Emily Jones
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Category: Capitalism
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UKRAINE UPDATE
FRIDAY 13 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: CNN There are wounded inside the steel plant in Mariupol. It is believed that all the civilians are all out. The Russians keep shelling the plant. Russian troops have withdrawn around Kharkiv and destroyed bridges. Destroying the bridges means that the Russians have given up attempts to occupy Kharkiv,… Read.
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US secretly issued subpoena to access Guardian reporter’s phone records | US news | The Guardian
The Guardian published two sensitive reports by Kirchgaessner within the timeframe of the DoJ review into child separation covered by the leak inquiry. On 23 July 2020 she revealed that the DoJ’s former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had personally advised that migrant parents should be prosecuted, no matter how young the children accompanying them.—… Read.
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Russian hackers mocked after they fail in cyberspace war against Ukraine / The New Voice of Ukraine
Russian hackers were thought to be the strongest force in cyberspace, but the war in Ukraine showed that to be a myth — Read on english.nv.ua/nation/russian-hackers-mocked-after-they-fail-in-cyberspace-war-against-ukraine-50240372.html Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: The Immortal Regiment
SUNDAY 8 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: THE KYIV INDEPENDENT Canada to provide millions in aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on Russia. Canada will sanction 12 Russians with lose ties to the state, 19 individuals linked to Russia’s defense sector, and five entities providing direct or indirect support to the Russian military. More than… Read.
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Russia’s Immortal Regiment fighting in hybrid war against Ukraine | Euromaidan Press
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Russia’s Immortal Regiment fighting in hybrid war against Ukraine | Euromaidan Press. Where was the press?
Over 700 people, some of them in Russian military uniform, gathered in front of the White House and were greeted by the Russian Ambassador to the United States. — Read on euromaidanpress.com/2022/05/08/immortal-regiment-is-a-tool-of-hybrid-war/ Read.
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Ukraine, the Vatican, and Vatican II | Commonweal Magazine
It’s true the Vatican has to walk a diplomatic tightrope, but in doing so it increasingly risks drawing moral equivalence between Russia and Ukraine. — Read on www.commonwealmagazine.org/ukraine-vatican-and-vatican-ii Read.
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Despite Putin, Ukraine’s traditions live on – as does the threat from Chernobyl | Andrey Kurkov | The Guardian
While we tend our graves, vanquished Russian troops are heading through Belarus in a cloud of radioactivity after literally digging up the past, says novelist Andrey Kurkov— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/06/vladimir-putin-ukraine-traditions-chernobyl-graves-russian-troops-belarus-radioactivity Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: SANCTIONS, YACHTS
SATURDAY 7 MAY 2022 (@cjjohns1951) UKRAINE UPDATE: Day 73 Podcast: Daily Telegraph Podcast “Ukraine the Latest” This is probably the best daily update podcast. It is well worth subscribing to. Yachts, Oligarchs and the view from Washington The Russian effort in the Donbas is stalled. The Russians are consuming a lot of military equipment. (Note:… Read.
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URAINE UPDATE:
FRIDAY 6 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE Zelensky feared exactly what is happening, i.e., that the West, specifically the US, would tire of the conflict in Ukraine and turn attention away. The corporate news is once again filled with the Trump soap opera. Revelation follows revelation, and each revelation is talked about ad nauseum. NOTHING is… Read.
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Six Russian billionaires and executives at oil giant Gazprom ‘died by suicide within three months’ | Daily Mail Online
Mystery shrouds the deaths of six Kremlin-connected Russian oligarchs and leading executives. The son of billionaire Sergey Protosenya said he ‘could never’ have killed himself.— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10770211/Six-Russian-billionaires-executives-oil-giant-Gazprom-died-suicide-three-months.html Read.
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UKRAINE UPDATE: Fighting in the East
THURSDAY 5 MAY 2022 UKRAINE UPDATE: CNN Besieged Ukrainians inside the steel plant in Mariupol refuse to surrender. NATO has refused to help. These brave fighters have occupied Russian military force and kept it from being moved to other parts of the country. Missile strike in Kramatorsk, no one killed. The Russians are having a… Read.
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RUSSIAN SUPPRESSION OF OPPOSITION
www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/europe/russian-exiles-foreign-agents-putin.html Read.
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THURSDAY UPDATE: Ukraine, Corporate Media Pablum
THURSDAY 4 MAY 2022 Podcast: “Gaslit Nation” Interview with Anne Nelson. How the Evangelical Right exploited the anti-democratic nature of our electoral system to get us where we are. MSNBC: The Last Word Last night, Lawrence O’Donnell made the wonderful point that even though Republican members of the Supreme court don’t care about our privacy,… Read.
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