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The war on Donbass: Why we must all stand against fascism

Fra Hughes
21st Century Wire
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
NaziNeo
© UnknownUS/NATO-backed Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
For those who claim President Putin is a megalomaniac sociopath intent on drawing Europa and America into some kind of Machiavellian war in order to massage his over-inflated ego, let's look at the facts shall we?

Over the past 8 years, Putin and Russia have avoided a conflict with Ukraine, and by extension the EU, America and NATO, through his refusal to formally intervene or annex the Lugansk and Donetsk Republics, or indeed, to formally acknowledge them as independent states.

He allowed the Minsk Agreements I & II from 2014 and 2015 to form the basis of negotiations between the Lugansk Peoples Republic, the Donetsk Peoples Republic, and the regime in Ukraine. Moreover, Russia also received a mandate for the realization of the Minsk peace process from the UN Security Council through Resolution 2202.

For over 7 years, the regime in Kiev, to include the infamous fascist Azov pro neo-Nazi, nationalist Ukrainian armed forces battalions, have continually violated the Minsk Agreements by shelling the independent Republics with prohibited military munitions, causing incredible death and destruction along the way.

President Zelensky, who is being courted by the West, took things further when he escalated tensions and violence on the line of contact and prepared in February this year, for up to 120,000 Ukrainian soldiers to invade and reoccupy the Donbass region. He stated publicly he wanted Ukraine to become a nuclear power.

Comment: From the personal experiences of this author in Donbass, we can better understand the inhumanity of the past decade and the needless suffering that occurred. It is no coincidence the events taking place today are direct outcomes of decades of Western influence, manipulation and agenda.

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Psaki disparages Florida surgeon general as a 'politician' who is 'peddling conspiracy theories.' But his résumé speaks volumes.

Chris Enloe
The Blaze
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Leah Mills/Reuters/Paul Hennesy/SOPA Image/LightRocket/Getty ImagesDr. Joseph Ladapo • WH Press Sec. Jen Psaki
White House press secretary Jen Psaki disparaged Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Monday after Florida advised that healthy children should not receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

What is the background?

Dr. Ladapo announced Monday that Florida is "first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children."

The new policy immediately generated outrage among COVID enthusiasts because the guidance counters the accepted narrative about COVID vaccines and the CDC's recommendation that all children 5 years and older receive the COVID vaccine and a booster.

As of March 2, the CDC has recorded 865 COVID-19 deaths of Americans under age 18 for the entire pandemic. By comparison, the CDC reported 944,650 deaths among all population groups through the same time period.


Comment: These statistics may be under-represented, given the reporting history of Covid deceptions and cover-ups.


What did Psaki say?

Comment: As a tool of the left, Psaki did fairly well. The bar is quite low when facts don't count and truth doesn't matter.

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Hungary hits out against sanctions on Russian oil and gas


RT
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:33 UTC
Szijjarto
© Bertrand Guay/AFP/KJNHungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said that Hungary opposes sanctions on Russia's energy sector, as Western countries hit Moscow with sweeping restrictions over its attack on Ukraine.

Szijjarto told reporters during his trip to Serbia on Wednesday:
"The reality stems from infrastructure and available natural gas resources. Natural gas and oil from Russia are currently dominant in our region. That's why we can't accept measures imposing a disproportionate burden on Hungary, the Hungarian people."
Prime Minister Viktor Orban made a similar point on Tuesday:
"Everyone in Europe suffers from the effect of sanctions against Moscow. I made it clear that we condemn Russia's attack, we condemn the war, but we'll not allow the price of war to be paid by Hungarian families. Without any gas and oil, the Hungarian economy simply can't function."
The PM noted that the country gets most of its gas and oil from Russia, while 90% of Hungarian families use gas to heat their homes.

Comment: Turkey gives the West a stern warning:
Washington's decision to cut off oil exports from Russia will have disastrous consequences for the global energy market, Turkey's Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Alparslan Bayraktar said on Tuesday during CERAWeek, an international energy conference in Houston, Texas. The Turkish official stated:
"It will be very difficult to replace the Russian oil on the world market. Russia is the largest oil producer in the world."
According to Bayraktar, with the global economy is recovering from the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, an increase oil production is needed, the opposite of what the US is trying to do, at present.

Earlier on Tuesday, in a bid to "target the main artery of Russia's economy," US President Joe Biden signed an order banning oil and gas imports from the world's largest nation in retaliation for Moscow's military attack on Ukraine.
"We're banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy. That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at US ports, and the American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin's war machine."
Staggering inflation and supply-chain disruptions have already made gas prices in the US skyrocket, approaching a record-high $5 per gallon. The newly introduced ban on Russian petroleum products, which amount to 8% of all US oil imports, will likely make the prices climb even higher.

Later the same day, when reporters asked Biden what Americans should do about the rising costs, he responded:
"What can you do about it? Can't do much right now. Russia is responsible. "We're moving forward with this ban understanding that many of our European allies and partners may not be in a position to join us."
Meanwhile, the European Union has no plans to cut off Russia's oil exports as it amounts to one-third of the EU's energy consumption.
Who pays for Biden's angry, half-baked, edicts? Everyday Americans at the pump and now Europe, as the rising cost of US belligerence affects every citizen.

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SOTT Focus: Victoria Nuland Admits Ukraine Has 'Biological Research Facilities', Worried Russia May Seize Them

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 19:54 UTC
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Self-anointed "fact-checkers" in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeks mocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. They never presented any evidence for their ruling — how could they possibly know? and how could they prove the negative? — but nonetheless they invoked their characteristically authoritative, above-it-all tone of self-assurance and self-arrogated right to decree the truth, definitively labelling such claims false.

Claims that Ukraine currently maintains dangerous biological weapons labs came from Russia as well as China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry this month claimed: "The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone." The Russian Foreign Ministry asserted that "Russia obtained documents proving that Ukrainian biological laboratories located near Russian borders worked on development of components of biological weapons." Such assertions deserve the same level of skepticism as U.S. denials: namely, none of it should be believed to be true or false absent evidence. Yet U.S. fact-checkers dutifully and reflexively sided with the U.S. Government to declare such claims "disinformation" and to mock them as QAnon conspiracy theories.

Unfortunately for this propaganda racket masquerading as neutral and high-minded fact-checking, the neocon official long in charge of U.S. policy in Ukraine testified on Monday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and strongly suggested that such claims are, at least in part, true. Yesterday afternoon, Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), hoping to debunk growing claims that there are chemical weapons labs in Ukraine, smugly asked Nuland: "Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?"

Rubio undoubtedly expected a flat denial by Nuland, thus providing further "proof" that such speculation is dastardly Fake News emanating from the Kremlin, the CCP and QAnon. Instead, Nuland did something completely uncharacteristic for her, for neocons, and for senior U.S. foreign policy officials: for some reason, she told a version of the truth. Her answer visibly stunned Rubio, who — as soon as he realized the damage she was doing to the U.S. messaging campaign by telling the truth — interrupted her and demanded that she instead affirm that if a biological attack were to occur, everyone should be "100% sure" that it was Russia who did it. Grateful for the life raft, Nuland told Rubio he was right.

Comment: At last, the NeoCons' fabled WMDs have been found. In their own labs. Just over Russia's border with Ukraine. Which is brimming with Russia-hating Nazis.

Sounds like a match made in hell. And just cause for war.

Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva has been warning about US military biolabs in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere for years: On this latest discovery of active US WMDs in Ukraine, she points out that it wasn't just Ukrainians who began purging documents on February 24th - the date Russia began bombing military sites in Ukraine...


The Russian MoD published an update on its research into the Pentagon's biological warfare program in Ukraine yesterday:


So there you have it. The US has been conducting gain-of-function biowarfare research in Ukraine, no doubt with a view to killing Russians.

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Venezuela says those behind NATO expansion should de-escalate Ukraine crisis


RT
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:42 UTC
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© Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/ReutersVenezuela President Nicolas Maduro, Miraflores Palace, Caracas, Venezuela
February 16, 2022
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the West of provoking Russia's conflict with Ukraine on Monday, after senior US officials met with his government over the weekend.

In a speech, Maduro said that "those who provoked this conflict with decades of non-compliance with agreements, with decades of threats against Russia, with decades of preparing plans for the extension of NATO are the first ones who are responsible for de-escalating this conflict."


Comment: In case it isn't obvious, he's talking about the US Empire.


Maduro called on those responsible to seek "a favorable scenario of negotiation and agreement" to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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NATO pushing Russia-Ukraine tension to 'breaking point,' China warns


PressTV
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:54 UTC
Zhao Lijian
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian
During a daily news briefing in Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian called on the United States to take China's concerns seriously and avoid undermining its interests in handling the Ukraine issue and ties with Russia.

At a virtual meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping opposed economic sanctions against Russia, saying they would affect the stability of global finance, energy supplies, transportation, and supply chains and "dampen the global economy," which has already been ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.

Xi said the three countries should jointly support peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, as he urged Moscow and Kiev to "keep the momentum of negotiations" and "bring about peaceful outcomes."

Comment: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Crossing the Rubicon



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The cynicism behind US' rapprochement with Venezuela

Bradley Blankenship
RT
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:29 UTC
oil factory
© AFP / Yuri CORTEZ
Before announcing a ban on Russian energy imports, the US tried to plug this hole by meeting with representatives from a government they don't even officially recognize, Venezuela.

Senior State Department and White House officials met with President Nicolás Maduro's government in Caracas over the weekend to discuss resuming oil imports. It was the highest level communication between Venezuela and the US since they severed diplomatic ties in 2019, after the administration of former President Donald Trump recognized opposition figure Juan Guaidó as the country's "interim president."

It is certainly a positive thing for both sides that there's rapprochement. The sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the US and its allies had crippled the economy and spurred runaway inflation until recently. Venezuela had only in the past year managed to post decent economic growth, reined in inflation to the single digits and, in fact, is projected to out-compete peers in the region in the near future.

If economic activity resumes with the US this will likely help Venezuela's economy even more - and, hopefully, the unfair and illegal sanctions may be dropped too.
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The curious case of Stefan Halper, the 'Zelig' of American scandals who 'Crossfired' Trump

Mark Hemingwa
RealClearInvestigations
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:46 UTC
Stephen Halper
© The Bill Walton Show/YoutubeStephen Halper
In the late summer of 2016 Stefan A. Halper met with at least three of Donald Trump's associates in England and the United States, bragging about his friendship with Russian spies who "can be very helpful to us at this time."

Two men approached by Halper and lured to events at Cambridge:
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© LinkedIn, ReutersGeorge Papadopoulos (L) and Carter Page (R)
As they listened to his tales of foreign intrigue and promises of illegal foreign help, what George Papadopoulos, Carter Page and Sam Clovis did not know was that Halper was not who he said he was. He was, indeed, a spy, but his handler was not the Kremlin - it was the FBI. Armed with leading questions and on at least two occasions a hidden tape recorder, Halper had been tasked by the bureau with finding dirt on the Trump campaign.
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Trump USDA nominee, Sam Clovis
Halper's undercover operation, which was documented in a report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General, would prove largely a bust. Transcripts between Halper and Trump campaign officials would show that none of them took the bait, or appeared to otherwise be soliciting Russia's help in the 2016 presidential campaign

Comment: Further reading:

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Sweden's PM says push to join Nato would destabilise northern Europe


Financial Times
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:25 UTC
Magdalena Andersson
© Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva/ReutersSwedish PM Magdalena Andersson, left, and her Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin have contrasting views on talks within their countries on joining Nato
Sweden's centre-left prime minister has ruled out applying to join Nato, saying that membership would destabilise the security of northern Europe. After a surge in Swedish support for joining the military alliance following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, opposition centre-right party leaders have again urged the government to start a discussion on possible Nato membership.


Comment: Just because there's been a 'surge in support' for joining NATO, that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do; as the PM's comments reveal below. All it reveals is the propaganda media have misinformed an easily scared and programmable public who have no idea what they're voting for.


But Social Democrat prime minister Magdalena Andersson turned down the requests for talks. "If Sweden were to choose to submit its membership application in the current situation, it would further destabilise the security of this particular region of Europe and increase tensions in Europe, and Sweden would contribute to further destabilising the situation," she said on Tuesday.
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The Russian Ministry of Defenсe: Original documents show Kiev planned offensive operation against Donbass in March of this year


The Saker
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:25 UTC
Russian Defence Ministry Igor Konashenkov
© mil.ruRussian Defence Ministry spokesperson, Major General Igor Konashenkov
The Russian Ministry of Defenсe got original documents of the combat order of the National Guard proving that Ukraine was preparing an offensive operation against Donbass in March of this year.

Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson, Major General Igor Konashenkov:

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© Russia Ministry of DefenseCaptured Ukraine National Guard documents detailing plans for March invasion of the Donbass
During special military operation, classified documents (PDF) of the command of the National Guard of Ukraine ended up in the hands of the Russian servicemen. These documents confirm the covert preparation by the Kiev regime of an offensive operation in the Donbass in March 2022.

The Russian Ministry of Defence publishes the original secret order of the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, Colonel-General Nikolai Balan, dated January 22, 2022.

Order "On organizing the training of a battalion tactical group of the 4th operational brigade to perform combat (special) tasks in the joint forces operation as part of a brigade of the armed forces of Ukraine."

The document is addressed to the heads of the northern Kiev, southern Odessa and western territorial departments of the National Guard of Ukraine.
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