Putin orders Russian forces into Ukraine’s breakaway regions after recognizing their independence
By Tucker Reals, Haley Ott, CBS News Kyiv, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday recognized the independence of two Russian-backed breakaway republics in the east of Ukraine. Following the announcement, Putin instructed the Russian Ministry of Defense to provide “peacekeeping functions” to the breakaway regions, but […]
Perhaps The US Should Shut The Fuck Up About Respecting Other Countries’ Sovereignty
By Caitlin Johnstone So Putin has finally made a move, issuing a decree formally recognizing the sovereignty of the separatist-held Donbas territories in eastern Ukraine known as the DPR and LPR. Russian troops are being deployed to the region in what Putin describes as a “peacekeeping” mission amid a […]
Russia to recognize independence of 2 Ukrainian regions
By Jacob Lambert The Week The Kremlin announced on Monday that President Vladimir Putin would recognize the independence of two territories in eastern Ukraine that are controlled by Russian-backed separatists, The New York Times reports. The recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic could give […]
Kyiv’s ancient normality (redux)
By Timothy Snyder A little history can help us see through the myths. Note to subscribers: today has been an unusually busy day for me, chiefly thanks to Ukrainian matters. Rather than keep everyone in the breathless present, I wanted to share a longer reflection about the past. […]
‘Putin To Invade and Torture’ Claims White House Without Evidence. Harris Escalates War Rhetoric
“…torture, forced disappearances, widespread human suffering…” Sounds like the US 21st century Middle East policy.
BREAKING: RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE
15:51 really cracked me up when Kyle opens a word document with his plans on how to stop world war
US Warns Of Putin “Kill List”, Moscow DENIES Claims As Intelligence Remains Unclear
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen share their thoughts on the Biden Administration’s speculation that Russia has decided to invade Ukraine.
Rory McIlroy RIPS Phil Mickelson For Saudi ‘Blood Money’ Golf League
Instead of leveraging the PGA to change their behavior, shouldn’t Mickelson be leveraging the Saudis to change THEIR behavior?
US Claims Russia Has KILL LIST, Ukraine Invasion IMMINENT
Krystal and Saagar cover the most recent developments in the Ukraine-Russia border situation as America claims Russia has a kill list and will invade any day now as Ukraine is left uncertain
WORLD WAR 3?: Russia/ Ukraine Crisis ESCALATES To Violence
Out of a 20 year war and right into a new major war mere months later, anyone trying to say the military-industrial complex isn’t pulling at least a handful of the strings on the global stage would be ridiculous.
Ukraine: The War After the War
By Peter Zeihan on February 21, 2022 In a public broadcast late February 21 (local time), Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a lengthy, moody speech about the status of relations between Russia and its neighbor, Ukraine. Putin in essence declared a formal cold war with the West, while also […]
Putin signs ‘immediate’ recognition of Donbass regions
By Layla Guest, Russia Today © Sputnik / Alexey Nikolsky Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Moscow has recognized the two self-declared breakaway Donbass republics in Ukraine’s east as sovereign nations, as a military standoff across the contact line continues to escalate. Speaking as part of a televised address […]
Biden pushing to war as his presidency fails? – Caleb with George Galloway
A diversionary foreign policy, or a diversionary war, is an international relations term that identifies a war instigated by a country’s leader in order to distract its population from their own domestic strife. The concept stems from the Diversionary War Theory, which states that leaders who are threatened […]
Zero Hedge Labeled ‘Russian Asset’ Without Evidence By Biden Admin For Countering Narratives
“I guess Russia has a lotta great assets” Had me crack up.
The US Empire Is Evil And You Should Want It To Fail
By Caitlin Johnstone To rule the world, make it rely on a single dominant financial system you control so anyone who disobeys you can be cut off from the economy you’ve made them dependent on for survival—whether they’re a nation, a protest movement, or an individual—without having to […]
Biden ‘convinced’ Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, but ‘until he does, diplomacy is always a possibility’
By Brigid Kennedy The Week In remarks on the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, President Biden told reporters on Friday that he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has made up his mind to invade. “As of this moment, I’m convinced he’s made the decision. We have […]
Harris meets with Ukrainian president in Munich
By Grayson Quay The Week Vice President Kamala Harris met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, The Hill reports. President Biden told reporters on Friday he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has made up his mind to invade Ukraine, but a […]
The strategic folly of a Russian invasion of Ukraine
By David Faris The Week Discussion around the Ukraine crisis has mainly focused on what caused the massive, ominous Russian military buildup at the Ukrainian border, what would transpire in an invasion, and what policy options are available for the U.S. and its allies. Relatively less attention has […]
Putin orders nuclear weapons drills
By Grayson Quay The Week Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order Saturday for his country’s military to begin a series of drills involving its nuclear arsenal, Reuters reports. According to The New York Times, the exercises will include ballistic and cruise missile launches as well as nuclear-capable […]
Neo-Nazis Not Top of Mind for Senate Democrats Pushing Weapons for Ukraine
By Sara Sirota The Intercept Top foreign policymaker Sen. Bob Menendez couldn’t say whether his bill would monitor where U.S.-funded arms end up. While Senate Democrats consider a way forward to send Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars so it can buy new weapons, some of the most […]
Put Sanctions on Russia Now, Ukraine’s Leader Urges West
New York Times “What are you waiting for?” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine asked Western leaders in Munich, as Russian-backed rebels urged people to evacuate and shelling escalated in eastern Ukraine. [Read our latest news coverage of the Ukraine and Russia crisis.] Here’s what you need to know: […]
Fewer Than 1 in 6 Americans Want U.S. Soldiers in Any Ukraine-Russia War: Poll
In my 35 years as a radical, opposition to US imperialism has always been my primary area of interest. By Darragh Roche Newsweek Fewer than one in six Americans want U.S. soldiers deployed to defend Ukraine if Russia invades the country, according to a new poll published on […]
Is ‘America Bad’ Leftism A Problem?
This is a pretty nuanced discussion of geopolitics. People would be wise to disabuse themselves of the notion that there are “good guys” and “bad guys” in geopolitics. There are just bad and worse.
West braces for false-flag operations by Kremlin as fighting in eastern Ukraine escalates
If you want to know what the CIA wants you to think, just read the Bezos-owned WaPo. By Andrew Jeong, Alex Horton, Ellen Francis, Claire Parker and Timothy Bella The threat of renewed war in Ukraine escalated Saturday as shelling and military preparations by Russian-backed separatists picked up […]
The US Has Zero Moral Authority
By Caitlin Johnstone Post-Iraq the US has zero moral authority. The narrative managers aim to suck you in to arguing about the minutiae of the inner workings of the latest target of the empire, when in fact a simple “Shut the fuck up, it’s none of your business” […]
Biden ‘convinced’ Putin’s decided to invade Ukraine
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, YURAS KARMANAU, AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press See Biden’s warning to Putin from the White House KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday he’s “convinced” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch a further invasion in Ukraine, […]
Israel Revives Assassination Tactics Not Seen for 15 Years in the West Bank
By Jesse Rosenfeld, Oren Ziv, Ahmad Al-Bazz The Intercept The triple assassination recalled the darkest days of the Second Intifada — and Israel’s impunity to commit violence. Palestinians were shocked last week by a brazen midday Israeli military assault that employed tactics not seen in the West Bank in over […]
The right is finally ready to reform the CIA. Don’t let hatred of Trump ruin it.
By Samuel Goldman The Week The intelligence community enjoys enviable status in popular culture. In shows like Homeland and films like the Jason Bourne series, the agency is presented as hyper-vigilant, super-competent, and brutally effective. Older works and period pieces place intelligence agents in a clubby, vaguely aristocratic milieu. […]
Another All-Time Media Faceplant
By Matt Taibbi After the Biden administration and the press wrongly predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th, they kept compounding the error in spectacular fashion. If cluelessness can be art, American journalists unveiled their Sistine Chapel this week, in a remarkable collection of misreports and […]
Hawk or dove? Biden offers a bit of both on Ukraine
By W. James Antle, The Week President Biden’s former boss might have told him that the 1980s called to ask for its foreign policy back. There was a heavy dose of Reaganesque “trust but verify“ in Biden’s response to Russia’s professed drawdown along the Ukrainian border. Biden is walking a careful line: The United States does not […]
Tensions between the U.S. and Russia just took their darkest turn yet
By Damon Linker, The Week The fog of war has already descended on the border separating Russia from Ukraine. As recently as a day or so, things seemed to be moving in a hopeful direction, with word of Russian troop withdrawals and ongoing negotiations to avoid the outbreak […]
The Ukraine Situation is a Classic Example of a Propaganda Feeding Frenzy
There is no consistency in the reporting on any “side” so every tale is accepted or rejected based on source, not how factual it is:
BOMBSHELL Investigation Reveals Biden IGNORED Military Calls To Evacuate Afghans Earlier
Kim Iversen details the Biden Administration’s apparent brush-off of the Army’s investigative report on the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
NBC CAUGHT Spreading Literal Nazi, Deep State Propaganda
Krystal and Saagar respond to MSNBC’s propagandistic coverage of Ukrainian neo-Nazi rebel forces as they continue to take commands from deep state operatives
Kyle REACTS To Hilarious ‘Communo-Fascism’ Global Plot Rant
While I don’t entirely agree with the way in which Lindsay frames this analysis, Kulinski is mistaken to dismiss Lindsay’s entire analysis as foolishness. The book Lindsay co-wrote with Pluckrose called Cynical Theories is actually a really good critique of postmodern identity politics. But man since that book […]
Biden To BALLOON Military Budget To $770B, Surpassing Trump More than $30B
Team Rising weighs in on reports that the White House plans to seek more than $770 billion in the 2023 defense budget.
Is Putin Literally Hitler?
Saagar examines the history behind Russia and Ukraine tensions to pushback on media comparisons that Putin is literally Hitler and we are facing a Nazi Germany situation in Ukraine
US Accuses ‘Zero Hedge’ Of Russian Disinformation
This is from the news regarding a Russian exercise about 5 years ago, Does anything sound familiar? “However, figures in six digits were quoted in the West well before the exercise began, and 100,000 became the standard number quoted by senior NATO figures ahead of the start date […]
Ukrainians TRASH CNN, Western Media: ‘Worse Than Russians’
Krystal and Saagar bring the latest updates on the Ukraine-Russia tensions as the Biden administration’s set date of a potential invasion passes and Ukraine torches western media
Lawyer Who Left WH LAST MONTH Up For Massive 9/11 Family Payout From Seized Afghan Assets
Ryan Grim and Lee Fang break down new reporting from The Intercept that reveals The U.S. seizure of Afghan government funds after the Taliban took power has put millions at risk of starvation.
Biden Says Russian Military Still In “Threatening Position” As Vladimir Putin Claims Troop Pullback
Team Rising reacts to President Joe Biden’s comments that “if Russia attacks Ukraine, it would be a war of choice — a war without cause or reason.”
Media Sh*ts The Bed On Russia/ Ukraine Crisis
Yet again, a situation where we condemn another country for shit we wouldn’t hesitate to do ourselves. Kyle’s example of Russia building a military base in Mexico is a perfect example. How many military bases do we have surrounding Russia? But they are the crazy ones that are […]
Ukraine cyberattack is largest of its kind in country’s history, says official
By Sean Lyngaas, Anastasia Graham-Yooll, Tim Lister and Matthew Chance, CNN (CNN)A high-volume cyberattack that temporarily blocked access to the websites of Ukrainian defense agencies and banks on Tuesday was “the largest [such attack] in the history of Ukraine,” according to a government minister. Speaking at a press […]
Anne Applebaum On The Ukraine Crisis
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish The historian, journalist, and long-time resident of Poland debates me over the causes of Russia’s looming invasion. We’ve released this page early this week … because we don’t know what’s going to happen next and don’t want to be caught short by events. […]
The Anti-Russian Hysterics of US Media – Chat w/ Daniel Burke
Caleb Maupin will chat with Daniel Burke. Tune in!
“Russian Propaganda” Means Disputing US Propaganda
By Caitlin Johnstone The Associated Press has published yet another article based on unevidenced assertions by anonymous government officials about the scary horrifying frightening Russian menace, this time to accuse another media outlet of promoting propaganda. Without a trace of irony. “U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a […]
Europe’s ADDICTION To Russian Natural Gas Is Paid For In US Funds And Ukrainian Blood
Marine veteran and U.S. Senate candidate for Missouri, Lucas Kunce, details Germany’s energy dependence on Russia and makes the national security case for decarbonization.
Russia WITHDRAWS Troops As Ukraine Trolls Markets
Krystal and Saagar deliver the latest news on the Ukraine crisis that is happening as we speak with Russia deciding to withdraw troops and Ukraine’s president’s sarcasm rattling markets
The Future of Humanity Is IVF Babies and Chinese Domination
By Richard Hanania Conversation with Steve Hsu on the Russian-Ukraine crisis, the decline of the West, the Chinese system, embryo selection, and much else. This week on the CSPI Podcast, I was delighted to talk to Steve Hsu, an entrepreneur and professor of physics at Michigan State University. […]
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