Ukraine News Links 30-31 January 2022

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Monday, 31 January 2022 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular.

Saving The World From Nuclear War
https://popularresistance.org/saving-the-world-from-nuclear-war/

Virtual Ukrainian invasion virtually imminent
http://thesaker.is/virtual-ukrainian-invasion-virtually-imminent/

Checkmate in Ukraine
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/01/30/checkmate-in-ukraine/

Ukraine’s Exaggerated Threat Of Russian Invasion Hits Its Economy As Western Diplomats Leave
https://southfront.org/ukraines-exaggerated-threat-of-russian-invasion-hits-its-economy-as-western-diplomats-leave/

America Is Reaping What It Sowed in Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-reaping-what-sowed-ukraine/5768708

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Pegasus spyware row is really about who controls cyber weapons

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Monday, 31 January 2022 — Jonathan Cook

Washington’s ban on NSO Group is not about safeguarding human rights. It’s about curbing Israel’s dominance of ‘espionage diplomacy’

Middle East Eye – 31 January 2022

The Israeli spy software firm NSO Group has rarely been out of the headlines over the past year.

Its spyware tool Pegasus worms its way into phones, accessing data and turning on the microphone and camera to act as round-the-clock surveillance equipment. Authoritarian states have reportedly bought the cyber weapon from NSO and put it to nefarious political uses, targeting journalists, human rights workers, civil rights lawyers and opposition parties.

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US reminds India it’s showtime

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Sunday, 30 January 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Pegasus, ‘ultimate spyware’ from Israel, is back in news cycle

Pegasus, CAATSA, Nagaland — prime facie, they’ve nothing in common. At least, reading the Indian press, one gets that impression. But it is always important to connect the dots to understand where the trail is leading to.

The Biden-Harris Administration is sensing that Modi Govt, a perceived ally, is not to be seen as its war machine revs up in anticipation of a horrific war. Typically, if a country is not with the US, then, it must be against it. But India falls in a category by itself.

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Press Stunned as Ukraine President Zelensky Points Finger at West

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Friday, 29 January 2022 — Friday Everyday

Under the surface is a very different tale of the Ukrainian tensions

By Nury Vittachi

In a stunning and unexpected outburst this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country’s current problems came from the west rather than the east.

The fears of a looming war were built on news stories that Russia had troops on the border it shares with the country—but this was not unusual, and there had been a similar assembly of soldiers a year ago, he said.

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