A nation with a military squatting in the Middle East over decades, bombing at their pleasure, suddenly have found moral clarity as it jumps at the chance to position their political opposition as quasi terrorists and madmen.  How soon we forget the inanity after 9/11 when W. attacked not the nation of origin of most of the terrorists, but Iraq and the Saddam Hussein who had offended Poppy Bush.  The actual effect of that is the deaths of millions of Iraqi’s.  The leadership was also changed; and by the way, who is leading that nation now?  Who knows?

A point can be made that all oligarchs are madmen as they wear their moral turpitude on their sleeves.  This includes American oligarchs.  But as Zerlina Maxwell explains, “everybody does it”.
https://mtracey.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-trying-to-goad-the-us?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTU0NTE0LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0OTgxMjAyNywiXyI6IitLaThuIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ2NTc3MDU0LCJleHAiOjE2NDY1ODA2NTQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0zMDMxODgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0._jt2AanzfaGzDxkypHY2olflKTiBQjpgmWkcVax-T0g&s=r          –The reason we know Ukrainian officials are trying to goad the US into war is because that’s exactly what they say they’re doing. There is no ambiguity here — at this very moment, a furious multi-front lobbying blitz is underway to solicit full-fledged US military intervention in Ukraine, and therefore open warfare against Russia. To put it bluntly, a foreign country’s representatives are doing all they possibly can to instigate the closest thing anyone on Earth has ever experienced to World War III.–In light of this extraordinarily up-front and audacious campaign by a foreign government to instigate WWIII, the US media must surely be treating their claims with extreme caution, right? You know, since this government could not be more clear about its desired policy intervention? Wrong! A whole lot of journalists — intoxicated by the Good versus Evil comic book story unfolding before their eyes — apparently believe their duty right now is to simply act as transmission devices for whatever propaganda material Ukrainian officials are pumping out, notwithstanding that such propaganda is overtly aimed at instigating WWIII.–end of mtracey info–

Several thoughts—*Meanwhile the expanding wealth gap is ignored, voting rights are questionable, Climate Change expands, and our supply chain functions at the mercy of China*The possibly Climate-Change-supported tornadoes in Iowa this morning could be a reason C-Span isn’t available, RT is being censored away by the dictatorship of somebody in the USA, and landing on the least compromised news show with George Stepanopolous one could listen to Donna Brazil explain her discomfort (paraphrase) at having received her education due to a petrochemical scholarship, where perhaps is taught the phrase “ecological racism”*Corporate-owned-state-run MSM are hair on fire over the Russian attack of Ukraine, which is despicable to anyone supporting peace*Corporate-owned-state-run MSM was however complicit in whitewashing decades of war in the Middle East that killed millions of people, specifically non white*Poverty, voter suppression and Climate Change actions continue unabated in the USA, all of which have been labeled as “racist”*Some people have over decades pointed out that US military actions against foreign nations could be construed as racist based on the nations the US chooses to attack, while the use of racism to mollify the US public continues to be indoctrinated into a myopic public*The war between Russia and Ukraine is the impetus for the US hierarchy to inflict open and blatant censorship toward media news outlets in the USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=104ZygfOHZg    –Unauthorized Disclosure: Comedian Lee Camp On The End Of RT America
As RT is shut down, capitalistic hierarchical Establishment continues its double talk about letting the consumer make the choice in our so-called democracy.  A democracy requires diverse views by a Free Press.  The USA does not have a Free Press or Free Speech.  A local news channel broadcasted a precious soviet-style tutorial about the danger of hearing Free Speech and the requirement that everyone understand the superiority of professional and legitimate news outlets, which are corporate-owned-state-run.  
Received from popularresistance–https://mailchi.mp/popularresistance/5009wiz84r?e=1b0a9c0541     —

The Focus On Russia Distracts From What The US Government Is Doing

Ukraine War: Who’s To Blame And What’s The Solution? A Socialist View

Could This Be Russiagate’s Checkmate?
Calling Russia’s Attack ‘Unprovoked’ Lets US Off The Hook
How Ukraine’s Jewish President Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries

Is This Russian Propaganda?

Creating A Global Patchwork For Nature

–end of popularresistance info–

Received from portside—https://portside.org/2022-03-05/putin-lenin-imperialism-and-real-history-ukraine        –In the real world, the U.S. has acted in the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, the collapse of what Washington perceived as the global communist movement, with an effort to encircle Russia with the most horrifically threatening force in world history. It has expanded NATO in the absence of any real threat to itself from 16 to 28 members, bordering Russia on the Baltic coast and threatening to encircle it entirely. It has used NATO to pursue wars in Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, in the last case illegally intervening in a failed effort to gain control over a longstanding Russian ally.In the real world, Ukrainian fascist movements exist and were surely on display in the Maidan coup in 2014. They played a key role in the violent overthrow of an elected government, under Victoria Nuland’s watchful eye. There remains much support in some quarters for the wartime nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, who espoused a fascist ideology and helped round up Jews in Ukraine for the Nazi death camps.–end of portside info–

Received from portside info–https://portside.org/2022-03-05/cuba-advocates-solution-guarantees-security-and-sovereignty-all        –Cuba is a country that defends International Law and is committed to the Charter of the United Nations. Cuba will always defend peace and oppose the use of force, and threats to do so, against any state.We deeply regret the loss of innocent civilian lives in Ukraine. The Cuban people have had and continue to have a very close relationship with the Ukrainian people.
History will hold the United States accountable for the consequences of an increasingly offensive military doctrine beyond NATO’s borders, which threatens international peace, security and stability.
Our concern has grown worse with NATO’s recent decision to activate, for the first time, its Response Force.–end of portside info–
The following seems a most thoughtful statement about Nazi-ism in Ukraine, devoid of passion or hyperbole—Received from mronline—https://mronline.org/2022/03/05/understanding-ukrainian-nazism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=understanding-ukrainian-nazism&mc_cid=2352f8678b&mc_eid=2833cdb99b     –There was not only the objective to annihilate political, economic, and diplomatic relations between Kiev and Moscow, but also to eliminate cultural, ethnic, religious, and linguistic ties between both nations.Since then, anti-Russian plans have been implemented. Ethnic Russians have been persecuted for the past eight years–even through systematic extermination in some regions. The Russian language has been criminalized in entire cities where the population does not speak Ukrainian. Schisms in the Orthodox Church have been supported to form a Ukrainian “national church” out of the Moscow Patriarchate. But the question remains: how has this been possible if Ukrainians and Russians are such close peoples? Many Ukrainians speak Russian and marry ethnic Russians, in addition to the fact that most of the country’s population follows the Orthodox Church. So how was it possible to initiate such a successful racist policy?This was certainly one of the biggest concerns of the Maidan planners. And the answer lies in the Nazi element, which was very well worked out by Arsen Avakov, Minister of the Interior during the Poroshenko government. Avakov initiated a process of instrumentalizing neo-Nazi militias that had supported Maidan, making these extremist groups key points in the defense of the new Ukrainian regime. In the West, due to collective ignorance about Slavic history, many people think that Nazi racism was restricted to Jews, but in fact, anti-Russian hatred was one of the biggest locomotives of WWII, having led Hitler to the irrational decision to invade and try to annex the USSR. This sentiment is alive in these neo-Nazi militias, who are literally ready to do anything to annihilate the Russians, being much more fanatical in their racist convictions than the Ukrainian armed forces.–end of mronline info–

American chauvinism seems an ingredient in the ability for so many of the public to be blind to the notion of racism in Europe that may not include African-Americans.  This has enabled hierarchy to ignore the surgical realities of historical FACTS.  One of these realities is that Russia was instrumental and primary in challenging German Nazis, and that this may continue into the 21st Century from the same ideology from other nations.
https://monthlyreview.org/2022/03/01/revisiting-marx-on-race-capitalism-and-revolution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=revisiting-marx-on-race-capitalism-and-revolution          — In his introduction to a recently published collection of these writings, historian Andrew Zimmerman stresses instead that, for Marx, “the Civil War was not a bourgeois revolution, but a workers’ revolution carried out within a bourgeois republic that was finally undermined by that bourgeois republic.” Zimmerman also holds that Morais “emphasized unity within the Union cause rather than the disjunctures over the issues of slavery and race” that Marx “highlighted.”1Echoes of what Marx and his radical abolitionist comrades called the “slave power”—a coalition of slaveowners, their political representatives, and the wider economic interests that profited from them—can be heard in today’s Republican Party, with its defense of a mythic white United States and a Trumpist mob’s use of the Confederate flag in its assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, during the final recording of the 2020 presidential election ballots.–end of mronline info–The indoctrination by hierarchy is that the isms (capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism all of which eventually are hierarchical) are somehow distinctive from each other, and aren’t simply about privilege, greed, and exploitation.  Just as the Democratic/Republican duopoly use the illusion of distinction to crowd out other views than capitalism, is the larger bait-and-switch from the isms used in the same way on a larger scale.
So which is the more deadly result of this Establishment lie, war or Climate Change?
https://socialistproject.ca/2022/03/war-profiteering-gangsters-will-kill-us-all-unless-we-unite/#more            –I figured something out after tossing and turning all night. We on the left often make the mistake of still looking upon Russia as a somewhat socialist enterprise. Of course, it isn’t. The Soviet Union ended in 1991. Russia is an unadulterated neoliberal capitalist gangster’s paradise, modeled during the time of its horrific restructuring under Boris Yeltsin (1991-1999) on the United States of America. It should come as no surprise that its autocratic, and possibly unhinged leader, Vladimir Putin, has no more respect for the UN Charter and international law than recent presidents of the United States or prime ministers of England have had. (For example, remember George W. Bush and Tony Blair during the Iraq invasion.)
—end of socialistproject info–
———————–We can do better———-

That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.
    https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”

WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE–end of lwv info–Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!
Along with Climate Change, many people oppose the imperialism of the USA under control of the Republican/Democratic duopoly.  Use of the wealth of our nation should be to enhance quality of life for We The People rather than for imperialism.  Some people vote accordingly.I———————–That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.