Unspecified new intelligence “suggests that a pro-Ukrianian group” was behind the September 2022 attack on Nord Stream pipelines, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, quoting anonymous US officials. 

The Times’ unnamed sources said they “believed the saboteurs were most likely Ukrainian or Russian nationals, or some combination of the two” and that “no American or British nationals were involved.” They further said they had no evidence Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky or his “top lieutenants”were involved, or that the “any Ukrainian government officials” directed the attack.

It is generally observed that imperial powers like the United States frequently interfere in foreign governments in support of economic or hard political reasons. To be sure, Washington has refined the process so it can plausibly deny that it is interfering at all, that the change is spontaneous and comes from the people and institutions in the country that is being targeted for change.

BY Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D.

“The West is Playing with Fire in Ukraine,” “The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and the Achilles’ Heel,” “Why Europe is Splitting over Ukraine Arms Deliveries.” These and similar headlines in the Middle Eastern publications reflect the response of local media and political circles to the West’s recent increase in arms deliveries to Kyiv.

BY Yury Zinin

According to local analysts, the West has thrown all the forces of its information conglomerate against Russia and President Vladimir Putin personally. In order to get to the truth, analysts have to break through the thick veil of lies and disinformation created around Ukraine.

There is little that unites me with those who occupied the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Their vision for America, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, blind support for Trump and embrace of reactionary fact-free conspiracy theories leaves a very wide chasm between their beliefs and mine. But that does not mean I support the judicial lynching against many of those who participated in the Jan. 6 events, a lynching that is mandating years in pretrial detention and prison for misdemeanors. Once rights become privileges, none of us are safe. 

By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost

The truth is painful to an empire of lies

But the dishonest commanding bastards do not cry

As they convince themselves of their ugly worth

Having given up being human beings

To turn into nasty beasts with not a skerrick of shame

That hate anything true

The old new king of the kingdom now only gardens 

As if not allowed to contradict his democratic hell

Called parliament where twats make the laws of torture

Keeping you in Belmarsh for the empire’s desires

To shut the terrible truth about its wars AND crimes

A pissy Charlie the turd who could be Charles the Third

Should he voice a proper opinion about you being in prison

Promotes you at least for a pardon for a sin you did not commit

At last you enjoying true freedom while we are in their golden cage

COULD DMITRY (DMITRI?) ORLOV BE A VERY SUBTLE COMEDIAN, A SATIRIST IN DISGUISE? IF WE READ HIS COLUMN ON GLOBAL WARMING ONE COULD QUICKLY FALL INTO THE TRAP OF BEING ANNOYED AT THE FURPHIES HE IS PUSHING WITH A BUSTER KEATON STRAIGHT FACE...

IS HE GIVING SOME FAKE INFORMATION FOR THE DENIALISTS TO FALL INTO MAJOR PITS OF RUBBISH? WHEN FOLLOWING HIS (DMITRY ORLOV) SAILING LIFE OF EXCHANGING VODKA FOR FOOD, ONE WOULD BE PREPARED TO BELIEVE THAT HIS SENSE OF HUMOUR IS VERY DELICATE AND DISCREET...

OR COULD THERE BE A FAKE DMITRI (DMITRY?) ORLOV WRITING STUFF THAT DOES NOT MAKE REAL SCIENTIFIC SENSE AND IS APPROPRIATING THE CLUBORLOV (https://cluborlov.wordpress.com)? 

Ukraine rolls out system to auto-block ‘malicious’ websites

Officially, the system will be used to target scammers, while critics warn that it may result in even tighter online censorship

Ukrainian authorities have rolled out an automatic system to "filter out" malicious websites, used for online scamming and phishing schemes. The system was introduced on January 30 and enforced on Thursday, with all the Internet providers in the country obliged to use it.

The new system is expected to provide every 15 minutes a list of malicious websites for providers to block. The system is designed to target only scammers, its creator, Ukraine’s National Center for Operating and Management of Telecommunication Networks, insists.

The 12th “Middle East Conference” at the Valdai Club in Moscow offered a more than welcome cornucopia of views on interconnected troubles and tribulations affecting the region.

But first, an important word on terminology – as only one of Valdai’s guests took the trouble to stress. This is not the “Middle East” – a reductionist, Orientalist notion devised by old colonials: at The Cradle we emphasize the region must be correctly described as West Asia.

BY PEPE ESCOBAR

The military aircraft billed as America’s latest and greatest fighter jet, the F-35, has been recalled globally to fix an engine problem that led to the grounding of some planes and the halting of new deliveries.

The Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) ordered the fix earlier this week, calling for all of the jets to be retrofitted within 90 days. The order applies to all of the nearly 900 F-35s that defense contractor Lockheed Martin has delivered worldwide, including those that have been grounded since a December 15 crash at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in Texas.

Russian diplomats have poked fun at White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre after she made a mess of their country’s official name during a press briefing on Friday.

Jean-Pierre made the gaffe while previewing the upcoming meeting between US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the White House.

The press secretary said the leaders would discuss “our work together to address the challenges posed by the People’s Republic of Russia.” The country’s official name is the Russian Federation.

According to the official transcript from the briefing, Jean-Pierre misspoke and was actually referring to the People’s Republic of China.

The only lesson of history is that we learn nothing from history except for a short period called human life.

Once this human life has passed, the next generation has echoes, and the one after, is totally ignorant. 
The US intervention in Ukraine is one of them. The various Anglo-Saxon shenanigans in European politics are picrocholine wars, with grandiose goals and contradictory effects.

by Patrick Raymond

One dreams of reconstituting the universal empire, and one fails in front of a wall surrounding a field, far from any conquest. 

Australia has insisted it will keep US nuclear propulsion technology under tight lock and key after it gains access to sensitive information, with Canberra’s envoy to Washington pledging to safeguard America’s “crown jewels.”

Speaking to an audience at a US think tank on Thursday, outgoing Ambassador Arthur Sinodinos said much progress had been made on the three-way AUKUS deal signed between the US, Australia, and the UK in 2021, the details of which are set to be unveiled later this month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsun8e4E4Gk

Letter to the Prime Minister of Australia,

The Honourable Anthony Albanese

I accuse!

First Published: NEW DAWN of yourdemocracy.net, 30 October 2022.

By Gus Leonisky

Sir,

Would you allow me, grateful as I am for the kind reception you once extended to me, to show my concern about maintaining your well-deserved prestige and to point out that your star which, until now, has shone so brightly, risks being dimmed by the most shameful and indelible of stains?

AN ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE SCIENCE MAGAZINE, 23 DECEMBER, 2022. 

TO US, GUS LEONISKY AND HIS LOONY MATES, IT WAS LOADED FROM THE START: 

Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine has destroyed civilian infrastructure….

BY THEN — AND WAY BEFORE THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION IN UKRAINE — WE HAVE KNOWN THAT THIS CONFLICT WAS NOT UNPROVOKED. IT IS HIGHLY UNSCIENTIFIC TO QUALIFY THIS CONFLICT THUS.

SERIOUSLY WELL-INFORMED JOURNALISTS — ALL OF THEM ON THE SIDELINE OF THE PROPAGANDIST MAINSTREAM MEDIA BECAUSE THEY DON’T TOW THE “OFFICIAL” LIES — HAVE EXPRESSED OPINIONS RANGING “FROM THIS WAS PROVOKED BY NATO TO WHICH RUSSIA SHOULD NOT HAVE RESPONDED MILITARILY” TO “RUSSIA WAS CORRECT IN PROTECTING RUSSIAN POPULATIONS IN UKRAINE” UNDER UNITED NATIONS #2202.