Editor2 (2022-04-03). Russia-Ukraine Conflict Highlights Racist Double Standard in the West. orinocotribune.com By Wu Chaolan — Mar 21, 2022 | The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has garnered widespread attention across the globe. The wall-to-wall coverage and outpouring of reactions to the Russia-Ukraine conflict from the West has raised eyebrows at its double standard toward other humanitarian crises, which has unsheathed flagrant racist and biased attitudes toward the value of non-white lives that also matter. | CBS News senior correspondent in Kyiv Charlie D'Agata, for instance, has faced a widespread backlash due to his discriminatory comments on the Ukraine crisis: "This isn't a place, with all due respect, like…
UFCLP (2022-04-03). Thursday 3/31: Ukraine, The War & The Labor Movement A Panel. indybay.org Zoom Panel | us02web.zoom.us/j/86828281477?pwd=UTFHMkVOZDFOMXM3L2JpS3R2UkJ1Zz09…
Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-04-03). Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing Through the Fog of the Information War. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Rockhill Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP) On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a "special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine." Western bourgeois media immediately decried these stated goals, regularly repeating that the allegations of…
Yves Wegelin, Serge Halimi (2022-04-03). More weapons are not the solution and Julian Assange. indybay.org What is insane, however, is the belief that peace can be secured for the future with even more weapons. SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he wants to invest an additional hundred billion euros in Germany's army; and in Switzerland, too, armament fantasies are being voiced.
Anonymous669 (2022-04-02). Russia Vows To Target British Weapons Being Supplied To Ukraine. southfront.org 
2712070 10/04/2015 Russian servicemen attach a Kh-25 high-precision missile to a Su-24 aircraft at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Dmitriy Vinogradov/RIA Novosti | British-made long-range artillery and anti-ship systems, which the UK has promised to Kiev, will become legitimate targets for Russian troops if delivered to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to the UK, Andrey Kelin, said in an interview with the
WSWS (2022-04-02). China rejects EU calls to cut ties with Russia over Ukraine war. wsws.org Hostile official remarks after yesterday's virtual European Union-China summit point to escalating global tensions provoked by NATO's war against Russia in Ukraine.
_____ (2022-04-02). US Imperialism's Proxy War With Russia In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Here is my analysis of what's going on in Ukraine after one month. It may not prove acceptable to many. Certainly not liberals, the ruling elite in Washington, or even some left liberal and socialist left. But I've always spoken my mind and will continue to do so, with no allegiances to any political forces or organizations. So here goes: | First, this is a proxy war engineered by US neocons and political elites, that has its origins going back as far as 1999, when the neocons began to gain greater control over US foreign policy. The dress rehearsal for the current conflict originates with the Clinton administrat…
_____ (2022-04-02). Ukraine — A Decisive Transfer Of The Balance Of Power From West To East. popularresistance.org Most of the debate and coverage of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war in Australia and the Western world is decidedly banal. It is characterized by the simplification of an extremely complex situation to generate a narrative that can be summarized as Putin and Russia are evil and Ukraine is good. | This gross simplification is not helpful in either understanding the causes of the war, the nature of the war, its broader implications and most importantly of all, how it can be ended with the least number of additional deaths and injuries and damage to Ukraine's infrastructure. | The preponderance of human-interest repo…
WSWS (2022-04-02). Germany supplies tanks to Ukraine and prepares for war against Russia. wsws.org According to media reports, the German government is planning further arms deliveries to Ukraine worth some €300 million.
ecns.cn (2022-04-02). NATO urged to reflect on its role in Ukraine crisis. ecns.cn
Anonymous767 (2022-04-02). Russian Strikes Setting Ground For Second Stage Of Advance In East Of Ukraine. southfront.org 
Units of the Russian Armed Forces in Mariupol | As of April 2, the situation on the frontline remains without major changes with the most intense fighting has been ongoing in Mariupol city. Russian troops and DPR units have been carrying out the final stage of the operation to secure the city. The remaining members of Kyiv's forces focused their defense in city port and Azovstal Plant areas. | In own area of operations, units of the Lugansk People's Republic continued their advance on positions of the Ukrainian 57th Infa…
Julie Lévesque (2022-04-02). "Democratization" and Anti-Semitism in Ukraine: When Neo-Nazi Symbols become "The New Normal" globalresearch.ca In the Ukraine parliament, extremist symbols are on display. The flags of France, the UK, Canada, hang alongside those of the Neo-Nazi Svoboda party together with two White supremacist flags.
Staff (2022-04-02). Ukraine's Helicopter Attack in Russia May Hinder Peace Talks. orinocotribune.com Russia has denounced that the Ukrainian Army bombed a fuel depot inside Russian territory, just 35 kilometers from the border on Friday, April 1. Kremlin has warned that this surprise attack could imply a turning point in the conflict and could hinder the peace talks going on between Russia and Ukraine. | The Governor of Belgorod region of Russia, Viacheslav Gladkov, said that two Ukrainian Armed Forces helicopters bombed an oil storage facility managed by the Russian energy giant Rosneft, in an area located about 80 kilometers from the battered Ukrainian city of Kharkov. | The bombardment, which has neither been…
Anonymous103 (2022-04-02). Military Situation In Eastern Ukraine On April 2, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org 
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No Cold War (2022-04-02). World hunger and the war in Ukraine. peoplesdispatch.org The war in Ukraine, along with sanctions imposed by the United States and Western countries against Russia, have caused global food, fertiliser, and fuel prices to War in the 'breadbasket of the world': | Russia and Ukraine together
Anand Naidoo (2022-04-02). The Heat: China-EU summit. Leaders disagree over response to Ukraine conflict. america.cgtn.com 
Chinese and European Union leaders hold a virtual summit. High on the agenda — the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Ana Vraƒçar (2022-04-02). Will health be used as a way to pressure Global South on Ukraine war? peoplesdispatch.org The government of Lithuania reversed its decision to donate almost half a million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh after the latter abstained during the UN resolution on the war in Ukraine. This sets an alarming precedent…
Dave DeCamp (2022-04-02). US to Work With Allies to Send Soviet-Made Tanks to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com A US official told The New York Times on Friday that the Biden administration will work with allies in Europe The move marks an escalation in Western military aid to Ukraine. Until now, the US and its NATO allies have provided Ukraine with thousands of shoulder-fired anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles but have held off on sending more advanced weapons over concerns of provoking Russia. | The US official wouldn't specify how many tanks will be sent or what countries the…
Dave DeCamp (2022-04-02). US to Work With Allies to Send Soviet-Made Tanks to Ukraine. news.antiwar.com A US official told The New York Times on Friday that the Biden administration will work with allies in Europe The move marks an escalation in Western military aid to Ukraine. Until now, the US and its NATO allies have provided Ukraine with thousands of shoulder-fired anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles but have held off on sending more advanced weapons over concerns of provoking Russia. | The US official wouldn't specify how many tanks will be sent or what countries the…
Anonymous103 (2022-04-02). Military Situation In Ukraine On April 2, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | In the East of the Kiev region, Russian forces retread to the Priluki area; | The UAF took control of Bucha, Boridyanka, Ivankiv, Irpen and Gostomel; | Clashes continue near Kharkiv; | Russian forces secured the town of Izyum south of Kharkiv; | Clashes were reported in the village of Gusarovka, south-west of Izyum; | 40 Ukrainian fighters were killed with a P-800 Oniks cruise missile strike in the Shakhtars'ke area, according to the Russian MoD; | Clashes continue north of the…
Kamal Iranidoost (2022-04-02). US to provide more $300 m in security assistance to Ukraine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Apr. 02 (MNA) — The US Department of Defense will provide an additional $300 million in security assistance to Ukraine, including laser-guided rocket systems, drones, and commercial satellite imagery services, media reported Saturday.
By Matt Kennard — Mar 29, 2022 | Home Secretary Priti Patel, who will soon decide whether to extradite Julian Assange to the US, has been a political adviser to — and been funded by — a right-wing lobby group which has attacked Assange in the British media for a decade. | ‚Ä¢ Patel sat on advisory council of Henry Jackson Society (HJS) with Lord Arbuthnot, whose wife later made two key legal rulings against Assange | ‚Ä¢ Former CIA director James Woolsey has been an HJS patron since 2006 | ‚Ä¢ HJS has hosted three other ex-CIA directors in London si…
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