CODEPINK, Pivot to Peace (2022-02-28). Sunday 2/27: The Shanghai Communiqué: Key to Peace Webinar. indybay.org Online event (FREE)…

Anonymous103 (2022-02-28). Russia out of Swift, The "Nuclear" Financial Option That Risks Collapsing The World Economy. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Written by Piero Messina | There is the war that is fought on the ground and there is the war that is fought with international finance weapons. Financially, Europe and the United States have a nuclear option. They used it: to oust the Russian Central Bank from Swift transactions. | But what is the Swift? It is an acronym that stands for "Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications": it is a Belgian messaging platform that connects thousands of financial institutions fro…

Fight Back (2022-02-28). Activist explains why anti-war movement wants U.S. out of Ukraine. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – Fight Back! News interviewed Meredith Aby-Keirstead, a founding member of the MN Anti-War Committee, on February 27 for her anti-war perspective on the crisis in the Ukraine and the proxy war developing between the U.S./NATO and Russia. | Fight Back!: Why should Americans join with the anti-war movement right now? | Meredith Aby-Keirstead: This is a critical time to stop the U.S. as it fans the flames of war. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress want to send more weapons and more military support to Ukraine, which would be like pouring gasoline on this fire. Not only would it kill any dipl…

WSWS (2022-02-28). Conflict between US-NATO and Russia over Ukraine threatens nuclear war. wsws.org Sixty years after the Cuban Missile crisis, the war in Ukraine has brought the world to the point where the exchange of nuclear weapons is a real possibility.

In Defense of Liberation! (2022-02-28). Down with US Empire! Long live Revolutionary Internationalism and Socialism! (w/Luna Oi!). anchor.fm In this episode the amazing Luna Oi joins us all the way from Vietnam to discuss her country's history and the struggles they've endured, but more broadly we also go into a discussion about what is stopping the "Left" from within the US Empire and the west, generally, from being able to build a movement capable of combatting these different stopping-blocks that seem to have us stagnant. We discuss misinformation about the virus and vaccines, we talk about organizing and how to help your community and comrades, we discuss isolation, US Imperialism, the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, and elsewhere, as well as Revolu…

Staff (2022-02-28). UK delivers 'lethal' aid to Ukraine. rt.com Several European countries promised to supply Kiev with weapons during Russia's military operation | The UK said on Monday that it has successfully supplied weapons to Ukraine after Russia launched its military operation against its neighbor. | Sky News asked Defense Secretary Ben Wallace if London managed to deliver any weapons to Ukraine after the start of the Russian attack on early Thursday morning. | Wallace replied: "Yes, we've got lethal and non-lethal aid into Ukraine." He refused to reveal the details because it "would put people at risk." | "Britain was the first European country to step up to join…

WSWS (2022-02-28). Australia to send "lethal aid" to Ukrainian armed forces. wsws.org A senior Labor leader called for an even greater "step up," saying: "Whether that is support with weapons, on the cybersecurity front, whether it is tightening the screws on the Russian economy."

Staff (2022-02-27). Lukashenko describes conditions for nuclear deployment. rt.com Belarus' leader has detailed a situation that would prompt him to request a "return" of weapons to Minsk | Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has clarified his stance on nuclear weapons by saying that if the West moves its arsenal close to his country's borders then Minsk will ask neighboring Russia to "return" nuclear weapons to Belarus. | Speaking to the media on Sunday, Belarus' leader recalled a conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. According to him, on Saturday he told Macron that "if America, or France, also a nuclear power, transfer their nuclear weapons to Poland, to Lithuani…

_____ (2022-02-27). NATO's Atlantic Council Promoted Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. popularresistance.org The NATO military alliance's de facto think tank, the Atlantic Council, promoted a notorious neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, the Azov Battalion, in a 2014 article that depicted the fascist extremists as anti-Russian heroes. | The Atlantic Council is one of the most powerful think tanks in Washington. With funding from the US State Department, numerous Western governments, NATO, and the weapons industry, it plays a key role in shaping US foreign policy, particularly toward Russia. | The Atlantic Council published a report in June 2014 titled "The Battle For Mariupol." It was little more than a press release for Azov,…

Staff (2022-02-27). More EU nations to provide weapons to Ukraine. rt.com The Czech Republic, Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands will provide Kiev with weapons amid the Russian offensive | Several European countries announced on Sunday that they would supply Ukraine with weapons and ammunition. They include the Czech Republic, Portugal, Belgium, and the Netherlands, while Germany made a similar statement on Saturday. | Since the beginning of Russia's offensive on February 24, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued several calls for the international community to provide "defense assistance" to his country. | On February 25, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg anno…

Staff (2022-02-27). Australia to fund lethal arms for Ukraine. rt.com Canberra said it would provide lethal military assistance to Kiev with the help of NATO | Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ordered the funding of lethal military assistance for Ukraine — a step up from his previous commitment to non-lethal aid — as the military conflict between Kiev and Moscow continues. | Australia would start supplying weapons to Ukraine through its NATO allies, Morrison "The Aus…

Matt Smyth (2022-02-27). Francis: A Pope of the Poor? A Pope for the Environment? Or a Pope for the Global Elite? globalresearch.ca Pope Francis. A pope of rupture. A pope for ecology. Inimical to capitalism, but compassionate to the poor and the migrant. | The gay friendly pope. Lenient with divorcees, but hostile to traditionalists and conservatives. | The reformer of the corrupt Roman …

_____ (2022-02-27). On Contact: Race And America's Long War. popularresistance.org The internal violence in the United States, militarized police, and the largest prison system in the world, along with America's endemic racism, are mirrored in the foreign wars that have been fought almost continuously by the United States since the end of the 19th century. These inner and outer wars, argues historian Nikhil Pal Singh, are intimately connected. The gunning down of unarmed black people in American cities is expressed outside our borders in the gunning down of unarmed Muslims in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, often by militarized drones. The prison-industrial-complex at home…

teleSUR- hvh, JL (2022-02-27). Rusia rechaza ataque de Ucrania con drones de EE.UU. contra sus buques en el Mar Negro. telesurtv.net El Ministerio ruso ratificó que su posición es atacar el régimen nazista ucraniano y no a su población.

Staff (2022-02-27). Saudis target Yemen's intl. airport, residential areas. en.mehrnews.com The Saudi coalition on Sunday bombed Sanaa International Airport located in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, as well as Yemeni residential areas in Sa'dah and Dhamr.

Staff (2022-02-27). Germany to hike defense spending, buy new weapons. rt.com Berlin has until now avoided rebuilding its armed forces | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that he'll invest –Ñ100 billion ($113 billion) in weaponry and hike defense spending to 2% of GDP, in light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Successive German governments have resisted investing in the country's military, at times angering the US. | "It's clear we need to invest significantly more in the security of our country, in order to protect our freedom and our democracy," the left-wing leader told a special sitting of the Bundestag (the German Parliament). Promising to reverse decades…

Staff (2022-02-27). EU reveals major update on weapons for Ukraine. rt.com For the first time, the EU has said it is ready to pay for weapons to send to Ukraine | The European Union will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons to Ukraine for the first time, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has announced. | "We are stepping up our support for Ukraine," von der Leyen said on Sunday, announcing a raft of further measures against Moscow over its ongoing military offensive in Ukraine. | "For the first time, the EU will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to a country under attack," she said. | Before a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Sunday, fo…

Staff (2022-02-27). EU to send fighter jets to Ukraine. rt.com The bloc's top diplomat said lethal aid will be delivered through Poland | The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell has revealed that a 450 million Euro package of "lethal aid" for Ukraine will include fighter jets, with all weapons delivered through Poland. Borrell also said that around half of the Russian Central Bank's reserves would be frozen. | Speaking hours after EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the bloc would "finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and other equipment" for Ukraine, Borrell revealed that the EU's "lethal aid" package wou…

Staff (2022-02-27). Ukraine releases convicts to fight Russia. rt.com Convicted acid-attack murderer has been allowed to handpick a squad of fellow inmates | Ukraine is releasing inmates and criminal suspects with a military background so they can join the fight against the Russian attack on the country, the national prosecutor general's office confirmed on Sunday. | Moscow attacked its neighbor on Thursday, arguing it was defending the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, which broke off from eastern Ukraine shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev. Ukraine condemned the move, claiming it was an act of unprovoked aggression. | A convict's service record, combat experience, and re…

Chris Hedges (2022-02-26). Russia, Ukraine and the chronicle of a war foretold. mronline.org After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near-universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.

Misión Verdad (2022-02-26). NATO Countries Have Supplied Weapons to Ukraine (Report). orinocotribune.com As the Russian military operation in Ukraine has neutralized most of the Ukrainian defense system, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, lamented that they have been left "on their own" despite the support of some nations. He now sees no guarantee of Ukraine finally joining NATO. | The Ukrainian president's speech seems directed at the position taken by the United States and the European Union, since neither of the two has expressed any disposition to a military confrontation with Russia. Both the EU and the US, as well as the UK, have only limited their scope of action to the application of "tough sancti…

Anonymous103 (2022-02-26). War In Ukraine: Results Of The Second Day Of The Russian Operation. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that a large number of weapons supplied by Western countries to Ukraine in the last few months have been seized. | Russian forces have taken out 211 military facilities of Ukraine's military infrastructure, including 17 control points and communication centers, 19 S-300 and "Osa" air defense systems, and 39 radar stations. Six combat aircraft, one helicopter and five unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down, and 67 tanks and other armored combat veh…

CODEPINK, more (2022-02-26). Saturday 2/26: No War in Ukraine! International Emergency Online Rally. indybay.org Online via Zoom…

Newsclick (2022-02-26). How economic 'reforms' plundered India. peoplesdispatch.org Capitalism is based on big lies — that the West is prosperous because of the Industrial revolution and free market policies. In reality the riches of the developed world is based entirely on draining wealth from the poorer countries. It is a process that has continued even after the end of colonies. In fact, this plunder has increased since the 1980s, when neoliberal economics came to rule the world.

Partido por el Socialismo y la Liberación (2022-02-26). Declaración del PSL sobre la intervención militar de Rusia en Ucrania. liberationnews.org La operación militar rusa en Ucrania pone de manifiesto que el mundo ha llegado a una peligrosa bifurcación.

Armin Groh (2022-02-26). Wars hardly achieve their intended goal anymore. indybay.org The third Gulf War ended Saddam Hussein's rule but resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, the emergence of IS, and a dramatic crash in living standards. Intervention in Libya succeeded in toppling Gaddafi, but turned Libya into a failed state.

Pivot to Peace (2022-02-26). The Shanghai Communiqué: Key to Peace — Pivot to Peace/CODEPINK Webinar. peacepivot.org Join Pivot to Peace and CODEPINK's China Is Not Our Enemy campaign this Sunday for a conversation with Xiangyu, Col. Ann Wright, Lauren Gonitzke and Pivot to Peace's K.J. Noh to better understand the Taiwan issue and how the U.S. can avoid war with China over Taiwan. When: February 27, 2022 at 6: 00pm — 7: 30pm …