BY PHILIP GIRALDI • UNZ REVIEW • MARCH 22, 2022 So Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “thug and a murderous dictator.” That is the judgement of President of the United States Joe Biden, delivered directly to Putin during a phone conversation, and it is backed up by a unanimous vote in the US Senate […]
Our hypocrisy on war crimes makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
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Corporate US media and foreign policy hardliners want to create a new Afghanistan in the middle of Europe by flooding Ukraine with weapons. The arms industry is very pleased.
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Samizdat | March 22, 2022 The US is planning to deliver to Ukraine medium anti-aircraft systems taken from its own stockpile of Soviet military hardware, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing unnamed US officials. The anti-aircraft systems were obtained through a clandestine program to study them and teach American troops how to counter them. Ukrainian […]
By Kathy Gyngell | TCW Defending Freedom | March 22, 2022 Is there a path to peace in Ukraine? That’s the title of an article published on The American Conservative website two weeks ago that has only just crossed my desk. Douglas MacGregor, a retired US Army colonel, a senior fellow with The American Conservative, and former adviser to […]
WFP food distribution in Raymah (credit: Julian Harneis CC BY-SA 2.0) The United Nations’ goal was to raise more than $4.2 billion for the people of war-torn Yemen by March 15. But when that deadline rolled around, just $1.3 billion had come in. “I am deeply disappointed,” said Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the […]
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Children’s Health Defense | March 21, 2022 Washington, DC – On March 18, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order granting a preliminary injunction to prohibit the mayor of the District of Columbia, the D.C. Department of Health and D.C. public schools from enforcing the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccination Act of 2020 until […]
By Tim Cushing – techdirt – March 16, 2022 There aren’t many ways to make something as objectively awful as civil asset forfeiture worse, but the FBI has found a way to do it. As it stands now, forfeiture allows law enforcement to take cash and property from people under the (unproven) theory that it was illegally obtained. […]
Now that Russia’s moves in Eastern Europe have re-ignited the ‘Great Game’ of a previous era, Venezuela, Cuba and others, though thousands of miles away, are finding themselves at the heart of the budding new Great Game
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Yes, the playbook for Syria is now being used for Ukraine. But is it Russia’s or America’s? By Peter Ford | 21st Century Wire | March 21, 2022 The Russians in attacking Ukraine are taking leaves out of their Syrian playbook, so we are being constantly told. But the American origin of this term gives […]
