____ (2022-05-11). In major escalation of the NATO proxy war against Russia, US rams through $40 billion aid package for Ukraine. wsws.org On Tuesday night, the US House of Representatives voted by 357 to 48 to approve a record $39.8 billion in military aid to Ukraine, just hours after the text of the bill was made known.

____ (2022-05-11). Biden sets aside COVID-19 funding to secure tens of billions to escalate war against Russia. wsws.org The utter indifference of both capitalist parties to mass death and debilitating illness within the borders of the US exposes the fraudulent claims of a war for "democracy" and "human rights" in Ukraine.

Editor (2022-05-11). I led talks on Donbas and Crimea in the 90s. Here's How the War Should End. scheerpost.com A Soviet monument to friendship between Ukraine and Russia during its demolition amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine in central Kyiv, Ukraine. April 26, 2022 (Editorial credit: home for heroes / Shutterstock.com) | By John Quigley / As the war in Ukraine continues to take thousands of lives, distressingly little attention is being devoted to bringing it to an end. | Negotiations are stalled, and other governments are not pushing for a resumption. At s…

Fra Hughes (2022-05-11). Why We Need War Crime Tribunals in Donbass. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — empty The guilty must be punished, the innocent must have justice, the dead must be remembered, and the living must be held to account. |

Anonymous587 (2022-05-10). Foreign Mercenaries In Ukraine. Kiev's Road To Abyss. southfront.org Foreign mercenaries in Ukraine | According to reports received from the official media, as well as from those involved in the conflict in Ukraine from the allied forces of Russia and the LPRR, there is a trend of widespread use of foreign mercenaries on the side of the AFU. | On February 27, 2022, the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine was founded by order of President Vladimir Zelensky. It consisted of mercenaries from both NATO and post-Soviet countries, such as Georgia and Belarus. | There…

Anonymous349 (2022-05-10). Military Situation In Syria On May 10, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | On May 10, the Russian Ministry of Defence recorded no hostilities and ceasefire violations in Idlib region in the past 24 hours | As of the beginning of 2022, more than 11,000 citizens are being settled in Aleppo province under the supervision of the Russian Reconciliation Center | On May 10, a civilian was killed and three others were wounded by the attack of unknown gunmen in Nahtah area | On May 9, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in al-B…

Anonymous767 (2022-05-10). Forces Of Lugansk People's Republic Reached Administrative Border Of Lugansk Region. southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | On May 10, the Russian Defense Ministry officially announced that units of the Lugansk People's Republic, supported by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, completed mopping-up of Popasnaya, broke through the deeply echeloned defence of Kyiv's forces and reached the administrative border of the Lugansk People's Republic. | The recent clashes resulted in the elimination over 120 members of Kyiv's forces and 13 armoured vehicles and 12 vehicles of various purposes. | The de…

Staff (2022-05-10). Caracas Marches with Russians Celebrating Victory Day, President Maduro Salutes 77th Anniversary of Nazi Defeat (Photos). orinocotribune.com On Saturday, May 7, the triumph of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany was commemorated in the Venezuelan capital with the traditional march of the Immortal Regiment, during which Russian citizens carried portraits of relatives who fought against Nazism in the Great Patriotic War, as Russians call the Second World War. | The symbols of the Soviet Union came out on a sunny Saturday in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, to celebrate the day the Red Army defeated Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany troops. | "We are in Caracas celebrating this beautiful party with our Venezuelan brothers, a victory party, a party for the ent…

Staff (2022-05-10). Russia Marks 77th Victory Day with Military Parade in Moscow's Red Square & Speech by President Putin. orinocotribune.com A military parade This year, 11,000 soldiers and over 100 armored vehicles took part in the event, including troops who came from the combat zone in Donbass. | The Red Army's fight against Nazi troops is known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia, and May 9 is one of the country's most revered holidays. | The parade of military equipment, which included a total of 131 vehicles, was led…

noreply (2022-05-10). When BS Meter Goes Off The Scale. smoothiex12.blogspot.com But it is a good indicator of a desperation and a serious butt-hurt (a euphemism for being a sore loser) when such war "expert", who had his ass handed to him by inferior forces in Vietnam and then turkey shooting utterly incompetent Saddam's Army in the First Gulf War begins to talk about subject he has no clue about. I am talking about Lieutenant-General Kellog who, contrary to his statement about "everything he learned about war", never learned shit. Kellog knows that the scale and scope, and intensity of Russia's operation in 404 is something he never encountered in his life and, hopefully, never will. He is…

____ (2022-05-10). On anniversary of defeat of Nazi regime, German Chancellor Scholz delivers war speech. wsws.org Seventy-seven years after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht, Scholz used the anniversary to justify an unprecedented rearmament of the German army and a massive expansion of the proxy war against Russia.

____ (2022-05-10). Indian workers and students speak out on NATO-Russia war. wsws.org Supporters of the ICFI in India spoke to workers and youth about the need to build an anti-war movement of the working class based on socialist internationalism amid the proxy war waged by the US and its NATO allies against Russia.

Dave LIndorff (2022-05-09). The US Nuked Two Cities in WWII and Has Threatened to Use Them Often Since Then. thiscantbehappening.net During this war in Ukraine, much had been written about how Russia and President Vladimir Putin have "broken the nuclear taboo" or "could break the nuclear taboo" by threatening or actually using "small" tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The threats have indeed been made, and they could potentially be more than bluffs. But … |

Anonymous767 (2022-05-09). War In Ukraine Day 75: Russians Celebrate Victory Day With Victories On Frontlines. southfront.org Izum area | The Armed Forces of Russia and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics celebrated the Victory Day (May 9) with more victories on frontlines in the east of Ukraine. | The most active military developments are taking place around Izum in the south of Kharkiv Region, in the area of the Seveorodnetsk-Lysichansk agglomeration in Luhansk Region and in the eastern countryside of Donetsk city in Donetsk Region. | In Kharkiv Region, Russian forces mostly finished the regrouping around the provincial capital…

Anonymous103 (2022-05-09). Military Situation In Ukraine On May 9, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org

Anonymous103 (2022-05-09). UPDATED: Chechen Fighters Show Their Trophies, Thank Biden. southfront.org

Anonymous103 (2022-05-09). Military Situation In Eastern Ukraine On May 9, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org

_____ (2022-05-09). What Is Happening In The Global Currency Market? popularresistance.org Ukraine has been an issue in the news but behind the scenes what has really been of interest to a lot of people is what is happening in the global currency market. The ruble fell very dramatically. It has now come up and has reached almost parity with the dollar, or where it was before the Ukraine war started. But more than that, the fact $300 billion of Russian reserves were seized, essentially frozen, the Russian Central Bank is under sanctions, what does it mean for countries which maintain a currency surplus in other currencies, whether it is dollars, euros or whatever denomination, what happens to them? Does…

Abdul Rahman (2022-05-09). Ukrainian news outlet suggests UK and US governments are primary obstacles to peace. peoplesdispatch.org Recent media reports indicate that the West pressured Ukraine to stop the ongoing negotiations with Russia, which led to the collapse of the talks being held in Istanbul…

Ann Brown (2022-05-09). Who Are WestExec Advisors? Would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Support Biden And America's Risky March Toward Nuclear WW3? moguldom.com The Russian government has been revving up its World War III and nuclear war rhetoric and boasting of the country's military capabilities since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Putin put Russia's nuclear deterrent forces on high alert and many Americans question whether President Joe Biden will feel pressured to enter the …

_____ (2022-05-09). The West Approves Turkey's Operation against the Kurds but Condemns Russia's Special Operation in Ukraine. journal-neo.org On 18 April, Turkey announced the beginning of a new cross-border military special operation in Iraqi Kurdistan, Claw Lock (Penàße Kilit). Ankara initially focused all its attention on the Duhok Province of Iraq, where Special Forces of the Ministry of Defense of Turkey with the support of artillery, landed in the Metina, Zap and Avashin …

Fight Back (2022-05-09). MN says: No proxy war over Ukraine. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Over 70 people joined an anti-war protest on May 7 to say no to U.S. wars. The action had a particular focus on calling for the U.S. to stop sending weapons and military aid to Ukraine and to stop escalating the conflict. | Wyatt Miller, an organizer with the MN Anti-War Committee, started off the program: "The list of escalatory actions the U.S. and NATO have taken toward Russia is too long to list in its entirety. Biden wants $33 billion more for Ukraine. U.S. and other Western mercenaries are showing up in Ukraine. Weapons are pouring into Ukraine. NATO has doubled its troop presence in East…

____ (2022-05-09). Pope Francis Suggests That NATO's "Barking" Provoked Russia's Military Op in Ukraine. transcend.org 4 May 2022 – Pope Francis has suggested to Italian daily Corriere Della Sera that the "barking of NATO at the door of Russia" provoked the military operation in Ukraine and countries should not supply Ukraine with more arms. Russia has "an anger that I don't know whether it was provoked but was perhaps facilitated" by NATO's unrelenting expansion towards the Eurasian Giant," said the Pontiff.

____ (2022-05-09). West continues to ramp up sanctions on Russia, increase strain on global economy. ecns.cn The United States and its Western allies on Sunday announced new sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, a move that aims to further cripple Moscow's economy but poses severe challenges for global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

____ (2022-05-09). Canadian PM meets Ukrainian president in Kiev. ecns.cn Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on Sunday, announcing more military aid to Ukraine and more sanctions against Russia.

____ (2022-05-09). Germany supplies self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine for war against Russia. wsws.org The self-propelled 2000 howitzer is an extremely destructive weapon. "Nobody survives within 50 metres," writes the Sàºddeutsche Zeitung in an article with the militarist headline "The fist that Strikes."

amarynth (2022-05-09). President Putin of Russia: speech on Red Square Victory Parade. thesaker.is Victory Parade on Red Square President of Russia — Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation Armed Forces Vladimir Putin attended a military parade marking the 77th anniversary of Victory in the 1941—1945 Great Patriotic War. Overall, 11,000 personnel and 131 units…

Anonymous103 (2022-05-09). Military Situation In Syria On May 9, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see the full-size image | On May 9, the Russian Ministry of Defence recorded no hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On May 9, the Russian Military Police and Turkish forces conducted a joint patrol in the eastern countryside of the city of Ain al-Arab; | On May 8, Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad traveled to Tehran and met with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and the President of Iran; | On May 8, six members of the Turkish-backed NF…

Staff (2022-05-09). Antidote Powder: A Low-Cost Antivenom Developed by Venezuelan Scientists. orinocotribune.com The antivenom, developed in Venezuela, has already been tested on 40 people and has not shown any adverse effects. | The saying that "the snake is killed by the head" is not valid, if one considers that it is precisely in the snake's own venom that the antidote for its bite is found. Some new antivenoms are currently being developed in Venezuela to counteract the effects of snake and scorpion bites. These antidotes are made with IgY technology based on chicken antibodies and, so far, have been tested on 40 people. No adverse reactions have been reported. | José Contreras, a researcher and snake expert at the I…

Editor (2022-05-09). Mariupol — Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in Azovstal reveal their faces as terrorists and hostage-takers. mronline.org After shelling the new firing positions that Ukrainian soldiers had set up in Azovstal during the evacuation of civilians held in the factory, the Russian army organized a new ceasefire and new humanitarian corridors over three days to continue the evacuation. But instead of letting out the civilians still in the Azovstal basement, the Ukrainian soldiers revealed their true face as terrorists and hostage-takers.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-05-09). Why Does a Right Wing Government, Such as Bolsonaro's in Brazil, Support Vladimir Putin? libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara The answer to this question seems to lie in one product: fertilizers. Siding with the United States and its allies against Russia would mean bringing Brazilian agribusiness to its knees, dependent on the tons of fertilizers provided by the Russian Federation, an industry of which it is the world's leading producer. Brazil competes…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-05-09). An Open Letter to the American People, as Russia Celebrates its WW2 Victory Over the Nazis. libya360.wordpress.com Scott Ritter World War II American Military Cemetery And Memorial in Luxembourg. © Getty Images / H. Armstrong Roberts To those who have forgotten the sacrifices the 'Greatest Generation' made to defeat Hitler In his 1998 classic, 'The Greatest Generation', famed NBC journalist Tom Brokow examined the lives and experiences of some of the millions…

____ (2022-05-09). On the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, US seeks to escalate conflict with Russia. wsws.org Ahead of Russia's celebration of the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945, the US and its NATO allies are systematically working to escalate their war with Russia.

____ (2022-05-09). How They Have Lied to You about the Russian Threat for the Last 30 Years. transcend.org 8 Apr 2022 – An indisputable authority on NATO affairs reveals the truth — without knowing he does and without the media understanding his sensational statements.

____ (2022-05-09). (Português) Rússia/EUA/Ucrânia: O que Está em Jogo. transcend.org 3 maio 2022 – Entrevista de Jeffrey Sachs, economista e especialista em desigualdade social, que como poucos articula a economia com a ecologia. Ele criticamente esclarece as posiàßàµes dos EUA e da Rússia no contexto do conflito na Ucrânia. É importante conhecermos os dois lados para nà£o sermos dependentes só da versà£o EUA-UE.

____ (2022-05-09). The EU Is Destroying Its Own Energy Security with the Planned Russian Oil Embargo. transcend.org 7 May 2022 – With no clear alternatives and surging energy prices, sanctions look set to hurt the bloc more than they will harm Russia.

____ (2022-05-09). Why Nonalignment Is an Urgent Imperative for the Global South. transcend.org 2 May 2022 – South Africa and other countries that have abstained from voting against Russia at the UNGA face intense international criticism. There is seldom any acknowledgment that nonalignment, in this case refusing to be aligned with the United States and its allies or with Russia, can be a principled position, as well as an astute tactical engagement with geopolitical realities.

Harald Neuber & Natylie Baldwin (2022-05-09). Open letter and Breaking the logic of war. indybay.org The delivery of large quantities of heavy weapons, however, could make Germany itself a party to the war. A Russian counterattack could then trigger the mutual assistance clause under the NATO treaty and thus the immediate danger of a world war. Natylie Baldwin emphasizes how Zelensky's outlawing of parties and dissenting media are dictatorial.

Staff (2022-05-09). Canada, UK announce new package of sanctions on Russia. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 09 (MNA) — Canada included forty more Russian individuals, including businessmen and defense officials, in its sanction lists, the press service of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

_____ (2022-05-09). Inside Operation Gladio: How NATO Supported Nazis And Terrorists. popularresistance.org Today, I have on Asa Winstanley to talk about a series that he's been publishing at his Substack about Operation Gladio, that is the NATO 'stay behind' networks in Europe, and that is how in the first Cold War, NATO supported a bunch of former Nazis and fascists to wage a war against the Soviet Union but really it was also a war internally against socialism. And today, we're going to talk about what Operation Gladio is. This is not that well known even though there's so many documents that have been released proving definitively that after World War II, NATO, the CIA and European intelligence agencies created a s…

Staff (2022-05-09). G7 calls for revival of Iran nuclear deal. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, May 09 (MNA) — In a statement on Monday, the G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group called for the revival of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal as the best political solution.

teleSUR, hvh, JCM (2022-05-09). Irán anuncia continuación de conversaciones en Viena. telesurtv.net El diplomático persa instó al gobierno estadounidense a "devolver lo que ha tomado de los bolsillos de los iraníes".

James K. Galbraith (2022-05-09). The dollar system in a multi-polar world. mronline.org The multipolar financial world is here. The United States can survive it—but only with major political and economic changes at home. It's time to start thinking about what those need to be.

Contributing Writers (2022-05-09). President Putin Victory Day Speech. marktaliano.net READ MORE:

Christoph Pflueger, Nicolas Riedl & K Chavent (2022-05-09). The price explosion of wheat. indybay.org Many people in this country develop the willingness to explicitly freeze for an ideal. Whether for freedom of whatever kind or for the climate. Every jitter, every pore of goose bumps serves the absolutely good and morally right. Already now one could marvel at signs on "peace demos", on which was written: "Better freeze, than gas from Putin!"

Staff (2022-05-09). Putin participa en desfile militar por el aniversario 77 de la victoria soviética sobre el nazismo (+ Videos). cubadebate.cu La Federación de Rusia celebra este lunes 9 de mayo la victoria de la URSS sobre la Alemania nazi en la Gran Guerra Patria (1941-1945), un conflicto derivado de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el que perdieron la vida más de 25 millones de soviéticos, con un gran desfile militar en la Plaza Roja moscovita.

teleSUR, JCM (2022-05-09). Rusia defiende operación en Ucrania al celebrar Día de la Victoria. telesurtv.net Pdte. Vladímir Putin afirmó que el peligro crecía día a día. Rusia dio una respuesta preventiva a la agresión. "Fue una decisión forzada, oportuna y la única correcta".

teleSUR, JGN (2022-05-09). Putin afirma que operación en Ucrania fue una respuesta preventiva. telesurtv.net "Fue una decisión forzosa, oportuna y la única correcta, la decisión de una nación soberana, independiente y fuerte", dijo.

Anonymous587 (2022-05-09). How Victory Day Is Celebrated In Different Countries Of World (Photos, Videos). southfront.org "Eternal Flame" — a symbol of remembrance | May 9, 2022 marks the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. In order for this to happen, many countries of the world, and above all Europe, took a direct part. However, it is historically recognized that the largest contribution was made by the Soviet Union, which gave a harsh repulse to the Nazi invaders on its territory, causing the deaths of nearly 30 million Soviet citizens. | Victory itself was both a great blessing…

Liberation Staff (2022-05-09). Saluting anti-fascist heroes on the anniversary of Victory Day. liberationnews.org Read about WWII heroes of the Soviet Union!