Benjamin Zinevich (2022-01-30). Emergency rally at White House demands 'No War with Russia,' NATO be disbanded. liberationnews.org 
ANSWER organizer Sean Blackmon, who helped lead the event, remarked how "there is no voice of peace inside this U.S. government, Democrat or Republican."
Staff (2022-01-30). Hungary does not need NATO reinforcements amid Ukraine standoff — minister. rt.com 
Hungary continues to oppose Ukraine's NATO aspirations, as it deems Kiev's actions "unacceptable" for the alliance | Hungary doesn't need any NATO troops deployed to its territory amid the ongoing Ukraine standoff, defense minister Tibor Benko told local broadcaster InfoRadio in an interview on Thursday. | The official confirmed reports that the US and NATO have been negotiating with all the member states bordering Russia, Ukraine, or both, on additional deployments of troops from the bloc. Budapest, however, believes its own military is capable of providing all the security it needs, without any help from NAT…
Editor2 (2022-01-30). Sanctions in the New Cold War on China. orinocotribune.com 
By Carlos Martinez — Jan 27, 2022 | The following article by Carlos Martinez features as a chapter in the forthcoming book Sanctions Kill — The World Stands Up. The article provides a detailed analysis of the sanctions imposed by the US and its allies on the People's Republic of China and exposes the role they play within the escalating New Cold War. | Sanctions Kill — The World Stands Up will be published by World View Forum in early Spring 2022. | Background | The instinctive attitude of the United States towards the Chinese Revolution was of course one of hostility. In a protracted war between…
Cynthia Papermaster (2022-01-30). Tuesday 2/1: Emergency Action: "Negotiate, Don't Escalate: No War With Russia!" indybay.org San Francisco Ferry Bldg., foot of Market Street…
TASS (2022-01-30). US sanctions against Russia may destabilize global financial system – report. tass.com The article says, such step may cause serious reciprocal measures from Russia…
Editor (2022-01-30). Lee Camp and Legendary Journalist John Pilger on Assange, Ukraine, & More. scheerpost.com 
Lee Camp has a very important guest this week. John Pilger is a brilliant journalist with a long history of award-winning reporting. They discuss the show-trial faced by Julian Assange and the current situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine. Julian Assange recently received some good news after a decade of torturous detainment when a British court decided that he could appeal his extradition into the hands of a government who had tried to assassinate him. They then dive into the current reality of a collapsing U.S. Empire and how it's leading into a dangerous period of nuclear brinkmanship between the…
Urs P Gasche, Bernhard Trautvetter (2022-01-30). "The US is lying to itself" indybay.org The U.S. government, he said, should recognize the "brutal fact" of spheres of influence. Washington cannot continue to claim that "only brutal tyrants like Putin want to influence neighboring countries." Because the U.S. would be "lying to itself" by doing so.
_____ (2022-01-29). Media Beats War Drums With Russia While US/Saudis Kill Hundreds In Yemen. popularresistance.org Journalists Benjamin Norton and Alan MacLeod join Mnar Adley to discuss how the mainstream media spent the last week beating drums of war with Russia over Ukraine with headlines and talking heads funded and sponsored by Lockheed Martin and NATO. | Meanwhile, there wasn't a single article covering how the US-Saudi-UAE coalition cut off the internet to Yemen for several days while dropping hundreds of bombs on civilians resulting in hundreds dead and over a thousand injured. Guess which story CNN covered? Both conflicts were brought to you by weapons manufacturers.
Staff (2022-01-29). Russia-Venezuela Cooperation Will Halt Aggressive US Agenda, Says Russian Ambassador. orinocotribune.com The Russian ambassador in Caracas considers that cooperation between Moscow and Caracas is a stabilizing factor in the face of United States' threats to the region. | The Russian ambassador in Venezuela, Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov, emphasized that military cooperation between Russia and Venezuela is of the utmost importance in the face of the repressive measures taken by the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against the government of Nicolás Maduro. He made these comments in an interview to Russian news agency Sputnik, published on Friday, January 28. | "Our specialists have successfully interacte…
Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). Russia calls on U.S. to withdraw nuclear weapons from Europe, cease joint nuclear drills with non-nuclear allies. globalresearch.ca This is a serious issue, perhaps the most serious of issues in Europe, but coming as it does immediately on the heels of Russia's prior list of demands being resolutely rejected by the U.S. and NATO yesterday, the prospects of …
Roy Landersen (2022-01-29). US, Russian rulers step up confrontation over Ukraine. themilitant.com Talks between the U.S. and Russian governments over Moscow's continuing troop buildup near its border with Ukraine ended without agreement Jan. 21. Washington opposes Moscow's threats to Ukraine, claiming to stand against an assault on Ukrainian sovereignty. In fact, the U.S. capitalist rulers seek to defend their own economic and strategic interests in the region. | The U.S. rulers have expanded NATO across Eastern Europe over decades, bringing these troops ever closer to Russia's borders. | To bolster its own interests and dominate what it calls its "near abroad," Moscow has mobilized its forces in the area and…
sputniknews (2022-01-29). Source: UK Defence Ministry Preparing Scenarios of Constraining Russia Amid Ukraine Crisis. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The UK Defence Ministry has prepared new scenarios of constraining Russia, including sending more NATO troops to Eastern Europe, which will be considered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson later this week, a source told Sputnik.
WSWS (2022-01-29). Contradicting US, Ukrainian President Zelensky denies Russian attack imminent. wsws.org The NATO powers' calls to prepare for a war against Russia supposedly to defend Ukraine are reckless, unsubstantiated propaganda threatening to trigger a world war.
Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). Croatian president: This has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia. It has to do with the dynamics of American domestic politics. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Croatian president calls PM 'Ukrainian agent' (Boris Johnson also using war in Europe as a distraction from a personal domestic crisis.) Croatian President Zoran Milanovic accused his Prime Minister Andrey Plenkovic of behaving like a "Ukrainian agent" on Friday, two days after the latter apologized to Kiev over the head-of-state's comments on NATO deployments. In …
TASS (2022-01-29). US may scale back some exercises in Europe if Russia reciprocates – Pentagon. tass.com Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said, that Washington was against a ban on Ukraine's accession to NATO…
Staff (2022-01-29). UK unveils 'major military offer' to NATO as a 'clear message' to Moscow. rt.com 
UK's PM Boris Johnson has unveiled London's 'biggest possible' offer to the North-Atlantic bloc to help it in the standoff with Russia | Downing Street has announced its "biggest possible offer" to NATO in a statement late on Saturday. The UK's prime minister is weighting this "major military deployment" needed to deter an allegedly "rising Russian aggression" in Europe in general and in Ukraine in particular | "This package would send a clear message to the Kremlin — we will not tolerate their destabilising activity, and we will always stand with our NATO allies in the face Russian hostility," Johnson st…
Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). Stoltenberg touts new French-led deployments to Black Sea, readiness of 40,000-troop strike force. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Command of USS Harry S. Truman Sends Signal to Russia, Says Secretary General Stoltenberg Putting an American aircraft carrier strike group under alliance control should be a "clear message to Russia" that its 30 members are unwavering in their commitment to come to each other's defense if attacked, NATO's secretary general said Friday. Jens …
Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). Finland, Sweden herded into the NATO pen. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Rattled by Russia, Finland and Sweden revisit NATO debate From five years before Ukraine could be used as a pretext: End of Scandinavian Neutrality: NATO's Militarization Of Europe Fighter jets could be heard carrying out drills above the Finnish capital this week, while Sweden recently deployed troops to a Baltic outpost in response to rising …
sputniknews (2022-01-29). US Turned NATO Into Force That Carries Out Washington's Military Agenda, Anti-War Group Says. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – NATO became an organisation devoid of a purpose after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the United States decided to continue building the alliance and turned it into a force that executes Washington's military agenda, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) coordinator Joe Lombardo told Sputnik.
Roy Landersen (2022-01-29). German rulers pulled between Washington and Moscow. themilitant.com As Washington presses to defend its interests in eastern Europe, claiming to act in defense of Ukrainian sovereignty, deeper divisions have become clear among the rival capitalist rulers in NATO. The head of Germany's navy, Kay-Achim Schonbach, was forced to resign Jan. 22 after saying Russian President Vladimir Putin's mobilization of military forces around Ukraine was just to gain "respect" as an "equal" and that the Crimean Peninsula, occupied by Russian forces since 2014, is "gone and will never come back" to Ukraine. | Germany's rulers control the dominant capitalist power in Europe, profiting off the unequa…
_____ (2022-01-29). Endless War Is The Empire's Last Dance. popularresistance.org This moment of history will be remembered for the massive shift in global relations currently underway. On one side stands the forces of peace and multipolarity led by China, Russia, and their allies in the Global South. On the other is the forces of empire and conquest spearheaded by the U.S. and its allies. The conflict between these two "camps" is about much more than competing visions for planetary development. World politics have transitioned from a war between socialism and capitalism to a protracted struggle for the survival of humanity itself. | The forces of Empire have reached the following conclusion:…
Staff (2022-01-29). US calls on arch-rival for help against Russia. rt.com 
Washington wants China to "use its influence" with Moscow to push diplomacy over Ukraine | US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland has called on China to press Russia towards a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. Beijing has already pushed back on the American position by acknowledging Moscow's "legitimate security concerns." | The move comes amid a flurry of diplomacy around the situation in Eastern Europe. | "We are calling on Beijing to use its influence with Moscow to urge diplomacy, because if there is a conflict in the Ukraine it is not going to be good for China either,"
ecns.cn (2022-01-29). Sino-Russia trade, economic cooperation sustains upward momentum. ecns.cn China and Russia have maintained stellar trade and economic cooperation, with both countries continuing to strive for greater synergy in various areas.
teleSUR (2022-01-29). Iran and Group 4+1 to Return to Vienna Talks After One Week. telesurenglish.net Iran's Fars news agency reported on Friday that the delegations of Iran and the Group 4+1 – the UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany – at the Vienna talks will return to their countries for the purpose of consultations. | RELATED: | The break in the negotiations, the agency stressed, takes place because of the importance of the outstanding issues being discussed. | In fact, after a week's pause, the dialogues will start agai…
TASS (2022-01-29). Russian athletes capable of competing for one-third of medals at Beijing Games – official. tass.com The 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing will take place on February 4-20…
Staff (2022-01-29). Media floats Russia theory for Canadian trucker protest. rt.com 
State-owned CBC suggests that 'Russian actors' may have instigated massive protest convoy that shut down nation's capital | A cross-country convoy of truckers that has jammed the streets of Canada's capital in protest against Covid-19 vaccine mandates might seem like grass-roots pushback against government overreach, but broadcaster CBC Television has offered a more sinister explanation: Russia did it. | Speaking in an interview on Friday with Canada's public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, CBC host Nil Koksal suggested that possible Kremlin meddlers might have brought about the massive "Freedom Convoy." "Gi…
TASS (2022-01-29). EU divided over scale of sanctions on Russia, Polish PM says. tass.com All EU member states agree that Ukraine needs to maintain its sovereignty, Mateusz Morawiecki noted…
TASS (2022-01-29). West seeks to use Ukraine as foothold in standoff with Russia, Ukrainian politician says. tass.com Russia is taking the center stage as a global authority, Chairman of the Political Council of Ukraine's Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk says…
_____ (2022-01-29). France has Become a "Destabilizing Force" in Africa. journal-neo.org 
In a January briefing with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, on the eve of his talks with Russian head of state Vladimir Putin, said Russia was allegedly becoming a "destabilizing force". In making this assessment of Russia's policies, Macron was certainly following instructions from Washington to actively deploy anti-Russian rhetoric and propaganda. …
Dave DeCamp (2022-01-29). Ukraine Wants US to Dial Back Russian War Talk to Save Economy. news.antiwar.com The US claims that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine have taken a toll on the Ukrainian economy. An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff on Friday "Constant and extremely emotional messages in the media about how a big war is going to start tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow or the day after that create economic risks," said Mykhailo Podolyak. | "This speculative stuff puts pressure on inve…
TASS (2022-01-29). Most Russian regions maintain economic ties with Japan – Ministry of Economic Development. tass.com The future of bilateral partnership depends on interaction between Russian regions and Japanese prefectures, Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov said…
sputniknews (2022-01-29). Ukraine's Zelensky Fears US Deliberately Overplaying Escalation Rhetoric, Reports Say. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fears that the United States is exaggerating the threat of an imminent invasion of Ukraine to conclude an agreement with Russia, which would give Moscow more control over the Donbass region, Politico has reported, citing sources close to the Ukrainian leader and his team.
TASS (2022-01-29). Russian envoy, authorities in Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture discuss ways to boost ties. tass.com Russian Ambassador to Tokyo Mikhail Galuzin "highlighted the importance of regional exchanges as one of the key aspects of bilateral relations"
TASS (2022-01-29). Ukrainian politician says he does not believe in possibility of Russian invasion. tass.com Chairman of the Political Council of Ukraine's Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk pointed out that Russia had offered dialogue to Ukraine…
Anonymous669 (2022-01-29). In Video: Russian Forces, Syrian Army Train On Pilots Rescue. southfront.org 
FILE PHOTO © Dmitriy Vinogradov / Sputnik | Service members from the Russian military and the Syrian Arab Army's elite 25th Special Mission Forces Division, commonly known as the Tiger Forces, had held a joint military exercise in which they trained on rescuing pilots after aircraft incidents. | Russian and Syrian service members trained on safe rescue measures as well as on how to deal with pilots who were forced to eject from their aircraft. Russian Mi-8MTPR-1 and Ka-52 helicopters took part in the exercise. | TV Zv…
Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). Ukrainian FM, visiting House delegation demand complete return of "territories temporarily occupied by Russia": Donetsk, Lugansk, Crimea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Nothing that a few more months of jabbering in Geneva, Berlin and elsewhere couldn't resolve, we'll be told. FM Kuleba, U.S. Congress delegation discuss ways to deter Russia from aggression [Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro] Kuleba met with the U.S. Congress delegation led by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks and consisting of Mark Green, …
TASS (2022-01-29). Ukraine should become bridge between Russia and West, opposition leader says. tass.com According to Viktor Medvedchuk, Ukraine needs "Scandinavian-type" reforms…
TASS (2022-01-29). Kazakhstan's Tokayev says he plans to visit Moscow in Feb to ink agreements with Russia. tass.com The president pointed out that the relations between Kazakhstan and Russia have always been very close, constructive and partner-like…
TASS (2022-01-29). Russia records another 113,122 coronavirus cases. tass.com Russia records another 30,010 coronavirus recoveries in the past 24 hours…
_____ (2022-01-29). Is Washington Under Alien Control? strategic-culture.org Biden and Blinken get everything backwards in terms of US interests | By Philip GIRALDI | The drama currently unfolding in which the Biden Administration is doing everything it can to provoke a war with Russia over Ukraine is possibly the most frightening foreign policy misadventure since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the 1967 Lyndon Johnson attempt to sink the USS Liberty and blame it on Egypt, either of which could have gone nuclear. I can well recall the Robert Heinlein sci-fi book The Puppet Masters, later made into a movie, which described how alien-slugs, arriving by way of a flying saucer landing in Io…
TASS (2022-01-29). Number of Russian regions reporting Omicron cases rises to 78. tass.com Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said earlier that the share of the Delta strain among Russian coronavirus patients had dropped to 47.9% and the share of Omicron and other strains stood at 52.1%…
TASS (2022-01-29). Putin orders to consider ways to remove organizations from foreign agent list. tass.com Russian President also ordered to analyze provisions regulating the activities of media outlets acting as foreign agents, together with Roskomnadzor, the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights and the all-Russia public organization The Union of Journalists of Russia"
sputniknews (2022-01-29). More Anti-Russian Sanctions to Backfire on European Economy and Banking System. sputniknews.com BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – More economic sanctions on Russia would have a devastating effect on the European economic and financial sectors, politicians and pundits have told Sputnik.
Rick Rozoff (2022-01-29). U.S. embassy in Kiev: "How do you know Russia means war? They scream 'Peace!'" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com In case anyone still doesn't realize who is pushing for war. Russia hiding preparations for war under slogans of peace — U.S. embassy The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has warned that the Kremlin's propaganda machine is running at full speed to hide its preparations for war under slogans of peace. According to Ukrinform, the embassy …
sputniknews (2022-01-29). Europe Not Approving Sputnik V Vaccine is 'Mistake', Argentinian President Says. sputniknews.com BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) – Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez has said that the Russian-made vaccine against COVID-19 Sputnik V not having been approved yet by a number of European countries and the World Health Organisation (WHO) is a "mistake".
Staff (2022-01-29). 'I'm a dictator,' Belarusian leader jokes. rt.com 
Alexander Lukashenko has revealed that his vision of democracy is somewhat exceptional | Just a year and a half on from Belarus' hotly disputed presidential election, the Eastern European nation's long-time leader Alexander Lukashenko has admitted, at least jokingly, that he might not be entirely focused on maintaining a positive public opinion. | Asked to provide his take on the "essence of Belarusian democracy" by a journalist during a major speech during a state-of-the-nation address on Friday, Lukashenko gave an unorthodox review of his 27 years in power. | "I'm a dictator, it's hard for me to understand d…
Dave DeCamp (2022-01-29). US Naval Presence in Black Sea More Than Doubled in 2021 Compared to 2020. news.antiwar.com According to data compiled in The report said US warships spent about 182 collective days in the Black Sea in 2021. Last year, Stars & Stripes reported that While the 2021 numbers were significantly higher than the previous year, they were still lower than 2014, when the US-backed coup in Kyiv led Russia to take Crimea. In 2014, US warships spent about…
TASS (2022-01-29). House fire kills woman, four kids in Russia's Arkhangelsk region. tass.com A criminal case has been opened into the incident…
_____ (2022-01-29). The West Loses Mali Which Now Stands as an Example to the Failed Hegemony of the EU and France. strategic-culture.org 
Mali's decision to turn to Russia for help was salt in the wound for Macron and his delusional views of France holding onto the hegemony there. | The hypocrisy is both stunning and comical. Mali has been in the news in the last couple of years for having a military coup in 2020 which installed a junta and then again in 2021 when the temporary civilian leader experiment was annulled by the military who took full control. | During this period, France has also been in the news for helping Mali with its fight against terrorism as the country stands at a pivotal point in the Sahel where Islamic terror groups operate a…
TASS (2022-01-29). US, Ukraine at odds over threat of Russian invasion – TV. tass.com According to CNN, US President Joe Biden and his advisors have been annoyed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's public downplaying of the threat…
The Biden Administration needs Russia to invade Ukraine. The US shale oil business needs Russia's gas, to remain in Russia. The world may be at war soon, but not over the rights, wants, and wishes of the people of Eastern Europe or Central Asia. The controlling elites of the west are the ones gamling with …
The diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games may go down in history as the official start of the cold war between the US, a handful of its allies and China. The American strategy, however, of using boycotts to pressure Beijing in the name of 'human rights', may prove costly in the …
This article, originally published July 12, 2017, by Workers World, remains timely in January 2022 as the U.S. threatens war at the Russian border with Ukraine and ramps up China-baiting in an attempt to break up agreements being forged between nations seeking to remain independent of U.S. imperialism. See also . . . | 
Raposo, editor of jornalmudardevida.net, in which this article was published Jan. 26, refutes the conclusions of another article titled, "Putin and Xi Jinping, imperialism's favorites," arguing they are enemies who serve the goals of imperialism by giving the imperialists a pretext for attack. Raposo's response serves to answer anyone on . . . |