Before going to news coverage of developments in the war in Ukraine, I offer a selection of analyses from sources which will likely complement those found on TV and radio and in newspapers. The first bunch come from a contributor with the pen name Moon of Alabama via the website Popular Resistance. — MCM

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Disarming Ukraine — Day 9 — Europe Increases Its Own Losses: “I feel too outraged and frightened about what is now happening in our societies to write about it,” Moon of Alabama begins. “I thus continue to quote others at some length.” Among the views he forwards are those of Patrick Armstrong, Bill Roggio, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Whitney Webb and Tony Wood. Click on anything highlighted to get started.

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Hundreds of this morning’s U.S. newspapers carried at least some of  THIS Associated Press report by Andrew Drake, Francesca Ebel, Yuras Karmanau and Mstyslav Chernov headlined in some of them Attack on nuclear plant triggers alarm,

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Russian offensive continues toward Mariupol; Visa and MasterCard suspend their operations in Russia Le Monde reports in a news brief: “Russia had announced a ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from this strategic port. But these operations were rapidly suspended, and the Mariupol mayor accused Moscow of continuing to bombard the city.”