Since October 30 2021 first U.S. and then other ‘western’ media have been filled with predictions of a Russian war against the Ukraine.
Today David Ignatius, the CIA’s spokesperson resident at the Washington Post, makes another dire claim:
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The Wall Street Journal has an article out titled “U.S. Aims to Thwart China’s Plan for Atlantic Base in Africa“, subtitled “An American delegation wants to convince Equatorial Guinea against giving Beijing a launchpad in waters the U.S. considers its backyard.”
by Eva Bartlett
BREAKING: Lugansk statement: “Units of the 79th assault airborne brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces are getting prepared for the deployment as a tactical assault force into the Lugansk People’s republic”
— ASB News / MILITARY
(@ASBMilitary) February 13, 2022
“Commander of the United Forces Operation (Kiev’s armed operation in Donbass) Alexander Pavlyuk has arrived in the settlement of Voitovo to check the combat readiness of the 1st battalion.” https://t.co/V0kXVjW1eq
— ASB News / MILITARY
The clownish diplomats (and media) in the West have been gunning heavily for Russia-Ukraine war recently. As per their usual, their claims are pure fabrications with zero evidence whatsoever. Just hot air. And as per usual, when challenged to substantiate their claims, they stutter and talk in circles, hoping the questions will stop.
Ukraine: Political and linguistic map (Economist 2015)As predicted by SPR more than a year ago, the current US Administration and its foreign policy strategists are now continuing their geopolitical campaign in Ukraine where they left off in 2016. Russia, in turn, appears to be determined to defend ‘annexed’ Crimea (base of the Russian Black Sea fleet) as well as Russian-speaking parts of the Donbass region in Eastern Ukraine (see map above).
US President Joe Biden spoke with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin from his retreat at Camp David, Maryland, February 12, 2022The White House readout of US President Joe Biden’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday conveys the impression that its leitmotif was Washington’s threat of sanctions against Russia if it attacked Ukraine. But it is a hackneyed message that wouldn’t have taken more than a minute or two to convey. Yet, the conversation lasted “a bit over an hour.”
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Will Iran Strike at Global Oil Supply if Russia Invades Ukraine?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/02/will-iran-strike-at-global-oil-supply-if-russia-invaded-ukraine/
Biden dials back belligerence toward Russia
https://www.indianpunchline.com/biden-dials-back-belligerence-toward-russia/
Military Situation In Eastern Ukraine On February 13, 2022 (Map Update)
https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-eastern-ukraine-on-february-13-2022-map-update/
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Some Other News (Important).
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/some-other-news-importnat.html
Why Did Biden Call Putin.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/why-did-biden-call-putin.html
Source: American Geophysical UnionPeople with lower incomes are exposed to heat waves for longer periods of time compared to higher income people, due to a combination of location and access to heat adaptations like air conditioning. This inequality is expected to rise as temperatures increase, new research shows.
Breakaway Donbass region prepares for attack by Ukrainian extreme nationalist forces emboldened by western supportThe two takeaways out of the French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Moscow and his six-hour long talks with President Vladimir Putin have been the assurance held out by the latter that Russian forces would not ramp up the crisis near Ukraine’s borders — “there would be no deterioration or escalation” — and second, an agreement that Russia would pull troops out of Belarus at the end of exercises taking place currently near Ukraine’s northern borders.
Eric Adams’ Black on Black Crime
The mass incarceration state was built to lock up as many Black people as possible and discussion of even modest reforms is shut down. Such was the case in New York where the mayor and police commissioner smeared Manhattan’s district attorney, forcing him to backtrack on his campaign promise of reducing the number of prison sentences. The Black face rises to the high place because of adherence to white supremacist ideology.
SPEECH: (Re)Centring African Epistemologies: An Intellectual Journey, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, 2021.
Nigerian scholar Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí’s speech upon acceptance of the African Studies Association’s Distinguished Africanist Award offers an important reminder of the role of racist and sexist hierarchy in the organization of knowledge of Africa.
The reality that the Amnesty report has brought forward opens doors to a much more aggressive anti-apartheid campaign than we have seen so far.by Miko Peled
By Michael Roberts
Let me start this post by quoting Noah Smith, liberal economist and Bloomberg journalist from his blog on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): “The New York Times (NYT) just came out with a big glowing writeup of MMT, entitled “Time for a Victory Lap*”. This article aroused the anger of just about every macroeconomist on Twitter, and with good reason — it demonstrates very little understanding of the issues at play or the state of the policy debate, and it rhetorically elevates a fringe ideology to a position of importance and centrality that it neither occupies nor deserves. The NYT article on MMT, written by Jeanna Smialek, is mostly a puff piece about Stephanie Kelton, MMT’s most well-known proponent. In glowing tones, it describes Kelton’s clothes, her office, her house, her neighborhood, her blog, her manner of speaking, her personal story, and so on, calling her “the star architect of a movement that is on something of a victory lap”. Very little is written about the background of the macroeconomic policy debate, and what does appear is highly questionable.”
by Finian Cunningham
© Andrew HarnikUS President Joe Biden accused Russian leader Vladimir Putin of “wanting things he cannot get”. He was referring to Moscow’s security demands in Europe with regard to the US-led NATO military alliance.
Looks like the man in the White House is inadvertently doing a bit of self-projection. It’s Biden who seems to want things that he can’t get.
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Why Would Washington Assist the Afghan Taliban?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/02/11/why-would-washington-assist-the-afghan-taliban/
Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/02/cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua-the-us-russia-conflict-enters-a-new-phase/
Is False Flag Coming?
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/02/is-false-flag-coming.html
Dave Kellaway looks at the Portuguese general election result.
Election results (226 out of 230 seats declared)
| Party | % 2022 | % 2019 |
| PS (Socialist Party) | 41.68 (117 seats) | 36.4 |
| PPD/PSD (Centre Right) | 27.8 | 27.8 |
| Chega (neo-fascist) | 7.15 | 1.3 |
| Initiativa Liberal | 4.98 | 1.3 |
| Bloco Esquerda | 4.46 | 9.5 |
| PCP (Communist) | 4.39 | 6.3 |
| CDS (right-wing) | 1.61 | 4.2 |
| PAN (animal rights) | 1.53 | 3.3 |
| Liberal | 1.28 | 1.1 |
Portuguese Election results so far (2022 compared to 2019)
Sunday’s general election in Portugal was triggered last October by the decision of the anti-capitalist Bloco Esquerda (Left Bloc) and the Portuguese Communist party to vote down the proposed budget of Antonio Costa’s Socialist Party government. The left was opposed to the creeping privatisation and lack of resources allocated to the SNS – the national health service – and the failure to increase sufficiently the national minimum wage.
After meeting in Beijing, China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin released a joint statement clarifying the ideological divisions of the new cold war: Eurasian calls for multipolarity, cooperation, sovereignty, and “redistribution of power in the world” against US unipolar hegemony and interventionism.
Russian President Vladimir Putin with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bejing on February 4, 2022 (Photo credit: Xinhua)(Se puede leer este artículo en español aquí.)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L), French President Emmanuel Macron (C) and Polish President Andrzej Duda (R) met in Berlin on February 8, 2022 in the format of the so-called Weimar Triangle.Americans use the slang “lockstep” recalling a characteristic trait of their prisons of the 19th century when inmates had to shuffle step due to the chain that linked their legs. But the US President Joe Biden used that powerful evocative metaphor to convey on Monday that his country and Germany are aligned on fighting any Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Author: Valery Kulikov
The White House’s policy of unfettered discretion and domination, of unceremonious interference in the internal affairs of other countries, has met an increasingly widespread anti-American backlash.
Thursday, 10 February 2022 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age
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Hungary Not Willing To Host NATO Troops Amid Ukrainian Crisis
What The Cuban Missile Crisis Can Teach Us About Today’s Ukraine Crisis
https://popularresistance.org/what-the-cuban-missile-crisis-can-teach-us-about-todays-ukraine-crisis/
Moscow Confronts ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’
https://orientalreview.org/2022/02/10/moscow-confronts-good-cop-bad-cop/
Beijing Deals a Devastating Blow to Washington
https://journal-neo.org/2022/02/10/beijing-deals-a-devastating-blow-to-washington/
The knowledge and quality of ‘western’ leading officials is of serious concern. They are often politicians with no experience in the fields they are supposed to represent.
Liz Truss, currently the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, is a sad example.
The New Dark Age 