(2022-01-30). Lee Camp and Legendary Journalist John Pilger on Assange, Ukraine, & More. scheerpost.com 
Lee Camp has a very important guest this week. John Pilger is a brilliant journalist with a long history of award-winning reporting. They discuss the show-trial faced by Julian Assange and the current situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine. Julian Assange recently received some good news after a decade of torturous detainment when a British court decided that he could appeal his extradition into the hands of a government who had tried to assassinate him. They then dive into the current reality of a collapsing U.S. Empire and how it's leading into a dangerous period of nuclear brinkmanship between the…
(2022-01-30). Hungary does not need NATO reinforcements amid Ukraine standoff — minister. rt.com 
Hungary continues to oppose Ukraine's NATO aspirations, as it deems Kiev's actions "unacceptable" for the alliance | Hungary doesn't need any NATO troops deployed to its territory amid the ongoing Ukraine standoff, defense minister Tibor Benko told local broadcaster InfoRadio in an interview on Thursday. | The official confirmed reports that the US and NATO have been negotiating with all the member states bordering Russia, Ukraine, or both, on additional deployments of troops from the bloc. Budapest, however, believes its own military is capable of providing all the security it needs, without any help from NAT…
(2022-01-30). Emergency rally at White House demands 'No War with Russia,' NATO be disbanded. liberationnews.org 
ANSWER organizer Sean Blackmon, who helped lead the event, remarked how "there is no voice of peace inside this U.S. government, Democrat or Republican."
(2022-01-29). Endless War Is The Empire's Last Dance. popularresistance.org This moment of history will be remembered for the massive shift in global relations currently underway. On one side stands the forces of peace and multipolarity led by China, Russia, and their allies in the Global South. On the other is the forces of empire and conquest spearheaded by the U.S. and its allies. The conflict between these two "camps" is about much more than competing visions for planetary development. World politics have transitioned from a war between socialism and capitalism to a protracted struggle for the survival of humanity itself. | The forces of Empire have reached the following conclusion:…
(2022-01-29). Central China's Zhengzhou launches first China-Europe train to Hungary. ecns.cn Carrying mechanical accessories, electronic components, as well as medical and hygiene products, a new China-Europe train linking Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, with Budapest was launched Friday.
(2022-01-29). Belarusian president voices support for Beijing Winter Olympic Games. ecns.cn Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday voiced support for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and expressed his hope of actively developing relations with China.
(2022-01-29). US calls on arch-rival for help against Russia. rt.com 
Washington wants China to "use its influence" with Moscow to push diplomacy over Ukraine | US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland has called on China to press Russia towards a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. Beijing has already pushed back on the American position by acknowledging Moscow's "legitimate security concerns." | The move comes amid a flurry of diplomacy around the situation in Eastern Europe. | "We are calling on Beijing to use its influence with Moscow to urge diplomacy, because if there is a conflict in the Ukraine it is not going to be good for China either,"
(2022-01-29). Iran and Group 4+1 to Return to Vienna Talks After One Week. telesurenglish.net Iran's Fars news agency reported on Friday that the delegations of Iran and the Group 4+1 – the UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany – at the Vienna talks will return to their countries for the purpose of consultations. | RELATED: | The break in the negotiations, the agency stressed, takes place because of the importance of the outstanding issues being discussed. | In fact, after a week's pause, the dialogues will start agai…
(2022-01-29). Sino-Russia trade, economic cooperation sustains upward momentum. ecns.cn China and Russia have maintained stellar trade and economic cooperation, with both countries continuing to strive for greater synergy in various areas.
(2022-01-29). Media Beats War Drums With Russia While US/Saudis Kill Hundreds In Yemen. popularresistance.org Journalists Benjamin Norton and Alan MacLeod join Mnar Adley to discuss how the mainstream media spent the last week beating drums of war with Russia over Ukraine with headlines and talking heads funded and sponsored by Lockheed Martin and NATO. | Meanwhile, there wasn't a single article covering how the US-Saudi-UAE coalition cut off the internet to Yemen for several days while dropping hundreds of bombs on civilians resulting in hundreds dead and over a thousand injured. Guess which story CNN covered? Both conflicts were brought to you by weapons manufacturers.
(2022-01-29). True Colors: Red, White, Black & Blue. dissidentvoice.org 
With a bold and completely self-sabotaging diplomatic blunder, one which fails on every level including the least rigorous sanity test, this past Wednesday the U.S. was one of two nations to vote against a UN resolution designed to discourage the glorification and promotion of Nazi ideology. The other nation was Ukraine, which currently is overrun …
(2022-01-29). Ukrainian politician says he does not believe in possibility of Russian invasion. tass.com Chairman of the Political Council of Ukraine's Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk pointed out that Russia had offered dialogue to Ukraine…
(2022-01-29). The Washington Post Publishes a Commentary Full of Lies Against Putin. dissidentvoice.org On January 29, the Washington Post published an op-ed by the well-known Yale neoconservative Timothy Snyder, titled "Putin's case for invading Ukraine rests on phony grievances and ancient myths." Key passages in Snyder's article are: Last July, Vladimir Putin supplied the mythical basis [BAD LINK FROM SNYDER: here is a functional link to see Putin's article] for Russian war propaganda in an …
(2022-01-29). Ukraine's Zelensky Fears US Deliberately Overplaying Escalation Rhetoric, Reports Say. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fears that the United States is exaggerating the threat of an imminent invasion of Ukraine to conclude an agreement with Russia, which would give Moscow more control over the Donbass region, Politico has reported, citing sources close to the Ukrainian leader and his team.
(2022-01-29). Finland, Sweden herded into the NATO pen. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rattled by Russia, Finland and Sweden revisit NATO debate From five years before Ukraine could be used as a pretext: End of Scandinavian Neutrality: NATO's Militarization Of Europe Fighter jets could be heard carrying out drills above the Finnish capital this week, while Sweden recently deployed troops to a Baltic outpost in response to rising …
(2022-01-29). Video: German-led NATO military base near Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com
(2022-01-29). US, Ukraine at odds over threat of Russian invasion – TV. tass.com According to CNN, US President Joe Biden and his advisors have been annoyed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's public downplaying of the threat…
(2022-01-29). US, Russian rulers step up confrontation over Ukraine. themilitant.com Talks between the U.S. and Russian governments over Moscow's continuing troop buildup near its border with Ukraine ended without agreement Jan. 21. Washington opposes Moscow's threats to Ukraine, claiming to stand against an assault on Ukrainian sovereignty. In fact, the U.S. capitalist rulers seek to defend their own economic and strategic interests in the region. | The U.S. rulers have expanded NATO across Eastern Europe over decades, bringing these troops ever closer to Russia's borders. | To bolster its own interests and dominate what it calls its "near abroad," Moscow has mobilized its forces in the area and…
(2022-01-29). NATO to send battle groups to Black Sea, air defense and Response Force troops can follow. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com From Deutsche Welle. NATO's on notice in Ukraine crisis: What's next? Romania has long wanted a NATO battlegroup on its territory, similar to those mustered for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland…. *** France has expressed interest in leading the new deployment, and this week French Defense Minister Florence Parly, on a visit to Bucharest, announced …
(2022-01-29). Source: UK Defence Ministry Preparing Scenarios of Constraining Russia Amid Ukraine Crisis. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The UK Defence Ministry has prepared new scenarios of constraining Russia, including sending more NATO troops to Eastern Europe, which will be considered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson later this week, a source told Sputnik.
(2022-01-29). Contradicting US, Ukrainian President Zelensky denies Russian attack imminent. wsws.org The NATO powers' calls to prepare for a war against Russia supposedly to defend Ukraine are reckless, unsubstantiated propaganda threatening to trigger a world war.
(2022-01-29). EU divided over scale of sanctions on Russia, Polish PM says. tass.com All EU member states agree that Ukraine needs to maintain its sovereignty, Mateusz Morawiecki noted…
(2022-01-29). Ukraine Wants US to Dial Back Russian War Talk to Save Economy. news.antiwar.com The US claims that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine have taken a toll on the Ukrainian economy. An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff on Friday "Constant and extremely emotional messages in the media about how a big war is going to start tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow or the day after that create economic risks," said Mykhailo Podolyak. | "This speculative stuff puts pressure on inve…
(2022-01-29). VIDEO: David Swanson on Ukraine on RT. warisacrime.org Watch
(2022-01-29). Croatian president: This has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia. It has to do with the dynamics of American domestic politics. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Croatian president calls PM 'Ukrainian agent' Croatian President Zoran Milanovic accused his Prime Minister Andrey Plenkovic of behaving like a "Ukrainian agent" on Friday, two days after the latter apologized to Kiev over the head-of-state's comments on NATO deployments. In a televised address on Tuesday, Milanovic said Zagreb would withhold its troops from Eastern European …
(2022-01-29). Is Washington Under Alien Control? strategic-culture.org Biden and Blinken get everything backwards in terms of US interests | By Philip GIRALDI | The drama currently unfolding in which the Biden Administration is doing everything it can to provoke a war with Russia over Ukraine is possibly the most frightening foreign policy misadventure since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1967 Lyndon Johnson attempt to sink the USS Liberty and blame it on Egypt, either of which could have gone nuclear. I can well recall the Robert Heinlein sci-fi book The Puppet Masters, later made into a movie, which described how alien-slugs, arriving by way of a flying saucer landing in Io…
(2022-01-29). West seeks to use Ukraine as foothold in standoff with Russia, Ukrainian politician says. tass.com Russia is taking the center stage as a global authority, Chairman of the Political Council of Ukraine's Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk says…
(2022-01-29). US may scale back some exercises in Europe if Russia reciprocates – Pentagon. tass.com Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said, that Washington was against a ban on Ukraine's accession to NATO…
(2022-01-29). German rulers pulled between Washington and Moscow. themilitant.com As Washington presses to defend its interests in eastern Europe, claiming to act in defense of Ukrainian sovereignty, deeper divisions have become clear among the rival capitalist rulers in NATO. The head of Germany's navy, Kay-Achim Schonbach, was forced to resign Jan. 22 after saying Russian President Vladimir Putin's mobilization of military forces around Ukraine was just to gain "respect" as an "equal" and that the Crimean Peninsula, occupied by Russian forces since 2014, is "gone and will never come back" to Ukraine. | Germany's rulers control the dominant capitalist power in Europe, profiting off the unequa…
(2022-01-29). Ukraine should become bridge between Russia and West, opposition leader says. tass.com According to Viktor Medvedchuk, Ukraine needs "Scandinavian-type" reforms…
(2022-01-29). U.S. embassy in Kiev: "How do you know Russia means war? They scream 'Peace!'" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com In case anyone still doesn't realize who is pushing for war. Russia hiding preparations for war under slogans of peace — U.S. embassy The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has warned that the Kremlin's propaganda machine is running at full speed to hide its preparations for war under slogans of peace. According to Ukrinform, the embassy …
(2022-01-29). UK unveils 'major military offer' to NATO as a 'clear message' to Moscow. rt.com 
UK's PM Boris Johnson has unveiled London's 'biggest possible' offer to the North-Atlantic bloc to help it in the standoff with Russia | Downing Street has announced its "biggest possible offer" to NATO in a statement late on Saturday. The UK's prime minister is weighting this "major military deployment" needed to deter an allegedly "rising Russian aggression" in Europe in general and in Ukraine in particular | "This package would send a clear message to the Kremlin — we will not tolerate their destabilising activity, and we will always stand with our NATO allies in the face Russian hostility," Johnson st…
(2022-01-29). A War Only America And Britain Seem To Want. popularresistance.org The telephone call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenensky on Thursday was said to have not "gone well," according to a senior Ukrainian official. | The official said Zelensky urged Biden to "calm down the messaging" on the situation in Ukraine and that Ukrainian intelligence did not see a Russian threat the same way the U.S. did, according to a report on CNN. It is "dangerous but ambiguous," the official quoted Zelensky as telling Biden, and that "it is not certain that an attack will take place." | At a news conference on Friday, Zelensky said: "They keep supporting this th…
(2022-01-29). Russia-Venezuela Cooperation Will Halt Aggressive US Agenda, Says Russian Ambassador. orinocotribune.com The Russian ambassador in Caracas considers that cooperation between Moscow and Caracas is a stabilizing factor in the face of United States' threats to the region. | The Russian ambassador in Venezuela, Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov, emphasized that military cooperation between Russia and Venezuela is of the utmost importance in the face of the repressive measures taken by the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against the government of Nicolás Maduro. He made these comments in an interview to Russian news agency Sputnik, published on Friday, January 28. | "Our specialists have successfully interacte…
(2022-01-29). Southern flank: Turkey continues to assist Georgia's NATO integration. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Turkey handed over special equipment to the defense forces The logistical capabilities of the Georgian Defense Forces are being further strengthened. The Government of the Republic of Turkey has provided the Georgian Defense Forces with various types of special equipment to improve the logistics and logistics capabilities of the Marneuli Airfield. The official transfer of …
(2022-01-29). Stoltenberg touts new French-led deployments to Black Sea, readiness of 40,000-troop strike force. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Command of USS Harry S. Truman Sends Signal to Russia, Says Secretary General Stoltenberg Putting an American aircraft carrier strike group under alliance control should be a "clear message to Russia" that its 30 members are unwavering in their commitment to come to each other's defense if attacked, NATO's secretary general said Friday. Jens …
(2022-01-29). Russia calls on U.S. to withdraw nuclear weapons from Europe, cease joint nuclear drills with non-nuclear allies. globalresearch.ca This is a serious issue, perhaps the most serious of issues in Europe, but coming as it does immediately on the heels of Russia's prior list of demands being resolutely rejected by the U.S. and NATO yesterday, the prospects of …
(2022-01-29). Failure of American 'disinformation' revealed. rt.com 
Why is the US government pretending that RT is the only news outlet that makes mistakes? | A new US government report has accused RT of spreading false narratives. However, in the process, Washington officials have exposed some untruths of their own. Far from being an isolated case, it's typical of the West's burgeoning disinformation industry. | Whenever a new 'threat' appears, be it ethnic conflict, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism or anything else, the coffers of government open up, and funds pour into state organizations, think tanks and private 'experts' in an effort to dissect the problem in questi…
(2022-01-29). Omicron case rates explode in Russia. wsws.org Like the governments in Washington, Berlin, Paris and London, the Kremlin is doing nothing to contain the virus as child infection rates soar and hospitals fill.
(2022-01-29). France has Become a "Destabilizing Force" in Africa. journal-neo.org 
In a January briefing with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, on the eve of his talks with Russian head of state Vladimir Putin, said Russia was allegedly becoming a "destabilizing force". In making this assessment of Russia's policies, Macron was certainly following instructions from Washington to actively deploy anti-Russian rhetoric and propaganda. …
(2022-01-29). Most Russian regions maintain economic ties with Japan – Ministry of Economic Development. tass.com The future of bilateral partnership depends on interaction between Russian regions and Japanese prefectures, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said…
(2022-01-29). Putin orders to consider ways to remove organizations from foreign agent list. tass.com Russian President also ordered to analyze provisions regulating the activities of media outlets acting as foreign agents, together with Roskomnadzor, the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights and the all-Russia public organization The Union of Journalists of Russia"
(2022-01-29). Efforts underway to hold new round of Astana Summit. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin announced the upcoming meeting of Astana Talks on Syria in the spring with the participation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russian Federation, and Republic of Turkey.
(2022-01-29). Russian athletes capable of competing for one-third of medals at Beijing Games – official. tass.com The 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing will take place on February 4-20…
(2022-01-29). Afghanistan's ex-president holds meeting with Russian ambassador in Kabul. tass.com The conversation touched upon the current situation [in Afghanistan] and the strengthening of relations between the two countries…
(2022-01-29). Iran-Russia trade turnover breaks record in 2021: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 29 (MNA) — Russian Trade Representative in Iran Rustam Zhiganshin said that Russian Federation's trade volume with the Islamic Republic of Iran hit a historical record high in 2021 and reached about $4 billion.
(2022-01-29). More Anti-Russian Sanctions to Backfire on European Economy and Banking System. sputniknews.com BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – More economic sanctions on Russia would have a devastating effect on the European economic and financial sectors, politicians and pundits have told Sputnik.
(2022-01-29). US Naval Presence in Black Sea More Than Doubled in 2021 Compared to 2020. news.antiwar.com According to data compiled in The report said US warships spent about 182 collective days in the Black Sea in 2021. Last year, Stars & Stripes reported that While the 2021 numbers were significantly higher than the previous year, they were still lower than 2014, when the US-backed coup in Kyiv led Russia to take Crimea. In 2014, US warships spent about…
(2022-01-29). US pumps Kiev regime with weapons, incites it to military adventures, says Russian embassy. tass.com The diplomatic mission called once again on Washington to force its wards to comply with the Minsk agreements, and not to indulge their belligerency and attempts to forcibly assimilate the Russian-speaking population…
(2022-01-29). House fire kills woman, four kids in Russia's Arkhangelsk region. tass.com A criminal case has been opened into the incident…