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The US and UK are ramping up threats to Russia over Ukraine with more weapons, sanctions, and evidence-free coup plot allegations. But not everyone is afflicted by DC’s war fever. Scholar Richard Sakwa discusses. The US and UK are ramping up threats to Russia over Ukraine by sending more weapons, vowing more sanctions, and lodging evidence-free claims of a Russian plot to install a pro-Kremlin leader. But comments by Germany’s navy chief that Russia “deserves respect” — leading to his […]

BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | INDIAN PUNCHLINE | JANUARY 23, 2022 The US-Russia talks in Geneva in the last two successive weeks could not produce a breakthrough. Fundamentally, there is a contradiction that cannot be resolved easily. Russia sees in existential terms the NATO’s advance into its immediate western neighbourhood. But for Washington, it’s geopolitics, […]

Gavin O’Reilly During the past week, the world has looked on as the now two-year long COVID-19 mainstream media narrative collapsed almost instantaneously. In timing that cannot be described as anything less than suspect, in the same week that the World Economic Forum held its virtual Davos Agenda event, Ireland and Britain announced the sudden …

Getty Images President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump’s foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst impacts. As a senior member of the Obama administration, Biden surely needed no schooling on Obama’s diplomatic agreements with Cuba and Iran, both of which began to […]

By Scott Ritter | Consortium News | January 22, 2022 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in a hastily scheduled, 90-minute summit in Geneva yesterday, after which both sides lauded the meeting as worthwhile because it kept the door open for a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing crisis in […]

The Three Big Lies Pertaining to Ukraine: The West’s leaders never promised Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze not to expand NATO eastward. They also did not state that they would take serious Soviet/Russian security interests around its borders. And therefore, each of the former Warsaw Pact countries has a right to join […]

UKC News | Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen for the end of week news round-up.

Is the Ukraine/Russia conflict a US foreign policy goal? Techno Fog | January 19, 2022 Dare I say a dangerous truth, but there are politicians and analysts and journalists who want Russia to invade Ukraine. Not because these folks are “Putin apologists,” to quote a popular insult they use against the anti-war crowd. But because […]

21WIRE | As the war drum beat louder, few in the media dare speak of what's really at risk should the US continue pushing for war.

Global News | Canada joins in on the provocations against Russia, as NATO looks more likely to initiate a conflict now.