PBC News & Comment: Putin Shifts Strategy, Still Holds All the Cards

Putin announces Russian troop pullback from Ukraine border, asks for delay in separatist referendum; but he controls Ukraine’s gas supply….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and earn $15 for the PBC Podcast!
–Putin shifts, pulls troops from Ukraine border
–Pepe Escobar, in excerpt from my interview for BoilingFrogsPost, slams NATO for a bad script in Ukraine
Op-ed in Guardian warns that Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria may turn it into “African Afghanistan”
–FCC is being occupied over Net Neutrality
–Chris Hedges comments on NDAA and our “post-Constitutional
–FCC is being occupied over Net Neutrality
–Vatican reports it defrocked 848 priests since 2004
–Monica Lewinsky opens her mouth, again