Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights, centre panel, detail c1500 • UBS To Buy CS For $3 Billion As AT1 Bonds Get Wiped Out In Record Bail-In (ZH) • Xi Jinping Sees Shift To Multipolar World As ‘Irreversible’ (RT) • Russian-Chinese Relations Remain Strong As Tested By Time – Xi Jinping (TASS) • White House Says It Opposes a Ceasefire in Ukraine (Antiwar) • Ukraine Ceasefire ‘Unacceptable’ – White House (RT) • EU Explosives Shortage Threatens Ukraine –
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Henri Rousseau The Flamingoes 1907 • Donald Trump Says He Will Be Arrested Tuesday (NYP) • Arrest Would Deliver Trump 2024 Election In ‘Landslide’ – Elon Musk (RT) • Get Ready For Manhattan DA’s Made-for-TV Trump Prosecution (Turley) • George Soros A Major Force Behind Trump’s Prosecution and Imminent Arrest (TP) • Hillary Clinton Quietly Settled Campaign Finance Violation Last Year (PM) • Obama, Hillary Settled Nearly $500,000 In Campaign Finance Fines (DCE) • Watchdog Group Launches Investigation Into
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Leonardo da Vinci A Copse of Trees 1508 • Xi Jinping To Make State Visit To Russia On March 20-22 – Kremlin (TASS) • US and Other Western Nations Wary Of Xi’s Trip To Moscow (SCMP) • Kissinger Assesses China-brokered Deal Between Saudi Arabia And Iran (RT) • International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Putin (TASS) • The Gathering Storm (Macgregor) • Kiev Issues Warning To Countries That Don’t Support Ukraine (RT) • US ‘Obviously’ Blew Up Nord
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Vincent van Gogh Corridor In The Asylum 1889 • Ukraine’s Death by Proxy (Chris Hedges) • ‘Serious Military Developments’ Are Coming In Ukraine Conflict – Envoy (RT) • West Warns Ukraine Not To Blow ‘Last Ditch Effort’ – NYT (RT) • Kiev’s Plan For Counteroffensive Revealed In Media Report (RT) • In Ukraine, US Focused On Delivering Weapons, Not Diplomacy – Blinken (TASS) • Moscow Spooked NATO From Going All In For Ukraine – John Bolton (RT) • US
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Jacob Lawrence Struggle: From the History of the American People, Panel 8 1954 Andrew Korybko: Eurasia’s geo-economic integration took a great leap forward as a result of the Iranian–Saudi rapprochement, which unlocks the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) trade potential with Russia and China. Its wealthy members can now tap into two series of Iranian-transiting megaprojects in one fell swoop through this deal, with the North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC) connecting them to Russia while the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor (CCAWAEC)
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Pable Picasso Le Pengouin 1907 • Credit Suisse Borrows $54BN From SNB: “Pre-emptively Strengthen Liquidity” (ZH) • EU Shrugs Off Silicon Valley Bank Collapse (Pol.eu) • Pentagon Calls Moscow Over Drone Incident (RT) • US Drones Have No Business Near Russia – Ambassador (RT) • Drone Incident Confirms US Involvement In Ukraine Conflict – Russia (RT) • Moscow Responds To Lindsey Graham Threat (RT) • Attack On Russian Plane In Neutral Airspace A Declaration Of War – Antonov (TASS)
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Ray K. Metzker Marseille 1961 • US Drones Gather Data For Kiev’s Future Strikes On Russia – Ambassador (TASS) • Saudi-Iranian Détente Is a Wake-Up Call for America (Walt) • Glazyev: ‘The Road To Financial Multipolarity Will Be Long And Rocky’ (Escobar) • Ukraine Doesn’t Have the Resources for a Counteroffensive (Antiwar) • Russian Economic Sovereignty Increased Exponentially – Putin (RT) • Current World Problems Began After Soviet Union’s Collapse – Putin (TASS) • Russia In Ukraine Fights For
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Louis Anquetin Girl Reading a Newspaper 1890 • Kremlin Explains Its ‘Only Option’ In Ukraine (RT) • Doubts In Ukraine About Readiness To Mount Offensive -WaPo (RT) • Xi Jinping Plans To Visit Moscow As Early As Next Week (TASS) • Germany Is Not An Independent Nation – Patrushev (RT) • Russia Insists On Objective Investigation Into Nord Stream Attack (TASS) • Hungarian Defense Minister: Europe Can Send Troops To Ukraine (Az.) • ‘Yanukovich Case’ Tantamount To Kiev’s Confession
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Rembrandt van Rijn Student at a table by candlelight c.1642 • Fed, TSY, FDIC Announce New Banking System Bailout, Signature Bank Closed (ZH) • Bill Ackman To US Gov’t: Fix Mistake In ‘48 Hours’ Or Face ‘Destruction’ (CT) • Yellen Says Government Will Help SVB Depositors But “No Bailout” (ZH) • HSBC To Buy Silicon Valley Bank’s UK Operations (G.) • Hatred of Putin Makes Washington ‘Do Dumb Things’ – Seymour Hersh (RT) • Liu Xin’s Interview With Seymour
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Dora Maar Model in swimsuit 1936 • Seismic Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Isolates US (Lauria) • Georgia Has A Huge Western-Funded NGO Sector (Trenin) • Kiev Considers Renaming Russia (RT) • Medvedev Suggests New Name For Ukraine (RT) • Russia Should Lose, But Not ‘Too Badly’ – US Congressman (RT) • Ukraine Is Lying About Casualty Ratios To Justify Holding Of Bakhmut (MoA) • Russia Issues Latest Report On US-Funded Biolabs In Ukraine (RT) • Poland Builds Europe’s Largest Land Force
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