Russia
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Biden’s reality check in Europe
The takeaway from the US President Joe Biden’s European tour on March 25-26 is measly. Dissenting voices are rising in Europe as western sanctions against Russia start backfiring with price hikes and shortages of fuel and electricity. And this is only the beginning, as Moscow is yet to announce any retaliatory measures as such. Continue reading
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Pentagon Drops Truth Bombs to Stave Off War With Russia
Two leaked stories from the Pentagon have exposed the lies of mainstream media about how Russia is conducting the Ukraine war in a bid to counter propaganda intended to get NATO into the conflict, writes Joe Lauria. Continue reading
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Watch: What The Media Isn’t Telling You About Ukraine
The media wants us to believe that Putin is solely responsible for tensions in Ukraine. But this narrative conveniently leaves out the decades of Western aggression towards Russia that got us here. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains why the only path to peace is ending NATO’s expansion along Russia’s border. Continue reading
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Make Nazism Great Again
All eyes are on Mariupol. As of Wednesday night, over 70% of residential areas were under control of Donetsk and Russian forces, while Russian Marines, Donetsk’s 107th batallion and Chechen Spetsnaz, led by the charismatic Adam Delimkhanov, had entered the Azov-Stal plant – the HQ of the neo-Nazi Azov batallion. Continue reading
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More Sanctions On Russia Will Destroy Europe
On February 21 Russia announced that it would recognize the Donbas republics. A day later it did so. The ‘west’ immediately announced sanctions which in fact had been prepared in advance. On February 24 Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine. Continue reading
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India, US have different priorities
An extraordinary week has passed for the Modi government’s dalliance with the Quad. Call it a defining moment, a turning point or even an inflection point — it has elements of all three. Continue reading
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DIANA JOHNSTONE: For Washington, War Never Ends
The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of Germany confirmed that for the United States, the war in Europe was not entirely over. It still isn’t. Continue reading
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Watch: Ukraine War: How Sanctions on Russia Will Backfire Against Western Imperialism, w/ Prabhat Patnaik
The fighting in Ukraine might be a European war but its consequences are global, and it may even cause changes in geopolitical balances, relations and multipolarity. How can we understand this war as anti-imperialists? What will its global economic consequences be? And what will be the result of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia? Continue reading
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Lavrov’s History Lesson – Germany’s Downfall – Russian Forces Develop Routine
The Saker has reproduced the transcript of a talk Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov has given three days ago. It is quite long with a Q&A at the end but it is a very good history lesson on how we got to the point that Russia felt it had to intervene in the Ukraine. Continue reading
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Erasing History To Own Putin: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Putin is bad so Yuri Gagarin didn’t go to space and Tchaikovsky wasn’t a good composer and Dostoevsky was a lousy writer and Sputnik was designed by Lockheed Martin and Anton Chekhov was Welsh and Khabib Nurmagomedov was born in Minnesota. Continue reading
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Troubled Ideas: A Nuremberg Tribunal for Putin
In a good number of Western states, the ruling classes, former and current, have lost their heads. Bugbear and boogieman Vladimir Putin’s efforts in Ukraine have lent themselves to some rather extreme suggestions, ranging from assassination to potential war crimes trials. This is not to say that the Russian leader has nothing to account for. … Continue reading
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Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?
Testimony by evacuated Mariupol residents and warnings of a false flag attack undermine the Ukrainian government’s claims about a Russian bombing of a local theater sheltering civilians. Continue reading
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All That Glitters Is Not Necessarily Russian Gold
The “rules-based international order” – as in “our way or the highway” – is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted. The Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and China are starting to design a new monetary and financial system bypassing the U.S. dollar, supervised by Sergei Glazyev and intended to compete with the Bretton Woods… Continue reading
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Give Peace a Chance
Friday, 18 March 2022 — The New Dark Age Fans of Crvena Zvezda at the match with Glasgow Rangers reminded world a little about war crimes. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 15-16 March 2022
Wednesday, 16 March 2022 — The New Dark Age The US, NATO & The Article IV Trap In Ukraine https://popularresistance.org/the-us-nato-the-article-iv-trap-in-ukraine/ Former Top Pentagon Advisor Col. Doug Macgregor On Russia-Ukraine War https://popularresistance.org/former-top-pentagon-advisor-col-doug-macgregor-on-russia-ukraine-war/ NATO Is Not A Defensive International Organization But Was Founded To Threaten The USSR https://popularresistance.org/nato-is-not-a-defensive-international-organization-but-was-founded-to-threaten-the-ussr/ Continue reading
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Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan
The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions. It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. Continue reading
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Beware the Ides of March… Russia Defeated and Putin Assassinated?
By the end of this month, as the Western media messaging goes, Russia will be defeated by the NATO-backed Ukrainian rag-tag of NeoNazi brigades. Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine takes war to a new level of information warfare. Over the past three weeks, Western mainstream media has unleashed a tsunami of false information and distortion… Continue reading
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US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine and the Whiteness of Empire
Since the turn of the century the US has marched steadily eastward across Europe with an occupation force called NATO. Supposedly a military alliance, NATO is really just the US plus its subordinate nations. It’s hostile to many peoples of the world in West Asia/Middle East, Africa and Latin America, but it’s especially preoccupied with… Continue reading
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Russian forces double down to complete operation
After substantially degrading Ukraine’s military capabilities, Russia is poised to escalate the special operation leading to the victory lap. Moscow has given signals in this direction. The most significant signal came from the Kremlin spokesmen Dmitry Medvedev, who said on Monday, “Russia has a sufficient potential for conducting the special military operation in Ukraine. The… Continue reading
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Russia Has Just Cause Unlike a Legion of US/NATO Criminal Wars
Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, now in its third week, was a justified response to aggression based on self-defence. The threat from the NATO-backed Kiev regime is made all the more dangerous with the apparent discovery of bioweapons in Ukraine that were being developed covertly by the Pentagon. Continue reading