IMPERIALISM

And now there’s this Ukraine, where Nazis are playing an outsized role. I’m not saying they’re a majority, but in the political and military life, they play an outsized —disproportionate let’s call it— role. This Ukraine where Nazis are playing an outsized role, are aligned with a formidable military bloc called NATO, NATO keeps advancing and advancing and advancing, closing on Russia, trying to suffocate it… And beginning around 2016, under Trump, begins to arm the Ukraine, pouring in weapons, engaging in military exercises with NATO, behaving very provocatively. And then the Foreign Minister Lavrov finally says we’ve reached the boiling point.

Now everything I just told you, Professor Chomsky, John Mearsheimer and others will acknowledge it. The mainstream press won’t even acknowledge that but people who call themselves just, legitimately call themselves dissidents, although Mearsheimer wouldn’t call himself a dissident, he just calls himself a realist.

Elon Musk’s bid to take over Twitter and reduce “content moderation policies” is much more complex and possibly dangerous than it appears. Twitter and other US-based social media corporations aren’t just bad corporations with equally bad policies – they are an integral part of US state censorship, information warfare, and – most importantly – establishing dominance in the information space of other nations around the globe. This power will not be given up without a serious fight.

The Institute of Microbiology claims in its materials that the project is related to the “potential threat of biological terrorism” in Ukraine amid the unending hostilities in eastern regions of that country. It is crystal clear that this is a way to send a subtle message about ​​the DPR and LPR’s possible “involvement” in hatching plans for the use of internationally prohibited biological weapons. In so doing, the German military have been deliberately intimidating their Ukrainian counterparts for a long time and have, in fact, been psychologically pitting them against the Donbass republics. Ukrainian biological safety experts invariably participate in the medical biodefence conferences that are regularly held by the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces.

Israeli military forces have shot and killed a young Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, amid an escalation of violence across the occupied Palestinian territories. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the 34 year-old victim, identified as Mohammad Hasan Assaf, succumbed to his injuries after being shot in the chest by Israeli forces during a military raid on the city of Nablus on Wednesday, Palestine’s Wafa news agency reported.

Russia is far from losing the war, says military expert Scott Ritter.  Granted, the Ukrainians, with tons of NATO help, have put up perhaps a stronger than expected resistance, but their strategic destiny is unalterable: Russia’s great military power will prevail, despite anything that the West may try to do to infiltrate more weapons and aid. Besides, many tactical and strategic moves by Moscow are purposely distorted or denied by Western media, including its reluctance to conduct a brutal war in the US style of “shock and awe” with indiscriminate civilian and infrastructure casualties.