Day: June 3, 2022

Ukraine News Links 2-3 June 2022

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Friday, 3 June 2022 • 21:00 — 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 and some links may not work, depending on your location but I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

Moscow’s (Pseudo)Intellectual Parnassus Gets A Clue.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/06/moscows-pseudointellectual-parnassus.html

Africa, the Collateral Victim of a Distant Conflict
https://popularresistance.org/africa-the-collateral-victim-of-a-distant-conflict/

Mass Shootings, Empire, and Racist, Copaganda Dog Whistles
https://popularresistance.org/mass-shootings-empire-and-racist-copaganda-dog-whistles/

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How Russia, And Putin, Are Weaponizing, Losing And Running Out Of … Everything

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Friday, 3 June 2022 — Moon of Alabama

Moon of Alabama earlier explored how Russia was weaponizing everything. This after Donald Trump had done so many good things for Russia. Then Putin lost everything he ever might have had.

It has been getting worse since.

Now Russia, and Putin himself, are ‘running out’ of whatever may have been left.
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As sanctions fail and Russia advances, Western media changes its tune on Ukraine

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Thursday, 2  June 2022 — RT

Western media outlets, once cheerleaders for Kiev, are increasingly warning sanctions are failing and Ukraine needs to make peace
Nebojsa Malic
Even as the collective West continues to insist – against all observable reality – that the conflict in Ukraine is going well for Kiev, major media outlets are becoming increasingly uneasy with the situation on the economic front. More and more observers are admitting that the embargoes imposed by the US and its allies aren’t crushing the Russian economy, as originally intended, but rather their own.

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Over Extending and Unbalancing Russia

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Wednesday, 1 June 2022 —Strategic Culture Foundation

Brookings, Rand, their employees, apologists and collaborators are very much a part of the Ukrainian, Yemeni, Syrian and related problems and they should answer in a war crimes’ court for it.

Over Extending and Unbalancing Russia (OEAUR) is a freely accessible 2019 Rand Corporation policy paper that posits how the United States and her satellites can most efficiently destroy Russia mainly, as it happens, through militarizing Ukraine and escalating sanctions. Rand’s objective is to strangle Russia by throttling her at her choke points, a vulnerability Russia’s own policy advisors have long been aware of, just as they have been aware of Rand’s well entrenched Russophobia.

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Reports of OPEC+ death are greatly exaggerated

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Thursday, 2 June 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (R) met visiting Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, Riyadh, May 31, 2022

The fact that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states held a joint ministerial meeting with their Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Saudi capital of Riyadh at this point in time in global politics conveys a powerful message in itself.

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