Ukraine News Links 17-18 June 2022

Saturday, 18 June 2022 • 20:30 — 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.

NATO’s Lies Implode… Kiev Regime Told ‘Pay Price for Peace’
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/18/nato-lies-implode-kiev-regime-told-pay-price-for-peace/

Ukraine’s Dark Web Arms Arsenal
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/18/ukraine-dark-web-arms-arsenal/

Blogger claims she is being probed in Germany over Donbass coverage
https://www.rt.com/news/557404-german-police-probe-blogger-donbass/

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Putin Addresses St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session

Friday, 17 June 2022 — The Kremlin

The President attended the plenary session of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session
President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev also took part in the session. President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping and President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi addressed the session via videoconference.

The theme this year is New Opportunities in a New World.

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Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet

Saturday, 18 June 2022 — Caitlin Johnson

Caitlin Johnstone

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British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire.

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Why India must decouple from I2U2

Friday, 17 June 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Foreign Ministers of India, Israel, UAE, US (clockwise) held a videoconference in October 2021 to launch a ‘Quad’ for West Asia

Indian diplomacy is descending from the sublime to the absurd. Such wild swings signal rank opportunism. These are extraordinary times when to be smart is equated as being opportunistic.

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