Five Reasons Why Kiev Should Accept the Current Ground Realities & Negotiate Peace with Moscow

 

Five Reasons Why Kiev Should Accept the Current Ground Realities & Negotiate Peace with Moscow By Andrew Korybko, December 29, 2022 These five reasons are being shared for the purpose of hopefully inspiring Kiev to pragmatically reconsider its presently recalcitrant position to peace talks with Moscow. They’re meant to be objective insofar as they acknowledge Kiev’s interests as its leadership understands them to be (despite the author disagreeing with the aforesaid of course) while still attempting to strike a fair balance between those same interests, its patrons’, and Moscow’s.

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“It’s the industry, stupid” – Economic Nationalism Is on the Rise, Bringing New Risks By Uriel Araujo, December 30, 2022 US Representative for Silicon Valley Ro Khana argues that the US should become a manufacturing superpower – again. Writing from an American perspective, Khana remarks that the rising US trade deficit since 1998 has cost the country 5 million well-paying manufacturing jobs, leading to the closure of about 70,000 factories.

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Ukraine’s “Neo-Nazi Summer Camp”. Military Training for Young Children By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 30, 2022 Unknown to most Americans, the US government is channeling financial support, weapons and training to a Neo-Nazi entity –which is part of The Ukraine National Guard– The Azov Battalion (Батальйон Азов). Canada and Britain have confirmed that they also are providing support to the National Guard.

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Africa in Review 2022, II: Peacekeeping and the World Economic Crisis By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 30, 2022 The-then outgoing Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta through a series of statements provided a clear indication that his country, the largest economy in the East African Community (EAC), would send a military force to the contested areas of the DRC where the credibility of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force (MONUSCO), which has been in the mineral-rich state for nearly two decades, has completely evaporated.

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Undisguised Fascists Hold Balance of Power in New Israeli Annexationist Regime By Richard Becker, December 30, 2022 Agreement on a new Israeli government — a coalition of extreme rightwingers, religious bigots and outright fascists – was announced on Dec. 21. Binyamin Netanyahu will return once again as prime minister. Two open fascists, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Belazel Smotrich, will hold key posts dealing with the West Bank and the occupied Palestinian population, and indeed, hold the balance of power in the new ruling cabinet.

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Nuclear Bomb Connection in United States Fusion Breakthrough By Prabir Purkayastha, December 28, 2022 The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory’s advance in achieving fusion energy using lasers has been splashed as a huge success worldwide. So what is the success all about? The joint press release of the United States Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration says this experiment “will pave the way for advancements in national defence and the future of clean power”. In other words, there is a weapons component to the fusion experiment. The Department of Defence is the Department of War.

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As Afghans Suffer, U.S. Stalls on Plan to Return Central Bank Funds By Sarah Lazare, December 28, 2022 In September, the U.S. created a foundation that was supposed to unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign assets. Yet, interviews with trustees reveal that, in three months, no funds have been disbursed—or concrete plans made—to help the Afghan people.

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Antiwar Activist Faces Repression in Germany By Phil Wilayto, December 28, 2022 June 22, 2022 was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion to publicly question why the German government is now supporting neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine.

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Bill Gates Granted Authority to Buy 2100 More Acres of North Dakota Farmland By Steve Watson, December 28, 2022 Bill Gates, who already owns close to 270,000 acres of land in the U.S., has been granted the legal authority to buy another 2100 acres in North Dakota despite protests by local residents. Gates, already the largest farmland owner in the country, has secured the go ahead to buy the land for $13.5 million under his ‘Red River Trust’ company.

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