AMERICAN PROPAGANDA

SR—On the night of February 20-21, 2026, Ukraine launched an intermediate-range missile at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant, a strategic defense industrial facility located in the Republic of Udmurtia, some 1,300 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border. The missile, equipped with a 1,000-kilogram warhead, struck a building housing Workshop 19, which houses a critical electroplating and stamping workshop. It is here that Russian technicians carry out the metal stamping and forming processes related to the manufacture of missile body elements, as well as the galvanic processing of parts, including the application of protective and functional coatings and surface preparation for further assembly. Workshop 19 playes a critical role in the manufacture of some of Russia’s most strategically vital ballistic missiles. The Flamingo’s warhead blasted a 30-by-24-meter hole in the roof of the structure, setting its interior on fire. At least 11 workers were wounded in the attack.

KEVIN WALMSLEY—Gallium Nitride semiconductors are crucial for advanced radar and missile guidance applications. China has a monopoly on gallium processing, and export bans on gallium for military use. Pentagon contractors cannot build radars for the F-35, among other platforms, because of supply chain issues related to gallium supplies. So they are delivering these aircraft with “ballast” in place of radar systems.

JULIAN MACFARLANE—A senior Russian official has said Moscow could deploy its navy to protect Russian-linked vessels from potential European seizures, raising the prospect of retaliatory action against European shipping as pressure on the Kremlin’s so-called shadow fleet intensifies.
Nikolai Patrushev, a former FSB director who heads Russia’s maritime board, said on Tuesday that the country’s navy should be ready to counter what he described as “western piracy”.
“If this situation cannot be resolved peacefully, the navy will break any blockade and move to eliminate it. And let’s not forget that many vessels sail the seas under European flags – we, too, may take an interest in what they are carrying and where they are headed”

DISSENT IN BLOOM—If you have an Android, if you use Google Chrome, or if you use Google Search? It records every search, every email, every location ping, every app download, every photo you take, every late night purchase, every quiet curiosity. It remembers what we forget.
But that shadow stretches further. Google also runs the cloud infrastructure government agencies use. It stores our metadata until investigators request it, and even builds artificial intelligence systems that can sift through human lives at a scale no person ever could.

GZ—Christian Parenti joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the revolutionary life and legacy of his father, the dissident political scientist Michael Parenti, who died on January 24, 2026 at age 92.

Christian details how his father emerged from a working class family in East Harlem to become one of the country’s most outspoken Marxists, unapologetically defending socialist states across the globe while facing professional blacklisting and CIA surveillance.

He surveys Michael Parenti’s major works, from “Democracy for the Few” to his groundbreaking study of corporate media, “Inventing Reality,” along with “To Kill A Nation,” which dismantled the Western propaganda deployed to justify NATO’s destruction of Yugoslavia.