Staff (2022-03-06). Ukraine appears to confirm death of negotiator dubbed 'traitor' by media. rt.com The former banker participated in peace talks with Russia from Kiev's side | Kiev has said that Denis Kireev, a secret agent on a mission from Ukraine's Defense Ministry, has died. Earlier reports claimed that a man with the same name was killed by Ukrainian secret services as a suspected traitor. | Ukraine's Chief Directorate of Intelligence said on Saturday that Kireev was among three agents killed in the line of duty. "They have died, protecting Ukraine," the military intelligence agency wrote on social media, without elaborating. | News of Kireev's death has caused some confusion after Ukrainian media init…

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

Alan Cunningham (2022-03-05). Shadow Wars: The Need for Oversight of Covert Action in the Modern World. moderndiplomacy.eu Covert action (CA) is a very sensitive and controversial area, partly due to the fact that historically, there have been many oversteps and misuses, including domestic spying, illegal paramilitary action, and taking actions that were largely counterproductive. With the Russia-Ukraine conflict well underway, some in the media, foreign policy experts, academics, and intelligence professionals, have …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-05). Russia Warns Washington is Sending ISIS Fighters to Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com The Cradle Over the past two weeks Ukrainian officials have been calling for the formation of an 'international legion' of mercenaries The Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia (SVR RF) warned on 4 March that the US, along with NATO countries, are sending ISIS fighters from Syria to Ukraine. The ISIS members who are reportedly headed…

Staff (2022-03-05). SCOTUS sides with FBI in mosque spying case. rt.com Court rules that the FBI can block lawsuit with 'state secrets' privilege | The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the FBI may invoke the "state secrets" privilege to block a judge from examining evidence concerning its surveillance of a California mosque in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. | In a unanimous

WSWS (2022-03-05). Florida legislature passes bill banning abortion after 15 weeks. wsws.org Florida is the latest Republican-led state, along with West Virginia and Arizona, to advance a 15-week abortion ban this legislative session. The bill is modeled after an abortion ban in Mississippi that the US Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, appears poised to uphold.

WSWS (2022-03-05). Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzohkhar Tsarnaev. wsws.org The 6—3 ruling, divided between the conservative and moderate liberal justices, reversed a 2020 federal appeals court decision that would have kept Tsarnaev imprisoned for life.

WSWS (2022-03-05). Florida legislature passes bill banning abortion after 15 weeks. wsws.org Florida is the latest Republican-led state, along with West Virginia and Arizona, to advance a 15-week abortion ban this legislative session. The bill is modeled after an abortion ban in Mississippi that the US Supreme Court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, appears poised to uphold.

WSWS (2022-03-05). Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzohkhar Tsarnaev. wsws.org The 6—3 ruling, divided between the conservative and moderate liberal justices, reversed a 2020 federal appeals court decision that would have kept Tsarnaev imprisoned for life.

_____ (2022-03-04). People's Movements Across The World Demand Freedom For Julian Assange. popularresistance.org On the streets of Brasilia and Accra, Johannesburg and New York City, people's movements and organizations demanded on February 25 that publisher and political prisoner Julian Assange be released immediately. The call for mobilizations was issued by the International Peoples' Assembly (IPA) which launched a permanent campaign this month to call for Assange's immediate release and the rejection of his extradition request.

WSWS (2022-03-04). Sri Lankan action committee holds a successful online meeting in defence of Julian Assange. wsws.org Speakers insisted that the fight to release Julian Assange depends on a political movement of the working class based on socialist policies and in opposition to the capitalist system and all its institutions.

_____ (2022-03-04). Disarming Ukraine — Day Nine — Europe Increases Its Own Losses. popularresistance.org I feel too outraged and frightened about what is now happening in our societies to write about it. I thus continue to quote others at some length. | Patrick Armstrong continues to be the best military intelligence analyst on Russia: | So far the Russian military operation in Ukraine has been a reconnaissance in force preceded by the destruction of the supplies and headquarters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by standoff weapons. The object being to suss out where the Ukrainian forces are, to surround them, to check existing Russian intelligence against reality and, at the same time, destroy known headquarters, air…

_____ (2022-03-04). Ukraine And The New Al Qaeda. popularresistance.org As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to escalate and dominate the world's attention, the increasing evidence that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is and has been working to create and arm an insurgency in the country has received considerably little attention considering its likely consequences. This is particularly true given that former CIA officials and a former Secretary of State are now openly saying that the CIA is following the "models" of past CIA-backed insurgencies in Afghanistan and Syria for its plans in Ukraine. Given that those countries have been ravaged by war as a direct…

Dave DeCamp (2022-03-04). White House Says US Is Sharing Intelligence With Ukraine in 'Real Time' to Help Fight Russia. news.antiwar.com On Thursday, the White House said that the US is sharing intelligence with Ukraine in "real time" to help the Ukrainians fight against Russia. "We have been sharing it real time," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. "We have consistently been sharing intelligence that includes information the Ukrainians can use to inform and …

Rob Kenius (2022-03-04). Truth dies first and then intelligence. indybay.org The war in Ukraine is an exception to the rule of thumb that in war the truth dies first. The truth was already dead before the war began… War is the greatest crime imaginable. War creates endless suffering, whoever starts war is a war criminal. (Note: There is only one exception to this: if the war is started by the US or other allies).

Staff (2022-03-04). Taiwan should be recognized as a 'free and sovereign country — former top US diplomat. rt.com Mike Pompeo declared that diplomatic recognition of Taipei "can no longer be ignored" | Speaking during a visit to the island on Wednesday, former United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that America should diplomatically recognize Taiwan as a "free and sovereign country." | "It is my view that the United States government should immediately take necessary and long-overdue steps to do the right and obvious thing, that is to offer the Republic of China (Taiwan) America's diplomatic recognition as a free and sovereign country," Pompeo said. | He chose to refer to the island as the Republic of China, Ta…

Kevin Gosztola (2022-03-04). State Secrets Ruling By US Supreme Court Helps CIA Conceal Torture At Black Site Prison. thedissenter.org Photo of the US Supreme Court from the US Government and in the public domainThis article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter. Take 25 percent off and become a The "state secrets privilege" stems from a 1953 case known as United States v. Reynolds, where the government essentially lied and claimed if relatives of victims of a military plane crash were informed of how their loved ones died it would compromise "secrets." | U.S. Air Force documents declassified decades later showed accident reports…