“Subduing the enemy by force is not the highest art of war, the highest art of war is to subdue the enemy without shedding a single drop of blood.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
French General Philippe Lavigne of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) oversees research on new propaganda methods.
In contemporary democratic societies, war propaganda is conceived as an illusionist’s act: diverting the public’s attention in order to hide what it should not know.Occupation and oppression are the real causes behind three attacks within days inside Israel. So why is Israel’s only response more oppression?
Middle East Eye – 5 April 2022
Poland blasts Germany over stance on Russia
https://www.rt.com/news/553277-poland-blames-germany-russia/
Merkel responds to Ukrainian criticism
https://www.rt.com/news/553275-merkel-ukraine-nato-move/
Fighting In Eastern Ukraine On April 4, 2022 (Videos)
https://southfront.org/fighting-in-eastern-ukraine-on-april-4-2022-videos/
The Bucha ‘Russian’ atrocities propaganda onslaught may have worked well in the ‘west’ but it lacks evidence that Russia had anything to do with it.
The former Indian ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar calls it an outright fake:
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Ukrainian troops prepare to fight Russian forces in DonbassAn indignant Moscow has angrily demanded a United Nations Security Council meeting on Monday over the allegations of atrocities by Russian troops in areas around Kiev through the past month. Prima facie, this allegation is fake news but it can mould misperceptions by the time it gets exposed as disinformation. [Update: The UK vetoed the Russian request. B]
As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to escalate and dominate the world’s attention, the increasing evidence that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is and has been working to create and arm an insurgency in the country has received considerably little attention considering its likely consequences.
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Donbass Still Remains Key Battleground
https://orientalreview.org/2022/04/03/32186/
Why Did Ukraine Suspend 11 ‘Pro-Russia’ Parties?
https://www.transform-network.net/blog/article/why-did-ukraine-suspend-11-pro-russia-parties/
Will Biden Shoot Himself In The Foot To Impose Sanctions On Russia?
https://popularresistance.org/will-biden-shoot-himself-in-the-foot-to-impose-sanctions-on-russia/
[This is painful, nay heartbreaking to watch but it’s essential that we in the West, know what’s really going on in Eastern Ukraine. The censorship here is now pretty much total. The BBC ‘news’ coverage makes Goebbels look like an amateur! B]
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Report by Patrick Lancaster US Navy veteran and independent crowd-funded journalist. Over the 8 years of the Ukraine War I made more video reports in anti-Ukraine Government (Donetsk People’s Republic) controlled territory than any other western journalist. All so covered the Armenian Azerbaijan war reaching over 8 million on his youtube channel with his reports there I show what the western media will not show you.
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[In my opinion, I think MK produces the most sober and realistic assessments of the current situation in Ukraine, telling it like it is! B.]
Chechen soldiers deployed to city of Mariupol, Mar. 31, 2022The Russian General Staff gave an in-depth briefing on March 30 on the military strategy behind the special operation in Ukraine culminating in the decision to decrease the military activities in the Kiev and northern Chernihiv regions.
2015 march in Kiev to celebrate the birthday of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera (pictured on black and red flag)On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a “special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine.” Western bourgeois media immediately decried these stated goals, regularly repeating that the allegations of Nazism in Ukraine are nothing more than Russian “fake news.” Former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, went so far as to flatly state that “there are no Nazis in the Ukraine.” Similar claims resound throughout the mass media’s echo chambers, and the fact that the current president of Ukraine is Jewish is often short-sightedly presented as the only “proof” necessary.
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The plan behind WWI: The war was to put an end to Germany’s desire to be an empire. The world had been divided by Britain, France, Belgium, Holland and Portugal. Germany arrived late and had only a few African colonies. Japan had taken Korea in 1905, defeating Russia in the far east. Though nominally allies with Russia, Britain as the head imperialist would be able to put a teetering Russia in its place. The fantasy was along the lines of Karl Kautsky’s theory of “ultra-imperialism,” where the big powers would divide the world and settle the matter between themselves without friction or conflict.
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Russian Iskander Missile Strike Killed 100 Ukrainian & Foreign Fighters In Kharkiv (Video)
https://southfront.org/russian-iskander-missile-strike-killed-100-ukrainian-foreign-fighters-in-kharkiv-video/
Russian Strikes Setting Ground For Second Stage Of Advance In East Of Ukraine
https://southfront.org/russian-strikes-setting-ground-for-second-stage-of-advance-in-east-of-ukraine/
No way NATO will deploy troops to Ukraine – Germany
https://www.rt.com/news/553183-german-general-no-nato-troops-ukrainian-soil/
Declan Hayes
Valieva, Mitchell and today’s other sporting greats best fix up their spare bedrooms as plenty of redundant athletes are coming their way.
Though terrorizing Russian teenage figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva and cancelling Russian Paralympians from the international stage both spit in the face of the spirit of Greece’s original Olympics, they are in full harmony with how NATO’s Mafiosi and their political commissars regard their lucrative sports’ empire. To the Mafia, excluding the world’s largest country from all sports is strictly business.
As the House of Commons reinstates most of the clauses of the Nationality and Borders Bill removed by the Lords, this is no time to give up. Months of brilliant campaigning and steadfast support in the Lords means that the legislation has now entered what is commonly referred to as the ‘ping pong’ stage, where the Commons votes, and the Lords, with its powers of delay, sends the legislation back. The bill, which relies for its legitimation on the Brexit state’s promise of ‘strong borders’, aims to further embed the hostile environment for migrants and refugees. But as research by Sophia Siddiqui, published this week on IRR News shows, it also emboldens far-right vigilantes to exploit gender issues, hunting down ‘immigrant criminals’, in the name of protecting women. In Weaponising violence against women, Siddiqui homes in on the far-right campaign that followed the tragic murder in Tullamore, Ireland, of schoolteacher Ashling Murphy, as well as the formation of a Polish so-called ‘citizens police’ which, in the name of ‘defending our women’, has attacked students and others, mainly from Africa and south Asia, fleeing the war in Ukraine.
The European Union and China will hold a virtual summit today. Before the summit started Brussels has strewn rumors that it would pressure China to not support Russia.
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Déclaration de VJI Canada au sujet de l’Ukraine
https://www.ijvcanada.org/fr/declaration-de-vji-canada-au-sujet-de-lukraine/
Consortium News Joe Lauria interviews Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff
http://thesaker.is/consortium-news-joe-lauria-interviews-michael-hudson-and-richard-wolff/
Image by AK Rockefeller via Flickrby Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
theAnalysis-news on Mar 14, 2022
Will China resist financialization and lead the way on climate policy, or is it a form of capitalism that will not reduce inequalities much further and isn’t serious about phasing out fossil fuel? Michael Hudson and Patrick Bond in a discussion about what we can expect from the CCP.
Note: this was recorded before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The New Dark Age 