Sunday, August 7, 2022

Links 7 — August 2022 Part 1

Mindorenyo 
Ukraine Timeline
Detroit Dan 
http://mindorenyo.blogspot.com/2022/08/ukraine-timeline.html

The Vineyard of the Saker
An unpleasant truth for Ukrainians is coming to light (Western media has ignored Ukrainian war crimes against Russian Ukrainians in the Donbas and other areas of Novorossiya. Amnesty International has shined some light on it.)
Batko Milacic for the Saker Blog
http://thesaker.is/an-unpleasant-truth-for-ukrainians-is-coming-to-light/

Moon of Alabama
'Western' Conflict Reporting Has Come Down To "Officials On Our Side Said ..." (There are at least three reasons behind this journalistic failure. First, journalist are hired to support the conventional narrative. Secondly, funding a real news room is expensive and doesn't pay for itself. Thirdly, Rupert Murdoch showed that the way to make money through "news" is entertainment, thus, the tabloid model. Caveat emptor. From the comments at MoA, "Helmer brilliantly explains the phenomena in this Hellevig lecture on truth telling in journalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plXE9Rf3lRU")
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/western-conflict-reporting-has-come-down-to-officials-on-our-side-said-.html

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/reaction-to-pelosis-visit-reveals-chinas-plans-for-a-taiwan-conflict.html

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2022-123.html

CaitlinJohnstone.com
Westerners Think They Are Free-Thinking Individualists And It’s Effing Adorable
Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/08/07/westerners-think-they-are-free-thinking-individualists-and-its-effing-adorable/
 
Turcopolier
“Pro-Russian officials ‘assassinated’ in Kherson ahead of Ukraine offensive” (Col. Lang comments, "Comment: This increase in partisan activity probably reflects the presence of US Special Forces soldiers (Green Berets) advising and training. This is our preferred mode of operation. It is why we were created. DOL. pl" Interesting that he, in a position to know, cites this type of activity as the speciality of the special forces. I had thought of assassination as the speciality of the operational division of the CIA rather than the military. Learn something every day.)
Col. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) W.
https://turcopolier.com/pro-russian-officials-assassinated-in-kherson-ahead-of-ukraine-offensive/

India Punchline
Why the Gulf states’ SCO membership is a big deal
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador
https://www.indianpunchline.com/why-the-gulf-states-sco-membership-is-a-big-deal/

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
China to make east Taiwan Strait drills ‘regular’ – media
https://www.rt.com/news/560409-china-taiwan-regular-drills/

ECNS (Chinese official English news service)
(W.E. Talk) Wolfram Elsner: Why has China found a way to peaceful rise, without repeating the previous hegemonic conflicts? (longish but worth a read. TL/dnr: The West is adversely affected by a colonial mindset, a short civilizational history in comparison with the antiquity of Chinese civilization, and a general lack of knowledge of the rest of the world.)
http://www.ecns.cn/news/cns-wire/2022-08-07/detail-ihcavkwr6144789.shtml

Diplomats from 30 Islamic countries visit Xinjiang
Xinhua (Chinese state media)
http://www.ecns.cn/news/2022-08-07/detail-ihcavkwr6144832.shtml


4 comments:

Detroit Dan said...

Thanks for linking, Tom!

Westerners worry about ethno-nationalists led by Trump, Putin, and Xi. But we've got rabid ethnonationalists in Ukraine and we're supplying them with almost unlimited weapons! Reminds me of the Biblical passage:

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Matthew 7:5

Detroit Dan said...

Here's a direct link to the Ukrainian Timeline in Google Docs

Peter Pan said...

Detroit is just across the border from Doug Ford's Ontario.

Tough call...

Peter Pan said...

If Ukraine were absorbed by its neighbours (which it was historically a part of), would that not be the best possible outcome?

Ukrainian diaspora do not cause trouble, as far as I know.