Links — 27 Apr 2022 Part 1

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Russian Media Today, 26 April 2022
Gilbert Doctorow

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/04/27/russian-media-today-26-april-2022/

A Son of the New American Revolution
Russia Ratchets Up the Pressure
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/russia-ratchets-up-the-pressure/

Moon of Alabama
Politico: "Germany approves tank sales to Ukraine, bowing to pressure"

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/politico-germany-approves-tank-sales-to-ukraine-bowing-to-pressure.html

The Vineyard of the Saker
President Putin and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: Meeting
http://thesaker.is/president-putin-and-un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-meeting/

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Putin Vows Swift Response If Anyone Intervenes in Ukraine, Posing a Strategic Threat to Russia
https://sputniknews.com/20220427/putin-vows-swift-retaliatory-strikes-in-case-of-foreign-threats-or-intervention-in-ukraine-1095102165.html

Russia Opens First Cross-Border Railway Bridge to China
https://sputniknews.com/20220427/russia-opens-first-cross-border-railway-bridge-to-china-1095091121.html

Huawei Spent $22 Billion on Research in 2021 As Company Resists US Sanctions - Report ('The trend marks Huawei's relentless efforts to develop chips, network equipment, and even smartphones without the use of American technology, unavailable since the 2019 sanctions.")

https://sputniknews.com/20220427/huawei-spent-22-billion-on-research-in-2021-as-company-resists-us-sanctions---report-1095087131.html

TASS (Russian state media)
Attempts to interfere in situation in Ukraine to be met with instant response — Putin

https://tass.com/politics/1444327

US used labs in Ukraine to work on new bioweapons — Russian Security Council’s secretary [Nikolay Patrushev]
https://tass.com/world/1444029

Chinese experts believe protracted conflict in Ukraine could lead to war across Europe
https://tass.com/world/1443769

Russia can resume gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria, if they pay in rubles — Kremlin
https://tass.com/economy/1444159

Ukraine, Donbass refugees fleeing to Russia top 1 mln, source says

https://tass.com/society/1443755

Oilprice
Four Buyers In Europe Have Paid In Rubles For Russia’s Gas
Tsvetana Paraskova

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Four-Buyers-In-Europe-Have-Paid-In-Rubles-For-Russias-Gas.html

Southfront (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
U.S. Strategy To Change Architecture Of Global Oil & Gas Market

https://southfront.org/u-s-strategy-to-change-architecture-of-global-oil-gas-market/

Mosler Economics/Modern Monetary Theory

Europe’s debtors must pawn their gold for Eurobond Redemption

Warren Mosler

http://moslereconomics.com/2022/04/27/europes-debtors-must-pawn-their-gold-for-eurobond-redemption/

Michael Roberts Blog — blogging from a marxist economist
Has globalisation ended?
Michael Roberts

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/has-globalisation-ended/

Project Syndicate
America Has Stopped Playing by the Monetary Rules

Yu Yongding | former president of the China Society of World Economics and director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, served on the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China from 2004 to 2006

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-freeze-russian-reserves-what-it-means-for-china-by-yu-yongding-2022-04

RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
China issues ‘color revolution’ warning

https://www.rt.com/news/554584-china-color-revolution-kazakhstan/

Zero Hedge
US Army To Test "Largest Drone Swarm Ever" In Utah Desert
Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-army-test-largest-drone-swarm-ever-utah-desert

Putin Warns Of "Quick Response" If West Intervenes In Ukraine

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-warns-quick-response-if-west-intervenes-ukraine

Modern Diplomacy
Ukraine: Another Ghouta for the White Helmets (Bellingcat - fronting for MI6?)
by Ahmad Salah

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/04/27/ukraine-another-ghouta-for-the-white-helmets/