Week in Review: 2023, week 38

[Image: Mr. Fish]Published: 2023-09-25Corrections: When you hear ‘colonists’ being used so poorly, please mentally substitute ‘colonial subjects’. The word I’m looking for to describe the common geopolitical theory to which Ehret and I subscribe is Makinderian. The publication of which Mnar is editor (in-chief, and founder), is MintPress News which has been included in the source reference. MPN is US based, not British. OPCW is the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. ‘Tehas’ (Texas) is Russel ‘Texas’ Bentley who travelled from the US in late 2014 to join the Donbas resistance, and is currently married with a local Donbas lady and holds dual US/Russian (and previously Dontesk) citizenship. (If you’d like to know more about him, Regis Tremblay produced a wonderful mini-biography on Russel’s story of moving to live in and fight with the people of Donbas against the Ukrainian Nazis and ultra-nationalists. Because of his demeanour and English language skills he became an “information warrior” for the Donbas resistance and told their side of the story years before other rare, indepenedent journalists like Eva Bartlett showed up. Patrick Lancaster would have been one of the earliest ‘western’ journos to report the conflict from the Donbas side of the line of contact).SourcesYesXorNoLasting Voice to Parliament: A Constitutional Legal Analysis, YesXorNo, 2023-09-20AntiwarUkraine/US+NATORussia: The US Is at War Against Us, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09-17Potential Government Shutdown Threatens US Support for Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-19[No it doesn’t!] Pentagon Exempts Ukraine Operations from Potential Government Shutdown, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-21State Department Confirms US Citizen Gonzalo Lira Is Detained in Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-20Report: Next Arms Package for Ukraine to Include More Cluster Bombs, No ATACMS, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-20[Better plan, stick ‘em in the missiles!] White House Close To Providing Kiev With Cluster-Armed ATACMS, Connor Freeman, Antiwar, 2023-09-22Poland Says It's No Longer Arming Ukraine Amid Grain Spat, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-20[the other 15 Ukraine related headlines are skipped for sanity.]Pacific/ChinaUS Deploys Drone Ships Near China for the First Time, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-21Air Force General Defends Memo That Predicted War With China By 2025, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-21China Conducts Drills in the Yellow Sea in Response to US Activity, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-20US Discussing Mutual Defense Treaty With Saudi Arabia Similar to Japan, South Korea, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-19Taiwan Detects Record Number of Chinese Warplanes, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-18Sullivan Holds 'Constructive' Talks with Chinese FM, Amid Soaring Tensions, Connor Freeman, Antiwar, 2023-09-17US to Establish New Space Force Command Post in Japan, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-18Milley: Chinese Spy Balloon Collected No Intelligence, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09* Milley has no intelligence?Africa/'Former' French ColoniesNiger, Mali, and Burkina Faso Establish Military Alliance, Vowing to Collectively Defend Against External Aggression, Connor Freeman, Antiwar, 2023-09-17CaucusesAzerbaijan Launches New Assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-19Middle EastUS, European Partners Sanction Iran Amid Prisoner Swap Negotiations, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09-17* Missing headline: Assad Get Red Carpet in Beijing from President Xi Despite a Decade of Western Dirty WarNATO (non-Ukraine)Sen. Menendez Indicted on Corruption Scheme Benefiting Egyptian Government, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09-22BRICS+/SCO/BRIKim Concludes Visit to Russia with Goal of Increased Across-the-Board Relations, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-09-17AssangeAustralian MPs Call for Assange's Freedom During Talks in Washington, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-09-21Other VoicesUkraine/US+NATOUkraine SitRep: The War By Numbers Of Humans, b., MoonOfAlabama, 2023-09-22Ukraine's "biggest arms supplier" orchestrated 2014 Maidan massacre, witnesses say, Kit Klarenberg, Natylie's Place: Understanding Russia, 2023-09-22Ukraine’s Reconstruction in BlackRock’s Hands & Gabor Maté on Explosion of Antidepressants, Greenwald interviews Gabor Maté, System Update, 2023-09-15Meduza: An experienced negotiator and a proud Crimean Tatar: What the appointment of Ukraine’s new defense minister says about Kyiv’s evolving war strategy, Elizaveta Antonova (translation by Sam Breazeale), Natalyie's Place (originally published at Meduza on 2023-09-07), 2023-09-19The 'Biden Phase' of the Ukraine War, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Consortium News, 2023-09-18Sailing into the Black – US Sanctions War is Good for Russian Shipping, Greeks Too, John Helmer, Dances with Bears, 2023-09-18WATCH: High-Level UN Security Council on Ukraine, Consortium News, 2023-09-20NATO Expansion -- Ukraine's Destruction, Jeffrey Sachs, Consortium News, 2023-09-21Larry On Jake Sullivan. , Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future..., 2023-09-21Garland, Scott and Me. , Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future..., 2023-09-21Europe, Its Head., Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future..., 2023-09-21ZKP., Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future..., 2023-09-22Is Western Support for Ukraine Crumbling？ w⧸Alastair Crooke, Napolitano interviews Crooke, Judging Freedom, 2023-09-22Africa/'Former' French ColoniesThe Alliance of Sahel States, Vijay Prashad, Consortium News, 2023-09-22The west destroyed Africa, Eurasia will revive it, Matthew Ehret, The Cradle, 2023-09-19Middle EastReport for European Parliament challenges OPCW’s Syria cover-up, Aaron Mate interviews Peirs Robinson and Hans von Sponick, Pushback/Grayzone, 2023-09-19Assad in China, Israel-Saudi Normalization, UNGA Hottest Moments & More!, Richard Medhurst, his youtube channel, 2023-09-22NATO (non-Ukraine)Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History, Norman Solomon, ScheerPost, 2023-09-20Egyptians Beef Eaters Paid A Special Tax - Money Used To Bribe U.S. Senator Menendez, b., MoonOfAlabama, 2023-09-23The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke, Mnar (originally from MintPress News), ScheerPost, 2023-09-22If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden, Ray McGovern, Consortium News, 2023-09-21After NATO, Storm Daniel Came for Libya, Vijay Prashad, Consortium News, 2023-09-22Unsweet Dreams, Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News, 2023-09-19Psychosis and Its Consequences, Patrick Lawrence, ScheerPost, 2023-09-19Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare, Chris Hedges, ScheerPost, 2023-09-19The Question About Biden, Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News, 2023-09-19US Can't Deal with Defeat, Michael Brenner, Consortium News, 2023-09-21Trudeau's Skripal moment, ruins relations with India, The Alexes, The Duran, 2023-09-24Intel-Linked UK Official Pushing Censorship of Russell Brand, Kit Klarenberg, ScheerPost, 2023-09-22Australia/AssangeGrayzone Interview with Max Blumenthal, Craig Murray, Craig Murray, 2023-09-19WATCH: Australian MPs at DOJ After Assange Talks, Consortium News, 2023-09-20Australian MPs Endorse 'Bring Assange Home' Delegation, Joe Lauria, Consortium News, 2023-09-20Overthrowing Allende: Australia’s special role in destroying a democracy, Binoy Kampmark, Pearls and Irritations, 2023-09-20WATCH: CN Live! 'Assange & the DC Six', Consortium News, 2023-09-21Surpises!Real Savings, Mr. Fish, ScheerPost, 2023-09-20Self-Serve, Mr. Fish, ScheerPost, 2023-09-20CultureGet Up, Stand Up (1973) - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bob Marley, uploaded 2017-01-20Comments: on topic, no abuse Get full access to YesXorNo at yesxorno.substack.com/subscribe