Daily Archives: March 6, 2022

2022-03-06: News Headlines

New Atlas (2022-03-06). West Pressures Thailand to Take Their Side Against Russia. newatlas.report March 8, 2022 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — On February 28, 2022 the EU ambassador to Thailand, David Daly, would declare in a social media post that Thailand "should speak up to save our rules based international order," demanding the Kingdom of Thailand vote at the UN with the West regarding Ukraine. Accompanying his comments were the flags …

Staff (2022-03-06). Powerful explosion reported in US military base in E Syria. en.mehrnews.com News sources reported a powerful explosion at a US military base in Syria, saying that there is a possibility of a rocket attack.

Staff (2022-03-06). EU comments on warplanes for Kiev. rt.com Ukraine insists it needs jet fighters to repel the Russian attack | European Council President Charles Michel has said that the bloc's military aid to Ukraine will not include jet fighters, which Kiev has insisted it badly needs to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion. | "The European Union is definitely not at war with Russia. A war is what Russia has launched against Ukraine, a country very friendly and very close to the EU. That is why we support Ukraine on all levels," Michel said in an interview with several European newspapers on Saturday. | The chief of the EU's top political body confirmed that the EU…

_____ (2022-03-05). Is This Russian Propaganda? popularresistance.org We're risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the "democracy" of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from Washington due to a US-backed coup in 2014. | "Defending Ukrainian democracy" makes as much sense as "Defending Mongolian seaports". | The powers responsible for destroying Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen are the same powers we're trusting to carefully navigate extremely delicate nuclear brinkmanship escalations without ending the world. | "Relax, nobody's gonna start a nuclear war…

Anonymous669 (2022-03-05). Greater Idlib: Syrian Army Artillery Rain Hell On Militant Positions. southfront.org Photo: RIA Novosti / Ulyana Solovyeva | On March 5, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shelled the northwestern region of Greater Idlib where many terrorist groups are present and active. | According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the army's artillery fired dozens of shells at the outskirts of the towns of Kansafra, Sufuhon and Fleifel in the southern Idlib countryside and the town of al-Zeyarah in the northwestern countryside of Hama. | The London-based monitoring group noted that Russian drones were flying…

Anonymous103 (2022-03-05). Military Situation In Syria On March 6, 2022 (Map Update). southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On March 5, the Russian Ministry of Defence recorded no hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | On March 5, clashes between YPG and Turkish-backed forces were reported near Maraanaz; | On March 5, the US coaliton sent a convoy of weapons and logistical aid consisting of 30 trucks to its military bases in Hasaka countryside; | On March 5, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Kansafra village; | On March 5…

Anonymous669 (2022-03-05). Primitive Suicide Drone Hit Turkish-Occupied Area In Syria's Aleppo (Photos). southfront.org File image. | Late on March 5, a primitive suicide drone targeted al-Azraq refugee camp which is located to the west of the Turkish-occupied town of al-Bab in the northern countryside of Syria's Aleppo. | The drone struck an empty house in the vicinity of the camp. The attack resulted in material losses. However, no casualties were reported. | &yum…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-03-05). Russia Warns Washington is Sending ISIS Fighters to Ukraine. libya360.wordpress.com The Cradle Over the past two weeks Ukrainian officials have been calling for the formation of an 'international legion' of mercenaries The Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia (SVR RF) warned on 4 March that the US, along with NATO countries, are sending ISIS fighters from Syria to Ukraine. The ISIS members who are reportedly headed…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2022-03-05). US Ambassador James Story Causes More Fractures in Venezuelan Opposition. orinocotribune.com The recent meeting in Bogota between three Venezuelan opposition governors and the fake "US ambassador" to Venezuela James Story seems to be enlarging the fractures of the already divided right-wing political groups in Venezuela. The meeting has unleashed a series of criticism and hesitations amongst the opposition factions themselves. | For example, statements of José Ignacio Hernández, one of Juan Guaidó's close collaborators and "special attorney" of the so-called interim government, highlighted the discrepancies amongst right-wing sectors. Hernández dismissed the meeting between James Story and the governors…

Richard Horton (2022-03-05). [Comment] Offline: Ukraine and the lessons of Alexander Herzen. thelancet.com A pandemic. And now war. A war, the UK's Ukraine Ambassador wrote last week "on the whole of the civilised world". The burden of war falls mostly on women and children. 10 million children younger than 5 years died in conflicts between 1995 and 2015. Women and children will now be dying from preventable causes in Ukraine. The health and humanitarian crisis afflicting Ukraine has received far too little attention. Consider those forcibly displaced. Although hard to predict, as many as 5 million people, up to three-quarters of whom will be women and children, are likely to become refugees.

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