Wednesday, December 21, 2022

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Why Ukraine’s battlefield wins are raising fresh questions for Biden

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3678582-why-ukraines-battlefield-wins-are-raising-fresh-questions-for-biden/

 

Russians respond to bridge attack with airstrike, killing 13

https://theweek.com/speed-reads/1017342/russians-respond-to-bridge-attack-with-airstrike-killing-13

 

Protests grip Iran as rights group says 19 children killed

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/protests-continue-across-iran-rights-group-reports-19-minors-killed-2022-10-09/

 

Russian missile hits Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, at least 17 dead | USA TODAY - Oct 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbbld4gmWiQ

 

Retired general explains what Putin will see as a direct attack - Oct 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_0UwsvIJL4

 

Retired general breaks down the ‘Russian way of war’ - Oct 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2HYIcyzzA

 

Who Benefits from Immigrant Harasssment?

https://www.populist.com/28.18.McMillen.html

 

Froma Harrop: On border chaos, Republicans are even more to blame.  The truth is that Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, have stymied serious efforts, even conservative ones, to curb the flow of undocumented immigrants. Florida is every bit as much a "sanctuary state" as New York. DeSantis just doesn't call it that.

https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/09/25/froma-harrop-on-border-chaos-republicans-are-even-more-to-blame/

 

Mary Sanchez: Texas Gov. Abbott's migrant bus stunt could work – accidentally

https://starherald.com/opinion/columnists/syndicated/mary-sanchez-texas-gov-abbotts-migrant-bus-stunt-could-work-accidentally/article_3be977ae-36c6-11ed-a38c-6737cc604dd3.html

 

What Do Americans Care About? Not a Cold War With Russia and China.  Americans’ top security concerns include safety at home and protecting jobs.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/war-spending-economy-biden-congress/

 

Russia Scrambles to Reconnect Supply Lines to Crimea After Bridge Explosion: Ferry service restarts across the Kerch Strait, while Russian rockets kill at least 17 in Ukrainian city

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-scrambles-to-reconnect-supply-lines-to-crimea-after-bridge-explosion-11665309769

 

Five reasons why the Crimean bridge explosion is significant

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3680594-five-reasons-why-the-crimean-bridge-explosion-is-significant/

 

The War in Ukraine Launches a New Battle for the Russian Soul: The last time people were writing in Russian so urgently was in the late nineteen-eighties, when Soviet citizens were confronted with the terror of the Stalinist past.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/17/the-war-in-ukraine-launches-a-new-battle-for-the-russian-soul

 

US Needs Immigrants

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Uretsky.html

 

The Immigration Game in Florida

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Zequeira.html

 

War Games in Asia

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Gunasekaran.html

 

Human Traffickers? Governors DeSantis, Abbott and Ducey Follow an Old Racist Playbook of the Segregated South

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/22/human_traffickers_governors_desantis_abbott_and

 

In The Face of Lifelong Terror, Gaza Speaks Truth To Power: A Palestinian asks how many deaths will be enough

https://inthesetimes.com/article/palestinian-struggle-armed-conflict-gaza-israel-idf

 

Biden brokers breakthrough maritime deal between Israel and Lebanon

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3682288-biden-brokers-breakthrough-maritime-deal-between-israel-and-lebanon/

 

Meet the Censored: Katie Halper.  The "Useful Idiots" co-host is dismissed from The Hill, which is a little too frank about the reason

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-katie-halper

 

This is What Got Katie Halper Censored & Canceled By The Hill: Israel Is An Apartheid State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xLOxx1ggQ&t=727s

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, October 10, 2022

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=249&emc=edit_ruwb_20221010&instance_id=74263&nl=russia-ukraine-war-briefing&productCode=RUWB&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=109588&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F8e4fe0b1-9246-5083-a5f0-bf6e8fe9cf96&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Putin calls Kerch Bridge attack “a terrorist act” by Kyiv

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-9f6099f7ab937d4e6563aa0aaa4a3184

 

Putin calls Kerch Bridge attack 'a terrorist act' by Kyiv.  The attack on the Kerch Bridge damaged an important supply route for the Kremlin’s forces.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/09/putin-kerch-bridge-attack-terrorist-act-kyiv-00061078

 

U.N. chief suggests rapid action force to help Haiti

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/un-chief-urges-security-council-consider-haiti-request-specialized-armed-force-2022-10-09/

 

NKorea confirms simulated use of nukes to ‘wipe out’ enemies

https://apnews.com/article/business-seoul-south-korea-nuclear-weapons-north-6ce0a8da47f8eb9228d4b33223ebfa3b

 

Iran’s state broadcaster hacked during nightly news program

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/middleeast/iran-state-broadcaster-hacked-intl-hnk/index.html

 

Turns out that Russian recruiting video loved by critics of the ‘woke’ US military was total BS

It turns out that this Russian propaganda video was less than accurate.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russian-military-recruiting-commercial-not-reality/

 

We Never Learned the Key Lesson From the Cuban Missile Crisis: Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?

https://newrepublic.com/article/168090/cuban-missile-crisis-lesson-nuclear-war-russia-ukraine

 

Biden addresses Putin's nuclear threats in Ukraine | Full CNN exclusive interview - Oct 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpzMfAKN9aQ

 

The Office Workers of Kyiv Hit the CrossFit Gym—for Weapons Training: Inside Ukraine’s underground boot camps

https://newrepublic.com/article/168029/kyiv-ukraine-civilian-weapons-training-crossfit

 

Brandywine Peace Community

www.brandywinepeace.com

 

Welcome (Back) to the Nuclear Age: Americans haven’t thought seriously about the threat of nuclear war in a long time. Now, as climate change accelerates, the peril and promise of nuclear technology feels more fraught than ever.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165574/nuclear-age-ukraine-climate

 

This is the End of Russia (as we know it)! - Premiered Oct 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbmY4GWLPCA

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, October 12, 2022

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=249&emc=edit_ruwb_20221012&instance_id=74445&nl=russia-ukraine-war-briefing&productCode=RUWB&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=109779&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F3cf6f4ec-66ec-55dd-8fa1-c01a97cb10a2&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Biden says Putin ‘totally miscalculated’ by invading Ukraine but is a ‘rational actor’

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/joe-biden-interview-cnntv/index.html

 

Russia's FSB arrests eight for Crimean Bridge bombing

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-fsb-arrests-eight-crimea-bridge-blast-2022-10-12/

 

Will World Cup Reporters Let Qatar Get Away With Its Human Rights Abuses?  As Saudi Arabia’s takeover of English soccer club Newcastle proves, the media is highly susceptible to sportswashing by corrupt regimes.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168132/qatar-human-rights-abuses-2022-world-cup

 

Ret. Lt. General: I've got bad news for Mr. Putin - Oct 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulgy4qTFexE

 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken sits down 1-on-1 with 6abc's Brian Taff

https://6abc.com/secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-us-government-diplomat/12352205/

 

Zelenskyy warns Russia is planning to destroy dam, hydroelectric plant - Oct 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au3ef0iOgaE

 

See Russian military expert's admission on hot mic - Oct 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpqL7ob26Ng

 

U.S. says Iranian troops "directly engaged" in Crimea, backing Russian drone strikes

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iranian-troops-ukraine-crimea-russia-drone-strikes/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

 

Support for Ukraine is shifting among Republicans - Oct 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ruc2nrTHI

 

Congressional Republicans Look to Sow Chaos in Ukraine if They Retake Congress: If Kevin McCarthy is to be taken seriously, the Biden administration should plan ahead for the GOP to try to break Europe.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168262/kevin-mccarthy-gop-ukraine-aid

 

The War With Ukraine is Coming Home to Russians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqx_-OHE1Hk

 

Russian court rejects Griner appeal

https://thehill.com/policy/international/3702872-russian-court-rejects-griner-appeal/

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, October 24, 2022

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=249&emc=edit_ruwb_20221024&instance_id=75540&nl=russia-ukraine-war-briefing&productCode=RUWB&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=110950&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F06ee175e-14bd-555c-851c-25aa712b8a9e&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 245: As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 245th day, we take a look at the main developments.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/26/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-245

 

Israeli troops raid gunmen’s hideout; 5 Palestinians killed

https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-west-bank-israel-nablus-9b5d5857b8933233b5598e51e032814b?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_06

 

Iran’s security forces reportedly open fire as thousands mourn Mahsa Amini

Teargas also used against protesters gathered in home town of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, says rights group

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/26/iran-protests-mahsa-amini-grave-crackdown-kurdish-death

 

Putin says risk of world conflict is ‘high’; Moscow official calls for ‘de-Satanization’ in Ukraine

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/26/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

 

Ford and Mercedes-Benz complete their exits from Russia

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ford-mercedes-benz-russia-ukraine-exit/

 

House Progressives’ Ukraine Letter Was a Self-Inflicted Disaster: A tedious and tepid missive did more to damage its writers’ reputations than advance the cause of peace.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168291/house-progressives-ukraine-letter-biden

 

What Comes After Putin?  The U.S. has been a dominant superpower for so long that its leaders simply take it for granted and have little (if any) empathy for others.

https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/what-comes-after-putin

 

Lula Should Win—but Bolsonaroism Isn’t Going Anywhere: The candidate of the left has establishment backing for Sunday’s vote. But below the level of the presidency, signs are more ominous.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168337/lula-win-2022-brazil-election-bolsonaro-not-going-away

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, October 28, 2022

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=249&emc=edit_ruwb_20221028&instance_id=75980&nl=russia-ukraine-war-briefing&productCode=RUWB&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=111406&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F00528989-7c71-5964-a7f6-22b1dfe0f4c6&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

How China Forgot Its Decade of Experimentation: China in the 1980s contemplated a more liberal future—then wrote those debates out of its history.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168288/china-forgot-decade-experimentation-julian-gewirtz-book-review

 

UN report details horrifying Ukrainian accounts of rape, torture and executions by Russian troops

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/russia-ukraine-war-un-report-details-accounts-of-rape-torture-and-executions.html

 

Ex-Russian official who turned on Putin predicts his next moves - Oct 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJoeUHBfa8

 

Former MI6 chief predicts how the war in Ukraine will end - Oct 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73jKB7qxVo

 

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia tried to attack but got the record losses - Oct 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_HuAoyjrfI

 

This was the first time: 2 Russian battleships hit by Ukrainian submarine in Omega Bay Blacksea! - Oct 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgiPuAPbRmE

 

Chorus for Peace in Ukraine Growing: Siding with calls for peace and diplomacy from all over the world is still not an idea whose time has come in the halls of power in Washington, DC.

https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/chorus-for-peace-in-ukraine-growing

 

S. Korea in shock, grief as 153 die in Halloween crowd surge

https://apnews.com/article/health-seoul-covid-south-korea-95c403f1712f8dbfab96e9da88366b03

 

U.N., Turkey, Ukraine press ahead with Black Sea grain deal despite Russian pullout

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-suspends-participation-deal-ukraine-grain-exports-tass-2022-10-29/

 

Somalia car bombings kill at least 100, president says

https://apnews.com/article/al-qaida-africa-bombings-somalia-shabab-2bb9ec7346e3eba9d34452b3458acd10

 

The former Chinese leader Hu Jintao was abruptly escorted out of a highly choreographed meeting of the Communist Party elite. The moment, captured on video, prompted questions and wild speculation.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/27/world/asia/hu-jintao-congress-videos.html

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, October 31, 2022

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=249&emc=edit_ruwb_20221031&instance_id=76170&nl=russia-ukraine-war-briefing&productCode=RUWB&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=111620&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F4952db4a-c976-5e2d-979e-227ec9fc7501&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Mahsa Amini — Hundreds Die Protesting Her Murder. Abby Zimet: In Iran, woman, life, freedom, and stunning perseverance: An embrace for a sorrowful nation

https://www.laprogressive.com/the-middle-east/mahsa-amini-protests

 

NATO in the Amazon: Petro Plays with Fire. As with NATO in the Amazon, NATO is a primary instrument of US imperial dominion. It is Washington’s praetorian guard projected on a global scale.

https://www.laprogressive.com/latin-america-2/nato-in-the-amazon

 

Russia Deploys MiG-31Ks With Deadly Hypersonic Missiles To European Border In A Clear Warning To The West

https://eurasiantimes.com/russia-deploys-mig-31ks-with-deadly-hypersonic-missiles-to-europe/

 

Relief, jubilation in Kherson as Russian troops retreat – Nov 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkpV9SCTfNU

 

2022 CFPA Annual Conference for Peace - Medea Benjamin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhNhuP1M2GI

 

2022 CFPA Annual Peace Conference - Rabbi David Saperstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z1Hksorxkw

 

2022 CFPA Annual Conference for Peace - Bill McKibben

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xEOnGGDV8

 

Why the Right’s Immigration Demagoguery Crashed and Burned in the Midterms: Democrats thwarted a concerted effort to catastrophize asylum-seekers, but it’s time they discarded the Trump-era ideas that enabled their success.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168868/republican-immigration-demagoguery-2022-midterms

 

Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine: Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nuclear-war-ukraine-putin/

 

China and Russia Are Not Mirror Images: Both countries pose major challenges to US foreign policy, but understanding their differences is crucial to reforming the global system.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-russia-jinping-putin/

 

Who Is Red?  The British Security Service’s futile record of harassment and surveillance.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/david-caute-red-list/

 

For Iranian Women, the Uprising Was a Long Time Coming: The protests are about choice—elective rather than mandatory hijab—not unlike the demands of abortion rights supporters in the United States.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-women-uprising/

 

Russia Hating: A Study of the News—and Views—We Find Fit to Print. Journalists and professors who have called Russia a fascist country are playing a poisonous game.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/russia-hating-ukraine-war-media/

 

The Odyssey: Javier Zamora’s borderland memories.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/javier-zamora-solito/

 

Putin-smooching and so many beautiful lies

https://www.johnyoungcolumn.com/putin-smooching-and-so-many-beautiful-lies/

 

The death of Mahsa Amini matters outside of Iran

https://www.wdtimes.com/the-death-of-mahsa-amini-matters-outside-of-iran/article_14c487b2-3dd9-11ed-b29e-97065920f052.html

 

Russian Aggression, Divisions and Inequalities After 3 Years of COVID Test UN

https://peaceeconomyproject.org/wordpress/russian-aggression-divisions-and-inequalities-after-3-years-of-covid-test-un/

 

War on Immigrants is War on All Poor and Low-Income Americans: If low-income voters stick together, they can stop politicians from turning a humanitarian crisis into political theater.

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Barnes.html

 

The App ICE Forces You To Download: Under Biden, monitoring of immigrants by cell phone has jumped 808%.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/immigration-customs-enforcement-immigration-surveillance-app

 

The Perils of Fortress NATO, Gatekeepers to Europe’s Walled Garden: The West’s exclusive focus on Ukraine is creating a new global divide.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/fortress-nato-immigration-europe/

 

The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison: Patrick Julney is one of many longtime US residents who found himself detained under hellish conditions in a country in which he’d never been formally charged with a crime.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/deportation-haiti-prison-conditions/

 

Why France Is Preparing for a Large Scale War – Nov 23, 202

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uV34fR0rLM

 

‘War Santa,’ other American vets and Polish volunteers deliver needed equipment to Ukraine’s fighters

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-11-21/ukraine-russia-war-american-veterans-8101848.html

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, November 23, 2022

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=249&emc=edit_ruwb_20221123&instance_id=78396&nl=russia-ukraine-war-briefing&productCode=RUWB&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=114062&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F7cbafa08-71fc-5eb1-9015-2b2c04e2ce9a&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Roadblocks for a Generation

https://www.dailychatter.com/stories/roadblocks-for-a-generation/

 

The Man, The Machines

https://www.dailychatter.com/stories/the-man-the-machines/

 

Ukraine’s battle to restore power slowed by sub-zero weather conditions

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/europe/ukraine-power-russia-strikes-intl-cmd/index.html

 

Iran arrests soccer’s Voria Ghafouri amid scrutiny of World Cup team

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/24/voria-ghafouri-iran-arrest-world-cup-soccer-football/

 

Five crucial questions as Russia-Ukraine war enters winter

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3748660-five-crucial-questions-as-russia-ukraine-war-enters-winter/

 

Putin’s grip on regional allies loosens again after Armenia snub: Damaging optics of ‘family’ photo at CSTO summit highlights fragility of Russia’s influence in wake of war in Ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/25/putinsgrip-regional-allies-loosen-again-after-armenia-snub-csto-summit

 

China at the G20 Summit 2022: It wasn’t clear if Chinese president Xi Jinping would meet with Joe Biden after the numerous insults involving Taiwan

https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/china-at-the-g20-summit-2022

 

North Korea Claims Fresh Nod of Support From China’s Xi

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-26/china-s-xi-says-he-values-ties-with-north-korea-kcna-says

 

North Korea plans ‘world’s most powerful’ nuclear force, Kim Jong Un says

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/27/asia/north-korea-kim-jong-un-nuclear-force-intl-hnk/index.html

 

Zelenskiy warns Ukraine to brace for more Russian attacks

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/snow-blanket-kyiv-sunday-power-still-short-supply-2022-11-27/

 

Nicaraguan migrants at U.S. Border – “Pushed” or “Pulled”?  Blaming migration on “repressive dictatorships” allows Washington to pretend that its policies are helping Nicaraguans, when in fact they are impoverishing them.

https://www.laprogressive.com/latin-america-2/nicaraguan-migrants

 

Death Groomers: Hate speech leads to violence against the trans community. That's how stochastic terrorism works. Is that what far-right provocateurs & Republican politicians want?

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/death-groomers?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1Njg3MTAxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NzMwNzUxOCwiaWF0IjoxNjY5NzIzOTQwLCJleHAiOjE2NzIzMTU5NDAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMDY5NSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ._ddZgYCBedgzMscwShZre-qwkf0jEJYw2EZ4_3bNTV8&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, November 30, 2022

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=249&emc=edit_ruwb_20221130&instance_id=78929&nl=russia-ukraine-war-briefing&productCode=RUWB&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=114621&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F7b81828e-1b5e-52c0-afd2-91dec71056ea&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Joe, Remember Our Snowball Fights?  You risk—in remaining inflexible to negotiations—nuclear war and ongoing recession, inflation and food shortages for millions in Africa and Asia, while the country Ukraine is being wrecked by Russian bombing.

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/letter-to-president-biden

 

Ret. Lt. Gen. predicts more wins on battlefield for Ukraine – Dec 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fhQ4xzupXg

 

2018 documentary Active Measures which explains Putin's reasons and intent towards the United States of America.

https://watchdocumentaries.com/active-measures/

 

'I have no pity for them': Russian describes fighting against his own – Dec 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05_FkfpFLWU

 

Germany Arrests Dozens Suspected of Planning to Overthrow Government: Many the police detained had military training and were believed to belong to a recently formed group that operated on the conviction that the country was ruled by a so-called deep state.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/europe/germany-coup-arrests.html

 

Ukraine leader defiant as drone strikes hit Russia again

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-8ade16c890a92e353f11cae01a01e498

 

Hungary Blocks EU Plan to Raise Over $18 Billion in Funding for Ukraine: Diplomats say Hungary has tied bloc-wide decisions over EU cash for Budapest to the Ukraine loan decision

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hungary-blocks-eu-plan-to-raise-over-18-billion-in-funding-for-ukraine-11670336365

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, December 7, 2022

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“We Are Fighting for Freedom”: 2022 Nobel Laureates from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus in Their Own Words – Dec 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wHRWjknZ9s

 

Helicopter raid kills Islamic State officials in Syria, US says: Among those killed was a member of the group's facilitation operations.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/helicopter-raid-kills-isis-officials-syria-us/story?id=94992780

 

Wish Book: “I cannot smile like American people,” Ukrainian refugee says.  Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley needs donations to help refugees settle in

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/11/wish-book-i-cannot-smile-like-american-people-ukrainian-refugee-says/

 

DACA and the Politics of Cruelty: If DACA is ended, the 590,000 young people currently protected would be pushed back into the shadows.

https://www.laprogressive.com/immigration-reform/politics-of-cruelty

 

Ukraine Launching Offensive Drone Strikes: What’s needed now is resolute diplomacy — a committed effort to end the war by all parties involved

https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/ukraine-launching-offensive-drone-strikes

 

Passing the Afghan Adjustment Act

http://www.derbyinformer.com/news/state/passing-the-afghan-adjustment-act/article_8e203180-08bc-5298-8b71-db7cb0aef96e.html

 

Music in Nazi Germany - The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz | DW Documentary – November 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvoT8QANp8I

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, December 12, 2022

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Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=d2mAn77H1y8

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, December 14, 2022

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Peter Zeihan "Zelenskyy Is In Totally Fear, Everyone In Ukraine Will Be Terrified After Knowing This – Dec 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0ZypOd6xIc

 

The text of the Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed on 5 December 1994

https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D/s_1994_1399.pdf

 

Support Biden’s Call for Negotiations on a New Arms Reduction Agreement

https://www.armscontrol.org/take-action/new-start-successor

 

Ukraine, Nuclear Weapons, and Security Assurances at a Glance

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Ukraine-Nuclear-Weapons

 

Capping rocky 2022, EU agrees more Russia sanctions, funds for Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-leaders-head-tussle-over-rescue-plans-industry-2022-12-15/

 

Lengthy prison terms for 3 who aided Whitmer kidnap plotter

https://apnews.com/article/crime-michigan-government-and-politics-f6ed3d5b2546dbe9c60bb34b9ee8ddb4

 

Iran Carries Out First Execution of Arrested Protester

https://www.voanews.com/a/sister-of-iran-s-supreme-leader-condemns-protest-crackdown/6867467.html

 

The Billionaire Oligarch Who’s Enabling Haiti’s Murderous Gangs: Businessman Gilbert Bigio is facing penalties for his alleged involvement with the violence that’s engulfed the country during Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s corrupt reign.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169554/gilbert-bigio-canada-sanctions-haiti

 

Russia-Ukraine War Briefing, December 16, 2022

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This mother saw her 10 sons return from war — alive & well!

https://www.rbth.com/history/333121-this-mother-saw-her-10-sons-alive

 

Vietnam expo displays declining but ongoing dependence on Russian arms

https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2022/12/12/vietnam-expo-displays-declining-but-ongoing-dependence-on-russian-arms/

 

Russia’s Colonized Populations Can Do Without All the “Westsplaining”: Any discussion of the region’s future shouldn’t give short shrift to the possibility of new nations emerging from under Putin’s yoke.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169481/russia-ukraine-colonies-future-westsplaining

 

John Bolton: If Trump Were Still President, The Russians Would Be In Kyiv – Dec 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io6tlEQBlrs

 

Iranian government arrests acclaimed actress in relation to protests

https://theweek.com/iran/1019419/iranian-government-arrests-acclaimed-actress-in-relation-to-protests

 

The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Time for Plan B

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-12/features/iranian-nuclear-crisis-time-plan-b

 

Engaging China on Multilateral Arms Control

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-12/features/engaging-china-multilateral-arms-control

 

Making the Case That Nuclear Weapons Are Immoral: An Interview With Archbishop John C. Wester

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-12/interviews/making-case-nuclear-weapons-immoral-interview-archbishop-john-c-wester

 

Another Russian Oligarch, Dmitry Zelenov, Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances

https://www.yahoo.com/news/another-russian-oligarch-dmitry-zelenov-231220658.html

 

Ukraine fights in Bakhmut because of Bucha

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/19/2142716/-Ukraine-fights-in-Bakhmut-because-of-Bucha

 

Ukraine update: Russia's shrinking war effort, failing drone attacks, and the defense of Soledar

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/19/2142775/-Ukraine-update-Russia-s-shrinking-war-effort-failing-drone-attacks-and-the-defense-of-Soledar

 

Putin’s plan to take on the world economic order hits a wall: The $60 price cap on Russian seaborne oil may mark the beginning of the end for Putin’s economic strategy.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/13/putins-plan-to-take-on-the-world-economic-order-hits-a-wall

 

Why Did Latvia Ban Dozhd? Imperial Legacies and National Debates

https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/12/why-did-latvia-ban-dozhd-imperial-legacies-and-national-debates/

 

Iran and the United Nations: Breaking New Ground at the Human Rights Council, Is the Commission for the Status of Women Next?

https://www.fpri.org/article/2022/12/iran-and-the-united-nations-breaking-new-ground-at-the-human-rights-council-is-the-commission-for-the-status-of-women-next/

 

A Democratic Iran Is Coming and It Will Lead the Middle East: If the mullahs fall, the US may find it has a better ally in Tehran than it does in the Gulf monarchies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-16/democratic-pro-us-iran-will-lead-mideast-over-gulf-arabs

 

India parades a ballistic missile dubbed the 'China killer' just days after the two countries clash at a contested border. What's going on?

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101778260

 

In joint raid, Kurdish forces seize IS militant in Syria

https://apnews.com/article/syria-e181dfeb35cf5c695407a6b98a6b782b

 

US airstrikes kill 15 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia, AFRICOM says

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/africa/2022-12-19/somalia-airstrikes-africom-8471773.html

 

How Putin’s war in Ukraine became a catastrophe for Russia: A Times investigation based on interviews, intercepts, documents and secret battle plans shows how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russia.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-putin-war-failures-ukraine.html

 

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 300.  As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 300th day, we take a look at the main developments.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/20/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-300

 

30 retired military leaders urge Congress to pass Afghan Adjustment Act before the new year: Former flag officers plead for Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act, hoping for the legislation to pass before the next session

https://www.foxnews.com/us/20-retired-flag-officers-urging-congress-pass-afghan-adjustment-act-before-new-year

 

Washington is waking up on weapons for Taiwan

https://www.defensenews.com/thought-leadership/2022/12/19/washington-is-waking-up-on-taiwan/

 

Send the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb to Ukraine: The GLSDB would allow Ukrainian forces to strike Russian military targets up to 150 km away with an accuracy of around one meter, write John Hardie and Bradley Bowman of FDD.

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/12/send-the-ground-launched-small-diameter-bomb-to-ukraine/

 

US Air Force veteran freed in Russia prisoner swap, Ukraine says: Suedi Murekezi, a U.S. Air Force veteran whose family says he was captured by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine earlier this year, has been freed in a prisoner swap, a senior Ukrainian official announced Wednesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/14/suedi-murekezi-russia-ukraine-prisoner-swap/

 

Russians Still Support the War But Are Less Certain What It’s About, Poll Finds: Majorities of those surveyed said that it's a good time for Moscow to begin negotiations.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2022/12/russians-still-support-war-are-less-certain-what-its-about/380917/

 

Germany clinches $8 billion purchase of 35 F-35 aircraft from the US

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/12/14/germany-clinches-8-billion-purchase-of-35-f-35-aircraft-from-the-us/

 

Did the Trump Admin Agree to Free 5,000 Taliban Prisoners?  We received multiple emails from readers who were curious if the rumor was true.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-5000-taliban-prisoners/

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