Captured Ukrainian soldier urges his fellow soldiers to lay down their arms “…Our commanders threatened us, whoever leaves the position he will be shot on the spot. There were 450 soldiers-objectors in our unit. Then they were put in the trucks, and their further fate is unknown. What do I think about this war? It’s better to lay down arms. Go back to your families, before it’s too late…”
Under the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons, each State Party submits an annual report in the form of a declaration of compliance with the requirements of the convention. It is currently the only reporting document on the implementation of the Convention in the framework of the Confidence Building Measures.
No motivation, guns or hope. Videos such as these show that hopelessness is the rule rather than the exception across most of the Ukraine today.Preamble.
Anybody who’s anybody knows that the situation in the Ukraine has gone from bad to worse to helpless over the last month. This article will look at how this is affecting the efforts of Kiev and its backers and what this will mean as we look to the future.
For the future development of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there are at least three scenarios and mixed options between them. First is a surrender of Ukrainian forces. It depends on the political decision of president Zelensky. But because NATO countries still providing weapon systems and arms to Ukraine I think it is not possible in near future. The second scenario is protracted conflict. It may be frozen or escalated but will be limited by region. The third variant is most dangerous and means more active involvement of NATO countries against Russia and Belarus (our ally and military partner) or Transnistria where the Russian military base and stocks are located. Kaliningrad enclave of Russia also is a possible target for the military attack of the West. In this case, Russia will strike back and nuclear weapons may be used.
1. Almost all admit that they profess a Nazi ideology based on Russophobia and the glorification of Nazi criminals. Any crimes against the life of Russians and the Russian-speaking population of the former Ukraine were deliberately justified on the basis of the “racial superiority” of Ukrainians over the “Rusnya”. Members of the “Azov” battalion were directly instructed to physically abuse the civilian population of the “Donetsk and Lugansk regions”, as well as all those “suspected of sympathising with Russia”.
We just wanted to share Stella’s amazing appearance on BBC HARDtalk. In a wide-ranging interview that touched on Stella and Julian’s relationship, the U.S. allegations, and other topics, Stella spoke powerfully about what’s at stake and how she plans to keep fighting.
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A Bit Of MIlitary Porn.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-bit-of-military-porn.html
Urging Europe to War: Applying the Corporate Levers
https://journal-neo.org/2022/05/26/urging-europe-to-war-applying-the-corporate-levers/
Civilizational Rift: a Small Bump or a Major Hurdle?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/05/26/civilizational-rift-a-small-bump-or-a-major-hurdle/
Activist rapper and host of the Watchdog Lowkey is joined by Native scholar and author Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz to talk about mass shootings, white supremacy and an indigenous people’s history of the United States.
In solidarity,
Lowkey
How can an organisation become ‘actively anti-racist’ without acknowledging the existence of institutional racism? The National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing this week launched its Police Race Action Plan, tasked with ‘Improving policing for Black people’. Like so many plans and strategies before it, it is laden with commitments to ‘overhaul systems, processes and procedures’, promote good governance and implement a range of workstreams to tackle disproportionalities in the use of force, and to restore trust with the Black community.
Bisa Butler (USA), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 2019.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Empire denies its own existence. It does not exist as an empire but only as benevolence, with its mission to spread human rights and sustainable development across the world. However, that perspective means nothing in Havana nor in Caracas, where ‘human rights’ has come to mean regime change, and where ‘sustainable development’ has come to mean the throttling of their people through sanctions and blockades. It is from the standpoint of the victims of empire that clarity comes.
Amidst intense fighting under way, Russian forces entered Severodonetsk city in Luhansk, Donbass region, May 24, 2022The Western narrative that Russia is facing defeat at the hands of the Ukrainian military is falling apart. The contrived narrative that Ukraine was “winning” made Kiev delusional which in turn created conditions for Washington and London to extend the war and incrementally enter into it laterally and turn it into a war of attrition against Russia.
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On Washington’s Request, Ukraine has Now Turned against Turkey as Well
https://journal-neo.org/2022/05/26/on-washington-s-request-ukraine-has-now-turned-against-turkey-as-well/
About Force Multipliers And Game-Changers. By Larry.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/about-force-multipliers-and-game.html
In Davos and beyond, NATO’s upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.
By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and crossposted with The Cradle
Three months after the start of Russia’s Operation Z in Ukraine, the battle of The West (12 percent) against The Rest (88 percent) keeps metastasizing. Yet the narrative – oddly – remains the same.
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“The U.S. doesn’t want peace”
https://mronline.org/2022/05/24/the-u-s-doesnt-want-peace/
Relations between Russia and Algeria are Developing Rapidly
https://journal-neo.org/2022/05/25/relations-between-russia-and-algeria-are-developing-rapidly/
Biden In Tokyo: Killing Strategic Ambiguity
https://orientalreview.org/2022/05/25/biden-in-tokyo-killing-strategic-ambiguity/
From L-R: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, US President Joe Biden, and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity at Izumi Garden Gallery in Tokyo on May 23, 2022A new economic bloc comprising twelve countries of the Indo-Pacific region and the United States was unveiled on Monday in Tokyo on the sidelines of President Joe Biden’s visit. Christened as the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), it is conceived as the economic correlative of the US Indo-Pacific Strategy.
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New York Times Repudiates Drive For ‘Decisive Military Victory’ In Ukraine
https://popularresistance.org/new-york-times-repudiates-drive-for-decisive-military-victory-in-ukraine/
Truly Dangerous’: Biden Vows US Military Response If China Invades Taiwan
https://popularresistance.org/truly-dangerous-biden-vows-us-military-response-if-china-invades-taiwan/
In The Wake Of Russian Victory In Mariupol
https://orientalreview.org/2022/05/24/in-the-wake-of-russian-victory-in-mariupol/
NATO has raised the stakes by flooding Ukraine with heavy weaponry and trying to prolong the conflict, says Scott Ritter, a military analyst and former US Marine intelligence officer.
Sputnik: In a recent interviews with Sputnik you said that if Russia is “able to achieve some sort of demonstrable battlefield victory of such a large scale that the inevitable defeat of Ukraine is played before the European community, that would put a damper on the provision of weaponry [by the West] in a futile exercise.” Could the surrender of Ukrainian military, National Guard and neo-Nazis in Azovstal be considered this sort of victory?
By Kahlil Wall-Johnson for the Saker Blog
The inter-imperialist camp, as it has been called, has dedicated itself to painting the Ukraine conflict strictly in terms of inter-imperialist struggle. In their dedication to this interpretation, they have committed to a series of surprisingly extravagant claims, some of which I intend to gather here and hold up to the light. However, it is this camp’s total lack of scruples, specifically when it comes to their sources, that has compelled me to object. Having said this, I find it necessary to reassure the reader that what follows is not (unlike the pieces being critiqued) a rant on how we ought to interpret Lenin’s Imperialism, or even really an attempt to engage with theory. Nor is it a detailed comparison of the role of the US and Russia in the world-system. There is no need to repeat the many articles which have rebutted these claims and contrasted the specific nature of US imperialism to Chinese or Russian foreign policy and trade. Rather, what I am trying to scrape at here is their lazy and offensive attitude towards their sources; an attitude that is repeatedly criticized by the very authors they cite!
JENIN, OCCUPIED PALESTINE – Israel’s announcement that it will not pursue an investigation into the killing of famed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was not surprising. The specific reasons it gave to justify the decision make little difference. However, one thing is certain: It is highly unlikely that the killing of a journalist like Shireen Abu Akleh was the decision of a lone soldier or a commander on the ground.
