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Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs“They must be out of their minds”: how the Collective West is stumbling towards nuclear ArmageddonGilbert Doctorowhttps://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/04/21/they-must-be-out-of-their-minds-how-the-collective-west-is-stumbling-towards-nuclear-armageddon/India PunchlineMigratory birds of mass destruction (US bioweapons? You won't hear about this in the Western "news." If true, it's over the top.)M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassadorhttps://www.indianpunchline.com/migratory-birds-of-mass-destruction/The Vineyard of the SakerThe risks, challenges, and crisis of the Ukraine war.Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan,

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Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
“They must be out of their minds”: how the Collective West is stumbling towards nuclear Armageddon
Gilbert Doctorow
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/04/21/they-must-be-out-of-their-minds-how-the-collective-west-is-stumbling-towards-nuclear-armageddon/

India Punchline
Migratory birds of mass destruction (US bioweapons? You won't hear about this in the Western "news." If true, it's over the top.)
M. K. Bhadrakumar | retired diplomat with the Indian Foreign Service and former ambassador
https://www.indianpunchline.com/migratory-birds-of-mass-destruction/

The Vineyard of the Saker
The risks, challenges, and crisis of the Ukraine war.
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of Center for China and Globalization, Beijing
http://thesaker.is/the-risks-challenges-and-crisis-of-the-ukraine-war/

French presidential debate: Le Pen goes mainstream, proving Yellow Vests right

Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog
http://thesaker.is/french-presidential-debate-le-pen-goes-mainstream-proving-yellow-vests-right/

Naked Capitalism
Russia’s Campaign in Ukraine and the West’s Response: The End of the Beginning?
Yves Smith
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/04/russias-campaign-in-ukraine-and-the-wests-response-the-end-of-the-beginning.html

RT (Russian state-sponsored media)
China reveals new 'Global Security Initiative' (China pushes back.)
https://www.rt.com/news/554290-china-security-ci-sanctions/

https://www.rt.com/news/554287-china-test-fire-hypersonic-missile/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

Southfront (sanctioned by the US Treasury Department)
Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
https://southfront.org/rs-28-sarmat-icbm-why-russia-needs-such-doomsday-weapons/

Mint Press News
Ben Norton on the US-Backed Coup in Pakistan, Neverending War in Ukraine, and a Multipolar World
Lowkey interviews Ben Norton
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ben-norton-us-backed-coup-pakistan-new-world-order/280216/

TASS (Russian state media)
Crisis in Ukraine shows US sanctions are "bankrupt" — Chinese Foreign Ministry
https://tass.com/world/1441213

Russia is aware EU is turning itself into military-political alliance — Foreign Ministry
https://tass.com/world/1440965

Russian forces take Azovstal plant administration building in Mariupol - Kadyrov

https://tass.com/defense/1441347

Peoples Dispatch
There is only a 10% chance of limiting global warming to under 1.5 degrees, says study
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/04/21/there-is-only-a-10-chance-of-limiting-global-warming-to-under-1-5-degrees-says-study

Zero Hedge
Arizona's Top Water Official: "We're Going To Have To Live With Less Water"
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/arizonas-top-water-official-were-going-have-live-less-water

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/large-deadly-fire-breaks-out-russian-defense-research-facility
Tyler Durden

Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
US Treasury’s Yellen Warns Boycott of Russian Energy Could Hurt Europe More Than Moscow
https://sputniknews.com/20220421/us-treasurys-yellen-warns-boycott-of-russian-energy-could-hurt-europe-more-than-moscow-1094952187.html

Bank of Russia's Experts Review Stages of Russian Economic Transformation Under Sanctions (Western-oriented analysis, probably in line with the neoliberal Central Bank of Russia)
https://sputniknews.com/20220421/bank-of-russias-experts-review-stages-of-russian-economic-transformation-under-sanctions-1094951984.html

Oilprice
Yellen Warns EU About Banning Russian Oil (concerned about effect on US inflation?)
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Yellen-Warns-EU-About-Banning-Russian-Oil.html

Geopolitika.ru
A SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION IS A CLASH BETWEEN TWO TYPES OF WORLD ORDER (a traditionalist Russian viewpoint)
Alexander Dugin
https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/special-military-operation-clash-between-two-types-world-order

Defense One
Kyiv Asked for a New Kamikaze Drone to Fight Russia. The Air Force Delivered Phoenix Ghost (escalation)
Tara Copp, Senior Pentagon Reporter for Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2022/04/kyiv-asked-new-kamikaze-drone-fight-russia-air-force-delivered-phoenix-ghost/365945/

Internationalist 360º
The Nazis of Ukraine
C. B. Forde
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/04/21/the-nazis-of-ukraine/

Fortune
The West froze Russia’s foreign reserves. Should Asia—with its even larger dollar hoard—be worried? (given his credentials one would not expect the author to say yes, but he does.)
Vasuki Shastry, Associate Asia Fellow at Chatham House. A former journalist, he had a long career at the International Monetary Fund, Standard Chartered Bank, and Singapore’s central bank
https://fortune.com/2022/04/21/asia-foreign-reserves-risk-russia-us-sanctions-frozen-vasuki-shastry/









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