February 21, 2022
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Russia’s Security Council Recommends To Recognize The Donbas Republics
The Russian National Security Council has been meeting today to discuss the recognition of the Donetzk People’s Republic (DNR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) as independent states. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 20-21 February 2022
Monday, 21 February 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. Russia… Continue reading
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The Insanity of the West Accelerates
The New York Times reports that Biden is going to forestall Russian aggression against Ukraine by deploying between 1,000 and 5,000 US troops on Russia’s border and is prepared to increase the number of troops tenfold to 10,000 to 50,000 soldiers. A Russian army would eat this small number for a snack in 5 minutes. Clearly the… Continue reading
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The Media’s Odd Double Standard On Evidence Required For Claims Of An Impending Attack
After weeks of uncritically passing along completely unevidenced claims about an endlessly imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine, the mass media have suddenly remembered basic journalistic ethics when reporting on claims that Ukraine is plotting an attack on Russia-backed separatists. Continue reading
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Appeal Against Imprisonment for Journalism, Wednesday 23 February
I will never get back the four months of my life I spent locked at least 22.5 hours a day in a 12 foot by 8 foot cell. I have nothing personally to gain from carrying on the legal fight – I was a civil prisoner and do not have a criminal record. Continue reading
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Watch: How You Can Debunk Atlantic Council’s Anti-China “Uyghur Genocide” Lies in 5 Minutes
(The New Atlas) – The Atlantic Council has released a report claimed across the Western media to provide additional evidence of “genocide” in China’s western region of Xinjiang. However, in less than 5 minutes of research it is possible to expose the report as propaganda built on existing, baseless claims coupled to known information about… Continue reading
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Zelensky’s Munich Speech Implies That Ukraine’s Becoming Increasingly Desperate
The entire Ukrainian state structure is extremely worried about being abandoned by the US-led West after their American patron beat the drums of war, accelerated Ukraine’s economic collapse, then literally fled in the face of their fearmongered ‘Russian invasion’. Continue reading
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NATO’s Nazis in Ukraine, anti-Russian war propaganda, & our human crisis
As I watch the U.S. imperialists manufacture a crisis in Ukraine, putting forth fabricated accounts of Russian provocations so that further military buildup throughout the region can be justified, I think of what Albert Camus said about humanity’s capacity for evil in the modern era. Continue reading
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Ukraine: Where to Find the Truth in Enormous Detail
In the massive propaganda blitz over Ukraine, there is one place where you can find, in enormous detail, the truth about what is happening in the civil war conflict zone on a daily basis. That is in the daily reports of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Monitoring Mission. Continue reading
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What are Putin and Macron up to?
This is the big RT headline: Putin and Macron agree on measures to halt escalation in Ukraine. Here is a machine translation of the official French statement: Continue reading
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India, China in Europe’s crisis
The bottom line is: This is Russia’s showdown with the US and it is existential for Russia, and is the culmination of a history of American betrayal of promises made to Russia since 1990, much as Washington would twist it out of context and dub it today as a matter of ‘imminent’ Russian invasion of… Continue reading
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Another More Worrying Corruption Scandal Emerges At The Heart of Government
In the space of little more than two years, Boris Johnson has wrecked any notion of decency or moral authority in the seat of power. As if illegally proroguing parliament, lying to the Queen and the House of Commons or enabling corruption with VIP lanes for cronies wasn’t bad enough – now we have something even more scandalous… Continue reading
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