Sunday, 5 March 2023 — The Grayzone
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Meet the British intelligence-linked firm that warped MH17 news coverage
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Ukraine: A war to end all wars in Europe
Sunday, 5 March 2023 — Indian Punchline
US President Joe Biden (L) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House, Washington, DC, March 3, 2023The dash for the White House in Washington on Friday by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery. Scholz landed in DC, drove to the White House and was received by President Biden in Oval Office for a conversation that lasted over an hour. No aides were present. And he flew back to Berlin.
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Zelensky’s Comic Insults… Gimme HIMARS, Tanks, F-16s and Now America’s Sons & Daughters
Friday, 3 March 2023 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The glib talk of people dying for no good cause, but rather only for a clique of clowns and their imperial circus, is the ultimate sick joke.
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Ukraine News Links 3-4 March 2023
Saturday, 4 March 2023 — The New Dark Age
Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan
https://popularresistance.org/why-biden-snubbed-chinas-ukraine-peace-plan/G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Ends Without A Joint Communique Because Of Disagreements Regarding Ukraine War
https://popularresistance.org/g20-foreign-ministers-meeting-ends-without-a-joint-communique-because-of-disagreements-regarding-ukraine-war/Ukraine War One Year In
https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-war-one-year-in/
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Bakhmut, Strategic Or Not, Is Falling
Saturday, 4 March 2023 — Moon of Alabama
‘Western’ media can not decide if Bakhmut is a strategic city or has little strategic value. They claim both is the case.
Bakhmut is of course of strategic value. It is covering the crossing of three major train lines and four major roads (M-03, M-32, T-13-02, T-05-13). As such it is the linchpin of the whole Donbas region. Besides that it also has some valuable mineral mines.
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Bye Bye Bakhmut
Saturday, 4 March 2023 — The van says…
With Ukrainian demolitions under way, the fall of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) is now imminent.Preamble
After months of war, the city of Artemovsk (covered in this article) is about to fall into Russian hands. This shorter article will look not just at the city, but what the consequences of Russia taking this town will mean.
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House overwhelmingly approves resolution to maintain Syria sanctions after earthquake
Saturday, 4 March 2023 — The Grayzone
March 4, 2023Every member of the progressive Squad voted for the resolution. Only Republican Reps. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene voted against it.
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‘They’ve got money for wars but can’t feed the poor’ – Tupac
Friday, 3 March 2023 — MintPress News
Since the proxy war in Ukraine began, the Biden administration and Congress have directed more than $100 billion in assistance to their proxy forces fighting Russia in Ukraine. MintPress Senior Staff Writer Alan MacLeod asks why all of that money is going to Ukraine while Europe and the United States neglect their own populations.
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Ukraine News Links 2-3 March 2023
Friday, 3 March 2023 — The New Dark Age
Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/03/why-biden-snubbed-chinas-ukraine-peace-plan/China’s Peace Plan for Ukraine
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/03/chinas-peace-plan-for-ukraine/Seymour Hersh: US Blowing Up Nord Stream Was ‘Act of War’
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/03/02/seymour-hersh-us-blowing-up-nord-stream-was-act-of-war/
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Reality Based People Can Fact Check The ‘Fact-Checkers’
Friday, 3 March 2023 — Moon of Alabama
Stavroula Pabst, a writer in Greece, has published an interesting piece on the nefarious purpose of fact-checking and ‘dis-information’ debunking.
The piece explains this by going back to the writings of the French philosopher Guy Debord and his musings about ‘spectacles’.
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Sanctions On Russia Come Back To Bite Their Issuers
Thursday, 2 March 2023 — Moon of Alabama
Unlike ‘western’ politicians I try to think ahead of the consequences certain foreign relation policies might have.
On March 9 2022 I predicted:
The Sanction Backlash Will Push The ‘West’ To Accept Russia’s Demands
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War party target lists expands from Crimea to China
Friday, 3 March 2023 — The Grayzone
Scheduled for 3 Mar 2023
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the growing pressure on the Biden administration to take its Ukraine proxy war to Crimea, while military leaders openly discuss plans for war with China over Taiwan, while acknowledging the inevitability of Taiwan’s destruction. The militaristic fever comes as antiwar rallies gain momentum across the Atlantic and Ukraine’s military appears bogged down in the Donbas.
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Wayne Shorter 1933 – 2023
Friday, 3 March 2023 — WKCR
35 hours of Wayne’s music, everything from his work with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis, Weather Report and of course his own music on Blue Note through to his later work like Atlantis and rebroadcast of the late, great jazz broadcaster Phil Schapp’s marathon on WKCR on Wayne Shorter (who I had the pleasure of meeting in the 1980s in the WKCR studio). Great listening!
See the short Bio on Phil Schaap here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Schaap
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Entrenched Mentalities
Friday, 3 March 2023 — The van says…
A century has passed, but faraway leaders still leave the common soldier to face the consequences of their decisions.Preamble
It is always interesting to look back upon history if only to draw parallels with the present, and a review of British operations during the First World War caused the author to reflect upon mistakes made in the past and to compare them with the policies of today. This shorter article will examine the similarities between the trenches of the Somme and the truths of today. Before we examine the analogies between the past and present, we have to take a look at what went before.
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Ukraine News Links 1-2 March 2023
Thursday, 2 March 2023 — The New Dark Age
Caitlin Johnstone: Media Muzzling Anti-War Protests
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/caitlin-johnstone-media-muzzling-anti-war-protests/The US diplomatic efforts to curtail Turkish independence continue
https://journal-neo.org/2023/03/02/the-us-diplomatic-efforts-to-curtail-turkish-independence-continue/WATCH: The Vietnam Peace Movement & Ukraine Today
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/01/watch-the-vietnam-peace-movement-ukraine-today/
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Attacks on asylum housing: from Ireland to Knowsley
Thursday, 2 March 2023 — Institute of Race Relations
Since our last newsletter in which we reported on the eruption of violence in Knowsley, Merseyside, we have seen the spreading of a relentless campaign targeting hotels accommodating asylum seekers across England, with protests in Rotherham, Skegness, Newquay, Long Eaton and Dunstable in the past weeks.
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Those Who Die for Life – like Hugo Chávez – Cannot Be Called Dead: The Ninth Newsletter (2023)
Thursday, 2 March 2023 — The Tricontinental
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar’s teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson, a mass literacy programme that it initiated two years earlier. The mission was named after Rodríguez (who was also known by the pseudonym Samuel Robinson).
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Black Agenda Report March 1, 2023
Wednesday, 1 March 2023 — Black Agenda Report
East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy
Margaret Kimberley
A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events there followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class.ESSAY: Canada in the Caribbean, Caribbean International Service Bureau, 1971
Editors, Black Agenda Review
A 1971 statement shines a bright white light on the long history of Canadian imperialism in the Caribbean.
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Russo-Ukrainian War: Schrodinger’s Offensive
Wednesday, 1 March 2023 — Big Serge
A ramble about force design, Moldova, and a fortress on the steppe
Winter War on the SteppeWhere is the big Russian offensive? This is, at the moment, the million dollar question that inevitably intrudes on any discussion of the war’s current course. It is probably not surprising (to those of us that are familiar with human nature, at least) that this question becomes a Rorschach test in which everybody sees their own prior assumptions about the Russian military.
The New Dark Age 