Fresco from the Minoan Palace in Knossos, Crete, Greece. 16th century BC • World War III to Sweep Vaccine Genocide Under the Rug (VF) • The Dire Significance of Putin’s Feb 21 Speech (Sant) • Putin’s ‘Civilizational’ Speech Frames Conflict Between East And West (Escobar) • Russia Sees Events In Ukraine As War With West For Survival – Envoy (TASS) • Talks Should Be Held With Washington, Not Kiev – Russian UN Envoy (TASS) • NATO Head Issues Warning
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Banksy Bataclan emergency door 2018 (stolen in 2019, recovered June 2020) • Russia Cannot Be Defeated On Battlefield – Putin (TASS) • ‘Big Difference’ Between Arming Ukraine and Russia – Borrell (RT) • China-Russia Relations ‘Rock Solid’ – Beijing (RT) • China Names US As ‘Top Disruptor’ (RT) • Xi Jinping Planning Moscow Trip – WSJ (RT) • Putin Says West’s Goal Is To Tear Historical Regions Away From Russia (TASS) • Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Failed Sanctions And Key
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Pierre Dumonstier II The right hand of Artemisia Gentileschi holding a brush 1625 • Recognizing The War Is Lost The ‘West’ Seeks An Exit (MoA) • Between That Rock and The Hard Place (Kunstler) • Trump Reveals How He Would End Ukraine Conflict (RT) • Biden’s Visit To Ukraine Aimed To Encourage Kiev To Start Offensive Soon (TASS) • Medvedev Says Biden Received Security Guarantees Before Going To Kiev (TASS) • Kiev Must Send People To Slaughter As Part
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Marvin Koner New York 1955 • US Will Abandon ‘Unwinnable’ War In Ukraine Like They Left Vietnam (Siracusa) • Ukraine War ‘Over’ Unless EU Boosts Military Support – Borrell (G.) • EU Is In ‘Urgent War Mode’ – Borrell (RT) • Seizure of Bakhmut A Matter Of Time, No Hurry – DPR (TASS) • Kremlin Does Not Consider The West Being Open To Peace Initiatives (TASS) • SITREP: Update 2/18 – Major War Confirmed Imminent (STT) • Prime Minister
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Utagawa Yoshitoshi Ariko weeps as her boat drifts in the moonlight 1886 • Nuclear War, Debt Collapse Or Energy Depletion? (Egon von Greyerz) • There Is Fire In Our Crowded Theater (Gaertner) • Putin Must Turn ‘360 Degrees’ – German FM Baerbock (RT) • China To Present Its Ukraine Peace Proposal (RT) • ‘Stop Dangerous Acts,’ China Tells NATO (RT) • US Fears China May Provide Russia With Lethal Weapons – Blinken (TASS) • Raisi in Beijing: Iran-China Strategic
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Pablo Picasso The dream 1951 • Seymour Hersh’s Trinity of Truth (Scott Ritter) • Seymour Hersh Believes Betting On Ukraine’s Victory ‘Suicidal’ (TASS) • ‘Ukraine Would Have Wiped Out Donbass Last Year If Not For Russia’ (TASS) • Food For Thought (Gonzalo Lira) • NATO Involvement In Ukrainian Conflict Is Maximal – Zakharova (TASS) • Ukraine ‘Peace Petition’ Backed By Nearly Half A Million Germans (RT) • No Sense In Signing Any Agreements With Zelensky – Medvedev (TASS) •
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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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