TeleSUR’s wrap-up of events related to the war in Ukraine leads below. Next is the Associated Press update on the war in Ukraine, by Evgeniy Malogetka. Then, a different wrinkle regarding the strife in that country is explored by Glenn Greenwald, formerly of Intercept. And Bret Stephens weighs in with thoughts on the war itself and how it could help the United States “rethink the way in which we look at foreign affairs for the next decade.” — MCM

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The U.S. Won’t Follow WTO Rules in Its Dealings with Russia: “By revoking Russia’s ‘Most Favored Nation’ status, the United States is creating an insurmountable rift within the international trade order it created after World War II,” according to teleSUR in its latest collection of news items connected to the war in Ukraine. Find them HERE.

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Russia keeps up pressure on Mariupol; massive convoy breaks up  MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city of Mariupol on Thursday, while satellite photos appeared to show that a massive convoy that had been mired outside the Ukrainian capital split up and fanned out into towns and forests near Kyiv, with artillery pieces moved into firing positions. International condemnation escalated over an airstrike in Mariupol a day earlier that killed three people at a maternity hospital. Western and Ukrainian officials called the attack a war crime. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian refusal to permit evacuations from the port city amounted to “outright terror.”As the West seeks . . . READ MORE . . .

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Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has ‘Biological Research Facilities,’ Worried Russia May Seize Them. by Glenn Greenwald | Global Research Self-anointed “fact-checkers” in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeks mocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. They never presented any evidence for their ruling — how could they possibly know? and how could they prove the negative? — but nonetheless they invoked their characteristically authoritative, above-it-all tone of self-assurance and self-arrogated right to decree the truth, definitively labelling such claims false. Claims that Ukraine currently maintains dangerous biological weapons labs came from Russia as well as China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry this month claimed: “The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone.” READ MORE . . .

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New York Times columnist Bret Stephens says that in light of lessons learned so far from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, New rules are needed for a new world. His recent recommendation includes “a few ideas” and begins, “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is being described as the end of the post-Cold War era. This isn’t quite accurate. Since the Soviet Union collapsed . . . READ MORE . . .

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