An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm

Monday, 25 April 2022 — MintPress News

Old propaganda, new Cold War

“Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think tanks, and academia.” – Chris Hedges

Alan Macleod

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – 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.

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Ukraine News Links 24-26 April 2022

Tuesday, 26 April 2022 • 20:00 — 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.

LOL. Why Not 1.5 million.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/lol-why-not-15-million.html

US/NATO Wants War With Russia
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/04/us-nato-wants-war-with-russia/

Will Ukraine Become A Hub For Accentuating Rising Neo-Nazism?
https://popularresistance.org/will-ukraine-become-a-hub-for-accentuating-rising-neo-nazism/

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A Recap Of The War In Ukraine – by Gonzalo Lira

Tuesday, 26 April 2022 — Moon of Alabama

Gonzalo Lira just delivered a decent recap of the war in Ukraine.

Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968 –

10:28 UTC · Apr 26, 2022

Quick recap for those who haven’t followed what’s been going on in Ukraine but want to understand: 02/24: The Russians invaded from the south, south-east, east and north, in a lightning campaign. The Russians invaded with 190K troops—against 250K combat troops from Ukraine.

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Evidence Based Medicine – it was a good idea

Monday, 25 April 2022 — Dr Malcolm Kendrick

[Until it died]

Once upon a time I was a member of the General Practitioners Committee. A sub-committee of the British Medical Association that represents GPs. This was during a time when the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) system was being rolled out. There is hardly anyone working in the NHS, including almost all hospital doctors, who has any idea what QOF is. But GPs [Family physicians] sure as hell do.

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Russia Releases Documents on US-Funded Bio-Weapons, Hunter Biden Exposed

22 April 2022 — Orinoco Tribune

The Russian MoD has released scandalous documents exposing US-funded projects and plans to create and concentrate deadly pathogens and diseases while inventing devices and vehicles to spread them.

The Russian Defense Ministry has exacerbated an already flared scandal of Hunter Biden‘s connection and correspondence with employees of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Pentagon contractors in Ukraine. This comes after Putin had already demanded Washington expose its biological activities in Ukraine, which have been threatening Russia and Europe inclusively.

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What is propelling the U.S. into increasing international military aggression?

Sunday, 24 April 2022 — MROnline

| Thick smoke billows from the Azov steel plant on April 20 2022 | MR OnlineThick smoke billows from the Azov steel plant on April 20, 2022. Photo credit: Guancha.

by John Ross

This article by John Ross (Luo Siyin) was also published in slightly edited form in Guancha as “It’s pointless to count on American ‘kindness’.”

Introduction

The international escalation of U.S. military aggression over a period of more than two decades is clear. However, even within that framework, the events leading to the Ukraine war represent a new qualitative step in this U.S. military policy. Before the Ukraine war, the U.S. carried out military confrontations only against developing countries which had far weaker armed forces than the U.S. and which did not possess nuclear weapons. In chronological order these major U.S. aggressive military actions against developing countries were:
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