Week in Review: 2023, week 38

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Week in Review: 2023, week 38

You can't fool all the people all the time, plus a few bugbears

Sep 24, 2023

[Image: Mr. Fish]

Published: 2023-09-25

Corrections: When you hear ‘colonists’ being used so poorly, please mentally substitute ‘colonial subjects’. The word I’m looking for to describe the common geopolitical theory to which Ehret and I subscribe is Makinderian. The publication of which Mnar is editor (in-chief, and founder), is MintPress News which has been included in the source reference. MPN is US based, not British. OPCW is the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. ‘Tehas’ (Texas) is Russel ‘Texas’ Bentley who travelled from the US in late 2014 to join the Donbas resistance, and is currently married with a local Donbas lady and holds dual US/Russian (and previously Dontesk) citizenship. (If you’d like to know more about him, Regis Tremblay produced a wonderful mini-biography on Russel’s story of moving to live in and fight with the people of Donbas against the Ukrainian Nazis and ultra-nationalists. Because of his demeanour and English language skills he became an “information warrior” for the Donbas resistance and told their side of the story years before other rare, indepenedent journalists like Eva Bartlett showed up. Patrick Lancaster would have been one of the earliest ‘western’ journos to report the conflict from the Donbas side of the line of contact).

Sources

YesXorNo

Lasting Voice to Parliament: A Constitutional Legal Analysis, YesXorNo, 2023-09-20

Antiwar

Ukraine/US+NATO

Russia: The US Is at War Against Us, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09-17

Potential Government Shutdown Threatens US Support for Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-19

[No it doesn’t!] Pentagon Exempts Ukraine Operations from Potential Government Shutdown, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-21

State Department Confirms US Citizen Gonzalo Lira Is Detained in Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-20

Report: Next Arms Package for Ukraine to Include More Cluster Bombs, No ATACMS, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-20

[Better plan, stick ‘em in the missiles!] White House Close To Providing Kiev With Cluster-Armed ATACMS, Connor Freeman, Antiwar, 2023-09-22

Poland Says It's No Longer Arming Ukraine Amid Grain Spat, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-20

[the other 15 Ukraine related headlines are skipped for sanity.]

Pacific/China

US Deploys Drone Ships Near China for the First Time, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-21

Air Force General Defends Memo That Predicted War With China By 2025, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-21

China Conducts Drills in the Yellow Sea in Response to US Activity, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-20

US Discussing Mutual Defense Treaty With Saudi Arabia Similar to Japan, South Korea, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-19

Taiwan Detects Record Number of Chinese Warplanes, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-18

Sullivan Holds 'Constructive' Talks with Chinese FM, Amid Soaring Tensions, Connor Freeman, Antiwar, 2023-09-17

US to Establish New Space Force Command Post in Japan, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-18

Milley: Chinese Spy Balloon Collected No Intelligence, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09

Milley has no intelligence?

Africa/'Former' French Colonies

Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso Establish Military Alliance, Vowing to Collectively Defend Against External Aggression, Connor Freeman, Antiwar, 2023-09-17

Caucuses

Azerbaijan Launches New Assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-19

Middle East

US, European Partners Sanction Iran Amid Prisoner Swap Negotiations, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09-17

Missing headline: Assad Get Red Carpet in Beijing from President Xi Despite a Decade of Western Dirty War

NATO (non-Ukraine)

Sen. Menendez Indicted on Corruption Scheme Benefiting Egyptian Government, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09-22

BRICS+/SCO/BRI

Kim Concludes Visit to Russia with Goal of Increased Across-the-Board Relations, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09-17

Assange

Australian MPs Call for Assange's Freedom During Talks in Washington, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-21

Other Voices

Ukraine/US+NATO

Ukraine SitRep: The War By Numbers Of Humans, b., MoonOfAlabama, 2023-09-22

Ukraine's "biggest arms supplier" orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre, witnesses say, Kit Klarenberg, Natylie's Place: Understanding Russia, 2023-09-22

Ukraine’s Reconstruction in BlackRock’s Hands & Gabor Maté on Explosion of Antidepressants, Greenwald interviews Gabor Maté, System Update, 2023-09-15

Meduza: An experienced negotiator and a proud Crimean Tatar: What the appointment of Ukraine’s new defense minister says about Kyiv’s evolving war strategy, Elizaveta Antonova (translation by Sam Breazeale), Natalyie's Place (originally published at Meduza on 2023-09-07), 2023-09-19

The 'Biden Phase' of the Ukraine War, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Consortium News, 2023-09-18

Sailing into the Black – US Sanctions War is Good for Russian Shipping, Greeks Too, John Helmer, Dances with Bears, 2023-09-18

WATCH: High-Level UN Security Council on Ukraine, Consortium News, 2023-09-20

NATO Expansion -- Ukraine's Destruction, Jeffrey Sachs, Consortium News, 2023-09-21

Larry On Jake Sullivan. , Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future..., 2023-09-21

Garland, Scott and Me. , Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future..., 2023-09-21

Europe, Its Head., Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future..., 2023-09-21

ZKP., Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future..., 2023-09-22

Is Western Support for Ukraine Crumbling？ w⧸Alastair Crooke, Napolitano interviews Crooke, Judging Freedom, 2023-09-22

Africa/'Former' French Colonies

The Alliance of Sahel States, Vijay Prashad, Consortium News, 2023-09-22

The west destroyed Africa, Eurasia will revive it, Matthew Ehret, The Cradle, 2023-09-19

Middle East

Report for European Parliament challenges OPCW’s Syria cover-up, Aaron Mate interviews Peirs Robinson and Hans von Sponick, Pushback/Grayzone, 2023-09-19