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Why Zelensky Will NOT Take Back Crimea

by Rick Sterling, published on the LA Progressive, April 4, 2023 Seventeen months ago the US State Department officially declared the US will “NEVER” recognize Crimea as part of Russia. Three months ago Ukrainian President Zelensky vowed to “take back” Crimea. Is this possible? In June 2016 I visited Crimea with a delegation from the Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI).[…]

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“Provoked” NATO Expansion, “Unprovoked” Ukraine War, and the Dire “China Threat”

by Felix Abt, published on CovertAction Magazine, March 15, 2023 Claims made by transatlantic politicians and their media partners turn reality upside down—and would baffle even George Orwell. U.S. President Joe Biden, Western politicians and their media partners agree that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” The president of the country notorious for its numerous unprovoked wars of aggression called[…]

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Ukraine: U.S. Out Now! Our Antiwar Credo

Statement from Socialist Action, March 24, 2023 Maidan’s rooftop fascist snipers Today’s unfolding Ukraine tragedy began in February 2014 when rooftop fascist snipers opened fire on Maidan protestors originally assembled to resist the Victor Yanukovych government’s austerity measures. The fascists murdered 100 in cold blood, including some of their own for good measure. Yanukovych, the elected president, was instantly blamed[…]

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The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 15, 2023 March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of the 21st century not only continues to plague Iraqi society to this day, but it also looms large over the current crisis in Ukraine, making it impossible[…]

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Dr. Strangelove is No Longer Satire

by Dee Knight, published on CovertAction Magazine, March 1, 2023 Expansion of U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine makes nuclear war more conceivable “We are fighting a war against Russia,” German Foreign Minister Putin at Stalingrad Memorial on 80th anniversary. [Source: pbs.org] told the Council of Europe on January 24. The next day German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and U.S. President Joe[…]

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How US Exceptionalism Has Spawned War in Ukraine and Syria

by Rick Sterling, published on Antiwar.com, February 25, 2023 The following is an adapted version of the presentation made at the webinar “Connecting Dots” on 2.25.2023. Other speakers were Dr. Marwa Osman and Dr. Atif Kubursi. Introduction Syria has been at war since 2011. The conflict is in a stalemate. US troops control nearly a third of the country. The[…]

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Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan

By Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd, Wei Yu, March 2, 2023 There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” “Not rational” is how Biden described the plan that calls for de-escalation toward a ceasefire, respect for national sovereignty, establishment of humanitarian corridors and resumption of[…]

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Who’s Winning and Losing The Economic War Over Ukraine?

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, February 21, 2023 With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would[…]

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Can Europe Survive This Moment?

by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, published by Globetrotter, February 9, 2023 A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years (not to go back any further and include the deaths suffered by Europe during religious wars and the deaths inflicted[…]

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Incentivizing Russia To Hit NATO

by Caitlin Johnstone, published on Consortium News, January 27, 2023 The omnicidal war fiends won the debate over sending tanks to Ukraine, so now it’s time to start arguing for sending F-16s. In an article “Ukraine sets sights on fighter jets after securing tank supplies,” Reuters reports the following: “Ukraine will now push for Western fourth generation fighter jets such[…]

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