Martin Johnson Heade Thunderstorm on Narragansett Bay 1868 • $2.5 Quadrillion Disaster Waiting to Happen – Egon von Greyerz (USAW) • No Sign Russia Preparing To Use Nuclear Weapons – White House (RT) • G7 To Set Fixed Price On Russian Oil (RT) • No Pain, No Grain: Putin’s Black Sea Comeback (Escobar) • Russian MP Urges Doubling Of Military Service Time (RT) • Thieves’ Paradise In Kiev (Helmer) • Turkey Holds Off On Finland And Sweden In NATO
Read More...Salvador Dali Self portrait (Figueres) 1921 • US Struggling To Trace Arms Given To Ukraine – WaPo (RT) • Biden’s Foreign Policy Sinking His Party & Ukraine (Jeffrey Sachs) • The New Cuban Missile Crisis That Isn’t (Dmitri Orlov) • Whole World Suffers From Western Propaganda – Russia (RT) • Russia Ready To Provide Grain To Poorest Countries Free Of Charge – Putin (Az.) • Russia Strips Ukrainian ‘Oligarchs’ Of Crimean Property – Official (RT) • Kremlin Comments On
Read More...Balthus Girl at a window 1957 • Pentagon Confirms US Boots Are On The Ground In Ukraine (ZH) • Outrage Ensues After The Atlantic Suggests ‘Amnesty’ For Pandemic Authoritarians (ZH) • We Need Covid Accountability, Not Amnesty (QTR) • New World Order: The West Will Have To Live Within Its Means (Karaganov) • Zelensky ‘Nullified’ Grain Shipping Deal – Russian Duma Speaker (RT) • There Will Be No Deal – Zelensky Broke The Rules! (Milacic) • Russia Offers Alternative
Read More...Vincent van Gogh Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges 1888 A comment by notorious daily commenter Dr.D. on Sunday took me back a few years. He was reacting to someone who wrote this about our take on the Ukraine situation: “I am just adding a little balance to a very one sided group who have very deep seated bias against the West and are blind to any faults on the other side.” Absolutely brilliant. People easily forget that
Read More...Vilhelm Hammershoi Woman Seen from the Back 1888 • Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation (IC) • “The Bird is Free.” Will Elon Musk Become Grand Duke of Mars? (Ugo Bardi) • How Elon Musk Should Shape Twitter — Sans the Sink (Turley) • ‘Inflation Came From Nowhere’ – Lagarde (RT) • Putin Clarifies Position On Grain Deal (RT) • Russia Tells UN It Will Inspect Black Sea Ships (RT) • Israeli Finance Minister Added To Kiev’s
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