Tomb of the diver, Paestum c480 BCE • Seymour Hersh Calls Pipeline Sabotage ‘Dumbest’ US Act In Years (RT) • The US Destroyed the Nord Stream Pipeline. Interview with Seymour Hersh (GR) • US Presidents Renege on Agreements with Russia (Parsons) • Ukraine Conflict Will Likely Have No Military Winner – Milley (RT) • Russia Has Lost ‘Strategically, Operationally And Tactically’ – Milley (G.) • The Horrifying Endgame in Ukraine (Rickards) • Nuland Outlines US Goals In Ukraine (RT)
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Cy Twombly Fifty Days at Iliam: Like a Fire that Consumes All before It 1978 Andrew Korybko has more time to write articles than I do these days. And I must transfer his Word files to my own editor. Not obvious. What can I say? I don’t like Bill Gates. Plus, I need to find a new apartment here in Athens, a perfectly affordable place until recently, where now real estate agents seem to think they live in Manhattan. It
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Gerry Cranham They all fall in the round I call 1963 • Why Zelensky Wants A Long War With Russia (Sushentsov) • Blinken Warns Against Seizing Crimea – Politico (RT) • China Ready To Help Find Political Solution Of Conflict In Ukraine (TASS) • More Nord Stream ‘Bombshells’ To Come – Seymour Hersh (RT) • Nord Stream Explosions Are International Terrorist Attacks – Russia (TASS) • US Says ‘Partners’ Should Investigate Nord Stream Blasts (RT) • Nord Stream: US
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Edward Hopper Dawn before Gettysburg 1934 • Palestine, Ohio Train Wreck: It’s The Dioxin (Coppolino) • Russia Wants UN Probe Into Nord Stream Blasts (RT) • Kiev Readying ‘Great Event’ To Accuse Russia Of Violating Nuclear Safety (TASS) • US Wants to Help Ukraine Retake More Territory Before Negotiating (Antiwar) • US Ambitions Mean Destruction Of Ukraine, Huge Loss Of Life – Zakharova (TASS) • Ban On Access To Bakhmut Prelude To Ukrainian Troop Withdrawal? (TASS) • Stoltenberg Denies
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Elaine de Kooning Fairfield Porter #1 1954 • When Do The Giant Ants Show Up On Fremont Street In Las Vegas? (Kunstler) • 30 Million People May be in Danger by East Palestine Disaster (TP) • US Raises Pressure On Kyiv To Make Significant Gains On Battlefield – WaPo (Az) • Taking Odessa, Kharkov To Help Ensure Russia’s Security – Chechen Leader (TASS) • NATO Sounds Alarm Over Ukraine’s Ammo Consumption (RT) • US Has No Long-Range Missiles For
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John French Sloan Backyards, Greenwich Village 1926 • Medvedchuk Sees No Prospects For Minsk-3 (TASS) • US Officials Basically Admit They Blew Up Nord Stream – Lavrov (RT) • JP Morgan Reaches Agreement With Zelenskyy On Rebuilding Infrastructure (Fox) • Hungary Slams EU Push To Arm Ukraine (RT) • Samantha Power is in Hungary, Seeding Another Color Revolution (CTH) • Elon Musk Explains Purpose Of Starlink In Ukraine (RT) • Big Oil Rakes In Record Profits (RT) • Europe’s
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Cave of swimmers, Gilf Kebir plateau, Sahara c6000 BCE • Serbian President Sees “Major Escalation” In Ukraine Over Next 6 Months (RT) • Serbia Responds To ‘Cancel-Russian-Culture’ Calls (RT) • Censorship: Covid, War, and More (Spruance) • Who Benefitted From This Chaos? (Tucker) • The War of Terror of a Rogue Superpower: Cui Bono? (Escobar) • Russia Ready For Talks With Ukraine, With No Preconditions – Deputy FM (TASS) • Latest Nord Stream Findings Deserve Emergency NATO Summit –
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Arkhip Kuindzhi Red Sunset on the Dnieper 1905-8 (see story below) • What’s Wrong With The Hersh Report On The Nord Stream Attacks (Helmer) • On the Legal Question of Russia’s Military Intervention (Lauria) • Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine (Mike Whitney) • The US Takes The Scandal Global And Turns It Into A Tool (Fomenko) • A Star is Born! (Jim Kunstler) • Wagner Boss Estimates Ukraine Conflict Could Last Three More Years (RT) • Kiev Sounds
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René Magritte L’avenir (the future) 1936 • The “Not-Ultimatum” Revisited (Observer R) • Russia Didn’t Start Hostilities In Ukraine, But Tries To End Them – Putin (TASS) • Ukraine Is Taking Care Of Europe – Zelensky (RT) • Zelensky Takes Credit For Derailing Minsk Agreements (RT) • Zelensky Reveals What He Does To Scholz (RT) • Ukraine’s Entry To NATO Would Spell World War – Hungary (TASS) • Much-Hyped Tanks For Ukraine In Short Supply – WSJ (RT) •
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Anthony Van Dyck Self portrait with sunflower 1632 More from Andrew Korybko on a interesting theme: how the sanctions on Russia created a whole new energy supply line. Andrew Korybko: Indian media revealed in mid-January that their country had been processing and re-exporting discounted Russian oil to the West, including the US, in a move that discredited the spirit of that de facto New Cold War bloc’s anti-Russian sanctions. Most observers brushed off those reports
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