(2022-03-11). Ray McGovern: What Role Has the U.S. Played in the Ukraine Crisis? scheerpost.com Ray McGovern speaking at the public tribute to Robert Knight on March 28, 2015 at The Riverside Church in New York NY. [Jennifer Hasegawa] | Click to subscribe on: As Russia's attack on Ukraine wages on, and Ukrainian civilians die daily, the fog of war has seemingly been clouding more nuanced analysis in the United States, argues "Scheer Intelligence" host Robert…
(2022-03-11). Beijing Warns of Harsh Response if US Sanctions Chinese Companies. orinocotribune.com 
Beijing intends to retaliate with harsh measures if Washington imposes unilateral coercive measures—euphemistically called "sanctions"—on China due to the discord between Russia and the United States over the Ukraine conflict, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Thursday, March 10. | "In the process of establishing relations with the Russian Federation, the United States does not have the right to impose so-called sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals," the spokesperson said at a press conference. "If it does, China will give a firm and serious response." | Accordin…
(2022-03-11). Venezuela's Delcy Rodríguez & Russia's Sergey Lavrov Meet in Turkey. orinocotribune.com 
In order to deepen their cooperative alliance and mutual respect, the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, held a meeting this Thursday, March 10, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov. The encounter occurred just a few days after the White House sent an official delegation to Caracas in order to alleviate the disruption in oil supplies caused by the recent unilateral and illegal economic coercive measures (euphemistically called sanctions) issued by the US against Russia. | The meeting took place on the eve of Rodríguez's participation in the 2nd Antalya Diplomati…
(2022-03-11). Amid warnings of world war, demands grow in Washington for escalation against Russia. wsws.org Despite warnings from the White House that an escalation of US involvement in the Ukraine-Russia war could rapidly trigger a third world war, there are growing calls from within both the Democratic and Republican parties for a more aggressive US military intervention.
(2022-03-11). The NATO campaign against Russia will drive escalating class struggle across the world. wsws.org The disastrous global impact of the sanctions regime against Russia and the gutting of social spending to pay for the military will drive explosive struggles, in which mass anger will intersect with the growing radicalization which is already underway as a consequence of the pandemic.
(2022-03-11). Ukraine war dominates top level US-Colombia meeting. colombiareports.com Russia's war against Ukraine dominated the first meeting of Colombia's President Ivan Duque with his American counterpart, US President Joe Biden. During the public part of the meeting, Biden told…
(2022-03-11). Australia's state-funded broadcaster pumping out pro-war anti-Russian propaganda. wsws.org ABC's "Media Watch" said nothing about the censorship and removal of a Russian-Australian student from the network's "Q+A" program only four days earlier.
(2022-03-11). French New Anti-capitalist Party backs NATO war drive against Russia. wsws.org Pabloite parties worldwide are whipping up war fever over the Russian-Ukrainian war, denouncing "Russian imperialism" and calling NATO to arm Ukraine against Russia.
(2022-03-11). Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates line up behind war drive, denounce DSA. wsws.org All the claims of the DSA that the Democratic Party can be reformed through a pressure campaign are exposed in the entire course of events around the war drive against Russia.
(2022-03-10). Democrats, Republicans, Biden agree on staggering increase in military budget. wsws.org The Pentagon will receive nearly $800 billion, with the prospect of even greater increases as the US and NATO step up their intervention in the Russia-Ukraine war.
(2022-03-10). Embargo on Russian oil gives gift to energy corporations, deals blow to hopes for peace. liberationnews.org 
This move from the U.S. government fuels the flames of global tensions to the benefit of giant energy and military corporations, making the prospect of lasting peace in Ukraine even more remote.
(2022-03-10). China offers to mediate talks between Russia and the Ukraine. wsws.org Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's comments come amid mounting pressure from the US and its allies demanding that Beijing condemn the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and impose sanctions on Moscow.
(2022-03-10). By Trying to Sanction the Whole World, Washington Backs Itself into a Corner. orinocotribune.com 
By Ernesto Cazal — Mar 7, 2022 | In a short amount of time, a series of events took place, centered around Venezuela, which from a political point of view have the elements of a melodrama with a hint of comedy. It all began when a plane left Washington, passing through Miami and ended its journey at the international airport of Maiquetía (La Guaira), where a delegation of US officials was reportedly received by the Venezuelan government. | The visit, unprecedented within the context of hostilities and diplomatic disagreements, was a sort of "effort" on the part of the US to breakdown the Russian—Venezu…
(2022-03-10). Pseudo-left International Marxist Tendency provides cover for imperialist powers in conflict with Russia. wsws.org The IMT's role amid the current war drive is to repackage with "Marxist" phraseology the propaganda of the US State Department and other NATO countries that they have no intention of militarily intervening against Russia.
(2022-03-10). The US-Ukrainian Strategic Partnership of November 2021 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. wsws.org A principled, left-wing opposition to the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine requires uncompromising opposition to US/NATO. Absent that, claims of being "anti-war" are hypocritical and deceitful.
(2022-03-10). VIDEO: Congress screws American workers to escalate war on Russia. thegrayzone.com As gas prices and inflation surge, Max Blumenthal questions members of Congress on the economic toll American workers face from escalating sanctions on Russia, and on their support for escalating the war in Ukraine.
(2022-03-10). How Ukraine's Jewish President Zelensky Made Peace with neo-Nazi Paramilitaries on Front Lines of war with Russia. orinocotribune.com 
By Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal — March 4, 2022 | While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky's Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters. | Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the "gray zone" of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed,
(2022-03-10). Why Rep. Thomas Massie stood against "stand with Ukraine" resolution. thegrayzone.com Max Blumenthal asks libertarian Rep. Thomas Massie why he joined only two other members of Congress in voting against a resolution declaring that "the United States stands fervently with the Ukrainian people," and urging open-ended military aid to Kiev in its fight against Russia.
(2022-03-10). How the U.S. has empowered and armed neo-Nazis in Ukraine. nationofchange.org Right now, Ukrainians are united in their resistance to Russia's invasion, but we should not be surprised when the U.S. alliance with neo-Nazi proxy forces in Ukraine, including the infusion of billions of dollars in sophisticated weapons, results in similarly violent and destructive blowback.
(2022-03-10). John Kiriakou: 'I Work For Sputnik News'. popularresistance.org Torture, whistleblowing, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, solitary confinement and corruption in the justice system. Those are Kiriakou's subjects and he is happy to talk about them anywhere. | I work for Sputnik News. There. I said it. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed. I'm also not a Russian propagandist, despite what you may have read in the "mainstream" media. Sputnik approached me in 2017 and offered me a job as a radio talk show host. I turned them down. Friends told me that it would be a mistake working for the Russian Bear. They said that I would attract attention from the government, maybe even the…
(2022-03-10). Germany Deserves A Big Share Of Blame For The Disaster In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Nobody is talking about the blame that must be shouldered by the German government for the crisis and humanitarian disaster in Ukraine. | Sure Russia is guilty of a huge war crime in invading Ukraine, Surely too, the US must be blamed for creating the situation which led Russia and its autocratic leader Vladimir Putin to decide it had to invade to prevent Ukraine from being pulled into the US orbit with the goal that it would ultimately become a base for US offensive weapons — even nuclear weapons — on Russia's border — something the US would never allow to happen anywhere in its self-proclaimed…
(2022-03-10). Disarming Ukraine Day Fifteen: A Hospital Bombing And 'No-Fly Zone'. popularresistance.org The video taken shortly after the incident (there is still daylight) and published by CNN shortly thereafter shows the completely destroyed interior of the hospital but no casualties and no traces of blood on the floors. The still pictures published with the CNN report show only one man in uniform who has some blood on his face. Other persons in the pictures have no visible signs of wounds. | A day before a news piece in the Russian magazine Lenta.ru published on March 8 at 00: 01 local time (March 7 21: 01 UTC) had mentioned the hospital. (The piece was fetched by archive.org on March 7 22: 09 UTC.) It is a report…
(2022-03-10). US Sanctions: An Act Of War Against Workers. popularresistance.org Mass media in the United States and throughout the countries of Western Europe are exhaustively and intensely depicting the suffering of the Ukrainian people as Ukraine confronts the Russian army. | It is the U.S. and its NATO proxy who have now broadened the war being fought in Ukraine. | What the media is not covering is the impact of this war on the working and poor people inside Russia. | In an alliance with the most economically powerful capitalist governments and their central banks, the U.S. has managed to cut the Russian economy off from many of the world's financial arteries. According to the conservativ…
(2022-03-10). Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has 'Biological Research Facilities'. popularresistance.org Self-anointed "fact-checkers" in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeks mocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. They never presented any evidence for their ruling — how could they possibly know? and how could they prove the negative? — but nonetheless they invoked their characteristically authoritative, above-it-all tone of self-assurance and self-arrogated right to decree the truth, definitively labelling such claims false. | Claims that Ukraine currently maintains dangerous biological weapon…
(2022-03-10). Iran on Ukraine: Opposes war, but Backs Russia's Red Line Against NATO Expansionism. orinocotribune.com By Zafar Mehdi — Mar 4, 2022 | Iran's call for restraint in the Ukraine conflict also comes amid stronger ties with Russia and mutual security concerns. | As the Ukraine crisis escalates, it would be naive to claim that the Russian military operation in a former Soviet Republic unfolded without any provocation. Even prominent US foreign policy
(2022-03-10). Stop this imperialist war. canadiandimension.com 
Protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Washington, DC, February 27, 2022. Photo by Amaury Laporte/ I would encourage many online "leftists" to try a lot harder not to come off as Vladimir Putin bootlickers indifferent to the plight of ordinary Ukrainians (and for that matter of everyday Russians who are losing access to non-state media and who face 15 years in prison for even calling Putin's war of invasion a war or an invasion) when you bring up the undeniably horrible role of the imperialist United States and the imperialist…
(2022-03-10). US Admits to Funding Biological Laboratories in Ukraine, with Dilyana Gaytandzhieva. mintpressnews.com State Department official Victoria Nuland admitted that the US government is funding biological laboratories in Ukraine, confirming what Washington has long dismissed as "Russian propaganda." Correspondent Dan Cohen interviews journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, who has investigated these facilities in Eastern Europe.
(2022-03-10). The U.S. uses double standards in International Affairs: Sanders. mronline.org 
"Russia, like the U.S., has an interest in the security policies of its neighbors. Recognizing this fact is not a sign of weakness, but of an understanding," Senator Bernie Sanders pointed out.
(2022-03-10). US undersecretary of state acknowledges there are biological warfare labs in Ukraine. wsws.org Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland's Senate testimony on Tuesday confirmed reports from Moscow that the US has been developing a military biological warfare program aimed at Russia.
(2022-03-10). War in Ukraine Needs to Be Understood in Context of New Russia-China Alliance. truthout.org 
Just as the relentless grinding of the earth's tectonic plates produces earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, so the endless superpower struggle for dominance over Eurasia is fraught with tensions and armed conflict. Beneath the visible outbreak of war in Ukraine and the U.S.-Chinese naval standoff in the South China Sea, there is now an underlying shift in geopolitical power in process across the vast Eurasian landmass — the epicenter of global power on a fast-changing, overheating plan…
(2022-03-10). Amsterdam Hermitage ends "Russian avant-garde: Revolution in art" exhibit. wsws.org The reactionary cancellation of a Russian art exhibit falls in line with prevailing anti-Russian hysteria in Europe after the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
(2022-03-10). Live updates: American workers and youth speak out against US imperialism and Russian militarism in Ukraine. wsws.org In the hours and days ahead, the World Socialist Web Site will be posting statements against war from workers and young people across the United States. Anti-war sentiment is censored from the corporate media. Post your statements on social media to show the world that the US population does not want war using the hashtag #SpeakOutAgainstWW3.
(2022-03-10). Let Us Speak of the "Unspeakable" to Prevent its Use: On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss. globalresearch.ca Two days after Russia attacked Ukraine and the day before Vladimir Putin put Russia on nuclear alert, I wrote a little …
(2022-03-10). Russian firm to make vehicle trackers in Uganda. plusnews.ug 
The Russian firm contracted to install tracking devices in motor vehicles and motorcycles will manufacture the devices within Uganda. This was disclosed by Noah Baalessanvu, an official who was part of the team that conducted the due diligence in Russia before Uganda entered into an agreement with the Russian firm, Joint Stock Company Global Security. …
(2022-03-10). How to Destroy Russia. 2019 Rand Corporation Report: "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" globalresearch.ca Force the adversary to expand recklessly in order to unbalance him, and then destroy him. This is not the description of a judo hold, but a plan against Russia elaborated by the Rand Corporation, the most influential think tank in the USA.
(2022-03-10). Stop This Imperialist Russian War. scheerpost.com 
[ By Paul Street / Try Harder | I would encourage many online "leftists" to try a lot harder not to come off as Vladimir Putin bootlickers indifferent to the plight of ordinary Ukrainians (and for that matter of everyday Russians who are losing access to non-state media and who face 15 years in prison for even calling Putin's war of invasion a war or an invasion) when you bring up the undeniably horrible role of the imperialist Unit…
(2022-03-10). How Ukraine's Jewish President, Volodymyr Zelensky, Made Peace with Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries on Front Lines of War with Russia. towardfreedom.org While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky's Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as frontline fighters, report Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal.
(2022-03-10). US is Now Provoking Taiwan. journal-neo.org 
Expansionism knows no bounds. After taking Europe to the verge of a major war by pushing for NATO's expansion further into Eastern Europe to encircle Russia, the US is now increasingly focusing on Taiwan for what the US officials have been, for over a year now, calling an 'increasing possibility' of a Chinese invasion of …
(2022-03-10). Russia and Japan: a Difficult Balance in a Challenging Environment. journal-neo.org 
On February 7, 2022, US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, in a video message posted on Twitter, expressed support for Japan on the issue of ownership of the Southern Kuril Islands, stating that "the United States supports Japan on the issue of the Northern Territories and has recognized Japanese sovereignty over the four disputed Islands …
(2022-03-10). Coups, insurgency, and imperialism in Africa. mronline.org 
West Africa is in the grip of a wave of coups, popular protests and fierce geopolitical struggles. Amy Niang argues that declining western hegemony in the region goes hand to hand with intensified competition for access and control of Africa's natural resources. Furthermore, Niang states, the Russian occupation of Ukraine compels us to look at the importance of the country's growing presence in Africa.
(2022-03-10). The anti-democratic targeting of Russian pianist Alexander Malofeev. wsws.org The cancellations of concerts by Malofeev in Vancouver and Montreal are inexcusable and reactionary. They only encourage and deepen the anti-Russian frenzy gripping certain social layers.
(2022-03-10). Britain's trade unions demand stepped-up sanctions against Russia: beating the drum for World War III. wsws.org Unite and Unison have organised boycotts this past week against the unloading of Russian oil and gas from foreign-flagged ships.
(2022-03-10). Ukraine and the new Al Qaeda. mronline.org 
The eruption of war between Russia and Ukraine appears to have given the CIA the pretext to launch a long-planned insurgency in the country, one poised to spread far beyond Ukraine's borders with major implications for Biden's "War on Domestic Terror"
(2022-03-10). NATO White Helmets Follow al-Qaeda to Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com Vanessa Beeley Four-hundred and fifty extremists from Idlib, north-west Syria have arrived in Ukraine according to Al Mayadeen. Hailing from Idlib — the "largest Al Qaeda haven since 9/11"- these fanatics from various countries have been despatched to Ukraine to fight against the Russian forces that alongside the Syrian Arab Amy signified the end of their…
(2022-03-10). War in Ukraine and Russia sanctions threaten food supplies in Middle East and North Africa. wsws.org Russia and Ukraine account for nearly one third of the world's grain exports, one fifth of its corn trade and almost 80 percent of sunflower oil production.
(2022-03-10). Russian, Ukrainian foreign ministers meet in Turkey — media. ecns.cn Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba met in a small resort town of Turkey's southern province of Antalya on Thursday, local media reported.
(2022-03-10). Russian, Ukrainian foreign ministers meet in Turkey. en.mehrnews.com Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers have arrived in Turkey for face-to-face talks on Thursday. It is the first time the top diplomats have met since Russia began its operation on February 24.
(2022-03-10). Russia to no longer participate in Council of Europe. ecns.cn Russia will no longer participate in the Council of Europe, the country's foreign ministry said Thursday.
(2022-03-10). Russia-Ukraine conflict has champagne corks quietly popping in Pentagon: former U.S. official. ecns.cn The military conflict between Russia and Ukraine "has the champagne corks quietly popping in the Pentagon, on K Street, in the defense industry, and throughout the halls of Congress".
(2022-03-10). Chernobyl nuclear plant disconnected from power grid as Russian, Ukrainian FMs to meet in Turkey. ecns.cn The Ukrainian state-run energy company Ukrenergo said Wednesday that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine has been disconnected from the power grid."ÄÄ…