Rokfin has the podcast Donbass and Crimea – an insider view from journalist Eva Bartlett.

Behind the iron curtain of NATO media lies Today I speak with friend, colleague and outstanding on-the-ground journalist, Eva Bartlett. In 2019 Eva visited Donbass, Ukraine and Crimea. As always Eva brings out the heart of the situation from the people that are being “disappeared” by the criminal legacy media outlets in service to US/UK/NATO predator foreign policy. 1. Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories 2. Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the Referendum and Their Lives Since

An important report from the other side of the conflict.

Here is a link to the Blog that Eva Bartlett mentioned In Gaza and beyond.

C-Span carried this talk and provided the translation Russian President Putin Statement on Ukraine,

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced after a Security Council meeting that Russia would recognize the independence of the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Since we, in the USA, are being inundated by anti-Russian propaganda from our “intelligece” agencies and the corporate new media (as if there were any difference between the two), it wouldn’t hurt to consider the possibility that there is a point of view that you are not hearing. C-SPAN certainly can’e be branded as an outlet controlled by the Russian government.

YouTube has the video of a Webinar How Can Spending Slay Inflation?

We’ll look in detail at the debate currently raging between traditional neo-classical economists and the perspectives of Modern Monetary Theory:
How can increased investment help to reduce inflation?
Where should government policy focus and why?
How quickly will the benefits flow through to ordinary people?

They dismissed rather than explain the relation of military spending to inflation. I think this is a serious missed opportunity. Fadhel Kaboub sticks to his explanation of the inflation of the 1970s. The OPEC oil embargo certainly made the inflation much worse. By concentrating on the oil price driven inflation, he misses what started the inflation, which was the guns and butter policy of LBJ during the Vietnam War. The OPEC oil price shocks were a reaction of OPEC to the inflation that was already going on, before they made it much worse. I think this distinction is important because the Vietnam War spending was something we could have controlled. Once OPEC raised the price of oil, we could only react, but not control. The Vietnam War explanation would be a good contrast to the explanation of the control of inflation during WW II

Glenn Greenwald has the video Banishment from the Financial System: the War on Dissent.

Now I get to see the consequences of what I had approved of before. I thought it was good to put this kind of pressure on the KKK. Now I see what abuse this leads to. I have already realized that the use of the USA dollar to conduct economic war on countries will lead to the abandonment of the dollar as an international reserve currency. Bullies can only push so far before the victims stand up for themselves.

Before I read Michael Hudson’s book Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy Of American Empire, I didn’t fully realize the damage the USA has done in the world, particularly starting with WW I and its aftermath ever since.

This is a very complicated issue. On the one hand, I think there are some kinds of economic support that should be stopped, like the Saudi Arabian funding of Osama bin Laden. On the other hand, I can see how this tactic can be used to squelch causes that I find are legitimate. I cannot figure out what rules that can be put in place that can be used to prevent harm but won’t also be used also to prevent legitimate dissent.

Sci Tech Daily has the article Fusion Breakthrough Once Thought Impossible Brings Energy Device Closer to Realization.

Scientists have achieved a remarkable breakthrough in the conceptual design of twisty stellarators, experimental magnetic facilities that could reproduce on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars. The breakthrough shows how to more precisely shape the enclosing magnetic fields in stellarators to create an unprecedented ability to hold the fusion fuel together.

I stayed away from this article for a while because I assumed it was just the usual hype of seemingly hopeless pursuit of fusion power. Now that I read it, I see that it is more novel than I had assumed.

I came across this meme on Facebook. It is a shame that one side’s misinformation gets countered by the other side’s misinformation.

The $4 trillion the fed “printed” went mostly to the top 1%. They don’t use very much of that money to buy consumer goods, hence no CPI inflation. They did inflate where they do spend money, and that is partly the stock market. Most people think of rising stock prices as a good thing, so there were no complaints. When the government started directing more money to the 99%, they wanted to spend this money on consumer goods. With manufacturing and supply chain disruptions because of Covid, the supply of consumer goods was not able to be produced to match the consumer demand, hence inflation.

I am not saying that it was better to send money to the already wealthy. I am saying that a little analysis of the situation would have given planners a hint that they were going to have to have plans for controlling inflation. Perhaps besides controlling monopoly pricing power, they should have been thinking of ways to accelerate consumer goods supplies to meet the increased demand.

Status Coup has the video Jordan talks with Seattle Council Member Kshama Sawant about Seattle’s Democratic City Council revoking worker hazard pay during the still ongoing pandemic.

Jordan talks with Seattle Council Member Kshama Sawant about Seattle’s Democratic City Council revoking worker hazard pay during the still ongoing pandemic

Seems like even the unions are not on the side of the workers.

Vimeo has the post Ukraine on Fire: The Real Story – Full Documentary by Oliver Stone (Original English version).

Another point of view to consider. This one does not surprise me, but I admit I have no way of knowing what the truth is.

On Facebook, Victor Hernandez posted as comments two relevant links.

U.S. to Russia: Do as We Say, Not as We Do and The Big White House Plans Behind Its ‘Russian Invasion’ Scam

The Gray Zone has the this episode VIDEO: Russian UN ambassador responds to US ‘war propaganda’ in interview w/Grayzone

Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal speak with Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitri Polyanskiy on escalated tensions on the Russian-Ukraine border, US accusations of an imminent Russian invasion, and the context missing from a US media that refuses to interview Russian officials.

Whether you believe the Russian Ambassador or not probably depends on your preconceived notion. I know it has an impact on me. At least I recognize that Polyansky represents the Russian point of view, even if my own historic experience since 2014 is somewhat aligned with what he is saying. Unlike most of my readers, Max and Aaron know who Victoria Nuland is. I keep trying to remind people, but it probably is ignored by most.

Project Censored has a podcast Russia/Ukraine, and Avoiding Catastrophic War.

Mickey spends the hour with American University historian Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the current U.S. and NATO confrontation with Russia over Ukraine; summarize the recent history of Ukraine and U.S. relations, while placing current affairs in Cold War context; and emphasize the urgency of settling the crisis peacefully.

On Facebook, Walter Kloefkorn commented:

“Project Censored’s” show this week is a one hour discussion with historian Peter Kuznick about the Ukraine situation. Highly recommended if you’d like a sane analysis, as opposed to the blather from the talking heads of all stripes on MSM.

If we are going to get this type of explanation heard in the USA, we are going to have to be the ones to spread this.