas-riggins/

2015-03-18 Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41277.htm

2015-03-15 Nuland’s Mastery of Ukraine Propaganda  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41248.htm

2015-03-14 Ukraine: Coup, Corruption and Catastrophe   https://www.corbettreport.com/ukraine-coup-corruption-and-catastrophe/  

2015-03-13 German Officials: Claims of Russian Invasion of Ukraine Are American Propaganda   https://www.mintpressnews.com/german-officials-claims-of-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-are-american-propaganda/203338/

2015-03-12 US National Guard Troops Are Being Sent To Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-national-guard-troops-are-being-sent-to-ukraine/203307/

2015-03-07 Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41156.htm

2015-02-25 Ready for Nuclear War over Ukraine?   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41105.htm

2015-02-23 Moscow Protesters Strike Out Against Ukraine And The West  https://www.mintpressnews.com/moscow-protesters-strike-out-against-ukraine-and-the-west/202375/

2015-02-21 West Guilty Of Ukraine War Crimes  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41066.htm

2015-02-21 Failing Tonkin Gulf Test on Ukraine  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41072.htm

2015-02-15 Michael Hudson: Has the IMF Annexed Ukraine?  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41004.htm

2015-02-15 ‘Minsk II’ – What About Foreign Troops in Ukraine?   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41003.htm

2015-02-13 Russia, U.S. and the crisis in Ukraine  https://www.liberationnews.org/russia-u-s-crisis-ukraine/ 

2015-02-12 Interview 1000 – Rick Rozoff Warns Ukraine War is Inevitable    https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1000-rick-rozoff-warns-ukraine-war-is-inevitable/

2015-02-11 Freedom Rider: War is Peace in Ukraine  https://www.blackagendareport.com/node/22280

2015-02-10 War in Ukraine: Who Wants War? And Who Doesn’t?    Just as NATO allies Germany and France were undertaking a peace initiative with Russia and Ukraine, U.S. secretary of state John Kerry turned up in Kiev at the same time, seeking to poison the talks before they started by spouting yet again the ritual U.S. accusation of “Russian aggression.”   https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/28521-focus-war-in-ukraine-who-wants-war-and-who-doesnt

2015-02-09 New Video Evidence Of America’s Coup In Ukraine — And What It Means    https://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse090215.htm

2015-02-09 The More The West Sees The Ukraine Crisis As Another Cold War The Worse It Will Get  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40945.htm

2015-02-04 VIDEO: Is Ukraine A Proxy Western-Russia War?    https://www.mintpressnews.com/video-ukraine-proxy-western-russia-war/201863/

2015-02-04 Chomsky And Kissinger Agree: Avoid Historic Tragedy In Ukraine   https://www.mintpressnews.com/chomsky-kissinger-agree-avoid-historic-tragedy-ukraine/201839/

2015-01-26 “Panic in Kiev: Ukrainian Forces Surrender Donbass”  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40816.htm

2015-01-21 Mysterious Bombs Are Exploding In Ukraine    https://www.mintpressnews.com/mysterious-bombs-exploding-ukraine/201368/

2015-01-15 Russia Cuts Off Ukraine Gas Supply To 6 European Countries  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40705.htm

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2014-12-28 NATO in Ukraine Means Asking for War with Russia   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40567.htm

2014-12-22 John Pilger: ‘Real Possibility of Nuclear War’ – Ukraine Crisis Could Start World War 3    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40537.htm

2014-12-06 Monsanto Seeks to Bring GM Corn to the Ukraine    https://www.projectcensored.org/monsanto-seeks-bring-gm-corn-ukraine/

2014-12-01 U.N. Anti-Nazism resolution: US, Canada, Ukraine sole opposers    https://www.liberationnews.org/u-n-anti-nazism-resolution-us-canada-ukraine-sole-opposers/

2014-11-07 Elections and renewed fighting in Ukraine     https://www.liberationnews.org/elections-renewed-fighting-ukraine/

2014-10-15 Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis Demand Respect    https://www.transcend.org/tms/2014/10/ukraines-neo-nazis-demand-respect

2014-10-10 Will Ukraine Commit Economic Suicide?    Ukraine is on the brink of committing economic suicide after imposing a crippling 55 percent tax on private gas producers, while Parliament prepares to vote on next year’s budget, which aims for a continuation of the same.   https://www.worldpress.org/Europe/4031.cfm

2014-10-02 US, NATO And Russia Continue Tug-of-War Over Ukraine    https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-nato-and-russia-continue-tug-of-war-over-ukraine/196998/

2014-10-01 Did the Fed Steal Ukraine’s Gold? (video)  https://www.corbettreport.com/did-the-fed-steal-ukraines-gold-video/

2014-10-01 US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis   https://www.projectcensored.org/9-us-media-hypocrisy-covering-ukraine-crisis/

2014-09-30 Did the Fed Steal Ukraine’s Gold? – Questions For Corbett #017    https://www.corbettreport.com/did-the-fed-steal-ukraines-gold-questions-for-corbett-017/

2014-09-09 Ukraine Conflict: Red Meat For Anemic NATO Alliance    https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-conflict-red-meat-anemic-nato-alliance/196348/

2014-09-04 The West Is Raising The Stakes Over Ukraine   https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-west-is-raising-the-stakes-over-ukraine/196208/

2014-09-03 Who’s Telling the ‘Big Lie’ on Ukraine?  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/03/whos-telling-big-lie-ukraine

2014-09-03 VIDEO: Clash During Russia Today Interview With Ukraine Today Highlights Regional Sentiments    (video censored as RT has been banned from the U.S.) https://www.mintpressnews.com/video-clash-russia-today-interview-ukraine-today-highlights-regional-sentiments/196156/

2014-09-02 NATO’s “Military Hysteria” Undermines Hope For Peace In Ukraine, Says Russia  https://www.mintpressnews.com/natos-military-hysteria-undermines-hope-peace-ukraine-says-russia/196115/

2014-09-01 Will Ukraine Bid To Join NATO Unleash 21st Century Cold War?   https://www.mintpressnews.com/will-ukraine-bid-join-nato-unleash-21st-century-cold-war/196082/

2014-08-29 NATO Claims Satellite Images Show Russian Units In Ukraine    https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-claims-satellite-images-show-russian-units-ukraine/196045/

2014-08-14 UN: Nearly 1,000 Killed In East Ukraine In Past Two Weeks, Doubling Death Toll  https://www.mintpressnews.com/un-nearly-1000-killed-east-ukraine-past-two-weeks-doubling-death-toll/195361/

2014-08-11 Ukraine Rocket Attack Leads To Mass Jail Breakout  https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-rocket-attack-leads-mass-jail-breakout/195162/

2014-08-08 Dutch Experts Identify 23 Ukraine Plane Victims Dutch Experts Identify 23 Ukraine Plane Victims  https://www.mintpressnews.com/dutch-experts-identify-23-ukraine-plane-victims/195084/

2014-07-30 US-Supported “Good Guys” Firing Ballistic Missiles In Ukraine?  https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-supported-good-guys-firing-ballistic-missiles-ukraine/194695/

2014-07-29 UN Official Calls For End To “Extremely Alarming” Conflict In Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/un-official-calls-end-extremely-alarming-conflict-ukraine/194651/

2014-07-28 Heavy Fighting Turns Back Police From Plane Crash Site In Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/heavy-fighting-turns-back-police-plane-crash-site-ukraine/194587/

2014-07-25 Gen. Dempsey: We’re Pulling Out Our Cold War Military Plans Over Ukraine   https://www.mintpressnews.com/gen-dempsey-were-pulling-out-our-cold-war-military-plans-over-ukraine/194516/

2014-07-24 Ukraine’s Communist Party banned by new ‘democratic’ government    https://www.liberationnews.org/ukraines-communist-party-banned-by-new-democratic-government-2/

2014-07-23 The Return Of George Orwell And Big Brother’s War On Palestine, Ukraine And The Truth  https://www.mintpressnews.com/return-george-orwell-big-brothers-war-palestine-ukraine-truth/194415/

2014-07-22 Ukraine Violence Again Spikes As Accusations Fly Over Flight MH17    https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-violence-spikes-accusations-fly-flight-mh17/194340/

2014-07-21 What Did US Spy Satellites See in Ukraine?   In the heat of the U.S. media’s latest war hysteria – rushing to pin blame for the crash of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin – there is the same absence of professional skepticism.  The dog-not-barking question on the catastrophe over Ukraine is: what did the U.S. surveillance satellite imagery show? It’s hard to believe that – with the attention that U.S. intelligence has concentrated on eastern Ukraine for the past half year that the alleged trucking of several large Buk anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia to Ukraine and then back to Russia didn’t show up somewhere.   So why hasn’t this question of U.S. spy-in-the-sky photos – and what they reveal – been pressed by the major U.S. news media?  https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24898-focus-what-did-us-spy-satellites-see-in-ukraine

2014-07-20 What Did US Spy Satellites See in Ukraine (shoot down of Malaysia Airline)  https://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/20/what-did-us-spy-satellites-see-in-ukraine/

2014-07-19 Ukraine air disaster: behind the propaganda blitz     https://www.liberationnews.org/behind-mh17-tragedy/

2014-07-19 Investigation Demanded For Plane Shot Down Over Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/investigation-demanded-plane-shot-ukraine/194173/

2014-07-18 US Says Missile Downed Malaysian Airliner in East Ukraine Killing 298  https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-says-missile-downed-malaysian-airliner-in-east-ukraine-killing-298/194165/

2014-07-01 Cease-fire Over, Ukraine Renews Attacks On Separatists    https://www.mintpressnews.com/cease-fire-ukraine-renews-attacks-separatists/193301/

2014-06-30 Official: US Fueling Crisis In Ukraine  https://www.mintpressnews.com/official-us-fueling-crisis-ukraine/193241/

2014-06-23 Ukraine shows uselessness of NATO nukes in Europe  https://thebulletin.org/2014/06/ukraine-shows-uselessness-of-nato-nukes-in-europe/

2014-06-21 US Hits 7 Ukraine Rebels With Sanctions    https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-hits-7-ukraine-rebels-sanctions/192818/

2014-06-18 Ukraine And Russia Presidents Talk ‘Cease Fire’    https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-russia-presidents-talk-cease-fire/192631/

2014-06-08 Flashpoint Ukraine https://www.projectcensored.org/flashpoint-ukraine/

2014-05-21 SOS from Ukraine  https://www.liberationnews.org/sos-from-ukraine/

2014-05-08 Take Action: Stop funds for neo-Nazis in Ukraine!     https://www.liberationnews.org/take-action-stop-funds-for-neo-nazis-in-ukraine/

2014-05-07 Ukraine, Russia and the United States at the brink     https://www.liberationnews.org/ukraine-russia-and-the-united-states-at-the-brink/

2014-05-05 Ukraine: Who Will Control Eurasia’s Oil and Gas?  Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea. Barack Obama and his European allies organized the coup in Kiev. Both actions violated international law. Both intruded massively in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. Yet, most commentators limit their concern, loudly condemning one crime while silently ignoring the other. It cuts both ways, though Western academics are the worst, dismissing any idea that the US and Europe stage-managed the putsch. That, they insist, is a figment of Putin’s twisted imagination. Would that it were!  https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/23508-ukraine-who-will-control-eurasias-oil-and-gas

2014-05-04 Will Ukraine Be NYT’s Waterloo?    https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/05/04/will-ukraine-be-nyts-waterloo

2014-05-01 Interview 873 – Roman Skaskiw Gives the Ukrainian Perspective on the Ukraine Crisis   https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-873-roman-skaskiw-gives-the-ukrainian-perspective-on-the-ukraine-crisis/

2014-04-25 Beneath the Ukraine Crisis: Shale Gas    https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/23323-focus-beneath-the-ukraine-crisis-shale-gas

2014-04-13 Ukraine: Unleashing the Dogs of War    President Obama had already assured Americans that he would not enter into a hot war. “We are not going to be getting into a military excursion in Ukraine,” The United States, he said, “does not need to trigger an actual war with Russia.”   Yet, as Obama proudly announced in Brussels, he had already unleashed the dogs of war. NATO planes were patrolling the skies over the Baltics, and “we’ve reinforced our presence in Poland.”  Gen. Breedlove will formally report on how he wants to redeploy NATO assets to “reassure” our Eastern European allies.  https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/23108-ukraine-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war

2014-04-11 Ukraine: Will the Nazis and Jews Make Nice?    Hating Jews is nothing new in Ukraine. As far back as 1648-49, Cossacks and their allies in the Chmielnicki Massacres killed more than 100,000 Jews and destroyed some 300 Jewish communities. In 1920, as American, British, and French troops were intervening against the Soviet Revolution, Ukrainians waged a massive pogrom that killed some 60,000 Jews. Whether the country’s leader at the time, General Simon Petlura, quietly encouraged the attacks remains a matter of historical dispute. During World War II, Stepan Bandera and other home-grown quislings helped the Nazis slaughter hundreds of thousands of Russians, Poles, Czechs, Armenians, Gypsies, anti-Fascist Ukrainians, and Jews, including the thousands killed at a ravine near Kiev called Babi Yar.   https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22516-focus-ukraine-will-the-nazis-and-jews-make-nice

2014-04-07 US Establishment Media Neglects Neo-Nazi Role in Ukraine Uprising   https://www.projectcensored.org/us-establisment-media-neglects-neo-nazi-role-ukraine-uprising/

2014-04-07 US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis    https://www.projectcensored.org/us-media-hypocrisy-covering-ukraine-crisis/

2014-04-04 Ukraine Crisis: A New Cold War for Oil and Influence   https://www.projectcensored.org/ukraine-crisis-new-cold-war-oil-influence/

2014-04-04 Part II: Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev    Many world leaders, particularly from Eastern Europe and the Baltic, had showed up with the Clintons “to pepper Ukraine’s president and political elite with encouragement to cement the country’s turn away from Moscow and towards Brussels.”    Hillary’s husband Bill, who as US president had responded to the Soviet Union’s collapse by moving to encircle Russia with “strategic containment,” also sweetened his words. EU membership would pose no obstacle at all to coexisting with Russia, the big man declared.   https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22940-focus-part-ii-meet-the-americans-who-put-together-the-coup-in-kiev

2014-03-27 Why did Israel fail to back US-supported UN resolution on Crimea?    https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-did-israel-fail-back-us-supported-un-resolution-crimea

2014-04-20 Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Imperative  https://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/20/ukraines-neo-nazi-imperative/

2014-04-19 Ukraine, Through the US Looking Glass    https://truthout.org/articles/ukraine-through-the-us-looking-glass/

2014-03-28 Obama’s speech on Ukraine and Crimea: An exercise in demagogy    https://www.liberationnews.org/obamas-speech-on-ukraine-rt-interview-html/

2014-03-25 NEW: Downloadable pamphlet on the crisis in Ukraine    https://www.liberationnews.org/new-downloadable-pamphlet-ukraine-html/

2014-03-25 Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev   If the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland had not said “Fuck the EU,” few outsiders at the time would have heard of Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, the man on the other end of her famously bugged telephone call. But now Washington’s man in Kiev is gaining fame as the face of the CIA-style “destabilization campaign” that brought down Ukraine’s monumentally corrupt but legitimately elected President Viktor Yanukovych.  The State Department controls the prime funding sources for non-military intervention, including the controversial National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which Washington created to fund covert and clandestine action after Ramparts magazine and others exposed how the CIA channeled money through private foundations, including the Ford Foundation.   https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22758-meet-the-americans-who-put-together-the-coup-in-kiev

2014-03-20 WHO BENEFITS FROM UKRAINE CRISIS? (HINT: NOT AVERAGE UKRAINIANS)   https://popularresistance.org/who-benefits-from-ukraine-crisis-hint-not-average-ukrainians/

2014-03-18 Russian Aggression Deserves a Response, But U.S. Lacks Credibility to Lead It     The United States cannot legitimately lead an international response to the illegal Russian aggression in Ukraine until it abides by international law itself.    https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2014/03/18/russian-aggression-deserves-response-but-united-states-lacks-credibility-to-lead-it

2014-03-17 Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine As the Ukraine crisis continues to deepen, the mainstream U.S. news media is sinking to new lows of propaganda and incompetence. Somehow, a violent neo-Nazi-spearheaded putsch overthrowing a democratically elected president was refashioned into a “legitimate” regime, then the “interim” government and now simply “Ukraine.”  https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/22628-mainstream-us-media-is-lost-in-ukraine

2014-03-14 Ukraine and Nayarit: The humanitarian case for nuclear disarmament  https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/ukraine-and-nayarit-the-humanitarian-case-for-nuclear-disarmament/

2014-03-11 Ukraine: the Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Always Your Friend   https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/11/ukraine-the-enemy-of-your-enemy-is-not-always-your-friend/

2014-03-08 Readers’ thoughts on Analysis: Understanding the crisis in Ukraine    https://www.liberationnews.org/readers-thoughts-on-2-html/

2014-03-07 The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun   https://countercurrents.org/roberts070314.htm

2014-03-07 Interview 836 – Ryan Dawson Looks for a Third Way in the Ukraine Crisis   https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-836-ryan-dawson-looks-for-a-third-way-in-the-ukraine-crisis/

2014-03-06 Analysis: Understanding the crisis in Ukraine     https://www.liberationnews.org/analysis-understanding-the-html/

2014-03-06 Who’s who in Ukraine’s new [semi-fascist] government    https://www.liberationnews.org/whos-html/

2014-03-05 Foreign Intervention and the Ukraine Crisis  https://www.corbettreport.com/foreign-intervention-and-the-ukraine-crisis/

2014-03-04 How and why the U.S. government aided a coup led by neo-Nazis in Ukraine   https://www.liberationnews.org/why-us-aided-ukraine-coup-russia-html/

2014-03-04 US-linked NGO Implicated in Ukraine Uprising   https://www.projectcensored.org/us-ngo-involvement-ukraine-uprising/

2014-02-28 Ukraine Set to Ignite in Civil War – New World Next Week   https://www.corbettreport.com/ukraine-set-to-ignite-in-civil-war-new-world-next-week/

2014-02-27 ‘US, EU staged classic regime change in Ukraine’      https://www.liberationnews.org/us-eu-staged-classic-regime-change-ukraine-html/

2014-02-27 Interview 830 – William Engdahl Exposes the Western Agenda in Ukraine   https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-830-william-engdahl-exposes-the-western-agenda-in-ukraine/

2014-02-26 Venezuela, Ukraine, and North Korea: Targets of flailing American Imperialism   https://www.blackagendareport.com/content/venezuela-ukraine-and-north-korea-targets-flailing-american-imperialism

2014-02-24 Neocons and the Ukraine Coup   American neocons helped destabilize Ukraine and engineer the overthrow of its elected government, a “regime change” on Russia’s western border. But the coup – and the neo-Nazi militias at the forefront – also reveal divisions within the Obama administration, reports Robert Parry.    https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22253-neocons-and-the-ukraine-coup

2014-02-23 Neocons and the Ukraine Coup  https://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/23/neocons-and-the-ukraine-coup/

2014-02-20 US, EU are ‘neck deep’ in Ukraine plan    https://www.liberationnews.org/us-eu-are-neck-deep-in-html/

2014-02-11 Viewpoints: Ukraine’s East-West Tug-of-War    Protests in Ukraine are now in their third month, with protestors showing no sign of letting up, despite the brute treatment they have received in clashes with security forces. Chief among their grievances is President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to forego a free trade pact with the European Union in favor of closer ties with Russia. As the country suffers from deep fiscal deficits, the opposition is calling for new leadership and a new system of government that is not chained or beholden to Russia. Worldpress.org presents a sampling of coverage on the issue from around the globe.     https://www.worldpress.org/Europe/3995.cfm

2014-01-28 Ukraine: Opposition’s fascist leadership poses danger     https://www.liberationnews.org/ukraine-oppositions-fascist-html/

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2013-12-13 Is NATO’s Trojan Horse Riding Toward the ‘Ukraine Spring’   Ukrainian citizens have rallied in the bitter cold at Independence Square in Kiev to demand a better economic future and to protest President Viktor Yanukovych’s failure to sign an economic agreement with the EU.  But while the draft of the EU “Association Agreement” is being sold as an economic boon for Ukrainian citizens, in reality it appears to be NATO’s Trojan Horse: a massive expansion of NATO’s military position in the region. What’s more, the Agreement occurs under the cover of nebulous economic promises for a beset population hungering for better wages.    https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/355-europe/20954-focus-is-natos-trojan-horse-riding-toward-the-ukraine-spring

2013-12-10 Ukraine Protests: Euromaidan Has Real Potential     Protests in Ukraine against the government’s refusal to pursue a pro-European foreign policy have received global coverage in recent weeks. The movement became known as Euromaidan (with hashtag #Euromaidan spreading all over social media) due to its location at Maidan Nezalezhnosti—Independence Square—in downtown Kyiv.     https://www.worldpress.org/Europe/3991.cfm

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2012-09-14 Gaza engineer kidnapped from Ukraine goes on hunger strike over solitary confinement  https://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-engineer-kidnapped-ukraine-goes-hunger-strike-over-solitary-confinement/11673

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2011-11-20 Gas and Geopolitics: Prospects for Russia    Although petroleum is the primary fuel all over the world, natural gas is becoming increasingly competitive because it is abundant, cheaper, cleaner and more fuel-efficient. In possession of the world’s largest gas reserves, Russia is the largest producer and exporter of natural gas. Russian gas constitutes more than a quarter of natural gas consumed by the European Union, which provides Russia a certain degree of leverage to exercise its influence over Europe. Russia’s bilateral ties with transit nations like Ukraine and Baltic states also play a determining factor in the continuity of gas supplies to Europe. The Russia-Ukraine gas dispute in early 2009 very well exposed the vulnerability of Europe to resultant disruptions.  https://www.worldpress.org/Europe/3838.cfm

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2009-12-20 Ukraine: Where Are You Going?    Ukraine is eager to end the marathon round of talks that would guarantee the fourth and final tranche of a $16.4 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of this year. The government hopes to assure this loan ahead of upcoming presidential elections. According to the New York Times, the IMF is playing a waiting game with Kiev and plans to withhold the $3.5 billion final tranche until after the presidential elections, which are due to be held January 17. The loan was approved in the midst of the global financial crisis, in late 2008. Yet it appears, the results of the upcoming presidential election will be a crucial factor in sealing the deal for the final disbursement of the IMF “lifeline,” or cash injection, on which Ukraine’s faltering economy depends to stay afloat.   In addition to these loans, Ukraine has requested an additional $2 billion in urgent “emergency loans,” according to the Financial Times, in order for it to ensure the flow of natural gas through its transit country, which originates in Russia and is destined for Western European markets. Ukraine has seen its gas supply shut off in the past by Moscow, due to its failure to pay Russia outstanding energy debts. The Moscow-Kiev gas disputes, or “wars,” which often center on pricing and delayed payments owed on the Ukrainian side, has led to interruptions in gas exports to several E.U. member states in the midst of winter. This has added to the perception abroad of Ukraine being an unreliable trade partner.   https://www.worldpress.org/Europe/3468.cfm

2009 10-08 An Open Letter to Ukrainian President Yushchenko   Dear and beloved President Yushchenko, we remember as if it were yesterday, before we elected you as our president, how our hearts leapt with joy at the sound of your voice, how our ears found delight in your voice, the voice of liberation, liberation from the oppression and from the helplessness we had felt from many years of not being able to escape the rule of corrupt politicians, politicians with hidden agendas, secret allegiances, self interested, greedy, uncaring, criminal.     Ukraine can be a very wealthy country through its exports—exports that would help develop its infrastructure and improve the general wealth of the nation as a whole, creating more jobs and taxes for the government?   You have had the chance to do more than any other president in the Ukraine and in our view have done the least. Most of us now think that you are a strong speaker but a very weak president, in a country that needs an iron fist to rule it and not a diplomat. https://www.worldpress.org/Europe/3433.cfm

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2005-07-18 Ukraine: The Face of the Orange Revolution    Pursuing membership in the European Union, cracking down on crime and corruption, and improving living conditions were the key points in the political platform of Western-leaning presidential candidate Victor Yushchenko, the face of the “Orange Revolution,” which focused international attention on Ukraine last December. The bitterly fought elections, which split the country in two, were also the cause of tensions between the West, which supported Yushchenko, and Russia, which openly backed his opponent Viktor Yanukovich. After mass protests against election fraud, Yushchenko emerged victorious. His face, badly damaged from an alleged poisoning plot during the campaign, has become a symbol of strength and personal courage.   https://www.worldpress.org/Europe/2118.cfm

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2002-10-11 Ukraine: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised     It’s called Ukraine, but a more appropriate designation might be “the land that time forgot.” Since it gained independence a little more than 10 years ago, Ukraine has experienced nearly continuous political gridlock. Short-lived cooperation agreements between the strong-arm president and legislature are followed by calls for the president to step down. When they’re not serving as ministers in government, legislators are jailed and harassed. Journalists are killed.

The situation would be farcical if the consequences weren’t so grim. Poverty is widespread. The average salary is half what it is in Russia. The incidence of HIV and AIDS ranks among the highest in the developed world.   https://www.worldpress.org/Europe/766.cfm

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