(2023-10-01). Dying For Inches In Ukraine. popularresistance.org A heartbreaking graphic is going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time. | The graphic comes from a New York Times article titled "Who's Gaining Ground in Ukraine? This Year, No One," which eventually gets around to acknowledging that Russia has actually gained more ground than Ukraine in 2023 despite Kiev's much-hyped counteroffensive, which began in June. | "When both sides' gains are added up, Russia now controls nearly 200 square miles more territory…
(2023-10-01). Canada, Ukraine, And Nazis. popularresistance.org There is something especially satisfying when one's opponents help make a case for something they have denied. Recently the Canadian government did just that. Their effort to prop up the failing Ukraine proxy war instead exposed that country's Nazi past and present. | Ukraine has been a divided nation ever since its founding as a state after World War I. Its population is divided by language with Ukrainian and Russian speakers, with some favoring its status as a Soviet republic while others were vehemently opposed. So strong was that faction that there were many Ukrainians who actively collaborated with German oc…
(2023-10-01). Paradoxes Of Democracy In Ukraine. popularresistance.org On September 10, elections to regional and municipal assemblies were held across the Russian Federation. For the first time, they were held under Russian law in the two Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk which formally became part of the Russian Federation in February 2022. Elections also took place in the two 'new territories', as they are called in Russia, of the Russian-controlled parts of Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions (that is, the areas of those two regions lying south and east of the Dnieper River). The governing regime in Ukraine as well as the Western countries allied with it condemned and refuse…
(2023-10-01). Russia and Venezuela Sign Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation Agreement. orinocotribune.com 
The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, and the president of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, Vyacheslav Volodin, signed an agreement aimed at the strengthening of inter-parliamentary ties. | Rodríguez and Volodin highlighted the cooperation that has existed between Venezuela and Russia since the triumph of the Bolivarian Revolution in different areas especially in the defense of sovereignty. | Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez (left) and Russian State Duma President Vyacheslav Volodin (right) shake hands after the signing of the inter-parliament…
(2023-10-01). Before His Assassination, JFK Sought Peace With The Soviet Union. popularresistance.org We will never know the world that could have been had President John F. Kennedy's assassination never taken place, but an inkling of how things could have been different can be found in the final months of his life. In his new book, To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace, Jeffrey Sachs unearths JFK's final political campaign—to establish a secure and lasting peace with the Soviet Union. How far did JFK's efforts go? What sort of progress was made on ending the Cold War, not through the collapse of the Soviet Union, but rather through mutual cooperation and understanding? To answer these questions and more…