Kristin Christman(2022-04-22). Russia, Ukraine, and the USA: Trapped in a Cultural Script.dissidentvoice.orgCompassion for Ukrainians victimized by Russia's violence demonstrates that human hearts care. However, beneath the visible current of compassion there's an alarming, dangerous dynamic at play. What's hair-raising about this crisis is not only the violence but the fact that US political leaders and media makers are not recognizing positive and negative motivations on both …
Internationalist 360 ∞(2022-04-22). Ukraine: A New Consensus on Whiteness?libya360.wordpress.com Ajamu Baraka A march of the Azov Battalian, Svoboda, and other far-right radical groups in Kiev, October 14, 2017. (Photo: Reuters / Gleb Garanich) The Biden administration and corporate media cover up the existence of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They are disappeared from the official narrative in order to get public buy-in…
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). Japan intensifies hard-line stance on islands "illegally occupied" by Russia.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comKyodo NewsApril 22, 2022 Japan shifts to hard-line stance on territorial dispute with Russia Tokyo has switched to a hard-line stance in its decades-long territorial dispute with Moscow following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, stating in its annual foreign policy report released Friday that four northern islands are "illegally occupied" by Russia. *** The report highlighted …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). Turkey makes NATO ally Greece offer it better not refuse.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comTurkey and its weapons have recently established a record in Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Ethiopia and Ukraine that Athens would be wise to heed is the message from Greece's NATO ally and neighbor. ==== Hurriyet News AgencyApril 22, 2022 Defense minister urges Greece to respond to Turkey's call for 'friendship' Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). Coup-threatened Georgia: ruling party exposes "NGO clan"antibellum679354512.wordpress.comOn the role of "NGOs' in fomenting coups in Georgia, and the wars that inevitably follow them, see item below the news report. The United National Movement is the party founded by Mikheil Saakashvili, who returned from Ukraine late last year, where he held a major post in the government of Volodymyr Zelensky, to launch …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). Combat-ready: NATO in talks to deploy yet more troops to eastern flank.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comPolish RadioApril 22, 2022 NATO allies in talks to send more troops to eastern flank: Polish official A senior Polish national security official said on Friday that the NATO alliance was discussing ways to boost troop numbers on its eastern edge amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. *** "Talks are under way to expand the NATO …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). Biden: U.S. prepared to supply weapons for interminable war in Ukraine.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comInterfax-UkraineApril 22, 2022 Biden: USA can supply Ukraine with weapons for long time The United States is capable of supplying Ukraine with weapons for a long time, U.S. President Joe Biden has said on Thursday. "We have the capacity to do this for a long time," he said, answering a journalist's question about how long …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). India blocs Japanese Air Self-Defense Force flight for Ukraine.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comNikkei AsiaApril 22, 2022 Japan reworks Ukraine aid plan after India blocks military plane Japan is redrawing its plan for transporting humanitarian aid supplies to displaced Ukrainians after India reportedly refused to let Self-Defense Forces aircraft land in the country. The plan was for an Air Self-Defense Force plane to pick up relief items at …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). France to deliver howitzers, anti-tank missiles for war in Ukraine.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comUkrinformApril 22, 2022 Macron announces supply of Milan anti-tank systems, Caesar howitzers to Ukraine French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the supply of Milan anti-tank missiles and Caesar self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. *** "We are delivering significant equipment, from Milan to Caesar. I think we have to continue on this route. Always with the red …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). Turkey commemorates life of Chechen separatist warlord.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comThe piece is beyond eulogy and approaching hagiography.The Kremlin's strategic partner Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened a public park dedicated to Dzhokhar Dudayev, first president of the "Chechen Republic of Ichkeria," last December, triggering a fierce reaction from current Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov.Turkey is not through with Chechnya and with Dagestan, Ingushetia and the Tatars in …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). Turkish-Indonesian strategic partnership: NATO's gateway to ASEAN.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comTurkey joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1952 along with Greece after both nations had served their apprenticeship by deploying troops for the Korean War. Three years later Turkey became the main pivot in the founding of the Central Treaty Organization, modeled after NATO.A year earlier the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, also modeled after …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). Air defense, armored vehicles: Britain trains Ukrainian troops at home, in Poland.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comPolish RadioApril 22, 2022 UK training Ukrainian troops in Poland: Johnson Ukrainian troops are being trained in Poland to use anti-aircraft defence equipment donated by the British government, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed. "I can say that we're currently training Ukrainians in Poland in the use of the anti-aircraft defences," Johnson told reporters …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-22). German chancellor: NATO-Russia clash could trigger third world war, nuclear war.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comScholz's logic at times (see below) is not only tortuous but torturous. His main message, though, seems unequivocal. Der SpiegelApril 22, 2022 "There Cannot Be a Nuclear War" Excerpts from interview. The SPD is a party of peace, but it has never been pacifist. The two great postwar Social Democratic chancellors, Willy Brandt and Helmut …
Kristin Christman(2022-04-22). Russia, Ukraine, and the USA: Trapped in a Cultural Script.dissidentvoice.orgCompassion for Ukrainians victimized by Russia's violence demonstrates that human hearts care. However, beneath the visible current of compassion there's an alarming, dangerous dynamic at play. What's hair-raising about this crisis is not only the violence but the fact that US political leaders and media makers are not recognizing positive and negative motivations on both …
Staff(2022-04-22). The Panama Canal, a Weapon the West Will Not Use Against Russia.orinocotribune.comPreventing 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, t…
Editor2(2022-04-22). NATO's Warmongering Voice in the Caribbean.orinocotribune.comBy A.T. Freeman — Apr 14, 2022 | Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Sir Ron Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda's ambassador to the US and the OAS, has emerged as one of the most strident Caribbean voices
_____(2022-04-22). Will Algeria Increase Gas Supplies to Europe?journal-neo.org Algeria is estimated by the EU to be the fifth largest supplier of gas to the EU at around 45 bcm, representing 12% of EU countries' natural gas needs, but this has fallen since 2016 (when it reached 55 bcm per year). Algeria's share is far behind that of top-ranking Russia (135.75 bcm in 2020, …
Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem(2022-04-22). Iran to hold trade exhibition in Kazakhstan.en.mehrnews.comTEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) — Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Affairs announced plans to organize an international exhibition of export capabilities and potentials of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Kazakhstan's Almaty.
M. K. Bhadrakumar(2022-04-22). Migratory birds of mass destruction.mronline.org Highly sensitive materials from the Ukrainian biological laboratories were exported to the U.S. in early February just before the Russian special operation began, and the rest were ordered to be destroyed lest they fell into Russian hands. But the cover-up was only partially successful. Indeed, Russia is in possession of highly incriminating evidence.
Fight Back(2022-04-22). A must read for Lenin's birthday, the 'Letter to American Workers'.fightbacknews.orgTo mark the 152nd birthday, April 22, of the outstanding revolutionary V.I. Lenin, Fight Back News Service is circulating his famous article "Letter to American Workers" written in 1918. | Comrades! A Russian Bolshevik who took part in the 1905 Revolution, and who lived in your country for many years afterwards, has offered to convey my letter to you. I have accepted his proposal all the more gladly because just at the present time the American revolutionary workers have to play an exceptionally important role as uncompromising enemies of American imperialism—the freshest, strongest and latest in joining in…
john stanton(2022-04-22). The US Empire Strikes Back: Russi Takes the Hits, China Lives in Fear.indybay.orgThe US Empire Strikes Back: Russia Takes the Hits, China Lives in Fear | Russia and China are no match for the United States' Instruments of National Power. The Pale Blue Dot's existence is at risk if nuclear weapons are employed by either one or both sides.
Andrei Zorin(2022-04-22). The population is deeply alienated from the leadership.indybay.orgRussian culture is deeply individualistic. It has a very low level of trust. People can't trust each other, they can't trust their fellow human beings, and they can't trust their leaders. It's like Solzhenytsin's famous formula: trust no one, fear no one, and demand nothing from no one.
_____(2022-04-21). Ukraine: A New Consensus On Whiteness?popularresistance.orgIn 1999 US and NATO forces bombed Serbia for 78 days, ushering a new century further characterized by war and militarism. With no negative consequences of military overreach, especially after the dismantling of the Soviet Union, the U.S. unleashed war in its various forms (from direct attacks to sanctions, drones, and subversion) with a wanton disregard for its human and political consequences. Yet, even when massive numbers of U.S. troops were deployed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, and other ancient cities whose names are in the great religious texts of the world, and reduced them to rubble, the awful rea…
Vijay Prashad(2022-04-21). Now is the Time for Non-Alignment and Peace.orinocotribune.comBy Roger McKenzie and Vijay Prashad — Apr 16, 2022 | "And maps can really point to places | Where life is evil now" | — WH Auden, In Time of War, 1939 | War is an ugly part of the human experience. Everything about it is hideous. War is most obviously the act of invasion and the brutality that goes along with its operations. No war is precise; every war hurts civilians. Each act of bombardment sends a neurological shudder through a society. | World War II demonstrated this ugliness in the Holocaust and in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | From Hiroshima and the Holocaust rose two mighty m…
Anonymous103(2022-04-21). Kherson Region In The South Of Ukraine On Its Way To Peace.southfront.org Russian soldiers raised the Victory Banner on the Walk of Fame (monument to soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War) in Kherson | By today, artillery strikes by the AFU and the Russian Army on the border areas of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions continue. However, no successful offensive operations have been carried out by the sides . The Russian Armed Forces are striking targets in Mykolaiv and south of Nikopol with cruise missiles and respond to any attack of the AFU with artillery shelling. Meanwhile, the ci…
_____(2022-04-21). Western-Led Globalization Might End.popularresistance.orgAn article written by authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg on March 24 sounded the alarm to announce the end of "the second great age of globalization." The Western trade war and sanctions against China that predated the pandemic have now been joined by the stiff Western sanctions imposed against Russia after it invaded Ukraine. These sanctions are like an iron curtain being built by the United States and its allies around Eurasia. But according to Micklethwait and Wooldridge, this iron curtain will not only descend around China and Russia but will also have far-reaching consequences acro…
Anonymous103(2022-04-21). No Concessions From Russia: 'Easter Truce' In Ukraine Rejected.southfront.org Click to see full-size image | UN Secretary General Guterres called on Russia and Ukraine for a four-day truce on the eve of Easter for humanitarian aid and the withdrawal of citizens. Previously, all joint attempts to secure humanitarian corridors were thwarted by the Ukrainian side, as a result Russian forces are providing evacuation from the war-torn cities and villages by their own means. | On April 21, the Russian side rejected the proposal for an "Easter truce" at another meeting of the UN Security Council.
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-21). "A lot" of heavy mortars delivered to Ukraine through Lithuania.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comUkrainian News AgencyApril 21, 2022 Lithuania Transfers Heavy Mortars To Ukraine Lithuania transferred heavy mortars to Ukraine….The number of weapons is not specified. It is reported by European Pravda with reference to the statement of the Minister of Defense of Lithuania Arvydas Anusauskas. "We transferred heavy mortars to Ukraine. I won't name numbers, but we …
Monthly Review(2022-04-21). The Civil War/Proxy War in Ukraine and the Russian Offensive.mronline.org To get a firm grasp on the current situation in Ukraine, we must understand the central role that the United States and NATO have played in the conflict from the start, beginning in 2014 with the U.S.-engineered Maidan coup.
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-21). Ukraine border: NATO holds missile interception drill in Slovakia.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comNATOAllied Air CommandApril 21, 2022 Allies integrate PATRIOT missile defence system during NATO exercise in Slovakia During an Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) exercise in Sliaƒç, Slovakia, from April, 19 to 21, 2022, Allies will train with the deployed PATRIOT missile defence system to enhance Alliance cohesion and interoperability. The exercise will involve increasingly …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-21). Trudeau: Canada to provide heavy artillery to Ukrainian military.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comCanadian PressApril 20, 2022 Canada will send heavy artillery to Ukraine, Trudeau pledges Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed plans Tuesday to send heavy artillery to embattled Ukraine…. Trudeau mentioned the plan to provide artillery…during a news conference in Dalhousie, N.B., saying the decision followed a specific request to Canada from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government. …
Staff(2022-04-21). G7 to increase pressure on Russia due to situation in Ukraine.en.mehrnews.comTEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) — G7 countries will sustain and increase their pressure on Russia due to the situation in Ukraine, according to a statement released following a meeting of G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Washington.
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-21). Poland says it's funneled billions in military aid for "biggest armored battle since Second World War"antibellum679354512.wordpress.comPolish RadioApril 21, 2022 Poland sends billions in military aid to Ukraine: spokesman Poland has sent billions worth of military assistance to war-torn Ukraine, the government spokesman said on Thursday. On Wednesday, Poland's President Andrzej Duda and senior government ministers agreed "to continue military supplies to Ukraine" amid Russia's invasion, Màºller said. "And this is …
Ajamu Baraka(2022-04-21). A new consensus on Whiteness?mronline.org The Biden administration and corporate media cover up the existence of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They are disappeared from the official narrative in order to get public buy-in for U.S. policy.
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-21). Ukraine taps Portugal for tanks, APCs, anti-ship missiles.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comInterfax-UkraineApril 21, 2022 Zelensky turns to Portugal requesting to hand over Leopard tanks, armored personnel carriers, anti-ship weapons President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has addressed the parliament and people of Portugal with a request to transfer Leopard tanks, armored personnel carriers and Harpoon anti-ship missiles to Ukraine…. "When we address the peoples of the free …
_____(2022-04-21). Why isn't the West Sanctioning Turkey for its Special Operation in Iraq?journal-neo.org The recent Russophobic frenzy by Washington and its Western allies over Russia's special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine with more and more anti-Russian sanctions imposed each passing day, makes one involuntarily wonder: why then doesn't the West react in the same way to another special operation — the one Turkey is conducting on Iraqi …
Anonymous103(2022-04-21). Military Situation In Ukraine On April 21, 2022 (Map Update).southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Russia attacked areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment near Shnurki; | Russia attacked areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment near Novonikolaevka; | Russia attacked areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment near Aleksandrovka; | Russia attacked military assets of the AFU in Andreevka with a high-precision air-launched missile; | Russia attacked military assets of the AFU in Yazykovo with…
Anonymous103(2022-04-21). NATO Seeks To Punish Belgrade's Ukraine War Policy By Arming Kosovo.southfront.org A soldier of NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR guards convoy of the road near the village of Leposavic, northern Kosovo, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. AP Photo/Darko VojinovicBritain denies sending anti-tank weapons to Kosovo but Serbia says otherwise. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | After supplying equipment and emboldening a militarized Ukraine, Britain has now started arming Kosovo's Albanians with Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missile systems. The British Embassy in Belgrade said that som…
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-21). Treasury's Yellen, Ukraine's PM meet: weapons, finances, sanctions.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comUkrinformApril 21, 2022 PM Shmyhal, U.S. Treasury Secretary discuss weapons, finances, sanctions Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal discussed increasing financial support for Ukraine and stepping up sanctions pressure on Russia with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. "Weapons, finances, and sanctions. These are the main talking points of our visit to Washington. I discussed the …
Rick Rozoff(2022-04-21). U.S. viceroy shepherding Georgia into war.antibellum679354512.wordpress.comAgenda.geApril 21, 2022 Georgian PM, US Ambassador discuss ongoing war in Ukraine, partnership Also see: U.S. ambassador to Georgia blasts "revanchist" Russia for 220 years of barbaric atrocities The ongoing war in Ukraine, the security situation in the Black Sea region, and the strengthening of partnership between Georgia and the United States were discussed by …
Staff(2022-04-21). Macron, Le Pen clash over Russia, hijab, EU in TV debate.en.mehrnews.comTEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) — Russia, Europe and hijab featured early as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen clashed in their live televised debate on Wednesday night, four days before the decisive vote in France's presidential election.
The war in Ukraine is first and foremost a mass event. In addition to crises, such events also bring opportunities….
