Links — 12 Apr 2022 Part 1

A Son of the New American Revolution

READING THE PSYOPS TEA LEAVES
Larry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism (1989-1993, and CIA operations (1984-1989)

https://sonar21.com/reading-the-psyops-tea-leaves/

Moon of Alabama
How The U.S. Does 'Diplomacy' ("The U.S. doesn't do diplomacy." You're either with us or you're against us-G. W. Bush)

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/how-the-us-does-diplomacy.html

Global Times (Chinese state-sponsored media)
US elites like [Thomas] Friedman unprincipled vanguard of US public opinion war

Editorial

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202204/1259046.shtml

ECNS (Chinese official English news service)
NATO should stop trying to destabilize Asia and the whole world
Zhao Lijian, Chinese FM spokesperson

http://www.ecns.cn/photo/2022-04-12/detail-ihaxmtii6873323.shtml

U.S. urged to reflect soberly on its disgraceful role in Ukraine crisis
http://www.ecns.cn/photo/2022-04-12/detail-ihaxmtii6873301.shtml

U.S. uses sanctions as handy tool to maintain hegemony: Chinese FM

Zhao Lijian, Chinese FM spokesperson

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2022-04-12/detail-ihaxmtii6873209.shtml

Naked Capitalism
America Keeps Eyepoking India and China for Failing to Fall into Line on Russia; Arrogance Looking More and More Like Impotence
Yves Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/04/america-keeps-eyepoking-india-and-china-for-failing-to-fall-into-line-on-russia-arrogance-looking-more-and-more-like-impotence.html

TASS (Russian state media)

Indian retailers in talks to open shops in Russia — [Economic Times] newspaper
https://tass.com/economy/1436447

OSCE must explain what its mission in Donbass was doing — Russian Foreign Ministry

https://tass.com/world/1436425

US uses conflict in Ukraine for containing Russia — Chinese Foreign Ministry ("US and NATO policies have brought Russia-Ukraine rifts to a critical point, spokesperson Zhao Lijian stressed")
https://tass.com/world/1436277

Ukrainian companies file lawsuit against Russia for Crimean assets
https://tass.com/economy/1436157

US plan to drastically develop military ties with India — Pentagon
https://tass.com/world/1436155

US wants to be India's ‘partner of choice’ in all areas - Blinken
https://tass.com/world/1436151

Conflict in Ukraine threatens world food security - Blinken
https://tass.com/world/1436149

Mariupol Theater blown up from inside — DPR Militia

https://tass.com/politics/1436617

CaitlinJohnstone.com
US Suddenly Pretends To Care About Rights Abuses In India
Caitlin Johnstone

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/04/12/us-suddenly-pretends-to-care-about-rights-abuses-in-india/
 

Zero Hedge

Russia Steps Up Efforts To Jam US-Provided GPS In Ukraine: Pentagon
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/russia-ratcheting-efforts-jam-us-provided-gps-signals-ukraine-pentagon

"Extraordinary" - US Consumer Prices Soar At Fastest In Over 40 Years (will Democrats blaming "Putin" work in the midterms?)

Tyler Durden

You Know Things Are Bad When Saudi State TV Mocks Joe Biden

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-know-things-are-bad-when-saudi-state-tv-mocks-biden

Consortium News
Chris Hedges: The Pimps of War ("neocons and liberal interventionists")

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/11/chris-hedges-the-pimps-of-war/

Voltaire.net (This article was posted at Oriental Review, which is sanctioned by the US Treasury Department. The site's security certificate has been revoked, which means browsers will not handle it.)

The [longstanding] alliance of MI6, the CIA and the Bandéristes

Thierry Meyssan (French journalist, author and activist. Meyssan is a controversial figure for supporting 9/11 truth, which the US establishment has characterized as a conspiracy theory. His assertions in the post are not documented, but that is not unusual with a blog post.)

https://www.voltairenet.org/article216406.html

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
UK Warns 'All Options on the Table' Amid Claims of Chemical Weapons Use in Mariupol ("The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion claimed on Monday that three of its gunmen in the huge Azovstal steel works surrounded by DPR and Russian forces had been injured by 'a poisonous substance'.")
James Tweedie, British reporter
https://sputniknews.com/20220412/uk-warns-all-options-on-the-table-amid-reports-about-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-mariupol-1094696002.html

Putin Says Lukashenko Handed Him Documents That Expose Bucha Fake
https://sputniknews.com/20220412/putin-says-lukashenko-handed-him-documents-that-expose-bucha-fake-1094706241.html

Russia Did Not Default on Foreign Debt, All Issues Should Be Raised With US, Finance Minister Says (US refused to clear payments in USD due to sanctions.)
https://sputniknews.com/20220412/russia-did-not-default-on-foreign-debt-all-issues-should-be-raised-with-us-finance-minister-says-1094702642.html

Indian Firms Begin Process to Accept China's Yuan for Their Exports: Pharma Group Head

https://sputniknews.com/20220412/indian-firms-begin-process-to-accept-chinas-yuan-for-their-exports-to-russia-pharma-group-head-1094668721.html

RT (Russian state-sponsored media)
EU goes after Russian assets

https://www.rt.com/news/553724-europol-eu-sanctions-ukraine/

The Unz Review
Searching for War Criminals (Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.)
Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, now Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/searching-for-war-criminals/

Putin Reiterates Logic Behind Ukraine Invasion, Again Says It Won’t be Over Until It Ends

Andrew Anglin

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/putin-reiterates-logic-behind-ukraine-invasion-again-says-it-wont-be-over-until-it-ends/

Jacobin
Don’t Trust the Defense Industry’s Ukraine Pundits
Aditi Ramaswami

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/defense-industry-ex-military-officials-pundits-corporate-news-ukraine/