Links — 24 Jan 2022 AM

One World (big picture analysis. US foreign policy "experts" and military "experts" that are publishing are completely clueless about the big picture and as a result are completely lost in their heads. )

What Are The US Deep State’s Grand Strategic Calculations Vis-à-Vis Russia & China?

Andrew Korybko

http://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=2425

Angry Bear
Advocate of Book Burning Becomes Chairman of Virginia School Board
Dan Crawford

https://angrybearblog.com/2022/01/advocate-of-book-burning-becomes-chairman-of-virginia-school-board

The Hill
US threatens sweeping export controls against Russian industries

Jordan Williams

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/590997-us-threatens-sweeping-export-controls-against-russian-industries

Ray McGovern
Perfidious Albion Giving Grist to NYT
Ray McGovern, co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and retired 27-year career CIA whose tasks included preparing and briefing The President’s Daily Brief and leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch

https://raymcgovern.com/2022/01/23/perfidious-albion-giving-grist-to-nyt/

The Guardian
How vulnerable is UK energy system as tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine? (price-sensitive)
Jillian Ambrose

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/24/how-vulnerable-is-uk-energy-system-as-tensions-rise-between-russia-and-ukraine

Science (China outcompeting. US can't let this happen.)

U.S. science no longer leads the world.

Jeffrey Merrvis

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-science-no-longer-leads-world-here-s-how-top-advisers-say-nation-should-respond

SCMP (US "experts" assumed this was impossible based on culture and history, overlooking national interests)
How China and Russia forged a friendship after bridging decades-old differences

Laura Zhou

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3164077/how-china-and-russia-forged-friendship-after-bridging-decades

Interfluidity (on the way to collapse)
Dreams and kindness are all we have
Steve Randy Waldman

https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9122.html

Internationalist 360º
Military Deployment in Ukraine: Is a War in Eastern Europe on the Horizon?

Yoselina Guevara

https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/01/24/military-deployment-in-ukraine-is-a-war-in-eastern-europe-on-the-horizon/

Sputnik International
Kremlin: Ukraine Amassing Troops on Contact Line in Donbass in Apparent Preparation for Attack
https://sputniknews.com/20220124/kremlin-says-huge-ukraine-military-buildup-on-donbass-line-of-contact-shows-preparation-for-attack-1092481474.html

True to Form… Brits Take Lead in NATO Psy-War Against Russia
https://sputniknews.com/20220124/true-to-form-brits-take-lead-in-nato-psy-war-against-russia-1092486513.html

Ex-UN Expert: US-NATO Narrative of 'Russian Invasion' of Ukraine Has Turned Into 'Religious Dogma'

https://sputniknews.com/20220124/ex-un-expert-us-nato-narrative-of-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-has-turned-into-religious-dogma-1092470865.html

TASS (This is the real problem in Ukraine. The Russian buildup is to deter this by the certainty of complete obliteration. Even the neo-Nazis behind this get that.)
Risk of Ukraine staging provocations in Donbass higher than before — Kremlin

Russian military cannot ignore NATO’s activity in Europe, says Kremlin
https://tass.com/defense/1392331

Russia expects separate response on security proposals from NATO — Kremlin
https://tass.com/politics/1392311

West using legacy media, official resources more often to spread disinfo, says diplomat [Maria Zakharova]
https://tass.com/world/1392321

Russian diplomat [Maria Zakharova] castigates Department of State’s ‘strange and unwise’ information agenda

https://tass.com/politics/1392229

Russian Baltic Fleet’s 20 warships deploy to sea for sweeping drills

https://tass.com/defense/1392417

Counterpunch (more useful to look at NATO as attempted perpetuation of Western colonialism in perpetuity. The religious aspect is the use of "liberalism" as justification, similar to the justification of Christianizing the savages in the earlier rounds of colonialism. Same domination game though.)
NATO as Religion
Alfred De Zayas

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/24/nato-as-religion/

Dangerous Heat Across the Globe
Robert Hunziker

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/24/dangerous-heat-across-the-globe/