Monday, 2 May 2022 — The Saker
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1811569/
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?
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1811569/
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?
[Lessons must be learned]
I love the phrase ‘lessons need to be learned’. It always makes me laugh when I hear it. Usually intoned with a voice of great seriousness by the leaders of an organisation found to have made disastrous errors. It is right up there with ‘safety is our number one priority.’ About the only group I have yet to hear say this are arms manufacturers. Although I wouldn’t put it past them. Maybe … ‘You could take someone’s eye out with that.’
Question: What do you think is at the root of the Ukrainian crisis? What can the international community do to solve this problem?
Sergey Lavrov: When we talk about the Ukrainian crisis, first of all we need to look at the destructive policy of the Western states conducted over many years and led by the United States, which set a course to knock together a unipolar world order after the end of the Cold War. NATO’s reckless expansion to the East was a key component of those actions, despite the political obligations to the Soviet leadership on the non-expansion of the Alliance. As you know, those promises were just empty words. All these years, NATO infrastructure has been moving closer and closer to the Russian borders.
The sun sets on Kabul, Afghanistan (File photo)There is media buzz lately about an anti-Taliban insurgency struggling to be born in Afghanistan. A former Afghan army general, Sami Sadat, is returning home as the West’s favourite to don the mantle of leadership of a pan-Afghan “resistance” movement against repressive Taliban rule.
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Larry Johnson Continues Reviewing Of Jacques Baud’s Thinking.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/larry-johnson-continues-reviewing-of.html
There Are No Nazis In Ukraine…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/there-are-no-nazis-in-ukraine.html
Curfew For Anniversary Of Odessa Massacre That Sparked Rebellion
https://popularresistance.org/curfew-for-anniversary-of-odessa-massacre-that-sparked-rebellion/
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Boris Johnson’s Visit to India
https://journal-neo.org/2022/05/01/boris-johnson-s-visit-to-india/
Ukraine – Doubling Down
https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-doubling-down/
What Explains Poland’s Massive Amount Of Military Aid To Kiev?
https://orientalreview.org/2022/04/30/what-explains-polands-massive-amount-of-military-aid-to-kiev/
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 in the Ukrainian military”.
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What ‘Alt-News’ Media Report About Ukraine’s War That Mainstream Ones Don’t
https://orientalreview.org/2022/04/30/what-alt-news-media-report-about-ukraines-war-that-mainstream-ones-dont/
My Good Polish Friend Mike Krupa Sent Me…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/my-good-polish-friend-mike-krupa-sent-me.html
Why has Turkey Closed its Skies for Russian Aircraft Bound for Syria?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/04/30/why-has-turkey-closed-its-skies-to-russian-aircraft-bound-for-syria/
Pepe Escobar
Amidst the propaganda dementia cum acute cognitive dissonance overdrive across the whole NATOstan sphere, the only antidote is served by sparse voices of reason, which happen to be Russian, thus silenced and/or dismissed.
Source: (Natural News) In the bombshell news of the week, Russia’s Gazprom natural gas exporter, exactly has promised, is shutting off gas flows to nations whose gas importers refuse to pay for gas in Rubles.

by Juan Bordera
Antonio Turiel (Spanish National Research Council)
Fernando Valladares (Spanish National Research Council)
Marta García Pallarés
Javier de la Casa (Ecological and Forestry Applications Center)
Fernando Prieto (Sustainability Observatory)
Ferran Puig Vilar (engineer and climate expert)
Originally published in CTXT – Contexto y Acción, translation published by MR Online.
The Summary for Policymakers for the April 2022 Working Group III Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the third part of the IPCC’s 2021-2022 Sixth Assessment Report addressing Mitigation , is according to UN Secretary General António Guterres, “a litany of broken climate promises.… Simply put, they [the vested interests] are lying,” denying the science, present in the report as a whole but excluded or downplayed in the Summary for Policymakers.
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Africa and the Collective West after the Start of Russia’s Special Operation in Ukraine
https://journal-neo.org/2022/04/29/africa-and-the-collective-west-after-the-start-of-russia-s-special-operation-in-ukraine/
Turkey Should Be Praised For Its Pragmatic Stance Towards Black Sea Geopolitics
https://orientalreview.org/2022/04/29/turkey-should-be-praised-for-its-pragmatic-stance-towards-black-sea-geopolitics/
On Ukraine, The World Majority Sides With Russia Over U.S.
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/04/on-ukraine-the-world-majority-sides-with-russia-over-u-s/
With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible. I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.
On 28th April, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent. Thousands of us took to the streets to resist this draconian legislation. But the battle against the bill was never going to be won in parliament, and it’s now down to all of us to make it unenforceable on the streets.
The fact that within the last 72 hours opposition in the House of Lords to four bills, including the Nationality and Borders Bill and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, has crumbled, is, to say the least, a setback for the struggle for racial and social justice. But no defeat is ever complete and the stories we document this week in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, suggest that opponents are not going to allow these laws, and others yet to come, to set regressive new norms.
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How Could the U.S. Help to Bring Peace to Ukraine?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-could-us-help-bring-peace-ukraine/5778849
$4 Billion and Counting: The D.C. War Machine Feasts on Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/4-billion-counting-dc-war-machine-feasts-ukraine/5778827
US Intel Helped Ukraine Shoot Down Russian Plane Carrying “Hundreds” of Paratroopers
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-intel-helped-ukraine-shoot-down-russian-plane-carrying-hundreds-paratroopers/5778817
[Source: greatgameindia.com]It looks a lot like a return to the past. Founded in 1949 to defend against the “Soviet threat,” the NATO alliance is facing a return to mechanized warfare, a huge increase in defense spending, and potentially a new Iron Curtain falling across Europe. After struggling to find a new post-Cold War role, countering terrorism following the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001 and a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, NATO is back encroaching on its original nemesis.[1]
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