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Pope, Putin and Ukraine in crisis
Saturday, 26 February 2022 — Indian Punchline
Russian President Vladimir Putin after a papal audience with Pope Francis, Vatican, June 10, 2015Papacy is back in global politics — that is, assuming it ever left. The gesture by Pope Francis to visit the Russian Embassy in Rome on Friday undoubtedly makes a notable event, for a variety of reasons.
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Germany Can No Longer Be Put Down
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Melkulangara Bhadrakumar
Whichever way the U.S.-Russian tensions pan out — or, get protracted — Germany hopes to be the net winner.
Prima facie, it may seem German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s inexperience in world politics showed in his first appearance at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday when he was dismissive about a remark by Russian leader earlier in the week at a joint press conference with him in Moscow that the events that unfolded in Ukraine’s eastern regions amounted to “genocide.”
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What are the Minsk agreements and what are their role in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?
Friday, 25 February 2022 — Peoples Dispatch
Under pressure from ultra-nationalists and Russophobes, successive governments in Ukraine have failed to address the grievances of the Russian speaking majority in the Donbass region. Ukraine has also not implemented the provisions of the Minsk agreement signed in 2015 to end the conflict in the region
by Abdul Rahman
On Monday, February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in a press conference that the country will recognize the independence of the Donetsk and the Luhansk people’s republics. Refuting arguments that the move will harm possibilities for peace and violate provisions of the Minsk agreement, the Russian leader claimed that the decision was aimed at maintaining peace in the region.
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Disarming Ukraine – Day 2
Friday, 25 February 2022 — Moon of Alabama
The Russian operations in the Ukraine continue at a moderate pace. Some more troops were committed today. In all the Russian military may have now introduced some 20-40% of its prepared forces.
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Betty Davis, a nasty gal to the end
Monday, 21 February 2022 — New Frame
[If you’ve not listened to Betty Davis and you’re into the funk and into truly liberated women, then Betty Davis is for you. Read on… B]
The American funk pioneer ruffled feathers in the 1970s, creating a feminist message spanning three albums that still resonates today.
- By: Lloyd Gedye
Illustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva
During a 2005 interview with journalist James Maycock, 1970s funk pioneer Betty Davis said she’d never felt ahead of her time. That she recorded three astounding albums in the early part of that decade that only got their due when reissued early in the new millennium suggests that she was, but Davis made an important distinction: “I don’t think I was ahead of my time, I think I was just testing the time.”
- By: Lloyd Gedye
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Ukraine News Links 24-25 February 2022
Friday, 25 February 2022 • 19:30 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular.
Putin Suggests Ukrainian Military Seize Power From ‘Gang of Junkies, Neo-Nazis in Kiev’
http://thesaker.is/putin-suggests-ukrainian-military-seize-power-from-gang-of-junkies-neo-nazis-in-kiev/Stop Pretending the Left Is on Putin’s Side
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/the-left-vladimir-putin-russia-war-ukraineNew Cold War Conflict over Ukraine
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/02/new-cold-war-conflict-over-ukraine/
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Watch: Lavrov gives news conference after talks with LPR, DPR officials in Moscow English
Friday, 25 February, 2022 — The Saker
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov gives a news conference after a meeting with the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republic (LPR, DPR) officials, LPR Foreign Minister Vladislav Deinego, and DPR First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Peresada, in Moscow, on Friday, February 25.
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Ukraine’s hybrid war is mutating
Friday, 25 February 2022 — Indian Punchline
Ukraine president Zelensky gave a video address after midnight on February 25, 2022 disclosing a Russian offer of talksThe first signs of the dual track in Russia’s hybrid war in Ukraine have surfaced. By Thursday evening, the Kremlin held out an olive branch to the Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Succinctly put, President Vladimir Putin expressed his preparedness to engage in discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart with a focus on obtaining a guarantee of neutral status for Ukraine and the promise of no offensive weapons on its territory.
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Ukraine News Links 23-24 February 2022
Thursday, 24 February 2022 • 23:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular.
How the US instigated the Ukraine crisis
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/02/how-the-us-instigated-the-ukraine-crisis/What Putin Says Are The Causes & Aims Of Russia’s Military Action
https://popularresistance.org/what-putin-says-are-the-causes-aims-of-russias-military-action/Western Media Fall In Lockstep For Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt In Ukraine
https://popularresistance.org/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-neo-nazi-publicity-stunt-in-ukraine/
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Disarming Ukraine – Day 1
Thursday, 24 February 2022 — Moon of Alabama
On February 15 Professor John J. Mearsheimer gave a talk (video) about the Ukraine crisis. He starts out (at 3min) by explaining who has caused it:
The United States, mainly, and its allies are responsible for this crisis.
I recommend to watch it in full.
Like me and many other analysts Mearsheimer did not expect that a Russian move into the Ukraine would happen. Why the Russian government finally decided to take that step is not clear to me. I believe that Zelensky’s lose talk about acquiring nuclear weapons for the Ukraine was one of the decisive factors. Who told Zelensky to come up with that?
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Twelve Thoughts On Ukraine
Thursday, 24 February 2022 — Caitlin Johnson
Listen to a reading of this article:
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Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the goal of which he claims is not to occupy the country but to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” it. We’ve no reason to put blind faith in any of those claims. Only time will tell.
As of this writing dozens have reportedly been killed so far. All war is horrific. We can only hope that this one winds up being the least horrific a war can be.
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DIANA JOHNSTONE: US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
Thursday, 23 February, 2022 — Consortium News
Bear baiting was long ago banned as inhumane. Yet today, a version is being practiced every day against whole nations on a gigantic international scale.
NATO officials visit Ukraine, April 7, 2021. (NATO)By Diana Johnstone
in Paris
Special to Consortium News
In the time of the first Queen Elizabeth, British royal circles enjoyed watching fierce dogs torment a captive bear for the fun of it. The bear had done no harm to anyone, but the dogs were trained to provoke the imprisoned beast and goad it into fighting back. Blood flowing from the excited animals delighted the spectators.This cruel practice has long since been banned as inhumane.
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Those Who Violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo Are Free, While the Man who Helped Expose Their Crimes Languishes in Prison: The Eighth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 24 February 2022 — The Tricontinental
Ahmed Rabbani (Pakistan), Untitled (Grape Arbor), 2016. Rabbani endured 545 days of torture at the hands of the CIA before he was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004. He has been in the prison without charge since then.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Twenty years ago, on 11 January 2002, the United States government brought its first ‘detainees’ abducted during the so-called War on Terror to its military prison in Guantánamo Bay. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, ‘We do plan to, for the most part, treat them in a manner that is reasonably consistent with the Geneva Conventions’. For the most part. Evidence began to emerge almost immediately – including from the International Committee of the Red Cross – that the Geneva Conventions were being violated and that many of the prisoners were being tortured. By December 2002, the US media began to report that ‘many held at Guantánamo [were] not likely terrorists’.
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Covid Vaccines: The Next Vioxx?
Thursday, 24 February 2022 — Swiss Policy Research
[Note: for those who are unaware of the Vioxx disaster, please see – https://affiliates.legalexaminer.com/health/vioxx-killed-half-a-million-the-facts-are-grim/]
Covid vaccines: “a freaking miracle” or the next Vioxx? (Statnews)Shocking new data on covid vaccine and booster safety out of Israel and Germany – will covid vaccines overtake Vioxx and thalidomide as the largest ever drug scandal?
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Eyewitness Reports Indicate Ukrainian Army Fired First Shots in War with Russia
Thursday, 24 February 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
By Don Hank and Jeremy Kuzmarov
Russian intelligence agency video of what it says is a Ukrainian tank after being hit on Russian territory Monday. The location would indicate that Ukraine invaded Russia first and not vice versa. [Source: consortiumnews.com]
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Disarming Ukraine
Thursday, 24 February 2022 — Moon of Alabama
The military of Russia has launched an operation to disarm, and possibly regime change, the Ukraine.
I do understand why Russia is doing this – it is either attack now or defend itself later with way more casualties and the danger of total defeat.
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Ukraine Shrinks Again
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 — Consortium News
Tony Kevin says Putin was desperate for something other than this lose-lose outcome for both East and West.
Barbara Tuchman’s March of Folly Wins Again
By Tony Kevin
Pearls and Irritations
The dramatic declarations on Monday of independence by Donbass city-states Donetsk and Lugansk, and Russia’s accompanying military guarantee to protect them against further heavy artillery attack by Kiev forces, illustrate yet again Barbara Tuchman’s classic March of Folly thesis – how often intelligent governments can act foolishly and against their best interest: in this case, illustrated by Washington and Kiev.
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Putin crosses the Rubicon. What next?
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 — Indian Punchline
People wave Russian national flags celebrating Moscow’s recognition Donetsk and Lugansk, eastern Ukraine, Feb 21, 2022Russia’s recognition of the ‘people’s republics’ of Luhansk and Donetsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbass on Monday is a watershed event. In a manner of speaking, by this decision President Vladimir Putin crossed the Rubicon. But a tumultuous period lies ahead.
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There Is Still No ‘Russian Invasion’ But The Sanctions Proceeded Anyway
Wednesday, 23 February 2022 — Moon of Alabama
The information war about the current U.S.-Russia standoff continues. That is why the New York Times is again pushing fake Russian invasion claims:
Russia faced mounting pressure and economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis on Wednesday as the United States and allies coordinated punishments and denounced the beginning of an “invasion of Ukraine.”
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The global response began early Tuesday, just hours after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia recognized the self-declared separatist states in eastern Ukraine and
Russian forces started rolling into their territory, according to NATO, European Union and White House officials. It was the first major deployment of Russian troops across the internationally recognized border since the current crisis began.
Ukrainian T56 tank turret, somewhere in Kiev, embedded in the ground after being hit by Russian weapon
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