Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Links — 19 Apr 2022 Part 1

Moon of Alabama
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/russia-has-launched-phase-two-of-its-operation-in-ukraine.html

India Punchline
Russia pushes back western sanctions, revs up operation in Eastern Ukraine
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador
https://www.indianpunchline.com/russia-pushes-back-western-sanctions-revs-up-operation-in-eastern-ukraine/

Reminiscence of the Future
Scott and Larry Make Their (Professional) Points.
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues.
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/04/scott-and-larry-make-their-professional.html

CaitlinJohnstone.com
Hard To Swallow Pills (I started to figure this out when I was about 25 and serving as a naval officer in the Western Pacific when Vietnam was heating up. I had already begun to figure it out but it was the Gulf of Tonkin false flag that really woke me up. As matters became clear, I felt betrayed. Nixon's election on a false promise and subsequent perfidy blasted away all remaining illusions.)
Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/04/19/hard-to-swallow-pills/

The Vineyard of the Saker
The 2nd phase of the Russian SMO + personal note
The Saker
http://thesaker.is/the-2nd-phase-of-the-russian-smo-personal-note/

Nasrallah: The war in Ukraine unmasked the racism and hypocrisy of the West (This was evident to me during Vietnam. It was also evident in Korea, but I was too young at the time to catch more than the drift through hearing racist language about the North Koreans coming from veterans of the conflict. It was also pretty clear about the Japanese from the war films of the time. I also became aware of this domestically as a child from New England on trips through the the segregated South on US 1 before the interstates, as well as the de facto segregation in housing. The rhetoric did not match the behavior.) 
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayed Hassan Nasrallah on March 8, 2022
http://thesaker.is/nasrallah-the-war-in-ukraine-unmasked-the-racism-and-hypocrisy-of-the-west/

Asia Times
US a ‘co-belligerent’ in Ukraine war, legal expert [Bruce Fein] says (translation: the US is effectively at war with Russia. Who signed up for this?)
James Carden
https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/us-a-co-belligerent-in-ukraine-war-legal-expert-says/

West has attacked institution of private property (blasting the cornerstone of Western capitalism and law)
Bhim Bhurtel
https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/west-has-attacked-institution-of-private-property/

Naked Capitalism
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar: India Has Concerns About U.S. Human Rights Record (India follows China in criticizing US human rights record. China and India comprise almost 3 billion people and are two of the fastest growing economies on the planet. Has the US bite off more than it cash chew in bullying them?)
Jerri-Lynn Scofield
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/04/external-affairs-minister-jaishankar-india-has-concerns-about-u-s-human-rights-record.html 



















4 comments:

Peter Pan said...

Hard for Caitlin to swallow that she is not immortal.

Hard for the human locust to rise above its own programming.

Peter Pan said...

@ Tom,

When did you learn about Japanese internment during WWII?
Did that seem reasonable to you?

Tom Hickey said...

I don’t recall when I learned of that but at the time I did, I recall thinking it was racist since the same was not applied to the populations of the other Axis powers that were in the US.

There were repercussions of being German or even German-speaking. My mother's family were German-speaking Austrian immigrants and my wife's father's family were German-speaking Swiss that belonged to a church where services were conducted in German. They all stopped speaking German. That struck me as bizarre and still does.

The attempt to cancel Russian culture now recalls it. Insane.

Matt Franko said...

John Wick 4 getting cancelled?