Tragedy in Mariupol

 

 

By Dr. Vladimir Kozin

There are some new facts related to the current tragedy in Mariupol. 

[Mariupol has been a stronghold of the Nazi Azov Battalion death squads since just after the 2014 US directed coup in Kiev. When peaceful protests began soon after the coup calling for a 'federated' Ukraine in Mariupol, the Azov Battalion was sent there and began shooting peaceful protestors in the streets. Soon they were terrorizing local citizens and have since established a base inside the city.]

The humanitarian operation there continues. On one hand, over the past day, 13,751 people have been evacuated from the city, and a total of 56,743 have been already evacuated so far.

On the other hand, according to radio intercepts, it has been reliably established that nationalists in the city are conducting intensive negotiations with Kiev to unblock Mariupol and send them support.
Over the past three days, the intensity of negotiations has increased significantly, while negotiations on both sides are taking place in extremely rough tones. The neo-nazi in Mariupol feel the hopelessness of the current situation, and Kiev understands the impossibility of providing any assistance. Thus, the nationalists have more than 200,000 people of the civilian population, whom they can use as a "human shield". This position has been agreed with the leadership of Ukraine. 

Understanding the content and consequences of these negotiations, Russia officially appealed to the Kiev authorities and two days ago brought that Moscow is ready to open humanitarian corridors and release all neo-nazi factions in any direction in order to save the city and those people, who have already glorified themselves with the explosions of a kindergarten, two schools, a maternity hospital and a drama theater building. At the same time, Russia guaranteed the life of nationalists who will laid down their weapons, and provide a humanitarian corridor for their exit to the territories controlled by Kiev. 

Unfortunately, in response, Russia received a categorical refusal from high officials of Kiev even for such generous offer.

One can only guess about the next steps of desperate gangs who have lost their minds and understand their complete hopelessness, while horrifying pictures of the possible consequences of these actions are emerging. That is why, Russian side warned the entire civilized world in advance, international organizations, primarily

Over the past three days, the intensity of negotiations has increased significantly, while negotiations on both sides are taking place in extremely rough tones. The neo-nazi in Mariupol feel the hopelessness of the current situation, and Kiev understands the impossibility of providing any assistance. Thus, the nationalists have more than 200,000 people of the civilian population, whom they can use as a "human shield". This position has been agreed with the leadership of Ukraine.

Understanding the content and consequences of these negotiations, Russia officially appealed to the Kiev authorities and two days ago brought that Moscow is ready to open humanitarian corridors and release all neo-nazi factions in any direction in order to save the city and those people, who have already glorified themselves with the explosions of a kindergarten, two schools, a maternity hospital and a drama theater building. At the same time, Russia guaranteed the life of nationalists who will laid down their weapons, and provide a humanitarian corridor for their exit to the territories controlled by Kiev. 

Unfortunately, in response, Russia received a categorical refusal from high officials of Kiev even for such generous offer.

One can only guess about the next steps of desperate gangs who have lost their minds and understand their complete hopelessness, while horrifying pictures of the possible consequences of these actions are emerging. That is why, Russian side warned the entire civilized world in advance, international organizations, primarily the UN, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross about sad and tragic consequences Kiev’s approach to the issue of refugees in Ukraine.

Kiev’s violence versus Ukrainian civilians

The Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues to record numerous facts of violence against civilians and in other localities not only in Mariupol, but in some other places which continues to be held by neo-nazi as a "human shield".
Here are just some of them over the past day:

• In Chernihov, the militants of nationalist battalions, under threat of physical violence, take away the last food from the local population, including those received as humanitarian aid.

• In Zaporozhie, the nationalist-minded authorities forcibly distribute Molotov cocktails to the residents of the city and call on the civilian population to throw them at Russian troops, thereby cynically pushing people to imminent death.

• In Kharkov, the Ukrainian nationalists fired at the place of delivery of humanitarian aid.

• In addition, in Severodonetsk, nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries defending themselves together with territorial defence reservists forcibly placed the local population around occupied residential buildings, and citizens who refused to leave shelters and go out into the streets were simply shot.

Independent exit of people from settlements is strictly suppressed. Local residents, taken to the basements of residential buildings, allegedly to escape from Russian air strikes, are in appalling unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, without electricity and under the influence of lies fabricated by the Ukrainian authorities about blocking humanitarian corridors.

All these facts once again testify to the genocide of the Kiev authorities against their own people and complete indifference to the fate of millions of ordinary people.

Unfortunately, all our persistent appeals to the Ukrainian side about the opening of humanitarian corridors to Russia, as well as official appeals to international structures of the UNO, the OSCE, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, are still ignored to date. At the same time the Kiev authorities persistently continue to assert that there are no people willing to evacuate to the Russian Federation.

~ Dr. Vladimir Kozin Member, Russian Academy of Military Sciences; Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Vice President, Russian National Institute for Global Security Research

We are watching the U.S. collapse

 

Gonzalo Lira now in Kharkov, Ukraine speaks on these topics:

1. The basics of abductive reasoning.
2. The situation in Kharkov, Ukraine.
3. The Russian attack in Western Ukraine.
4. The current state of the Zelensky regime.
5. Saudi Arabia begins to de-dollarize, which is an existential crisis for the United States.

One of Maine's best

 

 

One of Maine's favorite activists Lisa Savage. 

She is a recently retired school teacher, long-time peacenik, founder of Maine Natural Guard and former candidate for US Senate seat held by Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).

Lisa also blogs at Went 2 the Bridge

Out on street again - no war with Russia!

Four of us spent the noon hour yesterday holding signs and banners on the street at a busy intersection in Westbrook, Maine. We got a steady flow of waves and honks - only two 'middle fingers' that we noticed. Again most people just drive by with no expression on their face - the zombie look. Our crew of folks is going out once a week to different busy intersections in the region. 

If you want to reach the American people stand on a corner with a sign and they will drive by at some point.

On the way home from Westbrook I was listening to right-wing talk radio and one caller said she had just watched the TV program called 'Inside Edition' (which claims to broadcast 'uplifting news') and heard that Vladimir Putin just fired 1,000 of his top people and now has a food taster so he does not get assassinated. This is the kind of crap the people in the US listen to every day. This is where they get their heads filled with all of the CIA talking points which are then spread to others. To say that Americans are colonized people is an under-statement. It's no wonder that so many people drive by our peace vigils with blank looks on their faces.

I saw a Pew research poll yesterday. According to the poll, 62% of Americans said that they would oppose “taking military action even if it risks a nuclear conflict with Russia.” However, 35% said they’d still support military action even if it meant nuke exchange. Results were almost equal on either side of the partisan divide, with 36% of Republicans and 35% of Democrats willing to risk atomic war with Russia, which has the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear warheads. Just goes to show both political parties are loaded with very ignorant people who are following Washington over the cliff.

The US is working hard to pressure China to renounce Russia and to join the US-EU in placing harsh sanctions on Moscow. China refuses. 

We often hear US-NATO talking heads say that the 'whole world' is with the US in sanctioning Russia. What is never reported in mainstream media is that besides China the following list are some of the nations not joining the US economic war on Moscow. 

Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Thailand, India, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Serbia, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Malaysia, Vietnam, Burundi, Senegal, South Sudan, South Africa, Uganda, Mali, Mozambique, Syria, North Korea, Eritrea, and Pakistan.

 

What this list shows me (again this is not all of the nations refusing to sanction Russia) is that when you add up their combined population figures (compared to the US and Europe) they are the majority of the global population. 

But why are they staying neutral or actively supportive of Russia? I think it should be fairly clear to us that the vast majority of these nations have had lots of experience for hundreds of years of brutal colonization by the UK, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, and the US. They have not historically had much ability to stand up to these western, white colonizers.

Russia (facing US-NATO's loaded gun pointed at its head) has been pleading for years for secure borders but the arrogant west has disdainfully ignored Moscow's honest pleas. Continual NATO expansion, and the 2014 US sponsored coup d' etat in Ukraine, have essentially forced Russia to reluctantly take a stand. It is generally my opinion that much of the colonized world sees Russia and China as nations that are not bowing before the global bullies - Mr. Big as I like to label the capitalist corporate western oligarchies.

 

Photos by Lou Kimball

So, it is a very divided world - the west verses the Global South.

The western corporate media boasts that their sanctions will destroy the Russian economy and help to force regime change in Moscow which is the real goal of US-EU. In response Russia is just turning away from the US-Europe and creating new economic institutions with China that will ultimately put the 'petrodollar' into the dumper. Already we see Washington's long-time 'best buddies' in Saudi Arabia agreeing to sell their oil to China using Yuan rather than dollars. This is a huge sign of this global turning away from the aggressive and arrogant west. Once this snowball gets rolling down hill it will be unstoppable.

The current US-NATO war on Russia is a clear indication to the Global South that the western nations will attempt to beat the hell out of anyone that tries to change the ‘new world order’. Russia is indeed being punished in many ways.

We can only hope that the desperate west does not in this current moment of change resort to a full-blown US-NATO war on Russia and China that could go nuclear in a red-hot flash. It is certainly quite possible that things could turn in that direction.

Sadly, there are many ‘progressives’ in the US and elsewhere across the west who are misreading this present dangerous conflict. It is astounding to anyone who knows better to watch peaceniks flying Ukrainian flags and denying the active presence of Nazis inside the Kiev military and security agencies. It’s very hard to watch some on the ‘left’ deny that Nazis are inside the big cities across Ukraine holding civilians hostage and killing them in order to blame Moscow.

But as usual, time will reveal much of what is now cloudy to some. Each day I see more people coming around to face the truth as to what is actually going on. 

Let's just hope that it won't be too late to really matter.

Bruce

Fashion page: Macron goes hip

 

The French president's new look - the Zelensky craze

 

Volodymyr Zelensky has been turned into a rock star by the western corporate media. The public appears to lap it up. His signature green combat T-shirt and unshaven face helps to create the image that he is fighting on the front lines inside Ukraine. In reality Zelensky is squired in the US embassy in Poland reading scripts handed to him by his CIA handlers. It is the biggest acting job of his career.

Being desperate with declining popularity, and facing reelection, Emmanuel Macron in France has decided to join the war-time Zelensky look with a bit of fashion switch of his own - unshaven and wearing a military hoodie. Normally the former investment banker at Rothschild & Co only dresses in the finest Paris fashions. But one does what one must to stay popular and relevant.

So who is next? Will Germany's new Chancellor Olaf Scholz show up wearing Lederhosen in Munich  for Oktoberfest? I hope he has good looking legs, otherwise it might not work. Of course he will be carrying a receipt for the weapons he has just transferred to Ukraine.

Or will Justin Trudeau in Canada soon be seen driving an 18-wheeler (loaded with gifts for his friend Zelensky) wearing Carhartt jeans and jacket?

 

Or how about Joe Biden? What will the aging and demented war-mongering US prez do to stay cool in the public eye? Maybe we'll see a re-run of his campaign for president where he told the tough-guy story about his almost fight with Corn Pop which is immortalized in this video.

 

It's a hard life being the leader of a country. One must come up with a story-line and a hip image in order to earn the public's adoration. 

It's quite alarming to see the ways these 'leaders' can fool the public into thinking they are the top of the pops.

Bruce 

History lesson: Nazis are real in Ukraine

 

 

75th anniversary commemoration march of Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought with the Nazis and helped to kill tens of thousands of Jews, Poles and ethnic-Russians during Hitler's sweep thru western Ukraine during WW II. 

These people predominate today in western Ukraine.

Moscow published more documents on U.S. Bio-labs in Ukraine

 

Russia continues to study evidence on Ukrainian-U.S. military bio-labs

 

More than 30 such labs implemented biological warfare programs in full cooperation with the United States and its NATO allies on the territory of Ukraine. A secret project aimed at studying the ways bats can transmit diseases to humans has been carried out under the direct supervision of U.S. specialists’ control and on a systematic basis at the joint bio-lab in Kharkov, Ukraine, for many years. Even the U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland admitted in the Senate March 8th that such labs do exist.

As part of the project, the Kharkiv State Veterinary Academy studied 145 wild birds as vectors for the transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza. The conditions were assessed under which the transfer can become unmanageable, cause economic damage, and create food security risks.

The Russian Ministry of Defence also named names, revealing that Joanna Wintrol, the U.S. Defence Threat Reduction Agency's liaison officer at the US Embassy in Kiev, has been serving as one of the program's curators.

Commenting on a trove of papers released in a presentation held March 17th, Russian Radiological, Chemical and Biological (RCB) Defence Troops chief Lt-Gen Igor Kirillov pointed to a document dated 6 March 2015 which he said confirmed that components of biological weapons were being created in Ukraine with direct U.S. involvement and financing.  

"An analysis of the information received suggests that Ukrainian specialists have not been made aware of the potential risks involved in the transfer of bio-materials, and that they are essentially being used and kept in the dark, and have no real idea about the true goals of the ongoing research," Kirillov said at a briefing in Moscow on March 17th.

He suggested that it was no coincidence that these bio-laboratories were chosen by the DTRA and its contractor Black & Veatch to execute Project UP-8, directed at the study of pathogens of Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis and hantaviruses, given that these pathogens have natural foci in both Ukraine and Russia. Their use can be disguised as the natural outbreak of diseases. This is why this particular project received additional funding, and the deadlines for its implementation were extended, Kirillov said. 

Ukrainian bio-labs were also the main executor of Project P-782, conducting research into the transmission of diseases through bats. A Russian RCB Troops analysis of documents in this area has shown that Pentagon research in this area has been going on since at least 2009 under the direct supervision of U.S. specialists, and that work in this area was undertaken in sub-projects P-382, P-444 and P-568.

The documents showed that the Pentagon planned to expand its military bio-research program in Ukraine to neighboring countries, and a research into the spread of pathogens by bats in joint U.S labs in Ukraine and the Lugar Lab in the Republic of Georgia began in October 2019, on the eve of the start of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Russia continues to receive information about attempts to destroy bio-materials and documentation in Ukraine's bio-labs. During such liquidation activities at the Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine in the settlement of Khlebodarskoye, Odessa region, Ukrainian nationals working at the lab were not even allowed in the building. This laboratory cooperates with the Mechnikov Anti-Plague Research Institute in Odessa, which conducted research on plague, anthrax, cholera, tularemia and arboviruses.

Russian MoD will present in the near future new documents on the export of a large amount of human biomaterials from Ukraine to the UK and other European countries.

 ~ Dr. Vladimir Kozin, Member, Russian Academy of Military Sciences; Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Vice President, Russian National Institute for Global Security Research

A naval blockade? What a villainy!

 

 

By Adam Keller (Gush Shalom statement)

The Russian navy
Has imposed
A naval blockade
On Ukraine,
Preventing all ships
From arriving.

In Israel
The media
Pointed to
The naval blockade
As one more
Deplorable manifestation
Of Russian aggression.

The residents of
The Gaza Strip
Should be glad
To know that,
Albeit very late,
Israelis are beginning
To oppose
Naval blockades.  

Ukraine using crisis actors

 

In Video: Epic Fails Of Ukrainian Propaganda

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While the Ukrainian officials made a bet on the informational warfare, the ongoing military operations in Ukraine unveiled their complete incompetence. All the main provocations aimed at blaming the Russian military of inhumane actions against civilians and used by Zelenskiy as the pretext for yet another plea for more military supplies from the West were revealed before Mr Zelenskiy released his daily video appeals to his Western counterparts.

Even superficial analyses are sufficient to reveal the lies spread by Kiev, even by the Ukrainian top officials.

Sometimes, there was even no need of any analyses, as the “actors” involved in the shooting were so proud of themselves and their contribution to the fake war in Ukraine that they shared the videos of the shooting process on the social media.

Unfortunately, the fact that the Kiev regime is completely discredited remains a secret for Ukrainians and the main part of the Western public, as MSM continue to massively share outright lies.

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What could be worse?

 

What

could be worse?

 

To be called

a 'Putinista'

or have to deal with

nuclear winter?

 

I'll take the former

any day,

rather than the

red-hot latter one.

 

Everyday we hear

Russia did this,

Putin did that.

 

It is even worse

than the demonization

of Iraq, Libya 

or Syria.

 

What makes Washington,

and its puppets in

London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels,

so damn desperate 

anyway?

Once you get

that one unraveled

in your mind,

after all the years

of western media 

disinformation,

you are on your way

to being a free thinker.

That is what the 

corporate media 

help do to us,

they capture 

our minds and our souls

for money, fame, power,

or maybe just a pay check,

or the feeling that we fit in

with the maddening crowd.

 

Will you join me

in doing a personal

inventory?

 

Ask yourself,

where did I learn

what I believe about Russia?

 

Bruce

Italy preparing to join Ukraine war

 

The headline on this document reads in English:  'Major statute of the army officio general of the head of SME'

 

 

Italy is ready for "war fighting"

Here is our press release:

The memo from the General Staff of the Army dated 9 March is extremely serious. Our army is preparing to fight. It is a striking demonstration that our country is already a co-belligerent party in the ongoing conflict. Citizens are being kept in the dark about how the government is tragically dragging us into a war whose development, if it continues on this path, will be devastating. Those who have served in the armed forces for the last 30 years have never seen such a memo from the General Staff of the Army. Add to this wretched mobilisation of troops the fact that we still do not know what kind of weaponry we are sending to Ukraine. The government must immediately clarify this to the country.

The spiral of war must be stopped.

Maurizio Acerbo, National Secretary and Gregorio Piccin, Peace Officer of the Communist Refoundation Party - European Left


La circulaire de l'état-major de l'armée datée du 9 mars est très grave. Notre armée se prépare à combattre. C'est une démonstration flagrante que notre pays est déjà une partie co-belligérante dans le conflit en cours. Les citoyens sont tenus dans l'ignorance de la façon dont le gouvernement nous entraîne de manière irresponsable dans une guerre dont le développement, si on continue sur cette voie, sera dévastateur. Ceux qui ont servi dans les forces armées au cours des 30 dernières années n'ont jamais vu une circulaire de l'état-major de l'armée de ce type. Ajoutez à cette malheureuse mobilisation des troupes le fait que nous ne savons toujours pas quel type d'armement nous envoyons en Ukraine. Le gouvernement doit immédiatement donne des explications sur ce point au pays.

Cette spirale de guerre doit être arrêtée.

Maurizio Acerbo, secrétaire national et Gregorio Piccin, responsable de la paix du Parti de la refondation communiste - Gauche européenne

Nazis killing escaping civilians

 

As you have likely heard the Nazis have inserted themselves inside the big cities of Ukraine and are holding civilians as hostages. When people try to escape the Nazis kill many of them. 

Here is one video showing the Nazis dragging people trying to escape the city out of their car and killing them in Mariupol which is in the Donbass region of Ukraine.

Talking with retired military man about Ukraine

 

 

Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor joins Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate for a candid discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war.

They also discuss the possibility of US-NATO and Ukraine staging a false flag chem/bio attack on civilian populations which would then be blamed on Russia.

Ukraine war mercenary: It's a trap

 

 

An American shares his tales from the front lines of Ukraine. He says it's a trap.

The joy ride is over - the truth about being a mercenary for Ukraine-US-NATO war against Russia.

Gee what a surprise.... 

Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death

 

By Chris Hedges

The march towards protracted conflict with Russia and China will backfire. The desperate effort to counter the steady loss of economic dominance by the US will not be offset by military dominance. If Russia and China can create an alternative global financial system, one that does not use the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, it will signal the collapse of the American empire. The dollar will plummet in value. Treasury bonds, used to fund America’s massive debt, will become largely worthless. The financial sanctions used to cripple Russia will be, I expect, the mechanism that slays us, if we don’t first immolate ourselves in thermonuclear war.

Washington plans to turn Ukraine into Chechnya or the old Afghanistan, when the Carter administration, under the influence of the Svengali-like National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, equipped and armed the radical jihadists that would morph into the Taliban and al Qaeda in the fight against the Soviets. It will not be good for Russia. It will not be good for the United States. It will not be good for Ukraine, as making Russia bleed will require rivers of Ukrainian blood. The decision to destroy the Russian economy, to turn the Ukrainian war into a quagmire for Russia and topple the regime of Vladimir Putin will open a Pandora’s box of evils. Massive social engineering — look at Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya or Vietnam — has its own centrifugal force. It destroys those who play God.

The Ukrainian war has silenced the last vestiges of the Left. Nearly everyone has giddily signed on for the great crusade against the latest embodiment of evil, Vladimir Putin, who, like all our enemies, has become the new Hitler. The United States will give $13.6 billion in military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, with the Biden administration authorizing on Saturday an additional $200 million in military assistance. The 5,000-strong EU rapid deployment force, the recruitment of all Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, into NATO, the reconfiguration of former Soviet Bloc militaries to NATO weapons and technology have all been fast tracked. Germany, for the first time since World War II, is massively rearming. It has lifted its ban on exporting weapons. Its new military budget is twice the amount of the old budget, with promises to raise the budget to more than 2 percent of GDP, which would move its military from the seventh largest in the world to the third-, behind China and the United States. NATO battlegroups are being doubled in size in the Baltic states to more than 6,000 troops. Battlegroups will be sent to Romania and Slovakia. Washington will double the number of U.S. troops stationed in Poland to 9,000. Sweden and Finland are considering dropping their neutral status to integrate with NATO.

This is a recipe for global war. History, as well as all the conflicts I covered as a war correspondent, have demonstrated that when military posturing begins, it often takes little to set the funeral pyre alight. One mistake. One overreach. One military gamble too many. One too many provocations. One act of desperation.  

See the rest of the article here

U.S. leadership wants a war with Russia: false flag coming

 

 Gonzalo Lira coming to us from Kharkiv, Ukraine

 

Graham Phillips - outstanding reporter back on the story

 

Long-time excellent reporter Graham Phillips talks about fascism in Ukraine - nails it too.

I've watched many of his videos since 2014.

He reported from the Donbass for years and was kicked out of Ukraine for doing so. Kiev's Nazi-led army tried to kill him many times.  

He's now come back and tells this story.

He's a good man.

Bruce 

PS Must watch this one below - really starts after Putin's words in the video. Mostly about the Nazis in Ukraine.

 

Scott Ritter: Someone who knows Russia

Scott Ritter joins Regis Tremblay to discuss the situation on the ground in Ukraine. 

 

Ritter also comments on Ukraine's President Zelensky who he says is not in power. He reads a script written by the CIA and MI6.

 

They had technical difficulties and lost significant portions of this interview.

History lesson 2007: Russia pleads for new security agreements

 

Vladimir Putin's landmark speech on February 10th 2007 at 43rd Munich Security Conference where he openly criticized the US for its striving for a uni-polar world, its endless wars and its disdain for arms control treaties.

For the first time since the end of the Cold War he made clear that Russia does not intend to fit in this kind of world order. 

Despite his criticism, Putin didn't seek confrontation but called for a new partnership on a fair basis - where all nations had real security.

The Western mainstream media, however, distorted his speech and portrayed it as a malicious attack. (Note the smirking Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman in the audience.) After this speech is when the major western media demonization of Putin really ramped up.

Russia's real crime? Seeking security agreements while NATO was/is under going steroidal expansion to the east. 

To their credit, Moscow exhausted every diplomatic channel for the last eight years to avert this war but were repeatedly rejected by the US-NATO and its puppet in Ukraine (refusing to honor their signature on the Minsk Agreements) leading to the conclusion that Washington wanted this war.

Watch and judge for yourself.

Bruce

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