First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Reuters, Tass, the Moscow Times, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Next, links to a Nov. 6 article in the Wall Street Journal on reported negotiations between Washington and the Kremlin and, via Consortium News, commentary on that. Then, a link to a Washington Post column that appeared at the top of the Berkshire Eagle’s editorial page this morning. — MCM

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Power outages in Ukrainian cities, Moldova after new strikes, by John Leicester and Sam Mednick | AP  KYIV — Authorities reported power outages in multiple cities of Ukraine, including parts of Kyiv, and in neighboring Moldova after renewed strikes today struck Ukrainian infrastructure facilities. In several regions, authorities reported strikes on critical infrastructure. The city administration of Kyiv said three people were dead and three wounded there after a Russian strike hit a two-story . . . READ MORE . . .

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Some Russian commanders encouraged sexual violence, says lawyer advising Kyiv, by Joanna Plucinska, Anthony Deutsch and Stefaniia Bern | Reuters KYIV — There is evidence that Russian commanders in several instances were aware of sexual violence by military personnel in Ukraine “and in some cases, encouraging it or even ordering it,” according to an international criminal lawyer assisting Kyiv’s war crimes investigations. British lawyer Wayne Jordash . . . READ MORE . . .

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European Parliament passes resolution recognizing Russia as ‘state sponsor of terrorism.’ From Tass. PARIS — The European Parliament during a session in Strasbourg today adopted a resolution designating Russia as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’, according to the text of the document published on its website. The session was broadcast live on the European Parliament’s . . . READ MORE . . .

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CIA tells Russians frustrated by Putin’s war: ‘We’re open for business.’ From the Moscow Times. The CIA is seeking to recruit Russian nationals angry with the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine, a senior official in the U.S. foreign intelligence ageny has said. According to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported . . . READ MORE . . .

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Georgians alarmed at the arrival of tens of thousands of Russian exiles. Reported by Joanna Kakissis | NPR  A small country bordering Russia and partly occupied by it is alarmed by the recent arrival of tens of thousands of Russian men fleeing conscription into the Ukraine war. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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Senior White House official, Putin aides involved in talks on avoiding wider war, by Vivian Salama and Michael R. Gordon | The Wall Street Journal  WASHINGTON—President Biden’s top national-security adviser has engaged in recent months in confidential conversations with top aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to reduce the risk of a broader conflict over Ukraine and warn Moscow against using nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction, U.S. and allied officials said. They said U.S. national-security adviser Jake Sullivan has . . . READ MORE . . .

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The back channel, by Scott Ritter | Consortium News According to The Wall Street Journal, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has been involved with a secretive “back channel” line of communication with top Russian officials as part of an effort by the United States and Russia to prevent the war in Ukraine from escalating into a nuclear conflict. Among . . . READ MORE . . .

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This year, give thanks to the Ukrainians. They’re fighting for our values, by Max Boot | The Washington Post  Thanksgiving is an American holiday; arguably the American holiday. But there is no reason that the objects of our gratitude have to be American, This year, I am grateful, above all, to the brave . . . READ MORE . . .

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Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi spoke Monday about her investigations into the Julian Assange case in her new book Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies* at the Foreign Press Association in London. Consortium News provides the introduction below to the 70-minute discussion, which may be viewed HERE. Endorsements of the book, along with details of how to order copies, are HERE. — MCM

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Watch: ‘Secret Power’

From Consortium News

It is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the little-known organisation WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings, encrypted files and explosive documents, what she discovers sets her on a life-long journey that takes her deep into the realm of secret power.

Working closely with WikiLeaks‘ founder Julian Assange and his organisation for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent over a decade investigating state criminality protected by thick layers of secrecy, while also embarking on a solitary trench warfare to unearth the facts underpinning the cruel persecution of Assange and WikiLeaks.

With complex and disturbing insights, Maurizi’s tireless journalism exposes atrocities, the shameful treatment of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, on up to the present persecution of WikiLeaks: a terrifying web of impunity and cover-ups.

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* The book was published on Nov. 4 in English by Pluto Press. Its original Italian edition came out in August 2021.

For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their initials below. Then links to reports from three overtly partisan sources. — MCM

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‘Stock up on blankets’: Ukrainians brace for bleak winter, by John Leicester | AP  KYIV — Rolling blackouts across Ukraine may continue through March, according to one of the country’s energy chiefs, as Ukrainians brace for a grim winter after weeks of relentless Russian strikes against its power grid. Sergey Kovalenko, CEO of private energy provider DTEK Yasno . . . READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine detains ‘traitor’ who released Kherson prisoners. From AFP  Ukrainian investigators said today that a prison official in the recently liberated city of Kherson was suspected of committing treason for releasing inmates before the Russian army’s retreat on Nov. 11. Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) said that an official in charge of security at a local prison collaborated with the Russian . . . READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine says it needs help shooting down Russia’s missile attacks. Reported by Greg Myre and Tom Bowman | NPR  Russia is hammering Ukraine with missile attacks, many aimed at electricity stations. Ukraine is shooting down many of these attacks but says it needs more help from the U.S. and NATO. Click HERE to listen and read.

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Aid to Ukraine is vital this winter as Russia keeps up its attack on infrastructure. Reported by Joanna Kakissis | NPR  As Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine’s infrastructure continues, the Ukrainian government is set to receive more than $4 billion in aid from the U.S. to help keep basic services running. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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Update from Ukraine: Ruzzia lost almost half of their tanks in Ukraine, Bakhmut is a black hole. Reported by Denys Davydof | DenysDavydof24h Click HERE for video commentary from yesterday and HERE for other recent reports.

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In video: Russian crew won tank duel on Ukrainian front line. From South Front. Click HERE for that. Click HERE for other recent South Front reports.

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Day 272: Ukrainian Battle Map. From Ukraine News TV. Click HERE for Nov. 22 report and HERE for other recent reports.

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For now, links to reports from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, the Moscow Times, Reuters, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM

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Cold and dark: Kyiv readies for ‘worst winter of our lives,’ by Yuras Karmanau and John Leicester | AP  KYIV — When the power is out, as it so often is, the high-rise apartment overlooking Ukraine’s war-torn capital feels like a deathtrap. No lights, no water, no way to cook food. And the risk of not being able to escape from the 21st floor in time should a Russian missile strike. Even when electricity comes back, it’s never on for long. “Russian strikes are plunging Ukraine into the Stone Age,” says . . . READ MORE . . .

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How Russia is weaponizing the Ukrainian winter. Reported by Nathan Rott, Claire Harbage and Hanna Palamarenko | NPR  IZIUM, Ukraine — Russia’s systematic and repeated attacks on Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure — the latest of which involved the heaviest missile strikes in a nearly nine-month war — have led to regular power outages in some of the country’s largest cities. In smaller towns like Izium . . . Click HERE to listen and read.

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Visual investigation details captive Russian troops’ deaths by shooting. From the Moscow Times. The New York Times said Sunday it has verified footage showing captive Russian troops being killed by Ukrainian forces as experts remain divided on whether the grisly episode constitutes a war crime or an act of self-defense. At least four drone and cellphone videos . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia’s ‘General Armageddon’ under pressure to deliver on battlefield after retreat, by Andrew Osborn and Mark Trevelyan | Reuters  * Top general argued for strategic but humiliating retreat * Russian forces left west bank of River Dnipro as a result * Russia war hawks rallied around General Sergei Surovikin * But he’s now under pressure to show battlefield results | LONDON — Russia’s leading war hawks rallied behind the humiliating decision for Moscow’s forces to retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson this month, but the commander who argued in favour of the move is now under growing pressure to prove it was worth it. Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed . . . READ MORE . . .

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IAEA inspectors will be given access to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant strictly within their mandate — Rosenergoatom. From Tass. MELITOPOL — Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will be given access to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant after the shelling by Ukrainian troops strictly within their mandate, a top adviser at Russia’s Rosenergoatom nuclear power engineering company, said Sunday. He noted . . . READ MORE . . .

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Screams from Russia’s alleged torture basements still haunt Ukraine’s Kherson. Reported by Jason Beaubien | NPR  KHERSON, Ukraine — Just talking in Ukrainian could get them arrested and even tortured, residents say. Displaying a Ukrainian flag was . . . Click HERE to listen and read.

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The U.S. seized Russian oligarchs’ superyachts. Now, American taxpayers pay the price. Ayesha Rascoe of NPR speaks with Stephanie Baker, senior writer at Bloomberg News, about the complications involved in seizing and maintaining superyachts owned by sanctioned Russian billionaires. Click HERE to listen and read.

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First, links to reports from Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, Reuters, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, via Consortium News, a link to a three-hour forum held this past week. — MCM

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Negotiating with Moscow would be capitulation – Ukraine presidency, by Ania Tsoukanova | AFP  The West’s attempts to persuade Ukraine to negotiate with Moscow, after a series of major military victories by Kyiv, are “bizarre” and amount to asking for its capitulation, a key adviser to the Ukrainian presidency told AFP. “When you . . . READ MORE . . .

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Kyiv’s mayor: Extraordinary, in extraordinarily tough times, by John Leicester | AP  KYIV — The body armor propped against a radiator, ready for use, the spent shell casing adding to clutter on his desk, the boxing memorabilia and the sign asking visitors to leave firearms at his door: All shout that this is the office of an extraordinary mayor, in extraordinarily difficult times. Other, more personal touches fill out the picture . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia trying to exhaust Ukraine’s air defenses, Pentagon official says, by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali | Reuters | Reuters WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Russia’s surge in missile strikes in Ukraine is partly designed to exhaust Kyiv’s supplies of air defenses and finally achieve dominance of the skies above the country, a senior Pentagon official said on Saturday. Russia has been hammering cities across Ukraine with missile strikes over the past week, in one of the heaviest waves of missile attacks since . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia accuses Ukraine of shelling Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: army. From AFP. The Russian army today accused Kyiv of shelling the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that it controls in southern Ukraine. Kyiv “does not stop its provocations aiming at creating the threat of a man-made catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant”, it said in a statement. Despite shelling on November 19 and 20, radiation levels “remain normal”, it added.

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Former Japanese PM says Zelensky has caused suffering to many Ukrainians – paper. From Tass. TOKYO — Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has censured Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky for having caused suffering to many of his fellow citizens, says an article published on the website of The Nikkei newspaper today. “Why is it . . . READ MORE . . .

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Forum: A path to peace in Ukraine. Co-sponsored by The People’s Forum and the ANSWER Coalition. Speaking in person or otherwise at this three-hour event in New York City: Noam Chomsky, Jill Stein, Vijay Prashad, Medea Benjamin, Brian Becker, Eugene Puryear and Claudia de la Cruz. Click HERE to listen and watch.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. David Chandler is a retired high school physics teacher long active with others insisting that NIST’s reports on the three skyscraper collapses at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, are calculated fiction designed to obscure the truth of whatever happened there. — MCM

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A presentation, by David Chandler | davidchandler911 Accompanying his 13-minute video draft, Chandler writes: “It has been nearly 15 years since NIST released their final report on World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7).  This is a summary of my research on the demolition of the building and NIST’s deceptive Building 7 report.  This is a draft in preparation for my contribution to the documentary ‘Crime Scene to Courtroom.’” *  Click HERE to listen and watch.

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* The documentary is currently being filmed. Its makers, which include Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth founder and former CEO Richard Gage, are looking for “co-producers” (donors).

First, via Global Research, a link to an analysis that appeared on Nov. 11 on the Unz Review website. At last count it had garnered at least 777 comments, many about other comments. Next, links to reports from National Public Radio, the Associated Press, Reuters, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names and initials below. — MCM

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The stage is set for U.S. combat troops in Ukraine? The Russian army’s ‘Kherson retreat,’ by Mike Whitney | The Unz Review There’s no doubt that the retreat from Kherson was a black-eye for the Russian Army. There’s also no doubt that the general who ordered the evacuation made the right decision. True, the optics are terrible, but optics don’t win wars. Strategy, valor and firepower win wars. Russian General Sergey Surovikin appears to grasp that fact, which is why he made the unpopular decision . . . READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine hit with onslaught of air strikes while Russian troops retreat on the ground. Scott Simon of NPR speaks with New Yorker magazine staff writer Masha Gessen about Russia’s bombardment of Ukrainian cities and the possibility of a nuclear attack. Click HERE to listen and, later read.

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‘We survived’: Kherson comes alive after Russian withdrawal, by Hanna Arhirova | AP  “Even breathing became easier,” said Olena Smoliana, a pharmacist whose eyes shone with happiness as she recalled the day Ukrainian soldiers entered the city. “Everything is different now.” Kherson’s population has dwindled to around 80,000 from its prewar level near 300,000 . . . READ MORE . . .

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New UK MP Sunak visits Kyiv, pledges support. From Reuters. KYIV — Britain’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made his first visit to Kyiv today, pledging to continue the firm support for Ukraine that was a focus of policy under . . . READ MORE . . .

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Zelensky wants no talks in order not to acknowledge fact of Ukraine’s breakup – Medvedev. From Tass. MOSCOW — Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has no intention to hold talks with Russia, since it makes no sense without acknowledging the fact of Ukraine’s break-up, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said today. “Zelensky does not want any negotiations for quite obvious selfish reasons. Moreover, . . . READ MORE . . .

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First, links to reports from the Associated Press, Tass, Agence France Presse, and National Public Radio; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. — MCM

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Russian strikes force Ukraine to face hours-long power cuts, by John Leicester | AP  KYIV — Ukraine’s electricity grid chief warned of hours-long power outages today as Russia zeroed in on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with heavy artillery and missile attacks that have interrupted supplies to as much as 40% of the country’s people at the onset of winter. Freezing temperatures . . . READ MORE . . .

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Bush calls Zelenskyy ‘tough dude,’ says Ukraine can win, by Jamie Stengle | AP  DALLAS — “Absolutely they can win, they’re winning,” former President George W. Bush said Wednesday at a conference held at his Dallas institute. “But they won’t win if the United States and the free world says it’s not worth it anymore.” The conference, which . . . READ MORE . . .

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Where’s Putin? Leader leaves bad news on Ukraine to others, by Dasha Litvinova | AP  TALLINN, Estonia — Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was once rumored  to personally supervise the military campaign in Ukraine and give battlefield orders to generals, appeared this week to be focused on everything but the war. He discussed . . . READ MORE . . .

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Nothing to discuss about Ukraine for U.S., Russia – diplomat. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russia has nothing to discuss with the United States about Ukraine, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said today. “There can be no dialogue or, moreover, talks, since our views are polar opposites,” he . . . READ MORE . . .

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President Putin holds telephone talk with Turkish counterpart Erdogan – Kremlin. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin chatted with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan over the phone and is scheduled to hold another phone-call later in the day, Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today. Putin and Erdogan last spoke by phone on November 1. READ MORE . . .

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Russia says fortifying annexed Crimean peninsula. From AFP. MOSCOW — Russia said today it was strengthening positions on the Crimean peninsula, annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as Kyiv’s forces reclaim territory in the neighbouring Kherson region. “Fortification work” is being done “with the aim of guaranteeing the security of all Crimeans ,” the Moscow-appointed governor of the region, Mr Sergei Aksyonov, said on . . . READ MORE . . .

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Even remote corners of Africa are feeling the costly impacts of war in Ukraine. Reported by Willem Marx | NPR  The Republic of Chad is a country in north central Africa. The U.N.’s World Food Programme found that prices for sorghum, a common local crop, had risen 40% last spring compared to the same period in 2021, while beans — another common staple of the Chadian diet — had in some parts of the country almost doubled in price. Data from the U.N. published this year indicate that 1.3 million children in Chad lack . . . Click HERE to listen and read.

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Ukraine crisis raises question: Does food aid go equally to ‘Black and white lives’? Reported by Nurith Aizenman | NPR   The head of the World Health Organization has a stark message for the world. Millions of people around the globe are being pushed into hunger due to the reduction in exports of wheat and other key food items from Ukraine and Russia. “I don’t know if the world really gives equal attention to black and white lives,” he said. “And . . . the world is not treating the human race the same . . . Click HERE to listen and read.

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An excerpt of the essay that begins below appears in the August-September 2022 issue of The Catholic Worker.  A longer version, titled “The Wild Places,” was first published in that publication’s June 1968 edition. The author, described by Wikipedia as “an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion,” died later that year.  A second segment will be reprinted here at a later date. — MCM

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Our frontier mythology

By Thomas Merton

Man is a creature of ambiguity. His salvation and his sanity depend on his ability to harmonize the deep conflicts in his thought, his emotions, his personal mythology. Honesty and authenticity do not depend on complete freedom from contradictions — such freedom is impossible — but on recognizing our self-contradictions, and not masking them with bad faith. The conflicts in individuals are not entirely of their own making. On the contrary, many of them are imposed, ready made, by an ambivalent culture.

This poses a very special problem, because he who accepts the ambiguities of his culture without protest and without criticism is rewarded with a sense of security and moral justification. A certain kind of unanimity satisfies our emotions, and easily substitutes for truth. We are content to think like the others, and in order to protect our common psychic security, we readily become blind to the contradictions — or even the lies — that we have all decided to accept as plain truth.

Our frontier mythology has grown in power even as we have ceased to be a frontier or even a rural people. The pioneer, the frontier culture hero, is a product of the wilderness. But at the same time he is a destroyer of the wilderness. His success as pioneer depends on his ability to fight the wilderness and win. Victory consists in reducing the wilderness to something else, a farm, a village, a road, a canal, a railway, a mine, a factory, a city – and finally an urban nation.

We all proclaim our love and respect for wild nature, and in the same breath we confess our firm attachment to values which inexorably demand the destruction of the last remnant of wilderness. But when people like Rachel Carson try to suggest that our capacity to poison the nature around us is some indication of a sickness in ourselves, we dismiss them as fanatics.

Now one of the interesting things about this ambivalence toward nature is that it is rooted in our Biblical tradition. There is a certain popular, superficial and one-sided Christian worldliness that is, in its hidden implications, profoundly destructive of nature and of God’s creation, even while it claims to love and extol them. The elementary Christian duty of the Puritan settler was to attack the forest with an axe and to keep a gun handy in order to exterminate Indians and wild beasts, should they put in an appearance. The work of combating, reducing, destroying and transforming the wilderness was purely and simply God’s work.

The Puritan, and after him the pioneer, had an opportunity to prove his worth — or indeed his salvation and election — by the single-minded zeal with which he carried on this obsessive crusade against wilderness. His reward was prosperity, real estate, money and ultimately the peaceful “order” of civil and urban life.

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First, links to reports from Reuters, the Associated Press, and Tass; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. Then, links to commentary by writers for a Washington, D.C. thin tank and by an Australia-based observer. — MCM

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Russia launches more missile strikes, fighting rages in east Ukraine, by Dan Peleschuk and Max Hunder | Reuters * Russia again targets power infrastructure – Ukraine’s PM * Redeployed Russian forces challenge Ukraine in east * Ukraine seeks to restore power after Russian strikes on grid * NATO, Poland believe missile was Ukrainian stray * Top U.S. general does not see near-term Ukrainian war victory | KYIV — Russia launched more missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Thursday and its forces pressed attacks in eastern Ukraine, reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson city in the south which Kyiv recaptured last week. NATO and Poland concluded that a. . . READ MORE . . .

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Have China and India shifted stance on Russia war? by Foster Klug | AP  NUSA DUA, Indonesia — China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not stand in the way of the release this week of a statement by the world’s leading economies that strongly criticizes Moscow. There’s an eagerness by a world weary of war to see it as the beginning of a shift. Look close enough, however, and . . . READ MORE . . .

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Russia’s UN envoy says Poland, Ukraine sought to trigger Russia-NATO conflict over missile. From Tass. UNITED NATIONS — Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya on Wednesday said statements by Warsaw and Kiev sought to trigger a direct Russia-NATO conflict over the missile incident in Poland. He said: “These statements came from a person that couldn’t fail to have the information that it was Ukrainian missiles fired by an air defense system that flew over to Poland. That means it wasn’t just deliberate disinformation but a conscious attempt to prompt NATO, which is waging a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, to . . . READ MORE . . .

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How a lightly-sourced AP story almost set off World War III, by  Connor Echols | Responsible Statecraft At approximately 1 pm EST on Tuesday, reports emerged that a pair of rockets had slammed into a quiet farming town in Poland. The tragic blast killed two locals, marking the first time that the war in Ukraine bled over into NATO territory. Western officials now widely agree . . . READ MORE . . .

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Deep breaths: Article 5 will never be a flip switch for war, by Rajan Menon and Dan DePetris | Responsible Statecraft On Nov. 15, two Russian-made cruise missiles crossed into Poland, landing in the village of Przewodow, a village in the southeastern corner of the country, near the border with Ukraine, killing at least two people. Preliminary investigations, as reported by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, indicate . . . READ MORE . . .

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Journalistic responsibility vanishes when reporting on U.S.-targeted nations, by Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com Two false news reports have gone viral in recent hours due to sloppy sourcing and journalistic malpractice. As usual they both featured bogus claims about US-targeted nations, in this case Russia and Iran. An article in Responsible Statecraft titled . . . READ MORE . . .

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U.S. empire views Ukrainians and Russians as lab rats for weapons testing, by Caitlin Johnstone | caitlinjohnstone.com “Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come,” writes Lara Jakes in the New York Times. Jakes writes that “new advances in technology and training in Ukraine are being closely monitored for the ways they are changing the face of the fight.” These . . . READ MORE . . .

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