Above Photo: Ukrainian soldiers firing artillery. The CIA and special operations forces from Britain, France, and Canada are physically in Ukraine, helping direct the proxy war on Russia, overseeing weapons, training, and intelligence. Some Ukrainian fighters have US flag patches. The CIA and special operations forces from NATO members Britain, France, Canada, and Lithuania are physically in Ukraine, helping direct the proxy war on Russia, according to a report in The New York Times. These Western forces are on the ground training and advising Ukrainian fighters, overseeing weapons shipments, and managing intelligence. At least 20 countries are part of a […]
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Yesterday I mentioned the burning shopping center in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, of which the Ukrainian president Zelensky falsely claimed that thousand people had been inside. I asked: Satellite pictures show that the shopping center is right next to the large Kredmash machine plant. Was that the real target of the attack with the shopping center being an unintended casualty? It has now been confirmed that the answer to my question is ‘yes’. Today’s report on the war by the Russian Defense Ministry says: On June 27, in Kremenchug (Poltava region), Russian Aerospace Forces launched a high-precision air attack at hangars with armament and munitions […]
Above Photo: Screenshot of Putin speech at Petersburg economic forum. The catastrophic economic consequences of the ‘western’ proxy war with Russia are setting in. As a result the high inflation, caused by supply side constrains due to sanctions and far too much spending, will ruin the middle classes of many countries. To those who did not wear blinders and who knew of the real economies of the ‘west’ and Russia this was very predictable and predicted: The U.S. is pushing its European ‘allies’ to commit economic suicide by sanctioning everything Russia. The U.S. should be more careful. It is one of the […]
Above photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “didn’t want to hear it” when US intelligence gathered information that Russia was preparing to invade, President Joe Biden has said. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP. The real state of the war in Ukraine, which I had described some two months ago, has now reached the main stream media. The Zelensky regime in Ukraine is using it to beg the ‘west’ for more guns and ammunition. From the last link: [T]he odds against the Ukrainians are starting to look overwhelming, said Danylyuk, the government adviser.“The Russians are using long-range artillery against us, often without […]
Above photo: An Israeli missile is launched from the Iron Dome missile system in southern Israel. Getty Images. Although receiving miniscule media coverage, Thursday’s announcement that Israel had deployed military infrastructure to the UAE and Bahrain in the shape of radar systems, ostensibly to counter an alleged missile threat from nearby Iran, should be a cause for concern amongst onlookers. Coming in the same 24 hour period in which Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett paid a surprise visit to the Emirates, and in which Israeli Forces bombed Damascus International Airport, the announcement that both Abu Dhabi and Manama had agreed to […]
Above Photo: Ukrainian soldiers from the 95th Air Assault Brigade board an armored vehicle as they head toward the frontline near the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on May 25, 2022. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times). The New York Times, here via Yahoo, has some rather weird piece over alleged lack of intelligence on Ukrainian warplanes: U.S. Lacks a Clear Picture of Ukraine’s War Strategy, Officials Say President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has provided near-daily updates of Russia’s invasion on social media; viral video posts have shown the effectiveness of Western weapons in the hands of Ukrainian forces; and the Pentagon has […]
Colonel Markus Reisner of the Austrian Army presents the current state (video) of the war. Two of the facts he mentions were new to me. The Ukrainian army has moved seven brigades of its Territorial Defense Forces from the west into the area east of the Dnieper. If these were fully maned each will have had some 3,000 soldiers. That are a lot of troops but they are pure infantry without heavy weapons and with extremely little training. Col. Reisner also showed a collection of 15 videos in which members of such and other units describe hopeless situations, declare a retreat or […]
Above Photo: New members of the Territorial Defence Forces train to operate RPG-7 anti-tank launcher during military exercises amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 9, 2022. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters. Over the last month I had come to the conclusion that the Ukraine is losing about 500 men per day due to intense Russian artillery fire. That number may have been too low. I had mentioned high Ukrainian casualty rates due to Russian artillery fire on April 25: The nearly 1,000 artillery missions in the last 24 hours and on the days before speak of intense preparations for upcoming […]
Above Photo: Telford Taylor giving his opening remarks at the judges trial, Nuremberg, 1947. I was in Nuremberg during the war crimes trials which followed WWII. My father, Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, was Chief Prosecutor during the second, American phase. The French, Russian and British staffs had gone home to continue trials at home, but the US stayed longer, and scheduled about 400 additional defendants. They were divided into twelve categories: judges, doctors, industrialists, etc. There were 142 convictions and ten death sentences. I remember the high spirits of the occupying troops and tribunal staff, The joy of triumph and victory. […]
There is a first and still very low noise signal that the Zelenski regime in Kiev is coming apart. Six weeks ago there were suddenly many claims that Russian soldiers in Ukraine had raped people. Time headlined: Ukrainians Who Have Been Raped by Russian Troops Are Refusing to Stay Silent Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova said that 25 teenage girls were kept in a basement in Bucha and gang-raped; nine of them are now pregnant. Elderly women spoke on camera about being raped by Russian soldiers. The bodies of children were found naked with their hands tied behind their backs, their […]
Above Photo: American neo-Nazi Paul Gray on Fox News in front of a wall featuring emblems of fascist militias like the Azov Battallion Dhs ‘Concerned’ Over Nazis Returning To Us After Fighting In Ukraine. Why Isn’t The Media? Us Corporate Media Has Provided Glowing Coverage To Paul Gray, A Notorious American White Nationalist Fighting In Ukraine. A Dhs Document Warns He’s Not The Only Us Fascist Drawn To Kiev. As the United States undergoes a national mourning process over a spate of mass shootings, American white nationalists with documented histories of violence are attaining combat experience with advanced US-made weapons in […]
Above Photo: China’s President Xi Jinping (right) and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting during the BRICS Summit in Brasília, Brazil, on Nov. 14, 2019. (Pavel Golovkin/Pool/AFP / Getty Images Scott and I focused initially on President Biden’s just-completed Excellent Adventure in the Far East and the U.S. effort to woo countries away from China or, at least, pre-empt closer bilateral ties. I again posed the question (see my brief talk Thursday, embedded in https://raymcgovern.com/2022/05/27/why-is-win-win-a-no-no/ ), Why must China’s “win-win” approach be dismissed out of hand — especially when it was so mutually beneficial 50 years ago in reducing tension and keeping […]
Above Photo: Donbass (2015–2022).svg by Goran tek-en and RGloucester (Wikimedia Commons). No amount of western military aid has been able to prevent Russia from achieving its military objective of liberating the entire territories of both Lugansk and Donetsk as Phase Three begins. Russia’s “Special Military Operation”, which began on Feb. 24, is entering its fourth month. Despite stiffer than expected Ukrainian resistance (bolstered by billions of dollars of western military assistance and accurate, real-time battlefield intelligence by the U.S. and other NATO members) Russia is winning the war on the ground, and in a big way. After more than ninety days […]
The Pentagon reports about the continuing efforts to sell new U.S. weapons to those nations which discard their old ones in Ukraine. Austin Hosts Ukraine Defense Contact Group to Continue Support for Beleaguered Country To express the seriousness of the situation in Ukraine the Pentagon decided to hoist Ukraine’s blue-above-yellow flag upside down. Hanging a flag upside down is a sign of either dire distress or cultural ignorance. Given that this was a Pentagon event the later is the more likely to be the case. The Baltic nutters have a another great and of course completely impractical idea. UK backs Lithuania’s plan […]
Above photo: Volodymyr Zelensky speaks via video conference at the Davos Economic Forum on May 23. Calls for Peace Negotiations. Ukraine must negotiate based on a “realistic assessment” and “limits” to U.S./NATO commitment, says NYT. A week ago, we made note of a May 11 New York Times news article, documenting that all was not going well for the U.S. in Ukraine, and a companion opinion piece hinting that a shift in direction might be in order. Now on May 19, “THE EDITORIAL BOARD,” the full Magisterium of the Times, has moved from hints to a clarion call for a change […]
Above photo: The Mariupol Commercial Sea Port in the city of Mariupol. Vladimir Gerdo/TASS. Russia is falsely accused of blocking Ukraine’s sea ports and thereby increasing a global food shortage: The United Nations has warned that the war in Ukraine has helped to stoke a global food crisis that could last years if it goes unchecked, as the World Bank announced an additional $12bn in funding to mitigate its “devastating effects”.UN secretary general António Guterres said shortages of grain and fertiliser caused by the war, warming temperatures and pandemic-driven supply problems threaten to “tip tens of millions of people over the edge into […]
Disinformation has become a central tool in the United States and Russia’s expanding information war. US officials have openly admitted to “using information as a weapon even when the confidence and accuracy of the information wasn’t high,” with corporate media eager to assist Washington in its strategy to “pre-empt and disrupt the Kremlin’s tactics, complicate its military campaign” (NBC, 4/6/22). In defense of the US narrative, corporate media have increasingly taken to branding realities inconvenient to US information goals as “disinformation” spread by Russia or its proxies. The New York Times (1/25/22) reported that Russian disinformation doesn’t only take the form of patently false assertions, […]
Above photo: Ultra-nationalist activists march towards Independence Square to commemorate ‘Maidan heroes’ in Kyiv on April 29, 2014. AFP. An important aspect of debate on conflicts relates to identifying offensive and defensive forces as this has important implications for ethical aspects and the moral strength commanded by contending sides. In the Ukraine conflict there are many complexities, but perhaps such identification can become becomes easier if we follow Prof. Richard Falk in seeing the Ukraine war in terms of not one but three wars—Russia vs. Ukraine, USA vs. Russia and Western Ukraine vs. Eastern Ukraine. If Russia vs. Ukraine war is seen […]
Above Photo: Airsoft player. UNHchabo, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. Malcolm Nance, Dennis Diaz and Willy Joseph Cancel. Their experiences — one fatal — offer a sobering view of Americans in the International Legion of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine. It was — literally — a made-for-television moment. A former U.S. Navy chief petty officer turned cable news pundit, dressed in a fresh out-of-the-box camouflage uniform replete with body armor and magazine pouches, wearing matching camouflage helmet and gloves, and cradling an automatic rifle, stared into the camera and announced “I am here to help this country [Ukraine] fight what is essentially a […]
Suggests the U.S. End Its the Proxy War on Russia. The New York Times has a job to do – and it has done that job spectacularly well over the past few months. The Times is a leader, in the opinion of this writer, the leader in spelling out the US narrative on the war in Ukraine, a tale designed to keep up morale, give the war a high moral purpose and justify the untold billions pouring from the taxpayers’ pockets into Joe Biden’s proxy war on Russia. Day in and day out in page after page of word and picture […]
Above Photo: Andrew Bacevich and Chris Hedges. (TRNN) What will be the consequences of the United States’s commitment to long-term conflict, and where will we be when the war finally ends? The war in Ukraine, stoked in part by NATO expansion and the violation of promises made to Moscow at the end of the Cold War, now looks set to become a lengthy war of attrition—one funded and backed by the United States. What will be the consequences of the United States’s commitment to long-term conflict, and where will we be when the war finally ends? Andrew Bacevich explains in […]
Paul wants to add text to the bill to create an inspector general for oversight of the billions being sent to Ukraine. On Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked an effort in the Senate to hold a quick vote on the nearly $40 billion aid package for Ukraine that passed in the House on Tuesday. “My oath of office is to the US constitution not to any foreign nation and no matter how sympathetic the cause, my oath of office is to the national security of the United States of America,” Paul said on the Senate floor before blocking the vote. “We cannot save […]
Above Photo: A convoy of Ukrainian armored vehicles near the frontlines in the Donetsk region on Thursday, May 12th, 2022. With the conflict in Ukraine entering its third month, the likelihood of a successfully negotiated peace — an immediate necessity — is becoming ever more remote. This proxy war by the United States is designed to use the Ukrainian people to mortally disable Russia. Those who profit from war benefit, while those most vulnerable suffer: Ukrainian civilians, but more broadly working people internationally and especially in the Global South. It was expected that the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 […]
Above Photo: President Biden signs into law the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 in the White House on May 9. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images. The bill loosens restrictions on Biden’s ability to send arms to Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in military aid. President Biden on Monday signed a bill into law reviving the World War II-era lend-lease program for Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in US military aid to Kyiv. The Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 allows Biden to send weapons to Ukraine free of charge while technically requiring payment at a […]
Above photo: In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, airmen and civilians from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron palletize ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, on Jan. 21, 2022. (Mauricio Campino/U.S. Air Force / AP). It is Victory Day. As Ernest Hemingway said: Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid. The most important part of Vladimir Putin’s speech to the Victory Parade on the Red Square is the narrative that explains how the current war in Ukraine […]
Above Photo: A Ukrainian soldier watches a tractor plow a field in March near Kyiv, Ukraine. Because of the war, Ukrainian agriculture officials expect far fewer hectares of crops to be planted this year. Shutterstock. Even As The Failures Of Industrial Agriculture Become Obvious, U.S. Agribusiness Aims To Force It On The Rest Of The World. Even before the war in Ukraine, farmers across the U.S. were getting ready for higher prices on seed, fertilizer and crop chemicals. All winter, major farm media was warning farmers to book supplies early as prices would be high and supplies would be short. The war […]
According To Plumlee, The Operation To Recruit Mercenaries To Fight The Russians In Ukraine Is Similar To An Old 1983-86 Iran-Contra Project Run By Ollie North. Willy Joseph Cancel, a native of Orange County, New York, became the first U.S. casualty of the Ukraine War last week. The U.S. Marine veteran was killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces while working for a private U.S. military contractor. He was ambushed by Russian forces during a night-time patrol—though his body has not yet been recovered. Cancel served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2017 to 2021; he received a bad conduct discharge in November after serving […]
Black liberation movement organizations issued a joint statement opposing US/NATO actions in Ukraine. Dismantle NATO Now! Rescind the $16B US Allocations to the Ukraine War! US Imperialism is the Main Danger to Peace, Sovereignty, and Justice for Peoples all Over The World! The ongoing crisis and war in Ukraine threatens to pull the world into a disastrous nuclear confrontation. Disinformation, lies, and propaganda from the US and other western media are aimed at confusing millions of people inside the US and around the world to view Russia as the aggressor, while hiding the US role in the evolution of this conflict. […]
On day 69 the war in Ukraine fell off the top of the news pages. The emotional outrage of the Democrats has now been redirected to the Supreme Court. This happened after Politico published a leaked draft of the majority opinion on constitutional protection of reproductive rights: The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes. Chief Justice Roberts has confirmed the authenticity of the ‘leaked’ draft but added that […]
Many Kyiv Independent Journalists Come From Suspect Backgrounds, Including Individuals Who Previously Worked For NATO Think Tank The Atlantic Council, The U.S. Embassy In Ukraine, Or For The Council On Foreign Relations. In this edition of The Watchdog Podcast, Lowkey talks to Alan MacLeod about Ukraine, how the media is covering the conflict, and the promotion of supposedly “independent” Ukrainian media outlets that are quietly being funded by Western governments. Chief among these is The Kyiv Independent, a newspaper that was barely three months old at the time of the Russian invasion but has shot to prominence in the […]
Above Photo: Sima Ghaffarzadeh. In Ukraine, the American tyranny of power being used is the same tyranny being used here in America, to subvert and control. Truth is the first casualty of war. The history of the US intelligence operations goes back to World War II. Stephen Bandera was released from prison by OSS officers in 1944. Bandera was a Nazi operative whose militia slaughtered Poles, Jews and communist workers on the eastern front. The OSS/CIA recruited Bandera so he could fight the advancing Soviet Union. In all the years since then, the CIA has never had an annual audit of its trillion […]
Above Photo: Russian president Boris Yeltsin and U.S. president Bill Clinton at the 1999 OSCE summit in Istanbul (Belga). The U.S. talks about “rule based order” because international law is not on its side. The 1999 OSCE Charter explains why the Biden administration would rather make up a new phrase out of whole cloth than live up to agreements it signed. In 1999, the United States and the 56 other participating states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) signed a charter in Istanbul that is another intentionally ignored key to understanding the war in Ukraine. The OSCE is the […]
Above photo: Russian nuclear weapons test on April 20, 2022. The apparent failed attempt at resolving the fighting by the international body coincided with the testing of a new nuclear weapons system by the Russian military. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres traveled on April 28 to the Russian Federation holding high-level talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The topic of the discussions centered on the two-months long Russian military intervention in Ukraine which has been fueled by the imposition of unprecedented sanctions by the United States and the European Union (EU) alongside the massive transferal of weapons […]
Above photo: Airmen and civilians from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron palletize ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Jan. 21, 2022. Mauricio Campino/U.S. Air Force via AP. The Russian side is making some progress in the war in Ukraine. While the differences on the map look small the repositioning of forces that had threatened Kiev is finished and the Russian military is now seriously degrading and grinding down the Ukrainian forces in Donbas. March 31, 2022. Source https://liveuamap.com/en/. April 29, 2022. Source https://liveuamap.com/en/. According to the daily […]
Above photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. MFA Russia/Twitter. Russia pivots to the dynamic East and fast developing Global South. 2014 saw two pivotal events that led to the current conflict in Ukraine. The first, familiar to all, was the coup in Ukraine in which a democratically elected government was overthrown at the direction of the United States and with the assistance of neo-Nazi elements which Ukraine has long harbored. Shortly thereafter the first shots in the present war were fired on the Russian-sympathetic Donbass region by the newly installed Ukrainian government. The shelling […]
Above Photo: A Joint Honor Guard member holds Ukrainian flag as U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin welcomes Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal to the Pentagon on April 21. (DoD, Lisa Ferdinando) Liberals once mocked the Bush–Cheney regime’s with-us-or-against-us routines. Now the trans–Atlantic foreign policy cliques have no capacity to see the world differently. I was interested to read, last December, of the expansive agreements Vladimir Putin and Mahendra Modi signed at the conclusion of a summit the Russian and Indian leaders held in New Delhi. These came to 28 and covered all manner of things — defense cooperation, energy projects, production sharing, technology […]
Above Photo: C-SPAN.org. Ret. US Gen. Philip Breedlove wants to escalate the military conflict with Russia but media outlets don’t disclose he works for defense firms. Weapons companies and military contractors stand to book new orders and enjoy heightened demand for new weapons systems, as the United States and NATO countries scale up spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Coincidentally or not, one of the most high-profile advocates for dramatically escalating NATO’s involvement in the war — literally calling for putting troops and arms inside Ukraine — quietly moonlights as a consultant for weapons firms and defense contractors, interests that presumably […]
Above Photo: Terry Wolff, New Arms Czar for Ukraine. wikipedia.org. They Are Likely To Get Even Bloodier. Terry Wolff Oversaw Training Of Iraqi Forces For Deadly Siege Of Mosul And Coalition Fighting Dirty War In Syria. President Joe Biden’s new appointee as arms czar for Ukraine, Terry Wolff, has a lot of blood on his hands. The three-star general’s new job is to coordinate arms shipments to Ukraine that are designed to bog down the Russians, including a new $800 million weapons package that President Biden authorized last Thursday. A native of Elk Grove, California, who graduated from West Point in […]
Gonzalo Lira just delivered a decent recap of the war in Ukraine. Also, by attacking from the north and south, the Russians disrupted weapons supply chain from NATO. Had the RF only attacked in the east to prevent the AFU invasion of Donbas, there would have been an open corridor for resupply from the West. Threatening Kiev stopped that. So the main AFU army was left stranded in east Ukraine, with the rest of the Ukr. forces isolated and pinned down—with no easy resupply from the West. The RF then went about hitting AFU command/control and resupply links, further isolating and […]
Above Photo: ABC News Video, April 4, 2022. The U.S. propaganda victory over Russia will do Joe Biden and the democrats little good. Their willingness to act on their promises and meet the people’s needs will be the deciding factors in determining their political fate. The United States, its NATO allies, and their partners in corporate media are engaging in an unprecedented war propaganda effort. Their goal is to get and maintain public support for their actions against Russia which are playing out in Ukraine. The messaging is constant and isn’t at all subtle. One cannot go online for any purpose […]
Above photo: Delegates sing the Ukrainian national anthem during the first congress of the new political party National Corps, created from the members of Azov civil corps and veterans of Azov regiment in Kiev on October 14, 2016. Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images. In January 2021 the UN Secretary General made an important statement on the rising neo-Nazi trends in world. This was a timely warning which should have received more attention than it actually did. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said, “In Europe, the US and elsewhere, white supremacists are organizing and recruiting across borders, flaunting the symbols and tropes of […]
Journalist Peter Oborne joins Chris Hedges to discuss how this bifurcation of the world into ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims obliterates nuance and ambiguity, and is a key component of propaganda, especially in war. Rulers divide the world into ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims; those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. This bifurcation of the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a key component of propaganda, especially in war. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, award-winning journalist Peter Oborne joins Chris Hedges to examine […]
Above Photo: A view of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol where Ukrainian forces and the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion have gathered. (Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev). Germany, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and Romania are among the countries that have pledged the supply of more weapons to Ukraine. The US has already announced a billion dollars worth of arms supplies in a week. With German chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaiming on Tuesday, April 19 that the European Union and NATO are united to make sure that Russia never wins the war in Ukraine, the possibility of it continuing looms large. He also pledged […]
Above photo: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin engages U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in a game of chess at Camp David. Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book “The Grand Chessboard” was published 25 years ago. His assumptions and strategies for maintaining U.S. global dominance have been hugely influential in US foreign policy. As the conflict in Ukraine evolves, with the potential of escalating into world war, we can see where this policy leads and how crucial it is to re-evaluate. The need to dominate Eurasia The basic premise of “The Grand Chessboard” is outlined in the introduction: *with the collapse of the Soviet […]
The war in Ukraine rages on, and the war mentality, promoted by propaganda on all sides, generates ever more devotion to keeping it going, even escalating it, even considering repeating it in Finland or elsewhere based on having “learned” precisely the wrong “lesson.” The bodies pile up. The threat of famine looms over many countries. The risk of nuclear apocalypse grows. The impediments to positive action for the climate are strengthened. Militarization expands. We desperately need a global call for a ceasefire and serious negotiations — meaning negotiations that will partially please and displease all sides but end the horror of war, […]
Above Photo: Ukrainian Servicemen Unpack A Shipment Of Military Aid Delivered As Part Of The U.S. Security Assistance To Ukraine, At The Boryspil Airport, Outside Kyiv, On Feb. 11. (Efrem Lukatsky / AP File) The U.S. and its proxies in Europe are moving an enormous amount of weapons into Ukraine. But no one has an idea where those weapons will end up. It is likely that many of those will proliferate outside of the Ukraine and some of those weapons will inevitably hit those who now deliver them. In a review of the U.S. war on Syria Aaron Maté details how […]
In this short essay I want to address something even more insidious and dangerous than the general propaganda efforts to generate support for the war against Russia, and that is: in the process of building support for war, the white supremacist, ultranationalist, and neo-Nazi elements in Ukrainian society and in the state were downplayed, if not ignored. That whitewashing, coupled with the inordinate attention given to the war, with the inevitable sympathy for the white victims of this war – a war motivated by the desire of Ukrainians to join Europe, to “defend Europeanness,” and European “civilization” – revealed a contradiction […]
Russian and Donbas forces have cleared the city of Mariupol except for the giant metallurgic complex of Azovstal which is held by some estimated 4,000 men, including many from the fascist Azov battalion. On Sunday Russia opened corridors across the front line and asked for those forces to surrender. However the Zelensky government ordered them to stay and to continue to bind Russian forces which otherwise could be used elsewhere: Russia had given the Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol until Sunday morning to lay down their weapons or be “eliminated.” On Sunday, the forces at the plant ignored the deadline, and Ukrainian officials vowed that they […]
In follow up to a two-hour webinar hosted by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) with Scott Ritter, a former weapons inspector who blew the whistle on the lack of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, Clearing the FOG continues the conversation on Ukraine. Ritter delves into how Nazis went from being a fringe group in Ukraine to being mainstreamed and treated as heroes. He explains the ways the conflict in Ukraine has ended the United States’ era of being a sole dominant global power and has exposed the weaknesses of both the US and NATO militaries. Ritter states that […]
Above Photo: Pro-Ukraine demonstration in Washington, Feb. 25. (John Brighenti, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Americans don’t merely acquiesce to the imperium’s wars, interventions, collective punishments and assorted other deprivations. They actively embrace them. The other day I ventured forth from my remote village to a lively market town called Great Barrington to shop for Easter lunch — spring lamb, a decent bottle of Bourgogne. Easter is much marked in my household, one of the few feasts we allow ourselves, and it is a reminder this year of a truth that could scarcely be more pertinent to our shared circumstances: After all […]
When it came to the Ukraine conflict, Professor Michael J. Brenner did what he’s done his whole life: question American foreign policy. This time the backlash was vitriolic. As the death toll in Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine continues to rise, there have only been a handful of Westerners publicly questioning NATO and the West’s role in the conflict. These voices are becoming fewer and further between as a wave of feverish backlash engulfs any dissent on the subject. One of these voices belongs to Professor Michael J. Brenner, a lifelong academic, Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of […]
Above Photo: The Google logo seen on a cellphone with a background saying ‘censored’. (Guillaume Payen / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Preventing Populations From Asking Who Benefits From A Protracted Proxy War, And Who Pays The Price, Is Paramount. A Closed Propaganda System Achieves That. If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing US/NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous search is required. And there is no guarantee that search will succeed. That is because the state/corporate censorship regime that has been imposed in the West with regard to this war is […]
Above Photo: Shipments of Javelin antitank weapons arrived outside Kyiv, Ukraine, in February. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters). The new package brings the total US military aid for Ukraine since Russia invaded to over $2.5 billion. On Wednesday, President Biden authorized a new $800 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes howitzers and helicopters. The announcement was made after Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who continues to plead for more arms. The weapons package includes 18 155mm howitzers and 40,000 artillery rounds, marking the first transfer of US artillery systems to Ukraine. The Ukrainians will receive 11 Mi-17 helicopters that were originally earmarked for […]
Above Photo: Protesters on February 10 holding signs that read, “No war with Russia”. (Facebook / Ukrainian Peace Movement). Since Russia began what they call the “special operation” on February 24 in Ukraine, the corporate media has reported the Ukrainian population is united in resistance against the Russian military offensive. Aside from reports of civilians volunteering in a variety of non-military support roles, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and other state officials have urged civilians to take up arms. Then, on March 9, Zelensky approved a law that allows Ukrainians to use weapons during wartime and negates legal responsibility for any attack on people […]
Above Photo: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack listens to a researcher on Sept. 10, 2015. He was at the UI Energy Farm just south of Urbana, Illinois. (Darrell Hoemann). Shuttered Offices, Potentially High Fertilizer Costs “We Import 80% Of The Fertilizer We Use From Outside The U.S. So The Situation In Eastern Europe Will Affect Those Supply Chain Issues Around The World,” One Farm Bureau Representative Said. As Ukraine continues to fight against Russian forces, experts warned of potential fallout for the U.S. agriculture industry. On Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine, and […]
The war in the Ukraine continues but the propaganda hysteria around it seems to have calmed down a bit as reality is setting in. This gives room from more sane voices to be heard by the public. I will start with the Russian ones. The Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Antonov, was interviewed by Newsweek. He explained Russia’s political and judicial reasoning behind the war: “The special operation in Ukraine is the result of the unwillingness of the Kiev regime to stop the genocide of Russians by fulfilling its obligations under the international commitments,” Antonov told Newsweek. “The desire of the […]
Above Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at a press conference for selected media at his official residence the Maryinsky Palace on March 3 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Part One: On The Road To War For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying the war, but of understanding what led us to it. I note that the “experts” who take turns on the television sets analyze the situation based on dubious information, most often hypotheses turned into facts, and therefore we no longer manage to understand what is […]
Above photo: Anadalou Agency. In order to scuttle the Russian peace initiative to Ukraine announced at the Istanbul talks on March 29, halting Russian military campaign north of the capital and focusing on liberating Russian-majority Donbas in east Ukraine, practically spelling an end to Russia’s month-long offensive in the embattled country, NATO powers have announced transferring heavy weapons, including tanks and S-300 air defense system, to Ukraine to further escalate the conflict. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, April 7, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley revealed that US and NATO countries have collectively provided roughly 60,000 anti-tank […]
Above Photo: Members of the Ukrainian Military Forces move U.S.-made FIM-92 Stinger missiles and the other military assistance at Boryspil Airport in Kyiv on February 13, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky / AFP Via Getty Images) Arms Companies Are Exploiting Russia’s Invasion To Push A Military Spending Frenzy. Since the pandemic began in early 2020, the weapons industry has argued that shutdowns and supply chain disruptions have put the “defense industrial base” in peril, compromising the national security and military “readiness” of the United States. Now, that same industry is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and NATO’s subsequent military buildup to double down on the argument, demanding […]
Above Photo: US Maj. John Alan Gavrilov (right) trains commanders of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion as part of a November 2017 foreign delegation ‘Gods Of War’ Since The US-Engineered 2013-14 Coup In Ukraine, American Forces Have Taught Ukrainians, Including Neo-Nazi Units, How To Fight In Urban And Other Civilian Areas. Weaponizing Ukraine Is Part Of Washington’s Quest For What The Pentagon Calls “Full Spectrum Dominance.” “[I]f you can learn all modalities of war, then you can be the god of war,” so said a Ukrainian artillery commander in 2016 while receiving training from the US Army. The unnamed commander was quoted by Lt. […]
Margaret Flowers and Joe Lombardo of the United National Antiwar Coalition host a conversation with Scott Ritter regarding the situation in Ukraine and its broader implications for the realignment of global power, security and economic structures. Ritter discusses the provocations that led Russia to launch a military operation, the humanitarian situation, including what happened in Bucha, how Russia is winning, and the propaganda being used to build popular support for war. Scott Ritter was the UN weapons inspector who, during the Iraq War told the truth that we found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He became outspoken about this, […]
In a clear signal to the workers of Europe, railroad workers in Greece managed to block a shipment of U.S. tanks to Ukraine for more than two weeks. Workers at TrainOSE, a Greek railroad company, have been refusing to transport U.S. tanks destined for Ukraine from Alexandroupoli, a port in the northern part of the country. After workers there refused, bosses tried to force railroad workers from elsewhere to take on the work. “For about two weeks now,” the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) said in a statement, “there has been pressure on the employees of the engine room in Thessaloniki to […]
Instead Of Using The Russia-Ukraine War As An Opportunity To Reflect On The Future Of The European Project, Whatever That Is, It Is Being Used As An Opportunity To Score Cheap Points Against The Very Victims Of Europe Everywhere. When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behavior to that of Daesh. In a rare admission of moral responsibility, Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Ukrainian President, quickly reminded Ukrainian fighters of their responsibility under international law. “I would like […]
Above Photo: It seems clear that the Western powers have overestimated the impact that the sanctions would have on Russia. Image: Wikimedia Commons. The 2022 Russo-Ukraine is also a proxy war between Russia and the Western world. We should be prepared for a decisive transfer of the balance of power from West to East…The bulk of the fighting is in the Donbas where there are few or no Western journalists. Most of the debate and coverage of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war in Australia and the Western world is decidedly banal. It is characterized by the simplification of an extremely complex situation […]
It’s about restoring US imperial hegemony over Europe, breaking Russia as a global challenger to the US, and a dress rehearsal for then going after China. Here is my analysis of what’s going on in Ukraine after one month. It may not prove acceptable to many. Certainly not liberals, the ruling elite in Washington, or even some left liberal and socialist left. But I’ve always spoken my mind and will continue to do so, with no allegiances to any political forces or organizations. So here goes: First, this is a proxy war engineered by US neocons and political elites, that has […]
Above Photo: Ukrainian Sports Bar (Image: BBC Panorama 2012 documentary “Stadiums of Hate”) The Biden administration is dusting off the same playbook that gave arms and money to jihadists in Afghanistan and Syria. Now the beneficiaries of American foreign policy largesse are white supremacists from around the world who have made their way to Ukraine. Hilary Clinton declared during a February 28, 2022 interview with MSNBC that the model for Ukraine should be Afghanistan where the U.S. armed the Afghan mujahideen as part of the U.S. strategy to create a “Vietnamese quagmire .” For Clinton and some elements of the foreign policy community, it […]
NOTE: Regis Tremblay interviews former weapons inspector Scott Ritter and Russian military expert Dr. Vladimir Kozin on the INF Treaty and what its demise means for the threat of nuclear war, as well as the second phase of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. This map of the situation in Ukraine on March 29 is provided by the French Ministry of Defense. It is likely the most realistic and neutral one available. It comes with short notes about the numbered theaters. Here are my own situation report notes: Overview: The Russian military operation in Ukraine began with a rather small force of some 150.000+ […]
Above Photo: Nuremberg Trials. 1st row: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel. 2nd row: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel. (Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality / Still Picture Records LICON, Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S) Scott Ritter, in part one of a two-part series, lays out international law regarding the crime of aggression and how it relates to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes […]
Above Photo: U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions, alongside Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young, after introducing his budget request for fiscal year 2023 on March 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images. The president’s budget calls for $50.9 billion in nuclear weapons spending. The Biden administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023, released March 28, calls for massive investments in nuclear weapons, including the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) — an intercontinental ballistic missile system that is fiercely opposed by anti-nuclear activists. President Biden is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to justify the investments, citing the alleged need for deterrence. The […]
Above photo: Viacheslav Onyshchenko/Keystone Press Agency. The U.S. media is full of stories about what it calls political repression in other countries, but it’s strangely silent when it comes to Ukraine. Here’s one example: In the early morning of March 19, 2022, agents from the federal Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, showed up at the apartment of Yuri Tkachev, editor-in-chief of the online publication Timer, based in the southern Black Sea port of Odessa. What happened next was reported on Timer’s website (1), quoting journalist and human rights activist Oksana Chelysheva (2), who said she had spoken with Tkachev’s wife: […]
Above Photo: Globaltimes.cn Russia Had Drawn A Line In The Sand And, Once Violated, Defied Washington By Acting To Defend Its Interests. A Lot Of Countries Support Russia, And Washington Is Powerless To Stop It. If you are like me, you have been glued to the news about the Russian military operation in Ukraine and its implications for the world. Obviously, we cannot know about all of these implications at this point, and we may not for some time to come. Indeed, this recalls to mind Nixon’s query to Zhou Enlai in 1972 about his thoughts on the French Revolution. Zhou, […]
Some Likely Longterm Effects Of The War In Ukraine March 27, 2022 Some Likely Longterm Effects Of The War In Ukraine2022-03-272022-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220327-7.jpg200px200px Above Photo: International Week of Anti-Imperialist Struggle. What are the biggest game-changers of the Ukraine war so far? I see three:1) The freezing of Russia’s central bank assets2) China and India’s rapprochement3) The cementation of the EU’s vassalage to the U.S. Small 🧵 — Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) March 26, 2022 I agree with these but would add that it is also likely to lead to 4) the long term demise of NATO and 5) a shrinking role for the U.S. […]
Ukraine: War And The Challenge Of Human Rights In The US And Beyond By Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. March 27, 2022 Ukraine: War And The Challenge Of Human Rights In The US And Beyond2022-03-272022-03-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220327-6.jpg200px200px Above Photo: New York City protest, 2017. Reuters. Rally outside home of Conservative Richard Drax demands reparations for 200 years of trade in Barbados. Images of burnt flesh from napalm bombs, wounded and dead soldiers, scenes of U.S. soldiers burning the simple huts of Vietnamese villages, eventually turned the public against the war in Vietnam and produced the dreaded affliction, from the ruling class point of […]
Propaganda Does Not Change The War – The Ukraine Is Still Losing – Updated March 26, 2022 Propaganda Does Not Change The War – The Ukraine Is Still Losing – Updated2022-03-262022-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220326-7-e1648333453511.jpg200px200px NOTE: Popular Resistance is providing updates on the status of the conflict in Ukraine that you won’t find in the corporate media. It is important to be aware of what is happening to form our resistance to it. The US and NATO countries must cease sending weapons to Ukraine and stoking the conflict, which is bringing devastation and suffering to Ukrainian people. – MF It is likely the most realistic […]
BBC Correspondent-Fixer Shaping Ukraine War Coverage Is PR Operative Involved In “War-Messaging Tool” By Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. March 26, 2022 BBC Correspondent-Fixer Shaping Ukraine War Coverage Is PR Operative Involved In “War-Messaging Tool”2022-03-262022-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220326-8.jpg200px200px BBC Reports On The Suspicious Destruction Of A Theater In The Ukrainian City Of Mariupol Were Co-Authored By A Ukrainian PR Agent Tied To A Firm At The Forefront Of Her Country’s Information Warfare Efforts. Before serving as a fixer and reporter for the BBC in Ukraine, Orysia Khimiak handled PR for a start-up called Reface which created what the Washington Post called a “reality distorting app” […]
US Peace Council Statement On Russia’s Military Intervention In Ukraine March 25, 2022 US Peace Council Statement On Russia’s Military Intervention In Ukraine2022-03-252022-03-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220325-3.jpg200px200px What we all hoped would not happen has happened. The Russian Federation sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 in response to decades of relentless US-led NATO provocation. The present situation puts many serious, fundamental questions before the global peace movement. A fierce propaganda campaign, long simmering with Russiagate and the onset of a new Cold War, demonizing the Russian president and state has intensified. Wholesale condemnation of Russia has assumed global proportions, instigated by the US and […]
Bits Of Interest From The War In Ukraine March 21, 2022 Bits Of Interest From The War In Ukraine2022-03-212022-03-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220321-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Knesset lawmakers on March 20, 2022. Screen capture: YouTube. Below are various bits of interest from the war in Ukraine. Zelensky says ‘western’ leaders said no to Ukrainian NATO membership, but rejected to do so publicly. U.S. supported ‘activist’ commits publicly to war crimes. CNN promotes leader of neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. Arch Zionists are pissed off by Zelensky’s holocaust revisionism. Destroyed Kiev shopping mall was used as weapon and ammunition depot. Despite […]
Opposition Political Parties Banned In Ukraine By Abdul Rahman, People’s Dispatch. March 21, 2022 Opposition Political Parties Banned In Ukraine2022-03-212022-03-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220321-4.jpg200px200px Above Photo: The Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada. Sputnik. And ‘Unified Information Policy’ Imposed. Zelensky justified the ban on mostly left and anti-NATO parties in the country by claiming that they had alleged links with Russia, despite the fact that most of these parties have publicly opposed Russian intervention. In yet another assault on dissenting political views in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a ban on the activities of major opposition political parties in the country after alleging that they have links […]
Italian Airport Workers Stop Arms Shipment To Ukraine By Simon Zinnstein, Left Voice. March 20, 2022 Italian Airport Workers Stop Arms Shipment To Ukraine2022-03-202022-03-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220320-4.jpg200px200px Under Guise Of “Humanitarian Aid”. In Italy, workers discovered that weapons were being shipped to Ukraine under the pretense of sending “humanitarian aid” and have refused to hand them over. Their example should serve as a model for all workers on how to take action against the war. The war in Ukraine is causing more and more saber-rattling in the U.S. and Europe. As many countries massively ramp up their own military budgets, many more still are […]
Who Are The Foreign Fighters Traveling To Ukraine? By Natalia Marques, People’s Dispatch. March 20, 2022 Who Are The Foreign Fighters Traveling To Ukraine?2022-03-202022-03-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220320-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Azov Battalion volunteers. Azov has been successful at recruiting fighters from the Western far-right movement. What We Know And What We Don’t. Many worry that the influx of allegedly 20,000 foreign fighters into Ukraine could exacerbate existing problems with far-right insurgency worldwide. “Remember, the Russians invaded Afghanistan back in 1980,” said former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shortly after the February Russian offensive in Ukraine. “It didn’t end well for the Russians.” she explained. “There were […]
Washington Rushes To Hide Its ‘Octopus’ NED Funding In Ukraine By Tim Anderson, Al Mayadeen. March 18, 2022 Washington Rushes To Hide Its ‘Octopus’ NED Funding In Ukraine2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318-1.webp200px200px Above Photo: Washington rushes to hide its ‘octopus’ NED funding in Ukraine. Many sections of the corporate media and a legion of propaganda agencies are openly and secretly funded by the US. As Russia finally invaded Ukraine – on a rationale similar to that of the US invasion of Iraq, but with greater substance – Washington rushed to delete funding details of Ukraine groups through its Congress-funded ‘National Endowment for Democracy’ (NED). As […]
Black Caucus Fails On Ukraine By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. March 18, 2022 Black Caucus Fails On Ukraine2022-03-182022-03-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220318-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: The founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. The members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) follow Biden’s Ukraine policy in lock step. In doing so they fail their constituents and discredit the legacy of Black politics. On June 11, 2015, the late Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member John Conyers made this statement about Ukraine. “House passed my amendment to prohibit assistance to Azov Battalion—a far-right white supremacist militia at front lines […]
Neo-Nazis In Ukraine Fake Incidents To Gain More ‘Western’ Support March 17, 2022 Neo-Nazis In Ukraine Fake Incidents To Gain More ‘Western’ Support2022-03-172022-03-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220317-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: @shashj / Twitter. Striking satellite imagery taken on Monday of the Mariupol Drama Theatre—hit by an air strike today. 1,200 civilians were sheltering in it. The image shows that the word “children” is written in Russian in large white letters in front of & behind the theatre.(📸: @Maxar) pic.twitter.com/JEuvRadBUK — Shashank Joshi (@shashj) March 16, 2022 The Ukraine claims that such an attack took place. Russia says that the Azov battalion blew up the building. Evidence for ‘hit by an […]
The US, NATO & The Article IV Trap In Ukraine By Scott Ritter, Consortium News. March 16, 2022 The US, NATO & The Article IV Trap In Ukraine2022-03-162022-03-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220316-7.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Sept. 27, 2015: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, visiting the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York. (NATO). The ongoing Russian invasion has torn asunder whatever passed for geopolitical stability in Eastern Europe in the years since NATO expansion brought Poland and the three former Soviet Baltic Republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into its membership. While peeved, Russia had accepted the resulting equilibrium with stoic grace, bristling […]
What Polls About A Ukraine ‘No-Fly Zone’ Really Tell Us By David W. Moore, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting. March 15, 2022 What Polls About A Ukraine ‘No-Fly Zone’ Really Tell Us2022-03-152022-03-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220315.jpg200px200px Last week, Reuters/Ipsos (3/4/22) reported on a poll that found some 74% of Americans―including solid majorities of Republicans and Democrats―said the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine. This was a surprising result, because there was strong bipartisan opposition in Congress to such an action. Typically, public opinion―especially on foreign policy―tends to reflect the prevailing political consensus. That poll announcement was […]
US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine And The Whiteness Of Empire By Roger Stoll, Popular Resistance. March 15, 2022 US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine And The Whiteness Of Empire2022-03-152022-03-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/nato-wwiii-e1647378855491.jpg200px200px Above photo: Anti-NATO protest in Chicago, 2012. Julie Dermansky. Since the turn of the century the US has marched steadily eastward across Europe with an occupation force called NATO. Supposedly a military alliance, NATO is really just the US plus its subordinate nations. It’s hostile to many peoples of the world in West Asia/Middle East, Africa and Latin America, but it’s especially preoccupied with Russians. NATO’s newest members include: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia […]
Will Russian Diplomats Resign In Opposition To The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine? By Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. March 14, 2022 Will Russian Diplomats Resign In Opposition To The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine?2022-03-142022-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/screen-shot-2022-03-13-at-7.22.00-am.png200px200px Above photo: (Left) US Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003 justifying US invasion and occupation of Iraq. (Right) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in 2022 justifying Russian invasion and occupation of Ukraine. Nineteen years ago, in March 2003, I resigned as a U.S. diplomat in opposition to the President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. I joined two other U.S diplomats, Brady Kiesling and John Brown, who had resigned in weeks previous to my […]
Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. March 14, 2022 Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States2022-03-142022-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/redacted-tonight.jpg200px200px Clearing the FOG speaks with political comedian Lee Camp about the sudden de-platforming that happened to him when RT America abruptly shut down after the Russian military intervention in Ukraine last month. Camp lost his program Redacted Tonight that aired weekly for the past eight years, and he was kicked off of other platforms such as Spotify. Camp talks about the big picture of growing censorship, […]
President Biden: De-Escalate In Ukraine Or Risk Nuclear War! By Gerry Condon, Popular Resistance. March 14, 2022 President Biden: De-Escalate In Ukraine Or Risk Nuclear War!2022-03-142022-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/nuclear-weapons-e1647300725429.jpg200px200px Above photo: US Air Force/Flickr. “The first casualty of war is truth.” This simple yet profound statement is attributed to many, including Hiram Johnson in a speech in the U.S. Senate in 1918, during the “war to end all wars.” Hiram Johnson was a progressive Republican who had been elected to the Senate from California that very year. He remained in the Senate until he died of old age on August 6, 1945, the day […]
Censored Reports From Donbass Make Clear Ukraine And Not Russia Started The War—Eight Years Ago By Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine. March 14, 2022 Censored Reports From Donbass Make Clear Ukraine And Not Russia Started The War—Eight Years Ago2022-03-142022-03-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220314-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Home destroyed by Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk, February 22, 2022. (Telesur English). The U.S. media and Washington political establishment has been unified in condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and in lauding the Ukrainian resistance. Censored reports from the Donbass in Eastern Ukraine, however, make clear that the war was started eight years ago by Ukraine–after its legitimate government was overthrown […]
Ilan Pappé On The Four Lessons From Ukraine By Ilan Pappé, The Palestine Chronicle. March 13, 2022 Ilan Pappé On The Four Lessons From Ukraine2022-03-132022-03-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220313.png200px200px Above Photo: Israeli warplanes attacked hundreds of towers and civilian ‘targets’ in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Ajjour / The Palestine Chronicle. Navigating Our Humanity. The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise from the Gaza Strip, demolished by the Israeli Air Force in May 2021. A few days before that, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister complained to the Israeli ambassador in Kiev […]
Many Africans Reject Washington’s Position On Ukraine Crisis By Abayomi Azikwe, Popular Resistance. March 13, 2022 Many Africans Reject Washington’s Position On Ukraine Crisis2022-03-132022-03-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/central-african-republic-solidarity-demonstration-with-russia.jpg200px200px Above photo: Central African Republic solidarity demonstration with Russia. Half of the countries abstaining from the United Nations General Assembly Resolution condemning Moscow were African Union member states. Since the post-World War II period national liberation movements and independent countries in Africa have developed solid diplomatic and economic relations with the former Soviet Union and today’s Russian Federation. It is this history which underlines the refusal of numerous African governments and mass organizations to side with the […]
Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report. March 12, 2022 Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-1.png200px200px Above Photo: Paul Robeson in the Soviet Union in 1958. The American public are inundated with anti-Russian war propaganda that is worse than in the days of the Red Scare. Russia has been the subject of intense outrage in the West following its decision to wage a military offensive against Ukraine. The military operation caught many by surprise. While the Western foreign policy establishment exploited the development as a “told you so” moment, the general public was thrown into a […]
On A Knife’s Edge In Ukraine By Joe Lauria, Consortium News. March 12, 2022 On A Knife’s Edge In Ukraine2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-9.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Aerial view of Pentagon at night. (Joe Lauria). The settlement of the Ukraine war or its escalation to a NATO-Russia conflict with all that entails comes down to how far Ukraine will go to get the Western alliance involved in its war, writes Joe Lauria. The choice is stark for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: accept that his defeat is inevitable and accept Russian terms for surrender or continue to seek a way for NATO to become perilously involved in […]
The AFL-CIO’s Nazi Friendly Union In Ukraine By Giorgio Manfredi, Covert Action Magazine. March 11, 2022 The AFL-CIO’s Nazi Friendly Union In Ukraine2022-03-112022-03-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220311-7.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A pro-Russian activist guards the Regional Administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine. The placard behind him says, “No to Fascism.” (NPR.org). The AFL-CIO recently hosted a fundraiser by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) which aimed to support labor organizations in Ukraine assisting families suffering through the current crisis. One of the labor organizations is the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) which is a partner of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center. A repacked version of […]
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has ‘Biological Research Facilities’ March 10, 2022 Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has ‘Biological Research Facilities’2022-03-102022-03-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220310-1.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Washington, DC, March 08: Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland testifies before a Senate Foreign Relation Committee hearing on Ukraine on March 08, 2022 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images. Worried Russia May Seize Them. Self-anointed “fact-checkers” in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeks mocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. They never presented any evidence for their ruling — how could they possibly know? and how could […]
Disarming Ukraine Day Fifteen: A Hospital Bombing And ‘No-Fly Zone’ March 10, 2022 Disarming Ukraine Day Fifteen: A Hospital Bombing And ‘No-Fly Zone’2022-03-102022-03-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220310-4.jpg200px200px This allegedly happened on March 9 at about 17:30 local time (15:30 UTC) in Mariupol, Ukraine: Russian forces bombed a maternity and children’s hospital in southern Ukraine, authorities there said Wednesday, an attack described by the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky as an “atrocity.” Zelensky repeated his call for the NATO military alliance to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine, as he expressed his outrage at the attack. This is curious. The three story building is quite large with more […]
Germany Deserves A Big Share Of Blame For The Disaster In Ukraine By Dave Lindorff, This Can’t Be Happening!. March 10, 2022 Germany Deserves A Big Share Of Blame For The Disaster In Ukraine2022-03-102022-03-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220310-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Scenes of war in Ukraine. Berlin should step up and end the war in Ukraine. Nobody is talking about the blame that must be shouldered by the German government for the crisis and humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. Sure Russia is guilty of a huge war crime in invading Ukraine, Surely too, the US must be blamed for creating the situation which led Russia and its […]
The Troika Kollective Statement On Ukraine: ‘We Stand With The People’ By The Troika Kollective, Popular Resistance. March 10, 2022 The Troika Kollective Statement On Ukraine: ‘We Stand With The People’2022-03-102022-03-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/donbass.png200px200px Above photo: September, 2014. Crowds at a rally in Donetsk to mark the liberation of the Donbass region from the Nazis in the second world war. Francisco Leong/AFP. The Troika Kollective stands in solidarity with the people of Donetsk and Luhansk. We stand firmly against all wars of plunder, against NATO’s repeated military interventions, and against U.S. intervention. We recognize that the working-class of these two republics want peace and […]
The Ukraine War And The ‘Good’ Refugee By Binoy Kampmark, Counter Punch. March 8, 2022 The Ukraine War And The ‘Good’ Refugee2022-03-082022-03-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220308-2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Refugees who are foreign nationals, especially those from the Middle East, Asia and Africa are being discriminated against at the borders. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue. “These people are not people we are used to… these people are Europeans.” – Kiril Petkov, Bulgarian Prime Minister, Associated Press, March 1, 2022 In the history of accepting refugees, countries have shown more than an erratic streak. Universal human characteristics have often been overlooked in favor of the particular: race, cultural habits, religion. […]