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Ukraine has been accused of “openly lying” about a missile that hit Poland killing two civilians, earlier this week, the Financial Times reported on Thursday citing an unnamed diplomat from a NATO country. Ukraine rushed to pin the blame on Moscow, while the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that footage from the site showed “elements of a missile from an S-300 air defense system used by the Air Force Of Ukraine.” “This is getting ridiculous,” the official told the outlet on Wednesday. “The Ukrainians are destroying our confidence and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the missile,” the source reportedly said.
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Ukraine Update: Kiev Lied To NATO Over Missile Strike, Reports Financial Times
by Countercurrents Collective
Ukraine has been accused of “openly lying” about a missile that hit Poland killing two civilians, earlier this week, the Financial Times reported on Thursday citing an unnamed diplomat from a NATO country. Ukraine rushed to pin the blame on Moscow, while the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that footage from the site showed “elements of a missile from an S-300 air defense system used by the Air Force Of Ukraine.” “This is getting ridiculous,” the official told the outlet on Wednesday. “The Ukrainians are destroying our confidence and they are openly lying. This is more destructive than the missile,” the source reportedly said.
The
Polish Missile Narrative
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
The only question now remains how the next misfiring goes. On this occasion, the reins were pulled just before the precipice. Facts or no fact, NATO did not want to be engaged – at least for now. Poland, despite its past bravura to get a hack at the Russian bear, kept a sense of troubled composure. Ukrainian officials, however, wished to push the matter further, egging on a NATO trigger for deeper, military commitment. The grounds for a further expansion of the war are evident; the powder keg is ready.
War in Ukraine – Shades of the past and portents of things to come
by Sumanta Banerjee
The war in Ukraine is increasingly becoming murky. The initial nationalist urge of the Ukrainians to preserve and protect
their sovereignty and resist the Russian invaders, has been usurped and incorporated by the US in its global agenda of settling scores with an aggressive Putin. As a result, the Ukrainian local national resistance war is now being submerged by a larger proxy war between Russia and the US-led European alliance.
No Red Wave, but Plenty of Red Flags
by Stan Cox
This November, voters stood up and rejected a host of anti-democratic candidates all across America. Although the GOP eked out a victory in the House of Representatives, dimming prospects for further progress on climate and other issues for at least a couple of years, the nation managed to avoid a much worse fate.
The Need for Global Unity: How World Law Can Save Us All
by Jacopo DeMarinis
If humanity is to survive in the face of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and international political conflict, we must muster the courage to act with conviction and unity. On every level, starting at the individual and rising to the nation state, we must adopt the mindset with which world leaders approached the enormous task of ensuring global peace following the horrors of World War II. Yet, unfortunately, we are currently lacking that conviction and that unity.
From the History of Global Politics and International Relations: The Clausewitzian Viewpoint of War
by Dr VladislavB Sotirovic
In dealing from both theoretical and practical points of view about war, at least six fundamental questions arise: 1) What is war?; 2) What types of war exist?; 3) Why do wars occur?; 4) What is the connection between war and justice?; 5) The
question of war crimes?; and 6) Is it possible to replace war with the so-called “perpetual peace”?
A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales
by William D Hartung
Here’s a seldom commented-upon reality of this century and this moment: the United States remains the number-one arms-exporting nation on the planet. Between 2017 and 2021, it grabbed 39% of the total global weapons market and there’s nothing new about that. It has, in fact, been the top arms dealer in every year but one for the past three decades. And it’s a remarkably lucrative business, earning American weapons makers tens of billions of dollars annually.
One Earth Theme and G-20 grim realities
by Bharat Dogra
India has done well to select ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’ as the theme of the year of India’s presidency of G-20. It
is A Great Theme for G-20, But How Do We Take it Forward in the Middle of Grim Realities?
A book review of the ‘GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations’ by Jose Maria Sison
by Harsh Thakor
This book is part 9 of the Sison reader series, ‘GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiations’ encompasses the years 1986 to 2022. It reflects the role Joma Sison played in exploring and realizing the peace negotiations. It carries the essays, statements and interviews related to the tremendous odds, explorations, preparations, the forging of agreements, frustrations and advances
Upholding of EWS by SC strikes at Basic Structure of Constitution
by People's Union For Civil Liberties
The PUCL is concerned that the decision of the Supreme Court in `Janhit Abhiyan v Union of India’
upholding the constitutionality of reservations for `Economically Weaker Sections’ (EWS) does grave injustice to the vision of the Constitution makers who incorporated Art. 14, 15, 16 and 17 in the Constitution as a legal protection to counter historically entrenched and institutionalised social and cultural discrimination
The Anti-Caste Pen Force
by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
One who practices caste is a devil
That devil has to be driven out of India
India must be made a country of equality.
Papillon
by Dan Corjescu
They chained you
Made you know
Inside and out
What it is like
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