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Mar 07 2022
News
War in Ukraine
“Fighting stopped about 200,000 people from evacuating the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol for a second day in a row on Sunday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to press ahead with his invasion unless Kyiv surrendered… The invasion has drawn widespread condemnation around the world, sent more than 1.5 million Ukrainians fleeing from the country, and triggered sweeping Western
The Flip SideJun 02 2022
News
UK pledges missiles to Ukraine; new US ambassador in Kyiv
Britain pledged Thursday to send sophisticated medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine, joining the United States and Germany in equipping the embattled nation with advanced weapons for shooting down aircraft and knocking out artillery.
Western arms have been critical to Ukraine’s success in stymieing Russia’s much larger and better-equipped military during a war now in its 99th day. But
Associated PressApr 29 2022
Analysis
The $3.4 billion write-down in Russia isn’t enough to stop surging profits at Exxon
The war in Ukraine has been great for the bottom lines of multinational oil and gas companies, even though many have had to abandon billions of dollars worth of assets in Russia.
ExxonMobil and Chevron posted surging first-quarter profits on April 29, buoyed by oil prices that have stayed above $100 per barrel since the Russian invasion. Exxon’s profit for the quarter hit $5.5 billion,
QuartzApr 29 2022
Analysis
WH pick for Big Brother-like disinformation board spread lie about Hunter Biden laptop
Guess it takes one to know one?
President Biden’s pick to lead his Department of Homeland Security’s Big Brother-like Disinformation Governance Board has her own history of posting disinformation online.
Nina Jankowicz, who was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, has repeatedly cast doubt on The Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
During a series of
New York Post (News)May 16 2022
News
The Ukraine war is creating a jobs crisis in Russia
As companies flee Russia, their Russian employees are seeing their jobs suddenly vanish. Tens of thousands of such employees will be cut loose into an economy where inflation is at a 20-year-high, and where diverse, flourishing jobs were hard to find even before the Ukraine war.
McDonald’s leaves behind fast-food workers: 62,000 of them, across 850 restaurants. (They will continue to be
QuartzMar 02 2022
News
Biden to America: ‘We’re going to be OK’
President Joe Biden unfurled a resolute defense of democracy in his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, declaring that the United States would act as a leader for the free world as it rallies with Ukraine against a brutal Russian invasion.
With a war raging an ocean away, Biden vowed that the United States would emerge from years of division and disease to protect and expand
PoliticoFeb 02 2022
News
Ukraine
“Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Tuesday of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and ignoring Russia's security concerns over Ukraine… Russia has massed more than 100,000 troops on the Ukrainian border and Western countries say they fear Putin may be planning to invade.” (Reuters)
“President Joe Biden said Friday night he will move U.S.
The Flip SideFeb 18 2022
News
In Ukraine’s volatile east, a day of shelling, outages, fear
Shells struck by the hundreds along the tense front lines in eastern Ukraine, drones monitoring a fragile cease-fire lost their way when the GPS signal they rely on was jammed, and then the cellphone network went dark.
In a sliver of land where pro-Russian separatists have battled for years against Ukrainian government forces, a group of international monitors tasked with keeping the
Associated PressMar 25 2022
Analysis
NATO was in crisis. Putin’s war made it even more powerful.
When President Joe Biden landed in Europe this week, it was a different continent than he had last visited in the fall of 2021.
After a month of intensive fighting in Ukraine, Russia has killed at least 1,000 civilians while an unknown number (but reportedly thousands) of Russian soldiers have died. By invading Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has catalyzed some major shifts.
VoxOct 23 2020
Opinion
Biden Lies Again and Again
Joe Biden is a career liar and he lied some more in the debate, for instance when he dismissed the now well-supported New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s business dealing as “a Russian plant.” There is zero evidence for this. He offered this line:
There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plant. Five former heads of the CIA —
National Review (News)