Critical Links for March 28, 2023
Censorship, Intelligence, Media and Propaganda
Media and the March to War
Was Watergate a CIA Scheme to Remove President Nixon from Office?
‘The Dwindling Band Of Iraq Obsessives’ – Endless War And Media Complicity
Seymour Hersh Accuses US of Nord Stream ‘Cover Up’
ICC Arrest Warrant Issued to Putin is Hypocritical Propaganda Stunt Aimed to Distract from Growing Protests Against Ukraine War
China
Brazil Looks To Strengthen Ties With China, As Taiwan Loses Yet Another Ally in Latin America
China spent $240 billion bailing out 'Belt and Road' countries - study
US, EU Conduct First-Ever Joint Naval Drills Aimed at China
Countries That Switched Allegiance From Taiwan To China, Honduras Becomes The Latest
Craig Murray: Why Would China Be An Enemy?
Pentagon Leaders Say New Budget Will Help Prepare for War With China
Biden’s Options on TikTok Narrow After Beijing Pushes Back
Putin-Xi Summit, China's "Peace Plan" for Ukraine, and more...
U.S. seeks to prevent China from benefiting from $52 billion chips funding
Preventing China
Economic Crisis
Falling Long-Term Growth Prospects
You Will be Shocked by How Much Money Is Being Pulled Out of U.S. Banks, and Now the Biggest Bank in Germany Is in Trouble
Empire
Afghanistan
Foreign Devils on the Road to Afghanistan
Cuba
PEOPLE’S POWER IS AT THE HEART OF THE CUBAN POLITICAL SYSTEM
Iraq
Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on How 2003 U.S. Invasion Led to Brutal Civil War & Rise of ISIS
Iraq Twenty Years On: What the American Intervention Led to. An Expert Discussion
Iran
Yellen Says US Sanctions Have Created a ‘Real Economic Crisis’ in Iran
Mexico
AMLO CONDEMNS INVASION THREATS, CELEBRATES NATIONALIZATION OF OIL, LITHIUM
Syria
NEW OPCW REPORT COVERS UP DOUMA’S UNSOLVED DEATHS
Aaron Maté at UN: OPCW Cover-Up Denies Justice to Douma Victims
US IS STIRRING UP SYRIAN CAULDRON
US strikes Iran-backed facilities in Syria after drone kills American
Report: Saudi Arabia Agrees to Establish Ties With Syria
Why the Hell Is the US Occupying Syria?
USA
Caitlin Johnstone: US is the Leader Because It Says So
U.S. Decline in Perspective of a Global Democracy
US Decline and Global Democracy
The “October Surprise”: Throwing History Off Course
Yugoslavia
24 Years Ago, NATO’s War on Yugoslavia: Kosovo “Freedom Fighters” Financed by Organized Crime
NATO
The Myth of a Stronger NATO
SCOTT RITTER: G7 vs BRICS — Off to the Races
Russia
SERGEY LAVROV: RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY IN A CHANGING WORLD
Russia’s Nuclear Industry Continues To Rake In Export Revenue
Russia Gets Money for Nuclear Industry
Journalist Pavel Zarubin’s interview with Vladimir Putin, 25 March 2023
One Year In: The View and the Lens from the Russian “Gas Station”**
How the close partnership with China is changing Russia’s domestic politics
Russia’s Economy Recovers While Dozens of US Banks Face Collapse
Russian Economy better than Western
ACURA ViewPoint: Pietro Shakarian: On the Agency of Former Soviet Republics
Ukraine
ACURA ViewPoint: Branko Marcetic Talks with Olga Baysha, Author of Democracy, Populism and Neoliberalism in Ukraine
Romanian Senator Diana Iovanovici-Sosoaca Is Receiving Death Threats from Kiev
Maidan snipers & Ukrainian proxies w/ Ivan Katchanovski, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen
The Reality of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine is Far From Kremlin Propaganda
THE GUARDIAN: THEY’RE LOBBYING FOR UKRAINE PRO BONO – AND MAKING MILLIONS FROM ARMS FIRMS
War in Ukraine
Military briefing: why Ukraine wants to neutralise Russia’s bases in Crimea
CHRISTOPHER MCCALLION: HOW RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE EXPOSED NATO’S FAULT LINES
New York Times Finally Notices that US Mercs in Ukraine are Incompetent Con Artists and more...
Stolen Valor: The U.S. Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker
NICOLAI PETRO – COLD WAR REALISM: LESSONS FOR UKRAINE
Zelensky Says No Counteroffensive Until the West Sends More Weapons
BRANKO MARCETIC: FOR PUTIN, IRAQ WAR MARKED A TURNING POINT IN US-RUSSIA RELATIONS
Iraq was a Turning Point for Putin