First, links to Associated Press, Reuters and National Public Radio reports; click on their names below to access others. Next, via ScheerPost, a link to a look at new weapons deliveries to Ukraine. Then, from Global Research, a link to a consideration of transforming lawns into food-growing spaces. Linked next, via Popular Resistance, violence in the United States connected to violence abroad. Finally, via raymcgovern.com, a link to an appeal to put Americans’ interests over the Ukraine government’s. — MCM
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Ukraine’s leader says his troops keep defying predictions, by David Keyton and John Leicester | The Associated Press KYIV (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said no one knows how long the war in his country will last but that Ukrainian forces are defying expectations by preventing Russian troops from overrunning eastern Ukraine, where the fighting has been fiercest for weeks. In his nightly . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russia says it destroyed depot in Ukraine with Western weapons, by Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk | Reuters * Russia targets Sievierodonetsk in eastern advance * Shelling causes fire at chemical plant, governor says * Ukraine urges West to deliver more heavy arms swiftly | KYIV — Russian forces fired cruise missiles to destroy a large depot containing U.S. and European weapons in western Ukraine’s Ternopil region, Interfax reported today, as street fighting raged in the eastern . . . READ MORE . . .
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People who drive for a living question profitability with the surge in gas prices. Ayesha Rascoe of National Public Radio asks Dennis Briggs how inflationary pressures such as higher gas prices are affecting his Pittsburgh transportation business. Click HERE to listen and, tomorrow, listen.
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Russia has achieved at least one of its war goals: return Ukrainian water to Crimea. Reported by Jason Beaubien | NPR Access to water for the Crimean peninsula was one of the issues that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Click HERE to listen and, tomorrow, listen.
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Faced With Donbass Defeat, U.S. & UK Up the Ante in Ukraine, by Christopher Nineham | Consortium News / scheerpost.com The British government, as ever following the U.S. lead, is sending longer range missile systems to Ukraine for the first time. The government described the M270 weapon system they are despatching as a “cutting edge” military asset which can strike targets up to 80 kilometres away “with pinpoint accuracy.” Ukrainian soldiers are due to be brought to Britain for training in how to use the missiles. As even some of the mainstream media point out, on top of the four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems sent by the U.S. last week, this decision . . . READ MORE . . .
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The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard, by Ellen Brown | Global Research While the global food systems we depend on come under increasing strain, there’s a solution to the growing crisis that most Americans can find in their own backyards — or front lawns. A confluence of crises — lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war — have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the food stored in our pantries. What to do? Jim Gale, founder of Food Forest Abundance, pointed out in a recent interview with Del Bigtree that in the United States there are 40 million acres of lawn. Lawns are the most destructive monoculture on the planet, absorbing . . . READ MORE . . .
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When America No Longer Exports Carnage as a Business Model, Maybe We’ll Stop Seeing It in the Streets Here, by Jacqueline Luqman | Black Agenda Report / Educate! Here is Joseph Biden and the Congress he leads repeatedly approving hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons to be sent to Ukraine in a war that the U.S. and their white supremacist international army NATO started with the sole purpose of provoking Russia. The Biden Administration and everyone in Congress has approved military support to Ukraine repeatedly since February, seven times to be exact, on Feb. 25, March 12, March 16, April 5, April 13, April 21, and April 24. The earlier . . . READ MORE . . .
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Who Does Joe Biden Represent? Americans, Not Ukraine, Should Decide U.S. Policy, by Doug Bandow | The Cato Institute / raymcgovern.com Americans increasingly wonder where U.S. involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian war is heading. Although this nation is not officially in the fight, it is a belligerent in all but name. U.S. officials have essentially declared war on the Russian Federation and its president, Vladimir Putin. In an apparent attempt to assuage . . . READ MORE . . .