Russia
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Russia hits back on “sanctions from hell”
An innocuous tweet from Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organisations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov earlier today in the afternoon said that he met with the EU Coordinator at the Vienna talks on Iran nuclear issue Enrique Mora and “raised a number of questions which need to be duly addressed now in order to ensure smooth… Continue reading
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Is This Russian Propaganda? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
We’re risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the “democracy” of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from Washington due to a US-backed coup in 2014. Continue reading
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Why Biden loves to demonise Putin
Friday, 4 March 2022 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Pope Francis (R) met Patriarch Kirill (R) at Havana airport in Havana in February 2016 in the first meeting of a Catholic pope and head of Russian Orthodox Church, on a mission to try to overcome the rift in Christianity dating back to Great Schism of… Continue reading
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How Russia Will Counterpunch the U.S./EU Declaration of War
Only self-sufficiency affords total independence. And the Big Picture has also been keenly understood by the Global South. Continue reading
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Disarming Ukraine – Day 7
The crisis, and especially the reaction of the ‘west’ to it, is much worse than I had feared. The U.S. government and ‘western’ media claim that the World condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That is however far from reality. It is only true if true if you believe ‘the world’ solely exists of the 5-eye spying… Continue reading
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Why Russian operation focuses on Donbass, Black Sea regions
A veteran Indian journalist and world class war correspondent, recently wrote with a touch of humour that when BBC’s Lyse Doucet landed in Kiev a week ago, he was reminded of the howling cry of monkeys in the Corbett Park alerting the jungle that a tiger was on the prowl. “As soon as I saw… Continue reading
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Washington bears ‘special responsibility’ for Russia-Ukraine situation
The military conflict between Ukraine and Russia will enter its sixth day on March 1. The war has created new divisions and confrontations on a global scale. It also makes the situation of the battlefield, the European and even the global situation more complicated and uncertain. But we must note that under current circumstances, the… Continue reading
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Repeating ’70s Strategy of Grand Chess-Master Brzezinski
Biden Appears to Have Induced Russian Invasion of Ukraine to Bankrupt Russia’s Economy and Advance Regime Change Continue reading
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Watch: The Ukraine Crisis with Dan Cohen and Scott Ritter
As the Ukraine crisis escalates, correspondent Dan Cohen is joined by former United Nations Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter. They contextualize the history of NATO deceptions, provocations, and the 7-year war on Donbas that led up to Russia’s invasion to “de-Nazify” Ukraine. Ritter compares the military capabilities of the US, NATO, and Russia, and explains how… Continue reading
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Ukraine makes strange bedfellows
The world community is aghast over the acute tensions between the United States and its NATO allies on one side and Russia on the other, which is poised critically on the brink of a military confrontation, the like of which the world didn’t see in the entire Cold War era. Continue reading
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Watch: Russian UN ambassador responds to US ‘war propaganda’ in interview w/Grayzone
Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal speak with Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitri Polyanskiy on escalated tensions on the Russian-Ukraine border, US accusations of an imminent Russian invasion, and the context missing from a US media that refuses to interview Russian officials. Continue reading
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Disarming Ukraine – Day 5 | Money War On Russia – Day 1
This war is waged at a financial size that is unprecedented. The consequences in all markets will be very significant to extreme. But experience from Iran shows that such financial wars have their limits as the targeted country learns to survive. Moreover Russia is in a much stronger position than Iran ever was and is better prepared for the… Continue reading
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Russia: from sanctions to slump?
The economic war between the US-led NATO group and Russia is hotting up alongside the real war in Ukraine itself. In response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the US and Europe have upped the ante in imposing economic sanctions. The first of these was the suspension of any dealings with several leading Russian… Continue reading
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The U.S. is preparing war with China and Russia at the same time
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics on 21 February means that tensions in Eastern Ukraine are likely to continue to rise, which is exactly what U.S. foreign policy wants to promote. Three days ago, Foreign Policy published an article on its website titled “Washington Must Prepare for War with Both Russia… Continue reading
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U.S./NATO is in the Grip of a Daemonic Death-Wish and the Entire World is Threatened
Not wanting to sound hyperbolic, but I am starting to conclude that the nuclear madmen running the U.S./NATO New Cold War they started decades ago are itching to start a nuclear war with Russia. Their hypocrisy and nihilistic thirst for death and destruction are so extreme that it boggles my mind. They accuse Russia of… Continue reading
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The Situation in the Ukraine: Predictions vs. Reality
Last Thursday I reposed my “top ten signs that Russia has invaded the Ukraine” from 8 years ago when the Ukrainian regime change and civil war first started and the West continuously made claims that Russia had invaded. Well, last Thursday Russia did indeed invade. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 26-27 February 2022
Sunday, 27 February 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. Ecosocialists… Continue reading
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India shouldn’t miss world war pointer
The transition of India’s foreign-policy mindset during the post-cold war period from an international outlook to a national one, and then its colossal drop to a ‘mofussil’ thinking, is a tragic phenomenon. One outcome of it has been the tendency to reduce foreign policy to a single theme — India’s relations with the United States… Continue reading
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Putin – The Real Story
The U.S. political establishment was shocked and delighted by the 1989–91 fall of the Soviet Union, and its members were similarly pleased with the policies of President Boris Yeltsin, a virtual U.S. client, under whose rule ordinary Russians suffered a calamitous fall in living standards, while a small set of oligarchs were able to loot… Continue reading
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