Ukraine
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Ukraine News Links 1-3 May 2022
Tuesday, 3 May 2022• 14:30 — 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. This Time,… Continue reading
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A Marshall plan for Ukraine?
The Great Recession of 2008-9 was a turning point for the US global strategy. Up to then, the general aim was to ‘engage’ important economic powers like Russia and China. Throughout the 1990s onwards, the US government pressed for the opening-up of their economies to multi-nationals and banks from the ‘West’. These economies would then… Continue reading
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Russian Ops in Ukraine Update: Pentagon Sends Old Vehicles & Ukraine’s True Colors Begin to Show
1. US continues sending old equipment including M113 tracked armored transports; 2. US is not discussing sending US-made air defense systems – likely because it is so impractical; 3. Pentagon is providing crash-courses, unable to replace the loss of trained personnel created over the last 8 years; 4. US narrative continues to center on Russian… Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Army Is In Very Bad Shape – More Fighting Will Only Destroy It
Tuesday, 3 May 2022 — Moon of Alabama The French news agency AFP has published a report by Daphne Rousseau from near the Ukrainian frontline. It allows us to gain some realistic view of the state of the Ukrainian armed forces. Exhausted Ukrainian soldiers return from eastern front Continue reading
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India, Germany cogitate on Ukraine
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s short visit to Germany pegged on the Indian-German Intergovernmental Commission meeting in Berlin on Monday inevitably came to focus on the Ukraine crisis. The western media would have loved to grill Modi on India’s reluctance to criticise Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. But German hosts thoughtfully skipped the customary Q&A… Continue reading
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Mediaset, Italian television network, Moscow, May 1, 2022
Question: After your statement about the possibility of a nuclear war, of the third world war, the whole world is asking: is there a real risk of that happening? Continue reading
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Xinhua News Agency (China), April 30, 2022
Question: What do you think is at the root of the Ukrainian crisis? What can the international community do to solve this problem? Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 1-2 May 2022
Monday, 2 May 2022 — 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. Larry Johnson Continues… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 29 April – 1 May 2022
Sunday, 1 May 2022 — 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. Boris Johnson’s Visit… Continue reading
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Media Are Now Whitewashing Nazis They Had Previously Condemned
Recently the New York Times, like many other ‘western’ outlets, has changed its language when reporting about the fascist Ukrainian Azov Battalion. What was once “a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization” which even the FBI said is notorious for its “association with neo-Nazi ideology” was first relabeled as merely “far right” before it became a normal “unit… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 29-30 April 2022
Saturday, 30 April 2022 — 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. What ‘Alt-News’ Media… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 28-29 April 2022
Friday, 29 April 2022 — 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. Africa and the… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 27-28 April 2022
Thursday, 28 April 2022 • 16:00 — 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. How… Continue reading
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The Little-Known International Charter At The Center of Ukraine War and China’s Future Defense
The U.S. talks about “rule based order” because international law is not on its side. The 1999 OSCE Charter explains why the Biden administration would rather make up a new phrase out of whole cloth than live up to agreements it signed. Continue reading
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Politico: “Germany approves tank sales to Ukraine, bowing to pressure”
Did Germany really decide to deliver tanks to the Ukraine? Continue reading
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Putin warns the US to back off in Ukraine
The Western narrative of the two-month old war in Ukraine imbued with the rhetoric of “democracy versus autocracy,” has dramatically changed with the assertion by the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin at a news conference in Poland Monday following his and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Kiev, that Washington wants to “to… Continue reading
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US recruits Israel against Russia
For more than one reason, the US President Joe Biden’s call with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday is hugely consequential. This has been Biden’s second phone conversation with Bennett in four weeks. On March 30 Biden called to express his “deepest condolences” following the terrorist attacks that killed 11 people in three Israeli… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 25- 27 April 2022
Wednesday, 27 April 2022 — 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. The White House… Continue reading
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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.… Continue reading
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Eva Bartlett Reports from Mariupol: “Ukraine Forces Used Scorched Earth Tactics”
Monday, 25 April 2022 Internationalist 360° Valerie, a woman I met in Mariupol some days ago, speaks on Azov occupying residential buildings & bombing them. “Our land must be cleaned of crazy people. Some people call them Nazis, I think this is the only word you can say, Nazis.” Continue reading
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