(2023-02-27). West severely miscalculated geopolitical ramifications of conflict in Ukraine. infobrics.org The EU, and not Russia, has weakened since the start of the special military operation.
(2023-02-27). Massive rally in Berlin demands peace in Ukraine. peoplesdispatch.org On Saturday February 25, tens of thousands of people rallied at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin demanding that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz take an active role in encouraging negotiations to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. The mobilization with the slogan 'Uprising for Peace' was called for by Left party MP Sahra Wagenknecht, journalist Alice Schwarzer, retired Brigadier General Erich Vad, economist Jeffrey Sachs and others. It called for negotiations, diplomacy and peace, instead of the ongoing escalation of the war by delivering sophisticated arms and ammunition to Ukraine. | Sahra Wagenknecht MP and Alice Schw…
(2023-02-27). US Announces $2 Billion Arms Package for Ukraine, New Sanctions on Russia. news.antiwar.com The Biden administration marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Friday by announcing a $2 billion arms package for Ukraine and new sanctions targeting Russia. Sanctions failed to have the impact on Russia that the US hoped for, but the Biden administration has continued to impose them throughout the war. According to …
(2023-02-27). How and why is Pakistan assisting Ukraine? journal-neo.org 
Recently, reports that Pakistan, which previously attempted to portray itself as a supporter of Russia, started to provide assistance to Ukraine, including weapons, against the backdrop of the special operation carried out by Moscow against the neo-fascist regime of Kyiv, have been increasingly published by media outlets other than Ukrainian and Indian media. Islamabad's "political …
(2023-02-27). Report: Macron, Scholz Told Zelensky to Start Thinking About Peace Talks. news.antiwar.com German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron told Ukrainian President Vodlymyr Zelensky that he should start thinking about peace talks with Moscow, The Wall Street Journal reported. The message was delivered to Zelensky when he had dinner with Scholz and Macron in Paris earlier this month. According to people familiar with the meeting, …
(2023-02-27). Provocation of "Unprovoked Aggression" by Varieties of Encroachment. transcend.org Challenge of Insensitivity to Collective Historical Amnesia – Expression of alternative perspectives on the USA/NATO-Russia-Ukraine armed conflict has been limited–and actively suppressed as "disinformation" whenever possible. Those articulating such perspectives have been discredited and personally condemned, if not actively sanctioned in some manner.
(2023-02-27). Who Really Started the Ukraine Wars? transcend.org 16 Feb 2023 – The Four Interrelated Wars in Ukraine…
(2023-02-27). Putin Says Russia Cannot Ignore NATO's Nuclear Capabilities. news.antiwar.com Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Moscow can't ignore all of NATO's nuclear capabilities since NATO leaders have been calling for Russia's defeat. "In today's conditions, when all the leading NATO countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer as they say, how can …
(2023-02-27). Russia expands its partners as special military operation progresses. infobrics.org Contrary to what Westerners predicted, Moscow is gradually looking like an attractive alternative for emerging countries.
(2023-02-26). Demonstrators in Brussels call for peaceful solution to Ukraine crisis. ecns.cn Several thousand demonstrators called for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, and a peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis here on Sunday.
(2023-02-27). UK Trialed 3D-Printed 'Suicide' Drones Under Secret Ukraine Program. globalresearch.ca
(2023-02-27). Magical Weapons for Ukraine. globalresearch.ca
(2023-02-27). Former CIA Officer McGovern on Ukraine, NATO and Nord Stream at UN Security Council. dissidentvoice.org On February 22, 2023, former CIA analyst turned political activist Ray McGovern addresses the United Nations Security Council on Russia-U.S. relations. McGovern emphasizes the need to understand Russia's security concerns and to push forward with diplomacy. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990 and in the 1980s directed the National Intelligence Estimates and …
(2023-02-27). Russian Roulette: The Ruble Rises as European Economies Crumble. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Feb 23, 2023 | Has Biden bitten off more than he and NATO can swallow? |
(2023-02-27). Putin Suspends START Nuclear Pact with USA. transcend.org 22 Feb 2023 – Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow's participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the US, announcing the move yesterday in a bitter speech in which he made clear he would not change his strategy in the war in Ukraine.
(2023-02-27). Former CIA Officer McGovern on Ukraine, NATO and Nord Stream at UN Security Council. dissidentvoice.org On February 22, 2023, former CIA analyst turned political activist Ray McGovern addresses the United Nations Security Council on Russia-U.S. relations. McGovern emphasizes the need to understand Russia's security concerns and to push forward with diplomacy. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990 and in the 1980s directed the National Intelligence Estimates and …
(2023-02-27). Russian Roulette: The Ruble Rises as European Economies Crumble. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Feb 23, 2023 | Has Biden bitten off more than he and NATO can swallow? |
(2023-02-27). Putin Suspends START Nuclear Pact with USA. transcend.org 22 Feb 2023 – Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow's participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the US, announcing the move yesterday in a bitter speech in which he made clear he would not change his strategy in the war in Ukraine.
(2023-02-27). The Ukraine War Viewed from the Global South. transcend.org 22 Feb 2023 — In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China: different perspectives.
(2023-02-27). US Military Aid to Ukraine Exceeds the Costs of Afghanistan. globalresearch.ca
(2023-02-27). Ukraine: 1 Year of War on Top of 30 Years of Conflict Escalation. transcend.org 23 Feb 2023 – The Only Re-Armament Needed Is Intellectual and Moral — on All Sides – Beyond Russia, NATO/EU policies will prove morally wrong, unrealistic, dangerous and self-destructive.
(2023-02-27). Who's Winning and Losing the Economic War over Ukraine? transcend.org 21 Feb 2023 – After a year of war, Western expectations have gone up in smoke (and methane). The winners are the opportunists and war profiteers; the losers are the people of Ukraine, working/poor people everywhere, and hopes of halting the climate crisis, as half a million tons of methane rose from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline.
(2023-02-27). Chris Hedges: The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of American Journalism. scheerpost.com 
The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia saga.
(2023-02-27). Russia's special military operation – one year on. infobrics.org Regardless of whether the reports about the upcoming major Russian offensive are true, at worst, Moscow certainly has the capacity to continue and maintain its special military operation.
(2023-02-27). Norway emerges as key staging ground for US military provocations against Russia. wsws.org Norway's location on the northwest of the Scandinavian Peninsula, with a 196-kilometre border with Russia, makes it a key ally for US imperialism to wage war on Russia.
(2023-02-27). The Weekly Round-up: Shamima Begum, UN resolution against Russia, and new law on Child marriages. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In the news The UN General Assembly backed a resolution condemning Russia's actions and calling for an end to the war on Thursday, the eve of the anniversary of the invasion. With 141 supporters, 32 abstentions and seven voting against, the resolution reiterated the UN's support for Ukraine and called for a "comprehensive, just and …
(2023-02-27). When it Comes to Ukraine and Russia, the United States Intel Community is Confusing Pyrite with Genuine Gold. sonar21.com 
I am following up on my previous posts about the failure of the U.S. intelligence community, the CIA in particular, in providing an accurate, objective assessment of the war in…
(2023-02-27). Total victory over a nuclear power is not possible without nuclear war. indybay.org Neither side in this war represents any forward-looking political idea. It is not a war for freedom and democracy, but an imperialist war over whether Ukraine will remain a semi-colony of the US and EU or become a semi-colony of Russia again. Even if Ukraine or NATO wins this war without turning Ukraine into a nuclear-contaminated desert, a victorious Ukrainian state would not be free…
(2023-02-27). SF Rally To Stop The War In Ukraine On The First Year Anniversary. indybay.org On the one year anniversary of the Ukraine war a rally was held against US intervention.
(2023-02-27). Multiple Actions in Bay Area Feb. 24 as Ukraine War Enters Second Year. indybay.org Peace Actions in downtown San Francisco and Israeli consulate on Montgomery Street protested…
(2023-02-27). The Official White House Website Should Have A Photo Of The WHITE HOUSE, Not Ukraine! indybay.org The official WHITE HOUSE website should have a photograph of the WHITE HOUSE, not Ukraine. February 23 and February 24, 2023…
(2023-02-27). The war in Ukraine and how to stop it: Online meeting advances a socialist anti-war strategy for the international working class. wsws.org Saturday's meeting, which was attended by a worldwide audience, presented a powerful case for a unified movement of the international working class for socialist revolution as the only realistic strategy to stop World War III.
(2023-02-27). Moldova's President Sandu tightens grip on power, as the country is being drawn into the maelstrom of the NATO-Russia war. wsws.org Moldova is in the grips of a severe political crisis as its government prepares to drag it into the NATO war against Russia.
(2023-02-27). Rising Flow of Russian Oil Products to China, India and the Middle East. infobrics.org Similar to what has already happened with Russian crude oil, there are signs that the country's refined fuels are finding new buyers outside Europe, with Asia and the Middle East the leading new customers…
(2023-02-27). International Investigative Commission into the Terrorist Attacks on Nord Stream. transcend.org German Lawmaker Calls for Nord Stream Probe on a 10 Feb 2023 Speech to the Bundestag – MP Sevim Dagdelen takes the Scholz government to task for its lack of "strength and will" in responding to Seymour Hersh's reporting on the U.S. sabotage of the Russian pipeline.
(2023-02-27). Seymour Hersh on "How the US Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline": Exclusive TV Interview. transcend.org 15 Feb 2023 – When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. "The fear was Europe would walk away from the war," he says.
(2023-02-27). Asesinan a dirigente del mayor movimiento indígena en Ecuador. telesurtv.net El presidente de la Conaie, Leónidas Iza, denunció que "existe seguimiento y vigilancia a dirigentes indígenas".