By Dmitriy Kovalevich, New Cold War, 5/27/22
In this month’s update, New Cold War’s regular contributor and analyst Dmitriy Kovalevich describes what has been happening on the ground in Ukraine throughout May. In his comprehensive account, based on reports including those from the Ukrainian media, Kovalevich clearly demonstrates how the western establishment’s narrative differs strikingly from the reality and why Zelensky is now saying that, despite bellicose statements from countries like Great Britain and Canada, the conflict can only end through diplomacy.
Dmitriy Kovalevich: May update: a war to the last Ukrainian
Day: May 29, 2022
Majority Of Americans Think Protecting Economy—Not Sanctioning Russia—Should Be Country’s Top Priority
More than half of Americans now believe the country’s top priority should be staving off damage to the economy rather than punishing Russia for invading Ukraine, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, as soaring costs and inflation amid the ongoing war prompt a reassessment of priorities.
Majority Of Americans Think Protecting Economy—Not Sanctioning Russia—Should Be Country’s Top Priority
Planned Jewish nationalist “flag march” is a festival of hate
Tamara Nassar, Electronic Intifada, May 29 2022
Thousands of Israeli Jewish nationalists intend on staging a major provocation in occupied East Jerusalem on 29 May, despite warnings from the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.
The Jewish extremists plan to hold their annual “March of the Flags” on what they call Jerusalem Day, an Israeli-invented holiday celebrating its occupation and colonization of the city in 1967.
Planned Jewish nationalist “flag march” is a festival of hate
Ukraine Aid Package Puts America Last + Some Notes on the astroturfed Heritage Action for America
Ukraine Aid Package Puts America Last
Today, Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization with two million grassroots activists, released a statement from Executive Director Jessica Anderson ahead of the U.S. House of Representatives’ vote on a $40 billion Ukraine aid package.
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The legislation does not include several important measures – there are no spending offsets, no accountability for where each dollar will be spent, and no guarantees for equal contributions from European neighbors. Additionally, the aid package only lasts through September of this year, meaning Congress will be expected to reconsider the legislation after only about three months.
They claim to be a grassroots organization but they were created by Heritage Foundation!? That’s astroturfing! Who’s policies are they advocating for?! Theirs?! I highly doubt that it’s for the working class (see below, for just one example)!!
Recognizing that elected leaders are more responsive to adopting policy solutions when they know the American people already support them, Heritage created Heritage Action for America. Heritage Action works with lawmakers to implement Heritage Foundation solutions while it also organizes nearly 20,000 Sentinel activists and more than 2 million local grassroots activists around the nation to push for their adoption. Heritage Action ensures that citizens are speaking up and their elected officials hear their voices.
About Heritage
They push for private school choice and are anti-union (I’m not arguing for school closures, with the below quote, but showing it as an example of their views)!!
The only way out of this mess is to free families from the clutches of the teachers’ unions. Funding students directly would empower families to access educational alternatives. The good news is that the unions’ political games could further the movement to fund students instead of systems, which already enjoyed significant growth in 2021.
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Her continued push to keep schools closed may be just what wide-spread school choice needs to become reality—and to rescue a generation from misguided and politicized COVID policies. In this sense, the power-hungry teachers unions might just destroy their own empire.
More COVID School Closures Spell the End of Teachers Unions Empire
School Choice Cons:
Three big problems with school ‘choice’ that supporters don’t like to talk about
The hidden downsides of school ‘choice’
Anyway, in three months, Congress will probably vote on another aid package for Ukraine (doesn’t matter who wins between Russia and Ukraine, they’ll still send Ukraine money, whether it’s for weapons or reconstruction)! 🙄
Why the Once-Hawkish Heritage Foundation Opposed Aid to Ukraine
Why the Once-Hawkish Heritage Foundation Opposed Aid to Ukraine
What They Missed:
Policy: Heritage is consciously shifting gears on foreign policy, with an eye toward less military involvement in Europe and more attention on China in particular, [Kevin] Roberts told Axios in an interview.
Republicans plot foreign intervention pullback
Iranian Engineer Killed in Drone Attack on Military Facility Near Tehran
There have been no claims of responsibility, but Israel is suspected due to its history of similar attacks inside Iran
Iranian Engineer Killed in Drone Attack on Military Facility Near Tehran
First Merchant ship arrives in Mariupol since the beginning of the conflict – Eng/Esp
Posted on May 29, 2022 by ELCOMUNISTA.NET from TELESUR
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that this Saturday the first merchant ship arrived at the Ukrainian port of Mariupol since the beginning of the Russian military operation in the east of the country.
First Merchant ship arrives in Mariupol since the beginning of the conflict – Eng/Esp
Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)
My personal notes:
Republicans will blame gun violence on mental health, psychiatric medications, or violent video games, yet they aren’t willing to support solutions, such as affordable healthcare, affordable prescriptions, or defund the military industrial complex! As for Democrats, all they will offer is banning guns!
Speaking of mental health, and psychiatric medications, Peace Labor May made some good points in her most recent YouTube video (you may have to turn your volume up).
Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)
In light of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, and because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’m re-posting a link to my left argument for gun rights from 2017. (One among many. See links at end of article)
Some points covered in the article:
The class concept of the state. It’s not a neutral arbiter to be trusted with a monopoly of armed power. “The concentration of wealth and the concentration of armed power in the hands of a few, are both bad ideas—and the one has everything to do with the other.”
The net effect of eliminating the right of citizens to possess firearms will be to increase the power of the armed capitalist state. Whatever strict gun-control regime is instituted, ruling-class families and institutions will still have all the guns they want.
But what about horrible mass shootings? Recognize that *gun homicides have declined even as gun ownership has increased,*. that mass shootings are a small portion of gun deaths in the US & a lousy index of the social problem of gun violence. But they do grab one’s attention.
For the full argument, go to the article:
The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights
(Reprise)
Related (including some random archived links that I noticed were behind paywalls and/or 404):
A Marxist-Leninist response to Gun Control
Read More »This is not the end… NATO is moving closer to the border of China
Russia may be the biggest country in the world that is currently protecting itself from the looming doom brought by the West, but Russia is not the only enemy of the ‘civilized’ west. China possesses a much higher risk to the West and especially to the United States, as the USA is dependent on China, take into account the 40 billion that the US loaned from China… It’s a much bigger and deadlier game that the West is playing to keep things as they were.
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“I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY’VE BEEN SANCTIONED!” – The New Russian Supermarket Gameshow!
Get ready to CRINGE! 😀 “A lot of truth is said in jest” – Here’s a lighthearted, and hopefully entertaining tour of a Russian Supermarket, showing the level of hardship shoppers are facing 3 months after the West imposed a record level of sanctions against the Russian people and the economy.
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More updates from inside Russia as events unfold.
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