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Fact-finding trip to Donbass, Part 1: a front-line shelter in Rubizhne
The Russian intervention in Ukraine began Feb. 24 at the request of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). About a month later, unlikely sources – analysts and advisers working for the Pentagon — became whistleblowers in an exposé published by Newsweek, “Putin’s Holding Back.”
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Surrender of Ukrainian soldiers entrenched in Azovstal
On 16 May 2022, the Ukrainian soldiers still in the basement of the Azovstal factory in Mariupol began to surrender to Russia and the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic).
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Italian workers strike over military spending on war in Ukraine
Trade unions are angered over the government’s military spending on Ukraine which they say would be better spent on raising workers’ wages at a time when the economy is predicted to slide into recession.
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Igor Mosiychuk, “Crimea will be Ukrainian or will be depopulated”
If you do not know this sordid character, you should know that the man is one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi party Pravy Sektor, a party that is very influential in military circles and very active in repression and assassinations.
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Did the CIA train Ukrainian torturers?
The matter raises suspicions about a possible “instruction” that would be transmitted by American intelligence to Ukrainian neo-Nazis on “how to torture”.
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NATO begins military drills near Russian border
Troops from 14 countries, including the United States, Sweden, Finland, and Ukraine, are participating in massive exercises in Estonia.
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NDP onboard with Cons, Liberals in warmongering over Ukraine
Canada’s “left wing” party is openly opposed to negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.
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$40 Billion more for the Ukraine war: a wakeup call for those who still believe in lesser-evilism
The U.S. House of Representatives just approved another massive military “aid” package for the Ukraine War.
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“The once bright city became gloomy and sad:” survivor of 2014 Odessa Massacre reflects back on tragedy
Massacre part of planned act of intimidation by U.S.-installed government and precipitated civil war in Ukraine.
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NATO’s northward expansion risks turning Europe into a new powder keg
“Finland must apply for NATO membership without delay,” Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin jointly announced on Thursday. A similar announcement will come from Sweden on Sunday.
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The Donbass Diaries Part II: The Azov Battalions – ordinary Fascism
We gather around the school in Mariupol. All windows without exception are broken. The rooms inside are fully demolished. The Ukrainian have used the school and its surrounding as defense position. At 09:00 in the morning, humanitarian aid will be distributed. We start talking with Mariupol’s locals.
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“Stay safe”: the whole world is in harms’ way
This is not a dispatch, editorial, or an article, but a brief note.
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Economist Michael Hudson on decline of dollar, sanctions war, imperialism, financial parasitism
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the U.S. dollar, the sanctions war on Russia, his concept of “free-trade imperialism,” and financial parasitism.
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Everyone is forgotten and nothing is remembered: The war in Ukraine and Russia’s reawakening
After the most titanic, nightmarish war in modern history, after rivers of blood shed from Kiev to Moscow, from Stalingrad to Kursk, the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union had vanquished the most vile killing machine the world had yet seen.
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Andrei Biletsky, the neo-Nazi father of Azov
The supreme heroes of the West are the mostly neo-Nazi soldiers of the Azov regiment. These heroes, who smell of sulphur and swastikas, the Western journalists do not want to hear about them, they are only heroic fighters of the free and democratic Ukraine, a fabulous country where life was good before the Russian special operation.
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Mariupol – Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in Azovstal reveal their faces as terrorists and hostage-takers
After shelling the new firing positions that Ukrainian soldiers had set up in Azovstal during the evacuation of civilians held in the factory, the Russian army organized a new ceasefire and new humanitarian corridors over three days to continue the evacuation. But instead of letting out the civilians still in the Azovstal basement, the Ukrainian soldiers revealed their true face as terrorists and hostage-takers.
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The dollar system in a multi-polar world
The multipolar financial world is here. The United States can survive it–but only with major political and economic changes at home. It’s time to start thinking about what those need to be.
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Food and decolonisation
RUSSIA and Ukraine together account for 30 per cent of the world’s wheat exports. Many African countries, in particular, are heavily dependent on them for their food supplies, which are now getting disrupted because of the war; and this disruption would continue since the war is also affecting the acreage being sown under foodgrains there.
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Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]
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Ukraine: Touring an Aidar Dungeon
Shortly after the U.S.-backed Maidan coup in the winter of 2014, in conjunction with Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and union with Russia in March of that year, protests began to break out in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the east of the country, known together as Donbas.